skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could probably answer all of these trivially with a quick query on your favorite search engine. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the old days...

you can get an Amazon link with some counterfeit or fly by night product and a bunch of knucklehead reviewers saying stuff like "the black cable was indeed black!" and "it took long to ship!", or you can go to the local store that sells all the electronics stuff you need in some subcategory, which you would likely already know. also depending on what you want to look up, google will give you an invalid state approved answer (coming soon)

>If you wanted to find out about a particular IC in the old days, the best thing to do was to find the manufacturer’s data book. If you were in a school or a company, there might be what you wanted in the library.

...and today you get some shithead's 3rd party website with a bunch of pdfs from god knows where encoded into web page slide shows with google captchas
There is also the issue that once the government had access, that the telco could not create a fake software layer to just use this excuse. And if they create a real and required software layer, then there was an expectation to have similar access as before.

This is great reason to never grant it in the first place. It forever locks access and security at that point in time.
Your great-grandmother objected to it?
An optimizing compiler for React Native and Web
Perplexity Ask, search interface that uses GPT 3.5 and Bing to answer questions
Both myself and my super talented devops coworker hadn't ever run with that many individual machines in a single location. 4-5k was both our maxes. It worked fine before, we didn't expect it to fall over.

dnsmasq has some really nice features that kea doesn't have. just finding a single blade in the datacenter, means a naming system, and it was easier with dnsmasq, and the config was easier to create. We ended up having to use ansible to generate the kea config file because we also keep machines subnet separated based on physical location.

HN has all sorts of people, I never try to quantify it. We don't know what we don't know.
And streams are part of the reason checked exceptions are now unfashionable. Java doesn’t infer that a generic function arg should affect the caller’s exception signature.
Thanks for mentioning this, I couldn't think of where I'd read about this technique before. I was remembering https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
>This is perhaps a naive question, but are there many machines that need more than 64bits of address space?

I thought a potential CPU of the future could have 128 bit "word size" for integer calculations and as a side effect also 128 bit pointers to reuse registers/instructions for both of them (just like today with 64 bit CPUs, indeed you don't need to map the entire address space but pointers are still 64 bit because it's the CPU's word size). And then address space layout randomization in a future OS could choose to map very high address ranges for the process, which can't be represented with Java's long.
If effective altruism is the best philosophy then anything that supports effective altruism must also be good. And anything that supports that, etc.

So make sure to buy comfy plush pillows and foot massagers for the effective altruists so they can do their effective altruism more effectively!
I had no idea the photos app was doing this. This seems beyond excessive and I’m glad I happen to use the old photo viewer. The new one always takes a second to load the photo, and I suppose that’s because it’s doing all this other stuff in the background.
The capital appreciation of a listed building can be high, but is not always high. "it depends"

So from a non-altruistic PoV it may, or may not turn out to be a sound investment irrespective of it's utility as a venue right now.

As a venue, it may be profoundly attractive, induce all the right moods for visitors, and be sellable for service (weddings, funerals, videos..) so supplement income.

Have known occupants of listed buildings in the UK, stately homes. Mostly, tenants who got them off the National Trust on peppercorn rent for putting up with the perpetual damp.

If they are seeking investment funding having a villains lair (is there a dungeon? is it in working order?), or a mansion, might project the right kind of message to people with money who want to be altruistic. If they want to deal with poor people, less so.
Eh on McDonalds but I do like the self-service ordering.

Kinda amazing this has not caught on more and sooner in USA.

Much more low tech versions of this have been used in Japan forever. The noodle bars and ramen shops are case studies in efficiency.
We have identical boys, James and Charlie, about to turn 5. Got a DNA test for a holiday present that confirmed it. They're very healthy and happy kids, and are each other's best friend.

When they were about 3, James asked to wear a dress. Now James wears a dress every day, and is -- for lack of a better word -- extremely flamboyant. At first Charlie wanted to wear a dress too, but that seems to have just been FOMO because now he never wears them. Charlie is maybe more cerebral and cautious than your average boy, but still very clearly feels like a boy.

This has all been really interesting and mystifying to us. My wife and I and most of the people we interact with are pretty ordinary cisgendered, heterosexual people. We've never consciously pushed the boys toward any particular social norm. And we both figured one's sexuality and gender identity was hardcoded in one's DNA. Now we have living proof that doesn't seem to be the case. Our best uneducated guess is that something in utero caused the boys to develop with different levels of hormones, and that caused their "wiring" to diverge.
They can't do the check there because clearly they had already been working on encrypting the data end to end making that impossible. So the middle ground was end to end encryption with on device scanning which is a step up from no encryption. Somehow we ended up with the best option of no scanning at all which is nice.
Well the scanning was allegedly supposed to take place only when uploading. If a user chooses not to opt-in for cloud library the device scanning was allegedly supposed to be turned off.

