skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the punishment far exceeds the loss caused by the "crime" then it is absolutely unfair, it undermines the rule of law itself.

What about punishment as a deterrent? People can commit a crime many times and only get caught once. Should they be punished only up to the cost of the one crime they were caught doing?
actually KSR writes hard scifi, so he does do his research before writing
As a less contrived example then, consider "andix.hacker@foo.com" vs "andix..hacker@foo.com". Some email service providers canonicalize those to the same thing, and some don't.

Your service using emails for logins or adspam or whatever now faces a choice. You probably have to accept periods, and you probably don't want to try to hard-code all the different ways a period might be used legitimately as opposed to a typo, so you have to deal with that problem somehow. You can canonicalize (opening yourself up to hijacks, some unintentional as legitimate users just have emails that clash in your system), or not (potentially locking out some users).
The Joyce museum, in an old Martello tower, is defined worth a trip if you are in Dublin.

https://joycetower.ie/
I was hesitant to pay $25 for an iOS app but after doing reviews for 180 days I’m at $0.14 a day and it will only get cheaper… one of the best investments I’ve made for sure
I'm aware of the difficulty Aptera has had getting a product done, but I'm also surprised that there isn't more specialization in EV products. Most cars on US roads are used mostly for commuting, but EVs seem to be striving for 1:1 replacement of gasoline cars. That makes then very heavy and expensive. A commute-optimized EV should be cheaper and more efficient than that 1:1 replacement vehicle. It is less likely to depend on cutting edge batteries, too.
Well that's the thing, it HAS been a surprise for many years at this point. Chrome has long supported ARM for Linux and supported ARM for macOS for a few years now but, while Chromium and derivatives have supported ARM on Windows for many years as well, Chrome itself did not leaving confusion or complication about how to deal with things like auto-updating, Widevine, and sync vs inefficiency via the x86 version.

The story is this has finally changed and that is more than a nothingburger headline.
Totally agree. I'm surprised that a post making a big claim with little research and shallow content like this got to the frontpage with over 800 upvotes. Sad you're being downvoted too.
"Simulation" probably covers it.
Someone’s creative click bait idea?
or a bizarre Y2K problem
The icon should depict a muted speaker and shouldn't change. Then add a LED-like dot to show when the function is active.
Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled
Looking at about:networking I can see connections to pocket (despite me disabling pocket in about:config) as well as connections to "firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com".

And after research, it appears some of these are hard-coded into the source code on purpose for "security reasons" which is ridiculous.

Mind you, my browser is hardened to it's best.. just felt like sharing this for anyone unaware that even if you harden Firefox, even if you go the extra 10 miles and edit about:config, it will still spy on you!
As long as it'll be duelling via Trichinella-infected sausage, I'm all for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow#The_duel_challe...
This is what I was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360
Not to mention that half the time tooltips don't show up until you wiggle the mouse over them a bunch, and tooltip delays are arbitrarily timed and usually far, far too delayed (often on the order of hundreds of milliseconds when they should be like 10-50ms at most). And my biggest pet peeve about them is that, at least in Chromium-based browsers, they really don't like to go away once they finally show up, to the extent that I can often scroll the page until they're offscreen and they still don't disappear. Or they leave the farm entirely and persist outside the browser window.
Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the best recovery
ChatGPT burns quite a lot of energy. We need less of LLMs, not more
I'd say it probably is/would have been very difficult to stop, but the dose was low and consistent. My fear is people like that who get cut off, then resort to illegal drugs.

I realize this begs the question of is "chronic pain" basically just an addiction? I'm not qualified to answer that though.
I also check the access logs collected by my self-hosted services, and I think there's a detail that's conspicuously absent from this analysis: the bulk of these malicious requests are made by regular people running plain old security scanners that are readily available from sites such as GitHub. These are largely unsofisticated attacks that consist of instances of one of these projects just hammering a server without paying any attention to responses or even if they have been throttled or not.

Some attacks don't even target the IP and instead monitor domains and its subdomains, and periodically run the same scans from the exact same range of IP addresses.

For example, on a previous job we had a recurring scan made over and over again from a single static IP address located in Turkey that our team started to refer to it as "the Turkish guy", and our incident response started featuring a preliminary step to identify weird request patterns that was basically checking if it was the Turkish guy toying with our services.
In elementary school I would lock the stall from inside, and then climb over the top :)
That's just a fraction of the total for the industry. The vast majority still comes from refineries. That's the greenwashing part, industry trying to muddle the water, as the direct quotes show. On biofuel, changes in land use associated with agriculture make for quite a bad impact as well.
Enabling it may be optional but the workflow will be filled with dark patterns to encourage it and dark patterns to make it difficult to opt-out.

