skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With email, if gmail decide to ban you, you are unable to communicate with 90% of people with no recourse

To reiterate my point (and perhaps what you said in your first sentence) this is completely unrelated to the decentralized nature of email, and is proof that decentralization is ill-suited to avoid that problem: legislation and oversight are what works for banking. "Decentralized" has never meant "there are no dominant players"

Edit: when it comes to tech platforms or protocols, the ability to decentralize is binary: it's present or absent. There is one Twitter/Instagram namespace with no other instances, there are countless email MTA and MDA and standards for interoperability defined in RFCs. That GMail is dominant is not a fault of the protocol - it happened to be a superior product for reasons not included in the protocol like generous mailbox storage quotas, and superior spam identification.
Yes, I'm aware of these, but to me that's not a requirement of being "a hacker" (not that I've ever heard anyone discuss whether someone is a hacker). I've always understood that to be more of a "with great power comes great responsibility" thing that suggests some ideas you can use to figure out your position on the moral value of something (but explicitly not as in "you must adopt this line of thinking or you're not one of us").
One of the ideas I was toying with a few years ago was a machine-readable nutrition label, but self-contained rather than involving a database lookup (there just aren't that many bits of entropy in a nutrition facts table, so it's practical to just encode it in a reasonable-size 2D barcode).

I thought they could be useful for e.g. boxed lunches at a conference, or printed on a "mom and pop" restaurant menu, or in a cookbook, where maintaining a central database isn't really practical (aside from avoiding tracking).

It would also be easy to encode things like "Vegan" or "meat-free" or "contains nuts" which could be helpful to blind/low-vision folks or people who don't want to read through a 50-ingredient list to find out something contains shrimp extract or whatever.

I only got as far as setting up a domain (https://nut.codes) and a couple of aborted attempts at prototyping (https://github.com/nut-codes).
Not a single lossless compression technique I’m aware of starts of in lossy compression.

They have different goals and utilize completely different techniques.

At most lossy techniques leverage lossless techniques (eg to compress non-perceptual binary headers) not the other way round.
Just curious why this post was flagged.
Give it a few more years to marinate, and people start getting new devices. Then we'll see how good this actually works.
I was wondering the same thing and suspected it was some safety feature (better for a plane to smack into said wall instead of crash into some populated area, etc) I had no idea he had to make the approach in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, some of us can have entire internal conversations and hear symphonies on demand (but then I personally have aphantasia so absolutely no ability to visualise with the mind)
Show HN: A Chrome extension that allows you to have ChatGPT on the browser
I'm 15 and I created my first chrome extension

it allows you to have an AI Search Assistant (like ChatGPT) in your browser

Highlight text, click the extension, get instant answers with AI. No more copy and pasting or switching tabs.

The highlighted text is then used as context for the AI to give you better answers

+ way more features like prompt optimization with the chrome extension and a folder structure for ChatGPT for 3 free accounts
Accept my condolence for your family in this time of sorrow. The QMODEM program was transformative in my life. Through USR robotics HST modem and QMODEM I was able to access a world far beyond the rural life in which I lived. The generousity of his shareware program probably touched more people than you will know.
Yea, the physical key is, to me at least, one of the top human inventions.

Ubiquitous, cheap, convenient, and provides sufficient security. My little brass key never needs charging, never refuses to open the door because I didn't apply the latest over-the-air update, doesn't phone home to an advertising firm to track every time I open and close a door.

I can make as many copies as I like and give them to friends and family in case I lose mine. There are some scenarios where it might be nice to have a smart lock, but for me at least, they are so few and far between that I'll stick with this tiny bit of metal.
Taxes from their income they’ve been paying their whole lives
I have a very early memory related to QModemPro (too young to remember the original).

Sorry for your loss, and grateful to your dad for his contributions.
Even in Canada you can pay more to get better or faster care. You'll always have overpriced options that by definition won't be worth it for people who can wait, and you can shop around the world if it's not an super emergency and you're really willing to spend.

If that doesn't resonate, it's the same as schooling: you can have good and cheap public schools accessible to everyone, and private schools that will cost 5~20x more but provide a significantly different education.
Repetition occurs due to m3u8 requests I'm logging for videos, which require twice the reload of the page, it can be avoided by updating some code.

And since it's highly cached based on unique url requests, it persists, I'm thinking of having a purge cache option too, I'd have to think how to implement it so as to prevent abuse as well.
Is using SQLite without buying a license [1] really illegal in your jurisdiction?

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license
Reading comprehension might not be your strong suit. The parent was arguing about the effectiveness of governments.

I wholeheartedly agree healthcare in Europe is better, but not everything is better there.
It is a highly pragmatic assumption like absolutely everything else, even cogito ergo sum. Tell me what is not an assumption and then maybe we can talk.