So yeah allegedly no worst.

You might notice i used the word "allegedly" a lot, it's because we are speculating about a feature that was never actually rolled out and that nobody audited externally to my knowledge. If you don't trust Apple then this argument don't apply and you are probably better of not using an iPhone.

Nonetheless it's still not worst than actually rolled out CSAM scanning feature of Google Cloud that already had major user adversial effect. So you should trust Google even less and you definitely shouldn't use a stock Android device.
Definitely interested.

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The universe is expanding, we need it to be scalable
Actually, gigantic container ships beat everything else, by a large margin, including trains. It's cheaper to ship stuff to California from China by ship than by train from the east coast states.

Automobiles are the worst and least efficient mode of transportation, and should be severely curtailed.
Tether has been around far far longer than FTX has. It has also been called a fraud for half or more of that time and it is still standing strong. FTX wasn’t publicly called a fraud, at least here on HN. The moment Coindesk published that FTX and Alameda were a house of cards, the house collapsed in 2 weeks more or less.

Tether has probably made a ton of money by lending newly minted tether at 1-6% annual interest to people pessimistic enough to short it unsuccessfully this whole time, ironically.
Trying to workaround the 4th like that might manage to make the law facially constitutional, but I'd be surprised if it made the searches conducted as a result of it valid.

By my understanding you have to avoid a "warrantless search by a government agent" to avoid violating the constitution. The "warrantless search" part is really beyond dispute, so it's the "government agent" part that is in question. In general "government agent" is a term of art that means "acting at the behest of the government", but I don't know exactly where the boundary lies. I'd be fairly surprised if any law that allowed for accidentally storing CSAM after a failed search, but didn't allow for accidentally storing CSAM content without a search, didn't make the party doing the search a government agent. If you make the former illegal, cloud storage at all (scanning or not) is an impossible business to be in.
Isn't this what made Apple kill Fortnite in their App Store? Apple about to ban Twitter too?
Have you been blocked by any major services? I've heard horror stories from colleagues of their static IP address eventually being blocked from their bank.
Wild, I can just cancel my card in my banks app, generate a new virtual card, add it to a NFC payment app and carry on as normal.
Back when the news first came out there were several blog posts posted to HN by people who host user uploaded photos at scale who had NCMEC come knocking at their door to strong arm them into participating in their programs.

They are not even a proper government agency yet they walk around with the balls to pretend they are equivalent to the NSA.
No, they don't. Container ships produce less CO2 per tonne than trains, by a large margin.
Binary is an abstraction. I tap the clock and data lines line manually with a battery. Boy are my fingers tired.
IMO Zig right now is fairly buggy. And the rate of bug introduction has been greater than the fixing of said bugs over the past few years. (Not a knock on the project.) Move fast and break things. Trying to develop production quality software in Zig is like trying to hit a moving target. Zig is not production ready, and they mean it. The ABI is not stable and features are removed/retooled from version to version. (eg. removal of async.) This is all stated upfront, however. Zig is a WIP. That being said, if you've read the warning labels and are still excited there's /tons/ of promise. They are on the right track to being a modern C replacement/augment/mux with an integrated build system. And it's a joy to program in. And the community is pretty great. The best way forward is joining the community and contributing in one way or another, because Zig will be quite special once it's done. Bun is a clear indication of this.
I don’t think I ever got those details. I think she objected to the safety issues but maybe I’m just projecting that onto the story.
Yes, of course. They will rest their argument on the asinine and unfalsifiable "lived experience" canard.

We can only hope that smarter humans will win the day.
Those jobs are only causing more inequality by propping up a wealthy slave owner class in their country.

Only winners are the CEOs who do sell this service to the west. Without them that country can happily live within their means.
I mean, we're joking, but we're joking on a story where they managed to justify an $18MM estate to hold events at.
Sure. The thing is that we also have a physical location based naming system which is somewhat tied to the IPv4 address and we use that system across multiple data centers. We also have a single daemon running on each box that helps with the naming. It would complicate things (ie: more code to write) to have one dc (where we had these issues), on IPv6. We hadn't had issues before, so it never really made sense to use IPv6 other than for the novelty of it. IPv4 works surprisingly well and the issue really wasn't at that layer. Who knows too.. maybe radvd or systemd-networkd also have other issues we don't know about.
Forget container ships: if you want to reduce greenhouse gases, you need to target trucks, trains, and cars first, then probably aviation after that. Container ships are ridiculously low-emission in terms of CO2/tonne.
This paper [1] cites some stats from the UK over one year (I think 2019) - from about 29.4m reports to NCMEC, 102,842 were referred to the NCA, of which 20,038 were referred to policing agencies, which led to 6,500 suspects, and about 750
of those suspects were prosecuted, which it estimates makes up about 3% of all prosecutions for indecent image offences. That comes out to about 0.7% of NCMEC reports to the UK's NCA leading to prosecution.

