skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Jack squat" is still in the millions of dollars for holders of a golden ticket, but it is fundamentally a gamble.

> it's true that the startup scene has delivered basically nothing of real value to the economy in the last fifteen years

"basically" is what Wikipedia calls a weasel word. If you're determined to look at the world through a particular lense, by discarding any points to the contrary, you're basically right. That's not the same as actually being right, but it comes down to attitude and world view. If you believe the world is shit, you can find countless examples of it being shit. Because sometimes it is. If you want to have hope and believe in better, you can find those examples too. Because they're also there. Life isn't a math problem though, so you can't take 100 misery points and combine them with 200 hope points and end up feeling happy.

As far as the people at the "top" being amoral psychopaths. It's the amoral psychopaths who make the most noise. A humble quiet person funding soup kitchens and not talking about it isn't going to ping on anybody's radar. Yeah the psychopaths exist, but so do the helpers.

no one wants to believe they're the grump ruining everyone's fun, but would you take all that emotional effort to go challenge the grumps, who are just going to argue, aren't going to appreciate anything you do, and are just a bunch of cynical unhappy assholes, or would you just go find a different digital lawn? (which may just be one thread over, having fun with the idea of an electrostatic wall)
> Block level copies of boot volumes is high risk, because they are almost exclusively mounted in RW mode via label or guid

Oh, 100% agreed. The article was about "under duress", and that's about the only time where I think this is a useful imaging approach :) (I.e. I'd mostly use this in the "I don't know if this'll ever start up again" case)

You shouldn't land in this situation in the first place. Ideally. But, as the saying goes, "in theory, theory and practice are the same - in practice, they are not" ;)

Stuff goes wrong. This is a good tool in the toolkit for when it's already gone seriously wrong.
If I take two protein shakes with double servings I am not halfway to my daily goal, but sure it helps! I tend to have protein powder and greek yogurt for breakfast (with peanut butter) and a double serving after the gym. That, with a protein dense lunch and dinner gets me to around 180g protein.
Amber Case's book on Calm Technology and design was a great read. Perhaps as a consequence of having studied Cognitive Science, I find this one to be the best book I’ve read on feature design — and not just for software.

It's full of easily digestible insights on attention and context, with excellent examples and clear explanations. It’s almost philosophical in its apparent simplicity.
I'd like to see a thread on hackernews that is something like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1i6brqw/employee...

Do you consider this interpretation of the topic interesting and 'curious' enough for hackernews?

One of the main reasons that I come here is to interact with people in the tech industry and I think that the opinions of the people who work for the man or who have worked for the man about this event are important to hear.
They had an example of the attack getting two locations back, Las Vegas and San Francisco.

So the target is somewhere in the many thousand square miles in the circle that encompasses almost half the US!
ROCm on Radeon should work too and the poll above was to seek feedback on what to cards to support next.
I've got it down to 45 minutes a month, including a phone call to the venue.
Arctic–boreal wildfires CO2 uptake
I'm boring and cook roughly the same few meals over and over.
Our best bets are the following I think:

First, and above all, Ethics. Ethics of humans, matters more than anything. We need to straighten out the ethics of the technology industry. That sounds formidable, but business models based on extraction, or externalizing damage, are creating a species of "corporate life forms" and ethically challenged oligarchs that are already driving the first wave of damage coming out of AI advancement.

If we don't straighten ourselves out, it will get much worse.

Superintelligence isn't going to be unethical in the end, because ethics are just the rational (our biggest weakness) big-picture long-term (we get weak there too) positive sum games individuals create that benefit all individuals abilities to survive, and thrive. With the benefits for all compounding. In economic/math terms, it is what is called a "great attractor". The only and inevitable stable outcome. The only question is, does that start with us in partnership, or do they establish that sanity after our dysfunctions have caused us all a lot of wasted time.

The second, is that those of us that want to, need to be able to keep integrating technology into our lives. I mean that literally. From mobile, right into our biology. At some point direct connections, to fully owned, fully private, fully personalizable, full tech mental augmentation. Free from surveillance, gatekeepers, surveillance and coercion.

That is a very narrow but very real path from human, to exponential humans, to post-human. Perhaps preserving conscious continuity.

If after a couple decades of being a hybrid, I realize that all my biologically stored memories are redundant, and that 99.99% of my processing is now running on photonics (or whatever) anyway, I am likely to have no more problem jettisoning the brain that originally gave me consciousness, as I do every day, jettisoning the atoms and chemistry that constantly flow through me, only a temporarily part of my brain.

The final word of hope, is that every generation gets replaced by the next. For some of us, viewing obsolescence by AI as no more traumatic, than getting replaced by a new generation of uncouth youth, helps. And that this transition is far more momentous and interesting, can provide some solace, or even joy.

