skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything is already fake.

How Western Media and Advertising work is the root cause.

Cutting and pasting from the first sentence on MIT's class on the Attention Economy.

"In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan proposes that in paying for space and time in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, advertisers are effectively buying a piece of the reader, listener, or viewer. And he wryly observes that the ad agencies “would gladly pay the reader, listener, or viewer directly for his time and attention if they knew how to do so.” The absurdity of this proposition underscores the essentially mediated nature of human attention."

The class clearly shows how Human Attention is over exploited way before AI showed up.

All Human Attention is mostly directed towards Consumption, Status Signaling and Accumulation of Wealth through Mass Media/Advertising/Marketing/PR/Influencers etc.

There are examples in history where Human Attention at large scales can be directed towards things other than Consumption, Status Signaling, Accumulation of Wealth. A big one is Gandhi and his influence on a huge variety of people to live a simple life.

But ofcourse the moment charismatic leaders like that exits the stage, the Attention Allocation defaults back to status quo.

So we need very different leaders and a very different kind of Media and Advertising ecosystem to cause shifts in how finite Global Human Attention gets allocated. Lot of imagination is required. Unfortunately our most imaginative minds are in service of financial overlords and rent collectors to sell the plebs new iphones and more Star Wars movies, "experiences" and merch.
These posts are just engagement farming nothing more.
https://www.byteweb.in/top-5-website-design-tips-for-indian-...
PSA: Be careful when a random crypto company sends your their Git repo
This has happened around 4-5 times in the last 6 months to me, a random stranger will claim to be with an unknown crypto company and they just want me to review their code as part of the interview process.

If you DO do this, only run the code in a VM like virtualbox and Ubuntu w/o any personal information on the VM instance.

5 times now the code has contained malicious software (discovered by running open snitch on KDE).

One of them emptied your metamask wallet. I almost clicked "ok" but then thankfully metamask wanted me to confirm -- had I clicked it a second time my wallet would have been drained.

Another time it ran a browser credential stealing script that stole both chrome and firefox cookies and saved passwords (I recommend you use a 3rd party password manager like Bitwarden instead of the browser).

Had another one on codementor today reach out to me. It was too good to be true: $185/hour and all I had to do was give feedback on their app.

You can usually tell because the code is brand new (within a matter or days) and there are no commits on the repo. This is a dead give-away.
I also don't know, but I suspect the fact that Apple not only develops the OS, but also sells the devices, might have something to do with it...
Exactly, I'd upload a bunch of photos to Google Drive to download to my PC, Google Drive could open them fine, but the default windows photo viewer app would demand payment to open them.
Outbound SMTP Outage on September 15-16, 2024
Cast-text: zero-latency, full article content, terminal RSS reader
Jardine is still a name in trading, at least in the west, not China, where they are not fondly remembered for their 19th-century "import activities".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jardine_Matheson_%2....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardines_(company)
Don’t tell every SaaS company ever. (Who I doubt all have robust legal processes for including logos on their homepages)
Walk around any office. How many people do you see doing online shopping or in pointless meetings.
As an alternative, I run SuperTinyIcons. They're all full colour and each icon is guaranteed to be under 1KB.

https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons
Higher? No. But causes of chronic fatigue like ME/CFS are already massively underfunded relative to their impact on society and people's lives. Both HIV and most types of cancer are pretty manageable nowadays while having a much lower QoL impact than LCOV or ME.

Further, many of those conditions share enough common traits that it's plausible that insights into one will generate insights into others.
Nice writeup! It reminded me a bit of Julia Evans' blog in terms of content (learning by teaching).
> For anyone who wants to learn to cook my advice is not to learn recipes but instead learn ingredients, tools and techniques. Good books like Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking dedicate many pages to this before they get into recipes

Hard, hard disagree here. Learn some recipes, enjoy eating some food that you've cooked for yourself. Cook some recipes you like for 6 months and _then_ start learning the techniques and fundamentals.
confirmed

i don't even like logging in WHILE using the browser and have never heard of arc
You need to be more clear about what you meant by saying "never had issues".

The point is there might be issues because the second flight has no obligation to refund you if you're late (but they might still do out of generosity).

