skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any malicious website can access my gamepad, since it can trivially get a Letsencrypt certificate – the only requirement for getting "secure origin" API access.

What exactly is this restriction preventing me from, then? (And what does a malicious website do with my gamepad data anyway?)

> Not never, but the total amount of users doing it is probably high tens or low hundreds at most

Yes, I'm fully aware that local hosting is rare in the grand scheme of things, but I think you're vastly underestimating the potential. It's currently not even possible to do much better even as a commercial NAS provider, and these are somewhat popular.

A big part of that also seems like a chicken and egg problem: Fewer and fewer users do it because it's getting harder and harder, thanks to browser standards and OS defaults being largely driven by stakeholders that have no interest in it becoming easier.

Yes, none of this is an evil conspiracy; it's just a question of incentives and priorities in the end. I just find it so sad how willingly even a "hacker" audience here embraces the move towards more and more centralization, on more than one dimension. (Peer-to-peer vs. client-to-server, "trusted CA only" vs. trust on first use, cloud vs. self-hosting etc.)
unless you somehow install a new engine that retains all of the original emissions equipment, you've defeated it.
It depends. If ISIS does it to scare the UK into a political decision because it has no way of matching its military in the battlefield (e.g to push out UK forces in Iraq) its a Terror attack in nature.

If it is actually done to degrade the capabilities of the UK military so ISIS could use its fighters to chase them out of Iraq, or maybe, conquer a part of England - its an act of war and is actually worse from a UK POV. Calling it a terror attack would be silly.

People are biased to treat wars as better then terror because wars have rules and often involve good people trying to defend their country. But from a country's POV a terror organization is usually way less dangerous than a competent enemy military attacking.

Terror is usually done because someone lacks military competence and is willing to play dirty to even the playing field.

The establishment is so aggressive in condemning terrorism, because its easier to deal aggressively with a small terrorist organization before it becomes an established military and carves its own autonomous place on the world stage.

ISIS is a good example, it used a lot of terror tactics, but its goal was to create a country.
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That’s true, but no alarm is deadly. It’s the matter of risk assessment. Not to mention AI can be refined and improved.
AI is about to learn what a tragic car accident can teach them about leadership and drop shipping.
Those components are not used in military products. Specialized vendors manufacture passives for the military. AVX, CDE and Vishay are just the first three I recall.
The human body does not contain enzymes that digest cellulose. So how is this degradation to occur?

Fungal attack on woody biomass involves chemicals you do not want in your body. The attack involves extremely reactive hydroxyl radicals, for example.

Being accustomed to something doesn't mean the thing doesn't hurt us.
It uses SendInput: https://github.com/enigo-rs/enigo/blob/main/src/win/win_impl...
I picked up the domain for $10 maybe 5 years ago or so.

I was just casually searching domains and there it was, available for $10.

You would not believe how fast I reached for my credit card.
The FDA's breakthrough tag is given to certain medical devices that provide treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening conditions.

Blindness is extremely debilitating, but it's not generally a life-threatening condition.

I'm glad that they're going forward with it. I'm just curious whether TFA is mis-stating what's going on, or if the FDA is bending its own rules.
LGBTQ+ and even women's rights are a recent phenomenon in the west, and still unfolding (and could revert). If you want the less enlightened society to embrace these rights, how do you propose to do it? Take their land? Killing their kids? Open air prison? I don't think these strategies are going to do it..
There is a demo video on the page
.NET and other windows devs like making symbols have case and spaces. :/

In any case, the fix is in the ticket:

While the bug does still remain when using the CREATE INDEX syntax, you can use the following suitable workaround:

ALTER TABLE `TableName` ADD INDEX `idxColumnName` (`ColumnName`)

and it will leave your table case intact.
We survived the Cold War because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were able to rationally agree on not using nuclear weapons. I sure believe countries today can rationally agree on avoiding war for fear of the economic consequences.
That's pretty funny. You think love is just a word?
Most of the comments here seem to be suffering from amnesia as to why Tesla is even opening their charging network- remember, the Feds literally begged them to and paid them money to do so.

