skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keyword being “details”. Interaction design is (or should be) primarily about understanding what’s going on and how to “do things”. Both are signal-to-noise problems. Just like engineering, trade offs. Don’t treat it like a science, it isn’t. It’s a craft.

Mapping the mental models of “where am I now”, “did I change this or do I need to click save first?”, “wait, that was unintentional, take me back”, “can other people see that I’m typing”, “omg look at all this garbage, how do I organize these random notes” and other everyday things are often overlooked.

I’ve found that there are many subtle choices that most engineers think of as equivalent but are different for the user. UX people are sometimes slightly better but oh my they miss the forest for the trees soo often as well.
Fathom AI Notetaker (YC W21) is hiring a staff engineer (remote)
Yes, I know that DLP and prime factorization are similar problems. I was trying to understand if the GP's comment was about improvements to prime factorization specifically having implications for DLP (since "factoring breakthrough in ECC" is an unusual phrasing to me.)
It's even better because not only can you ignore RHEL's infringing terms, but RHEL's license to use GPL code has been terminated.

You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and *will automatically terminate your rights under this License*. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
"Asked recently whether he was afraid of San Francisco police, a dealer let out a loud laugh. Yes and no, he said.

“They know what’s going on, but I don’t know. If they want to clean it, they can clean it,” the dealer said. “Sometimes they do the job, but it’s like, just for the news, like, ‘Oh, we did the job good.’ If they wanted to clean it good, they could do that.”

The dealer said he likes some of San Francisco’s police officers. Sometimes, he said, one will tap him on the shoulder and say, “You’ve been out here for four hours. You’ve made enough money.”"

So the police seem to just let this happen without caring about its impact on the citizens that pay their salaries? Got it.
I do not think you should rule out Google Search. It is the default in Safari and Chrome and Firefox and still is the most popular website.

(BTW we should ignore that most people use it to find a simple website like Facebook or some other one word search for a super simple URL, and Google sort of forces you to buy ads unless you want your competitors to show up before you.)
There seems to be a whole school of HR / recruiting which tries to make it taboo or uncomfortable to ask those questions early on in the process.

From what I'm reading here, I suspect a place like Canonical would end discussions early if you even asked. It sounds like they're looking for cheap talent.
It's also crucial that the point-sized spherical cat is not spinning, because that's a quick way to get a ring-shaped cat.
This would be an exciting read. Im cretainly looking forward to it. Is there a read me for the required infrastructure setup in the works?
I’d just want the following:

In a cli, I want to start “vm”

It should check the current directly and go up each time similar to.asdf or .rbenv, looking for a .virtconfig dir

Depending on the config, I want:

1: it running a foreground instance, soo I don’t need ssh, and I know that it will shut down when I end the shell

2: I want to configure my shares/mounts, which by default don’t go up from the .virtconfig dir

3: I have to think about read only instances and multiple instances of the vm

The idea is that when you later cd into a project directory, .direnv (I think) can automatically turn into a Linux shell, or other OS which is also sandboxed.

I’d also want a single command that spans a Linux instance with the current director mounted (r or Re) to Linux. This way you get some sandboxing when trying someone else’s code
It’s a keen way to find people not to work with
sorry for accidentally destroying what this site is for.. please delete my account. thank you
Anyone knowing a good way to do the reverse? I.e., run MacOS on Linux?
In england we refer to this as "pulling up the ladder behind you".
> Can you show me that renewables couldn't hit the same targets with enough investment?

First, they couldn't until now. They might be able to at some point, but do you want to take that risk? We already have a safe solution.

> First off Chernobyl is in no way an argument in your favor, as it shows that nuclear energy isn't even safe with regulations.

Actually it does show that even Chernobyl's regulations were sufficient to be safer than almost any other energy source today.

> Yet you want to remove even more regulations

Where did I say that?

> Based on what you've said you either want to roll back to 1980s regulations, or before that

Where did I say that? I would appreciate a quote.

> Both are unsafe.

Compared to what? My link proofs the opposite.
You could give some arguments.
I heard that ransomware runs pretty well on the latest windows versions.
Poor idea to found a startup in a field you don’t believe in. Waste of time from the start.
This thread really makes me miss old vimperator/pentadactyl.,
Different owners. As I understand it, the current owners (Automattic) have allowed some, but not all, nsfw content back on the platform
The Planck length and Planck's constans are both named after Max Planck. That doesn't mean they're the same thing. The Max Planck Institutes are also named after Planck, but they are neither lengths nor constants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Katamari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Feint

They're examples.
> the first Twilight and Harry Potter movies came out 4 years after their books, and I could definitely see movie studios just waiting an extra year to cut out the original authors.

