skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We got this in Sweden. Sellpy: https://www.sellpy.se

Works pretty much as you describe. Of course they sell it for cheaper (probably to get inventory out fast) than you might if you do it yourself and keep a part of the revenue as commission. But good if you don't wanna bother with the sales process.
It is true that modern leaders in many western nations are completely free of consequences for their behavior. Still, having it black on white that the behavior is illegal is a bonus. Although even constitutions didn't stop the crime.
Unfortunately the potential for abuse makes this idea hard to implement.

Abusers would use the system to sell their drugs (ie, junk item stuffed with cocaine lists for $9999). Let’s not forget the sale of illegal firearms (aka teddy bear stuffed with handgun with filed off serial number).

Now you need a proper drug detection protocol, X-ray machines to scan all packages, dedicated security personnel.

Then there’s the potential of dealing with disputes buyer claims item was not received. More people to hire, protocols to develop.
Turing completeness is a red herring in such contexts. People who may know about the undecidability of halting for programs in Turing complete languages are under the impression that if a language is not Turing complete (and is therefore decidable), then analysing a program in such a language would generally be easier in practice (if not downright easy) than a program in a Turing complete language. This is quite simply completely and utterly wrong, because decidability is not a relevant bar for feasibility (tractability). TQBF [1] is already well beyond our practical powers of sound program analysis (and there aren't even good heuristics as for SAT), and to be reducible from TQBF all you need are boolean variables and either functions (even if recursion is disallowed) or loops restricted to two iterations (corresponding to quantifying over true and false). Even P=NP won't help you when you're PSAPCE-complete.

In other words, once you're PSPACE-complete, sound analysis is already intractable. Not being Turing complete makes no further practical difference ("sure, analysing a program will take longer than the heat-death of the universe, but we take comfort in the fact that it's bounded!"). Decidability is an older and more famous notion than tractability, but in computational complexity and in program analysis we care about the latter (the former matters only so far as if something is undecidable then it's also intractable).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_quantified_Boolean_formul...
Which is basically everywhere.

Well-designed microkernels have been proven to have only a minor impact on performance, afaik. Especially if said kernel is small enough to fit in a cpu's L1 or L2 cache entirely.

With that in mind, I'd say there's few cases left where users would not want to take a minor performance hit, if that gets rid of entire classes of bugs & vulnerabilities.

Reasons this isn't the norm these days are mostly historic. But going forward, a good midpoint would be popular OS kernels like Linux split into smaller components, while providing same user-space APIs. Along the lines of how XFree86 was modularized into a set of Xorg libraries. Maybe L4Linux could be an example? (dunno how modular that is though).

On such a componentized system, components could be shared among multiple 'OS personalities'. Kinda like a multi-VM setup but finer grained with much more shared code, much reduced attack surface for individual components, while maintaining very strong isolation guarantees between components.
Is it the only piece of evidence that news media went down the hill in past ~10 years?

I think not and I don’t expect any reasonable actions from unreasonable people.

They are not your friends, and they are not friends to truth anymore, they just do whatever they can to suck extra dollar from you and survive.

Why do you expect something from them, i wonder
I wish PG was right about this, but there are plenty of examples of frauds that were not conspicuous and took in lots of thoughtful people (Bernie Madoff being one of the most obvious and public examples).
"DOE Transmission Interconnection Roadmap: Transforming Bulk Transmission Interconnection by 2035" (2024-04)
https://www.energy.gov/eere/i2x/doe-transmission-interconnec... [PDF] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/i2X%20Tra...
The bread they made on the way out of eygpt did not taste the same as what is made now. It was most likely still soft as opposed to the hard bread of today as the ovens they had were much lower temperature.
The keylogger and subsequent profit from selling the passwords we capture is just a small side effect.
Nah, the EU is being very aggressive with the DMA and DSA. See the whole Apple thing, Facebook delaying the launch of Threads in Europe to make DSA-friendly changes (mostly the ability to browse without a login wall) etc. All this for rules that have only been in force for a few months.

I think the EC has learned its lesson from the GDPR; “you might one day be fined, maybe in five years” (Facebook, say, was recently fined a billion of so for behaviour going back years) is not a sufficient deterrent.
It proves there are no depths to the arguments about good design, and what personal taste constitutes good design.

It's also why I enjoy being a backend engineer.

Action is truth, appearance is fickle.
Oh the AIrony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus

TL;DR: Google Cloud (and AWS!) won a large contract to provide the Israeli government with cloud services. People are concerned that this can be used to further attack Palestine.
Alcohol is definitely bad for kids and possibly It's also not great for adults, but let me tell you that you can consume alcohol without becoming an alcoholic.
Many people can have a conscious consumption and enjoy it without having major short term or long term bad consequences.
I said many, not everyone.
You do if you’re a massive social media company, yes. Really huge companies are treated specially under the new rules.
Of course not.

