skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge problem we see at my current company, Stytch (https://stytch.com/). Toll fraud/traffic pumping can result in huge costs, mid thousands to millions per year.

One thing that surprised me a lot to learn, and is covered in the article, is that the primary bad actor is the telecom provider! I had no idea that the telecoms were sharing revenue with hackers that found unprotected SMS channels and exploited them. A really wild thing.

We have a bunch of built in protection against SMS toll fraud for our OTP product as well as more in-depth fingerprinting tools if your app ever runs into this problem. When you get that first surprise bill from Twilio, give us a shout and we can help!
Windows has a stable userland API/ABI, Microsoft go above and beyond for backwards compatibility.

Linux does not have a stable userland ABI/API, it's very common for binaries built for one distro version to not work in another distro version due to changes in system libraries (curl, ssh, libc are common ones), there's usually ways to work around these but it's a mess that shouldn't be left to the user.

The solution the Linux commmunity has come up with to solve this problem is containers, such as Flatpak (for desktop apps) and Docker (server apps).

Statically linking libc is heavily discouraged (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57476533/why-is-statical...)
That's primarily because a significant portion of population there don't have smartphones.
Linus does really well with the kernel ABI and API but the problem is really with literally everything else. It's usually impossible to get something to even compile that's more than a few years old let alone run an old binary.
Didn't OpenAI buy AI.com for 11 million (amount is disputable)? https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-...
Can you tell me what you mean by not worth the hassle? It's their job and they're on company time. Their subjective feeling on the worthyness doesn't matter right?
Was going to ask that.

I took it to mean "Gaslight" (in this case, gaslight the OS to believe that a removable disk is not removable).
No, I use iex (interactive Elixir), Numbers, and Wolfram Alpha depending on the problem.
I 100% agree with this. But even if holdouts could magically prevent the abuse of this API there is still a massive issue. Once this standard gets wider adoption and it's time to boil the frog further literally all it takes to disable holdouts is editing a single value in the attester code. They will justify it by saying holdouts are no longer needed because 98% of clients are already compliant.
Why wouldn’t you factor in the money you get for selling the current one? It is not an upgrade otherwise.
They've been like this before with Sentry, when I've raised their sketchy use of open source. I have some example queries/responses in this issue:

https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases/i...

The repo readme has other examples of sketchy cases of open source and licensing usage. This aspect (of why not just use a different term) often gets ignored. Sometimes folks say they're using it "to prevent confusion to users since they would have heard about open source" which is always an ironic self-involved viewpoint to see.
Refreshing perspective
Firefox is my daily driver as is Linux. It is perfectly performant.
> But once you get used to the Apple way then you tend to not question these things as much.

Alternative spelling: Once you get brainwashed by the Reality Distortion Field you tend to not question Apple.

How to recognise when people have been: When they deny not only that they've been brainwashed, but the existence of the RDF.
Netscape Meteors
If they're made to honour their agreement (especially at substantial loss), then wouldn't these bad actors avoid underbidding in future auctions?
The article is full of shit, the author wants free LTS support for 15 years so he can more easily make money...

The quote is:
Those of us creating medical devices, software for factory lines, and systems that matter need a minimum of 15 years for an LTS especially if you have it in your fool head we should pay money for it. Over that course of time you cannot drop our operating system just because you want to.

If his company wants 15 years of LTS support for their products they should find someway of paying for it....
> I'm actually surprised by the sheer lack of people commenting in the more-or-less-perma-LK-99 threads who show skepticism of the results.

HN is supposed to have a high signal-to-noise for comments. I'm skeptical about this. I think it's the modern Pons + Fleishmann, but I won't post that on every thread because it contributes nothing. There's more insightful, and interesting comments about chemistry than anything I can write that would add to the discussion.
> Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow.

That may be true for you, but not in general. Perhaps there's something about your system configuration that it doesn't handle well.
Clearly not what I was asking. ;)
It's difficult to have your eye stolen (let's not get into gore please). But they could simply hack the backend, and say your eye belong to someone else. The app now shows Bob the bank robber being Dave the bank manager, just long enough to empty the vaults. Oh it was on blockchain so you can see afterwards that it was actually Bob?
> Using a whitelist of supported countries.

This may unnecessary discriminate people from countries which is not your main market and digital nomads using local SIMs. Better is to have per-country (or even per-operator) rate limits which are low by default but high for countries you have a lot of users from.
/More/ popovers and popups?

What about just making the site slower?
Weyland-Yutani: Building better worlds
Which is much worse - why is it me, the user that have to care about whether I’m in a terminal or a browser window and switch the shortcuts I use for the same functionality? It should be the same, and macs actually got it right. The first time I had a mac (from an employer), I was annoyed by it, but it is the superior way. Especially that not all terminal emulators go with ctrl+shift either, so there is also the “let’s copy it with shift, nope, without shift, nope, again, oh I killed the process”.
Firefox is usable on Linux. I'm using it right now, no problems.
I find it staggering that so few media outlets have picked this story up.