So Rowling only gets to be some 8 figure millionaire instead of a 10 figure billionaire? That's so unfair.

> My ideal world would see original authors retaining these kinds of royalties for prolonged periods of time (

The prolonged period of time should be 18 months. I don't think the concept of "royalties for adapting someone else's work" is severable from the concept of copyright. These things are either the same, or royalties are some subset of copyright.

Even just re-typesetting a book is an adaptation as far as these things are concerned.
> No, it's not fine. Children are important, and worthy of getting new stories that address their needs.

Equating retaining ownership by copyright to protection, is an example of reasoning used to abuse copyright. The products still exist when they enter the public domain and need no additional protection, that copyright offers. It's really disturbing to see commenters repeat the attitudes that left copyright in such a degenerate state.
25-30 years ago, there was a game studio called 2am Games that made a series of strategy-type Java games that allowed online multiplayer. All the games were monetized with ad clicks. Click on an add, get 15 more minutes of play time.

Their most popular game was an RTS called Chain of Command. You had a squad of four soldiers that you could position on an isometric board designed to look like a farm. 5-10 players would each run their four-man squads into a firefight and play some scenario - seek and destroy, capture the flag, etc.

The other two games I enjoyed were a business strategy game called The Invisible Hand and another RTS where each player took a European country and conquered cities using robot-like walking tanks.

All of the content from 2am Games is lost to history. Chain of Command has some clones out there, but I've never been able to find anything - roms, source code, clones, for the other games. It's a part of my childhood I'll never be able to re-experience.

Edit: I got curious again and did some investigating. Here's their archived home page from 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19970707215116/http://www.2am.co...
I use gpg plus kyber (quantum resistant). RSA may break, and kyber might suck. But I'm hoping not both.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/kybertest
In that case I would suggest you sell it as a kit.
I've read it can leech mercury from silver fillings, resulting in brain toxicity (the "amalgalm disease" IIRC).

Is there any truth to that?
Tuition rates are much higher near me and the other states I've lived in. PA and CA... and I went to a private university. Silly me.
This is my (applied) cryptographic understanding as well: RSA 2048 probably won't be broken by improvements to prime factorization by 2030, but will continue to be a pointlessly dangerous (and slow) cryptosystem when compared to ECC.
>Graham's manager told him something stunning: The finished project, which Graham worked on for more than a month, wouldn't see the light of day.

are you kidding? I've worked on projects way longer that ended up getting scrapped, and multiple times at different FAANGs. this guy must be quite inexperienced to be "stunned" by this.

if you don't want this risk, go to a smaller company. it's really that simple
Every mainstream asymmetric cipher is broken by quantum computing. Post-quantum ciphers are only this year slowly rolling out in canary & beta platforms and demand more memory and CPU cycles

A conservative but reasonable risk assumption is to act as if all internet traffic prior to the year 2023 was transmitted in the clear. This includes Signal, PGP, and Tor.
Hmm - maybe its a GM 5D chess move... get the GM dealers to fold/close so GM corporate can go direct to consumer. Then when they all close, re-introduce CarPlay support.
The article is about Brazil... what are you talking about? What does China have to do with anything?

Evading taxes levied by legitimate and democratically elected governments is unjust.
> Downloaded and streamed media is so much more convenient.

Until the day it disappears without warning, the metadata is mangled, or the song is replaced with a censored version, and yes all of these things I have experienced with absolutely zero customer support and zero fucks given by the streaming company.

There are episodes of TV shows (Always Sunny for example) which have been deleted/memory holed in the streaming version as they have been deemed politically incorrect and only available on physical media. Of course the streaming service will still charge you full price to purchase the season missing episodes.

I'll stick to ripping CDs thank you.
Self plug, I run these two:
https://curl.beehiiv.com | AI News
https://aiworkflows.beehiiv.com | AI Automation Tips, specifically AI Automation Agencies.

I also subscribe to bensbites (AI), ai supremacy, laravel news, freek.dev, stratechery, and a few more A.I. ones and marketing automation ones.
The fact that copyrights are automatic is a gigantic reason why NDAs aren't a good solution for this. The people who are in the best position to abuse someone's creative privacy are often the same people who won't sign NDAs.
If you create a custom image you would need to create a complex health endpoint that is essentially only considered healthy if all the components baked into your image are considered healthy. This gets harder when you are not the author of the sidecar process on which you rely. With a single image it would be easier to run into a situation where the sidecar process (baked into your image) is in an unhealthy state but your container is not restarted because the app itself is not reporting unhealthy status.
Ok, I confess that I didn't read the entire comment. But you have a second problem, as you should explain why the conventional explanation does not hold or is canceled by your theory.
> A two-front biological and cyber attack could lead to a U.S. defeat before we know what hit us.

