skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on:
- a very simple monitoring platform (for HTTP and possibly PING) for 2€/mo, that _just works_
- a sort-of-project-management thing for law professionals
That's not a massive problem.

Most games avoid using the same meshes for both rendered graphics and collision detection. Collision detection is usally done against a simplified mesh with much fewer polygons.

Since most games already already have two meshes, there isn't a problem making one mesh out of quads and the other out of triangles.
Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
I can't upwote thus too much.

Software Engineers as a profession are too weak in comparison to their impact on the world.

Lawyers are too powerful.
It’s been clearly prioritised with the Q3. Perhaps as a last second pivot, but the intention is clear, especially given the demo app shipped with it. I expect to see an even bigger turn towards it with the next release.
> hope everyone agrees that not letting kids see what Rhianna had for lunch or whatever was worth it

Better your kids than mine. If you think that’s what is happening on social media your children are screwed.
I remember reading somewhere that the Tierra ecosystem/evolutionary simulation ([1]) readily produced such higher-order parasites of parasites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
Well, they aren't going to aslong as the US, Norway and Tonga are fine with it
If I ever met you in real life I think you would be the coolest person I've ever met.
In reality, the rear brake contributes nothing (apart from redundancy in case of front brake failure) to being able to stop quickly in an emergency. The quickest stop is achieved by using the front brake as strongly as possible while bracing oneself to avoid going over the bars, which if done correctly, will mean the rear wheel will have next to no contact with the ground. That means locking the rear wheel with the rear brake will contribute nothing to stopping.
Depends where. As you travel towards the south of the country or to the Canary Islands, tomatoes have a stronger tomato flavour.
Correction, Apple smartphones have that restriction. Android and Linux based smartphones allow user to install any affiliation of their choice.
For the first, pedants like to point out that a statement like:

"I was feeling nauseous" is incorrect and should be "I was feeling nauseated", as nauseous is "causing nausea" but that's just pedantry and dictionaries now reflect that and now also list it as "affected by nausea".
> it is not necessarily in hospital admins' best interest for all the ER patients to be seen

It's still a systemic problem, where admins' interests are not aligned with the health and experiences of patients.
This is just an ad dumpster borderline malware link.

Here is the link to the actual tool.

https://tianweiy.github.io/dmd/
GP clearly mentioned in their first paragraph that they aren't defending it by pointing out that it is natural. Assuming that they are is committing the is/ought fallacy.
The argument being made is "farmers take care of our food! We need them!" That is what "no farmers no food" means: "no farmers, no food for us". Everyone understands that's what it means.

And that's just not true, as much of it is for export, as was mentioned.
> It can be measured?

If it can’t, that’s a strong signal.
Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
I'm a former Personal Capital and Mint (:tear:) user. Checkout Monarch Money.
Off the top of my head:

* Universe Sandbox was the first pinaccle I experienced and still hasn't been topped in its own curious way. It demonstrated at the very beginning where VR UX could go, and that has nothing to do with stupid floating 2D planes.

* RecRoom "dungeons" are the best collaborative gameplay that I have experienced.

* No Man's Sky.

* Alyx.
> We don't test if parachutes work by throwing people not wearing them out of planes

We’re seriously comparing not having TikTok and Instagram for a few years to death?
In the local ER - not your ER, probably - they only scoop up the dying. As I recall, one person near me had been in a car accident and was sitting there with very painful, unset broken bones for 9+ hours. They couldn't get painkillers until they were seen.
Swarm Technologies
When we decline to execute a heinous offender, and decline to treat them as inhuman - even when they have offended inhumanly - it demonstrates the moral difference between us and them.
Yes, the follow-up post (hidden by default) reads:

> Don’t panic, folks. This is very good work, especially given the low memory complexity of this attack. But there are 33 steps left. Your bitcoins are safe.
> just griefers.

