skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really not many cases where the risk/reward for a law-abiding citizen owning a gun is worth it, assuming the risk is protection from other people. Unless you're in a gun-friendly state and are 100% sure the gun never leaves the state you're risking massive legal action on both state and federal level for breaking the law.

The laws are ridiculously complicated because there's The Law, The Constitution, and The Courts which has to reconcile the laws with the constitution since they're usually not in agreement. In some states it's illegal to be the victim of a gun robbery if the robber uses your gun, sometimes unless you take some specific precautions.

And if you actually use your gun in the context of protecting yourself from someone else, the laws don't get any easier. In most states there's a very limited set of circumstances in which it's legal to kill someone, and it's not going to be obvious in the moment. Unless you work for the government, don't expect the jury to give you the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully you recorded everything.

After the fact it's often obvious that, yeah of course if this happens you need to fill out this specific form and notify this person and of course just telling the secretary doesn't count, and of course you should have a record of everything, etc etc etc. But nothing is obvious in the moment, and people have done some really stupid things because a cop told them, yeah that's good enough, because cops aren't trained in law and they're word doesn't overrule the law.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html
I think this attempt to rebrand this kind of pricing as "promoting fairness" is really unfortunate. Companies do not do this sort of thing to be more "fair" they do it to make more money. Always.

This tends to lead to consumer hostile behaviors such as (trying to) block VPNs and harassment of international travelers and migrants.

Automatically basing this on PPP will make governments much more interested in gamifying PPP measures (such as what Argentine did with the Big Mac Index). This is setting aside all the other issues with calculating PPP in a fair way worldwide.
The very rough idea is that vlists are lists of arrays whose size decreases exponentially towards the tail of the list. So "hello, world" could be stored as

"hello" -> ", wo" -> "rl" -> "d"

with space for 3 more characters to be consed in front of "hello".
I thought it wasn't real.

The mind makes it real.

If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?

The body cannot live without the mind.
Well, this has already paid off for me, even though I thought I knew most of it. I recently built a toy chat app with tungstenite+websockets, and am now kind of kicking myself because I could probably have just used axum. At least I got some good practice and learned a couple things by doing it a more 'manual' way, and get to compare it to axum's websocket support.

Something else I'd like to see is a tad more clarity on how the recommended channel implementations relate to std::mpsc::channel and tokio::mpsc::channel - the recommended options seem to claim to be better than their respective std/tokio counterparts, but blessed.rs itself doesn't explicitly make that claim. Should it? (I've only ever used std::mpsc and tokio::mpsc, and not in a production context.)
Anyone looking to create a new social network should certainly take cues from Usenet - of course, it was eventually over taken by forums on the web.

Visiting Usenet today though will only lead to sadness, unless you're looking for something you shouldn't be or enjoy endless spam.
> The people who are capable of doing that generally aren't on the instances that get blocked.

How would you know, given that those other instances are, you know, blocked?

> who really are curious

Trying to guide the neutral ones into your camp is not a discourse - it's campaigning. In a perfect world we can disagree on topics, and everyone leaves the interaction still disagreeing, but maybe just understand the train of thought of the opposing side.

> with a skim of their timeline.

I've stopped doing that, because all too often, what I find is easily taken out of context and will make people look too "nice", or too "bad". And creating a complete dossier on everyone I interact with online is just too time-intensive.

> They're not the ones who collect on the instances that feed off deep, unmovable ignorance.

Funny how all the blocked ones always seem to be the undesirables, the ignorant, the weird, the stupid, the evil, the ugly, the disease-bearers, isn't it? Of course, wherever we are, the sun shines, everyone is reasonable and happy and friendly to each other. Of course, more often than not, that's not the case. We like to paint the other side as demonic caricatures, because it helps with in-group cohesion.

I don't think guilt by association is a concept that we should keep reviving again and again and again... especially since it appears to me - after having gone through several Mastodon instances - that there are no "normal people instances", that any instance is either radically "free-speech", or it is radically "safe-space".
We are basically ingesting and analyzing every package as it gets published to the various ecosystems (currently NPM, PyPI, Rubygems, Maven and Nuget; Go and Crates support landing in beta soon).

This is currently offered as a SaaS solution, but we'll be providing an on-prem offering by EOY that should work well in an air-gapped environment.

The sandbox I mentioned above is rolled into our CLI by default, but that should operate well enough on its own without needing to call out to our API if you wanted!
The article does say that, but the article is simplifying. If you click through they're citing https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... which says 17% "given similar physical insults". But conditional on being in a crash is not the same thing as conditional on being in a crash of a given severity.
> I use incandescent and halogen everywhere and don't have a problem with color temperature.

