skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mini is undetectable over 100ft or so. other drones will interrupt the peace, but this one is far less likely to.
That's not a very good reason to expand the voting bloc. That just opens the gates to find new groups of people to franchise with the sole intention of diluting the voting power of a group of people you happen to disagree with

What happens when those young people don't vote the way you want them to?
If there's one thing infosec types universally do not trust to improve security, it's sandboxing. Just look at all the discourse spilled over the recent WebP vulnerability.
Sure, but is only more work to carry around the cover-thing, if you don't have to clean up the mess.

I quick search on Amazon for "Stone Cutting Dust Cover" gave plenty of cheap looking clear plastics covers with a hole for a vacuum cleaner. I bet there are pro variants available of those.
Worth making that clear. Even making the first or second agent say "Google" with a tagline "For any topic at all" would make it clear that this is an option.

I signed up and found that the agent is schedulable. That is worth pointing out in the feature list as I can see that being pretty cool for some people. For my case I am more of a one off research. So being able to turn that feature off might be good.

You may be in a space where each person like me has wildly different expectations though. Since "Research for you" is a very broad set of expectations. As someone who has played with things like autogpt, my expectations are low. No offence! It is just that getting AI to do this kind of stuff in a general case is pretty hard. At least this year lol! Next year it might be easy.
That seems like an implementation detail that could change tomorrow, at which point it could be perfectly fine to store large blobs in your repository, yea?

I completely agree Git is bad at this now, to be clear. I've watched single-file repositories bloat to hundreds of gigabytes due to lots of commits to a single 1MB file. But that doesn't seem like a design problem, just implementation.
Of course it is. Consuming a lot of ultra-processed food is one of worst things you can do to yourself. Occasional consumption is perfectly OK, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to observe some patterns in obesity, well-being and general health, between people (or countries for that matter) consuming a healthy diet vs those consuming mostly ultra-processed garbage.

Correlation vs causation - my understanding is that this is the point of the study - they measured the ultra-processed food consumption patterns way before the onset of depression.
> The industry needed a way to get on the action without touching the "communist" GPL, and that's why ESR's definition of "Open Source" was endorsed.

which against, doesn't really makes sense.

Stallman has repeated over and over that the Free Software movement is not about communism (despite what communist people like to say).

Most likely, the industry needed a way to get people to submit improvements and patches (essentially doing Development, QA and support) for free without having to give a way the right to sell proprietary services.
I agree with that perspective. I did some mdma when young but because I was fairly happy back then it never had any healing effect for me. I believe that it could be powerful for some people sometimes and I never had any sort of substance dependency.
To add:

The manufacturer of the pen or paper can't remove your access to using them because they decided to chance licensing.

Said manufacturers can't force push an update that suddenly makes your old writing unusable.
All the more reason for user replaceable batteries.
> (deprecated)

The font support?

It was depreciated a couple of years ago and has been removed from current versions of the software as of this year.

> As announced in January 2021, support for all Type 1 fonts in Adobe products is ended after January 2023. Users no longer have the ability to author content using Type 1 fonts in updated Adobe products.

Adobe software will not recognize the presence of Type 1 fonts, even if you have Type 1 fonts installed in your desktop operating system:

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end...

It's the end of an era.
Voltaire lived in a time, where education was a privilege and most books had a decent level of quality, in relation to their time. Not so true anymore for everything we have today. Books for "the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence" are pretty common today.
Which is the best one, so far? Eleven labs? OpenAI apparently has something in the works to (going by today's Spotify podcast updates).
Agriculture, perhaps? I always imagine that these things are for people with lots of their own real estate to take care of.
This is a weird argument. You can violate someone's copyright as long as you compete with other people too?
Small world. That sales job was a sales/system engineer at Sun. My world-class sales rep left. For a while, I handled both jobs at once, and it was easier than working with the ding-dong they hired in her place.

Left for a startup where I had the title of I.T. director, though that soon became the entire I.T. department. (ouch) But such is life. It tends to be maximally weird.
And we can see the effects of bypassing laws in stark relief - the erosion of decades-fought labor laws with the gig economy, the rent spikes from AirBnb forcing scores into homelessness.

This is the problem with deregulating businesses (as opposed to deregulating people).
I'd be curious to see this smoothed out over a few years by individual. For example, in silicon valley, it's typical to have an occasional stock windfall year (due to, say, an IPO).

If 10% of people have one of those every 10 years, then that ends up being the top percent income in these analyses. However, it could be that zero percent of people make that in an average year (or that 0.99% make arbitrarily more than that in an average year).
> It would be extremely difficult for anybody to accept the evidence provided by quantum mechanics without some additional explanation for how our mind constructs a "classical" reality to go along with it.

