skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mirrors had an impact like VR, but 200-300 years ago.

They were a clear reflection of reality. Previously the best you could get was a calm pool of water.

You can probably understand how mirror makers would accept being poisoned by mercury to create that experience.
I think this is a relevant question for those of us who are… doing this stuff at home and not expecting total perfection, haha. If my coffee is only slightly better, I’d rather not wear out my grinder.

But, coffee beans already have some moisture in them, so I suspect the grinders can handle a little moisture. Just speculation though.
Hope for him that it's not just one variant of the payload that gets hidden / shown based on the backend response.
I doubt it. At minimum, chatgpt needs to run away from painful stimuli (given a choice).
> It's a bit scary how much I am being downvoted for asking what I believe to be a reasonable question.

> On the low end of my concern is the annoyance of constantly updating names in yaml files, and on the high end is worry that a rogue dev could deliberately add in a security hole that would compromise my secrets.

> Is there any assurance this won't happen?

This isn’t really a reasonable request. You can do any of this yourself as well, so your assurances are your own. If you want someone else to own those assurances you need to pay up.
Well said.

Educators and parents don't do a great job of saying "if you want to be A, then you should work on your V skills" or "while you may be passionate about C, it is not a career.. have you considered D,E,F?".

And also for those going off to college it would be useful to have the hard conversation early "while it may be fun to live in G HCOL city for 4 years, if you want to make a life there, you are going to need a HCOL paying job like H,I,J.. so maybe don't pursue low ROI degree K".

I definitely interacted with a lot of younger millenials/GenZ in my career who were constantly changing jobs laterally because nothing was a "good fit". So they spent the first 5 years of their career churning water instead of doubling their salary. This is the kind of thing that sets a person back for life.

To me it's like "wow yeah you don't find working on a CRUD app / BI analytics / retail website to be the most life affirming thing in the world?" Guess what, as Mad Men said.. "that's what the money is for". People can have hobbies!
Amin Al-Husseini is not the only authority on the subject - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Najati_Sidqi
People literally spit on you for having an Android phone? Like they literally hacked up a glob of saliva and spat on you as if you were doing a lunch counter sit in during the civil rights movement?
That does look considerably better than what I used to see.
Doesn't ejaculate contain zinc and other micronutrients?
Open source also needs a business model to be sustainable. So I'm not a fan of doing price comparisons with some similar commercial SaaS. Competing on control, transparency, community, flexibility and support will be better long-term.

At least that's my vision for http://pikapods.com, which allows for convenient FOSS hosting, while sharing revenue with the original project and avoiding any lock-in.
It can not be understated how foundational exclusive property rights are to modern society and technological advancement. Since at least the Magna Carta it’s considered a human right. The US Declaration of Independence almost enumerated property as an inalienable right in place of the pursuit of happiness.

How could I have forgotten: the idea of personal property is also essential to Jewish law, predating the Magna Carta by another 2,000 years. That’s at least 3,000 years of at least a portion of humans placing value on private property.
> Unfortunately, Plex also wants to charge me to stream my own music, so the first step to find a new media player that isn't subject to enshittification.

Shit. I was considering switching my music library over the Plex, since they already both live on the same hard drive...
I’m pretty sure that most countries allow forced labour as a punishment for a crime.

In my native Latvia, a member of the EU, it’s the most commonly handed out criminal punishment. x hours of unpaid public work. Typically on a strict schedule. Or you can go to the can if you’re opposed to such “slavery”.

Oh and yes, there are also labour programs in our prisons that are probably comparable to the ones in the US. An easy sell actually, because you can either

1. fill your day by doing some work in horrible conditions for basically no pay, but you get to do something

2. rot in your cell all day long

I’m pretty sure that most people pick option 1. After all, you need a way to buy cigarettes.

Nobody calls this slavery.

We also have mandatory military service that started this year. I’m happy to call this slavery, because it’s imposed on people that haven’t done anything wrong.

But you seriously can’t compare forced labour as a punishment for a crime vs any other workplace. It’s disingenious for very obvious reasons. Why not go a step further? Why not claim that it’s a human rights violation to incarcerate people in the first place? After all, the universal declaration of human rights says that EVERYONE has the right to leave their country, re-enter it, and freely move about in their own country, and this is a “universal human right” that’s so clearly being denied to prisoners.

So forgive the international reader like myself for seeing nothing morally wrong with this state of affairs.
I had to close the article after seeing the hand holding the cockroach, I'm still disgusted after a couple of minutes.

If you have the same disgust don't open the article or open it with images disabled.

BTW TIL it is called katsaridaphobia.
You mean E2EE chat? Yes. There are even federated protocols.
The only thing broken is Verizon’s lawyer’s phone.
Ideally self hosted bitwarden (or a local only password manager such as keepassxc with passkey support) using a master password and a security key for the 2nd factor with all the accounts in your vault using passkey makes it so you need to know 1. the master password password, 2. have the security key, and also have 3. access to the vault.

