skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like flash?

Seems like less of a risk than the flash days because browsers are faster and more capable, and stuff like this is currently a subset of what the browser can do, instead of a superset like flash was (or the strong vendor push like microsoft silverlight).

Not old enough to have been a dev when flash was in it's prime though so might not have the most accurate view.
HN's worst times was at peak free money tech optimism.

Plenty of pretending that running a "successful" startup wasn't 90% scamming. The actual tech and programming didn't matter, all that mattered was that your `hello world.proj` was a money pump from users to shareholders or from shareholders to founders.

Just find all the old posts that say Uber/WeWork/Theranos/Tesla/SpaceX/etc will all make bajillions in 10 years and their tech is amazing and the problems are actually not that hard.
yeah, but then you have a very capable individual rotting in prison instead of giving him the option of being productive and positive for society the rest of his life
This thread has me feeling like I'm taking crazy pills. There are many things people can plausibly criticize Apple about, but these aren't among them.

These complaints sound like the equivalent of "Apple won't let you use your own email server", or "Safari only loads apple.com web pages". Can't archive photos? Can't delete emails? Are these people even talking about the same iPhone I have that can do all those things?
That's exif metadata, so it should Just Work™
A lot of the scammers are based in Asia. At least one I chatted to did look like the photo - we video chatted.
But if they didn't have the right and asked there'd be almost no chance of success while if they do have the right to ask there's a positive chance of success. So of course it's meaningful. It's an available avenue and one worth mentioning.
I've tried on several occasions, but I just haven't found those niches yet on Lemmy (I use it through kBin). It's kinda there but also still kinda empty one you go outside the more general feeds.

The sad reality is a lot of reddit operated off the minority of power users. And those power users are either still on Reddit, went somewhere else entirely (maybe Discord), or are "retired". The network effect will take a while to overcome, if it's overcome at all.
I don't understand the hate regarding K8s.

What's wrong with developing software knowing it will be hosted on a k8s cluster?

You can install a local k8s cluster will plenty of tools helping you with secrets management, observability, ingress, scaling, storage.

Why the hate?
Awesome!

F-Droid Link:
https://f-droid.org/packages/gallery.memories/

GitHub releases:

https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/releases?q=android
This seems to do the trick:

wget -mkx -e robots=off https://3e.org/vvannot/
no, it's to ensure healthy markets. you're so out of your league I'll leave it at that.
How long have you been doing this?

And have you accounted for reddit-isms, such as posting huge chains of "Cat" or "nice"?
Officially refers to Lineageos officially supporting that phone.
Well, sure, "green and blue background" is a proxy for "SMS capabilites and iMessage capabilities".

People aren't protesting the actual primary colors of green or blue.
Exactly. Vine was TikTok, but with less sophisticated matching. Instagram has Reels, though, which is quite popular.
Did they pay taxes on their gift? If not, they committed a crime IMO. Probably FTX paid the taxes, but maybe no one did, in which case the parents owe it.
Interestingly enough the best kind of development I see happening in the public sector in Australia. For example both the official Bureau of Meteorology weather app and the general car rego / council matter app get regular worthwhile improvements. With actual meaningful changelogs in the play store updates. None of that stupid "bug fixes and performance improvements" bullshit that every other popular app puts in there.

Still boggles my mind at times.
Osho [or Watts?] once noted that men die at 50 from heart attacks because they get all the things society asked them to get, the external pressure of society is no longer pushing them, and they are no longer running from themselves, iirc.
> the cards me and my team had were “god mode” we could open any door at any time even when locked from inside.

That is just bad management. The whole point of the interior deadbolt lock in a hotel room door is so no one can accidentally walk in on you thinking it is an empty room.

An emergency keycard that can open a hotel room locked from the inside is only supposed to be kept at the front desk for use during an emergency, mostly by police or firefighters so they do not break down the door and cause tens of thousands of dollars of damage. And its presence and use should be constantly accounted for.
A $20k probiotic vs a $20 round of antibiotics?
> What no one seems to be able to explain to my satisfaction is why this logic doesn't also apply to game consoles.

Sony is currently facing antitrust litigation in multiple jurisdictions over it; more generally, the fact that a particular other actor has not yet been successfully sued under a law for actions similar to those for which some actor is currently being sued does not mean the law does not apply to their actions. It just means they haven't been successfully sued yet.
>but consumers are apparently ok with it to an extent

to be blunt, consumers are lazy and that is how the network effect goes from "household name" to "too big to fail". Like a frog boiling, by the time the user eventually leaves 10 more are jumping in.
What percentage of your gum surface do you expect to floss in a session?
Yes, that seems to be the case, at least in principle: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36634619/

I'm not aware of any actual projects in development, but it could certainly be that some are in their very early stages.
SKYPHONE is an Android and satphone https://www.tiktok.com/@techradar/video/7341099055587577120

It uses Thuraya which is two geosynchronous satellites.

