skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is WebTransport which is based on HTTP/3 (formerly QUIC), however it is not available in Safari (no surprise there) and also it does not support peer-to-peer connections.

WebRTC is available today in all browsers and supports peer-to-peer unreliable UDP.
The thing I worry about with replacement of SFSafariViewController is if the replacement will replicate its behavior of making each app's instance its own separate little world that keeps random apps from being to easily stick its hand into the "real" browser's cookie jar. It's certainly not in e.g. Google's interest to implement that behavior in Chrome for iOS.
Well, tcpdump is explicitely not what you want to do in this case as Moxie points out, but other than that i guess, yes, it's similar.
CaaS - Collusion as a Service
what... what did you doo...
It is insane the amount of money police officers and their pension funds get paid. Yet??
It depends on the setup.

Ideally, they're in a building and back-loaded, in which case, they might not even be closed on the backside. Because access to the back is secured.

But for other types of boxes, like outdoor boxes, there's usually another lock along the frame that causes the entire front (or back, depending) to swing open so the mail carrier can efficiently deliver to multiple boxes.
> it's easier to treat housing overall as a consumer good.

But it doesn't function like that.

Building the house isn't even the part that is the problem. It's land/space and how some people maintain monopolies on those.

A free market might make the materials and construction of a house cheaper. It address that space is limited and that most expensive space is often where there are more jobs.
I played through Sanitarium for the first time just last year, even though I saw the game for the first time more than two decades ago. It is a superb adventure, with an intriguing storyline that is unfolding in a satisfying pace. The environments are really creative and each one entirely different from the others, creating a very captivating atmosphere. Not many of today's titles are able to capture my attention as Sanitarium did. Kudos to the creators for this mastetpiece!
I grew up in tenements in Romania. So I can tell you from experience that building the bare minimum shelter for the most amount of people is possible (if less enticing than you may think). But the idea that they were anything other than "industrial" housing as OP states is ridiculous.

Regardless of who pays for it, housing modern peoples is an industry.
They could catch so many bad drivers (carpool lane violations and speeding mostly but lots of others too) but I see them do a sting about once every 3 years and then zero enforcement in between.

We as a society gave up on enforcing traffic rules. There are a few small towns that go overboard, then Wild West driving. Nothing in between in the Bay Area ime.

I’m getting angry. I’ve come across two wrong way drivers recently. And a woman walking on the high way at night and when I called they said “oh yea we’ve been getting calls” and that was it. Meanwhile the only time I’ve ever seen beat policing in my area was one time to question a minority walking. Apologies for venting.
Openvpn / Wireguard service is preferable, but for free: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

sudo apt install dnscrypt-proxy

sudo systemctl enable dnscrypt-proxy (or system service dnscrypt-proxy start|enable)

sudo mv /etc/resolv.conf ~/resolv.conf.bak

sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 127.0.0.1

#back up to dns over plaintext not recomennded if your dnscrypt-proxy service stops for whatever reason (enable in systemd, too lazy to write here)

#nameserver 1.1.1.1

sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Always use DoH / DoT (DNS over HTTPS / TLS)

in firefox, settings -> DNS in search select Max protection choose NexDNS, make a NexDNS account for further privacy/setting up your local DNS restrictions like ad/tracker blocks

or use cloudflare.

Cheap VPS proxy:

on a VPS, do said dnscrypt-proxy

ssh -D 8080 -i ~/.ssh/sshkey username@vps.server (always use SSH key auth, no passwords)

in firefox, set up proxy 127.0.0.1 8080 select 'Use DNS through proxy' - can set proxy settings at OS level to use DNS.

There's some options for you. Tailscale works, haven't tried it though.
Thanks, should have read the article. I stand corrected.
Anthropic and all the AI vendors need to implement "Login with ___" allowing users to trust sites to use their own AI resources, similar to how Dropbox allows 3rd party access to the User's storage. Most users don't want to bother with generating and loading API keys, nor can they manage it safely.
So the funding is usually for a "future" revenue. Ie to hit this goal. Imo if they had this revenue they'd be aiming for 10x that with a much higher valuation. VC funding is all about a growth story. If you can keep selling vision you never have to worry about revenues or hitting them. There's even a name for such schemes!
The point I was trying to make is that if we are indeed in a simulation, and I'm not saying that we definitely are, but if we are - one possibility to design such a simulation in a way to make it more efficient is to actually make computations depend on the observer, meaning that sorry, but in this case it would have conscious "woo" built in.

Just in the same way as that only visible from current perspective objects are being drawn on a frame of a 3D game.

Currently unobserved parts of the simulation might exist in different form.

It's okay to disagree with simulation theory, but it is a perfectly valid possibility according to everything we know.

