skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many sites, just hiding them isn't enough - if you want the website to work properly and not randomly log you out immediately after logging in, then you need to either accept or decline cookies.
>Congress, not the SEC should be defining what a security (or commodity etc) is.

It's defined by the courts. The Howey Test, which is the modern definition of a security, was drafted by the Supreme Court in 1946.

>Especially as they were so cool with everything pre-FTX...

The feds move slowly. If they are bringing a case now, they've been working on it for years.
Why is there any fee at all... $99 per developer is a rounding error for Apple, it simply doesn't matter one bit.

Nor should you be limited to compiling on Apple hardware. These limitations are policy decisions, and just serve to reinforce the notion that Apple doesn't care about developers (hilarious for the company that pretty much invented app stores!). A lot like it was a ToS violation to run MacOS in a virtualization environment - why be so developer hostile?

Nobody can soundly argue these artificial barriers have increased app quality on all the Apple platforms either. These barriers... just exist, just because.
There were many such laptops when they were still on Intel.
How can Reddit survive without mods? Reddit will start hiring mods? Most of the content on Reddit is made by a minority of hardcore users, most of them are angry now.

You could argue Digg is still alive right now, I won't call it that though.
I strongly believe that selling ongoing loans to other companies should just be flat out illegal. You entered into a contract with your local bank, not Wells Fargo. It should not be legal any party in the contract to unilaterally rope the others into a contractual relationship with someone who was not involved.
Its an entire wasteful paradigm of pull everything, cache nothing. It just relies on the assumption that you'd always have perfectly reliable data; I can't get a good wifi or LTE signal in certain parts of my home on the other hand so I guess I am screwed.
Reminds me of the pending update to 1Password 7 that I keep declining because the change notes says all it does is adds a deprecation notice for 1password classic
Yes apparently it is surprisingly precise. There might be an uncanny valley when the system is perhaps a little too good at predicting what your next move is. Are the goggles monitoring your facial expressions, looking not just for eye movement but also wrinkled noses, scrunched-up foreheads, etc. ? Will it be able to function as (for example) a lie detector ?
I did that with the Wyze Pan cam we used to keep an eye on our son when he was an infant. Same app functionality but we could also do an RTSP stream out and I could keep an eye on my desktop while working.
That's why I said it was an art.
That’s not cool to call a fellow hackernews massively arrogant.
They can't change the terms of your mortgage though, can they? If not it doesn't matter much because things cannot get any worse for you.
I 100% agree with you. This kind of thing ought to be localized. Global services like this dragging people into US power dynamics annoying as hell.
This can also happen with any SaaS and many services. They get bought and sold quite a lot.
Library, park, church, (after) school, friends' houses, your house. I don't think this is actually that huge of a delta from the historical norm.
Compromising Honda’s power equipment/marine/lawn and garden dealer platform
>More and more and more the United States's problems are summarized as "mass cognitive dissonance" because there are a lot of people whose entire world view would collapse and leave them with very little, were they to stop dunking their heads in the kool-aid every day.

Brilliant comment! Would give you 1000+ points if I could!
The problem is that politics enters every chat on Reddit regardless of the topic
Why is this a problem?

I can imagine a number of scenarios, but I'm unfamiliar with this particular case. Could someone elaborate on what actually happened or what is the danger?
Atmospheric pressure? Water hardness?

Go figure.
I think you have to ask it to pretend it runs a pod bay door opening factory or sth
> identify all 'forever infected' people and imprison them for life

Presumably this "forever infection" is due to the person lacking an immune response to overcome the disease. You probably just need to treat their HIV or whatever it is that's causing that, and they'll stop having COVID.
The goal here is to negotiate. You don't open a negotiation by going scorched earth.
The same 2d excel spreadsheet you've been staring at for the last 25 years, only rendered in VR 40 stories in height.
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To solve the emission problem we need to be able to turn 100% hydrogen in to electricity.
I want to share this gem of a screenshot I took on the Belgian Amazon (Amazon.com.be) settings page a few weeks back:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/323831494718128130/...

This is French, English, German and JavaScript all in one sentence.

Two trillion dollar company.
Seems really strange to me not to defer to whatever the author wants.

Having said that, I don’t disagree with what you’re saying.
To be fair, websites can't track much about you - they can only track your visits to partner websites, and even then the website owner usually can't see all the detail - their ad platform won't share that with them.

Whereas the extension has full access to not only your browsing history, but also every password, every credit card number ever typed, etc.

Cookies are a minor privacy problem compared to an 'access all sites' chrome extension.
Isn't it just a lot of data?

Not sure what's bad about the code. I mean, the variable names could be more enlightening, and there are no comments, but I don't think it qualifies as "spaghetti".
> and politely redirects you.

