skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the asylum being granted over the last 4 years to anyone who could download the CBP One app

This is entirely unmoored from reality. CBP One only allows people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to make appointments, and once they have one, they have to actually show up and argue their case (why they need to come to the US for their own safety). You can’t just show a border patrol officer that you have CBP One and walk on through.
Not on most database workloads. There zfs does not scale very well.
Fluent assertion sneakily changed from Apache 2.0 to Source-Available
We just need to make sure that we never fight directly with another regional power, e.g. China or Russia. IMO, neither of them wants a fight with the US too, because you don't want to push a super power to the corner, EVEN if you think you are good enough to win.

In the mean time, the situation in EU and Asia is going to deteriorate and North America can absorb more talents as it sees fit. The last two times it was mostly EU but this time Asia might be the new talent pool we can draw from.
LM-Polygraph: Uncertainty Estimation for LLMs
0.04% is a few times higher than I'd expect it to be, but if it were actually that bad I'd expect some form of previous report about it to be findable on the internet. I did some searching but couldn't find anything. It would be a significant bug on Google's part, but stranger things have happened.

What's astonishing to me is that apparently all these big service providers did notice, and then they decided to disregard the one identifier Google tells them to use? Fundamentally that's the security bug being reported here, it's just being reported to Google instead of those service providers.

A stable alternative for the hd claim would of course be a good idea. It would provide a more complete way to deal with the inherent security issue of allowing domain-based signup without further authorization steps. But given the above I'm not convinced these service providers wouldn't start ignoring it after the first time somebody re-registers a domain with Google Workspace.
Or you could explain to them how people tend to lie on these sites about how they are.

Throttling it for very small kids is a maybe. Real name and other anti-dox stuff is also a good practice.

However you do need to also yeah kids that not everyone there is a predator or evil with examples, or they will get digital anxiety.
Private utilities are very common. There are many listed on the stock exchange.

Everything they do is heavily regulated. They cannot do things like cut off service for any reason whatsoever, or raise rates without justification.
I imagine they'd think you were a bot and you'd end up in a captcha loop.
How does moral panic factor into this? I don't think being worried about the effects of technology on children is a moral panic.
What I'm suggesting is if you were able to pre-configure Slack to only allow logins for valid users from Google Workspace X, then even if someone creates a new workspace Y with the same domain, Slack would still be checking against workspace X. (And similar for non-Google based identity providers.)
yep I think it's nuts. I have a plugin in the WP directory, and when I first uploaded it kind of blew my mind the service they provide for free. An SVN repo that gives you instant visibility to tens of millions of site owners. Imho Matt has set expectations too high over the decades and now everyone thinks Wordpress grows on trees.
Nah often third party hotel rooms are cheaper. I've literally been in a hotel lobby, asked about the rate, only to see that it's about 20% cheaper on Hotels.com, ask the front desk person why they can't match, only to then use the app to book right in front of the clerk and then get my room.

The backend system lots of hotels uses will sell rooms at what is essentially the market rate, based on occupancy, demand, etc..., whereas the posted room rate is more stable, for better or worse (better if the hotel is close to full, worse if it's empty).
So when is it contextually OK to print a shooting target with a US President's face on them?
The infographic also blames it on seared meats and fried eggs, so not exclusively an issue for vegetarians. The link to diet in general does seem a little tenuous though?
Recruitment Phishing Scam Imitates CrowdStrike Hiring Process
Great idea! We'll add some of those in the next round.
It's much simpler than that. Trump needs reading glasses but does not want to be seen wearing them.[1]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-seen-wearing-glasses_n_...
Just because your child has been this way does not mean everyone’s is. I have a 3 year old and even though I have been very strict about screen time (tv or phone) - she watched her first cartoon just months before 2nd birthday - from the very beginning screens were hypnotizing for her. She would stop whatever she was doing once a screen was playing nearby. No amount of entertainment I would provide would make her look away. So it’s good for you that you don’t have this problem, but from my experience and from talking to others this is definitely a struggle for many.
https://archive.is/aaq82
Fortunately for the workers, paying below minimum wage is illegal. (And for what it’s worth, it’s really hard to hire even at minimum wage these days. McDonald’s pays well above $15 in most metro areas - including in states which use the federal minimum.)
I bet Concur gets paid for having slow page loads and thereby discouraging employee travel. It's the only explanation.
Is this really just google=bad, though? I work at a startup and this seems like a legit security risk that I'm happy to learn about.

