skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works for you while you're not involved in the second group. We get to complain and make noise and push on both websites and CF, so that the "non-bot" user group doesn't become "latest chrome user on latest windows in the approved country running proprietary CF extention for id verification" one day in the future when it's an easier solution than dealing with the actual issue.
Ultimately it will be the big banks paying more to the FDIC to cover the shortfall anyways. So that will be pretty much a wash either way. It's the non-bank uninsured depositors that matter.
Microsoft-branded mice and keyboards are going away after 40 years
No one can repeat or cite the story not told.
not excessively impressive but I built a few fun webextensions that I had an itch for.

The ones I use daily or almost daily:

a simple, scanable tab manager that lists all the tabs over all your windows in one list. you can close tabs via middle clicking them and bring the tab you want into the forefront by clicking on it.

an extension that captures capslock and a/d to cycle focus from one tab to the left or right

an extension that opens up a folder of bookmarks a few bookmarks at a time via a right click menu option

an extension to change the speed of a youtube video by having - + buttons at the bottom of the page overlaid and also tells you the current speed of the video.

an extension that made a few quality of life tweaks to the apple development docs.

a theme extension that fits what i want the browser to look like.

I have some others but these are the most useful to me

In meatspace, I built a fan box that hangs at the top of my window facing out so it can take the hot air from the ceiling and push it out while a fan at the bottom of the window pushes cool outside air in.
I know CloudFlare has market share that would push their complaints to the top, but they aren't the only bot traffic blocker, DDoS shield, etc. Do other providers get a (proportionally) similar amount of complaints?
On the one hand, "echo chambers bad", on the other hand, I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge that what floods and outnumbers most other content is a form of signal-to-noise ratio manipulation, and is thus creating an artificial echo chamber by sheer volume.

Would love to know more. I'm a sucker for anything RSS.
Most places I’ve worked default to letting everyone read any source. Is that not the norm? Agree that it’s a game changer for those willing to use it, but I find that last qualifier to be surprisingly rare.
looks great...looking forward to trying it out
My MTG playgroup kept taking too long to play rounds because of indecision on which cards to play, and we consistently ran out of time part-way through games.

A proven solution to this problem already existed - chess clocks. However, those only work for two-player games, and we play games with the number of players ranging from 2 to 6.

So I made a little web app that's like a chess clock but supports several players rather than just 2. It's designed to be used on a phone and put between the players on the table. Your turn ends when you tap your clock. There's also a pause button for during combat so that you can't unfairly run down another player's time while deciding which creatures to block with. The KO button distributes a defeated player's remaining time amongst the players who are still in the game.

Made with 100% organic, home grown typescript. No React in sight.

https://mtg.viggers.net/
I've been using this as my daily driver for Docker usage as well as running a Linux VM for testing Dokku. A few notes:

- It's definitely a work in progress, but there have been a ton of improvements dropping over the past few months. It definitely feels like it's improving in a good way.
- I think Docker _and_ Linux support is... well ambitious. There is certainly a ton of overlap (and I enjoy both) but its definitely going to be a question of focus as the product matures.
- The GUI needs some work - as all early GUIs/UIs do! - and is missing a ton of functionality in comparison to Docker Desktop. It definitely feels like its been somewhat tossed together in some cases. It's improving for sure, but still feels very beta.
- The Docker support is... well normal. I don't ever use the Docker Desktop UI, but the cli has worked just fine for all my usage thus far.
- It's quite nice to be able to shell into a lightweight Linux VM. Speed of npm install/bundling is pretty much the same as the host (though I'm not doing anything super fancy, just a normal Vue app) for the mounted volume. Same for go builds. I can't talk to it over the network, but thats coming.
- The maintainer has been super nice online and responsive to requests/suggestions. Obviously they can't work on everything at once, but the acknowledgement of "yes this is an issue, I've put some thought into it" is super important for folks/companies working in public.
- I'm somewhat concerned about pricing but honestly either my company will pay for it and I'll be fine _or_ I'm going to be priced out for personal usage, which is also okay. I'm not always the market for every product. I'm more concerned about having stable pricing (that isn't changing every year) and _clear_ value from enterprise licensing.
BlindCompass sounds (pun not intended) brilliant! Did you have inspiration for this or was it an original idea? Not any less impressive either way, just curious as someone who’s not at all family with this space.
I'm at a loss for how this could be implemented reliably (where it never fails to stop bots). Ideas?
It took me 13 years to move from "wow SQLite! yeah totally underrated!" to "Yet another article where the first thing is SQLite underrated/unappreciated/unknown...& its underpinned every document format for years and years and years..."
I did (last year). Ward Cunningham basically told me to GTFO (not quite so directly, but that's the impression I got from him).
[never mind, misread the conditiom]
First Republic Bank to be taken over by FDIC
You mean a scenario where the customer contacts the business over e-mail, and the business then starts spamming from the exact same address? Does this actually happen to a meaningful extent?
Ask Ethan: How does dark energy accelerate the Universe?
I just did a 20-questions with it, and was surprised by how bad gpt4 did. Then for fun, I turned it around and had me be the guesser. It's weird and surreal to play 20-questions when you know that the clue-giver doesn't have an answer in their mind (or more literally, there isn't a single answer in any stateful form while you play), but is instead just eventually saying "yes that's what I was thinking of" when it's statistically appropriate.
Often considered doing this! I’d miss the reviews though… CellarTracker, not vivino ;)
Codepage 437 is the great grandparent: ♥♦♣♠

