skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent way too long looking for an xplat lf/ranger that I can just use with cd without having to write the selected directory to a temp file (which then gets complicated if you want something portable across shells) so I made a directory navigator that renders to stderr and only the final directory selection goes to stdout https://github.com/gsuuon/FNav
Ask HN: Does Hacker News have manipulation protections?
Hacker News’ moderation methods are notoriously heavy handed, relying heavily on explanation-less shadow bans. The reasoning for this is that HN doesn’t have enough funding for a full moderation team, which makes a lot of sense to me. And it clearly works, that’s why we’re all here! But that got me wondering while reading the Boeing and Apple threads today: does this ethos apply to non-disruptive manipulation? I really don’t see any reason why a large company wouldn’t make a few dozen accounts and vote up and down the comments and threads that they like, taking care not to trigger the traditional HN tripwires of politics, insults, exclusive downvoting, etc.

Given how undeniably important this forum is to the global tech scene, is that something they’re thinking about? Hoping there’s a link somewhere or I can get a three word “yup, don’t worry” from a mod, haha. If not, hire some AI nerd (me!) for peanuts to write topic-analysis tools to quantify users on a symbolic level or something…
Gradual and targeted rewrites are at least an order of magnitude more affordable.
Countries that use . as the thousands separator (e.g. 1.000) use , as the CSV separator.

Countries that use , as the thousands separator (e.g. 1,000) use ; as the CSV separator.

Why? Because that’s how Excel does it.
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> It's something a clever fourth-grader would write.

This level of cope and denial is amazing to witness.

The most powerful (multi trillion dollar) companies on the planet are pouring practically infinite resources into developing systems that will ultimately make you redundant.

An early version of AGI is staring you in the face while you call it a "fourth-grader". It won't stay in fourth grade forever.
And Epic made the choice to try to get around the rules of the store that they chose to enter.

Epic is not without blame for not being on the App Store. They could have played by the rules and not try to get around this rules.
> They can revoke that developers' certificates

Well, no, they can’t. That’s the whole point of the DMA.

> and patch whatever vulnerability allowed a developer to bypass that restriction.

Sure, close the door after the cow has left barn.

In the rest of the civilized world, developers will not do something so blatant in the first place because they know it will result in an account ban.
The control scheme has nothing to do with the efficiency of the car. Whether one pedal or two, it’s going to use the same power for the same acceleration/cruise/deceleration profile.

Unless you’re concerned about the energy usage in your ankle when maintaining pressure on the gas with your foot?
You want a news story to be an engineering postmortem instead?
The Cognitive Type Project – Mapping Typography to Cognition
This is precisely the threat model that certificate transparency mitigates.
It’s nice you think that. Maybe you should buy some Apple stock.

Here in reality, it is a very real possibility.
But does it? I haven't seen any hard evidence, and lots of anecdotal tales of technology illiterate grandparents, fathers and mothers being better off.
> How do you think the Americas were settled by Europeans?

These were families, who were setting out for the promise of a better life, to a world where they were promised fertile land and... a breathable atmosphere.

Do you understand how that might be completely incomparable to traveling to a dead world, where life will invariably be much worse, and there is no chance to bring your family or build a future with them?

There is no mystery, there is no unknown, there is no promise of riches or a better life, which is what explorers of the eras you're referring to were seeking.

> Yeah? And? So? You think people moving from Europe to the colonies didn't get cold feet? Hell, as times get hard, it's only natural to wonder WTF you made this decision. Those people will probably be culled from the herd so to speak.

You're being so glib, think a little longer. Did those colonists have twitter? Could a disaster be instantaneously broadcast around the world and cause a simultaneous shift in global perception and government policy? Think about the Challenger disaster leading to the end of the shuttle program. Could you conceive how a major disaster on such a ludicrously expensive undertaking as a Mars mission might result in cuts to the program and potentially all future plans for manned space travel beyond the moon?

>like you sound like without the sense of adventure and too meek to do anything other than leave their house for work. Just because someone else is much more bold than you does not mean that you should prevent them from doing it because you might feel uncomfortable upon hearing about something.

This is funny. Do you know the life I've lived? Are you confident that it's in alignment with your assumptions?
> Someone who accepts the 'risk' of certain death on the mission doesn't seem to me to be the sort of person you want as your companion on a dangerous voyage.

That is EXACTLY the person I want around, because I know they can be relied on even in dangerous situations. You, on the other hand, who thinks that someone who does not fear death would be a bad companion on such a mission, would likely piss himself in face of actual danger.

Someone who's afraid of death on a suicide mission is a danger to the mission and, thus, to myself. When you want to found a colony, you need strong men and smart men, best when each man covers both.

You definitely just want nerds, scientists, doctors and technicians, because they get the shit done.