As a Tesla owner, I see this as a straight up loss in nearly every category. I never have used a third party charger, so even if those chargers move to the NACS standard it won’t improve my life in any way.

I’ve already had to deal with Rivian or Ford owners taking up several stalls at the Superchargers (because they weren’t designed to fit correctly, and Rivian drivers are incompetent) and taking over twice as long to charge as Teslas are able to.
If the parties were reversed as described above, I think the Israelis and their allies in the US would unhesitatingly label it terrorism.
This is true, the user I replied to was asking about root CA's so I tried to address that.
I dunno, still down to me.
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I am extremely sympathetic to this view--but is it practical? Like, should Apple be forced to continue releasing security fixes for the original iPhone?
I've been using a comic sans based mono font now since the last time I saw it on HN (about a year ago based on my receipt). I use a paid version called Comic Code [1]

I find it very easy to read as well as fun. I had similar feelings about using Monaco in the past. I find it personally makes programming easier on the eyes and enjoyable.

I remember reading the font is similar to the letters that are taught in kindergarten which is a theory of why it's easy on the eyes.

[1] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
Children were wounded and killed because they picked up these pagers (which they assumed to be safe). Explosives were distributed into public disguised as innocuous consumer devices, it's actually not that complicated.
FBI joint operation takes down Chinese botnet
the operation targets operatives of a terrorist organization, not civilians. they use it as secure communication over mobile phones to not be easily locatable. is that lost on you, that it’s targeting the communication used by combatants?
Article 51(4 a b c) of Genova.

I really don't see how it can be a "discriminating" attack when they exploded in shops; groceries; family homes (in the face of a child) etc.
Safety and security is not why they are not showing chain of thought here though. Profit is. They cite "Competitive Advantage" directly. He admit it! [1]

"Safety and security." Probably the two most warped and abused words in the English language.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2xBNWrBZ4
Is it because they stopped paying for Shinyapps.io? Or they exhausted the free usage monthly quota. In my experience these are the common reasons. If they did not update the app, there is no reason for it stop working. I have apps running fine and they were created 3-4 years ago.
Imagine wikipedia was looking for new hosting.

They consider Google cloud, but then reject it because GCP cannot serve users in Iran, and Wikipedia's policy is to be globally available.

Google loses worldwide revenue from all of wikipedia.

(I have met multiple companies who have dismissed GCP for this reason. Even companies with no current business in Iran might one day want to expand there, so don't want to make infrastructure choices which lock them out).
Well, we've been exposed to microplastics for decades, but what does the evidence say? Afaict, not much.

We don't need RCTs, nor do we rely on them to make causal inferences about long term exposures, nor would an RCT be possible with microplastics.

But we need some converging lines of evidence before we go chicken little. What's the alternative?
\ linebreaks are not something I love,and a while ago I started using chained blocks..

These are usually a step between "overely complicated one liner" and structured script, and often get refactored to functions etc if the script evolves that far.
But lots don't, and if I just want something readable, that also lends itself to comments etc, this works for me.

{
foo -a -b
}|{
bar -c -d -e
}|{
baz -e -f
}

But I suspect it's not everyone's cup of tea!
I know, but I want Cloudflare to go down in a burst of flames, it makes web scraping such a pain, please do it Baldy.
It started the conversation by asking if I'd ever heard of the television show Cheers. Every subsequent interaction lead to it telling me more about Cheers.
It's more that you are on the right side in a unipolar world. When the world shifts to multipolarity in the next few years, the problem will solve itself.
Damn, ouch. Seems crazy that they're now in the position of breaking supercharger compatibility with existing cars.
This is America. As long as you’re not evading taxes you can do anything you want.
In that case we're talking at cross-purposes, so I'll reserve judgment.

I'm concerned with what let's call Gorhill's Web-- that is, the experience glued together by gorhill's Ublock Origin that is viewed by the vast majority of HN commenters on a day to day basis.

What you're describing is the Web-based Wasteland that is experienced by the vast majority of non-technical users who view the web without an ad blocker.

Encouraging Wasteland users to use TBB may well be an overall improvement for them. But there are more and more popular parts of the web that are practically unusable without an ad blocker-- e.g., fake download buttons, myriad other ad-based shenanigans, multiple ads squeezed into short pieces youtube content that ruins the music, etc. And there's an older segment of the population who at I cannot in good conscience move away from Gorhill's Web.

If Tor uptake somehow spikes to the point that some services can no longer get away with discriminating against exit nodes, then great! But in the meantime, I and many others have solid reasons for encouraging more and more Ublock Origin use among a wide variety of users.

And as you point out, there are technical reasons why the ad blocker lists are at odds with TBB design goals. Thus, I find the top poster's "cui bono" comment low effort and unhelpful.

Edit: clarification
This is partially true! Our free components are Material 2 for Android. However, our paid components do use Material 3.

This is a big upgrade over what you get out of the box with React Native (still Material 2). Do you see a paid component that isn't Material 3?

Perhaps we should bump the free components to Material 3 as well.
I doubt that any of those services would be willing to risk being fined or blocked in Brazil just to continue hosting X.com.

X is the first and only company willing to prioritize values over revenue in this case.
It’s acceptable from toddlers but by the time kids a tweens/teens (maybe even a little earlier) they almost always know the answer and “why”is actually just a complaint.

Why in general can also be an emotionally abusive complaint, for example saying “why did you do that” is often not a question about someone’s genuine reasons but a passive aggressive expression of dissatisfaction.

EDIT: I think around the ages of 6-8 I would more often than not respond with “why do you think?” And later it became a game we would play on car rides where the kids are allowed to ask why until I either couldn’t come up with a reason or they repeated themselves. But reflexive “why” is bullshit.
Ha.. my linebreaks got removed!
If a user set up a NAS they should be capable of googling

"Openssl how to set up a CA"
> First link fully explains it
https://arminreiter.com/2022/01/create-your-own-certificate-...

"How to import CA into iPhone"
> First link fully explains it
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mpf/7.1.0?topic=certificates-ins...

"Android app customize trusted CAs"
> First link fully explains it
https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/security-...

The barrier to entry on PKI isn't that it's hard, it seems to be that people just can't be bothered, PKI is among the most google-able tech processes out there
I vote for Bigclive doing the teardown. Or maybe AVE…
they should grow up and get rid of Iran‘s proxy waging war against civilian population from their territory and obviously also terrorizing the local population – they also built tunnels and invested hundreds of millions into terrorism infrastructure instead of investing into poor economy of Lebanon and make real jobs etc. etc.
It depends, as things usually do.

$20 here, $10 there, eventually ends up as $600 monthly or more, and no customer anywhere in sight. That may, or may not be sustainable or make sense.

Flush with cash? Knock yourself out. Bootstrapping? You can spend that money a lot more effectively than just loading up on a bunch of overpriced SaaS products to make life easier. You have to earn the easy route by growing your revenue.
Multipolarity is a more dangerous world, as we have seen Russia asserts itself at the expense of Ukraine.
DNS propagation can take a while. Some people couldn't access earlier and they can now.
Indeed, it's against the Geneva Convention, and a 12 year old girl was hurt.
Correct, should they be on a military base without civilians.

Indiscriminately exploding devices, and accepting the certain civilian collateral damage?
I didn't follow competitors too closely, but Color may be what you're looking for. I don't know if they sell direct to consumer though.

If you use 23andMe, and request data deletion, they will do a best effort to delete the data. It's part of their GDPR requirement. When I was there, I worked on this project and they put a lot of effort into it. A big chunk of engineering org focused GDPR compliance for a month or two. They definitely don't intentionally keep data around if you request deletion.

