skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person I was responding to said I thought Harris is a communist. Where did he get that from? Nowhere. He invented it out of whole cloth. He also implied that I am a supporter of "far right insane wackos" for asking for a basic confirmation.

He formed an entire narrative about me from asking a simple question. A question that nobody sane could really come to the conclusions that he came to.

Perhaps it would be better if I didn't word my response the way I did, but I am just so tired of being accused of all sorts of things just because people think I am opposed to what they believe for asking for clarification. He doesn't know what I think and instead of asking he went on a rant about what he perceived my views to be. It is utterly ridiculous and it is so tiring.
This is a straight-up lie. Hardcore and the Ender Dragon were added in 2012, in the patch that would become 1.0.0. Score was added in 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST in 2009 (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_Classic_0.24_SURVIVAL_...). Do you have any examples that aren’t outright fabrications?
"They also don't have to be jumped into head first w/out checking for snags and clearance either."

So new technologies should be at least put on hold until someone checks them for snags and clearance to an extent satisfying for ... whom? You? An average person? A committee? The parliament? Some regulatory body?

Again, what you think of as wisdom seems like obsessive safetyism to me. As someone else here argues, you shouldn't have the right to stop or delay random things just in case, unless you can demonstrate some concrete harm.

The world shouldn't be a carefully padded kindergarten for adults. Heck, even current kindergartens for kids are too safetyist by far. Shout out to Lenore Skenazy and her free-range parenting.
For customers to feel like they're saving time (versus having a cashier take their order) the kiosk isn't it: you can't on average discover and select on a screen faster than you can speak. The time savings of the app/website is from building the order on the way there, reducing the in-store interaction to speaking your name or order number (which is mostly constant across all methods of ordering).

As for app vs website, I agree, website would be similarly good. This could be said about tons of apps.
I highly doubt the technical debt and inevitable vulnerabilities weigh up any perceived time saved.
Also when you use a framework like laravel you're sort of forced into building applications in similar styles making it easier for other developers to cooperate instead of having to figure out some weird homemade framework.
Isn’t Waymo level 5?
It is a very hairy cow, which likes to bite and is stuck in the mud. Also it has a wierd high-frequency response. There is a description of tractors to get it out, but we'll skip how the controls work for now.
None of these relate to TLS/SSL - that's the wrong level of abstraction: they relate to fragility of the roots of trust on which the registration authorities for Internet PKI depend.
Very convenient, thank you!
Yeah, we will fondly reminisce about the planet-destroying ponzi scheme which made it so convenient to pay for illegal goods, scams and ransoms to cryptolockers. What a nice unnecessary ecological catastrophe we managed to concoct out of nothing.
Standards evolve for good reasons. That's just a comic.
More and more places here in Sweden do not accept cash, and I don't like it.

I have the usual personal reasons:

- I don't like individualized tracking,

- there's no backup solution if my stuff gets stolen (10 years ago my bank card stopped working during a trip to Germany. I borrowed cash from friends for the rest of the trip and paid them back)

- I'm dependent on a single bank (I've wondered if I should open an account at a second bank)

- It depends on an international network to always work, which doesn't seem to be true even here.

- More abstractly, since the SWIFT system depends on the US, US laws get to decide who cannot have a bank account, as when the US recently classified a couple of Swedes as terrorists.

I also have a problem because my eldest is old enough to go places on his own, but many years before he'll get a bank card or smart phone. Some of the places which no longer accept cash are public toilets (card only), the local minigolf course, and the swimming pool.

When I was that age, my Mom would give enough money to go somewhere and be able to pay for a ticket and maybe a snack or soda.

In a cashless culture, I don't see how my kids will have that level of independence from us until they are old enough to have a bank card.

My eldest still loses his library card about half the time, so that's not going to be soon, and their first phones - which will not be smartphones - won't be for years.
The app makes it so your food is ready soon after you arrive. You can spend all the time browsing the menu and ordering before arriving at the physical location and then the food is already prepared or is made upon your arrival.

Apps are used rather than PWA websites because most users find it difficult to save a mobile website to their homepage and mobile web push notifications etc add extra friction compared to native apps.
You should explicitly mention that this is your blog post, and that this is a "members-only" post?
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I went to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, and I appreciate how blunt it is about US involvement in the coup. All-in-all a phenomenal museum.
I agree that ignoring unsolicited communication is an effective way to avoid email and call scams, and I tell my parents that too. But they don't always listen.

Adults (and maybe kids and teens) can also use this app to learn and build awareness of different scams, like phishing and romance scams. There's an option there to role-play a fake scam.