TechCrunch spends 80% of its time farming Elon Musk stories but won't lift a hand to promote a good fight.

Are these news companies so entangled in the corporate world they can't risk taking a stand because it risks them losing access to real-time news? I don't really understand it so I am kind of guessing, but it is nonetheless strange.
> Here is something that I keep thinking: you can't compare a living organism to, say, an airplane, because an airplane has fixed structural parts which are impossible to replace, and those parts accumulate tear and wear.

Not an airplane, but Alvin (the deep sea research vessel) has had all of its parts replaced over time. It’s a modern day ship of Theseus.
How is it unusable? I've no issue with Firefox on Linux and you've got multiple options for vertical tabs (Sidebery, Tree Style Tab…).
It's not just about the server you're connecting to knowing your IP, that's a given. With ECS every recursive DNS server in the chain also knows which site you want to visit
Fair enough.

Of course, that is a completely legit view that I also partly hold. However, this author is known for his looking up to a regime that is way worse (or 'not better form' as you say).
I have one on my desk right now. But I never use it anymore.

I either use python in a terminal to do calculations (when I'm using my PC or laptop) or I use my phone's calculator app when I'm not.
If you're going to do something in protest, people have to know that you're protesting and that you want them to take an action in support of it.

And if you degrade their service, they won't blame Chrome, they'll blame you.
Brave is built on chromium. Cool concept, but not a new browser
In German "angelsächsisch" often goes with "Kapitalismus" opposing "Rheinischer Kapitalismus". It is used when comparing free-market economies with social market economies. Germans think about London being a financial hub or not everyone in the US having health insurance, when using "angelsächsisch". They do not think about races being superior.

In case of the US, it even brings it closer to Europe because the term groups Great Britain and the US to compare them to mainland Europe (mostly France + Germany).
>Statically linking libc is heavily discouraged (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57476533/why-is-statical...)

Your link is about glibc, not libc in general. For example musl is perfectly fine to link statically to.
If you would like, could you explain why you need to use a calculator every day?

I am probably in a massive techno bubble, right?
Other countries do not use this excuse, which actually is irrational.

If a resistant barrier is put before the tunnel at the height limit, it will damage any too high vehicle that attempts to pass, but removing the barrier guarantees that the vehicle will be damaged later, in worse conditions, inside the tunnel.

If the vehicle stops later inside the tunnel, instead of being blocked before it in some place with good visibility, then the road conditions will certainly be even unsafer.
You can already launch docker containers, lxc containers and windows, linux and even macos via KVM from crostini. You can even run nested virt inside those vms. Curious what the motivation is that those options do not address. Is it mainly resource allocation concerns?
I wish Safari would stop breaking the web. Every new iOS version requires me to change how to handle scrolling and fight new position bugs for days/weeks
Serious question: does the concept of a webmaster still exist in 2023? Sites are developed and built in dtap, deployed by gated processes, and in many instances nobody but the deployment agents have access to the actual production servers.
From my experience hardware acceleration has been quite lacking on Ubuntu (especially noticeable when watching YouTube).
Hopefully Edge can be turned off now. :)
> this approach pre-dates the concept of putting all default behaviours into a unified panel

When are we allowed to ask Apple to step it up, then? Because this has been available on other operating systems for many years.

> something which would invariably lead to an incomplete list of available applications

1. What makes you think this? Many operating systems handle this just fine, right now, today. Apps register themselves with something like XDG services or Android Intents of whatever and in that way the OS gets a comprehensive list of them.

2. So? Even if a user wants an 'unregistered' app to be a default, you could always let the user browse to a .app folder or an executable or provide a command to execute (with some kind of pattern system for passing a file to be opened as an argument and so on).
If it’s medical devices I assume they want RTOS? Windows wouldn’t work for that world
That's why I was wondering whether the service would be legal. Thanks
Making Alembic migrations more team-friendly
>it forces them to decide if they would rather get a job or be homeless.

With the current state of the world, these aren't mutually exclusive. That's the sad reality as of now. Even if they stay at home, having a minimum wage dead end job doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in becoming a productive citizen outside of satisfying some statistics.
I believe from the facts that are known, he’s quite obviously not Australian, so alas, probably no deductibility for personal debt.
"Give Firefox's Gecko engine a chance, it has all the features you need."

No, sadly it does not. And then I would be just dependant on mozillas leadership and sadly I do not trust them either.

