skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning "pasta fazool" into a real product was a stroke of genius. Excellent essay on an undiscovered person! But would their research published into the blank space on Wikipedia be greeted with "this article lacks sources/ link context"?

It was okay to compliment women positively on their 'looks' in news articles in the 1950s who ever they were. It was even okay to use that in a teaser vignette of an article, the opening part that is to capture readers. Or a photo caption.

The author claims to find this depressing, but I'll wager Betty Ossola did not. No crime was committed here, and the publicity helped her brand. Even the silliest gaffe of all, a headline that crows that she has "has a Husband", seems something the Husband would rib her about and (nevertheless) was positive in nature. What if the headline said "is yet unmarried"? Still positive.

To find offense in historical things too often people have to imagine some entire upside-down world they think would have been a better world, and imagine that many things that are the result of what they perceive as 'comments of negative value' simply rather have been left unsaid. A lot of positivity in the world simply not there, and people just didn't say as much in that pretend-world.

"The past is a different country, people do things differently there." ~ L. P. Hartley

The present depresses me sometimes as well. There has always been a cultural contingent that follows the First Lady as a fashion icon and even an independent spirit and even awards self-praise for the idea for disconnecting their attention to her with the husband's politics. And follows her charity outreach and autonomous actions. It actually expresses respect for women with these political confines.

All until Melania Trump. The first First Lady it was okay to hate and to ignore. And she received attention (and out of context misreporting) for wearing a shirt that said "I don't care, do u?" which was directly about the media phenomenon that was so sudden in our history. She felt personally stung by it and still holds her head high. And she has the 'looks' too!

I would like to see if Betty Ossola can become a Wikipedia article, I'll work on it in my spare time.
Android is an option, IPhone is an option. Same rules for all market participants.
Please don't repost comments like this—it makes merging threads a pain. I've moved the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773909 now as part of merging the threads.

One helpful thing people can do is let us know at hn@ycombinator.com that there are threads that need merging. That's how I found out about all these ones.
Here's something [1]. Data on the car market makeup by year is from here [2]. I only used the data for every 5 years because it is in a stacked line chart and I had to turn it into a table by measuring the heights of the various sections and lack the patience to do it for every year [3].

I omitted pickups and vans/minivans because the pickup share hasn't varied much and vans/minivans have a small share and including them made the graph too hard to read. Here are the shares in table form so you can mentally add them back if you wish.

Minivans Sedans
& Truck Car &
Pickups Vans SUVs SUVs Wagons
1975 13% 4% 2% 0% 81%
1980 13% 2% 2% 0% 83%
1985 13% 6% 4% 0% 78%
1990 13% 9% 4% 2% 72%
1995 15% 11% 7% 2% 65%
2000 15% 7% 17% 4% 57%
2005 13% 7% 19% 4% 57%
2010 11% 4% 22% 9% 54%
2015 11% 4% 28% 9% 48%
2020 15% 2% 37% 11% 35%
2023 17% 2% 46% 11% 24%

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/pedestrian-death-rates-car-market-...

[2] https://www.theautopian.com/heres-the-exact-year-suv-sales-o...

[3] Yes, I first tried ChatGPT. It was able to turn the chart into a table, but it too only did every 5th year, and some of its numbers were quite a bit off.
Adding two numbers, each having 100 digits? Reciting the fractional part of Π on and on? I have only seen that done by talented people appearing in TV shows. Seems AI.
That's not propaganda, it's run-of-the-mill clickbait. The clickbait is unfortunate, but the previous version provided more information that the Wikipedia page, including photos.
Show HN: Discord user-bot library that can create accounts and join servers
Hey HN,

I've been working on this JS library to operate Discord user accounts without browser emulation. It has a lot of features most other user-botting libraries don't, such as the ability to create accounts, join guilds, and send friend requests. Usually those API's are protected, but by making an HTTP client that mimics browser behavior, along with a lot of reverse engineering, I was able to bypass their security.

