skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
trusted party A releases experimental questions which it turns out in hindsight were not good indicators

News agency B publicizes "party A predicts xyz and abc shock horror story the outcome will be C according to party A"

community at large sees outcome D says "party A is not trustable"

the importance here is the 2nd order effect. No amount of post-hoc party A statements "it was an experiment" will alter the change in perception of trust to party A.
You expect politicians to be brave, fearless and know how to use power. But here's a politician admitting to being powerless. That is such a screwed up situation. (To be clear, I am not blaming them but the existing political environment).
> The narrative seems to conflate the Palace and the Queen as being one and the same.

"The Palace" sounds just like an insulation layer to guarantee Queen's infallibleness: If something is good, then the Queen did it. If anything turns out hairy, it's "the Palace".

Similar to multiple management layers in companies. Unless it's a major blunder, the CEO won't take any blame. There are multiple management layers that "absorb" the hit.
San Francisco also allows one to generate their ballot and fill it out using an online accessible voting service, which then generates a PDF with your choices and a QR code that you can mail or fax back in place of the “real” ballot.

Considering the number of direct democracy items on the ballot in SF, I’m glad they’ve at least made this part quite usable.
It seems the feature has been restored. As of the November 7th update:

> TeamYouTube has confirmed that they are working to bring the sorting options back to the platform. Furthermore, they said that the options were removed due to some issues.

It's not clear if they wanted to remove it and reverted due to backlash, or if there were genuine technical issues/limitations that needed to be addressed.
> has almost no profit

It makes too much money for either of your backers.
Trnasforming HTTP requests on the fly with Layer 7 deep inspection
>Exactly, the problem is asking for law/policy/regulation to solve the problem when it is the problem

One thing is privacy, another is copyright. You already have laws protecting your privacy, cryptography is a way of enforcing them. But if copyright law is a mess, it would be a good idea to reflect about how to improve it.
Why does it have to be egg white and not any other protein?
Sorry about that! Signing up should redirect to Stripe. Should be fixed now.
Slightly odd that they explicitly say:

these should include the lang attribute to identify the language

but then don't do that in the Example (with *vini, vidi, vici*)...
Ask HN: What do you do for online privacy?
As the title says, what do you do for online privacy? Obviously, most of us aren't on air-gapped servers and avoiding all forms of online interactions. To what extent do you go to protect your privacy online? What are some of the steps you currently take for privacy?

Let's not confuse anonymity vs privacy vs tin-foil hat level paranoid. I'm hoping to have some conversation going here on the various levels of privacy and steps folks at HN take to increase their privacy online. If you don't take steps -- then what are your reasonings why? (Beyond the staple excuse of "I have nothing to hide").

I understand defining your threat model, and I don't think most of us have a specific threat model more than being your average technophile would.

### Applications, Operating Systems

Do you run specific browsers, and why? Do you have specific applications that you use to protect your privacy? Do you engage in any kind of hardening?

Do you run any specific kind of operating system (say, Windows, Mac, etc) and why? Does it matter to you personally whether you are tracked?

### Online Storage

For example, do you store files on cloud storage as-is? If so, what kind of criteria do you have for that? Do you encrypt all files before they go anywhere? Does AES128 or AES256 encryption provide reasonable protections?

### Social Media

Do you avoid or block social media? If so or if not, why?
Perhaps relevant, posted today:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-fbis-transformation-from-n...

In the incident that led to Friend’s suspension, the FBI wanted to execute a SWAT raid on a subject who’d been communicating with the Bureau through an attorney and almost certainly would have come in voluntarily. Or, Friend thought, he could have been picked up in another, less dangerous way. The FBI however wanted a show.