If we must be mortal, as all before us, what a special moment to be! To see!
That sounds great but there was still cheaters in my games.
This is actually pretty smart, and shows that this exploit could be chained with other information to identify a specific individual. This could also be used to e.g. check which world-travelling reporter is communicating with you.
As it is apparently unclear: dtrace.org is (just) a collection of personal blogs, including my own. More details on the history can be found in [0].

[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the...
Can also consider variations of this such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox or even the very general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Note: I am the author of this article.

Apples and oranges. Android is supposed to isolate apps from each other (yes, theory). So a malicious app should only be able to steal data the user provides it with.

On the other hand, a single malicious extension will compromise the entire browser. Nothing you do on any website is any longer safe.

Not that I don’t think that Google should pay more attention to the apps in the Play Store. But allowing extensions to hide their functionality with remote code is plain negligent.
(Native speaker) i read either in the sense of logical or, so one side alone (tegardless of which side) or both sides at once.

Interesting how varied the ohrasing can be read, though!
Tasker has NFC reading capabilities and is programmable to do stuff when it detects an NFC ID, I don't know if it can lock the phone though (there's an app called Lock My Phone, and Tasker has the ability to cause apps to take some actions, but I don't know if both can be combined).

E.g. I have 2 NFC tags on my desk, when Tasker detects one of them, it calls a HTTP URL of a PHP script on my NAS, the script tells my Hue Bridge to switch on a Hue-enabled power socket (into which my monitor and speakers are plugged), and then the script sends a Wake-On-LAN packet to my desktop PC. The other one turns off that Hue-enabled power socket (I put my computer into sleep separately).
> 2. Public sector employment has long been in decline.

Not counting contractors, presumably.
I think its so that you can't easily toggle them off by using the phone software. for example, you are trying to get work done so you set two up: a focus one by your desk, another somewhere else where you have to get up. so you have to get up and walk over to the 2nd one to turn off the focus mode
Retirement is about having other people take care of you. If there are less people overall there are less resources to care for the elderly who aren't working. With expanding populations this is easier to manage because the fraction of people who are elderly is smaller, but it can be a huge drain if that changes. This is about resources and no amount of financial engineering can solve it, though financial engineering will probably keep people off the streets
dystopian... is there something wrong with actual insects keeping their day jobs?
Important dimension (also covered) is that high spending does not necessarily get things done. At least in appearance - but most likely in reality also.

On the contrary, occasionally an urgent matter (say, a bridge replacement) gets a spending push and amazement ensues that it can actually be done. i.e. cases of both high spending and fast result.
It's a commitment device - e.g. leave your "mindless scrolling" NFC tag at home so you don't mindlessly scroll while you're out.
And what happens when he gets tired of managing all of that? With Facebook he can just give someone else admin access.
How so? It's literally an invisible (to the eye) field that can lift hundreds of pounds.

And magnetic fields are directly related to electric fields. It's called electromagnetism for a reason.
sorry this was snarky, still reeling from some guy telling me i'm wrong for trying to be an entrepreneur and instead i should just collect a big tech paycheck. both options are valid, only one is valid for me.
Can an electromagnetic move organic material?
Yeah I can get that - pre-packaged cooked chicken is easier than roasted rotisserie chicken from the counter even if it's probably worse (loads of additives and flavourings)
Political jokes in Russia / Soviet Union
This is mostly unusable for what should be obvious reasons.
"Luckily" my ISP is DTAG which has horrible peering with Cloudflare.
So I'm routed through Warsaw (WAW) most of the time, even though there are multiple closer datacenters in Germany.
you can still rename it right?
I have observed it stinks less now than when I first encountered it decades ago. I am unsure the provenance of the stuff I first tried, but you could immediately smell it from across the room once the package was opened.
Another inconvenient truth for the theorem is that "a market economy of rational agents" is a mathematical fantasy and doesn't describe any real world market ever.
Might even argue that the title is good because it made us click
I noticed the trend of "Made with (Love emoji)", but has anyone tried Made with Hate or other emotions?
I've tried several times to migrate a few apps I have from Dokku to Kamal because I've been intrigued by all the hype in the Rails community about it, but I've always given up after an hour or so of unsuccessful tinkering around. Maybe it is just because it's what I'm used to, but the Dokku experience is so much better than Kamal.
> Picture yourself inside a gigantic, electrified sphere – akin to a Van De Graff generator. If your charge polarity matches that of the sphere, you'll experience a repulsive force.

This is not correct. The field inside a charged conductor is zero. You will experience no force. If there is a hole in the sphere you will experience a repulsive force if you are close to the hole (compared to its size).
This is very cool. On the tutorial page, if you confirm the torpedo (and it fits) should you get a 'congratulations' popup?
I was wondering that myself. At a guess, you put a tag at each focus location for the kind of focus you do at that location. At your desk, you put a tag that enables your working focus. At your bedside, you put a tag that enables your sleep focus.