My take:
Epistemology is metaphysical bs, and “truth” is a convention we agree to within communities of speakers.
Who can afford these tools? The IC and security agencies of every country in the world with a GNI greater than, say, Bahrain†. So: probably like 300-500 different global threat actors (countries like the US have dozens of capable agencies; I assume Bahrain has 1-2).

† I picked Bahrain because they're the smallest country we know for a fact has been a customer of multiple CNE vendors, but that probably means Bahrain plus the next 20-30 countries down the list.
I hadn't heard that term before. When I was in technical sales, we called it the "Tampon Sale" technique, based on an old joke:

Two little boys found a five dollar bill on the street and went to the store to spend it. The first little boy came up to his friend with his arms full of candy. His friend just had a box of tampons. "Why do you want that, instead of candy?" asked the first boy. "Look here" said the second boy. "If we buy this we can go swimming and hiking and horseback riding...."

We were trying to sell an engine and quickly learned that the Tampon Sale fails spectacularly. We had to pivot to vertical solutions.
Some commentary about why you gave that link would be nice. I think you meant as a way to say "looks like you are right"?

That is, as far as I can tell, it agrees with me ("responses to SDI were not a major factor in either the collapse of the Soviet Union, nor in the end of the Cold War"), including by citing the same source I gave, the paper by Pavel Podvig.
Damn. Nice. Thank you.
Part-1: Phone in a Box Series
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You've got it backwards -- it's a 25-refill minimum, not limit.

And what do entrepreneurs care? They send the bottles back to Coca-Cola regardless. The Coca-Cola truck comes, picks up crates of empty bottles and drops off crates of full bottles.

From the way it's written, it sounds like it's a tool for Coca-Cola to track bottle usage, to separate bottles into separate streams for reuse and now-can-be-recycled.
Nice idea!

Btw, such reverse slow-loris “attack” is called a tarpit. SSH tarpit example: https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh
Closer to "not yet". It's bleading edge scientific advance. Someone has to be the first.

It's good to wait until replication and then 5 years to let the dust setle down.

But if the research group had group had a good past history, it's better to trust them while the other teams verify.
I view it as a form of fraud. There's no way that worked or could have worked.
They stick with the SAT because different high schools are difficult to compare based on GPA alone. There was an article about it awhile back where getting rid of standardized tests actually hurt the students they were trying to reach, rather than help.
Android is way more popular in the EU than iPhone, allows sideloading, and I am not aware of these issues being rampant with it ?
> If this is still possible, then Apple fucked up the implementation of this feature, as clearly there should be no way to differentiate not having bothered to fill out a ton of contacts and having limited access for an app to see your contacts

If you only allow a subset of your contact, WhatsApp proceeds to not display contact information for everyone and to disable the whole status feature.
Now this is projection. You have been spouting nonsense ever since I cited a word processor you did not like when talking about how the cost of word processors has dropped to 0. Being "triggered" by seeing someone not cite your favorite word processor is the height of absurdity, and you are doing no favors for the LibreOffice project by behaving like this.
I never did try that. But I'm figuring out it needs a fairly big model (or several copies) to work properly and for the filament change time to be acceptable.

All in all, other than completely changing filament after a specific layer, I don't see the shortcome outweighing the benefits.

But in this case I've mentioned it becomes very handy. For instance, to print a PLA 1st layer for bead adhesion and then print ABS on top of it.
- distributed as mp3 files via RSS protocol
It’s not a metal detector it’s optical. What does a person with a pistol strapped to their inner thigh walk like?
Or a knife? There is no possible way to detect that visually.
Qmodem was my favorite comm program during the BBS days, and it still is today when working with vintage computers. It was just nice to use. Its scripting language was the first I used and I find myself wishing there was a Linux comm program with scripting that worked that well. Long distance calls were expensive so I used a Qmodem script to call BBSs each morning to download my email before school.

Just the last several months I've been using Qmodem scripting to make thousands of modem calls over VoIP to test downloads to see which models and ATAs work best.

After I jumped back into the vintage BBS world I've been keeping an eye out for anything Qmodem. I recently just picked up a Qmodem manual on ebay that I wanted to scan and archive, because it's pretty rare to see.

Not too long ago I saw where John had posted to a FB group he was working on a new DOS version of Qmodem, my first interaction with him. I was excited to see it be worked on again and hoped to see the new version. Sad to see him go.
it was installed on 2019 but still question to Lee Kun-Tse (李昆澤) why that concrete high barier was installed even there is a easier way to install antennas which would definitelly prevent from that tragedy?
Please have a look on the links below describing that issue:

https://x.com/galvmonse/status/1873422952697655589

https://x.com/jamai_on/status/1873648523255881947
How did this headline make it past the editors?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work
And this is going to do exactly what to suppress CNE vendors? You don't even know who they are, and many of them operate entirely in jurisdictions that won't care even a tiny bit about professional licensure.
Things like "Vegan" can also just be a distinctly icon on the label, I've seen that many times on restaurant menus
It would be great if this was on F-Droid.
Yes, Congress and the American Medical Association capped the number of new doctor trainees in 1997.[1] That is one cited reason why there is a serious shortage of medical doctors in the US.

