skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, I wasn’t reading carefully enough! Not sure I agree that UX is more or less culpable for dark patterns than SWE, but I see the distinction

Always found they distinction interesting. At my last role UX was very technical, and I’ve taken design/HCI courses as part of CS curriculum, so it’s always weird to see them sectioned off as a type of… artists, I guess? When HN dies down from the blackouts perhaps I’ll broach the more academic “what is an engineer?” question. :)
Daniel Ellsberg Has Died
It's very nice to be able to replace a battery in the field. I used to carry a spare charged battery and swap it for an instant recharge. That use case is still valuable to me, but isn't possible anymore.
Great questions, but no reply will be coming at you.

Except an apologetic nonsense-logic-it-is-obvious-it-works trope.

Only product is the profit.
Related:

Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865264 - Jan 2019 (113 comments)
Is that why people like old Reddit? I never got what the allure was.
I think Apple would never tolerate that. I can see them lobbying political parties in order to sabotage EU cohesion if that gets proposed.
This is an argument of process over substance. Good laws should be applied as widely as possible. Bad laws should be as local as possible, preferably applied nowhere at all.
that era of three column layouts, solid borders, pixel graphics, tiny text, etc. is so nostalgic
I came here to ask if there's an "old.discuit.net" style.

I never adopted new reddit and when I see it, I know I've been signed out. Old reddit is the only "clean" UI in my book.
Ask HN: Anyone else having trouble setting up an account on kbin?
In theory I've set it up but I always just get "invalid credentials" when logging in. Anyone else seeing this?

(reposting with correct title)
For GoPros the real alternative to Gyroflow is paying for ReelSteady in GoPro Player. It is very good.
There's no such field as forensic virology. If you try to Google "forensic virologist," it will automatically correct to "forensic serologist." A virologist, without more, has absolutely no relevant expertise on the issue of whether the outbreak was due to a lab leak or came directly to the wet market from a natural source.

A virologist who is also a geneticist may have relevant expertise on whether the viral genetics indicate that the existence of the virus is natural or artificial, given a sufficient knowledge of extant viruses known to be naturally occurring. However, an engineered virus could have come from somewhere other than the WIV; or alternatively, a naturally occurring virus being studied at the WIV could have leaked. The question of whether the virus is naturally occurring is orthogonal to the question of whether it leaked from the WIV.
Congrats, Canada!

This has alerted me to the (IMO, pretty surprising) fact that all of Canada holds fewer people than the BosWash corridor.
This is a bummer.

Miraheze is/was a wiki farm that provided a free Mediawiki-based wiki to pretty much anyone who was able to articulate a reason and fill out a request to be given one. This was invaluable in an age where the term "wiki" has become so debased that "a bunch of Markdown files in a GitHub repo" is, against all good taste and reason, considered a wiki. Miraheze was supported by donations, which is almost certainly why it's shutting down. There's no reason I can see that it shouldn't have allowed you to set up an annual bill-me cycle, but it didn't. And now it's going away, unfortunately. It would've be a good candidate for a pay-what-you-want model that incorporated usage-based pricing.
Pakistan and India do it for their nuclear weapons programs. You don't want to be making that argument.

The UK, France, Japan, and Italy don't reprocess anymore (I'm not sure Italy ever did on any substantial scale).

Carter stopped reprocessing by executive order, but Reagan quickly reversed that order. No reprocessing then occurred, because reprocessing made no economic sense. It turned out Carter's order isn't what killed reprocessing in the US; cold hard economics did. It did provide a convenient excuse for those who wish to ignore that reality.
"There is, of course, a catch. For mice, having a critical period open for too long causes neural disruptions. Some experts fear that, for people, carelessly flinging wide the doors of personal development could put the very core of their identity in jeopardy by erasing the habits and memories that make them them. A critical period is also a time of vulnerability. While childhood can be filled with wonder and magic, children are also more impressionable. “We can really screw kids up much more than we can adults,” she says. This is why responsible adults intuitively know to protect children from exposure to potentially scary or disturbing material. Or, as Dölen puts it, “You want to teach children new things, but you don’t want them to learn Japanese from Japanese porn.”

An adult who undergoes this kind of treatment to heal PTSD could, in the wrong hands, end up traumatized further. In the worst scenarios, patients could be vulnerable to abuse. Unscrupulous therapists or other predators could try to use psychedelics to manipulate others, Dölen says. This is more than paranoid speculation. Quite a few experts, Dölen included, think that Charles Manson’s ability to completely brainwash his followers relied on the high doses of LSD he regularly gave them prior to bombarding their minds with hate-filled lectures and murderous orders."
MIT is against open source. Only copyleft is truly open
How about as part of FCC approvals you submit everything needed to unlock the device, and it goes into a vault for X years than gets automatically released.
> ...long term sustainability problems, financial situation...

