skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wording on this one sounds like it picked up an old riddle/trivia question and mixed it together the wrong way:

What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

The trick answer is that the pound of feathers weighs more, because gold is (was) measured in a system where 1 pound = 12 ounces, while feathers would be weighed using the modern system where 1 pound = 16 ounces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
The U.S. federal government gives the States' child protection service agencies money grants that are conditional on those agencies actually taking children from their homes. You get what you subsidize, and if you subsidize petty tyranny, you'll get petty tyranny.
Richard Brown, who's been working on this problem for 10 years at Suse, says he was wrong in 2017. Flatpak is now the clear way to go, if you care about security, app updates, licensing, and multi-distro support (runtime dependencies).

https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2023/UA2.114%20(Baudoux)/container...
To me recently, Cinnamon feels like they took GNOME technologies and built the default Plasma desktop in them.
Yep! I blame the rise of 24 hour news and the need to spread fear mongering in the name of ratings. I think it coincides nicely with the problem.
This. Discover bank literally said email ending with .in is not a valid email. As if no Indian moves to US & still keeps his own domain.in email address. It happily accepted .us email.
I think FBI also would tell you to stay away from sites that mess with the back button.
There’s no public one. But, data brokers have this info, and share it. Internally, a lot of companies can do this. So, it’s not far-fetched.
Valve has been historically quite comfortable with Nazis and white ethnonationalists on steam. There are limits, but Valve generally doesn't care about making sure steam/Valve games are friendly places to players. If it's not illegal, Valve isn't going to do anything about it.
Google trying to game the results with some highly publicized a/b testing is going to result in them losing market share, not people getting angry at lawmakers. This is a hilariously uninformed move on their part. Bet it gets blamed on "an intern that wrote a bad script" or some typical wasn't me nonsense.
I consider my bank balance to be very sensitive information.
That would be incredible, please do! Figma is the only design tool that actually approaches design from an engineering standpoint, which can be seen in their feature set of things like having reusable components, variants, inheritance etc, which then maps very cleanly onto the code side.
But police operate anonymous tiplines and investigate separately. Some people reporting crimes have a fear of retaliation, and sometimes that retaliation might even be rooted in corruption within the police force.

The Supreme Court has ruled (as recently as 2014) that anonymity of report is not a barrier to an investigative stop by police, if the report includes sufficient detail to seem credible (Navarette v. California, 572 U.S. 393, 397 (2014)). That's why I don't think this issue is as simple as you originally presented it to be, notwithstanding the Constitutional language on the topic.
The trajectory for Facebook has been consistently bad. Not knowing the "full extent" is not absolution.

The CDC study is a lagging indicator; it describes the trendline of a mental health crisis that's self-evident to practitioners. On the research side, there have been many studies in the last 10 years associating Facebook use with poor mental health outcomes.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out 5 years ago.
I use Ubuntu and it’s worked fine for years. I have no reason to switch, but I couldn’t really tolerate Snaps anymore.

Unless I have another reason to reinstall Linux, it’s far easier to uninstall Firefox and the other handful of Snap apps and just use Flathub/flatpak exclusively. I just need to be careful I don’t pick the default store app when searching for software.
Photographer Edward Burtynski has taken astounding photos of this stuff: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/shipbre...
WOW. I was reading in that webpage that also exists advertising authorships of scientific papers for sale.
Traditional package managers like dnf and apt are probably not even the best way to update the kernel and OS these days. Immutable images like what’s used in Fedora Silverblue (as well as android and iOS) are much more reliable and probably the way distros will move
.in is rejected by discover for email address, its a cctld. .us was fine.
Talk to engineers and contractors in Japan and Chile. They have very good recent experience with their buildings withstanding some of the most massive earthquakes in recent history.
No you don't need to, you can trade with an actual person if you wish
Poor families don't have the resources to fight this crap. No surprise then that CPS goes after them more than after the wealthy.
Ads aside, injecting your UI into random sites sounds like a good way to train your users to get phished.
Great work! I really like it!

BTW, it would be great if it had
.env support!
Good ol’ BonziBuddy
>Germany has a lot of faults policy-wise, but they somehow managed to keep manufacturing despite spending trillions on reunification right in middle.

To be fair Germany's manufacturing sector has no secret sauce that Germany invented, but is a sector that managed to survive mostly due to cheap energy from Russian gas, which is now gone, and is highly dependent on a constant stream of mass migration keeping wages in manufacturing low and therefore the cost of German exports competitive.
I feel like you'd end up going full circle back to apt and npm and ...
I was only explaining the comment, not stating that it was a 100% sound legal analysis. The “that amendment only restricts what the government can do” excuse comes up a lot when companies censor speech that they don’t like, and it is pretty funny to see it applied to some of the lesser–known amendments.
Oh?