[1] https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/medical-residency-slots-c...
As a consumer outside the EU, I honestly appreciate much of the effect it has done for my everyday life:
-the USB-C standard chips away at Apple's proprietary walled garden, which I see as a win for consumers and the environment, and personally I like the simplicity of having one useful standard cable. The other day I charged the iPhone of a person on the train who needed a charge; in the past they were out of luck because I use an android phone.
-their cookie directive isn't perfect, but I prefer it to the previous status quo of websites tracking with your average user completely unaware of the vast network of the "partners" privy to their data by default. For me, clicking "reject all" or just leaving those websites altogether is not a big issue.
-their restrictions on single use plastics have cascading effects outside the EU
-the fining of huge tech conglomeretes for anti-consumer behaviour with GDPR fines (Meta, Amazon, Google, etc.) provides at least some roadblock to their behaviour in my view.

Most of the comments seem to focus on the effect of their policies on smaller scale startups and entrepreneurs, which may certainly be a problem to adress, but as a consumer I see the EU at least taking some action on issues I care about.
>Do you want Big Tech to be American companies, or foreign companies?

So true - imagine an iPhone made in China - the horror.
And that will quickly reverse once people start losing their accounts by losing passkeys or devices.

My extended family fought me about migrating to Signal for years. I stopped trying. One or two years later, they were all on it, acting as if they hadn't given me grief for it.

They have learned their lesson, though. A couple of them have come to me asking about passkeys, and I tell them the threat of losing access and let them make their decision. I think both of them chose to keep passwords.
I do. I 100% despise every athlete and star and every sport that sells themselves to the Saudi blood money. They all contribute to whitewashing a continuing rolling catastrophe of abuse and human rights violations.
I don't know anything about the devices that are being sold, but it doesn't seem impossible to me that with better signal processing from a metal detector, you could reduce false positives a bit while maintaining or slightly improving the false negative rate.
I couldn't tell from the article: is it for human eyeballs or for computers?

If it's for eyeballs it would be nifty to know what kind of image displays both kinds of information at once.

If it's for computers, what is the advantage over two cameras right next to each other? Less hardware? More accurate image recognition? Something else?
Don't forget to add sugar when adding tea to your motor oil. You can also substitute corn syrup or maple syrup which has the added benefit of balancing the oil viscosity.
Copyright isn't exclusive, so the original rights holder you derived from would still have claim. You only have copyright on the derived work over the creative input and changes you provided, if any. If two people independently make the same creative changes, they both have copyrights on distinct works that happen to be identical. There's a well-known blog post on this subject called "What colour are your bits" (https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23) that goes into more detail, but the gist is that the copyright is not solely determined by a work's representation in the world, but rather by the process to create it (of which the representation is simply a product). If this needs to be adjucated, it's done by the courts.
> So you want the EU to play whack-a-mole with fly by night IoT vendors

Yes

Like they do with other online criminals
on the client side, it seems like it should be simple. in the time i allowed myself, i was not able to figure out how to integrate it server-side in my python app. you're not implementing your own crypto, but you are having to interact with and understnad crypto.

there doesn't seem to be a standard python implementation, and there's no feedback at all about what went wrong if your challenges/responses are not accepted by the client-side APIs. the error if your server-side implementation sends anything unexpected is essentially "no, that's wrong".
I could see that as a plot point in a science fiction story: Intergalactic telegrams are prohibitively expensive, so before sending one you're offered various variants of your text that amount to the same thing but save data due to using more generic (per zeitgeist) language :)

Compare also with commercial code [1], a close historical analog, albeit with handcrafted, as opposed to ML-derived, compression tables. (There was a single code point for "twins, born alive and well, one boy and one girl", for example! [2])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...

[2] https://archive.org/details/unicodeuniversa00unkngoog/
This is not much different from how many insured people approach their healthcare. My friends who live paycheck to paycheck do not seek medical attention unless it is some extreme life or death situation. Even though they are insured, they are afraid of paying copays and deductibles of $100-$500 for routine visits. If their annual physical results in even just a $50 bill, they will not go. Only when they are in severe 10/10 pain will they start to think about seeing a doctor.
Offtopic.

Last year I uploaded a recording of the mass for the wedding of my sister's sister in law (the husband had terminal cancer) My homebrew recording was expected days before the official recording.