Personally, I don't think it's the only possibility, but i think it's quite probable and should be taken seriously.
Honestly, I feel better if an author makes their personal biases known rather than try to conceal them beneath a facially impartial analysis. It naturally invites more scrutiny on the claims being made, but IMO it’s more intellectually honest to invite that scrutiny explicitly. Those with an axe to grind about any given topic who are reasonably rhetorically capable could write an ostensibly nonpartisan account which nonetheless leads readers to the authors preferred conclusion.
Amazing concept, love it
Exactly: prices are rising because there isn't enough supply to satisfy demand.

I have, in fact, rented in San Francisco. I rented from a small landlord in a building that had no A/C, no package room, no parking. I had to fix my refrigerator and shower mixer myself because she barely spoke English. But it was a cheap apartment! I also rented from a corporate landlord. It had a lot of amenities like a gym, a package room, and parking. But I paid a lot more for that apartment.
Buildspace Is Shutting Down
indie consulting is pretty small scale
Gynvael Coldwind made a great analysis about it: https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878681

xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
Who is instructing the AI to make an application, fix bugs and issue updates? Is the customer doing all this or the manager taking time out of their day? Are either of those really fit to figure out whether the app actually meets what the customer needs?

Seems like the software engineering role is still needed at the higher level, and that would still likely require some sort of framework to help make sense of what the AI is generating, so you can instruct it accordingly.
Me: Hi, my ADSL isn't working, I have line sync but no data.

ISP Support: Hi do you have a dial tone?

Me: No we don't have a land line phone at all and haven't for years

ISP Support: Can you please check your land line phone and let me know if you have a dial tone?

Me: I. HAVE. LINE. SYNC.

ISP Support: Yes but your line might not be connected yet. I need to know if you have a dial tone.

Me: ...

Me: drives 5km to the nearest shop that sells telephone handsets

Me: <twhoo hoours layter> YES. WE. HAVE. A. DIAL. TONE.

ISP Support: Okay so it looks like there's an outage in your area which is affecting your connection.
You need to find a reason why it would be better than the original or UT2004.
thankfully i just DM'd the mercury team and got a temp approval to deposit the 180k
At a certain point in this story, it felt like time to file the lawsuit. They basically stole the money and wouldn't give it back to the owner.
Prank or gift? The fact that we get an approximation to 3/2 in one of the best bases ever (12) is sort of a miracle.
FOSS website to flatten directories and repos for ChatGPT, Claude and others
I made a simple web UI for myself to easily flatten and select folder contents, recursively, for use in Claude Projects. It ended up being very useful there, amongst other places. I added another feature I wanted: pull directly from a GitHub repo so I can pull the /docs/ sections of projects I work with. I refactored it to be a static export (local/private), add a lot of hand-holding, and allow for GitHub fine-grained tokens for security reasons.

GitHub description below:

One-Click Folder Flattener is a dead simple client-side, private, web-based tool designed to simplify the process of recursively taking a directory and flattening all the files to a single folder without losing context. It was originally made to lessen the burden of having to navigate directories to add files to ChatGPT and Claude. It flattens your project file structure while preserving file relationships through prepending the directory location to the file name. Technically you have to select your files THEN it is one click. GitHub repositories can be pulled similarly in a single click with an optional access token.
You can technically just get any ol' VPS and install the respective/relevant software on it. Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS, I guess :)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

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I think this is sufficiently detailed?

https://lwn.net/Articles/967192/

But if there's a part that's still unclear, maybe there's another writeup somewhere that addresses it?
I've had a number of Amazon Echo devices in my household for years, using the platform as a smart home devices. But lately they've been opting each device automatically into new ad related features, and now I see "Sponsored" advertisements on my rotating home screens that are impossible to turn off.

I'm pretty close to removing them because there is literally no way to turn off these ads. I understood the privacy trade off for convenience of the platform, but to essentially see these have been turned into Amazon billboards in my home, that I paid good money for, is a step to far.

This is a classic case of the enshitification of a platform.
I have been burned by a bank (stagecoach in red field) very similarly.

I now only do my financial transactions with smallish credit unions. Big enough that they can have the services I need, but small enough that my business is a large-ish part of the Unions' business.

This works internationally, not just US or Europe. Most nations have some sort of a member-owned financial cooperatives, equivalent to credit unions.
Deus Ex and GMDX on top of this: heaven.
Another story about a startup and chase, from the person who founded hashicorp, it's a fun read:

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story

(edited since at first I remembered it being more negative about chase in particular -- but it's really just funny!)
One contributor is the fact that law enforcement rarely strikes but used their FOP and “union” organizations to slow, or sandbag work as a negotiation tactic. With membership that is largely unaccountable the blue wall is a political tool to leverage public funds by threat of crime and alternatively allowing or shutting down private unionization efforts.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-police-union-po...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapo...

