skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self
US scrutinizing airline frequent flyer programs
I don't think this is fair. Another underage person found guilty of the same hacks got an 18-month rehabilitation order. This basically means severe restrictions on going out and computer use together with involvement and monitoring by social workers. This seems perfectly appropriate. They're not having decades of their life taken away from them, and they're not locked up with hardened criminals who would either victimise them or teach them to be much worse.

The indefinite order is because the kid committed multiple assaults and other violent acts while under observation in a mental hospital. Doctors don't believe he can be released in the foreseeable future.

If you were arrested for unpaid parking tickets and then demonstrated threatening, violent and out-of-control behaviour while in police custody, then in a secure unit, you might get a similar indefinite order.
It's really not. At all.
We used to hack lots of things. Jungles, reeds, grain, timber, enemy Viking tribes.
>"Pseudoephedrine works just fine but it was moved behind the counter long ago and now you have to ask the pharmacist for it... ..The over-the-counter replacement for pseudoephedrine is phenylephrine and it's basically a placebo"

But this is the entire issue, they knew this from the get-go and made billions based on fraud.

How many Nyquil/Dayquil and other decongestant commercials have you seen in your life time... Ive seen thousands. to the point their jingle and tagline are still easy to recall.

The issue here is fraud, most of the marketed products were oral.

So, here is a conspiracy: If they knew that it was useless, but sounded good on the label - then maybe they could get away with putting even less of the substance, if any, in the products to save costs?

I would assume the FDA would require batch testing at some interval?
Not the person you're replying to, but when you get in this mindset the workarounds are pretty easy.

I don't trust any business to act responsibly with any information I give them, so I also use a lot of virtual cards and spoofed email addresses (actually I just use a catchall on my domain most of the time which is less secure I guess, but does most of what I need).
L'esprit de l'escalier.
Right. But it’s a service Apple created to add value to Apple devices. It’s subsidized by people purchasing those devices.

Why should they have to give it to Android?

I just don’t see that quote as a smoking gun. Why isn’t that Apple‘s choice to make?
Even if they did, Apple doesn’t care about that. If they wanted an Android client they’d make one, not allow some random company to do it.
That’s great. But there are a lot of political pushes for things like voucher programs trying to pull money away from public education in favor of private options.

If people want to homeschool or private school while still supporting the public school system I take no issue with that.
The comments in here are weird. HN is normally an advocate for open protocols (like Mastodon, XMPP) and has been highly critical of services closing their integrations with 3rd party clients (like Reddit and Twitter).

Yet the moment it’s an Apple protocol, suddenly none of the above matters.

I remember the late 90s / early 00s when we had MSN, AOL IM, ICQ and others. People got so fed up with different people using different services that a whole slew of 3rd party clients were available that supported everything. Like Pidgin, libpurple, Bitlbee (an IRC server that supported IM protocols), and Trinity (or something named like that).

Now we are stuck with vendor lockouts and crappy 1st party apps that are usually little more than a web container.

It’s weird how open source has taken over the world and yet our messaging protocols have gotten more proprietary than ever.
There's a wikipedia page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
"It says most new-build technologies, like renewables, can enter an electricity system and provide reliable power by relying on existing capacity already deployed, but as their share increases, which forces the retirement of existing flexible capacity, the system will find it increasingly difficult to provide reliable power supply without additional investment.

To address that issue, the report calculates the additional cost of making variable renewables reliable at shares of 60, 70, 80, and 90 per cent of the system (the extra "integration costs" consist mainly of new storage and transmission costs).

The report found even when those integration costs were taken into account, the cost range for variable renewables was still the lowest of all new-build technologies in 2023 and 2030."
How often do transportation companies get sued in general? If the accident rate is the same as a bus, train, or airplane, why would this be different?
https://youtube.com/shorts/5j_wjlfJ65U?si=mwjaRYqi8l6Bo0DJ
The bowlers are not captured here. Even if we use the reduced definition, not every corner cut in the world would count as enshittification.

And users having a bad experience is even more broad. Enshittification is a specific method/cause. I would not say it's incidental.
Conceded! Except for round trip efficiency.
I’m just waiting for a tv that has instant startup times like phone displays, why they cant replicate instant sleep/wake like mobile phones can is a mystery to me.
> I believe email addresses should be treated as identities.

No, for two reasons:

Outside of the western world, phones are more common than computers and easier UIs in general so a phone number is more likely to be their identity.

In addition, that means you're completely handing off your identity to your email provider. Considering many - looking at you google - are faceless organizations that can and will shut down your access without notice or appeal, you could lose everything.

