skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The paper declared bankruptcy on July 21, 2023. In a fitting final insult, the court filing listed more than $116,000 in company assets — an implausibly low valuation — as it was revealed McCaw had previously shifted the real estate property of the newspaper’s historic De la Guerra Plaza headquarters and Goleta printing plant into private LLCs under her control

This is also a very standard play in the private equity field. The property (which is usually what they really wanted) is forked off to a different entity, and then that entity charges rent back to the original corp.

This is how they kill off assisted living homes. They don't bother with cost-cutting; they just keep jacking the "rent" the property-owning corp charges the assisted living facility entity. In desperation to keep the home for residents, the staff cut every cost they can. Cracks in care quickly appear, everyone who can leave does which means lots of lost cash flow and expenses split among fewer residents...at some point there's just no more squeezing possible, the corp misses a rent payment...and that's that.

It's also the classic plot for many stories; gang/army strong-arms a village and keeps asking for larger and larger takes of the village's crops, eventually leading to the villagers starving, etc.
They'll have no advantage.

Kids who start using a phone when they are 6 have no curiosity for it. It's always been there, so what? On the contrary, they'll be the one who don't understand that what's put online for 5min is literally there forever.
And to avoid wasting space on the journal. Also, iirc bootloaders didn’t have full ext3 support yet.
For the average HNer, a fertilizer spill is unactionable. There's no digging I can do, nothing I can change. At most I can add it to the big list of things I should consider talking to my senators and representatives about.

By contrast, the liblzma compromise is immediately actionable and HN is who should be reacting to it. I'd wager that some HN readers got paged this morning to deal with the liblzma compromise. There were debian and other distro maintainers on HN communicating about what they knew, what they were doing in response, and what the average HN reader should be doing. I wouldn't be surprised if a reasonable percentage of HN ran, not walked, to run updates on a potentially compromised Fedora installation. Furthermore, the data was all out in the open (git commit history, mailing lists) and in a format that HN readers are specialized for dealing with. A supply chain attack on openssh isn't just relevant to HN, it's the kind of thing that should be on HN because HN is full of the kind of person that we want to be spending time responding to this incident.
Germany: It is part of my contract that my employer knows about my other jobs and they don't interfere with my actual job. E.g. having a side business that you maintain outside your working ours is fine.

You also can't have two full-time jobs without you violating labor laws or defrauding your employer. Since if you aren't defrauding one employer you would have to work 16 hours a day, which you can not do for 5 days a week in a row. And there is no way to actually hide that your are doing this. Employers are forced to pay certain taxes for employing you which can't be payed by two different companies for the same thing.
don't we already have farming?
This seems more like a limit on employers than workers.
One assumption in the article is that the sun is reaching the maximum point in its cycle early .. but there’s also the possibility that the cycle is the same, and the activity in this cycle is just higher.
Build from source AND run an Ai agent that reviews every single line of code you compile (while hoping that the any potential exploit doesn’t also fool / exploit your AI agent)
> Then the kids risk having the cops called

This examples are fairly extreme, but people calling the police isn’t a new thing.

A friend and I dug a hole that was pretty deep at the beach - police called.

We made too much noise late one night - police called.

We rode our bikes in places we weren’t allowed - police called.

We explored the haunted house - police called.

One kid pointed a cigarette lighter that looked like a gun and a helicopter - police called.

All in the ’90s. Children going too far and irritated neighbours have always been a thing.
Maybe make the ring vertical?

I mean, if they worry about human exposure, wouldn’t pointing it down make sense?
I wouldn't blindly trust comments.
> with suburban areas becoming particularly desert-like. It shouldn’t be a surprise that phones filled the gap.

The suburbs I remember from the 70s were just the same as the suburb where my child is growing today. So that's not it at all.
Great to know, thanks.

I wonder how that compares with the fees US libraries are being for digital lending rights to publishers…
People tend to use FAT these days because it tends to be an EFI system partition and almost all modern systems are UEFI.
Throw their asses in prison, move on. Not sure what the big deal is, we live in a country where the rich are punished appropriately for their preventable and highly regulated behavior, right?
A couple of ways from my understanding. We have different focuses in our UX and UI as we, for example, feature reviews directly next to the product and show products 1 at a time instead of a listing view. We also place more emphasis on having a semantic search where you learn about the products being offered and how they're relevant to your specific situation instead of a keyword based search. From a business standpoint, we're also affiliates of Amazon and Stylevana while Looria isn't.
Show HN: Play Battletech CCG
From webapp About page:

Welcome!

Battletech CCG is a fantastic card game. Wizards of the Coast discontinued it in 2001. This service exists to help people play a game using their physical deck remotely.