Well, you might not have a problem, but some people like colour temperatures >3000K.

> Sometimes I think about getting LED smart lighting, but then I think about how many iterations of setups I would have to go through it get everything dialed in, all the e-waste I would be contributing to, all the plastic, all the security vulnerabilities, all the software updates, all the glitches, all the flicker from cheap PWD circuitry and I decide to stick with simple glass and red hot metal.

I’ve found a lot of that hassle is mitigated by getting high-end dumb LED bulbs, paired with reliable smart switches (only where specifically required for automation purposes) from a traditional lighting manufacturer with long support periods. (Lutron.)
They were not around for very long but there was a soda machine that had a conveyor belt that drinks would drop down onto and then be pushed out of a flap door into the bucket. The machine could detect when a drink was actually vended but didn't seem to be able to detect when someone was holding the door shut. You'd pay for a drink and hold the door shut while the machine tried to push your drink out the door. Since the door wasn't opening, the machine would think that no drink ever dropped down onto the conveyor belt so it would mark that specific drink number as out of stock and return your money. Except your drink selection was still sitting on the belt. You'd pick a new drink and pay for it but this time not holding the door shut, two drinks would come out for the price of one. You could do this quite a few times over to either get a couple free drinks or just jam the machine. Out of all the vending machine "hacks" I learned about in middle school, this was the only thing that ever worked and only for a short time before they got quickly replaced.

The new machines use either a basket to hold the drink instead of a conveyor belt or some sort of shield to prevent you from messing with the flap door until it knows a drink has been vended.
How long before he starts screaming 'cancel culture'?
I was talking with someone in charge of coordinating WebGL rollout with various IHV driver teams and they said while AMD and NVIDIA were definitely annoyed at the work it was going to take, Intel was the one where the team reacted with sheer terror.

Maybe that speaks to some of the driver problems they're having now, if their house just wasn't in order beforehand.
Why does globalisation automatically deserve credit for progress in two major economies with the most government planning?

Have evaluated alternative hypotheses?
Maybe Education or Scientific Literacy or something else deserves this credit.
With ability to compare prices going to hospital 200km away with 100 000 $ lower price may become a good idea for non-emergency medical services.
Life under a king can be great but it always depends on the king.
Google still offers free Usenet access, but alas not over NNTP (I think).

These days, with reasonably cheap virtual servers and reduced Usenet traffic, you can just run your own server after finding one or two peers to exchange articles with. The Debian packaging of INN is quite good, I think. It's still a bit of work to set up things, but so is reading and writing articles.

All of this applies to the text-only Usenet. A lot of for-pay Usenet was actually about access to binary-only groups with content of questionable copyright status (or even legality, depending on country). I don't know if that's still a thing today. The bandwidth requirements for these binary-only groups could be significant.
I think it general we can say "advertising is not wanted" - bar exceptional side cases like the Super Bowl ads, very few people seek out the advertising that costs big money.

I love catalogs from the companies I buy from, and I love their websites, but those are marketing not advertising.

The vast majority of advertising is at best a "necessary bad" (not per se evil, perhaps).
"The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you."

Clearly satirical
https://nitter.net/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

If you're not interested in visiting twitter directly.
I've been endlessly enraged that they would not allow a Mac Mini to serve as a Home Hub, while allowing a mobile device that may not be always plugged (and thus may run out of battery or not be home) in to serve as one.

At least it's consistent now.
Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes [...]

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It must be relative to that nation. From my experience the UK IS becoming an incredibly segregated nation along economic lines. I don't find it hard to believe that 22% of the populace are in relative poverty. This is very different from absolute poverty, of which I'm sure India has a higher percentage.
I know that Signal announced plans to have accounts based on usernames rather than phone numbers in the past. I wonder if the removal of SMS has something to do with usernames.
I agree space weapons are a bad idea, but I think Elon isn't JUST doing it for the money. He sincerely believes it's needed to stop nuclear war.

The counterpoint is that it could start WWIII
It's pretty easy to set up your own INN2 servers and have them exchange their own hierarchy. However it also feels like there's just a ton of features and options in there which mostly make it very challenging to set up the simple case (and leave you feeling like you've left holes open). I've never really dug into the NNTP spec but it seems like it might be pretty easy to write your own implementation which just focuses on the common use-case.
Reading though the comments, it seems like another form of exceptionalism where US folks think if not for Russia, there would be no extremism. I feel Russia is trolling here and it is flying above some people's head.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3091148/Chilling-im...
This particular clipboard attack has been part of malware for at least 5 years, maybe 10. But I haven't heard of it being distributed via a package manager until now.
This is the critical flaw in betting mostly on trees to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

To get to the now-unlikely target of +1.5°C by 2100, the need is on the order of 6 billion tons of CO2 to remove each year by 2050[1]. A mature tree can capture only around 22 kg a year[2], so removing 6 billion tons would require planting 270 billion trees each year. To get a sense of the magnitude of the effort, there are an estimated 3 trillion trees on Earth today; we'd need to plant just as many in only 11 years.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-ins...

