skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a conflict of interest but then again Trump is unique among presidents with having tons of business interests that he didn’t divest.

Do we have precedent in the world of leaders with such large business interests?
Found the page I had mentioned earlier: https://pawitp.medium.com/the-correct-way-to-use-secure-boot... . In the comments Aleksandar mentioned the possibility of using the attack mentioned in this article and the author replied back with the same solution of verifying a secret file on the root partition.
What would you call Tesla not being able to sell cars in China unless sold to a Chinese company - what might you call that? :)
Oh man. So much fuzz over a site that shares video snippets.
Is it just me? I feel like I am witnessing some kind of end of US society.

Fear disseminated by politicians and social media (pick whatever we are supposed to be afraid of this week.) Paired with an addictive desire to be relieved and distracted from this fear, in part from the same politicians/social media.
If prompt is the default, mistyped scripts will hang rather than exit 1 if they have stdin open. I think that causes more problems than it solves.
> it's simply a matter of time

How much time? Because the way free speech absolutists talk about these ideas always seem to imply that we are mere moments from a country like Germany collapsing into authoritarianism. What evidence do we have that the US's level of free speech is truly better than a country like Germany which does specifically restrict the speech of Nazis?
I think the commenter was choosing between american vs non american influence in US politics.

Not between corporate influence and no corporate influence.
Alternatively, you can also accept the value with a unit and return an error when a plain number is entered (so --timeout 5s or --timeout 5h is valid but --timeout 5 returns an error).
But those running corporations are fiduciaries - the have a legal and ethical obligation to their shareholders. If those shareholders want to not maximize profits and have other objectives, then that's totally fine and then the managements obligations are to those aims of the shareholders.
You honestly belive Musk does not boost certain tweets?

Do you remember this story??

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...
Eh, the NFC chips in Apple devices are very capable. If Apple opened them up to everyone, you would see half a dozen “clone your access card” app a day later.

It’s easy to say that it’s not Apple’s problem if people use horrifically insecure RFID and NFC access systems. But I doubt the media, or the lawyers for any office block, would see it that way. The headlines basically write themselves “iPhone used to hack into secure government facilities” or something silly like that. Just look at the uproar the Flipper Zero created in Canada[1]. Now imagine if you could do that with an iPhone (which has most of the hardware needed) by simply downloading an app. Not a chance in hell Apple is gonna let their products be used like that (heck the AirTag stalking debacle demonstrates how silly the reaction can be when there’s an opportunity to roast Apple over an open flame).

It would be great if all this stuff was open but the reality of the situation is that RFID and NFC standards are trash, and even when there is a secure “standard” (I’ve yet to see any evidence that manufacturers actually aim for any kind of cross compatibility, even when following a standard), access control manufacturers haven’t bothered using them.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/canada-vows-to-ban-...
Google's implementation is also more janky, with phones needing a data connection and having to go online to download new tokens(?) every 3 transactions or so.
> And I'm sure that the military can find ways of enabling deployed personnel to use the internet without sacrificing security or oversight -- for example by requiring them to use secured military-issue computers and smartphones, or by having an inspection or vetting process for hardware and software when soldiers want to use their own devices.

Of this we are in 100% agreement. It’s totally doable, but I am observing that today it is not a solved problem in the US military.

> I hope you also acknowledge the absurdity of suggesting that the government should apply essentially the same restrictions to the whole of society that the military couldn't apply within its own sphere of control.

I’m a little confused about the wording of this but I am reading this as saying that the military should be able to apply its own standards that are stricter than what civilians are accustomed to. I agree, and it does. But I’m suggesting that it doesn’t happen in a vacuum and that enforcement is never perfect. A blanket ban on personal devices (I’m positive this has been tried before) would both be unpopular and difficult to enforce. It would be a mistake to discount the cost of poor morale. And it would be a mistake to ignore the outsized effect that poor morale has on middle management — the ones who are responsible for enforcing said rules.

I hope it’s clear that my commentary is entirely descriptive and not prescriptive. Full disclosure: I’m former US military enlisted and also currently working in a space adjacent to improving operational security.
Why do I get the feeling you're basically holding a mirror on all of us, and getting answers that totally seem to miss it, making it even more delicious?

Or perhaps I'm just being pretentious here. In any case, very entertaining.
The reason why only the G3 supports Apple Wallet is exactly because of the NFC chip. Otherwise, they are completely the same hardware, and mostly the same software.

Thing is, the PN7160 chip used in G2 does not support Apple's proprietary extension to the NFC standard, called Apple Enhanced Contactless Polling [1], so they had to replace it with the PN7161 version, which is a special SKU created by NXP in collaboration with Apple. ECP modifies the lower levels of the NFC stack, which "NFC Controller" chips do not always give the host full control over, as they abstract away the protocol implementation for use in non realtime systems. Hence the need to replace the chip.