There are ongoing cyber attacks on US infrastructure every day, both by rogue groups and hostile state-sponsored actors. These attacks target key elements of US infrastructure, government agencies, NGOs and all of our major industries.

Short of an EMP that takes down most of the grid, I don't see any real danger from a cyber attack. The US has some of the best cyber security experts and it I find it unlikely that some foreign group could find some possible exploit to break into most systems and get past the teams in place to prevent that.

On the biological attack side, there is more danger as it may not be immediately obvious who released a pathogen. With effective quarantine measures, the scope of such a disaster can be controlled and thus, to win a World War 3, a hostile power would need to employ conventional means.

The US views biological weapons as WMD, and it is policy to respond in kind. Thus, things would go nuclear and we could look forward to mutual destruction, which anybody in their right mind would avoid. And regardless of the minority who are not in their right mind, the majority of people on earth would rather be alive than dead and so I doubt that there would be a kamikaze nation that decides to do something that foolish without regard for the possible consequences.
Why is it allowed to continue?

Qui bono?
Given that the README literally has Android support and build instructions, it would be helpful if you qualified your comment with more than a one-liner like that.

Can you detail, say, why curl as a backend isn't necessarily sufficient here?
Sellers kicked off Amazon after unknowingly hawking stolen goods
Tell HN: My Telco Turned Off International Calling
I just received the following from my telco:

```
Dear Member,

At Telco, the security of our members and our network is extremely important to us. In order to protect our members from potential fraudulent activity, we closely monitor international calling patterns and traffic in our network. If you utilize a different long-distance provider other than Telco, we are unable to monitor such traffic and mitigate potential fraud on your account.

With the majority of fraudulent incidents originating from foreign countries, Telco is taking cautionary steps and immediately disabling all international calling, regardless of your long-distance provider.

We understand that this may cause some inconvenience, but please be assured that it is a precautionary measure taken to safeguard the interest of our members.

If you regularly make international calls or would like international calling enabled on your account, please call us at 541-xxx-xxxx or 541-xxx-xxxx. If you don't have a need to call internationally, no action is required.

We appreciate your continued support and loyalty as a member of the cooperative. Should you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us anytime.
```

I was surprised at this unilateral action, without any warning or other option to opt-out prior to this change taking effect. Has anyone else seen this kind of move by their telco? Is this the new normal?
For anyone who is confused at the significance here, I looked into the whole "Seed oils = bad" thing the other day and this claim was at the heart of it (no pun intended). Basically the idea that seed oils usually contain higher levels of linoleic acid, and butter does not, and therefore tl;dr excess butter/animal fat is not bad for you and does not cause heart disease in the way that people think it does. You can see a list of fats ranked by LA content here: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Oils-Rich-in-Linoleic-Ac...

Not saying this is correct or anything, just providing the missing context for anyone asking why Linoleic Acid is in a headline.
> for a lot of Ml usecases

Have you forgotten the No Free Lunch Theorem?
The "urban planners" have had their say, and we've all seen the results. It's time to let someone else try.
> I just haven't written the documentation for it and you would need your own UART flasher board.

That would not be an issue. However, I'm based in Germany as well... do you have some sort of newsletter?
For this type of discussion I think it's important to contrast statically (or manifest) and dynamically typed languages. Lumping together inheritance and polymorphism kind of just happens with the former. With dynamically typed languages you have more freedom to just throw the right functions into your object and informally declare that your object will work with calling function, regardless of the specific type.

Of course now you have to talk about semantic polymorphism, e.g. will the outcome of calling some polymorphic functions have the right effect on the system? This is where static type systems have it easier because you typically tie stuff together in related hierarchies.

The Go structure embedding thing was a surprise to me, having grown up with C and C++ it looks unexpected. Not sure I like it but I think I do.
I think it's time for a reminder that the USA pumped $180 billion (!!!!!!!) worth of stuff into the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1945, to ensure that the Germans get fucked.
So basically government-mandated NFTs?
All my FB friends are friends I've made through physical contact. Most of us have been separated through location, time and obligations. Even though we haven't seen each other in over a decade we're still FB friends.
True, although I expect that the US healthcare system is more than competitive if we consider its bad outcomes and overall inefficiency per dollar spent.

