skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe each household should host its army of noise-making AI which spews out page visits and random searches in order to let the people hide in the noise.

Projects like these existed, I think it was an extension, but we'd probably need to do better than that.
Yep, that's where I stumbled onto this. The Victorian Internet was fun but way too short.

A few chapters in David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie and Edmund Morris's Edison go into telegraph history a bit.

I got into the subject after reading both those books (they both got their start as telegraph operators), and noticing the similarity in meritocracy and culture between programmers today and telegraph operators back then.

I'd love to read more. Two other books on my list are Lincoln In The Telegraph Office (1907) and Submarine Telegraphy (1898). All the in-depth books on the telegraph seem to have been written 100 years ago basically.
They are the ones doing the work. They certainly have a choice not to.
If you like you can copy what I did: https://github.com/tbillington/bevy_toon_shader, which I copied from https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/ (just that my repo has was less stuff, so might be easier to copy from).
Why go through that many hoops just to use Svelte over React? They’re so similar, just go with the one with the best bindings to the native platform
A great story and true BSOD material!
I don't understand what AR has to do with this
Lately I started getting shocksites kind of ads (think goatse.cx) of horrific cases of fungus in the legs or whatever. I pressed x on several occasions, naively thinking that anyone cares. Then I decided I don't want to see an ad in my life again. I got ublock origin on firefox and moved to Vivaldi browser in my android (which is a really good browser, coming with an adblocker out of the box). The hardest thing is in the non digital world though, walking in the streets it is hard to look away from the shiny big ass screens everywhere. But with AR vision in the next 5 years it would become obsolete as well.

And if you happen to be a tech giant that can drive the industry literally to every direction you want for decades, and what you choose to innovate is ad tech and NOTHING else, you're not evil, just stupid. Well maybe both. Or either. But definitely stupid.
True, but it just isn't that simple.

We have all seen that there are absolutely no boundaries on how many adds and pop-ups sites get plastered with.

They aren't trying to balance it out on their sites, they just try to make as much money as possible. That isn't an acceptable user experience.

Now pair that with the world's most used search engine rewarding the most amount of (their) adds. It is a hellscape.
From the explainer:

> Detect non-human traffic in advertising to improve user experience and access to web content

As if the goal to do that would be improving UX...
XMPP was never embraced by Facebook, not sure where that myth comes from (they only had a bridge to connect XMPP clients to), but it did catch on in form of Google Talk up until it was turned into defederated Hangouts.
I would accept ads more easily with if they were not a privacy disaster.

I’m watching a video about cars, sure show me the ad about this crappy car brand I will never buy. I’m reading an article about Prometheus, sure show me an ad about your greatest SaaS metrics platform that cost more per monitored machine than my machine.

No needs for cookies and tracking.
Doubt it's the engineers tbh.
There is more to them than sandboxes though. They also package everything, if there is a security problem in a common library you are vulnerable in each sandbox until it is updated so updates become a much larger hole.

Sure the problem cannot escape the sandbox, but in the end i'm more concerned with my data in the sandbox.
This is a dumb article that's trying and failing to tie Attestation to ad blocking.

> However, how this plays out with browsers that allow extensions or are modified remains a grey area. As the proposal vaguely mentions, "Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality."

That's not vague at all.
I've never been able to make sense of why people are having such a hard time spelling Fuchsia correctly[0] but this still made chuckle. :)

[0]: Just think of a popular four-letter word starting with "fuc". Replace the last letter with an "h". (The "ch" in German "Fuchsia" is pronounced exactly how that four-letter word ends.) Then append "-sia".
public optimism being the apparent majority can still be true even if overall our decisions and inner thoughts sway to majority pessimism
Background for non-UK readers:

Nigel Farage - the main mover behind Brexit - had his account closed due to his political opinions (he is also a renta-gob anti-woke columnist).

The bank tried to cover that up, and the Chair leaked his account details while talking to a journalist.

The Chair has now resigned and Farage is after more blood.

Don't be in any doubt though - the Beeb etc are trying to sell this story as being about the leak; but its about cancel culture and the rising mainstream awareness of it - Farage is a big name in the UK, and the attempt to shut his finances down for having the wrong opinions has hugely backfired here.
Parent comment isn’t saying change it to “2020 years” they’re saying append “(2020)” to the end of the title to clarify it’s a post from 3 years ago
My home network has a peculiar quirk where it won't resolve DNS for domains known to serve ads. Why do I deserve be penalised?
It isn't just "make ad-blocking (near) impossible" as the current title of the submission suggests. It is:

Make browsing the internet possible only on Chrome, Safari or Edge (with no modifications or extensions). No competition allowed in browsers.