“We’re gonna hit this house at six o’clock in the morning and throw flash-bangs and knock the door down and drive a Bearcat up on the front lawn,” recalls Friend, who had extensive SWAT experience and even worked the raid of Michigan militia members suspected of plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

He recounts a detail straight out of the movie Idiocracy: the armored Bearcat vehicles the FBI uses in SWAT raids are fitted with special battering-ram-type devices agents call dongers. (No joke. Washington Field Office agents even nickname their Bearcat accessory “DOJ,” for Dong of Justice). Friend describes the lunacy of a federal posse riding into the suburbs to take a door in one of these phallic tanks. “You’re driving down the road with this long extension pole on the front,” he says, laughing. “And I’m thinking, ‘These things were built by the lowest possible bidder.’”

He didn’t laugh so much, however, when he started to get the sense the FBI was opening cases, knocking on doors, and using tactics like SWAT for reasons other than operational necessity.
The strong version of Goodharts law seems occur as a function of time.

In the beginning, everything is fine and dandy, but as people optimise, it begins to turn into extremes.
Actual profits only get in the way of "Tech" company "business models"
you could even make the lower part touch screen, and use gestures heavily to avoid ever needing to touch the top screen; which would solve a lot of the one-handed usability issues with large phones forcefully; and be much better for battery life.
From the HTML4 spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.1):

> B: Renders as bold text style.

The element (and other style-related elements) were deprecated due to CSS. For b and i the strong and em elements were created as semantic alternatives. Now the b and i elements have been given specific semantic usage and are now not deprecated.
If they let YouTube in China, …

If not ban is the only option.

Fair.
Technically XML has some machinery to support more lightweight notations. It won't parse these notations, of course, but the information is accessible to the users of XML reader. The mechanism should work like that:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE myDoc [
<!NOTATION markdown PUBLIC "https://authority.org/markdown/v1.23">
<!NOTATION rest PUBLIC "urn:restructured-text/v4.56">
<!ELEMENT myDoc (note+)>
<!ELEMENT note CDATA>
<!ATTLIST note
notation NOTATION (markdown|rest) #REQUIRED>
]>
<myDoc>
<note notation="rest">
restructured text goes here
</note>
<note notation="markdown">
markdown goes here
</note>
</myDoc>
Ask HN: Is Elon Musk good at sales?
Interesting. Black screen on my iPhone for that link.
That's why I am part of the oft-maligned Bitcoin maximalists.

Bitcoin was an incredible technological achievement. It has interesting implications in the computing, social and economic spaces. It's borne out of the anarchic and cypherpunk ideas. It has no leaders, no visionaries.

Then came the people wanting to profit. The companies. The scammers. The get rich quick con artists. The trading apps. The DeFi venture capitalists. The alt-coins. The far-right libertarians. The banks. The memers. The Twitter bots. The governments.

And here we are. For all I care it can all burn to the ground. The price of Bitcoin ain't that interesting anyway, just like I don't love a programming language only iff it has a lot of users. To me Bitcoin is a bit like Lisp: a ground-breaking white-paper way ahead of its time, which has spawned countless imitation and is often misunderstood.
Food for thought for any Britons that may believe that the Queen/PM weekly meetings were for tea and cookies.
Thanks for turning me on to that.

It's definitely not my thing, but Tsumiki's use of vocals is interesting and well executed.
Cancer won't be a problem by 2027, at least for the people who don't already have cancer. By 2030 there will be drugs that can even cure stage 4 cancer with next to nothing side effects. (AI and some form of quantum computing will help find these drugs)
I'm not talking about success. I just stated that Mastodon is not going to be a replacement for twitter in the sense that it is never going to be a platform with hundreds of millions of active daily users, which is what (for some reason) a lot of people think Mastodon has the potential for.
This looks very useful. Do you need a user account to use it? Where are the comments stored?
> That history represents 400 years of colonialism. Latin represents classism and racism and denies the history of billions of marginalized peoples.

Do the marginalised peoples include the native Britons who were conquered by the Romans? Or is there a cut off point in your view of history? If the now native Britons, like me, want to retain links to the past, then should that be disallowed?

