skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does everything need to be secure now?

I can understand shopping. And reporters of hot news. But why everything?

Why does my http site, which has nothing important on it at all, get flagged by chrome as "insecure"?

This strikes me as a bunch of bs.
> I am not a real expert in superconductivity, but I am a guy on the internet with opinions, so here we go with some early reactions:

Alrighty then.
All of those companies have no issues using `ld` right? Binutils is GPL and has always been. Seems like a direct analogy.
She had the same intent look in this recording of Molly Malone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ouqhCtIh2g
Your HN account is probably older than many of those kids the church covered up the abuse of. But sure, she's the asshole for making you think about it.
Had the privilege of Oliver Knill teaching me Multivariable Calculus. It wasn’t my favorite course, but his excitement when he started to talk about math was truly inspiring.
I got an interview at 33 years old last year. Curious how old the oldest person they interviewed was. I imagine they are looking for an intersection between age for energy, and experience for success.
Sure. Still, it may sometimes form group dynamics, where one group is competing with another. A good example is during a short squeeze.

It's kind of like a group of lions hunting a giraffe. Globally it's adverserial, but within the lion pride, it's cooperative.
considering their other actions (including requiring voter ID despite very few cases of voter fraud in the last election - a move which just so happens to favour older voters (who are more likely to vote for the tories) and which harms younger voters (who are more likely to go elsewhere)), I think they do
I wonder if you are trolling or being serieus, because me and literally everyone i know would use this feature extensively. For powerpoints, school presentations, birthday cards. 50% of the time I fired up Word, it would be for that feature.
> this kind of self-fertilization is completely unheard of!

How is this different from other nitrogen-fixing species that are already known? Some olives, plenty of legumes such as soy beans, clover and alfalfa all have symbiotic relationships with bacteria for this.
I’m not sure why a conservative government would want to implement Marxism or where Marx mentioned censorship of this sort.
Is it fine? It's better, maybe, but it would still be one less living/breathing actor on the payroll.
You sign up on their website and click ok on the long eula nobody reads and then click download. So yea, there are probably restrictions, but they don't have a paywall in front of them. This isn't legal advice at all.
Artificial Life Research Talk – The Diamond Replicator [video]
Maybe so, but if so, let's please make it something else.

I'm fine with attestation when it comes to high-risk tasks such as confirming financial transactions or signing legal documents, or anonymous "proof-of-humanity" solutions such as Apple's Private Access Tokens (as long as there's a CAPTCHA-based or similar alternative!) for free trials or account creations (beats using SMS/phone number authentication, at least), but applying Trusted Computing to the entire browser just goes much too far.
g**gle and other PRISM partners do not want any users on freedom-respecting browsers/OSes. forcing people onto chromium based browsers isn't an unfortunate side effect, it's a secondary goal of the specification.
I'm pretty sure that lots of things end up being scarce in totalitarian forms of government... food, for one.
I am in my mid 50s. While I am certainly not at death's door, I have had some medical issues recently for the first time in my life. My energy is not what it was.

Starting an innovative company is something that would be a big challenge and certainly not something to be sneered at.

You seem angry at him, but I can't see why.
Funnily enough, the McDonalds app has been claimed to require Safety Net verification on Android.
A great example of why people distrust the media
> Music doesn't have ever-increasing production costs

“How much does it cost to make a hit song”

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/05/137530847/how-...
funny.

Somehow, this reminds me of David Coperfield:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery"

There's a line you cross - maybe call it "enough" - that has an enormous psychological effect on our well-being.

I think there's a similar sort of effect with the economy. If the economy is good, people (top to bottom) make positive plans for the future, spend with certainty, relax and sleep well.
I don't think that's fair.

Nobody claimed the converse, and that's what would be a more apt target of your comment.

And I think that there's a lot of space between "making someone uncomfortable" versus being an asshole.
I'm finding the responses in this whole thread a strong argument for making STEM majors take more social science courses. Econ too, probably, especially behavioral. Way too many are a freshman-level bad "reading" of the situation & systems at play, and of the positions staked out by the more-reasonable posts. And some of the posts are even worse than that—straight-up basic reading comprehension failures.

