skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take everything your senior but not executive direct reports write up at your request, make a copy of the docs, then share the copies with your executive peers as if they are your own words and ideas. When your direct reports ask for an update on the project, or want to know why no one has commented or engaged on the write-ups they created, ignore them.

Ask your direct report to do all of the prep work for a critical project that they are most qualified to run and oversee, ask them to share the pre-reads with a decision making group, invite them to the kick-off meeting, tell them five minutes before the meeting starts not to say a word during the meeting, or else.

Show up 20 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting, then spend the next 20 minute talking at the group, allow for no interruptions, keep everyone over time.
A classic Freudian clip.
Tildes does not rank based on voting, and instead displays votes as a separate signal. IMO it's a great piece of UX. It gives the author the pleasure of imaginary internet points but doesn't allow highly online mobs to sway the ordering of discussion.
> I've seen people say this, but I've not actually observed that at all.
> What got censored exactly?

Zerohedge was kicked off Twitter for suggesting that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was a likely candidate for the origin.

We're seeing that Fauci & Ecohealth co-ordinated the paper to "debunk" the lab leak theory and now the lab leak is looking to be the most likely culprit (it is not without precedent, the 1977 Russian Flu turned out to be a lab leak from gain-on-function research).

Ivermectin, was another. Complete with "horse de-wormer" smears and deplatforming campaigns all over the place.

If you don't know of any instances where this has happened, you either did a masterful job tuning it all out, or still believe 99% of the b/s.
It's crowdsourced from PIs and other entities that install plate readers in parking lots, highways, and on their own vehicles

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/customs-border-protecti...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne879z/i-tracked-someone-wit...
How many times have you or any other intelligence official you know lied under oath to the ICIG or congress?
I didn't notice it because I, just like a majority of internet users worldwide, do not own any Apple products and therefore I was never affected and probably never will be.

I do, however, routinely interact with websites that implement Google Analytics and/or Google ads. If those sites start rejecting my browser of choice I will most certainly be locked out of a significant portion of the internet. And the remaining 60% of all internet users would be essentially forced to accept this technology or else. That's an order of magnitude or two more users, and seems to me like a good reason to raise the alarm.
Good for them! Perhaps this is an action item that came out of their WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser as discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593
Her duets with him are amazing!
I wouldn't be so sure. They could have a much more advanced idea of what life is, and life could have deep meaning to them, they might seek to keep their biological selves in tact and use machines only as tools. I know that's how I would roll, and I'd raise my kids that way, a group of beings like that could spawn a nation down the road with a rule like that. Or with their understanding of life and computation and intelligence and the universe, it could just be self evident to them: your form follows your function, if you change your form you change your function and you're no longer you. Sending robots, sure, becoming robots, I think you're bound to meet at least as many that don't as that do.
How do you see that in the chart?
e.g. What keeps bicycles balanced with or without a rider is still an active area of research, and even the seemingly basic idea that, for a bicycle to be self-stable, it needs to turn the handlebars into the fall, has not yet been proven.

[*]https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/
Because Jina
> Yet the political leanings of those opposed to vaccination are often anti-union, pro "right to work", etc.

The fact that they have the most to gain from unionization, socialized healthcare, excellent public education, etc. yet seem to support the politics most beneficial to the wealthy and powerful seems like more than a coincidence to me.
> Even when using it right, you would have to block third party builds

Unless you have an obvious and accessible way of getting secure third party builds whitelisted, this is still a very anti-user approach, which is not justifiable unless the user of the device isn't its owner (like with company-owned work phones).
Back in the day I had an Autohotkey script to do exactly this on Windows. Was very simple with the WinGet, list, WinGetPos and WinSetPos in loops with window title, x,y,w,h, persisted to a .ini file

I wonder how you might do this on Gnome or KDE these days.
Why do people feel the need to create yet another alternative when there is already osm? it's superior and in places like CZ where it really is insanely good, can be extended to cover the world instead of yet another half baked service like Google maps...
> Is there a fundamental reason we cannot make speculative execution secure?

Any memory access leads to a time channel, which might be observable or not. As example, hyperthreading is known to create observable side channels even in L1 and L2 cache, since those are shared.

L3 cache is also shared between CPU cores on the same socket, so unless you can ensure the L3 cache data can never be shared you can not entirely eliminate this time channel.

Now getting back to speculative execution: All possible execution sequences must ensure to satisfy all possible cross-interaction rules to not make any time channel visible, which 1. includes restoring previous state fully and 2. not leaking any timing behavior.
Just think in your mind of all possible cases, which would need to be verified (the complete instruction set) and if you can think of any sane time travel time leaking cache-aware separation logic to do this.

