skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in art treasures. Despite efforts by the local police, federal agents, amateur sleuths and not a few journalists, no one has found any of the 13 works lost in the largest art theft in history, including a rare Vermeer and three precious Rembrandts.

The art hasn't resurfaced probably because it was never sold. "biggest art height" is based on some arbitrary valuations for a totally illiquid market. It could have just been $5 billion or $50 million . Reselling stolen art is close to impossible...pennies on the dollar is optimistic. Also if anyone did come forward with the artwork, they would immediately be deemed a suspect (I dunno how the statute of limitations would come into play here).
It could be worse, they could take away the rocking chairs and peg board game one day.
Now you understand why laws like this need to be passed. Because otherwise assholes like you wouldn't do it.
TikTok's seizure is a lesson in modern capitalism
I don't mind bottled water, I drink a lot of it in fact, but I do find two things interesting here.

#1 is how companies are creating "artificial" value of their products, purely through marketing

#2 is companies who seem to exist purely as this marketing and sales apparatus.
Melon: Reconstructing 3D objects from images with unknown poses
Sounds like you want Nostr, or I'm assuming Bogbook?
Aha, sorry, I totally misunderstood the meaning of your comment.

In that case, I 100% agree with you, the Oracle article seems much better than the Apple Insider article.
To your first point, they are prolific throughout the South. Very prominent in Atlanta
Yes, threads like these really remind you of the bias HN has. There's tons of great businesses that engineers will dismiss completely. Oh well!
You don't really need to do that. The point of putting alt text on images is to users who use screen readers can still understand your website. Tabbing through in a screen reader hearing detailed descriptions of each social logo is probably a poor user experience.

Probably just "Github logo" or even "Github" would do just as well. If the image/logo is purely presentational (that is - if you remove the image do you remove information from the site?), just blank it out with an empty string.
Because we are all basically apes in clothing and obsessed by status. If you can convince someone that something will make them cool/desirable/higher status, they will buy it, regardless of what it is. Even a $2 can of water. Why do you think people spend fortunes on Lamborghinis, that are objectively shit cars for anything other than showing off? Or Rolexes, which don't even keep time very well?
Happened in my family a number of years ago. The instructions said to crank the spring 7 1/4 turns. So it was really make a 1/4 turn, repeat 7 times. Not 7 full turns plus 1/4 additional.

After pulling the vice grips off, the door shot up with such force that it knocked the ladder over, causing a broken collar bone in the process.
Well, not VC or tech elites, apparently.
> find a barrier-free entrance to a building, and a curb cut at an intersection
I disagree with this too. It's a social nicety but shouldn't be a requirement.

> It should be on us, the developers, to ensure our apps work with the tools of the trade to enable people with limitations
Why? I argue it should be on the disabled person.

> The bar is so low.
Not really. There are groups of lowers running around looking for people to shake down for ADA misses. To really protect yourself it takes a lot of time.
So rather than spend 10-20 minutes reading about numpy, the author wrote 3 other implementations...?

The fact that they ran the C code without the optimisation flags and compared it that way makes me think Javascript was what they actually wanted to write this one in anyway.
> There is no particular sympathy towards programmers in society, I don't think.

The concern policy makers have is not about programmers, but about boatloads of other people having no time to adapt to the massive wave these policymakers see coming.

There a strong signals that anyone who produces text, speech, pictures or whatever is going to be affected by it. If the value of labor goes down, if a large part of humanity cannot reach a level anymore to meaningfully contribute, if productivity eclipses demand growth, you simply will see lots of people left behind.

Strong societies depend on strong middle classes. If the middle class slips, so will the economy, so no good news for blue collar as well. AI has the potential to suffocate the organism that created it.
> Not true. Anyone can buy stocks and bonds, and for most part defer paying taxes on unrealized gains for decades. And when they do need to realize gains (i.e. sell), the tax rate will be the lower LTCG rate. And anything left over at death passes to heirs free of income tax (basis adjustment to FMV).

I could have been more precise, but I figured it was pretty obvious through context: tax-advantaged retirement savings. That some people have the opportunity to save upwards of $75,000/yr in tax-sheltered accounts and others can only put away $7,000/yr is a complete travesty.

> You keep on using the term "tax advantaged" without defining what that means.

…because that term already has a commonly-accepted definition. And whether or not a Trad vs. Roth account is better for one's specific situation, either and both are better options that are available to a whopping $69,000 more of my savings than for most Americans.

> Please explain "easily bypassed". If you meant the "backdoor" aspect, that is only easily by-passed if one does not have any pre-tax money in Trad. IRA. And if you mean Roth 401k, those are even much less common than the ordinary 401k.

