skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those VC powered companies selling WASM containers in Kubernetes as if application servers weren't a thing 20 years ago, or IBM isn't shipping TIMI execuatbles for decades.

Or talking about how "safe" WASM happens to be, while there are already some USENIX papers slowly making their appearance regarding WASM based attacks.
> The entire point of the US system at birth was for excise taxes to exist

Could you please elaborate?
That gets real messy real fast!
Two comments on that:

1) I wonder if the exploit here works with passcode lock on? I suspect it does not, because there’s no mention of passcode entry in the steps.

2) My rebuttal was going to be ‘but most kiosk devices don’t allow access to the power button’ - but this exploit requires that too.
Wild guess, it could have something to do with location - either IP location or whatever is selected in the search, or a combination of both.

No idea if that's the case though.
18km/s is almost understated in terms of speed, so I looked it up to more familiar measures of speed: 65,000kph or 40,000mph. The only thing I really learned here was how even in the thousands of miles or km per hour, it’s just inconceivable how fast that is. Km per second was a better measure after all.
Iryo and Ouigo only arrived in Spain recently. They are selling tickets at cost or even below cost to gain some market share. Ouigo has already stopped some routes because the losses were insurmountable even in a promotional period.

If you want to look at actual prices, look at RENFE (AVE) prices. Even RENFE's own AVLO loses money, it's there only to counter Iryo and Ouigo until they will rise prices or go bankrupt.
That's interesting. But it doesn't use BEP-46, right?

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html (discussion on HN at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282601)
The examples given appear to all prior to the change of government in Australia last year.

The former Prime Minister, Scotty from Marketing, was famously heavy handed and self serving with respect to his image (and by extension what he thought the image of Australia should be). As a prominent member of a particular big tent evangelical church he never did abide with the notion that man might impact the world.

This is about the suppression of direct personal testimony on the effects of climate from senior scientists that were part of the government research teams generally under a CSIRO umbrella.

Papers were published, reporters were advised, articles were printed, but certain types of strong language was edited out and direct interviews with particular people were denied in various ways - the article alleges.
Ships are safe when they're docked, but that's not what they're built for
Some weird variant of "pig butchering scam"?

https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-sc...
Never used it, so can't say anything about it. I prefer `pass`. It certainly fits my bill, and is easy for me to audit myself.
your comment made me laugh, but -

you could say the same thing about alcohol, and I think you'd agree that alcohol is not an entirely benign substance.
Similar experience, good job on the change
Also the fact that this CPU is still running at all, after such long time in such hostile environment (radiation, temperatures)!
> France, Germany, the Northern European countries were wealthy before the EU became the EU as we know it today.

When China was still suffering through the effects of Mao, when India was still a British colony, when Brazil was still under the influence of Portugal, sure.

So sure, Europe could have coasted on the spoils of the colonial era a bit longer, but if Europe wants a table in the 21st century with the US and the rise of India and China, then Europe needs to be a unified bloc out of pure demographic reality.

As a recent example, in a world without the EU, would the countries that are in the EU have been able to stand up to Russia last year in the gas supply? I certainly think Germany at least would have blinked.
Sent to Voyager 2 first, since Voyager 1 is further out so its readings are more valuable.

So... testing in production in a secondary market.
The single biggest design factors on whether a car will kill someone they hit, is its weight and height. And cars are significantly heavier and taller than they need to be.
The PDF is now standardized as ISO 32000, it's open for everyone to create compatible tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
I both love and hate it at the same time, well done.
Their latest patch was actually converting the entire app to use npm. Let's hope the poor probe has enough memory.
Lots of contradictory studies, but this write-up[0] suggests 1 in 5 people have them _if_ they suddenly stop them rather than tapering them off.

0: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/discontinuation-syndrome...
> Take Japan as an example: houses are considered a depreciating asset, like cars.

Is there anywhere that doesn't consider a house a depreciating asset?

