skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...only to learn I am purchasing a standing room ticket...

You jest but Ryan Air's been pushing for that for some time[1].

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/jul/01/stand-up-for-r...
What is this light cone you keep saying?
> There should be law to mandate the UI

No thank you.
I still frequently see MD5 and SHA1 being used "because the output is smaller than other hash functions and we only need a unique identifier". There's also a belief that an implication is that these functions are faster.

While a 128-bit output is indeed perfectly fine for most applications, MD5 and SHA1, in addition to being affected by practical attacks, are slow compared to SHA256, BLAKE, etc. Most importantly, it's perfectly fine to truncate the output of a cryptographic hash function to any length. So, if you need a 128-bit hash, just use SHA256 and truncate the output to 128 bits. This is faster than MD5 and more secure (even against length extension attacks).
China's Generative Video Race Heats Up
Asset management is definitely a thing. Tag your environments, tag your apps, and provide your apps criticality ratings based on how important they are to running the business. Then it's a matter of a query to know which servers can be shut, and which absolutely must remain.
The authors seem surprisingly sanguine, even enthusiastic, about the prospect of a World Government. To me, it sounds like the whole world stomping on your face forever.
The other angle to this is that going increasingly web/app based lets them shut down local branches. For my city the last permanent branch is closing soon so should I be locked out of an app the alternative would be the website which last I checked was designed for desktop browsing, or in-person service is a 6 mile journey to a 'mobile branch' available for 45 minutes a week.

I'm currently using an old PixelExperience build which takes some efforts to hide it's unlocked/custom rom status (right now it passes basic but not strong attestation). What I really wonder about is while we don't have the software environment that the OS isn't tightly coupled to the handset (i.e. generic system images) where the optimums are for security if someone doesn't regularly upgrade phones to maintain support from the original manufacturer. The most recent official android for my phone is 8, I'm running 9, so that's at least 5 and a half years old.

From a glance at XDA there's a collection of 11-14, however that brings up another issue of being able to establish trust in whoever is building your OS. Is an individual volunteer graciously building the latest version producing a recent version better than an older build from an established organization like lineage, or better than the ancient official build. Would my phone be seen as more secure by restoring older software and relocking.

There's a number of factors in balance here I'd love to hear views on from someone involved in consumer bank app security, as much as they're able.
I don't think they have any concrete plans yet.

But don't worry, ITER, CFS and Helion will never achieve economical fusion reactors either. The reason is quite simple: in order to heat a certain volume with matter to a certain temperature, you need to heat both the matter (vibration energy) and the vacuum (radiation energy). The energy to heat matter is proportional to the temperature (it's actually the definition of temperature). The energy to heat the vacuum is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. If you draw a graph of T and T^4 you'll see that initially T^4 is negligible compared to T, and later T is negligible compared to T^4. If you want to heat 1m3 of vacuum to the temperature needed for sustained fusion, it takes more than 10 kT of TNT equivalent. In an actual nuclear bomb, this is available from the primary fission bomb; plus the volume of the part undergoing fusion is squeezed tremendously, so it's nothing close to 1 m3. ITER plans to have a volume of plasma of 840 m3. At the temperatures they talk about, the energy to heat 840 m3 exceeds the energy released by the Tsar bomba.

Bottom line: the only possible way to get controlled fusion is the NIF way. But even that one is very, very far in the future.
Direct approach to laser-powered fusion promises simpler power production
AI can now master your music
> Most of these can be provided by any car shop

But not all. I had never meet a single car owner that spend solid money in their new car and then decline the maker guarantee, but your definition of what is "normal people" may differ from mine.
What shell are you using? For bash, that's got to be $(( $my_number + 1 ))
Afaik bundling webview is only available with appimage. We also have a big tauri app and it is a PITA to develop. I actually opened an issue to support bundling a chromium ala electron.
- a white-hair-white-beard 51+ year old
that sentiment dissipated for me when I was willing to acknowledge how financial services that are more universally respected are not fundamentally different from “billionaires paying too much for paintings”

all markets have the same human behaviors in them, all markets have degrees of opaqueness that get taken advantage of the same way, all markets that have transparency have it in response to the same behaviors, all market participants are subject to a liquidity problem and sustaining a balance that grows faster than the issuance of the currency they use, which brings me to the next point:

billionaires saving is worse for your life than billionaires spending. help people spend and your economy grows. this isn’t a trickle down praise, in fact its the opposite, assume it wont magically trickle down to you as motivation to personally help them spend with a 54% markup
Most? Like more than half? I don’t think that’s correct, even with a flight crew that's not incapacitated, but vanishingly few can auto-land with an incapacitated crew.
I registered for login.gov using my face and an ID, which allowed me to register for submitting tax records among other things.
You're falling for the original sin of central planning..."if it reduces competition, we'll just create legislation to ensure more competition!" I'm sorry. It just doesn't work that way.