Also, is it only enabled if both or in case of group texts, all parties agree to it?
Both are probably better options than Google Chrome, which sole purpose seems to be tracking your browsing activity ;).
Modern image formats: JXL and AVIF
In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf
> Energy accounting method showed quantitatively that biofuels are not renewable energy sources

That's essentially the same as the argument that electric cars aren't green because they're charged from a grid powered by non-renewable sources.

It's true, as long as the energy input to either system comes from non-renewable sources, neither is really green. But it's not inevitable.

That paper also says the energy yield ratio for biofuels is around 1.5, so it should be possible to make closed loop, renewable production of biofuels using biofuels as energy input.
Based on the last time I opened Edge I'd say Microsoft is somehow beating Google on that count.
I noticed this as well and blocked it in my local DNS. I also disable DoH.

grep firefox /etc/unbound/override/combined.conf
local-zone: "firefox-settings-attachments.cdn.mozilla.net" always_nxdomain
local-zone: "firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com" always_nxdomain
You can always print more money… it’s harder to print clouds
I'm talking about general and specialist care in the public system. Our private system is pretty good but you either need to pay insurance for it or, if the public wait-list extends beyond 6 months for surgical treatment, our public healthcare will pay for you to be referred to a private hospital.

The less said about our mental healthcare the better.

> I also did not get your last paragraph are you talking about the US or Denmark? I would be shocked to hear income inequality problem is worse in Denmark.

I was shocked too when I first heard it but live here long enough and it's very obvious. Income inequality has increased over the last thirty years with a Gini coefficient of 30 [1] in 2022.

[1] https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/arbejde-og-indkomst/in...
I had the same q! Perhaps a comment would have helped given the context for the PR.
Well, there is often a good correlation between things which make socialising difficult and things which appear to make aspects of spatial reasoning difficult.
I agree. This is really just a really bad marketing idea. Here was the key quote from the article for me:

“Twenty-five percent [of people consider] natural gas to be renewable, in this millennial and gen Z bucket,”
“We can attach to that for propane.”
it's fascinating knowing there's a cabal of lobbiests, accounts and wealth managers specially crafting loopholes for the minor richs
Just a contextual note -- one thing Sabine says is: AI won't help because we know the exact solution, we just aren't willing to do it.

Presumably she's referring to her first proposal -- a carbon tax. It's my understanding that there's nearly consensus among economists that a carbon tax is the most efficient solution to global warming, but political consensus that it would never happen when framed as a tax.

If you don't know what a carbon tax is, or why it's orders of magnitude more efficient a solution than "eat less meat" I'd encourage you to look into it a bit. Essentially if you create a system where what is best for the planet is also the cheapest course of action (for individuals and businesses), you no longer have to rely on convincing every single individual to change their morality/beliefs.
Pandemic delusions and overhiring seem like the main issue here. Tech companies saw the level of success the pandemic brought (thanks to the pandemic lockdowns, lack of alternatives and rise in remote work), and assumed that was the new status quo. They went big, hired a lot of people, took advantage of government policies to ease the effects of the pandemic, etc, and then got caught unaware* when things went back to normal.

Adding to this, it's likely the effects were made worse by people getting bored or burnt out by their products/services too. When you use social media or other tech products for a few hours a day (or perhaps a few minutes at a time at various intervals), they're great. When you have nothing to do but use them for like, 12+ hours a day due to lockdowns, the appeal wears down fast.

So in addition to the 'well, we have nothing else to do' crowd ditching these products the minute the real world opened up again, a lot of the existing crowd likely drifted away too. People who were regulars on Twitter/Instagram/Reddit/Discord/YouTube/whatever become far less active post lockdowns, and it seems like these companies are feeling that.

* Well maybe not unaware. More suffered the curse of short term thinking all public companies seem to suffer from, since the accepted attitude seems to be about chasing gold rushes and doing what everyone else in your industry is doing, no matter how irrational or unsustainable it might be.
It's easy to say tech companies "just over hired" during the pandemic. But for some companies that just not the case.

Google's 2019 revenue was 161.85; it's 2022 revenue was 282.83. Some of these companies legitimately just grew a lot during covid (and probably would've grown anyways).

Of course some companies like Twitter were hemorrhaging money; but if your revenue per employee is in the millions it's a pretty good question of why are you firing anybody.
From the commit: “The values used were chosen such that it takes a large number of bit flips to change from allowed to denied. Using random values doesn't really protect against this attack.”

It would be neat to see an algorithm that generates suitable values.
I think you need to look more closely at the wildfires in the western USA, and wet bulb temps high enough to kill people just sitting in the shade drinking water.[1] A power outage there will cause a very large number of deaths.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4074341-extr...
OBS merges AV1 support for WebRTC
Ask HN: Concept Taxonomy Tools?
I've got a Pocket bookmark repo with ~15K articles in it. I'm reasonably disciplined about tagging each saved article, but am swimming in tags (~1200). I'm attempting to organize the tags offline using pencil & paper (doing it in a code editor isn't cutting it.). Pocket attempts to streamline things but their UI leaves a lot to be desired - and is platform dependent.

