skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The report, which is phrased as a press release, buries the lede. Some good quotes:

> I'm wondering if perhaps the Linux ecosystem is actually a bunch of aging infrastructure. If so, that fact might be obscured by seemingly healthy contributions to the Linux kernel. There's a ton of other "basic infrastructure" that gets shipped alongside the kernel, though: coreutils, binutils, gcc, make, autotools, cmake, zlib, xz, etc etc etc. -- Camdon Cady

> Our team at Socket catches 100+ software supply chain attacks in npm, PyPI, and Go every week.

> Software engineer Andrew Nesbitt has been playing around with the concept of a "blast radius" for open source security advisories on Ecosyste.ms. He uses the CVSS score of a security advisory multiplied by the number of repositories that depend upon that package to determine the “blast radius.”
how do you feel about the resource waste of such return policies? Shipping all these items to then return most of them is an insane amount of waste. And sometimes returned items cannot be resold so they are thrown away. Imo there should be clear limits on returns
It's exactly the same for me. With one exception: Freelancer. There "pointing" with the mouse just felt more natural because you control the guns at the same time and don't really control the ship but instead tell it where to fly.
Swiss standard German is pretty close to the high German. What's difficult are the various Swiss dialects.
> JC DENTON: "Echelon... the surveillance system for the United Nations -- so Daedalus was an MJ12 tool and rebelled?"

> EVERETT: "More of a pattern-matching error. It classified Majestic 12 as a terrorist
group, alongside the NSF and Silhouette."

-- Deus Ex (2000)

(The joke with this game being that whenever someone mentions it, at least some other person is inspired to reinstall or replay it.)
Amazon S3 Has Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
> Thus ISIS might not have gone like it did.

"might" is a scary word when you're talking about nuclear weapons.
I remember there was time when Skype screwed up with its "log in vs sign up" UI, and many people were effectively forced to create new accounts because they couldn't find how to log in.
In the former case, congratulations, you now know which book to buy that’s likely not an AI scam.
Studies consistently show that liberals are unhappier and more mentally ill than conservatives. There was even a big Gallup poll about it this month. One of the floated reasons is that liberals tend to think negative thoughts, as you say.
We need to get you in charge of writing tabloid headlines!
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Ask me anything about the physical and biological properties of the seas
Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd
He SHOULD see water as threatening
I always thought "getting old" was in part an accumulation of damage from infections and slow wear on the body.
Yes, and leave a huge market to your competitors!
Freud would like a word
Call a geomagnetism web API via GPT
This seems to be the issue - we're trying to study COVID, which affected literally the whole population of earth at this point, and we have no control group of people who have not been affected.

People have gotten older, have gone through mass societal change, and any other number of things in between.
The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
I think the point is more around the collective distraction of dressing to a formal (and for kids, unfamiliar) standard, rather than enjoying time with the people around you at a party.
I love the second point, that the act of saving itself has added value. I often hack together my own tools instead of buying available commercial ones (stuff like notes apps, cloud sync, ...)

The act of not buying another subscription just feels good, monetary value is negligible.
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Well, in that case, good that Australia isn't the only country in the world: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

which clearly shows that all-cause deaths in England were higher among the unvaccinated.

Here is a Reuters fact check: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-link-uk-exces...
> I'm just going to plug "the park" into my maps and know precisely where it is.

No you won't. "Your maps" will know where it is, but not you.
Here's my $0.02

MKBHD posted an IMO unnecessarily clickbaity title to his review. I watched the review and thought that he was mostly on the ball except for the once again exaggeration that it's the worst product ever (for the views). In a way, it seems that the recent scathing review for Fisker and the views generated might have gone to his head somewhat.

Given that the Rabbit R1 is coming out soon (which he will likely review), I am curious to see if his reviews becomes a pattern of rage farming.
Or that's bad, because all those kids who spent time looking good, didn't get as many compliments for their effort than they expected, or perhaps even deserved.

There are many caveats with judging people by their appearances, but complimenting someone on the part of their look they put unusual effort in for some unusual occasion, seems pretty healthy to me.

(Well, there's also the caveat that the rich ones will have better access to exquisite clothes to begin with…)
Even Terence Tao advises mathematicians to develop their own personal style when writing mathematics. Your own personal style, based on your experiences, is what makes you unique and hence might make you famous.