God's sake, you need to be able to think better about these kinds of things than this to understand business. It's all human systems—you ask for bad behavior, you get bad behavior, and sitting around tut-tutting over the people doing the bad behavior won't do jack-shit to fix things, no matter how good it feels. It's immature as hell.
Beer for Dogs, Wine for Cats: How Drinks for Pets Became a Global Phenomenon
Some deep thoughts for the hot summer daze: when I saw the bartender waste several ounces of very good pale ale (because of long tap lines) it jogged memories of the 80s canadian film Strange Brew.

The somewhat dated article linked is about a potential trend in both canine and feline non-alcoholic treats that simulate alcoholic beverages (since alcohol can be harmful to any pets---some claim, even in minute doses).

For cat equivalents there are products such as:

--catnip-flavored Mëow & Chandon

--Purrgundy wines

--The Catbernet, The Meowmosa, The CharDOGnay

--Nyan Nyan Nouveau

It must be cautioned to dog-cat households that grape derived pet beverages are very dangerous to dogs (as grapes are toxic to dogs---and newer studies claim some level of toxicity for cats as well); the informative article below has much more details on safety aspect of these bevs:

https://bengalcats.co/cat-wine-pinot-meow/
Yeah, sure, let's implement this dystopian nightmare technology to solve our little engineering problem.
Same.

As a child, I thought the Pope and the church helped poor people and practiced showing people how to be good to each other by following the ten commandments. When Sinead O Connor ripped up the picture of the Pope on SNL I remember asking why.

Someone said the reason was because she was crazy. They were lying to me.

Sinead O'Connor was drawing attention to child sexual abuse when nobody else was.

> She’s far more the saint than that bastard John Paul II.

I don't know about JP2's involvement in child sexual abuse (not doubting you, just saying I don't know *) but Ratzinger / Benedict absolutely deliberately prevented investigation into, and facilitated (by moving rapist priests into new parishes), child sexual abuse.

Years later I apologized to O'Connor on Twitter and she took it with grace.

* Update: some research showed the Vatican, under JP2, opposed extensions of the statutes of limitations in sex abuse cases.
This is the first I have heard of Kandinsky. Thanks for the tip.

SDXL is a bigger model. There are some subjective comparison posts with SDXL 0.9, but I can't see them since they are on X :/
Yeah but one of those parties can drop it, and they won't.
No idea where you're citing. Oxford gives me "a deliberately provocative or off-topic comment posted on social media, typically in order to upset others or distract from the main conversation", which fits my usage perfectly. You'd agree this framing is "deliberately provcative", no?

Wikipedia explains it similarly: In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is satirical and of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality"; it may be considered an online analog of trash talk.

Even Urban Dictionary is on board: A post of little to no sincere insightful substance. Especially a "shit"(low)-effort/quality-post with the sole purpose to confuse, provoke, entertain or otherwise evoke an unproductive reaction.

Frankly I have to assume you went out of your way (like, off the front page of a Google search even) to find a definition that you could cite just to prolong an online argument. I wonder if there's a word for that.
It was flamebait, but please let's not take the bait because a religious flamewar is not what we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NASA replacement stations are totally underfunded by congress, non are close. Don't expect a solution from that anyime soon.
Nice.

Better late than never.
Show HN: Use your SSH key as a passkey
From the article -- "...after researcher Jan Hendrik Schön at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, was discovered to have falsified data. In Schön’s case, and in his own experience, Muller says, 'people who fake data tend not to do it just once'."

I think this is the "money shot" here, but I admit I am biased :-). I got into a heated debate years ago over the "harshness" of treating students who cheated on an exam. The details are not particularly important but they were obscured by the fact that they involved 'foreign' students at an American university who were expelled (and lost their student Visas) after they were found to have cheated on an exam. The outrage was how these foreign students were "singled out" while "American students doing the same thing were just scolded".

There wasn't enough information available to address whether or not it was discriminatory but my assertion that all students who cheat should be expelled was rebuked as overly harsh and met with calls of "In that case Universities will have to expel their entire student bodies!"

