skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add some specifics to the perceived stupidity:

After being locked out, given that box with options to restore.

Trying several, won't work. All leads to phone number, and not that obvious it has to be mobile, and SMS-capable.

Giving them the POTS/Landline, because even Amazon manages to give instant call-back on that. (In the middle of the night, very early morning even!)

Error like: 'This number has been tried too often.' WTF? That was the first time ever!

NOT this is no mobile-number, try that! Why do they even let me enter that, then?
Why do they insist on SMS, while some voicerobot could sing some f...... code to me on that landline, which I could enter into some form?

Why can't I switch OFF all of that hypersensitive security crap in account settings, because I know it's suspicious, sometimes not logging in for weeks, or even months, without any former cookies, on different devices, from locactions far away, in different timezones, physically, while using VPNs, too?

Do I have to say daily where I am, like a good android-sheepl? Do I have to upload a whitelist of devices with identifiers in advance? Can I authenticate with the imprint of my glans penis on the sensor, then?

GO TRACK YOURSELF!
You can target the Game Boy Advance or Game Boy.
Yep. It will never work when everyone wants you to commit to a year of hard to cancel subscription to read one article that is possibly lousy.

Especially since - see another comment thread here on HN - their "AI" thinks you're a regular reader when you click on them once per month.
I read somewhere that the catacombs were the result of needing cemetery land for building on.

What an effort that must have been! Convincing people that their ancestors could be extracted from the ground and stored as skeletons in caves underground. What a massive amount of land that must have freed up!
Nyxt does have ublock origin? It would be a must have for me too.
Not yet, but Nyxt 4 is supposed to support WebExtensions.
Assad's fall doesn't signify much because we should expect Moscow to prioritize its own backyard.
Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
I’ve spent a lot of time reading articles that promise a lot but never give me what I’m looking for. They’re full of clickbait titles, scary claims, and pointless filler. It’s frustrating, and it’s a waste of my time.

So I made a tool. You give it a URL, and it tries to cut through all that noise. It gives you a shorter version of the content without all the nonsense. I built this because I’m tired of falling for the same tricks. I just want the facts, not a bunch of filler.

What do you think? I’m also thinking of making a Chrome extension that does something similar—like a reader mode, but one that actually removes the crap that gets in the way of real information. Feedback welcome.
I used to be able to see these but as my nearsightedness progressed at some point I lost the ability.
The homepage probably to broaden the audience talks about tabs but as can see in screencasts, in-program, they're called (borrowing from Emacs) buffers. In contrast to tabs, buffers don't belong to a specific window and can switch to one within another window.
Just 3 months?

That's deleting 800 lines a day, each day. Did you need to read through the original code, get a deep understanding and match its behavior exactly or did you throw away huge chunks and write new code as you thought it should behave?

Was there a lot of boilerplate that could be replaced quickly?
Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air
I agree with this approach and would like to hear other ways that people avoid/ameliorate perverse (in the sense of incentives) editorialization in their news consumption

One thing that I do when worrying about global conflict is look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli... and sort by e.g. "2024 fatalities". It's not totally objective, or without its own issues, but going by the prior that the lives lost are of equal "importance" it's illuminating to see how well it lines up with mainstream news coverage.

Until the start of the current hot wars in Ukraine and Palestine there was a large gulf between what was ending human lives and what was generating column inches, even allowing for geopolitics and local languages.

My news diet mostly comes from the AP, national broadcasters in the EU, friends, and HN. I find surprisingly little interest in e.g. Sudan, Myanmar, Mexico, Yemen even allowing for the relative poverty and distance.
Nice presentation and website, I was going to say no app needed for these, but then checked the stats and dashboard on your app landing page.

I followed the couch to 10k plan 5 years ago (without an app), and it worked well. Looking back, if I wanted an app, this is what I would like to have:

1. Apple watch notifications tell me when to walk, when to run, and how to maintain my pace.
2. Calories are fine, but having heart rate logs and how this is improving over time would be really good.
3. Any chance of VO2 Max calculation? Both Garmin and Apple Watch struggle with this. I know this can't be accurate before 6 months of training, but some indications about the progress would be helpful and motivating.

Good luck!
Hmm for me on BSD it's the opposite. But every release something breaks in Firefox' GPU acceleration so I've kinda stopped trying to fix it. I assume chromium handles that better. Though I don't use it much.
Is a 14 years long process (the Syrian civil war) quick? Just Wikipedia the civil war article. Did people forget about ISIS uprising as well? Look at the map: the regime haven't controlled most of the territory since the start of the civil war. The regime has become a failed state struggling to make ends meet.
I'm just here to comment that thw article really is a facinating history of the fda. Worth the read if the FDA is relevant to you for better or worse.
This is scope creep. Intel needed to release stable products. They aren't/can't.
Those are all good! I’d suggest, if this is looking for projects, what kind of things interest you (I see AI and NFTs (?) from the videos), and what sort of approach you take when doing a project, what’s important to you.

