skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same reason people love burning Trump in effigy: symbolism.
In 2024, I prefer older operating systems that do not get updates. First, hackers have long moved away from creating exploits and second, OEMs and the OS maintainer no longer create software to log activity.

Third, it just runs quickly on newish hardware given that it installs.
Depends on your threat model. Back in the real world, more users have been hacked by Windows 10's update system than running XP since 2020.
I like audiobooks for nonfiction. Especially anything business-y.

I like to let the audiobook flow through me on long runs like a guided meditation on a topic. The end effect is like having the book’s lessons embedded deep in your subconscious. There’s a special magic in engaging with a single topic over several focused hours that I’m too distracted to reproduce with a physical book.

If I need details or quotes from the book, or if I want to use it as a lookup reference, I like to then get the physical book. Now my audio read serves as a fast lookup table that helps me find the details.
> In terms of dollars, ebooks represent less than 7 percent of the entire U.S. book trade.

This is surprising to me given the quality of e-readers out there now. The experience is quite nice, and you don't end up taking up a bunch of space or making a mess with physical books lying around.
So a bunch of copper rods drilled into the soil for a reverse heat pump?
I think they added US keyboards a couple years ago.
It's certainly not limited to just these forms either...and the recursive, self-referential nature of the phenomenon makes it very tricky to analyze.
> schools/universities appear to systematically increasingly de-prioritize, presumably because it is seen as too technical.

The statement is correct: universities are de-prioritizing systems programming, but not for the reason you state.

Since I've been working with Universities, I've come to appreciate their fundamental problem. There's a lot of potential material to cover in a finite number of hours, which is horrifying short if you're the one to allocate them.

The amount of information one could know in our field grows exponentially with time, and we're well past the point of overflow. So yes, systems programming is getting less class time in the general track, but that's only because it's less relevant to more and more students every year, so it makes sense.
Eagle plaques on houses have a meaning: Do you qualify for one?
This is my favorite kind of 'full stack'
I tried podcasts and the majority of them are not different from tv shows or news cast, maybe not raw entertainment but it's in that bag. Sometimes you end up with someone presenting a new idea just right, but it's not common.
I think it’s really just garden variety Regulatory Capture that’s now just endemic

The problem is congressman all want to get rich now, and Congress is a path to riches, whereas it was not always so directly the case
Location: TN, INDIA

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Ding ding ding. Humanitity 101
Only for those that understand functional programming as whatever Haskell does.
Or...

3. Cops use performative enforcement in poor neighborhoods because it yields metrics important to them with minimal effort.

Poor neighborhoods are often demanding and crying out for enforcement of laws. Nobody wants to live next to a crackhouse, and the people forced to lack options to leave. In my city, there's a notorious drug house that has been in operation since I was in college in the 1990s. It has better staying power than Walmart -- it's still there. What poor people in general resent to the point of riot about is systematic bullshit and abuse on the part of ineffective police.

When the powers that be say "clean up that area", they round up stupid kids for bullshit, maybe hit up a few street dealers, etc. The actual hard work, say arresting street gang leadership or investigating property crimes isn't sexy and takes time. The best documented examples are NYPD, where the worship of Excel sheets resulted in sweeps where the cops would issue appearance tickets for such offenses as "obstructing the public sidewalk" (ironically doing so, btw, when they are literally parking their personal vehicles on sidewalks for these big sweeps), than run through and make arrests for failure to appear a few months later.

Shotspotter in particular is stupid - it's just a way to blow Federal grant money. If as you say, the police "know where the crime is", why would they need microphones to tell them where gunshots go off? Presumable they patrol high risk areas and hear it themselves.

Police departments are paramilitary organizations. That means they need a military like level of accountability and discipline to function well, and the nature of modern governance is such that that is lacking. The Army doesn't tolerate drunken soliders runing amok, but police departments do. IMO the best way to address the issues of policing is to consolidate smaller departments into state or regional entities to both professionalize and reduce the chummy nature of what goes on.
To be fair, a friend I know ran into a string of similar issues when attempting to get her gender changed on her license and passport. The entire system was rife with incorrect advice from workers and broken documentation, which caused several attempts to be rejected (wasting months of time).

The bigger problem with LLMs as they currently stand is that one can easily bully them into breaking outside their normal operation parameters.
I find it so annoying that you can’t just buy a high quality kit in the USA. It makes no sense to have to design a 1of sauna every time someone wants to build one. Plus sourcing your own material is annoying as well.
The point of climate change is precisely that it changes the conditions in virtually all our habitats. The species in those habitats, being largely adapted to their existing range of conditions, may not be able to adapt to those rapidly changing conditions, and as a result large parts of those ecosystems collapse.

