skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find Because of Climate Change
> Sometimes the threats are serious and something happens.

Yeah that's when you hear "we were aware of the shooter" and a dozen police officers stand outside the classroom for an hour while they go hog wild.

Since we are all dead and damned either way, why worry? Giving false threats power in aggregate probably causes more harm than ignoring them, especially since the response when paying attention is so ineffective.
This is such a weird topic. People should be skeptical as hell of corporations when it comes to safety and honesty, but everything about this one seems so tenuous. Not to say there is no fault, but the rulings just don't seem right as reported. Even the normally level-headed HN crowd are using verbiage like typical un-objective headline writers:

"riddled with asbestos"

"introducing a whole bunch of asbestos [while using baby powder]"

"[asbestos is] known for causing [cancer] for decades" (this is implicitly referring to inhalation - the link to ovarian cancer via genital contact is way, way less solid, isn't it?)
I've built several checklists that I come back to.

I have one for weekend plane trips, one for short hikes, one for camping, one for road trips.

It's always nice to be able to go back to a checklist and not have to remember all the stuff that needs to be packed. It's also good to be able to update the checklist mid-trip with a "man, I wish I had a..."

For repeatable tasks I have a habit tracker on my phone, it's free and does what I need it to do. When I'm near my phone later I will update with which one it is.

Congrats on the launch! I'll definitely give yours a try.
"Powder room" doesn't always need a toilet, but they usually do. The essential hardware of a "powder room" is some kind of mirror and a sink. They were the spaces for guests to get cleaned up and get their makeup and wigs right. These days its pretty much a synonym for a half-bath, but a half-bath always has a toilet.
Oh, I've always wanted something along these lines. I've yet to find an app that handles "this thing, if I'm late, still needs to be on-time next time" (like a mortgage payment) versus "this thing, if I'm late, should move all future occurrences accordingly" (like cleaning the toilets).
AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds
Entertainment is crazy cheap. $10/month for video. $25 for local theater show. What's expensive is exclusive access to prestige on trend live performance.
Yeah I think it's a kind of distinctly American thing. You're just expected to tip for everything here. I'm sure there's historical reasons for it but they aren't really important because the fact is that regardless of the reason I just really dislike it.

I would much rather employers pay their employees a livable wage and roll the cost of that into the price of the service.
Study compares Salmonella rates in backyard, commercial poultry farm samples
I kinda want to read a novel about a dystopian future where AI content is so ubiquitous that human-made writing and art are rare and possibly illegal to own.
to make the bed they said, we got this in stead...
If we're going that route, the media should also more prominently report the relationship between corporate price-gouging and inflation. Some do, but not prominently[0]. When too few corporations have too much control over the market, the oligopoly can simply extract more from the population, evidently about half of the cause of current inflation [1].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/08/10/how-corpor...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflatio...
I took images directly from Google Images search and it got them wrong. But it was sort of directionally right. My local city hall it said was the courthouse in the same county. The local bridge was put into a wrong state.

Interestingly, it provided reference images and the images I posted were basically in the reference images.
certainly not out of reach for a determined and powerful adversary. infecting someone with a respiratory virus isn't exactly rocket science. just spraying a subperceptibly thin aerosol into someone's face should do it.
I think that one of the core jobs of a parent is to gradually introduce children to reality. Too much too soon is bad for them, and too little too late is also bad for them.

But I don't think I'd ever say that life is destined to be full of drudgery. Life is what you focus on. That can be drudgery, sure, but it equally can be something else. I wouldn't want to prime my children's outlook to interpret life as full of drudgery. I want their outlook to focus more on the rewarding and fulfilling parts of life and to see the drudgery part as the work you do to get the rewarding part.
>I would argue government should eliminate racial discrimination laws as it will just shake itself out in the market and it actually makes things harder on poc.

Yeah, many people did, and then it turned out that it wasn't working!
I've never seen a situation where an IQ test mattered at all.
"This is on top of the dubious idea of putting talc on your hoo-haa to begin with"

Not so uncommon where I live. BTW, baby girls ALSO have ovaries, and they use talc for prolonged periods of time.

I also use talc in my groin. Not often, but still. Prostate cancer is not a concern for older males (we all develop it some time), but testicular cancer is a thing (mostly in children)
I find this website to be highly credible. The world's most reliable reporting comes from Lad Bible, which most high prestigious news organizations tend to follow.

It's interesting that this cited the "continentality effect" as a reason for a mass extinction. Did previous subcontinents have a similar extinction effect, or would there still be more habitable environments at the margins?
Show HN: Just raised $17M for a no BS application security platform
Hello Hacker News!
We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform.
It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find.

Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it.
Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much.

We think most of these platforms are built for the buyer at corporate companies, the CISO, not for the user, the developer. The people that actually need to use it.