My controversial (if you would believe the responses) take is that these sorts of "minor" infractions against cultural expectations are the basis for corruption. Whether it is telling lies to cover inconvenient (and perhaps inconsequential) truths or cheating to pass an evaluation for which one had not invested the time and effort to prepare. Habituating this behavior creates a stain on all future actions.
It's a lot harder to view a group of people in a 1 dimensional view when you are constantly exposed to multidimensional interactions with them.

This is why things like bussing works. Why inclusion is important and why representation is vital.
> Anyone who's run a site knows the headache around bots. Sites that don't care about bots can simply not use WEI.

So is it a headache for all/most sites or is it not?
A lot of downvotes. I can relate to it a little bit. During beginning of covid I was in SE Asia at airbnb that didn't have laundry machine - since in SE Asia you don't need it generally because there is so many cheap per kg laundry services around. When for the first month I had to hand wash my clothes I really appreciated having a laundry machine after moving to another airbnb that had one - you take some things for granted.

But no, I wouldn't want to hand wash my laundry more often. For the same reason probably I still prefer using a lighter when having a BBQ than a flint.
I can believe this. I have been a lifelong Democrat but find myself moving increasingly to the right since starting to work from home ~5 years ago. Work was essentially my only real in person interaction with people that aren't my wife and kids.

Interesting point for introspection.
I am shocked that happened in 2013. In high school our soliton to not enough seats was to have people get in the trunk. I couldn’t imagine at 24, calling mom to ask if it was okay to drive other people. At 24 you’re an adult with a job, apartment, etc.
Want to impact this? Show the EU which EU AI companies would be net harmed by the AI act.
So money claw back and hand it to SpaceX?
Nuclear would only have been the answer back in the 70s. We just cannot build enough of it fast enough while also convincing all the dumb (and less dumb) people that, no, a nuclear reactor has nothing to do with a nuclear bomb and CANNOT go critical and the damage from chernobyl wasn't even a nuclear explosion.

Meanwhile California adds about 5 gigawatts of solar power every year.
Oh, pity the (faux?) naive child who has been brought up on a diet of McCarthyism.

You’re so scared of reds under the bed that you can’t see what the (increasingly far-)right wing are doing to you.
Adopting a New Cat Checklist
A breaking change is one that breaks code that uses it correctly. This means that the code that uses it uses it according to its specification. Breaking code that uses your code incorrectly should happen early and often because using code incorrectly is a bug in the using code, not the code being used.
I guess I'll be happy to see this, but

> Specify UTF-8 as the default charset without providing any means to change it — The compatibility impact of this change would be too high.

Nah, nobody is getting this correct right now. You should've swung for the fences.
They did not do that, no.
Is Jamstack Officially Finished?
Google has been beat-down before trying to do these kinds of things. 2 ones I can think of:

1) FLoC: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/25/22900567/google-floc-aban...

2) Dart: Google wanted this to replace javascript, but Mozilla and MS both said no way, as they had no part in it. So that project ended up dying.

Google tries lots of things. Mozilla, MS, and Apple are still strong enough (especially outside the US) to push back on things that they think are a bad idea.
https://archive.ph/0ZtXo
According to the docs [1] this is not necessary:

> All queries in the WITH list are computed. These effectively serve as temporary tables that can be referenced in the FROM list. A WITH query that is referenced more than once in FROM is computed only once, unless specified otherwise with NOT MATERIALIZED.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-select.html
> Footnote: The state of the art DEC chip fab (Hudson) that DEC made Intel buy was where DEC had taken the simple ARM architecture and put it on steroids (StrongARM) such that its eventual descendants live on today, even powering iPhone.

I don’t think there’s a direct lineage from StrongARM to Apple Silicon. The StrongARM IP ended up at Intel which marketed it as XScale for a while before abandoning it. Apple bought PA Semi, which was started by ex Alpha designers, to design their CPUs.
We need more whimsical products
Nothing about the "quality" of art, including music, is objective. These sound waves are better than those sound waves? No. Beauty and the quality of art is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder.
> another (in)famous aspect is the increasing use of auto-tune (both the software itself as well as the general principle after which it was named)

This is mostly subjective, not objective.

(Is it being used more? Objective. Is that relevant to quality? Subjective.)
this abuse of tech, potentially goes beyond antitrust, and damages global economic wellbeing, as well as impoverishing information systems on global scale, generating isolation, ignorance, division, and radicalization.

