skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a large part of their business is their customers crying out for rereleases/nostalgia. Whenever N rereleases or remasters stuff on Switch it sells like hotcakes, because people haven't been able to buy often for more than a decade, since the original release.

Pretty sure Nintendo is internally opposed to the idea of secondhand games and would stop it if they could without a massive outcry.
A significant part of that ""reacted badly"" was a bunch of kids and YouTuber idiots spamming GitHub with meaningless comments, issues and PRs. Those people don't come out of it looking respectable, regardless of DHH's approach.
> (...) but unfortunately the reality is that a good chunk of them actually believe those things.

I'm sure that a good chunk of people who hang out on Facebook and Reddit also believe in those things, but that somehow never leads to blanket accusations targeting everyone with a Facebook of Reddit account.
Tiny Fish Reveal New Clues to Origins of Scoliosis
This seems very poorly thought through. Everything from abusing the nonce as a data channel (and re-using a predictable value in a field that is short for Number used Once), to rejection of transparency for an inherently public value, misunderstanding the threat models here, and putting the responsibility for revocation on to the client (one of the most complicated things to do correctly in a potentially already compromised environment...).

I think this one needs to go back to the drawing board.
Lies, misinformation and blogspam has always existed. The problem hasn't changed at all.
I think comparing 'programmer' to 'electrician' or 'mechanic' is inapt, as these labels are virtually always professional labels. Although there are people who would qualify as a 'hobbyist mechanic', who understand their tools very well, we call them by other names (e.g., gear head). It's not weird at all for (say) a person who plays the guitar to call himself a guitarist even if his day job is painting houses and he's never played a paid gig.

I'd say the label programmer has far more in common with guitarist than with electrician and I think calling it a title is muddying the waters, even though it can also be a title. (I also think because we use the term that way, some people prefer other titles that make it clear they are professionals.)

However, the point I was making wasn't that people who have used ChatGPT but otherwise haven't programmed necessarily are programmers, but that: (1) Code isn't fundamental to programming. We can imagine programming interfaces other than code that people--even people who spend most of their work time doing it and understand their tools--can use to create programs. (2) A ChatGPT-derived copy-and-paste language is not fundamentally different than other higher-level languages in that it is simply an abstraction.
It would sink into the center of the earth and then oscillate around the center until friction stops it dead center. Materials in the earth's crust and mantle are not strong enough to stop that mass from sinking ever deeper.

But that assumes that this spoon of matter were stable in that state, which it isn't. That kind of density can only be held up with some force like gravity keeping up the pressure. The gravity of that spoonful is insufficient, so the internal pressure will drive apart the neutrons. The effects would probably look like a very very large nuke or large asteroid impact.
Ask HN: Have you ever had to hack into your own home?
I locked myself out of my house today. I lost the key.
Who needs a key though when you can just go through window instead?

What’s your favourite way to hack a house?

I’m semi-asking so that if this happens again, I might know an easier way in.
"Those neighbourhood are pedestrian nightmares," - cit

When you're just talking in reality about two residential buildings and they are nightmares because these two residential buildings have no establishments (and no I cannot recross the road).
I mean Disney has blatantly started using the "steamboat Mickey" as their "logo" for a while now as they KNOW the copyright is going to expire soon, so I believe they're going to try to pursue it as "but it's our trademark, see?" now.
China is not a country anyone should be doing business with, let alone visiting. The level of human rights abuses and the potential for extra judicial actions make it far too dangerous.
> I can't believe the seeds haven't been chosen in a more sensible way, such as combining random seeds provided by different parties with competing interests, also including hardware RNGs, etc...

This is because you're looking at it from the perspective of someone living in 2023 with knowledge of what happened between the 90s and now. While that would have been a good way to go, at the time few people would have seen the need for it.
I remember getting my 9800 GT GPU to work a bit longer this way.

I was playing Mount & Blade back then, but noticed that the polygons would glitch out (e.g. vertices in random locations instead of where they should have been, like stretched out 3D models), shortly after which there would be screen artifacts (random colored pixels) and it would all freeze. After that, the PC would fail to boot.

I took the GPU out, propped it up on some tin foil balls, put it into the oven on over 210 C for a while and after that it would start working again. Seems like something was wrong with the card though, because eventually the temperatures would get to 90-100 C and it would crash, but until that point I put it in the oven like 3-4 times and it seemed to work for a little bit every single time.

After that I replaced it with a GTX 650, which still runs to this day in a now friend's computer.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is the Whole Game Studio [video]
This is actually a very strong moat. Note that there is some precedent for this: Windows and Office. Those are just as strong and they've kept MS in business for the last 40 years modulo some non-competitive behavior and strong arming 'partners' in exactly the same way that Google does.