So we built a platform that brings all the security scanners you need to secure your app, into one. We’ve built the app to be tech agnostic, it connects to your code (GitHub, GitLab, Azure Devops, Bitbucket,…), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean), docker images (over 15 different types) & domains (any domain ofcourse) and scans them for many different types of security issues and vulnerabilities. E.g. open source dependencies, cloud misconfigurations, secrets, static code issues, IaC misconfigurations, surface monitoring issues, license risks, malware, outdated software,…

We’ve been able to do this by leveraging lots of cool open source projects. Great scanners made by awesome communities. (Syft, Gitleaks, Trivy, Grype, Zap, Nuclei, CloudSploit, Checkov, Semgrep, Gosec, Bandit,…) We built on top of those & fixed any gaps, (E.g. Bun lockfile support, Transiitive dependencies for .NET) to make sure we have full coverage. Recently, we also started own open source runtime security solution to give back to the community: https://github.com/AikidoSec/runtime-node

We’ve got about 300 paying customers right now. And over 3000 companies using us. Transparant, flat free pricing. Simple free plan for anyone to try.
It takes 3 minutes to onboard to Aikido: https://app.aikido.dev/login
Or you can just try it out with a demo account.

Would love to know your thoughts and questions in the comments!

TC article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/belgiums-aikido-lands-17m-...
Very cool - nicely done.
This is the correct title, but a more informative one would have been:

OpenSSL releases will now be distributed through GitHub

Dmitry Misharov's reasoning:

> Safety first: The web’s come a long way in terms of security, and sticking to HTTPS helps keep everyone safer.

> Keeping it simple: Fewer methods of distribution mean less clutter and confusion, letting us focus on making OpenSSL even better.

> Watching the budget: Streamlining things cuts costs, which means we can spend more on improving OpenSSL and supporting you all.

I wonder what hosting was costing the OpenSSL project and how many servers will be decommissioned. I hope they really do follow through on point #3 of reallocating the funds towards improvements.

At first I had a very negative reaction to this news, because it further entrenches the reliance on GitHub (a for-profit company owned by Microsoft). Then after reflecting, I imagine if GitHub becomes unattractive (for example, the policies become unfriendly), it can always be switched back to host on openssl.org.
Tutorials, that is indeed something that is missing.

I failed miserable in another video when I tried explaining what ARC is, in my own opinion. It seems to be about striking a balance of both being "I can solve this", while not being to hard "I can't possible solve this". I don't think this is the right video format for the landing page. I'm unsure what kind of intro would be helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGpNcQ5alI

I will investigate the iframe issue. I tried with a fixed width and height, but that was extending over the screen edge on smaller devices, so I wrapped it in a div that grows. Thank you for pointing this out.

Thank you for great feedback.
The other day, the Synchrony chatbot was able to remove a fee that they had previously agreed to remove (delays on their end created a late fee on my end). I was shook.

But yeah, 99% of the time the bots are as useless as IVRs. "Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. For quality assurance, your call may be monitored or recorded."
Something did go wrong; of the 3 vaccines the FDA approved, 1 of them had to be recalled due to causing fatal blood clots.
Whoa this is cool. If only it were open source... I'd like to do this for other sites as well.
Any big O discussion usually breaks down (or at least, changes) if you start taking into account the data size of the operands.

You generally assume for big O purposes, when analyzing sorts for example, that comparisons of elements are constant time, and that swapping elements is constant time.

On an n-bit computer, when dealing with m-bit elements, those assumptions are broadly sound. Comparing two ints doesn’t depend on the ints. Reading or writing the int from memory doesn’t take more or less time either.

But the same algorithm, while it has the same big O relationship to the size of a collection, might have a different constant factor on different CPUs and for different values of m. And you might find that some algorithms that constant factor’s relationship to m has its own big O.

One common place this can bite you is when you try to apply big O analysis that has ‘constant time comparison’ assumption built in to, say, sorting arbitrarily long strings, or inserting into a hash table using arbitrary string keys. Comparing strings or calculating hashes of them is not constant time.
Show HN: Simple Builder API for XML in Java
People need to put down the spy thriller books.

Dude was sick. Really sick. Had been for awhile. Nothing nefarious here, just a shitty clickbait title to get people riled up as usual.
What Are You Building? Share Your Projects
Hey Hackers!

I'm curious to know: What are you building? Whether it's a new app, a cool side project, or a innovation, share it here!

Details:

- What's the project about?
- What inspired you to start it?
- Any challenges you've faced along the way?

Question:

What motivates you to work on your projects, and how do you overcome hurdles in the development process?
iPhone 11

Settings > Camera > Formats

Check 'Most Compatible'

That does the job for images.

Automator will change the format if you shoot video.