> even moderately hungry mice prefer to socialize with the opposite sex than to eat, researchers have found.

.. but I understand what you're referring to much further down. Starvation wins.
I'm reasonably happy with AdBlock+
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918013
That surprises me, but I'll keep it in mind.
Central Europe is also reasonably well in this aspect, also Eastern Europe is much better than USA.
In a popular esports title like Dota, people can make an income on the black market by selling accounts that they've ranked up.

Accounts that are in the higher brackets of matchmaking can fetch a reasonable sum.

So using hacks (provided it has gone undetected by anti-cheat software and other players) can make this process easier.

I'm certainly not condoning the behaviour, of course.
I am really surprised every time I see this vehement hatred of cars. I lived in NYC my whole life and didn't have a car, but now we got kids so we happily moved for the house-and-car-in-the-burbs life and it's absolutely better. People make this choice for a reason.

Just curious, do you have a family and do you shlep them by bus everywhere?
I thought that was what Nissan (the domain owner,not the motor company) wanted, that motor company leaves him alone, & don't bother him while he uses his lastname domain.
I don't think the licensing model is wrong but I think it is stupid, because it keeps new customers away.

There should be a way to charge for the produced value. If many users are using the produced programs, charge for that. For instance keep the basic development environment reasonably priced but charge for the ability to create executables.

My favorite IDE (Integrated Development Environment) at the moment is WebStorm by JetBrains. It is about $60 (?) for personal license with updates per year. I can develop JavaScript programs and run them on any JS platform. It is a nice product which truly adds to my productivity. And I can afford it. And I read that JetBrains is doing financially great.
I think it's a trope from the second half of the 20th century (mostly the 3rd quarter).
I'm so done with this performative outrage.

Yesterday somebody called me "dude". According to Wikipedia, dude was a replacement for "dandy" in the late 1800s. I'm gay. How dare thee??!! Where's my check?
Since we're on the topic of bad science, the first figure in that article (Pants on Fire) is a pretty bad one. The units on the Y-axis are not specified (strike one), but it looks to be the _unnormalized_ number of papers retracted each year.

The yearly retraction _rate_ (i.e. the number of retracted paper per number of papers published) is what is relevant here. The number of journals have and papers have exploded since '96.
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That's... not how that works. So, archive link:
https://archive.is/hAaYD
Honestly that was a bad decision and it's time to end it.

Nobody uses those for their intended "national country" use. .io and .ai are tech-focused, .tv pretty much only has tv stations or video providers on it and so on.
1blocker works fine for me.
That’s pretty bang on (biochemist).
In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this.

One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home.

I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.
A whole lot of the flatpaks currently are packaged by 3rd parties and they have all kinds of quirks especially around filesystem access. When the projects officially package a flatpak it's generally all working.
So this is a weird one, and I have no idea why I remember this...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-05-15/gecko-in-chicken-egg-...

Gecko in chicken egg may be salmonella breakthrough
The Northern Territory president of the Australian Medical Association says he may have accidentally discovered how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets inside chicken eggs.
A common misconception, here is one of the famous 40 at Kings College:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-trudie-chalder

They probably shouldn't be in medicine, certainly not running departments in hospitals but they are.
There's nothing wrong with Mate, Cinnamon or even LXDE. Especially since desktop environments these days are mostly different frontends built on a fairly unified infrastructure, largely provided by freedesktop.org. We still see divergence between Qt-based and GTK+ based desktops, and other minor differences exist, but the "one definitive" user environment is basically here.
> Less than 1000 if you can live with 32 bits but I wonder if someone goes for that option nowadays.

Right. I don't count the 32 Bit versions as serious contenders.

> The MacOS version supports both Apple Silicon and Intel.

That is good news. For pure Mac users this is interesting, still very expensive. Personally, my development time is split between MacOS and Linux.
It's just making up your library. Ask it to write some documentation, don't be specific yet, then drop a whole header or piece of code from your project into the chat.
I read that in the article but in the paper I only found a mention of tests for 200 cycles.
I develop a popular iOS and macOS ad blocker that block almost all ads[1] including all YouTube ads.

Will be interested to hear if you've tried it out and what may have been missing?

The only things we don't block at the moment is some non-English content and Adult sites. With a small team these haven't been the primary focus for the time being. Other than those though we should stop pretty much everything else.

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/
Yeah, it works well for me as well. I see zero ads.
You build it, you recycle it in a way that isn't detrimental to the health and safety of humans. That should be the (international) law.
Mobile internet usage overtook desktop towards the end of 2016. Currently mobile usage sits at about 65% worldwide (slightly below 60% in the US).
Ask HN: Which big tech companies are still (or permanently) remote?
After working remotely for so long, I have no desire to go to the office now, so I'm wondering which big tech, FAANG, pre-IPO startups etc are still going to be remote for the foreseeable future.
No 3 letter.com domain is available to register (all combinations are registered, can only be bought). 4 letter mixed numbers letters are sure available. I am not sure of 4 letters only is available. 5 letters only sure is available.
> If they wanted the data, they'd buy, like, a vitamin company or something.