Systems where there is competition, but where efforts are made to make the service providers not really have big advantages for cutting costs, will get you bad outcomes. It's just unfortunate that avoiding needing healthcare, or going into many careers without paying for the very expensive college degree, is such a big gamble.

A fully public system would be very different. An unsubsidized market system would also be very different. Either one would be dramatically cheaper than what we have, which gives us the worst incentives of both worlds.
Thanks for the improved tip - I have found it hard to parse through all the address-bar-related about:config options in the past, the UI seems like a better way!
The no-addon workaround for this is to right click any tab, first select all tabs and then bookmark all tabs. Give the folder a name and open it in the bookmark manager. Now you can select them all and copy the URLs.

It's an awkward solution, but it does work and is relatively quick.
I never claimed to be funny, but I think how you seek me out each time to call me names is.
Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5
> Sports writing isn't about human rights or social issues.

Yeah, you’re just factually wrong.

Figures like Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, all the way up to Kolin Kaepernick and Brittney Griner[1] are wrapped up in human rights and social issues.

There isn’t some kind of magical barrier between sports and real life. It’s a social activity that takes place within wider society.

To millions of fans, players are influential voices.

You can be as sports-macho and anti-woke as you want but that won’t bring you closer to truth and understanding.

[1] who was definitely not jailed in Russia for drugs, let’s be real: she’s an LGBT person and advocate, and Russia is an anti-LGBT mafia state.
> the world doesn't need that many liberal arts graduates

If I were to make a list of the problems with the world, having too many people with liberal arts degrees would not be anywhere near that list.

Too few, yes. Too many business school graduates, yeah. Too many law school graduates, probably. Too many STEM field graduates, maybe. Too many graduates who look at people as a resource to be extracted, or an abstraction to be ignored. But damnit, we need more people who care about the quality of human experience.
Most departments at most universities do not have it. But a huge number of departments in certain fields do.
My preferred solution is to establish an open university in the US (or make it borderless), through which anyone can earn a degree remotely for as little cost as possible -- like $5000 per year or $20k per degree.

Georgia Tech and others have shown this is possible (see their 13 MS degree programs in engineering). Certainly by enlisting the growing set of tools used for remote professional collaboration, it should be possible to cover a wide variety of subjects, especially if the staff is also remote (and not overpriced).

Compared to the $240K of almost all private colleges in the US, a viable alternative that costs only $20k should quickly reset the cost of advanced education to be a LOT more reasonable.

In addition, a cheap remote-only college system be a great resource for many people who want to take college courses but live nowhere near a full-time school, or who need retraining as they change careers or advance professionally.

Really, this solution is long overdue.
I'm afraid this sounds really generic and a bit desperate. I don't see any of the guiding principles really looking at Tumblr's strengths.
Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C
Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too.

Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution.

Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me know how it goes.
Just FYI for people who don't know about it yet: with cloudsql-proxy v2 there's a new parameter called "--quitquitquit" that starts up an HTTP endpoint to be used for graceful shutdowns. Basically your main container makes a POST to this endpoint, and sidecar exits.
These are both well written and happen to be about writing: On Writing Well by William Zinsser and On Writing by Stephen King.
>Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities.

Cool, I wonder if whoever is writing this understands the reason those communities are like that?

>The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”)

...And there it is.

The thing that makes Tumblr unique among social media is the fact that it has a non-algorithmic feed, and is centered on people you like sharing posts they enjoy. By default, you never see a post unless someone you follow either authors it or vouches for it.

If they try and change that, and shove an FYP-style page in front of the user by default, they're going to lose that distinguishing feature.

I personally support adding some algorithmic feed in (tumblr's discoverability does kind of suck), but a vast majority of the active users are very opposed to even the features they've added so far (like "best stuff first"). They need to be very careful about how they proceed here.

Also:

>Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.

Yeah, it's almost like you drove half the creators off of your site with one fell swoop.

>Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Coming from a website that is known for having the second-worst search function in social media (after reddit, which at least is easily parsed by google), this is almost laughable.
Some parts of STEM are very accessible outside of an institution (math, CS, theory) but for many fields of engineering and hard sciences you need expensive equipment and materials that may also be hazardous to work with if you’re untrained. Even for fields that are mostly done on computers, there’s still the issue of the software used being too expensive for a typical individual to purchase.
https://grocy.info/

This is what you're looking for.