skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes there are a few certificate authorities. For example DigiCert, SSL.com and others. You can also create your own e.g. for enterprise deployments. Or you could even set up a public CA if you wanted to, the process is standardized.

So whilst Microsoft will sign for you if you distribute via their store, otherwise you pay per year for certificates and can distribute outside the store.

There are problems with the system (cost, bugs, usability problems) but it is decentralized.
Weird, I always have thought unity was getting a share of each sale.
OWASP Released Top Critical Vulnerabilities for LLMs(AI Models)
So, Unity is now more expensive than for example AutoCAD and has a royalty fees. I see a bright future for Unity Technologies...
There are fields where I feel confident to have an opinion, and fields where I am entirely out of my league.

HN is full of people like myself, each with their own partially overlapping fields of expertise.

When I see something new, I don't say "well, this goes against my intuition, it must be wrong". I say, "well, this is new, and sounds fishy - but is out of my field. I wonder what real geneticists on HN have to say about it".

There are a world of unintuitive facts that I have learned this way (I plan on making a site of such things, but.. maybe next week).

As they say, be open minded, but not enough to let your brain fall out.
I've never seen a camera in a phone better than a $500 camera, never mind $1000.

They are way more useful (portable, always present) and do lots of cool processing to get usable images in low light etc., but image quality is not competitive with a good lens on even an ancient DSLR. Shallow depth of field in particular - phones generally do it with software, and it's always jarring how fake it looks.
Interesting to see that this project has the same license as Twemoji.
Unfortunately this is going backwards now.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25131282/

> One-standard-deviation increase in childhood general intelligence (15 IQ points) decreases women's odds of parenthood by 21-25%. Because women have a greater impact on the average intelligence of future generations, the dysgenic fertility among women is predicted to lead to a decline in the average intelligence of the population in advanced industrial nations.
To be fair, there exists white wines with tannins, oak and even light skin maceration which, if coloured red, could confuse some people inexperience with those types of whites.
MSIX packaged apps do support this, Windows redirects file writes outside of home dirs and other user locations to a package-specific directory that's overlayed back onto the system so the app thinks it's writing to wherever, but it's actually a package-private location.
I think with the Focus feature the mute switch is no longer keeping with the times but selling the action button as an improvement is a bit ridiculous. The killer feature of the mute switch was, that it was not customizable and therefore reliable.

Give me an an additional action button - great, remove the mute switch all together, because it is not nearly as useful as it used to be - fine, but don't sell me the action button as an evolution of the mute switch, because it isn't.
Because it's a frictionless loan system.

Instead of going to the bank in person, talking a banker, asking for a loan, working out a payback schedule, and then filling out the paperwork for that, just swipe your credit card.
France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels
Can a running executable start with this flag, so that its file can be removed?
Lindy Approach to Web Development: Htmx and Go
That's fine as long as you're not comparing it to some unattainably perfect fossil fuel based system, and then claiming that the heat pump alternative "needs" big radiators and or whatever when it's been recommended practice to do the same for gas heaters (new install and replacement) for two decades now.
>Tech is such an shitty abyss right now, ten years ago people got excited because of truly revolutionary features , like cameras that were better than $1000 digital cameras, 4G that made the internet not just usable but fast biometrics that actually worked, on a phone, in your pocket, like holy fuck that was mind blowing.

I also remember when the WWDC crowd and the buying public got excited for mundane evolutionary shit, like incremental iPod updates, like the introduction of an rudimentary color screen...
iPad models which support USB 3 don't use the same chip as iPhones
... I mean, of _course_ the Russian ambassador would tell him that. This is why random unqualified people shouldn't do (and IMO shouldn't be _allowed_ to do) diplomacy; he has no business talking to the Russian ambassador in the first place.
I've also seen some kind of mad anti-movement recently here in Germany.

People started buying Pick-Ups. Huge US-style Pick-Ups...

I live in a big city here and seeing a single Pick-Up was something very special up until a few years ago. Now it seems it became a symbol of rebellion against the movement to car-alternatives and expansion of bike infrastructure.
Yes, they are CATL's LFP.

Now, I really wish that people would stop saying that LFP can be charge to 100% (without adversely affecting lifespan), or never catch fire. China's LFPs are cheap, inferior batteries. Period. Stop pretending that LFP would last forever or more moral and humane b/c there is no cobalt (China doesn't believe in human rights, either).
ActivityPub 1.0.0 – WordPress Plugin
Missing ton of console exporting, Xbox Series, One, WinGDK, PS4, PS5, etc. And sure there might be some beta out there but we need proper support :)
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Chargers
It turns out that PayPal's stablecoin contract allows them to freeze holders from transacting, amongst other things:

https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672

The USDC contract also allows for the freezing of addresses.
This is a great article. I've been working on tooling related to local-first/offline-first for the last 10 years, and the benefits both for end-users and developers are great.

