skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I use AucTeX, which is a really great, and gigant package to edit latex (+cdlatex)

This is tangential, but have you any quick tips for someone looking to get started with AucTeX? I'm a comfortable Emacser who has started to occasionally think of some document I'd like to do in LaTeX (some maths questions for a student, or an overview of some topic). I've looked at AucTeX once or twice, and ran away thinking, oh, I'll do that some other time.

What is the order of events? Should I make a few really basic LaTeX documents first with a terminal, and then try AucTeX?
The only reason that I found this is that I recently made a Firefox extension that shows a tooltip with the user's bio, when hovering over a username on this site.

I am not sure what to name it, HN Inappropriate Snoop?
iTunes Store music downloads are purchases (no DRM except watermark/metadata.) Not encrypted, drag-and-drop copy, easy transcode, etc. Sadly stuck at 256kbps AAC since 2007 even though the iTunes/Music app has always supported lossless.

Apple Music (subscription only) downloads are rentals, controlled by DRM that refuses to play or stream them unless you have an active subscription.

Steve Jobs was wrong: people are OK not owning music as long as they can easily stream it.
Just some feedback. I consider this a normal part of catching up after a long period of time. They just don’t want you to think they’re not successful.

I just let them share some victories and once they feel they’ve impressed me enough they drop that act and the interactions normalize.
That's why motorists should always vote for more public transport, instead of increasing road lanes - road per user is improved if you reduce the number of other cars
> Also, what's up with drug studies always having such a low sample size? Is it really that hard to find people who'd volunteer to get free drugs?

They try to make for no comorbidities and and for MDD that is pretty rare. It also means that we’re often studying rare configurations compared to those commonly seen in actual practice. Statistics doesn’t like confounding elements and humans are very confounding. So either you get “bad” statistics, or you get “bad” data. And why you have front line drugs that only have a helpful effect for 33% of people.
Emacs has a package manager...
I recall cloudflare in its early days having
> It's inadequate checks

I agree provided that "checks" isn't just the narrow sense of "verification upon receipt of the product", but also the supporting framework of "violators will get punished."
Ha or we may find all this has actually nothing to do with any values
one man's terrorist is another man's war criminal
Physical attributes are easy to recognize, so if these weigh heavily in your expectations, you can more rapidly estimate the distribution. Being able to do this quickly also means you can break out populations to make more accurate estimates of your current environment; i.e. while the media bombards us with beautiful celebrities, you can maintain an independent estimation of your actual dating pool.

Social attributes take more time. You need to spend time with someone to understand where they are, and you would need to spend time with a lot of people to understand the distribution. You can try to use heuristics, like being in a relationship with someone you believe has similar expectations, but as noted those aren't actually very accurate.
The monotonicity can be useful in multiple contexts: colocating database data by time, providing "sooner than" comparisons.

Integers are monotonic but can't be distributed like UUIDs.

Unless you make them 128 bits ;)

As usual, most people are not dumb most of the time, even if it seems that way.
I must respectfully disagree with your assertion. The non-rivalrous nature of software, as established in numerous legal precedents (see Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984) and Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., 621 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 2010)), fundamentally alters the traditional concept of ownership in the digital realm.

While your preference for physical media is duly noted, it fails to account for the evolving landscape of digital rights management (DRM) and end-user license agreements (EULAs). The legal framework surrounding digital distribution platforms like Steam is predicated on a licensing model, not a transfer of ownership per se.

Your concern about account lockouts, while not entirely unfounded, overlooks the myriad benefits of digital distribution, including but not limited to: reduced environmental impact, instant access, automatic updates, and cloud saves. Furthermore, it disregards the legal protections afforded to consumers under various jurisdictions' consumer protection laws.

In conclusion, while your nostalgia for physical media is understandable, it does not negate the legal and practical realities of modern software distribution. The non-rivalrous nature of software necessitates a different paradigm of ownership and access, one that the current legal and technological frameworks are still grappling with.
The “free Ubers” are to/from local shelters as far as I can make out.

They’re not an option for people who need to actually evacuate the area.

Who are the people the article is about.

There are lots of options available for people, except those in poverty as there are no free long distance evacuation and return services.

You also say “at least they’ll be alive”, but you’re assuming their options at the other end are meaningfully better than risking just bunkering down where they are (especially in light of the US Supreme Court allowing criminalization of homelessness).
I recall cloudflare, in its early days, having presence in 29 datacentres with only 13 employees.
Firstly "unhackable" in the marketing makes me trust it less. Everything is hackable.

I am not sure what the threat vector is that makes this more secure than hashing a password in a single database.

With hashing the server doesn't know your password. If you picked a poor password a hacker with the hash could guess it I suppose but you can mitigate against that.

