skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ELI5: what does an excellent cable mean vs. an average vs. a terrible one, in terms of elements, construction, and building process?
But what does "excellent" mean? Can you play any game with modern graphics at native resolution with at least 60 fps? That's barely happening on gaming laptops so I am kind of wondering if maybe the reason this sort of vague praise never mentions any particular games, settings, frames per second, etc. You know, the useful information.

I am writing this on a light Linux laptop with a Ryzen 6800H APU. It is somewhat capable for a laptop this small and light but it is no match for my gaming PC. Kind of doubt my m2 max is going to offer better gaming experience.
The Fairytale Narrative: Structured strategic planning
"Most programs on Linux are written in memory unsafe languages, such as C or C++"

?
I'm sending my name to Jupiter's moon Europa on a NASA spacecraft
> be careful of fakes and relabeled junk

How exactly?
A Deep Dive on the Drunkard's Walk
> give me the 10 most upvoted stories of all time

> Here are the 10 most upvoted stories of all time on Hacker News:

Whisky: Wine Supercharged with the Power of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit - Score: 185
First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15 - Score: 39
VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search - Score: 198
Periodic Table of Tools - Score: 94
Apertus – Open-Source Camera - Score: 45
Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager - Score: 102
Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features - Score: 174
Updated a Complex Function Plotter that lets you sketch curves and see its image - Score: 8
They're Made Out of Meat (1991) - Score: 144
City of Boulder Open Data - Score: 45
Is there anything else you would like to know?
The renewable energy disaster that was far deadlier than Chernobyl
About 25 years ago I played an adventure game someone had written entirely in DNS TXT records. You may each move with nslookup (which shows how long ago this way)

> With an API, one could programatically update TXT records.

Just run bind yourself and you can update your records with very simply programming!
A lot like Melancholia.

Or that one short story about discovering the light of another star was about to reach us… and getting the predictions of its intensity very wrong.
They run their own CDN instead of using clownflares.
I feel like you’ve just refuted gp’s point about houses haven’t gotten any more expensive. People get mortgages, not buy houses. So while they are technically correct, it’s not a worthwhile distinction.
This happened in the early days of GitHub:

https://github.blog/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/

These sloppy setups are common even today, where it's fairly easy to allow for a simple config error or a wrong environment variable (env=PROD) to wipe out production from a test suite. These safeguards need to be in place in the first days of your codebase.
And the largest cosmic ray observatory, Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina clocks in at around 3000 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auger_Observatory

A very different and really neat concept that hasn't become real yet is JEM EUSO, a telescope that would be mounted on a space station, pointed at Earth, would detect air showers via fluorescence like Auger's fluorescence telescopes do on the ground. This could theoretically cover a much larger area than traditional CR observatories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEM-EUSO
You wouldn't notice it. The energy is sufficient, but the momentum is too small. Energy goes up with square of velocity and momentum just linearly, so this particle gets more of its energy from velocity and less from mass compared to a macroscopic object. The result is lowish momentum.

It probably hits a water molecule and the heat is quickly dissipated. You don't recoil because the momentum is small.

It might kill a few cells, but far smaller than the ordinary cycle of life. So any effect is swamped.
> It seems like such a pointless exercise…

“Hacking [thing] is pointless” is a surprising take to read here.
One of those on the 159 programme
https://stopscamsuk.org.uk/159

Honestly, I’m not sure it matters. They’ve all had such incidents. I read somewhere that about 30% of your fees and mortgage interest go toward fraud mitigation,monitoring, and restitution.

I always live by these rules

- call them back, don’t talk to them

- ask why you need to do anything. It’s exceedingly rare a bank would call you to do something legit there and then. “I will do it later” will help. In fact that’s how I caught the phisher as I noted the aggravation in 1% of his voice.

- use credit cards, not debit cards, for purchases. They have far more protection.

- use all the 2FA and password complexity you can

- never use real info for challenge questions. Never use maiden name of mother etc. you can put “14 green fish” as the answer to the question if you like.

- make sure they are FSCS regulated, and try not to exceed that limit.

- understand FSCS does not cover you most phishing attempts, since the bank will claim they tried to warn you and were not negligent

- use private tabs for bank interactions

Through this experience I have learned not to trust “what we know about you” information they share. Do not underestimate HUMINT. A bank snitch could give up something as seemingly innocent (to them) as your “join date” and it be a lynchpin piece of info for a scammer.