It's not like it's gonna happen all the time. So having data points saying that didn't happen is kinda pointless.
It wasn't an explosion. Space itself expanded, so there wasn't anything to expand into. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
It was an actual email sent by PayPal via a service they propose (sending invoices), just with a smartly crafted company name that made it look it's from them. No HTML was required from the attacker.
Wasm2Mpy: Compiling WASM to MicroPython so it can run on Raspberrys
If you are going to use them somewhere in your online product/project, kindly check the License agreement first.
Russia didn’t really have anything going for them besides oil, gas and other natural resources so how would that negatively affect them?

will you destroy the Russian chip sector by flooding them with cheap western components (that they can use to make weapons)?
You certainly do need to rehash it or provide a link to it being solved without constraints on time window, msgs rates and msgs sizes. You also most certainly want to build it and provide it as service because no existing product claims this capability in unbounded case.
I would guess that if DX didn't exist the iteration on VK side would just be faster. Through extensions, like you've mentioned.

In the end it might have even speed up the adoption of such features. Currently if you have a multiplatform engine, even though windows is like 99% of your PC player base it's still sometimes a tough decision to just use a feature that you can't support on all your targets.
There are multiple ways to crack MIFARE - depending on the actual chipset version / manufacturer.

For Mifare Classic:
- Nested (Uses one known key to crack others)
- darkside (Derives a key with no others. Slower, results are typically handed off to the nested attack to calculate remaining keys..)

For newer versions of the Mifare Classic with better PRNGs - "Hardened" cards: HardNested. Needs one known key.

For cards that provide a static nonce (to try to evade cracking, ie FUDAN) - Static Nested.

For the latest generation FUDAN: Static Encrypted HardNested.

Note, for the nested attacks - if you don't have a known key, these can be sniffed from the access control reader, and then cracked (MFKey32/64).

Flipper supports the MFKey32 attacks, and limited nested.
You may bump into limits of your Proxmark clone with hardnested cracking - it's memory intensive, and most of the Proxmark Easy clones have reduced RAM.

There's actually an auto_crack LUA script on proxmark ( Use this fork: https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3 ) which will take most of the hassle out of cracking.

Cracking requires very, very precise timing: In a nutshell, you're trying to predict nonces / PRNG values, by sending very precicesly timed requests, and then later cracking those results.

The Flipper has limited CPU power - its main "attack vector" against MIFARE is a very large keylist / dictionary of common MIFARE keys. It's slow and dumb, but it works for most cases. It can also do limited cracking, depending on the type required.

The Proxmark is built around an FPGA, and can crack much, much more efficiently.
We are, but people want convenience.

Try to get a company built around Word to use another tech that doesn't requires running unsigned macros from emails...

You literally can't, they lough at you for saying things like "don't use Microsoft"
That's a question that I always also asked myself, from my layman understanding space time expanded quicker than gravitational collapse
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers (2011)
can svg even be "not open source"?
> I want to know what I missed when removing/disabling things that open at logins,

All the permission grants are summarized in system preferences. Much more elegant to go do your own audit than have to respond to nag screens.

The nag screens are an inferior Windows security feature (think UAC) no doubt manifested as a result of The Bozo Explosion which Jobs managed to fend off for about a decade or so.
just don't use browsers that do
Closest thing to it is the "MagSpoof" device (originally made by Samy Kamkar) - which "emulates" a MagStripe track (Tracks 1/2/3) wirelessly.

There are a few suppliers building these devices. The bad uses outstrip the good uses.
Even better is to just focus on the here and now. The past cannot be changed and the future is just a mental construct, both can cause anexity and endless thinking.
> We didn't have any issues, but if we did I don't know if I'd worry about Expedia's customer service being much worse than an airline's own service.

The problem (speaking as someone who has to deal with Travel Agents many, many times) is that Expedia will say it's Cathay's problem, and Cathay will refuse to speak to you and tell you it's Expedia's problem.
Ask HN: How should we organise small teams?
Hi.

Years ago I was asked in an interview to mention a disadvantage of Scrum, and I answered it doesn't work for big teams. I got the job.

Now, I have seen multiple times that Scrum has even more problems with smaller teams, composed of e.g. less than five people: If we want to adhere to the rule that the PO does not write code, then there will be issues. And Scrum ceremonies will be quite comical in a team of three, even assuming a part-time SM.

What do you think works best to organise a small team of engineers working on a single product within a large organisation, within Scrum or Scaled Agile frameworks? Currently we simply form "autonomous" sub-teams within a larger team with some flexibilities such as arbitrary participation in some ceremonies etc. Is there a better way?

Thanks
Because it's passively powered, "amplifying" isn't really possible, short of replacing the access control reader.

With that said, if your badge is in tag/fob format, you could clone it onto a card-format. Larger antenna, better coupling.
Failed on the first phrase. Nobody but LLMs talks like this:

Your observations about AI interactions are quite thought-provoking.

Polite but vacuous. Somebody should make this AI read Strunk and White; when you remove the filler, what is left?
Great feature, i use harp to track and control my application behaviours with all external dependancies.
So basically Math.round((x*20))/20?
Also check the DISCLAIMER, which seems to be overriding the License:

- Disclaimer: https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/DIS...