You might not become famous by developing your own style but you'll definitely not be you if you don't.
I was about to say this is also the opinion of Rich Hickey (and me). I do use semantic versioning but the major version number never exceeds 1.
There are some expansive postcovid & postvax protocols on the flccc pages. Early on I had checked some of their references (e.g. on natto) and it looked good enough considering the speed of real science. Maybe good to check them out, and natto makes a good breakfast. In general they assume the condition is some kind of spikeopathy, wherever it comes from.

(The holy-vax crowd has discredited anything not approved by the marketing departments of the pharmaceutical industry from the beginning, so they won’t like this either.)
Another reason for convoy driving is so when one car breaks down, the crew of the other will A) know about it, and B) be there to help. Used to be more relevant in the days of less reliable car and no mobile phones.
given your long experience with psychedelics and profession, I am curious.

Do you feel a "hero's" dose is necessary, or do you see benefit in micro dosing psychedelics. Or any dose in between for that matter.
Many people have been taken in by "famous billionaire endorses bullshit investment" deepfakes, whether it's Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, or Australia's Twiggy Forrest, Gina Rinehart etc.

The scams are real, the victims are real, it's in the global "west" and sorely under reported and the conveyors (Facebook, Twitter, etc) have washed their hands of dealing with it:

eg.

Forrest's Facebook fight dropped by Australian prosecutors https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/forres...

Andrew Forrest’s legal battle to hold social media giant Meta to account over the proliferation of scam ads using his likeness on Facebook has been dealt a major blow.

Australian victim of fraud syndicate advertising on Facebook on a mission to stop others being burned https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/australians-falling-f...

The realism of deepfake video with real known public figures apparently endorsing investments as "safe" is another level past Nigerian prince scams.
as Marcus Aurelius reminds us, the applause of the crowd matters very little since our life is very short and death will cancel it anyway for us.
Show HN: I lacked design skills to create good Startup Visuals so I automated it
Do most people care? I just want to eat popcorn and watch a movie.
Is it bad if I yearn and pine for fame? I know it's frowned upon, and I bury the urge for fame, but deep down, I am hooked to other's validation and fame.
> changing Windows 95 so that it installed the Ctrl+C hotkey handler only when a clipboard paste operation was active,

My understanding of the windows clipboard is that at boot time, the clipboard was empty, but at any other time the clipboard would retain the last thing copied.

That presumably means this game would work after a fresh boot, but any other time the game wouldn't get past level 58. Doesn't sound fixed to me.
I am suffering from LC myself for 2 years now. The Brainfog is intense, the fatigue tiring. I'm mentally really low. It's nice to see some news regarding COVID.

My story is on my blog https://tunn3l.pro
Eh. I blame Twitter. They didn't have to take something dumb that should have been left to immediate obscurity, and show it to thousands of people in the first place as if it had any authority. But clearly, they gained some reach and revenue by doing so, or else we wouldn't be talking about it.

Thanks to the character limit (no longer technical, but still cultural) and the algorithmic feeds, the "discourse" on Twitter is entirely synthetic. In real life, the equivalent would be like if somebody were to interrupt you every five seconds, then take the various sentence fragments you managed to get out in between, and stitched that together with random other sentence fragments from hundreds of strangers in a grotesque attempt to manufacture a coherent interaction. Oh, and everybody's screaming all the time, all at once, of course, and the messages you try to say about the Blottinghamville Games Club keep being sent to members of Bunny Murderers for National Unity, and vice versa… All while the giant blue bird-thing keeps trying to tell you about its sponsors.

And yet, this mutilation of human thought and conversation itself is presented as if it's just a venue for normal discussions. It's not; The "interactions" on Twitter are interrupted, chopped up, and stitched together. I think it preys, basically on our social instincts, on the desire to assume good faith and perceive an organic conversation happening because it tries really hard to make that seem like the case.

Especially given that I'm not sure there's really any comparable dynamic that's ever existed before in all of human history, I don't know how useful it is to blame individuals for falling for that. Twitter monetized a random message and amplified it as if it's important, so the author of the linked article responded, because that's what you do if you assume good faith when somebody else presents something as important… Though at this point we should probably know better.
> Nobody asked.

> > I do tend to be aware of the cardinal directions and can generally point them out with reasonable accuracy when asked.