It's a laborious but interesting exercise - the paper taxonomy looks like it will have 50-100 top-level topics with 10-30 subtopics under each.

- Some are concatenations (jobdefs-career-work, fun-humor).
- Some have multiple meanings (attention/behavior & attention/LLMs).
- Some are being renamed as I go. (chat -> chatgpt)

Once complete I'll try matching this list with another pulled from my personal Jekyll site.

I looked at 1-2 online taxonomy tools before embarking on this sacred quest. Does this community have a favorite tool, for this type of job-to-be-done?
Not syphilis specifically but all STDs. Even today promiscuity can leave you with incurable STDs even if you wear a condom.

Not to mention that some STDs are antibiotic resistant now.

So imagine life before this. Sleeping around is going to leave you with constant green discharge or worse.
I've worked on many "Big Bang Releases" and consider all of them a poor choice.

Even the single one that was a huge success: in hindsight, I would've rather migrated that through the strangler-vine-pattern¹. Yes, it worked out fine. We even managed to migrate it rather in budget and on time. The release went OK, and we didn't experience crucial data-loss or lost customers. So by all metrics it was a success. And even then: I won't do it like that again. Because part of the success was just random chance: if the dice had fallen just different, it would've been a much worse migration. And I don't like leaving such stuff over to chance.

edit: ¹ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html
This seems factually incorrect, but in a nuanced way.

The copyright owner of a code is the one listed as such. In cases of multiple contributors, each owns the copyright to their individual contributions. For projects with shared contributions, it's more accurate to say each necessary part has its own copyright owner, rather than a common ownership.

Free software projects do have copyright owners, which can be entities like non-profits or companies. This ownership is crucial for legal standing in copyright infringement cases, except for public domain code, which isn't copyrighted.

It's wise to have a Contributing.md or similar, stating that contributors affirm their creation is original, free from patent issues, and they agree to license their contribution under the project's terms.

Without such agreements, there's a risk contributors might withdraw their code, claiming it wasn't licensed under the project's terms, potentially leaving gaps in the project.

Simply hosting code on a site with a common license doesn't automatically apply that license to your code unless you explicitly agree to it.
Netflix is different now – and there's no going back
Are you kidding? The Swedes are down right savages. Ever hear of Swedish meatballs? They originated in Finland. Cultural appropriation in the extreme!
Looks like Cloudflare quiche:

https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/0f4c19b66ad5c646ebc3c4268a...
I hate that "content" now has become "content we want people to engage with so that we can get likes and clicks and become thought leaders and such". Likely unrealistic, but I hope the internet can get back to where it was 15 years ago, but keep the good stuff.
My pleasure! I found it just a week ago. It's still missing a few features that would make it kick-ass in my opinion, namely:

1. Search history by conversation name, instead of by content.

2. Organizing chats into folders.

3. Ability to customize model settings for individual "Copilots", as they're called (basically a pre-set conversation name and system prompt). Instead the settings you set are global.

There's also https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat which is pretty cool, but seems to be more complex.
"And that was exactly what had happened here. It wasn’t that people were deliberately trying to sabotage progress, they were showing up to work and doing their jobs as instructed. But nothing more."

In labor market conflict situations it is called an Italian strike?
Dungeons and Dragons is a game system, not a setting.

When you're taking about the setting that D&D 5e uses, you're taking about a setting called The Forgotten Realms.

There are actually dozens of novels set in The Forgotten Realms, going back decades, which is part of why there is so much world building done.

And believe me that while many of those novels are fun reads, none of them are winning any prizes for writing.
That reminds me of the battlefield3 simulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY
This is the most awesome thing I've come across on HN in recent months if not years!
It's a joke.

The nasty neighbour is obviously Russia and the comment below pretended that Sweden was meant instead
Honeypots are good fun
> But the danger became a reality when on April 30, 1933, Nazi assassins killed Theodor Lessing, a controversial German-Jewish philosopher living as a refugee in Czechoslovakia. He was shot and died the next day. There had been a price on Lessing’s head, and the killers were honored in Germany. Lessing’s photo had also been published with the caption “Not yet hanged.”