On top of that it has already been shown that fundamentally the hardware guarantees on cache behavior are broken (they are merely a hints).
Major automakers plan new EV charging network to rival Tesla's
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Sounds like shuffling a deck of cards and then selecting cards from the deck at random. It's redundant. Fraudulent fraud gets collapsed into just fraud, which is what the customer wanted from the start.
As an undergrad I helped with research on quasars, where reasonable precision was solar mass orders of magnitude and tens of parsecs, and the periodic table was Hydrogen, Helium, and "metals". Then I switched to condensed matter physics for grad school, where "bulk" meant "a scale visible to the naked eye under very good conditions".

The dichotomy makes me laugh.
I was at the national airforce museum in Ohio. They have a flying saucer on display there. Not because it's alien, but because they were trying to get flying saucer technology working. Every era of UFO theories had tech with similar silhouettes declassified a few decades later.

I truly believe that all UFO sightings have been terrestrial technology tests or atmospheric events. If a flying saucer had been found that was capable of interstellar travel we wouldn't have dinky two person ones sitting in a museum. They'd be the basis of mining tech that would empower the finding nation.
I have the opposite problem. I am have issues eating enough. Despite doing things like drinking high protein shakes and putting extra olive oil on everything I am struggling to reach my burn rate on a daily basis. Just from a practical point of view, I am astounded that so many people, seemingly almost everyone, will eat 3000 calories a day or more if they're not careful.
Correspondent banking. So say a bank in the States needs to send money to one in Spain. They may not have a relationship, so they go through an intermediary bank.

You can use a smart contract to eliminate the trust in the intermediary bank, so eliminating that counter party risk
> As a longtime macOS user, while I don't mind the rest of how it handles windows/apps I've never liked the fullscreen mode that was added in 10.7, and the GNOME fullscreen mode mentioned in the blog post is identical. I don't maximize windows often

As a longtime Windows user who recently moved to Linux, I can't live without fullscreen mode: all my apps are run in fullscreen, not with F12 """fullscreen""", just normally and without useless decorations like a titlebar.

I love the new UI that started on Windows, where Edge doesn't lose a full line to a useless titlebar and close button: instead, there's a X at the top right.

You'll wonder, but what if I need to resize the window or move it? But as I run my windows in fullscreen mode, I don't need to do that: if I want to start a terminal, it's started on another "virtual desktop" where it'll also be run in fullscreen mode

Someone else said they thought "tabs on browsers were invented because no desktop environment or GUI toolkit ever came up with a decent solution" - I don't want a decent solution!

I'd rather have edge offer me vertical tabs with icons, wezterm offer horizontal tabs with ascii text and so on - more room for content! And no tabs when there's only 1 opened tab, and ideally, no space lost for the scrollbar either: unless I'm actively scrolling, I don't need to see it.

> One concept I'd like to see return in modern desktop environments are 2D grid

It's too complicated: just give me a line, with numbers from say 1 to 9 like the numbers on my keyboard: if I press Win + 1, take me to that desktop. If I'm already there and the app I pinned to that desktop isn't there, start it.

> the level of polish isn't comparable

Try hyprland with Arch: before I did, I thought I hated Linux, turns out I just hated Gnome and Ubuntu.
Running the garbage system is a desk job largely I would expect. It might not be the most stimulating subject matter to you, but I think it's within the realm of possibility that you'd find people who found it an interesting system to manage.

Cleaning the sewers sounds objectionable. I think you shouldn't discount the idea that in a societal structure that's different from ours you'd remove some of the social stigma that comes from such a job. But at the same time, if you observed that very very few people wanted to clean sewers for whatever reason, and there wasn't enough supply to meet demand, then you invest more in technology that reduces the shortfall. As others suggested, automation.
> Marine life will be just fine

For now.
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD · poolp.org
Don't pass interpolated strings to the SQL driver? It seems super easy to do `exec("select * from table where column1=?")` instead of `exec(sprintf("select * from table where column1='%s'", user_data))`. If someone is doing the latter and they're super junior, it's a teachable moment. If they're not super junior I'm wondering what else they're sloppy about and if they need handholding (or worse).
> I don't think one can easily compare HN to other forums, so saying the results are predictable is a bit harsh.

Well, I predicted them at the time (and IIRC commented as much), and that's been borne out.

> I have been in many irc channels that were extremely harsh on cluebies, but all the flaming turned into a sport by itself, and drove away from the content. The same goes for usenet, many subreddits, and Twitter.

You can definitely go too far. Kind is better than harsh all else being equal, and you should never reward cruelty for its own sake.

> I think HN is doing amazingly well after such a long time. It would be guesswork to say how it would end up with a less kind moderator. I for one would have left, but perhaps I'm too kind.