Make browsing the internet possible only on macOS, Windows, Android or iOS (no custom Android distributions, definitely no LineageOS or GrapheneOS or whatever). No competition allowed in Operating Systems, especially no open source operating systems.

Make crawling the internet possible only to Google. No private crawling and no competing search engines.

Let me know if I've missed anything...
How the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Why would anybody expect them to do anything different. They are an ad company. Their revenue comes from selling your attention and profile.

People seem to have some severe cognitive dissonance when it comes to commercial web sites. They are crucified for selling ads and tracking then when they have the temerity to try and charge for their work people will start posting archive.is links to route around their paywalls.

If you don't like advertising then don't visit advertising funded sites or use their "free" tools. If you don't like paywalls then hit the back button and spend your attention elsewhere.
They improve a lot in the last 2 years, give it another try. The experience nowadays is pretty pleasant compare the plain RN project
I think they are signing the end of chrome dominance. People are going to flee to Firefox.
Show HN: Distraction free desktop workspace for developers
A workflow for window management based on experiences from Tmux, implemented by Rofi scripts. Tiling window manager is not a requirement, but highly recommended.
How many people lost loved ones to improperly denied coverage? I am honestly surprised this problem hasn't yet been addressed through extra-legal means.
I used to maintain Detox for iOS when I was at Wix, from 2017 to 2021. We ended up dropping support for Expo for plenty of reasons, some technical, some "political". The people reporting "issues" (more like asking questions) for their Expo apps, usually had very little technical understanding of any of the increasingly thick environment stack (the Expo layer, RN layer, UI framework layer, OS layer). They were basically web developers who were trying to emulate developing for the browser, with zero interest (and often, capacity) in learning any of the complexities of the aforementioned complex environment.

It was our experience the expo layer added a lot of complexity and many bugs, with very little ability of users to actually fix anything without "ejecting" their project away from that ecosystem. That was on top of the RN layer, which in itself was full of bugs. We would send users to report expo bugs to the expo team, and were first met by "just fix it on your end, you are detox!" type of comments from that silly community, and those that did report the issues, saw no reaction from the expo team, despite detox being one of the most popular testing frameworks in the RN world at the time (no idea about now, but back then, even Facebook was using detox to test RN itself).

At the end of the day, we decided the hassle was not worth the low quality user benefit, so we decided to drop support for Expo. It was one of the best bureaucratic decisions we ever made.
even assuming unbiased and objective attesters, the issue lies with the "baseline criteria" of attestation and who defines them.

There are two risks here (examples follow):

1. hostile requirements - "the agent won't feature adblockers", or "scraping without explicit website permission must be forbidden"

2. prohibitive requirements - "the agent implements protocols X, Y and Z and adheres to standards A, B and C" - all of these may be reasonable things, but en masse they may be too much work to carry by anyone but a reasonably big vendor

Additionally these criteria must be verifiable, so user can't basically modify the agent, because then the attestation is practically void.
https://media.ccc.de/v/22C3-920-en-we_lost_the_war
They are a user, they choose to moderate or not, forcing people in this way to contribute only in a very specific way means, less users ...
Let’s go full circle and go back to a new gopher based on content APIs.
You make it sound like an old fashioned newspaper.

But in reality it's more like the newspaper publisher would then follow you around all day wherever you go and interrupt you every time you try to have a moment's thought or talk to your children, so they could perhaps interest you in this product they're advertising.
Not only would they passively follow you around but instead direct you to places where you find the most outragous people you can think of. When you're all worked up they could put you in touch with the higest bidding political operative that promises to ease all your pains.

I mean sure, maybe the publisher is not evil but I don't know what to call them.
Hyperbole usually leads to a lot of unnecessary discussion where people tell you that it's an exaggeration and so on. A good old meta-discussion to eventually conclude that their stance on a topic was pretty similar after all.
This kind of behaviour makes me not trust security researchers (something they should desperately try to protect given that trust in the field is essential).
I don't fully agree here, beer quality of taste is not fully a function of content of alcohol. By far the best beers I've ever tasted personally are german Munich brands like Augustiner, even the higher concentration Edelstoff which I call the pinnacle of lagers globally is 5.6%. You don't need more and each sip is a short stop in Gardens of eden for my taste buds.
Depends. I have made substantial profits on a sub-million portfolio on a pure TA algorithm over a span of a couple of years. I have never made the strategy a secret because I knew very well people are too lazy to actually implement it (and the cake is bigger than I could take). And yeah, nobody did.

(That particular strategy doesn't work anymore)
I have hyptertension around 140/100, the best thing works for me is tennis. After 3 hours the numbers are 125/95, it went back after 1 hour.
Their AI agents will be stronger than yours. They'll watch you 24/7 and make sure you're not doing that – verify there are no non-approved gadgets in front of your eyes; verify that there are no visible analog-gap-defeating tools anywhere in your physical proximity. Nothing will escape the machine's notice: no detail too small or subtle for a bored yottaflop God with nothing in the world to do but watch you.