Weird, because https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Finance says they have more money right now than they had at the start of the year and twice as much as they had the same time last year.

> Owen and Alexander are fully committed to seeing the sustained growth of Miraheze

> Compared to where we were before 2019, Miraheze is in a much better financial position, has drastically improved its legal standing and compliance and has taken strides to improve the technological stack behind the project through the right levels of investment being open for technical volunteers to harness.

So, which is it? Are you shutting down or fully committed to sustained growth? Are you now unsustainable or better financially than ever before?

Nothing about this announcement makes sense to an outside observer who has no idea what "taking into account recent events" means.
Quoting this from an article by Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel:

Between 1990 and 2021 the behemoth known as global civilisation only reduced its fossil-fuel diet from 87% to 83% of total energy consumed worldwide. Let me spell that out. We shaved off 4% in the last 30 years. In the next 30 we need to shave off 83%.
While we were waiting for the perfect cross-platform solution, we underestimated the web standards that we've always had in front of us, and are slowly becoming the perfect, powerful common denominator.
28 years of photos: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepixFull.html
Going to their mobile website would give you 95% of the same experience and you wouldn't have to even think about disabling ad notifications
The teachers don't know how it's used either. Math teaching selects for study habits and that's about it.
You must be joking if you think its just a BOM adjustment and a small cost... way to oversimplify the actual implementation
Risk management is the product. Surely you agree that a product that reduces risk is worth something, right?
My one liner for what oop is: Objects are groupings of data (constituting a new data type, in a typed language) with specialized functions that only work on them.

I know you know, but it even took me a long time to get the utility.
Matt Rutherford: CCA Young Sailor of the Year 2022
> The fact of the matter is you do not have any leverage at all

You do have leverage though, that's a point that this article makes. It costs time and money to onboard people. Also you can unionize, and acquire even more leverage

You're making a pretty strong claim and just assert it to be "the fact of the matter", reminiscent of an opinion column from a newspaper
India Set to Regulate AI, Big Tech, with Sweeping Digital Act
I understood your comment. The article implies that the battery has to be _easily_ replaceable, i.e. that you could just take a battery and maybe a screwdriver out of your pocket and replace it.

I don't think it's easy to design a phone that would at the same time a) have easily replaceable battery, and b) be waterproof until the first battery replacement.
I don't think many companies would be able to take a 20% overnight drop in sales without it causing some major issues.
There is so much psychedelic research happening right now. But when will it reach patients outside of trials?
I love the analogy!

I think this is a great strength of flakes. Packaging an application can sometimes have nuances that external folks may not be fully aware of and so having the packaging instructions (i.e. flake.nix) defined in the core repository can narrow that knowledge gap.
It's worth noting this is not new knowledge, it's completely obvious to anyone who's tried psychedelics. I haven't properly dug through the paper for all the details yet, maybe there's some interesting nuggets of new insight in there.

But so far it's looking like this is further confirming what us psychonauts have always sort of understood. It's very encouraging to get rigorous science to back the intuition up though. It will obviously help guide future research in clinical applications.

Here's the actual most recent research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3
I looked at lulu for printing Scott Alexander's Unsong. Their terms of service declaim [0] anyone looking to print content that they do not have copyright or a license for. That's the entire point of copyright.

I recommend that you contact beej directly.

[0] https://www.lulu.com/terms-and-conditions section 3 paragraph 3
But it doesn't really address the use case well. It won't fully charge the phone and it takes time to do the charging.
Thank you; that was quick! :) I apologise if my original comment came across as rather harsh!
Really cool, congratulations!
Why don't they sell updates? Even if they open source everything, I'd pay for them to support my phone for longer and I imagine the margins on a SW update outweigh the cost of producing more hardware.
Yes the OpenSSL one

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00...

> he got ACKs from the devs

You're totally right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6343782

> Every distro package ecosystem has the maintainers discuss patches with upstream.

I don't think that's entirely fair to say, it's certainly best practice.
Let's set aside your idea for aggregating federated content - it's pretty close to what the fediverse does, but it doesn't explain why the individual fediverse instances themselves need to be moderated.

You're looking at this problem as if content just happens, like it's a vast jungle just growing up all around us and we only have to just pluck the best stuff.

But what induces people to post, or contribute, or write anything at all? A community has to exist that will appreciate it. This community will only grow through shared norms. Even if it's a shared norm that we're all here to just post nice cat pictures. So leadership and moderation is essential to create the audience, the aesthetic, the norms - everything that makes the community a rewarding place!