I don't get why more phones don't have better antennas like SKYPHONE with Starlink (500km) coming soon vs Thuraya's 40,000km geosync.

A good antenna should help with normal old bad reception as well.
My colleagues at the GH Security Lab saw this and made this thread/response [1]

I’ll paste:

Why does GitHub Security Lab do research like @mmolgtm’s recent work on bypassing MTE on the Pixel 8? This question was asked on Hacker News and we think it’s worth a short thread.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397522…

First an important point: we only research open source code, which means that many parts of your phone (for example most of your apps) are out-of-scope for us. That said, all open source code is in-scope, including projects that aren’t hosted on GitHub. (Quote tweet reply to this tweet [2])

In this particular case, @mmolgtm found a bug in Arm Mali, which is an open source GPU driver used on many Android phones. Android itself is open source. https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/mali-drivers/valhall-k...

Open source software is the foundation of much of the world’s software. So when open source wins, we win. And that’s why @GitHub takes its responsibility seriously, to help make open source software more secure.

GitHub Security Lab sits within @GitHubSecurity, and we focus exclusively on open source security with four main priorities:

First, we run the GitHub Advisory Database, which is a comprehensive database of open source vulnerabilities. https://t.co/U4HlXO2l1G

Second, we share information around secure coding practices, through blogs and video content. https://t.co/EdO5SZtR0B

Third, we use GitHub’s CodeQL to scan thousands of open source repositories for common security mistakes, like SQL injections or path traversals. https://t.co/m72rt2a5RL

And fourth, we do deep research on critical open source projects. @mmolgtm’s recent work on Arm Mail is an example of this. https://t.co/jxVYeoJjtO

The work that we do feeds into GitHub’s security products. For example, the advisory database is used to generate Dependabot alerts. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependab...

Similarly, our work with CodeQL provides feedback to the code scanning team to help improve and further develop the feature so that more vulnerabilities are caught quickly and automatically. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/code-scanning/intro...

And these activities also benefit open source, because GitHub security products, including Dependabot and CodeQL, are free for open source projects!

Our deep research work is primarily intended to inspire the community, so that we can improve open source security together. That’s why we publish detailed blog posts and proof-of-concept exploits.

https://github.com/github/securitylab/tree/main/SecurityExpl...

We’re big believers in Linus's law: “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. Together, we’re making open source software secure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law

[1]: https://x.com/ghsecuritylab/status/1770940743944720557

[2]: https://x.com/zemarmot/status/1681008991663423489
One thing which was kind of funny when the girl was trying to get me to send crypto to some fake exchange of the sort mentioned in the article, is that my friend issued his own crypto/shitcoin which I have a bunch of so I tried to pitch her on buying that instead. Sadly she didn't buy our token.
Nothing quite beats a simple google docs file where I can take notes and put links to sci-hub. Very often, legal download links expire after some time or they force the browser to download the pdf.

I have a google docs for each research project and thus I can share them with my collaborators. Each person has their own section within the doc so we can also easily share information with each other!
It seems like they do not like vertical integration
> Sure, but is a low quality life worse than oblivion?

Unequivocally yes. I think you are drastically underestimating how bad a life can get.

> Plus, if the suffering experienced by this patient helps cause someone else (or many someones else for centuries to come) to have a higher quality of life, one person's suffering can buy a lot of QALYs.

Exactly, that's why I'm arguing that this person's choice is brave.
One reason these portals aren't so great is in the article: all in one applications and too many external contractors.

One of the things i like about the german system is that one group develops and the others can use it. The german electronic tax system delegated the authorization to the state (npa) and the local irs branches and only the bavarian irs developed it, no need for 16 different ones.
Not sure if it’s just on mobile but the demo completely destroys the back button.
Dominate is quite fast as well. I did a few tests vs jinja for my flask app and it beat the pants off it.
You might wanna consider adding a page to your docs about setup on hetzner since it's so popular for NC hosting.

Seems that it is possible to get it mostly working based on this issue: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/issues/110
Looking at clones (and earlier attempts like Vine) they feel very… well, American! Like how a British crime series feel different to US one. To get TikTok with more of the American-feel look at Instagram (through it is a clone so not all the way American).