Just look at any prior major climate change event, for example the Permian extinction, thought to be triggered by major volcanic eruptions causing severe climate change - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_...

When you’re talking about something that wipes out 70% of terrestrial vertebrates and 80% of marine species, you can understand how the concept of “preserving biologically diverse habitats” is incompatible.
> cyberpunk abacus and sand-table cowboys had humanity's first encounters with eternally absolute and changeless beauty, universally accessible but only through the mind, and the resulting bodiless exultation changed their outlook forever

Now that's an interesting idea.

I need to check out the Avesta[0] and track down Platon's Nuptial Number[1] before commenting more, although some obvious replies to your difficulty are that accounting and scribing[2] have traditionally been priesting-adjacent, so there could well be more orally-transmitted relation than we have textual evidence for. (speaking of the latter: my hypothesis up until this point is that even ancient Sumerians had their own geeks who had their own analogies for abstraction, but the reason we now rest the abstract/concrete duality on Platon's broad shoulders is because he was in the first generation[3] who bothered to write their ideas down[4])

[0] although it seems like it took https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#Manichaeism (after Mani 216–274) to really run with the material/spiritual distinction? (instead of good/evil)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_number

[2] the spoken word can certainly provide examples of object-attribute lattices that should bootstrap abstract thought, but maybe it was too closely related to our conscious processes for early human fish to notice the water? By the time one is making arbitrary marks for numbers, or even arbitrary clay blobs for numbers with units ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)#Origins ), it should become obvious that both {Bossy,Daisy,Buttercup} and {Cupcake,Ebony,Fiona} can be mapped to "3 cows". Literacy (where one stamps a number for 3 followed by a sign for cow into the clay) makes it even more obvious?

[3] compare Socrates' complaints about literacy, which remind me of our current arguments about LLMs: "but what if someone reads something which has just been hallucinated"?

[4] which might help explain your "and eventually everyone else's"; before writing, it would be difficult for a small fraction of geeks in a population to remain motivated, but after writing it would be possible for them to think "even if I know no one else from my village like me, there have been others, and there probably will be more..." and decide to participate in the literature?
This sounds a little far fetched, but my current hypothesis is that Americans have developed a co-dependent attachment disorder on a societal level around sociopaths that transcends ideology, whether they are certain presidential candidates or violent criminals. It's an enablement/abuse cycle that you typically see with alcoholic or abusive partners. Books on attachment theory have hinted that this type of disorder can occur on a macro level, which I was initially dismissive of, but when you apply it current events it really helps to explain a lot of irrational behaviors.

In the country with 21,000 homicides a year, it's hard to ignore the connection to attachment disorders while watching people wring their hands and make up exotic concerns that would be more fit for a Ray Bradbury novel over anything designed to address the world leading rates of violent gun crime, up to and including the literal concept of laws and the enforcement of those laws.

I don't know what the solution here is, because I don't know how you send an entire country to therapy and/or Al-Anon, but not continuously enabling the people that are hurting us is a great start, and that necessarily requires shifting empathy from the people that don't deserve it (violent criminals) to the people that do (their traumatized victims).

Apologies for the throwaway account but a lot of people get ridiculously emotional over this topic, and that's when I'm not accusing them of being societally co-dependent.
Beware this mindset. While it is completely reasonable, know that probably hundreds of new software developers enter the workforce every day, they hear us bitching about package registries like npm, and lack the experience to distinguish baby from said bathwater.
Welcome to a real world. Hiding from the reality does not help
That is correct

People killed other people long before guns were a thing
Apparently forests aren't part of the ecosphere :) Who knew.
What does "send nato in" sound like to you? Do you think other countries are cool with you violating their borders?
The problem is, instead of internalizing the whole quote, which is valid in my opinion, many have only internalized the "root of all evil" part. This roughly translates to "my feature is done - performance is someone else's problem".
Elon leaves Tesla:

- Tesla finally settles with unions and starts treating their employees fairly.

- Tesla addresses the water pollution of their Gigafactories in Europe.

- Tesla signs that collective bargaining agreement in Sweden so they can finally sell cars there (and have their charging stations unblocked).

- Tesla adapts their marketing to stop claiming auto-pilot bs.

- Tesla adapts their quality control so Tesla cars are no longer delivered to customers in a semi-assembled state.

- Tesla starts investing in research for more sustainable disposal of batteries and alternative means of energy storage

I can see a lot of upsides to Musk leaving Tesla (on top of the $50B)
Let's say I was running VirtualBox† on top of a bare-metal Windows XP host. Inside of Virtualbox is a modern Linux distro with Chromium installed, which I'm using to browse the web. Would you still consider this a major security risk?