Youtube decided it was agaisnt community guidelines or something. Religion? Music? Child abuse (the ones spreading flowers)? Who knows. My appeal was successful like 6 months later.

For the time being, upload it to somewhere else than youtube, like pcloud, dailymotion, etc. Youtube is the best techwise, but the legal situation is not stable. Best left for professionals (influencers)
The source of that compression effect is the relative distances top the sensor of different elements in the picture - so a result of long vs short range, rather than long vs short focal length. At a long range, your nose is 1% closer to sensor than your eyes are. At a _really_ close range, it's maybe 50% closer to the sensor than your eyes are. Given a fixed range, though, you can achieve the same look by using a long lens, or by cropping a shot taken with a shorter lens.

The thing is, distance and focal length aren't independent. People don't usually shoot long lenses in close quarters, and don't shoot distant subjects with wide angle lenses, we just tend to fill our frames with the subject. That means the compression effect is technically not related to focal length, but in practice ends up showing up more when using longer lenses.
Better: keeping putting "vegan" and "contains nuts" on the label like every manufacturer already is, wherever they want it to be, and however they want it to appear, but mark it up appropriately, and make the file for the label design accessible by URL. This is the Web that Tim Berners-Lee actually wanted (browser makers' and Modern Web devs' insistence that the Web is really about App Store-like SPAs that can run in your browser notwithstanding).

It's crazy that all the pieces have been there for decades but the idea that you should be able to talk about "the URL of this label (a document)" is nearly unfathomable for professionals who spend a huge chunk of their waking hours ostensibly building "the Web".
The amount of engineers your father directly or indirectly created are innumerable. Myself included.

I would’ve never discovered UNIX or the pre-web internet without software like and including QModem.
Can we use this index, please? – Why not?
> get more bodies per minute into the venue at lower cost while appearing to conduct security checks sufficiently 'real' enough to act as a deterrent

Or they just need to convince most of their customers it will be safe to attend, while covering their ass by following "best practices" if something slips through, people get hurt and they get sued.
But in this jurisdictions without a concept of public domain, who is going to come after you for using software without an explicit license?
> Much of this "bad actor" activity is actually customer needs left hanging - for either the customer to automate herself or other companies to fill the gap to create value

Sometimes the customer you have isn't the customer you want.

As a bank, you don't want the customers that will try to log in to 1000 accounts, and then immediately transfer any money they find to the Seychelles. As a ticketing platform, you don't want the customers that buy tickets and then immediately sell them on for 4x the price. As a messaging app, you don't want the customers who have 2000 bot accounts and use AI to send hundreds of thousands of spam messages a day. As a social network, you don't want the customers who want to use your platform to spread pro-russian misinformation.

In a sense, those are "customer needs left changing", but neither you nor otherr customers want those needs to be automatible.
Right. That is not what I meant by "craziest mixed device ecosystems", and yes, I agree that Android + iPad is a common enough situation that needs good defaults that we haven't yet entirely solved for (but there are options today and hopefully it will get better). Windows "knows" it has to be a bridge device with whatever the user's phone ecosystem is, iPadOS today mostly assumes the user's phone "must be" an iPhone. From Apple's perspective that still makes sense as a useful "default" for what they consider to be their average user.
Because it's crazy to think that the two dominant app stores are going to have policies that exactly match people's needs, and that they'll implement those policies competently.

Syncing files with Syncthing is no longer possible on Android because the Android team won't fix the performance of storage access framework, for example. This is 100% on Google, not Syncthing.

But I can still use SyncThing-fork because it's on FDroid. Similarly for the Fossify apps, Quillnote, KeepassDX, Privacy Browser, and dozens of others.

Apple will never put in the effort to make a community that thrives on sharing open source apps that are not profit driven. It's simply not in their DNA. And I don't want to have to live in a world where every developer that wants to make a mobile app has to pay a tithe to the overlords of Google and Apple. They will always claim that they're fixing security problems by acting as an intermediary, but there's no way for them to do that without replacing my choices with theirs, and nothing in Google's or Apple's decision-making history indicates they're better equipped to make decisions governing my machines than I am.

So why would a normal person want to sideload? Because they don't want Google and Apple telling them what software they can install on devices they purchased.
A lot of the employee protections in practice make is just super hard to hire employees and super hard to fire low performers. It's good for seniors and bad for juniors and let me tell you, in the EU we do so much for old farts already. I have no appetite for more policies targeted towards them. That's another problem that I neglected to mention.
I supposed it used arithmetic coding with the ranking bacause they have a distribution easy to exploit: zero more likely, one a bit less and so forth. What's your guess? Unfortunately Bellard is as smart as hermetic. We are here guessing what should be a README file.