skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's more that if you are at all concerned about security, then by far your biggest threat to worry about is the provider of cloud services, so that needs to be your starting point.

I don't necessarily agree with that. The most widespread and issues to hit people in the US in recent years are not malicious cloud providers, but credential stuffing attacks against otherwise legitimate and reputable services.

> In practice, any home network in the last 20 years is behind a firewall that blocks incoming connections unless you go out of your way to open the firewall/forward ports, and will be secure from other attackers by default.

Right, the instructions with those legacy IP cameras instructed users to open ports to access them remotely.

> It's not random hackers in Russia that rendered people's solar setups inoperable. It's the inverter company using their backdoor.

Yeah, that's a problem. But probably not addressable through this program. There's nothing a voluntarily labelling program can do to protect you from a vendor that wants to fuck you over. One would presume a bad actor would simply: not volunteer to give up their ability to be bad.

Protecting customers from vendor abuses is not just a cybersecurity problem, it's a warranty and contract problem (or criminal fraud problem), and is probably better handled that way.
The correct topology is very common. All you need is water and a hill.

We've already tapped most of the suitable places for hydro dams because those need flowing water. Pumped storage does not need flowing water so the number of potential sites is massively larger.

ANU identified 616,000 potential sites: https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/
That meta specifically green light harassment of minority groups, while giving specific examples of what bigotry is okay to express, is just mind boggling.

What on earth could possess them to specifically carve out those things beyond pandering to an extreme audience?
What if you need to make design changes, but don’t have the skills?
Of course it makes a difference to vote for what you actually want, no matter if they win this time. If you don't have an appointment at the euthanasia office and you (or someone who can vote in your name) is in good enough health to reasonably go, I can't (currently) think of an argument why it wouldn't be worth one's time to vote for who should govern you
There are immune system supporting mechanisms for particular immune system dysfunctions that tend to co-occur with cancer. A particularly interesting one is Low Dose Naltrexone which is super cheap and has practically no downsides.

If there is a case of even mild dysautonomia various meds like modafinil and amitriptyline can help along this axis.
On one hand, yes this policy is insane.

On the other hand, if you work at Meta you gave up your ethical concerns at the door, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.
What is expected, what obliges them to not make profit. What "rescur" do they have if not making "enough profit" What are incomes of execs and how are they increasing.
do you leave USB or wireless debugging enabled at all times?
> So I could imagine debating a point while being in the right.

I absolutely can. Every single time I've gotten detailed rejection note it turns out to to be over pedantry (or rather, the fact that you didn't follow the letter of the instructions perfectly, god forbid you show some creativity).

It's really hard to not send a point-by-point rebuttal of their nonsense, but it never leads to anything.
I'm going to take all of my toys and go home until everyone promises to stop being mean to me.
If we're talking about curl specifically, I absolutely think they would (NOT "should") fix/workaround it if there are actually common problems caused by it.

Yes it would have required numerous fix cycles, but curl in my mind is such a polished product and they would have bit the bullet.
Correct, but all materials have a vapour pressure so there will be a very small amount of lead vapour when soldering. Based on lead’s vapour pressure it’s in the range of a few atoms, I haven’t done the math though.

I mentioned it for completeness because someone else would if I didn’t.
re: #4, they seem to be quite different. The paper OP referenced is considerably more novel, paper [6] here is incremental improvement on existing technology (TTFields).
It works better than Microsoft's, that's the issue.

Office purposefully doesn't follow its own documents' standards, and renders with particular quirks, so that one gets the experience you report.
In case someone else didn't know where this was from, like myself - it's a green-text from ~12 years ago:

[1]: https://imgur.com/please-drink-verification-can-dgGvgKF
There is a technique where you breathe out as you solder. No idea if канифоль is toxic or not but honestly if it gives you headaches why not try another type? Or wear a respirator?
But I think we had it handled.
Consider that lengths (and clocks) depend on your frame of reference,
so a "Planck length grid" at one velocity wouldn't be one at another.
I haven't personally read it, but The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes seems to fit the bill.
"a significant amount of this geolocation dataset appears to be inferred by IP address to geolocation lookups, meaning the vendor or their source is deriving the user's geolocation by checking their IP address rather than by using GNSS [Global Navigation Satellite System]/GPS data. That would suggest that the data is not being sourced entirely from a location data SDK."

Probably it would use the location if the permission was enabled, otherwise fall back to IP geolocation

Real-time bidding is a privacy nightmare - basically spraying your actions in real-time to every ad provider, with a pinky promise that they won't abuse it.
Yes, I think this post has established that whomever created the response to the original ToS violation (rather, just a plan to violate the ToS) wasn't being very thoughtful (assuming everything is being described correctly). I would assume that at this point, the discussion has been moved above the original employee who responded and is being dealt with at the dean level (with the goal to be avoiding UW appearing in a bad light in the press).

I've seen hundreds of "administration outrage" articles and I guess I've kind of learned that the backstory is usually more complicated, nuanced, and reasonable than the original poster implied. But the internet mobs proceed anyway.
As of his latest scan in November, 18 months post surgery, Scolyer's cancer hasn't recurred [1]. Average time to recurrence post-surgery is 6 months.

Don't want to leap to conclusions prematurely, but that might be some progress.

[1] https://x.com/ProfRAScolyer/status/1859179205885673877
It really depends on the flux, even modern fluxes have a range of toxicity. The only way to know is to check the MSDS.

I use Канифоль/rosin flux as well and use a fume extractor. Rosin flux is the most common for flux-cored solder in my experience.

But a few times a year is unlikely to be an issue, soldering health effects are in people who do it for work.
Anybody have a mirror?
My friend got fully recovered from stage 4 melanoma with immune therapy in Italy. Good luck
Is there a Zipcar, but for pickups? I've never used Zipcar, but with all of the bitching about pickups on HN and various other places, what is the quickest and easiest way to rent a pickup truck for an hour or two? Is there an app for that? I don't live in a big metro area, so I'm probably not be aware of all of the possibilities that exist. I believe you can rent pickups from Home Depot, but I don't know how smooth that process is. Without knowing, I'd guess that there is cumbersome waiting around for a clerk to check your driver's license, filling out paperwork, scrolling by 10,000 words of disclaimers to initial here and there and the other place. Then repeating some of the same steps when returning it. Maybe there is a business opportunity here, especially for bigger cities? I'd personally prefer if these pickups were obviously used, rather than gleaming new, so that you wouldn't have to worry about scratching them, etc.. Also, while in general when traveling I think most people prefer newer rental cars (with Rent-a-Wreck being the exception), but I'd also think that people wouldn't care about the pickup being 15 years old for running their sofa over to their friend across town.

Maybe there is an app, and a digital key on your phone, where you just walk up and drive off, bringing it back with a full tank of gas?

And if cities really wanted to reduce commuting in pickups, maybe they'd completely subsidize the first hour (every 3 months, or whatever).
My experience in mainland China cerca 2003 is notably missing from this thread.

Entire markets with "daoban" (pirate) DVDs, music, and importantly - English language software.

The fascinating thing was the corruption and collusion with local authorities; occasionally I would go to a shop almost completely barren, it's because cops were scheduled to show up soon.
I wonder if apps are abusing background app refresh to do this on iOS.

My understanding is that it isn't difficult to create a background task that can periodically make network requests. Just have a background task make a HTTP request including some unique identifier to some ad network server, then have the server handle IP geolocation.

While the accuracy won't be great on a lot of mobile networks, you can get pretty granular on wifi as some ISPs have their IPs as granular as a neighborhood.

I disable background app refresh for almost all apps in anticipation of this and haven't had a degredation in app experience.

I noticed something when using 1Blocker on iOS, which creates a dummy on-device VPN to block tracker IP requests. After I turned off background app refresh, I noticed that the number of blocked requests went down a lot. While some were innocuous diagnostics, like Sentry, the vast majority were not.

I'd appreciate if someone familiar with iOS development could weigh in on if this would be practical or not, given the all of the execution limits of background tasks.
Facebook awards researcher $100k for finding bug that granted internal access
I find the process of writing standup comedy to be the purest form of writing and public speaking. There is a constant effort to adjust words around in order to get that extra laugh. How you write something has direct effect on how the joke is told. Specially sensitive subjects. If you ever want to expand your writing skills I suggest learning how to write a standup joke. It works really well. More so if you have a sense of humor.
Are there any issues or tricks for syncthing in termux, for e.g. always running in the background?
Or perhaps the studies are flawed? (you know, what this whole thread is about?)
And that post has already generated much discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42617645 (322 comments)
Quick math shows that vapor pressure of lead at 500 degrees C is 1/7,600,000 of an atmosphere. I don’t know how to calculate the rate of sublimation but this does seem pretty negligible.
Here in Argentina invoices must have a very speccific format and perhaps a magic qr from the local version of the IRS. Are the invoice made by this page legal somewhere?
What's your alternative to taxation?...
I absolutely despise this trend. I don't want a "smart" TV, and I don't want a new car. They are objectively awful products.

I am not your revenue stream.
Real numbers aren't based on measuring objects in space, they're an abstract construct that happens to work a lot like measuring space, at least on our scale.