This isn't a hollywood movie.
I've had this list bookmarked for years. Thanks for this!
Ok, so you don’t like the titles. Do you have any problems with the actual content—the thing that matters?
Do you have any recommendations for laptops fitting this criteria?
Never is a loaded word.

It’s almost impossible for a completely fresh design to be safer on day one. There’s so many different ways to fuck up many of them are counterintuitive because nobody ever considers if someone could install this backwards until someone does. 20+ years of debugging written with people’s lives tests just about everything in a way engineers never really think about
I have no problem with a tax on imported trucks. It encourages the buying of trucks from US automakers which is better for US companies, US workers, and the environment.

The article claims that "Without competition from overseas, American manufacturers just stopped trying to build interesting trucks." but trucks are hugely popular in the US so it seems that US automakers are doing a great job of meeting our demand. The very next sentence undermines their point by acknowledging that "Ford’s smaller Maverick pickup" is a success.

They argue that "Ford is building fewer than the world demands because it would rather push consumers up into a larger and more profitable F-series." but Ford doesn't need to provide the entire planet with little trucks. Let the rest of the world build their own little trucks if they want them. Americans are currently able to get both large trucks and small trucks so I don't really see a problem here.

Maybe they make a compelling argument after their "click to continue reading" bullshit but since that button doesn't work without JS enabled I'll never know. I wasn't impressed with what I was able to see of their argument.
You don’t have to use one pedal driving to use regenerative braking in most EVs. They use regenerative braking to effect control inputs on the brake pedal too.
when will you, personally, learn to not to bother getting invested in products made by people trying to sell their company to a FAANGM?
IIRC 10% more effective to be precise. The UX is worth the cost.
Would be nice to know what software that is.
Does this mean that, in theory, if you could compile the Tor library to WebAssembly then you could use it from inside a service worker in the browser?
I find it less aggravating than other systems. I have a Mac I use every now and again and every update it seems to have lost a feature. And Windows has gotten to the point where it's just a constant battle against Microsoft trying to steer you into their next distraction, and they reboot the computer on their schedule, not yours. If I leave my Ubuntu desktop for a while, when I come back it does some security updates but is otherwise how I left it.
Outside California as well (nor is this a problem).

SLO has a strong alumni network across the West, as all western state residents pay in-state residency at state universities.
Wait, wait, you're telling me that a site attended by people who stan for the OG Luddites is no longer worthy of being called "Hacker News"? Or where users with names like "BenFranklin100" extol the virtues of Apple's iOS developer agreement? Say it isn't so.

The trouble is, there's still nowhere better.
Thanks for the link, it made me move to the article about "Mayday Mayday Mayday" callsign, then listen to a recording of one and read about a ship that hit a bridge in Florida. They rebuild the bridge.

Wikipedia is such a fascinating website
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Fortnite is not on Android: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fortnite&c=apps

That has absolutely nothing to do with their Lawsuit with Apple. They are also not on Steam. That has absolutely nothing to do with their lawsuit with Apple.

So no, them being on iOS is not only because of the lawsuit with Apple.

What does Minecraft have to do with anything? Yes I know they are owned by Microsoft but that is a weird example. While the OG is not on Steam, Legends is.

So... Fortnite is a real example that is happening on Android, right now!

They have already said they are going to do exactly this with iOS.

> or has or wants a Store.

That... doesn't disqualify anyone since that's the entire point. If they don't want a store, then obviously concern about them making a store and not being on the Apple App Store is a non issue.

That makes no sense.
I feel Apple is on panic mode trying to find a way to avoid opening up.

They will most likely lose.
These limits are and should be placed by the operating system.

Android has sideloading yet Facebook still uses the official store.
> Yes but do the flight crew have the ability to tell if a plane is safe to fly?

Yes, it's literally part of the job of the pilots, by federal regulation. If the captain feels the flight isn't fit to fly, the captain can say it's a no go, period.
I wish they'd offer some clarity on non-profit use. A client of mine uses it, but doesn't make money on what they release (although it does help facilitate donations).
The premise of a walled garden is to keep unwanted things out, not to imprison you inside. Apple maintaining a store where they've vetted everything in it is fine, and if you like you can refuse to install anything from outside of it.

That doesn't justify them prohibiting you from installing anything from outside of it. It should be up to you.

If you wanted to, you could even configure your phone to not add any new stores without a factory wipe. But maybe first you want to add in the repositories that have only free and open source software, or the stores of some respected game publishers who offer lower prices if you use their own stores for their games. And maybe the existence of these stores would encourage Apple to charge lower fees, and then you benefit from the lower fees even if you choose never to install anything from those stores, since your option to exerts competitive pressure on the stores(s) you are willing to use.
This is an interesting post. An expert in numerical analysis compares the output of a tool which optimizes floating point expressions for speed and accuracy with the output generated by chatgpt on the same benchmarks:

https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/chatgpt-herbie.html

> I wouldn't use it—sanity-checking its algebra is a lot of work, but even if you fixed that up, the high-level ideas typically aren't that good either.

