skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common to portray government mass surveillance as only dangerous to people who are commiting crimes. That could not be further from the truth. As you say, criminals will already have means to avoid the surveillance. Whereas ordinary people will have their every transaction logged. Then leaked. Then used against them by corrupt local officials and criminals who get access to the information. And that's not even getting into the risks from government policy changes making formerly legal behavior illegal (like, say, abortion in the USA).
>Yes. They're called teachers. Talk to some.

GP was asking for data and your provided anecdotes. It seems the issues in our education systems go back to when you were in them.
I feel like the iOS scroll bars fall into this a lot as well. They’re so hard to consistently get with you finger
I don’t think this is UX/UI designers not knowing/caring about accessibility. It’s their bosses saying the tiny scrollbar is preferred because it sells 20% more due to the aesthetics being better. Who cares about the 0.5% of disabled people that weren’t likely to buy your app anyway.

Same for browsers, FF may care about accessibility, but they won’t lose the browser wars (bit of a moot point by now, but eh) because most people like Chrome’s tiny scrollbars.
> Although no state is openly attempting to automate its nuclear weapons systems

What about the Perimeter/Dead Hand system from the Soviet Union/Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
This is the latest one, an open-source Basecamp alternative, https://managee.xyz
I find it ironic that in order for your comment to be accessible the reader must lookup “a11y” to find that it means “accessibility”.
"This week, Ms. Ellison testified that she had begun cooperating with federal prosecutors after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided her parents' home, seizing electronic devices from her, her mother and her boyfriend, who was staying at the house at the time."

It boggles the mind to consider the amount of criminal proceeds FTX and thus Alameda may have been receiving. "Cryptocurrency exchanges" are effectively "banks" for criminals.
Thank you! It was actually Chrome releasing the ability to open a sidebar using a context menu action that sparked the idea.

I absolutely plan to support firefox. I figured I should get things working well in one browser first before looking into porting, but consider it on the near term todo list.
So many Patagonia jackets are bought at REI and worn at companies that employ many hackers.

I wonder how common it is as a clothier of hackers. For the past few years I think I end up buying a lot of their lightweight hiking pants for travel and office work. And REI is the best store I’ve found to actually go in and check out stuff before buying.
I'm a decade older than you, have a PhD, in corporate research doing AI and feel EXACTLY the same way.

Early on, I had multiple opportunities to make a life in the Bay area. I stupidly did not take those opportunities.

My coding skills are no longer competitive and I am competing (and getting out-gunned) at the highest level.

Some of the suggestions here to build something you care about feel to ring true. I am also mulling this. It is hard to make time for this later in life but I feel there is no other way. I am also mulling taking a big pay cut and relocate the family to the Bay area. It feels very risky but I feel I won't be able to live with myself.
You said "punish" so many times. Punishing unruly kids doesn't stop them being unruly. They just learn to hate the system and everything in it.

I got expelled from 2 kindergardens, and then was sent to a Montessori school. Where I was fine, even helpful.

"the beatings will continue until behaviour improves" just doesn't work, has never worked.

Maybe we shouldn't have one school experience for all the kids. Maybe some kids work fine with an authoritarian system and like having a set of rules to follow. Other kids don't.
oh yeah I think it's the same for the other person too -- theirs is set to only be visible to Goodreads users
> But the pro’s obviously outweigh the cons in the same way the internet and smart phones have

I suspect we're just starting to realize the extent of the cons for both of those things. The internet we probably have to accept was worth it, but you can probably already imagine ways that smart phones could be abused today which would be far worse than the convinces they offer. We're just sort of hoping that those types of abuses wont happen or aren't already happening.

The problem we have is that good tech designed to work for us is increasingly being turned against us, and new tech is being explicitly designed from day one to be adversarial. I'm already avoiding a lot of technology and modifying other technology to avoid the harms. No way would I ever risk handing direct access/control of my brain to a third party who wants to exploit me.
Carnegie Mellon sounds like Car, Negi (green onion) and Melon. Massachusetts is known for difficult to pronounce.
> How did the cop know that it was intentional? She remarked that there was no car in sight, neither left nor right, on a straight road in town.

Not to be nitpicky, but if that were the case, wouldn't she have seen the cop?
Extrapolating this, it seems like future spacecraft interior planning and design will need to consider the hygiene and safety implications of flying pets.