Jesus christ, what is the point of this nitpicking? None of it has anything to do with my actual point.

And yes, I mean the backdoor Roth. And if you already have money in a Trad IRA, you can roll that into an employer's 401(k) to no longer have to deal with the pro-rata rule.

Most motivated high-earners can get around the MAGI limits with nearly zero effort, which is my point. Just eliminate the damn rule altogether, combine everything into one global limit, and remove all the stupid hoops and tax-filing complications that result.
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I think we probably agree about most things but I’ll nitpick here and there.

ANSI C is among the simpler languages to have serious adoption. It’s a bit tricky to use correctly because much of its simplicity derives from leaving a lot of the complexity burden on the author or maintainer, but the language specification is small enough in bytes to fit on a 3.5” floppy disk, and I think there are conforming implementations smaller than that!

You seem to be alluding to C getting replaced by Rust as that’s the only other language with so much as a device driver to its name in the Linux kernel. Linus is on the record recently saying that it will be decades before Rust has a serious share of the core: not being an active kernel code tribute I’m inclined to trust his forecast more than anyone else’s.

But Rust started at a complexity level comparable to where the C/C++ ecosystem ended up after 40 years of maintaining substantial backwards compatibility, and shows no signs of getting simpler. The few bright spots (like syntax for the Either monad) seem to be getting less rather than more popular, the bad habits it learned from C++ (forcing too much into the trait system and the macro mechanism) seem to have all the same appeal that template madness does to C++ hackers who don’t know e.g. Haskell well. And in spite of the fact that like 80% of my user land is written in Rust, I’m unaware of even a single project that folks can’t live without that’s married to Rust.

Rust is very cool, does some things very well, and it wouldn’t be hard to do a version of it without net-negative levels of opinionated on memory management, but speaking for myself I’m still watching Nim and V and Zig and Jai and a bunch of other things, because Rust takes after its C++ heritage more than its Haskell heritage, and it’s not entrenched enough in real industry to justify its swagger in places like HN.

The game is still on for what comes after C: Rust is in the lead, but it’s not the successor C deserves.
The market creates a minimum saleable product.

Somehow every time I go to buy something there are hidden qualities I lack the information or skills to judge.

Clothesline Pegs: I've made some effort here because I like functionally good design. Currently own "pink pegs" but half of those have broken (fragile plastic over time - not sure if brand changed or I didn't get original brand). Bought some stainless steel pegs - threw first lot away because they get tangled. Bought second lot but they appear to be getting rust spots. My parents have some 45 year old plastic pegs that still work great!

Appliances: broken Miele about 5 years old. Luckily discovered one model of Microwave with a good UI (so good I got my parents the same model). Struggled to find an induction hob/stovetop with actual knobs: current fashion is touch-sensitive buttons and they all have UI faults that fail for my elderly mum. Touch-UI fails for me too - I fucking hate my stovetop UI and just yesterday my friend struggled to use it).

iPhone: I discover a new bug in the UI all the time. Some are subtle and you would only notice if you really care and are knowledgeable about UI. Some you find workarounds for (Getting to the "Select All" menu). Helping mum with her iPad discovers a whole new set of serious UI flaws. Frustration for mum then too much time out of my day because a number field gets screwed up by her typing in a comma. If you have a phone call and go to the Home Screen, then tap the phone icon why are we not returned to the current phone call screen?

The market for disabled equipment is completely screwed. Spent days trying to find a usable wheelchair. Rollators with brakes that don't work. Hard rubber tyres that get stuck on small surface variations. It's a nightmare: the only thing that helps is that I have the time and skills to find something that almost works (usually with glaring usability faults). Often unobvious dangerous faults remain like the rollator that scratched my mum's ankle badly and required doctors and months of recovery and heartache for my dear mum.

Products and services are fractally complex and there seems to be no solution to the problems for an average person.
But why would anybody care about that? You want to know if something is real, not if it's authorized. It's like buying gray market products. The important thing is to be able to tell if they're fraudulent/counterfeit, not to be able to tell if they were original sold into your region, which the customer doesn't give a lick about.
Values of electrical resistors are often indicated via a pattern of coloured rings around the body.
Is it something like a game with a 100% from scratch engine?
Yeah, I was just trying to show the difference. Doing it without optimisation flags is an utterly bewildering decision by the author.
> Everyone who looked at Havana Syndrome when it came out with a critical eye realized immediately it was a BS story.

There is a lot of bullshit around it, sure, but no one seem to dispute the reality of the symptoms. It may be psychosomatic, and I honestly think it is the most likely explanation, but it doesn't solve the problem. If diplomats in Cuba went crazy, then why did they go crazy? Diplomats are people and I prefer when people don't get crazy.