Do you think older adults who use social media might find this helpful for detecting fraudulent posts. Like say you scroll through FaceBook and see something, this could be a quick way to give a second opinion.
Beyond salary, there is a whole industry of data brokers who get transactional data from individual participants in an industry vertical (CPG, Health Insurance, Salary, etc), aggregate it with their competitors and present it back to those participants as benchmarks. Management Consulting likewise is a way to launder getting strategic insight into your competitors from a third-party.
"Those McDonald's burger flippers" refers to prisoners being forced to work in McDonald's, not all McDonald's workers
Phone batteries used to be a lot smaller, phones used to draw a lot less current and have smaller screens and be a lot stupider.
I have written PHP for a living for the last 20 years and that eval just pains me to no end

eval($var . '="' . str_replace('"', '\\\\"', $itm) . '";');

Why? Dear god why. Please stop.

PHP provides a built in escaper for this purpose

eval($var . '=' . var_export($itm, true) . ';');

But even then you don't need eval here!

${$var} = $itm;

Is all you really needed... but really just use an array(map) if you want dynamic keys... don't use dynamically defined variables...
Bernners lee is being a useful idiot on SOLID. It's a pipe dream that doesn't help anyone but companies trying to own your data INSTEAD of google. Basically replacing one evil with another, not solving the problem.

It is 100% a worse option than a cloud drive.

Anyone in the digital ID space knows there's a war going on. States will adopt digital ID. And everyone is rushing to own it.
You don't learn how to be a radiologist, or an orthopedic surgeon, or an OB-GYN, or any other specialty, in med school. You can't learn surgery from a book. Maybe there are large parts of family or internal medicine you can learn from a book but those residencies are already several years shorter than most surgical specialties.

You wouldn't drop a fresh college CS grad by themselves in a group a developers and expect them to just figure it out. Just like medical school doesn't really teach you how to be a doctor, a CS degree doesn't really teach you how to code. They're both much more academic than the day-to-day of the job you're getting that degree for. They'd still get mentorship from colleagues, supervisors, and others. The only difference is medicine has the ACGME and all the government regulations to make it much more structured than what you need for most everything else.
perhaps diversity has a performance problem.
But DNS is all-or-nothing.

If you can't trust DNS, you can't trust TLS or anything downstream of it.

Even banks are not bothering with EV certificates any more, since browsers removed the indicator (for probably-good reasons). DV certificate issuance depends on trustworthy DNS.

Internet security is "good enough" for consumers, most of the time. That's "adequately trustworthy", but it's not "very trustworthy".
> sovereign state

Well thats the rub, by being a part of the EU they are effectively semi-sovereign. Not to sound like a Brexiter
I don't like "ecosystems" where a gatekeeper decides what we can and can't do with our own devices, browsers, etc. That's different from a software repository guarding users against malicious updates, e.g. due to compromised extension publishing account. The blast radius on extensions with permissions like that is huge, they could steal all of our session cookies and login info, for example.

My comment was a bit harsh, and that harshness wasn't aimed at authors of this extension. I'm merely asking Mozilla to be more proactive with extensions that are extremely security sensitive, but also further their own purported mission, like this one.
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Neat. I've used a .m3u8 for my di.fm subscription for probably 10+ years, it works great paired with Winamp/WACUP.
How much of a comp boost would an average NYT tech worker get if the union succeeded? Let's say 10% for the sake of the argument. Please correct me if I'm way off.

Wouldn't they be able to get a much higher comp by interviewing with other local tech firms? If so, why don't they? Seems more effective than waiting and hoping for a small increase through the union.
the prices in tennessee are available for other menu items, just not the '3 .. combo' items for some reason
Even the word bioweapon is not accurate to describe a deadly (or harmful) biological agent. A weapon usually means that there is a source of deadly force, and a target. The source doesn't want to be hit by the same weapon it uses to hit others.

This is vastly difficult to achieve using biology. Any organism on the planet has it's own agency, and it will hit anything to reproduce and eat. In addition this is not limited to toxicology and releasing toxins, because the agent can just eat tissue.

For example phosphorus has been used in chemical warfare, but even that cannot be described 100% as a weapon. The phosphorus gas can hit people who released it the same as everyone else, it just depends on the wind.

Right now, on everyone palms, there are thousands of organisms which create electricity, eat wood and kill animals. Given that the palms are washed, that number is reduced to some thousand different species. If the palms are not washed the last 24 hours, that number shoots up to hundred thousand different species, even millions.

I do not see any difficulty for someone to enhance a harmful agent and make it deadly, using just regular computation and not even A.I.. However the person who facilitated this, will be a target too.
>Is this less “efficient”? Yes but when the proceeds of efficiency go to shareholders anyway it doesn’t really matter.