This is a very good point.

Nonetheless, I think that being cynical about anything Amazon is up to isn't unwarranted.

My primary personal problem with this deal is that I do my best to avoid doing business with Amazon at all, and the more tendrils they spread, the more difficult this will be.
Love this topic. I remember Everquest used to checksum areas of memory that were commonly modified from cheats. World of Warcraft used to (possibly still does, it has been forever since I looked at this) inject anti cheat code at runtime.

Obfuscation and deobfuscation is also super interesting. I think overall reverse engineering and figuring out how things work is one of the most interesting things in computer science.

https://github.com/obfuscator-llvm/obfuscator/tree/llvm-4.0/...

https://blog.quarkslab.com/deobfuscation-recovering-an-ollvm...
If you authorize me to request broadband service at your house, I will check the FCC’s map (https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/) for you and challenge any incorrect information that I can find. But if you care enough to agree to that, why wouldn’t you just do it yourself? The real problem is that only a fraction of the population knows about the map and knows that they can challenge incorrect information on it, so only a few addresses in any given area will ever be corrected.
If they don't come it and don't resign themselves, then I assume google would fire them in which case they would get severance? Is that how it works? It's only an issue if the people who wfh resign then they would not get severance/unemployment?
Ubuntu is cut from Debian testing, not Debian stable. If you want to move upstream, you should be looking at testing, not stable.

In my experience, the stability concerns are overblown, and it makes for a really nice rolling release system. I've had individual systems run for over a decade on a Debian testing install with rolling updates, and it's generally been far less of a headache than Ubuntu releases.
> I just need to be careful I don’t pick the default store app when searching for software.

In my experience Ubuntu's default store app can be safely uninstalled once you have Flatpack's store app. In fact I recommend doing that as their functionality overlaps quite a bit (e.g. you will get duplicated update notifications if you have both stores installed).

(The above assumes that you got rid of Snap. Otherwise you may still need the default one)
Yes, but bonuses is not something you can depend on so as an employee you shouldn't include it to compare market parity in my opinion. But I am someone that never was never getting the employer's suggested bonuses (never the full but maybe like 20%) because of 'bad company performance' or 'bad market performance'.
Due to recent events, maybe didn't use the duckduckgo one.
So many random 5 letter, letters only domains are available. If you add numbers & hypen to mix, it baloons to thousands.
How many different versions of OpenSSL are running on my laptop right now? Who can say? That's the beauty of flatpak: if you sweep the problems of software management under a big enough rug, they go away and never bother you again.
Blaming 5 other people for not understanding to play around 21 other wildly different heroes isn't flexibility in game design. Your are asking 5 other people to play a fundamentally different game than the one they have learned.

You couldn't "individually experiment" because fundamentally you needed team experimentation; you can't play Reinhardt in isolation, and subjecting your team to experimentation on your own whims leads to toxicity.

I think many people who go down the "I should be able to play what I want and people should adapt to me" don't realize they are being selfish in play style in a game like Overwatch.
> flashy fMRI studies received substantially more funding than fundamental research

This is particularly infuriating since fMRI studies are not statistically robust and should be held in deep distrust.

The same happens everywhere in academia unfortunately. The current big thing is building “Apps” for your project even when no app is needed.
yeah i have no idea why you can't sort the list of podcasts manually but at least i figured out you can pin the ones to the top in the (iirc) reverse order you pin them. least worst podcast app is probably the best way to put it. pretty good but definitely could be really good with some ux designer love.
Meta profited from anti-LGBTQ+ ads despite entering float in Sydney Mardi Gras
If you don't mind Lua, then redbean already has you covered:

https://redbean.dev/
> That's not to say that nothing is moving forward, but the fact that people are unhappy with a technology doesn't mean that technology is objectively inferior to a proposed replacement. Sometimes it's just fashion.

I apologise for writing so much that you couldn't read all of it, but this part, whilst buried at the end of the first paragraph was really important:

> > the non-POSIX apis are much faster than the POSIX api -- especially the ones that are harder to mix with the POSIX api.

That they are better in this objective way is why this particular kind of unhappiness demonstrates what I say, even if you're not otherwise interested in people being happy.
They'll have to do it at some point. There's just too many apps with plugins to ignore it. (Including basically all of audio production with their VSTs)
What is a fantastic, useful, or insightful essay that is at least 10 years old?
> Why should we allow self appointed "biomedical ethicists" to dictate what interventions we can use?