There's also the whole security / privacy aspect. As a non-American I'm not going to put more eggs into the US intelligence gathering basket than I have to. Do I trust the Chinese more? No, not really, but have they historically or in leaks from whistleblowers shown to use my data as a weapon against me or other Europeans? No, but the US have. Multiple times. And collaborating with my government to do so even.

Last but not least. Far greater tech capabilities? You make that sound like a truth set in stone, but is it really? If it was, TikTok wouldn't be where it is at IMO. Tesla wouldn't be the car with most faults in Germany's comprehensive TUV report of used cars 2-3 years old. Etc.

In short, IMO, the US isn't better. It is where it is strictly because of three things: Size, money and political pressure and right now we see the US trying to use at least two out of those three: The size of its market and politics to strangle TikTok. In my book that is if not a plus for TikTok then at least a minus for any US made app trying to compete.
> (The amount of tankie delusion on Reddit baffles me as well though)

I really love it when people think there's a "real" left anymore on Reddit. It was thoroughly decimated in 2016 and most left for Lemmy, Hexbear or Yesterweb
Basically: autossh -M 20000 -N -R host:8080:localhost:80 user@host

-M sets the control port for autossh which it uses to check if all is working right. The rest is standard SSH syntax; in this example, a loopback socket on port 8080 on host will get opened, and all requests to it are forwarded to localhost's port 80.

If you want it to be a "real" socket instead of just loopback, set "GatewayPorts clientspecified" in sshd_config.
Coming soon to your iPhone.
A minimal static JavaScript playground
Not to nitpick but in the early 60s there was an entire race of people who were systematically marginalized to be Third Class citizens. (White) women were still effectively Second Class.

That's pretty fucking divided.
This actual sounds positive. The UN isn’t a silver bullet of course but we can’t keep polluting at this scale.
I don't think censorship is a necessary part of addressing this problem.
This is the opportunity old media has been waiting for. The only d tense against all this is an established name brand with some trust.

Information networks will increase in value over people that are knowledgeable from aggregation of third hand sources.

They'll drop the ball of course.
> What's up with that?

It was programmed incorrectly and expired before it should have.

The stay was extended but the key was not updated with the new departure date.

A new key was erroneously issued for the room, someone used the new key to go into the room, saw someone was already staying in the room, and had to get keys for a different room. This would cause all old keys to stop working since every time a lock sees a new key used, it assumes a new hotel guest is staying.

Or it lost its data for whatever reason.
Yeah it's all a bit shocking and quite a lot near the beach in Sihanoukville where I'd hung out a while doing beach stuff. There really should be a way of getting this stuff stopped.
US gift taxes are owed by the giver, not the reciever (and its not an “if A fails than B must” thing.)

Not sure if there are other taxes a US party receiving a gift of real property in the Bahamas would be required to pay related to the transaction.
The example with "interesting insight" works well with a small dataset (CSV) that fits into the AI context memory, but how do you deal with a large dataset (e.g. a database of tens of GBs), the AI can't read/process all that data? Does it just do some "random" queries to generate some facts?
Doesn't really seem like a platform issue per se since your friends could have easily included you just fine, but chose not to.
There's quite a lot of arguments back and forth about it through this whole thread if you really want to dive into it. The cliff notes is effectively that gravity is not a force in GR. It is considered a force in newtonian physics, and might be a force again if we ever make a Theory of Everything. Gravity is fairly akin to a force in string theory, so if they do end up being right, gravity would be a force. If the Loop Quantum Gravity folks are right, gravity will remain not a force. If it's some other theory, who knows what it'll end up being.
The scammers are much more sophisticated than you suppose. One common trick they use is to “hack” local PBXs, and use them to place vast numbers of calls.
> Is this exploitable through JavaScript?

Why wouldn't it be?
Even Oprah Doesn't Know How to Talk About Weight Loss Now
It's just not helpful to complain about someone else's work, either.
You didn't read my comment. The formation of Israel began earlier than 1948. Arabs and Jews didn't begin killing each other out of nowhere. They did it over land disagreements which began because of Zionism which was almost a century old and being implemented well before WWII came around. Please learn history and stop spreading disinfo
The controls on apps that prevent them from taking over should be part of the OS, not the app store.
All autossh does is try to keep open/restart an ssh connection as a daemon — I’m not sure there’s any benefit to it these days than just using a systemd service.

That being said, as an example `ssh user@host.com -R 8181:localhost:8080` will open port 8181 on the remote machine you’re connecting to, and forward traffic that’s addressed there to port 8181 on the machine you’re connecting from. That is, you’ll be able to open a browser to http://host.com:8181 to test something running on your dev machine at port 8080. Traffic gets forwarded along the ssh tunnel.