Background: I launched Okta's OAuth and OIDC products, put together LinkedIn's courses on the same, and doing it again at Pangea Cyber.
A system like this would require so many people at each step that I don't think one insane actor could do something like this even if they were the president.
Are you being facetious? Stalking and harassment alone wouldn't justify a life sentence.
Honestly its one benefit of a true open market, you know what the motivation is.

Whether that's worth all the downsides it can cause, I'll leave that up to the reader to decide...
I find F-Droid more trustworthy than the Google Play Store because the F-Droid maintainers are much more transparent and communicative than Google is. The Play Store review process doesn't do a thorough job of checking apps for privacy or security issues and doesn't require apps to disclose anything other than their permissions. F-Droid reviews every app before accepting it into the main repository, and labels apps with tracking or other potential issues with "Anti-Features" labels.[1]

Any user can inspect the source code of any app in F-Droid, while that's not even an option for proprietary apps in the Play Store. When someone notices an issue and reports it to F-Droid, the maintainers listen and either change or remove the app listing, with these removals being logged in their weekly updates.[2] For Google Play apps with issues that you happen to notice despite most of the apps being closed source, unless they get media coverage, you'd be lucky to get anything other than canned responses from Google when you report them.

F-Droid also has some great apps that depend on sensitive permissions that are forbidden by Google Play, such as the AdAway[3] ad blocker which uses either the Android VPN interface or system hosts file. AdAway enhances user privacy and security by blocking trackers and malware hosts, so Google did not improve Android by removing AdAway from the Play Store.

[1] Anti-Features on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/

[2] F-Droid weekly updates: https://f-droid.org/en/news/

[3] AdAway: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
Although this is about costs in Australia, the article cites a recent decision by a group of towns in Utah, who abandoned a small-scale nuclear energy project, because it was much more expensive than solar[1].

1:https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/11/09/utah-cities-abandon-t...
Argentina: Is Now Accepting BTC
Making cars illegal would make it harder for bullies to bully. Your logic dictates that this is always good.
War in Yemen
2.5% of that is lost to federal and state taxes. Inflation is running at 3.1%. So you're losing 0.1%.
Ok so now it's even more ludicrous. So a couple in their early thirties is gonna sit down to discuss having kids and the deal breaker will be "well in 16 years Alice will be in high school and Bob will be finishing elementary school, so for 2 years we will need to drive them 15min from each other. You know what? Let's just not have kids, I don't think I can deal with this."
Just brainstorming - perhaps one way to do that would be a multi-column FK towards the row ID combined with an is_deleted column, which would mean that the FK constraint also enforces updating the related rows if something is deleted.
You don’t need foreign keys, no. But you do need referential integrity and foreign keys implemented and enforced by the database is usually the easiest.

If you’re disciplined it’s not difficult to implement yourself in the application, but the challenge is if folks can access the database directly. If so, good luck, since it’s inevitable that they end up making modifications and break integrity.

If one insists on not having foreign keys (and there are decent reasons to not have them), I would really really suggest not allowing direct access to the database and enforce whatever application be the main or only client to the database.
50 years onward and every innovation seems to break, rather than improve, the tried and true relational database model.
Yea, too bad Aaron Schwarz squandered his.

It's fucked up what they did to him publicly.
ssh is fairly often used non-interactively.

so if you want to execute uptime on a remote machine, the session will only be open for a few ms, and those extra RTT are a problem. (Yes, I know about openssh controlmaster...)
When some people ask why most of us sane and practical folks still use and demand simple password authentication, it's because passwords fucking work.
It matters when it's -20C and the cable can't bend
With tone deaf pedantry like that, I'm surprised you didn't also call out that Monsanto is no more. Its assets were bought up by Bayer and BASF quite a few years ago. You are slipping, my friend.
Ye sure. I know good code when I see it. The scale is very fuzzy, and others might disagree with my taste and we both are right.

"Cognitive load" has to be normalized by "stuff done".

I mean the unit is something like:
(stuff done by app) / (code stuff)
where 'code stuff' is really really fuzzy. I mean dependencies count into that measure, even though they are zero loc written by you. Etc.
If you are like me and think "but does that include storage?" every time you hear about cost of renewables, this does:

> electricity generated by solar and on-shore wind projects is the cheapest for Australia, even when accounting for the costs of keeping the power grid reliable while they're integrated into the system in greater proportions over time.
Thank you! At first glance, Bluesky seems great. I like X and don't care about Musk or problematic speech, but Bluesky is showing me accounts I like, whereas it's hard to convince Twitter to show me content I want to see.