Ladybird and Kling I would trust, but it is not advanced enough yet. But they are making progress!
Let's not forget maps, where they arbitrarily decide to show you a shop/hotel/restaurant 5km away when there is one 200m away.
> It is not the place of some random 'app' to administer my fucking system. I never, ever want my web browser or text editor or any other app to nag me with some intrusive pop-up about making it the default (in general or for some specific file type).

Somewhat related: It's not the place of some random web site to administer my fucking system. I never, ever want any web site (looking at you, Google!) to nag me with some intrusive pop-up about installing their freaking browser just because I'm looking at their site.
Pixar, Apple, and others create alliance to drive open standard for 3D content
While I agree on the data point, it would kill so much research. It is bad that a lot of research validation basically comes down to "trust me guys", but with data being both very valuable and often times highly sensitive, it can be really difficult to just publish the data along with the research.

A decent compromise would be to at least require meta-data to sufficiently exclude some flaws. A different approach could be to have researchers document and publish the process of th research, similar to a git-repo with the main branch being completely off limits to history-rewriting.
I’d bet someone else owned it, had it pointed at chatgpt hoping they’d buy it, and just made a ton selling to Elon and crew for the vanity domain (which is pretty funny since x.ai is actually shorter).
It boggles the mind that I would need cookies enabled to see video.
Programming in Markdown
Seriously impressive! This has some big potential for sure
Firefox on Linux is just fine, no idea what you are talking about. It is fine on Android, too (uBlock Origin!).
> Have you actually tried it out?

Not parent commenter, but yes, there is literally a single tick you can turn on to reverse the direction since forever.
Great post! I respect people's decisions regarding the focus on privacy but above all I just need the internet to work and this was always a mysterious issue. Finally fixed by switching to Google DNS, which for me personally is not a problem, escaping their net is better than not but not a requirement.
I don't understand how this works. So if you have insurance the procedure is 120$, which you pay as the patient because it's not covered, but if you paid cash it's 100$? Where does the 20$ go, and why does the insurance want this?
> I don’t get why people are displeased by it.

By and large "people" are not "displeased" by Python. But every language has a set of diehards, people who dedicated decades to this or that and resent adopting anything else. They will complain no matter what. Python is displacing a lot of other platforms in its continued rise, so the noise keeps going up.

In addition, there are groups of nerds that love to formalize absolutely everything in their code, development speed be damned; and people who will optimize every line they write to an inch of their life (again, dev speed be damned). Both those camps are often uneasy in an ecosystem built on duck-typing, "practicality beats purity", and an overall approach favouring development speed over machine speed.
How is jpeg xl “hostile”, it’s just a new format. Does Chrome really need to support every new image format?
"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances."
I am only using Firefox on Linux (ok Chromium for some crappy Webex stuff) and it is working great.

Your problem may come from your hardware combination together with Wayland/X11.
Static linking libc is very iffy indeed, it’s much better to just use a very old libc and dynamically link against that.

Python’s “manylinux” binary target is a good example on how to do that. We’re currently targeting “manylinux2014”, which is a decent middle ground.
HN is weirdly obsessed with jpeg-xl. The logic for removing it totally made sense.
"We detected you are using an insecure browser. Please upgrade to a secure browser such as Mozilla Firefox." would do it. :)
It just needs a little bit of configuration in the about:config tab, it works just fine with VAAPI!
> Chrome OS is significantly more reliable ...

Only for the first 2-3 years, at which point it expires and the kids need a new laptop.
Missing in the list:

- https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-will-let-you-opt-out-of-ch...

Google Will Let You Opt Out of Chrome 'Forced Login' (2018)

Remember? They tried to force everyone to login completely.

Quote from article:

The tweak was made to address a privacy uproar over the latest iteration of Google's browser, Chrome 69. Earlier versions of the browser let you log into a Google service, say Gmail, without logging into Chrome. But the tech giant decided to change that in Chrome 69, which arrived earlier this month. Signing into a Google service via the browser will now automatically log you into Chrome as well.
Depends on the device. A lot of medical equipment still runs on Windows versions from the beginning of the century.
> to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser

Or use Brave.
Nice. This is legitimately a new browser. Hadn’t heard of them. Will check it out.
Depends. Most of the stuff would have an RTOS in the hardware interface and a windows GUI.
I have a serious question about Brave. I would be glad to use it, but I am a bit scared of the fat that it is linked to a crypto (I didn't dive in the tokenomics, but maybe the team is driven by the money ? or other shady things ?), and also the fact that I go ads for this browser. Getting an ad for the browser make me question: what are their incentives ? Why would they invest money to attract people ? What is their business model ? The fact that it's a for-profit, just like the other browsers (except Firefox), make me think that they might push things for money, not for the users despite all their claims of being so focused on the user safety, privacy etc.
This apologetic article deliberatley doesn't include name of Miroslav Dvořáček, a man that spend 10 years in prison. He went there because Kundera gave him in. This is half mentioned.
If History proved something is that Patton and McCarthy were right.
One flu virus lineage was possibly eradicated during Covid pandemic

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4

Everyone I know with kids has a wave of various mild cold/flu cases after we re-opened after the Covid pandemic. But after that initial wave last spring I don’t think I’ve been sick at all.