You're free to reject the real numbers as a valid construct (intuitionist math), but you'd give up a lot else as well.
Use a fume hood or extractor and really learn how to solder properly. It sounds like you are either running your iron too hot and/or you are trying to melt your solder on the iron and pass it to the joint. The pros use a TON of flux because it practically solves the oxidization issue and helps a lot with spreading the heat to where you want it to go. Half of your temperature issues can be solved by either preheating your boards or spot heating with a hot air rework tool.
Quite astonished to see Elon Musk being used as an example of someone whose views are worth following. If someone goes from e.g. Red Cross employee to ever more worrying statements and eventually outright racism and misinformation, I'm worried what happened to them (some disease?) more than thinking "ah crap, the racism party was right after all, let me go and vote AfD now"
I see Seedvault allows you to backup and restore app data. Are there any issues transferring app data from one device to another? Screen size, Android version, hardware, etc could all be different.
Now Playing only has to sample for a few seconds every few minutes when the phone is powered on for other reasons (like to participate in cellular check-ins). This is because a song is typically several minutes long and you only have to fingerprint for a few seconds. It doesn't matter which few seconds. It's not continuously listening, so it's not the same thing at all.
I just can't imagine having to worry about this.

It is why I like a low end Samsung android. It is borderline disposable and I would never view it as more than temporary storage. Works until it breaks or I lose it then start over. In the meantime, if something is that important it mounts easy in linux and I copy over what I want to save.
group fitness scheduling platforms use facebook login and disseminate information through their business page, if you hard delete your account you’re hard blocking yourself from local small businesses. what’s so hard about just not using it?
> "Facebook" is a corporate entity that does not have the ability to "care about" anything.

Why do we tolerate the existence of such entities?

Perhaps if they were no account fly by night little things, but as huge corporations dominating the economy....

They should not be tolerated, unless they change.

We can do better
The answer is laziness
> He's an insecure like you said and a coward

Aren't we all, to some degree?
"may top 200k"
You just supported my point that these companies at their core have little value. A team? Teams are fleeting and easily replaced given the hiring and firing (and poaching) practices of companies. Industry connections? Maybe to some degree, but those are fleeting as well and how do you value it? Most of these connections are held by relatively few people in the company.

Companies in other legal jurisdictions will and can steal ip with little impunity and throw new AI tools to quickly gather an understanding of the codebase. Furthermore, knowledge of source provides a roadmap to attack vectors for security violations. Seems foolish to dismiss the risks of losing control of source code.
I'm currently working on it :)

See you in two weeks I hope
It also makes no sense and looks terrible to connect those two glyphs with a ligature.
Unlike "fi" or "ij", there's no reason (kerning or spelling) to want to smush # into {.
Anecdote/Tangent: Roku TV wins an award for worst input switching UX. From Home, you have to go into Settings (the quick settings accessible from the remote aren't enough,) then scroll down the Inputs menu and then select your input. At least with LG, inputs are directly available from the Home menu.
If you want to do low level design, you can look at the Micro Magic public domain tool set. As someone said above, Verilog only describes the logical function (ranging from the RTL level to the gate level.) You'd need other tools to work on everything physical, like placement and routing.

https://github.com/yarpose/YARPOSE.Micromagic_PD
JANET started running IP-over-X25 in 1991 and within a year the volume of IP traffic was greater than the volume of native JANET traffic.
> so is volleyball

Is it? I've never played volleyball and I never met anyone who had until I moved to my current country.

> Both are sports for rich (countries) only. How many tennis players you know are from Africa?

Fair, but that's a little different from "regional".
The Bioelectrics of Immortality and Mortality in Cold-Sensitive Hydra Oligactis
This is a paper co-authored by Michael Levin, who is fascinating to begin with. Also this is the first time anyone has mapped electrical patterns across an entire living creature's body. It appears that immortal hydra had more depolarized cells (less negative membrane potential) compared to aging hydra. Given they can induce hydra aging just by changing the temperature, it's an efficient way to study how electrical patterns affect or are affected by (hydra) aging.
For him and his boss and the boss of his boss it may well be a goal to use more AI in business processes. It may be decided in the strategy to spend X% on AI in the next 3 years. So you will do exactly that and not question if it makes sense at all.
My independent implementation: https://www.nayuki.io/page/animated-floating-graph-nodes
I am using Continue, I don't use in place edits -- they are mostly wrong; I still rely on copy paste (gpt 4o api). Just don't mess up my code, let's discuss it first.

Plus they have some artificial 2000 edits limit -- for a feature thats less effective than side window.
The US Constitution is "written" but is essentially incomprehensible without a stack of Supreme Court decisions the size of Mount Everest. (Perhaps literally.) None of the words mean what you would think they mean.
> you can get pretty granular on wifi as some ISPs have their IPs as granular as a neighborhood

I’ve heard that this might be the case in some places in the USA. Meanwhile, I have not seen that level of granularity for residential IP addresses in Norway for example.