The website being breached and the passkey public key being dumped is meaningless. They are more likely to compromise a site’s admin access that can get into user accounts than ever crack public key cryptography or simultaneously acquire all three factors necessary to gain access to my vault. And no matter what I do on my end (except only use sites that take security seriously) can stop that.
As a coder when I want to figure something out I can just try it an obnoxious number of times and ways within minutes, with almost no marginal cost. Even on the job. When a handyman wants to learn plumbing he has to do things like knock holes in the ceiling just to have a look. If a handyman gets it right only as often as I do in my REPL, he'll fail fast. Atoms are so much tougher than bits.
Knows about inspect element but doesn't know how to take a screenshot?
Ah okay, I was confused on what you meant by manual sensor cleaning, to me that means (on a DSLR also locking the mirror up) and swabbing out the dust.

On a Sony E-mount camera, the ultrasonic sensor cleaning doesn't do pixel remapping, only the date trick (or the menu option on electronic shutter models) works to trigger it manually.
> Personally, my conspiracy theory is that somehow the YouTube team twisted Google Chrome team's arms to force them to make a byzantine system...

You're not far off. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#media_engagement_...
Because American exceptionalism, grit, fair play where our system doesn’t let anyone put their thumb on scale; no sir, the American economy is not at all “regulated” in a generic sense of the word, to serve certain interests.

American tech companies had free money thrown at them. That regulation of economy is why tech succeeded.

Most software products are unimpressive CRUD apps (before his death Steve Jobs called most web apps minor features hardly worthy of all the investment). Success of tech in the US has little to do with American genius and everything to do with government welfare… which is bad though so we pretend we’re all genius hackers instead
mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
AFAIK the actual final legislative text is not yet publicly available, so we do not know what was passed.

But might change any moment.
Any TL;DR context for non-Harvard, non-US Hackers?
Fo someone who doesn't like being metaphorically spit upon, you sure do like swearing at me and calling me names.
Right, sorry, I wasn't implying that the community should or could add PKCS#11 support, just stating that while TPM support is nominally lacking from Vault Enterprise documentation, it is achievable today via PKCS#11 bridge. :-)
I haven't found a final version online.

I wrote an article / review of the drafts that were available a few months ago. You have the links to the sources.

https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/thoughts/2023/...
CFAA charges being filed as we speak.
“This product is awesome and I’d using it to make money! Wouldn’t it be awful if the team behind it wasn’t paid because of dumb entitlement?”

Fixed that for you.

You’re right, Nomad is awesome, precisely because it has a way different governance model than Kubernetes and other similar products. It’s a cathedral, not a midden.
Hum, now you are proposing a process checklist that can't ever be completely checked out, by design.

The entire thing is terrible from principle. You won't find a good example, because that's not how you use a process checklist.
Possibly this is well meant, but all I get from it is that you don't appear to know enough about life to give that advice (both the content of the advice, and the method of giving it).
Big business aside. I feel regulation is much much harder on small business and startups.

Only the already rich will have resources to keep up with the bureaucracy required to start even the smallest business in Europe.
D'Hondt, I guess you mean, is not a method to introduce distortion of representation, but precisely a method _to reduce distortion_ in parliamentary systems with imperfect representation to begin with (i.e. with circumscriptions). The distortion is primarily coming from something else other than d'Hondt, e.g. electoral circumscriptions being too large or too small.

> taking into account that independentist parties are forbidden in Portugal or France and that here they not only are allowed

This is not true at all. Search for corsican auto-determination. France actually has even allowed auto-determination referenda for DOMs in the very recent past. Certainly it's not exactly the same and I'm oversimplifying (many simply want to get rid of these regions), but please stop pointing fingers to France; you may realize we are not as different from Spain as you think.
https://archive.is/fITuA
Can a social media post change public opinion? Researchers weigh in
So easy to pile on this post.

I remember decades ago watching closely the new crop of televisions released each year — getting nerdy about the specs, features (back when TV's were dumb, expensive, and the new annual crop always exciting, shiny). I began to notice that a company like Sony would produce a suite of TV's that were the same in more ways than not — but there seemed to be features that were simply neutered on the lower price-tier devices.

I could imagine some marketing hack coming to the engineers and telling them which features to gimp on the base model, which ones to exclude on the next tier....

I must be both naive and old-fashioned to think that companies would compete by trying to both keep their prices lower than their competitor and their features superior. Sony (and of course others) decided to compete with themselves instead.

Then when I started amassing a huge DVD collection a couple decades ago, it became increasingly annoying that I would have to sit through ads on the DVDs before I could watch the film I had paid for.

