skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a very long time, but we still do have a lot of fossils, and with many human artifacts they won't fossilize so much as just sit there in their strata - we make artifacts that don't even need to fossilize since they are already stable, chemically inert, and resistant to biodegrading or corrosion, and if they do corrode, then in the right conditions those would be a kind of fossil. Ancient life made left lot of traces and humans are currently leaving as many traces as any other species has ever left, and we're leaving artifacts and other traces spread all across the globe, even in the oceans. We have fossils from >3 billion years ago. Not everything subducts. There's existent areas of long term geology stability and those areas are as littered with human traces, artifacts, and other remains as anywhere else. I honestly can't imagine all traces of humanity being undiscoverable considering in 100 million years, in 400 million subduction and time will have erased a lot, but I'm pretty confident there would be quite a few discoverable traces if some future life form were to apply modern archaeological methods then, esp. given that the scale and scope of changes humans are making is massive and global. At the very least future paleontologists would see the effects of humans on their habitat in the fossil record of the ongoing mass extinction, but I expect much more would be discoverable than that.
> There is that "factual innocence is not a reason to let the convict goes, because somehow magically knowing an innocent person is in prison makes justice system more trustworthy" supreme court gem.

Is that for real? It sounds positively Cardassian.

Dukat: "On Cardassia, the verdict is always known before the trial begins. And it's always the same."

Sisko: "In that case, why bother with a trial at all?"

Dukat: "Because the people demand it. They enjoy watching justice triumph over evil every time. They find it comforting."
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I found it difficult to find documentation on how to run gitlab in docker without nginx (I use caddy for reverse proxy) and enable the registry. For anyone having the same problem, here's a working Dockerfile. https://gitlab.tandav.me/tandav/notes/-/issues/5516

I've tried github actions, drone, woodpecker and gitlab. In my opinion gitlab has a much more flexible CI system.
Submitted title was "AI bots are now outperforming humans in solving CAPTCHAs", which broke HN's title rule: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Ownership is good and it helps but that’s not what’s actually required to get promoted to L4.
>"mostly not Florida"

Fair enough, I obviously misunderstood your earlier comment.
But we haven’t put anything built to last on the moon - rovers and landing stages are very small and relatively fragile

A similar civilisation may have gone to the moon, but thanks to irradiation and micrometeorites over millions of years. Footprints and tyre tracks would certainly be gone, and while you could land at an Apollo landing site and detect remains of refined metal, it’s unlikely to be something you could see from orbit with our level of equipment, you’d have to get up close and personal, and we haven’t done that.
Fastmail, primarily for their 'masked e-mail' feature for signups where I don't want to hand out my main e-mail. I recently cancelled a sub to Tuta because their pricing increased and I would much prefer their old $12/year instead of $36/year. I might consider going with Tuta again though.
This reminds me of the StackExchange question where the manager didn't get the replies they expected when asking how to deal with a registered Engineer who'd been shafted by the company:

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/63205/how-can-...
Ask HN: Why SSL certs are not decentralized?
Maybe a noob question: Why SSL/TLS certs are not decentralized? Is it not possible to set public key in DNS TXT record and have private key on the server. Would that not solve encryption? Why do we need SSL / TLS certs from a CA like LetsEncrypt?
There's a large depopulated corridor between Yemen, Saudi, Jordan and Israel. 200km is a lot, enough that risk to major urban centres low which increase costs of intervening. US rushed anti missile platforms in region months ago, I think Saudi shot some a few down initially but have since stopped. Or at least there's no reporting of it.
It just occurred to me that anger is favored online because of a UX quirk. To build is complex; to destroy requires only a single bit! So the objects of our ire, those people, things and ideas we want gone from the world, those things that require only that we express our hatred and ill-will toward them, naturally become the most popular and shared content. As a corollary the people who are clearest and most concrete in their list of hates, the ones who constantly edit that list in real time according to audience response, they become the most appealing.

Isn't it then not very surprising that those who build prefer to do so in silence.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Divorce Colony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722467 - Dec 2015 (22 comments)

(year added above too)
Also joining the chorus. Don't listen to this article. Don't forget not to do this for real life and friends too. If you did anything helpful you're expected to Google their specific problem for them or know how to help them. My friends are used to calling me up to ask for help all the time.

If you teach them you know how to fish once, you're their personal expert oceanographer for life.
Promotions tend to come with financial incentives as well.