If so, fair, I'd like to hear more about why you would be concerned! But if not, how is this situation inherently different from running Chromium, which has a strong sandbox and statically links basically everything? I realize that in the virtualization case, Chromium is running on a separate kernel, but does that really make a difference in practice?

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† I can't figure out from a quick Google search exactly when Virtualbox dropped support for Windows XP hosts, but it appears to have have happened relatively recently. It probably wouldn't be too hard to build the latest version from source with some patches for XP compatibility.
Show HN: JPChat – Web instant messaging with zero JavaScript and telemetry
A little experiment about building interactive website and test out how far can we go without javascript.

To build an IM, we literally 'render and live stream' the chat window to every users in the channel.

In case you ask, 'JP' stands for javascript-phobia.
https://github.com/coyove/jpchat
They also don't get any updates should vulnerabilities surface. Also they don't run newer software (which might be ok depending on your use case).
The problem with category theory as it applies to programming is it's using a hydraulic press to crack eggs.

Telling people about the power of hydraulic presses when they just want to make omelets is pretty unhelpful.
Can you request the slides be sent ahead of time so you can think of ideas?
I completely agree that different types of books need to be approached differently.

I especially look for Progression Fantasy books(zero reader participation needed) to listen to when I don't have the energy to consume anything serious.

I've also had interesting experiences with some technical non-fiction books, where I've zoned into the content and understood it better than I would have reading it.
It's certainly a constraint of any medical system but not a goal, primary or otherwise. The goal of socialised medicine is to provide medical care equitably to everyone who needs it - to assign that as a right. Care only has to be rationed to the extent that resources are constrained below what is required to meet the need. And all of that is orthogonal to a system like that in the US, where care is a luxury not a right.
by that standard people could always pay you use a criminal fakenude site to use photoshop

compare the same thing
I think fake nudes are shocking to the victims because even if fake, the pics/videos depict them as sexual objects. One usually just wants to be seen at in a sexual way by intimate partners and with one's consent, but imagine finding out there are fake nudes of you, and that plenty of horny people have been looking at you sexually. Even if it's not your actual body, it'll still feel violating.
What, such as a linked list? This is a first week assignment in a systems course.
> With signed commits, you are saying something permanently, but you don’t really know what it is that you’re saying.

I know perfectly well what I'm saying. I'm saying that this particular commit has been authored by me (or someone who possesses my key), not by anyone else who typed "--author=seba_dos1" into their command prompt.

I'm not saying anything else about the commit. I'm not saying "this code is safe", I'm not saying "I audited this source tree", I'm not even saying "I authored the code" just with the signature alone - I'm saying "I authored the commit, and here's the proof". Whatever you do with that information is up to you - and usually, for most people, this information is mostly useless, but there are cases where it's not.

I'm really baffled by people who seem to try very hard to attach some extra meaning to this. "What is the possible security benefit?" - there's none, obviously (at least not on its own). It's not about security at all, what made you think it was about security in the first place?

A GPG signature attached to an e-mail I wrote does not tell you that I'm not lying, but it can be useful nevertheless.

> It’s worth noting that only GitHub will do this, since they are the root of trust for this signing scheme

`git show --show-signature <rev>`. There's no need for GitHub for this.
And in a vacuum, you'd be right.

However, despite all the crowing about voter fraud, there's yet to be produced any evidence of voter fraud rising to even within a few orders of magnitude required to change an election. While there's no such thing as perfect security, a single-digit number of fraudulent votes in districts (or even whole states) accounting for hundreds of thousands to millions of votes is about as good as you can hope for.

On the other hand, voter suppression is being done quite brazenly out in the open -- the most notorious of which includes reducing the number of and moving the locations of polling stations in districts where the "wrong" people vote, resulting in many of them having to to wait hours to vote and some even having to travel long distances to get there.

In that context, treating the two as equal, opposing concerns is nothing short of propaganda.
> Every single app on the App Store gets device sync for free via iCloud. I can drop my iPhone in the ocean, buy a new iPhone and and my new iPhone will have all of the data that my old iPhone had within the last 24 hours.

Do PWAs?

Like holy crud, it's like you're not reading anything I'm saying. This is what everyone is telling you, PWAs lack critical capabilities. And you keep saying, "no, it's fine, why don't they just [insert capability that isn't available to them]."