It seems like the only mitigation would be to let your HR SAAS know when your company shutters and ask them to delete the records. Or just squat the domain yourself as an ex-employee.
> To me that's a large part of the very definition of a useful general purpose OS is that it's flexible and enables you to do whatever you need to do today,

NixOS gains most of its power from restrictions. These restrictions enable awesome things like starting a shell with all dependencies in seconds versus minutes using alternative technologies (used by great effect by replit). Nix works surprisingly well for most software, but anything with a ton of dynamic dependencies is going to cause issues. Even knowing what the dependencies might be statically can be hard. Sure, providing an OS with no restrictions and complete flexibility is an option, but then you'll just end up no better off.

Whatever the future of operating systems will be, it certainly will involve more restrictions and less flexibility.
That is entirely reasonable! Time to abandon the hypothesis.
I meant 32k bytes - PDP-11 was byte-addressed, not word-addressed. The 64kB address space was split in half between kernel and userland in so called "high and low moby" scheme (as it required minimal logic latching onto single address line).

And for I/D split you needed appropriate CPU model.

the top 8kB "I/O page" is reserved as part of the kernel space, not userspace, so it does not impact as much the userspace part.
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I see you engaging in good faith in this debate. I'm also heartened by your self-awareness about how HN hijacks your brain. FWIW, I'm in the same boat, and I still come back here.

I'll share something that might mitigate some of your turmoil: with any ascendant (and disruptive) technology, the only way to criticize it is by leveraging that technology.

Socrates' lament on the dangers of literacy is known today because it was written down (yes, by Plato... but it was written down).
"That’s the term the climate left is suddenly using" - suggests a partisan bent that is not suitable for HN.
Assuming you can in fact buy it DRM-free. Otherwise it is just an indefinite-term rental.
What he's trying to say, is that compelling content is not necessarily what you think it is.

There's whole subcultures of people doing unboxing videos. People framing existing videos as "unintentional ASMR" (https://www.youtube.com/c/PureUnintentionalASMR)

The point is : it doesn't matter what you upload. As long as it allows Google to show ads to people.
I'm not a fan of Musk but you're getting his intentions wrong. He's not actively trying to undermine the EU. His recent support for AFD was actually meant, misguided or not, to support Germany.
And his support for Tommy Robinson in the UK was because he apparently believes freedom of speech in the UK is in danger.
It does make you wonder, Safari recently had a burst in features where they modernised and even overtook Chromium/FF in some features, and then in the past year or so it’s languishing again.

I do wonder if the metrics show the average person downloads Chrome straight away so they’re just not investing heavily in it? I mean anyway, who browses traditional websites any more, right…?
In a rational world the remedy would be to sue Google for exposing your payroll information.
I love NixOS, it's my daily driver on my personal laptop, but it definitely has given me more than its fair share of headaches.

If everything you're going to do is in Nixpkgs, great! Nix will mostly "Just Work" and you'll get all the nice declarative goodness that you want. Since Nixpkgs is constantly getting updated, this isn't that weird of a thing.

The thing that's been most annoying to me is when I try and run generic Linux programs, only to be unceremoniously told "You can't run generic Linux programs in NixOS because we break dynamic linking". Suddenly something that would take about ten seconds on Ubuntu involves me, at the very least, making a Flake that has an FHS environment, or me making a package so that no one else has to deal with this crap [1]. I didn't really want to know how to make my own Nix package, and I don't really want to be stuck maintaining one now, but this is just part of Nix.

This means that it's still not something I could easily recommend to someone non-technical like my parents, unlike Ubuntu. You have to be willing and able to occasionally hack up some code if you want your system to be consistently useful.

To be clear, there's a lot of stuff I really like, I don't plan on removing it from my laptop, and for something like a server (where the audience is sort of technical by design), I really have no desire to ever use anything but NixOS, but it's a little less impressive for desktop.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/366367
I'm thinking ahead of this myself for my kids' sake. Some approaches I'm considering:

- NextDNS with device rules/filtering (primarily for adult and malicious content). This also has monitoring capability, don't think I'll use it though.