And thanks!
use this in my projects and love it
What I think you're missing is that it's not about human resilience on a technical level, it's about the power structures that do nothing to really fix it, the corruption, the stupidity, the lack of empathy, the corporations that trample everything for profit. It's a major turn off for young people, they see this and think, why bring a lovely innocent child into such a shit show. We can have all the sex we want, have more money, and enjoy life and not participate in the rat race. Many people don't see it as a tragedy either. It's just a choice they make and move on.

Humans can handle storms. We can rebuild homes, change where we settle and live, build with better materials and practises, and improve storm infrastructure and protections.

Yeah, people don't want to raise children in this sort of chaotic, apocalyptic scenario where your town is wiped out by some major, never seen before flash flood event. You rebuild and some new major storms topples it.

In fact, as the temperature rises slightly, fewer people will die due to temperature extremes. This is because at present, many more people die due to exposure to low temperatures than high temperatures.

Not where I live, farmers were having trouble doing their jobs due to the extreme heat this year. In 50 years at current trajectory? More people on earth, likely less food, what will that be like?
I think it's only fair to credit Stephen Colbert here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwLjK9LFpeo

For those of you unfamiliar, he was a well-known and serious political pundit who in recent years has been performing as a character (of the same name) who parodies milquetoast late night centre-left almost-comedy.
To OP: please keep it going.
Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of women without trial
It feels like you’re referring to the “ship of Theseus” as an argument that the identity does not persist…

It’s not.

It’s a hypothetical designed to call attention to the exact thing you’re saying: that potentially identity is more than the specific physical parts.
Yeah that CEO doesn't understand the benefits of vertical integration.

The point of specialization and outsourcing is to amortize fixed costs among a larger customer base. If fixed costs were zero, then it would never make sense to outsource, since the effective marginal cost is identical in the non specialized company versus the specialized company. Every company would produce everything they need in house.

Fabs have enormous fixed costs. Any form of vertical integration is going to make your products more expensive, unless you specialize in some kind of underserved niche with no competition. TSMC will always have the lowest marginal cost.

What Arm should be doing is partnering with TSMC and other fabs to build optimized cell libraries for Arm designs and investing into software tools for SoC integrators and become a one stop shop for proprietary IP cores and custom ASIPs so people don't even think of talking with Cadence or Synopsys.
Yes indeed, if the project were targetting a simpler machine without an operating system and windowing system in the way, then doing the whole thing - graphics presentation and all - in a thousand lines of C would be perfectly feasible

> I'm acutely aware how it's not turtles all the way down (as the logophiles believe)

De Chelonian Mobile
There are complexities to real life that we as civilians aren't aware of, that make many of the claims made in the world just outright absurd if you're even slightly aware of the details. In at least one case for each of them, along with Paul at Combat Vet News, and CivDiv on YouTube, this has happened.

YouTube and video on demand is an amazing gift. Life with only 3 major TV channels was so limiting, and we didn't even know it.
Thanks. HN stance of paywalled article is really annoying, since it means opening unreadable articles quite often.
I'm thinking: could you just not use second (or third ...) monitor, while only the primary desktop is being recorded?
An Archaeological Reckoning
Brian Krebs is great. Back in 2018, I discovered a flaw in a website enabling anyone to track any US cellphone’s location without consent, and I contacted US-CERT and Krebs to break the news (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...). After checking the locations of several numbers he provided, I remember discussing his need for location privacy - and his shock when he found it was so easy to break. His opsec might be very strict, but when every cellular carrier is eager to sell off your location data, that level of security is absolutely justified.
Languages are efficient, but for whom? [pdf]
When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland?
> Hamas has been killing homosexuals in Palestine by throwing them from buildings long before any form of ISIS existed, plenty of stuff on internet.

That's misinformation which has been debunked:

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.347B339

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-people-thrown-roof-...

