skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really hacking to steal a physical device and access the unencrypted hard drive? Weird title
> Meeting with Google and Microsoft lobbyists at the best Brussels luxury restaurants.

Are you talking about the same EU that just passed the DMA? That must have been some really nasty food poisoning then!
> It's disheartening to witness the US embracing protectionism for high-tech.

Worth noting that this is a different kind of protectionism than that sometimes practiced by developing nations to build up their local infrastructure and industry. In both cases you end up with higher domestic prices and lower quality of goods (at least at first) but at least in the case of the developing nation you do actually build up some domestic infrastructure and industry in the meantime. (Or, at least, you have the opportunity to do so.)

That's not what's happening here as there is no build-up for us to do. This is just the US government acting on behalf of US companies to shield them from competition so they can soak the domestic market for every cent without interference. There's no way any of this is going to reverse or even slow down the trend of enshittification - in fact, it's going to accelerate it.
OK, what's the alternative? Networking? I never invested in networking in my life, I just moved on every time (did not help that I was a contractor for 8 years).

How is a potential employer / customer to know if I am not a middle-aged scam?

Numbers and variables, please. No hand-waving.

I am listening. Give it to me bullet point by bullet point. Somebody wants to know if I am a proper programmer and not a scammer.

(And no, I never had time or energy to do any open-source. I am looking to change that but I've been "looking" for 4 years now and almost no progress has been made so clearly my current life and career are unsustainable and don't lend themselves to actively doing open-source.)
A long time ago I worked on a project where we needed to distribute an in process COM object, so we moved it to DCOM, instantiated multiple instances, and that worked! All in all COM was a fairly pleasant technology. Not really that different than gRPC (e.g. idl vs. proto).
On a slightly related note, Michael W. Lucas[1] is working on an upcoming book entitled "Run Your Own Mail Server", that will be published shortly (there's a Kickstarter campaign as well[2]).

I attended his tutorial and talk at BSDCan[3] this year and both were excellent. I highly recommend buying the book when it comes out (or supporting the Kickstarter), it will go through all the gory details of setting up and running a mail server, and best practices, including a ton of material on SPF/DKIM/DMARC.

(P.S. I have no affiliation with the author or the book in any way.)

[1] - https://mwl.io/

[2] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-ma...

[3] - https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/
>The majority of scientists really thought that animals didn't feel or experience things?

I can buy it.

"As recently as 1999, it was widely believed by medical professionals that babies could not feel pain until they were a year old, but today it is believed newborns and likely even fetuses beyond a certain age can experience pain"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies
I wrote a version of that as part of my sqlite-utils Python library: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...

You can do something like this:

db["cats"].create({
"id": int,
"name": str,
"weight": float,
}, pk="id", transform=True)

The transform=True parameter means "if the table already exists but does not match the provided schema, transform it to add missing columns etc".

I don't generally recommend it though, it's a risky way of working compared to stateful migrations.

Here are the tests for that option: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/577078fe01da6d87... - and the accompanying issue: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/467
> This is why the roles of the major players in society (government, monopolies) need to be circumscribed ... We need some sort of human right for digital privacy to make this sort of thing illegal

The entities that need to be circumscribed need to enforce a law that circumscribes themselves? Those incentives do not seem to align to form a stable structure.
That depends on what counts as "new".

It's very easy to humans and LLM to produce something new. Just ask them "make up a new word and tell me its definition" or "write a story about (random thing a) and (random thing b).

What I'm sure you're referring to is "new" and "useful", which is the standard by which we judge the utility and force of innovation. Very few humans could even do this. The problem is partially due to many of the "low-hanging fruit" innovations having already been discovered, along with the fact that creating something of value requires an intersecting intuition over many domains, modalities, considerations, etc. It is a test of general intelligence, and AI has not gotten there yet, but there's no reason to think that this is a fundamental limit to LLM's.
To what extent did they really, or was it more low impact for smaller tribal groups? There’s plenty of examples of civilization with roads, waterways and larger buildings in the Americas prior to the Europeans. Same for most of the rest of the world. Humans cleared areas with fire, they damned rivers, and built cities.
Did you have to specify that it was a critical bug or haggle with them? On the immunefi site, their max bounty is set at $1M but you clearly got 2x that.
Wait... TDK still exists???

Edit:
Holy shit yes they are https://product.tdk.com/en/index.html
> We need to ban the word "conscious" until people can agree on what it means.