I've been deveoping it on and off for a few years now, and I would love to hear your feedback!

You can check it out here: [https://github.com/Sopur/Discord-user-bots](GitHub - Sopur/Discord-user-bots)

Thanks!
We're far from the 2018-2021 levels of ridiculousness though, the hypebeat market has taken a big hit. Grey market watches as well.

Birkins haven't.
>Is it not still a simple matter of cost? An attacker who can 51% Blockchain has enough money to overcome resource scarcity walls of any construction.
LispWorks, I change the interpreted code:

CL-USER 63 > (defun foo (a) (print 'hey) (print a))
FOO

CL-USER 64 > (foo 'jack)

HEY
JACK
JACK

CL-USER 65 > (function-lambda-expression 'foo)
(LAMBDA (A) (DECLARE (SYSTEM::SOURCE-LEVEL #<EQ Hash Table{0} 81D03EFF03>)) (DECLARE (LAMBDA-NAME FOO)) (PRINT (QUOTE HEY)) (PRINT A))
NIL
FOO

CL-USER 66 > (fifth *)
(PRINT (QUOTE HEY))

CL-USER 67 > (setf (fifth (function-lambda-expression 'foo)) '(print 'hello))
(PRINT (QUOTE HELLO))

CL-USER 68 > (foo 'jack)

HELLO
JACK
JACK
That's a good rule. I need to follow it. My rule is, I'm a rebaser, I will destroy your remote so one of use should rename local branches.
DOE Releases Definition of 'Zero Emissions Buildings' [pdf]
Big fan of add -p for atomic commits. Not sure why it isn't discussed more.
The desktop is kind of a different space, though.

Most of the paid apps I've ever used on MacOS are well-known and cross-platform -- the kind of thing where you'd go to the developers website directly by name. So, of course the developer is going to guide those people down a path where they get all the revenue.

And the users of FOSS apps are overwhelmingly the people who will download a DMG from GitHub releases, and change their security settings to install it -- so why bother?

But for everyone else -- the $4.99 apps that aren't household names -- the App Store is probably where these are most often purchased. Although I doubt this market is very large on the desktop -- most people just use a browser and maybe some well known software that would have come in a box 20 years ago.
Fun project -- although the GPD Pocket 1 and GPD Pocket 2 fulfill this niche at a more enterprise level. I am a happy user of a GPD Pocket 2 which I use to run Zotero, mainly, to read while traveling or standing in line doing errands.

Certainly more expensive though.
> I will buy a reliable car sight unseen like I bought my big screen t.v.

A few years back I was convinced I wanted a certain model Hyundai (Elantra), researched the hell out of it, figured I didn't even need to test drive as I had owned the previous model. Got to the dealership, sat in the drivers seat and found there was no headroom. I'm not that tall, but the new model was so "aerodynamic" (swept back windshield) that it felt claustrophobic. I bought another model (Sonata).
Sadly, we still lack risk assessments posed by human exposure to micro and nanoplastics which makes it hard to know how bad this is to us.
He's def a good source, but, he said that "cybersecurity" is the new buzzword of the year, replacing "AI" and "Digital Retailing"[0].

When you talk security to most dealerships, it's about protecting the assets that are on their floor plan -- the vehicles -- not necessarily anything else. Most places have tried to take steps that prevent their sales folks from walking out with their customer book, but, that's the extent of most of their information security needs.

--

0: https://x.com/GuyDealership/status/1803421101713715290
AppStore is not Target. At best it's a mall.
Is that an embedded device with a small address space? APE used to require a 47bit address space. The release I published today fixes that. Maybe give it another try?
> > Grouping Series of Posts

> Yes, though I might argue that such links, or a link to a ToC page for the group, belong in a more general list of related links.

Indeed, in the salad days of HTML there was some way to put related page-links in the <HEAD/>, and Sir Tim's browser displayed UI that enabled navigation via them.