This may all seem obvious to an HM reader. But it’s worth refreshing and reiterating.
Bumping up sample size to N=2: I had some cheap no name Lightning cables from Amazon and CarPlay worked fine for me.
I don't know, but based on this entire thread, I think this was one of the places that was popular for people to move from cities during the pandemic, when everyone was working remotely.
Its fascinating to me that for decades people have been moving to the same cities from places like Boulder (and many such all over the country) for opportunities/careers/lives and now a few chose to move from the cities to these small towns. While I understand that people do not like change but how is this any different, its still people making a choice of moving to a different place in the country which they think is better for their lives? Isn't this NIMBY, its fine as long as everyone moves to NY, but not here.
I don't know where to get the updated code to make mods with though. A lot of the changes they mentioned were specifically for modders, so I don't know why I can't find the source code anywhere.
Shouting across the house, "got it!"
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring SREs and Platform Eng. (Remote)
It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...
You might want to see Adam Savage’s video about why, say, Apple’s $130 3’ Thunderbolt cable (the pinnacle of cables) actually is not overpriced. It also gives a sense as to what a quality cable is like.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84&pp=ygULYXBwbGUgdXN...
Realistically, it starts as a byproduct of the turn toward Resume-Driven Development (RDD).
Yes of course there are feedback loops involved—which is why I really disagree with the comment that we should look back to the big bang, over which we have no influence (AFAIK, but which I'm not interested in debating)—and if I thought there weren't, why would I bother problematizing the political economy?
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't: The Tiniest Seed in the Blueberry Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wpdvZNve4

>Seeds of Monotropa uniflora - a plant that parasitizes fungi - are incredibly tiny. And they can afford to be, because all they need to grow is to be able to germinate on a mycelial thread of the mycorrhizal fungus that they parasitize.

8:22> "Mycoheterotrophic Lifestyles of the Lewd and Depraved"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy

>Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης mykes, "fungus", ἕτερος heteros, "another", "different" and τροφή trophe, "nutrition") is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. A myco-heterotroph is the parasitic plant partner in this relationship. Myco-heterotrophy is considered a kind of cheating relationship and myco-heterotrophs are sometimes informally referred to as "mycorrhizal cheaters". This relationship is sometimes referred to as mycotrophy, though this term is also used for plants that engage in mutualistic mycorrhizal relationships.
You're telling me that you're unable to imagine this?

Really?
No problem, I actually hadn't read it myself but was intrigued enough to go looking. Worth it!
> Unless my brain has a bobbin in it

This is your brain on dance music
I think the reason that Linuxes are considered secure is the behaviour that is encouraged amongst its users. With Windows, users are encouraged to install software from random internet sites and there's no central method of updating software (without installing some third party updater from a random internet site).

Also, there's some design decisions made in Windows that lead to poor security. e.g. treating a file's extension differently, assigning it special meaning and then hiding it by default from the user.
This is a tiny detail but boy do I appreciate that he actually bothered to use the real toolkit (AppKit, SwiftUI, whatever) for the GUI… I am so, so tired of projects like Docker Desktop that cram basic UI's into Electron and think that's somehow "fine."

Thank you, Isaac. The details matter.
SaaS Starter based on prod app
Whenever I'm building something and I want to integrate things like stripe I find it easier to copy and paste from other projects or use something already done as a starter. So I build a whole app with this purpose, the live app is here https://transcribely.io .

It's a template/starter built with the T3 Stack (NextJs, Prisma, Trpc, Auth.js) to make SaaS type apps with subscription based products. The difference being that it has a lot of configurable options and documentation to make the onboarding and getting started as easy as possible. The starter itself can be purchased from https://shipvoid.com .

Any feedback is appreciated!
AI doesn't cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it
I love that one too, but sadly it leaves out the final few lines which make the piece so much more poignant.
I really like the idea but it needs to be a giant poster. On my 13" laptop screen it's so tiny and so compact that it presents an all-out high-frequency visual information assault on my senses. It's very unsettling and uncomfortable to use, for that reason. I really just want everything to be spread out a bit more.
- Can you believe those so-called humans. They made their computing devices out of rocks! They shovel sand out of beaches, make disgusting plates out of it, and force electricity through little paths of metal on them.

- Ew!
> Elon's ability to find willing sources of capital for his ventures seems nothing short of incredible.

I think it is just a message via WhatsApp or other messaging app? I also wonder if he just has a group with many VCs and broadcast the message there.

I simplify the founding process in two group of founders: the ones for mere mortals and the ones that are oversubscribed and people ask YOU in random places if you have some access to the deal with dilated pupils.
These are called slugs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL#Slug>. If you’re willing to commit to a persistent slug, please do: they are nicer. But for many applications, e.g. most user-generated content, you can’t be confident they won’t change. There’s a reason for the general advice to not use data as a primary key in databases, but to use a separate ID.
Sure, but I don't see why adding functionality would be a bad thing. There are thousands of games that will just never be ported away from 32-bit Windows. If Apple doesn't intend to keep those running forever, they should at least equip the community with the tools to fix it themselves.