To quote Wikipedia:

> Homosexuality is not a capital offence in the Gaza Strip or elsewhere in Palestine.[54][55] The laws against homosexual behavior in Palestine[d] are a relic of the British and Ottoman rule in Palestine; they specify prison sentences of 10 to 14 years.[54][55] There is no evidence that these British colonial-era laws are actually enforced in Gaza.[54]

> Reports of extra-judicial killings of LGBT people in Palestine have circulated, without being confirmed. Sources such as the news agency Reuters, the news outlet The New Arab, and the NGO Human Rights Watch, characterise many of these reports as misinformation: the stories are exaggerated, oversimplified, or misattributions of events that occurred elsewhere.[56] Examples of this include:

> Two members of Palestinian nationalist militant groups were accused of espionage and killed by their comrades in situations that included rumours about homosexuality or bisexuality.[57][58]

> During the Israel–Hamas war, a video described as "Hamas executes people by throwing them off a roof of a building!" circulated on social media. Some derivatives of the meme claimed the men were executed for being gay.[56] The video, however, was from 2015 and not from Palestine.[56] A July 2015 report from Al Arabiya, included identical images and states that they were originally shared by the so-called Islamic State, and showed the execution of four gay men in Fallujah, Iraq.[56]

> In February 2016, the Al-Qassam Brigades (the militant wing of the Hamas movement) executed Mahmoud Ishtiwi, the commander of Al-Qassam's Zeitoun Battalion.[59] The alleged offences were described evasively, the stated reason was Arabic: تجاوزاته السلوكية والأخلاقية التي أقر بها, lit. 'for behavioral and moral violations, to which he confessed',[58] which some western news media interpreted as a euphemism for homosexual activity.[60][61] Local sources clarified that Shteiwi was convicted of spying for Israel.[62] The Qassam Brigades alleged that Ishtiwi had been executed by firing squad,[63][58] but people who saw his body before burial alleged that he might have died in custody and been shot after death.[64][58]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_homosex...
> Things that I have no control over.

The problem is thinking that you have no control, an awful meme that is depressing - almost the definition of depressing - and self-fulfillingly self-defeating.

The most powerful force in the world is public opinion in Western countries, especially in the US - that's why so many powerful parties invest so much to manipulate it. There are many entire news organizations, endless opinion writers/etc., influence campaigns run by everyone from corporations to political organizations to state intelligence agencies, etc. What are they all working so hard at, investing so much in, if it doesn't matter?

Public opinion is formed by you acquiring information (including mis-info or dis-info), analyzing it, and communicating socially with others about it. Because many others don't do that, and most who do just repeat from received narratives, if you do it - if you form narratives - you have even more power.

No single person ever accomplished anything - everything worthwhile has been done by humans in groups. We are social creatures, not lone wolves - that's how we operate; if you act like a lone wolf then yes, you will be mostly powerless. But if you act within a group, and especially if you act intentionally and intelligently, you have significant power.
Tell HN: Bing/Copilot refuses to translate a given text
Hi. Today, after asking CoPilot to translate a given piece of text, it responded that it cannot fulfill my request, "... as it may be considered copyrighted content. However, I can provide a brief summary of the text in...".

Is this new? Has anyone else experienced that?

Best
you can redirect in QB. this is how i do it (from my config):

def redirect(info: interceptor.Request):
if info.request_url.host() == "en.m.wikipedia.org":
new_url = QUrl(info.request_url)
new_url.setHost("en.wikipedia.org")
try:
info.redirect(new_url)
except interceptors.RedirectFailedException:
pass
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
> Require a formal degree in CS? That's gatekeeping.

Selecting people for a job is literally gatekeeping. The company has the equivalent of a gate (or perhaps an actual one), and most people are kept out of it by the fact that they are not employees or authorized visitors.

No part of would-be employee screening can be faulted for being gatekeeping; i.e. being that which it is.
It's a living standard for today, but no one knows what tomorrow brings
> Iran has torpedoed any attempts at normalizing relationships between Arabs and Israel

What about the recent peace/trade deals between Israel and UAE and Qatar? The Qatar one was most surprising to me because Qatar has excellent relations with Iran, partly due to their sharing of one of the world's largest natural gas fields.
Honey is a special food and one of the key ingredients for modern civilisation
> I really don't need to know when e.g. Florida has a fight with Disney.

If Florida interferes in Disney's business - a very powerful company, especially powerful and important to the state of Florida - and if they get away with it, then, 1) such interference could have an enormous negative impact on the economy; 2) it empowers and entrenches corrupt people in power; 3) your business could be next by some other government; 4) it could spread to other aspects of your life.

Today many businesses, including even prominent news media, are trying to appease Trump, who appears to be following Florida's precedent.
> especially now, if only to use chatGPT.

Aren't the Chinese models competitive?