Not knocking what you have created, but conversion is not that tricky.
Yes. There’s that Asian rapper who spoke up about the DA and immediately got ganged up on to apologize.

And just today 2 more elderly Asians were attacked.

Thanks to people like you who deflect and ask questions like this, we keep suffering. Thank you! Keep it up and making things worse.

Cheers dude. Have a good life or whatever.
Pretty sus how they could shift all liabilities onto a subsidiary, call bankruptcy and then call if a day.

Isn't this just abusing the system?
I can't think of any reason to think that the content you describe ... is any less likely to be AI generated content.

I'm not sure content found in a "walled garden" is any more or less likely to be AI generated. Google may in theory direct me to more of it, but in the end that content (personal blogs, read books, listen to podcasts) may just as likely be AI generated ...
See also: The Elephant in the Brain [1]

> The main thesis of the book is that we are very often not aware of our real reasons for most of our behaviours. Our behaviors are optimised for living in a social group and very often, from the point of view of natural selection, it is useful if we are not consciously aware of our real motivations. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_in_the_Brain
I would not call it a gold standard. It doesn't have a WebView control, and its TextEditor control is slow as molasses.
Okay, this is just nuts at this point.
All taxes are behaviour disincentives. If we tax say income but not pollution, we're discouraging people from working while the price of pollution is not paid by the polluter. If we're subsidising clean cars at the same time, w'ere also having wage earners subsidise cars for the upper-middle class.

This is great if you enjoy polluting and not working, such as if you're a trust fund kid who likes to drive his big car everywhere while the poor and workers suffer the consequences, but is not a societally conducive state of affairs.

With cars, every incentive you can devise has reverse Robin Hood effects since the poor use transit and bicycles, and both incentives and disincentives are being used in practice anyways. It's in fact perfectly fair for people inflicting an unpriced externality on the broader population, through pollution, to pay a fraction of the cost of that externality themselves. If that disincentivizes the behaviour - is that so morally outrageous?

Is it truly fairer to instead bribe this wealthier than average group of polluters into not polluting through taxes on the rest of the population? If anything this creates a moral hazard insofar that it would seem the key to getting the government to subsidise your expenses is simply to pollute relentlessly and inflict costs on the rest of society and say "You can't just TAX us, you need to tax everybody else and pay us off!"
JsDelivr May Outage Postmortem
the question is where do you start to count. how about number 1 is one of those covered up incidents where dozens of people died instead of making sure it doesn't happen again?
That's a load-bearing "probably".
I'm sure that has been written about, but I don't know who really wrote it ...
I love some of the interpretation of symbol characters. Check these out: - * ($) [$$] {$$$} ,

I particularly like the asterisk being a starfish -- quite in character for the font.

I found myself wishing that the capital letters went in the same order as the lowercase. To reverse 'a' you have to type 'Z', and to reverse 'b' you have to type 'Y', which gets confusing toward the middle of the alphabet.
That's great! Thanks for the annecdote.

I've thought this is a well matched tool for small businesses, like cafes and repair shops with low-tenure workers and onboarding them quickly. If there's success here, I'll roll out Teams as a feature, which is about 80% done and hidden behind some feature flags.
It's a property right for whoever would benefit. If no one benefits, then who is enforcing it? The gov't doesn't do so voluntarily, covenants are enforced through the civil court system.
> One point to consider with exceptions: It is "impossible" to ignore an exception. The function implementation is telling (nay: dictating[!] to) the caller: You cannot ignore this error code. At the very least, you must catch, then discard.

Error returns are no different, assuming a proper implementation like the Result type in Rust. The difference is, unhandled error returns are found at compile time but unhandled exceptions only show up at runtime, when it's too late.

> Another point this is overlooked in these discussions: Exceptions and error codes can, and do, peacefully co-exist.

Both Go and Rust have panics, which are basically exceptions that are generally not supposed to be caught. They are used for unrecoverable cases like running out of memory or programmer mistakes. There's otherwise no reason to mix the two.

> Another thing about exceptions, especially in enterprise programming, you can add a human readable error message. That is not possible when only returning error codes.

I don't really know what you mean, it's equally possible in both cases. If anything, the error return implementation that Go uses is probably the most optimal out there when it comes to error messages. Most look like:

return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening file %s as user %s: %w", file, user, err)

Whereas most exception code will just dump a stacktrace since that's the default.
Warn HN: The AI That Plugs Your Product on Reddit in Conversations
Stumbled across this earlier today.

I think it is becoming quite clear that Reddit is the most astroturfed place on the internet -- gaming Reddit for positive feedback and reviews is a lot easier and less painful than trying to game Google's results directly -- and there's an entire industry building up around it. Something to think about if you add "site:reddit" to product searches.
Uno was open-sourced in 2018.