In modern philosophy, it ultimately mean self-awareness, if i read Chalmers correctly. Which is hard to prove (we do have mirror tests that only some animal pass, which prove they do have self-awareness, but failure to understand it doesn't mean the animal isn't self-aware, as young children also sometime fail the mirror test when left alone in front of it).
I can implement Discord threads! If anyone has any suggestions of what other threads to aggregate, let me know. The main issue I have to overcome is latency getting too high when retrieving form different places at once.

Additionally, I chose to avoid AI as I have picked up from a lot of people that Google’s AI features have more or less ruined it. Do you think there is a way that I could use AI here that wouldn’t ruin things?
System Design Judge
Hello Everyone, I am currently working on build a system design judge which would help identify software engineering team evaluate their architectural designs efficiently
features:
1. Evaluation of architecture design
2. Finding various faults into the existing system . recommending few changes
3. cost estimation of existing architecture
do you guys think this project is worth pursuing??
Addictive or not, it's a long-term use pharmaceutical.
Ok.

So instead of being able to upgrade to a 8TB in a few years when the prices come down, I can just throw out my 3K Mac and buy a new one. Only 5k for the 8TB Mac.

I make music and I'm getting into photography and film making. I prefer more space over being having to carry around an external SSD with me

I also enjoy gaming, which is still much better on Windows. If I want to play some COD or Tony Hawk HD, that's very well supported.

Not really going to work on a Mac.

Macs do have a much more premium feel to them, but I've had great experiences with cheap laptops. Even if I drop it, shucks, I'm out 750$, not 3k.
If anyone has any feature suggestions, please let me know. I am trying to create as much value as I can here.
If there is a holy temple of science, Darwin (along with quite a few others) would be worshipped.

(if you walk into an old physics building where experiments of import have been done, there is often a vestibule filled with the old hardware. In some ways it feels like a holy temple of science containing relics....)
The hedonic treadmill also helps to understand why wealthy people--regardless of how they acquired their wealth--seem desperate to increase their fortunes. They have more money than they could ever need, yet they want more. See Elon Musk and the $50 billion pay package.[1]

I feel like this happens a lot with creative people as well--an artist can become successful and widely respected, but still become deeply unhappy if their skill or audience declines, regardless of financial success. It is the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about celebrity suicides--Robin Williams, Naomi Judd, Anthony Bourdain.

If there's no increase in wealth or station, there's no dopamine. And that is depressing.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/13/tesla-s...
You also can't assume you would strike gold just because you have a pan and the right timing.

I know a guy that had podcast in 2009 or so. He had great timing but the problem is his podcast completely sucked and he has nothing interesting to say in general.

Shifting things forward or backward in time would not have solved anything.
Tell that to the people cheering the EU "sticking it" to the megacorporations like Apple. Not that those policies were bad on their own but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that the bureaucrats in Brussels ever cared about anything else than exerting their power and control over anything they can touch...

The administrative budget of the EU should be cut by 3-4x times and the money should be spent on something more useful because clearly they are out of control and have nothing better to do. While we're at turning Belgium into something like DC and disenfranchising their government/people living there wouldn't be the worst idea since they clearly have been co-opted into propagating this nonsense.
Not to mention wireless networks like the ones for the airtag or the wifi endpoints mapping google has could be adapted to share positions of "right here, right now" anonymously.

Which means that if only one device knows where it is, you can calibrate, and if several know, you can even correct for mistakes.

If the system is precise enough, you only need to calibrate once in a while. Being at home/office, on the local wifi, once, could be enough.

Besides, nobody wants the GPS to go, but it's a nice alternative that can't be jammed by enemy forces and can be used for hiking, diving, etc.
It is actually very easy to obtain compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide right now if you qualify for a prescription and can pay a few hundred dollars a month.
LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request
Can you share your code?
I'm not sure how that would actually "fix the damn problem"? My point is that American tech companies are just as data-hungry as DJI, probably more, and Chinese tech products are more likely to let users control their devices off-line than American brands. You're right though that creating a boogeyman and attacking it while ignoring the much larger and more complicated problems is great politics (and always has been)
The problem is that Fandom ends up with better search engine rank than the replacement wiki that the actual community moved on to.
AS3 is a pretty underrated language. It was ridiculously fun to make stuff with it, and if you bought the official Flash Builder IDE (which was Eclipse based), you had decent autocomplete and everything.