The biggest benefit for developers that I've seen is that state management gets _much_ simpler when it is all handled by a local database. Just run queries directly on every app/page, with live queries if the framework supports it. No need for maintaining in-memory app state and propagating changes to the different parts, no need for caching and associated cache invalidation issues.

The caveat is that keeping the local database in sync with the server is not easy, and it's best to use other tooling for it. I'm working on PowerSync [1] myself, and ElectricSQL [2] also looks quite promising (both also mentioned in OP).

[1]: https://powersync.co

[2]: https://electric-sql.com
Not sure you read the article. Unity explicitly states they are NOT applying this retroactively.
Of course it's very difficult to impossible to widen existing roads. But nothing prevent building wider new roads... which isn't done because priority is actually to save as much money as possible instead of delivering good, future-proof, infrastructure.

You can't have fewer roads in a country whose population grows by hundreds of thousands every year...
> The defining feature is the curving motion most things possess, resembling that of a rubber hose.

So, a little of both.
Wow, that's so cool! I played around with making HTAs as a kid and never thought those could be that powerful. (I quickly moved on to topics more exciting to a teenage hacker, like making WinForms apps with some PHP RAD IDE.)

Wondering what would it take to port mshta (with all the ActiveX goodies) to other platforms. Maybe it's a little bit late for that, but sounds like it might be a fun project to me.
There are a lot of poor Americans. 22% say they have absolutely no emergency savings. That’s 57 million adults who get milked by banks at every turn.

In Europe, exorbitant fees paid by the poorest would end up getting paid by the welfare system. It would be more obvious that it’s a wealth transfer from the state to the banks and other corporations. So the government has a direct interest in enacting regulation that prevents this.

In America, the welfare system avoids transferring actual money to people as far as possible (because the system doesn’t trust poor people to handle money). Instead these transfers are made indirectly using systems like “food stamps” that you can use only to buy groceries. When the government is giving food stamps to someone, and simultaneously the same person is paying $100 in overdraft fees to a bank, it’s much less obvious who’s really paying the bank’s profit here, but it’s still the taxpayers.
This isn’t an educational article about how to drive an EV. It’s fearmongering about electric vehicles
Those files are user data, not part of the software package.
Please elaborate on what you mean. How is this related to the iPhone 12?
Could someone explain how token generation speed relates to latency for the first token to be outputted?

And if anyone have any metrics on latency on a 4090 for the 70B model, that would be very helpful.
And some of the "planning" that was done to make our cities car friendly was absolutely horrific - look at what someone thought was a good idea for Edinburgh:

https://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?p=682

Edit: thankfully never built!
The current annual car tax in the UK is a freaky thing.

For cars registered before March 2001, it's a payment based on engine size (smaller or larger than 1.55 litres); couldn't tell if that's aimed at perceived wealth, pollution, or just leftover because that's how it was back when those cars were new.

March 2001 to March 2017, it's a payment based on CO2 emissions. Pollution based.

April 2017 to present day, it's a payment in the first year based on CO2 emissions, and each year after that a fixed rate based on fuel type only, EXCEPT that if the list price was over 40000 GBP in which case it's a bit higher for the 2nd to 6th years only. So pollution based for the first year, and then a short period of perceived wealth based, and then just a poll tax.

Come on UK, pick one! Are we taxing this based on pollution, apparent wealth or just plain poll?

Oh yes, also; if your vehicle was registered in 1983 or earlier, you can register it as exempt from this tax entirely. A UK nod to encourage classic car enthusiasts and people who are just really good at car maintenance, I guess!

It changes every so often. There was a time when this annual tax had nothing to do with CO2 emissions; that was judged to then be something that should be discouraged by means of this tax, so it changed.

If weight of vehicle is now a meaningful factor, an obvious step is to make this tax higher for heavier vehicles.
Post-IPO unity may not have made a profit (although that link of yours shows positive EBITDA in recent quarters), but they only went public in 2020.
Right.... but 4 light years is one thirtieth as much as 120. Unless you find a way around relativity I don't see how anyone alive now would get results from a mission to something 120 light years away, regardless of its velocity. Unless we vastly increase human life span, which might be the easier option.
This can be fixed in software. They'll have to deploy a baseband update that reduces the maximum transmit power.

The user-visible effect will probably be a reduction in upload speeds (by about 30% in most cases).
It allows you to install applications from any source, not only the official store.

It allows for a variety of installers to exist with different features for different use cases.

It allows you to install the application in any location you choose.

