skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP has PTSD from wintel computers i guess. People move to macs and don't expect sleep to work, expect to need a mouse for their laptops etc.

I could contradict the entire article with my personal experiences if I took the time. Been using multiple monitor Macs (and Linux before them) for ages.

> When the Dock is on the side, it only appears on the display that is farthest to that side. Having to move the mouse across multiple displays just to get to the Dock is untenably slow and awkward.

Who uses the dock? What's wrong with Cmd+Tab and starting applications from Cmd+space? The dock is where I look for that app I only use every 3 weeks but I still keep open...

> If – in a typical horizontal arrangement – you give the two displays equal priority in placement, you end up with one to your left and one to your right, with a very irritating gap between them in the one place it’s natural to look – straight ahead of you.

> Whatever it is, I just cannot get comfortable moving between displays frequently.

Look at those items. It never ever occured to me to place two monitors symmetrically with the space between them exactly in front of my eyes. You have a primary and a secondary, the primary is in front of you and the secondary is on a side, and not parallel to the primary so you keep the same distance.

I'd rephrase it as "dual monitors sucks for me, and I happen to be on a Mac so I blame the Mac".

I think the OP is the target audience for those ultrawides...
Why couldn't passkeys just be a user-friendly wrapper around assymetric key pairs tech people already using?
It is where I live. If I know your username and password, using those credentials knowing you didn't intend to share them would be a crime.

Of course, the probability of someone getting arrested for logging into your SSH server is as close to 0 as you can possibly get, but that doesn't make it legal.
Hey, Listestep what a blast from the past :)

I rain it until it wouln't run sensible anymore in Windoes 10. I then ditched Windows for Linux soon after - I can recommend KDE Plasma if you want to have something thats sorta configureable enough like Litestep was.
XDR url?
I can't really argue with that. It's a way to get nominal types in a language that has structural typing. Even though the usage is simple, the implementation is more complicated than it should be.

If for example the language was missing builtin hashmap type, its implementation would be nasty as well.

I'm not a huge fan of typing systems, the thing I like the most in TypeScript is that you can use types as little as you want and add more only when you want it. But I don't like languages like go that intentionally lack features.
Total global warming is predicated on total CO2 emissions, which is the bottom line that is most significant. Yes, the US has higher per-capita emissions, and absolutely should reduce those. However US emissions have been flat or declining for decades now (since the 1970s or 1980s depending on how you look at it), whilst China's emissions, both total and per capita, have exploded in the past four decades as that country has industrialised and emerged as a mid-income nation.

These facts re-hash arguments about planetary limits which have been ongoing since the 1970s if not before, and pit past growth, consumption, and pollution amongst western nations (the US, Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia, largely), with the hopes for economic growth, still strongly coupled to consumption and emissions, of the rest of the world, quite notably China and India, but also Africa's future billion or so in coming decades. It's notable that despite the Industrial Revolution and carbon age being roughly 250 years old, half of all emissions date from the 1970s, a time at which Western emissions were slowing heavily following the 1970s oil shocks.

It's not a case of either/or but both, the reality is complex, and simple, and most especially nationalistic simplifications, finger-pointing, or whataboutisms really don't advance the discussion.

<https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions>
kagi allows you to downrank or even ban or boost certain websites so that when you serach, if there is a result from that website, it'll be downranked or boosted based on what you set up. It also automatically downranks websites that use shady ad trackers. They are slowly building their 'crawler' too but it's more nuanced regarding how they do this
This person here seems to have gotten daisy chaining of two 4K monitors working just fine on a Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro chip: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253341707?sortBy=best

They noted that their monitor came with cables that didn't support daisy chaining, when they upgraded their cables to ones that supported 40 Gbit/s then everything was fine.
This is indeed the main problem. If you have two screens of the same model, the OS is unable to see which is which. This also goes for many USB devices (such as webcams that randomly swap).
My biggest issue with passkey is not passkey itself, which, when it works, is great, but more the implementation of it done on most websites.

Use a passkey on https://www.passkeys.io and it works great! On google too. But use it on PayPal, it does not anymore. Who’s to blame?
Enroll another passkey. Password manager can also do that (Bitwarden, for example), so I really don‘t see a reason for all the agitation.
That's cool but Nix/OS does much more than declarative package installs.
That’s basically what they are?
I purposefully didn't write "Gen AI"
Bitwarden (& vaultwarden) also offer passkey which seem to work pretty well.