Somebody here suggested a form of burnout, fine, then why did people in Cuba burn out? Burnout is not BS, and maybe something has to be done about the work conditions. And maybe, with that knowledge, if similar symptoms appear elsewhere, it would be a good occasion to send an work inspector.
That is incredibly state dependent however, looking at https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/How-Serious-Is-Americas..., you are in a different world of literacy if you live in Washington State vs. Texas.

The south happens to be where Waffle House is common.
That's been done WAYYYY back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot

Negative news/Tweets about presidential candidate get popular? Use spam bots to trigger Twitter algorithms to penalize popular negative Tweet.

Positive news/Tweets? No spambots.

That was like 10+ years ago.
The severed lime is sweetened with agave and has a bit more sugar that regular flavored sparkling water which makes them a nice way to get a small amount of sugar.
It’s not an argument, but an observation. They deal in all kinds of chemicals and other nastiness, and I’ve never seen one wear PPE. I’ve even talked to mechanics about it and they don’t seem to care.
Text contrast multiplies with the monitor contrast, which then multiplies again with eyesight quality. The high contrast requirement is to make it readable for someone with poor eyesight on a low-quality monitor...

Which then makes it downright painful for someone with regular eyesight, who sets their monitor to high contrast to improve photo rendering. Grey-on-grey is the only website design that doesn't make me immediately back away.
I have never lived near a Waffle House, but did eat lunch at one in Mobile AL about ten years ago. I found nothing particularly unique about it.
So your argument is basically observational epidemiology study = low quality hence we cannot make conclusions? It would be a fair point if this were a single observational (non experimental) study. However when you look at a dozen studies on humans which all exhibit the same pattern where high PFAS in blood correlates with higher cancer rates then the burden of proof shifts to prove that PFAS is safe, not the other way around.

Theoretically it's conceivable that there is a separate, common factor in all the studies that causes the illness (e.g., people who are prone to cancer are somehow attracted to working with PFAS) but I think after the n-th human observational, plus experimental animal studies that at least show hormone disruption - we probably should on a go forwards basis operate with the assumption that PFAS are likely very toxic for humans, unless proven to be mostly safe.
Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger alignment with these so-called “woke” beliefs correlates with heightened instances of anxiety and depression, as detailed in a publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Key word: correlates.

And for that matter, perhaps it's the other way around? That is, those who suffer from anxiety and depression are more likely to be attracted to "woke" beliefs; as opposed to those beliefs leading to anxiety and depression.
A magic experience for me was sitting in a desert spring at dust with bats skimming the water to drink.

Tip: In forests near a source of water you'll often see bats appear in the early evening. But only if you stand still for a few minutes without a flashlight. I think if you have a flashlight or if you're moving around they avoid you. But when you stand still they don't notice you.
Downvoters on this one should leave comments explaining why they disagree.
Waffle House is for lovers too:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlqyWYgE6go (How About the Waffle House for Valentines Day?)

- https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/11/01/newlyweds-hold-reception-waff...

Lots of other tidbits:

- https://www.mashed.com/99239/untold-truth-waffle-house/
Coke and Monster manufacture their own beverages. So does Redbull (kind of).
It's hard enough to sell people stuff they do need. Selling them stuff they don't need requires a lot of money and dark skills.
Presumably the fact they filled out a job application is enough barrier toward literacy. Especially towards words like "egg" or "waffle"
It's very high contrast. The comment meta on these posts fail it. I'm pretty any text against the orange in this site fails it too.
That's how you can identify a 24-ohm snake https://xkcd.com/1604/
Seems crazy to me that double would produce that kind of speed up. Is float getting emulated somehow? Don't they end up the same size?
The big corp eng might not write a lot of code, but their code might get executed far more often.
I came to that page directly from the front page of HN. I think it's reasonable to assume a significant portion of their traffic today directly to this page didn't already know what RP2040 is. Missed opportunity to educate readers.
Is that Bevy project open-source by any chance? I'd love to it out myself
Having an entire generation where most of the men got drafted into a World War tends to dampen people's enthusiasm for violence.
Relevant Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) here[0] and discussion here[1].

Auth can be subtle and I'm likely missing some things, but the UX appears to be essentially equivalent to OIDC, especially given the caveat at the bottom which states users might want to consent before exposing their identity to any random server.

So I'm assuming the benefit here is that the logins themselves and any actions you take are tied to your public key and not the domain you use to host your key at any given point in time? Do they talk at all about the typical issues with PKI identity, ie lost/compromised private keys?

[0]: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/61cf/...