Housing differs from cars as it is much more common to see people rebuild houses back to new condition, to upgrade them to use modern technology, etc. That effort can retain the outward value of a house as you basically have a new house again, but the deprecation cost is paid during those updates and modifications. You haven't escaped it.
How Replit Is Empowering Global Developers – Akashdeep's Story
They are hard at work putting it in the Oort cloud.
> The point is that either there will be locked-down child devices or there will be total surveillance, ban of encryption and much worse things in the name of children safety.

Why is that a given?
What does naturalearth have that OSM doesn't? I checked the site and it's showing what looks like a subset of OSM
That's very cool!

Does this serve decentralized "web app" through bittorrent?

Do I need your client to seed it, or can something like qbittorrent seed it?

Will I seed only the last version of the page or all versions? Can someone download an earlier version or list all past versions?
SumatraPDF is among the OSS PDF tools I use.

Since Adobe is pushing a more aggressive stance for monetization of Acrobat, I am trying to replace selected PDF workflows with OSS. Here are some of the tools I use.

qpdf
removing passwords, unlocking PDFs, conversion
install in WSL with apt-get install qpdf
remove password with qpdf --decrypt --password="" input.pdf output.pdf
PDF4QT - Open Source PDF Editing
Deleting, Sorting, Extracting Pages
Currently, no choco release available, must be installed manually from PDF4QT/releases
Inkscape, LibreOffice Draw
editing PDFs, adding text
Mupdf
Command line tool and Python package for parsing, filling forms, adding text
SumatraPDF
Viewing of PDFs
pdfplumber
Awesome python package to extract tables from PDFs into data pipelines. Use with Jupyter Lab
I don't think WebKit can embed NSViews either? At least not unless you modify the source code, iirc there are still some bits of the old Netscape plugin code still there.

The hard part isn't native embedding web, it's that if you start with web you then can't easily stick a native view into e.g. an iframe.
very true.

That said, a good friend (or more) who has experience with psychedelics can also really help.
This is true.

Also, high-speed trains are a lot (2x, 3x or more) more expensive than the traditional trains were, for a very small time savings (15-20%) in many cases, which means a lot of people cannot afford to travel by train anymore. So yes, high-speed trains transformed people's lives but not always in a positive manner.
FYI if using GitHub, on github.com pull request page, press `.`, or change domain name to github.dev.

This will open VSCode in browser, with the pull request in diff view.

Advantages:

- you see whole files there

- diff algo is different than on github.com, sometimes more readable for complex diffs
Have you considered it might be the other way around? The people that things happened to work out for now feel optimistic out of survivorship bias?
Blockchain has the potential to completely replace noteraries, real state deeds, most types of IDs, medical records, all sorts of contracts and digital signing. A lot of government systems could be put on the blockchain and become interoperable with government systems of other countries. It is hard enough to keep medical records systems within a single country already.

This alone is worth billions of dollars in saved bureaucracy overhead. Unfortunately it relies on governments and bureaucrats relishing control of the bureaucracy so it is really hard to push forward. Especially considering there is not a lot of money to be made in these areas, in fact it reduces the amount of money spent on middle-man.

The icing on the cake is that any country that implements a blockchain systems for a certain bureaucratic function will most likely make it open source (for transparency reasons), meaning other countries could just git clone the algorithms and implement any extra requirements. A lot of the prosperity of the west world came from strong, stable, predictable institutions. Those institutions could be automated and exported to the developing world making it much harder for corruption to take place.
That desired view looks a lot like Kaleidoscope (ksdiff). I thought it was a screenshot of that at first.
I have a few Jekyll blogs including my personal one and I haven't had to touch the Jekyll part for quite a while (it takes a while to compile). I just write in Obsidian and then Github takes over.

I also maintain two VitePress[1] sites. Once I setup it up (I still use Sublime Text), I do the writing on Obsidian.