Also if someone can hack into server A, however they did that is likely to work for B unless they are managed on different clouds by different teams and share no common code or prod access.
It would make much more sense for the country that NASA is part of to use the data to make changes within itself. Let's focus on the changes we can control not the changes we wish others to make. The problem is that within the US this is believed to be junk science, fake news, and whatever other nonsense labels used.
Include that for yourself too. “I should” is often a way to shame yourself into doing a thing.
Can I hit one key combination to edit the JavaScript corresponding to any vscode command, debug it and possibly modify it however I want? If not, it’s not really comparable to emacs IMO.
I don't want your app on my phone, I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be tracked.

Exactly, no one wants that, no one needs that, but you should recognize that most people don't want to handle cash money either, nowadays.

Just let me swipe my card or phone and done.

If you insist on privacy we should be able to use a pre-paid card or temporary credit card (like Revolut), but I have not tried that and I doubt it works.
Conspiracy theorists refusing to wear masks, which grant anonymity, made me realize that these people aren't actually paranoid they're just contrary.
That is the "digital media & software is a rivalrous good therefore not paying for it is stealing" argument that copyright lobbyists have preached to Americans since the "You wouldn't download a car" campaign in the early 2000s
Exploit chain--

1. zendesk allows you to add users to a support issue and view the complete issue history by sending a response email to a guessable support email from a person associated with an
issue and cc'ing the person to add.

2. Zen desk depends on a spam check for inbound email validity. This check does not appear to catch instances where sender email is spoofed. Zendesk claims this is bdue to DKIM/SPF/DMARC config but I have trouble imagining that 50% of Fortune 500 would get this wrong. There are many automated checks available.

3) Apple issues an Apple ID account to anyone who can receive a verification email
Sent to the mailing address (support@company.com)

4) Slack allows you to sign in to a workspace using any Apple ID associated with the workspace domain (e.g. support@company.com)

This researcher reported #2 to hackerone and was declined. Researcher later discovered full exploit with
3 and 4. Did not update hackerone, contacted affected companies directly.

it would have been prudent to update hackerone on the additional finding, but it feels like an easy oversight for a 15 year old after getting rejected on the first round.

Zendesk should take the higher ground and recognize the mistake and correct it. Not get all "ethical mumbo jumbo."
Pentium 2s aren't the only retro computers out there. There's many different computers, especially in the 1980s, that have components that are just simply not made anymore -- break one of those components, and you'll have a hard time repairing / replacing them.
I agree that the booking experience of the DB-SNCF cooperation trains sucks from the DB end, but the underlying blame arguably lies with SNCF which insists on compulsory reservations which is against the philosophy of trains in Germany. On the other hand, in my experience DB offers cheaper tickets for these cooperation trains, most of the time.

But these trains are a special case; in other cases DB is clearly far more pleasant.
Doesn't having a car do this too?
If you don't pay before, and the train doesn't have a ticket machine on it (most don't, but some e.g. trams in Berlin do) you are riding illegally. That's how it works in Germany.
> cool features. Such as native (but slow) unzipping, file explorer tabs

Linux circa 2005. I will admit that the file explorer ads are a nice feature. Maybe one day ubuntu will figure out how to do this.
I think the issue is that some people ( and this may be HN-specific ) think that medicine in general, and maybe even diagnostics in particular, is almost exactly like software testing. In a lot of ways, it really isn't. Some reasons get a little esoteric, but the more important one is rather simple: until more recently, software did not have a direct impact on life and as such was mostly given a pass on some otherwise heavy blunders. That is slowly changing, but missing something during quality control is not likely to have the same impact.

But this brings me to the other important reason, statistical check can only get you so far and that is assuming we can now trust it was even done. Some people do rely on being able to say, 'this was false positive once, you know what are the odds of it being false positive twice'? Now, we add variable of uncertainty into the system in the form of 'well, it was outsourced so there is a non-zero chance it is bs anyway'.

Not exactly a recipe for success.
Funding from "Carbon Mapper, a new nonprofit organization, and its partners – the State of California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL), Planet, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation and RMI"

From https://carbonmapper.org/articles/carbon-mapper-launches-sat...

I don't know enough about the EPA's charter to know if this would be within their realm or not. Certainly launching and managing satellites is within the purview of NASA.
As long as I can keep this ship, I will keep bailing.
> How many more do you need? Your bias is showing, same as when different people simultaneously complain that HN is "too left" or "too right."

Your reliance on a handful of outdated posts is statistically insignificant when trying to deny the clear trend of Zionist brigading over the past 12 months. Through the https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals , we can track the data and see a clear pattern of brigading when it comes to anything that's remotely critical of Israel. And even those which you listed survived mass false flagging attempts.

