skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some stuff here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

250 million years is an estimate for when the formation of a new supercontinent results in sufficient volcanic activity to drastically increase CO2 in the atmosphere and probably kill off all large mammals. 500 million is when C3 photosynthesis stops being possible and virtually all plants are gone, which would collapse all terrestrial ecosystems and leave behind very little animal life, probably none. There seems to be a very high likelihood of extinction level asteroid strikes happening well before either of these.

But we're talking here about a span of time that is a thousand times longer than anatomically modern humans have existed up to this point. Given how far we've come since then, I don't know how you can possibly speculate what kinds of capabilities we might have by then to synthesize breathable air and food from raw disintegrated atoms of anything. If you look billions of years into the future, then it's going to get hot enough to sterilize the planet of any life whatsoever, which we probably can't overcome. If we can terraform other planets, we can terraform Earth itself, which would seemingly overcome any other challenge short of triple the heat that is eventually coming.

It seems maybe a bit premature to think this is something currently living humans should worry about figuring out how to escape from.

We might also note that, given the compartively short time it took humans to come about after the K-Pg event, it's probably reasonable to expect there is more than enough time before these "possibly all life killer" type far future things happen for some other kind of intelligent life that develops civilization and technology to replace humans if we go extinct by some means other than the planet being totally destroyed.
it's entertaining to me that you imposed an unnecessary security restriction on your kid's phone which resulted in inoperability
It's clear that anyone sitting at a desk for full-time work will need to get up and get active in their off-hours to make up for all that sedentary time.

It's also clear that many humans cope well with workdays entirely on their feet: laborers, restaurant workers, store clerks. But many of these jobs and roles feature a lot of good exercise: at least there's walking around, lifting, moving objects. So it is natural to assume that these sorts of workers get plenty of exercise on the job, and they can relax during their time off, without needing a lot of gym memberships or home equipment.

Now we come to standing desks: so you're on your feet for the workday and you may have a better ergonomic stance. You won't get hemorrhoids or DVT or numbness, or whatever nasty stuff comes from sitting a lot. But neither are you really moving around! You're just standing there supporting your own bodyweight. If you're overweight, this may prove to be a chore in itself.

So when a standing-desk professional finishes work, logic indicates that they'll need to also hit the gym, or swimming pool, or do some sort of real exercise, because they were essentially stationary. Yet, they've been on their feet all day! Aren't they fatigued?
They can be cooperative. I had to work M-F and weekends and they let me serve detention during active school hours, typically during lunch hours or a study hall block.
Thanks for the box!

Any examples of other possible really advanced features that might go for-pay?

Is there any chance you will make current free features for-pay? That'd be rather off-putting for me as a home user.
Just curious if IP bans work with IPv6 or if they are fundamentally incompatible?
Which is fine when it's about people listening to you, but bad when livelihoods depend on it. We can do better.
I think your request was tainted by the dig at the longevity of their self-hosted mirror.

Your suggestion not only requires time on mirror operator's part, but puts their GitHub account at risk (no matter how low you consider that risk to be). From what I can see thus far - you care more for a GitHub mirror than GP - who went through the deliberate effort of setting up the mirror away from GitHub.

Edit: changed word choice to be more charitable.
The other thing we lost is that future companies will think again before making their code public. It's already such an incredibly rare thing in the wild, but now companies and their lawyers will see that Winamp was exposed to potentially lawsuitable behavior that wouldn't have come to light had they never opened the code.
but you did say that figuring out the final price is "unacceptable"? why is it unacceptable? my point is that other countries have figured out a way to display the final prices, but USA still hasn't figured out how to do it or they don't have any plans to do it.
fwiw https://github.com/<username>.keys is a pretty good one for that
This, to me, is a technical problem. The issue is the design of email means that it's vulnerable to spam. If someone knows your email, you WILL get spam.

There's technical workarounds, too. Like unique emails for each and every service.
You can do that but it proves nothing because TLS session keys are symmetric, so the archiver can forge server responses and falsely attest that the server sent them.

Look up "TLS non repudiation"

A real solution like TLSNotary involves a neutral, reputable third party that can't see the cleartext attesting to the cyphertext using a ZK proof.