[1]: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-61cf-the-openwebau...
I know that, but I thought the double meaning (numeronym reading like the word "ally") contributed to its success.
Or it's founders have been working at IBM a bit too much... ;)
also the medium on which the message is "written" is the plate that the order will be served on and elements that accompany the order. super efficient.
For something like YouTube, you could have the video's progress bar be a different color for the AI sections. Maybe three: real, unknown, AI. Without an "unknown" type tag, you wouldn't be able to safely use clips.
I just don’t understand this attitude. Cars live outside, of course they will have a little dirt on them! Do you wash your house every week as well?
TBF, if you don't understand the people that you're writing your app for, you're probably not going to be very successful.
Harmless, until some contractor accidently disturbs it, and people have to have their home vacated (just happened to a friend of mine).

That story might just be an anecdote, but the US has really normalized the "it's ok to live with poison, just don't awaken it". Same with lead pipes, lead paint, etc.

Government remediation is long overdue. This is a price we pay as a society, we should treat it as a society.
You don't have to take my word for it. Try professor Kishore Mahbubani, ex-UN Security Council head, accomplished Singapore diplomat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8TmKuaYAQ&t=2m48s
It's different when someone wants to put something into their own body vs someone wants to put something into the air and water we all share. Stop pretending it isn't.
>“The long-running dystopian ideal of separating difficult, messy, undesirable, and despised humanity from its creative output is at hand,”

My god, these people are so melodramatic. If I could roll my eyes any harder they'd fall out of my head.
Sure but aren't those all the same price?
How does crypto solve anything with this? It’s a regular bank with regular money that’s decided to close out accounts. Any funds in those accounts would be transferred to the customers’ new bank accounts at their new banks.

Your comment only makes sense if they had said the customer money is gone, but it says nothing like that.
I can only compare it with Abersoft Forth on ZX Spectrum. While I admire the Forth implementation in Jupiter Ace a lot, it lacks a lot of basic words. Users can often find them implemented in the manual, but they are not immediately available. 8kB ROM is really on the edge of usability. Jupiter Ace Forth uses an unusual approach to code editing based on decompilation instead of screens, which is closer to how Basic worked. Abersoft Forth was much faster and had better graphics support.

The modern Solo Forth is worth mentioning too: https://github.com/programandala-net/solo-forth?tab=readme-o...
But usually, at least I don't build an executable while iterating. And if I do, I try to set up the feature flags so the build is minimal for the tests I am running
> Homicides in the US today are 7.8/100k, which is still above the 1950 number. I wonder what accounts for the difference. Globally, the US has a higher rate than other countries likely due to guns, but it’s not like guns were illegal in 1950.

Could it be an urban/rural thing? I'm sure the US population was proportionally far more rural/small town in 1950 than today (on clear display from so many small towns depopulating).
On Monero's Ring Signatures
Tibetans traditionally sleep on beds that are not much different from European beds.

The porters shown in the article are "camping", so to speak, i.e. not in their typical sleeping postures.
Supermarkets are data driven and ruthless. I don't see them putting anything on their valuable shelf space for more than a few weeks if it doesn't sell.
Thanks for the feedback. I already included some text saying that the defaults should be OK for webdev, but in addition, I've now collapsed the advanced settings by default.
Companies do all sorts of (IMO insane) things to their apps that reduce their reach. Ignoring accessibility is just one of them.

I remember when I was in the app-writing business, and our devs would be constantly trying to bump up the minimum OS version supported. “See here, it says that only 10% of customer devices are on OS version 10.1 and below. We must bump our minimum version to 10.2 because us developers are tired of supporting this old shit and legacy code paths!”

This seems to me to be a lot like a salesman simply hanging up on 1 out of 10 of their potential customers. Makes no sense to me, but the version bumpers seem to be winning. The number of apps that no longer support my iPhone 7 is growing and growing…
And never forget about Secure Scuttlebot!
Back in the day, when MIT still owned 18.0.0.0/8, at least one journal gave blanket access to users coming from anywhere in that netblock. And there were ways to use it even if you weren’t officially affiliated as a student/faculty. Unfortunately Aaron Swartz did not use an untraceable method of access.
Yes, but this "makes sense" considering that data is being sent to US companies that are basically integral part of the NSA by now.

So it makes sense from a US-gov perspective.

My point was that the Samsung spyware is sending data about (for example) US users to non-US companies and government (South Korea). I guess they're also integral part of the NSA by now. I have no other explanation :P
The closest I could find to them officially saying this is in response to an Amazon question, https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx2DCFGHH4BKDVS/ref=ask...

> Nope. Our cans are BPA-free.

Their FAQ has a related question about how you may get some plastic packaging when you buy from Amazon, but that's not the bottles, that's outside of the boxes themselves: https://liquiddeath.com/pages/faq#:~:text=Unfortunately%2C%2....