skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Worldcoin's data-collection is a "potential privacy nightmare," said the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a U.S. privacy campaigner.

> Ali, a 22-year-old chemical engineering student... (...) "I told my brother about it this morning. I told him 'it's free money, you want to come with me to get it?'"

I wonder what you can get people to do with the promise of money? Could you have them play Russian roulette? How many people would accept? If there was a way to make it seem real and convincing (without being real of course!) it would be a fascinating experiment.
Distributed Community-Controlled Backup Ceremony
F-Droid is working to figure out how to manage secure backups in a way that is controlled by a free software community and is as secure and usable as possible.
They're not actually interested in the answer. It's like asking "If humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?!" You explain what a common ancestor is but it doesn't matter because they've already moved on to another bad faith question and aren't listening.

There's real interesting questions to ask here, you're right. They're not getting asked in this thread, though.
cannot get work... at the price they want. Plenty of low-paying remote jobs out there
A lot of various sub silos are popping everywhere. They have the advantage of the niches, but also the disadvantage of being all isolated.
In my main space there's an "Imported Bookmarks" folder in the side bar. Yes it takes up 1 "tab space" but it's there, and doesn't really bother me. If you change spaces it's not there, so you can have "bookmarks" for each space, which is unique and beneficial if you use spaces for specific things.

That said, I primarily use Safari still, until other browsers adopt the SMS autofill of two factor codes it's going to be tough to leave Safari for personal use. Professional use I generally use chrome, as it's tied to our work google account.
No. There has not been more evidence that Covid was lab created.

Republicans who already support conspiracy theorists suggest that because China did what china always does (suppress information), it must be a lab leak. The fact that china is suppressing information on Covid does not lend credibility to the conspiracy hypothesis. Suppressing information has been a Chinese government position for decades leading up to Covid and is not out of the ordinary behavior, so cannot be used as evidence that something is awry.

The next bit of evidence that people who already support the lab leak conspiracy state is that “ventilation was being upgraded”. Which. Okay? I mean. Is it credible that a chinese lab was not sufficiently scrubbed for ventilation workers? I have no answer, but it also doesn’t explain why the virus appears to have jumped multiple times in a somewhat short period at the wuhan markets.

All things considered, it is possible that the virus leaked from the lab. But even if that were the case, it doesn’t lend any credibility to the conspiracy, which makes some pretty radical claims (that it was intentionally leaked, that Pfizer paid for the leak, that it was a leftist plot to destroy half the population for some reason, that it was a precursor to injecting people with 5g nanobots, etc)

Even if the conspiracy group accidentally landed on the correct place that the virus originated (and that’s suspect. The evidence is conspiracy oriented itself), it doesn’t lend any credibility to it being a plot to kill everyone with a killer vaccine.
"clean" / "sanitized" is not the terms I really want. I think a web (living under a democratic legal system) that uses sane forms of digital identity verification will help reduce the ridiculous levels of online fraud we are seeing. (yes citation needed)

To me that's (again under legal / democratic protections) using some centralised public private key (probably) and a curated env and this is (sort of being very generous) a first step towards that world.
Other good nothings:

Can you check in even a tiny change to the source-code repository? A new project's first commit often triggers a slew of politics: wait, you're building what? Where's your design? Who approved this? Why are you naming it this and not that? We already built this; why are you building a second one?

What's your installer story? For installable software, do you know how to produce the installer for it? Too often the installer work is left until just before launch, at which point it's way too late. For a service, do you know how to deploy anywhere but localhost so your team can start doing internal demos?

Can anyone besides you build your hello world code? The release team often has their way of doing things, and it's not what Visual Studio spits out from its new-project template. Might as well integrate early, rather than wasting time solving problems for a build system you were never going to use.
> Turns out to my surprise I like going into the office, but definitely not every day.

Bingo. There is relationship building and other interactions that are simply not possible in any other way that I have found. I go in 3 days most weeks, and that makes a huge difference in lifestyle and flexibility. Since I work in robotics, 100% remote is never going to be a thing for me. Zoom meeting and software days, remote. Wrench days, in the lab. Works for me.
Arc has been a pleasant browser to use, has helped me rein in my hundreds of tabs, and has boosted my productivity. As a set of features, I feel like it's pushing forwards what browsing can be.

However, not every feature is a hit for me. I use the tab management extensively and enjoy the quick action toolbar. I don't see much of their quick-action integrations with particular websites but when I have seen them they've been nice to haves. I don't use the "easels" at all and don't see any need for them or problem they solve for me. I don't find the personalisation all that useful. This does all lead me to wonder if Arc is designed for me, or just happens to currently align well enough with my needs for me to find it valuable. Will they move in a direction away from what I need in the future? Maybe. I hope this is just a feature-maximalism strategy and that it continues to be useful for many in the long term, but I fear that it may become to the web what Hey is to email, where what I want is a more traditional Mimestream/Mail.app.

