skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worldcoin is a terrible example imo, it's beyond DOA. Much like the rest of crypto, no one will seriously use it, unless we're talking speculation. I think that the riots in HK, the united front against Russia, etc. clearly show that the rest of the world believes free markets are the way to do things and it's just a matter of time (probably when Putin + Jinping bite the dust) until China/Russia also adopt more (classical) liberal stances.

If you're hinting at authoritarianism, Trump has been repudiated by most, and the Republican party is in shambles right now (which is how such a weak Democrat was able to win). I don't really see the doomer point of view.
The U.S. should always have a program to study UAPs.

UAP is simply unidentified aerial phenomena. It’s in the US’s interests to study such phenomena in its airspace.

For example those Chinese balloons, until they were recognized as balloons, also were UAPs.

Supporting the study of UAPs, including potential alien UAPs, is a far cry from claiming the U.S. govt has found wreckage of alien technology and is driving a worldwide conspiracy along with many other govts to keep this information hidden from people.
Interesting explanation, I totally agree on the click-per-pay part. But how would you track the benefit of ads with paying-per-impression? I know its less expensive, but according to the article paying per view seems to be a quite big part of the ad business.
It does, kind of, statically you configure positions manually in the configuration file, or dynamically, you can use its API through a pipe to save positions and then restore positions.
Can SD draw hands finally?
It seems to be aging well, since prediction markets are in the 20% range and parent comment is getting down voted/s
I wish per country data was available. I’m currently trying to estimate Facebook’s ARPU per country.
> Failure to embrace/invent capitalism sooner isn't the main reason basically all graphs measuring anything related to humans start to shoot up in 19th century.

All? Nope. Only the ones that were more free market, and the more free market the more things "shot up".

Evidence? The millions of poor leaving everything behind and coming from Europe to the US.
Show HN: Locally maintainable postfix spam database
Today I was a little annoyed by spam that keeps plaguing my email servers, and I decided to make it a little more maintainable.

I remembered another HN thread where somebody uploaded a gist of spam domains [1] and decided to do something similar to avoid spam from large-scale spam providers like salesforce, AWS or digitalocean.

Currently, there's no WHOIS integration yet, but I'm probably gonna work on this when I receive more spam.

Maybe someone here has a nice hosts block list and wants to contribute?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134734
From what I understand is was more because Tumblr had a much younger user demographic with very ineffective content reporting tools. Allowed NSFW content without a desktop opt-in function. And also being bought by Yahoo who wanted to cash in on Tumblr advertising probably played a huge role in it too.

Twitter skews older, requires desktop opt-in for NSFW content, and (before Musk) had decent content reporting functions.
Another interesting comment by that redditor https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/comment...
Should we create (yet) a new Twitter?
I’ve never been a fan of Twitter (sorry, “X”), but seeing what it has become today I must admit that such a service now seems indispensable. The single fact that it has become the number one channel of communication for most political personalities makes it difficult to imagine a world without such a tool.

Until Elon, I didn’t really have a point of view on how the platform was managed, which I guess means that it was more or less ok. Technically speaking the service was reliable. From a moderation standpoint I’m sure I missed a lot of things, but the only decision they made that I remember as creating a lot of discussion was the ban of Donald Trump, which I personally consider understandable.

With the takeover by Elon it just became really clear to me how much it’s not ok to have a private company managing a service of such importance. The guy is filthy rich but has still one obsession: make the service profitable by any means. He’s destroying the whole thing in front of us but well, he owns it, what can we do?

My take is that a social media used for critical information at the scale of Twitter should be managed by a non-profit organization whose goal is to create, scale and maintain the platform from a technical standpoint, but also to moderate its content by creating a committee composed by people from around the world, representative of all the users of the service, who would be entitled to edict its rules. Moreover the whole thing shouldn’t be spoiled by ads, it should run on donations, like Wikipedia. We’re talking of a global public service, let’s ask the governments and companies that use it to give some cash for it, they have plenty.

At this point a lot of you must just wonder if I know Mastodon, isn’t it exactly what I’m talking about? Well, I love the project, truly, but I don’t think that it will ever replace Twitter for two reasons: it’s more complex to use than Twitter, and being decentralized it will never have a global moderation that really works. I will not even talk about the private alternatives to Twitter that exist today (yes, including Threads) as they are precisely private, and therefore necessarily inadequate in my opinion.