I also don't think that, as I've gotten promoted, I've actually taken on that much extra work. The work itself has changed a lot, but it's work I find easier and more enjoyable so for me it almost feels like I'm taking on less. I'm also militant about my work life balance, and maintain very strict hours where I'm reachable.
PWA for family recipes.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar, or any flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys the curiosity that it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817284. We eventually have to ban accounts that keep doing this and I don't want to ban you! so please don't do it.
The “Matrix” stack is really shaping up recently /s
I have a few friends in the trades, all part of a union, and none of them would echo this sentiment.

It's also funny because this is the exact same sentiment people complain about with the corporate world, where it's more about who you know than what you know.
You are right, this is an obvious non solution.

I should have kept that stupid joke to myself.
Be careful what you wish for. The unintended consequences of this are going to exceed imagination.
Nothing says "unmaintained," or inertia, quite still like having a project hosted on Sourceforge. I'm sure there's a few exceptions that are thriving on Sourceforge, but... it's kind of a relic at this point. It'd be cool if it could have a revival, but I think they've tried that a few times and never quite got there. I certainly wouldn't put anything new there, myself.
Invisible except for the 72 EEG probes strapped to your head.
The former is a milestone for the latter. In order to demonstrate that net energy for the process is even possible, they have to show that the ignition can be breakeven. By analogy they have to show that combustion is possible before spending even more money on building a giant gas fired power plant.

It's a small milestone, but it's a very important stepping stone if there's going to be any future for it. Getting it to the commercial power plant stage is a much more holistic problem that will probably take 10x more investment which no one wants to spend sight unseen.
I'm not going to argue about who the real monopoly is, but I'll try to make the distinction between choice and market share explicit. I don't have an issue with a product having a big market share, I have an issue with my choice being restricted.
It’s a high-flux isotropic neutron source intended for things that have nothing at all to do with power generation, but, possibly great improvements over spallation sources for certain applications.

Or, from the more bureaucratic viewpoint, it’s a successful sale of ‘science’ to the congress for your money. You paid about 0.1% of your gross income for it (ROM).
Discussed at the time:

The Art of Conducting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982100 - Dec 2017 (30 comments)
> If they lose control over Gaza? No.

Hamas has been out of control in Gaza before, it's hardly the first time. Insurgents don't need control over the area to be a serious pain for the occupying force.

> The guys in Doha aren’t insurgents. They’re bureaucrats. The insurgent leadership is being killed.

Their bureaucracy is largely focused on recruiting and funding the insurgent wing. Taking out insurgent leadership is like offing Bin Laden; someone else always volunteers.

> Again, Hamas lost control of its proxies.

You keep asserting this without any evidence. What proxies? What's the evidence Hamas doesn't want them doing what they're currently doing?

Hamas is the proxy, for Iran, as are Hezbollah. Iran is likely quite happy with their performance, given the brewing international condemnation of Israel's response.

> they screwed the pooch and are seeing heavy destruction and the likely loss of their fighters

They don't care. There's always more cannon fodder, especially after a war generates a new generation of refugees, orphans, and grieving relatives. We saw the same in Afghanistan; every civilian you kill means a family swearing vengeance.
For what it is worth, I live in California and would trade our grid for yours, uptime included.

Im paying >$0.50/kwh which is something like 4x the price in Texas, and I still need a backup generator because outages >24hours are common, even in the bay area
Pffft, they train the juniors? Hahaha, that’s funny.
In my case I had to give them my cell phone, I have multiple platforms and no one M/S recommended solution would not work for all. I would not give MS my cell.
I especially like the detail that EZ-Reverse-Turing-Test still has a 0.x version number.
Related. Others?

Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532404 - Dec 2021 (80 comments)
I am sorry if it seemed like that, because I very much do. E.g. I make no claim on whether it is any or all of the local Red Cross, county or state gov., neighbours etc that should handle caring for local elderlies in a blackout.
Almost Half of Berkshire Hathaway's Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock
I'm really curious why you need all those targets? Sounds like a perfect fit, tho.
That’s one of many nice things about credit unions. There are no share holders, they are owned by the members.
> "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me ... You can't be fooled again"
Regarding the HN post. This is the first time I have seen a clickable URL in an OP.

Did something change? It's nice not to have to copy and paste the URL.
How a Dutch tragedy made people take loneliness seriously
There is no cost, as explained

The linked article reports an increase in differential engagement. Do you deny that, or have some other explanation?
Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed
The average constant solar wind speed at Earth is around 190 miles (300 km) per second.