I like the Latin inscription, as it keeps a connection with the past. Good and bad, it is history I want to be connected to. I find the idea that it needs to be airbrushed bizarre, and the idea that Latin is solely a tool of "oppression" a complete misreading of history.
> In Italy and Greece Governments have been effectively overthrown by the EU (or ECB/IMF) in fairly open ways with technocrats put in charge.

How, exactly? I don't recall the EU appointing technocratic governments there, i recall elections and the Greek and Italian people making a choice. Choice in specific circumstances that probably influenced them, but same as any election during a crisis.
A lot of countries allows remote voting.
Some even without using a medieval technology.
Another fun fact. In linguistics, italics is used to denote the utterance rather than its meaning. It's not emphasis, but a visual signal that says "this bit is in another language or a single syllable or whatever we're discussing".
> Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

Something I wish more people would talk about.
Musk flip-flops on Twitter verification – brings back (some) ‘Official’ badges
Browser hacking: Optimizing global variable access in JavaScript
Five years down the track we need a retrospective, a follow-up, a "what happened" story. Re-publishing begs more questions than answers basically.
The people who wrote the declaration were monarchists or (later) Bonapartists. Obviously they were quite liberal compared to the Count of Artois. But to me they seem much closer to modern centre-right/conservatives (obviously Liberal conservatism is a thing..)
As one of the basic components of the business system, device fingerprinting is widely used in scenarios such as marking, tracking, temporary credentials, analysis, and anti-fraud, and is an important part of the security system.
3D Printing Snapping Parts Without Breakage
How to Switch from Twitter to Mastodon
No we shouldn't. Markdown is just a small representation of markup that gets transformed to HTML.
I'm glad someone is brave enough to stand up for the indigenous peoples of Antarctica
But that video shows them separating the packaging from the food.
> We're working on applications that's either waiting for the disk, waiting for the db, waiting for some http server or waiting for the user.

If you try to be good at waiting on many things, you can use one machine instead of a hundred

> None of our customers will notice the difference if my button click event handler takes 50ms instead of 10ms

They absolutely will, what
As a dual-national UK/Australian, I can say it's a little more complex for us.

In the UK, the monarchy fits pretty well with the other European constitutional monarchies, and there are reasons to support it as you say. I still think hard questions need to be asked about the exact nature of the monarchy, but it's clearly an English/Scottish/Welsh institution that belongs here.

In Australia, it's a remnant of colonialism, a foreign invader that destroyed one of the oldest, if not the oldest, civilisations on the planet. If we're ever going to get over this, then we need to remove these remnants. Having a British constitutional monarchy in modern Australia is a ridiculous anachronism. The "advantages" could clearly be replicated without the historical baggage. We need to be a republic.
There has never been a shortage of liars of every kind that seek to steal your money. Somewhat rarer, incompetents who handle your property stupidly. If you care for your money at all, the only person to fault is you.

I can try to seek "justice", but this rarely happens with cons that really know what they are doing. It is what I call victim thinking. That you do something stupid and then get bailed out by some authority.
Is inflation (meaning CPI figures) meant for the general public? It's a useful economic tool, but not very relevant to the average Joe. I would think expansion of cost of living is what the general public is interested in, and for that they have to track their spending, and can do so in any way they see fit.
long double on x86-64 Linux is 16 bytes big and therefore malloc implementation, or any other allocation routines for that matter, must return ptr aligned to the multiples of the largest primitive type. Interestingly, x86-64 Windows long double is 8 bytes so malloc on Windows returns ptrs aligned to the multiples of 8.
You need more staff to manage a cluster than a single machine though. Over the course of 6 months you'll probably spend more time on maintaining the cluster (with all its overhead) than doing an optimization analysis to net you 3x performance.
> Gene Kahn (RIP) said it best at the Senate meeting

Gene Kan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan
Record-breaking haul of Paul Allen's art collection surpasses $1.6B
In my view all canvas-related JS libraries should treat accessibility as a foundational requirement. It's not "too difficult" to implement.