Trailers, coming-attractions, also-available-from-time-warner are ads.

I finally started to rip my own DVDs and have done so ever since.
I mostly agree with you. I've been a full-time software engineer for the past 28 years and a part-time handyman for the past 5 months. One of the biggest differences that you don't mention is the use of your body. Software engineering is purely intellectual -- often to the detriment of your body (or mine, anyways) since it's often the case where I sit at the keyboard for hours on end, day after day. As a handyman, your body necessarily is a key part of the work you do. Lifting tools, materials, carrying them, getting into weird positions to access the problem area (under bathroom sink for example). The other aspect is the physical nature of the work. The work is tangible. You can take a photo of the thing that needs to be fixed before the repair/construction and then another at the end and compare the before/after photos. Even if you don't care about the photos, you can still see the tangible, physical end-result of your work. With software engineering, at best it's usually just a status update on a Jira ticket.

Regarding AI technologies, I agree that it's extremely unlikely that AI will take over the work. It's possible that may help in some diagnostic cases. I strongly disagree with "all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries". Why? Many (perhaps most even) software engineers that I've worked with are too lazy or too proud to do handyman type work. Some of the handyman work can be physically quite taxing and some of it can be quite humbling. Examples of taxing work - when you're doing a gate rebuild/repair in 107 degree temperature in direct sun. Example of humbling work - opening up p-traps under sinks and having some of the smelly, dirty water splash on you.
The more pertinent question is: how many times are infants' bone marrow an T cells shocked to overactivity as if they have a life threatening infection?

Could this be associated with the 500%+ rise in childhood bone & immune cancers, as well as meteoric rise of childhood allergies, since the late 1900s?

(How do you make someone allergic to peanuts?. Give them enough immune-boosters with enough peanut protein in their lymph & blood.)
That is not the difference. You can do all of that with sentry.
You can definitely transfer data to another processor without breaking GDPR rules, even US ones. You need to take care, but it doesn't require perfect data scrubbing.
Unfortunately any information in the government can be accessed with the right legal document.
Political power comes from what populations think. At first, the US thought there would be clear support for their position given Hamas’s actions, and acted accordingly. That has not really been the case, so they are moderating their position. Some of that is a result of large numbers of people thinking things like “Scale is the most important factor when talking about the harm done. A dead person is dead, regardless of if it was murder or manslaughter.”
That is kind of how occupation works? But that was not my point. My point is that if you wage an aggressive war, you deserve being occupied. Like Germany, Japan, Serbia or Iraq. And the way out of occupation is to convince your neighbours that you are not willing to attack again. Otherwise they will have no other choice than to keep you in a state that you can not attack again. And that is a miserable state indeed.
Supreme in the bookmark bar? Cringe
Slightly related genuine question: Why do Apple/Meta/Microsoft pay $300k-$1m/yr for American engineers (salary + stock compensation) from an international perspective? Capitalism states (sort of) that there's competition and an inherit race to the bottom. Companies have a motive to spend as little and get as much for their buck as possible. Globally, how is paying somebody $300k/yr in America (expensive) the best option in terms of getting development done? Is the answer really "quality"? Aren't engineer salaries much lower in Europe? What about Asia? South America (Brazil)?
> By 2022, there were examples that AI was actively harming people. In a Dutch scandal, decisions made by algorithms were linked to families being forcibly separated from their children, while students studying remotely alleged that AI systems discriminated against them based on the color of their skin.

These were not AIs but rule-based systems with if elses. The current legislation is bad, because it tries to regulate the technology, not how it is used. Dutch government people should be responsible for the decisions they or their system produces, AI or no AI.
Don't forget the sneaker raffle link.
Damn, we late applied a week ago. Cool initiative though :) hopefully some cool teams get the chance to get in with this!
AI copilot in business partner search in Dubai
PyGTK is not hard to use. ChatGPT can help you generate an app.
At least he didn't put the monitor face down on a scanner. That was the greatest "screenshot" I'd ever received.
Antivaxxer misinformation.
The stupidest of the new rules:

1) AI Act includes bans on biometric systems that identify people based on "sensitive characteristics", such as sexual orientation or race (except for "law enforcement"). (LOL, so an AI isn't "allowed" to tell if a person is black, white or Asian?)

2) It also includes new transparency requirements for all general-purpose AI models and stronger rules for "very powerful" models. ("Yes, because with such 'great power' comes great responsibility).
It seems people are focused on the “women” bit not the more interesting “meditation” bit, which to me rings true — these hobbies bring me mindfulness and contemplation.

Also to the extent that “kindergarten teachers are women”, women do yoga. 3 to 1 participation vs men, and the pop culture face of the hobby.
> 17,000 Palestinians have been killed, around 70% being women and children.