I'd recommend looking into some of the classical failings of centrally planned economies. You don't even have to look beyond Europe, there's numerous "fun" examples of communist and/or dictator-driven central planning (USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania, Spain, etc).
Surely You're Joking, Comrade Beria (2021)
AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords
It wouldn't. Small objects, like satellites, decelerate to terminal velocity. The impact of one of those would be the same as if they fell from an aeroplane.
That's a big "except" you are talking.

If I can do almost everything except this in app A, and everything except that in app B, which happen to be important workflows, why should I torture myself with an iPad instead of a proper Mac/PC or even Chromebook?
To be clear, there are a ton of studies listed there but all the ones I chased down (maybe 25%) they aren't isolating the virus.

My message you were replying to specifically called out Koch's Postulates [1] and the fact that virologists had to first redefine it then abandon it for epidemiological and modelling studies.

You effectively proved my point here, everything I see in the survey you linked fits into that description. I'm not arguing that viruses do or don't exist, only that I've never seen a study successfully isolate viral particles in a substrate, introduce it to a novel population, and re-isolate the virus from the novel population after they begin showing signs of disease.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch's_postulates
Until there's a viable solution for desktop native GUI, this trend will continue.
He might not be the sharpest mind in St. Mary Mead, but Inspector Slack certainly does his fair share of mystery-solving as a police officer.

On a serious point though, I think there is some value in purely investigative work by the police even when there's no prospect of a successful prosecution. Unusual cases might lead to better insights into things that affect many more people: revealing well-hidden criminal gangs for instance. Even if the police can't pin the guilt on a specific suspect or accidental cause, the result of an investigation might simply be better public awareness of a risk, which is a good thing.
Meta being involved is a complete dealbreaker for me, no matter what it is.
I think people got turned off from them when it came to light they had invented their own cryptography without doing any vetting that it was actually secure. At least, that’s why we moved away from it as quickly as possible with our reasoning being: “if someone is foolish enough to roll their own crypto, what else are they doing foolishly?”
You can steal config snippets and create kbd-macros for the rest but I don’t know if that has you covered. works for my case

Maybe an example is in order: I have a kbd macro (M-x doit) that fetches 3 hostfiles from the web, merges them into 1, dos2unix, makes all entries 0.0.0.0, removes comments empty lines and useless whitespace, then appends current hostfile entries, sorts lines, removes duplicate lines, inserts the header back in, saves it and sudoplonks it into etc.

I recorded that because I can’t program it in lips or anything else, not smart enough
Is it based on the current version? I though it was based on the old XUL based Firefox.
reading the sibling comments... the current state of smartphone software is absolutely disgusting. Great were the days of the PC, where you could just install any OS, could make and restore backups of the whole disk. With smartphones now you have to beg the manufacturer of a device you paid money for just to maybe be allowed to install a different OS. It is sad that so many people supported this shit in the past and still do.
They do, but they tell you to use a specific /64, which confuses me. I would've expected them to say something like "the address starting with 2404:f800 in your dashboard".

The "private" IPv6 address can be a ULA without any issues if the network is designed to be fully NAT'ed (i.e. for load balancing, maybe failover I guess). If you're not using the global address on your local machine and translate the public address into a private one, your local network doesn't need to have a routable IP address.

I suppose it works just as well, but it makes using IPv6 more confusing for now reason. It's as if Microsoft decide to use 20.64.0.0/10 for private networking on Azure, which they can do (they own that space after all, they can decide not to use it), but just doesn't make much sense.
If you’re up for reading a dissertation I have one in mind I can dig up. I will check back here in 12 hours or so or you can contact me from my profile.
When you are responsible for the full infrastructure, sequencing power down and power on in coordination with your UPS is a common solution. Network gear needs a few minutes to light up ports, core services like DNS and identity services might need to light up next, then storage, then hypervisors and container hosts, then you can actually start working on app dependencies.

This sort of sequencing leads itself naturally to having a plan for limited capacity “keep the lights on” workload shedding when facing a situation like the OP.

Not everyone has elected to pay Bezos double the price for things they can handle themselves, and this is part of handling it.
That depends on the profits. The problem is solved only if the cost of fighting regulations (misinformation, lobbying, discrediting, defaming, bribing and sabotage) is less than the profits people make by causing the problem in the first place. There are several examples of this - but none more obvious than the climate catastrophe.
A famous climate scientist is in court, with big stakes for attacks on science
Are you sure WA needs the play store? I use Android but with most apps disabled - no browser, no Play store, no Google services, all the Samsung crap disabled, and so on. When I need to install an app, I enable the Play store, install it, then disable the store again (using ADB). I also do a monthly update of all the apps.