> Because for the majority of users - they don’t need a separate account because all of their state can either be saved by the app just saving locally and letting iCloud take care of it. By logging the state in Game Center or some apps like Overcast use the users app specific iCloud token (each app gets a unique token per user not shared across apps) and stores state server side.

Which isn't available to PWAs.

> I can guarantee you that most users expect to have everything backed up automatically and expect to be able to move between devices.

Which isn't available to PWAs.

It's not even available to PWAs that do use an online account. iOS has unreliable background sync for PWAs, so if you use a PWA without an Internet connection, you can't rely on that data getting synced in the background once you do get an Internet connection. You have to remember to re-open the app to make sure that the sync happened.

> That must be why no one uses Google apps so their data is accessible across devices, Office 365 and why Chromebooks are so unpopular because people don’t like cloud backup….

I'm sorry, are you seriously going to try and argue that users don't care about the ability to have offline storage? This is unbelievably out of touch.

This must be why nobody complained about Windows requiring a Microsoft account to install, why nobody uses Sublime or Notepad because they don't have online accounts, why nobody ever downloads DRM free games, and why nobody uses a computer offline /s

It's just absurd. Of course users like having the option of reliable offline storage. The inability to integrate with iOS backup and the inability to store data reliably without an internet connection and a separately managed user account or online storage service is very, very obviously a barrier to using PWAs for serious work.

If Apple turned iOS into a Chromebook-style service tomorrow, everyone would be up in arms about it. Most Apple users don't want that. And in fact, even Apple devices do not require an Apple account to use because Apple recognizes that having that be optional is important to users.
Telegraphic ciphers and codes were common, both to save money through compression, and as it was well known that many people would be reading and re-transmitting the message as it worked its way through the system.

There were various standardized codebooks published for when the message was not secret and compression was the only consideration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...

Frequent telegraph users with an additional need for secrecy, such as investment bankers, developed similar proprietary in-house codebooks.
This is exactly what DDOS hackers are looking for. Older unpatched vulnerability, that allows either remote execution or full take over. Please do not do that. A better alternative is to just move over to other os distribution such as Linux arch, chromium or something similar. Linux desktops are lot more capable these days.
Ask HN: Is there a consumer phishing testing service for non-technical people?
A friend's mother recently fell for an obvious phishing scam, and I was hoping there was some service you could sign up for where they occasionally send fake phishing emails/texts to whoever you designate, and if they engage with them they'll get chided by the system, and you'd get metrics about how often your parents fall for these simulated attacks. This kind of thing is common in corporate settings, but it doesn't appear like there's one available for individuals.

Is there a legal barrier to running a service like this, or did I just fail in my google search when looking for one? And if there are no barriers, could someone please make this? I will never have the bandwidth.
It’s probably worth noting that it’s disturbing words, not images.
What's the point here? 10 minutes is about 1% of your waking time assuming you sleep 8 hours. Thanks for doing the math I guess
NIST 800-207A: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture
Doesn't the xp tcp/ip driver still contain an unpatched zero day?
Oh you're totally qualified then. Unbelievable.
“Scans” means the sentence is plausible. Not having read the article, I can’t say I agree or disagree.

I could expound on the grammatical structure and syntactical components of the sentence but I have to confess I’m too lazy to do so.

Basically, humanities have their own specific discourse communities and looking at an article that assumes prior knowledge can be usefully compared to starting with a paper on relativity theory without having understood Newtonian mechanics.

My apologies to any scientistic types I may have offended.
For what it’s worth, all your comments on this perspective along with the silicon analogy are excellent and were eye opening for me. I too was dismissive and it took me a sec to really understand your analogy and point but I get it now. Nicely stated!
https://archive.ph/1KtNB
Show HN: LaVague – Automatic Selenium code generation from natural language
Breakeven sounds like an absolute win when you consider the societal benefits. Getting the Saharan populations working on something positive together and building a more stable future for themselves is far better than being a war magnet where questionable ideologies thrive.
Yep. I guess using a gun didn't cross my mind as possession is illegal here in this part of Europe (unless you are licensed, screened, store it safely, etc etc).
Yes, they did. And how about murderous rampages at schools, were those common before technology eased the way?
And the average middle schooler could not do that convincingly compared to just uploading an image and a computer making it look convincing.
Its a reminder that you're in charge of layout out your day
I think sometimes we underestimate how impactful 10 minutes can be. Imagine sitting in a call, waiting for folks who are late to join the meeting, or that's five 2 minute video ads on YouTube - Google is taking 1% of your day in ads.
Can't really not use GDI if you're on Windows XP, though.

Direct2D, DirectWrite, et al. are all technologies introduced with NT6, aka Windows Vista and 7.