Generally, disinfection/cleaning in zero-g must be much harder, because bacteria/dust go into all directions, not just primarily to the ground and top surfaces.
The truly disruptive students will likely receive no meaningful education regardless.
That’s a compulsory license, though. If you pay the fee, you’re allowed to play the music.
> official Google Camera

Oh - so official it won't install on any Android device I own?
I wouldn't say they're being silly no. Think of what is going to happen when anyone on planet earth can make any kind of photo realistic propaganda materials they want. Imagine somewhere else on the planet with tensions between two communities like Israel-Hamas. Now imagine you're someone with an agenda. You can now create videos and news reports in the blink of an eye showing one faction murdering some kids from the other. Target some unstable "pizzagate" individuals with the videos and then wait for one of them to go on a vengeance rampage with the hope that it actually sparks a real riot or war.

Or imagine there's a presidential election and one candidate wants to take down the other. So they buy your psychological profile from some data broker, then create a deep fake video of the candidate reading a speech tailored to make you dislike them.

You don't even have to go so large scale. Imagine you're a teenager and you're mad because someone else is making moves on the person you fancy. So you decide to create a video of this love rival kicking a dog outside the school and upload it to Youtube under a fake account and then spread it round the school.

It will get to the point where you cannot trust anything you see on the internet anymore. Laws are absolutely going to have to be created and rewritten to take into account this new reality. I strongly suspect all social media accounts will need to be tied to ID numbers like passports or social security at some point within the next 20 years.
Yeah it seems stupid to ban them instead of identifying (and probably arresting for support of terrorism) anyone taking part at them.

But as it's often the case it's easier to sweep the problems under the rug.

There was a demonstration in my city as well tonight, I'm still in shock.

But it's obvious that Europe is filled with antisemitic immigrants if you don't even ask them their beliefs before allowing them to stay.
very generous return policy

really useful if you have a predilection for camping on the sidewalk
Same here. What sort of work do you do? I feel like I need a support group.
I run into so many websites that I think are completely broken because they have a scollable popover or some other weird element, but it's impossible to tell that there is content because the scroll bar is hidden on this small interior frame.

Absolutely infuriating. I blame iOS and macOS for encouraging this insanity and starting the fashion trend, and tangentially whoever pushed along this whole "flat" UI trend that makes it so hard to guess at what is what.

UI is communication, and UI designers have decided that mumbling is cool.
It's almost like it advocates for a fundamentally better support/welfare system in America.

Because... that's what is basically happening in the military.
If you have an Android phone or tablet, try Newpipe. It can even import YouTube subscriptions.
Windows still has the Classic Theme; it's just hidden. https://old.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/11qq0qi/why_did_mi...
This is why labor organizing is so important.

The Hollywood writers got major protections against AI exploitation in their new deal, and surely SAG will follow with their own version. Hollywood can’t exist without its writers or actors and they’ve made it clear to the executive class that they will not take these changes lying down.
Here is evidence: large crowds of extras have already been replaced by CGI. This is a list of 10 movies with the most number of extras: https://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/10-movies-with-the-most-n.... The most recent entry on the list is from 2003 (~20K extras). Why would anyone hire 20K people for a movie today?
There would traditionally been another TOCTOU is the described solution, namely hardlinks. This can often be used to get root to do something to a file it shouldn't.

The trad solution is to have user writeable areas (home, vartmp, tmp) on different volumes. Some tools have options to not traverse symlinks across volumes for this and other reasons. But on modern systems you are protected by the fs.protected_hardlinks setting.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Sysctl.conf
> examine the logic of many others

>I only trust the logic of those who have proven to have very good moral character as well as high intelligence and much knowledge

Can you explain your epistemological system in more detail?

How do you evaluate claims of fact? Through what process would you demonstrate that a claim is true or false?

For example, would you claim that the process of logic that Franz Haber used on matters about Chemistry to create fertilizer, is incorrect because he used the same methods (in conflict with the proscription of their use by the Hague) to invent chemical warfare gasses that killed thousands in WWI?

What about Bill Shockley? He was an ardent white supremacist yet we live on top of his research in semiconductors
I wonder what is really going on. If you check DBEngines you can see ArangoDB has been stagnant for years https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/ArangoDB

I do not see at this level of popularity big clouds to start provide ArangoDB as a service to really compete with them

Is this an act of desperation to raise some additional funds, telling to investors they are protected from cloud competition ? Something else ?
I have come to a funny realisation recently. It's not my eyesight which is becoming worse, it's the UIs which are becoming worse. The tiny scrollbars with laughable contrast are in no way accessible to anyone. I've recently switched to using KDE with the Oxygen theme and it's a joy to use without any eye strain.

These scrollbars are absolutely pathetic, with no room for customisation. (good luck theming a locked-down application) It's blatant how UI designers don't give a damn about the users' needs, not even in FOSSland. I am not entirely sure why this is the case but it's a sad regression from the days when we had good-looking, functional, accessible and snappy software. Not locked-down, unthemable electron bullshit.

