skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine this:

Security pentester tests someone's website before getting approval/confirmation that this is what the client (who isn't a client yet) wants.

Someone reports that, and judge says "Since you didn't do the pentest the legal way, we're banning you from doing pentests for five years"

After those five years, the pentester can continue doing tests, but legally. The five year ban is not the punishment for doing pentests, but for doing unauthorized pentests.

The analogy here is that data collection/selling is legal, but you have to follow the rules regarding how collection happens. If you break those rules, they'll ban you for N years, after that you can do the collection/selling but following the rules.
Isn't that overly pessimistic, not optimistic?

Surely if plants are absorbing more CO2 than we thought, that's a good thing for climate change? (More CO2 absorbed by plants -> less CO2 staying in the atmosphere -> less warming. No?)
As a contractor who works building apps (and their server backends) for big clients: I don’t give a fuck. I just do the minimum so the app works. The worst that can happen is that the client asks me to fix the flaw later on, for which I will bill more hours.

I can 100% guarantee that’s what happened here.
> When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs they just don’t believe it.

When you consider that single digit percentages of trillions of dollars is still an obscene amount of money it makes sense. People making tens of billions by applying formulas to spreadsheets and shuffling other people’s money around doesn’t sit right with most people.
I know this isn't the point, but here's my nixos script for using a canon DSLR as a webcam

https://codeberg.org/traverseda/nixos-config/src/commit/ee3f...

To get this out of nixos you need to create 4 files

dslrWebcamConfContent goes into your modprobe config

dslrUdevRule goes into your udev rules

dslrWebcamScript goes somewhere, probably /opt

dslrWebcamService is a systemd service.
I thought it's weird to have "fillérbaszó" to have such a direct english counterpart, but then I checked your username :)
I am truly astonished by the feedback in this thread. I would have called OP a bad salesman for not being able to close a deal in the phone.

If I want to buy something, I want a call to weed out the unuseful products quickly without having to comb through useless websites
But with lots more money, which is what insurance deals with

Of course they’re insurable at some premium. The question is whether there is any premium someone is willing to pay that can also cover the risk.
Most likely because it's not just a single batch job, but a whole series which have been scheduled based on a rough estimate of how long the jobs around them will take.

For example, imagine it's 1997 and you're creating a job which produces a summary report based on the number of total number of cars registered, grouped by manufacturer and model.

Licensed car dealers can submit updates to the list of available models by uploading an EDIFACT file using FTP or AS1. Those uploads are processed nightly by a job which runs at 0247. You check the logs for the past year, and find that this usually takes less than 5 minutes to run, but has on two occasions taken closer to 20 minutes.

Since you want to have the updated list of models available before you run your summary job, you therefore schedule it to run at 0312 - leaving a gap of 25 minutes just in case. You document your reasoning as a comment in the production control file used to schedule this sequence of jobs.

Ten years later, and manufacturers can now upload using SFTP or AS2, and you start thinking about ditching EDIFACT altogether and providing a SOAP interface instead. In another ten years you switch off the FTP facility, but still accept EDIFACT uploads via AS2 as a courtesy to the one dealership that still does that.

Another eight years have passed. The job which ingests the updated model data is now a no-op and reliably runs in less than a millisecond every night. But your summary report is still scheduled for 0312.

And there might well be tens of thousands of jobs, each with hundreds of dependencies. Altering that schedule is going to be a major piece of work in itself.
No, I want 140 characters.
I am not a dev but studying the origins of SaaS and the transition to meter based payments

What are some differences / similarities with https://github.com/getlago/lago?
> The real question to ask, is why people like yourself are 'terrified' [sic] of the dark.

Statistics show that people don't care about statistics but about confirmation bias and the media is eager to feed it.
At some point people are going to realize that using these LLM AIs is a communications problem, and by that I mean the reason various attempts to use them fail is because they are not being effectively told what to do, vague and implied requests are not enough for a inhuman statistical construct to grasp what you're asking without clearer more details and more specific instructions.
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I always wonder who do counselors go to for counseling. And then, recursively, who do the meta counselors go to for counseling... where does it end? Or are we just adding emotional stress to an overtaxed system with no relief?
I'd disagree - at the ends of the curve, there are a lot of products that are effectively identical, at which point it's a race to the bottom on price (often meaning a slow decline in features until things are "cost-optimised") unless they can bring another value-add to the table which is where salespeople come in. Some of the best companies with the best products have extensive sales teams because they don't race to the bottom on price - they outcompete on getting first to market of features that they only get to because they understand their customer pain points deeply and find out when the value add is.