It allows for portable installations and to run software just copied from other sources.
got a 100W desktop charger and a proper cable, works great. magsafe charger is collecting dust and is used only when travelling.
Everything is allowed to do that. You're right that it's not good security-wise which is why Apple blocked that sort of thing years ago. On Windows unfortunately the whole Win32 ecosystem is very dependent on programs injecting things into other processes, the API makes it quite easy and there's lots of sample code for it. It's a major source of stability and crash bugs there.

For example, antivirus products do this all the time, as do many video drivers and other system utilities.

Also, Explorer has various plugin interfaces where it'll load third party code and run it in-process since the very first version.
The idiomatic way write an uninstaller

1. Clean up whatever you can in the uninstaller. If you're a decent human being this includes the registry, appdata, temp, and a toggle to delete wherever your app spews its config.

The only thing left should be the uninstaller .exe and the directories leading up to it, since Windows doesn't allow you to unlink a exe/dll that's loaded in memory. Your uninstaller should be static linked so it doesn't need to clean up its own .dlls.

2. Figure out how to delete the uninstaller. This can either be some stack smashing butt clenching fuckery, like the guys from the article did or you can be a normal fucking person and just atexit() a batch script in that does

SLEEP 5
RMDIR program_dir /whatever /flags /needed

The SLEEP is to ensure the uninstaller is closed

You can put the batch script in %TEMP% and hope something will clean it up, or if you're feeling extra nice you can set up an action to get it cleaned up at next boot.

After that you're also equipped to write self-deleting malware, which is a far more applicable skill.
In the US military, particularly during initial training, collective punishment is often used in addition to or even in lieu of individual punishment. For example, if one soldier misbehaves, the whole unit has to do extra pushups or gets their weekend pass revoked. This is effective at getting groups of people to help enforce conformance to rules on individuals who are less concerned with the consequences of their individual actions.

Perversely, some governments reward terrorists’ (and other criminals’) families with monthly stipends[1].

Me of 20 years ago would probably be shocked at me nowadays, but I’ve slowly come around to thinking that only those who substantially share a moral framework with me deserve to be treated in that framework, and those who choose to act in a radically different moral framework probably deserve to be treated under that framework. In other words, I refuse to let my moral framework be used as a tool to harm me.

So I am not horrified by the discussion of family retribution and don’t automatically reject the idea without consideration.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyr...
The iphone SE (2020) has the body of an iphone 8 with the chip of an iphone 11

It's not related in anyway to the iphone 12, and was in fact released several months before it
Narrow roads are not only found in old cities... They are everywhere.
No, Windows is paid per key. Reinstalling Windows doesn't cost anything.
Thanks! If only I had a way to turn it in to my job...
I kind of agree with you, and LiveView is not even 1.0 yet (it should have been before the whole components thing IMHO).

I also think they kind of jump the shark with the core_components.ex tied to Tailwind.
So what? They're doing classic bait & switch.

The fact that they weren't profitable just makes it even more pathetic.
White wine can also be made from red grapes.
Thank you very much for those details!
You're not thinking big enough. It's time for win32 to pull its weight.
You can still use those USB-C ports to charge the laptop if you want. The MagSafe port is just there in case you want to charge it very quickly, or use their custom cable that will help reduce the probability of the device accidentally being ripped off the table and dashed on the floor, if you should happen to trip over the cable.

I welcome the new MagSafe cable. IMO, they should never have gotten rid of it in the first place.
Here the long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRpwVwFxyk4
It does when said vendor is an open source community.
Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly
Openjob
This. My phone is already more powerful than my 9 year old laptop (but less storage), and doesn't get used nearly as much. So much wasted potential.
> Overall, results showed that breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health. However, we urge caution and advocate for nuanced research approaches with low risk-of-bias study designs to avoid a miscalibration between hype and evidence.

So after searching through 1325 papers and systematically summarizing 12 randomized controlled trials, this is the result? This has kept multiple professors busy for months and all we learned is "breathwork may be effective"?

It doesn't matter anyway. The professors have a Nature publication and Nature has some readers. Everybody happy.
I wonder where they find the guys selling their voice like that. Not that there is a high bar in advertising, but this is on another level.
Libsodium 1.0.19 Released
Lets take the bait Internet! 2017 Debunk of this story: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alien-mummy-peru/

Technical DNA report of 24 pages with awesome URL: https://www.the-alien-project.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12...
Done by these people in Mexico, with failing website: www.linkedin.com/company/abraxas-biosystems/about/

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To proceed with the NGS run a library of the fragments to sequence has to be prepared first. This library preparation method was performed by CEN4GEN using a specialized protocol
proprietary of CEN4GEN labs and reagents kits based on a commercial kit called Kapa Hyper Prep that were optimal to recover fragmented DNA for ancient samples. The results of the library construction methods were successfully performed for the 3 MDA amplified samples as shown below.
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That's a feature so that users can keep configuration files and even move them across systems.
It's not CEO's doing something wrong. It's workers.

