skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks (everyone) for the replies and different viewpoints.

I already went through all the setup menus, including messing with fonts, layouts, making some collection/folders, and downloading some samples to preview.

So far it all seems pretty good. I don't think I'll be too distracted by it. The 7" screen is a tad small, but I really do like the size and weight so will keep it. Anything larger/heavier will likely not be kept on my person so loses a lot of use.

Another great use I just discovered is loading it with pdf's of all my device/appliance/toys manuals in a User Manuals collection.
that seems reasonable to me
> other forms of memory

What form of memory would that be?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/memory/types-memor...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/1...
I don't think we're dealing with the cream of the crop here. They're not even smart enough to have it make up new, plausible user names.
As a non-Discord user, I'm glad I'm a non-Discord user. That sounds hellish. Is whatever's being gate-kept worth it?
Ask HN: Preventing Phishing Attempts via Text?
I'm the CEO of a 35-person company. Today, a new-ish employee on our team got a text from a random phone number, claiming to be me. She flagged it in Slack as spam, but it made me wonder...

Naive question: How did these spammers get my new employee's phone number? To send the text, they must have known that she started at my company, reporting to me, and gotten her phone number. I understand that it's easy to get emails of new employees since we each have a similar email address pattern, but phone number seems more difficult. If I search her phone number online, it's not listed anywhere publically. Is there any way to protect our employees from phishing attempts via text?
That uses a different alphabet. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4648.html#section-6
That's not quite right. Boats can't pick up cargos in one US port and move them to another. They can drop in multiple places but it is usually uneconomic.
I found the issues went down a lot when I moved everyone to macOS. The OS itself is sandboxed, so a user can’t really destroy it. My mom downloaded some “screensavers” that were actually viruses, and since they were .exe files, they didn’t run or do anything.

I think the only thing better would be some kind of immutable OS, where each reboot restores it to its original state. I haven’t set up anything like this on hardware, but I’ve seen it as a VM offering.

Of course, if they are already used to some other system, like Windows, changing is probably more trouble than it’s worth. You could just really lock it down, so they only have access to certain applications and their home folder.

For the phone, if on iOS, Apple introduced Assistive Access not too long ago to dumb down the phone for people who might need it. You can control which apps they get, and present a simplified version of the apps.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...
Yes, that is the Intellectual Property clause, which covers all intellectual property, not just copyright. The 'authors' and 'writers' here are where copyright is derived from. The 'inventors' and 'discoveries' are where patent authority is derived from.
I’m sorry but the livelihood of a healthy democracy is more important than the livelihood of a bunch of influencers.
Same os/browser, but it works here. Weird. :{
Probably the first first time — but I don’t want to make a claim that’s untrue so I weakened the claim and broke the logic on the process, yeh.
Just as an aside, Fertilizer production from Ammonia is routine. The point at play here isn't that its Ammonia, or that Ammonia in general is toxic: the point is the source they are using (fish farm water), where the Ammonia is a by-product and its toxicity goes directly into production issues relating to fish farming.

It's a "circularity" story: maximising outcome from a process with a waste stream, minimising toxicity in the waste stream.
> How long does it take just to unload and load?

If it is more than 8-10 hours, you start getting overlapped I/O.

As to parallelization, I wonder how much of the route is a single track. Parallel tracks could allow coming and going without interference. (then there are siding and crossover tracks, etc)

I also wonder - do you have to unload EVERYTHING? maybe just the express cargo, while the rest of the ship waits.

Or you could combine ship cargo and one ship could make the long trip, while others return back across the pacific.
Imagine. And all that work trying to derive physics from TWO dimensional finite automata.
It sounds like your systems are compromised somewhere. What does your cybersecurity program look like?
I tried to join Discord during the pandemic when I lived in China and they forced phone number verification both on and off VPN (presumably because both VPNs and China IPs are considered untrustworthy, which annoyingly defeats the point of using VPN). Then I went to Canada and bought a local prepaid SIM, but the area code was not recognized as a valid phone number so I still couldn't sign up.

It's very frustrating as a user to be region-locked on the supposedly open internet, but the real feeling of violation happens when companies layer phone number requirements on top of the region lock, which in many countries means that your government ID is now linked to the account, because you cannot buy a SIM without linking it to your ID. Truly a cyberpunk dystopia.
> I linked a video

I've already rebutted your claims about this video multiple times. Your response has been to repeat the same assertions without even bothering to address my rebuttals.

> the reason I'm arguing with you is because you grossly misrepresent the late, great Dan Dennett

Apparently we're never going to agree on who is misrepresenting Dennett. But I'm curious: how much Dennett have you actually read?