This has been exactly my experience with chatgpt as well.
The same applies to everyone else. Nothing was stopping them from using the crap bits of the internet, yet they did it anyway because that's what they chose to do.

The same applies to literally anything: food, exercise, etc. people choose the worse option because that's what they prefer. If you take that option away from them, then they will choose some other, similarly crappy option.

The problem is not that people have options, and some of the options are crap.

The problem is that people are physically and mentally lazy (I include myself in this), and will tend to choose the easier, but crappier option most of the time. How do we fix human nature? I don't know, but taking away people's choice isn't going to help the matter.
Computing the color of a pixel is computing the (averaged) integral of some iteration counting function. It looks like there are areas where this function is pretty chaotic -- isn't the problem very ill-conditioned? If so adding more precision may not even help?
Yes, sometimes, of course. It's a bit like JSON. Sometimes it's easiest to inject a small piece of hand-written data into a test or whatever.

(That said every text editor since ever should have had a "table mode" that uses the ASCII field/record seperators (or whatever you choose), I was always confused why this isn't common. Maybe vim and emacs do?)
"liberating"
There are so many ways to do exactly this too!

FakeYou, CivitAi, WeightsGg, Comflowy, ... -- there are tons of vibrant communities to teach you everything you need to know. The tools are open source, free to use, and accessible.

This isn't hard at all once you dive in.
Marking the Web's 35th Birthday: An Open Letter
It's over 10 years ago that I had to do such operations regularly with rather unreliable networks to Southeast Asia and/or SD cards, so calculating the checksum every time on the fly was important.

Instead of the "fancy" syntax I used

mkfifo /tmp/cksum
sha1sum /tmp/cksum &
some_reader | tee /tmp/cksum | some_writer

Of course under the conditions mentioned throughputs were moderate compared to what was discussed above. So I don't know how it would perform with a more performant source and target. But the important thing is that you need to pass the data through the slow endpoint only once.

Disclaimer: From memory and untested now. Not.at the keyboard.
> it's still the same basic idea

You create weights to decide which word comes next most probably inside your brain and need to do million of multiplications to say a word?

I think it might not be the same basic idea at all.
Is NVLink just not scalable enough here?
It already paid off. FB stonk price is up lots.
Cambridge Analytica was Facebook's screw-up on their users' data usage policy; basically Facebook enabled developers through Facebook's API and Social Graph integration siphoning of people's data for nefarious reasons. Could this be caught by public crowdsourced bug hunting project? Probably not or perhaps, if you would think about ways on how you can use people's social signals and connections to create some sort of privacy invading or flat out criminal products.

I remember that after Cambridge Analytica, Google started limiting their API scope as well.

I wouldn't classify Cambridge Analytica scandal as a software vulnerability but as a reckless data usage policy on the Facebook's part.
The crime of apartheid has been codified in International law, it has a precise definition at the ICC[1] and the ICJ[2]. In particular the ICC defines apartheid in Statute 99 part 2 article 7 paragraph 2(h), as:

> "The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;

Aside note here: Statute 99 is known as the Rome Statute, Palestine is a party to this statute but Israel is not (withdrew in 2002). Meaning if you practice apartheid in Palestine you can be tried at the ICC, while in Israel the ICC has no jurisdiction to trial you for this specific crime.

Even though the term was coined to describe the specific instance of South African apartheid, its modern day usage only keeps South Africa as a prototypical example. This is no different from how the “genocide” was coined with one prototypical example (the Armenian genocide) but has later been adopted into international law with a precise meaning laid out in the Genocide Convention[3].

Your dictionary definition is about the specific meaning of apartheid in South Africa (notice it says so in parenthesis; when looking up terms in a dictionary what is inside parentheses is for disambiguation and should be to ignored). And we are not talking about that. We are talking about apartheid in the same way that the UN does. If you want to argue that Israel does not practice South African apartheid, then that is a different argument, and I’m not gonna refute that, but then we are just arguing semantics.

Regarding the specific points (a)-(f) I provided them as examples of what we mean when we accuse Israel of practicing apartheid. I wasn’t looking to argue them. There is an ongoing trial at the ICJ which is going over all of these, and more, to figure out if any of them are justifiable, not true, etc. or if they constitute a crime against humanity. You believe the former, me the latter.

