skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anonymity has only been a reality for IT experts and the rich that can afford to hire them since 9/11. Limiting social media and online activity will lower your exposure to privacy invasive techniques, but certainly not eliminate it. Take one trip on a bus, subway, or airline and you'll have dozens of smartphone camera's in your face, often times recording video/audio.

The penetration of privacy invasive technology is so deep now that aside from hiding in the mountains or under a rock, it's nearly impossible to avoid. However, then your isolated. Whatever deviant ideology you felt needed to be protected by privacy laws, you've now effectively self-censored. Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange spoke about this over a decade ago.

The fight isn't about privacy as much as it is about targeting people who's ideology is considered dangerous to the Billionaires.
Ah, the penny dropped: I see your point now. Thanks!
If he didn't have a keyboard and typed on his phone like I do, they could also say that he "hacked them using only his thumbs".
They're not allowed to have them in class, but we all know how well banning anything with early teens goes.

The influence of social media extends to school boards being completely paralyzed. Imagine the "Moms for Access to Students During the School Day" Facebook group that would crop up and overthrow a school board that institutes mandatory cell phone bans.

I'm in one of the most affluent, pretty liberal, and successful school districts in the county and the past 5 years have been dumpster fire after dumpster fire due to Facebook getting small, extremely vocal people spun about "their children." Luckily they do hold of most of the more extreme end of the spectrum, but some things are not worth spending the political capital on. School board elections also align with US Presidential election years so turnout is usually high to keep the crazies away.
Stremio Tech Update #25 – Mega Update and a Stremio Gift
If you've dabbed in Windows before and how permissive it is with piracy, you also know that any kind of enforcement on Windows CAN and usually IS bypassed rather quickly an easily.

Cracks and patches are on the web only hours after whatever Microsoft does. Especially in places like China, Russia, etc.
They figured out how to expend all their political capital on social media, and incorrectly assume it leads to enough votes to win elections.
Is that a setup you use regularly, with other apps? How is your swap space configured?

My lived experience on Alpine, with no desktop environment on 1 GB is that Firefox needs more memory than that. Browsing the super-lightweight HN site is probably ok, though!
You're oversimplifying I'm afraid. Just because people make money out of war doesn't necessarily mean it's for no reason.

Just like the war on Nazis, some wars have to be fought, especially if your goal is to save lives.
How Our Brain Processes Language over Time
Not sure why population matters.

> Maersk said vessels routed around the Cape will as far as possible try to fuel at origin or destination.

> “In case there is a need for bunkering en route, it would be decided on a case by case basis with Walvis Bay (Namibia) or Port Louis (Mauritius) being the top options,” a spokesperson said.

I grew up in Walvis Bay and back then I could cycle from one end to the other in well under 30min. Last census says 62k pop.
There's people who like to play PC games or use Excel natively.
The fairly immediate end of Tesla as a going concern, I would think.
> The wealthiest schools would absolutely love this.

No, because:

(1) Their "best and brightest" branding requires at least the perception that top geniuses from families of modest means still get in.

(2) A perceived "You must be $THIS rich to enter" sign at the door - for anything, not just education - attracts a lot of negative reactions these days.

(3) They can feel a slippy slope under their feet. There's a lot of Federal money flowing into their coffers (both literally, and de facto), and no reason for Congress to stop at cutting off just their Federal student loan money.
I wonder what all those container ships contain. Possibly containers from the largest exporter in the world (China), heading to the second largest market in the world (Europe)?
Don't forget the sidequest: https://youtu.be/qEV9qoup2mQ
Ask HN: What are your go-to "test" questions when evaluating a new LLM?
Do you have a go-to question (or several) to check if an LLM knows its stuff? For me, I ask a simple question:

"What is Operation Konrad III"

which most LLMs fail due to the (relative) obscurity of the event.
This is so neat. Good work!
I've tried Obsidian, Notion, Typora, and a myriad of other local editors only to come back to vim every time.

My ideal text editor is one that has syntax highlighting, scratchpad, markdown support, block based editing, ability to link between documents and vim keybindings. No cloud login, AI assistant, cross-device sync, or other bloat.

I try to avoid using electron apps for lightweight tasks, but Heynote looks like its worth a try.
It’s the idea of implanting a foreign object in my body. I’m imagining seeing it in a mirror or something and it completely freaking me out.

I remember when I was young a friend broke their leg badly and needed one of those devices with the scaffold that has pins going into their legs, I couldn’t even look at it it freaked me out too much. Maybe that experience gave me a phobia
It’s true, but why is it harder?