It is not pushing forwards what the web can be, as I feel many people in these comments are wanting or hoping for, and to be honest I think that's fine. It doesn't need to. We have Mozilla, Google, and Apple, each pushing forwards what the web is in their own ways, in healthy tension with each other.
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005005847389753.html?browser_...

Just search sodium ion on AliExpress and you will get all sorts from 18650s andmother sizes as well as pouch batteries in various quantities. The voltage curve on them is really extreme compared to Li-on, should make estimating SOC very reliable.
Yes it is - the majority of the content is not accessible with quest and also it only allows you in quest worlds, which are full of children. You need to plug in your quest to a computer in order to experience the decent part
I joined SO in 2013 and was asking questions since then and had no problem with moderation. But it takes effort to ask question, I always aim to gather all bits of information I already know and if possible write minimal working example (many times it was not possible, like when I had problem with Apache and kerberos). Most of the time I was then answering my own questions a few weeks later but that's because not many people faced problems I was facing..
New suit charges that the EPA disregards ethanol production’s impact
Banks have been closing branches by the hundreds (at least where I live), and buildings where you can rent physical media are dying out (see Blockbuster, though the local library is fighting a valiant rearguard action). If 96% of people will use the bank app on their Approved by Alphabet phone (or browser) then the bank can ignore the few weirdos like us.
Yeah, I know what you say is true. But it sucks doubly: you cannot really have long, detailed conversations on Discord mobile like we used to have on web forums. Mobile favors typing short replies, usually memes.
I think they actually did mean CO2/Carbon Dioxide. There can be issues with air quality in areas with poor ventilation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26273786/
I've been using it a few months now. It does some things really well - others not.

Great:

- Picture in Picture mode automatically when switching tabs from YT, Soundcloud, etc
- Swiping the trackpad with two fingers to switch profiles instantly
- Clean interface
- Clicking links opens a small window for you to quickly check the content, and if you want to continue you can maximise it, or you click the page in the background to return to the page you were on. Speeds up quick reads for me
- Much thought into where to put UI elements
- Some great shortcuts, like copying current URL (Command + Shift + C), clearing tabs (Command + Shift + K)

Bad:

- The sidebar design doesn't always play nice with websites
- The way you pin extensions is a bit annoying
- I bump into bugs sometimes since it's early days
- I have no interest in using their Notes, Easels or Download system (easily ignored tho)
- Settings have a very "startup-hype" membership card that serves no purpose, while also not having many settings for customisation. Weird choice imo
- No interest in the auto-archive feature, but impossible to turn off

Overall, I'm happy using it right now, and you can tell they put lots of effort into their updates, so I think it can become something quite good.
Maybe Google (semi/permanently?) penalized your domain when spammers started using your GA4 tag?
Same exact experience when I got my first Voodoo3, I spent weeks trying to figure out D3D from DirectX/MSDN's docs (was it even MSDN at the time?), and I don't think I ever got it to render a single triangle.

I was pretty defeated for a while, took me months to get motivated to try it again using OpenGL 1.1, and it just worked. I don't know how faulty my recollection is but I think I remember it was also much easier to search the web for tutorials/discussions about OpenGL than D3D at the time.
Yep. This is why HN comments (and the site as a whole) have a bad rep among some of the tech crowd, esp the derisive references to the “orange site.”

To be clear: it is a culture issue, not a moderation issue. dang does a fine job of moderating. The problem is that we allow the cheap takes and well-actually’s to both exist and be highly visible via upvotes.

I’m not sure HN at large really wants to fix this, unfortunately. It is pervasive and largely unchecked.
Yes .. ish we have touch to select hold alth while dragging
I think the consensus response from the Julia community is that the author is spot-on with a key point: that Rust is exceptional when you need/want static analysis. And Julia isn't great there.

This doesn't mean, however, that Julia doesn't solve the 2-language problem. There are large classes of problems and applications — especially in scientific computing — where a complete static analysis isn't required to move into production. It is definitely helpful for maintenance and security (and a requirement in some industries), and Julia's static analysis tooling is continuing to improve... especially with ongoing investments from key companies pushing us towards this goal.

Rust is a great language when you know exactly what you want to write. When you know exactly what the inputs are and what the outputs are and what the algorithm is. And it's really painful when you're not sure. Pick the right tool for the right job!
Millions of users are subjected to SaftetyNet. Your claim that this is to their benefit is unfounded.
>We as humans seem to pick and choose which currently unverified things to believe and which to dismiss

As it was in the beginning and forever will be

It's physically impossible for humans to agree on an "objective truth" because human sense perception (at least with respect to differentiation of truth claims) is not uniform and the variety of human experience - despite variance being relatively small when measured (eg. normally distributed) - is dis-joint enough that insignificant variance in conceptions have historically led to wide scale clan focused war.

For example the theological difference between protestants and catholics is minute when plotted against all other theistic conceptions. Yet that difference is large enough (within those two groups) to drive violent, inter-generational, centuries long conflict.

It's actually pretty interesting when you start paying attention to how groups and subgroups work together or fight respectively in different contexts. I have three kids who will torture each other at home, but they clan up and protect their own or alternatively cooperate, when in social situations with other clans present.

This is an intractable and non-differentiable feature of human society and we want to assume that it's vestigial when in fact it's the core conceptual drive that creates society - for better or worse.
Good read. This is so true, by the way, the importance getting a proof-of-principle of some end-to-end multi-step process. I've sometimes described this as a breadth-first solution, which often makes sense to generic business types.
A whole generation has been asked to take the backseat and just keep themselves busy, while the big guys do serious business. USSR tried that very approach, and you can see in the history books how well it unfolded for them.
it is becoming impossible to own your hardware. go cloud!
> That thing that compels you all to obsess over the details others overlook, and do it with gusto — that’s heartfelt intensity.

It's also known as moving at crawl speed, unless you have serfs doing the real work for you.
A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
6000 cycles or 20-40 years is the current claimed life. They are going to be fantastic for home or grid storage.
> Hackers have installed password-stealing malware on the devices of multiple Worldcoin Orb operators, TechCrunch has learned, giving them full access to the Worldcoin operator dashboard.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/12/hackers-stole-passwords-of...
I prefer in office but I don’t see how that’s possible with a family.

How would you afford a large enough house in a city center? And otherwise how do you justify two hours of your day to commuting?

It just seems like an extreme quality of life hit to be able to work in an office.

Am I missing something?
A few recommendations of truly good books about computer programming. That, or perhaps in general seeing work or prose of extremely skilled programmers, which lets one know, how much one still has to learn, avoiding ones own skill to plateau, because of thinking, that one already knows all there is to know.
the actual link's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862546
Unfortunately, I'm finding that this is increasingly not the case.
Per-Policy CPU Performance Boosting Proposed for Linux
> Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue

I don't know why this is so funny. Probably because it's a catch-22 since you need a keyboard anyway in order to press F1.
Yes. Two VMs (Linux and Win10) always running too. It is awesome.
And this is a superficial difference carried from old days when we need to do deployment and deployment-specific optimizations.

With LoRA / QLoRA, my bet is that edge training capabilities are as important in the next decade. I don't have any citations though.
Good job Will!
It's my understanding the general scientific consensus is corn ethanol is net energy negative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEB6hCpIGM
haha found your comment with your recipe.
I'll add one more with moderation. I've seen far too many cases where person asks "how do I solve X" and it's closed as a duplicate for a question of "how do I do Y". 2 unrelated questions but they have some similar wordings so the moderator shuts it down.
The threat is so broad that giving examples is trivial. One that immediately comes to mind:
Imagine science discovers that 99% of people with a certain feature in their iris is likely to develop colon cancer.
The discovery leads to insurance companies purchasing iris data from OpenAI behind the scenes.
A lot of poor people suddenly would get insurance mysteriously declined, or their policies would include a hidden clause in fine print stating that colon cancer is not covered.
Create the problem (AI-assisted spam), sell the solution (centralized identity verification)
I haven’t been paying much attention recently, and we tend to use bugger all cash here these days, and there are still companies servicing vacuum cash transfer systems here in Australia.

I recall seeing such systems in supermarkets and bottle shops, fairly certain the closest supermarket still has a system.
> In Belgium we have an app for that called "Itsme"

That doesn't sound like proof-of-personhood, it sounds like proof-of-identity.
No one can compete with Alien Express due to how IP laws work in China, and the production costs, thanks to everyone outsourcing their manufacturing there.
also, a list of tracks to compile and "discuss" with EU friends, so they dont miss out
So you believe the efficiency gained wouldn't be worth it?
TikTok introduces text-only posts as Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X
This is a convenient excuse for not answering the question. No, science doesn't excuse you if you decide the question wasn't answered in good faith. That's because if your theory cannot answer a question like that, it's a bad theory, regardless of the motivation of the person asking the question.