Appropriate usage.
I was running a lot of small tasks. With 3000 queued tasks my state file was around 25 MB.

zstd compressed that down to 5% of the size. I have the code still if you want to look at it but it was just a quick experiment so I didn't add any tests. I did add it to the config, disabled by default, though.

https://github.com/veyh/pueue/commit/e9dcf52227304b4b4a2ded4...

Protobuf could be a pretty good alternative. It can be dumped to a human-readable format with the protoc cli.
Bitcoin is using double sha256, just in case someone is wondering.

Though I wonder if double sha256 makes it twice harder to break or if it's better or lower than that.
"Zstd 1.5.6 brings a new stable parameter "ZSTD_c_targetCBlockSize" for better handling incremental updates within web browsers"

Anyone have info on how browsers are supposedly doing incremental cache updates? All I can find is google sdch which appears to be abandoned, also some references to vcdiff in google system updates
I guess there needs to be a balance between low value for driving exports and high value for making imports possible. Japan is an island nation, they need to import a lot of things to make their exports happen.
Based on your TLD, I would not have been surprised if the service is working for Germany only. But it is Bavaria-only - bummer. Any chance to extend the coverage?
No they wouldn't. Facebook had the users consent to read that traffic.

Plenty of people liked to use a VPN that pays you to use it. It was great. They knew that they were giving up their privacy to a big corporation, but chose to do that because they were getting paid.

Today's big corporations slurp up your data and don't pay you.
Yes, you mean: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109035

Can you tell from this or any other Oracle bug whether Apple is bending its rules for Java? I can't tell either way.
It took me a lot of head scratching to exactly understand what this means, so for your information: this is not a full attack and you are safe (for now). If you need a concrete proof:

import hashlib
m0 = bytes.fromhex('''
c32aef52 512294ba 9db5ed8c 8c8c88ed b2de2765 63a2d14e ec7619cc 93b21182
e5050f50 f0839b60 7b1ee176 aaa06d68 c462343c 67898962 9558f495 04281f2c
''')
m1 = bytes.fromhex('''
5d0f5ae6 05e98311 8fa3c73a 9af8c49d a2bf31f7 de547b67 5baecee3 da0d8c94
e4c19564 f682d45c f7c57698 f871f9b5 f14469b7 fc28eb0c 2d76db75 043fe071
''')
m1p = bytes.fromhex('''
5d0f5ae6 05e98311 8fa3c73a 9af8c49d a2bf31f7 de548b61 5b8e46f2 8a1dd69a
bcc08464 f6825458 f7c57698 f871f9b5 f14469b7 fc28eb0c 2d76db75 043fe071
''')
print(hashlib.sha256(m0 + m1).hexdigest())
# 2627577ac401cf44d837cf8471cac13ad7d8385bd00e4daf59fd3c3c646eaaae
print(hashlib.sha256(m0 + m1p).hexdigest())
# c945222bf0868a2218d5683c69b2b6c4720093e40c46d1197262d991e4d483b6

As far as I can understand, this is same as [1] and the first practical semi-free-start collision of 31 out of 64 rounds of SHA-256, at the complexity of 2^49.8. "Step" here equates to "round", which is not always the case and I was much confused. (RIPEMD-160 for example has 5 rounds and 16 steps per each round.) There are other theoretical cryptanalyses with more rounds of SHA-256, but this one is fairly practical and the group has explicitly demonstrated. But it is still far from the full collision attack or more like MD5 suffered back in 2009.

(By the way I couldn't exactly reproduce the claimed result even with a 31-round version of SHA-256. Maybe they simply ran a step function 31 times without any initial rounds? I don't know.)

EDIT: @Retr0id has reproduced this result: https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3konobbmf6o2a

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/349.pdf
I was heavily involved in various Nomic games (of that posted list, Agora and the Fantasy Rules Committee, and to some extent Internomic and I think Ackanomic as well; my site from grad school is one of the dead links under Agora) for a bunch of years during college and grad school, and it was deeply formative for me in terms of understanding how rules and systems work. And precise language. Agora was also the reason I learned Perl, when I got elected as the one who kept track of proposals and votes and inherited the perl scripts of my predecessor and had to read the man page (just one, it was Perl 4, excellently written but verrrry long) to learn the language to edit them. Which was also highly formative, come to think of it.