I've not had a problem registering both this and my phone on any site.
Were the apps available on the App Store? Also yes.
If they are exactly like SSH keys, then why not just keep using SSH keys. Clearly, there is something else to them.
That app seems to be both free (as in beer) and free (as in freedom).
Possible but unlikely on the net, I was very young at the time although happy to tackle the puzzle parts, the people doing the hardware and other projects of that time were a kind of post war loose knit quango of former commonwealth | european south east asian post z-forces collective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wong_Sue * was in and out and round about, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Beadell dropped in and taught kids how to use a theodolite, other people of interest did stuff and we all generally submitted notes to archives.

* As you can see, lots of stories with fuzzed details <shrug>
not just this - most android smartphones do have google search bar by default, in some it's not trivial to disable it and most ppl are using it. This alone is a huge moat. Add to this a huge nr of chromebooks that children use in schools (and after them too since the OS is familiar) - default search for these is google too. Default ff search engine - google, default iphone search engine - google. Every time someone buys an iphone, google gets one more user automatically. Some may switch, but absolute majority will still use default
I'm begging even 1 person in this thread to do even 5 minutes of research on where these numbers come from.
An Issue with Ssl.com
'SSL.com is evil and deceptive': the company is being accused of 'evil' and dishonest practices.

The customer, who previously purchased certificates from SSL.com, reported being unexpectedly charged $20 monthly for a service they did not subscribe to. As reported, efforts to resolve the issue and secure a refund proved futile, with the company's support team continuously deferring the matter to internal teams without resolution.

In the end, as the author points, Let's Encrypt seems to be the best option for TLS Certificates (and it is amazing!).
People without a Twitter account can’t read past the first post, which doesn’t explain anything.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783674204820262958.html
> corporations trying to watch and make money from everything we do.

I should have added that it’s not even that the monetization/spying makes the products any better: It actually makes them WORSE.

Like YouTube not allowing background playback, even artificially gimping OS features like Apple’s Picture-In-Picture.

Facebook tracking your phone even after you delete the app and wipe the device!

Or Tinder etc artificially and mercilessly crippling even the most basic features such as charging money for Read Receipts!!!
> I later found out that IPv6 was globally addressed with no firewall.

Crazy! What brand router was this? I've never seen an IPv6 capable router configured to permit all traffic by default.
Show HN: I created an app to Group Chat with AIs
Hi HN. I created an app where you can group chat with AI models such as: ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude and Llama.

In the same chat window you can compare their responses or let them chat with each other running AI to AI chat simulations.

Every new account has 5 free messages.

The website: https://alphacorp.ai Thank You!
It queries graphs of objects and fields but it’s not a general purpose graph query language.
So you're acknowledging video AND posting a video (which are not the same thing) are both forms of speech, and instead you are just quibbling over the fact that they are not the same as spoken or written speech, even though that wasn't something that was ever claimed?
Another option that works for me: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/
Is it a Mac thing to keep applications open? I usually close mine as soon as I'm not actively using them
The Safetensors instructions https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/import.md should work.
Lots of EVs are unreasonably heavy and quick, as well as unreasonably advertised as self driving
Check this [1] HN post from 10 days ago, the first problem listed, "Dual monitors swapped positions" and the cause ("The problem comes from vendors who flash the same exact firmware with the same EDID to multiple monitors in the same batch.") :D

[1] Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038759
>30mpg vs 20mpg is... not as simple.

How so?
Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU
Don't get hit with the pendulum: DevOps shifted too far left
Thanks that's what I thought. Do you have any specific way of navigating that file or use a functions outline for that?
No issues here (14" M1 MBP + Studio Display). A lot of the weird issues with multi-displays went away on the Intel to ARM transition. The author is using an old Intel iMac Pro.

There are of course window logistics problems but they seem to be manageable and Apple do the least surprising thing I find.

I would suggest the author tries using a windows laptop with 1920x1200 at 125% scaling and an external 4k display at 150% scaling and the associated weirdness. They will come crawling back to the mac in tears of joy very quickly. Literally at the moment all my icons have gone back to 100% scaling and are tiny. The entire rest of the display is scaled fine, apart from one app which is 100% as well. This is every fucking day on windows. Edit: also spending 20 minutes replugging the damn monitor because it doesn't detect it the first time either (Dell P2723QE)
My way of making it all nice and not a hard chore: use a tiling window manager - I used to use Amethyst but screen sharing makes it go wild in some cases, so now I use yabai; I never quit any app so if I close something I'm rebooting in which case what can you expect?; as many apps as possible need to be full screen so I'm actually using many virtual desktops, more than multiple displays; keyboard shortcuts in my memory to navigate to where I want to go and to throw app windows from one display to another, move focus and so on; dock always at the bottom with autohide for reasons pointed out by OP.

But by far the most important thing I remember to do is to organise and move things based on the work I'm doing at that moment.