[2] https://www.eea.europa.eu/articles/forests-health-and-climat...
Ask HN: Could user voting “fix” social media/?
In Apple's case, you as a customer, need a valid payment method from the country your account is going to be.

PS: Apple, probably Google too, have tiered pricing where you choose the price of your app or your content will cost and Apple takes care of the local pricing which is adjusted to your users purchasing power.
If twitter fraudulently verified something there is absolutely something you could do - you could sue. And it would be pretty clear cut.

And all you can do on Mastodon is moderate your server - they can still be out there in the greater Mastodon community and there is even less you can do about that than you have recourse with Twitter.

All this sudden pearl clutching sure is amusing.
> broadcasting images to your contact list isn't exactly what I think of when I think "private messaging".

Neither was signal taking your contact list and uploading a copy along with your name and photo and storing that data forever in the cloud. Neither was refusing to update their privacy policy to reflect their new data collection practices. A company that promotes itself to whistleblowers and human rights activists and then lies to them about what data they collect and keep is highly unethical.

None of this inspires confidence in Signal as a private/secure messaging service. I've moved away from it. I wish them luck as a social media platform.
If they were genuinely concerned about name sniping like that, they could of did the same.
Sounds like NNTP combined with BitTorrent..

Back in the day I remember dreaming ways to optimize the NNTP server- surely there was a better way than storing each article in a separate file.. but actually it was a very convenient to have a shell account on the same system that ran the server. This is why I enjoyed TheWorld (Software Tool & Die). You could cat the articles if you wanted.

/usr/spool/news, C-News, innd (Rich $alz!), it's all coming back..
Well, he blamed advertisers leaving over the instability of the platform on "activists", so...I'd say we're already 90% of the way there. Not to mention his tweet today that "independents should vote for Republicans", which is a patently crazy thing for a tech CEO to say.
It could be very hard to prove after the fact. And it's generally much more likely that human error causes a loss than to be victim to a malicious attack. So even if it has legitimately happened, it's likely to be dismissed as the person was just incompetent and that there just wasn't enough software safeguards to protect people from themselves.

This is probably a good lesson in general for intelligent malicious actors. If you have an exploit that works, it's important that you use it rarely enough and against the right marks that the loss doesn't enter the collective consciousness as a malicious attack, but simply as an individual or systemic failure.

And for those of us who strive to be constructive and defensive actors, it's an important lesson to remember that sometimes malicious actors disguise their actions as amoral bugs in the system. Regular random auditing of the seemingly mundane is an important tool to uncover these kinds of exploits.
That's awesome to hear! Our family does something similar - we have a line of portraits above our family photos of the various CEOs that have hired us throughout the years - namely coal and oil company owners.
How is a new user supposed to know that it doesn’t matter? Also, if it doesn’t matter, why are users asked to choose?
There are lots of reasons to think the PRC is about to hit a very rough patch as globalism shrinks.
Is this even the hard part anymore? In 2006 maybe, but nowadays it seems like scaling is pretty solved. I always feel like scaling is more just expensive than hard.
Lose SMS, gain Stories. Such a shame.
I built an automated shipping traffic photo blog
I think news.individual.net only charges 10 EUR per year, but is strictly text-only of course.
The day of the AI has already arrived, as online marxists fail the Turing test
With more descriptive variable names it’s not really a problem in practice. If B and Y contain verbs, they’re probably procedure/function calls.
> That alleged right of criminals to be persecuted in strictly descending order of severity simply does not exist.

Exactly. Justice does not exist at that level of wealth, and this is a core problem in western society.

Well pointed out.
Ways to Shorten Your Runway
Being a founder is hard.

And it’s even harder when you don’t master a topic you need to deal with. It’s easy to get impressed by a candidate, or an advisor, who name-drops concepts that look shiny to achieve their goal: sell themselves.

It happens with technical candidates who oversell themselves to business founders, and the other way around: technical founders can be fooled by a varnish of knowledge or new concepts.

I had a lot of fun describingthe most common traps technical founders should not fall into, when they need to deal with a business topic, for the 1st time.

In other words, if a candidate or vendor sells one of these topics to you as the solution to a burning issue, in 95% of cases it’s a red flag.

