skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. If there is an actual, real threat that someone is facing that they have reason to believe they'll have a legitimately bad time trying to address, it's not only a legitimate response to avoid it, but requires active delusions to prevent seeing it.

Which, interestingly, ADHD meds can help do.

Near as I can tell, ADHD symptoms have an absurd amount of overlap with Complex PTSD [https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-s...], especially when the complex PTSD was caused by repeated childhood exposure to someone with Narcissitic Personality Disorder that wouldn't let them see the source/cause of the actual problems causing them their pain.

Additionally, narcissistic abuse produces symptoms which are VERY similar to what adult ADHD folks present with. [https://www.charliehealth.com/post/the-long-term-effects-of-...]
I just thought the topic sounded interesting. It's back up now.
Move to New Zealand. It'll be kinda OK, the government's stable and democratic, and they aren't gonna be machine-gunning waves of climate refugees (or else getting overrun and seeing QOL plummet) like most other democratic countries will in the next few decades.

I reckon that's why there's been a trend of billionaires buying citizenship there. Guaranteed entry if they get citizenship, even if things get bad, and they're not autocratic so they probably won't seize all their stuff.
> I’ve decided to follow my son. There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone,” she wrote on an unverified Twitter account linked to her official account.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-...

heart breaking to hear :(
How about adding a fair rule to standard, that attester cannot attest their own products? I wonder how long would it take for Microsoft or Apple to attest google.com as trustworthy website?
It’s funny, as I was reading the story of your friend, I found a lot of myself in it (minus the second job)… or at least the way I was up until 5-6 years ago, when I somehow convinced myself that I should “settle down”, adapt to the situations I’m given, and stop being so opinionated all the time.

So I stuck around with the same job that I didn’t like, only because it was good enough, decent pay, and more stable than previous ones.

Long story short, after years of going through cycles of severe unhappiness, almost like depression, I finally decided to just quit my job, without any fallback.

That was the best decision ever. I have never been so happy and at peace with the world.

I hope your friend never makes the same mistake by listening to the “wisdom” of others.
Ask HN: How are you currently using AI (personally or professionally)?
> Google wants Netflix and Spotify to have Android apps.

Those apps already exist. Don't you think that kind of undermines your entire point?
> Shane died in January 2022. A week later, following a series of tweets in which she indicated that she was going to kill herself, O'Connor was hospitalised.

Wikipedia
FTFA: “We recently shared that we’ll soon be rolling out a privacy-preserving telemetry system that will help us improve 1Password by leveraging aggregated, de-identified usage data. Here we’ll share technical details about how this system works and the steps we’ve taken to protect customer privacy while engaging with the resulting data.”
Counterpoint: If you confuse your companies GitHub Account as it's press release page or engineering focused blog, you likely just passed the duck typing test for your GH account being your companies personal news outlet! Therefore, troll comments should have been expected. Rookie mistake, should've turned off the comment section.
I think Cinemax used to show those at night back in the day.
Looking to always learn new things is great. If you find yourself looking to try out Expo and have completed the first setup steps, I'd suggest looking at making a development build of your app and the Expo Modules API for writing Kotlin and Swift code.

Almost all of the best apps made with Expo also have a small amount of custom native code. And I find it's just generally good to understand the abstraction layer above and the abstraction layer below the one you're working at to bring the two together the best you can.

[development-builds]: https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/introductio...
[expo-modules]: https://docs.expo.dev/modules/overview/
She'll be missed. As a youngster growing up in Ireland she not only gave a voice to all of us who wanted to reject the influence of the church, which had only become more entrenched throughout the conflict, but also to the women of this island who had been previously silenced for centuries.

If anyone is interested more in feminist voices from the conflict in Ireland I can highly recommend the 1981 film Maeve. The idea of women being a "third side" in the whole conflict who had never been given voice was incredibly eye opening to me as a man moving into my 30s and changed my perspective not only on Irish history but entire history of Europe and the Middle East.
I'm writing this on firefox for android. It has 100M+ downloads on the play store.
I like PaperWM[1] a lot.

1. https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Between this, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap, USGS, and others, the availability of map data today would be stunning to early cartographers.
2017. Perhaps the Trisolarans have won.
I think this example is weirdly informative to me.

I mostly use maps via an app (Apple or Google, they seem to be the same for basic use). Usually if I’m using a map, I’ll be using it in my car for navigation, so Firefox doesn’t even come to mind.

I suspect, on top of the “maybe it is internal apps” thing I mentioned at first, some of the really bad sites are the really interactive ones, I probably just use the app without even thinking of it.
Objective reality seems to be that SpaceX's first (successful) crewed flight (to the ISS) was completed a bit over 3 years ago now. And SpaceX is well into its 6th operational NASA ISS mission since then.

Vs. Boeing still has not finish assembling a Starliner capsule that meets NASA's safety spec's. Right now, "speculation" is saying that Boeing will ever successfully fly a Starliner mission.
Onlyflans?
>Yeeeeech, I can't handle "the poors are addicted" narrative

Jesus dude you made that point yourself -- but with smoking.

I'm just saying, solve the addiction problem overall, and you solve a huge problem across all of humanity.
> I think this benefits the vast majority of users by allowing them to bypass captchas.

I don't think it does that. Nothing about this reduces the problem that captchas are attempting to solve.

> i could see that this tool would be abused by certain websites and prevent users from logging in if on a non standard browser, especially banks.

That's not abusing this tool. That's the very thing that this is intended to allow.
how often do normal users see CAPTCHAs these days? I seldom see one anymore.
37.77_°C FWIW
Yes. Forget the free internet. We win the moral battle. That's what really matters.
Recent? This scare mongering is perennial.

"""
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
"""

https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

"""
The following year that notable news magazine, Newsweek, April 28,
1975, under its Science section in the back, talks about the cooling
world. There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have
begun to change dramatically and that these changes may be bringing a
drastic decline in food production throughout the world.
"""

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2009-12-15/html/CRE...
I know a lawyer who happens to have a CS background who specializes in technology and cryptocurrency law. IIRC he was saying this was more of a win for Ripple/crypto, as it paved a path for crypto projects to not be classified as securities
> for the record, Apple's system being less bad than this one, while still bad

Apple's just more subtle than Google.
Thank you for being a live demonstration to anyone left reading this of how fools and their money are soon parted.

Knowing your limits and knowing how bias creeps in are two skills you clearly lack. I hope nobody depends on you to make these kinds of decisions for them or in a way that impacts them.
I find switching between workspaces annoying, but not particularly more or less annoying than switching between maximized windows on Windows

that's not the problem (for me at least). i have both workspaces and multiple maximized windows on some of those workspaces. each workspace is dedicated to a task. all windows related to that task, maximized or not, are together on one workspace. pushing maximized windows to their own workspace breaks that. gnome currently behaves as expected, on macos i work around by resizing the window to fill size without using the maximize function. if each fullscreen window had their own space the number of work spaces would double, and they would not be in the order that i want them.
Firefighters let electric cars burn out far away from other things that can be set on fire or they're temporarily cooled off long enough to be dunked into a shipping container full of water so they can be moved safely.

Lithium batteries contain extremely strong oxidizers, which means starving the fire is near impossible. Cooling the reaction down is a way to make the flames go out, but damaged lithium batteries tend to let out hydrogen gas (very flammable, obviously) and the heat of one burning battery cell can damage the one(s) next to it.

You can't just extinguish them because they'll relight themselves later. In fact, several Teslas have lit on fire hours after a somewhat minor incident that the car could just drive away from.

Aside from dropping the burning wreck into the ocean, I don't know how you could possibly hope to really extinguish a burning electric car on a boat. When those things go, they go!

Electric cars are great, but electric car fires are terrible. That's not necessarily a problem; ICE cars go up in flames all the time too, but they're easier to put out. I'll gladly take the lower risk of self combustion for an EV parked in a garage over the risk of an ICE car parked in the same spot; how hard it is to put out a car fire isn't really relevant when you're lucky to get out of the house safely anyway.
It's oddly similar to humans. When they are ranched in cities, their birth rates collapse. It’s the breeding that isn’t happening. Something about limited space dissuades us animals from procreation.
> sites in question can simply choose not to enable it.

My problem isn't that I as a developer don't have an option to not implement attestation checks on my own web properties. I already know that (and definitely won't be implementing them).

My problem is that a huge number of websites will, ostensibly as an easier way to prevent malicious automation, spam etc, but in doing so will throw the baby out with the bathwater: That users will no longer have OS and browser choice because the web shackles them to approved, signed, and sealed hardware/software combinations primarily controlled by big tech.
> news sources such as Fox News

Well, that'll be your problem right there
So the UK finally wants to create the Ministry of Truth?
which problem? Some 'problems' TPMs solve should not be solved. Others are perfectly reasonable but a generally a lot less common.
I like this idea, but has Mozilla said anything about their position in all of this? I'm a Firefox user, but I haven't felt great about Mozilla in quite a while. I'd love to know they are on the right side of this issue before I start promoting them like this.
SSL is in practice only used for server certificates. It was kinda shit and a lot of people complained because of CAs but then we got let’s encrypt etc which alleviated the situation. And the identity is only tied to domain control, unlike eg code signing certs which are orders of magnitude more invasive and frankly a racket.

In either case, WEI has the potential to be proper DRM, like in the “approved devices” fashion. It’s deeply invasive, and can be used to exclude any type of usage at the whim of mega corps, like screen readers, ad blocking, anti-tracking/fingerprinting, downloading copyrighted content, and anything new they can think of in the future. It’s quite literally the gateway to making the web an App Store (or at best, multiple app stores).

> What's the alternative solution?

To what problem? Bots specifically or humans who want to use the web in any way they want?

If bots, then elaborate. Many bots are good, and ironically the vast majority of bot traffic comes from the very corporations that are behind this stuff. As for the really bad bots, we have IP blocklisting. For the gray/manipulative bots, sure, that’s a problem. What makes you think that problem needs to be addressed with mandatory handcuffs for everyone else?
From what I understand it’s a confluence of multiple different factors resulting in this situation. The problem is this (inability to enforce classroom etiquette) is really only an issue in “Gen Pop” public schools, which is starting a kind of doom spiral out of them, concentrating the problem there even more so.
Why do you think FID is a terrible metrics? What don't you like in particular about it?
The self-anointed saviors of mankind know best, and they can do no wrong.
You dont drink much, do you xD
@dang Would we be able to update the title please?

To clarify the acronym,
_Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity (WEI) into Chromium_
I'm telling you that your bread and butter contains a bit of rat poison.
For a lot of people, psychological safety is paramount over even money, especially in the United States where your employment is tightly tied to healthcare, insurance, etc.

Secondly, more often than not, doing "well" or doing "poorly" can be highly subjective and politically motivated. Also, underneath it all we're human. A great performer for years may fall off the wagon for a few quarters due to various life circumstances like death of a loved one, divorce, health, etc.
Is the solution to this is to just throw them to the curb the minute they aren't performing to their previous level?
If so, then I expect to be paid until the Benjamin's are pouring out of my eyeballs. You get what you pay for.
Even if you don't trust Mozilla, they cannot do what Google is already doing. Mozilla doesn't have nearly enough market power to force something like WEI down our throats.
Most captchas these days are already only there to enforce Google's monopoly. If you use and "approved" browser and let them track you, you don't get one, browse anonymously and you can't get past. That ship has already sailed and it's already evil, anticompetitive behavior.
So 3d maker pro is selling affordable 3d scanners with LEMO connectors on them.

I've also seen them in military type gear.
Is it just me or has HN been full of Elixir posts recently? Is there a trend I’m missing?
> Five years from now society will be in a full-blown panic about the uninhabitability of our planet.

I don't disagree even 1%. Still, I don't think it hurts to plan for this. Broken encryption and hacked electrical grids is even more dangerous when there's a climate catastrophe ongoing.

>A quantum computer capable of breaking AES-128 will never be built.

My company has monthly meetings with the FBI and CISA. They are increasingly placing pressure to move to PQC. They're tight lipped, but they seem to know something we don't and I have the impression the danger is imminent.

Look up companies trying to hire quantum computer science researchers, it's nearly impossible because the federal government is writing blank checks and taking all of them.
How many threaded programs in general were there?

The only SPEC (or SPEC-like) benchmarks I tend to pay attention to are single-threaded, multi-process (i.e. compile times) - Unless these bugs were in te kernel I'd imagine most unix-y workflows would be unaffected.
The guy seems to have deleted most of his social accounts. Clearly he values privacy for himself, just not for everyone else.
No, it's about how the regulations governing OpenAI and Google's commercial models, research by non-profits like EleutherAI and AI2, and finetunes of public models done by hobbyists should not be the same. The current law puts all three groups in the same bucket.
"the culprit was using an AT&T network somewhere in Ohio".

Awful article.
The site for sharing custard recipes!
I did something similar a little bit more directly in my finance visualization app. (It's written in F# and there was a .NET Treemap control I could easily use. At the moment it mostly relies on Mint [Intuit] CSV exports, but the benefit to that is that I could treemap based on the Mint categorization tree.)
You just nailed the number one reason I'm always skeptical of these claims.

With our current level of technology we have not lost a major airframe in the US since 2001. Yet these beings advanced enough to fly across interstellar space get to earth and suddenly can't keep their ships in the air?
I'm still not going to buy a car from a company that thinks it's okay to disable the radar sensor I've already paid for and make my car worse AFTER YEARS OF OWNING IT. I'm not going to buy a car that I don't actually own, what the fuck is the point of that?
Ah, yes, in that sense I can see the parallel (in that being reachable in modern browsers is contingent on being able to obtain a TLS certificate). I remember similar concerns being raised about browsers discouraging HTTP.

But TLS certificates solve a much narrower problem than WEI ("are you communicating with the site you think you are") and are widely and cheaply available from multiple organizationally independent certificate authorities.