Autossh (or a systemd service supervising an `ssh` connection) will keep that tunnel open.
This is the second time this week that people have recommended this boot while I was searching for information about CUDA. Thanks!
She'll change the toggle and then install it. It's obvious that a lot of HN users didn't live through the period of time where IE was overrun with toolbars for nearly every user because websites would walk people through how to override their security settings so that they could install all kinds of shit. BonzaiBuddy, Yahoo Toolbar, MacKeeper, etc... they all walk people through how to turn off the security settings needed to get themselves installed.

That's the whole problem. People don't know any better so they follow the instructions to get what they think they want. They don't know what they don't know.
I’m typing this comment on an iPad ;-) Which I love using for marking up papers and other documents for quick feedback. But doing research is another story.
I wouldn't blame much the firing of victoria, Woody Harrelson became a mock point when he did not confront some allegations made to him on the site. Which, sure, bad, but also, why would you risk going to a website to answer serious allegations? seems a huge risk to even go there.
It’s an abuse of power, that’s why. It doesn’t matter if it is or isn’t funny or if anybody was harmed, the act itself was improper for any engineer dealing with other peoples data and egregious lack of judgement by a CEO.
Framerate fiends plot murder spree of RPG's "inconsequential" & CPU-hungry NPCs
Which is what I like in Apple’s ecosystem. There are still good software there. Things 3, Bear, Paper, Anybox, iA Writer, Reeder, Doppler, Meta (tag editor), Nova, Transmit, Secrets,…
End result - Apple is forced to do whatever Google wants.

I find it hard to imagine a company - that cares about its own future - would agree that they are required to implement things that their _competitor_ decides.

That scenario will just hand over the monopoly keys to Google, and we're back to square one.
For years I denied all self-help books for missing the "how" part of the equation, this is now my main focus. All things considered, even if you have the intentions, the goals, the how to, I feel that most people do not have the consistency of themselves or a clear enough mind free from changing moods to pursue a purpose. [Another major part is not knowing how to listen to or access the Intuition regularly].

For me something like looking at life from a constant meditation on your future self [Alex Harmozi] or Gurdjieff's Self-Remembering or Vigyan Bhairav Tantra: Meditation Technique No. 33 allows this kind of consistent clarity.
HN's political "neutrality" is predicated on the fact that a lot of this site is rooted in convincing billionaires and multimillionaires to give you money for a passion project, and any kind of redistributive policies means that there's less money for them to give to you.

If you excised the startup founder culture from HN (which you cant) you'd be left with a bunch of straight forward Dem party politics guys and a handful of libertarians.
UC Berkeley community condemns EECS professor's misogynistic discussion post
I see where you’re coming from. What you are describing is the exact feeling I’m getting whenever I’m reading the man pages of older R packages.

But this might also mean that one is not the target audience in this case…
I'm not joking, at all.

I have never heard of this actually happening outside of when iPhone is a topic on HN. I don't really have other social media, so that might be a part of it. But in real life? Never once experienced this, or even know someone who has.

my friend group has a separate group chat for just android users and they get party invites after the main group does.

This makes no sense to me. You exclude some portion of your friends because your text bubble is green instead of blue? Why?
I think plenty of software development companies quite like to keep that 30% to themselves. I could imagine Microsoft, Adobe and others refusing to ship their software on the app store at all if using their own store let them keep more of the purchase price.
In AI/ML research, text to SQL always sounded to me of merely academic interest, in the sense that the outputs are easily verifiable and make for a good proof of concept of a language model's (or a translation model's) capabilities.

But looks like there are plenty of products coming out in this area, and it has me wondering: what is the actual big picture for enterprises here?

I would assume enterprises employ enough people to write yet another query for whatever use case.

- Is the expectation that in the future, we can bring the flexibility of SQL-like languages to people unfamiliar with SQL?

- Perhaps a salesperson unfamiliar with SQL would like to conduct an analysis. Is the volume and variety of such queries so high that optimizing for the turnaround time from an SQL query designed by data analyst to the salesperson to consume the results is so worthwhile?

Perhaps I am underestimating the scale of the problem but would love some insider perspective here.
That's the "monopolies are efficient" argument. Look, see, they can amortize their fixed costs over so many more units if they have the whole market.

Claims that you can increase the efficiency of a system by reducing competition should be met with the same level of skepticism as claims that you can violate of the second law of thermodynamics.

But let's try one that should get their ears to perk up. Monopoly suppliers are systemic risk, which is a threat to national security.
No one is forcing anyone to buy an iPhone. You still have that choice, you just want to force someone else to make another choice. It's hypocritical.