Take that power away and suddenly you can have some actual competition. That of course would take a number of legal systems (laws, judges, governments) to hold the line. I'm not very optimistic about that.
> Now at least some care is taken, and some spaces bought and configured large air filter systems to allow unmasking without infection risk.

You mean reduced infection risk. It's impossible to eliminate completely. And my gut feeling tells me that most people overestimate the amount of risk reduction caused by these air filters.
But if you had a 53k Mac Pro you probably wouldn’t be using it to develop VisionOS apps. Anyone who’s spending that kind of money is probably using it for some kind of specialised workflow which needs 1500gb of RAM and which probably won’t change much in the future, maybe something like processing 16k video, complex CG rendering, simulations etc
Ask HN: Examples of software/websites with good backward compatibility in UI/UX?
I am looking for examples of software and websites which do not drastically change their UI/UX every few years. The longer the software or website has been around the better it is. Looking for examples that have been around for 10-20 years but have kept their UI and UX mostly unchanged.

Why I care: Because changing the default UI input controls or changing their placement or changing how the software solves problems every few years is disruptive to efficient use of the software. I have to re-learn where those controls are or how to solve my problem in the new design.

Some examples I know that maintain good backward compatibility in their UI/UX: Vim, Emacs, Hacker News, lwn.net.

What other examples do you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...

Deal with it
this is what people always suggest. read the code that is already there.

my experience has been that you quickly need to then learn how several other major parts of the kernel work which is non trivial and something i struggle with.

there is also no comments in the code which makes it even harder.

and the books that are there are not up to date with recent kernels AFAIK.
The prize is supposedly awarded to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Hmmm. Well. I don't quite see how formenting revolution fits the bill, but the Peace Prize has been very strange of late in general.

By its own lights, I don't see a single person or entity who would deserve the prize this mad year. Maybe there's some ethicist somewhere...
The Hamburg CCC were my favorite. The Leipzig ones just didn't feel the same. But sad that its less people.
So they can include new pipe, and had ad-free youtube as a killer app. Gmail can be replaced with literally any email client, and maps also has alternatives.

No idea what a Google Now or a Hangout is.
Cave of Altamira
Yeah, lots of hotels in the $100-160/night range in Hamburg especially during that time window. The Radisson (attached) is unfortunately pretty expensive, especially for a Radission Blu, but very convenient especially if the weather is inclement, and being able to run back to the room throughout the day (vs a 0.5-1km trip by foot or car or whatever) is really nice. Radisson cancellation policy of one MONTH in advance is pretty annoying, though.
Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js
> Snark aside, I really hope the community gets back on track and addresses these isses.

Not entirely sure if I understand your comment. Obviously all of these things can be done for the "good" and the "bad" and most of these are quite complex to discuss. But about "Electronic Voting systems", I'm quite sure humanity is technologically able to make it at least as reliable as paper votes with some machines even printing out paper receipts and keeping a separate paper trail. (Also considering that most people aren't tech-savvy) But has anyone succeeded making a system that also reputable hackers "approve"? The German Covid App got the design it has now only after lots of public backlash.
Cool project !
It would be nice if the README displayed the ram (and vram for GPUs) needed to run it on a device.
Because Windows lets a process link to a library that has already been initialized by another process, so the process cant share its mutex during initialization, becaus the initialization has allready happend.

volotile gives you some decired propperties when multi-threadding, it is observable and therfor order rependent, but it does not have release/aquire semantics and it is not required to syncronize changes to other processors, so you need to use atomic intrincics in conjunction with volatile types. Volatile alone is NOT enough to be thread safe.
As per usual the problem isn't the technology or the tools, it's the dumb meatbag using them.

This teacher should have thought "hmm, well if I'm going to pull up students on this then it's probably important I do my own research to make sure that I know that the score means and how reliable it is" but nope.

"LLMs are bad cause people will use them to generate spam and fake news!" LLMs aren't the bad actor there...it's the human doing the spamming.

There is a fine line, though. For example the "guns don't kill people argument" is pretty moot, gun control saves lives. If someone grabs an LLM, tells it to "generate text telling young impressionable teens to kill themselves" and spam it on Twitter...well the human is doing bad stuff but they're still enabled by the LLM. However it's easy to enact something like gun control on a physical object. Software? Well, damn that's gonna a problem - especially when the metric by which these LLMs "do better" is how closely the text resembles a hooman.
The time-on-wing before overhaul advertised for the CFM56 is 10'000 hours.

Now, take your car, drive it for that long at 50 kph, and you come out at 500'000 km (or 312'500 miles, if that's how you tick.) before major components need inspecting and/or changing.