Full post here: https://www.getlago.com/blog/3-traps-for-unwary-technical-founders
So committing a crime against criminals is OK?
Play/pause always starts the Music app, regardless of your preferred music player. It's annoying for those of us who don't use the built-in Music app at all.

Your command doesn't work. The music app actually lives at `/System/Applications/Music.app`. And since Monterey, I think, even sudo won't let you modify data in that folder because of macOS's built-in protections that cannot be disabled:

chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Applications/Music.app: Read-only file system

Even disabling SIP and booting into safe mode doesn't let you do this.
Here's the Chinese version, go check it out: https://www.douyin.com/
> if a company makes too much profit, it's being potentially inefficient

That's the theory. Reality: if a company makes too much profit, it's probably a monopoly or have formed a cartel with their "competitors".
Working on projects that were meaningful to me personally.

After a certain amount of time (years), I could troubleshoot any bug. No need to reach out to others to solve bugs. I will always find a way.

Using GNU/Linux as daily driver. Helps with dev-ops enormously.

Lastly linked to the above, learning the full-stack.

Am I a success.... na. But I consider myself a success in terms of being self-taught.
They can remove the "accidentally" without removing the ability to access as many messages in one place as possible.
The cassette interface.
> We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.

Have any journalists and/or leakers exposed exactly what these tech companies are sharing? As much as I've heard about data collection and sharing by big tech, I feel like I don't see much in the way of samples or example data. Even the forced GDPR data releases I've seen haven't been extraordinarily in-depth. Surely there must be some articles out there that I'm missing?
I've always found Wikipedia's "List of multiple discoveries" article fascinating. So many, many scientific principles and inventions that I know about, and it turns out there were others I've never heard of who also figured them out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries
> Because of 5th Amendment issues.

What does the 5th Amendment have to do with offering someone a plea deal on some count in return for testimony, and immunity for other things that come up in that testimony?

I'm pretty sure it's common.
Capital gains are not taxable until they are realized through sale of the assets. I would not expect he had any tax liability yet.
I'm very curious to know if the traffic is going to a centralized web service or the user's Microsoft 365/Sharepoint installation.
I like it when good ideas spread and are widely adopted.
Yeah, the Crimea annexation was dodgy as hell but as you say more ambiguous. The population had enough imported Russians (and "exported" Tartars) that they could run bullshit referenda and claim the people wanted annexation.

The reason the 2022 invasion (compared to Crimea) got the backlash it did from most of the world is that it was so unambiguously clear cut and telegraphed in advance despite Russia's denials they would invade. Russia left no room for its usual grey area bullshit to work for them. It seemed about as unambiguous as Poland in 1939 vs eg the murkier annexation of Austria in 1938.
During my dad's time, it was much easier to buy a house on a modest salary. And the houses were well built too. These days, it is near impossible to buy a house unless you are a very high earner, as all available real estate is being gobbled up by "investors", aka, who have high paying jobs (mostly software).

It is good that we are elevating people from poverty. All I am saying is it creates a different set of problems. But yeah, overall it is good that we are able to pull more people up from poverty.
Let's say you're a band that just released a new album. It's really common on twitter to change your profile name to "BandName New Album Out X/YY!". This is a really common part of how Twitter operates, but this change to remove verification checks due to name changes will reduce the ability of people to legitimately use the platform, all because Elon Musk didn't like verified people impersonating him as a joke.
I think the sun was actually invented for this purpose
> No reading in bed near bedtime, ever.

Why, please? Everybody does this. Does it prolong the time to get to sleep?
This would be an incredibly useful feature, I think. It was part of the motivation for our sandbox, honestly. It should mostly operate as a pass through the the various package managers - but with some extra security checks.

In this way a `phylum npm install <pkgName>` would perform the typosquat checks _and_ limit access to system resources. You can even alias this as `alias npm="phylum npm"` so that it's easier for the user.
The point here is not some much as moving back as it is in loss of income (and potentially status/face). That is a much harder sell than saying we will move back for a better life.
Being able to have a generic "Mappable" trait seems like a good use case for the standard library. It's something I've wanted in the past, and was disappointed that it didn't exist.
> definitely the most optimal way to price your product.

Only if you have no competition. If you do, you can expect them to undercut your most profitable markets.
Plastic pollution is totally unrelated to the topic here.

When the AQI drops it’s because the heavy smoke particles drop out of the air or get dispersed by prevailing winds.
whatsapp claims to be secure… nobody knows.

It's not like that with signal.
It's the one where you work an agreed number of hours and the employer pays you for fewer.

https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft