skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't send them confidential information!

Most of what I do in a terminal is confidential. I find it scary and also funny that in the age of data laws, privacy policies, data leaks, etc, someone thought this is an acceptable workflow.
That, and I believe it was capable of doing color cycle style animations as well, similar to what IBM VGA was able to pull off.
University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10k Prize to Make
> that means Great Man theory is dead

> must place blame or praise on the person somewhere as, at least, a myth of society

I think there is value to that kind of myth, but I find that the Great Man theory has a lot of power (more than just as mythology) when put in terms of the but-for key figure; as in, would the environment of the times have resulted in the actions that historically took place if it wasn't for the "great man" involved?

Had Churchill not existed, would the environment of the times have supplied another great wartime leader to follow Chamberlain? Did the shame of the Weimar Republic necessarily produce a figure like Hitler and all that unfolded thereafter, or was he a unique personality without whom things would have been very different?
"The easiest way that companies can avoid harming consumers from the collection, use, and sharing of sensitive information is by simply not collecting it in the first place."

the tone of the article seems like the FTC is hopeful that a 176 billion dollar auto company somehow knows, or even cares about whether their consumers suffer any harm at all. once money has changed hands, this simply isnt the case.

It is an infinitely better business decision to collect as much data as you can from every vehicle, and when *(if) you encounter an FTC fine, just pay it as most fines from the government are inexpensive and do not require any admission of guilt or liability whatsoever.

An even more cogent long term strategy is to collect all this data and set up your own governance boards and policymakers to enshrine your business decisions into federal law, making it nearly impossible for any independent organization or agency to question or challenge your business decisions.
Tmux integration: tmux is running remotely in control mode and local iTerm2 is managing it. This way tmux panes and windows are mapped to native windows and iTerm2's split panes. Makes remote feel like a local machine
And you picked none.
Right! Someone on a forum labeled them stasi-fans and saved me from thinking for myself.
I've been using macOS full time for about four years. Prior to that I had been running some flavor of Linux for about a decade.

I moved to macOS exclusively because I had had extremely bad luck with Asus hardware [1] and I wanted to guarantee that my next laptop had minimally-decent build quality, and I was working for Apple at the time so I had a considerable discount on Macbooks.

I still really like my laptop (it's about four years old and the hardware is still ship-shape), but I've grown really frustrated with macOS. It's not horrible, it's still Unix so I still have a decent command line and access to good dev tools, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to work around the direction that Apple is pushing. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally launched Apple Music, and as apps like this show, I'm clearly not alone.

Part of the issue isn't even that it's the default behavior exactly, it's that it includes all this crap I don't want. I don't want Apple Maps and Apple Music and all the other tiny little apps that depend on Apple services pre-installed. I wish there were a "minimal" macOS, that gave you a desktop and a terminal and a few other basic utilities [2], and that's basically it. It can't launch Apple Music if Apple Music isn't installed.

Once the community fixes up the Linux support on the T2 Macbooks, I'm moving over to NixOS minimal full time.

[1] I swore a blood oath to never buy an Asus product again; the laptop literally started to fall apart after only about a year of usage, and it was almost never transported anywhere (it lives right next to my bed). The plastic holding things together started to delaminate and I had to do a ton of surgery on it in the form of Gorilla Glue and clamps. Never again.

[2] Disk manager, for example.
I think that's the design. Decent metering 35mm SLRs can be had for $100-150.

Given that film is about $25 a roll to purchase and get lab-developed, cheap cameras are basically film toys. At least Lomo deliberately leans in to the aesthetic; it seems to be something people want.
Show HN: Funding Assessment Tool
This is an experimental (and probably not that useful) tool that aims to help founders decide if they should raise capital or continue bootstrap.

I hope it helps though.
Yeah, I don't understand the arguments for "municipal broadband", which seems to be a euphemism for giving local governments monopoly control over ISP services. Why would we want political control in lieu of a competitive market and/or community nonprofits?
Choplifters of the world unite and take over
I find those sorts of fake delays to be infuriating. Depending on my mood, and where else I think I can get equivalent information, there is a pretty decent chance that about halfway through the BS progress sequence I'm going to navigate to a different site.

At best it makes me think the site was designed an implemented by incompetent people. Not a great look.
One niggly point I feel like making:

When a lawmaker needs technical information about a proposal, they have to ask an industry professional. That industry professional may be paid to be there, and offers complementary research services to the lawmaker. (Or they may volunteer their time). This is lobbying, and oftentimes it's a good thing!