Funnily enough, PN7160 and PN7161 is exactly the same hardware with exactly the same firmware. NXP just 'fused' some extra data into *1 model so that it does not ignore the special configuration command to enable ECP. The extra SKU exists only because of licensing, and could have been a firmware update instead.

Theoretically, as ECP is really only needed for the automatic selection & use of a card, and it does not affect the upper protocol layers, UI could have brought support for Wallet credentials to older readers, just without the "express mode", but Apple specifically prohibits the use of their cards with any non-certified and non-ecp readers.

[1] https://github.com/kormax/apple-enhanced-contactless-polling
Advocacy organizations shouldn't aspire to extremes. The ACLU should offer reasonable and practical help and commentary on civil liberties. Otherwise, you get the modern NRA that fights every law about firearms.
I sincerely hope one day your understanding of the history of American imperialism is increased along with the ability to clearly read my comment and you finally wonder how you could have ever believed in something so hypocritical.
How do you get this, may I ask?

I asked because I didn't know how to get exactly that, so I'm building a site that finds RSS feeds from sites on the front page of HN. Then, at the end of the day it emails me with a summary if I miss one.

https://RSS.surf

If anyone wants to try the daily summary email would love feedback.
Anytime there are such large numbers of "undecideds" it's likely they are low-information, and an opportunity for Trump (or any unscrupulous politician, but really, Trump) to lie to them and turn them to whatever side they wish.
great intro guide!

I'd say another big tip is getting proper ffmpeg completion into your shell. That's helpful for seeing a list of all possible encoders, pixel formats, etc.

I also found that playing around with filters in mpv was a great what to learn the ffmpeg filter expression language!
Despite my own feelings on the ban, this kind of royal court politics is the worst potential outcome. Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority, signed into law by the president and ruled on by the supreme courts feels like the start of a very dangerous path. Not to mention the prosecutorial discretion may be creating massive liability that the new administration could use to extract favors from some of our largest tech companies.
try to recreate reality and a limited but repeatable form. roar like a lion, sing like a bird. remove everything that a thing looks like in order to leave what it is. break it into components and try to recompose them in new ways. general principals of intelligence, I'd say.
Pure Bluesky endorsement from a MIT blog.

ActivityPub, Pleroma and Mastodon existed before this, and they just work.
> Crypto is a very easy way to funnel bribes

Interesting... are you able to expand on this? My understanding is that the $TRUMP coin runs on Solana, which similar to Bitcoin runs on a public ledger and therefore offers limited anonymization (basically none).
If you're willing to put down 10-30k USD on solar and batteries, you can probably cut the cable.

At least most of the year, depending on where you live.

Yes, nuclear would be great, but the time to make that decision was 20 years ago.
> I imagine anything else would be quite irresponsible in a geopolitical climate where sanctions could pull the rug out on critical communications infrastructure.

I'm not sure I follow the logic here: Governments can self-host their own infrastructure and avoid potential sanctions without it having to be open source.

Meanwhile, empirically, all Governments continue to spend eyewatering amounts of proprietary software - whether that's from Microsoft or Adobe or Google or whoever. It's excruciating that in practice, only a miniscule proportion of that gets routed to open source - and even then, it's typically on a "we'll pay for features, but not maintenance" basis. So I'm not seeing any “we must only spend money on pure open source products” in practice; the closest is "if we're paying for something to be built, it needs to be open source" (which makes perfect sense, imo).

> If Matrix is just "yet another service (SaaS)" competing with Slack, MS Teams and the like it becomes a much less compelling argument for public infrastructure.

Matrix is an open protocol - it's not remotely "yet another SaaS". There's already a selection of different server implementations; some FOSS, some proprietary. You can switch between servers, and switch between clients. The fact that one server has added acceleration to enable successful massive-scale implementations and kept that as proprietary (for now) does not undermine the protocol - or stop govts from purchasing it, imo.

I think we may need to agree to disagree on this one tho :)
New prime 2024 has no awd.
IIRC there's some patent on how the pointer accelerates based on the pressure on the nub. This was why the other pointing stick devices (I've used ones from Toshiba, HP, Dell) don't work quite well as a Lenovo/IBM TrackPoint proper.
> There's plenty of terminals that don't support colors.

Colour support is irrelevant to this case. They can check isatty() and give different output depending on that.

And verbose information is better in average case, if it's well formatted. Unless you're flooding the screen with useless data of course, but that's not what's being talked about here.
I made quite similar web tool some time ago, client side, no registration required:
https://shir-man.com/txt-merge/
Until very recently, "Democracy" was a dirty way to describe a government. It was in the same class of failed government models as tyranny, the rule of the mindless mob.
It's.. not great. But still a long way behind the US in terms of chaos.
There's no government restrictions preventing you from assembling elsewhere.