I’m the CTO of a Swiss company that develops software. We do a lot of complex web and mobile applications, and even if I have never worked on a project of the scale of Twitter I think that I have a pretty good idea of what it would require. My idea is that we could try to crowdfund the project with the goal of having a first version of the platform running by mid 2024. If my help is welcome I could take the technical lead for a while. I could also find an arrangement with my company to provide qualified resources at a reasonable price before the organization is able to recruit its own team.

I know that sounds crazy (or dumb), but I think that we really have an issue and we should address it.

What are your thoughts?
> I understand and agree with the idea of racist/antiracist. It's not a crazy concept, and its creator Ibram X. Kendi makes it clear that a person isn't doomed to be racist/antiracist; a person can flip from one to the other on a moment's notice.

"One is not doomed for eternal damnation, all one needs to do is accept Christ as their Lord and Savior and they will be saved."

In the West, being branded a racist in the year 2023 is basically the same thing as being branded a heretic in 1023. I don't think it's coincidence Kendi uses some of the same tropes used by organized religion.
The idea that for the rest of history, SpaceX Crew-1 delay has to be brought when talking about Starliner is nonsense. Its not bias. It common sense for a short update article like this.

> less than three weeks after discovery of issues

It has been much longer then 3 weeks.

> which is hilarious

Eric Berger has a very good track record when talking about delays. He usually has information from inside the industry. I'm gone go with they guy that has predicted correctly over and over and over again the last 10 years.

I don't really care if you think it's 'hilarious'.

Dragon is on regular cadence, short term delays of one doesn't necessarily even mean that the launches after that will be delayed to.
What's the potential for this to enable mandatory remote attestation that your personal machine is running For-Your-Own-Good™ spying software in order to use any significant services (banking, etc)?
well "being a psychic" has a particular meaning in English so I figure it has to be pretending or claiming to be a psychic.
and if you listened to hackernews they'd tell you that startups are the only way to go

cuz those boring corpos cant get tiniest shit done without months of emailing and 25 ppl involved
I had good luck on the marketplace. And kids stuff daycare is there (private of course)

There are some other apps for daycare tracking but they're terrible. So I guess it depends on what you compare fb to. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part
The moment I read the headline, I was expecting to find a bunch of low-effort comments that don't engage with the article, which actually speaks directly to this issue. Congrats.

Yes, all psychics can be seen as committing a kind of fraud, but most stay in their unfalsifiable lane. This psychic used the mail to advertise health services. They didn't just claim to predict the future or sending good energy into the universe, which you can still legally charge for. They claimed to be able to cure diseases in exchange for a fee, which is fraud, and they did it over the mail. But then they rebutted that they were basically selling the placebo effect, which is kind of real... it makes for a much more interesting case than your comment makes it seem.
Absolutely uninformed take.

- The (democrat) senate majority leader mentioned "non human intelligence"

- Rubio _is_ worried about "ET", per multiple interviews where this is presented as a likely explanation for the observed behavior

- No, an "AI Controlled drone" does not "fit the quotes description", not in the slightest. You are either grossly misinformed about the claims, the capabilities of modern aircraft (black or otherwise), or intentionally misleading others.
Artists need to buy groceries and retire some day--almost none of them successfully pull this off, it's like one in a million--but every day there's a dozen posts on here about how greedy the arts industries are for trying to charge money for things.

Well, no problem, in the near future you can just get a personal AI to make everything for you. The Arts will be wiped out completely. Time to celebrate? No human artist need ever get paid again, starting in 20 years, or will it be 50? Maybe it will take 75 and you won't get to personally enjoy it? All the money can go to amazon and to ISPs because they provide the REAL value, that of providing sharing or generation infrastructure

Mix in the constant posts on here claiming that these tech companies get to make derivative works off of everyone's art, without compensating those artists, and, I don't know what to say
Good point.

What I was trying to convey is that folks shouldn't be looking for a 100% win rate, and not achieving that does not make a strategy a failure.
I don't disagree in principle but:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Providing that that talk (and the games) avoids adult themes and violence and other things on AdSense's disallowed list, then you may be fine.

(Also avoid anything in the domain name that looks like any of those things, and don't buy a second-hand domain that used to, or was doing anything else dodgy.)
> If it super conducts, but it isn't useful in the real world, then we will be waiting for theory to - hopefully - give us some insight into how to improve things to useful. This only can carry a small amount of current.

Thank you for this.

> This is made out of lead. Even if it is useful for transmission, the difficulty of working safely with lead in a factory may mean it is impractical.

Have you been to a hardware store lately? A huge amount of pipe fittings for gas and non-potable water are made from lead. Factories don’t find it hard to work with lead. It might be inadvisable but it’s not hard.