I am just saying we should understand why the attacks happened, and why many more like them will continue to happen for the next couple generations.
Ask HN: Front-end devs, what is your current db and backend of choice?
I work on the front-end usually with Vue, and am in the process of building out a full-stack project.

I'm sure I don't have to explain the sheer amount of choices (analysis paralysis, yay!), but wanted to hear how other FE devs are doing it. Below are the options I've looked into:

- Supabase

- Nhost

- Xano

Would love to hear from anybody who has experience with the above choices. Any pros/cons of each? Doing research and wading through the BS is tough, especially with lots of conflicting information I'm coming across.

p.s - I know the best answer is "just choose one and build!", but I'm more curious to hear some anecdotes about what others are liking/disliking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074620

And

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074640
Soviets, not russians. The Soviet forces consisted of people from fifteen present day countries, only one of which was russia. More non-russians were lost than russians

Considering how many millions of people the Soviet Union murdered in its own nation (before and after WWII), and the nation's of other non-Soviet European nations being invaded anexed.."to save Europe from Europe" would be a statement that many, many Europeans may not agree with.
As opposed to cooks, who love measurements like

- a carrot
- four cloves of garlic
- an onion
- yolk of one medium egg
- salt to taste

because cooking isn't a science and precise measurements are generally worse than useless. If you spend more of your time trying to perfect the measurement instead of paying attention to the texture and flavor then you are cooking very well. People insist baking is different, but it really isn't; the margins for measurements are wide enough that with a bit of experience eying scoops of everything is an acceptable strategy. You build more experience by making a few mistakes or having someone shows you the behaviors outside the margins, but for a first time recipe, sure stick to the instructions.
How to Stay Curious and Committed
Unrelated to ai, but I once had a so bad experience with self service checkout in one of the major supermarkets in Italy, I wrote an email to their customer service detailing all the bad things I could think of that they could improve. Worst thing is they behave in different ways whether you're on the checkouts on the left or on the right side of the wall. Many friends told me it was too much writing an email, but many had same frustrating experiences as me
No, thank you. I’ve recently bought a new Logitech mouse. Was using Logitech for decades, G500 series. Their software is doubtful, but was ok to “install, configure mouse and uninstall” routine. But now with Master 3S mouse I need to use Logitech Options Plus app that is terrible. Fix it first and only then roll such doubtful updates
That's a great breakdown of feather technology. TIL...
> what ISN'T a "colossal waste of time and money kept alive primarily by stupid romanticism"?

Something that will achieve its stated goals? Something whose stated goals are something other than that thing itself (and the thing itself will be only very peripherally experienced by almost everybody involved)? Something where, when you ask people what they're trying to achieve, you get something other than a series of straight up false claims that they've obviously avoided looking into deeply, plus a bunch of incoherent drivel about the "spirit of exploration"?

Something like a space telescope produces something more than just experience
in building space telescopes. Comsats have a use beyond building comsats. So would manufacturing, if the applications weren't trumped up silliness that vastly exaggerates the value of the space environment... but you don't need people for that and you don't build the factory before you have an ACTUAL profitable product in mind.

Crewed space flight, as presently done, only teaches you how to do crewed space flight... and do it in a way that's not going to scale. And it's not even yielding a lot of really new insight into that any more. It is NOT going to advance the goal of having large space colonies[^1]. It's NOT going to advance the goal of being able to do any significant amount of science or industry in space.

It's just tourism, and for 99.99999 percent of the people supporting it, it'll be vicarious tourism. Tourism doesn't have zero value, but it has low enough value that it's reasonable to expect the people actually going to pay for the entire program personally... which they cannot do.

If you actually wanted to colonize the whole galaxy or whatever, you'd dump your resources into bioengineering something human-like that was better suited to space, and/or into robotics. You would not bother to actually send the results into space until you had something worth testing. Which would be at least decades away even if you diverted all the resources being dumped into ratholes like space stations. And would have just a few wee social and ethical problems.