The neutral third party doing attestation can't see the content so they can't easily tamper with it, and attempts to tamper indiscriminately would be easily detected and ding their reputation.
Sirius were obnoxious when I didn't convert from free to paid, on a service I wasn't using. The number of times I got phone calls and emails from them ended up with me repeating to them that their behaviour was guaranteeing I would never use them, and would tell friends not to either.
The only issue that I have ever had with drivers is when the ubuntu automatic install defaulted to the latest open source ones which weren't being recognized.

For a whole bunch of other installations, following official linux instructions on Nvidia works incredibly well. Im probably up to like 30 installs of linux mint on laptops and desktops, without issues. I had a personal laptop with manjaro that suppored nvidia prime, I didn't even have to do anything special, just installed nvidia-smi, and prime-run worked out of the box.

And generally, for equal comparison, I wouldn't consider laptops with discrete graphics to be in the same family as more business oriented Macs, the more apt comparison would be those with AMD chips with integrated video drivers, for which you don't need to fuck with any drivers.
Will it finally become possible to unsubscribe from the New York Times?
Paying three grand for a monitor you can buy for your 'second place' for a few hundred dollars seems like a choice.

I'm in the same position. I considered the vision pro, but couldn't justify it, even if I used it on the flights etc. I depend on my switch/steamdeck for the plane, laptop if i have to work (I try not to, it's terrible)... and then I just went on amazon and bought a pair of 27" lg widescreens for a few hundred a piece. When I'm not in her apt we stow one of them in a closet (she dislikes two monitors on a purely aesthetic level). I fly in with my laptop and my keyboard and I'm ready to go.
I have the same feeling but opposite. Nuclear energy has never been profitable anywhere in the world to date, has entirely disproportionate downsides that have manifested repeatedly despite the most rigorous safety procedures found anywhere.

The evidence for this is overwhelming and undeniable, yet some people here still seem to believe that nuclear is ‘cheap and safe’.

I truly don’t understand how it’s possible for rational humans to believe that.
Ask HN: Why do no databases support ADTs?
Anybody that has used algebraic data types(sum or product types) know how useful they are for describing data. Yet no databases, SQL or not, support them natively. Why?
These NPUs are tying up a substantial amount of silicon area so it would be a real shame if they end up not being used for much. I can't find a die analysis of the Snapdragon X which isolates the NPU specifically but AMDs equivalent with the same ~50 TOPS performance target can be seen here, and takes up about as much area as three high performance CPU cores:

https://www.techpowerup.com/325035/amd-strix-point-silicon-p...
Have tried B2B for small businesses in USA using Apollo.io with limited success.

I guess businesses from outside USA would need bigger effort to generate trust.
Foyle: You build it, AI should run it
The term "terrorism" is often misused. According the the actual definition, terrorism is about inciting fear and the unintended consequences that this entails, and it does not necessarily have to involve civilian casualties.

For example, imagine firing a gun in a shopping mall without killing anybody. The entire mall still has to be evacuated, people start screaming, the firefighters, paramedics, and SWAT team show up, the stores have to hire a security guard, and shoppers are afraid to return. Everyone blames the mayor for not preventing the incident from occurring in the first place, and the mayor is pressured to enact new gun laws and set up a new checkpoint. These things happen even if there was no actual danger because it was a blank cartridge and not live ammunition.

The same effect occurs when you drop bombs on a city. All of the sudden it is no longer desirable to live in that city, even if it was a very precise bombing.

If you infiltrate supply chains and plant bombs, nobody trusts the global markets, people have to spend more money on inspections, manufacturers have to pay more for insurance, there are endless consequences
> Imagine having to use a specific password for each service/device combination. Instead we don’t tie passwords to devices, but to users, to avoid this complexity.

But that is the entire premise of Passkeys—they remove the complexity, because having individual passwords per device is clearly superior to user-bound passwords, if you don’t need to worry about it and it just works. Hence why, to stay with SSH, you shouldn’t use SSH keypairs, but certificates signed by a CA.
> I'm kidding, but... you want school to build your kids' social skills? Apart from all the pathologies common in schools, you want your kids to grow up to live in an adult world, which is almost completely unlike school.

I mean... yes, it seems reasonable to learn social skills from a school setting? Interacting with other people, some of whom dislike/disagree with each other, interacting with other adults, etc. This seems like a reasonable step toward what you describe as 'the adult world' - which, yes, is rather different from school, but that seems a good thing; throwing a child into 'the adult world' without preparation would be crazy, right?

(I'm not trying to deny that one can learn the necessary social skills while being homeschooled, just disagree with the implication that school is not also a good place to develop them)
Is OTG a requirement? Or just good to have?

I have a bunch of C3-mini boards and it would be great to finally use them for something more interesting than a temperature sensor.
Show HN: Automated smooth Nth order derivatives of noisy data
This little project came about because I kept running into the same problem: cleanly differentiating sensor data before doing analysis. There are a ton of ways to solve this problem, I've always personally been a fan of using kalman filters for the job as its easy to get the double whammy of resampling/upsampling to a fixed consistent rate and also smoothing/outlier rejection. I wrote a little numpy only bayesian filtering/smoothing library recently (https://github.com/hugohadfield/bayesfilter/) so this felt like a fun and very useful first thing to try it out on! If people find kalmangrad useful I would be more than happy to add a few more features etc. and I would be very grateful if people sent in any bugs they spot.. Thanks!
Plenty of family/friends nearby with young families. I'm in a rural area with a tradition of homeschooling so there's weekly/biweekly events/classes. Not really worried about the socialization. Over socializing can be bad too.
I wish I'd live to see the time of true cyborgs who will exceed ordinary human capabilities in some regard.
Yes, the fact that it happened in 4 years is significant. I would love to share your optimism that the worse has passed in Gaza and say this doesn't matter.

Now on to the case of France. In WWI, France lost ~1.4 million people directly, of which the vast majority were soldiers. The civilian population loss was less than the total killed in Gaza in this one year (40k civilians directly killed in the war). Given that many of those 1.4 million soldiers died abroad, in coordinated attacks and so on, it is very much clear that this is completely different from the genocide happening in Gaza. Plus, nothing even remotely similar to the destruction of civilian infrastructure and displacement of the civilian population happened in WWI - other things that clearly demarcate a war from a genocide.
Corporations too have survival and self-preservation instincts.
To their credit, Apple users save a lot of money by living rent-free in your head.

99% of Apple users are not thinking about how much better they are than other people for buying the phone or computer they did. They just bought it because it's the obvious choice and they've had good experiences with it in the past.

Every time an anti-Apple zealout busts out the spec sheets to prove why alternatives are so much better, there's about 8000 gotchas and usability issues that aren't worth the tradeoff for most people. You're free to not think the tradeoffs of Apple devices are worth it for you, but for everyone else (most people) they make the best option that puts up the minimal amount of fighting and a handful of workflows that you simply can't recreate in other ecosystems without dozens of asterisks.
People already do have issues with e.g. banking apps on mobile devices requiring OS attestation, so we can expect that once they know they can do the same for the most of their web clients (so probably once most people have moved onto Windows 11 which requires a TPM), they will.
People always shit talk the middle east and Africa for being war-torn and poor but they seem to forget that Europe was even worse a hundred years ago.

While watching a documentary like 'The World at War' I kept asking myself how these people could live like this, the abject poverty, complete destruction and casual brutality was completely normal to my ancestors not too long ago.

It's disheartening but it's also inspiring because it shows that change is possible and it can happen very fast if there's a social desire for it.

What the United States did to bring lasting peace to the warring European nations is a testament to that.
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And, as we all know, charging money for a blue checkmark totally solved the bot problem on Twitter.
OCR maybe?
Did you have emails of target audience already, or you bought that? If bought, from where?
You can always just stop working on it. You aren't obligated to do anything further if it doesn't bring you joy. Update the README to say you've stopped maintaining it, and to add a bit about searching for a new maintainer.

If you believe you still get an ongoing benefit (reputational or whatever) by being its maintainer and continuing to support it, and if you still want that benefit, then you have to keep up the work. Very little in life is truly free, unfortunately.

You could also see if there's a way to monetize your work on it. If people want support or need bugs fixed, they can pay you to do so, for example. Might even look into GitHub Sponsors, if you haven't already. I do get that it's harder to solicit donations for something that's "finished", though.
Reminds me of my brother, who happens to be a universal donor and gives blood when the whim strikes him.

Meanwhile he gets a text asking for a blood donation more or less every week.
Pocket also doesn't offer archived page exports (or even RSS export). I feel like both are really dropping the ball in this area!
It’s funny because I was you for 25 years. I then got an iPhone and an M1 MacBook and never looked back. The Apple ecosystem doesn’t have competition, and products are very high quality.