> I'm trying to figure out A) Why you think this

Because, as I've already told you, I have read every book Dennett ever published on consciousness and free will, and a fair portion of his papers on those topics that never got put into one of his books, and based on all of that reading, I think you are misrepresenting Dennett's position. What's more, the counter arguments I see you giving are the same ones Dennett responded to for several decades. I see nothing new whatever in anything you've posted that would change my mind about who is misrepresenting what.
I feed the birds by growing insects.
Right? Where is the "Take this offline" t-shirt :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
Hell don't stop there. You pay HBO for a subscription? Sanction violation, should have known, straight to jail.
Rupert Murdoch had to become a US citizen because the US wouldn’t allow a foreigner own a major media company. This is 100,000x worse.
The goal is Copyright promotes the Arts, patents promote technological progress, they are different systems with different goals.

This line covers both: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries”

Arts > Authors > Writings > Copyright

Science > Inventors > Discoveries > Patents

It’s arguable how effective this is, but I doubt anyone is spending 100’s of millions making a movie if there’s no copyright protection or something similar.
The main reason the Feds’ conviction rate is so high is they’re lazy cowards who only try cases that are extremely easy to convict. It’s not that they do nothing but there are shitty incentives in place to only put cases in front of judges that are certain.
There's always the possibility that someone inside the company plays games...
* for the first 10 years
in fact, functions that are disabled on VSCode (chat for example) if you turn off VSCode telemetry, work just fine on VSCodium even with all telemetry set to off. So I'd say it works better haha
Yeah my vision is still good but farsighted so need low-strength reading glasses, larger fonts, or what I've started doing with this eReader is just getting good at reading fuzzy letters with a relaxed gaze at less than arms length. It's actually less straining than trying to force focusing closer than is comfortable.

I tried using landscape mode or larger fonts but didn't like the extra page scrolling/turning. Eventually I suppose we'll get lightweight and normal looking AR glasses for reading eBooks.
Actually I can zoom in little, but not out. Maybe there is no zoom out?
A blog/newsletter of TikTok content ideas that have proven to work on the platform: https://tiktokexamples.com
> "inline" is confusing in C++, as it is not really about inlining. Its purpose is to allow multiple definitions of the same function.

No, its purpose was and is still to specify a preference for inlining. The C++ standard itself says this:

> The inline specifier indicates to the implementation that inline substitution of the function body at the point of call is to be preferred to the usual function call mechanism.

https://eel.is/c++draft/dcl.inline
it's likely just some randomly selected account that's real
Yeah, just lucky that my family moved when I was young, offering a way to situate my memories in time, somewhat.
In fact they seem to have done this each time I've visited...
I don't think a company that publishes books is going to be able to pivot to building an online book selling platform that easily. They just don't have anyone with the knowledge nor the capital to hire the people who then know who else to hire.

Just like I don't see someone working in construction picking up programming or some software engineer picking up construction. It happens, but generally both are just not built the same.
Trusting Your Eyes
All I can say is wow! This probe refuses to die. Despite being built with almost 50 year old technology. Amazing engineering by the people that designed and built it. Even more amazing is the people that continue to debug software problems from 2 light days distance.
A teenager who just learned to script bested a forum for (and by!) the Silicon Valley elite?

Shameful if true. But unsurprising.
I was confused. I assume this refers to the "formula" to find bondage tape...

What is this website?
This website has one author: Dee Newcum. It's my personal notes on lots of topics.

It's part blog, part personal wiki — it's a "bliki".
(I thought) We had a secure approach (in terms of guarded 2FA credentials, no credential sharing, security training, etc), but this has me concerned. The only place we store phone numbers of employees is in Gusto, to my knowledge, plus my personal Contacts and whoever that employee has shared their contact with personally.

I'm also unsure how concerned to be about this...
> I wonder why that is.

One reason could be the type of industry one may be in; banks: loads of chair-warmers, mainstream tech: probably better because the scope of hiding in hierarchy may be less (not sure, just speculating).
I'm convinced the big bang theory is intended for older audiences that see their grand children or children in the main characters; they relate to watching smart young people who can do things they don't understand learn to handle basic social conflict; and the trouble is never serious and is typically resolved nicely within 30 minutes so you know everyone will be OK.
The most interesting thing about this is that everyone just forgot all the anger about the spying from a few years ago during the Cambridge analytica thing. Did that just go away?
Yeah, but we course-corrected on those mistakes. That's how civil society works. We (necessarily) delegate trust and authority to higher-order abstract entities (i.e. the state) and make sure we have ways to influence how they behave (i.e. elections).
vv ~ w
How do we study and improve the humans without hurting them?
With paper books I'm more concerned with having to have space to put it when I'm done. But, I find it more enjoyable to read a physical book, and am more likely to re-read it.
There are issues with patent law, but I think general concept of patents still does have utility in promoting R&D. Patent trolling is the exception, not the norm. And places that do respect patent law to a high degree tend to have higher rates of innovation.
Show HN: AI-Powered Instagram Tracking with Dolphinradar
Apple and Google have high trust?