edit: 0x01="smiley face white on black", 0x02="smiley face black on white" were filtered by HN
Never mind the time savings, the manic, childish joy of turning 2400hp up to 100 every morning was probably worth every penny.
That extra 0.2V is to go capless, which saves a few cents and some area on the PCB.
Your comment made me laugh. I feel like that often. Luckily, I read the simple example first :D
This thinking is behind the introduction of Proof-of-Work, later popularized through Bitcoin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Show HN: Make 3D printable CAD Models with GPT
Create 3D models just using your words. This project turns text-to-3d with OpenSCAD as an intermediary.
Only recorded interview of Lemaître, father of the big bang theory, resurfaced
Devuan Users Are at Risk, Take Action to Protect Your System
A lot of those businesses use their own domains still with Google (GSuite) and Microsoft (O365).
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here.

If I don't value the means by which someone could reciprocate a gift, I don't give the gift. And I would not feel that a gift was genuine or meaningful if someone gifted me something expressly for the purpose of "network building", which I am unable to reciprocate in a way they find acceptable. It creates an awkward power imbalance that I don't think belongs in a healthy friendship.
> Isn't it an inherent problem with phones that if they are left on charge forever that their battery will explode?

Not necessarily, it depends on how much care went into making the phone.

Ever since Samsung had the unfortunate experience of having every airline announce that their phone wasn’t allowed on board (even when switched off), battery management has received as much attention as is possible. Most implementations today have multiple fail safes in place to prevent the chances of a battery exploding.

Today, several extremely improbable events must happen in a row to make a battery explode from just being connected to a charger 24x7.

Source: Implemented battery charging on a different Lithium Ion battery bearing consumer product.
I really don't get what is supposed to happen. The folks that can do something about this have no incentive to do so - instead, they're often incentivized to do something against it.

So what's the solution? Me recycling cans and using public transportation and going vegan and ... isn't going to solve this problem. The people who aren't already convinced aren't going to change their habits.

Pardon my french, but are we just completely and collectively fucked? What does a solution, long or short term, look like - realistically, not as per Musk et al?
The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine
The average child is born with about 60-70 mutations. A couple tweaks won't break up the species.
> In sheer volume, there are probably more people doing XeroxPARC level crazy stuff now than then.

I'm not sure about that. From the Computer History Museum's 50th anniversary event of the Alto two days ago, each Alto cost about 18k in early 1970s dollars (about 100k today). And they built hundreds of them. Not sure anyone has the budget to do the level of crazy work that would require the equivalent amount of future computer power today.
>> I absolutely see humans as being more special than machine

> Can you explain why exactly?

Because humans designed and built machines before machines could design and build humans.
certainly minority but at least not alone
Why? This gives sum([]) != 1, which is true. Have you actually tried running the program?
A sad development.

I bought my first Microsoft mouse in 1988 and since then only bought Microsoft mice and keyboards. They were always consistently great and consistently reliable.

I'll go and stock up on Wireless Desktop 800 series.
> it's not yet well established, why such a rapid change, and such a huge change is happening

Humans thought they might be apex predators, but what if the actual apex predator for humans is the planet itself? philosoraptor.jpg

> scientists are just people with lives and families who've learnt to understand the implications of data better.

If only they could do something meaningful about it. Oh, wait...
They should just provide drivers for something like Debian. From there on, people could run web servers, Docker, source control servers, NAS stuff, and so on.
Of the examples given, game A was always a losing game, and game B was basically two games (I'm calling these sub-games) duct taped together, where one is a winning game, and the other is a game that loses very badly. This causes negative expected value across all of game B.

The important parts here are that in game A you lose slower than in game B's losing sub-game, and game B's sub-games switch depending on the resources you win/lose in game A.

The strategy is to play game A until you hit the conditions for game B's winning sub-game to kick in, then play game B until it swaps back over again, then go back to A and repeat the process.

