skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a new Mac recently, had run Bartender in the past and decided to but the newest version without checking it out first. I was surprised to see the screen recording permission.

This was 12 days ago. I wrote support saying:

> I think screen recording is too much of a privacy and security concern.

> Even if you have no bad intentions, if someone compromises your security, they have access to an app that I've allowed screen recording to.

They replied:

> Bartender 5 isn't actually capturing your screen, this message will show anytime Bartender gets an image of your menu bar items, Bartender only ever gets images of menu bar items, the menu bar, and the desktop wallpaper behind the menu bar.

> That said, we are thinking of a way to isolate the parts of the app that need this particular permission so that way it becomes optional.

I never gave the persmissions to Bartender.
The best time to follow GP's advice was when Timelines launched. The second best time is now.
>Thrown in the hat on imaginary numbers to trade up for quality of life. The horror.

I gave 2 countries as an example where quality of life is decreasing because they ignored the very real numbers. Yes, their happiness was quite high for awhile.

If I were to take a generic imaginary G8 country where im tracking only happiness and let these real numbers slip. Happiness is going go sky high temporarily, until those real numbers matter a great deal. Then you have a collapse, like we are seeing.

They are now living a horror situation.
I moved my domains over to Cloudflare.
"Texas" never proclaims anything but basically every time there's some setback (I think most recently it was the Supreme Court ruling that they couldn't pile trash in the Rio Grande to prevent crossings) there's a whole crop of politicians banging the secession drum.

The Confederacy claimed that the US Government had broken the 'compact' that the states had agreed to in order to join the union when they abolished slavery - so their justification for secession under these dubious legal theories was called the "compact theory" -- it's no accident that after that most recent SC ruling, Texas's governor was out there saying that the US Government had broken the compact between the Federal government and the states. He then issued a series of unconstitutional orders daring the Federal government to stop him;

https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1...

It wasn't an overt threat to secede (though many in his party do make that specific threat) but it was an obvious nod to where they think this will end up if they don't get their way.
YouTube has separate unlisted and private options for videos
While often true, in this case it seems like supporting the web view as it would break the new security model. I'm sure they could develop something similar to how you can use WhatsApp from the web, but that's also probably a lot of work for a feature that's probably not heavily used.
I dropped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired.

Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)
Is there any update to the workflow? Been trying to get a video transcribed, but am not getting the UI telling me the transcription is ready
I'm prepared for that scenario and can migrate to a different host in about an hour.
I advise users on github pages don't make use of platform specific features, mostly the default jekyll, for that reason
> It sounds like I broke your prediction if you're this confused.

This is a thing of beauty.

I humbly concede victory to you good sir - may we meet again.
Do you agree with the reasons? Are they the right answer to the problem, or is there a better way? Are there other downsides to the red tape that make it not worth it despite what they protect against?

We need a specific instance of red tape to have a debate about it. However the above questions will get you started in the debate.
"Pale Fire" is indeed a remarkable and intricately constructed novel.
Though, as long as we're just talking about "red tape" in the abstract, and not even specific regulations, we're not even dealing with Chesterton's Fence. We're dealing with Chesterton's Vague Unspecified I-Don't-Even-Know-What.
Wikipedia says TX has 49 and CA/NY each have 53.

But regardless of which state has the most at any given moment, even if 100% of Texas F500 companies decided to abandon their existing exchange and investor base for a more relaxed regulatory environment, that's...49 companies.
In case you are already using my BetterTouchTool app: I have created a little tutorial & example preset here on how to use it for status item management: https://community.folivora.ai/t/bartender-controversy-tutori...

You can add feature requests there, it should be pretty simple to extend BTT to support the remaining required features.

I have also recently been approached by shady companies trying to buy my app (I'd never do that) - maybe they are currently targeting apps that require special permissions?
> Do you often send the auto-incremented int (that would be the default substitute to this) when communicating with others?

It's not an int, but yes, we have a unique synthetic identifier that serves as the database PK and as a means of communicating about a customer in insecure channels without exposing PII. "Customer ID ### is having an issue with such-and-such."

To turn your second part back around: why a natural key? What is the function of minting a natural key if humans are meant to use something else?
It seems analogous to someone new coming into software development and wondering why their small apps suddenly needs a builder server, docker, kubernetes, airflow, jira, etc... They might have a valid argument but it isn't based on experience.
Yes, but how will they differentiate themselves from the current exchanges.
This permission request predated the change of ownership of Bartender.
I recently spent some time in Portugal (and Spain), and I would not consider it a horror situation. I cannot speak to Ireland.

Decline of economic growth is inevitable with fertility rates rapidly declining globally. The world is getting old, people will need to be taken care of, and there will simply be less juice to squeeze (which only existed for the last several decades because of the global population boom from lack of family planning access and cohorts of women who weren’t empowered).

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-the-worlds-aging...

https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
If it already exists, why would TX create a second one?
If you’re not monitoring all your open source software, I am not sure there’s a whole lot of difference.

Sure, someone could fork the original and make a “good” version again, but if you didn’t notice, it went bad… same problem.

It might be easier with closed source to some extent, but I’m not sure that means open source has solved it.
So why would I rather live in Europe than the US or China?
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That looks like it'll either be much lower resolution than Google's timeline (manual or 15 minute checks) or will consume a lot more battery life than I'd be happy with (due to relying on GPS, turning it on for a location fix every minute).

Given wireless is turned on 24/7 for most people, it seems to me that a better method would be to cache APs that the user sees, so that if the same set of APs (or a significant subset there-of) are visible there is no need to ask for the GPS parts to be turned on. Obviously that is more work and there are some complexities to account for¹²³ but this is how Google's timeline uses little power. They have an centralised international database of AP locations (slurped while collecting images for Maps/Streetview and no doubt other sources) but that isn't really needed – you can just keep a list of APs seen recently and where on each users own device⁴.

It isn't something I'd have time or desire to develop. You'd have the faf of getting it approved in an appstore, dealing with supporting users that just don't understand, fun with some phones⁵ overly aggressively killing apps not matter what the user selects in order to make grandiose battery life claims (and users blaming that on your app), etc., but if someone else wants to (especially if it is an open source and/or stalking free app) feel free to take the idea, and I'll consider using your implementation!

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[1] APs move or get renamed

[2] Assuming APs are identified by SSID there will be some names that are the same in multiple locations

[3] Some APs constantly move by design, i.e. those on public transport.

[4] Not having a central DB just means each device doesn't immediately benefit from the location cache avoiding GPS use when visiting a new area, but each device will quickly build a view of local APs for any area it enters.

[5] I'm looking at you, Xiaomi!
Use a Closure with UpdateOrInsert() in Laravel 11.10
An omitted use case for the Affordable and Massively Used category of multi-rotor drones: Drone light shows. These are starting to replace fireworks shows as the latter bring up safety and fire hazard concerns.
The Carbon Dioxide in a Crowded Room Can Make You Dumber
It's Panamanian-flagged ships, but corporations.
> way to get your life crazy difficult over reddit points

"Google says it was "non-intentional" because they only showed it to a friend", I don't think they purposely leaked it for internet clout
Sounds like they aree going to be ready for when they decide to break off...
Who says it is unregulated? It will have different regulations, but they we don't know what those are. (other than SEC rules)
Can’t wait to see the kinds of “meme” stocks they create as a result of this new market. It’s funny, MSM blames the retail investors, but if Citadel had never naked shorted GameStop 3 years ago we wouldn’t be here, still witnessing the effects of mitigating the risk they created.
Page unscrollable (presumably) without enabling third party JS.
That seems to be an entirely unrelated full moon story?
NASDAQ has a diversity rule. I'm assuming this exchange will not have one.
Red tape actually implies excessive standards that probably doesn't lead to any real accountability gains. You can have a lot of red tape with all bad rules, for example.
> no such thing as computer security

There absolutely is for anyone who cares to use it. That sort of defeatist mindset is super counterproductive, and ends up putting more people in harm's way.

We're talking about people choosing to upload unencrypted content to a cloud service that is obviously publicly available. The security/privacy properties of this action I think should be obvious even to less technical users.
Fun game! Have you checked to see if the colors are safe for colorblind folks? There are great resources on the web for color sets that are good for everyone.
We have interfaces. They have one implementation. Then next year we have different interfaces with a different implementation.
Sometimes. But a surprising number of rules on US financial markets come from self-regulation. I'm not an expert, but I'd guess that these are generally the only kinds of rules that this Texas exchange would be able to avoid. Texas is still subject to federal law.

And self-regulation is one of the cases where you can be pretty sure that the rule makers are intrinsically motivated to consider the downsides as well as the upsides.
Use Ice instead: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
They could announce the end of the war, but would instantly find themselves embroiled in a new one.

NATO will not tolerate the use of nuclear weapons, even tactically. It's the reason that the organization exists. Russia has made nuclear threats at NATO nations and it's only the fact that they've never used a nuclear weapon that keeps Russia from being forcibly disarmed.

It's hard to see a route whereby that does not escalate. But there is no chance that NATO will say, "Well, I guess you win Ukraine, congratulations".
I Wrote a Blog on Official OpenTelemetry Site about LLM Observability
Hi HN community!

I'm excited to share that I recently wrote a blog post for the official OpenTelemetry site about monitoring LLMs, and I tried to include how you can use the existing O11y stack like Prometheus, jaeger and Grafana to have complete e2e monitoring for the LLMs apps using an OTel auto instrumentation library called OpenLIT.

Check it out here: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2024/llm-observability/

I’d love to discuss more on this and any insights you all might have regarding LLM Stack observability.
Most regulations in the United States exist because someone before has abused the system. That's why the "libertarians" love "dismantling of the regulatory state" so much - it's in the way of fleecing the rubes.

For example, Trump Media would have never been possible just a few years ago, but now we have SPACs - a legal fraud scheme, so we don't really need Texas for that, but go ahead, have fun with a "wild west" exchange. It's not going to go sideways, no no.
Maybe that is why we get good ideas while taking a walk?
Only if the interfaces the underlying implementations provide remain stable
> Does it really

Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580566
It's on all music studio equipment except the cheapest or small form factors.
My guess would be, that feature is "done" and there's not much else interesting to work on, so people have moved on and now it's not maintained. More likely than not this is a result of engineers only ever wanting to work on new projects.
Governor Rick Perry joked about it in 2009, but it was just a joke. Even so trolls are having fun fanning the flames of political discontent by spreading this and other conspiracy theories. No rational person is asking for this, nor would it be legal. [1]

The Smithsonian claims it might be legal if Texas hews to its original agreement to break into five states if they did secede. [2] Of course the trolls are ignoring that since it doesn't appeal to anyone's pride to break up into the state of Dallas, Houston, etc. It would also undermine the alleged conservative vision for a pure red state since Texas metro areas trend purple to blue.

Texas actually breaking into five states that remain would be bitterly fought against since it would dramatically raise the number of House and Senate seats and shift the balance of power.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/29/texas-secession/

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/more-150-years-texas-...
Common Webhook Signatures Failure Modes
is there any legal obligation in the US that would require YouTube to be able to view all videos uploaded, regardless of privacy?
The sibling comment talking about division _instructions_ is spot on.

It's sort of like how you can use shifts and other bit twiddling to divide by small constants (like 5) much more quickly than actually issuing a division instruction.

Or, to divide a float by an integer power of 2 you can just manually set the exponent bits correctly.
Interesting, that definitely wasn't my experience. Like, yes, there's a non-avoidable amount of professional communication in any position, but my goal when I worked in DevOps was always to just make things run as smoothly as possible, so people could do their jobs without having to rope me in. And that mindset turned out to work really well.
Texas has the headquarters of many companies, but how many are actually incorporated in Texas? What would the advantages be to a Texas exchange over NYSE or NASDAQ?

I understand the desire for a different marketplace. But no matter where it is, they’ll still have to follow Federal securities laws, which will require some level of red tape.

Many of those companies are national or multi-national companies. For example, Exxon has its headquarters outside of Houston, but is actually incorporated in New Jersey (According to Wikipedia). So, for them, what would the benefit be?
I don't know, but since when buyers need to identify themself?

This is just a change of ownership, no malware were found
What do the commands do experientially?
The difference is that you can fork if there's a breakdown in the developer user relationship. This is much better than being held hostage if you rely on the software.
Aren't you just better off using GNU Lightning? It's basically a set of binary stencils defined by C macros, except because they're macros, your interpreter/compiler will only embed the stencils you actually use.
Yes, the full moon day can help you get a higher score due to the bonus luck you get that day. On the other hand, the full moon day makes werewolves (and wererats and werejackals) a lot more dangerous because they'll always be in animal form.

When you try to fight a werecreature in animal form it can summon large numbers of animals of its kind to attack you. This can be extremely deadly for a player who is unaware of this ability. An experienced player knows to attack werecreatures only at range or avoid fighting them altogether. However, encountering the werecreature in its human form is much less dangerous unless it's carrying a powerful weapon.
Perhaps finally google is starting to see collecting enormous amount of private data-- which they have to serve up in response to administrative subpoenas-- as a liability for them and not just for the users.
I assume if there was a way to recreate what Bartender does as smoothly as Bartender without the recording permission, they or someone else would have done it by now considering it makes the setup process clunkier than what would be ideal.

This ain't Linux, it's honestly surprising Bartender and various window management apps and whatnot can be pulled off on macOS considering the restrictions. It's not surprising they need to do a weird hack like taking advantage of screen recording privileges to make it work.
Lots of work in this space now. See this article from yesterday: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic...
Hi, are all these Senior level roles? And is there email contact to find out more?
Vector Database on key value stores?
I cannot seem to find this startup hackernews, but believe I saw a post related to a startup that generalized ANN search of vectors, but the twist may have been that the database was based on key value stores at rest. In other words, value proposition was that billion/trillion scale was faster and/or cheaper.

I can't recall their name, but their website was graphically presented with 8 bit graphics/font and their logo was an pixelated spiky animal.

Any clue to the name of that startup would be helpful.
We'll continue to see diminishing returns as time goes. The low hanging data sources have all been consumed and now everyone is battling for scraps of what's left. There's still a lot of optimization that can be done as illustrated by GPT-4o.

Basically the same trap as CPU's in the 90's early 2000's where the naming convention had to change to reflect the fact that speeds can't continue to double every 2 years.
Human Computers: The Women Who Powered Early Technology
I have 102.6.0esr (came with the OS) and I also installed 126.0. Neither of them has has `ui.systemUsesDarkTheme`.

So anyway do you think that if I upgrade to the latest Debian, your gtk command line will work?
Especially for people using larger sizes for accessibility, the insufficient menubar space is a silly problem that's been around for years and they've recently made much worse by adding the notch and expanding the spacing between menuextras.

It's usually OK if you're in an application that only has File, Edit, View, Window, Help, but once you get into real productivity software you're going to have menu items overflowing to the right side of the notch and your important menu extras (like VPNs) become totally inaccessible when you run out of space.
If it's a truly private video, it should be only visible by moderation when logged in as a moderator.

If it was an unlisted video, the moderator would just need to know the reference code (URL) for the video, and could share it with anyone.
Show HN: Alpio, a platform to build simple back end apps
Hello! I’m Achille, from Alpio (https://alpio.cloud). I’m building a platform designed to streamline the process of creating and deploying simple backend applications.

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PHP in 2024: The Age of Laravel and Rapid SaaS Development
I look forward to witnessing more Texas-style deregulation nightmares. This will probably play out as the financial equivalent of their paroxysmal electrical grid. Sometimes your purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Or intruders may be conveniently alerted when you are out of town :) Who knows who built that monitoring app and which npm modules it imported.
I think you can assume based on context that GP is referring to practicing physicians, not to research doctors.

You can tell because one has a clear conflict of interest and one does not.
Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs
Like that time when Kansas decided to gut its tax income in order to show it to those moochers, and then resorted to selling dildos.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kansas-is-using-sex-toys-to-...