[Emphasis added]
Absolutely, and I think new legislation is in order. However legislating for what is desired is generally a terrible idea.

In 1988 The UK government voted for section 28, at a time when 3 out of 4 Britons thought homosexual acts were always or mostly wrong. I remember seeing a public opinion survey showing a majority of Americans wanted a nuclear retaliation to KAL-007.

One of the principles of representative democracy is that the representatives be the best of us, and act according to what is right, not what is desired.

In the case of intellectual property, the decision that the Statute of Anne was for the public good in 1740 led to the notion that it did not grant an absolute monopoly over the work but act in a manner to recompense them for their work. This is the ancestor of fair use.

(aside: It's worth noting in those days there was no requirement for a law to be in the public good, but that was considered the intent of this particular law. Philip Yorke made a much less agreeable decision on slavery.)

So there are two debates that should be happening right now.

What does the law say about this?

and

What should the law say about this?
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This was a joke right? Of all the shows to use as an example of being woke your going to pick Car Talk? I can't stand NPR News but CarTalk was great.
I haven’t studied the topic enough, but it would be very interesting to see when this dichotomy of money-making vs. self-interest really embedded itself into the act of creation. Somewhere during the Industrial Revolution, I suppose. But I also think the default mode of “art as self expression” plays a big part, and that’s more early-mid 20th century.

Because when you read about creators during say, the Renaissance, you don’t really have this much of a dichotomy. Da Vinci worked on a paid portrait project, and then did unpaid experiments on his own which ended up being useful for his paid projects. It was a very loop-like thing and I think he would find the explicit framing of “I’m doing this to make money” and “I’m doing this purely to create something I want to create” as alien. Ditto for most forms of art in most parts of the world, prior to the late 19th century.

The solution, I think, might be to focus primarily on the craft and not on the end product. You see this a lot with early 20th century fiction writers that moved in and out of journalism, with the idea that they were becoming better at the craft of writing, not at creating a final product or “being a good fiction writer.”
And the red curtains outside the exhibit (https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XjDqSXDkvQBVceLropEs3C-768...) are obviously a nod to the red room in Twin Peaks...
They should. If they don't yet, I bet they will in a few years. One of the most shortsighted decisions Google has ever made.
Try the British Army Cognitive Test https://www.google.com/search?q=british+army+cognitive+test , the Danish draft board's Børge Priens Prøve (BPP), and any other european country with an induction test for military recruits.
Unfortunately Mozilla has said that userChrome is explicitly deprecated, with no plan to support it fully, but also no plan to remove the functionality. It's honestly one of my favourite features of Firefox which I've used for more than 10 years... I will be heart broken if they ever remove it.
> I mean we do cut off entire countries and their citizens from global markets and from traveling when they do shit like invading their sovereign neighbors and that is completely fine and even desirable.

It's actually not completely fine. Sanctions are effectively an act of war, just instead of shooting people and risking your own troops, you have your enemy's civilian population starve and shoot each other. This can be justified in some situations, possibly like the one you refer to; but it's definitely not an action to take lightly.

Ironically, in the originally proposed case of blocking Facebook, this is a bit of a "cut off your nose to spite your face" situation. How many small and medium businesses rely on Facebook as their main, or only, customer acquisition, communication and/or sales channel? For many countries, banning Facebook out of the blue would cause some serious economic issues and lead to plenty of actual suffering of innocent people.

(And yes, businesses will adapt, but let's not forget that adaptation in nature only ever means that the survivors of a mass die-off have more resources to use to bounce back. And it's the "die-off" part that's actually the necessary part.)
Indeed, the problem would not be difficult for LiveNation to solve.

Those acts are still the minority of things they book. Within maybe 30 miles of where I live, there are probably 15 big venues that house huge acts like that, but hundreds of smaller clubs, event spaces, halls, theaters, etc that use LiveNation. I used to work at a bouncer at a little rock club with like a 250 person capacity and they used them for ticketing.
Hi HackerNews,

My name is Dima. I am building RealPhone – the only virtual phone number that works with any 2fa system.

I built it to solve my own problem. Eventually, my friends started asking for access, too.

Would love to hear feedback.
> Remember those days when parents were held responsible for their kids,

That idea is pure revisionism coming from individualist ideology.

In 'those' days, everybody raised everyone. 'It takes a village' and all that. Check any actual scientific research on the matter.
Looks good! I'll give it a try.