That's how good the parts are, and how well the traceability of those parts is working.
Scored 81% on my second try, not sure I deserved such a high score though. My image looked like a version of the original that an AI image generator would generate but it wasn't 81% close to the original. Any insight into what's driving how close images are supposed to match?
(also sometimes you might just want to take a break or move somewhere different without starting from scratch)
Didn't notice it at first, but this is Ruben Santamarta's site.
I am far from understanding the technical details.

But it feels like they severly violated the rule of not running your own cryptography. If they had used TLS the MITM would have been much less likely as long as the app does not accept user-defined cerificates?
Phoenix is super fun, but it is in completely different realm than rails :)

What about all the gems Ruby has, does one really have all he needs inside Elixir/Erlang? More complex stuff like NokoGiri, Haml, etc., that works well and is maintained.
Yeah I remember TurnItIn. It sucked hard. And of course all Uni staff put 100% trust in it to be completely infallible and not be a piece of crap bit of software.
A Tell HN is like an Ask HN, it’s to be used to post text to the community. If you’re sharing a link, that’s a regular submission.
What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
What's the difference between this and Google showing you ads in search?
What's the difference between this and Facebook showing you ads?
What's the difference between this and YouTube showing you ads?
Not a name known to me. But he seems to understand his business.
What’s limiting you to taking jobs in just your country? I’ve got a gal working for me in Nepal out of all places. Previously had a guy in Jamaica.
Sounds like. A microwave problem
Blacklisted Chinese Chip Maker Does a Thriving Business with U.S.
archive: https://archive.ph/wxI1k
Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration
CAM Automated for 3 axis CNC Milling
That’s amazing. Next year, this means that next year nobody will do it at all, until a forced vacation is called. Throw a Tampermonkey script in & you’re literally golden.
What a terrible format. No information directly related to the claim in the title in the first 5 minutes.
> I honestly think that it's mostly virtue signalling, i.e. showing that you're a good member of the scene.

Completely agree. At the beginning of the pandemic, people who opposed the restrictions were considered selfish and showing a lack of solidarity, if not harmful. It quickly turned out that right-leaning people were more likely to oppose the restrictions. This turned the mask already into a symbol of virtue signaling which seemed to stuck with a certain part of the population.

It seems that the only people left caring about COVID restrictions are left-leaning academics who, since I rarely encounter them IRL, spend a lot of time online. So exactly what the CCC is.
I'm happy with my Samsung laser printer and would recommend it except HP bought the company and discontinued the good ones. I think their strategy is to own all the things and then extort us.
Durability theory in databases and how Memgraph achieves durability
I wrote a shot a blog post that scrapes the surface of durability theory in databases and how Memgraph achieves durability. Please let me know what you think about it.
Flipper Zero Transparent – Flipper Shop
It was not fully serious banter, yes. :-)

> When it does work, it works great.

That, unfortunately, does not currently apply the Lockheed dog though..
Except it's not simply an interchange format, TAP is human-readable enough that a lot of people are going to just look at the TAP output and not bother installing a TAP consumer.
It's a combination of virtue signaling/perceiving the risk to be higher than others perceive it to be (right or wrong; not commenting on the merits), and the long lead times/limited financial reserves the org has in planning events.

The go/no go decision had to be made months before, and there was some risk of covid restrictions being in place in December which would have made the event suck or not happen. Probably harder to cancel a single event in, say, 2019 over that level of risk, but easier to continue not running it in 2020, 2021, and then in 2022, I think. I really hope it happens this year.
> the Peace Prize has been very strange of late in general.

Remember when a man received the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush?
Polonius Update – Inside Rust Blog
You only get a cool paper with lots of citations if you actually do find a new attack. If you spend a four year PhD searching and come up with nothing, which is what the field tells you to expect, then you end up with nothing. At the NSA you get a four year salary, maybe even a promotion, who knows.
I think the idea is that it could but it would be impossible to know that. It can be fun to speculate but by definition it is impossible to know. It's not just that light can't get in at us, it's that literally the idea of causality cannot travel fast enoigh to reach us. I believe our light cone will keep expanding slightly before accelerated expansion takes over and starts reducing it but that timescale will far far outlive us humans.

As it stands right now there is an impenetrable barrier. All of our modern theories and technology for astrophysics and cosmology emerged recently. We haven't know about the big bang for 100 years even. I think it's highly likely that our views on these things will change. For all we know we could be inside a hyperbig black hole inside some much larger universe. We can make models that fit what we're able to see and then use those to extrapolate the things we cannot. But we cannot see what we cannot see.