In what world?

In terms of privacy, Apple has more trust, yes, but the daily stream of zero days on iPhones hurt it by a good margin. I won't even start talking about Google's privacy issues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s
I have one on my passport number. I still dont know which it is so I alternate. Hasn't been a problem to anyone yet when registering for planes and crossing borders: the picture is clear, it can be both lol
I had trouble following the instructions here. Also the name is a bit aggressive...
This made me want to unlearn react.
The Sofle has been decent for me. I’m not the biggest fan of thumb key positions (especially the outer one), but I’m getting used to them.

There are only two thumb keys per side. I’ve had to get a bit creative with my layout. One trick I’ve discovered is Mod-Tap. This lets me use my space bar as a layer key (when held), or a normal “space” when tapped. Two functions on a single key. Awesome.

I’ve also been reading this person’s blog to improve my symbol layer and vim navigation (I’m tempted to try the Engram layout, but I’ll stick with Colemak for now):
https://sunaku.github.io/engram-keyboard-layout.html
It's not crazy to assume that people with less resources and support will do worse. The logic is sound and its in fact the standard explanation (along with discrimination) as to why marginalized groups do worse.
Only if the distribution isn't skewed. It might be substantially more than half...
Generative AI Meets CRISPR
https://archive.is/hnzw8
I ordered 3 books yesterday, so I was a bit surprised by the headline. Amazon might disagree with that headline.
> We'll likely have real-time brain analogs by 2064.

When there’s occasional talk about triple-letter agencies having far-future tech now, I used to wonder what it might be. I guess this is one of those things.
Follow the money: AIPAC is behind this ban.
Actual lawsuit: https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/04/22/ghaderi_v_amazon_et_al.pdf
I wonder how complex a simulator of the Game of Life 3D itself would be?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755
> it's in the it just isn’t what most people think it is which we've already been more specific about in other comments, is where we'll find those details that can say whether or not Dennett can be classified as an eliminative materialist

Of course the answer is in those details--which I've read and which I've described small portions of, as you say, in other comments--but it's not the answer to the question you give. Dennett cannot be classified as an "eliminative materialist" about everything. That's a gross oversimplification. A better description is that he was a functionalist about some things (and one of those things is conscious experience), and an eliminative materialist about others.

There are even in-between things about which he was what one might call a "metaphorical functionalist"--for example, "mental images". Yes, we have the experience of having mental images and doing various things with them mentally, but when you dig down into the details of what is actually going on in our brains, the best correlates we can find for such experiences are only "images" in a metaphorical sense. So when people talk about their mental images and what they do with them mentally, while we can grant that they are describing their real conscious experiences, those conscious experiences are not authoritative about what is actually going on in their brains.

That last sentence, in fact, illustrates the kind of confusion Dennett's critics have about what he is actually saying. When he says things like the last sentence--that people's conscious experiences are not authoritative about what is actually going on in their brains--his critics claim he's saying that there aren't any conscious experiences at all. That is because his critics have an unstated assumption that our conscious experiences are authoritative about what is going on in our brains--that if we say we experience having a mental image, there must be an actual image somewhere in our brains, not just a metaphorical one. If we say we experience seeing blue, there must be an actual blue quale somewhere in our brains. And so on. But cognitive science, in many cases, offers no support whatever for such claims, and so in general we cannot take our conscious experiences to be authoritative about what is going on in our brains. We have to do the hard scientific work to check whether that is actually true in each case.
His appeal was decided on a technicality over where the case was brought:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/appeals-court-re...

It’s certainly possible that a court might have found his actions did not violate the relevant laws, but that was not the case in the first trial where he had full opportunity to challenge the prosecution’s claims. You might characterize that as “misguided rhetoric” but that should be your cue to ask whether it’s really true that you understand the situation better than his real legal team.
> Ghaderi was offered a new role with the opportunity to become an applied science manager. She rejoined as a engineering manager at the top of a salary band, leading a team of one scientist and two engineers.

So she was an L6 manager, maybe a lower-end L7 manager, but my guess is still L6. That's not even anywhere close to "exec" level. It's the entry-level management position at Amazon.