WA works fine. Messenger works fine, Spotify etc., they all work. The only app I've found so far that doesn't work - logs me out five minutes after disabling the Play store - is the ChatGPT app.

Aside: my phone is so much better for my mental health since I've done this. The constant desire to research things is quieted. Now, if I really need to look something up I open TickTick and set a reminder to do it later on my laptop.
I'm specifically referring to Koch's Postulates here, and as far as I'm aware the viruses you're referring to weren't isolated. I've always seen them being used either in models or in some other host cells from cows, monkeys, etc. though I've never worked directly in the field so please point me to a study if you've seen one truly isolate a virus.
> And you are entirely wrong about the isotopes of hydrogen. Tritium is highly radioactive, with a half life of ~12 years. And it is not just hard, but virtually impossible to isolate tritium out of water.

On the contrary, it's quite easy to do if there is any significant fraction of tritium present. The proportional mass difference of ³H vs. ¹H is x3, which alters the chemistry enough to make separation easy. You can use fractional distillation or electrolysis even for ²H — even mere hobbyists involved in the DIY fusion reactor scene sometimes extract deuterium from water this way, tritium would be easier.
Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot
Nice idea - lets do it with powerful lasers - what can go wrong :))))
Oddly... well, just odd sentiment.

The job of the police is to preserve order and accord. That includes investigating, thorougly, mysteries, especially mysteries that involve people jumping off balconies. To avoid a scenario where 'clever people' wander around the country leaving a trail of bodies in their wake because they keep covering their tracks effectively.

Seems odd to suggest so firmly and decisively 'oh well too bad so sad, not a police matter, let's move on!' especially given the way the other relevant parties are described to have behaved.
Comparing Knowledge Injection in LLMs
Who has the right to steal my property if I perform calculations on my computer that cause no harm to anyone? No one!

How about a tax for computer gaming? Explain the difference.
That "writing them off completely" is even on the table shows that this "ability to loyalty" is BS. It's like if you have a boyfriend that say "well, at least I won't leave you over this" every day. Don't make you feel very secure do it?
I have an iPad Pro 12.9. Once in a while I try to get things done on iPad only. No, no programming, other stuff. Every single time, I end up going back to my real computer and regretting wasting time figuring out how to make things work.
This is a cool project! Love the fact that some comment summaries are added too. I hope you would continue building it, and also make the text easier to read- like by making the page fixed-width.
You should really read the whole paper. They even talk about some of the other amazing possibilities these smaller colliders would offer despite being orders of magnitude away from providing anything close to what the paper's title suggests. Also, the authors are all particle physicists and some of them worked on future colliders like the ILC - which was supposed to be built in Japan, but is currently put on hold (practically cancelled) by the Japanese government due to economic reasons. That must have really sucked for them. If you worked with any particle physicists, you'd know that they don't really care much about politics. They wouldn't care more or less about nuclear disarmament than other physicists. But they definitely do care a lot about their experiments.
Go up and over, that's only a few hundred light years. To the edge of the disk is 30,000.
Technically the coroner is meant to determine the cause of death. The police are there to work out if its suspicious or not.
Do you mind sharing in want kind of context you do this/what structure allows you to do this?
Sounds like a nice way to help people.
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04
Here you go (at least on the knowledge part) - https://hnfong.github.io/public-crap/writings/2023/00-Knowle...

[Read at your own peril(?). Please don't debate me on this.]
prepandemic I used to run in those circles, Monaco, Switzerland OTC commodities dealers

the people involved are total jokes

they are extremely poor judges of character and endlessly shop deals around WhatsApp groups for dumb reasons

people are praised for having been associated with something outside of the domain they are currently in, which is an obvious red herring and red flag, and then get scammed or have a bad deal where the other party cant deliver amicably, as there was nothing to suggest they would? I see the same in the US but it seems like a generational thing only boomers and mormons fall for. Elder abuse, pun intended for the latter

but there are real “established” people in these European networks, sometimes, its just such a shitshow. because established means a dynasty of some sort, older than the US itself

a lot of the participation is just pride and grasping for autonomy, like the first born son thrust into managing some feudal era family office has no clue what he’s doing, and wants a good trade for once, but it was in some dilapidated mansion on the french riviera that now he needs to get out of before his family finds out, and France starts taxing Monaco citizens that hold property in France. and then the middle men are sourcing these dumb deals because they got screwed once and genuinely want to pay their old partners, at first, chasing gold and markups for the rest of their lives. its wild, I had to go back to tech these people are just dumb and the US markets are just so much more mature in comparison.

but yes, you might meet the Saudi prince’s Hand in Monaco and sell him a painting for $450m

by far the most interesting part of this story is that Mr Bouvier purchased and took delivery of some art pieces before reselling them, instead of just trying to dropship or connect people. way to go.
Right, I worded it funny. It would be good if I couldn't have afforded it because I wouldn't have wasted the time and money.