To get started, create a new game and send your friend the gameId. They can join. Then click "Initialize" and "Call" buttons to start a video chat with them.

When you play a card from your deck, hold it up to your camera and the service will capture it and match the image to a pristine image capture of the card that you can place on your virtual table so your opponent can see it.

With good lighting and steady hands, the image matching works 100%. But if it doesn't, just show your card to your opponent through your camera, and then look up the pristine copy by name.

Use click, control-click, shift-click, or alt-click to tap, add counter, remove counter, or zoom in on a card. Click your die to roll it.

Need some cards to build a deck? There are lots on ebay!

Need some help buildling a deck? Try 20x resource cards, 20x mechs, 10x command cards, and 10x mission cards.

Everything is copywrited and/or trademarked somewhere by someone.
I think you’re on to something. My local mall doesn’t allow teenagers anymore, and the skating rink shut down during the pandemic. the only arcades are bars that turn 21+ at like 7 or 8 pm.
No more jamming -- https://support.google.com/jamboard/answer/14084927?hl=en
I don't know if that's as true as it used to be.

Time will tell if they have to adapt the system to their new populations.
> I think some people are starting to reject media, and I think the drumbeat is increasing.

So why are you not confident? You're already seeing the immune system reaction.
lmao true, already seen a few companies gunning for the YouTube for AI generated videos mantel so we'll see how it goes
If those companies are unaware of how much work their (salaried) employees are capable of doing, they're by definition inefficient and deserve to get replaced by more competent competitors. That's the system working exactly as designed.

The employee working two jobs is doing something equivalent to price discovery.
It seems that to counter this type of supply chain attack, the best practices for managing software dependencies are to pin the version numbers of dependencies instead of using `latest`, and to use static linking instead of dynamic linking.
Huh. I hadn't checked it, but plain mkfs does create ext2. Interesting. I agree, ext4 seems a sensible baseline today.
To you, yes. Just like today, there will be retro enthusiasts who will keep doing things the old way.
It is also a real person event (in the same sense that late night TV is): "This year's event will be broadcast in front of a small live audience" [1]. I don't know how small the live audience is, but one person from my company is going to be there in person.

[1] https://io.google/2024/about/#section-one
Yeah. But on the other hand, if you watch someone slowly decline in health because they did absolutely nothing to take care of their body, and then die more ignobly and miserably than they had to, solely because of that, it's a hell of a motivator to do another set of push-ups even when you don't particularly want to.
Except in Mazdas case the data was there to characterize it. They were notorious for failing very early and suffered bad seals around the rotary shaft. This has been well known for a long time. Many Rx owners knew ride it for 100k miles then sell it before it is too late.
Technologist vs. spy: the xz backdoor debate
I like the LiquidPiston engine technology as an inverse Wankel engine. A lot more efficient.
How did you get “he didn’t like the company” from that story?

People routinely have feelings and opinions way more nuanced than this. And Apple is not a monolith. That’s certainly what happened here, as made apparent by the employee selectively leaking things that he wanted to kill.
Publicly using a pair of slurs about a coworker regarding an in-office interaction (the “Bathroom Post”), which were apparently seen and reported by some (whether different or the same) coworker, is not merely “expressing political views”, it is textbook work-related harassment–not enough for an employer to be liable to another employee for on a single incident, but for which an employer can be held responsible if it persists.

This seems a lot like it is nearly as much of a meritless political stunt suit as Elon’s recent SLAPP suit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Good point. The core of what i'm trying to get at with that statement is - in many of the regions where ecological restoration is a topic of conversation, stakeholders with power over restoration would only recently have begun to interact with the idea of ecological restoration being valuable in a way they have to take seriously (people have been fighting for the environment forever, but people with power to influence that caring about it is going to be novel), and are often coming from a perspective where the opposite, the exploitation of the environment as a desirable goal for mankind, has been mainstream for a long time.
That's also not true, two factor works before putting in a credit card, as I've said in a related post. I completed an email based two factor request when I did my test and I still have not given them a credit card.
> You should probably not be running your own publicly-accessible ssh servers if this email is not sufficient to at least start figuring out what your next actions are.

That seems like a fairly unreasonable stance.
StabilityAI CEO Resigns
> My customers and business are not any less important or valuable than anyone else's

Of course they are. If Red Hat has a million times more customers than you do then they are collectively more valuable almost by definition.
back in my day we just sucked the time release off oxycontin and popped a few xanaxs we stole from our moms and dads. Middle school was a wild time.

Things are looking up for our kids now. There a couple more plasma clinics, and a new suboxne clinic right down the street.