I briefly worked for a lobbyist for a fisheries organization - he was paid by a fishing association to answer calls and put together reports about what sort of damage various laws were going to do to fish stock or fisherman's earnings for a particular region of Alaska. But it definitely creates a conflict of interest if only one side has someone there or that side is completely up-gunned.

When a nonprofit group pays for political activities, I could see why someone might refer to it all as "lobbying". But if a lawmaker needs research or opinion from an industry professional, they are not going to call up someone from a "dark money" PAC when they can just get someone from Comcast on the line directly and all the free resources they might make available.
Ariane 6 inaugural launch planned for first half of July
> This is the part that’s always bad.

What's the reasoning here? How is that always bad?

There seems to be a lot of potential for abuse in forcing everyone supporting any cause to publicly disclose their identity -- supporters of a given cause could be individually targeted by opponents; people could be intimidated into supporting causes they don't actually favor.

There's a reason we cast secret ballots in elections, and I don't see much of a difference in the risk/reward equation when it comes to donations to nonprofits and social causes, whether political or not.

And what benefit do you get from knowing the identities of everyone donating to a specific cause? Are you going to oppose something you already reject on its merits even more because someone you don't like is donating to it, or change your mind and start supporting it because someone you like does?
Microplastic presence in dog and human testis
1. Is this an issue with other records that are subject to FOIA? For instance can people use FOIA to get hold of police reports from rape victims?

2. Why can't the municipal ISPs just... not keep records? I'm not sure why ISPs should be keeping logs of browsing history in the first place.
Don’t be silly. EVs, ride shares, autonomous cars, etc.. are a poor transit solution within dense cities, where a significant if not overwhelming majority of car use occurs. These urban environments are ripe for cost effective, efficient mass transit solutions, such as the BRT system Mexico City recently implemented. They absolutely address the problems of today.
> I will ignore for a moment the 1948 restriction.

Demanding people leave their homes doesn't work. They fight. They kill. They'll starve. They'll die. This is exactly the problem we're seeing in Gaza, and it's just amazing to me that you don't understand it's symmetric.

It doesn't matter who you think "should" be living there, Israelis actually are. Homes are homes. People in the western pro-palestinian movement have fooled themselves into thinking that Israelis will just move to The Bronx or Palo Alto or whatever, and that's not remotely how it works.

> Because it worked so well now with a dominant party?

It's working comparatively well, yes. Both Israeli and Gazan casualties are bad, but low relative to total population. That's not the way real ethnic wars work, usually. If a Palestinian army thinks they can actually win, they'll invade and kill everyone. Because to their worldview it's their land and the Jews are invaders, and that's what you do with invaders. It shocks me the extent to which people don't understand this.
The environment and pollution are the very definition of actionable. It might to be too late for us already living, but maybe not for our grandchildren… but we need to start now.
Nice, that's fun to know.

Twilight Zone is my favorite pinball machine of all time.
anonymous donor money
I think the recent interview by The Verge with Sundar Pichai[0][1] kind of reaffirms what this article/person is saying.

As I said in my comment yesterday[2], Sundar was giving really shallow answers and 90% of the answers he gave were so broad that they could have already changed from yesterday to today.

The real issue is that Google is doing a lot of real-time testing with all the AI features and that is wreaking havoc not only for publishers but also for users.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-a...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415846

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40416898
It's difficult to predict because taxes are somewhat manipulatable. Will more compensation be deferred to avoid the tax? Will some people retire or move?
Radical Islam may have never taken root in Iran otherwise. There is no letting radical Islam off the hook, but you're free to do so if you wish.
To keep a McBook from falling asleep when you close the lid, you need to buy and use a dummy HDMI connector that makes it believe it is connected to an external display.
Did any tech person actually think he was legit? He's been a phony from the start... seemed pretty obvious to me.
Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29732892 (2021 - 4 comments)
The fact that he commanded the respect and loyalty of all those officers, who were older and more experienced, tells you a lot. Not a single one of those men, who served under his father and knew Philip's caliber, would have allowed an immature, incapable teenager lead them. He would have been murdered quickly, as it happened many times to the lesser children of great emperors/kings/etc.

At those levels, loyalty and respect are very much something you _must earn_. It is not given.
That 90% figure is suspect as well, since it's including the initial buildout costs of young projects in the financial calculation. So the authors don't consider it "sustainable" until the buildout costs are fully paid off. It's considered a failure if they took out a loan to build out the network.
tax the rich - the segment that has the flexibility and resources to avoid and mitigate - into a "reserve" account where politicians can fund "one-time" projects... this is a recipe for politically-motivated pet projects that deliver little value, and will eventually be downloaded to the middle and lower classes.
Poverty Is a System Problem- a UBI Is the System Solution
"On the subject of reunification, the next day on the Today program on
BCC Radio 4 they were interviewing various "notable" people about the
situation. A very interesting comment was made by some notable Frenchman
that Germany has only ever been unified between ~1890 and 1945 and
it wasn't exactly as runaway success then."

1980's savagery could that even be typed today in polite circles? lol
Must you show up in every Apple/macOS discussion to offer your tediously boring Apple hate?
I have always been a non-fiction reader, never ever read fiction, but over XMas last year when shopping for fiction for family members who do like fiction, I was grabbed by some novels, mostly translations into English, published by a tiny house called AndOtherStories.

I started reading to see if I thought person X would like book Y, and after the holidays realized I was so moved with some of those snippets that I went back to them and then just kept reading on my own.

Have burned through 4 of AndOtherStories books so far, every one excellent, distinct, intense. Each has taught me something and been memorable.

They (AndOtherStories) very cleverly have a subscription service, which I have signed up for, so I will get new books as they are published (6-10 a year perhaps) but at the moment I am still burning through the back catalog.

Specific titles so far: The Luminous Novel, Inland, Mammoth, I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me. Am now reading Open Door.

It has been the source of such joy in this otherwise difficult and stressful year, something I just never expected.
This is a great article.

Presenting information is an art form. A lot of it depends on what the information is, and also, who the information is for.

One of my basic philosophies, is that the UI needs to get out of the way. This means not always using sexy little animations, everywhere (but still using them, if they also work as useful indicators of state transitions), proper contrast, minimizing overhead, like frames and controls, etc. Also, not crowding the display too much.

That said, sometimes, we need a dense display, if we have been trained for it. That Bloomberg terminal is probably fine, for many folks, because they have been trained for it, and it's a daily tool. A lot of Tufte's designs need to be presented to experienced users.

I remember the first time I looked at the train maps in the Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo. They were confusing AF. After just a couple of days, however, I had them down, and appreciated all that information.

I tried using a fancy paid Git client, once, because it was just so pretty.

After just a few minutes, though, I nuked it, wrote off the purchase, and went back to ugly old SourceTree.
You cannot summarize thousands of comments (there's nearly 4000 comments between [1] and [2] alone) in sentence or two and pretend like it is representative of the entire debate and everyone's opinion.

Even so, your quote and further commentary proves there is more nuance to be had -- some Apple users are complaining, some Apple users are defending, others are suggesting compromise! The nuance can be found when you examine how those separate groups of people came to their opposing opinions. To say there is no nuance, yet give an example of a more nuanced argument is almost funny.

While I have absolutely no interest in debating it, the example that first came to my mind regarding the "Apple thinks they own every device" comment was the nuanced debate around security, especially in relation to the target market of the devices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
1. Yes, you can. See: https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-... (I'm the author)

2. You're joking, right?
Well in that case you're taxing people who don't use it to pay for it.

The same can be said of virtually any government service.
> [1] I swore a blood oath to never buy an Asus product again; the laptop literally started to fall apart after only about a year of usage, and it was almost never transported anywhere (it lives right next to my bed). The plastic holding things together started to delaminate and I had to do a ton of surgery on it in the form of Gorilla Glue and clamps. Never again.

I know this is tangential but I've had to swear off high end laptops in general because of stuff like this, and I've seen it with many different brands - they'll jam a bunch of high end hardware into the literal cheapest, most badly designed case ever, and inevitably that is what causes the issues, not the actual hardware (with the exception of MSI boards, which always seem to have some inherent hardware issue).

Never again.
In Praise of Low Tech DevEx
Two basic strategies: Design for the median user or the least common denominator. At web scale we are often driven to least common denominator out of self defense, because lower power users squawk more about confusion than median power users do about efficiency.
How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online
I'm guessing you're talking about taxing businesses or products / services instead. That strikes me as a weird argument. Ultimately, all taxes are taxes on the labor of individual humans. "Corporate money" mostly isn't: if you tax it, you either pay as an employee or as a consumer. There are some populist arguments about executive compensation, but if nothing else, executives are still "individual taxpayers", right?
exactly - they're going after a segment that has the freedom, resources and will to respond effectively, with an entire industry supporting them. Now watch the state budget on these new revenue numbers and see the shortfall in coming years.
Cadquery is what you are looking for.
This is really cool thanks for sharing. I have built a generic app builder that follows the same idea. I am dealing with the same problems!

It is an iOS app called Burning Idea, it lets you build small apps by talking to it.
Just because you don't think its strange doesn't mean others don't. Strange is subjective. If he feels its odd we willfully ignore it, then its strange.
I actually support responsive UIs that work for small and large screen sizes - however, in past ~10 years this has been in vogue, I've rarely seen UX, product, or devs who really "get it". I.e. columns that wrap or resize, buttons that have labels and icons on desktop, etc.
At one point, whether it's to give blacks the right to vote, gay marriage, abortion, or other "unpopular-to-power opinions," were financed through anonymity. You're proving my point - it's only a negative term to those who dislike the issue it is supporting.
Let's not act as if the idea of a bunch of generals and noblemen propping up a myth about a great leader is outside of the realm of imagination.
Can you share a link to it in one of your comments or your profile?

I mean, don't know if your post was an external link where you explained the issue, or if the explanation was directly embedded in HN, but currently I don't know what SE is retaliating for, and I'd like to be able to know

PS: Nevermind, I noticed I can enable "showdead" in the HN settings.

Doing so still keeps the URL hidden, but at least it reveals that the flagged post was pointing at immibis.com , so you can find the context there. (It seems to be the post from 2024 May 7th)
Not really. But any euphemism (like sheep, lemming) i could use to refer to "people who are incapable of critical thinking" would, by that use, become a pejorative, so there is no way to win that battle.

I picked NPC because it entered youth slang in the last years and understanding of that word is widespread.
> My deeper beef with this method is the complete absence of emphasizing, discovering or forming connections between cohesive things. We're trying to learn, it's a super power to start seeing patterns in what we learn, it forms buckets that we can put new concepts and information in. Without it, the learning is ... shallow.

You can make connections that give you really deep intuition; it just takes practice making cards.
I wrote about it here: https://jacobgw.com/blog/tft/2024/05/12/srs-intuit.html
I've been in a reading rut lately, so I'm re-reading an old favorite of mine: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" by Henry Fielding. It's in the public domain, so available for free!

No doubt the writing style isn't for everyone, but besides being a generally enjoyable story, I like the author's wit. He quite literally tells exactly how he's going to tell the story, and his on-going commentary serves to keep the reader in increasingly tantalizing cliff-hangers as the story progresses.
If only there was a way for the OS to distinguish input devices from output devices...
Dense every time! Youtube and Twitter’s UI’s are so sparse they display the same amount of information on my phone (6.1”) and my desktop (24”). And they waste vertical space like their designer only use square/vertical monitors. I’m clicking with a mouse, I’m not touching the screen with a brick.
I think what you mean to say is congress approves the appointment of officials nominated by the executive branch and approves the budget for agencies. Agencies have no control over congress. The executive branch can dictate what an agency can do, within the boundaries of a law originally passed by the congress (though almost never a recent congress).
Something like Battle for Wesnoth?
Well it'll still be a start. A very good one I think
Def has my vouch too, been using it for years.
I don't think you need to infer that Apple believes they own every device.

You don't need to infer anything, really. You just need to observe that every corporation will engage in rent-seeking behavior whenever they're in a position to get away with it.

Apple is far from the first mobile device maker to try to make it difficult or impossible to install software through alternative channels. That practice has been in place since before the invention of the smartphone. Google likely would have done the same thing with Android, had it not been far more profitable for them to take a different tactic. Heck, in the USA, back in the analog landline phone era, the Bell system famously did functionally the same thing until regulators stepped in.

On that note, I'm annoyed that Apple does it, but I'm even more annoyed that, in the USA, we are absolutely toothless about regulation because we can't shake the pollyannaish belief that we should be able to expect corporations to play nice purely out of the goodness of their nonexistent hearts.
So it's hard to give a number on how robust it is, but yes, simply telling GPT that "this doesn't work" or "try again" does work a lot of the time. We're trying to give GPT as much context as possible to help it figure out where things went wrong. Currently that means giving it type errors, execution errors, self-critique and user feedback. But we're working on expanding that; for instance we want to experiment with automatically generating tests that validate things are working as they should. We also want to add a GPT based "debugger" that can help you pinpoint exactly what went wrong.
People being able to donate anonymously to an effort to shape public opinion feels fundamentally wrong to me. If they believe in the position being pushed they should be happy to be publicly associated with it. If they aren’t then I’m very suspicious about why.

EDIT: the post I replied to was edited after my reply to add a lot of context that it now looks like I’m ignoring. Sadly I don’t have the time to address it point by point, so to clarify: this comment is a reply to the first line of the parent comment only.
No, but if interested all Eudyptula tasks are archived in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agelastic/eudyptula/master....
Set your browser to open every page in reader view by default and you never have to mind this crap again. Nor ads, nor cookie banners, nor auto-playing video, nor AI chatbot, nor newsletter popups.

Hint: You can also force reader mode by pressing CMD+Shift+R