I normally have three displays: MBP to side (right side, so I can use the trackpad near my keyboard if I want, although I also have an external trackpad in home office), and 2 x large monitors, one directly in front, one to the left angled in slightly.

Focus app - web browsing (like right now), email, doc writing, coding, whatever - that's coming onto the large central display.

Left display is stuff I want to keep near but might be a distraction. Documentation, slack, email if I'm meant to be focusing on other things.

MBP is basically a video conferencing display (camera is right above the screen, feels natural), perhaps a terminal for command line stuff, and so on.

I'm rearranging desktops and moving them around at the start of each focused block of work (which is typically every hour or so), and there are some "standard" layouts I use when doing meetings/calls.

When my MBP is out on the road with me, one virtual desktop for web, one for email, one for calendar, one for slack, one for code editor, and so on...

TLDR: I made some tooling choices, and am prepared to spend a couple of minutes to move things around and make sure you're setup for focusing on a task I'm about to dive into. The key thing is I'm feeling comfortable for the task, not comfortable for all tasks and everything is always in the same state.
I use Perplexity (mainly a legacy of wanting access to Claude when it wasn't officially available in my country, but Perplexity offered it & was available here). Search definitely wasn't my use case, but I accidentally discovered Perplexity is a much better search engine than Google or Bing in many cases (and I don't mean that in the sense that people who don't know how anything works will attempt to use ChatGPT as a search engine). Perplexity is actually really good at this & consistently brings me useful results when 2024-vintage Google can't.
Works fine for me. I sit down, plug my MBP 14" into the studio display, close the lid and carry on where I was. It does a reasonable job of window placement.
the comments under this post exemplify: "one person's profound is another's trite"
Exactly. It's possible to build an incredibly reliable mechanical system, and all-too-possible to build a very unreliable system with no moving parts and lots of software (and network connectivity).
True, the technical aspect of passkeys does that. But in practical Apple and others want to heavily push for the smartphone as that tool, because it locks people further into that system.
I'm very happy with my built in monitor on my 16" Macbook Pro. Brightness, HDR, local dimming, retina and 120 Hz. I have yet to find an external monitor with all those specs.
Self-transforming Transformers Megatron is as badass as it is expensive
Not really, because items in the pipeline won't be able to get processed as long as the receiving side is not yielding.
Building a Face Recognition App with the FaceOnLive SDK on Android
The issues depend a lot on the displays (some displays don't expose a serial number, or have the same serial for each display), or how it's connected - Thunderbolt dock? USB dock? HDMI? (what adapter?) DisplayPort? (again, what adapter?)
The implication is that the writer is using their bona fides as a corporate media relations expert to craft a compelling narrative targeting a person with a lucrative corporate position. It just so happens that this position is reliant on their political skills rather than their technical qualifications because by all metrics they are terrible at doing what it is they position requires, so instead of watching their reputation blow up and their ability to keep pretending their skillset isn't limited to 'talk about the good old days at the management consulting firm we at together sucking blood from the productive parts of society' with the CEO, that person will pay some kind of protection fee or do whatever dance the writer wants them to do to get them to stop.

As fun as it is to outline such a scheme, it seems incredibly implausible, since a person who's entire income is reliant on corporate media relations wouldn't bite the hand that feeds them to make a few dollars from a corporate enshittifier. Also, the path from 'hit piece' to 'rolling in the dough' seems kind of long and windy, and there are a few steps in there that I don't really get how they would work.

This is why the OP just insinuated the whole thing instead of saying it -- because when you write it down fully it sounds ridiculous.
Almost as good as having a coloring book and crayons!
In my own case, I use a 49-inch LG ultrawide (5120 X 1440).

I vastly prefer that, to multiple displays.

Has me spoiled rotten. Even though I have an MBP, I hate undocking it.
Once you export your passkeys, is there anything that can import them?
Thank you; extensibility in a lisp is one of the draws for me, I just wish it was easier to re-teach my brain’s relationship with my fingers.
And how exactly would you get punished? Why do you feel like you need to bring politics in code? Last time I checked, downloading a Crate does not ask you whether you're right or left leaning when it comes to politics.

> I'd like to get into the Rust programming language, use and make libraries, contribute code and resources, interact with other people in a professional manner.

So do it.

> Are people welcome in the Rust community, even when they happen to remain in the "wrong side" of a political movement?

But how would anyone know? This sounds like your own personal agenda/issue as opposed to that of the community.

No programmer opens their code editor with the underlying notion that it will eventually lead them to some political ideology battle, because that is what they want.
> So you're acknowledging video AND posting a video (which are not the same thing) are both forms of speech,

No.