How could five articles, all older than 5-6 months, ever be statistically significant against the backdrop of thousands of such articles being mass flagged by zionists EACH month? Ignoring this overwhelming evidence of coordinated downvoting and flagging only highlights your own bias.
Really? name one.
For many years I've just viewed all of my devices as possibly compromised. It's one of the reasons I've been very down on cryptocurrencies in general. I don't actually see USB as something that can maintain a true, robust airgap, because the amount of data transferred is not inspectable.

In my view, the best use of an airgapped machine would be for storage of extremely dense and sensitive information such as cryptographic keys. Signing or encryption should be accomplished through an inspectable data channel requiring manual interaction such as QR codes. When every bit in and out of a machine serves a purpose, it's much less likely to leak.

Example: show a qr code to a camera on the airgapped machine and get a qr code on the screen containing the signature of the data presented to it. There is very little room for nefarious code execution or data transmission.
I'd really prefer for emacs' implementation language to have been a lisp-1 rather than a lisp-2. It's annoying to have to do different things to treat a function as a value (put it into a list, assign it to a variable, etc.), as opposed to all other kinds of data. Any benefit you get from allowing name collisions (i.e. function named f, related but distinct variable also named f) seems very small in all elisp code I've seen and promotes confusion more than it enables desirable programming patterns.

I'd make lexical scope the default and dynamic scope opt-in on a per-variable basis. This one is probably less controversial. I think the devs are moving in that direction (e.g. by changing emacs core code to use lexical scope and adding warnings for code that doesn't opt into it), but I don't see how they will actually be able to change the default without breaking a whole bunch of user code.
I fail to see why this is too wild to believe. The 5th Circuit’s decision isn’t crazy. It’s a statutory interpretation question of whether the NRC has the authority to license spent nuclear fuel facilities that aren’t associated with nuclear power plants. If you read the statutes at issue, it isn’t clear that NRC actually has that power. And the government implicitly admits that in their brief arguing that the NRC has always done this so, they should be able to continue.

While I think Texas has the better legal argument, I’m skeptical the Supreme Court will side with them because the outcome might be too disruptive. Plus, Texas didn’t necessarily engage enough with the NRC during licensing. And it seems to me that the Supreme Court will likely avoid the question of whether the NRC actually has this power and will instead say that Texas doesn’t have standing to sue because they didn’t engage enough during licensing.
Understand myself better. Know my strengths, weaknesses. Know why I tick. Which people are good for me even if difficult, know which people are easy to be around, which are hard, and why.

Not about comparison - but rather about my own tendencies. Accept things about myself I am ashamed of, whether I work on them or not.

Understand where I came from, how I got here. What I’m trying to do.
> but I wouldn't check even half of their dating requirements

I’ll bite. What do you think is on that list of dating requirements?
House Republican #2 Scalise threatened that Harvard's accreditation was in jeopardy in a second Trump administration because of Harvard's handling of antisemitism (or lack of handling).

Look, I can accept people wanting to be loudly and visibly pro-Palestinian. They cannot be allowed to make a hostile environment for Jews, though. If they do, they need arrested. If the university won't do that, there's a whole lot of machinery in the Civil Rights Act that can come down on them.

But I am getting really tired of the "don't say or do things we don't like, or we'll shut you down" threats coming from Trump and Trump-adjacent politicians. Trump has threatened CBS and ABC (IIRC) with having their broadcast licenses yanked. He's threatened the New York Times with dire but unspecified consequences. And he's threatened Google with being shut down because they never say anything nice about him (Trump). Now here we have Scalise threatening Harvard with consequences (of, essentially, destruction as an institution) under a second Trump administration.

This is not OK. This is not how normal politicians deal with unfriendly press. This is not legitimate power for politicians to wield (First Amendment and all that). This is very dangerous. When they tell you five times who they are, believe them.
Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
EU has asked the rail companies to do so or else they will force their hand if they don’t.
Cars destroy walkability, cyclability, ability for kids to freely play outside, enable sprawl (hence more energy consumption hence more carbon emissions).

There’s no free lunch with using more surface area, which cars greatly expand people’s ability to consume.
(oof-topic)
I would be very suspicious of a dongle that plugged into an Ethernet port or USB port that said "AIRGAPPED - NO NOT CONNECT."
the vast majority of people who try psychedelics are not trying to escape untreatable clinical depression, they are doing it recreationally, for a roller coaster ride which they believe connects them with the Almighty or the Unknowable or the Dao or the All-loving Everpresent or the "insert word that sounds profound" <-- oh, the Profundity!

These people are inspired—perhaps by the Almighty, i'm not judging—to preach The Gospel of psychedelics and praise any confirmation of these miracles. I'm simply pointing out that what appears to be the Omnipotence of the Almighty might very well be Selling Your Soul to the Devil for all you know. I'm an atheist, simply using metaphor to get the point across to you.