No, that's not true. For a very long time an explanation of how classical reality emerges from quantum mechanics was lacking, and the prevailing view was essentially "a miracle happens" (a.k.a. the wave function "collapses", whatever that might actually mean). Quantum mechanics was accepted as an explanation nonetheless simply because it explained the data better than any available alternative, and it still does.
Some people are called to a romantic memory of the frontier. Self-sufficiency sounds great when you're getting tired of thirteen subscription services and five to ten things that need to be plugged in to recharge every other day or so.

There are plenty of jokes about the fragility of our tech stack, but I don't think many people appreciate how fragile knowledge networks are. Some core ideas, like conservation of energy and elementary quantum mechanics will be pretty robust, but the subtle voodoo that makes modern society actually tick? There won't be people who can replace existing devices, much less design and build improved ones.

You can make your bug-out bag, but remember that you won't be an MRI in your future. Your batteries will decay and your memory chips will fail. In a few short decades you'll be back in the early-mid 1800's, if you're lucky to be in a place with a cooperating climate.
The purpose of Hacker News is insightful discussion; it is not a place to pipe your stream of consciousness into the comment box. Refrain from speculating about things to which we know the answer. Just look it up and post the answer, instead.

This is easily accessible information. Google it or ask an LLM. Don't just spew speculation into the void. You don't need to be a "smart contract expert" to use Google.
Keen Technologies: Special Announcement and Fireside Chat with John Carmack [video]
We will finally be free from loud, dangerous, filthy, and deadly cars. I honestly can't understand why cities still allow them into downtown areas.
How do you drop the lure?
However it seems that they are now building an island wide fiber network owned by the government and not by an ISP, and will end the current monopoly as soon as this network is ready: https://openfalklands.com/st-helena-plans-for-an-island-wide...
Letters in a part of the password are reserved for rotation. ABCDE -> BCDEA -> CDEAB
The rapid change in standards coupled with confusing/changing naming got me to the point where I have no clue what the currently best approach for "passwordless and/or actually secure 2FA" is.

I also got locked out of an account (not Github) that I now can't recover without providing photo ID and god knows what other data, because something about their implementation changed and now my security key is no longer accepted.

Most of the few sites that accept security keys also only let you register one, which means you can't have a backup.

As I understand Passkeys "solve" this by effectively being backed up to your Google or Apple account, so once that's compromised, you've lost.

As long as you're using a password manager (which will not autofill on phishing sites), passwords still seem like the way to go, unfortunately...
“I Feel Love” was a fantastic book, written in a very professional journalistic tone. It sits well along side Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind”.
Because most decentralised exchanges are "fake".

Realistically, a decentralised exchange can only operate within a single blockchain, only trading tokens on that blockchain. Works fine for trading between (for example) eth and its various tokens, but you can't do proper eth to bitcoin trades. [1]

The single-blockchain decentralised exchanges are typically real [2], but every multi-blockchain "decentralised" exchange platform cheats.

Some are literally just centralised exchanges that pretend to be decentralised with a slick software interface. The more common technique is to run their own blockchain and have valid decentralised trading on that. But you are only actually trading tokens that represent real coins. They then run a centralised holding entity that holds the real coins and implements deposits and withdrawals just like a decentralised exchange.

There are so many flaws with this scheme.

The holding company could literally run away with your funds. Bugs and exploits (and even normal blockchain behaviour like re0orgs) can result in the three seperate sources of truth (the real blockchains, the holding entity's internal database and the trading blockchain) ending up out of sync.

And just because the trading blockchain is a blockchain doesn't mean the company that controls it doesn't have the keys and power to rollback trades and otherwise change the contents.

[1] Yes, atomic swaps are a thing. But they are resource intensive and slow. I'm not aware of much decentralised trading that uses them.

[2] Though, the topic of wrapped coins complicates things.
True, unless Adobe considers PS support to be a fixed asset
I use Proton for everything, but until they have a ProtonPass CLI, it is a non-starter for me. I want CLI access for my terminal email client.
Not sure what's being incredible here. GPT-4 is a stellar general-purpose assistant, that shines when you stop treating it as encyclopedia, and start using it as an assistant. That is, give it tasks, like summarizing, or writing code, or explaining code, or rewriting prose. Ask for suggestions, ideas. You can do that to great effect, even when your requests are underspecified and somewhat confused, and it still works.
The biggest barrier to adoption that all new entrants to this market must overcome is finding finance and accounting professionals willing to use their product. The second is finding banks, auditors, and investors willing to use statements from an accounting package they've never heard of.
The article is about annual income, not wealth.