I agree with this but that means you need to regulate it. Even banks nowadays are purposely understaffing themselves and closing early because "what the heck are you going to do about it? Go to a different bank? They're closed at 4pm too!"
Wouldn't "eval" in any language result in RCE? Isn't that the point of eval, to execute the given string command?
Ask HN: Will the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid require a prescription in Canada?
Canada has not deregulated hearing aids.
It might be cheaper to get a power supply that supports later PD standards? E.g. IKEA is selling some cheap here for either 8€ (Sjöss, 1 USB-C port (max. 30W, up to 3A)) or 15€ (Sjöss, 2 USB-C port (combined power output of 45W, up to 3A, also on a single port)). Both support PD 3.0 and PPS (that's the fanciest PD standard that implements requesting arbitrary voltages from the power supply) They also stock nice and cheap USB-C cables. These power supplies work fine with USB-PD trigger boards set to 12V.
Anecdata but one coworker was making about 30% of what I do for similar work and they are similarly skilled. They are now within 10% of me having gone private.

And you are right in that you will never be fired.. and that is equally true for your worst colleagues, horrible managers and so on.
The issues with your position is:
- Basically no one reads the terms they are “agreeing” to. This breaks the legal and logical principle that you can’t agree to something when you don’t know what you’re agreeing to.
- The agreement is basically forced. Either you agree or you can’t use the website. Sure that’s fine if you can use another website. However, for example with Facebook marketplace there is no realistic alternative in many places. Where I live our craigslist equivalent was all but killed by fb marketplace. Same for organisation of events. Also if almost every website has the same invasive policies then you don’t really have a choice but to agree. No choice once again breaks one of the fundamental principles of an agreement.
- The language used in those agreements are difficult for normal people to read and understand. This both discourages them from reading it and again, you can’t agree to something if you don’t understand what you’re agreeing to.

I’m not saying legally fb is in the wrong. Clearly the legal system as it is today doesn’t care whether you understand what you are agreeing to. I’m saying they are acting unethically, and that their behaviour is a scourge on society.
Are you suggesting blueray will last as long as M-disc?
If a new Secure OS were to be developed, what OS architecture would it be?
If developing a new security-oriented (general-purpose) OS, what kind of OS architecture (the overall structure of the OS to begin with) would it be? And why? Are there any existing OSs that are similar?
Last time I was in Switzerland, back in 2015 or so, the B&B I stayed in was cash only. The stay cost something like 500 CHF, or nearly 600 USD.
Alpha/beta is an arbitrary line in the sand drawn by the developers. Notch could have woken up one day and decided that the state the game was in was final and call the game done.

If you weren’t told it was an alpha game you’d have no way of knowing. It sold a million copies while in alpha/beta, more than most other games ever made. The distinction between “alpha/beta test of game” and “game” is a distinction without a difference, especially for all the people buying it.
That sounds like a great broader vision, but let's also celebrate the significant step in that direction that this work presents. This appears to be very useful as is.
Redox OS. It’s not a Linux clone but it seeks a high level of Linux compatibility. It’s been progressing well for years.

https://www.redox-os.org/
People keep saying "oh it's php 5.3 and before that are bad, things are much better now", but ...
$65 for what is basically a photo gallery?

Also almost none of the links in the footer work, TOS and privacy policy are both basically empty (and if it was built over the weekend how were they updated in May?), not sure I believe the "200+ events captured" claim either.

And was it just you who built it? It says "Our team of passionate photographers and tech enthusiasts" and your post makes it sound like it was just you.
A lot of the East Coast media, like the Times, has a lot of downwardly mobile people in them from wealthy or upper middle class families. And they aren't any longer in many cases and they are full of resent and bitterness that their turn has been looked over. That they aren't getting what "they deserve" as they did "everything right" like join a bunch of clubs in high school or w/e and go to college and get a degree that shows the world they are the continuation of their family legacy. But it's not there any longer and there's jealousy of of the new middle class that tech has built.
It's nice that the EU is giving room to such innovation, but I wanted to point out that stuff like this is quite widespread in India:

Every shop on the road nowadays has a QR code you scan to make a payment using any UPI[0] compatible app. Thus, the age old problem of a shop not having change is quite rare nowadays (if you're not a minor that is, because all UPI apps are 18+). UPI is centered around your phone number, which is linked to your bank account as part of KYC. Thus, you can make a payment to anyone who doesn't even have UPI using their phone number, thus transferring funds directly into their bank account.

DigiLocker[1] is gaining popularity, with some airports allowing you in without physical ID if you have your ID on the app and scan yourself in. I've only been to one airport that does this before, and I sadly was not aware of it at the time.

It's nice that more and more countries are realizing the usefulness of this as tech becomes more and more ubiquitous and accessible to everyone.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiLocker
I want to see the actual studies that the guild has used to generate the numbers for their claims so I can see what possible mechanisms might be at play and what sort of level setting they've done for the data. Unfortunately, I didn't see any of the studies released.
> Kids are going to be really screwed when the AI output converges into more Markov-chains like bullshit as it's being self-feeding with it's own output, creating something like a big but pompous Megahal/Hailo clone.