[^1]: Nor would having large space colonies advance the goal of preventing human extinction. Among other huge problems, even if you could colonize the whole galaxy, the things that would arrive wouldn't be recognizably human or probably even much like humans.
The Copilot key is left shift-Windows-F23. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-c...
Yeah, though the wallets remove half the fun for me. It's nice having the boxes on display rather than stuck into a wallet.
Malaysia pushes into higher-end semiconductor manufacturing
It's funny they want to invest cash in AI for future cash flows - when future humans will not have any jobs to feed that cash flow with.
That reads as somebody experiencing PTSD in addition to the injury. The "am I me" and new perspective on work and life happens as a consequence of life altering tragedy.
I'm guessing it's short for "non [tax] dom[iciled, but resident]"
This is actually similar to how I use Hyprland

Super + Left Click lets me drag a tiled window to a different location, while Super + Right Click lets me drag to resize. I usually do both with my keyboard but it's nice to have the option.
No, see also my answer to your comment. SBD and Iridium paging are two different services.
So an ugly person will be able to present his or her ideas on the same visual level as a beautiful person. Is this some sort of democratization?
Yeah, thanks for the save, Russia:

> The Uprising started when the Red Army appeared on the city's doorstep, and the Poles in Warsaw were counting on Soviet front capturing or forwarding beyond the city in a matter of days. This basic scenario of an uprising against the Germans, launched a few days before the arrival of Allied forces, played out successfully in a number of European capitals, such as Paris and Prague. However, despite easy capture of area south-east of Warsaw barely 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from the city centre and holding these positions for about 40 days, the Soviets did not extend any effective aid to the resistance within Warsaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising#Soviet_stance

I think you confused saving with conquering.
Wow, what an interesting article, not all about feathers. There’s so many genetic mysteries about skin appendages still to be uncovered e.g. in humans, how do nails and hairs manage to grow only in one direction (and perhaps even more remarkable, always so).

I was drawn to this side point though: the microraptor has four wings. Not like a dragon, of course, which has to be an insect, but an ordinary quadruped that used all four limbs to fly (compare that to mammals with a membrane between the forelimbs and hind limbs on each side). I imagine it must have looked like an F-35 when flying.

Seems like it turned out to be optimal to stick to two, not just for terrestrial mobility, but due to the (bidirectional!) optimization of the wishbone and the chest musculature. It’s probably hard to get enough power into the dual-mode hind limbs. Sadly the Wikipedia article on the microraptor doesn’t explore this.
I love this feature in Gnome and use it all the time, I actually miss this feature when I use macOS, would love to be able to hold command and drag a window without needing to select title bar. It sounds like System 76 are really working on a super productive desktop, I look forward to trying it some day.
Maybe that is what we need. Maybe we are in need of a moral panic to address the massive concerns of mental health, surveillance, misinformation and others that built up over the years with the rise of social media, smartphones and the centralisation of the internet.
Well, as somebody who likes complaining, I don’t like your new title either; evolution doesn’t ‘invent’ anything, and anthropomorphising it just confuses people (see also generative ai, grumble mutter).
You don't have to do it that way. You can embed arbitrary foreign (but appropriately namespaced) XML into an XHTML document and style it with CSS, untransformed. Or, as the sibling comment says, you can even avoid XHTML and style pure XML directly.
I meant I don't comprehend what you are saying. I would expect an elaboration on the point you were making. Please I'm not making any connections between what I dive to normal would be. What is normal?
No, I’m referring to the Iridium pager, which is just its own service and has been around longer than SBD, I believe. Messages were (are?) free to send on top of a monthly flat subscription rate per pager.

GDB seems to be a successor to that, though.
It already exists! And has a very unfortunate name if you happen to speak french.
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/collabos....
Well... whether he's responding to a market need versus creating a market need versus responding to a moral obligation is very hard to untangle. That's part of why nobody's found a better system than capitalism yet - the most self-serving actions are often also the most public serving. I will say from the perspective of someone who specialized in renewable energy all through undergrad, renewable energy is cheap but requires storage. Expensive storage is the reason wind and solar have trouble competing with coal and gas on a dollers per watt basis. Subsidizing the creation of a lot of batteries by bundling them with cars people would buy anyway is the kind of brilliant but dirty growth hacking only a Silicon Valley Techbro would have the audacity to try. I can't comment on his motives, but I don't have a better idea for how to accelerate renewable energy adoption than the path he's pursued. Affordable storage is the keystone that supports that entire structure, in 2009-2014 it was the big unanswered question among my professors.

As for enriching himself by helping... I don't think there's a perfect solution there. The Rockefeller-Gates system of making money in one industry and funding purely philanthropic ventures in another comes with its own moral hazards. For profit work in a field of public interest comes with different ones. Both are preferable to taking no interest in the public good IMHO. Personally, if I was a billionaire I'd try to fund ventures that are in the public interest and also have paying customers, it promotes a certain kind of honesty that would be important to me, but I think any oligarch that claims to be trying to help should be given the benefit of the doubt, societal incentives are just so much more aligned that way.
I don't disagree with you on the review being balanced overall or having merit. It's more the framing, very hyperbolic as you say. They all have "worst product ever reviewed" in the title perhaps it's the only way to stay relevant to the algorithms these days.