What I write and see in Obsidian is good enough that I have just done away with looking at how the site looks after I change/add/edit the text. I sometimes do but just to check build and if the sitemaps are generated, etc. -- routine hygiene.

1. https://vitepress.dev
That kinda feels like how I review with vim.

* A little scripting around opening the PR, which basically performs a "vimdiff <(git show baseref:file) file"-style dance on the changes(see :h diff). Using vim's tabs is great for this as they're really only views, so you can hold individual buffers open in distinct states at the same time.

* Scroll locking still works as expected in the main view, but you can avoid it in a separate tab when needed.

* [c and ]c move between hunks from the set of changes as they exist in the PR not in the working directory.

* dp and dg allow you to mark hunks as "done" by pushing/pulling the hunk in to the read-only diff buffer so that they're now hidden from the highlighted changes in the live buffer.

* Changes you make in the live buffer are available to commit directly, or push as a comment.

* All your regular editor things work as expected in the current state of the tree; go to definition, build integration, popup docs, etc.

Working like this means you're viewing changes against the PR's base, but have a clean working directory. That, to me, feels like a significant improvement over matklad's solution of having the working directory be in an unclean state to view the changes.

The environment I work in makes this behaviour super nice as changes will often be added with a --fixup commit, and then the tooling mangles them back together with a git-interpret-trailers call to attribute the fixup commit's author to the original commit at merge time. It also pulls text comments out of the PR and attaches a Reviewed-by trailer where appropriate, or the +1 equivalent to tack an Acked-by trailer on.
As someone with roots in Iberian penisula, across both countries, where I lived half of my life and routinely come back to, approaching 50y, anecdotallyis what I see when people are forced to drive from small towns.

Entering big cities is big hassle with the car, yet plenty of people put up with it, due to the convinence that public transport isn't available everywhere, connections get dropped, delayed, or carriages are taking more passengers than they should.
How would it be a "Linux phone" if the only software you could run was web apps? That which defines an OS is its APIs and unique capabilities, anything can act as a bootloader for Chrome.
Hi! Author of this proposal here.

I’m loving all the feedback and wanted to address some things:

* Yes, nonce tracking is expensive. HTTP request signatures could be used instead of nonces—they’re just not fully fleshed out yet, from what I can tell. And a lot of other crypto systems we rely on in Web traffic today also assume proper nonce tracking. Fortunately you only need to track distinct nonces per established session, so you could wait to allocate storage for them until the client actually tries to set up a WebSession, and use a Bloom filter to save on storage at the risk of some false positives for nonce reuse (could be risky if you’re relying on that as tamper evidence, but you could tune your filters accordingly).

* The stuff about the ergonomics of cookies and banners and auto-log-out as they currently are is mostly incidental. I’m just trying to paint a picture of how tighter integration of the notion of a ‘session’ into the browser itself could improve the UX we currently have today.

* Many people have pointed out that this is not stateless. Indeed! This is supposed to be a more secure way of establishing a stateful connection over a stateless protocol, for which there is already a demand which we’re meeting with the least secure possible method (bearer tokens sent in plaintext over the channel). Issues with scalability need to be addressed on the implementation side, but I believe the protocol is still sound and not inherently unscalable (no more than TLS in its current form).

I am going to look for opportunities to fold these points into the document itself, and maybe rearrange some of it so that these points get covered earlier and more clearly.
Looks like the new version Tempest may address some of your thoughts.
Also from your article:

> psychiatrist and former RANZCP president, Prof Malcolm Hopwood, says most people who taper off a standard antidepressant dose will be able to do so without major withdrawal symptoms ... "There’s a _small_ group who really experience significant withdrawal symptoms that they really find very difficult to manage"