Also, we wouldn't need "dark mode" or the such if the UIs had any contrast and were legible.
https://youtube.com/shorts/L6OlyV9z2lM?si=rp5BR_eB0Y87yCXt

I'm working on an adapter to plug a USB controller into an Atari 2600. The above video shows my first working proof of concept. Currently only supports HID devices with a fixed button mapping, and acts like a joystick controller.
Designing a Metastable System for Your Home
https://grugnotes.com A simpler note taking app -- about a year of baking, but still feeling pretty half done. Started as a scratch my own itch for replacing roam, now with some mild ambition to be a 'blue collar' notion like app. Still some massive holes like no imports, exports, docs, tos, onboarding videos etc. But pleased with my progress on speed, sync, search, whisper, and other features. It's been a fun way keep up with ai space, but a slow climb into self sustaining product. Still highly motivated and looking forward to the next year!
Relatedly, "i18n" is hard for non-native speakers to understand too, how ironically apt.
My own ~2019 rant on the ongoing deprecation of scrollbars appears to have succumbed to another digital scourge: bitrot.

The HN submission (320 comments) here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356511>

Ello has been down for months now with issues at TalentHouse AG (apparently in or near bankruptcy), and archives of that site at both the Wayback Machine and the (usually successful) Archive Today ... show no actual content best I can tell.

Sigh.
So clean energy cars will smell like clean restrooms?
Do Gnome and GTK sell any better because they use tiny scrollbars? Or Macs, or Windows? Apps do what the OS let them do.
TIL you can actually drag Scrollbars on iOS. They are so tiny I would never have assumed they react to a touch.
https://dashdashhard.com

I had a contract recently where I got very familiar with render.com, and I figured I'd do some blogging about some of the things I learned, with some tips and tricks to learn how to write technical content.

It's been a lot of fun to help people on the internet with something I've learned a lot about!
Perhaps, but I think a large part of this is designers assuming the scrollbar isn't actually for scrolling anymore, and treating is as simply a position indicator. Which for users who exlusively use a trackpad/touchscreen/scrollwheel for scrolling, it is. Ignorance tends to be the largest cause of accessibility issues.
Which cloud provider is it, if you don’t mind sharing?
> They're known for having a very open return policy

Sadly not so much. Now it’s a one year limited warranty and I’ve been hassled about returning things because they ended up not fitting right.

They used to be great and would take anything back for any reason. And this always led to me buying tons more stuff.

With the new policy, I buy much less. Especially since the REI brand is pretty low quality now and no one supports it other than REI during that year.
https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/

Basically you put in the name of your friends and family and they fight to the death in a violent Game of Thrones-esque world to see who will emerge as victor.

Works pretty well, the stories vary in quality pretty dramatically (one story had a prince marry his sister, had an heir, than had his sister killed!), but I am proud of how it all turned out.

I finished up 90% of the features and never got the last 10% done, really wanted to get voice over support added in there, as well as more sound effect and better animations.
What are you even on about?

I'm talking about widespread suppression of Jews, whether Christianized or not, that is documented before and in the aftermath of the first Jewish-Roman war, which occurred 68-74AD.

There's no empire-spanning conspiracy lasting centuries, but a continual massage of what came before to justify the current status quo, an extremely similar dynamic as what is recognized by biblical scholars when treating the Old Testament.
https://meetfebin.com/apps/filmflow Uses GPT for visualizing and analyzing the emotional pulse of films.
A bit tangential, but I'm not sure I could ever play D&D on a VTT. I understand the allure of playing over the internet in general, because you can pick outlandish times and don't have to be geographically collocated. But for me, D&D is more than moving tokens around, it's primarily about the roleplay, about acting out a character and seeing someone's full facial, verbal, and non-verbal responses. If I want to push tokens around I'll play some multiplayer RPG computer game.
Plumber does not do 50/50. I'm not kidding, the helper could not speak any English. And now, I end up explaining it. If you don't bring measurable value, you are dispensable regarding of HR speak.
Sure is cheap, but I don't think the weight is correct. For example, the tent in this 880 grams alone (almost 2lbs). The sleeping bag/quilt is 626 grams, or around 1.6 lbs. The backpack is 765 grams or 1.7lbs. So that's 5.3lbs for just those three things. I'm assuming the price of an entire kit will also be more.

We haven't even gotten to clothes.
this is such a cool scheme and has extremely talented people working in it. glad to see it progressing.
if you have an Android, then you'll need to go to Goodreads on your browser, bc the Goodreads Android app doesn't have a way to get a link to your profile as far as I could tell.