Agora still seems to be alive and well, though, and coming up on 30 years old, at agoranomic.org .
I just launched paid subscriptions to Bernard (https://bernard.app), an automated broken links checker for websites and got my first paying users.

These days I am taking a break and looking to "pivot" it into a more complete website monitoring tool, that not only scans for broken links, but also offer uptime monitoring, page speed and scans for all sorts of issues that might affect your user. Basically a one-stop shop for everyone that runs a website.

This is a product I would love for myself, but I am unsure if it is a good idea to expand the scope of a product that originally had quite clear and "modest" goals: to check for broken links.
Same problem with Instagram it's insane that so many giant companies have no rate limits in their recovery flows.
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.” - Darwin
Is that why? I find it hypocritical to punish murder with state sanctioned murder.
It works “correctly” for distorted quads, it’s just pixels overlay as part of the front to back rendering of the distortion process, thus creating combined blend methods greater than 50% but less than 100%. Ie literally what I said in my previous comment.

I think we are basically arguing the same thing, but from my point of view I’d say the end result is visually undesirable but technically correct.
> Side note, GLP1 based therapies are being investigated for improving brain health and potentially helping prevent the development of neurodegenerative illnesses, potentially because of an anti inflammatory feedback mechanism it activates when its able to reach tissues outside the gut. (natural GLP1 is usually broken down ~5 min in the body after release)

Just to zoom in on this -- the understanding of how GLP1 based therapies work seems to also be evolving to have the benefits primarily be brain-focused. While of course GLP1 interacts in lots of ways with your other organs, but the effects on appetite suppression (and suppression of other urges) seems to be majorly brain based.

Some research into how it might work together:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9455625

In fact I wonder if the negative effects of GLP1 drugs (gastroparesis, GI issues) might be completely gone if we can target the agonists towards the brain only somehow.
"Western tech " .Are there some French or Canadian or Italian chips that are better than these Chinese ones ?
Forget about the car, many people have a company car and they're mostly EVs due to tax incentives.

The real story with the farmers is that there are 3 very large farming companies responsible for more emissions than all traffic in the country combined. That's close to 10x more emissions than the whole aviation industry. These are billion euro+ sized businesses, with a huge environmental impact. They pay PR firms to paint these "small farmer" stories while they're just large industrial polluters.

The main person for the political "farmers party" has a long history of being deeply involved with these companies. She's basically their lobbyist.

Example: Van Drie Group, over 3 billion revenue last year from veal. In Dutch, but a bit more background here: https://www.groene.nl/artikel/het-merk-boer
"These customer accounts may also be downgraded temporarily, unable to add new sites, and unable to purchase/transfer/renew domains."

Not renewing domains? Sounds critical.
> And yes.. you can know perfectly what you are doing. I'm sitting in a chair typing a comment. Are you suggesting that this is actually gnostic hubris on my part?

I think you have inadvertently helped validate GP's point. They are clearly not talking about the level like that of sitting in a chair typing a comment. They are talking about the actual impact of what you are doing versus the intended impact. For example, I assume the intended impact of your sitting in a chair typing a comment, was to successfully influence the conversation by making a strong argument. However, things are a lot more complex than most humans can predict, therefore our actions can often have unintended consequences.
Not only is that not really relevant, but I'd argue Tailscale is actually very useful even to many people who don't feel like they currently "need" it.
But many things reported are not rates, it's subtle
The Apple M-Series GoFetch Attack
If it is any consolation, as someone from a Catholic family and who spent 11 out of 13 years of K-12 schooling at Catholic schools, mainstream Catholic schools do an utterly woeful job at indoctrination. Your average Catholic school is more likely to turn your kid into an atheist/agnostic than into a convinced Catholic.