Then again, Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude that they’re offering something valuable.
Grid connected batteries are only viable for a short duration, they aren’t going to help when you don’t have any wind for two weeks.
Where I live (Stockholm), blinds are usually between the outermost glass pane and the inner two panes (triple glazed windows).
It keeps the heat out pretty well (and prevents cats from messing with the blinds).
I always wonder about this when someone gets in hot water based on something on the wayback machine and the person says the archive was tampered with. Can you elaborate on "prove that the archive was created in the past, prior to there being a reason to tamper it"? What exactly does opentimestamps certify?
There are several campaigns over the years I would have contributed to if they could only guarantee I wouldn't be placed on their lists.
I agree that the line can sometimes be blurry.

But when you directly tell the vast majority of the population of a region (>80%) to flee their homes and migrate south on foot or be killed in bombings, and then still kill more than 20 000 women and children, there is no equivocation. This is genocide.
Because the major point of that infrastructure is to kill lots of Russians? It isn't hard to understand the motivations here, we've seen the US throw a massive hissy fit in the Cuban Missile crisis because of Soviet gear in Cuba and that was much more benign than a full military integration. And the US has a history dating back more than a century of tolerating no rival military powers in their hemisphere [0] let alone on their borders. There isn't anything to wonder at here - the Russians see their security interests as covering their border regions. In a display of outrageous hypocrisy the US also sees their security interests as also covering Russia's border region. Kremlin concern over this is hardly unexpected.

The way the Ukraine war has played out makes it pretty clear the Russians did have legitimate concerns. When the US invades Iraq with no moral justification, everyone moves on. When Russia invades Ukraine with no moral justification we see a similar response from most of the world ... except NATO that goes in and orchestrates what Wikipedia suggests are half a million casualties of the Russian armed forces [1].

Why might Russian military planners feel this is a threat? Because they can count corpses and they're not stupid. If you want to argue that they underestimated the threat NATO posed them in Ukraine and so Putin was lying that is one thing, but if so his propaganda happened to be truer to reality than he thought because he made a great point. NATO is out to get the Russians.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...
Yes, there are many 'break of gauge' points. They're mainly for historical inertia and economic reasons, but the military impediment is a known side effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_and_1520_mm_gauge_railway...
I'm actually amazed at this because it seems to be the first time he Democrats are actually taking advantage of all the loopholes the Republicans made, rather than trying to take the high road.
Agreed, but in this particular case the blog writer was running private servers, rather than being Valve. They had no control over payment processing etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41556291#41558128
And to add onto this: pre-ACPI, the IBM PC platform wasn't that far off from, say, any one particular SoC vendor in the ARM ecosystem. In fact, Microsoft originally planned to license out MS-DOS to competing x86 computer vendors using incompatible platforms and firmware[0]. Which is close[1] to the state of non-UEFI/non-PSCI ARM now. It's only because Compaq was able to legally clone the PC and it's BIOS that x86 standardized itself on one platform and firmware.

The presence or lack thereof of standardized interfaces for firmware, device configuration, or the underlying platform are orthogonal to issues regarding Secure Boot and trust management. Apple Silicon Macs use nonstandard boot firmware (iBoot) but booting a "fully untrusted OS" (or fuOS) is an explicitly supported[2] use case on them, gated only by the user needing to boot recoveryOS (OTR specifically) once and enter their password to sign the alternative kernel. They even support per-volume boot policies, so you can keep your macOS install fully locked down while your Asahi Linux does whatever you want.

And likewise Intel isn't stopping you from building in whatever user-hostile nonsense you want into x86 firmware. There's actually a whole range of laptops that have BIOS rootkits preinstalled, specifically to force-install Computrace onto whatever Windows install gets booted for corporate IT management purposes. The thing is, corporate IT has a terrible habit of leaving this shit on laptops they've sold", either because the laptop was stolen internally or because IT couldn't give a shit to do the computer equivalent of signing the title, so people wind up buying laptops that will lock up and wipe themselves if you ever install Windows on them.

[0] The most successful of these being the PC-98, which lasted all the way up until the Windows 9x era

[1] ARM SoC vendors additionally commit the crime of not being compatible with themselves. It is common for new SoCs to have completely different memory and device layouts. Apple is the only exception, ironically because they make both the OS and the SoC, which is the one time where such crimes would be excusable.

[2] I'm told Apple's original intent was Boot Camp with Windows on ARM, but Microsoft wouldn't license Windows on ARM on Macs because they have an exclusivity deal with Qualcomm.