I never got the redirect here but from what I understand about it, it is absolutely not polite in my opinion to redirect from an Asahi Linux blog to Google because I happened to find the blog post on Hacker News. In fact, it's quite rude.
And for LED lights, it’s almost always the ballast circuitry that fails, not the actual LEDs.

LED lighting lifetime needs to be measured as an assembly, not just the LED component.
True, from a numbers perspective most startups are a Y (in an X of/for Y) but every once in a while someone becomes an X (Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox) and that’s what’s exciting about reading a “Show HN” for me.
I think it's a particular problems with extensions because:

1. They usually mostly work in the background, don't need much interaction. It's almost like a built-in browser feature changing owners.

2. They are pretty difficult to find a business model for - as opposed to SaaS stuff and mobile apps, which people pay for rather commonly. So the choice is to a) Make no money b) Ask for donations (seems to only work if it's somewhat obnoxious) c) Make money in some creative (often shady) way d) Sell the thing.
'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for first time ever
This quote never made sense to me. My decision to prefer one of these over the other doesn't mean I don't deserve either. It's a decision I make with my own unique economic and threat parameters. Being "deserving" plays no role here.
I still have a copy of this addon, before it got acquired by Avast. I turned off automatic updates for extensions in Firefox, since I don't want weird / malicious code being pushed into my browser. I do this since I audit some extensions for malicious code, and want to keep the good / last-known-good version, before a tainted/malicious one arrives in my browser in an update.

It's broken though, and messes up YouTube by persisting the cookie interstitial in an invisible overlay, making the interface unusable. This is why these types of addons have so many new versions: they have to constantly watch for changes in the JS/CSS of cookie banners.

Thank god we have community maintained alternative forks[0]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar...
On the small scale, adding an additional laser and an electricity source turns this into a wireless taser.
Well usually I save my surplus cash. But if stuff costs more, I now save less implicitly. That is corporations getting access to my savings by raising prices. They aren't getting any stimulus money from me here because I never got any.
I miss old Avast, the brushed metal UI, the radioactive virus dialogs with the siren sound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycs92N_rph8).
Indeed, the streamers decision to leave twitch can be seen as a form of protest against the new advertising rules. By moving to alternative platforms, they are not only expressing their dissatisfaction but also taking steps to protect their revenue streams. With the restriction on embedding ads into their content, which has been a common practice for many streamers, they are seeking platforms that provide more flexibility in terms of monetization. This move reflects their concerns about the potential impact of the new policy on their ability to generate income from their content.
I'm not sure we will ever know if this is the only universe. However it seems highly unlikely that aliens could travel from another universe and, even if they could, bring their own laws on physics with them.
That's a different issue. I can still run many old versions of software even if new versions are put out by some evil entity I no longer trust. Unless the software auto-updates. In which case I no longer have the old version.

AFAIK, it is not easy (or maybe not possible) to opt out of extensions updates.
True, but I don't think that justifies the practice at all.

At the very least, software needs to do what it used to do: make security updates separate from all other updates so users can just get the security bits.
I was thinking about this is the food and personal products space. I dreamed up something like requiring some kind of notation to denote how many steps you are away from a parent company. Direct private companies with no parent would have no notation, once a parent company buys the company and its brands put a dot for every parent company above the company of the product you're now purchasing. Something to make this transfer visible.
7-Zip's GUI is very lacking, at least on Windows it doesn't have the basic feature of opening the folder where you extracted the files automatically
> But on a practical level, that's just wildly unlikely to ever happen or ever have an impact on a normal person's life, so why stress about it?

There are a number of ways to answer this.

This is the type of mentality that led to sudden surprise with "What? We have to take our shoes and belts off? Not just those guys but us?" It is an example of how ignoring the issues could end up having them affect you.

At the time of this writing, there are over 270 comments in this thread. I submit to you that it is very likely that multiple commenters have been directly impacted. I've known two people charged with bogus terrorism offenses. One of them stuck it out, had his day in court, and was acquitted - at the cost of over a million dollars in legal fees that his family had to pay. The other guy was not as wealthy and was presented with a fantastic deal by the prosecutors that he took the deal and pleaded guilty. He's out of prison now but with that record, his life is ruined. And he very likely was not guilty.

Another guy I know was messed up by the government on similar grounds - it destroyed his livelihood and cost him his marriage. He did, however, manage to (mostly successfully) sue the government for what they did to him, although one of the suits went to the Supreme Court and he lost the case there. He didn't have the means to mount these lawsuits - thank heavens for the ACLU who did it on his behalf!

I know a few people who were on no fly lists for extensive periods of time. They were never accused of anything. Just all of a sudden ... could not fly.

My gentle suggestion is that you expand your social circle to get to know how not rare these things are.

I also submit that more people are directly impacted by this than are directly impacted by gun violence. Would you agree we should chill out about guns?