Thus two games where each have negative expected value, can be daisy chained to produce positive expected value.
Indirectly this is already the case.

Domain names and IP addresses aren't free. If we just immediately trash all email which doesn't have valid SPF + DKIM + reverse DNS, we place a small upfront payment requirement on sending email. Domains or IPs can be placed on a blocklist if they still send spam, thus making the domain/IP wasted.

The problem is that waaaay too many legit senders still don't know how to configure their email servers, so you end up with a boatload of false positives.
Ktor 2.3.0 Released
One of our patio chairs was recently crushed by a falling tree limb, shortly after someone vacated the seat. Not so different!
20-year old MS Explorer trackballs are still $100 on eBay.

https://www.theverge.com/22958439/trackball-diy-building-plo...

> One friend commented that it looked like MS Trackball Explorer, an iconic trackball ... If you didn’t live through the ’90s and have never heard of a trackball, that’s more than understandable. For the uninitiated, a trackball is a pointing device similar to a mouse, except you use a tiny rolling sphere to move your cursor instead of moving the entire device. Trackballs used to be much more commonplace back in the day, and trackball diehards say it can be an easier and more ergonomic way of interfacing with UI, particularly for people with mobility impairments.

> Goofy name aside, the idea motivating Ploopy mirrors something that has been going around in the DIY keyboard community for a while; namely, open-source design and flexible firmware. The files for all the products Ploopy sells are on Github for anyone resourceful enough to have them fabricated, and the device itself runs QMK, one of a few lightweight keyboard firmwares out there.

Patent expired in 2020, https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/g6mneu/the_pate...
Thanks, that’s helpful. I read in another comment that you’re like 18?! Incredible work - keep at it and best of luck! I, for one, will certainly be keeping an eye on this.
My suspicion is that the bills and amendments the legislature debates, and their direct and indirect impacts, are so complex that a young legislator will necessarily need help navigating.

So experienced staff, parties, and lobbyists will necessarily be strong influences.

A veteran lawmaker has better intuitions, and knows who both inside and outside the system they can trust for advice.
I don't know .. we do have ads on the Internet and these do cost money to run.

Can't you pay less than a penny a user to run ads in Gmail today ?

The idea is fair though I don't think it's far from where we landed with how the large email broker systems operate with the large email system providers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2uls6iIEU&t=35s
This does look pretty cool; but this could be revolutionary if the hardware support were to significantly widen.
The US of A let Singaporeans in easily, but not South Africans or French. You let Chileans easily in but not Mongolians or Equadorians. You let Australians in easily but not New Zealanders or Albanians.

Explain how these exceptions are not "some sort of classist system" that favours some nations over many others?

Define how this was the "will of a democratic people"? Who got asked for these special country exceptions? Do the American people even know about this?

American immigration is utterly broken. I stand by that.
> We’re not actually bound to social norms. We don’t need permission. We don’t need to please everyone.

Social norms enforce behaviors that are necessary and desirable, but which would be unnecessarily punitive. For example, many societies have social norms that make getting married and having children social obligation. In many cultures, such as in Northern Europe, people are discovering that they are "not actually bound to social norms." Those cultures are universally in decline, and find themselves having to import workers and taxpayers from cultures that believe deeply in social norms (in Europe, Muslims).

In societies that don't have modern technology and a surplus of wealth, upsetting social norms is anything but "harmless." The U.S. is currently in the midst of a huge STD epidemic: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0412-STD-Increase.h.... And that's with modern technology and medicines. Imagine what things like during most of human history, when social norms against promiscuous sexual activity developed. Norms and taboos are a way to make people do good things and make them avoid bad behaviors.
Perhaps even more importantly, what would the environmental impact be?
you can write a hammerspoon script that will intercept some hotkey you want to use for that menu item and select it yes.
This right here is Android's killer app, and the very reason I've exclusively owned rootable Android mobile devices (Nexus → OnePlus → Pixel) for a little over a decade. Every single one of my old devices that isn't lost or totally destroyed (a few have broken screens) is now a server providing little services like this one (mostly filehosting and backups in my case). It's been quite fun!
Would it? Somehow it makes financial sense to mail spam out physically, which I assume costs about that much. Is the conversion rate that much better for physical spam?
You have caught up. It doesn’t work. They appear to not even be trying here and instead just asking people to “pledge” it’s human made. I’ll ask ChatGPT to write my pledge
Without a unique identifier, it would be easy for an attacker to clear one challenge and use the result for all nodes in a botnet.
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro that I have left on a charger for 5 years with no issue. Only runs for about 40-50 minutes off the charger nowadays.
But DDG did not have to virtue-signal as it did in March 2022 due to force of law or even unlawful threats from a nation-state. Categorically different -- there's no comparison.
This is what I believe we already have with social media , a primitive version of the matrix where you fish for likes and validation, and it’s what VR will create, there may not be a technological singularity but rather, a place where each ego is stroked so intensely that we care less of reality.