- License (CC0): https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/blob/master/LIC...
I started as a freelance developer/consultant specializing in a specific product, which made it relatively easy to land my first project due to the demand for that technology. I used a freelancer portal. Once on the project, I listened closely to what other needs the customer had and offered additional services. Whether focusing on a particular technology or a specific area within the company, there are always pain points the client needs to resolve. When the workload became too much, I hired other freelancers, though it could also be possible to bring on full-time employees. The process is then rinse and repeat.

Further at this stage it could be possible to establish a own product if you find pain points which others also could have. Something I try right now. Then you would have a first customer who pays for development.
> Apple's chip more limited in multithread tasks

It would several times slower, yes
Having a bunch of different domains can serve multiple purposes.

In GitHub's case, they already have githubusercontent.com to avoid serving untrusted stuff from their own github.com domain.

Sending marketing or security scanner (potentially very spammy) notification emails from separate domains can help with reputation too, to avoid your main domain getting marked as spam.

These are all legit; Amex having 20 different of domains, half of which smell like phishing, and still sending emails from other domains is just incompetence. Something like marketing people or someone dealing with strategy deciding to do stuff in a certain way, with nobody technical in the room to tell them why that would be a problem. As an example, a friend of mine's organisation wanted to do a SaaS website for their niche, and a separate website to advertise the SaaS (separate domain, visual identity, everything).
Show HN: MinDB – an extremely memory-efficient vector database
One question I always wondered about with cookie signing is: Why not store the user and the cookie in a database and check against that when they try to present it to you? Performance reasons?
There's this twitter account called "Insane Facebook AI Slop" https://x.com/FacebookAIslop

Which really showcases what it is like to casually browse modern social media. The most concerning part is how some of that absolute garbage is getting thousands...tens of thousands of likes and replies. And it's all from other bots.

It's pretty much the dead internet theory.

And somehow pages like FB can't moderate or filter away this garbage. Imagine what it will look like ten years from now.

Someone predicted that the future of internet will be the "closed" internet, places that are highly vetted for human use only. The rest will be some scorched AI-wasteland.

Also, imagine all the dollars wasted. Dollars wasted on generating the stuff, dollars wasted to accommodate the traffic, there has got to be some incentive to stop the slop.
Are you fake?

I'm not fake.

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The discussion here isn't about traditional media (which has a lot of fakeness yes. But I'd like to imagine that musicians still love music, actors still love acting, and celebrity chefs still like sharing good recipes in traditional media).

The discussion here is about social media, of which Hacker News is just one of many.

There are certainly brigades who try to push their politics in here. But is that happening yet between you and me? I don't think so.
Why do you think switching to ARM would help? That’s just an implementation detail..
Check out the RFID Hacking Community discord: https://discord.com/invite/QfPvGFRQxH

Almost everything in the community happens here.
What type of code, and how were you running it. eg, was it an npm install, a make build, something else?
This is correct - the mechanism seems like it’s primarily for shaming developers that don’t use the new API
JPEG XL also supports re-encoding existing JPEG files to decrease file size while keeping the original file quality. That really seems like useful feature but so far I haven’t seen any tooling (in macOS) to re-encode my existing photo library.
Don't be tempted by k8
A very well encapsulated display of "fuck you, I got mine".

Of course you are good with it, hopefully whatever you do with Internet everywhere you go is more important, and impactful than what radio astronomers could do without the radio pollution.
Did you enable the ui.prefersReducedMotion setting? That hides the cat from what I can tell
No same site = None cookies for iOS18
No, everything does not always emit more radio interference than before, in fact EMC regulations have been getting more strict over time here on earth
Given the choice of Docker and Traefik I would love to know what's the exact difference to Kamal? And btw Kamal will soon have a new improved version with a custom proxy.
You’ve had a stable career, but it sounds like you’ve been reacting to opportunities rather than defining your own path. Switching roles and learning new tech stacks kept things interesting, but maybe now the move isn’t adding more tools—it’s finding clarity on what excites you.

Senior roles can feel daunting, but don’t think of it as just taking on more. Imagine leading a smaller, cross-functional team where you have ownership—driving one project from start to finish, making the calls, and staying hands-on. Or maybe you carve out a role where you mentor others while still tackling technical challenges that energize you.

You haven’t faced ageism, but here’s the truth: that 25-year-old will eventually come for your job. The edge? Mastering the "adult" skills they haven’t. Those deeper, strategic moves that come with experience—handling complex projects, leading without a title, and seeing the bigger picture.