Has been in development since 2013.
> In that context your response says more about you than I, IMO.

This is the tone I'm asking about. I just don't understand why you insinuate things instead of saying them outright.
https://archive.ph/Je7Wz
For the hackers looking for ways to do it with code there's Remotion

https://www.remotion.pro
My problem with panpsychism is that its scientifically vacuous. A brain is conscious in an obvious, observable way. An equivalent amount of sand is not. We need an account of why the brain behaves the way that it does, but panpsychism furnishes no such account and the content of that accounting would basically be neuroscience as we know it, including all the philosophical difficulties of why things feel like things at all (this, I feel, is also vacuous, but a different question). Thus panpsychism is of no help at all for explaining anything so what precisely is the point of believing it?
Have you read Dennett's book?
Screen studio is Mac only so no one will use it, apart from few die hards.
It was correctly able to identify several photos of my vacation to NC, down to the exact location where the photo was taken on the hiking trail. Pretty scary. Additionally, just to be sure, I used an EXIF data wiper to make sure it wasn’t pulling data from there and tried each photo in a seperate Incognito instance. Still got it correct, all 3 times. Mind boggling.
""He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.""

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dea...
Even if they pay a living wage, why wouldn't they give you a chance to pay more?
It's not their fault that you choose to pay extra because your self esteem can't withstand a picture on a screen.
Things the ios app has this, though I find the UI somewhat confusing.
This kind of strikes at a notion that has been bothering me, which was the realization that Americans tend to couch their ambitions in terms of securing an advantage rather than simple personal success. We want to "get ahead." There seems to be little room to achieve without dominating. So everything becomes a competition where energy is shoveled inefficiently into the top end - which necessitates a significant investment in the bottom end so that they don't get left behind completely. Where does that leave the middle, where most of us are? Having to choose to push for the former or settle for the latter, usually.

Society just has to have room for a low-maintenance middle that gives the lows something to strive for without breaking them, and the tops something to fall back on without needing a parachute.
I like that idea! Probably needs ligatures or some way to get glyphs to overlap or reverse direction.
> If we weren't conscious we wouldn't know we had slept.

How do you figure? It’s not uncommon to fall asleep, wake up, and be convinced that you never fell asleep even when people next to you tell you that you were unresponsive, snoring, talking in your sleep, etc.
Great for tabletop RPGs!
I don't think so. I had interviews there graduating from a SUNY school, and I got a fair shake at it I think, just did pass the interview.
I'm not looking for value through political debate and heterodoxy. In fact I'm trying to look for the opposite, I'm glad you seem to have found it! Algorithmic content is a double edged sword. I've found it much easier to find people on X to discuss the non-political content I want. On the other hand it's much harder on Mastodon.
You can't implement backpropagation biologically. The fact that you didn't even mention spiking neural networks speaks volumes. Those are heavily biologically inspired and yet they have fallen behind ANNs precisely because backpropagation doesn't work on them.
Yeah agreed. In fact, orgs that try to pretend like they have no hierarchy frequently have worse culture and higher employee turnover. See: Valve.
Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester's death
"they'resmall"
Don't Let AI Control Your Nukes
Looks great. Minor nitpick: it's pretty standard to have a pricing page available on the main toolbar, that lists the limits of the free version
For those who aren't readily familiar with Mac OS X versions, OS X 10.5 is very old and became unsupported as of 2011.
This was before use of the internet was widespread, but I knew a women who worked at a regional airport. She repeatedly reported safety violations to the (politically connected) operator of the airport, but was ignored. Eventually, she reported them to the FAA who launched an investigation.

- She started receiving threatening phone calls

- Pictures of her kids walking home from school showed up in her mailbox

- Her house was shot up in the middle of the night

- The family dog was killed, disassembled, and the parts were strung up in the house

The police wouldn't do anything and she eventually had to quit her job and move out of the county.
Yes, on Linux it behaves similar to Flutter and draws directly to a Skia Canvas.

It used to have a dependency on GTK but no more since the 5.2 release.

There's just no notion of "native controls" that you can embed in an Uno Linux app like you could have if you wanted to embed a 3rd party native UIKit control on iOS.
It's not all that interesting technically, but the idea behind it is to bring a service like Freeview to people who don't have a TV aerial.

You can access the major live channels from BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 (plus several of the other FTA channels) through the Freely service.

It has an electronic programme guide and allows easy switching between channels (similar to the paid Sky Stream and Virgin Media Stream services).

It is currently possible to watch all of the Public Service Broadcaster live content on their separate apps or websites, but that's cumbersome if you want to "channel surf".

The government has indicated that it eventually wants to switch off the terrestrial TV network and re-use the spectrum for other things. Services like Freely are essential if that's going to happen.