…We don’t? Nobody does? Ethicists aren’t cops. Nobody gets arrested by the ethics police or thrown into ethics jail. They have opinions which are then either ignored or supported by somebody in a political or managerial position.

Why would we give cover to the people that actually make decisions about laws by pretending that some stuffy academics are omnipotent?

edit:

> If we allow parents to destroy embryos, why is it so controversial to allow them to modify them?

There’s an entire profession of people that get hired to debate questions like that, they’re called… ethicists.
Markov chains are great for modeling human language and human decision making. ChatGPT demonstrates this and the results are not trivial. I don't see it being glorified beyond what it plainly does
People enforcing SMS login/MFA don't care. As someone who's frequently away my home country, I often find it difficult to log into services that are necessary for my survival (like banking), let alone regular apps which more and more frequently are ditching email address signup in favour of mobile numbers (BeReal, Artifact etc).

At _minimum_ I need to swap the physical SIM card in my phone which for some reason breaks iMessage for a few days every time I do it. However roaming doesn't work in every country, so, sometimes I'm just fucked.

eSIM could make the first problem easier, but it actually makes it harder. With a physical SIM, if I lose or break my phone I still have my home SIM so I can still access SMS on a new phone. With eSIM, if I lose or break my phone my home SIM is lost along with it. No problem, just provision a new eSIM, that's the whole point right? Well, one of my telcos doesn't support eSIM yet, but they enforce SMS MFA, so I can see where this is going. I'll only be able to provision a new sim if I have access to the old one. Absolutely braindead. Another of my telcos doesn't allow eSIMs to be provisioned digitally; you need to obtain a physical QR code from a shop or have it posted to an address within the country (they won't send one overseas). It's actually unbelievable how telcos have managed to make eSIMs less convenient than physical SIMs. Anyway, this means I need to return to my home country if I lose or break my phone because without SMS I won't be able to access banking.

This is beyond infuriating, but I'm an edge case so no one cares. It should be illegal for critical services, banking/finance/govt etc to depend on SMS.
I should have mentioned that while purchased by some big companies, there is usually just one user so would not be worthwhile to set it up for remote installation. It is a very niche, specialized program.
After Multibillion-Dollar Fintech Binge, Wall Street Has a Writedown Hangover
Or record and broadcast yourself saying "this elevator is going directly to HELL" in a spooky Vincent Price voice!
That first line got me, everyone used to have ringtones and one day I just left my phone on vibrate and never turned it back on.

Funny fact about me is that a certain Motorola ringtone from the mid 2000's will trigger a panic attack, old TV shows especially. And that's why I have a rule to pass the on-call to the next person in rotation if someone had a really bad night.
I assumed Tesla was at 300, which is pretty close. This might not be the tech for consumer cars though, but one thing I have seen is the enormous proliferation of applications for Li batteries as the costs have come down, and these will certainly find an application. That would be my bet.
Heh, if you thought this post had very strong comments about LispWorks and Franz, wait till you read my rant from last year: https://www.thejach.com/view/2022/1/thoughts_on_writings_on_...

It doesn't bother me as much as maybe it seems from the rant, I don't think about them hardly at all. But when I do, it's frustrating, because just about every other ecosystem out there is better. The rant highlights IntelliJ from the Java world as an alternative. Somehow, JetBrains is able to cater to individual developers and incredibly giant enterprises just fine. They care about their IDE and associated software. LispWorks and Franz do not, to the same degree. That's fine, it's their businesses, but it's disappointing when you want to see Lisp succeed and you have two great proprietary IDEs and implementations that are effectively untouchable for a huge portion of Lispers and would-be-Lispers.
Sid is unstable (by definition and design)b wouldn't recommend as a daily driver. Testing is a decent rolling release distro, though.
If I'm cooking bacon, then I baste them in the hot bacon fat. But mostly I like to put enough olive oil in the pan so that I can easily baste the eggs with a soup spoon. Salt, lots of pepper, and baste 'em -- the tops solidify just enough not to run.
Maybe I'm speaking a bit too broadly; at least in regards to GUI apps, it's been a pretty nice "unifying force" for me when I ran Linux (which has admittedly hasn't been a few years now).
Microsoft: What great ideas!
> a high crime area

What exactly do you expect to happen to your 6 year old? They’re not a very useful target for anything I can think of.
For you specifically, I'd also consider the following:

- breadmaking (artisanal loaves)

- knitting, crocheting, cross-stiching

- figurine painting

- juggling

- slacklining

Here's my list of good "autopilot" activities:

- walking, cycling, driving

- basic cleaning and house chores

- light exercise

- basic landscaping

- doodling

- showering

- waiting in a queue/waiting-room

[1] https://taylor.town/busy-body