In particular, TLS certificates don't try to make an assertion about the website visited, i.e. "this site is operated by honest people, not scammers". WEI does, with the assertion being something like "this browser will not allow injecting scripts or blocking elements".
That sounds like how dwm tiles windows
I think the title just resonates. Older folks like me must reflexively upvote this stuff. I admit I do sometimes.
It's hard to get someone to understand if his salary depends on not understanding.
I don't think you can access your recordings from your mac on your phone as far as I can tell.
> The attester will attest whatever they want. They can evolve to match the further degradation of user freedoms.

Agreed. Eventually the attestor will be measuring “proof of life” with the camera, for example.

“Please drink verification can” isn’t too far down that road either.
It's the insane power that companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple hold over the tech world. It's like they can just dictate everything to suit their own interests, and it's the users who end up losing out.

Remember when Apple killed Flash? I heard it was because they wanted people to use their app store more instead of us playing games in the browser, so they could make more money. And Microsoft installing IE and setting it as the default browser? And now, Google is making changes to how we browse the web and adding things like Manifest v3, to boost their ad business.

The most irritating part is it is always gets packaged as being for our safety. The sad thing is I've often seen people even drink this user safety kool-aid, especially with Apple (like restricting browser choices on mobile - not sure if it's changed now).

I really think there should be some laws in place to prevent this kind of behavior. It's not fair to us, the users and we can't just rely on the EU to do it all the time.
Since Google also controls the most popular search engine and ad network, they can exert very significant pressure on web developers by refusing to place ads or drive traffic to websites that don't comply.

I already block all ads so I'm obviously not totally sympathetic to developers who make decisions based on what will maximize ad revenue, but it still is not fair to put the burden on developers here and say "it's your choice, just say no".
here is a brief description of his system: https://genexxi.com/en/evolution-en/
Didn't Apple implement this same type of thing in Safari a year or so ago?
> most mass shootings have occurred at locations that specifically disallow firearms, making them "soft targets" where the cowardly attacke

Most places with large crowds disallow firearms, and most mass shootings occur at places with crowds. You're confusing correlation with causation.
>stunned

Maybe. I would say it's more dismay.

The unfortunate truth is that a wide-reaching and long-lasting catastrophe is probably the only thing that will activate enough people's collectivist instinct to demand change. Sriracha shortages won't wake people up, but widespread monthslong food shortages will. Power outages for a few weeks in a few counties in Florida, USA won't wake people up. A hurricane that causes monthslong power outages for 50 million people in the southeast USA will.

The young ones obviously have a much stronger sense of this collectivism, but even then, they are stuck in the coerced-work-to-survive loop that isn't easily escapable without major system failures.
SSL helps the user, not the site
Scroll down to the "testing" bit.

The pad abort test resulted in a parachute not working - they forgot a pin. https://spacenews.com/missing-pin-blamed-for-boeing-pad-abor...

The first orbital test failed to reach the ISS because it accidentally burned too much propellant. A second error nearly made it burn up on reentry and had to be fixed in orbit.

The second orbital test failed to launch because the craft's valves couldn't handle humidity (despite being designed to launch from Florida). When it finally went (after a complete rebuild of those valves), multiple thrusters from two different systems failed in orbit.

The third orbital test - the first crewed - has been now indefinitely delayed.

It is well behind schedule.
It was the research weights of the v0.9 model
San Francisco salaries and the removal of Brendan Eich is what happened to Mozilla not Google and Microsoft.
Do you have any specific examples, or are you just saying general statements?

Back in the day, I worked quite a bit various encodings (my language had 2 primary one and 2 secondary one, and it was a guess which one the text was), and the data loss usually happened from programs that tried to support encodings.

When program would not touch encodings, there might be some mojibake and unreadable text, but you could generally fix things.. I had to write some scripts which changed encoding of filenames and fixup random database or five, but there were no data loss.

It's the programs which were "able to tell the difference between, e.g., ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, and UTF-8" which caused data loss. There were so many cases when I ended up with directory full of "?????????" or "aoeoaoao" files and that was it, there is no way to recover.

So please don't add Unicode support unless you have to, it is not ideology but rather the results of hard practical experience.
This is not true. Sites will not be obligated to implement WEI. At the end of the day bots are a real issue, with no real solution other than attestation. AI is accelerating this issue. This (WEI or something else) is inevitable.
I don't disagree with you, but Mozilla takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year and I don't think they spend all of that on Firefox - possibly not even the majority of it!

I think that if they cut back on some of the other projects in the short-term, they could ensure the foundation was funded for the long-term - to support Firefox and anything else they deem valuable.
Maybe mTLS/logging in.