Here's an explanation of the accessibility features I've added to my canvas library[1]. These features may not be the best approach, or even the most appropriate approach ... but at least they're there, and they can evolve into something better as/when people offer feedback.

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/learn/eleventh-lesson
I've never heard that before. France and Italy, yes, I suppose to a degree - central Europe though?
How hard is this? What are the age ranges?

Would it interest someone who also likes mastermind (the board game, don't know if that's available in the US)
This comment mentions some non-dystopian uses of remote attestation:

https://lwn.net/Articles/914323/

The one about leaving your laptop in the hotel and then the laptop being able to prove to your phone that the laptop hasn't been tampered with, is pretty compelling.
Seems hugged. It was loading two minutes ago but now all I get is HTTP 520/525/nothing.
I think that would depend a lot on context (like everything).
It doesn't

"Eggs are cool because we can all connect to them and they are easy to get, but you want to be careful about competing against the food cycle," said Arnold. Because other proteins also worked, the material can potentially be produced in large quantities relatively cheaply and without impacting the food supply.
If that's the professor's scientific judgment, then there is no reasonable way to challenge it. If the supervisor doesn't support a thesis, then it's going to be hard to convince a PhD committee of its merits.

Before doing anything else, that PhD student needs to find a new supervisor ASAP.
Of course it’s different. The very nature of a soldier’s job involves death. I don’t understand what you mean by “a CO doesn’t have to go overboard”, I provided an example of just that happening. Anyone on a ship has a nonzero risk of going overboard. Elon Musk has 0 risk of being swept into the sea from his desk.

Every human with a heart has some risk of heart attack. It’s silly to compare that risk to a soldier’s risk of death.

And any CEO that fires someone has a risk of being attacked by that disgruntled former employee.

This is exactly why I said

> software CEO that died in the course of their duty specifically due to the nature of their work

So that example fails the test.

The example of James Po Ho Cheung is more interesting. Now that I think about it, since software can operate in so many different domains, it’s valid that some of those can be dangerous, such as gambling in his case.
Zoom performance terrible on FF for anyone else?
The background story of the project is quite sad, so it sort of makes sense that he is very defensive of it. (The project got some monetary support initially from a company, which later tried to hijack the whole open-source project (going by copperhead os nowadays, I believe). Fortunately thanks to Micay the original was unharmed (he revoked private keys, big kudos!), but they do throw shade at GrapheneOS promoting their shady fork in many relevant threads)

Nonetheless, he is an excellent security researcher who has an excellent track record of prioritizing the security of his userbase, even if he may (more or less validly) be a bit overly defensive over it.
Here is the police press release

https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2022/11/09/police-and-famil...
I want my colleagues to care deeply about the work we do together. I don't think that's a bad thing.
If you can run 1 server instead of 3 though... that means no ansible, no kubernetes, no wild deployment strategies, 1/3 the likelihood of hardware failure, etc
HTML is really rightly coupled to layout, even though it's a ridiculous format. And semantics isn't linear, like HTML is. If you want some vague form of semantic representation (because there's no good, universal semantic representation, and the rest is just data tagging), use something else, or add a new namespace if you want to abuse HTML even further.
No. The started with the aristocrats (though most of them ran away to Austria before mass murder even started), then they started killing other radicals like the Girondins, mass exterminating peasants and too moderate Jacobins (and random people in general). Finally Robespierre and his ilk got their own heads chopped off. Then you had the Thermidorian reaction where conservative liberals were killing the more radical ones (it wasn’t as extreme as the res terror though).

> seems a little disingenuous

No.
It is surprising and discouraging that a forum that is meant to be about start-ups, disruption, innovation and new ideas is so blind to one so revolutionary as cryptocurrencies.

Yes there are scams, but that is not exclusive to the cryptocurrency world, and nobody is defending those.