Finally, can you please not accuse us of “blood libel” for criticizing Israel. Israel is a modern state which deserves the scrutiny we give other states (including China). The fact is that Israel is currently being charged for these crimes at the ICJ, the UN general assembly constantly votes to indict Israel of these crimes, respectable human rights organization accuse Israel of these crimes. Either the whole world is in some conspiracy against Israel, or—more likely—there is convincing evidence that Israel does indeed break some international humanitarian laws.

1: https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm#art.7

2: https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/07/19760718%2003-0...

3: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_...
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Historically when this kind of stuff happens the result is usually a Revolution.
This reminds me of my tragicomic experience trying to install a calculator on my work iPad.

First one I tried had ads.

Second one required making an account.

Third one had some features reserved for the paid version (e.g. factorial).

Then more adware and other crap.

After 20 minutes I gave up and used pen and paper.
What social skills are infants born with?
It is in fact the metric expansion of space. The spatial part of the Robertson-Walker spacetime metric expands equally along the time axes of a family of freely-falling future-directed worldlines (we can call them "Eulerian observers", and individual clusters of galaxies are good approximations).

That is, in the past, galaxy clusters are relatively close together, and in the future they are relatively very far apart.

If you need an image, think of a vase of cut flowers, with the stems tightly bound together at the bottom of the vase, and the flowers loosely separated at the top. Time is in the direction away from the vase's bottom. A super thin slice through a stem represents a snapshot of a galaxy cluster at a particular time in its existence.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images.linnlive.com/de6e1...

<https://media.istockphoto.com/id/578833902/vector/expansion-...> : time increases from the left to the right.
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> This caused an explosion of computer variety in a few short years for a single platform.

The impact of this point can not be overstated. 99% of businesses make a much larger investment in software (and people!) than hardware. The idea that compatible hardware systems existed was a great hedge on their investment in software and training. For most businesses, this would be a no-brainer!

Over a short time, other propietary/non-compatible systems were relegated to home use, education, and gaming.
Were there barcode scanners that were efficient enough to be battery-operated in 1981?
and for advanced developer tooling you can charge. This is what MS does. Visual Studio (not Code) is not free for businesses.

One can still do C# development using only Windows SDK and/or dotnet SDK for "free".

You cannot do C/C++ or Rust developement without a license but with MinGW you also can do it without MS SDK. MS doesn't prevent people from using GCC compilers. Their core C++ developers even use it: https://nuwen.net/mingw.html
> it doesn't appear to be in a useable state

Just like the last time they posted, it was nothing other than marketing, it literally had none of the Loom features (not even video sharing... which is the entire point of Loom)
Uh, don't the $99/year certs give you signatures that last like a year?
Probably not them, but other developers for whom Apple's bullshit (like the 99$/year fee) is too much of a barrier of entry would be happy to share their work for free.
And I suppose we'll get to do all that stuff when all the value trickles down from the shareholders right?
> the local impact of a crypto mine is very one-sidedly positive—large amounts of cash injecting into the surrounding economy, particularly the energy sector and everyone who works in or profits from it.

driving up costs of electricity due to increased demand and encouraging the continued use of fossil fuels isn't positive. it is good for the wealth of the energy sector but a negative drag on everything else.
Having only one website would also make the web safer. But it would also be super lame. Is that a trade you would make?

Why would we want freedom to self publish on the web but not in mobile apps?
"Silkwood" https://youtu.be/iNyrSR5JGh8?si=pzqfoeC5g_Nm5-cz
Still, many 8-bit micros extended BASIC to provide a "shell" for their DOS equivalent. For example, the Apple II with both ProDOS and DOS 3.3. There was still an underlying DOS library. It would've made sense for the PC to do the same, given all the contemporary 8-bit systems.
I recommend "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis if you're looking for a non-fiction novel about the world of competitive Scrabble. It's one of the most entertaining and well-written books I've ever read. Almost impossible to put down once you've started it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142002267
I didn't really see them picking on EVs terribly in the article but maybe I missed it? Agree that a lot of EVs have regenerative braking so they should in theory produce less charged particles from the brake and caliper interaction, which they mentioned.
I regularly see a witch doctor who uses a voodoo doll to inflict pain upon my enemies. It may not be “scientific” or “peer reviewed” but hey it makes me feel better.
Which seems to be what NYPD are attempting to leverage.
Perhaps think a bit smaller, and look at companies that operate office-sized TLS interception by installing a CA certificate on each (managed) end device, and generating certificates on-the-fly from that CA. Then, some middlebox is able to inspect the encrypted communication that passes through.

Some web browsers have pinned certificates for certain services, Google Chrome/Chromium being one of those. Subsequently, the browser refuses to perform any more actions towards the server that serves an invalid (according to the browser) certificate. That browser is also one of the reasons the DigiNotar case in 2011 emerged to the surface.