Discontinuation symptoms are a real risk, but people who could really benefit from these drugs absolutely shouldn't be put off by a categorization of these symptoms as being typical.
Yet you don't see anyone rushing to buy Windows ARM laptops.
Your appendix burst 20 years ago, your comment is invalid. The gods willed it.
World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
Boosting some accounts and "deboosting" others. Disappearing likes. Yeah, all cool features, free speech absolutism at its best.
They have staging too (an on-Earth copy of the Voyager probe, with all relevant parts fully duplicated).
Even in the software world we can, sometimes, have nice things. SumatraPDF is one of them. Kol HaKavod to Krzysztof Kowalczyk!
Does the new version Tempest share that model?
> Bergstrom likens scientists to soothsayers, carrying the burden of
being able to see the future, "It plays a heavy toll on your psyche.
It's hard to take because we know what's coming down the track."

Cassandra complex is a real and horrible state of mind. It affects
anyone who has to compartmentalise, or chooses to for whatever reason.
I've seen it eat up more than a few people, and it definitely affects
me too.

My father was in the airforce and went to the South Pacific on nuke
tests. He often had the thousand yard stare and "didn't want to talk"
about there "being no future". Another member of our family is a
climate scientist who did some particularly disturbing research. He
has the same look sometimes. He says there's no point telling people -
"just live your lives".

For me being in cybersecurity is watching a "slow motion suicide by
apathy". The unfolding, preventable catastrophe haunts me.

But deep down we do want to tell people because even if you can't
"change the world" it's hard to live and interact with people you love
every day, knowing what you know.

Most of the time the Casandra problem is that either nobody believes
you, or nobody cares. Bergstrom's problem is that others want to
actively prevent her from speaking, which I imagine is worse.

Those with power really worry that we "scare the children". I even
find myself saying it to fellow hackers when we are giving talks,
because the effect of telling the plain truth is not action, but
hopelessness, and I don't want to put that on people.
Maybe 4 years isn't the right time frame but at some point there were sweeping changes in the language, like futures and async/await, that invalidated large parts of the ecosystem overnight (if you made a bet on a particular ecosystem you would either be stuck at maintaining an evolutionary dead end, or eventually migrate to tokio). It seems that Rust evolution is slowing down though.

Now if the library has tons of dependencies, regardless of language, it's very brittle to bring it unmaintained, because your own dependencies may be expected to interoperate with them. This is actually a plus because with C you may be required to do manual data conversions etc, but it also means that keeping old dependencies is a liability
> use their gravitational influence to skip to the next one

You are correct in that the Voyagers' launch window was unique.

Nit pick: gravity assist doesn't fundamentally rely on gravity. It extracts energy from planets' motion about the sun [1]. If we could somehow "bounce" a spacecraft off a planet's surface, it would impart momentum similar to that of a gravity assist. (In my opinion, it's a badly-named term.)

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer...
Netherlands too, even in my smaller city, I know of one that has a pretty serious space thanks to some grants.

But as others said, libraries can also fulfill the same function. I went to Zwolle recently and saw that they even seem to have a regular volunteer repair cafe. Thought that was super cool
I've been using fish for a while myself, and I absolutely love it. The autocomplete is magic.
Ah, so that’s what Betelgeuse dimming was about, a few years ago
pawk is awesome. What concise code! I absolutely adore the simplicity of pawk.
> So, adding a new parameter starting with R to any command is a breaking change that will crash every script using it?

In a script, write it out in full. When manually typing it’s okay to take shortcuts. There is always a tension between ergonomics and safety.
> The words "literally" and"everything" have real meanings

They do indeed, and I used them correctly :)

> In many jurisdictions couples are legally compelled to go to marriage counseling or similar. Australia has it for couples with kids

That's pretty messed up. Really? If you have kids, you are legally required to get married in Australia? I couldn't find anything about that, and I find it difficult to believe.