The really conservative ones, like Opus Dei or SSPX schools, arguably do a much better job of indoctrinating their pupils (although even for them, there are plenty for whom it doesn’t stick)-but I assume they are not on your menu. Even if you were willing to consider them, they probably wouldn’t be willing to consider you.
Yet another reason why phone number verification is the most insecure way to verify users and it doesn't matter if a company like Apple is using it or your bank using so called 'Military grade encryption'. The point still stands [4] with countless examples [0] [1] [2] [3].

Unless you want your users to be SIM swapped, there is no reason to use phone numbers for logins, verification and 2FA.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36133030

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34447883

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310112

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254051

[4] https://www.issms2fasecure.com
I'm working on a digital menus solution (https://www.menulio.app/). Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
I would love to use something like this but globally. I'm working on some parcel analyzer product for Poland. Perfectly I would like to use it in form of an API where I can pass coordinates in request and get response with pv potential metrics.
Personally I like it. To me reads like the raw facts that a longform news site would then take and spin into some narrative while adding thousands of more words. I don't care what the author's opinions are, and I don't want to read their spin. I just want the news, and this seems like a reasonable way to do that!

Granted even in this outline there's some opinions expressed, like calling Apple 'famously tight lipped.' That's about as true as an opinion could be, but it's still an opinion. A way to just get the falsifiable facts in news, without interjecting opinion, spin, or "analysis" is my ideal vision of news. For instance here's [1] a NYTimes article from 1912, about the sinking of the Titanic. Outside of superfluous comments about the Titanic's wireless operator, it's just the perfect news article.

[1] - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general...
Maybe I'm crazy but I just have a cron job that does .backup during a time with little activity. My db is only 40GB or so and stored on an NVMe so it finishes quickly.
For reference, this is the mail that made the rounds (got it on musl ml).

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2024/03/24/17

The claims do seem to be sane at a glance, so it's too bad it's hard to take them seriously with the conspiracy-theory envelope it's wrapped in.
I guess the article is written from the perspective of AVID: once electronic headphones became cheap enough, they didn't sell any more pneumatic systems for airlines - but the last planes equipped with pneumatic systems in the late 70s/early 80s still flew (unrefurbished) until the 90s.
I have a hard time believing they planned his assassination just for a mere cracked password.
Except every once in a blue moon when the opposite happens: HTTPS 443 gets blocked/hijacked while HTTP 80 goes out just fine (in which case either of the beforementioned generally gets you to the portal).
We are right now extending to whole Germany. And in theory, all data from https://github.com/OloOcki/awesome-citygml can be integrated. But still, data is only available for very few parts of the earth.
I went to a catholic school (in a place where public ones are readily available, but my parents thought the education there was better), and while they did talk religion, except for the religion class (which i'd have had in public school as well) I don't think it was very faith oriented. Notably they had evolution, big bang, sex ed and so on.

I think anglosaxon world religious schools are much different, and I have the impression that people in USA collate creationism and catholicity, while it's a strongly held belief in their country, across all faiths.

I'm an atheist now, so I don't think the indoctrination was so good.
We are still early in the evolution of the GLP-1 Receptor Agonist class of drugs.

Always great to look ahead though -- and most of these drugs work in similar way, i.e. they are GLP1 + something else.

I personally think we're going to see a huge rise in the use of drugs like Rybelsus that are much easier to manage (oral instead of an injection), especially if people feel that they just want some help, rather than need an intense dosage.
Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today
Thank you. 100% I'm with you on speed.

I think we will be in a much better place speed-wise in a few months; some of that will be our stack, and some of that is what is happening lower down in the stack, but it will be meaningfully faster and more responsive soon.
I would imagine that if people are overcome by fumes, they lose consciousness quite quickly. So in spite of the unpleasant imagery it might not be too bad and I can think of quite a few worse ways to go.