It makes sense why Apple doesn't want it, but I'm surprised to see the community reject the idea too. The "set and forget" experience of the Steam Deck is fantastic, and entirely attainable with Apple's homogenized hardware pool.
Sandboxed macOS apps have a much finer access control. Only non-sandboxed apps ask for access to such a large part of the disk.
Just today I put https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780762498307 on my Amazon wish list.
If you enjoy darker/harder sci-fi "Axiomatic" is a great collection by Greg Egan.
These are by far the hardest kinds of fraud for banks to deal with right now. They’re so convincing that even when the bank detects them, the customer still demands the transactions go ahead because they’re so bought into the fraudsters. We need this kind of authentication to become normal for everyone for any transaction.
Jade Rubick – Organizational danger zones
I can see myself using this even though I know how to do most of this stuff. I don't have the exact syntax of a package memorised and I think this is probably the easiest way to write one. It doesn't have to be revolutionary, just convenient.
Was at Handmade Seattle a few weeks ago and saw a (still early beta) Android editor called MobileCode - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mark.mobil...

Lets you download GitHub repos to work offline and has common coding actions in a quick tap menu.
Skill assessment was easy when I was looking for a job. The 1-month trial isn't great if you're already employed and have to quit to do that and not really know if you're chosen or not.

My memory isn't great about it but I remember finding out they install a screen recorder on your computer to know if you're "really" working. You should double check that.
Dev here. Thanks for submitting. To be fair this is not really a database, but a wrapper around few primitives such as locally-ran embeddings and FAISS/mrpt with a ton of benchmarking behind the doors to offer sane defaults that minimize latency.

Here is an example Colab notebook [1] where this is used to filter the content of the massive Kagi Small Web [2] RSS feed based on stated user interests:

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pecKGCCru_Jvx7v0WRN...

[2] https://kagi.com/smallweb
Correct, an app would need to read the audio stream and do some
preparatory DSP to extract audio short codes.

Of course you could build standards in at a point closer to the radio
basebands. I mean, why is basic source authentication not built in as
far back as SS7 given we had the technology even in the 1970s?

The only time you'd be using the app would be if receiving a call from
an untrusted caller. And if you don't trust the app period, then the
game is off anyway. In theory the same app could hold certs from a
number of "trustworthy" sources you might like to check; much like a
TLS certificate.

But in the end you'd wind up with too many, and hard to keep track of,
and then buffoons like those from the EU commission would be wanting
to "force trust" upon you to authenticate "approved government
sources" - Which sadly is the problem with all source authentication
schemes that work with PKI this way. You really need to keep the
application layer relation 1-to-1.

I prefer simpler, elegant solutions - like your bank should never
call you or push ANYTHING which is why I called it both a good and
bad idea, and generally I distrust the whole ecosystem, of "apps"
anyway.
It's doing the same thing with employment and society in general.

Hollowing out middle class jobs and the middle class itself. And as we see, it won't stop there. Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers are all on the chopping block as well.
Reminds me of the driver update utilities for Windows which notionally did update all your drivers, but also updates all of your viruses.
Bunnyshell.com also
Performance Is Contextual
> What's really nice is using direnv to cd into a directory and having a flake.nix file in it which changes the entire system to what I need to do in that folder.

How cross-platform is direnv + Nix? Do flake.nix files have macOS/Linux versions?

One of the biggest advantages of using Docker images as a package format is that it's (sort of) cross-platform via Docker desktop and such on a Mac. I would prefer to use something like Nix if possible if it solves the problem a different way (being aware of platforms).
Petitioning CBOE for penny-wide SPX to support retail traders
The vast, overwhelming majority of them, yes.
OpenCart Vulnerability Discussion on GitHub
> chances are it will cause the decrypted plaintext to be gibberish with many invalid/unprintable ascii characters.

Not necessarily. If the plaintext you're trying to modify is in the first ciphertext block(which in this scenario is likely the case), you can modify a byte in the IV(assuming the IV is stored alongside the ciphertext) to modify the corresponding byte in the first plaintext block without a trace.

> Is this a serious issue for this use case?

In my opinion this whole use case is an issue. Why give an attacker access to your encrypted passwords?
You can either 1) run macOS in a VM, though I'm only familiar with running macOS VMs on Linux, 2) VNC into a real Mac, or 3) run Safari for Windows from 2012 [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20231006225735/https://www.oldver...
I pay $4/mo for Narwhal 2 and it's pretty great. (I used to use the original Narwhal before the subscription pricing which they had to axe.)
In a lot of countries, drinking wine is fine (as in legal) at ANY age.

It's the purchase that is so often regulated.

(And you're right, in many places the latter limit is lower than 18. For example in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Belgium, non-spirits like wine and beer can be bought from 16.)

The two (drinking age vs. alcohol buying age) often get confused, but consumption limits per se are actually pretty rare. (Assuming it takes place in private – laws regarding drinking in public are somewhat more common.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
Can you point to a source for Electron being a Google framework? As far as I know, the framework has been created at Github (now owned by Microsoft).