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/06/police-unions-spend...

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/historic...
I've never used JP Morgan or Chase, but I recently inherited some stock. There was no way to transfer the stock in-kind to another brokerage, for some reason it needed to go from a JP Morgan account to another JP Morgan account. (I didn't want to cash the stock out immediately because I couldn't get info on the basis and what the capital gains taxes would be).

Anyway, sibling knew someone who worked at JP Morgan private bank and they were willing to do all the work so I said "sure".

Turns out Chase and JP Morgan are integrated on the backend but not Private bank. So the transfer couldn't go through.All in all this was 15-20 emails and multiple phone calls.

And then I was told to open a Chase individual investment account instead.

Not wanting to continue to burn time during work hours when I was super busy with a project, I drove 20 minutes to a Chase branch to open an account with an investment banker to make sure all went smoothly (instead of doing it online).

He couldn't open the account for me, couldn't get anyone on the phone, either. Turns out that the backend is connected enough with Private Bank that I had a profile in their system, but he couldn't "do" anything with it.

A few more emails and phone calls and the Chase investment banker sent me a link to open an account online. So I do that and let the banker that controlled the original stock account know the account details. But he still couldn't transfer the stock. That private bank profile still causing problems I guess.

I was given an 800 number to call private bank to get them to close the account. I spent about a half hour on hold before I hung up. I then contacted the banker I knew at Private Bank and informed him, he said he'd take care of it. Later that day he emailed me and said he had put in the order and I would get a confirmation.

I did get the confirmation but was informed it would take a few days. Once that was done I contacted the broker that controlled the stock account. He tried again, no dice.

He then decided to get licensed in my state so that he could create the account for me. That took another week or so.

And, I was told to close the Chase account. I did that, again, a couple days. By this time I'm 20-25 hours in with phone calls, emails, conversations with my siblings, have driven into the city twice, and so on.

Finally, after about an hour on the phone the next week, the broker creates my account and is able to execute the transfer. Of course, by this time the stock market had tanked and the stock had lost ~20% of its value, meaning I netted less than my siblings, and spent a ton of time.

What. A. Circus.
I guess, it's a user-mode debugger? Just curious, what is the sort of current choice for a kernel-mode debugger (beyond WinDBG)?
Long-long time ago, khe-khe, when trees were small, khe-khe, there was SoftIce to rule them all, but its long dead...
Like Manhattan? They've built a lot, and it's getting cheaper every year
I can see how this would be the natural response to a situation where the DA refuses to prosecute crime. That said, simply giving in to lawlessness is clearly not the answer, and I doubt many cops find this to be a preferable path. It just validates the DA's backwards worldview! How are you going to replace them when the elections roll around, and they're able to argue "I'm not refusing to prosecute anyone! Just look, arrests are way down!" The only way to keep them honest is to continue doing the work and ensuring that the taxpayers have a clear understanding of what is happening.
But the thing is that this isn't even the first jump in terms of making photo tampering easier - this has already happened in the past. Both naturally as these processes matured, but also when manual editing has been superseded by digital editing.

The introduction of digital photo editing (and especially making it accessible to everyone) also brought the skill floor down by several orders of magnitude. To my knowledge, people back then were also saying things akin to "you can't trust anything now". Before that point, you needed skills in working with physical photographs, and had to be a visual artist to some extent. It was a pretty niche skill set. Now, any random user can fire up some software and start doing things that used to be impossible or unthinkably hard, after just some hours of training. And that was just the beginning - photo editing became easier and more accessible over the decades to come.

So why didn't this "data collapse" happen then? I'm not saying it's impossible, but people in this comment thread are acting like there's some hard barrier in technological accessibility, before which everything is good and trustworthy, and after which there's apocalyptic consequences, permanent decay of trust, erasure of history, etc. Is it a barrier or a sliding scale? What makes people so confident that it's this exact development that will finally tip the scales for good? And if this was always bound to happen with our technology evolving, should we even fight back?
We love being fooled by fake imagery. Movies have done this for years -- sets only build the front of buildings, lights that have no relation to reality, and, of course, visual effects. Even films that you think have no CGI are building fake worlds that we love. Same is true for images and Photoshop. We just don't like being told it is fake because it breaks our beautiful internal vision.
It'd be nice if they released the code to their old DOS game catalog. Probably piles of 16 bit assembly but it'd still be nice (assuming they still have it)
But this isn’t a KYC issue and clearly escalating worked.

Any time I’ve ever had issues that weren’t resolved within 24hrs by t1 support I’ve sent a succinct, mostly emotionless email to anyone I could find and it’s worked every time. Phone companies, banks, hell even the government.
This shouldn't be a selling point, it should just be table stakes.
He has hated Musk since at least 2016 when he started publishing "analyses" on SeekingAlpha.com as "Montana Skeptic".