Rural america 2000-2024
What's amazing, to me, about Adderall is how much of a magic solution it is to some people who have real ADD (and not self-diagnosed similar symptoms). My girlfriend didn't get diagnosed until the age of 30 but clearly has ADD. I assumed she knew when we met each other, my therapist "diagnosed" her from my stories, and yet one day she asked me "Do you think I have ADD?" and I answered "I assumed you knew.". She then got diagnosed and started taking Adderall once a day on week days. It totally changed the way she's able to complete uninteresting work. She no longer works until 2-3am and is able to end her day while the sun is still up. Total game changer, and no negative side effects for her. I know many people abuse it, and maybe people suffer from side effects, but as a medication it truly has a reason to be prescribed (by doctors).
Iowa has some of the most polluted rivers because they completely kowtow to farmers who, apparently, don't care that they are completely ruining the environment or their own state's drinking water.

It isn't new, but this is also worse than usual.
As a person with ADHD whose executive function is markedly improved by stimulant medication, and who knows a lot of people in the same boat, the whole thrust of the introduction to this article is pretty amazingly tone-deaf and specious.
Too many ups and downs causes instability. People don't like to admit it but many of the current problems are a consequence of drug use.
I wouldn't count on it. RedHat packages contain lots of backported patches.
Would pure random + a central database not be more practical? Assuming the barcode is a 10-by-50 grid, that's 500 bits of entropy. With 100 bits of entropy, you need over 100 trillion codes to have a 0.4% chance of a collision. Every added bit makes it twice as unlikely.

There's no need to have crypto if you're the authority on both assigning and verifying the barcodes. That way, no attacker will be able to create a barcode and have any hope of it working.
My Job as a Microsoft Researcher
i knew there was an advantage to being 8-10 years out of date at all times...

and when they do port finally backport this bug in 2026, they will probably implement the systemd integration with openssl (pbthththt...) via 600 patch files in some nonstandard divergent manner that thwarts the payload anyhow. see? i knew they were super duper secure.
By “a long time”, I’m sure GP meant “a lot longer than smartphones,” given the topic of this thread
It must be really hard to navigate the world when you think there should be never changing rules for every possible situation.

I feel really sorry for you and anyone who things that laws are IFTTT style rules.

Hope you find happiness at some point
If the engines are direct injected rather than port injected, they can just delay fuel injection until the intake valve is closed, and no fuel should be pushed back into the intake manifold.

I have read that modern Toyota engines use both port and direct injection, but am not sure what the Prius does.
You don't play many video games, I take it.
Everyone’s taste is their own thing, but if you haven’t exposed yourself to the world of contemporary art, I’d highly recommend giving it a try if only to see how it bounces off you.

In my experience, great modern art creates an indelible impression that puts to shame all but the most thoughtful artifacts of our (largely “disposable by design”) popular culture.

I distinctly recall wandering through one of Serra’s oxidized marvels at the Bilbao Guggenheim, just before becoming mesmerized by Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors”—now 9 years ago.

It’s the penetration into memory and the deeper layers of the subconscious that really distinguishes the best contemporary artists and works.
That rate isn’t a deal killer for a plug in hybrid. The engine might see ~1/4th the ware per mile spending the vast majority of its time off.

Meanwhile hybrids really want a small and lightweight engine because of all the extra equipment.
"If I lose my device my account is gone for good."

Incorrect, unless you choose not to record your seeds anywhere else, which is not a 2fa problem.

2fa is in the end nothing more than a 2nd password that just isn't sent over the wire when used.

You can store a totp seed exactly the same as a password, in any form you want, anywhere you want, and use on a brand new device at any time.
Yeah as we know, intelligence agencies are very often held accountable in the US. As witnessed by all the individuals that got charged or punished for uh... nevermind.
That repository is now disabled. But here's a similar change to the .github repository of tukaani-project from @JiaT75 to the bug report template:

+ or create a private Security Advisory instead.

Under a commit titled "Wrap text on Issue template .yaml files."

[1] https://github.com/tukaani-project/.github/commit/44b766adc4...
Marissa Mayer's Startup Launches AI Product
This gist summarizes the current situation very well: https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78b...

Definitely looking like they were most likely some sort of state actor. This is very well done and all in plain sight. It's reassuring that it was discovered but given a simple audit of the release build artifacts would have raised alarms, how prevalent is this behavior in other projects? Terrifying stuff.
I lived in Iowa for about 10 years, couldn't agree with you more. I have good memories of the place, and have occasionally visited Atlantic,IA, which is off the Nishnabotna river, polluted by this incident. The state is very clean and livable as far as air pollution goes. Air pollution is almost non-existent. Water, on the other hand...