Related video:

https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI?t=799
> do we need to read all those book, articles, podcasts, documentaries to be good

Books will only get you so far. You have to do the work. It's not our thoughts and brilliant ideas, it's our actions which matter in the end. Did you execute?
On the other hand, following the teachings of Surak, which you effectively reference here, would be seen as highly logical by some. Though perhaps hard to practice by humans.
any example use case for ruby on rails?

I still can't think the use case of using ai to help me code my ruby on rails project
>> The current scope of "arms" does include most conventional weapons but intersects with other boring regulatory considerations

If those other conventional weapons were covered as "arms" under the 2nd, then those other boring regulations don't matter. The fact that those regs even exist is because so many weapons are specifically not covered as arms. I can own an AR-15. I cannot own a switchblade. I can own a 9mm semiautomatic, but I cannot own a small pen gun. I can own a short shotgun (coachgun) but I cannot own a crossbow in New York. Walk into a Nevada store with a handgun on your hip or an AR over your shoulder and nobody will bat an eye. But carry a sword and you will be arrested. It was only a couple years ago that laws banning "chain sticks" were struck down. SCOTUS has consistently narrowed the 2nd to only protect guns. Most ever other weapon is open for whatever reg the government wants to enact.
This reminds me of “The Wise Mind” from DBT sessions.

To find the balance between emotion and reason for wisdom.

https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-worksheet/wise-mind
I agree, the market is indeed challenging at the moment. Thankfully, I'm in a more stable position now. Despite not actively seeking out opportunities, I still received 4 remote job offers at the beginning of 2023 (or was it late 2022, I forget).

These offers weren't particularly thrilling, and I even left one of the jobs after a month. Regarding Meta, they are actively hiring. I had an offer from them in January 2022, which I turned down.

Then, in September 2023, they reached out again, but this time with an on-site requirement. Being based in the SFBA, I have a strong preference for remote work and am unlikely to accept an on-site role, though it's reassuring to know it's an option if remote opportunities dry up.

As for the folks you mentioned who are struggling to find work, my first question would be about the intensity of their job search. If they've sent fewer than 1,000 applications in a month or so, I would question whether their efforts are truly exhaustive. Job search in today's market demands a high volume of applications and persistence.

From the other side, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't produce any results, but would like to hear more details, since IMO there is a need for software engineers, since I know for sure companies are hiring.
The article or the video didn't explicitly say how many words / min they were doing. If the video was not just a demo (like Google) then its very impressive on speed alone.
Abortion is different, you wouldn’t say murder is something only religions prohibit.
Related ongoing thread:

The many faces of fsck (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668181 - Dec 2023 (25 comments)
Wikimedia Social Suite
I like how you guys are debating the source material which is about 90% advertisements. It’s all garbage, content included.
OMG they rereleased spelljammer? Brb, gotta go buy some DND books.

Which is to say, I am clearly part of the problem here.
> that's not inconsistent it's just inconsistent

> later other systems were introduced that weren't inconsistent
Discussed here btw:

On the pronunciation of “fsck” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38672435 - Dec 2023 (66 comments)
The article is hinting that there are weapons applications for this. What types of weapons would those be? Bombs? Are there any other countries with research programs similarly far along?
> That seems incredibly reasonable to me. Beeper’s statements seem almost like parody to me.

>> “I know I broke into your house, but someone else figured out the key. Now I’m here I should be able to rent out your couch! The renters deserve it, you’re discriminating. I’ll give you a cut!”

Beeper's arguments are about the benefit of encryption to phone users, not about who reverse-engineered the iMessage service. The main benefit is giving agency to Android users to send and receive encrypted messages from iMessage users, and the secondary benefit is letting iMessage users send and receive encrypted messages from those Android users. (Why don't both parties use a cross-platform E2EE messaging app? Beeper Mini requires only the Android user to alter their own messaging setup.) Beeper Mini tricks Apple into giving the Android user a private key on the Android user's behalf. In order to achieve this setup, Beeper Mini needs to stand in for the Android user and pretend to have an Apple device (requires a fake serial number - fake credentials - if MuffinFlavored is correct). That's the only fake part.

There are two overarching security issues at play.

1. Apple doesn't reliably distinguish between real and fake devices. That's an important problem but has no impact on iMessage encryption. Apple may have a right to shut out Beeper Mini, but Beeper Mini isn't in the wrong solely for utilizing a bug Apple missed. Otherwise, the acts and applications of reverse-engineering in general would be wrong, and that seems to be the opposite of the hacker spirit to me.