Unfortunately that feature was already lost by the mid-1990s.
https://archive.today/wWWI1
Please don't repost comments like this—it makes merging threads a pain. I've moved the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773332 now as part of merging the threads.

One helpful thing people can do is let us know at hn@ycombinator.com that there are threads that need merging. That's how I found out about all these ones.
what about CRDTs and live collaboration? :hides:
Point taken. Altho I'm sure an AI could take a stab at building a corpus. Accuracy maybe better than 90% ?
Visa and Mastercard do very explicitly allow cash discounts.

https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/d...

What they didn’t allow previously was adding a surcharge to credit transactions. But regulation forced them to allow that as well. So not the best example overall.
I think it would unethical if the participants in the study were asked not to take any other antivirals.

In that case, someone at high risk for HIV infection could be prevented from getting treatment because of the study protocol. The ethical solution, which the authors of the study chose, was to provide the highest standard of care as the placebo - in this case it was Truvada.

Since the treatment was actually even more effective than the existing standard of care, it was a home run success. Their conclusion is even stronger than it would be if they used a non pharmaceutical placebo, so in retrospect their decision was clearly correct.
Another plausible (and less sinister) explanation is that pharmaceutical invention and discovery has accelerated since the 1990s and more applications are being submitted to FDA every year that requires more staff to process them in a timely fashion.
It would be lovely if Kani and/or Prusti could cope with more realistic code, but they are where my current hopes lie in eliminating the verification gap. The proof is built from (very!) simple functions written in a subset of Rust. If that manages to get to you all the way to the end result, then there was no gap.

https://github.com/model-checking/kani

http://prusti.org/
Love those "WIP" or "" commits.
Please don't post low-quality overgeneralizations to HN. There are plenty of anti- stories about every $BigCo.
> The true power of AI is unlocked when it when it knows about your specific context.

AI could certainly help to proofread this article.
I was considering getting a GPD device. Did you install Linux on it?
You’ve driven a lot of car models yet you wouldn’t know how to compare handling?

That claim seems disingenuous, in order to serve up a point.

You most certainly would be able to differentiate and compare.

Your point wouldn’t stand though would it?
Lars Wirzenius would like to review your README
so was I, and HP and AIX a bit too (Urbana-Champaign college of engineering, for a couple years)
> If so many people were buying non-FDA approved drugs that drug-makers stopped pursuing FDA approval, I think that would be quite indicative that there are some serious issues with the FDA process. At a minimum, that would demonstrate severe system mistrust

Or, it might indicate a financial incentive to get consumers to mistrust a barrier to profit. People in the aggregate are not the most rational actors, in no small part due to information asymmetry. Self interest does not necessarily yield optimal or even good results.

For example, take the new trend of waiving inspections when purchasing homes to outcompete other buyers. This is legally allowed in some places and is getting more common in places where it's a seller's market and there's lots of potential buyers.

Now I'm not so pompous enough to think that even after reading a few articles or books that I can reliably tell structural damage from easily repairable shoddy work. At least not enough that on a million dollar home purchase, I could risk being out of a home for a while or a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

But there are some buyers for whom this is not an impediment: ones who have enough capital that a bad house or two wouldn't make a big dent in their bottom line, and ones who don't truly understand the kind of risk they're taking and think they have a decent deal on their hands.

The result is that waiving inspections to buy homes is the new standard to be able to compete as a buyer at all, meaning there is now incentive to not fix serious issues in homes or even patch over them to make them less visible. Financial incentive for selling a better product reduces because the bad ones will sell. Quality of homes on the market goes down. Meanwhile those who can compete to buy the better deals are now a smaller population, but they still need homes. Price efficiency goes down because on average people are buying worse homes for more money.
They are relatively fine there if the window is missed, right?
Car dealerships exist in what is probably the most favorable regulatory environment of any business. It's a side effect of owners of car dealerships often being the wealthiest people in a locale, and being politically active. If you look up donations to your local and state politicians, you'll probably find several of the largest donors have last names that happen to match that of the local Ford or Chevy dealership network.