I work in the semiconductor industry. A new chip might be designed to run 500+ different protocols, if not more. Coincidentally I had a meeting with one of our senior fellow lead architects the other day, who said a good 60% of those protocols came from suggestions by the sales team. These were requests by customers with super niche requirements you couldn't even imagine, even if you had an army of postgraduate architects who spend all day reading papers (which would be prohibitively expensive). Sure, a chip designer might know to put the latest USB standard on it. They might not know about some obscure broadcast protocol used by only 4 or 5 companies but is the backbone for almost every Premier League football game you watch on TV.

Good products are often only good because the sales team was out there trying their hardest to start a dialogue with a customer to win business, and in doing so listened to them and acted on that.
Test code by running it.

Test a rocket by launching it.
I Ran PS3 Games on PS5 Silicon to Prove Sony Wrong
This product is not ready. At the very simplest level, your terms of service and privacy policy are incomplete.
Ask HN: Fast Way to Manage Job Applications
I recently started applying for Backend Developer jobs, and I'm wondering if there's a fast, online solution to efficiently manage and analyze job applications. I know that Excel is probably enough for most people, but I was thinking about a more streamlined scenario like this:

1. You apply for a job on a website (e.g., thebestjobs.com/my_future_job)
2. You add a short URL or custom prefix to the job link (e.g., {shortwebsitename}/thebestjobs.com/my_future_job)
3. The job application is automatically added to your profile on this website.

Does something like this exist? Or are there better tools for managing job applications that you’d recommend?
I'd recommend reviewing the copy on your site. The first chunk of copy on your homepage is full of errors and it instantly devalues any product you might be offering. Might also want to consider updating your title tags too.
I think wandering in the desert is done because there is a promised land. Yes, it doesn't mean that it exists.

But if you don't wander, you'll never find out. You gotta believe
I know I am on HN. Curiosity is one thing, investigating issues for free for a rich company is another. The former makes sense to me. The latter not as much, when we live in a world with all sorts of problems that are available to be solved.

I think judging the future state of a company based on its present state is not really fair or reliable especially as the period between the two states gets wider. Culture change (see Google), CxOs leave (OpenAI) and the board changes over time.
It's the only edition which is provided for free. This edition uses Lua 5.0, which is very similar to 5.1 which is still very popular as it's targeted by LuaJIT. The changes between 5.1 and 5.2 seem small as well.
Agreed, I know people get incredibly pissy at Google on this site but Flutter is hands down the best app development experience period in 2025.
I saw people using Sony cameras as webcams, probably because of the easy plug and play setup.
https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/untranslatable-dutch-wor...

There's a large amount of peer pressure to idolize scraping by, and against actually doing your best and putting in effort. While this exists in certain other places too (see classic "jock vs nerd" Hollywood stereotypes), nowhere is it as widespread. Moreso than the intensity - which isn't particularly severe, in the sense that e.g. serious bullying isn't more common than in compare countries - it's how institutional it is that sets it apart, even among a lot of kids who have the potential to do very well and go places if they'd put in a little effort.

Of course YMMV and these things have a large degree of local variance, but there's a reason the linked term exists as a cultural phenemonon there.
Thanks. Looks nice, however too much click interactions going on. Nevertheless really interesting and see myself using for quick inspections.
Running ASRock/AMD BC-250 as a general purpose PC
It needs to give him a job :-)
OP is using a camera as a webcam that's not sold as a webcam. That's fine, I do the same with mine, but it's also fine of the manufacturer to allow for that by simply providing A/V interfaces instead of trying to account for every use case.
Show HN: InStag.com: The Image Gallery Downloader
The software in the article looks like a fun little oldschool cracking/RE project.
Not the last 3-5 days.
>Some people are really fetishizing iterative failure - but just because you are wandering in the desert does not mean there is a promised land.

i guess you didn't follow the falcon 9 failures right? here's two minutes of failures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

and guess what? they finally got it right and now falcon 9 is not only extremely reliable but quite cheap for everyone.

NASA (with the shuttle and saturn V) had a completely different idea on rocket development (and blue origin seems to follow their mindset), which is fine. but to say that this is "failure fetish" when spacex has an amazing track record is just hating for the sake of hating.

i would recommend, if you have the time, the book liftoff, by eric berger https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Desperate-Early-Launched-Spac... -- it was the book that opened my eyes to why spacex works like they do.
Convenience is always extra
I think it might be a little simpler. Productivity crap (or productivity porn as Merlin Mann has called it) is just fun. People enjoy notebooks and pens and talking about taking notes.