- Social media restriction in the early years, but eventually allow access through a notebook. This is a more useful creative tool and will mediate passive consumption, as they won't carry it everywhere with them. Instead it's a log-in at home, when time permits.

- I can't imagine a scenario where my kids "need" a phone, but if so, dumbphones are an option

Some parents I guess will opt for overscheduling kids as an offset, but I think unstructured time is important. Just so long as it's not entirely spent on media consumption.

Mostly, right now I should be setting by example. In instances where kids are playing alone and I don't have to be hovering over them, I'm avoiding excessively reaching for the phone and instead pick up a book. Or do nothing.
Wouldn't you mount the encoder after the reductor then, where the position actually matters?
if you create a product and it doesn't target the consumer with the right messaging you dont get sales
And most people don't have issue with static ads like those in newspapers and magazines. People would be fine if business wants to advertise something, but the tech ads industry does not only want to promote things to you, they want to capture your attention as well, regardless of if you want the thing or not. They think they can only do so by knowing you as well as your mother does.

If a business have something to sell, just let people know. No need to help create a surveillance state.
The more I use nix, the more I understand it's both. Nix is genuinely so fucking great, but the ecosystem and docs and language are a mess. It needs to be cleaned up, and things _are_ getting better.

The core philosophy of Nix is so damn solid though, and that's the real innovation here. As long as its philosophy manage to stick around, then it's ok.
When did Twitter hit it's viral growth curve? And what was the user count before and after? To be clear, it's not necessarily the case that a platform needs to optimize for growth, but I wonder what can be expected without the sticky features that "addict" the most users to a given platform.
Don't over-cook your food. AGEs, PAHs, etc. are all bad.
Right, and at least Microsoft has a large sales organization.

But Google and Meta?
Turns out you can take out a driver side mirror by putting most of your weight on it and bouncing a few times. But that's reserved for drivers that have made contact with me...
Just calling out that worker protections and increased labor costs seem to be the result of workers making more money. As the work force becomes wealthier, they _need_ less money, and their standards rise. This means their labor becomes more expensive and they demand safer workplaces. They demand more time off. This happened in the USA and is currently happening in China and other low-labor-cost nations.

I think the person you responded to is right. The USA can and should restore its manufacturing base, for many reasons. The whole country would greatly benefit from the return of blue-collar jobs.

I don't have sources for this, but the info is out there.

Also, there are a lot of nuances around this topic that I'm not getting into here. Just want to acknowledge that...
I find the overall approach fascinating, but I chuckled at this part because CDs are digital:

"I've developed a analog->digital path for my kids. Before they can get a music player, they get a CD player."

If anyone wants to start with analogue, perhaps start with vinyl, then cassette tape, and then CD. I had a cassette player before a record player, but vinyl seems easier to grok because you can use a steel needle to hear the sound, instead of the cartridge and amplifier.
I haven't read the full paper, but do they control for fat intake? Because pretty much everything on the "high AGE" side of the infographic is also high in fats, and we already have studies that show high fat diets have a negative effect where diabetes is concerned
While it might sound backwards, it's probably more effective than banning and hard rules in the long run.

Yes, you can isolate them from social media at home, but you have to acknowledge that it also means they will be missing out, won't be invited to things planned on there, will live under constant tension of "what are others talking on there?", all of which might actually stunt their (social) development more than just being on social media with no restrictions. You can take alternative approaches along the lines of "let them use computers first, then phones", but then you're no better than the parents forcing kids into a certain sport because of a personal preference.

I'm not saying don't ever tell them to go offline, just saying dialing down the restrictions a bit and actively providing alternatives-spending time with them-should go a long way. Spend time engaged with them, just generally show them the way-show them sports, activities, ... they can do with or without friends, offline. Lead by example is the term here.