A personal experience: I stopped washing my hair as reguarly as I used to when I was in Iowa, since it had started falling out. I thought, ageing, and what not. But when I stopped washing my hair more than twice a week, the hair-fall stopped. This was more than 20 years ago, and I still haven't balded much after that. I have always wondered whether it was related to the water quality.
modern video games are much more akin to social media than games 20-30 years ago, especially internet based ones. and many have a gambling element to it which makes it even worse in some aspects.
Anyone recommend particular electrodes for this or have a good comparison with alternatives?
One of the cool things about this engine is that it can run on hydrogen with minimal modifications. Not sure if the article mentions this, I don't have time to read it now. But that could make it more interesting when renewable hydrogen becomes common (right now it's not)
> At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.

Corporate profits are unpaid wages. Non union workers can organize, it is a choice. Otherwise, continue being economically impaired by corporate shareholder and management actors on your own time. If you don’t organize against corporations, they would extract until there is nothing left (broadly speaking, some companies don’t embody this ethos, but many do).

Union support is highest amongst Gen Z, so you’re just waiting for older conservatives and anti union folks to age out for the pendulum to swing back from the damage Reagan did. 1.8M voters age 55+ age out every year, half of those folks are still in labor force participation, while 4M voters turn 18 ever year. It’s a demographics and electorate turnover story more than anything (trajectory + time horizon).

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/03/gen-z-is-the-most-pro... (“Marketplace: Gen Z is the most pro-union generation”)
Every country spies on its own citizens.

By comparison America is actually quite timid compared to other countries e.g. UK and the widespread CCTV network.
> I agree with the adage, but brute force seems to win in this specific case. Even though it's the lightest model made, my Miata only gets 0.82g on the skidpad

The current ND2 (2019+) Miata regularly pulls ~0.95 stock in magazine tests, almost identical to your model 3 Performance number.

> https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2019-mazda-mx-5-miata-clu...

You can exceed 0.95 and get ~1 on an ND Miata with slightly wider than OEM tires (still on stock rims) and a little more negative camber, which is widely done to the car by the enthusiast community. Similarly, you can get more out of your very own NA (1990) Miata with simple tire/alignment changes, even more with cheap new sway bars or springs etc.

> https://help.flyinmiata.com/align-your-suspension-chakras-By...

The ND2 is a ~1070kg car.

To use a more fitting Lotus example here, the ~900kg Lotus Elise (50% of the weight of the Model 3 Performance) pulls 1g when tested by Car and Driver:

> https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15146116/2007-lotus-el...
Surprisingly, the article doesn't seem to mention SquashFS[1] or EROFS[2].

Both SquashFS and EROFS are filesystem specifically designed for this kind of embedded, read-only use case. The former is optimized for high data density and compression, and already well established. The later is comparatively new and optimized for high read speed.[3] SquashFS as a rootfs can already be found in many embedded applications using flash storage and is typically also combined with tmpfs and persistent storage mount points or overlay mounts.

For both those filesystems, one would build a rootfs image offline. In the Debian ecosystem, there already exists a tool that can bootstrap a Debian image into SquashFS[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROFS

[3] https://www.sigma-star.at/blog/2022/07/squashfs-erofs/

[4] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mmdebstrap/mmdebstrap.1....
Why would you think the person would have social media (or would even be on Chinese social media specifically), given the sophistication and planning?
I had an RX-8 for years. It was made in 2007. Someone defaulted on the loan or lost it in a divorce and drove it into a lake, marking it salvage.

I bought it for 25k and was the owner from 2009 to 2019, from 60k to over 150k mi. The maintenance was a bit pricey, due to the fuel injection problems and the electronics would fail in extreme heat of sustained 110+ outside temp (southern california heat) or cold (seattle mornings). I eventually sold it for 9k to a collector. Not a bad deal at all.
Oh look we're in the news again!

I wonder if it's something good this time!

It's never something good.
It makes perfect sense; other replies have already made good arguments, but I'll add mine.

I am not in agriculture. I know very little about farming, and there is nothing I can realistically do to fix or prevent agricultural mishaps. On the other hand, I am in Tech. I know a lot about computers, and there are things I can do and learn from the SSH article.

Also, the SSH article is more scary than some dead fish (Yeah, dead fish suck, but that's 1000 miles away from me and a localized problem). The sophistication of the XZ attack is scary. It looks like a group of malicious actors did it. How widespread are attacks like this? We only learned about the `xz` attack because a brilliant person dug into a very minor side-effect caused by the attack. Is the Linux Kernel compromised in a similar attack? Who knows. What about the 2 billion other libraries a modern Linux system depends on? How will we detect and prevent this from happening in the future?