They have rules that protect them from competition from manufactures, rules that protect them from them from competition from other dealerships (i.e., Ford can't allow a dealership to open across the street from one they don't like), in many states, there are special rules for inheriting a dealership.
I was recently looking at a 15 year old manual for an appliance. It had a sales recepit attached. Despite being put inside some papers, in a plastic case and then in a binder (kept in the closet)... the recepit just evaporated. The print is nearly invisible.

Is that done on purpose?
I agree (though I don’t know if you agree with me)!

I think this post captures what I’d expect from hacker news quite well. A cool single person project messing around, creating something a community can enjoy.

What I don’t like are these weird doom mentality discussions over AGI (as an example), they just make me cringe really badly.

Then again I really can’t complain, all in all I love Hacker News, great topics, great comments!
It is a compilation of many great ideas. Thanks for putting it together. For my needs table stakes are lower, but as inspiration as well as aspiration certainly.
It's repeated again and again among hackers that Apple is a monopoly. While selling less devices than their biggest competitor. While having a much smaller install base for their OS than Android.

> They want to maximize their revenue, just like any other company and there is absolutely nothing else to it.

Oh, I had no idea.

> You don’t get to pick and choose which features do you want and most people don’t really care.

What? Iphones have been around for more than a decade, it's well known among customers how they work and there are plenty of options from other manufacturers.

Any store that can will take a cut from producers, whether that is a physical store like your local supermarket, or a digital store like Apple's.

The question is why Apple users are so much more willing to spend money on software than users of other platforms, and why hackers hate that so much? How much money can an independent or boutique developer earn from Linux or Windows users, compared to Apple users?
anyone know the cross streets?
Future me advocates are the best advocates.
You can save your password on Steam. You can also set games to not automatically update.

Steam and Valve are are pretty popular, in the absolute wasteland that is game launchers and gaming companies. Steam starts up reasonably quickly, and has pretty well thought out functionality for things like playing with your friends. Valve has nice sales, and contributes stuff like Proton (a nice wrapper around/extension of Wine, for Linux support).

That said, I think everyone who likes Steam/Valve should be able to imagine how you feel about it. Because that’s probably how they feel about stuff like the Epic launcher, and all those. It really ought not be that mysterious, we’ve all got different thresholds for what annoys us!
Both? I've seen UDP and TCP treated as interchangeable. They're not, even though in many cases the APIs involved make it seem that way. Choosing datagrams and unreliable transport vs. streams and reliable transport affects the rest of the protocol design and behavior, whether the designer wants it to or not and whether the implementer considered the consequences or not.
Thanks, feel free to email me if you can dig up anything or ever want to spitball ideas. Email address is in my profile.

I've poked around lightly and didn't see anything vis a vis holographs, but I'm going to do a second pass - someone has to be onto this path in some paper somewhere.

No evidence whatsoever, just intuition.

If Alice and Bob are both cetaceans, communicating via underwater acoustics, what are they trying to say to each other? And do they understand each other?

I guess my thought is that non-symbolic communication in the black and seamless sea implies something more.
Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefits
Social networks scale because of the social component, not the network component. Beyond commodity technology, technology mostly gets in the way.

It's hard to beat "friends chat" for decentralization. And it's hard to beat Facebook for centralization.

Good luck.
It's thermal printing, they heat the paper to turn it black, but if you store it somewhere warm the chemical reaction can reverse.
> at what point does it get consistent enough to be its own 'thing'

Traditionally, when it has its own army. (navy optional)

[several years ago I was told the peacekeeping operations in Kosovo were all organised in "bad english"]
Oh, I would love to see DMCA/RIAA/(whatever) vs AI. Don’t interrupt your enemies when they fight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/24/social-se...
Congrats on launching! The project definitely looks interesting - I am going to bookmark it for the next time I re-organize my notetaking approach.