What we need is some data; has anyone done a poll to measure people's satisfaction with their manner of death?
The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped
Yeah, that’s why I said vector generation. We need to be able to mass produce vectors that can be immediately injected into the human body to act on cells.
I get that you’re saying but I wouldn’t describe that as luck. Their choices weren’t made randomly and are what lead to their success.
This has nothing to do with SIM swapping or phone numbers.
the real problem is not that. this is nothing but a way to DROP privilege!

the problem is that containers require tons of hacks on the network side to just-work. and docker main selling point is all the usafe hacks it does for it.

so obviously, any container solution will adopt these hacks eventually, and there is the problem.

you end up with a perfectly sane namespace functionality that removes access, but then the kernel opens the gate because network hacks are good
Interesting. From what I remember, the parasites that evolved in Tierra resembled viruses. Tierra had a downward-pressure on organism size (the bigger you are, the longer it takes to make a copy of yourself), so organisms evolved that jettisoned their own replication mechanism and relied on pirating the mechanism of another. I wonder what the advantage of being a parasite of a parasite is in that environment.
The problem here is the availability of 3D building data - at https://github.com/OloOcki/awesome-citygml is a list of all possible regions where we could extend our service in future, but that is still very limited parts of the earth.

We are right now also open sourcing our shading simulation code of WebGL as an npm package, check out https://github.com/open-pv/simshady if that is interesting for you.
This is actually the need of hour! With limited attention span of the new generation that is trained to swipe left/right/up/down in seconds, nobody is interested in reading lengthy articles. What they want is main points that they can skim through and get the gist of article. Sometimes i wonder why summarization services are not popular?
I’m working on https://langible.com, a language learning app intended to be fun like Duolingo and effective like Anki.

Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
Class bullies may earn more in middle age, study finds
You could run a LLM pass to "expand" abbreviations and acronyms before running it through text to speech.

Although more expensive, it worked wonders for me with text containing units of measurement (°F, °C, m/s, etc).
Taste is more than redundant. It's is a temptation towards gluttony. You wouldn't want your food tempting you to sin, would you?
1Password's Word List
The power outages make me think it's a terrorist attack meticoulously planned via a virus. I hope we will get answers soon
love the idea! I would have registered if it weren't using passkey. is there a reason you chose this for user verification? I've never used it and am hesitant to adopt technologies that give chrome more control over the browser market
Perfect case of winning the battle and losing the war .
Not far enough with HIV. Yes we have pills that significantly expand lifespan (by up to 30-40 years), but they make you severely prone to cancer and your immune system never really has a full chance to recover making you prone to all kinds of opportunistic infections. We really need a cure and I don’t think we’re moving fast enough with CRISPR based solutions. We know how to excise the HIV, we know how to add the CCR5 gene to T cells. We need to move faster.
I am waiting for the day i can hook up my webcam and do some live video to video :)
What's the recommended alternative for mere mortal hackers?
This is incredible, I said go back and swap one word with another, and it did it, this has blew my mind, I've not been able to do that before.

I'm a heavy voice dictation user, and I would switch to this in a heartbeat. I'll tell you why this is so impressive, it means you can make mistakes and correct them with voice, it takes away the overhead of preparing a sentence in your mind before saying it, one of the hardest things about voice dictation.

I often have my shoulder in pain, and I have to reach for my mouse to change a word, I would not if I used this. This software would literally prevent me pain.

However, I cannot use it without a privacy policy. I have to know where the recording of my voice is being saved, if it's being saved, and what is it going to be used for.

I would pay extra for my voice to be entirely deleted and not used afterwards, that could even be an upsell part of your packages. Extra $5 to never save your voice or data.

I love it, but I can't use it for most things without a privacy policy.
Iambic tetrameter. Lub-dub, lub-dub.
openai, Claude, Mistral large and all models that you can infer with ollama have JSON only modes!?
> Unicorns are merely an engineering problem tho (specifically, genetic engineering).

So is world peace, while we're saying things that contain the word "merely". :)