If you don't have that you just have a site with random content and no audience, so there's no reason for anyone to post anything.
If you want to try this you have to change the way you work with shutter speeds (and ND-filters) or else you will get horrible results. See: https://docs.gyroflow.xyz/app/getting-started/common-filming...
The arbitrage game keeps the prices consistent with each other. It serves to create liquidity so that participants can get their business done without either waiting too long or paying too much.
When you're only dumping a file memory use shouldn't be an issue. It is the hex editors that run into memory problems.
I concur.. once I wrapped my head around the way ecto worked, I couldn't help but wonder why this wasnt the way every orm works. its lightyears ahead of anything I tried in node, rust or ruby.
Yes, that is why I'm arguing that even if changing the battery must necessarily break the waterseal, the battery should still be changable. In this hypothetical scenario it would be worth it to leave it open to the individual.
Sadly there is some serious gouging going on from the MSRP of the device. Will need to wait.
I would like one too, thanks!
It's a feeling you get when you suspect (or in this case know) that you're being watched or recorded.
> the mods of big subs were one of the main reasons it was so terrible

I've heard this, and was just reading a thread on Reddit where many users told of their mistreatment and unjustified banning. But anecdotally I've never actually noticed mod misbehavior, and I've been a Reddit user for like 17 years. Could be the subs I read ... most of which aren't extremely huge, I guess. Still, I feel like I should have been banned from somewhere at some point if capricious, power-hungry mods really were as rampant as they're made out to be.
Talk about the butterfly effect. The Pentagon Papers should’ve just embarrassed the Johnson administration but Nixon lost his mind. Watergate. Everything. Truly a pivotal historical figure.
How did Apple sell phones in the EU without micro-USB?
To be clear, "impending" in this case means "in decades, not centuries" and "indications" come down to some pretty fascinating modeling of periodicity in its brightness. The theory is that this "pulsation" is the result of intermittent contraction of the core due to running out of a given element to fuse, until higher pressures allow for the fusion of new elements. The belief here is that the star is now nearing the end of its Carbon fusing period, and since it isn't massive enough to fuse Si, its end must be approaching.

This could be true, but it's using some fairly indirect methods to reach that conclusion, so I'd personally wait a few years for more people to get a look at the math and draw firmer conclusions.

Having said all of that, I hope it's true, and I hope that I'm alive to see it.
I don't see how that could be true. It's the same workflow for the moderators, it's just that users can unsubscribe to their view.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
A forum with posts, voting, and subreddits. The same thing, but not evil.

Look at the migration off twitter. Can’t we migrate to another platform already?
> So I had a brief negotiation with First Republic, where I asked for (and got) a $100,000 credit line “for cash management purposes.” My recollection is that this took less than two hours total, inclusive of time to write the loan application.

Fascinating look at a world that I just kind of assumed was only for the ultra-wealthy. Who knew one could simply stroll into a bank, and two hours later and a couple of signatures and handshakes, simply walk out with a $100K unsecured line of credit! Mind blown. I always just assumed that you had to show $millions in net worth or be some kind of Investment Banking super-partner to the bank in order to get such generous treatment. Or at least secure the credit with something. Wow.
That's sad.

Some time ago there was some huge fallout/fight visible on their Discord which I did not understand (it was all referencing some internal Wiki, mailing lists etc.).

That seem to be the "recent events" on first position in the announcement.
Interestingly, the invite system is exactly what I like about it. You essentially disincentivize the Eternal September phenomenon.
We already have a federal bill that prohibits dangerous weapons on drones. It is the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. As far as I can tell the law doesn't have any exceptions for civilian law enforcement.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/drones-and-weapons-dangerous-mi...
This article is about MicroATX and a 56-Core Xeon
> The portable battery pack is no more bulky than carrying around portable phone batteries

They're a lot bulkier. Phone batteries are physically very small and light. Good power banks aren't.
Nice and practical !
> What's the complement to AI that meta owns?

- Platforms where users can interact with AI agents

- Extensive user and content data that can be used to fine tune large foundation models
This is the first time I'm hearing about this platform. Should I have been aware of it before?
Because they took someone hostage? Seriously, even as an analogy that is ridiculous.
The purpose of a patent, generally speaking, is to encourage innovation by giving the creator legally protected time in which they can exclusively use that innovation. If they don’t use the innovation but someone else wants to, society is improved by dissolving that patent, even if the owner could theoretically be traced to some person.
Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts.

Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset.

On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.
Whilst arbitrage is certainly something which exists in the financial markets, the vast majority of what's done isn't arbitrage. Arbitrage assumes differing views on valuation of an asset today. So I can buy something from person A, which they believe to be worth value x, and sell it to person B, who believes it to be worth y, where y > x. That's arbitrage in its simplest form - the market has priced something incorrectly, and I can buy it from willing sellers, and sell it to willing buyers at different values at the same time.