> The anecdote is nothing more than that

K, but I still don't see marriage working in my immediate circle, nor wider society. I don't need a scientific study to draw conclusions from that.
This is called Continuous Integration, and its a shame that the term got nicked to now mean "that thing that builds our PRs somewhere".
The idea was that everyone pushes to main all the time, which basically reduces integration time to 0, as everyone is doing it every couple of minutes on big teams. After a while you learn how to not step on people's toes (Introduce new classes incrementally, use docblocs documenting class' intent, rather than just current functionality)

I too find that its basically impossible to suggest switching to this workflow, given the weight of all our existing tools. They are so easy to setup, and most come for free (Azure Devops/Pipelines thing) that going off the track is just unthinkable.
Also, a good railway increases profits elsewhere, in addition to fares, as people can cheaply and relatively comfortable travel across the country.
If you need ford required service your nondealer has to pay for the ford system. That ford system that hooks to your ODB2 port calls back home and sends all the APIC data.
Have you ever gotten a new key made for your Ford? That’s one of those services which requires a ford system. It’s the same system ford has used for almost 20 years now. But you are correct, it will no longer be maintained for random reasons…
It's kinda frustrating how by default, most major OS setups now are "open PDFs inside the browser". It's kinda nice that browsers can handle PDFs smooth-ish now, but Preview on Mac is nice, and SumatraPDF is as well.
When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit
Counter point, spacex wouldn't do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995119
I read this as "Google plans to compete with Cloudflare as the leading MITM attack provider".
Care to share more? How much did it cost and was it a sherpa like experience?
In general Microsoft are in favour of doing anything that sells more copies of Windows and I have no doubt supporting an extremely fast Nvidia CPU on ARM is possible. It might never run software as well as x86 but maybe if it ends up being faster for games (which could be possible with MS and NVDA support) then people will buy it.
How Each New York City Borough Was Named
Really? How odd. I'm thinking these COBOL devs know something about some important stuff...
> Biking at 45-48 MPH is rare, dangerous, and free of tripping hazards which I think are a much larger concern

Two decades ago I was doing downhill MTB. On a road section it was quite frequent for me to reach those speeds†; and that's with a MTB (tuned to that end), friends†† with road bikes reached these speeds with ease, some of them regularly hit 80-90kph on specific sections.

One of the wide hairpin turns happened to be littered with gravel, and as I was banking for the turn the bike wheels started zipping off laterally as it the ground was ice, propelling both of us sideways at full speed towards the downward outer bank.

Luckily a) I had slowed down to approach the turn so I was going more like 45-50kph and b) the bike had much less ground grip than my body so it flied away while body-ground friction (painfully) slowed me down to a stop before I hit any tree or rock down the bank. Sheer luck had it that I walked away from the event with only a few bruises and a lot of scratches (one of my elbows still bears burn scars)

† Top recorded speed ever was 74 kph, at which point gear ratio was such that `cat pedalling > /dev/null`

†† c.a 1995-1999 they biked regularly with the then young Julien Absalon (I only biked with him once): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Absalon.
The scientists had it coming for using excel.
This was probably the first time I saw the phrase used for something besides referring to the Minecraft mod that's used for skyblock packs.
Does the asciidoc to pdf workflow involve an intermediate html / headless chromium step?
looks like the code review is happening too late. here the post’s author is also trying—hard—to reconstruct the mental states and models of the code author, especially in the large/significant update case. i argue that this workflow is a relic of the past, and should be replaced by a two-phase flow where in the beginning the essential ideas of the new changes are proposed, discussed, approved. then lines of code may be added or removed. the update is semantically grouped (perhaps via a commit) to correspond to key decisions made during phase one.

that way the problem of encountering new ideas through the darker medium of code and struggling to comprehend is solved, since now the ideas are presented and evaluated in a human language. the subsequent code review confirms that the implementation adheres to the gaveled proposal, and this can be easily done, even by a junior developer.
My immediate thought was that they were describing non-commercial flights fyi. I imagine the numbers for that market are on the order of <0.1% but I'm curious if there are any hard numbers for it!