Don't have time to go look for one. But can think of many occasions they'd mention the manufacturer has promised to update and improve this and then give them a free pass on whatever gimmicky aspect of the product they're looking at, usually software. Overlooking that aspect rather than lambasting them.

I mean perhaps a slight stretch, but their coverage of the Apple Vision Pro, have they had much reason to use it, aside from the demos? There's also some UX issues mentioned but they're given a free pass as they expect Apple to improve it with time.
They'll say "not there yet" rather than "worst product ever".
Don't all of these problems apply to existing successful platforms like Craigslist or eBay? In fact, it seems like it would be harder to do on 'reverse amazon' than on eBay.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4379

Do they actually generate a thumbnail or do they just show the available ones? Honestly I don't follow the issue I just know that thumbnails have been an absolute mess in gnome as long as I remember.
The first AI-native mouse!
What prevents Ebay from being abused like this?
You're almost describing the ideal workplace that I've been looking for. Unsuccessfully.

I shouldn't even need to say this, but don't make me waste onboarding time with setting up my development environment. You already know the project I'm going to work on, you already know what I will need, and you should already have a way to reproduce the local environment for that project; the only thing I should have to do is add my SSH key, and everything should work with only that.

Just give me access to a VM with low latency (<=50ms) and let me do my job there. You can set it up however you want, install whatever you think I'll need, configure VPC firewall however you want. Let me take and restore snapshots of the VM itself.

You're going to want something beefy too, for builds and stuff. For some reason, most projects I've worked on take at least 30 seconds (usually longer) between the moment I make a change until the moment I can see it, so not having to wait that much would be nice at least.

Yes, there's disadvantages. For example, you have to know that if I can't access it I won't be able to do anything (and not paying people because of this would be unfair). And also please ensure that other devs can't just sign commits with my keys.

But, as someone biased because I do most hobby development "remotely" (in a Docker container, or in a FreeBSD jail, or in a VPS at ~50ms latency), your scenario sounds nice.
I love when people activate regions of my brain that have been dormant for 30 years.
China is ready to transition to electric vehicles, Americans are not.

We dragged our feet and said “no EVs, infrastructure isn’t ready, too expensive,…”

Now we need protectionism to save our auto industry because in the end, we’ll take the cheaper solution
Some initial findings I've seen are:

Supabase. Pros: affordable, production ready, and seems relatively quick to get up and running. Cons: Some have mentioned security concerns around how they handle auth, and potential complexity around having lots of application logic at the DB level

Nhost: Seems like a really great Supabase alternative, strong focus on graphQL. Con: they are new with a very small team which always concerns me in the case they need to suddenly shut down in the future

Xano. Pros: Probably the quickest to get up and running and delivering JSON to the frontend. Cons: full "no code" solution as opposed to "low code". They do advertise as being turing-complete and able to do anything code can do, but full no-code always gives me pause for a production application passed an MVP
Ever Clear, Container Ship
Can you do holdKey + Drag to resize (especially useful for touchpads)?
I thought "one of" is a weasel qualifier here?
Amazing recount.

I was fortunate to learn in 2018, at a relatively young age, that my mental faculties are the most precious thing I have in life (after my wife ofcourse). It was a very simple accident; chasing a high I let my bike get too fast going downhill on a wet road, a car on the other side was oncoming, I break, the back wheel slips out from under me, I hit my head on the road (with a helmet on). A bruised knee, elbow and shoulder, bit of pain, no damage to the bike, so I get up and continue. 15 minutes later I get home, a sharp migraine sets in, and suddenly, I realize, I can't remember how I got home. In fact, I can't remember most of last week. Luckily an MRI, an OK from a doctor and a couple of weeks later my memory returns and I'm no worse for the wear.

In that moment, when I realized I couldn't recall how I got home, the worst panic I have ever had set in. I've had two close calls with drowning and was in a car crash in the past, and have never felt the panic I had felt in that moment, just sitting comfortably at home, realizing my brain no longer works. I wasn't scared I had a brain bleed or something and would die, I was scared I would lose my mental faculties.

Since then my outlook on life has taken a complete turn. I've become a lot more cognizant of how I spend my time and what issues I engage with mentally.

What we have is precious, it can dissapear in a second, on an otherwise perfect day.
I remember reading someone's conclusion about Logitech accessories several years ago :

"Good hardware, terrible software."

I guess that still holds somewhat true today.
Takeaways from a Trove of ByteDance Records
Fired for disruptive behavior? Say all you like on your own property, on your own time. But disrupting work? Well, there will be work-related consequences.
> Any artist performing at a stadium could make a solid profit performing at non-TM 5 to 20k-seat arena while charging a similar (or lower) price.

There you go, magical thinking again.