If you have an iPhone there's a little snippet of instructions on the home page of projecttbr.com (it's not visible when you look at the example I linked to)
This seems quite misleading. Generally, lighter gear costs more, for one thing. Second, going by the shopping list posted below about someone making it at just over 5 lbs, that works fine if you never go into high altitude or anywhere with very bad weather, but you're going to need more if you do. Also, it's listing "0.14 lbs" of food and water, which is obvious bullshit. That's only showing the weight of the containers. You can't actually live very long off of 10 grams of water and 20 calories of food and you're not going to get by not carrying any unless you're both following a river the entire way and you're a hell of a hunter, but also apparently not carrying any hunting equipment.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/04/07/why-peopl....
That’s literally what everyone does within their party to pretty much anyone. He’s still the defacto face of the GOP, no matter how much they want to change it.

As tenuous as it may be, it’s stronger than anyone else’s!
> Maybe the solution is to improve the accessibility tools, not hack scrollbars

I doubt you meant it, but your post reads like you're advocating less-abled people purchase (often expensive) eye-trackers instead of making scrollbars generally more usable for everyone.
https://soft-wa.re/ It's a blog.
OK. Do you have any actual counterargument, or just your sense of disbelief?

> Do you also worry Supervolcano anytime anybody digs a hole?

No. The risk is not remotely comparable.
I am curious which leap day system you use for the French Republican calendar. Most popular versions of the calendar I see floating around just use the Gregorian leap year system, which I don't like because it yields the wrong results in the year the calendar was in use. Yet, I don't see mental math as a viable option when using the original date-of-equinox method used during the revolution.
The idea is to connect a little big larger groups that you have in mind, people that have something in common. Something like "single dog owners in Finland", "single people in Finland who like to hike", who have existing communities, for exmplae in Facebook. Such groups seem to have 1-10K members. I think the sweet spot is communities with so many members that simple Facebook introduction threads are no longer feasible, but people still have something in common that they strongly identify with.
I'm building Mass Driver[1], a tool to automate PR creation across many (many) repos, building a library of reusable changes via "patchdriver" plugins.

The repos can be fed as list on CLI, via file, or via a "source" type plugin (allows github search or custom API calls), the PR creation works via a "Forge" plugin.

Resulting PR list can be fetched to review status:

> Of 113 given PRs, 73 merged, 30 closed not merged, 5 ready to merge (no conflict), 5 with conflicts.

I've created hundreds of PRs with it via github app integration, see the plugins repo[2].

[1]: https://jiby.tech/mass-driver/usage.html
[2]: https://github.com/OverkillGuy/mass-driver-plugins.html
I agree, a lot of disruptive kids are not highly disadvantaged. Their problem is a bad environment that helped develop their worst attitudes, so they do enjoy disrupting, bullying, and seeing other kids and grown-ups dumbfounded and hurt.

This is not good for them already. The current public school system just keeps helping them develop these valuable antisocial skills. These kids keep thinking that everyone around are weak fools, and that their disruptive behavior is a way to win.

A different environment, where there is nobody to easily bully, where the grown-ups are not bemused or annoyed by their conduct but expect outbreaks and are prepared to handle them, where the kids are shown different examples of adult behavior that they are used to, might help. More, well-prepared psychologists who definitely should be present in such a school would help these kids understand themselves, their disruptive impulses, why these impulses are ultimately bad, and what ways out are there. These kids are still kids, many not even teenagers. They are still actively learning what a social life is; giving them a good example tailored to them is utterly important.

I do not expect 100% success rate, but I'm pretty certain that it might work much better than a typical helpless public school.
Loading environment variables from a .env file if it exists is no different between development and production.

You just set the variables at startup in prod, and in the file on development (probably mostly because you want to change them all the time).
Better idea would be mass cloning badges and flood checking in at multiple sites (it's amazing what unhappy engineers can build, especially if they are experience in aerials of remote access). Forced them to spend money researching a better system, meanwhile giving garbage results.
Kind of a big difference between the two.
I'm saying that, the one thing I know about looks like obvious nonsense -- "write your logs to stdout and let someone else sort it out" -- so I assume the rest of it is equally facile and silly.

So now, when I see a reference to "12 factor app" I assume "ah, a hello world app from someone who's going to leave and let someone else figure out how to make it work in the real world at real loads with real regulatory or compliance needs"

In other words, for me, it's a shibboleth for "toy" or "unserious piece of shit"

There may, in fact, be parts of the guidance that aren't deeply incorrect. But anyone who points at it as a way to do things, without caveats, is suspect.
> And while the bars were shrinking, another feature silently disappeared: buttons to click and hold down to scroll left/right in increments.

This feature still exists, with a larger clickable surface, but with lower affordance – the entire area above and below the scroll bar is a "button" for exactly that purpose.
Thsi is important for all founders to understand.

If founders go into YC knowing the large risk they are taking - that’s all good and well.