Why is 500g of frozen pizza made up of modified starches and sugary sauce easier to eat and less filling than 500g of sourdough pizza of whole grains and real cheese/tomato

Maybe because our body is better equipped to register the calorie intake from the real food
Here is a fun Nand game inspired by the course: https://nandgame.com/
There has been such enforcement while people are on probation, I don't see why it couldn't be longterm.
If you need both good measurements that should by ample margin be audible transparent, as well as enough power for virtually any headphone save those that need a special amplifier (electrostats like STAX's), you'll find it hard to go under $200.

This device is actually a gem for the price, and most popular recommendations will go higher in price and give you less. I have been there and done the digging, you're welcome to repeat the process.

At some point, new devices or new prices will change this. But, as far as I am aware, this is how it is right now.
We are talking about adolescents. And at least in Asia, intense competition toward educational goals is a normal part of adolescence: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2010/03/30/high-st...
There are quite a few comments here saying this system is too out of date for modern use as a Linux laptop. What is a better alternative?

It’s not like I’m unaware what the answer might be. I have a very long list of manufacturers of nice laptops and for most of these I also have watch individual reviews of each, sometimes even after multiple months of use.

What I really need though is one person (or team) to sit down and try them all for multiple months and then pick a winner. Ideally with something breaking (or the reviewer pretending it had broken) and the manufacturers ability to fix it being included in the rating. Does such a comparison exist?
> the person giving you their number can also tell you which platform they are on

That... doesn't solve the problem. We don't need fragmented messaging systems, we need the world's largest company to lay down some rules and abide by them. Right now, the existence of iMessage is predicated on the poor performance of traditional SMS messaging. It wouldn't surprise me if the United States (much like Europe's antitrust council) forced Apple to standardize their proprietary alternatives. There's nothing counterintuitive about that to me.
If there is only one thing that is more annoying than windows printer management (and especially its feature where it just adds printer over and over again), it's the missing ability to remove any Microsoft account from Windows that was, in whatever way, used on that computer. It just lives in Settings -> Accounts, without any possibility to ever remove it (or I did not found it yet).
Substack explains why they are paying Nazis to publish on their platform
CS SYD: What software engineers can learn from traffic lights and turn signals
This works for me and it searches the whole info manual. But, I do agree that there’s a trade off here between in-depth documentation and easy to scan docs.

You can also sometimes do something like “info zsh …” to jump directly to a sub-page and, at least in zsh, tab completion works for these sub pages.
All of the human individuals I've met and talked with throughout life think both "BIG CHUNK" and "LARGE CHUNK" mean more than 10%.
> The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library

The Cyberattack is not disturbing. Disturbing is that they are not back after all this time.

Sucks to be a sysadmin there those days.
That's for the Yemeni government forces to sort out. Not for hackernews Yemen-flattening enthusiasts to determine.
Make no mistake, the moment iran decides they are shutting the straight of hormuz, its shut, and it would take aircraft carriers at the bottom of the ocean to open it via force. The US is currently 5-10 years behind in weapons technology, and iran has a lot of those weapons waiting in systems of mountain range bunkers that you would have to get through. War with iran will be as historically significant as the sacking of rome on our own economy and global reputation.
I remember writing a maze generator for a personal game project (a Nuclear clone-like). The wikipedia article for maze generation [1] was surprisingly helpful, though I ended up using something closer to a pseudo-random walker.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm
> all suicide bombings from 1980 to 2005 were the result of a people being occupied

These aren’t suicide bombings. They’re helicopter-assisted seizures and anti-ship missile attacks.

> I find it far more likely that theyd rather be home with their kids than out in the field guarding an unguardable missile launcher

So would have many Nazis.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think the Houthis are evil. Their domestic war is entirely justified. Escalating to a regional conflict probably wasn’t their idea; the instructions came from Tehran.

We don’t fight to kill evil people, we fight to achieve objectives. Within the narrow scope of reopening the Bab-el-Mandab, negotiating isn’t an option because there is no single group who control all the Houthis’ armed forces except Tehran, and Tehran isn’t offering terms.
The entire thesis hinges on this quote from Ashlee Vance, who corrected/retracted said quote years later:

>>Musk told me that the idea originated out of his hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system. … He insisted the Hyperloop would cost about $6 billion to $10 billion, go faster than a plane, and let people drive their cars onto a pod and drive out into a new city. At the time, it seemed that Musk had dished out the Hyperloop proposal just to make the public and legislators rethink the high-speed train. He didn’t actually intend to build the thing. … With any luck, the high-speed rail would be canceled. Musk said as much to me during a series of e-mails and phone calls leading up to the announcement.

I have no divine insight into Musk's or any tech billionaire's minds, but if this article's thesis is that the billionaires' are conspiring to put down viable public transit, I would like to see more evidence.