We can argue about the "working safely" part, but in terms of "does this make it impractical?" the answer seems to be no under the current global regulatory environment.
Apache 2 licensed https://github.com/traceo-dev/traceo/blob/develop/LICENSE
Another interesting analysis from that post:

> So, to clarify for my nonexpert brain, if this were a superconductor and their measurements were accurate:

> Fig 5 means the sample must be completely pure to be a superconductor

> The rest of the paper indicates the sample must have impurities.

> So it's pretty safe to say that either it's not a superconductor or their measurements are wrong (or most likely both). Since they never got it to the critical temperature and showed the full Meissner effect, if the measurements are wrong it's fair to say they don't have evidence for superconductivity anyway, just diamagnetism, which isn't really that big a deal

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/159g2k4/comment/...
Piracy is bad but killing internet with yet another DRM in your browser, and stupid laws ("if you workaround a protection, event if it is stupid, you're going to straight jail") makes us slaves to big corporations.
The closest a report like this could be to "incorrect" is poorly planned short-term/long-term tradeoffs. You could, for example, renew an expensive contract with a vendor for a 1 year term instead of 5 years at a lower annual price. This quarter's costs will go down significantly compared to the last time this contract was up for renewal - but now you need to add the same cost to your ledger next year instead of 5 years down the line. Repeat that same short-sighted planning many times over and it's possible to fabricate a profit increase. But that will only last so long. It could work for people prepping for an IPO when they plan to essentially pump-and-dump. Not so much for a mature public company.
You'll be able to buy more KWh of storage per dollar (but likely not initially) and it will be relatively dense compared to current - pun intended - options and very likely have a much higher number of cycles (because there is no chemical cycle, just electron movement). The 'if only we had a room temperature superconductor' list of inventions that got temporarily shelved is longer than my arm, the words 'game changer' were never more applicable. If it is replicated. If it can manufactured competitively. If it (or a variation) works at higher current densities.
They did the same at my first job out of college (Sun based company). It was my first introduction to free software. That was circa 1990... it's amazing that gcc is still going strong.
Third party CI builds aren't distributed to anyone. Even if the compiled binary was subject to GPL rules, the binary will almost never exit the CI server where it was built so copyleft protection won't be invoked.

You can use modified GPL code to your heart's content in a corporate setting. As all your coworkers are part of one legal entity, private use within the organization is not distribution per the terms of GPL. You have to distribute a binary to someone who can make a claim under the terms of the license before copyleft is activated. Furthermore, you only ever have to disclose source to someone with possession of a derived binary.
Right, it's not mentioned what that is in the article.

On first search, something you do with your horse. I don't have a horse.

This site says

>Combination Training is an integrated form of training that combines lower body, upper body, trunk musculature and balance training all into one exercise, accomplishing three times as much training in the same amount of time.

https://nwpersonaltraining.com/blog/combination-training/

I think something like those Billy Blanks Tae Bo videos would fit the bill.
> No software I used in 1995 will run on my current computers.

I'd be surprised if many SaaS products from today will still be available in 28 years time.

I'd assume that many 32bit programs from Win95 era still work natively on Windows 11, and for the rest (including 16bit and DOS programs) you can use compatibility layers (e.g. Wine) and emulators.
The best part about this “whistleblower”? He’s entire testimony is hearsay.

> “I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program, to which I was denied access,”

He has no first hand evidence. Basically somebody pranked him by telling him they had access to super secret programs that he would not be allowed to ever see and now he thinks the govt is running experiments on aliens.
South Korea: "We've developed reliable superconducting electricity."

North Korea: "We're still working on reliable electricity."
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store
The division of the US into slave and free states produced an increasingly stark prosperity contrast between the two. That disparity underlay the friction between the two groups.
We host Ars Technica in the cloud, part two: The software
> shoving advertisements in your face for first-party services constantly

Give me ONE example of this advertising on MacOS that’s being ‘constantly shoved in your face’
You're saying Daft Punk don't sing like that in real life?
There's nothing about bicycles in the video he linked.
If we don’t our customers will ask us about this. Doing so means they have a page that reassures them that we’re dealing with it.
Any proper gate for a user to access content should be managed by a server, not on the client side. It would have to be the same for WEI. If they can detect that I'm using an adblocker, there's no reason they couldn't prevent me from accessing content by not even serving the content in the first place.
Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse
The real genius was OpenBSD adding microcode updates they should have had for 10 years, and on top we get a smug Theo email about how it's really not even very much affected except when using AVX (duh).
I used to refuse to stand for the pledge of allegiance in high school and get threatened with being beat up, I guess it was a thing at the time.
Waymo to scale back trucking efforts to focus on ride hailing
This is a leading example of how homographs can lead us astray.
Yes. I have some audio waveform generation software I use only once in a long while. I paid about $50 for it almost 5 years ago. If it were SaaS, I'd have paid a lot more than that over the last 5 years.