This isn't going to happen. The literature on model collapse suggests it occurs when your model is fed on majority synthetic data, which is not how anyone is training models. Even if they were, do you think they're going to ship something that performs noticeably worse than its predecessor?
It's a guest article from a writer for The New Humanitarian https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/

The article paints the entire United States of America with the palette most frequently used when reporting on African and Global South nations.

Anything that seems jarring and clumsy is intended to remind the reader that the same inaccurate and slanted takes are commonly used on others elsewhere.

I've travelled a lot, I got a chuckle out of it.
On my phone it requires a new fingerprint validation on transaction. So still bloody. Depending on the fingerprint scanner "no blood present" might also not work.
I consider anyone who doesn’t have the power to spend money a supervisor (or someone whose role is to cover in the event of short staffing) instead of a manager. What are you even managing if you can’t spend a little more to ensure you have the people you need?
This is a fantastic exploit and I am appalled that CAs are still trying to use whois for this kind of thing. I expected the rise of the whois privacy services and privacy legislation would have made whois mostly useless for CAs years ago.

<< maintainers of WHOIS tooling are reluctant to scrape such a textual list at runtime, and so it has become the norm to simply hardcode server addresses, populating them at development time by referring to IANA’s list manually. Since the WHOIS server addresses change so infrequently, this is usually an acceptable solution >>

This is the approach taken by whois on Debian.

Years ago I did some hacking on FreeBSD’s whois client, and its approach is to have as little built-in hardcoded knowledge as possible, and instead follow whois referrals. These are only de-facto semi-standard, i.e. they aren’t part of the protocol spec, but most whois servers provide referrals that are fairly easy to parse, and the number of exceptions and workarounds is easier to manage than a huge hardcoded list.

FreeBSD’s whois starts from IANA’s whois server, which is one of the more helpful ones, and it basically solves the problem of finding TLD whois servers. Most of the pain comes from dealing with whois for IP addresses, because some of the RIRs are bad at referrals. There are some issues with weird behaviour from some TLD whois servers, but that’s relatively minor in comparison.
I’m not engaging further if you go straight for accusations like this
Just because there is a way, doesn't make it the only way.

>but gives accurate results.

Giving accurate results is missing the point.

Hint: The point is understanding how nature's does it.

Here is the Chesterton's fence implied by Bell's Inequality :

Lemma: There exist a local classical simulator that allows to simulate a universe that behaves according to the probabilities of QM.

Corollary : we can simulate "fast" a universe which behaves (in law) exactly like our universe.

Nota Bene : This doesn't mean we can compute QM probabilities fast, (we can't), although one way of computing them would be to use Montecarlo estimation on various instances of universe simulations.

The question is not whether to lift the fence, or how to lift the fence, the question is how are numerical biological instabilities handled.
This hypothetical is getting into "if my granny had wheels she'd be a wagon" territory.

I interpreted the original comment as if the Sun, with its current mass, had an iron core. A star with the mass of the Sun cannot have produced iron, so it would have had to have formed with an iron core. This is certainly ruled out by other data, of course.
Well articulated. I hope you will continue this advocacy. If I can be of help at all even just as moral support, lmk.
1) Initially
2) Absolutely
3) False. Consumer spending on non durable goods is still rising. Disposable income is still available. Durable goods spending exploded after COVID.

https://wolfstreet.com/2024/08/30/our-drunken-sailors-are-at...
Read about how a 25 year old American girl, Ronni Moffitt, who was a fundraiser and opponent of Chile's dictatorship, was killed by car bomb, along with Orlando Letelier, in Washington DC in 1976 by Chile's intelligence service. Convicted of the murder was Michael Townley, a US born man who moved to Chile and worked for Chile's intelligence service. Lots of interesting aspects of the case.
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I see your September 11, 1973 and raise you the actual first 9/11, the fall of Barcelona in 1713 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510919 ( tongue in cheek, no event is more important than another of course )

Remembered on this very day as "La Diada" in Catalunya.
Yeah, maybe I've got too old-school thinking. Or maybe just worked on too many failed startups :). But the overall cheapness of our industry is driving me crazy.

I happily use proprietary software - IntelliJ, Sublime, Affinity, MacOS, etc. In my experience if you get software for free, you are the product, or you will be charged x10 more when they finally get their "business model".
You've correctly identified a problem, but you've come to the wrong conclusion.

If you ask someone their name, a single field copes with a range of different name shapes.

If you want to address them in an email with "just first name", what you're really asking for is a preferred name to be greeted by, and that should be an entirely different single field.

By splitting or having "firstname/lastname" fields you're making the classic mistake about names.

Ask in the sign-up or user preferences their preferred way to be greeted in an email. If the user wants their marking emails to start "Dear shithead" then free them up to do that. You could try splitting the "full name" field to pre-fill a suggested name by which to be greeted.