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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, but when I do I don't usually want the window to be spirited away to its own separate universe, and the apps that actually need fullscreen implement that functionality independent of the window manager.

It's interesting they're considering implementing a way for apps to signal to the window manager the size it prefers for its windows. This has been a concept on OS X since 10.0, though it's only ever been used by the OS figuring out what size to zoom to/from when the user clicks the green zoom button. If this feature makes the cut it I'll be curious to see what other uses they find for it.

One concept I'd like to see return in modern desktop environments are 2D grid virtual desktops. OS X 10.5/10.6 had what I'd consider the best implementation of the idea and I loved it. It leveraged spatial memory much better than the linear layouts popular these days, especially with short smooth animations to make movements between desktops more concrete mentally. 2D grid virtual desktops can still be found in more "old school" type DEs like XFCE but the level of polish isn't comparable.
Is this pre-censored like their other later models?
Your worldview is very very very narrow. The reality is that kids who don't visit zoos, or farms grow up not caring at all about animals. Because to them animals aren't "real", they are these distant things that have nothing to do with them.

On the other hand when they see conservation status "threatened" on the sign by the animal they wonder about it.

And there's nothing wrong with putting an animal is a zoo - you are correct, they don't behave the same. But that doesn't make it wrong. Animals are not trophies to be displayed in the wild and always to be some distant unknowable thing.

Instead animals and humans share the same planet and we should encounter them up close, and experience them, and zoo's are how you do it.

You are relegating animals to these "things" that no one ever sees or hears about - or cares about.
Yeah, there's an insane amount of amazing music of so many different styles being produced. The nature of finding it, the gate keepers, what's cool, and everything else has changed though and if you haven't been keeping up with it, it might be somewhat invisible to you. Refusing to use streaming services out of principal definitely just sounds like being old and refusing to adapt though, you can always buy physical media to support an artist once you discover them.
Only the online commercial censored versions. The various uncensored local LLMs don't refuse. They may give a bullshit answer that wouldn't work, but plenty of humans (including myself) have only a vague idea of how bombs work and would either say they don't know or give a similar bullshit answer.
Blocking Chromium altogether isn't as big of a deal as it seems, either (unless you're a truly huge website). It's so easy to switch to Firefox these days. Probably takes a few minutes. For technical blogs with useful content on them I suspect people's desire to see the content will override the inertia of switching browsers.
All for it. But how?
Antitrust authorities in both US and EU are literally fighting these monopolies right now, with huge fines and increasingly vicious inquiries. Don't be defeatist.
I like that they provide this data, however when you try to actually retrieve it, It looks like they went out of their way to make it as convoluted as possible to try to retrieve any of the actual data.... so you have to use DuckDB and then do the import using that? why not just support mysql dump files? why require someone to have DuckDB? is DuckDB that popular? also the links they provide don't work so it doesn't look like any of it's available.... how is somebody supposed to use this stuff? they require you to also have Amazon S3 with some query language that's non-standard to be able to talk to it.... I don't get it I'm sure I'm not the only one but it needs to be more generic instead of the way they're doing it
Humans have been modifying wild plants to work better for us and worse for themselves since before written history.
Wayland is not usable for me, I am on a BSD. So my answer is yes, Xresources makes sense for me :)

Does Wayland even have a method to specifying canned Window Position ?
Because not enough of their user base cared for it to be cost effective to maintain it. Would it have been nice for them to offer a pricing tier where you could pay to have offline backends? Sure. But whatever the case they decided that didn't make sense. So your options now are to talk with your legs or get over it.
The average person in this country just isn't able to connect the dots yet - but I think they're starting to. Average people in places like Phoenix where it's been over 110F for the last 3+ weeks are starting to make the connection. As well as average people in places heavily impacted by wildfire smoke over the last month or so. Average people in Florida who can't get homeowner's insurance (or have to pay $6K+/year for it) must be starting to notice something is amiss.
If you mean you can't purchase stuff that would harm the planet.... yeah? That's how a solution works?

We can't say "everyone has the freedom to pollute as much as they want" and get through this.