When you talk about how powerful medication is in warping the brain to cure intractable mental problems, that is not at all an endorsement of recreational use. Heroin makes you feel like your mother not only loves you, but makes up for her not loving when she abandoned you as a baby. Is heroin therefore a good idea? (and if you say "that's chemical dependency", you completely miss the point)
It (kinda) has multiple cursors per document if you split the frame and display the buffer twice. For longer source files I find myself splitting horizontally, editing in the left pane, and using the right pane for secondary movement and reference.

I have a buffer manager that can switch the displayed buffer quickly, when I switch to a different buffer and back again, it retains it's "secondary" cursor position that is separate from the other view.
I have tried to delete my PayPal account on ten different occasions (I mean, something like that), and never succeed to do so. A maze of dark patterns and crappy UI and buttons that go nowhere. I even sent a couple of emails one of the times, and then gave up when there was no response. They're a heinous company.
> society and the other as the pharmaceutical industry

The market is huge and executives usually care much more about short-term (or at the most medium-term) growth. A company that actually found some magical cure for depression they would have no reason to not undercut their competitors and still make massive amounts of money even if that would destroy their target market would disappear over the next 10-20 years.

Also aren't pretty much all the most popular antidepressants and related drugs relatively very chip. Nobody is making that much money selling SSRIs. Why would pharmaceutical companies forego hundreds of billions on purpose?
> get outside and hike

God I would love to, but it’s always 85F+ and either raining or >80% humidity. Its miserable outside.
>reading CSRF tokens from page contents because it was a subdomain.

Huh? I don't think you can read page contents unless the origin matches exactly (scheme://host:port).
I've moved all of my LaTeX-based content creation to Typst.

It's:

- Fast—Compiling my books would take around 1 minute (I often had to compile twice due to indexing). With Typst, it takes less than 5 seconds.

- Easy to write—I actually don't write it, I wrote a bunch of Pandoc plugins to tweak the output from Pandoc (I write all my books in Jupyter these days, so lots of markdown).

- Easy to read—I've used LaTeX for years (and wrote a bunch of tooling around it) and still couldn't tell you when to use a { or a [. Typst is very readable.

- Easy to script—Okay, I did write some Typst the other day. I migrated my LaTeX-based invoicing system to Typst. I created a list of objects with pricing and count and was able to throw it into a table easily. It has less code than my LaTeX version, which was using a library, and is easier to read. (I did need to write a function to properly format $ because that doesn't exist. A few rounds with AI made that easy.)

- Has great error messages—If you've used LaTeX, you know what I mean.

My needs are different from others, but I'm writing PDFs that need to be printed into a real book that looks professional. This includes front matter, footnotes, callouts, page numbers, page headers and footers, and indexes. I don't do a lot of math-heavy stuff, so I can't comment on that. And the widow/orphan support is a little weak.

Otherwise, I'm happy to never use LaTeX again!
Yes, the GPL in general has been upheld in court. The gist is that the GPL is the only thing giving anyone any right at all to distribute code licensed under it. If you don’t follow its terms, you no longer have that permission.

The question isn’t whether the GPL can restrict you from doing something. It’s just that in the absence of the GPL, you fall back to the default legal rights where you’re not allowed to make copies of that code.
And consequently a lot more friction to users becoming extenders.
I like emacs for its flexibility and its ability to be a platform for people to build just about any extension. So for this you'd need a solid scripting language. I was never sold on Lisp but it's fine. I'd prefer to see lua; it just makes more sense.

The repo-reference stuff works pretty well all things considered. If it were python it would be hell.

Crazy side of me would like to see it fully written in a safe(r) language like rust, swift or zig. Basically your config would be a recompiled subsystem, loaded at runtime, or you'd recompile the whole editor.

It wouldn't hurt if the config had a bit more structure. Forcing people to set fonts etc. BEFORE loading other things; essentially enforcing an order in which things get loaded. It can get hairy after years of working in emacs.

I love that it's keyboard driven and I'd keep that for sure.

The config should automatically be a git repository and any change should generate a meaningful commit (thinking out loud).

Better key handling and none c-x nonsense. Switching between keyboard combos and straight up shortcut should be a defined choice not overwritten by x. Every 'plugins' should expose their shortcuts override clearly. Have sane defaults that aren't 30 years of cruft. This means you'd have to consider running on mac just as well as windows, and in and out of the terminal makes this extremely tricky.

Better plugin system and discovery. Often the best and only way to find how to solve a problem in emacs was by finding some random gray-beard post on some forum by sheer luck.
If you can get natural light in people could live under the mound. Then you can have a city that looks like a park! People could quickly walk or cycle to where they need to go. Cars stay in tunnels.
And how would that make emacs better?