The one caveat is that data deletion is hard, and its possible that some gets accidentally retained. I left the company over 5 years ago, so I don't know how good their deletion process is now.

One final note: to keep costs low, 23andMe doesn't look at your whole genome. They only look at a handful of "SNPs" in your genome that are known to be significant. If you've heard how we share 99.5% of our DNA with chimpanzees, this is what they're basing this on. They look at the <0.5% of DNA that commonly varies between humans.

The reason I mention this is that, if you're very interested in your DNA sequencing, you may want to opt for a higher cost service that does full genome analysis. I don't know any names but I believe there are some DNA services that do this.
:'( I thought I was clever for realising this parallel myself! Guess it's more obvious than I thought.

Another example is how data on humans after 2020 or so can't be separated by sex because gender activists fought to stop recording sex in statistics on crime, medicine, etc.
It's basically all anecdotal, like most management principles. But there does seem to be a number of managers across the tech industry concluding that in-person work is more effective, that the covid period of remote work was an experiment that did not work.

This isn't an opinion shared by everyone, which in my opinion is a good thing. Some people prefer all-remote teams, some people prefer a mix, and some prefer to work on teams where remote work is not allowed. I think everyone should find a workplace that is suited to what they want.
Hi swyx, laurent from kyutai here. We actually used the online demo at moshi.chat for the live event (the original demo), so same quantization. We updated the weights on the online version since then to add support for more emotions but we haven't noticed it being worse.
One thing to point out is that it takes time to get used to interact with the model, what tends to work, how to make it speak. The live event was far from perfect but we certainly used this experience. I would encourage you to try a bit the same kind of interaction we add on the live event and you should get similar results (though the model is very unpredictable so hard to be sure, you can see that some part of the live events definitely didn't work as expected).
Is there an appropriate open source advocacy group that can sue them into changing their name on grounds of defamation?
I've seen and had alcohol in plastic. They generally seem to do fine.

But damn did it feel cheap in a bad way. Being cheap is obviously one of the reasons we use plastic containers, but the feeling associated with plastic alcohol is just plain irrationally bad.
Disagree. If one has physical access to your machine, they also have physical access to you. Practically everyone is vulnerable to rubber hose cryptanalysis.
Setting up a NAS means buying one on Amazon and plugging it in.

You're completely out of touch with the majority of the userbase of these products if you think even one in 10 NAS users will set up their own CA using OpenSSL (in a secure way that doesn't expose themselves to being MITMed even on public sites such as that of their bank down the road).
I haven't used it in a while, but I don't think you will be censored on bitcoin-twitter clone twister.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(software)

If a thing is totally unmoderated it becomes a vector for spam; if it is centralized in any respect it becomes a vector for lawsuits/legal warfare/deplatforming (internet services, banking, even postal services!). If you somehow manage to pass through those gates, it becomes a vector for state-sponsored cognitive-warfare/psy-op campaigns.
What did they expect from a Microsoft company?
Not to make too much light of a morbid topic but the idea of someone having a murderous yet tech-savvy ex who has methodically installed all sorts of elaborate digital surveillance measures in their former spouse's personal tech stack in service of premeditated homicide, sitting in a dark room somewhere, howling in anger upon realizing his murder plan has (somehow...?) been thwarted by said former spouse unexpectedly using Tor is pretty funny (because of how outlandish it is). "I almost got away with it too, if it weren't for you kids and that onion routing software!"
The injectables are substantially more expensive under my insurance, and I really don't like the idea of self-injection.

