skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My highschool had a lab of these in the early 90's. I would spend every lunch hour up there. Got my first exposure to a unix command line, although the commands were slightly different, ie. frel -> rm.

I eventually figured out a few ways to give myself root. The passwords in the password file were not hashed. First method was to spoof the login prompt. Ran it remotely from another computer on another computer that I knew the teacher would always log into. Once I succeeded in getting root's password, I put another method into one of the boot up scripts which would copy the password file somewhere else if another file was present. All I had to do then was just reboot a computer to get root's password. Later I was able to figure out the memory location where the group and user number was stored by comparing the memory dumps while being logged in as various users. Then I just needed to poke those memory locations, start a new shell, and I was root.

It's a shame that these computers have kind of disappeared. They are a part of computing history, for Ontario at least. I've contacted a few people online that still have hardware. Everyone seems to be unwilling to share what they have.

To preserve the history, I think it would help if they could be emulated. Even a modern web browser probably possesses enough computer power to emulate them. They ran on a 286, at least the early ones did.
That's true. I'm not even going to argue that guardrails are bad on balance, I'm just dispositionally against them if I can't turn them off (to Windows's credit, you can disable UAC). If this goes away when you disable SIP, that's fine.
The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990)
Kratos is geared towards enterprises and less developer-friendly. We integrate very closely into the tech stack that we currently target, which is Next.js + Postgres, and want to make setup as straight-forward as possible.

I would say we are to Ory what Clerk is to Auth0.
Do yourself a favor and do not use a Pi for web development, it's way too slow for that. I knew that the Pi was slow when I got myself one (Pi 400) but I didn't think it would be THAT slow. Returned it the next day, barely usable. Better to only use a Pi for non-graphical stuff.
> Are you referring to the opt-in system of surveillance which insurance companies use to monitor driving (install our app/plug our device into your OBD port)?

Not the person you're replying to, but yes, absolutely stuff like that. (I think GP was talking about drone surveillance and stuff like that, but sure, we can talk about this too.)

The problem is that people are being coerced into giving up their privacy and autonomy. In this particular case, the coercion is (as usual) money: you presumably get a discount for letting your insurance company spy on you. I expect, though, that ultimately the insurance companies use these things as justification to charge more on average. Let's face it: most people are not particularly good drivers. That's a problem, certainly, but not one that should or will be solved by a company with a profit motive. Some people will drive within whatever arbitrary, poorly-understood parameters that makes the insurance company's algorithms happy, but most probably will not, and will likely see their premiums go up, but not realize why.

And even if this did actually result in lower premiums on average (for the people who opt into this dystopia), it's still a problem, because the implication is that only rich people are allowed to have privacy.
If the verifier can prove to itself that a loop is bounded, it'll accept it. A good starting place for eBPF itself: if a normal ARM program could do it, eBPF can do it. It's a fully functional ISA.
I assure you, that many tabs can certainly happen with the standard horizontal tab bar..

I have a similar amount regularly, and have never tried vertical tabs. I did recently start using all tabs helper though.
Thinking back to high school and college, the biggest issue with I had math in both is how it's frequently taught in absence of practical examples. Speaking personally (though I believe there are many who feel similarly), there's a need to see real world examples to develop a true grasp on new concepts in any reasonable amount of time, for reasons related to both motivation and intuition.
I've told my child, 7, that when he completes the original Super Mario Bros he can get a switch and play mario-kart. He consistently gets to the end of 8-2, so he's damn close, and he loves the game! Though he has a slight preference for Kirby, also on the original NES.

Most of his friends seem to be obsessed with Minecraft, and Ultimate Chicken Horse, to the extent that when he had a friend over I overheard him saying "Mario is old, but it's still fun!" in Finnish.

So I guess there's hope for me yet :)
No they’re not.

Tabs are tabs, they’re not windows. Next thing you tell me is that they should implement virtual desktops and loading tabs remotely.

They are already tiny window managers, and may as well lean into it.
> They’ve now independently played through Pokémon Shield, which is vaguely set in Britain, if Britain were comprised entirely of castles, villages and London.

I dunno, sounds about right to me.

I wonder what it is about games that grab some kids but not others. I was hooked from the very first time I saw Mario on my dad's NES at about age 4. Tons of other kids in the same age and same situation shrugged and gave it a pass.
Hand 386 Delivers a "True 386 Processor" in a Handheld
Both Gemini and ChatGPT gave quite detailed answers showing the input values, the intermediate calculations, the assumptions made. I chose to only give the final result here. But see another comment from me with details.
It's entirely because the demand for replacement parts cannibalizes the demand for new refrigerators. If they can sell you a plastic shelf for $100 with a 99% margin, for them that's like selling you half a refrigerator.
Can you provide evidence to this? Every new prescription I have gotten for glasses through my entire life has been too strong and required my eyes to basically degrade to be correct. Avoiding getting new prescriptions too often is pretty much the only reason my eyes are okay.