You'll be free to opt out, though most of the internet will be unusable without Environment Integrity.
Room temperature super conductors don't quench. Or at least, not until they reach the temperature at which they no longer work as superconductors, which for this one is 127 degrees Celsius.

That does make for an interesting failure mode if anything should every cause a small spot on a longer conductor to reach that temperature...
Securely share anything with teammates across machines via CLI
AH yes, John Snow and the Broad Street pump. A well-known source of drinking water inside a city.
I'm sticking with nVidia for now (currently a 3090 bought secondhand of eBay) as it is the most tested/supported by far, but it is great to see AMD making progress (finally) as some competition in this segment is desperatly needed.
IMO it comes down to the cost of burning the bridge. The free to $10/mo user likely won't even notice if they get banned from the service. But the company spending $5000/mo on the service will likely have the worst week of their lives if they get banned...
Then you hopefully have OOB management instead, or?
> I bet there are people out there outside the US who think that you should protect your safety in a boring computer conference,

I think you missed my previous point. Angry men with guns being allowed into a boring computer conference (or anywhere else for that matter) is the reason people think they need to protect their own safety in the first place.
Turns out most bit flips in non-crypto systems simply have no effect.

A bitflip in an error handling path of a binary, where that error never happens - no user impact.

A bitflip in a bitmap image buffer - user doesn't notice one miscoloured pixel for 1 frame in an animation.

A bitflip in a config datastructure changing 0x00000001 to 0x00400001 - no impact because the whole number is treated as boolean anyway.
Out of the Crisis (and Deming more generally) deserves to be more widely known and quoted.

It's incredible how much of what he says (especially the stuff about how production workers feel) maps directly to the technology industry.
Plants that are signs of former human settlements
Sergey Brin and Larry Page's original search engine paper fell short of calling it evil. But they did use phrases like "incentive to provide poor quality search results", "particularly insidious" and "inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers".
>Why do we buy so much single-use packaging, so many things that are unrepairable, too costly to repair, hard to disassemble, or that have externalities that were not solved before the product went to market?

Because it's easier, cheaper and better?

>Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime.

That will translate into even more expensive products for consumers. Thanks but no thanks.
You are missing the major differences between the users and apps being compared.

There’s self selection, if you pay for something then it you’re more selective in what you get. “Free” apps are also worse due to inserting advertising.
I've been using GCC & friends for a few years now, building mostly for the Cortex-M23. GDB has been a godsend, with a J-Link you basically have as much runtime debugging support as you would on a hosted system. This is especially helpful in cases where logging would slow down the operation of the system too much.

We're also very successfully using CMake as our build system, as opposed to Make itself. It lets you organise your build system & support different configurations & dependencies in a much easier way than e.g. Makefiles & Git submodules, which we've tried in the past. When combined with the Ninja generator we're also seeing ~20% faster compilation times.
It really depends on whether you see ads as "bringing to the user's attention that there is a product out there that might improve their lives" or if you see them as "attempts to manipulate people into spending money on things they don't need or want".

I'm definitely in the latter group, but I can see how some market purists might believe in the first version.
What if you need to do configuration in Xcode?
This was mentioned in a different post the other day but HN moderators shot it down:

https://hnrankings.info/36778999/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999
Google haven't built enough trust to say "here's something we want to do that could have huge negative consequencies, but trust us".
AI Expansion – Supply Chain Analysis for CoWoS and HBM
Very cool Alex!

I looked around but I could see anywhere to suggest a new blog?

I write at railsnotes.xyz at I think it would be a cool addition :)

XML feed is at railsnotes.xyz/feed.xml
You tend to stop while the experiment is running, and then spend time looking at the results once it's done.

The real benefits here are getting a better understanding of what levers drive your product metrics, as you'll inevitably mess up the first n or so experiments (if I could give you only one piece of advice, it would be to use stratified randomisation, but everyone seems to have to make this mistake for themselves).
I'm not sure how you can read my entire comment and think it resembles anti-drug talk (in the colloquial sense). I would most closely classify it as a warning about pharma in general - both the fads that pop up and the overmarketing that companies like to do (which also affects how people talk about it).

I'm not talking about the discussion on HN specifically. I'm also talking about all the startups trying to market psychedelics for a bunch of different reasons. When the article is about how psychedelics are "popular" now, but only about 8% of the population has ever used them, then it feels similar - unsupported/biased optimism or positivity on psychedelics.
You have to boil the wort for hours otherwise it's not beer, it's porridge. It's that process that kills any pathogens, not the fermentation (obviously, since fermentation requires the presence of pathogens).
Which way does the causal arrow point?
The same engineers doing this in exchange for money, healthcare, etc to put food on their tables and provide for their families?