The 3mg Rybelsus tablet are substantially more comfortable to use than the 7mg; minor stomach discomfort and none of the nausea I experienced with the 7mg tablets, yet my A1C is, if not quite as well controlled, definitely in the acceptable range.
The Corporate Memphis of AI models.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
“Apple is one of the most open companies there is because they want everyone to buy their products”
Also Meta: The future is VR
Because there is a huge market for resume builders and career guidance where AI can play a role. Using LinkedIn you can measure success and network performance and correlate that to the resume and posted content.
I really do not like cookie consent popups! I've installed extensions to try and block them, oh and you know what else I try and block? Those AI overlays that say they're trying to make the web more accessible. Because they really aren't doing the thing they say they're supposed to be doing.
You should read up about the difference between Muslims and Islamists and how bad the Islamists are for Islamic communities themselves.
I’m always amazed at the impressive list of people pg gets to review his essays. His recent essay “Founder mode” was no exception.
I’m surprised by these comments and how much some people seem to hate audio.

Audio can be great for conveying emotion versus text (and without the awkwardness of video). It’s also 3-4x faster than typing out comments. I’ve seen stats saying it produces up to 8x more content because of how easy it is to talk vs type (especially on mobile).

Maybe if the posts were transcribed it would help (although that’s expensive at scale, especially for a side project without a clear path to monetization).

Regardless, kudos to the creator for trying something new and fun in such an apparently ‘controversial’ medium.
Yes that seems to be happening all the time. We hear about giving illegal immigrants 150k assistance (not available to Americans) to buy homes a day after it passes. Something aint right in the state of CA. (for reference, that bill was also killed by Newsom 2 weeks later) It is kind of eye opening to see that they're doing this and saying it out loud. I encourage everyone to vote Red for CA legislators this year. It is awful the kind of one-sided "democracy" CA is becoming.
Killer feature of VS Code notebooks is Vim keybindings. It also manages movement between cells, so you have to be very aware of the current mode.
I suffered severe dizzy spells infrequently. My doctor said another patient prevented that symptom by removing caffeine from her diet. I did the same and my dizzy spells were weaker subsequently, eventually eliminated! Suggest you examine your diet to see how many items contain caffeine. Coffee, tea, chocolate and cola all do. Amount in tea/coffee increases with brew time. Herbal teas contain little or none.
I think they are better funded than Russia :)
I think the situation is much more complicated than that but can also, in rare circumstances, detect an intractable argument when it shows up on a message board. Does anything you're saying have anything to do with whether industrial engineers were unknowingly carrying Hezbollah military pagers, or whether Hezbollah fought a war against opposition parties in Lebanon to ensure that it had its own phone system? If not: there's not much productive for us to discuss here --- which is totally fine, there doesn't have to be.
Judging by how often I won I’d say the AI is the one that’s tipsy.
The company bet heavily on pharma/genomics, and it was a bad bet.

When I was there, people were pretty confident in this bet. They had just signed a huge deal with GSK, so it seemed to be going well. There wasn't widespread dissent at the time (~2016-2017). I imagine its different now that the stock price has crashed over 10x.

The company did follow Ancestry.com pretty closely. Ancestry did not bet heavily on genomics. Instead, they bet heavily on a subscription model and focused more on consumer interest in their ancestors. This has worked out a lot better for them than 23andMe.

FWIW, I agree it's obvious in retrospect that pharma was a bad bet. Leadership should have made better decisions.
That is true. Then these drafts travel, fly, and feed you. Don’t be surprised by plastic in every micron of space — it was just a draft. By the way, the first refrigerators without Freon also caused harm, but back then people were only thinking about reliability and didn’t have the resources to tackle the full scope of the problems. Now the goals have changed driven by the pursuit of profit
1/ if a user sends 10,000 requests, you're saying 14 of them might see 3 compromised nodes?

2/ Police can use parallel construction. Although, given enough time (in theory) parallel construction is eventually exposed.
YC is responsible for this. They seek profit and turned a noble clause into a boring corp.

I am resigning from OpenAI today because of their profit motivations.

OpenAI will NOT be next Google. You heard it here first.
Why do you wish the US had been involved? Wouldn't it be better for us to stay clear of this?
UK here, and I do have that setting.

Despite the UK still having the data protection act.
What else would you call it?
Interfaces are just collections of function prototypes.