skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider wanting to avoid the dizziness, headaches, and nausea I get as a non-smoker from prolonged exposure to tobacco smoke to be the same thing as me trying to preserve the status quo. It may be my "status quo" to not be constantly exposed to tobacco smoke, but it's not "the" status quo.

Condos _are_ better, but they are also more expensive. As far as I can tell, where I live, condos are closer in cost (including fees) to townhomes or even single-family homes than they are to apartments in regular complexes. They may have benefits, but affordability isn't one of them.
`curl` your landing page
I think it’s more that it used to be conversations were about emotional release, social dynamics, and general bullshitting, rather than rigorous fact checking and court room like adherence to rules of evidence.

Which hey, I get. Been there, done that.

Personally, the reason I did it (and ended up stopping) was due to persistent narcissistic abuse, and attempting to stop/control it without being able to leave - and later (after a lot of therapy) realizing i could just have listened to my gut 90% of the time, and just left/or not listened.

Turns out, PTSD and social conditioning is a bitch though.
There was a lot of excitement among tech enthusiasts in the mid-90s about virtual/cyber everything. I remember hearing regularly that soon we wouldn’t need local mediocre teachers because everyone could be taught virtually in cyberspace by the best teachers on the planet. It’s not hard to find tech demos from the era that are reminiscent of current-day VR/mixed-reality work. But by the time the internet became fast and universal enough, what had survived the dot-com crash had little of that flavor left.
Malpulse: Proactive malware infrastructure tracking service
Malpulse is free, proactive malware tracking service to track malware infrastructures before they're being weaponized
If the stock market dipped permanently, those pensions would not pay either because they are all invested in the same equities.

Hence why the government repeatedly provides a backstop whenever things start to take a downturn.
I missed StuffIt on both ends!!

I used a MacSE in college (1987) and then started using them again professionally in 2008.
Prompting as a creative commodity ? That is the saddest conclusion of the article.

I was surprised the article didn’t mention voice actors .
You seem to think about your reputation and your future.

But by staying in Russia and paying your taxes you contribute to the war effort. You are part of it. In my opinion leave. That makes Russias economy weaker and therefore easier for us to defend against Russias aggressions. Who knows maybe tomorrow you are on the frontlines and being pushed to kill others like so many your countryman do everyday.
I suppose if we can’t survive without cheap plastic bullshit.
Forget Tinder – welcome to the world of virtual girlfriends
Are We Transitioning from Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?
Maybe you haven't looked into how these laws work, but they are handouts to developers because they guarantee that a developer can buy one house and put up 10 units (in CA, for example) without any opposition or time-consuming permitting process. So when an elderly person with out-of-state children dies, those children are going to sell to the quickest and most-secure bidder... a developer with a cash offer.

And you make a lot of unsupported assumptions about commercial areas all being contaminated. It's absurd. Commercial areas are rapidly redeveloped all the time. I've seen condos go up on the site of an auto-paint shop in a matter of months, even in CA.

Then there are the shams regarding "mass transit corridors," used to excuse even more concessions to developers. You know what's considered a "mass transit corridor" in CA? ONE ZIPCAR in a four-block area. ONE. And what happens when that car gets moved or destroyed? Tear down all the buildings?

And, even if it were possible to integrate groundwater management effectively while allowing massive ground coverage, it's NOT BEING DONE. It's too late; the laws are on the books. Gross omissions like these testify that these laws are handouts and shams, hurriedly rushed through during holiday sessions or piggybacked onto other bills to avoid public scrutiny.

So people can petulantly downvote all they want. The fact remains that these bills and these ridiculous claims that destroying single-family-home neighborhoods will "solve the homeless crisis" are a massive rip-off that won't solve the problem.

Meanwhile, in addition to the disused properties gathering weeds in non-residential areas today, states are ignoring the biggest threat to home ownership: corporate buy-ups of entire neighborhoods. It's well-documented that home ownership is the best way to build wealth, but the scourge of corporate home-hoarding is putting homes PERMANENTLY out of reach for millions more Americans every year. Yet it's ignored by politicians.

Gee, I wonder why.
Do note that the entire article is written in a humorous tone. I don't think the author is trying to take this deadly seriously.
https://archive.is/2kYkL
Which are nearly as worthless because most apartments are not for sale and condos come with their own rent-like fees.
Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory
Oh Crap, Am I Pro-Slavery?
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi
All DSM disorders are just clusters of symptoms that a board of psychiatrists decided were disorders. They are no more or less real than any other mental phenomena that the APA board decided weren’t “disorders”.

And if what you say is simply a choice, why do some people struggle with it? Maybe for person A it’s easy, but for person B it’s exceedingly difficult. It could be because of inborn traits or their upbringing or any number of other things, but for some people, making the “choice” doesn’t stick. The mind keeps going back to its old processes, regardless of the conscious choice that was made.

