skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few thoughts as I read.

> There are a ton of governments that issue their own ID cards. Are you magically going to integrate with all of them or does everybody now also need a voter ID card issued from a singular source?

The entire US is now Real ID compliant.

> Next lets go onto "verified"? Historically there have been a lot of instances where the wrong black person was arrested because a white cop thought they were the guy in the photo. People cannot verify that a picture matches a face. This is going to lead to a bunch of discrimination complaints. There's also the big issue of people's appearances changing in less than 4 years. Or the simple case of a lot of people look the same and could just use each other's IDs (or get a fake one of that person).

That's a lot for a HN thread which we aren't going to be able to solve. For purposes of voting, I don't have any real concerns here.

> Next lets go onto "just like they do at the airport". You can fly without ID [1] and you also might not be able to scan your ID [2]. They also don't check the photo against the system; just attempt to verify that the ID isn't fake and that the picture on the ID you gave them matches you.

If we're verifying that the ID isn't fake by scanning it and you want to forge a vote badly enough to get a real, verifiable ID that has been swapped with a photo matching you...we have significantly raised the bar from simply providing any name that hasn't yet been used on a list.

This also makes it a lot harder to infringe of somebody else's right to vote by impersonating them, thus preventing them from being able to vote at all.

> Finally, the overarching idea that "voting by mail introduces fraud". It doesn't.

There have been numerous instances just in the last month of people showing up to vote and being told they've already voted by mail.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: like the little baby jesus intended...
> Based on that you mention being able to see they're associated with someone else's account, you mean that you got a unit that was not factory reset before being given to you right? (And you can't do it yourself because they're Apple-locked for theft reasons.) Not that it got stolen and now you can't find it?

The unit was brand new, however it got somehow linked to some other iCloud account the second I connected it to my phone (which is not an iPhone). Well, the message I got indicated "You cannot use FindMy because the Airpods are linked to another iCloud account" or something like that.

I discussed with the same employee who helped me initially. They called a couple of their colleagues, and because nobody there could do anything to solve the issue, they gave me a phone number telling me this was the only option left.

It was clear to Apple there was an issue on their side, and that they needed to provide a solution. This has never been disputed.

> Either way, they have an obligation to meet the claims put out in marketing statements, including features like FindMy since they say on the website it can do that.

Absolutely, and I made sure to remind them this.

> If you've exhausted the easy options, you can always take it to something like small claims and get at least a refund that way.

Indeed, that could be an option. I just gave up as I was exhausted from spending over 10 hours just for this. At some point, it wasn't worth the effort anymore. But maybe this is what they are expecting us to do.
Are you implying you believe there are additional companies outside of the S&P 500 that employ a significant percentage of data scientists?
Interesting lens on supply chain contracts after Amazon Breach
Why couldn't they block you then? They should have been able to quickly disable the accounts.
Even more glad I just bought that used Nissan Leaf!!!
They commissioned the testing by independent labs. Scroll past the disclaimer. The results should be surprising & they are bad news.

One interesting remark, although not nearly the most damning item in the article:

> Our expert heading this case believes that HSY deliberately uses uncommon, harder-to-detect PFAS compounds to avoid detection and bans, while the negative health implications of such uncommon substances remain similar.
Taylor Swift fans are leaving X for Bluesky after Trump's election
Why do some artists continue their careers while others drop out?
> In fact, the most important thing is you pretty much never use the power button on your Mac. I don’t even remember the last time I turned on a Mac.

Reading this made my brain blow a gasket. Yes, computers have sleep mode. News at 11.

It's all so tiring.
> I feel that people underestimate the impact of this.

Do they? As a non-American just watching in, I got the impression that Trump won on this very issue, promising that "Christian family values" would bring about a reversal. That was certainly the message, when taken at face value (I understand many believe that it is trying to mask other motives), that made it out of the USA, at least. That suggests to me that the concern is there.

I expect most people do understand the impact, but, much like climate change, don't know how to actually bring about the change that is needed without infringing on the life they want to live.
What Developers Need to Know About SCIM
It takes 10 minutes to fall 2000 feet? Then why do the instructions say eject if you’re below 6k?
Interesting project! The kid is only mentioned at the beginning, I wonder if they participated further in the project, or if they enjoyed playing the game?
I have ‘ccat’ aliases to the original cat binary
meh. seems overrated given how it does not last that long and the huge crash afterwards. this is why it's hard to beat cigarettes or junk food as far as an escape from reality. everyone is looking for the new drug.
He didn’t have that job until a year later.
There is search, Adsense, gmail, google docs and Gemini. Do they at least train Gemini on GPUs on GCP?
> There needs to be a term for the cognitive fallacy that, just because two endeavors are conceptually adjacent in your mind, that puts them in competition for resources in any real way.