> thinks reddit style Tianamen copypasta would get a PRC netizen's computer to explode and get abducted by MSS

Bit of a weird exaggeration. As the article states, it was likely simply to prevent them from applying, and to my knowledge this is indeed a successful way to do so as it does get the page to be blocked by the GFW, no?
That’s like saying humans are the same as chimps because they are both 60% water - the difference is not emotional
Ask HN: Recommendation – Make transcriptions searchable for local knowledgebase
Hello HN,

on my NAS I have a script running every night, downloading videos from 25 Youtube channels I deemed interesting to me. The original idea was to have the content offline in case it gets delisted or the channel ceases to exist.
With the arrival of AI assisted transcriptions, I added a cronjob running Whisper on all those files over the past months and now have around 10k transcriptions of the same amount of videos on the disks.

The next step to me feels like building a knowledgebase of some sort to be able to access all the knowledge hidden in those videos, these range from history content to GDC talks and livestreams of other devs.
Ideally I would like so search for topic X and get suitable parts of the video transcription back. Since Whisper also saves the position, jumping into the video to the relevant time would be a bonus.
This search ideally not only works on word matching but can also find relevant content via some similarity measure.

I have my trusty Information Retrieval Handbook from university days still here and don't shy away from writing something on my own, but I was wondering if there is something out that would offer such a functionality already or at least takes a big part of the workload from me.
Yeah, that is why I said likely.
You presented your opinion as incontrovertible fact, and everything else as lie or conspiracy because you didn’t see proof. Then you put the caveat that it’s “to the best of your knowledge” which basically turns the incontrovertible fact into common opinion. What’s more, best of your knowledge also incentivizes having little or selective knowledge in order to be able to claim anything as fact.

Case in point, you made such a hard case for everything being a conspiracy involving constitutional courts and intelligence agencies, all claims of foreign interference being lies because you haven’t seen proof, and everything you say is solid... until it turns out your only source of information was a single partially read article.

And you still maintain that you’re right despite still not reading anything else on the topic because it must be disinformation.

The candidate himself declared 0 campaign expenses despite obviously spending for a campaign. The court also noticed this obvious fact. Foreign interference doesn’t only mean someone hacking a TikTok algorithm but also external parties illegally funding a foreign agent’s election. With large amounts of undeclared funds you can sway an election which is illegal for obvious reasons. Being foreign funds just makes it worse because they sway the elections towards foreign interests. Do you expect a country to just ignore that, whether people on the sidelines who read one article proclaim it’s totally fine?

P.S. Someone is trying to set your house on fire. When you try to top him he says it's his right and wants to see evidence from a court showing that it isn't because he read an article that says otherwise. That's where yours and fellow "freedom fighter's" comments are right now. Except in this case the court actually already spoke and you're still sure you know better.
My main source was reading other source and sometimes asking questions in the Pi forum. The already linked kmscube shows how some of mentioned techniques work. It was then mainly following up on API calls names and parameters (DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY) to find other snippets of code that use them. Felt a bit more like code archeology :-)
its a productivity thing, would you rather type text with a physical keyboard or would you rather use a virtual keyboard and mouse?

you can miss more easily with a mouse and have to adjust the position of the cursor to line up on two axis before any action
Part 2 is here: https://medium.com/@tomysshadow/fixing-the-loading-in-myst-i...
> Then sear 1 minute per side and 30 secs on the sides, to get a crust. That's it.

How do you not have the entire house smell like sautéed steak / have oil + fat droplets splatter everywhere on the stove/floor?
It'd be pretty wierd to shoehorn 6/4 (not just Tiananmen) in a graduate enrollment website, and as I mentioned, PRC applying overseas will have VPN already, so it won't do anything.
One thing that really surprises me is the average age of these criminals. Where from and how do they get the knowledge to break in these places being so young?
To my knowledge, as much as this tactic is made fun of, it does work to prevent the page from being accessible from China without a solid VPN. Is there anyone with enough experience in China to confirm or deny this?
Cmake, rake, gradle, snakemake, scons, bazel, blaze, sbt, cabal, stack, invoke. Blah blah blah blah

What tends to happen is that some new language comes out. somebody decides they don't like the fact that make is actually more like prolog than anything else. They don't like prolog and just want to run some shell commands.

They then decide to demonstrate the productivity of their new language. they implement a build system in and mostly for that language.

People use it, a new language comes out and the cycle repeats.

Don't waste your time. Actually learn make and just be ok with the fact that it does look a lot like shell/bash, but it isn't.

Replacing make is like trying to replace the word "cool" in the English language. People have tried. It never succeeds
Almost every country in the region is an ethostate.

The only reason Kurds would say they don't want their country is Turkey.
That's not an issue. That's the entire point. You track listens per account and if you're only listening to a single niche musician, all your money (not someone else's) goes to that musician.

The real mystery is why it should work any differently, because the cross subsidy seemingly creates a perverse profit incentive for bots to scalp off some of that cross subsidy. The economics are broken. This is socialism for the rich and popular.