People need to stop assuming that everyone else’s brain works the same as their own. Everyone is different. Neurodiversity is a thing.
The problem I find is that the people I "argue" with often have no interest in the facts. Just this morning a friend on FB said the Biden administration has "devoted himself to undoing the everything that the previous administration did"

I replied with the below, and I expect to hear nothing back.

> I'm super curious about that claim: apart from undoing things like detaining families and children, what would you say the current administration has done to "undo" something the previous administration did? I'm especially curious if you think these were "undoing" acts of the previous admin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rescue_Plan_Act_of_20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Safer_Communities_A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
You flip a possibly-biased coin 20 times and get half heads, half tails, e.g. "THHHTTTTTHTHTTHHHTHH".

Under the model where the bias is 0.5—a fair coin—the probability of that sequence is (0.5)^20 or about one in a million. In fact, the probability of any sequence you could observe is one in a million.

Under the model where the bias is 0.4 the probability is (0.4)^10 × (0.6)^10 or about one in two million.

That is, the sequence we observed supplies about twice as much evidence in favor of bias = 0.5 as compared with bias = 0.4—this is likelihood.

Likelihood ratios are all that matter.

Morals:

- The more complex the event you're predicting (the rarer the tyical observed result) the smaller the associated likelihoods will tend to be

- It's possible that every observed result has a tiny probability under every model you're considering

- Nonetheless it makes sense to use the ratios of these numbers to compare the models

- This has nothing to do with probability densities or logarithms, though the fact that we often work with densities also makes absolute likelihood values relative to the choice of units

Added in edits:

- You could summarize the sequence with the number of heads or tails and then the likelihood values would be larger but the ratios would remain the same (it's a sufficient statistic). Similarly in the CrossValidated question one could summarize the data with the mean and sum of squares. But this doesn't work in general, e.g. if we have i.i.d. draws from a Cauchy distribution.
The far-right's favoured social-media platform plots a comeback
For testing you usually need a name or "id" or, if using Playwright, a "data-testid" attribute :)
Given this is (almost to the letter) how impersonally "layoffs" went at my company in January I think we could switch to AI severance and not lose anything of value.
If the commenter had said, "I can't view this with w3m," I'd understand that more. What's frustrating is that most of these comments are from people using an extension like NoScript or who have disabled JavaScript in their browser settings, based on (misguided IMO) privacy or security fears.

There's nothing wrong with tampering with your browser by disabling JavaScript, but you have to understand that what you're doing is unsupported by websites. It's unreasonable to complain that the website is broken when you disabled the technologies that the web developer chose to use.
What's an obelisk, anyway?
The point 5 amounts to "I can not confidently bullshit anymore that easily". Which from my point of view is massive advantage.
Open Source Turns to the Dark Side? I Told Ya [video]
Local adventure racing and orienteering organizations typically have beginner classes that teach map and compass navigation. At least the one near me does every couple of months.
Spotify hasn’t allowed in app purchases of subscriptions in a decade.
Patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping US built structures' mass
As an aside, the UI looks really clean and easier on eyes (default dark theme + I find the usual dark themes tend to have bad contrast choices). I wonder if something similar is available to browse hacker news in general.
It’s a simple decision (leaving your political attitudes aside):

1. either you want to be isolated from the rest of the world (except china and iran) or not

2. which values are better fit to your nature - radical fundamentalism and totalitarianism, or democracy and capitalism

All your life (social, financial, cultural, spiritual, business) is going to be shaped by those 2 decisions.

Because environment does matter.

For example - have you heard of many successful international startups founded in iran?

And chances are the longer you wait with the decision - the less opportunity window you might have.
some of these resonated with me so hard. Like the password one and robot one. I rarely read other people's opinions - they usually fall in fixed categories and you can pre-generate them anyway. Its also not useful to walk through reasoning on the internet since the factual accuracy is questionable. As such, I dont have trouble with stupid people on the internet (tbh i find them adorable). I rarely even read comments on HN these days and hopefully nobody reads this one either.
Religion was quite devastating to my mental health. Buyer beware.
My state extends the right to bodily autonomy to the unborn.
Are we talking billions are trillions? I'll agree that it's not good to be spending trillions in the UAE, making it the future central manufacturing place of silicon. Though, saying that we shouldn't be making billion dollar deals with certain counties is tantamount to ececomic santions.
I posted something similar on a code editor post (Zed) and it got flagged and removed with two negative comments. Might be worth it to ask mods for clarification.

I personally don't understand the allergy to LLM assisted posting so long as it is clearly marked. It makes me think of proto-humans running into an unfamiliar tribe of not-quite-the-same-type-of-human and instinctually responding with violence. Maybe I'm thinking of that Prometheus movie.
I was there, and I definitely could do those things.
I'm not going to answer that question in any serious way as the answer is extremely obvious.