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Backprop isn't just for calculus
Press X to Doubt

It couldn't be an attempt to make white people accept poverty by the big corps who sponsor politicians and control research grant monies ?
> you were born into Original Sin™ for being the wrong sex/gender/race/country

Which world do you live in? It can’t be Earth. Go outside and talk to people and please realize spending all your time online is bad for your health. What you’ve described here doesn’t exist.
No, that would be extremely wasteful, impractical, and ineffective.
But not too frequently
They can buy RTX 4090s.
This is why I'm not a fan of debian. (I assume OP got that version from debian because I can't think of any other reason they wouldn't have used latest.) They packaged Caddy, but they never update at the rate we would reasonably expect. So users who don't pay attention to the version number have a significantly worse product than is currently available.

We have our own apt repo which always has the latest version: https://caddyserver.com/docs/install#debian-ubuntu-raspbian
Microsoft does ship ARM64 software for macOS and Linux though. E.g. .net core, PowerShell, and VS Code come to mind. Some of the Office suite ships ARM64 on macOS only as well (Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc) and, back to the topic of browsers, Edge too of course.
Drug policy is complicated. Amphetamines and opioids certainly have very valid medical uses - but also giving the public unrestricted access to them is a complete disaster.

Psychedelics likely have various mental health treatment uses but they are for some bizarre historical reasons considered dangerous.

Mental health medication like benzos are also tricky. They are amazingly affective but also amazingly addictive and withdrawals can be fatal
I have at TV that is red-lamp off, blue lamp on.
I don't yet have a note-taking system I trust. Logseq and Obsidian are enough for me for now.
It seems apparent that this is one of those things that everyone knows is wrong, but the companies have made a conscious decision that it's worth the cost of litigation that will come in a few years. That is how important it is to win the AI race for these companies. They are dead otherwise. The stakes are that high. Microsoft is doing[1] it and will continue to expand it. All your Windows interactions that can be mined will be sent to the the mothership.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collec...
where have you seen red = on, green = off?
I've come to despise how tightly integrated the C++ standard library is now with the c++ language itself, it is clearly evolving in a direction to make the two inseparable, but it is also making it less desireable. One cannot even compile a c++ executable with the /NODEFAULTLIB flag and not break core language features, e.g. static global object construction, dynamic_cast, ...
For the purists that would like to separate the standard library from the language, and make tiny executables not depending on the runtime library, C is the only choice now it seems.
Fail2ban doesn't help when the attacker/abuser rotates their IP address constantly. I now look for aberrations in a few http headers they often neglect to spoof in their attempt to act like an honest human.
Superordinate Goals
It is an antipattern. But IMO still better than "feature freezing" for months, delivering nothing of (business) value for weeks or months, working like madmen trying to remove the last 10% of the old code - which by the 90/10 rule, costs probably 90% of the budget.

I'd rather have three or four versions - provided these are marked well, documented, and so on. Even if the codebase uses four versions, at any point in time, there is still only one thats the right one today.
Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing?

Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's, uh, it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Show HN: Apple II clock using interrupts from physical pendulum clock
A clock app for my Apple ][ clone in 6502 assembly, using interrupts generated by an inductive proximity sensor and a physical pendulum clock. I wanted to polish the code a bit more before sharing (I especially dislike the self modifying code part), but the computer seems to have developed a hardware problem lately and it keeps crashing (bad RAM chip most likely), so I am sharing as is.
A global tax requires global enforcement

No sovereign is going to agree to subordinate itself without all others doing the same

Classic prisoners dilemma
That’s different though, because it was _found_. People have been postulating that consciousness is somehow related to consciousness with hand wavy arguments for decades
That was as much a product of market circumstance as the current click-bait: Due to space constraints and the possibility of breaking news, editors would regularly cut articles from the bottom up to save space. Reporters could not know whether their story would be cut or by how much. So as a practical matter they had to front-load the most important parts.

So it isn't today, plenty of space, but space alone doesn't scale cash.
To me he is more like:
Climate change exists but we will adapt.
I built AES and DES in Excel almost about a decade ago. Note that these are combinational circuits, not sequential - so no feedback or clock are required. https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel , https://www.nayuki.io/page/des-cipher-internals-in-excel
Why protect the IPs of the those trying to attack you?
Plan 9 design rule: if a feature doesn't work for everything, don't do it
Many have tried, all have failed. Safety regulation encourages the design of all-fits-one vehicles. Consumers prefer to pay the premium for a 'proper' car over a simpler vehicle. It is what it is, for now.
I strongly disagree.

In a conferencing app, for example, "mute" could mean switch audio off, or just the mic, or both.

And consider that a word, even "mute", might not have an equivalent in every languages.
Can anyone comment on why most people want software like Anki to be a native application? Most people who implemented their own SRS have done so in the form of a mobile app. Why?

I would think that having a web app would be much easier from a single developer point of view: maintain one application that can be accessed from any device. I am biased because I'm a web developer but I'd like to be corrected.
They are not attempting to damage cultural artifacts. There have been several of these attacks in Europe by environmentalists and they always select target with protective class.

It's a great way to demonstrate and get attention.