Try "year of the submissive worker" maybe "year of the dominated worker" and see how that tastes in your mouth.

It's workers lack of unionization and enforced professional ethics that means there are no consequences for being "greedy" and that being "greedy" is in fact a winning strategy in the game of prisoners dilemma.

It's convenient when someone else is doing something wrong and they need to change, but if you want change, you need to look in the mirror and ask what you are doing wrong and for most of us, that is failing to unionize in order to get a seat at the negotiating table and therefore being able to check otherwise unchecked CEO/Board power.

Wage is a measurement of power, not value. Wage is capped by value provided, but scales with power.
I would disagree, files that the user cannot edit or should not edit should not be going into their home directory. Things like cache files should go into a system wide cache directory instead.
Next step: IBaaS, where you can buy a million install-bombs for a mere $0.1.
This at the cost of every customer seriously considering the value proposition of changing engine.
Because of potential false positives, and the speed at which files need to be analyzed at runtime (suspend process executing it and then analyze it), having files which take a long time to unpack and identify can cause these to be allowed to run. They get offloaded to a sandbox or other systems to be analyzed while the file is already being executed. The sandboxes are too slow to return a verdict before the main logic of the file will be executed. IF those dynamic systems cannot identify a file, an engineer will manually need to look at it.

In very strict environments or certain systems it might be practical to block all unknown files, but this is uncommon for user systems for example where users are actively using javascript or macro documents etc. (developers, HR, finance etc.) The FP rates are too high and productivity can take a big hit. If all users do 20% less work that's a big loss in revenue (the productivity hit can be much more severe even!). perhaps this impact / loss of revenue ends up being bigger than a malware being executed depending on the rest of the security posture/measures.

technically its possible to identify (nearly?) all malware by tracking p-states/symbolic execution/very clever sanboxing etc.. but this simply takes much too long. Especially if the malware authors are aware of sandboxing techniques and symbolic execution and such things as they can make those processes also take extra long or sometimes even evade them totally with further techniques.

I wish it _was_ possible to do all of the cleverness that malware researchers have invented to detect things, but unfortunately, in practice this cannot happen on like 90+% of environments.

If you run like a DNS server or such things, it's possible to do it as such a system would not be expected (ever?) to have unknown files. (gotta test each update and analyze new versions before deploying to prod). As you can imagine, this is also kind of a bummer process but imho for such 'static' systems its worth it.
Apple might be able to fix this by asking the user if they're using a case,

Anyone using a case thicker than ~2mm will probably sufficiently reduce the surface SAR to bring it into compliance.

One might imagine a software update that asks if you're using a case. If you choose yes, nothing happens. If you choose no, then peak transmit power is reduced by 1dB (which will reduce upload speeds ~20%, and may reduce range too)
...which conveniently routinely breaks binaries between stable releases ;)

(Obviously joking, nothing but love for OpenBSD.)
This is the key. Companies that lose money are unreliable long-term partners.
This may seem weird for outsiders. But it’s one of the first things that come to mind if you know about that subset of entertainment consumer culture.

The target of this kind of hostility is _usually_ mainstream media, but nobody is safe.

It’s a weird mix of entitlement and hate that drives this.
by evil, inefficient and corrupt beurocrats, no less! oh the humanity!
I said that because the critics would respond with the reason the article was written is because they are “new”. Everyone knows that electricity is “older” and that they actually “came out” much longer ago
> Next they'll issue an order to halt sunrise and the subsequent 1000W/m^2 of electromagnetic radiation

It's not halting sunrise but there's a directive[1] that basically says (amongst other) "don't work under the sun without protection".

[1] Amended proposal for a Council Directive on the minimum Health and Safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents — Individual Directive in relation to Article 16 of Directive 89/391/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ C, C/230, 19.08.1994, p. 3, )
These emojis grew on me after a while. I still think Twitter's open source emojis look better, but this is a really cool project that shows off more creativity.
You're absorbing the radiation wrong.
bad take, different frequencies have different absorptions and biological effects...
Are there also articles written when a gar car catches fire though? That is the key question.
It doesn't even seem vague to me; just outright fraudulent.
French agency says iPhone 12 emits too much radiation
Thunder electric surfboard rides the waves at up to 70 km/h
Address Database: SQLite DB for Self-hosted address autocomplete suggestions
In the US, it also means things like getting denied for jobs and apartments.

Car loans will be more: You might not be able to easily buy a new car.

And that's not even getting into some of the other random things. You'll need to pay upfront to replace the washer that went out instead of financing - unless that financing is through one of the rent-to-own places (which still might be cheaper than going to the pay laundry). Same for, say, dental work: Some places used to let you pay in installments if you had adequate enough credit.