An optometrist cannot see through your eyes, so they use that lens comparing machine and ask you "which is better", and that leaves plenty of room for the patient to bias the results towards "different from normal is 'Better'", such that they vastly bias their new prescription upwards. Even if every optometrist is thinking about that and purposely downgrading the results of that flow, that could still provide room for the ratchet effect of eye prescriptions that many people with glasses have experienced.
To paraphrase Henry Spencer, "Those who dislike C++ are condemned to reinvent it, poorly".
Yeah, well isn't that implied by 'solidly amateur'?
As far as I know, this notation and terminology is still very standard.

In some ways I like the idea of replacing traditional indexing with something more like the Einstein summation notation, and moving away from the arbitrary feeling that you get around how matrix multiplication is structured, and provide an immediate route into tensor theory.

But so many things that are very important in linear algebra, like matrix inverses, are awkward to express in this notation.
Am I misreading the architecture diagrams or is this going to be the largest MITM scenario in history?
You are correct - if a workflow/agent company starts bundling data and API access - they'll multiplicatively increase the capability of their agents.

LLMs themselves are becoming a commodity, plus or minus prompt-following/format-following growing pains. In a year or two, we'll have pretty decent general LLMs that can make use of databases and tools/APIs.

It's a race to see who can integrate all these things in a good way. It really is an execution problem, not an idea problem - it's so obvious.
Roger Zelazny's "The Graveyard Heart" does this. It's effectively one large party over centuries.
France catches rivals in battle for data center supremacy
I'd suggest preparing a comparison table on the home page, at least against open source competitors, to help prospects decide. You emphasize completeness (authz + authn), and simplicity here:

The dominant player in this space is Auth0, who appeals to enterprises but lags behind in developer-friendliness and has strong vendor lock-in. A newer one is Clerk, which markets directly to devs, but is still entirely proprietary. Open-source solutions like Supabase Auth or Auth.js/NextAuth are only authN, and don't provide the rest of the toolchain.

Your pricing seems multi-tenant friendly. What other differentiating factors can you think of?
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41193508
This is very informative. Thank you for the explanation.
> Interesting, but boiling all of our water would use a lot of energy.

All of our water - yes.

All the water needed for direct consumption and cooking - a rounding error.
Worked in Paris for a year, great work environment, wonderful work/life balance and benefits, smart co-workers, shit pay.
Always interesting to see new takes on natural-language-to-code projects. Let me know when I can build Android apps!
This is beautiful!

It reminds me that there are indeed real people making and sharing themselves on the Internet.
In theory yes — actually, we already are an OAuth provider behind the scenes — though we haven't documented this anywhere yet. What would you use it for?
One of the games that it turned out my dad loved, but that I randomly stumbled on here on HN first is Star Control II, or in this case the open source remake of it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925538

Was absolutely surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I think the late 80s and 90s are a particularly timeless period given how much strength there often was in the artistic direction. To me a lot of stuff from the early 2000s actually holds up less well.
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194045
Yes, there's humans in the loop for the knowledge graph. I'm unsure if snippets are reviewed in the same way.
Which is exactly why they will try to bully you into quitting rather than fire you in jurisdictions with strong firing compensation/protection regulation.
> Why? Because for some software, I think it’s worth it. Take 1password, for example. To me, it’s a piece of software that just works across multiple devices and takes the hassle out of managing passwords.

I am with you. I pay for software because it just works and solves a problem and I can justify the cost.

1password
iCloud 200GB
Jetbrains Full Suite

I've been using these for more than 10 years. From the time they were pay per version (excluding iCloud of course) till they become subscription. They just make my problem go away so I just pay for it.

I am sure I can string together open source and free version but I just don't have the time and energy to wire them together and maintain them.

I also know Apple is offering their own "cross" platform password manager but at this point, I don't feel like moving off 1pass.
... but we can determine left and right via the chirality in chemistry? sugar water in a tube has a 'right-handed' chirality (where it twists polarized light to the right)...

"left is the handedness of the rotation of the neutrino"

Steve Mold and 3b1b have videos on the subject.
Why don’t they lay out browser tabs the full width of the window in a vertical accordion so long webpage titles (usually containing more than 100's of characters) can be completely visible at glance?
Fed-up New Zealanders are flocking to Australia for better pay
For some reason, I just remembered that OS/2 put window tabs on the side. Though looking at a screenshot now [1], I didn't remember it was done in a skeuomorphic, 3D way, which definitely takes away from their usefulness. Still, what's old is new again.