Your interpretation would make shutting down any place where people assembled unconstitutional which was clearly never the intent.
FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.
> It's true that this means all similar US-based things should be banned as well

Or... regulated? I'd be all for privacy regulations and data handling regulations that would affect the algorithms of everyone but as long as the law is targeting TikTok only and not also FB, Insta, Twitter, etc, the idea that this ban is about "the overall harmful effects of the algorithmic firehose" is a total red herring.
Did you just call me an idiot?

Saying "It is not a ban because if they give it to us then we won't ban it, but if they don't we will ban it but it still won't be a ban because they had a choice in the first place" sounds so ridiculous to me that I don't even know how to argue here.
Which of these examples includes the parts about foreign control? This is the primary issue as far I was aware. The chinese state does not have first amendment protections because they are not american citizens.
They didn’t need to turn off in the first place. The Biden administration had already said they wouldn’t impose any fines.

This was literally nothing but a political play intended to give Trump a boost.
I'm confused then -- if you aren't construing the larger community of people following these ideas and participating remotely as being separate from the "core" group, then how do the more unusual lifestyles that only the "core" group follow describe the entirety of it?

The way you're describing it seems similar to looking at the lifestyles of monastic orders within the Catholic church as indicative of the way Catholics live generally.
I also harden my sshd_config.

I mainly disabled all legacy cryptography and types of tunnelling/forwarding that I don't rely on:

https://gist.github.com/sshine/e42ecb7f9d7432e6df331eefdd490...

I also only expose SSH on public interfaces on one machine; all other machines have SSH over VPN.
People interested in cards might be interested to visit Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, a museum of playing cards in the outskirts of Paris. https://www.museecarteajouer.com/
I was thoroughly impressed by it.
If you started doing calculations beyond "is this number greater than 0?" you've already gone way off the rails and missed the point entirely.

These are generic drugs, so paying extra for the same amount is not creating any additional value for society, and in the short term this money could have paid for other things. It's a classic destructive enterprise, like putting a chain on a road and charging people a toll without doing any road maintenance.

> it won't make any real difference on your bill

It's actually insane that anyone could presumably finish middle-school math and think this. Just because you divide a number by a sufficiently large other number and arrive at a small number doesn't just mean the impact disappeared or was reduced. There are lots of people in a society. We aggregate or average out things to calculate.

It means you fudged the numbers and arrived at some nonsense instead. Is the education crisis really this bad that this needs explaining to an adult?
Well, their private keys have been leaked todays so let's hope we will see some OSS firmware soon.

Current firmware does some dubious things, I would be happy if someone removed that.
I think he just went a little loopy with old age
Nvidia GeForce Blackwell: New details and benchmarks for RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070
Built a few platforms over the years, and can concur robotics is nontrivial.

ROS has some fundamental design flaws, but does integrate most development software from various research areas. In many cases, the sub-projects were abandoned decades ago, and only ROS developers keep these components operational.

The primary mistake most naive academics make is assuming you are dealing with a single problem domain. Robotics is different from simple automation in that it has 4+ different primary concurrent systems that must share state.

There is also the IP issues with parts of projects like OpenCV, and the patent holders (university legal departments) make it nearly impossible to license. i.e. unless you have >$3m to drop on each component... expect to get ignored or sued in a commercial setting.

This is why we can't have nice things, as most FOSS software is perpetually Beta ... Thus, nearly impossible to "clean" and deploy in a commercial setting due to coincidental contamination from the original IP rights holders (not the coder.) =3

https://youtu.be/_lOT2p_FCvA?si=10TqsftmOedHPG-B&t=30
Unfortunately I think this would mess up your SEO on traditional search engines, and possibly even get you penalized for keyword stuffing.

It's easy to hide content from most scrapers if you don't mind ruining your SEO in the process, the difficulty is in doing one but not the other.
When have you ever seen anything like it in the past ?
No-where in their comment did they mention that alternatives were fine. The fact that reasonable suspicions against TT are met with a gish gallop of unrelated arguments EVERY TIME just strengthens my opinion that it just creates zombies.
^^^ This.

Most of HN is affected by layoffs and a bad market, yet at the end of the day, most of our material conditions are better than most of our peers both in white collar industries as well as the larger population.
I don't know if this is a silly train of thought, but won't Pompeii just get buried again in the future? Is it a waste of time to try and unbury it?
(1) Doesn't match the situation at all, because the law didn't require the paper to shutdown - it required a foreign company to divest so that it is US-owned, and the paper could continue operations as normal.