The sexism claims sounds brutal, but it grinds my gears when some news outlet tries to make it sound like some middle-manager grunt was "an executive". And if you take away the "Ex-Amazon exec" claim, this story really just becomes "yet another ex-Amazon person that was put on a performance improvement plan and feels wronged by it", which is understandable and maybe there's a valid case here for retaliation... but it's not newsworthy, and certainly doesn't fit the title.

edit: just read the complaint, she reported to an an L6, which means 99.9% she was an L6.
If you're reading this I hope all is well. I helped relaunch Yik Yak to 8M users and now I'm working on a new idea. Since the acquisition I spent time working on other ideas and ventures but trying to refine my focus. If you could give feedback on the google link I've shared it would be greatly appreciated!
Pretty sure I remember hacker news having cloudflare captchas some time ago. Maybe they enabled the "attack mode" back then? Not sure why it wasn't enabled today. @dang could answer maybe.
I like how all of you keep demeaning the spammer as being amateur or less than script kiddie.

And yet, he bested you, the supposedly experts at web dev and hyperscaling. You create trillions of dollars of value. And yet, your social hot spot is beyond laughably bad at handling that "incompetent" attacker.
There's a key difference. Kings could not lose their divine right. Whereas the emperors can lose the mandate of heaven - that's the theory of course. All power is self-justificating in the end.
They have some pretty bad flaws in their design relating to this topic:

https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1570062564523917312

> the actual address should be "keen.lifted.fired" instead of "keen.listed.fired" and someone clearly misheard over the phone
In general purpose scenarios, particularly in codebases which have high amount of abstractions, use ASP.NET Core and EF Core, parse and de/serialize text with the use of JSON, Regex and other options, have network and file IO, and are deployed on many-core hosts/container images.

There are a few articles on msft devblogs that cover from-netframework migration to older versions (Core 3.1, 5/6/7):

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-ads-campaign-plat...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-graph-dotnet...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-azure-cosmos-db-jo...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/one-service-journey-to...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-commerce-dot...

The tl;dr is depending on codebase the latency reduction was anywhere from 2x to 6x, varying per percentile, or the RPS was maintained with CPU usage dropping by ~2-6x.

Now, these are codebases of likely above average quality.

If you consider that moving 6 -> 8 yields another up to 15-30% on average through improved and enabled by default DynamicPGO, and if you also consider that the average codebase is of worse quality than whatever msft has, meaning that DPGO-reliant optimizations scale way better, it is not difficult to see the 10x number.

Keep in mind that while particular regular piece of enterprise code could have improved within bounds of "poor netfx codegen" -> "not far from LLVM with FLTO and PGO", the bottlenecks have changed significantly where previously they could have been in lock contention (within GC or user code), object allocation, object memory copying, e.g. for financial domains - anything including possibly complex Regex queries on imported payment reports (these alone have now difference anywhere between 2 and >1000[0]), and for pretty much every code base also in interface/virtual dispatch for layers upon layers of "clean architecture" solutions.

The vast majority of performance improvements (both compiler+gc and CoreLib+frameworks), which is difficult to think about, given it was 8 years, address the above first and foremost. At my previous employer the migration from NETFX 4.6 to .NET Core 3.1, while also deploying to much more constrained container images compared to beefy Windows Server hosts, reduced latency of most requests by the same factor of >5x (certain request type went from 2s to 350ms). It was my first wow moment when I decided to stay with .NET rather than move over to Go back then (was never a fan of syntax though, and other issues, which subsequently got fixed in .NET, that Go still has, are not tolerable for me).

[0] Cumulative of

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regex-performance-impr...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regular-expression-imp...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
The kind of tape for adult role play? Maybe I'm wrong.
An approach we are trying is speakable IDs. Three characters for the type of thing, then four random words from a list of clean words with 5 characters:

xxx_flown-moons-deary-flake
But it is not really blocked in Australia though it is only geo blocked. People using VPNs can still see it in Australia.
I don't think criminalizing or decriminalizing drugs really matters so much as stuff like fetty becoming commonplace in the past few decades, fetty precursors being produced by China and ending up in the US, or specific pharma companies heavily promoting anti-pain meds to encourage people to become dependent.

I think discussions on criminalizing or decriminalizing or The War on Drugs is a waste of time if the goal is to reduce drug usage because they only affect the symptoms of the drug problem. We should still discuss them, but for other reasons.
webgl is truly under utilized. this is a great display of what is possible, especially for games.
The "real" prosecuting legal team didn't even prosecute in the right venue. That's how far off the mark they were.
Electron 30.0.0
Aha! Of course!
Unfortunately, they’re priced as luxury products, and the average person doesn’t have money to spare due to inflation.
“The complaint argues the plan was designed to ensure Ghaderi's failure.

For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays.”

If that is true, that’s pretty absurd.