Question from a security perspective: How much freedom are you giving people in the javascript code that gets run on the add-on publish functionality that gets hosted on znote.io? How would you handle users abusing it to create abusive material (i.e. using it as a more reputable url to redirect to a phishing page or other malicious page)?
The CEO has to answer to shareholders when it comes to keeping his job and to legislators when it comes to abiding the regulations in every market. It's a tough act to follow if you try to maximize shareholder returns while also trying to stay out of prison.
> feels more elegant

Yet, it's not.

That kind of elegance ends up in application level implementations like STARTTLS and socket data becoming unusable on the middle of a connection while both parties scramble to decide what to throw away and what to interpret. It does really look like the real thing, but it's decoupling things that are very coupled by definition.
They also banked plenty of English gold too :-) That's what "neutrality" means; you are not neutral if you refuse to do business with one of the warring parties.
What sort of enforcement mechanisms are in place if you don't register your encryption with ANSSI? In other words, if you ignored them what could they do? Would they even give a shit?
Yes. Worst case, they will have to take a Dragon or Soyuz home.
5 years ago I wanted to make animated visuals for music videos / light shows. I got the initial version quite quickly. You could make a composition of shapes and had some functions like swap these two components every 2 beats, rotate this one every 4, etc.

That got me thinking about the structure of language, how to model space-time and essentially how to build a programming language capable of building visuals through time similar to how one how would build functions in lambda calculus.

I spent countless hours on this and its become an obsession. I have hundreds of pages of scribbles and built 20 implementations trying to approach the problem another way, got stuck somewhere and restarted. Im closer than when I started but I am burnt out. I really wanted to build a sensible prototype but short of that I just feel like I'm nuts and its all close to worthless.
This is the main reason why I don't use Netflix or other services. It sucks when I'm in the middle of watching a movie and the quality drops significantly. Maybe things have changed, but I really wished there was an option to control buffering and force certain resolutions. I'm willing to wait longer for a movie to start playing if that means higher quality. The fact they remove that choice is why I prefer to obtain media by other means.
The author of the linked article (and Kajiya) quit Embark to work on an indie title with his wife around mid 2022 if memory serves me right.
But we don’t know that and call me naive, but I see this as something that is done on a very small scale, by people who booked a “dropship” on his website. I don’t think you’ll find even a single of those hats in streets around his apartment. The humor is my flavor, and most of the imagine this as a viable product I take as such humor.
Apple doesn't legally deserve a privileged position there, because they are legally equal to any other payment processor that wants to be the "only one". Apple has no more right to be the "only one" than a competitor does.

Their spite fee for alternative payment processors being almost equal to their own payment processor fee, though, kinda shows their goal is just money anyways.

Having said that, I don't think figuring out how to use Apple Pay and Paypal is that hard. My friends use all kinds of payment processors.
I think horizontal progress bars are annoying but I think I'm fine with vertical progress bar to the side on heading navigation, highlighting the currently reading sub-heading.
Again, thanks for missing my point.
Many of these thermal and carbon transfer receipt printers have poor ink/print life. I doubt it was done on purpose as most of these systems are sold by 3rd parties to retailers. I'm sure the issue has been raised but then they willing thought to themselves, yeah actually this benefits us, let's just "pretend to ignore" the issue.

More modern retailers are offering receipt-email options which is the option I choose if available, that way I have a "permanent" record of the transaction. I recently did some old taxes from 7 years ago and this feature was invaluable as most online portals no longer offered the records.
Now this is what I come to HN for. Did you go looking for this report, or did you already know these were uploaded to the internet archive?
What terminology would you use instead to differentiate it from a SaaS solution?

Someone suggested "self-operated" elsewhere in the thread. Thoughts?
Not likely. It's just a technical limitation of thermal paper. That's the trade-off for cheap, tiny form factor, fast, and low maintenance printing.
What is Kubernetes, and why is it so important?