To end this, I also know quite a few cases where the restrictions have backfired to the point the kid feels like they need to use up all precious daily screentime allowance, even tho they might have better things to do, just because it's so limited.
Be that as it may, long context window models which are good are not a mirage. By say late 2027, when the LLM providers figure out that they're using the wrong samplers, they will figure out how to get you 2 million output tokens per LLM call which stay coherent.
This is a stupid article.
1. It starts with “Millions of Americans”. How does this relate in any way to Americans?
2. Gmail is not the problem
3. Consider registering a domain for 10 years. When the startup fails, delete all dns entries
One of the unintended side effects of Noscript is this sort of unintended hilarity:

> These claims usually include:

> hd (hosted domain): Specifies the domain, e.g., example.com.

> email: The user's email address, e.g., [email protected].

The placeholder, hypothetical email address is being "protected" from web scraping.

In the context of an article on a security website about identities being spoofed through email accounts.
This is a stupid article.
1. It starts with “Millions of Americans”. How does this relate in any way to Americans?
2. Gmail is not the problem
3. Mitigation: Consider registering a domain for 10 years. When the startup fails, delete all dns entries
It's a WSJ OpEd. They are never non-partisan.
>Nearly all political statements are violent or are calls to violence

Maybe if you only listen to extremist diatribes instead of reasonable discourse.
Thanks!

> intels SMT does do something very similar (2 hw threads)

Yeah that's a good point. One thing I learned from looking at both hardware stacks more closely was that they aren't as different as they seem at first -- lots of the same ideas or techniques get are used, but in different ways.
It's a legitimate point - the criticism carries more weight if its part of a unified collective consensus (e.g. the Unity fees debacle) than if it's a bunch of all-over-the-map criticisms that all contradict each other (Gamergate). Seems straightforward enough to me.

The latter can be especially important to observe because sometimes people are just full of it and it's all just a bunch of vibes, where people agree something is wrong, but they can't settle on a coherent idea. In those cases that phenomenon is often the most important thing to understand. I would go so far as to say vibes based psuedo-consensus is one of the most common things manufactured by internet mobs.
There's a need to be pragmatic here; In the event of any kinetic Chinese aggression, TSMC (and other co's) fabs are going to be rendered inoperable, regardless of how well executed a US response is.
why is a beer a platform for pushing some individual's personal choices?

why should it be used to push any sort of political messaging?

why shouldn't bud light owners reject a brand that pushes those political messages?
You probably don’t realise how important encryption is.

It’s still not supported by Proxmox, yes, you can do it yourself somehow but you are alone then and miss features and people report problems with double or triple file system layers.

I do not understand how they have not encryption out of the box, this seems to be a problem.
> Partly because algorithmic curation is a big business, tied in pretzel knots with advertising, and is marketed by major companies as a huge "improvement" or "user need" (to sell more ads)

You might have inadvertently fallen for the fallacy of composition. What to describe is only one type of algorithm; one meant to maximize engagement/revenue.

Mastodon has the potential for a user-centric "Bring your own algorithm" which may work similar block lists. Users could subscribe to algorithms matching their preferences by boosting or penalizing posts based on topics I like or don't like. This would be very valuable to me, and will reduce the need for moderation - I won't even see the random ragebait or porn spam
The covid vaccines were never tested for transmission.

How does herd immunity make any sense when it was never tested for transmission?
Could someone show a legit reason to use 1000-character filenames? Seems to me, when filenames are long like that, they are actually capturing several KEYS that can be easily searched via ls & re's. e.g.

2025-Jan-14-1258.93743_Experiment-2345_Gas-Flow-375.3_etc_etc.dat

But to me this stuff should be in metadata. It's just that we don't have great tools for grepping the metadata.

Heck, the original Macintosh FS had no subdirectories - they were faked by burying subdirectory names in the (flat filesysytem) filename. The original Macintosh File System (MFS), did not support true hierarchical subdirectories. Instead, the illusion of subdirectories was created by embedding folder-like names into the filenames themselves.

This was done by using colons (:) as separators in filenames. A file named Folder:Subfolder:File would appear to belong to a subfolder within a folder. This was entirely a user interface convention managed by the Finder. Internally, MFS stored all files in a flat namespace, with no actual directory hierarchy in the filesystem structure.

So, there is 'utility' in "overloading the filename space". But...
As a parent, I think it's just taking choices. There is no absolute win for either end, just gives and takes. When the dust falls we can just hope that we get a bit more takes than gives. Most of us just walk on ice and skate to wherever fate takes us.