Maybe it's just that Bluesky's current userbase is stronger, pre eternal September. Anyway, I really appreciated your generosity.

I promise to be diligent about posting, so as to honor your invite. I will behave. Unlike on X, where I'll continue being completely insane lol.
This github issue is often linked when this topic is discussed: https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331

> Personally, it took me quite a few years to make up my mind about whether foreign keys are good or evil, and for the past 3 years I'm in the unchanging strong opinion that foreign keys should not be used. Main reasons are:

> * FKs are in your way to shard your database. Your app is accustomed to rely on FK to maintain integrity, instead of doing it on its own. It may even rely on FK to cascade deletes (shudder).
When eventually you want to shard or extract data out, you need to change & test the app to an unknown extent.

> * FKs are a performance impact. The fact they require indexes is likely fine, since those indexes are needed anyhow. But the lookup made for each insert/delete is an overhead.

> * FKs don't work well with online schema migrations.
> Whenever I've opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to get wiped long before I discover performance issues.

I love the sense of humor on this site.
NSA should pick him up, or maybe GCHQ.
From TFA, and given prior hacks, he's very skilled.
If you are willing to forego 3rd normal form and just duplicate data like mad, and have a million column like a giant excel sheet, then you really don’t need foreign keys.
> October 5th- Google paid $1337 for the issue

love the tongue-and-cheek "leet" amount of 1337
Did you read the article?

> The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
Good promo for Fastly! Fastly is a great company - effectively they're Varnish-as-a-Service, which is really a non-trivial SaaS. I hope this brings in some business for them.
>> "we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away"

If only anyone had ever studied the problem so he could base his decision in reality rather than supposin'. Sunlight is not, in fact, the best disinfectant. And given how his cofounder dropped the softball Nilay Patel threw him, I think he knows and doesn't care. It's all about that drive to IPO to pay off investors and cash out.
How to Build and Interpret a Nomogram for Setting Better Running Goals
I'm trying to get at what CAD program outputs you would want that aren't drawings, etc. I'm not aware of any. I'm trying to get at what true application Blender had which you are referencing.

If you don't want a drawing or a manufacturable thing out of your CAD program then its likely not CAD your doing but graphics design or 3d modeling, not design. This is fine, but itsba different thing.

I was trying to parse through that with you...
I understand how you could miss it, but the sequiter is "unexpected behavior".

Why do mentally ill people cause some people anxiety? Because they may behave erratically.* In other words, we have a lot more difficulty ascertaining what they are thinking, and by extension, predicting their behavior. The same can be said for the general public sentiment towards AVs.

* I also understand "mental illness" is a blanket category and I'm not using it as a stigmatizing term. It may be stretching the analogy too much, but it's simply a proxy for "I have a hard time predicting what's going through this persons mind"
I'm not conflating anything. You didn't comprehend what I wrote.
My drugs have been coming in the mail now for some years. Those dreaded pharmacy visits are a thing of the past for me.
Long time on and off vim user. Stopped reading after the first obnoxious paragraph. Maybe mid-level vim users are lonely because they’re such jerks.
It's also more expensive that geothermal, which that region can have in abundance.
> GenCost has been advised by stakeholders that small modular reactors are the appropriate size nuclear technology for Australia. Australia’s state electricity grids are relatively small compared to the rest of the world and planned maintenance or unplanned outages of large-scale nuclear generation would create a large contingent event of a gigawatt or more that other plants would find challenging to address.

> In the present system, it would take two or more generation units to provide that role. As such, large-scale nuclear plants which are currently lower cost than nuclear SMR, may not be an option for Australia, unless rolled out as a fleet that supports each other - which represents a much larger investment proposition.

> The second issue is that observations of low cost nuclear overseas may in some cases be referring to projects which were either originally funded by governments or whose capital costs have already been recovered. Such prices will not be available to countries that do not have existing nuclear generation such as Australia.
God, yes. I remember when I had a lot more free time in high school and college and was doing a lot of world building for D&D campaigns I had not the skill to actually run. I learned so much about geology, geography, hydrology... just to make a map I wouldn't even finish, let alone use. Extremely fun though!
My Samsung TV (LCD) is fairly quick to start up. I think slow startup times are generally a case of bad software.
Taking away the hammer would placing the fanwork into public domain.

Here, we are specifically destroying the hammer as a punishment.
No worries, we are all learning together.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02219
> Cool, all you need to do is to stamp the autism label on them and put them in a secure hospital and convict them for a crime that would get like 5 years in prison.

Good thing that’s not what happened then I guess.
I'm happy you mentioned that! I didn't know one could use Java in vim. If I'm using Java again this is the way I'm gonna go. I'm not a great vimmer, but I survive.