I read another article that linked to stats from Irish and Swiss federal police, and both of them reported discarding about 80% of NCMEC's reports to them in the first stage as not being at all criminally relevant, but I can't find the link right now.

1. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/chatcontrol.pdf
An even better idea: Right now, the biggest address is 255.255.255.255. Why not just make it go up to 999.999.999.999? Problem solved!
I was personally quite disappointed at the time, but I don’t care anymore. I completely stopped using iCloud at the time, and I’m not going back. Migrating off it was such a pita, and I don’t want to have to do it a second time.
The American perspective is that that are. Many would hard pressed to say which were in the EU and which were not.
Social engineering can be very powerful. Small ISPs could fall victim to this easier.
Why would you limit yourself to running events only in one of the most expensive places on earth? Do they not intend to have attendees from elsewhere?
Someone at Shopify might want to consider hip-checking Ryan if they’d like Remix to go somewhere. He doesn’t seem articulate enough or in the right position to have this conversation. I’m not taking sides here. This whole Next.js (and Netlify) situation is fast becoming a mess. Ryan has a point buried in his hot take somewhere. Lee is basically lying by omission and distraction. Matt is overwhelmed and maybe even a bit naive.

I’m not sure what the solution is. It’s driven us to consider going back to basics by building our own internal SSG React framework to avoid the intermittent grief of running Next.js on Netlify. It’s sad because there are things we like about all parties involved here.
> Of course, not everyone will agree with their decision, but it wasn’t done haphazardly.

Needless to say, the question in context should have been whether it was done "effecitvely". Fine fine, if you want to throw a ton of conferences or whatever owning a forum to do it in might plausibly save you money.

Was throwing a ton of conferences really the best, most effective use of fifteen million pounds at furthering the betterment of mankind? I think we all know the answer to that.

They wanted to throw a ton of parties and raise a ton of money and wanted to spend that money on stuff that made them feel important.
IANAL

For those who are saying that Nintendo is dumb, copyright/trademark laws compel you to defend your copyrights/trademarks in most places - especially the US, and especially when said copyright is older (Mario is going on 41 years). Yes, I am aware that copyright != trademark and vice versa, but they overlap in many places.

Not doing so, makes it harder to protect your trademarks in the future. While copyrights never truly expire (they can after some time, around 70 years?).
I'm sorry but I don't understand your vitriol.

> The women claimed to have met him on a dating app, social media platform, or a less-expected online space, like an app-based word or puzzle game (Words With Friends is popular with scammers)—anything with a chat feature. What the women didn’t know was that the 50-something fellow with the goatee who smiled back at them in photograph after photograph wasn’t the same person they were speaking with. Their charming lover was a scripted character used by gangs of overseas fakers to bilk cash from unsuspecting romantics, and Geras’ stolen photos were the bait.

The article says the man feared for his life because husbands of these women called him. Presumably these women are from the same country as this guy so my suggestion would've stopped most of those vectors of attack. I mean yeah if they gave their phone number in the chat of a puzzle game then the scammers could send whatever pictures they wanted but that's a much harder thing to pull off than scam someone on a dating app or with a fake social media profile
Maybe this is my light-sensitive headache speaking, but I think I would live in fear of accidentally turning the flashlight on. That is a freaking monster.
I’m arguing this is just a dumb bit and nothing more. You’re arguing this is a scam (human impersonating a bot). These are different assertions.
Yes. It's too bad because they used to support Scientific Linux, but stopped because CentOS was so popular...