The runtime definitely needed to be improved, but I feel Flash gets a bit more hate than it deserves. By the tail end, there was even decent 3D graphics support, and CrossBridge was a pretty cool predecessor to Emscripten that allowed you to convert C++ programs into SWF stuff (IIRC an early version had the Doom engine ported over).
Just to give a different pov I find Haskell very intuitive, and particularly I find that code written by other people is very easy to understand (compared to Java or TypeScript at least).

And by the way x and x' are totally fine names for a value of a very generic type (or even a very specific type depending on the circumstances), as long as the types and the functions are decently named. I mean, how else would you call the arguments of

splitAt :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [[a]]

?

There is no need for anything more complex than

splitAt x xs = ...
My theory is that culture back then was way more common and shared among people, so old stuff got a great mindshare that is really hard to recreate with new movies.

And it seems like people are nostalgic for things they never was there to experience. Like, some fake nostalgia, that is transferred between generations and cultures that had nothing to do with it.
Go: go templates and fiber for http serving. I have a mini framework for adding some structure to the templates (folder per feature: contains controller, templates, etc, and some naming conventions)
Perhaps at some point! Right now, we haven't been seeing most demand on the language side of things as multi-modal image really hasn't popped off yet
Reason never went anywhere. And, like Ocaml, its array syntax has pipes in it (and like Ocaml, the pipeless version makes a list).

I think you’re doing Elixir a bit of a disservice by that comparison, though - Elixir is very much its own language on the Erlang platform, whereas Reason really is pretty much just an alternate syntax.

That said, one of the big problems with Ocaml is that the ecosystem is so fragmented; I don’t think Reason really adds much (at least if you’re not using with JSX) to make it worthwhile and I’m kind of mad that it exists.
Surely they do, but some of Postgres' problems are architectural, and other databases with other architectures don't suffer from them.

That said, this was not the point of my post, and I was hesitant to mention any concrete issues because I didn't want the thread to be about that, but rather the question of how Postgres today stacks up against commercial databases that are in use.
A quick google search seems to suggest you don't need a mailing address for food stamps or a lot of other social welfare programs. That would kind of defeat the point if it did.
If Signal can’t be installed or updated via the App Store anyone, that’s already enough to exclude 99.9% of all users - no need to involve law enforcement.
Are you having a laugh? Sentry doesn't set the industry standards.
> will happen is that unwitting Signal users will end up being targeted by law enforcement

Seems like a good thing. If nothing else works at least that might bring some attention to this nonsense..
Bruce Bastian
With high enough accelerometer accuracy, you need to start adjusting your subtracted gravity vector with maps, right?
Have you considered replacing xhr with fetch? I believe it would allow htmx to be used in even more places. Fetch can be hijacked so returning data to the htmx framework isn't limited to the network. You could "run" a server in the browser or have a native app render HTML as well.

Perhaps, there's already a good way to hijack xhr that I'm unaware of too.

Edit:
Relevant link:
https://logankeenan.com/posts/client-side-server-with-rust-a...
Its from the leaf fiber. Presumably that's already plentiful enough to be considered waste.
hey! i met you in boston at the indie dev meetup during PAX!! your game is super awesome ! and im crazy looking forward to it
CO2 removal is for people who hate plants, but nevertheless want to eat them.

Solar and wind is for people who hate nuclear plants, but love natural gas.

I'm fresh out of pedantic soliloquies and engaging talking points today, it's just come down to this. Cheating the children.
Well a big portion of freelancers are writers, SEO content specialists, graphic design and marketing so it makes sense. Slop will replace quite a bit of that
If you're in the US, I wonder if you could get your state's AG to charge Adobe with wire fraud.
You don't need any helium or nitrogen here, cooling happens only by laser cooling and evaporative cooling from magnetic or optical traps. The atoms are perfectly insulated in an ultra high vacuum.
Electronics still take the bulk of the volume here, as does the laser system. While the lasers themselves are tiny indeed, the light needs to be manipulated before reaching the atoms.
And yes, it involves quite a lot of fiber optics :-).
Sure it’s now opt-in.
But if you don’t opt in, you can no longer send photos or videos.
The Future of Nuclear = Small, Mobile, Microreactors – Radiant [video]
The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky describes the fall of Behance, the fall of Adobe’s perpetual licensing, and the rise of their cloud subscription offering.

I wonder what he thinks about all that in hindsight, putting the many millions he made aside.
Yes, and by the same mechanism and for the same reason.
What’s the replacement wiki?
> there was a tribe near Rurrenabaque that spoke Quechua?! (A language you would expect to encounter in central Peru, not there).