Unfortunately, 1) these numbers come from Hamas; 2) count militants; 3) a large fraction of "children" appear to be militants.

> while the Gazan health ministry cares for the health and survival of their people.

Every real government tracks civilian and military deaths separately. Here we're given one misleading lump of a number (that includes significant incentive to lie).

> Also, Israel keeps track of every person born and dead in Gaza, they have state-wide surveillance there, they could have chosen to send in surgical strike forces and taken out the militants strategically,

I think this is unrealistic and any effort to do so would be suicide.

> Netanyahu has also said their military won't leave Gaza, after the war.

Netanyahu has said just about every possible thing depending upon whom he's been talking to. There's no disagreement he and his government are trash.
Education improves your capabilities even if you don't work directly on what you studied. I have a degree in Fine Arts. I spent many years as a coder, then moved into product leadership. My Art degree has helped every step of the way, as it taught me a creative process, how to look at the structure and details of how things are created, how to understand people based on what they create, and other such things that sound wishy-washy but did have a positive impact on how I approach software development.

So I would expect your CS education to likewise offer value in non-CS industries. You may have to put some thought into exactly what you learned other than the face-value bullets points in the curriculum, and then focus on how you can apply them to your new industry. But you don't need to feel that the work and time was wasted.
"Stealing" is morally charged and too associated with the loss of property to be a fair or accurate term here. It's not word games; it's conceptual analysis and a basic understanding of rhetoric.

Digital piracy, broadly speaking, is unauthorized copying. Depending on the context, it could be theft. Sometimes that theft is legal, but people feel it shouldn't be on moral grounds. Other times that theft is illegal, but people feel it shouldn't be on moral grounds. Sometimes, it's just not theft at all.
That reminds me to go back and watch some old episodes of Connections by James Burke. He does a great job of showing the unpredictable and non-linear path of progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
Libertarianism and disdain for governing bodies is a trope here on Hacker News, _especially_ if it's the EU.
MEPs are elected, Council consists of member states' elected leaders. Only the commissioners aren't elected and they weren't drawing up the legislation.

Other than that, good point.
Between this and the "Digital Rights" nonsense it does seem the EU has lost its way.
I'm for the Palestinian cause since forever but please let's not make HN political.
The biggest level up an engineer can get is learning how to communicate and write well.

Many can whip up a full stack app; fewer can document what they did coherently; fewer still can communicate what they did and why to end users and customers.

There's good money to be made in being a great engineer _and_ a great communicator!
When I saw saint11's name with it, I knew it would be good. Their pixel art tutorials are so well presented: http://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/
It's the only example so far (if we consider this poor remake a "large" game). And the team behind (Blind Squirrel) didn't use Godot as-is, they had to rewrite most of the core graphics area.

It will be a while until we see AA / AAA games in Godot, it's missing too much right now to be viable in the 3D space (again, for AA/AAA. For indies, sure, why not). One day, certainly, I hope so, but not today nor tomorrow.
Ask HN: What charity have you recently donated to?
I'll start.

I realized that I'm numb to buying something for myself that costs $20, but I know I can help if I donate that $20 instead.

There's a dog rescue that also has a casual F&B business in the same place so you can hang out with friends for brunch while surrounded by 20 dogs. Most of these dogs are ready for adoption and you can meet your new family member here, while the rest are recovering from medical conditions that they're being treated from. It's the only ethical "dog cafe" that I've ever seen and they use the proceeds to house the dogs and provide neutering & vaccines drives to underprivileged areas.
I wonder given Vietnam is also a communist country why there. How about Thailand or India …
Harvard had a similar bug - you could modify the url to find out if you had entry. They found out and revoked admission from all students who used the url on ethics violations.
Microsoft roadmap: AI-focused Windows to be released in 2024
The Grug Brained Data Scientist
I tried to make it fit and I inadvertently removed a vital organ. Sorry.
If my money can be destroyed like that why would I donate through this plat form even though I get 50% more? It doesn’t enough for me to overcome the risks of some group diverting all my funds to an opposite cause
So, maybe the title should of said "typical tech bro checking ..." instead?
I'm not trying to discourage the project, this is just a genuine question for any project that has 2 "open source" versions that are very alike
So you're not a JS developer. Got it.
...how is that an ethics violation?
In think Sokal is right. The postmodern academic left is a phenomenon of decay and is not helpful for traditional left-wing goals such as social justice.

On the other hand, I think Deleuze has a deep understanding of philosophy and, to some extent, mathematics. Deleuze always tries to make a transition from traditional theories to his extreme conception of difference and repetition.

It's crazy, but it has a certain genius.
A business model includes a transaction where one side gets value in exchange for returning value to the other side. When it is a one-sided transaction like this, where one side gives money and the other just pockets it... that is more often referred to as a "scam"