It’s not just productivity crap. Reddit (and HN too) is built on people talking about things rather than doing things.
Or maybe they care about getting to their destination in time and not wasting half a day just going from point A to point B on foot/by (shitty) public transportation, or they'll be fired.

Daily reminder that we live under capitalism where you're not allowed to just "take your time".
Tokyo has high earthquake and moderately high fire risk, people here tend to go with steel reinforced concrete but wooden buildings remain common as well.
That's reminds me when I was in South East Asia a few years back and wanted to do some time lapse or series photography with my Sony Alpha a7ii. A camera that I had paid close to 2k€ for (just body, no glass).

It required an app to be installed on the camera that was paid-for. Which in term required the camera to be connected to a WiFi.

Imagine discovering this while on a trip in the jungle or the desert or whatever ...

It was a one time purchase (I think around 10€) but it was still a complete wtf.

You had to purchase the app through the camera's app store. You read right.

Ofc this failed as my CC was declined because I live in Germany and the transaction got marked as suspicious, coming from SEA.

So I had to go to town and hunt down a wifi USB dongle so I could turn my laptop into a WiFi hotspot for the camera, while using the VPN masking the built-in WiFi to be connected to a German IP.

You had to enter the CC details through the camera's on-screen keyboard that was operated with the joystick on the camera's body. It took me a good ten minutes.

No words.
The requirements of orbital launch are unyielding. If you make a car 50% heavier, it will have worse mileage and handling, but it will still get you where you need to go. If you make a spacecraft 50% heavier, it will never reach orbit.
A Mars cargo mission, according to the timeline spacex set for themselves.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F2HFqsVkiZc/YT9bPpXSKDI/AAAAAAAAG...
Upvoted for hacking on hacker news
>how unreasonable that is

It was a year or two ago.
It’s somewhat subjective, but I disagree it’s easier to fleece photographers than audiophiles. There are professional art photographers that use Leica cameras because they’re great, and $250 is pocket change for a lot of serious optical equipment. Look at the Canon L lenses and the like. Lots of people that buy that stuff don’t need it, but it’s not expensive solely for the sake of being expensive.

I have yet to find a professional sound engineer, producer, or artist that calls themself an audiophile or uses the insanely overpriced gear marketed to them. Lots of that stuff is demonstrably bullshit and only valuable because it’s expensive.
wouldn't be easier to just control ammunition?
As someone who uses AI coding tools daily and has done a fair amount of experimentation with different approaches (though not Devin), I feel like this tracks pretty well. The problem is that Devin and other "agentic" approaches take on more than they can handle. The best AI coders are positioned as tools for developers, rather than replacements for them.

Github Copilot is "a better tab complete". Sure, it's a neat demo that it can produce a fast inverse square root, but the real utility is that it completes repetitive code. It's like having a dynamic snippet library always available that I never have to configure.

Aider is the next step up the abstraction ladder. It can edit in more locations than just the current cursor position, so it can perform some more high-level edit operations. And although it also uses a smarter model than Copilot, it still isn't very "smart" at the end of the day, and will hallucinate functions and make pointless changes when you give it a problem to solve.
React Native renders actual native widgets to the screen, so for example on iOS you would write to cross-platform abstractions but you’d still get real UIKit components on the screen.

Flutter draws its own components that can look superficially like the target platform (or not, it’s up to the developer) in a manner closer to a game engine. HN seems to love Flutter and apparently the developer experience is excellent, but as a user I find Flutter apps to be in general a poor experience. They rarely look or act quite right (assuming the developers even try; I’ve used a number that look like someone has transplanted an Android app onto iOS).
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos: CISA boss
I struggle with this as well, but I didn't realize it until reading your comment.

Thanks very much for taking the time to write it.
Interesting take. I will dig more into this, I'm pretty sure it would be an interesting feature for potential customers
I can relate, I have been genuinely amazed more than once by how it could "understand" some very complex code nobody dared to touch like you mention.
Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?
this is why Google's HCT color space has both a Tone as adjustment and device environment as a color adjust.
Interesting theory. Any evidence that this is how the world really works? (And, is there a catchy name for the phenomenon?)
The right too for the job most certainly is not HDMI.

The video feed should (depending on usecase, sure) be compressed on the device and sent over USB.