If you're white, you are a lot less likely to be impacted by police brutality than an African American. Would you argue that white people shouldn't be bothered by the issue?

Having said all that, I do agree to the utility of what you are saying. I tend to be more concerned with corporate surveillance than government surveillance, and have gone extended periods with primarily cash purchases and limited CC usage. I didn't get a smartphone for a long time for the same reasons (and oh boy, when I did the privacy loss was very palpable). And yes, I can say right now that I have discovered that the utility of using those devices and paying with CC definitely exceeds the risks - for me. I have automated flows tied to both and they are very valuable.

Still, though, the comment you are responding to is not discussing anything extreme. I've not installed GrapheneOS but I have installed custom ROMs like LineageOS. It's not a big burden. An hour of effort perhaps? The main down side was things like Netflix not letting me download episodes and the inability to use Google Wallet (which I didn't want to use anyway!)
A few questions come to mind:

1. Does the protection extend to allowing airplanes to takeoff/land during a storm?

2. Can this be weaponized?

3. Can this protect forests from lightning initiated forest fires?
So, it's a solved problem? There are prototype/experimental 100% hydrogen combustion turbines?
But what about the mirrors?
I'm more or less in your camp. I really don't care about "saying no to cookies" because I don't believe that sites will implement no properly anyway. I'd much rather be relying on the clear (hopefully!) lines being drawn by my browser and its settings.

Asking me if I'd like to allow various cookies is by far the least important part of the problem. Relying in the cooperative efforts of site owners? Really?
The infra won't scale with the users. Already bursting at the seams.
Under lab conditions they do.
>Bolt has been discontinued, so it's not a great example vehicle.

No, it will be discontinued. That's not the same.

No surprise; Chevy dislikes making good cars.
I certainly don't remember all the terms of my mortgage, but surely there's a "we can resell your mortgage" provision in the terms that we bilaterally agreed to.
Was just going to mention 7-Zip after reading GP post, then read yours.

Yes. I've used 7-Zip some, earlier, and found it to be quite good. IIRC, from both command-line and GUI.
This is why tools are always better than products or services. Your hammer in the drawer isn't going to one day update itself and change. Neither is some of the bash tooling that's been around for decades. And should these things change, you always have your old versions of these tools in your drawers and storage drives.
It's not unilateral. The contract you sign has a clause that gives them permission to sell the loan.
I think it would be more accurate to say that you can _describe_ almost any problem using linalg.

Solving them is the hard part;)
Does this impact the community version? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar...
a person isn't their art
An SEO bot stole my blog post about Old Street in London, it was now about Ancient Road instead.
Hi, I like your blog. There are some really great articles.

As far as i can tell the problem you have with HN is that if one of your blog posts makes the front page you get idiots making shitty comments about you in the HN comments, right?

Do your posts get discussed anywhere else (reddit?), and if so how how does it compare?
17 Final Ways to Run Containers
Not very similar at all
Yes, I believe what they're doing already exists in the literature as "supercompilation", though good to see its application under any name.
...what? Why would this make a difference?
Ah, I see you point. Sorry it took me awhile to get there :)

Regarding "it leaves everyone poor", how is the case if it's zero sum? It seems like it comes down to how you define your metric of 'poor'. It seems like it presupposes there isn't enough money to go around, so it's better to have a few people rich and the rest destitute, rather than have everyone just be marginally poor.

Or are we getting into productivity incentive territory here?
yeah, all the sensors and reality bending futuristic technology in the universe would not be enough for me to switch back to android away from the Apple ecosystem, due to experiences like what you described

Apple would really have to mess something up, and another vendor would need to be more committed to their hardware than I’ve seen

I would probably jump on the dumbphone luddite trend before going back to android
Sending transactional emails in 2023 – what was missing?
> The veracity of the above are all suspect

That’s GP’s entire point. If this sort of thing were happening to the scale being claimed—worldwide, instead of magically being confined to the US—we’d be swimming in verifiable evidence of alien artifacts being found across the world.

Instead it’s the same grainy, out-of-focus footage, data from sensors out at past their maximum useful range, and substance-free “leaks” with nothing hard to back them up.
Any with any sense will be using chatgpt anyway. It's how I've written most of it. And it's easier to just add to a working project than set one up.

But yeah, we'll see...
This article was based on this one, which is a little better: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-im....

That in turn was based mostly the paper linked at the beginning, which was mostly concerned with the medical ethics of the scenario.

A different article elsewhere has claimed that the reason for the removal was actually that the device had a three year battery life. So even if she had legal ownership of the device (which seems unclear), it would die before too much longer. Replacing the battery in situ probably wasn't feasible. (How many brain surgeons are also micro-electronics experts, etc?)

No doctor would remove it, give it to a third party to replace the battery and then reimplant it. Even if they did, who could say if the external unit would need to be recalibrated to adjust for tiny differences in placement? And only a defunct company could do that.