As of 2020, 99th percentile net worth in the US is about 11M. https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/
> Why they copied the Chrome interface ?

Because Chrome did a lot of things right and copying it is a benefit to most users.

Getting rid of the status bar and menu bar comes to mind (both can still be added back in firefox). Or the unified address bar, most people WANT it to search (and again, in firefox you can disable that).

> Why they use Google as a service ?

Is this really a question? It's of course for the money. But guess what? When they briefly switched to bing, people were just switching back to Google. Because for better or worse, people expect/want Google Search.
I wonder if depression simply starts much earlier than diagnostic controls detect it.

Even though this study started years before these people were diagnosed, they may have already had depression.
I think there's plenty of room to criticize the degree of regulation, while accepting the need for baseline rules.

See the other reply upthread with respect to line of sight ("You're not allowed to use binoculars.") If true, that's stupid and unnecessary.
> As a first approximation, one would not expect building a suite of office tools to be more complex than building an operating system kernel.

Honestly I would. Kernel is not that big if you look away from all the device drivers (you usually don't need all of them) and has a focus on minimalism. An office suite is a massive complexity monster which skews on supporting more stuff even if it means having more code.
This chart is annual income, not net worth – in Los Angeles, for example, the median 2bd starter home is over $1 million, while in many states $300k is enough for a 3-4bd home with a yard and a garage.
Makes sense, since you can use real money to buy reddit accounts with good reputation.
> I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it.

Reminds me of Sentry: https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/

This is their example docker-compose for self-hosting: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-...

It has:

- exim4 (smtp)
- memcached
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Zookeeper
- Kafka
- Clickhouse
- geoipupdate
- 18 containers for something called snuba (integrates with Clickhouse?)
- 2 symbolicator containers
- web app
- cron
- 18 other utility containers
- Nginx
- relay
- 2 vroom containers

Meanwhile, as far as the other options in the APM space go, this is how Apache Skywalking looks like:

- web app
- back end API
- database (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL or something else)

I'm glad that generally it's good enough for my needs, because I can't imagine actually having to self-host Sentry. Then again, something like Graylog does log shipping better and without a doubt Sentry has lots of nice features... as long as you don't have to run it yourself, because many people out there won't realistically be able to do so.

> EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis.

That's not too bad, though, but seems like an interesting choice (both a regular RDBMS and a NoSQL one; Redis would probably be useful for caching etc. for either).
I don't get along with it either -- it's the worst possible option for me. But I know a lot of people who get along very well with it. Different people are different.
https://english.stackexchange.com/a/20620
Aren't there already procedures in place to challenge particular evidence over concerns like this?
I have an iPad mini that I really like. A nexus 7 with a slightly smaller bezel and updated internals would be a really nice device. It's a nice size for casual games, video watching, and a great size for reading manga or books. The only option for a small tablet on Android really is the Fire tablets from Amazon, but they're really lacking in performance, which limits what you can do with it.

But in general I find Android tablets to be pretty lacking in the software support department, even though hypothetically it should be a great platform.
Because people are stupid. Never underestimate stupidity.

In all seriousness, it’s just that the AGPL considers network use to be distribution and thus entitled to the source[https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misu...]

This terrifies people for some reason. Basically because they want the freedom to modify open source projects and call it their own without giving back to the project that actually created it.
Previous threads (all created by the same OP):

* May 29, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114095

* May 29, 2023 (2): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36118990

* July 2, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566556
And of course simple math is fair, which is why I have submitted millions of images to Getty Images in massive waves, because of course such a fair algorithm will find your image among my stack of millions. And when we grind out compensation, I get 1,000,000/1,000,001 and you get 1/1,000,001. Because of course I would never game your fair algorithm.
2C-E gave me the most intense open eye visuals. Posters turned into cartoons. The linoleum in my bathroom looked like swirling chocolate milk. Tracers from my fingers. Breathing walls. Intense motion sickness. But psychologically, I almost felt sober. I don't remember the dose. I used it a handful of times in 2010/2011.
> As I understand Passkeys "solve" this by effectively being backed up to your Google or Apple account, so once that's compromised, you've lost.

Lowercase p, like passwords

> As long as you're using a password manager (which will not autofill on phishing sites), passwords still seem like the way to go, unfortunately...

Many password managers have rolled out passkey support; iOS 17 and Android 14(?) have support for third party passkey providers at the OS level, while some of these managers inject support directly into the browser via a web extension.
Is suspect Apple’s experience with Blastdoor[1] has made them unwilling to go that route.