The MaxMind GeoIP databases include information about how accurate (granular) the location data is for each entry in their db according to https://support.maxmind.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407630607131-...

Has anyone done analysis on the MaxMind GeoIP data to see how the granularity of the data differs between different cities and countries and published anything about that online?
> The only data I care about on the phone already gets backed up by Google and is then exported regularly via Google Takeout.

Are you using Google Authenticator?

If so, how do you backup your secrets?
It's more like the ideal vector for some nasty stuff. There's nothing inherently wrong with it but folks doing evil stuff love it.
TV as a whole seems to be basically deprioritized versus one's smartphone and/or gaming PC. In a year or so when I get my own place, I'm not so sure I'll care about having a TV, at least not right away, and if I do, price will be the main factor.

It doesn't help that TVs have pretty much all plateaued at excellent picture quality. The main perceptible difference is the size. So, when I go to my local department store and see 3 72" TVs, by different vendors, and can't really tell any difference in picture quality, why wouldn't I pick the cheapest?

Price sensitivity - I find it funny that there is seemingly an immense amount of resources going into things that enable tracking for advertising purposes, but consumers as a whole are getting poorer and poorer. At some point it calls into question whether it's really about selling ads.,
Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?
Everytime I start reading a book, I feel like uploading it in NotebookLM/ChatGPT to get QA; but these don't let me read in their app, and its not easy to get digital copies of books. I also want to ask questions adjacent to what I'm reading easily; I wonder if there are great apps/hacks people have for this.
I still feel kind of disenchanted about technology. A founder who punishes and fires employees who delete and modify comments can create a decent website faster and easier. Without any cryptograpghy.

And, since the website also has a reputation of its own people won't want any of the cryptography if they trust the website

The only downside is when the website owner dies eventually it can all go to hell, it's hard to enforce your principles after the death.

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reading your comment again, I think you want to much: you want to see less lower-quality posts and the solution has to be decentralized. I think just not visiting social media can improve your daily life. If only I could follow my own advice though...
> My device is rooted

A problem in and of itself: brittle when upgrading, won't work with you banking app, etc...
How convenient it would be for the social media network if people tended not to blame them. I just watched Zuckerberg say that he's glad about the "free expression" that could happen because of Facebook, and these genocidal posts getting boosted by the algorithm are an example of this. What is missing on Facebook is actual free expression, of people seeing posts from people they follow, including small business owners who would like to reach their customers.
Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Gliomas and Glioblastomas (2022)
Toddle with xano can do this. Or Weweb with xano. We have built similar marketplace. Would you like to jump on a call to discuss further?
Having that is much better than not having it, but man is it verbose and confusing.
It does do that similarly to Authy now doesn't it? I saw a thread here recently with people arguing it broke MFA to do so.
How does that reach into app folders where adb has no permissions ?
Look for prof. Seyfried videos on youtube about GBM and his protocol.
The remote control is terrible. In addition to lacking a pause button and input select button, it also lacks: play, stop, rewind/fast-forward, previous/next track, mute (I may be wrong but I do not see it in the picture), and numbers. If I was designing it, I would get rid of the buttons for Netflix, Disney, etc, and also get rid of the scroll wheel, in order to make room for that other stuff.

(However, I also think that such video services, etc should be separately and not a part of the display itself, so that all of these functions can be disabled if you are not using it and not take up any more power, or any conditional branches in the software either.)

I also think to make up a "Movie Decimal" system, like the Dewey Decimal system of classification of books, that can be used for classifying movies and TV shows that you can then easily and quickly enter them on the remote control. When you activate the Movie Decimal mode then it will display what each digit means and you can enter all of them quickly (without having to wait for the next menu), or one at a time in which case the menu will display the subclassifications from that point in case you do not know what the numbers mean, that you can learn.

(Also, I remember operating a Telus set top box once, that the control has a play/pause button, but it was the remote control that kept track of the play/pause state, which meant that sometimes you have to push it twice in order for it to work. It would have been better to put separate buttons for play and for pause.)
At Planck scales, things aren't so much "granular" as they are "fuzzy". Positions and such can be smeared out in a wave, rather than being discrete.

Measurements, however, are often discrete, and select a single [eigen]value from the smear.

Between the wave / and the measurement / falls the Shadow,
> But can your PDF run an AI agent?

Oh it's so much worse than that. Your font can run an AI agent.

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791
Solzhenitsyn had it right that we are all capable of good or bad actions:

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."
It wasn't that. It was the power board.
"There's no way we could have a child now. Not with the market the way it is, no."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
According to Jake Seliger, it can hurt. https://jakeseliger.com/2024/07/29/more-isnt-always-better-d...
Neutone FX: DAW plugin wrappers for PyTorch audio processing models