I do not disagree, however, that Hyperloop was an infeasible project from the get-go.
Telegram – The Mysterious Messenger App
The next obvious conclusion once it is established that the hyperloop concept was a con is that the person proposing it and other ideas is a con artist.
Do we actively track that now?
I submitted the article but I’m not the author, the report was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Yes, Nylas provides this, and also Aurinko: https://www.aurinko.io/blog/imap-restful-api-gateway/

Nylas is a sync engine though so all client data will end up on their servers first and then will be served to you. Aurinko tries to remain API gateway (pass-through) as much as possible.

Good luck with the project.
OBE?
From many years ago on the #osspodcast

Episode 184 – It’s DNS. It’s always DNS

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2020/02/24/episode-184-its-dns...

If you look at a lot of outages and incidents, DNS is a common problem.
Inside The 'Magic Radio' Protecting Russian Drones from Jamming
Is it possible to use proportional (non-monospace) fonts? It’s not clear from the website. That would be a necessary feature for me.
Why? I'm saying they can do what they want. You are basically pushing them into something.
For anyone who needs it, arxiv-vanity is amazing: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
I'm happy you're happy. And happy to see Jennifer too. I'm just happy I guess. I'm happy I'm happy.
Out of the blue? Religious zealots from all over the world flying in to join a militia to conduct mass killings of men, women and children on behalf of a fascist zionist "religious" ethnostate. Sounds like it's been going on for about 76 years.
"The Nazis developed their ideology based on racism and pursuit of "living space", and seized power in early 1933. In an attempt to force all German Jews to emigrate, the regime passed anti-Jewish laws and orchestrated a nationwide pogrom in November 1938. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, 1.5 to 2 million Jews were shot by German forces and local collaborators."

People lived in ghettos and were executed before.
I guess it depends how you define Holocaust tho
So, your family held the cousins in such low regard that they self-medicated and fell off the edge of the world... somehow they're the ones that caused you to hold your friends in higher regard? You speak from bitterness that they've done you wrong, but did you ever do them right in the first place?

Which of your friends would stick with you if things got tough? Which would let their lives go off the rails for a chance to put yours back on them? What norms would they flout to protect you, in other words, which of them could you call certain they'd help you get rid of the body?

I'm guessing none.
In Russia, parents are having gay children abducted to be 'cured'
Yes, there was a court case to get the report released.

https://fluoridealert.org/articles/national-toxicology-progr... has some details on the circumstances.
Dear God try to bless America: the institutionally Racist country in denial.
They do link to the Reuters piece.

The BI piece doesn’t really contextualise it well, and I’d agree that linking to the Reuters piece would better, but it doesn’t seem that egregious.

(I suspect that the reason the BI piece exists and is linked to in the first place is that the Reuters piece is _very long_, and a lot of people won’t have the patience to read it.)
Ah, thanks! That was a proper fix.
Tipping (along with often poor service and exorbitant prices) is a big reason why I rarely eat out unless it's on someone else's dime. Cheaper, more educational and more rewarding to learn to prepare something at home.
Right? Like the guy said, "If there's a new way I'll be the first in line, but it better work this time."
Finally I can ditch Sublime text as a scratch pad. This is simpler to use. Good work!
Looking at many of the adults around me, I'm not so sure. It seems to me that these are things that don't come naturally to most people.
I'm sorry. I read that a little differently and then just reiterated the point you were trying to make.

It really would be helpful if these things were broken down and better understood amongst the general population. Costs have gone up but I'd be hesitant (which is a reversal from my previous understanding) to blame that solely on "administrators".
I am pretty sure either Ubuntu and/or Debian stripped it from default Python install.
I had a daily driver that ran windows 10.

Once a year I would format and reinstall because it would get sluggish.

I got a steamdeck and was blown away by how well everything ran on it.

The next time I was due to reinstall I switched to linux. It has been snappier than windows ever was and everything works fantastically well.
I think zswap is better than zram in general.
You can pass review that way. You publish a clean artifact that gets reviewed and vetted, and for the actual attack you replace the vetted artifact by the bad one. If you trust MD5, or as the article shows, even a good 128 bit hash, like truncated SHA-256, you get pwned. That's why you don't accept MD5 based signature as well.

People that take security seriously enough to check hashes should not trust MD5 so the scenario is not super credible, but people still publish MD5 hashed like it's the early 2000s.
Yeah, the article also says "WA web’s javascript was uglified and minified, however after a while of searching I found the right place."
> the moment iran decides they are shutting the straight of hormuz, its shut

We are threatening to shut the Strait. We sailed a CVN to Hormuz to telegraph two can tango.

> US is currently 5-10 years behind in weapons technology

Compared to Iran?!

We’re literally liquidating their newest air-defence systems with 90s-era kit in Ukraine.