Do you plan to support vue sfc files?
I personally think this was all well orchestrated by Russia, social media has given bad state actors the ability to "backdoor" the minds of millions in the west. It's really quite genius.
I don’t agree, I could still make an opposite statement based on those quotes.
I have no idea (it wasn't exactly the same project, LuxCore vs Lux), and PBRT, on which Lux was based, later moved to full spectral rendering.

I guess they feel they'd rather reduce register pressure a bit than support it.
Yeah me and my friends had endless arguments about throws in SF2. Not just the throws but how they were done: jump with heavy kick timed to keep them blocked into a throw was cheap; walking quickly into them to throw wasn’t. Bizarre how complicated our notions of “fairness” can be.

We played that game (and its many sequels) to death…
the issues of AI are pretty much the same issues of
"software eating the world" and the internet, only more of it, so it's not that hard to be prescient on this matter.
Roads are not the topic in here. Analogies are not arguments.
Apple makes web distribution of iOS apps available within the EU
From everything you've described, it seems the company is structurally built so that you would be on a need-to-know basis. I'm going to use the analogy of horse blinders: processes around teams have been built so that ICs would focus on their tickets, just as you describe. This is not an act of malice - in a company this big, to steer the ship in any one way, you don't want noise coming from half your workforce, nothing would ever get done...

But it does mean that all the gaps you are describing are, in many ways, there by design. So going against them is going against the grain of the organization. I think it generally helps to bring something to the table. A point of view on something external to work that could add value inside it. In many ways, though, it still requires hustle, in the sense of reaching out to people and creating opportunities.

For example, you might take an interest in a certain type of antipatterns, and want to propagate the knowledge internally about it, and how to resolve it. (I'll assume the company doesn't actively seek to cultivate this anti-pattern deliberately. You never know.) You might say, oh, I can put together a colloquium about it. So you find the person in the org who's in charge of the events, and talk to the person who books the rooms, and talk to people around you to get ideas on how to promote it internally...you get the drift, it's not all that different to doing these things outside a company. (Except the part where you risk treading on more toes.)

One book that's really useful for just about anything is "The Goal". It teaches you to think in terms of processes, bottlenecks and constraints. With this perspective, you learn to look at the work you and others do not as a series of discrete tasks, but as part of a flow of production. It broadens the perspective on the types of questions you can ask.
Show HN: I made a custom cursor builder in 1 week
Hi HN,

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Maybe Informatica will finally add better retry logic for handling failures writing to Salesforce objects that are busy.
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Being retired def changes your relationship to time. It stretches as needed or desired. Sometimes your perceptions of things and activities expand to fill the time available.
Is Platform Engineering Just API Governance?
Relevant,

Web Distribution now available in iOS 17.5 beta 2 and App Store Connect (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=vczf3oga)

Getting started with Web Distribution in the EU (https://developer.apple.com/support/web-distribution-eu/)

Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678532) - Mar 2024 (1390 comments)
I guess it's kinda funny
Keyword: "should"
The Economist has a firewall between its magazine and its social media team. The magazine is still good.
Strong agree on the advising of such matters, as for forwarding, how the hell would a teacher have access to the image to forward to the parents?

That’s an insane overreach which could easily lead to abuse, they shouldn’t be accessing children’s phones, especially under the premise of ‘I need that image for safeguarding purposes’ - absolutely fucking not.
That's essentially the point, it's ironic that they've put an article that already criticizes paywalls in the headline behind a paywall.
I went to visit Imran Chaudhri from Humane tonight
Finally, I can live Ghost in the Shell.
On the Hardware I had it was definitely worse to run a game from within Win95.

Oh, the flashbacks of tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat to cram as close to 640KB RAM as possible just to execute a game...

The "and here comes the HIMEM.SYS, here EMM386.EXE, then I need MSCDEX to get my CD-ROM...damn...okay, I don't really need the keyboard driver for this..."
I dont know about the pricing. Over the last couple of months i have been investigating different alternatives for better access control to our internal resources. And Tailscale seems to be on the cheaper end compared to other offerings.
> IMO, living in neighborhoods where the streets are not organized in a grid is the most disorienting thing.

Isn't it the other way around? At least in the sense of, growing up in neighborhoods where the streets are organized in a grid is the thingthat makes you the most disoriented for the rest of your life.