Perhaps: "The more roads you build, the fewer sidewalks"? On second thought, perhaps not, since they are a little too closely related.
Improving audio with AI would be a good thing for @Google/@YouTube to put time/effort in! :-)
quality of life improving in Russia is a very risky statement. Soviets manipulated statistics and so does current Russian government.
They're probably being extra careful to protect themselves from defamation lawsuits. I have more trust in the information reading this, because I can assume they're willing to say things that put them at risk of being sued by powerful organizations.
Brief summary and my understanding of why this occurred:

- Pilot ejects, survives while losing very expensive plane
- The crash is Marine's third in several weeks, the other two having fatalities; leads to a safety stand down across the entire corps
- Investigation concludes that ejection was unnecessary and so fault of the crash is on the pilot, however adding that the procedures written were overly broad
- Pilot is offered to lead VMX-1 after all this; key part of the responsibility is improving procedures

Reading between the lines, it appears that somewhere in the leadership was a belief that putting the pilot in charge of VMX-1 was an opportunity for both; let the guy who made a mistake move forward as they'll be least likely to make it twice kind of thing. General Eric disagreed and ordered him out; it's not stated whether that was based on his own judgement only or if others in VMX-1 lost confidence and that factored in. Nobody disagrees that they have the ability to fire him for what happened.
Source?

Edit: I just pressed “Reset All to Defaults” under “WebKit Feature Flags” on my device running 18.2 beta, and the switch for WebGPU is on!! <3
or you can do =cat on zsh
Kodak had multiple corporate cafeterias with nice food cooked by in house staff. It declined in quality when they switched to a food service company.
I was tired when I wrote that. I think I just assumed everyone would get that reference
I mean isn't that what a lot of random robotics labs do as well (e.g. "some potential application for this feature includes search and rescue, etc.")? What's wrong with it?
> artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing

No, they aren't. Artificial diamond generally refers to cubic zirconia - which is not a diamond.

Synthetic diamond refers to genuine diamonds produced by humans (rather than natural forces).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_simulant#Artificial_si...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond
Especially if there was a revived Airport Express that could send those packets.
Our product was built for end users, so the traffic coming from our servers could technically be from any account. But as to why we weren't blocked during testing, that I'm not sure about. It's been about 8 years since I did that work - I assume we had someone's account who wasn't obviously connected to the company.
I like this approach to epistemology :) Imagine how many what-ifs it could turn up if automated & applied across the corpus of knowledge (scientific & otherwise) :) We'd have Pepe Silvio on steroids, and that I'd like to see =)
.. most? Im pretty sure you have a bias there. I see mostly software developers with degrees and jobs producing libraries and cool projects, very rarely is it the kid who never programmed before, or the 60 year old farmer who wants to try something new.

I think you're biased by the fact that the latter generates more attention briefly.
I think the most interesting part of this is that people treated it as an experiment when the externalities of gambling were widely understood and very negative.

Even in the well regulated cases things like state lotteries they are effectively taxes on the poor, and the best arguments we've got are "we should let anyone do what they want" - sure, but we shouldn't make it easy for corporations to exploit anyone in any way they want.

If you want to setup with a local bookie and deal with that you're going to filter out a huge portion of starting gamblers.
And this time - they're definitely leaving. Not like the first time when people tried Mastodon, or the original Bluesky private invite migration, or when Threads became available to the public, or when Nostr was popular, or when people decided they wanted to write Medium and Substack essays instead of Tweets, or even when Bluesky went public access.

Nope, it's all different now. Those people that didn't somehow stop using Twitter when the timeline switched to crypto and then again to extremist politics have absolutely grown a spine now. They're tired of using the first-party Twitter client and not having any API access, they're tired of consuming ads constantly, and they're desperate for the peace and quiet of a social media that isn't dominated by celebrity identities and pissing contests.

As someone that has never made a Twitter or X account in my life, nothing is funnier to me than the Stockholm Syndrome of that site's users, who refuse to leave it no matter how unusable the experience becomes, because they follow 2 people they consider important. It was funny when people licked Dorsey's shit-encrusted boot the first time around, and it's even funnier watching those same users claim they don't support extremist politics but do fund it with their ad revenue.
There's a good (new) library in Elixir that may work for this use case called Zigler https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html
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I read there suggestion to carve in stone, and on second view it don't look bad idea.