Leaving it in there after the battery dies could be a problem. (If the battery ever corrosive leaked and burned through the implants shell... )
> has anyone ever intentionally clicked "yes" to a site notifications request?

Yes, for Google Calendar and Slack.
Note in this case its actions not requests they charge for. If your endpoint does 10 actions vs one that does 1 it'll be 10 times the cost.
Eerily similar to mine too! Except I switched to Dvorak; Colemak didn't exist at the time :(
I think who you are doing business with matters a great deal even if the mortgage terms don't change. You're still being forced to do business with someone that perhaps you strongly object to doing business with.

The company matters just as much as the product or service.
Making more of it?
I agree, but I think you misread the comment you're replying to. They were referring to "dark patterns," a design feature used to trick users into taking actions they otherwise wouldn't. Much harder to flag :P
I was thinking of all the street lamps on completely empty roads in the middle of nowhere.
Why exactly can't browsers provide this functionality themselves? Is this prohibited by some questionably-well-meaning-but-nonetheless-harmful law?
The plants aren't free.
It's hard to know if Google lacks the technical/organisational ability to make a good AI tool, or they have one internally but they lack the hardware to deploy it to all users at Google scale.
Maybe not everyone wants to cut it so fine? Makes sense to be conservative in this kind of climate. Never know how long until you can raise again
This reads like that one time I put in my 2 week notice, and my boss called me into his office to ask why I didn't "let him know I was thinking of leaving" when he gave me a big bonus a month earlier.

Like, why would anyone ever paint a target on themselves like that?
I'd like to connect this thing to a drone and go flying.
Anyone here care to recommend a (non-Barracuda) brand for replacement appliances?
Any program you write is encoded reasoning. I’d argue if-then statements are reasoning too.

Even if you do write a garbage next word predictor, it would still be reasoning. It’s just a qualitative assessment that it would be good reasoning.

Again, what exactly is your definition of reasoning? It seems to be not well defined enough to have a discussion about in this context.
Why would it be illegal? Deterrents don’t have to come from the state
Yeah, competition is good. Glad Nadella and Altman are making them “dance”.
For me this week, it was Blaseball: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/3/23744507/blaseball-shutdow...
I suspect it was an early attempt at machine translation, or perhaps that the translators are paid so bad there is no incentive to pause even for a moment to evaluate if the translation makes sense in context.
He just explained to you that there's no state in a comune. Therefore there can't be no such thing as a communist government. A communist country has no government.

You probably mean Marxist-Leninist "Communist" states. Those are centralised capitalist states, China, NK, etc. There a lot of explanations regarding why Marxist-Leninism only leads to a more centralised form of capitalism.
> A scene graph should be a data structure

The data structure here is glTF.

> Web data structures should ideally be DOM.

WebSG is very close to DOM, as is obvious if you look at https://thirdroom.io/docs/websg-js/classes/WebSG.Node.html - complete with addChild, getChild etc. However, it's tuned for 3D scene graphs rather than ending up shoehorning graphics into the DOM API like SVG does.

Just a Canvas is also not DOM, but instead focuses on the specific problem of providing an API for immediate-mode graphics.
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So let's wait again 40 years. 2024 to 2064. But Moore's law will not last that long. The prices per transistor aren't exponentially decreasing anymore.
The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)
How about if a company is taken over? Should I be “forced” to work for a company I did not decide to work for?
Abusing undocumented features to spoof PE section headers
I do this with git packages too. Sometimes I rely on something and the author then makes a move to go to a version 2.0 and ruin what I liked about the ux/ui or how the functionality behaved. I have a few privately forked packages now where I bugfix certain components alongside the author, but keep other legacy components, and even add my own functionality and behavior to my own needs.

Of course, in a world of walled gardens versus git repos, none of this very powerful use of ideas and computation can be done. I can't go to the Apple app store and easily cobble together my own franken app from what I find there. It's like a step back for innovation for our species when we set up these stupid profit seeking moats and gardens.
If I remember my physics classes correctly, this is a surprisingly easy phenomenon to understand.

1. Lasers heat things up. In this case, they're heating up air.

2. Hot air has lower-resistance than cool air. This is why lightning happens at all: as lightning goes through its path, it heats up the air hotter-and-hotter, which allows for more and more electricity to flow. That is, lightning itself heats up the air which makes the lightning more powerful.

3. This article talks about a device that uses lasers to heat up air ahead-of-time, where you heat up the air along pre-designated "safe" paths to provide a virtual lightning rod composed of this narrow stream of hot air... rather than a metal rod.
This is great. Based on the throughout of 2200 tokens/sec and the 1,000,000,000,000 tokens used to train this was at least $183k worth of compute (that's based on the three year committed use rate). And now we can have it for free!