Speech is talky talky audible words.

Video is moving pictures but not film.

> the fact that they are not the same as spoken or written speech,

Yes, that's the fact, both in real life and legally, as evidenced in transcripts of numerous cases before courts.

> even though that wasn't something that was ever claimed?

This person did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40154349

They typed in written form "Posting the video is a form of speech."

apparently not grasping what you have just agreed to as fact; moving pictures are not spoken words.
By increasing the defense surface you do remove existing vulnerabilities. Also disabling Defender is reducting the attack surface
As someone who happily uses Yubikeys, I really don't want to use a Passkey. I want to still use a username/password and the Yubikey. Not just username and Yubikey.

Google tries to force use of passkey now that if you enroll a Yubikey it will now be a Passkey, instead of a second factor. With no option to disable it. I have to run the Yubikey Manager tool and then disable "FIDO2", so that I can force it only be used as a 2nd factor.
My schedule in the past years was not linked to daylight at all. But that changed recently. I have a new window where the first sunlight in the morning now enters the room.

Since I have that window I'm very aware of the time the sun rises every day and how that time shifts a few minutes every day. At least in the location where I life. (South of Germany)
Sounds like a self hosted last.fm but with access delegation for the streaming services?
Wow I was waiting for it to end. This map is just the tip of the iceberg since the fans must have collectively travelled millions of miles to be at the events.
People over a certain retirement age get a thing called a "pension". I don't know if I'd consider it extreme privilege, but it's supposed to enable them to live without working.
i think you may be right?
I haven't been able to complete a fresh install on an empty drive yet. Either the installer crashes (most common), the installer throws an error, or the live USB freezes during booting.
Flex AI
I disagree. But we’re not going to solve free will in HN comments. Personally I don’t think “free will” means anything or makes sense any more than “god” makes sense. It’s just a bundle of feelings that means something different to everyone.
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/2d04cacc5322951f187...

still waiting for this one
Assuming they compete. If I were a state entity with a vested interest to compromise tor, I would cooperate with peers to that end, enemies or not. It is in every state's interest to have protocols in place for conditional cooperation with hostile states. At the agency or team level, these protocols can be quite effective.

After all, the field agents probably meet once or twice a year at some math/CS conference in France anyway.
probably works when using a single screen. But on a multi screen setup, so having the macbook as 2nd screen, it's not working
my fave Nix feature is telling people I use it
Thanks for the advice, god-mode sounds like it could be a big help for me. Main thing for me is just learning what chord-style combinations are, practically, used most often and also conflict with my more-distorted-than-prior ergonomic needs.
How to Scale Databases
H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
A website that sort of sucks is one of my business legitimacy tests.

But it has to be the correct sort of suck, it's got to suck in the "I'm an old sys-admin and can't be arsed to care about these javascript frameworks" sort of way and not in the "I am in sales and need 150 tracking agents" manner.
From Asm.js to WASM with Emscripten Creator Alon Zakai
That's actually awesome tbh.

Wonder what effect alignment training will have on the output quality
It's the same, you should not store or backup SSH Keys.
>It's like saying "oh, the local feudal Lord helps us fight bandits!"

Well, the whole point of the Mafia is that it's a sort of reactionary movement to defeudalisation/uniformisation in places that are far away from where the power centralizes (the exact same reason why Yakuza started after the unification and why a lot of gangsters are from Kyushu).

It also pisses me off that people use the word mafia inappropriately, for example "Russian Mafia" or "Moroccan Mafia" have no meaning, these are not feudal organization like Mafia or Yakuza
US Has Little to Fear from Chinese AI, for Now
My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga
Thanks for the breadcrumbs, I’ll check out Xah Lee.
Or perhaps a slightly more complementary quote from the above:

Rhyme without Reason's like trees without seasons

blown out like the leaves when winter whispers her treasons

believe in the seas, sun, and birds, sung in thirds

to accord in their chorus

Winter is coming

and Ursa Majora...
Another advantage of IPv6, if implemented well by the hosting provider (i.e. they assign you a /64 or larger), is that you can pick a random IP address from a pool of billions to host your SSH server on. There's a tiny chance of accidentally conflicting with another service if you're provisioning your addressing using SLAAC, but that chance is low enough that I'm willing to risk it. Scanning the entire IPv6 internet isn't very feasible for automated tools because of how large the IP space is.

This approach does require some client side hacking, though either in the form of SSH config, or in the form of a split horizon DNS so you can easily access your server, but that's no different from alternatives such as port knocking or simply altering the SSH port.
Ahh, brilliant find, thanks!
No, thanks. I've seen Black Hawk Down... Too many cowboys in that area.