A long time ago I worked out an agreement with a local gym. To avoid a membership that I would only need for a few months (I was living in a hotel temporarily with no access to my own equipment), I paid $10 each time I showed up. This could be a useful model for rarely-used software.
Is this really a swindle if your "victims" are willing participants? Every purported psychic is "pretending" even if they don't realise. My sister in law makes good money giving readings over zoom. She genuinely believes in this nonsense, as do her customers. Is there a practical difference though, whether she believes it or not?
"Biologic" as a CYA term for naturally selected, or synthetic biological entities, such as biomimetic constructs, or organoid components of a vehicle that are calculated to perform well in our environment.
Be highly resistant to replacing outdated tools when they fall out of favor in the marketplace. If you don't have ADD/ADHD, take Adderall or another upper so it makes your personality unstable.

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In 2020 I briefly worked for a small company. I should have said no, but due to life circumstances, I was uncomfortable passing on the job.

When I joined, there were security problems all over the place. They were self-hosting a Mercurial server with http, not https. I eventually brought up the issue with the (cough) tech lead. (I should point out that the lead had been the lead since graduating college, for a decade, and generally had little to no mentorship in the process.)

First, I asked why they were self-hosting their Mercurial server. I got back a wishy-washy "that's how we're used to doing it" answer.

Next, I subtly pointed out, "You know, if you were using Bitbucket to host source code, you wouldn't have this issue."

The response was, "Oh, don't you remember, Bitbucket dropped Mercurial years ago."

My next response was, "Uhm, then do you think we should switch to git?" (For context, I used to like Mercurial better than git, but years ago moved everything to git when I started using git at a prior job and saw "the writing on the wall.")

The (cough) tech lead then went on a tirade about how we just couldn't switch to git, because he didn't want to have to handhold everyone in figuring out git, and then arguing about minutiae regarding minor differences between the two.

I tried to reason with him in pointing out how, if you build a business around a technology, and that technology loses in the marketplace, you put your business at risk. I mentioned that a business that used Betamax would have needed to switch to VHS once it became clear that Sony was discontinuing it and VHS was winning in the marketplace.

A few weeks later, the (cough) lead mentioned at standup that he was having trouble getting his medication, and acted like he was going through stimulant withdrawal. He never acted like someone with ADD or ADHD off of their meds, though. At that point I put two-and-two together and realized that his behavior was textbook "too many stimulants."

Shortly before my time with this company ended, they very nervously announced they were switching to git. I watched everyone on the team, except the leadership, breath a sigh of relief.
Out of curiosity – what is it that you're doing that's so granular that the ARPU by region [0] they provide isn't good enough?

[0] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2022/q4...
It'd be an obscene amount a few hundred years ago.
Heirloom corn is not necessarily better or tastier. The natives planted different kinds and they each had different resistance to different issues, i.e. drought, soil, elevation. They were diversifying their crops in case something wiped out one of them they had other options.
But how is this different than Google or any other company provide their services only through native apps? They can choose today to cut anyone who is not using native app and they are choosing not to do so.
It’s more of a hybrid exercise but “pause squats”, in which you hold the weight at the bottom position before coming back up are a very good variation of a standard squat.
They have since rewritten that sentence from:

> The attack can even be carried out remotely through JavaScript on a website, meaning that the attacker need not have physical access to the computer or server.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230725020052/https://blog.clou...

To:

> Currently the attack can only be executed by an attacker with an ability to execute native code on the affected machine. While there might be a possibility to execute this attack via the browser on the remote machine it hasn’t been yet demonstrated.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230726204030/https://blog.clou...

I think I am vindicated -- they did just make that up, likely from the claim posted here.
There absolutely is. Once you think about this on a global scale HVDC doesn't quite cut it. You can extend the day/night cycle by a few hours each way, which is already very impressive but it isn't enough to cover 24 hours and it definitely isn't going to help you in winter when you want to transport energy from the sunny hemisphere to the darker one.
There's no real reason it would need to be 1/10 the performance though, depending on the kernel.
> but I don't think it's so plainly unbelievable that the government can't keep secret projects under wraps.

Rare triple negation. Also, I couldn't follow the last bit. Were you saying that basically what we imply as dazzling mind boggling technology is a top secret projects waiting to be unveiled / discovered?