Google has created a UI framework for building mobile, desktop and web applications - but it's Flutter, not Electron.
This is straight from their paper [1]:

"Perhaps more controversial is the third point, the one that is the focus of this article. We argue that when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it."

[1] - https://sci-hub.se/10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121
freebsd-update fetch install is part of the normal upgrade process. So yeah of course that's necessary, it's how you upgrade.

Not sure what #2 is about, I don't use cloud.

And the EoL thing did not happen to me, I did hear of it happening though but it's not omnipresent.
You're confused. The public doesn't demand "thought policing" from AI at all. This is purely an elite, mostly academia, thing.
For those people who find this frustratingly incorrect/incomplete - this is an art project, not a an attempt at creating a taxonomy of tools.

For those people who have little experience with the trades - this is an art project, and building up your understanding of tools from this resource probably isn't a great idea.

For those people who can't get the screwdriver bits image out of their mind - I'm with you.
My daughter is five years old. She’s smart and adorable and can really turn on the charm. We went on vacation and she asked whole families “what’s your name” and introduced herself. Unfortunately she had the bad fortune of being born with the bottom of her spinal cord outside of her body.

She can’t walk, and she can’t control her bowels and bladder. She has a port in her skull, a brain shunt, that moves the cerebrospinal fluid into her belly which is extremely important for her continued wellbeing.

Her prognosis at this point is she should be able to live into her sixties or seventies with modern medical technology. But with modern technology she’ll never be able to walk.

I’m really hopeful that one day Neuralink will let my child walk. Things like this give me hope when I feel depressed about her quality of life or how she’ll be treated as an adult.
After a years of work, petabytes of data analysis and centuries of case study we know finally what's good for children care: a real family consist of mother, father, grandparents, siblings and friendly neighbors. It will be forgotten gieeber5as unimportant, mainly because AI hype does not follow such boring science...
What if the scammer initiates a call with the company, separate from the call they're having with you? What will that indicator say?
Guns, on the other hand, plot in secret to act independently.
This line, to me, caused me to become much more critical of the article:

"such as Windows, which is leaning heavily towards Rust, a memory safe language,"
Slight OT, but while we are on the monthly guix topic here, let me shamelessly plug https://the-dam.org/, a public-access server running GNU Guix. It will let you try it out, and chat with other individuals who are also curious about guix.

An update is coming "soon" where you'll be able to mount 9P2000.L servers from guix containers, something that is currently impossible due to Linux mount namespaces not allowing anything but basically fuse.

You'll be able to try all the new packages you'll create with the GUI tool from TFA.
Although it is not fully standardised, Firefox 119 and later should have it work [1].
It's now up to server implementations to get there as well.

[1] https://defo.ie/ech-check.php
All stereotypes grow from a kernel of some truth. Lets calculate.

- 80-90% of child abusers are male. (Lets use 90% further on).

- Us population is 330 million. (So half will be 165m male).

- It has 750 thousand registered sex offenders

Calculations:

- 750t * 0.9 = 675t male offenders; 675t / 165000t = 0.4% of male population in us are registered sex offenders. (1 out of 243 males).

- 750t * 0.1 = 75t female offenders; 75t / 165000t = 0.045% (1 out of 2200 females)

Caveats apply: not all are caught; these numbers are for all sex offender (I think it includes adult rapists and public urinators); distribution through society is not uniform, some occupations will be more “lucrative” for phedos.
A Haunting
This ought to work across different browsers though, for what it's worth.
But ultimately it's just a fun experiment.
Mac OS and iOS are beyond a doubt the most secure operating systems. I’m not saying they are bulletproof, but are definitely the most secure compared to anything on the market. Linux desktop is laughably insecure, as much as I love it. Windows? I guess with hardware backed bitlocker(apparently not even the default lmao) is alright.
There's still a lot of open space between Boulder and the surrounding cities. I'd argue Denver ends in that direction at Broomfield.
The CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.
> I don't see how windows or mac could ever be considered secure when you can't turn off telemetry and when the systems are closed source and cannot be publicly audited.

Security != Privacy

Imagine home security monitoring your home 24/7. You lose privacy but gain security.
For that reason, TFA said Desktop Linux, in order to avoid "pedanticism [sic]".
Why wait? There are brain-machine interface trials already underway w/ BRAINGATE and other university consortiums
If you target latest macOS that's an easy choice.
"Most programs are written in memory unsafe languages, such as C or C++"

Does that fix it for them?
Compared to Mac OS, Linux is hardly secure, at least without significant knowledge and customization that almost every user has no understanding of.
You miss the point. It will never drop
But then what do you think the code is for if you can't confirm your identity with it when you call them? This is how it is supposed to work!