Wanna be survivable in vim? I know of _the course_ that teaches you enough vim to be survivable in just a few hours! You think I'm selling snake oil? Nay!

On Mac/Linux type: vimtutor

Do all the lessons

Then a month later do all of them again

A few months later do them again

You're now survivable in vim and it only took you a few hours ;-)
Guilty pleasure.

Whenever I DM a campaign I spend a significantly high percentage of my time preparing on making maps when I should be planning encounters...

Map making and world building are fun.
Find a business model that doesn't depend on the unauthorized access of a private API would be a good place to start.
After that happened, laws were passed to make it perfectly legal to get blood from unconscious patients without a warrant (https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/732852170/supreme-court-affir...) and to help avoid the problem of doctors and nurses interfering with the demands of the police, departments in several states have started training officers to draw blood from suspects themselves right on the side of the road so there's no need to take most people to a hospital.

Jeff Payne, the Utah cop who was fired after his violent arrest of that nurse went viral, later got hired by the Weber County Sheriff’s Office to work in the medical unit of the county jail.
Life in prison for up to $10m in damages? At first I thought the number must be off by a factor of 10. I couldn’t help but see Dr Evil for a moment.

These are at best property crimes, and while the sums are non trivial, sentencing children to indefinite imprisonment for a nonviolent crime against a megacorp is unconscionable.
Literally weaponized autism.

Hacking Rockstar using FireTV stick, lol.
This is typical writing from people who aren't familiar with technology. Could this kid be a genius? Maybe. It's more likely he found exploits like the ones we're seeing on the front page today[0]. It's not super impressive or surprising, to me at least.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38720544
I have a comcast email named after an old movie monster. Turns out that a former comcast customer once had the same account, and registered it with google (and others). Not only can I not use that address with google services, creating google calendar events using my email will sent the notification to the other guy (as a result, I created another email address for job interviews).

Every year I get several notifications that this guy has done something with his x-box, or registered a new device for something or other. It is absolutely nuts, and companies like Google refuse to let people like myself claim our own email addresses.
Its a more basic question to me, why do these apps need a special entitlement? Couldn't they ask users for permissions like any other app, presumably with a good reason to go along with it since location is needed for some features?
It cannot be done.

First of all you cannot estimate what you don't know. And you don't know what you haven't done yet.

Unknown unknowns is what Fred Brooks explained in detail in his Mythical Man Month.

Then there is the psychological aspect which is what is called optimistic bias. Which is that humans are optimistic beings and will always believe they are better than they really are at some things.

The planning fallacy is based upon this.

All of this is why we try to iterate and validate on feedback, instead of doing fixed timed development. That is simply because we have no idea about the future and guessing on it is more often than not a waste of time.
It's not about the capacity of the batteries themselves, it's about the _grid_ capacity they can cover. GW isn't a mistake, they care that it can deliver 10GW of instantaneous power, not 10GWh.

National Grid don't want these storage projects to allow us to tide over for days of no wind / no solar, but to add grid balancing.

At the moment if a large power supplier disconnects (e.g. a 1.2GW Nuclear plant) then to handle the drop in supplied power over a period of seconds/minutes before a standby gas turbine generator can fire up they currently rely on the "spinning" mass within the system - literally the intertia of the spinning steel within all the remaining nuclear, gas, coal, biomass power plants. As the grid is being decarbonised this spinning mass is being reduced (Unfortunately wind turbines don't have enough mass for this) and they need to add more responsive balancing.
LOL. Your comment made me realize I had been eye-scanning (without reading) down the thread for a while. I felt caught in the act!
Everyone wants free software developers to slave away for free. Give away your worldly things, don't worry about feeding your family or keeping shelter over your head -- just keep on cranking out new releases out of the goodness of your own hearts.
We can create frameworks to mitigate this problem, though. A good first step is better transparency regarding data reporting of AVs.
The first time I heard the time 'technical debt' was during a discussion on software related activities to fixing something that is not a bug or a feature which are usually the two main categories that the product owner cares. You meet your deadlines and the customer is elated with the software/product, then 'technical debt' is the whatever bucket.
There’s a ton of open protocols that could have been the messaging standard. But beeper took a always-closed protocol and tried to open it.

I’m not in support of Apple here but it’s pretty obvious which way this would go.
Your comment is the one that’s weird. HN is not a hive mind, and hacker news itself is a proprietary site that doesn’t implement any open standards or protocols.

Even if we accept your faulty premise, the solution would be to encourage the open protocol, not build on top of closed ones…