What's I see here is people defending conventional OoL as a kind of quasi-religion, with dogma that does not need to be experimentally demonstrated and must not be questioned. I treat all religions with disdain, including yours.
I don't want to try it because of risk to my mental health. The 40+ year old psychedelic enthusiasts I know are just not all there. Plus it can trigger schizophrenia, etc.
The answer is of course - yes. But the funny thing about markets is that if enough people believe a thesis it is effectively true. Go figure. People will trade a "vomiting camel" so best to be abreast.
come again? Long Covid has been documented in numerous top scientific journals. My understanding from my scientist friends is quite the opposite. It is well established.
I'm fine with my co-workers going back. I'm not going back, as long as I can avoid it. I'm certainly not doing so for their well being at the expense of my own.
> The kind of person doing that has the bandwidth to install and use open source tools.

> ironically, the person who is arguably the best B2B customer, making tons of money, lots of bandwidth, pretty sophisticated, is the person most likely to use a simple open source invoice PDF generating tool

That doesn't make any sense to me. If you have a thriving profitable business you usually just pay for invoicing software. Why would you invest time fiddling around with an OSS tool? just because you have the bandwidth doesn't mean you'll use it on that. Most people will prefer spending the time on something else that is core to their business or just their personal lives.

Open source thrives for many reasons. I hardly see what you described as one of them.
Sorry, but that’s not the narrative that was all over the news at all. If that’s what the powers that be were thinking they didn’t tell us so!
Well, 37.8K users, even when fully engaged, are not going to do much. If you take a single subreddit, such as /r/Python, is has by itself 1,137,771 users.

It's easy to take for granted how massive the flow of interactions from twitter, facebook, insta and reddit are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Subway_System is quite large and was built by the city.
No, the best thing is not assume you know better than anyone who will ever ask this. It’s good to mention what the right way is and why but your answer should always include the answer to the question exactly as asked at a minimum.
Books recommendations, without a doubt.
> Once the code from step 1 is ready, stick it in the scaffold and debug until it looks good

One thing that has stuck with me from Steve McConnell’s “Code Complete” is his use of PDL (“Program Description Language” - I think).

The general idea is to write everything out in pseudo code first (at the function or small group of functions level - _not_ the whole program or component).

My PDL is basically a slightly more hand wavy dialect of Python.
I have a question for people here. I absolutely value the time with my daughter and I actually enjoy working for home, I had been for the last couple of years, but it's becoming increasingly unbearable to do that with a nagging and micromanaging partner by my side who's life is COMPLETELY unstructured.

So I find myself longing for office time, not because I like office time, but rather because I feel like it might bring back some sanity to the relationship.

Am I the only one in that situation? What do you do? It's not like I can structure another individual, it would only work if they themselves recognize that they need structure, which they don't.
Because they were made illegal in the 1960s?
Occasionally. It wasn't a daily, or even weekly occurrence. But, in all honesty those pranks were some of the things that helped my early sysadmin experience.

When you have nice, well behaved users you'll not have problems that need solving. When things go awry - that's when you'll need to solve problems... sometimes even without pranks.

Before we had yp set up on the machines, we just copied the password file between them with a note "make sure you change your password on foo" since that was the one we regarded as authoritative and would copy that to bar.

One time, while adding a person to the /etc/groups file for write access to the web server, someone did rcp /etc/groups bar:/etc/password (I suspect it was muscle memory) and, well, now bar was unhappy and wouldn't let anyone log in... or even su to root to fix it. Found someone who had an open terminal and had them do a while 1 sync... and then powered the machine down and brought it back up. It wasn't happy, so started up in single user mode. Just needed to get the password file in there... but the terminal was 300h which didn't have a proper termcap entry for vi or emacs to work. I was a mudder and knew how to use ed... so ed /etc/password and then the contents of the minimal password file were dictated to me. When done, we got it back up and then copied the password and groups files to the proper spots.

Another time (and this was a prank), someone left themselves logged in and someone else created a directory path that was about 3000 characters long. /user/jsmith/I/will/not/leave/myself/logged/in/I/will/not/leave/myself/logged/in/ ... The problem with this is that `rm -rf` won't handle paths longer than 2048 characters long. So it didn't get removed "I'll do it later." You know what else doesn't like paths longer than 2048 characters long? fsck. So when the machine was rebooted/crashed at some point, the root volume (yea, user directories were on the root volume) failed to fsck... and failed to mount. Stuck in single user mode with the backup partition and reading the man pages for mount on the other machine we found how to force a mount without fsck and then had the guy who did the extremely long path fix it (and promise not to do it again) and got machines working.
Yes, next question?

Also, this is a really pitiful article. Very short, badly written, proves nothing. Why is it getting this many upvotes?
Maybe your last sentence was more about some form of nostalgia for a long-lost decentralized Internet than excitedness?

I can certainly sympathize, but I think the best path forward for any anarchist would be to fight the attestation initiatives fiercely, rather than to resign and say “maybe we could have a good web again if we start over fresh”.

That aside, I’m not sure what you are saying with that comment about myself. I don’t think it serves the discussion.