Anyway, I'm glad I went with Alma over Rocky, albeit for the wrong reasons (my daughter's name is Alma...)
If you’re going to hold a lot of events in royal manors then sure maybe buying a royal manor is cheaper. However, most events don’t need to be held in royal manors, especially if they are about altruism or shit like that.
Don’t know what you mean. The jobs should never leave the consuming country. The greed caused them to seek cheaper labor outside.
Surprising Finding: New Study Yields Clues to Genetic Causes of High Cholesterol
Delete this and post again like so:

Show HN: Qoirsk, a Simple, Lossless Image File Format

with a link to the github. That will get more views. Also try doing it during business hours in the US (15:00-Midnight GMT) and you will get a lot more feedback. Best of luck.
Look at what China did - they copied whole economic/technological systems of countries, each in a different region, then ran it for two decades, then evaluated which ones work best under what conditions. How would you get this effect with globalization and a single culture everywhere?
I understand what you're saying, but isn't IP supposed to be about routing things around failure points? So routers that "know" IP 4.4 would "know" what routers aren't 4.4.
And even if we ignore issues with too large working sets and only focus on memory allocations, then if some badly written program eats all memory, then running some OOM killer (who hopefully kills the offender) is better than keeping it running and just failing all consequent allocations, as such system is unusable anyways.
Long-term it's probably some combo of leeching off your spouse if you have one, burning through you credit/house if you have one, drugs and homelessness, living with parents if they are still around, and for people who didn't completely lose it, cash gigs (but that's not what this article is about, i think).

None of these options sound very savory. While technically possible, there is zero security, constant depression and if you are leeching off someone (probably also pretty broke), you're one fight away from being homeless.
Fascinating that a student in a Master's program is the first to document the natural rate of soil erosion in the Midwest.

"For the first time, we know what the natural rates of erosion are in the Midwest,” says Caroline Quarrier, the paper’s lead author and who completed this research as part of her master’s thesis at UMass Amherst. “And because we now know the rate of erosion before Euro-American settlement, we can see exactly how much modern agriculture has accelerated the process.”

The numbers are not encouraging. “Our median pre-agricultural erosion rate across all the sites we sampled is 0.04 mm per year,” says Larsen. Any modern-day erosion rate higher than that number means that soil is disappearing faster than it is accumulating."
The publisher is deleting comments bringing up their 80% cut.
wow that thomasnet is a useful website, ive been trying to find what kind of color filters exist and what characteristics they can have and it gets me some nice spectral output graphs

https://abrisatechnologies.com/optical-coatings/color-correc...

i feel like this type of search engine would provide more variety than google which is more of a "the one answer". need more meta articles like this
Maybe the link should be the original press release? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-announces-bigge...
> And we both figured one's sexuality and gender identity was hardcoded in one's DNA.

There are some good reasons not to believe this. From a Darwinian perspective, we can easily observe that homosexuality is one of the worst possible phenotypes an organism can have, so we'd expect genes to be adamantly opposed to it. Or in other words, heterosexuality definitely should be hardcoded in, in several different ways, but homosexuality should not.

And the evidence, such as it is, tends to bear that out: concordance of homosexuality in identical twins is, if I remember correctly, about 40%. That sounds high, but it isn't -- concordance for randomly chosen traits in identical twins is much, much higher than 40%.
More than the language, it's the culture of the organization that matters. You could be working for a company that uses a 'modern' language like Typescript, but then restricts you to using UI components built by a central team who can't possibly have an insight into every use case that downstream teams deal with. So you're stuck working around the limitations of those components.

Or you work for <insert famous tech company> who can't use a particular library which makes your life a lot easier because a competitor had developed it. Either you find time to reinvent the wheel, or you just put together something that works for now, but will be a pain later to modify or extend.

In cases like that, you can end up with code even uglier than N-Tier (where N > 4) Enterprise Java projects from the 2000s.

So if you see a company with bloated culture, which incidentally uses Java, then you will find over engineered Java code. But if it's a company that cares more about solving problems than having a lot of meetings on what standards to follow, their Java code will be unlike anything from the 2000s.
Very interesting! I went to high school with identical twins, and even though they were quite hard to tell apart in terms of looks, they were wildly different in terms of intelligence - one was in the class for the gifted and the other was in the class for the struggling, they had quite different personalities too. Really fascinating.
I think this might be the single strangest objection to using an adblocker I have ever heard. Are you implying that installing uBlock Origin in a browser raises your risk of being tracked online?

I don't think I've ever seen someone make the argument that Gorhill should be trusted less than the advertising industry, that's a new one for me.
There was Altavista ;-)
I’m not sure where you are getting your info, but rich people do much better on standardized tests (ACT/SAT/GaoKao/etc…) then poor people given the resources they have available to prep for the tests. If you think these are equalizers for poor people (or that they think so), you are misidentifying the problem.
Meanwhile in the US, consumer internet is barely at 1 Gbps
You're calling the community that makes a new framework every nanosecond “stable”?
> The part I don't understand is: if the proctor sees identical twins sitting near eachother, and suspects them of communicating, why not just separate them instead of waiting until the test is over and then accusing them of cheating?

Because by the time you notice that they're cheating, it's too late to retroactively prevent them from starting?
Can codegen handle other programming languages than python?