1. https://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/c82422/c82422rf/ima...
Unreleased products for example
Or parents who understand you can't just pause a multi-player game.
The fear of insufficient calories to survive is all but eradicated. Obesity is the new marker of poverty.

Agreed on lack of housing, which is largely due to progressive local governments preventing the construction of new housing. Housing is far more plentiful and cheaper in red states.

Agreed on health. Replace the US system wholesale with one of the many more successful models in other countries. Ironically, our existing government run programs are already better in terms of cost and quality than private insurance.

Recent unemployment rates reflect essentially full employment.

So a mixed bag.
CVE-2024-42219 for 1Password 8 for Mac
I learned arcade games in the early 1980's mostly by watching someone else play. When a new game showed up, I would typically watch people play for at least a couple hours before putting a quarter up. I wasn't rich.
The point of the example is that there are plenty of things that have no benefit at all, and in fact have obvious downsides that everyone knows about. However, there is an immense amount of marketing around those things to try to make them seem "cool" and minimize their perceived harm. People get addicted to these things, and struggle to stop consuming them even when they know they're literally dying from it.

No one in their right mind would ever give their kids Oreos for breakfast, but somehow advertisements make people feel comfortable giving them Oero O's. Any person of sound mind would say that giving that to your kids as a meal is neglect, but people do it, and it's "normal". This is the harm that marketing is capable of.

Cookies are, in fact, not a part of a complete breakfast. Evidently, you can convince people that they are by just repeating the message thousands of times to them. I don't see how the people who are involved in making those ads (or the products) can live with themselves. Convincing people to e.g. set their kids up for a life of obesity and early T2 diabetes from poor dietary habits is pure evil, and that's just one example of horrible (yet completely mundane for them) things marketers do.

Just imagine being a person who wakes up in the morning and thinks about how to best convince children to try ingesting poison[0]:

> Juul Labs, the vaping company that has long insisted it never marketed its products to teenagers, purchased ad space in its early days on numerous youth-focused websites, including those of Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network, Seventeen magazine and educational sites for middle school and high school students, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Massachusetts attorney general.

Everyone involved in something like that should be put in prison.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/health/juul-vaping-lawsui...
I have given some thought to a two-wheeled electric tractor for dealing with mud -- horse paddocks turn into basically a 1-foot deep slurry after heavy rain and it can be easier to deal with something small that sinks through the mud, down to solid ground than something using large floatation tires. Additional problem with large tires is that they tend to throw mud around, making everyone nearby even more dirty.

I haven't actually built anything (been paying attention to Taylor's work, though), but I came to the same conclusion that bike wheels & tires would probably be a good choice. It also doesn't hurt that we have many discarded kids' bikes all over the place.
Can he beat a bunch of NES or SNES games? Does he have to keep his Nintendo on all week so his friends can resume playing next weekend? DONT UNPLUG IT MOM!

Does he have a near impossible level where the one random neighborhood kid has to come over and beat it?

Did he have to buy GamePro or another magazine to understand how to beat something?

What about that one unintuitive Sonic level on Sega Gensis? The one where you had to press down or up, can’t remember but we’d always run out of time.

Don’t get me started on Battletoads or TNMT.

Kids these days have it easy. Mom, hang up the phone you disconnected my AOL and I need to beat Pokémon Red. Get off my lawn.
Those poor honey badgers.

That may sound like a punch line, but it is actually a serious point: our existence has externalities that need to be taken into account. If you're going to argue for the value of potential experiences that will never be had by old people because they die, then I think you also need to consider the value of potential experiences that will never be had by young people because they are never born since all available resources are being used in perpetuity by the lucky generation that came along just as the longevity technology matured.
Appreciate the feedback! We have the following in our GitHub README, which we should probably copy to our frontpage:

> # How is this different from X?
>
> Ask yourself about X:
>
> - Is X open-source?
>
> - Is X developer-friendly, well-documented, and lets you get started in minutes?
>
> - Besides authentication, does X also do authorization and user management (see feature list below)?
>
> If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then that's how Stack Auth is different from X.
oops. shouldn't try 'research' on my phone. thanks.

Incidentally, I'm sure it used to be possible to google search using InChI. Even using the InChI-Key now doesn't work super well it seems. I have to quote it to get this PubMed link:

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/46204539

which actually gives a link to the patent : "Compositions and methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases"
I just discovered my cherished Palm Pilot Pro has a dead screen. Might as well upgrade the internals.
> Apple is preparing two versions of the new Mac mini, both of which are codenamed J773. The first will use the base configuration of the M4 chip, similar to the component inside of the iPad Pro.