The vast majority of financial transactions aren't this - they're speculative. They bank on the idea that money now is worth more than money in the future, and the future value of an asset (using the definition of an asset that it's a sequence of cashflows) is both variable and uncertain. So therefore the promise of future money is inherently tied to the concept of risk. The majority of financial markets trading is based around this concept of risk, and the management of it.

There's vastly more complexity under the hood, but that's roughly speaking, accurate.
> 10 years

Wow thats usually the amount of time it would take to become an expert in a completely new field.
I almost kept scrolling before I saw “and Svelte”. Vercel hiring Rich Harris has been one of the biggest contributors to my quality of life in years.. Excited to try this out with Svelte 4 next week!!
Federal laws absolutely apply to local government and their agencies.

The death penalty was banned in 1972 on a federal ruling of a local law (Georgia), as a consequence, all death sentences, federal and state, were commuted to life.

There are a TON of federal laws that apply to local law enforcement. At this moment there are several local police departments that are being actively monitored and controlled by the DOJ due to unconstitutional activity.
Weight, bulk, and the time it takes to actually do the charge.
I love reading Tildes, it's great. It reminds me of reddit back when they started, and of HN: interesting discussion without jokes and puns destroying the discourse on the site. I find a similar quality of discourse on https://themotte.org as well, even if the topics are a bit more politically charges, sometimes.
This is the appeal to authority fallacy that we see far too much in tech, here applied to library science.

The Dewey Decimal system is widely used and is completely appropriate for the vast majority of libraries. The LCC is useful for the Library of Congress. It's a custom classification solution designed by them, for them, for their own practical needs.

AWS uses a custom network protocol and custom hardware for their datacenters. It's designed by them, for them. It doesn't mean we should drop TCP/IP. Similarly, Netflix, Twitter, Google, etc all have quite complex and robust architectures. That's not an invitation to do what they're doing - it's actually the opposite. They're operating at a very a unique scale, with their own unique needs on top of that. Your fresh startup with zero customers has no business adopting their special architectures.

For the vast majority, LCC is just overengineered. Dewey Decimal is a better pick.
I'd lose interest pretty much overnight, HN doesn't need changing, it's already an island of success and stability in an ocean of failure.
Kinky AI – sexting, image generation and more
So they can sell the fix to more than one org, and support money flows, duh.
Instead of guessing:

"Employer costs for employee compensation for civilian workers averaged $43.07 per hour worked in March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries cost employers $29.70 while benefit costs were $13.36."

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm

It's quite substantial across the board. Any attempt to compare wages with productivity is going to produce very misleading results.
If I am understanding the article correctly, NHTSA asserts that to open up telematics to 3rd parties would allow remote attacks on multiple vehicles' safety-critical systems simultaneously. This implies telematics has remote control on those safety critical systems.

This raises a question for me: Why the actual fuck are safety-critical systems able to receive commands from anywhere other than the driver's controls or diagnostic port? Perhaps I am old-scool, naive, ignorant, etc, but given what "safety-critical" means, that strikes me as egregiously unacceptable.

I can sympathize with the idea of convenient remote diagnostic and repair, but in my opinion, this is a case where the saftey risk not just to the driver and passengers, but anyone else nearby, outweighs the convenience of logging into Ford's/BMW/Honda's website, click button, car works again.
They get to decide what they’re willing to pay for. If I’m not willing to sell that to them, the answer is to walk away peaceably, not “go to war.” My customer is not my adversary.
You'd think so. You can draw your own conclusions from there.
How the colour of your swimsuit can save your life
Why wasn't this a problem for them a decade ago? Also, what do you mean by "both of them"?
Related ongoing thread:

Probability and Markets [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354259 - June 2023 (60 comments)
> Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.

Google does not have their own app. Exposure Notifications is the cross-vendor low-level API which apps like Germany's is (...was) using.
> create a space where a community of people you care about can thrive

> the reward could evaporate at any moment

Wait a minute, is the reward the fact that the community exists? That's not going to evaporate overnight when Reddit replaces a mod.

The fear of your reward evaporating sounds a lot more like this work is driven by ego and the desire for control.
This makes me think about John Healy's autobiography The Grass Arena[1] which was later turned into a film.

His unfortunate childhood lead him into severe alcoholism despite being a promising boxer. He ended up living a rough life on the streets of London, moving in and out of prison.

On one of his stints inside he was taught chess and it turned his life around.

It's pretty raw but a good book and worth a read IMHO.

There's also a documentary about John Healy called Barbaric Genius[2], which I think is on Netflix and other streaming services.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grass_Arena

2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482452/
Everyone gangsta...until the VC bucks show up....
Which claim needs a citation? Mine or X3874s?