But I suggest not just one stone, but build many hills on large piece of land and place them to form giant QR code, for example 1px=1m (resolution is not random, but it is typical for modern Earth imaging satellites, and for other Earth imaging technologies).

I think, in 100 years, most probably, will exist technology to make photo (or drawing) from height and then translate it into bits and decode text.

And to find it, I think will be enough to place in book geocoordinates and even most probably, Earth will be still round and even if GPS will not exist, somebody will know, how to convert GPS coordinates to what will exist.

With some luck, possible that these giant pictures will notice few big information entities and place in their archives, so history will save them.

Sure, here quality have not less importance than quantity, even so powerful entity as Life could disappear, so need to somehow attract attention of few, not only one.
If you managed to prevent the extinction of the the African Bush Elephant, what would you do with it?

Species do not need to exists for a utilitarian purpose. Bringing back something that once existed can be a perfectly justifiable end in itself. Preventing a species from going extinct is not particularly controversial, even reintroducing species that have not been seen in a land in many generations is widely done and celebrated. The only difference between that and reintroducing a species that went extinct globally is the technical difficulty.

It's very reasonable to believe that there could be benefits to restoring ecosystems, and that might motivate some people to provide their effort and resources to the endeavor moreso than the restoration of nature, but it's perfectly fine to have multiple aligned motivations.

The world is a dynamic place, the true exercise in ego is to define the world as it happened to be when you were born into it as the status quo that ought to be maintained.
It's also an activist short seller. They make money by publishing negative research reports on companies they've shorted. It's a valuable service.

The disclaimer amounts to "we're not insider trading and we really believe this stuff" many different ways. Insider trading is illegal so they are scrupulously careful to stay away from MNPI (and want you to know that). Really believing this stuff is important because if they turn out to be wrong, it's sort of ok to be honestly wrong, it's not okay to be knowingly wrong and put out the report anyway to manipulate the stock.

And so paragraphs and paragraphs of

>"Reports are based on generally available information, field research, inferences and deductions"

We're not insider trading

>"Our opinions are held in good faith, and we have based them upon publicly available facts and evidence"

We really believe this stuff, also we're really not insider trading.

> "We conducted research and analysis based on public information in a manner that any person could have done if they had been interested in doing so."

Did we mention we're not insider trading?
Launched and landed.
PSA: Check your bike lube. I was shocked to find out mine was basically just PFAS I'm dumping into my garage/the forest trails. I have to think bikers care more than average about nature/where they ride, and apparently we don't care all that much.
I'm not sure that this API is a good thing. That is already a pain in the ass when webapp are only working in a single tab and kind of log you out of other tabs.

Also, when you have a lot of tabs, I can easily see web page strangely broken.
Of course it didn't have intelligence, as I stated - it's artificial.
And then they see that the alternatives are ghost town or have other problems, they later return to twitter.
Very cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Mpv and Nginx Useragent Auth
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Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux
Yup, this time we are leaving for good...we MEAN it
I'm not seeing this on bluesky, but definitely for mastodon.
UPDATE TO MY COMMENT: The new small Mac Mini does have an option for the M4 Pro but not the M4 Max. For the curious, the M4 Pro supposedly gets around 22,000 in Geekbench. It's an $800 premium over the base M4 Mac Mini while adding 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
We should establish a Haidt of online gambling so we can have another merry-go-round into how there isn’t enough conclusive evidence to correlate gambling to shitty outcomes.

Any volunteers? We are all here in the breeches waiting for a champion to rise up and give us the arena for the smorgasbord of shitposting that is about to commence from the vultures that benefit off of societal decay.

Edit: not sure why the downvotes. This is exactly what’s going to happen.

Edit 2: Bingo. See one of the top posts in this thread defending gambling by trying to draw parallels to alcohol. Let the shitposting begin.
that's literally FUD, though: Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt.

Without proof, you can't conclude anything about intent.
So, aesthetics. Interesting that they advocate never turning off the machine. What about component wear and tear, software issues, and the need to clear RAM?
stock grants don't solve the principal agent problem at a sufficiently large company. if I have an absolutely incredible year as an IC, I might increase my employers revenue by a few basis points.

I have plenty of internal metrics to demonstrate my contribution, but nothing I do measurably affects the stock price.
If an endpoint costs a lot to run, implement rate limits and return 429 status codes so callers know that they're calling too often.

That endpoint will be expensive regardless of whether it's your own app or a third party that's calling it too often, so design it with that in mind.