You can be totally distracted from your real existence for 90% of you life, you won’t need anything else. Just have “20 hot wives” or whatever superficial thing makes you happy.
https://github.com/x2bool/xlite
I would love to expand it to other sports, the only real challenge is finding an API with appropriate stats and writing a simple algorithm to decide what constitutes "watchabilty" based on the those. I would happily take advice on that re: UFC and add it to the site
Some people do much better with physical representations of information than digital.
>The internet used to be more fun when it was all fun and games and we didn't need to worry about every possible type of user misleading :(

I remember in the 2000s, there was some site using a decimal IP address (as a single number, not dotted quad) that had hacking/crypto puzzles. Something with a "Alice in Wonderland" theme. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
This is also something I’m quite interested in. I have sun Ray I bought just as sun stopped offering the server side software for free, and it’s spent it’s entire life sitting unloved in my crawl space. One of my tech regrets is that I’ve never had it properly working
In the tropics, both butters go in the fridge. Heck, in the tropics, almost everything that's not a dry, dessicated powder or otherwise dehydrated goes in the fridge.
Even "nature" can be deceiving. Lots of "green spaces" in big cities are equally planned, groomed and manicured into a vision that is projected into the space, as much as if not more so than their concrete and steel counterparts.
I don't think the burden of proof/R&D is on us. But there are many smart people around, I'm sure Cloudflare can pay some of them (even more surprising things are possible with cryptography).

One far-fetched idea is to use ZKP proofs to prove that you were verified, without disclosing anything your identity. But that's likely overkill.

Anyway, I think Cloudflare already works on something better with turnstile, the "privacy preserving captcha" and private access tokens [0].

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-altern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
Maybe the Great Filter was inside us the whole time!
There are still plenty of legit reasons to send bulk email, such as companies sending you bills, or the government informing people about local stuff.

Bulk email is discounted because it saves the mail company a lot of money: it comes presorted, and there is no need to mess around with stamps.
Sometimes substractive approaches work better than additive ones. It may not be about what else you can do, but what things that you are doing you may stop to do so to push a change. Less consumption, travel, driving and so on, done on scale, may eventually hit the ones that do the biggest damages.

2020 was the biggest setback to some of the most nasty trends in recent years because we collectively did a lot less on those and other categories.
I run my own email server in part so I could implement a spam filtering strategy that had access to my outgoing mail. Anything received from someone I sent mail to is assumed non-spam, and that is the anchor for the rest of the filtering.

I was planning to build a pretty sophisticated bayesian filter on top of that but it turned out to be unnecessary. The strategy I ended up with, which has served me well for many years now, is:

1. Block a small number of extremely spammy TLDs. There are about a dozen of these, including .biz, .casa, etc.

2. Anything received from someone I've sent mail to, or a sender I've previously marked as good, is assumed good.

3. Anything received from an address whose name contains an English word on a relatively short list of spammy words (discount, offer, etc.) is assumed spam.

4. Anything received from an address that I have received email from before and not marked as good is assumed spam.

That leaves emails from addresses that are sending me email for the first time. These are overwhelmingly spam, but after the four filters above there are few enough of these that I just scan them manually once a day or so.

The real key here is treating the first email from any given address as essentially a "contact request" with the default action being "deny in the future". That just turns out empirically to work incredibly well. More than 90% of my spam is from repeat offenders.
Common dreams is a progressive activist organization. Anything you read there should not be considered unbiased, accurate, or objective.
That's precisely how the USAF train their network troops. Monday through Friday for 8 months, they take you from transistors to routers. After that, you're given 2 weeks to study and pass Sec+. Most people pass on the first try.

It's a far superior system.
First, I think that before you can help anyone depressed they have to come to you for help.

Then I think that depressed thinking often arises due to disharmony within the body, so that although the symptoms of depression are often found in someone's thinking, no cure can be found for depression in addressing the issues that seem to be at stake. Depression is not usually caused by any historical experiences no matter how terrible and is not caused by a "bad attitude".

Because depression has so many potential somatic causes, there can be no generally effective treatment for depression. Certain drugs are touted as achieving good results, using certain measures, but nobody takes those drugs and is thereby healed.

I believe that the best (or only!) things I can do for depressed friends are 1) to explain to them that depression is not their fault and 2) to support them by letting them be a part of my life.
Look, you need to bring this discussion down to the ground. Can you talk about specific software that promotes your theory?
The story is priceless though, and I love handmade stuff.