Yes there is too much price speculation, but there are also thousands of developers, companies and DAOs working on useful projects. We want cryptocurrencies and blockchains to be useful to people, let's focus on that.

Yes scalability is insufficient at the moment, but there are multiple blockchains with concrete and plausible roadmaps to improve it while keeping enough decentralization. Let's not focus on the limitations of today, but on the possibilities of the future. Otherwise it would be like failing to imagine Youtube in the era of dial-up modems. It's unbecoming of Hacker News.

I would like people in general, and even more here, to think twice and keep an open mind. If so many people are excited and dedicating their lives to it, isn't it possible that you missed something important?
They have a sandbox which can run google’s services. I read plenty of people saying that they could successfully run their banking app without spoofing.
Stealing $10 billion from your users is always going to get more attention than launching a shit coin named after rats.

For there to be positive coverage, something positive has to happen... like that kid on tik tok who bought a $2mil house and paid for his mortgage with the 20% interest paid on his 200k DeFi stablecoin holding. Now that there was a heartwarming and positive story.
I was not aware of the origins of the term, so thanks for that.

But then the question lurks; was the hackers inspired by the movies or was the movies inspired by the hackers :)
That's conflating aesthetics vs function. Most keyboard enthusiasts don't look at their keyboard for information/help, they may look to enjoy the visual appearance.

In this case, most people with custom layouts are fine with default or blank caps. As a Dvorak user, who remaps lots of keys at the os level I don't enjoy having incorrect labels. But I also wouldn't want to shell out 35 bucks everytime I add a remap.
This is nostalgic, I spent countless hours in MPT as a kid. I moved on to sequencers around 10 years ago, but I remember trackers fondly, making music felt a bit like coding.
They didn’t have enough space in prisons. Also the Guillotine was reserved for political opponents ordinary people were loaded on to rafts which were sunk in the middle of a river..
GrapheneOS instead went on to implement a whole sandbox which can run google services properly, without hacks like spoofing signatures (which is required for microG).

In practice, you can run most apps on GrapheneOS.
What did you move to instead?
Doesn't the drawing widely overstate the evidence? I mean they have information on: skin color (fair), eye color (blue/green), hair color (brown/blond), and some freckles.

It doesn't actually say male, but let's throw that in.

This profile literally encompasses my entire family on my fathers side (well the male half). I'm positive none of them are involved in a 1982 US murder case.

Maybe there is a secret sauce, but where is the science?
To your point, you should probably not do anything the NSA tells you to do. A spy agency’s endorsement of Rust is not to its credit.
Make an accusation. Hushed "whisper lists" protect no one and allow merely suspicion to serve as indictment. Again, if something happens, make an open public accusation.
Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
> we have a much stricter separation between the legislative and judiciary.

Could you clarify more? You also said, "In a civil law country, precedent is always subordinate to codified law." That would imply that there is less room for judges to interpret the law more freely. (In India, for example, constitutional courts can even expand or contract the law, by striking down or adding provisions to it through the power of judicial reviews.)
Who decides what is a good cause and what is a bad cause?
My prediction: SQLite will keep gaining popularity.

Especially among pragmatic software builders who run their own business and do not work for the man. A demographic that I expect to grow.

Talking about SQLite: Is there any downside to partitioning an SQLite db into multiple files?

For example one of my systems has a table 'details' which is not vital for the system to work. It's just a nice to have, to have data in this table. And it is pretty big, growing fast.

When I copy the DB over to another system, I don't need that table. So it would be nice to have like primary.db and secondary.db. With 'details' in secondary.db. Any downside to this approach? Are JOINS slower across two files than across two tables in the same file?
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #12, Why are some companies still short semiconductor chips when others are swimming in them?, TSMC reportedly building 1nm chip fab in northern Taiwan, AMD has launched two Xilinx FPGAs optimised for cost in embedded applications
Building into the kernel instead of using modules is not perfect because it increases RAM usage when you don't use certain modules compared to having them loaded on demand.