Quechuan languages are quite widespread, including over large areas of Bolivia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages
Rubber tires aren't new, they've been around for 120 years. If there has been an uptick in IBD in the past few decades that didn't exist for the first 80 years of the 20th century, you'd have to suspect a number of different things before tires.
Everything is a research, until it's proven beyond belief. Obvious doesn't cut it from a scientific standpoint. Noticing something, and proving something are two different things. And mutually agreeing upon the findings is also something else. Consciousness is a central concept for people, and so, there are many ideas surrounding it - human and non-human consciousness alike.
Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
CSS can certainly be performant but you need to be aware of what can trigger reflows, which will absolutely destroy your performance. Cascading reflows are horrible.
> some say the technology should be banned due to the difficulty of working out how someone may be feeling from audio or video

I see this red herring all the time in reporting. The problem isn’t that it’s unreliable. That will probably change in the future. The problem is, I don’t want to be spied on. Period. The fact that it’s inaccurate only adds insult to injury.

Ubiquitous surveillance in Xinjiang didn’t become more acceptable as their facial recognition tech got more accurate.
Yeah good point! We’re covering everything in plastic. The Sherwin Williams logo was more honest than we ever wanted it to be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin-Williams#/media/File...
Probably not but you still need to have someone to someone to communicate with even if you manage to install it. If you can't get it on the mainstream app stores it will just be a niche app for "privacy nerds" and drug dealers (in the EU at least..)
Another caveat is that if your workflow requires dealing with complex text layout on a regular basis (e.g., Asian languages), Affinity suite support for it is pretty much non-existent. For example, lack of a working right-to-left support, no vertical text support for CJK, broken tone markers handling in Thai layout, lack of complex word-break for any languages that is not space-based, etc.

Sadly, Adobe is still the only option in the market for this.
> good netizen

The rules dictating what this means change over time as context changes. And this is definitely one or the largest shifts since the advent of the www.

> Absolutely not.

OK, but it seems in that case you'll have to delist from search engines and any other place where an LLM may get a preview of what a link that a human gave it is about. And there's likely a spiral here, as as you remove content references from more access points, fewer humans will come across them leading to fewer LLM-based queries, so you'll definitely get your wish. Just not the way you envisioned.

The LLM may hallucinate at times, but many including myself find the pros outweigh the cons, and will increasingly gravitate toward using such services for an increasing variety of tasks. This is the evolving state of the internet.
I am being no ruder than you are, more or less.

> because it's very much not

I don't expect to change the mind of someone who thinks that addition and defining a vector are the same thing. You've just redefined generally common terms and then started accusing people of being uneducated for not sharing your own eccentric definitions. Poor show.
Ask HN: Exploring technical writing applications of AR/VR, what hardware to buy?
Hi HN, I'm a technical writer. I'd like to explore building "technical communication experiences" with AR/VR. E.g. overlaying instructions on top of your screen while you fix an engine. What hardware should I buy? Are there any huge players in this space already?
I also blame the victim in this situation. Victim blaming isn't always an automatic dismissal for any argument.
The only way is to have a broad-based idea among the people about exactly what is allowed for a government and a big business.

There's a strong and widespread expectation among many that it's morally imperative for them to be able to elect their own government. So any moves by the government to limit this will be met by fierce resistance.

If a similar idea existed about privacy, these sneaky moves wouldn't be feasible and would leave a bad taste in the mouths even of the perpetrators.
Unfortunately, many among us are of the "But I've got nothing to hide" persuasion.
Frontend development is the most quickly revolving cycle of enshittification I know of.
I think this is entirely it - and while we are still reliant on animals for meat and food production, they are no longer made to toil to anywhere near the degree they once were in the developed world, and so this has allowed a shift in our sensibilities.

As you say, it’s a practical issue. In much the same way as esteemed 19th century scientists argued that black people, brown people, Irish people, women, were not truly people, as this made for an easier moral justification for ill-treatment, slavery and genocide, they argued that animals were also insensate simulacra, only giving the appearance of life - for again, it is harder to beat and enslave a living, feeling, thinking being than it is a dishwasher.

Much of what we take as straightforward facts of reality are actually just old, bad ideas, and only in the cold light of the morning after do we start to see the error of our ways in the dark that came before.
LG & Samsung are South Korean companies, not Chinese, so they aren't a target (yet).
https://libredirect.github.io/

LibRedirect has an automatic Fandom redirect option, so if someone sends you a fandom link, or you otherwise click one without realizing it, you won't wind up on fandom. You still give the analytics that you clicked a fandom link to whoever served you the link though.