You’ve proven you can thrive—now it’s time to design your career with more autonomy and impact. Forget chasing titles. Focus on creating the career that offers fulfillment, freedom, and depth in your work.

Your energy isn’t gone—it’s just waiting for a clear direction.
The consent you give to web services isn't much better than if an electrician said "hey, can you tap this button to give me consent to work on your house?" and then installed undetectable hidden microphones inside every surface in your apartment.

All of the UX of online consent forms exists to misinform, trick, and get users used to agreeing to sell their digital soul.
> In other words, the judge is not breaking the law.

This doesn't even make sense, the fact congress doesn't do it's job does not mean the judge is not breaking the law.

> What I think I'm hearing you say is you disagree with your checks-and-balances government's application of law, local attempts to change that law has failed for reasons, so now you support vigilantism in order to get around the law you believe was misapplied.

There are no applications of the law, they are just not doing their job period. And "vigilantism" is exactly what the judge is doing.

> Be careful. Brazil isn't recognized as being an authoritarian regime.

It just takes one 10 minutes to learn that Brazilian has an authoritarian justice system.
Yes, that's true for that code. But that wasn't really the point, the point I wrote in my earlier post was that ASCII is 7 bits, it's 0..127, and, depending on where the characters came from, only values below 128 are valid ASCII. What I was talking about was that because a parity bit was common, ASCII was limited to 7 bits, to make room for a parity bit. When other transports are involved, e.g. reading from a file, there aren't any parity bits (well, that's not entirely true - a minicomputer I worked with back in the day used parity bits on characters in text files, but that's not the case for the platform where this particular old 'wc' was used), the code simply focuses on valid ASCII, which is below 128.
To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps on math and symbolic reasoning
the solution is IMO , telescopes in space, even if starlink we to deploy newer better satellites the noise will be more because of the additive effect of the number of them which need to be in orbit. There is no viable way to go back. military , marine and aviation industry are adopting starlink type internet solutions on mass. Not to mention many countries have stated national security desire to have similar capability .
I disagree, in brief because the practical side of psychiatry is medication-dominated, mostly because medical research is difficult and expensive.

There are some non-medication treatments for some psychiatric symptoms such as those caused by trauma (Prominently, EMDR) that some hail as actual cures, and even maybe depression (I am clearly not a doctor.) but in the case of depression I think you'll find its quite medication-heavy.

The reason for this is that psychiatrists are Medical Doctors and Psychiatry is a medical field which is of course bounded by the means of medical science. This is not to say there is some "magic" at work which science could never understand--not at all. It is merely the case that medical doctors are a research paper oriented bunch, and most of the medical research which makes it into practice is either relating to anatomy or pharmaceutical interventions.

Most of the treatments we have are pharmaceutical medications because most of our research dollars have gone into pharmaceutical research.

I decided to edit this comment to add: In my personal opinion, is probable that psychiatrists et all, writ large as it were, have already figured out how to cure depression. Only, we cannot really manage to employ it because it isn't a pill, therapy, device or surgery.
Sure but that seems to have been predictable from:

- 2003: DM came close to bankruptcy, moved all production from UK to China and Thailand, laid off UK workers

- 10/2013: private equity company Permira acquired R. Griggs Group Limited (owner of DM brand), for £300m. Hired former brand president of Vans as CEO.

- 2019: declining quality reported for previous years

- 1/2021: floated on London Stock Exchange for £3.7 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Martens#History
let's see if this Starlink thread will go were the others went, with HN commenters suggesting all astronomy moves to space because having Internet everywhere you go is too important
I think saying that DX was first so it's Vulkan that was reinventing the wheel is incorrect with historical context.

AMD and DICE developed a prototype API called Mantle. Which is what both DX and Vulkan are based on.

Both Vulkan(glNext back then) and DX12 were announced around the same time. VK came a bit later as standards are usually slower in coming to decisions but it's not like VK was reinventing anything from DX.

I remember we were having a laugh reading early DX12 documentation as it was in parts just copied from Mantle with names unchanged in places!
Define “a couple of years”. I am using an iPhone 11 Pro and only just now am I upgrading to a 16 pro, mostly for the camera. The phone itself still works well, including the battery.
Or just draw googly eyes on top and its a parody and totally legal art..

You can also have a NN turn it into a prompt and then recreate the SVG from prompt - shove it through the laundryAImat - nothing is sacred, the world they wanted they have now, let them suffer speared on there own swords.

https://svg.io/
Consumer reports that you pay for, or at least websites that have a policy of avoiding or declaring conflicts-of-interest, seem to be the reasonable middle-ground.