I’m going to guess that these viruses will come back in waves, that will kind off ebb and flow for while until there’s a new stable equilibrium, where we’re back to maybe having a cold once or twice a year (that was the norm for me at least), and you’ve just been lucky not to be hit by one yet.
Depends on the device but plenty of old Windows machines (XPs) run in hospitals.

edit: Hah, good work, siblings!
I’m like 98% sure that your current hardware has no open specs, why should apple open theirs? Of course, idealistally I am all for it, but realistically that ship has sailed a long time ago, plus most companies have a jungle of patents that disallow them from doing so even if they wanted to.
Don't the non-global defaults generally live in per-user directories like ~/Library/Preferences or whatever?

You can likely get a lot of this by just creating a new user.
And which engine does Brave use? Take a wild guess.
Experts starting to doubt AI ‘hallucinations’ will go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’

HN: Discussion - (35-comments - 2023-08-02) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36977096
It has been years since I ever heard the term “webmaster” indeed, but I guess the point was “people who are in control of websites”, and not the concept as we knew it from the 90s (“that one dude who manages our corporate website”).
> The Brave Browser is built on the open-source Chromium Web core and our own client code is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 .

If you are on mac, you can use Orion, it’s written by the kagi team.
> Are there any real competitors
You know perfectly well that's not what they meant.
Since it’s not actually mentioned in the article and I found myself quite confused, “LTS“ means “long-term support“. A pet peeve of mine is when bloggers write articles without defining in a single simple parenthetical what the acronyms are.
Are you even aware that Brave uses Chromium basically? it uses Blink engine.
Yes, as others already said, superconductors are zero resistance. Which is easy to check if you have enough of the substance to run meaninful currents through it. There might be miniscule amounts of resistance for contacting and impurities, but the resistance doesn't grow e.g. with wire length.

So how is this possible? The explanation is acutally reasonably easy, but requires the strangeness of quantum dynamics. One basic principle of quantum dynamics is, that at least most things are quantisized. Especially energy of a state comes in discrete amounts. That is the reason we have orbitals of electrons in atoms. They can only take very specific values, which creates these separate orbitals. There is no in between state, they have always to absorb or emit exactly the amount of energy which is the difference between orbitals when moving between them. Which is a very easy effect to literally see: take glowing phosphors as you find them on your watch etc. These are transitions bound to a specific photon energy. With red light, you cannot "charge" them, as red photons have to little energy, and you can only absorb single photons. Any green or blue light would work though. And whatever light you used to "charge" them, they always glow in the precise same color, coming from their destinct energy state.

The resistance an electron encounters while moving through a conductor is also quantisized. In superconductors we have a situation like trying to charge a watch dial with red light: the amounts of energy an electron could release cannot be absorbed by the material. And an interaction would require this. The consequence is: no interaction, no resistance.

The situation is like trying to buy a $1 bottle of water with a $100 bill. That could turn out to be impossible, because no one is willing to give you back $99, and you can of course not pay $100 for the bottle. So even when having the money, you can't buy the bottle.

This is, in a very naive way, the principle how superconductivity and superfluidity work. The trick now is to prepare the conditions which allow for superconductivity. One way is to make things increadibly cold. All metals become superconductive, if the temperature is close enough to 0. But that is with single digit degrees or below, even fractions of a Kelvin. Konsequently it was a huge sensation when the first complex substance was presented which showed the effect at larger temperatures. Since then the hunt is up to find better substances.
So you buy two letters for $10 and sell them for $11m? That's a ROI...
Does anyone know which real money prediction market is deepest? The ones I see everyone referencing are fake money
Can you expand on what you mean? As it stands your questions seem in incredibly bad faith, especially considering the market share Chrome has in the browser space.
I was able to have a conversation in Mandarin, a language I have yet to utter a single word to a native speaker in since I'm self conscious about my accent. Really cool :)

If I had a suggestion, it would be to add a button by each line up have the TTS repeat saying aloud the sentence. Might be useful for Chinese/Japanese
That is a fantastically weird temp / resistance chart.

Would semi-conductor like properties result in something like this - thermal noise pushing electrons into the band gap?
> what does Google have to do with how websites choose to treat their users or what solution they would propose

Google owns YouTube. Is it so hard to imagine that some product manager at YouTube counted the losses due to adblockers and asked a team in Chrome to prevent them?
Or taskbar grouping.