That's a pretty substantial difference.

(2) Also doesn't match the situation, there is no requirement that TikTok restrict the reach or audience of their content in any way AFAIK.

(3) The situation is more akin to "foreign government owns the local library, and can decide based on the identity of the person walking in which books the person is allowed to see and check out" - seems obviously problematic at least /if they do that/
Please don't force dark mode
Perhaps more to the point: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/10/elon-musk-tweets...

And also https://news.sky.com/story/jordan-parlour-facebook-user-jail...

If you say someone should go commit a violent crime, and they do, then you should expect a visit from the police.
But wouldn't you be infringing the rights of the US users if you ban the platform they want to message other US users over? Isn't that indirectly infringing their free speech? Or does the first amendment not protect stuff like this?
Our tradition of electing morons into ministerial positions continues unimpeded by rationality, logic or perhaps even competence. I expect to see a resignation at some point in the future.

Fortunately their civil service underlings and our judiciary are slightly less incompetent when applied in large numbers.
> But it shifts the need to memorize undefined behavior with the need to memorize the borrow checker rules.

With one massive difference: the borrow checker will tell you when you're wrong at compile time. Undefined behaviour will make your program compile and it will look like your program is fine until it's not.

I'd take that trade.
Why is that so hard to believe?

For more than a century now the advertising industry has perfected mass psychological manipulation that aims to separate the masses from their dollar. These tactics as pioneered by the likes of Edward Bernays were plucked straight from the propaganda rule books, which has been successfully used for at least a century before that. We know that both propaganda and advertising are highly effective at influencing how people think and which products they consume. It's a small step then to extrapolate those techniques to get vast amounts of people to think and act however one wants. All it requires is sufficient interest, a relatively minor amount of resources, and using the same tools that millions of people already give their undivided attention to, which were designed to be as addictive as possible. We've already seen how this can work in the Cambridge Analytica exposé, which is surely considered legacy tech by now.

I'm honestly surprised that people are in desbelief that this can and does happen. These are not some wildly speculative conspiracy theories. People are easily influenceable. When tools that can be used to spread disinformation and gaslight people into believing any version of reality are widely available to anyone, it would be surprising if they were _not_ used for this purpose.

> If that's your view of the electorate, then the whole "democracy" thing is just a cover for elite power.

Always has been. It's just that now that we've perfected the tools used to sway public opinion, and made them available to anyone, including our enemies, the effects are much more palpable.

I hope Zuckerberg and friends, and everyone who's worked on these platforms, some of which frequent this very forum, realize that they've contributed to the breakdown of civilization. It's past time for these people to stop selling us snake oil promises of a connected world, and start being accountable for their actions.
Well they’re clearly wrong.

Go read the SC unanimous judgment. It’s very clear and lays out exactly why they’re wrong.

In fact they do a lot more than that because they state off the bat that there isn’t even a first amendment question (a Chinese corporation doesn’t have first amendment rights in the U.S.), but they go beyond, assume the first amendment does apply, and still explain why that isn’t valid.
>Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority, signed into law by the president and ruled on by the supreme courts feels like the start of a very dangerous path

I don't understand why this is not the primary takeaway. Regardless of the specifics of this issue, it is objectively a huge power grab for a president to vow to not enforce a law that had bipartisan approval of both the legislative and judiciary branches.
Plenty of topics sensitive topics to the CCP are allowed on TikTok. Being allowed on Douyin is another matter...
There are two different performance issues here. One is the stuff that Graphene is talking about, which affects all server sizes, and we are trying to fund work on to fix in FOSS Synapse - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752847.

Entirely separately: there are bottlenecks you hit if you try to run a 100K+ user server. Synapse Pro fixes those bottlenecks, and the idea is the $ derived from that can then fund the broader FOSS improvements, which otherwise are starved of funding.
My comments just went right over your head. Didn't comprehend a word I wrote. It honestly makes me sad.

Everything will be okay, nobody is losing their rights. Try getting out of California/NYC some time.
i wrote something similar https://github.com/dwrtz/sink

it has some nice features:

- follows .gitignore patterns

- optional file watcher to regenerate the snapshot when files are changed

- supports glob patterns for filter/exclude

- can report token usage

- can use a config yaml file if you have complicated filter/exclude patterns

i find myself using it all the time now. it's great with claude projects
They don't want those pesky regulations. Marc Andreessen says it openly: https://a16z.com/politics-and-the-future/

This line in particular sums up the cynical stance of these billionaires:

> We are non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.

They simply don't care about society as a whole, they want their businesses to thrive, no matter what.
there are several versions of versara with various purposes. more emphasis on seo, more emphasis on protection, a mix, etc. We haven't tested it for sure, but in theory the SEO should still work.
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