2. Beeper Mini supposedly doesn't give Beeper access to the private key for decrypting iMessage messages. Supposedly. The code isn't free software, so an Android user has to choose between trusting Beeper Mini's code or not using Beeper Mini. If you don't trust Beeper to give only you the encryption key then Beeper is a bad idea. (In that case, you can inspect the source-available iMessage implementation proof of concept called pypush by JJTech0130, or you could install a Signal/Matrix app instead.)
> Have they seen the light and made their devices usable without ever logging into their servers?

I run the management software in a VM and don't even have an account on ui.com. My firewall doesn't let the management software talk to the internet (I allow NTP and the couple of pings it wants to do, reject phone home; I temporarily allow phone home when I want to check for firmware updates).
> for what amounts to a quality of life improvement for the current staff.

Not to be cynical, but I doubt White Castle are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. The $100k per restaurant likely saves them having to hire and train and retain and provide health benefits to an employee. If a human employee costs them $50/hr all in (pay/health insurance/bennies/HR & payroll overhead), and the human employee works 40hrs/wk and 50wks/yr, the robot pays for itself in just a year. Not to mention that ideally the robot is more consistent and takes less time off and doesn't call in sick with a hangover.
Local "news" aggregator scraping selected fb pages and other sites.
For now. Modern antennas are amazing. Maybe you could beamform from a lower number of devices.
Not using it myself, but there is an insanely well done fan-made game called “MegaMan X: Corrupted”[1][2] which uses Haxe for a custom-made game engine. It has been years (and is still) in development and they sometimes live-stream development and game testing on Twitch.

- [1] https://jkbgames.com/w/index.php/MegaMan_X:_Corrupted_Wiki

- [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/jkbproductions
I bet this will make Neuralink useless! It would be great for the poor animals getting operated!
What I find misleading is the pronounced effect it is going to have on the elections although we know that there are far fewer wealthy people compared to poorer ones, there are no numbers to suggest how it will change anything as well. It should include that the trend for the people to become more conservative with age has also changed in the recent years.

The gist I get here is that people in the UK got poorer over time.
Must be great for interrogation.
Seeing that reminded me of this recent onoz, which one should fold into their threat model: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-oauth-is-broken-sort... <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38670644>
I think it'd simply be the fact that the facility isn't aimed at achieving break even, they're mainly interested in performing tests which validate the viability of the nuclear stockpile without having to test the bombs directly.

For example, there isn't really a means to extract the energy released to generate electricity from it in the facility (as the pellet has to be equally compressed from all sides by lasers).

Similarly, the lasers they're using are pretty old and inefficient by modern standards, they're sticking to them because improving electricity-to-laser efficiency is not the bottleneck to their system, it's laser-to-pellet efficiency (along with the stability and accuracy of their optics etc). But if they were concerned about power generation, electricity-to-laser efficiency is obviously important.

Basically, while the general concept of this kind of fusion reactor might be potentially viable, this specific facility likely is not (with its current mandate).
This was the way in almost every place I've worked. If you did a good job at managing upward and schmoozing and stroking the senior management's ego, and had those smooth "ivy leaguer" mannerisms, then it didn't even matter if you did your job. You were the Golden Boy and destined for greatness. But if you were too busy actually doing your job and didn't properly pet your management chain, you were setting yourself up to be the scapegoat.
When I was a product manager for large computer systems back in the dark ages, I can pretty much guarantee you that none of the engineers wanted to spend probably the majority of their days on the phone with sales reps, in customer meetings, providing updates to management and other groups involved with product launches, writing technical sales docs, and reviewing marketing materials, etc. Many engineers liked sitting in on a customer meeting now and then as a change of pace but they (properly) wanted to spend the bulk of their time focused on actual engineering.
I would suggest that you probably want to incorporate in a company that doesn't tax worldwide income and not the United States. If you plan on living in Thailand forever, then you might find that incorporating where you live results in the most sane result for most people.

I would not suggest the USA if you don't have any strong ties to the United States. It could just result in your being taxed here unnecessarily or being considered having close ties to the USA if you apply for a visa.
> Divinity Original Sin 2 has better combat mechanics

While I think the combat in 5E combat in BG3 is fairly simple by comparison, DOS2 combat was definitely not better. All combat devolved into status effect versions of “the floor is lava” and a lot of builds become unviable late game.
Juries make guilty/not guilty findings, not innocence.
While it's true that total net energy is what ultimately matters, the article points out that 99% of the energy that goes towards the lasers is wasted. So it seems like a logical next milestone.