Not everyone has the ability to act on said 'choice' and risk their jobs, income, benefits.
Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics, Siggraph 2019
I had good results with table tennis too. Which was funny, because I play pretty chill.

Probably every sport where you move your arms for an extended period could be beneficial.
Expo was really lackluster when I last worked with react native around 2018/2019. I hear it has gotten much, much better now but I haven't tried lately
Also it talks about planking for 2 minutes. Several studies have suggested that for most people there is little point in this due to diminishing returns. Two one-minute planks with rest between, or four 30-second ones (and so on) if you can't do a full minute, are far more effective. A 20-second plank is far better than nothing. A 20-second plank done right is likely better than a 60+ second one done wrong (arching your back, etc.).
I don't have trust issues with Google, how ever I have anti-trust issues with an ads-company and browser-vendor.
There may be more to it than just that. Japanese culture seems to value really busy spaces. Frantic pop music, blinking lights, and all that. Possibly not coincidentally, the most popular recreational drug in Japan is meth.
I have been in trading software for over a decade now.

This article is a bit misleading. Nobody trades on a TA alone ignoring the reality around. That just doesn't happen. TA is an indicator, a raw information. It's up to you what you make of it.

Also: the cross SMA strategy the author mentions is indicative of one of the basic forces of market and works very well on certain markets.

Also: nothing actually works on SPY, it's the most efficient market there is.
> Satan... I'm it's slave.

I finally understand this phrase! "I worship God and I'm His slave" just never seemed to ring any bells.
>I would accept ads more easily with if they were not a privacy disaster.

Would you really? I mean I keep hearing this but it doesn't ring true to me. People don't like ads in content because it interrupts what they are trying to consume and tries to leverage them away. This seems like a far greater motive to install an ad-blocker than some hand wavy tracking that probably doesn't even work that well.
I don't, that's why my local collection is still growing.
… And arrogant enough to tell yourself you are the cool guy on the internet.

It’s the arrogance that kills me.
that's what the best minds of our generation are doing in their 9 to 5... making ad-blocking (near) impossible...

good job!
The latest, tone-deaf response from a Google engineer:
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
That’s hardly limited to Hyundai and Honda.
All they had to do was get ahead of the process and be transparent. He'd still be ranting but less people would care.
Hmm. Maybe they're schizophrenic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzoXQKumgCw
You got the first part right, but the second part is not correct. All IBM and Sun products, without exception, were inferior to DEC Alpha and OpenVMS at that time because all of the best wanted to work for DEC. DEC failed only due to the strategic mishandling of the company in a way not unlike what was happening in a less formal sense over at Apple. Dave Cutler broke from DEC and created Windows NT at Microsoft. A quarter million people would lose their jobs at IBM the during the market transition to Alpha-infused x86 Windows NT made possible by the killing of DEC and its quarter million employees. Sun survived a while longer because of its roll in the emerging Internet backbone, but it too died.

[I remember asking an MS exec what they would do about Linux and their view, apparently for too long, was that since you had to be a stud to use it, they were content to compete with a KISS-like UX. They didLose the entire server market to Nobody In Particular with that strategy.]

The only party able to make “personal Unix” economically viable tho was NeXT’s Apple and I believe we are witnessing the end of that era now as Apple moves everything to embedded (due to 3nm ARM chips fabricated by TSMC that descended from DEC’s StrongARM embedded processors, also included in the DEC settlement with Intel).

Rest In Peace Ken Olsen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight
You might be giving everyone else credit for the work of a sober few.
So, basically, anybody who wrote about it is a part of an evil white conspiracy engaging in a coordinated attack on the noble savage, and William Rubinstein is just as well a bigot by virtue of publishing in Quadrant.

Unfortunately for this viewpoint, Paleolithic infanticide is firmly in the "why and how" stage of research, rather than "did it happen", welcome to sources here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_infanticidal_childrearin...

It was a universal phenomenon not disputed by anyone of note, some societies (i.e. Marshall Islanders) developing a complicated system of who gets not to kill their child, and assuming Australian Aboriginals should be seen as a null hypothesis with no serious evidence to the contrary, and a fair amount of supporting evidence.

As for contemporary Europeans, your claim is not supported by near exponential population growth ever since the Neolithic Revolution, as agricultural mothers didn't have to walk ~9km per day carrying all her non-walking babies. Children sure died left right and center, but infanticide was a no-no since at least the Middle Ages.
I know two people (one of which is here on HN) who do fairly large BGAs by hand, I wonder if that skill is really that rare. I couldn't do it myself though, I did try but for some reason I can't make it work reliably enough to risk it on stuff that matters.
Then how come this guy became worth $25bn through algo trading? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)