> War with iran will be as historically significant as the sacking of rome on our own economy and global reputation

This is stupid. We could topple Tehran with de minimis force reduction from offshore. We might lose some ships, which would be a high cost, but nothing catastrophic.

The catastrophe would be the power vacuum that follows. Which is why nobody is threatening total war with Iran.
If you are making many requests in batch this works ok because you can shuffle the next layer in while the current one is processing a set of matrix multiplies. This takes it from being a memory bound problem to a flops bound problem. This really only works if you care about throughput and not latency.
Most Supermicro mainboards are either an 8-pin or 20-pin header and you can get TPM 1.x and TPM 2.0 options for them.
Obsidian and (Local) LLMs
That's the unrealistic ideal.
There are other reasons for cloning objects apart from immutable updates. Might also be you just want to pass around an object reference and make sure it is not mutated later, so you use a clone.

And structuredClone was standardized to serialize objects passed between contexts.

So I don't see what's wrong with teaching people about this as the native way to clone serializable objects.

Record/Tuples are different types and I don't think that "what you really want" is a future proposal when you want a built-in now.
> Had it not been for the experience of "tinkering" with that PC and its predecessor (a ten year old 8088), I would likely have never become a software developer.

Now that I'm 25 years into my software career, one thing that absolutely blows me away is just how few software engineers in my teams actually own their own computers. It's less than 50% for my current team. Meanwhile, I'm the weirdo with several (gaming PC, gaming laptop PC, and general purpose MBP) in addition to my work laptop.

> It was such a good experience that I opted to buy my son a decent gaming laptop to graduate him from consoles. Over the last year, the same thing has happened to him

I went through that experience with my son as well. He's never shown great interest in being taught computer stuff, but did want to help with a PC build. Now, he's tech support for his friends.
somewhat related, some blockchain idiot's idea for an "innovation zone" near the same area, the 2021 article [1] says they own 67,000 acres out there. They had some vague vision for doing all this stuff with coins, but they wanted a waiver to not follow any business rules or pay taxes. There were funny stories from the reno reddit about people who interviewed out there, saying the guy behind it was a tool.

[1] https://www.nnbw.com/news/2021/oct/12/blockchains-inc-withdr...
Criticising Israel != supporting terrorism
> That's for the Yemeni government forces to sort out.

Anyone who starts taking potshots at civilian neutrally-flagged ships in international waters should not be surprised by a response.
We should get some space marine with a green armor suit and anger issues to investigate those demonic forces. Hand him a double barrelled shotgun and a chainsaw and watch him rip and tear right through it.
They claim to believe that the STRINDA was going to make a delivery at an Israeli port:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/cruise-missile-yem....
I have used many plain text tools over the decades. In the past year, NotePlan has taken over everything that is not coding, or long form writing.

It was easy to move my markdown notes into it.

Plus NotePlan has replaced most of my calendar and task management apps.

I use it on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Looking forward to the web based version that is progressing nicely.

Syncing across platforms is a bit harder than I would like. Dropbox and GitHub syncing work, but it is best using iCloud. I use ChronoSync running on an always on Mac to sync to locations for Linux and Windows access.
The VF causes disorientation as the brain is starved of oxygen. The device is set to fire after about 15 seconds, by which time I'm already unconscious, because it is pretty fucking painful.
And what is this author’s motivation for writing an entire series of vitriolic articles about bad man Elon Musk? I’ve noticed lately that such articles get upvoted a lot on HN.
So a better headline might have been "It is, indeed, always DNS?"
The problem with California High Speed Rail is that they literally have no plans for the section that goes through the mountains. There are huge elevation changes in a seismically active area and its not clear that they'll ever figure it out.
I always feel like the goal of every Scott Alexander sentence is to show how he is smarter and/or more rational than other people.
Yes right, I was primarily referring to the economic part of the term.

There is also ongoing effort of platform owners to maintain their position which does fulfill the other part of the definition.
I’m ready to retire (not savings-wise though)
> Just buy a half-decent DAC.

I bought the Apogee Groove recently and I can't imagine ever needing to upgrade. It has the same chip that you will find in $1000+ units.
It often happens because the country never made any sense.

There used to be two Yemens caught between the Ottomans and the British. The North became an independent kingdom and then a republic, while the South was first a British protectorate and then a communist state. Both had civil wars, and there were at least two wars between the two. When communism fell in Europe, the two Yemens unified and had a civil war. Then there were a couple of decades of uneasy peace before the current war.
> if I'm not mistaken also allows cloning functions/Maps/Sets

Map and Set yes, but not functions. Makes sense because there is no reasonable way to serialize functions in JS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

edit: I have no idea what actually happens to cloned maps with function values or keys though...
Don't think calling Elon a con artist is fair - he built two of the most important companies of the 21st century.
Thanks for this. It's linux-only, for anyone that cares.