Instead I'm going to ask you a question.

Do you suspect that lawyers work for free?
WiFi Sensing
You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!!!

No chance we want to allow HN posters to cool down the article’s original title when it’s especially clickbaity?
The Guinness book of records was specifically designed to settle pub debates. I'm sure people at the time has similar reactions.
Because it's the EU doing the fining but of course, a global corporation has global tax payers.

The bigger the fines from one country, the less the taxes earned in another. For corps that haven't yet optimised their taxes.
Suggestions for Better AI Criticism
Must have been some AC bill to balance $800,000 of renovations.
Yes I understand that democracy building was only our nominal reason for being in the middle east. But when it come to Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan we did, as a matter of fact, both directly and covertly, try to systematically eradicate authoriarian regimes and general extremism. We have attempted social engineering in hostile countries like what I mentioned previously, or through movenments like the Arab spring, or through economic sanctioning (i.e. Iran, Russia, North Korea) and have achieved nothing. While the genuinness of America's intentions are debatable, I don't think it's debatable that America carried out the largest, most expansive democracy building efforts in the middle east that has been or will likely ever be attempted.
Hope you like blogrolls, I'm focusing on them for a while
This is already done using sand casting. However, it's low resolution.
Remembering, explaining, and occasionally bluffing, is a lost art. It used to get me pretty far, being able to recall things and infer things and connect things, using only what was in my head when the moment presented itself.

Nowadays, outside of a Jeopardy! stage, when does anyone even need a memory?
The political economy of hunger: It's nothing to do with a lack of food
What about the works that their users have stolen and (re)posted without permission?
As Biden ignores death in Gaza, the 'Dark Brandon' meme is unfunny and too real
I remember being hyped about pinned web apps ever since they became a thing in Google Chrome and you could pin the to Windows' taskbar.

No matter how much I tried nothing stuck. At one point I tried using the Twitter PWA as I could block ads, but that's about it.
Biodiversity value as well. Our natural history collections reference specimens that can be hundreds of years old, the labels can be cryptic (see Notes for Nature efforts) and reference places no longer here. Early geological survey work maybe even have been accompanied by biodiversity collectors, there is a nice PhD project in here somewhere to correlate the two efforts.
> Asking my grandma to switch operating systems would be like asking her to start using a new language she doesn't understand as her primary.

I hate this rhetoric that old people are stupid and are intrinsically incapable of understanding modern technology.

Computers and cell phones didn't pop into existence overnight. The first home computers entered the market in the late 70's and became commonplace in the 80's. If your grandma is in her 80's now, she was in her 40's back then.

None of us had to learn these things overnight and tech was much simpler back then. All she had to do was keep up with what was happening in society. If anything, all this is more complicated for kids as they weren't eased into it like us older folks were.

Same goes for cellphones. They got common in the 90's and it took decades for them to get to the point that they are basically supercomputers you can put in your pocket.

This is nothing like asking your grandma to start using a new language she doesn't understand. This is more like your grandma stubbornly refusing to learn the meaning of new words introduced into the English language since the 80s. This is about being wilfully disconnected from society. This is not about an inability to learn but an unwillingness.

This is not an age thing, to get to the point where switching cellphone OSes is an impossible task you had to have checked out decades ago. It has nothing to do with age and everything with apathy and laziness.
Is this fine to be paid straight to the EU, or does Ireland collect it since Apple is based there?
This should be an auto-reply to 90% of comments on the Internet.
That fraction is about 4%: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
I agree with some of the performance issues mentioned by the writer, but nothing mentioned stops me from doing my work.

I hope Cosmic helps improve the Linux desktop ecosystem.
That is strange. I'll investigate. What browser extensions do you use?
I made it three paragraphs into this article before scrolling down way faster, seeing zero point being reached, and doing the same thing with chatgpt4

“What did Crundwell do in dixon illinois”

I was also going to paste it here but HN site kept “not serving requests” and then this post was flagged by the time the site worked again.

Common HN experience
No major comment other than this tech is obviously going to transform gaming.
Compare the ease of writing a comment on the internet to getting oneself on the radio or tv. The former is vastly easier, as all of us here are demonstrating
Every time I see someone use the word “doozy”, I swoon. The Duesenberg company was only in operation for 17 years and was dissolved in 1937. Yet there is lovable doozy, an invented marketing term that American English has adopted as its own.
I think it's more a case of Jevons Paradox. I work on Chrome, and many of the things we've introduced have been out of a genuine desire to make some task easier or solve some problem people had. But when you make it easier to do that (for whatever "that" you're speaking of), people do so much more of it that they wind up in a worse conundrum. I can cite half a dozen concrete examples of this that we have metrics for, from js speed to renderer memory use to tab count.