By the way, to me, "unobservable is not unknowable", sounds pretty philosophy to me. All of the physics we cannot observe, we currently cannot explain. Maybe some day with some great minds leap nobody saw coming, maybe hundreds of those, but everything i not of that cannot be observed cannot be known certainly. There must be some interaction, whether we're seeing gravitational waves, light, high energy particles doesn't matter, they still all travel at the speed of light and will be outpaced by expansion at some point.
> Put it another way, if we had a 3000 year ice age start tomorrow, that was ended with a comet impact that melted the ice in a couple of months with biblical flooding (or any of a host of other possible apocalypses), how confident would you be that remnants of our civilization would be traceable 15,000 years hence?

Very. We found paintings and cut flints from the tiny number of humans living during the last Ice Age; the foundations of London and NY and Beijing and Sydney are a bit harder to miss!

More to the point, I don't think HNers need to keep an open mind over whether someone whose
most basic claims about the site (perfect compass orientation) can be refuted with a casual glance at a contour map (and who also writes books about Hitler living in an Antarctica base!) might have some great understanding about the cosmic significance of the site everyone else has missed. Except him whilst appealing for government funding excavations that would "break a cloud of negative energy"

It's the difference between believing that extraterrestrial intelligence plausibly exists and is possibly even likely, and believing that ET is a documentary
37 points and flagged
I'm pretty sure he does. “The terms of service prohibits deep linking” is a pretty unambiguous phrase, and it is prohibited indeed:

> Additionally, you agree not to, and will not assist, encourage, or enable others to: [...] Deep-link to any portion of the Services any purpose without our express written permission

The fact that the back link is broken on that very page adds yet another level of irony here though.
"Since World War II, the Peace Prize has principally been awarded to honour efforts in four main areas: arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world. In the 21st century the Nobel Committee has embraced efforts to limit the harm done by man-made climate change and threats to the environment as relevant to the Peace Prize." [0]

Narges is one of the most inspiring women in confronting the inhumane regime of the Islamic Republic, which never stops committing crimes. A regime that sent a 16-year-old girl into a coma just a few days ago because of her hijab [1]. Narges spent most of her life in the most dangerous prisons in Iran for her activities, and I think this award was not only for her, but also for the all oppressed women in Iran in the last four decades.

[0] https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-prize/about-the-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/03/iran-activists...
I just follow https://events.ccc.de/

The announcements are inconsistently made in English; usually it's up in German first (which is reasonable given it's a German org and most of the attendees...)
Which is why hands-on learning combined with source material is best practice for children, imo. Taking several disks and demonstrating that the thicknesses double but diameter is the same, letting the kids try hitting them and noting the differences in tone.

Asking the children "why do you think these sound different?" without telling them why first, letting them explore it themselves, gently correcting them along the way. Then pulling out another example and encouraging them to apply the same logic to the new example.

No, instead for the most part, children _still_ get what we all had: memorise these facts without explanation and fill out the blank space on the exam where the memorised words get you points. Most of our entire schooling is just an exercise in memorisation, not in thought and it's sad.
I disagree. For companies that I’m really passionate about working for I’ll craft a custom cover letter where I try to explain why I want to work for that company in particular and include some information about my experience. Sure most of the experience is in the CV but my passion for the company and the market they operate in doesn’t come across in my CV. I’m a PM not a dev of that makes a difference
Huawei did it. Samsung can too.
I wonder why do they need the whole secure channel thing instead of making the card hold a client certificate and use standard mutual TLS with their backend server.
That knowledge, contrary to what used to be their core business, hasn't been lost apparently..
Relative to infinity, anything finite is small. I agree with OP, if anything it should be "finite universe".
I've regularly attended C3 since back when it was still in Berlin and I'm not sure growing the event every year is desirable. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with the goal of making it more accessible to everyone and I know the "ticket lottery" is miserable, especially if you don't end up getting one.

But the overall vibe of the event definitely changed for the worse (imho) with the move to Leipzig simply because the venue there is mostly focused on trade fairs and thus just so much more wide-open with everything much further apart. In Hamburg you'd constantly run across people you know in the hallways due to the compact horizontal layout, and the overall atmosphere was just a bit cozier. It was still a great event in Leizpig, but for me at least it really didn't compare to the previous iterations in Hamburg.

It's definitely a difficult trade-off to make and I'm glad I'm not the one making these decisions.
Does that stuff actually work for some people?

My issue is that I don't give a shit about other people outside of those I care about. imo the whole coach thing is a cottage industry of bullshit artists.

If Linus Torvalds wanted to give me advice/coach me I'd damn well listen, even if I disagreed with it (and I'd question if I'm right because Linus is that good).

But the random joe blow whose entire career is coaching? I just have no respect for it.