Your app isn't special, it's just another client. Treat it that way.
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This is the "lump of labor" fallacy.

You can simultaneously prevent ongoing extinctions and work to undo past ones. The resources to do one likely are not transferrable to the other.
Gambling in general is a scourge on society. Legalizing online gambling, enabling mass gambling advertising on the internet/TV/radio/etc in many countries has only exasperated what I'd consider an already desperate position for the most vulnerable.
I agree in general. I'm just not sure how much the "new thing with a hot selling pitch" part even matters. At least IME, at companies where the culture is such that management just look for ways to add a sheen of scientific respectability to their ad-hoc decisions, nobody really questions the details. Management just put the "thing" out there, hand-wave some "blah, blah" around, everybody nods their heads, and things proceed as they were always going to.
> the hardest place in the world for fire to do it's thing (Everything is ice)

I wondered, as IIRC newspaper doesn't burn (sustained) on top of Everest (9 km)... But it seems trash is burned (or buried) in "highest permanently inhabited place" La Rinconada Peru (5 km). South Pole is only 3 km, and Antarctica's Mount Vinson is 5 km. Though nicely cold. Anoxic caves like Movile Cave seem a pO2 equivalent of 6 to 9 km.
When you walk under the 130ft or so that is composed of the 5 F-1 engines, the LOX and RP1 tanks and you stop to think they’re emptied in less than 2 minutes you understand what an impressive machine it was.
I have an old Bluesky account from the private invite era. I think maybe ~20% of the people I followed still post on a monthly basis nowadays. The retention crisis is pretty bad on most sites.
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You may want to also consider ENC28J60 'Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller with SPI Interface' which lacks a hardware TCP/IP stack and is purely an Ethernet MAC and PHY accessible over SPI. This simplicity means it should be easier for you to get started with sending an ethernet packet. But of course if you want TCP/IP you will need to supply your own software implementation instead.
> If this can be addressed in glibc, it may involve a tradeoff on features, maybe an opt-in mechanism with a slight departure from the "impossible" POSIX spec. That's something we may pursue in the long term if we can propose something sensible.

Yes please
The original worked fine from NZ, so there must be some tighter criterion.
The timeline is kind of awkward: he was selected for the position in 2022, the crash happened in 2023, and he assumed command in 2024.
In what way is he being a "political fanatic" in this post? His writing has never been politically neutral - nor has he ever claimed it was - but this post calling out the lameness of a bunch of tech CEOs posting similar ass-covering congratulations to the winner of the presidential election - especially the ones who clearly would have preferred a different winner - could have been written by anyone.
Not the greatest example. If someone has incurred a $100 debt to you, then, from a legal perspective, you must consider delivery of a thousand dimes as having paid the debt. You don't get a choice on that without prior contractual agreement.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
Yeah, that should be pretty easy. I'm actually curious. I might try this soon
Just quit. Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over for Facebook almost a decade ago:

1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then

2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next

3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then

4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally

5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop.

It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account.

But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?" (It's been years since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)
Not a sphere, a circle. It’s the shield they put between the stages so that they can do hot staging, where they light the second stage engines before the stages have separated. The exhaust from the second stage engines needs to deflected away from the liquid oxygen tank of the first stage. They ditch it after staging because it's heavy and the first stage has very little fuel left for the landing. Also probably for stability during the descent, which requires that the center of mass be as low as possible.
This report has already triggered new class action lawsuits.
I wasn't really following OAuth back in those days, but I have heard much of the history from those that were there are the time, and there were some of the failures of some of the early specs in this area for being too secure - and hence to hard to implement and failing to be adopted.

Was OAuth2 wrong to land exactly where it did on security back in 2012 or before? It seems really hard to say - it clearly didn't have great security, but it was easy to implement and where would we have ended up if it had better security but much poorer adoption?

Does the OAuth working group recognise those failures and has it worked hard to fixed them over the years since? Yes, very much so.

Has OAuth2 being adopted in use cases that do require high levels of security? Yes, absolutely, OpenBanking and OpenHealth ecosystems around the world are built on top of OAuth2. In particular the FAPI profile of OAuth2 that gives a pretty much out-of-the-box recipe for how to easily comply with the OAuth security best current practices document, https://openid.net/specs/fapi-2_0-security-profile.html (Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of FAPI2, or at least will be when the next revision is published.)

Is it still a struggle to try and get across to people in industries that need higher security (like banking and health) that they need to stop using client secrets, ban bearer access tokens, to mandate PKCE, and so on? Yes. Yes it is. I have stories.