He was very often wrong, which didn't make him hate Musk less.
To stop people dying. Which they did and continue to do.
Who said you have to deal with a bank? That's not written into law, is it?

Try a credit union if you want to avoid banks.
Obligatory William of Baskerville quote

"Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men"
Diversify your banking. Every individual and business shoudl ahve at least two completely unrelated banks. I actualy reccomend one be a credit union. Ift gives you a fall back position to protect against this kind of situation.
In JavaScript, you can declare variables using let, var, and const. These keywords may seem similar, but they have key differences that can significantly impact how your code behaves. In this article, we'll explain the differences between them and help you understand when to use each one.
That doesn't pay. Pulling over a citizen with a job and citing them for speeding is a much more lucrative use of their time. Both are against the law, so they're doing their job either way. Kind of.

Although as another commenter noted, I've noticed they've become strangely lax about even citing moving violations since Covid. Makes you wonder what they are even doing, then.
It's pretty cool that I can read "anablibg" and know that means "enabling." The brain is pretty neat. I wonder if LLMs would get it too. They probably would.
Manhattan rents tanked during the pandemic, but rebounded pretty quickly after covid subsided. Supply and demand is such that prices may rise even if you build a lot of housing if there's even more people that want to live there. Big supply coupled with even bigger demand will still see prices rise.
If they have a different username here, it feels wrong to out them. If they wanted, they could have said it themselves. You could have thanked them without tying the username together in a way that is Google-able.
> they only have 12,000 clients

When you perform said Zillow or Craigslist search, do you settle for the higher end of the range of prices or the low end? Realpage only needs to manipulate a relatively small number of listings to have a huge impact in all rent prices.
Quake Live, Quake Champions both have some activity. I don't think either has the numbers for big onslaught maps like the good old days.
> If anything, most industrial products are supposed to get cheaper over time.

And yet the cost of housing more or less always increases. Isn't that enough to suggest that there's something about this "industry" that doesn't quite make sense the way it's handled?
I'll totally accept you're speaking just in the context of the USA but...

> The fact that some people actually truly believe "free government housing" is going to be "decent" is absolutely tragic

Council houses are fairly highly regarded in the UK (i.e. the property, in terms of space, light, build quality. The estates/tenants, not so much...). They also have a track record of maintaining them far better than private/social landlords - I can personally attest to that.

It is the large homebuilder companies that build truly awful, "tragic" homes, cutting every single possible corner imaginable for an extra penny of profit.
We have microplastics in our brains. At this point, meh.
It depends where you live. I get stuff left by my door or garage or in the mailbox all the time and I would absolutely hate it if signatures were always required or if I had to go somewhere to pick up a package multiple times a week.

I have rarely had things misdelivered and the neighbor has gotten it to me. It's just not a problem in a lot of places in the US.
You know what gets developers excited about building? Someone getting consistent 30% profit margins.

Now, government just has to get out of the way and let housing be built.
Yes they would be, or at least should be taken that way. Capitalism is supposedly best for everyone because competition between suppliers of a good or service drives prices down allowing the most people to afford those goods or services. The jerk talking about "avoiding a race to the bottom" is really saying "lets circumvent market forces to screw people out of money since we're too incompetent to provide actual value in the face of competition".
Bitbottle: An archive file format (in Rust)
A little additional background: iOS has used 16KB pages since the 64-bit transition, and ARM Macs have inherited that design.
Show HN: I made an AI headshot generator app
While I was experimenting with Flux, I stumbled upon a nice use case - professional headshot
I wanted to quickly validate this idea so I put some sample images and a payment link. It went instant viral with over 500k views and a lot of sales over night.

Link if you are curious: https://x.com/NithurM/status/1825066599822585937

I am handling all the orders manually till now to really understand user needs and get their feedback. But I hope I will eventually automate it. But I want to make sure the trajectory is right.

Please share your feedback. Thanks.
No, many of these building are way under 80% utilization.
Yeah, what's posted by you and other users so far is stuff I know, build scripts, injection, obfuscation. I'm more looking for a careful reverse engineering of the actual payload.
Most markets have many people making that claim, though. Those people have to compete against each other. Their pricing is also optional, where RealPage was basically forcing landlords to use their prices.

RealPage’s big issue is market penetration, though. They control pricing for enough of the housing stock to artificially manipulate the cost of housing.

It’s one thing to promise to get clients a sale price on the far end of the bell curve. It’s another thing entirely to move the entire bell curve.
the uw data lab behind vega also has a new library mosaic[1] that seems pretty exciting. My impression was it allows flexible data transformation/slicing in both the client side and server side, with the same dsl.

[1] https://github.com/uwdata/mosaic