Sending uncompressed video just to be badly compressed in a capture device is most definitely not the right tool for the job.
> This levy is not meant for piracy, but for legal access

Backups are already legal in France. It’s pure greed. Why should we pay twice? Also this levy goes to major labels, why should I fund the local Taylor Swift if I want to backup my computer?

> blank media

But we still pay that levy on blank media, phones, tablets, computers, hard drives, and USB keys. They even wanted to put that tax on refurbished items.

> the alternative is that you are not allowed

But it was already legal for the past 50 years. They added this tax, it’s not a gift for us, it’s yet another restriction on what was previously legal.
The life lesson I am getting is if someone gives you llamas not a good sign run like Samuel Jackson in Get Out second time I've been tricked by llamas lol
Maybe match some achievements from 60 years ago, like having a rocket that can put someone on the moon, back when the largest supercomputer in the space program had less FLOPS than my watch.
> the worst that can happen

To you, you mean, right?
For some adjacent work in the analogue domain, there's a exceptional set of paintings here that play with the fuzziness of this perception: https://www.pstruycken.nl/EnS20.html
Hah! I love the proper tea joke. Hadn't heard that one.

Extreme philosophy or not, I reject the idea that "everyone"=="the state". Most (all?) states which confiscate property in the name of "everyone" don't distribute it fairly anyway, so it's all a bit of a sham. Even if it wasn't, I still don't fancy having the 7 or 8 drunks I know at the local bar showing up to sleep on my floor, shower in my toilet and claiming it in the name of everyone, or the state, or whatever. Screw those people.
Yours is an interesting point as I am now questioning:

> "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

I have expressed that idea with different attribution before now, but, on reflection, it is a 'trite quote' that can be trotted out far too easily!
I've always found these "perceptual vs absolute" things about human senses very interesting.

Hearing has a few quirks too:

- When we measure sound pressure, we measure it in log (so, every 3dB is a doubling in sound pressure), but our hearing perceives this as a linear scale. If you make a linear volume slide, the upper part will seem as if it barely does anything.

- The lower the volume, the less perceivable upper and lower ranges are compared to the midrange. This is what "loudness" intends to fix, although poor implementations have made many people assume it is a V-curve button. A proper loudness implementation will lessen its impact as volume increases, completely petering off somewhere around 33% of maximum volume.

- For the most "natural" perceived sound, you don't try to get as flat a frequency response as possible but instead aim for a Harman curve.

- Bass frequencies (<110Hz, depending on who you ask) are omnidirectional, which means we cannot accurately perceive which direction the sound is coming from. Subwoofers exploit this fact, making it seem as if deep rich bass is coming from your puny soundbar and not the sub hidden behind the couch :).
Apollo WAS an impressive achievement

Starship IS an impressive achievement while they speed up development process with real-world hard data

New Glenn IS an impressive achievement while taking their time to develop a vehicle that reached the orbit on first time

Per wiki on Apollo

> Landing humans on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($25 billion; $182 billion in 2023 US dollars)[22] ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.[23]

Different budget, different number of people working on this stuff and different mindset. Actually the Apollo program was also iterative and it paid off.
Show HN: Botnet of Ares, an incremental hacking game
Botnet of Ares is an incremental hacking game where you exploit millions of devices.

I first made a prototype of the core mechanic back in 2020. For a while I did not have too much time to dedicate to the project, but the idea had been in the back of my mind ever since.

After befriending Tobi, who now contributes to the game's development, and performing several playtests with very positive results, I've decided to commit to the development of Botnet of Ares.

Botnet of Ares is meant as a critique of security practices in some consumer electronics and IoT devices. It is also a response to the excitement & anxiety many of us feel regarding recent developments in generative AI & large language models. Real life botnets are very much a thing, and so is automatic exploitation of such devices. Botnet of Ares asks the question: what would happen if an AI Agent were trained to exploit and uncover vulnerabilities across the entire Internet?
Most passive house designs suffer from that.
For funsies i would call it a “vessel not under command”. At least after the breakup that feels to fit.

But for real, i think the simple answer is that debris falling from space is outside of the scope of the ColRegs. Simply speaking they come too fast so you can’t maneuver your vessel out of their way, and unless you are a warship you don’t have the tools to even know where exactly they will hit. If you try to run you might even put yourself in their path. After all from the most unlucky position they would be just bright stationary spots on the sky getting ever so slightly bigger. Until they start to get bigger faster and faster. (Constant bearing and decreasing range being the hallmarks of an impending colision.)