For me HN inherited an amazing community that has since gradually declined, and almost all visible moderator interventions have had a negative impact. I certainly think e.g. nudging out Chris Stucchio did more harm than good.
An OTP license plate scheme is a very interesting idea. The license plate would probably have to get larger to accommodate more characters.

EDIT: I wonder why you got downvoted. I've recently been seeing a lot of downvoted comments that there's little conceivable reason to downvote, so I wonder if downvoting is a new way of trolling.
> even a terminal full height might make sense but full width almost never does.

I disagree; things like atop can make good use of a full width (and full height) terminal, and log lines (for instance from dmesg or journalctl) are often long enough that a full width terminal makes reading them more comfortable.
> "It keeps it moving"

It doesn't, it can't. From paper "Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/ :

"Whilst it is often stated in physiology textbooks that bulking agents improve peristalsis, there is no proof of this in practice nor experimentally. Regardless of the food ingested, small intestinal and right mid colonic contents are fluid and all ingestible dietary fiber is suspended therein. Dietary fiber, therefore, cannot act as solid boluses for the initiation of peristalsis. In fact, dietary fiber had been shown to retard peristalsis and hold up gaseous expulsion in human experiments[22]."

> "People who find themselves consulates, irregular, or have to strain when they go should consider more fiber."

They should consider less fiber; from the same paper:

"Dietary fiber is also associated with increased bloatedness and abdominal discomfort[22]. Insoluble fiber was reported to worsen the clinical outcome of abdominal pain and constipation[18-20]. In our recent study, patients who followed a diet with no or less dietary fiber intake showed a significant improvement, not just in their constipation, but also in their bloatedness. Patients who completely stopped consuming dietary fiber no longer suffered from abdominal bloatedness and pain.[...]"

"Stools only become well-formed in the sigmoid colon and rectum and by this time, especially in constipated subjects, more stools result in more evacuation problems. It is not logical to increase both the volume and size of stool in patients with idiopathic constipation and indeed for anybody with difficulty in passing stools, e.g., due to anismus or anal spasm from anal stricture, fissure or pelvic outlet disorders. We have shown that decreasing the bulk and volume of feces immediately enables the easier evacuation of smaller and thinner stools through the anal sphincter mechanism. This eliminates the need to strain in passing stools, and prevents the tearing of the anal sphincter and bleeding due to large and bulky fecal loads. None of our patients experienced anal bleeding or straining following complete abstinence from dietary fiber."

"The results of this study should lead us to reexamine popular beliefs in benefits of dietary fiber and more studies should be undertaken to confirm or repudiate these results."
At the risk of being obvious, see also Dreyer's 1928 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (https://vimeo.com/169369684).
Dude I’m right there with you, fingers crossed!
I would build a drone that levitates indefinitely.. for a starter.
Which pre-Columbian Indians? There'a a big difference between the Iroquois, Navajo, and the Lakota ways of life, and that's just naming a few very well known tribes in the territory of the present day USA. And for what it's worth, none of those societies had anything remotely like a big government, so they were closer to a free market than any industrialized state.

Also just because arable land is there doesn't mean it's being farmed effectively. The Iroquois were a relatively sophisticated agrarian society, but the Lakota were essentially fire hunter gatherers by comparison. And of course the Navajo worked wonders feeding themselves in an extremely arid environment.

Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of free markets. On the other hand all the successful farmers who are personally known to me either established their business on the back of generous government loans in the latter half of the 20th century, or inherited or otherwise acquired a concern that did. I'm a big fan of small government, but I'm an even bigger fan of food security, so not starving is definitely an area where I'm open to big government intervention. That's not to downplay the creation of perverse incentives that come out of those policies, but the fact of the matter is nothing is perfect and maybe it's worth accepting a little inefficiency to avoid famine.

So yeah I'd say it's more the US federal government's interventionist policies that have caused this country to make such effective use of its arable land and not the invisible hand at work.
Ash HN: Who is cloning my GitHub repo?
I have several github repos that frequently get cloned according to the Insights > Traffic page.

These repos are of no special interest to anyone, at least not on a level that will make regular cloning beneficial.

My best guess was that these are crawlers that regularly clone all repos on github, but the clones aren't evenly spaced so it doesn't look automatic.

Are these git clone-crawlers after all?
Why would you be so bothered to just let them? Would you feel embarrassed that "leftists" are nicer? That can be a motivation too! I know some people just show up so they can have someone to talk to for a few hours on a Saturday.