Blastdoor is meant to provide a secure sandbox for processing images and other data that arrives in iMessages. Puts all the potentially dangerous format decoders in a little box, and viciously kills anything that starts behaving odd when passed something to process. It certainly improved iOS security, but also quickly proved to be less than bulletproof, mostly due to just how much freedom older image formats provide.

Ultimately code that isn’t in the OS can’t be exploited. Images decoders have a long history of being exploit vectors that are very hard to close. At a certain point simply not shipping them is the best course of action, doesn’t prevent people from adding them later, but at least only those who need the functionality are in the firing line (which reduces the incentive for exploiting those formats, and indirectly ends up providing further protection to those that need to work with the formats).

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/28/messages-blastdoor-ios-...
> postgres requests an id from the sequence for each row of the incoming data ahead of time since it doesn't know which rows are updates and which are inserts (although presumably this could be changed?).

Not in any sort of general way - the sequence can be part of the unique key that you're conflicting on.
"Ultrarealistic AI Voice Generator" - I initially read the title as "Unrealistic AI Voice Generator". I'd suggest adding a space to "Ultrarealistic".
Yes, it was a Nexus 5. There's been several phones that have had this issue from Google... which is all the more reason I wouldn't buy another Google hardware device.
I’ve been food poisoned from KFC probably 10 times, but I still eat there once or twice a fortnight for the last IDK 20 years.

Because they have the cheap crispy chicken.
Unity's just outgrowing the early adopters. The starving indies will move on to the next up and coming engine. Professionals will continue using Unity (and UE, which also charges royalties) because of the breadth and depth of the toolsets.

I first used Unity when their WebGL system was in private beta. IIRC they tried charging royalties early on but then reverted that for marketshare, but I don't have time to look it up. In any case the royalties aren't burdensome at that scale. I don't think it'll affect much. Vocal minority, yada yada. Maybe it'll even get them to profitability next year!
Before you changed your diet, did strawberries taste actually sweet to you?

Post diet change, do they taste sweet now?
Owned a Pixel 1 in the past, and it started to suffer from the same issue, so this may be an inherent problem in flash storage (at least as it's implemented in mobile phones).
> I guess you might consider targeted ads as being assault against you?

I'm not OP, but yeah I kind of do. See also: police and government agencies buying personal data, which they Totally Only Use For Good Guy Stuff I Promise.
I suppose the polite version of the word would be Entropy.
Something to keep in mind is that all of the tables are only trying to measure one thing and lay out the effect of the one variable. But in reality these can be mixed and matched for the desired performance characteristics. 10x is indeed possible by doing multiple things to extend the life of the cell.

Pull 4x from one table and 2-3x from another and it would probably put you somewhere in the 10x range. Though I'm not sure it would be strictly multiplicative.
> new is not always better

This is something I eternally argue with so many people. I can't understand this blind assumption that something made more recently is better just because.

Better is better. Something new may or may not be better, need to evaluate. Way too often new means a regression on functionality, which is worse.
all arguably true, but it has no bearing on whether 3 was necessary in the first place.

> With your argument about compatibility no programming language would ever be able to evolve

"evolve" and "change" are not ends in themselves. If it was usable as it was, then there was no need to evolve or change in an incompatible way.

15 years ago: also irrelevant. World War One was unnecessary, and that was 109 years ago. Whatever issues existed are sorted out by now, but that doesn't mean it had to happen.
Ask HN: Is there AI to close backdoors on your local system?
Not exactly what you're asking, but you may get much closer by bringing up ReactOS from scratch: https://reactos.org/wiki/Building_ReactOS
I read the article, and it seems I should worry, and I agree. Then it goes on to state that "Unfortunately, there’s no single easy answer, and it’s often very difficult for individuals to reduce their noise exposure."

So I should worry, but I can't do anything about it.

I do not like reading this type of news at all, it has a negative psychological effect on me, and a lot of news seems to follow this pattern.

We're all going to die, get cancer, ingest microplastics, climate change is going to kill us, but there's nothing we can do about it. Great. I am none the wiser and I'm measurably more miserable. Why should I continue reading the news?
Rumor has it that an IronSource guy was installed on the board and pushed very hard for this (and the anticompetitive stance with AppLovin)
Given GitHubs policy of "no account recovery if you lose 2FA, ever, if you screw up you lose that account forever", lockout seems a bigger threat than takeover. Luckily, Github lets you add SMS 2FA. That isn't secure, but at least you should be able to get access to your phone number in case of a disaster.

A TOTP seed backed up (on paper only) in multiple locations is also a good fallback.