A lot of reviewers were knocking the iPad Pro and saying "why don't you bring this to the Mac". Well, they are - and I for one am excited.
Coal Is Cool Now
The sad state of vehicle sales has mostly to do with the outrageous increases in new car prices that go way beyond transmission of supply chain costs and dance right on in to price gouging territory. The prices still have not corrected to something sane according to the actual inflation curve.

The average price of a new car these days is $48K. This is insane. For that price tag to make any kind of sense at all, you have to have an income of nearly half a million per year. Median household income in the U.S. is around $75K meaning most of these households, if they're even purchasing a vehicle at all, would be buying used.

It would mean financial ruin to borrow two-thirds of your income for a car. The automakers have forgotten Henry Ford's lesson. He payed his workers enough so they could each afford the products he was selling. Our companies don't pay their employees enough to afford their products any more. <Surprised Pikachu!> Sales are down.
I'd imagine that just grabbing the reflective target and shooting it yourself on film would get decent results? Assuming the target patches have good spectral coverage
> retroactive justification

Oh I'm not "justifying" it, because I don't need to. This isn't that
conversation. I'm just remarking on a difference of culture over time
for those who are interested. As you say, there were no cellphones
back then, so a quite different world.
What is the crew up to on the station? Have they been assigned work to do since they are up there already and are rated astronauts, or are they just hanging around idle as supernumeraries?

I would hate to be in the latter camp and I imagine the kinds of people who take that kind of job would be like that too.
https://archive.ph/x7QCK
>low wages in Germany

Don't forget the absurdly high social expenditures and taxes. You only keep like 40% of your money and it's on track to get even worse.
I key, uhhh... Acquisition? ;)
When I've found myself on people-finder sites, very nearly all of the information they have about me is incorrect. So I prefer to leave it as is in the hopes that whatever data provider they're relying on will never correct their information.

If they're going to abuse me by buying and selling my personal information, I very much prefer for that information to be as error-ridden as possible.
It would seem you've made a rush to judgement in this case, Dan.

I'm patiently correcting people's broken narratives -- as kindly and magnanimously as anyone reasonably can, given, as in this particular case, the highly provocative and unsubstantiated statements they're making. While remaining direct, human and authentic (that is, without mincing words, or swathing them in undue or superficial gentleness -- considering the sometimes quite crass nature of what they've been saying).

That's all that's happening here.
I tried the auto tab discard extension but it didn't help for me. I occasionally force kill FF and have it recover the previous session when it starts up again. Same thing to not lose state when rebooting my computer.
I agree with this in theory, but I don't necessarily need the "real world"-ness.

A lot of the stuff you learn initially, about systems of equations and how they relate to the matrix inverse, are very interesting because it's clear how this can be applied.

But as you move forward into vector bases and change of coordinates there's a very long dry spell that you sort of have to slog through until much later when you start to see how it is actually useful. I'm not sure how to fix this -- maybe take a step back from the symbolic and do some numeric computations because that's where they start becoming useful again.
Considering that these are off-the-shelf Cortex-M designs I doubt that Raspi was able or would be allowed to do that. I'd expect most of the die to be the 512K SRAM, some of the analog and power stuff and a lot of it just bond pads.
Sentry...
Putin's justification essay[0] was before the Afghanistan withdrawal.

"It was published on Kremlin.ru shortly after the end of the first of two buildups of Russian forces preceding the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022."

If you think Biden's behavior encourages Putin's aggression, then surely you think Trump's is worse?

"You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?” Trump recounted saying. “No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Rus...
I clicked link expecting the likes of Defender and Joust. Nope.
You said EDIFACT - it'll cost more than you expect :)

You'll need to attract folks who care deeply about the space (yes, they exist, for some people logistics is fun), are seasoned software devs (the pool shrinks) and set them loose on the problem with as few restraints as possible.

Your best bet here is an approach that gives them a stake as well. Either as an external experiment with performance gates, or by founding a subsidiary that they co-own, or ... well, any number of solutions.

Yes, you won't be able to outcompete FAANG on salary, but you can outcompete them on autonomy. And a lot of experienced devs care about the latter part more. (Having made and saved a good chunk of big tech money)

Biggest issue will be vetting the people you find. If you don't have inhouse experience, either take an approach like davedx suggested, or reach out to somebody who has (hekker)
> Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?

I've been building advanced web apps for 14 years, and I'd happily spear-head something like this, especially for a field as "non-glamorous" as logistics. And I have a feeling there are many developers out there like me.