I think if you can't find volunteers, you can have a lottery.
ActivityPub relies on a lot of POST requests being relayed from instance to instance in a full mesh style of networking. I have a lot of doubts about its scale, and also it's reliability in federating important actions like moderators removing offensive content. I'm going to need to read through the spec to confirm if this issue has been addressed, but there really needs to be a way to send multiple activities with one POST request, guidelines for retrying activities to ensure eventual consistency, and to accommodate message queues.
I am more convinced that modern radar and sensor technology is susceptible to accidental or even malicious interference. And if there is a cover-up, its more likely to prevent harm to the businesses of the contractors and technology providers and to prevent adversaries to learn possible exploits. I highly doubt that there was "visual contact" with those anomalies.
There seems to be dispute about it:

"As such, it remains unknown whether Washington personally used any teeth purchased from slaves or others"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth

So the usual expectation is indeed, if you share uncommon facts, you share the link to those facts, so others can judge more easily, if your facts are facts at all.
Whoa - you can't attack another user like this here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I'd agree on some pilots, and sure they should post more unexplained things for analysis. But given how many people are eagerly into bigfoot or cryptids, it's not like every pilot with some kind of evidence would feel unsafe sharing it.
> Is there a fundamental reason we cannot make speculative execution secure

You've said it yourself

> The fact that this also prefetches memory for us is amazing

To be secure, speculatively executed instructions that don't retire, have to have no observable effects, including those observable through timing. They cannot be allowed to modify the cache hierarchy in any way.
I'm baffled by the fact the developer did not put himself on that list
As an X-Files fan, I'm eager to see some big official announcement plus proofs.

Mr. Mulder might as well live a long, happy life after all.
How is this different from a religion or a church. Seems like BS charges to me.
Public libraries in the USA, funded by tax revenue, have been offering resources for "free" for a while and I the main changes I would like to see there are maintaining covid-era abeyance of late fees and a solution to the digital media problem, where authors and publishers get paid enough, but not too much (I don't know how much that is), for their work.

To what degree would a tax-funded model work for other things we enjoy and value? Is there a way to do this while "keeping government out of my [government-supported benefit]"?

Twitter seemed to be important for fire alerts, for example, and I would consider rejoining and even contributing if it were more like HN and also like public libraries; moderated, with a healthy degree of independence, and a responsibility to serve the public at large.
Anything covering Magdalene laundries or other catholic institutions in Ireland are pretty relevant too. She did spend a bunch of her childhood in one.
I see all sorts of marine safety problems that could be tackled with sufficient resources. If you're an expert in this area then I would encourage you to work through your national authorities to propose further SOLAS amendments. They come up with new ones on a regular basis.

https://www.dnv.com/news/what-s-new-with-solas-2024--227502

The thing is that ferries are generally a low margin business so imposing a bunch of extra firefighting requirements will make some of them at the margins no longer economically viable. And fires aren't necessarily even the biggest risk: they also have to worry about collisions, loss of power, storms, navigational errors, cargo shifting, etc.

Realistically I just don't think civilian crews can be expected to effectively fight major fires in 50KWh+ lithium battery packs. Instead they should focus on fast, safe evacuation; when there is significant loss of life due to shipboard fires it's usually because the crew waited too long to abandon ship and screwed up the lifeboat deployment. Once the people are off then just let the vessel burn, or perhaps let a skeleton crew try to put into a nearby harbor where fire boats with trained personnel can take over.

It may also be practical to do something on the prevention front such as a quick visual inspection of EVs for obvious battery pack damage and dashboard warning lights. Or require packs to be discharged below 20% or whatever before boarding (passengers will complain about this).
lobbyists aren't supposed to write laws, but the reality is they probably do.

Politics are pay-to-play. We do have organizations that started as citizens coming together to try to influence government, but unless you have a lot of money to throw around, your public interest research group is almost impossible to hear. Who do you think has outized influence- a group of citizens proposing common-sense reforms, or industry lobbyists paid a lot of money to protect an industry's bottom line?
I was going to say the funding isn't enough for anyone who isn't young but then I looked at the Y Combinator Deal: "We invest $500,000 in every company on standard terms."

I always thought it was like $25k invested..
Really should be in a parent directory that will never be visible by anyone's browser.
What about triclopyr?

To try to answer my own question it seems that this page at least suggests that it is non-toxic:

https://www.ncagr.gov/pollinators/documents/Bee%20Pesticide%...

Also it looks like the red and maybe yellow sections of that list should get banned in favor of the green. If there's that many alternatives, we should really force people to switch.
I think it is kind of silly to try to evaulate the business impact of layoffs by looking at revenue for the quarter immediately after.
> Makes it impossible for anyone with a camera to put together a location database, but the car is still identifiable by law enforcement if necessary.

Isn't it LEO that's deploying most of these systems? At least around here, *MOST* of the motorola cameras I see are on public roads / traffic signals. Bit of google shows EFF and other orgs FOIA-ing various counties in CA and a lot of them got federal money for their police to install them...
Credit Markets Are Creaking, Creating Economic Uncertainty