The options in my area after high school were kind of unattractive, though. I could work retail, or maybe go to trucker school, or try to find odd jobs helping people with computers. My current career path (veterinarian) didn't occur to me at that time.
Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
Why has managing email communication in B2B SaaS become such a tedious job?
This absolutely blows, but this:

> Firstly, I was told repeatedly that the faster the firm was able to start trading, the faster I would start earning bonuses from the firm's PnL, assuming that the strategies indeed were profitable. (It is my understanding that they are highly profitable.)

Is why I never plan my finances around bonuses. Way too easy to get screwed this way.
It's more stable (and structurally leaner, I think) to instead have the engines at the front in tractor configuration, as in the interstellar ships in Avatar movies.
The digital native generation will also age and will face challenges such as difficulty reading small text, accurately pressing keys on the screen, or executing intricate hand gestures. However, they will all have Neuralink implants, and everything will be decided for them by AI algorithms anyway.
It's sad really. I mean it. I adored him, his thorough, a bit arrogant style of argumentation. If he had stayed with biology and science education, he could have had a legacy of greatness. Now, he will die as just another edgelord, who thought they've become experts on everything; a content creator for the suck.

Dawkins is an old, old man, his days are counted. I hope with time The Selfish Gene will get a life of its own, with the person Dawkins becoming nothing more than a short side note, on a great educator falling victim to his ego. This book will endure, his Tweets won't.
No, Freedom internet. Spiritual successor to XS4ALL which got bought out and gutted.
Suggestion to counter the ageism: remove the first ~8 years of experience from your CV.
Nifty idea.

But don’t satellites have toxic components? While most of it will be burnt up some bits get to the ground.

Satellites are made from material, and can’t be safely disassembled. Rentry is uncontrolled incineration, depending on a large part of the pollutants being diluted across the sky, and the ground and water on which they fall.

Background levels would rise.
"When I remember, whilst brushing my teeth, I'll stand on one foot for 30 seconds at a time. It's also surprisingly hard and tiring."

Still, do it as often as possible. The trick is to make it a habit, to build it into your regular dayroutines. Also when you are waiting for something, when you are lying in bed - all opportunities to exercise and strenghten your weaknesses.
"perform calculations on your computer" can comprise bank fraud, planning a murder, identity theft, child porn and any number of well established and (mostly) uncontroversial illegal activities. What's insane is believing computers are somehow beyond legal and social consequence because, as the argument is often stated, "it's just math."

Sure. And building a bomb is just chemistry. And shooting someone is just physics. Reductionist arguments which ignore context never work, because the context always matters. Even anarchists tend to accept that a balance needs to be struck between individual liberties and the needs of society, and the question of regulating or banning Bitcoin mining isn't one of "performing calculations" but the practical environmental and societal consequences of Bitcoin mining at scale. See TFA.
Connecting through a wrong number is relatively straightforward, but involves multiple steps. First, an individual dials a number incorrectly. This may result from writing a number down incorrectly to begin with, or simply mis-keying a number in the phone, each of which can stem from low levels of literacy, as noted by our respondents. Furthermore, the likelihood of these errors may be increased by the common practice of using a friend’s phone when one’s battery is dead. Second, the receiving party answers the phone in a specific language, signaling to the caller something about the receiver’s identity. Third, the error is quickly identified. Fourth, the parties either end the call swiftly or they do not. In some instances, individuals may chat for a while, especially (but not exclusively) if the receiver answers in Maa. Maasai social institutions can help members, who may be far from each other geographically, find common ground and mark their social position relative to each other.

...

During our interviews, participants regularly received calls and nearly always answered the call, generally stepping away from the group until the call was over. This happened dozens of times over many meetings. And on a few occasions, the individual returned to the group and announced that the call was a wrong number.

...

During one meeting, a respondent received a wrong number call from another Maasai he had never met, and over a short conversation learned that their fathers were brothers. It was an astonishingly timely example of what we had been discussing. (That cousins would not have known about each other is not necessarily unusual in a society where polygynous families can be very large, and extended families exponentially so.)

This is great. The "Results - qualitative results" section is particularly worth reading
Almost every technology gets assigned its own existential crisis. I’m not sure what that’s about.

(I trace it all back to Jurassic park. It trained an entire generation to be afraid of technology.)
I don’t have children but I still pay for the schools. The idea that your tax dollars should only get spent on something you use personally is laughable.