It's easy to point fingers -- dumb author, evil greedy company -- but the truth is generally more mundane and more perplexing: bad outcomes often arise from everyone involved trying to do reasonable things.
Why would that kill it? Have you ever tried to compile a browser?
So in other words, incomplete information - or worse, conflicting information - or are you somehow claiming that 100% of the information that MacArthur had available to him at the time clearly and unequivocally pointed in one direction, and he did the opposite?

Should we also, today with the benefit of hindsight, try to crucify Halsey for making the decision to not move out of the way of the incoming typhoon (Cobra) that ended up costing almost 800 US sailors/men their lives and lost several Navy ships? - certainly he had people telling him to move the fleet out of the way, but he made the difficult call to stay.

Really got to love the arm-chair generals second guessing decisions made 80 years ago, by people who had no choice but to do the best they could with the information they had at the time.

I am not willing to criticize either one of them, I wasn't there.
Show me an average user with adblocker
I'm surprised Adobe haven't tried to sue the creator of this yet.
Uh they're not?

I don't really remember most of my dreams, but from what I can tell, the technology in them usually matches real life pretty well minus a few exceptions. Smartphones would be about as common as TVs or computers or cars.
A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card (2019)
The value of a continuous probability density distribution at a specific point is pretty meaningless though; You have to talk about the integral between two values and that won't go above one.
Beacon Object File (BOF) library and command line tool written in Zig
Standalone command line interface for launching BOF files outside of Cobalt Strike Beacon environment. Under the hood it uses our bof-launcher library to accomplish its main task: running BOFs files on Windows (x86, x64) and Linux/UNIX (x86, x64, ARM, AARCH64) platforms directly from a filesystem.

bof-launcher is an open-source library for loading, relocating and launching BOFs on Windows and UNIX/Linux systems. It's an alternative to Trustedsec's COFFLoader and ELFLoader with some very interesting features:

* Fully compatibile with Cobalt Strike's Beacon. Can compile and run every BOF available at Cobalt Strike Community Kit and every other open-source BOF that adheres to generic BOF template.

* Distributed as a fully standalone library with zero dependency (it does not even use libc).

* Fully integrable with programs written in C/C++ and/or Zig progamming languages.

* Adds capability to write BOFs in Zig programming language - which is a low-level langauge with a goal of being a "better C". All the features of the language and rich standard library can be used in BOFs (hash maps and other data structures, cross-platform OS layer, http, networking, threading, crypto and more).

* Asynchronous BOF execution - capability to launch more time-consuming BOFs in a separate thread.

* BOF process injection - capability to launch more risky BOFs (i.e. privilege escalation exploits) by injecting it to a new process.

* Seamless support for both Windows COFF and UNIX/Linux ELF formats.

* ARM and AARCH64 support on Linux.

* Used in our cli4bofs tool that allows for running BOF files directly from a filesystem.

* Very flexible and efficient API allowing for so called BOF chaining.
Really, there is no good technical solution for this, because in part, it is not even a technical problem. The laws about timezones, etc, very from country to country, from year to year etc. And some parts of the world are claimed by two or more different countries, each one of which has an opinion about what time it should be there.

One might say "well lets skip all this political b.s. and do everything in UTC" but really, viewing time as running according to a single universal clock is a relic of Newtonian Physics. There is no single, global answer to what time it is.

And we are getting to the point where special relativity is kicking in. High-frequency trading is already in the 50-microsecond range. Not so far off from the relativistic time dilations experienced even in flying in a jet airplane: flying around the world eastward results in about a 180 ns slowdown, flying around the world westward give about an 80 ns speedup.

Even concepts like simultaneity become relative at the speeds which we will soon be computing at. Imagine two corporate raiders flying in their private jets, biding on the same block of controlling stock: who bought it first would be different depending upon which frame of reference you were in.

If you have to write programs for when time really matters (as I did writing stock-trading software) my advice is to just accept the realities, and glory in the complexities. Being able to write software which can keep track of time, and obey all the rules and regulations of various exchanges and countries, is a competitive advantage for you.
... a huge fraction of Python code runs on servers everywhere
Possible. Yet as a Midwesterner most of my life, almost all new construction since the late 90s have been -- and continue to be -- McMansions.
That's not a PWA, it's actually proving that PWAs are not sufficient
> Level 2 - memory safe and data races allowed

> Languages where parallelism is memory safe, but can still lead to data races.

> This includes Java and Go.

Despite this common misconception, parallel Go is absolutely not memory safe: https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...
Do you think I'm a salesman for Onyx Boox or your personal shopper? Just look up their stuff on a search engine if you want to know about their devices and find reviews, criticism of GNU license etc. Or don't.

I was helping a fellow person with a direct answer to a direct question, not inviting you to a hackers debate.