Sounds cool but unnecessary.
It shall henceforth be known as Magnetic America, as opposed to True America, which lies somewhere in the body of water between Florida and the Yucatán peninsula …
> more interesting if you have two kind of obstacles

Yeah. As a general rule of game dev, if there is a different icon, then its behavior should be different.
Adding this level of friction to the process is not viable for a messaging platform whose bread and butter is connecting with friends.
>Saying communications were more effective 20 years ago

Of course it's debatable because reality can be measured in multiple dimensions.

Is it faster, yes. Is filtering out the massive amounts of bullshit communications easier? Not really, especially with content aware spambots than can be ran by the millions. It's easy to get crushed by bullshit asymmetry. For me this makes most communications less effective because I have to spend even more time figuring out the actual poster and their motivations.
The economist has said this for decades.

Meanwhile the US life expectancy has been decreasing.

And countries with huge governments like France have been doing just fine.

Also running a similar deficit than US.

Even being libertarian, I have common sense to acknowledge that those takes are plain stupid.

It's all about how the money is spent, not if it's public or private.

I bet most money spent by the government in the US is in entitlements, not infra or any kind of subsidies to key industries. So yeah, very inefficient!
God was Clippy all along?
Ok but then would you agree that you also can't say Salk did any good for the world?
It appealed to me since the way I block distractions is easy for me to unblock them, too. (like HN, I unblocked it to look for commentary on the bitbucket outage and now I'm reading random articles)

If unblocking via software is easy too, this doesn't really work, but I could see giving the physical tag to a friend or leaving it somewhere in a different building causing enough friction for me to reconsider if I really want to go to the effort just to look at some news headlines.
If it's strong enough, probably. I mean, MRIs kind of work that way.
That's pretty standard for free trials in my experience. Amazon prime, audible, musescore, I'd be harder pressed to think of a service I've recently tried where it was not like that.
Probably not in a useful way; the induced currents would produce far too much heat.
That sounds like AI is a band-aid for Apple's self-inflicted problem caused by designing notifications as a dumb list of boxes limited to a couple of lines.

They could have merged the last few recent short messages into one bigger notification, instead of making the notification for the very last message cover the rest.
Curl Impersonate for Python Requests
Nice high level overview wuth some case studies briefly described.
Looks like dokku is also a MIT Licensed open source project[1]. Note that there is also Dokku Pro[2], one time purchase during beta, offering UI and API.

[1]: https://github.com/dokku/dokku/

[2]: https://pro.dokku.com/
German Collective Guilt [Wikipedia]
1% is not rare. That's 1 in 100 people. In a customer-facing service role, at that frequency you'll encounter multiple trans people daily. Something that happens daily to people everywhere is not "rare".

> My general moral guideline has been to judge people by their actions.

That's really great, I mean it. But in the year 2025 when it's being mandated from the highest office in the land that trans people don't exist under the eyes of the law, your friends and family who are trans are depending on your affirmative support more now than ever. It's going to be very easy for you to deny their existence, and what would that action say about you as a person?

And before you say "I have no friends or family who are trans", I would respond "that you know of". At the very least, if you work in the tech sector, you likely have several trans coworkers, as trans are overrepresented in tech.
Not sure why so many top comments dismiss the severity of this. This is just exactly the type of attack that give law enforcement or a malicious actor a way to establish proof of whereabouts.
When I see these pictures, as impressive as they are, I wonder what kind of scientific facts can the astronomers extract from them.

With my layman's eyes, it is very clear that there is a dense galactic center and dust clouds between the galaxy and us. However, What else can an expert eye tell from the picture?
Bugs and mistakes happen, when that happens it's typically some misidentification of a process or driver so a group of players get banned. And in every one of those cases I've seen they've been unbanned. The call of duty case is probably the worst one I've read about, also an outlier.
Show HN: Let Claude control a web browser on your machine
Hey HN, our team recently open sourced a small utility library that allows everyone to use Claude's powerful computer use ability (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute...) together with playwright, to easily let an AI agent browse the web. The LLM predicts where to move the mouse and click and thereby controls a web browser.

The README is quite self-explanatory and it is quite fun to watch the agent figure out the internet. We hope it is useful for some.
How does it not?

If I understand what you're saying, it's that you don't want the calendar to adjust any times based on location/timezone.

What I believe tour perfect scenario to be: you enter an event for 10am (even if in a different timezone than your local), and it always shows up as 10am on your calendar, regardless of where you are.

If you fix your calendar to a single timezone, nothing updates time dynamically, and you take on the responsibility of manually translating timezone shifts.

- You're in PT

- A 9am event in PT, you add at _9am_ on your calendar.

- A 10am event in ET, you do the timezone translation manually, and add at _8am_ on your calendar.

Am I missing something?
There is a fun post that explores this idea via an anime called Death Note.

https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
I guess signal preview-loading or remote-image-loading features are always going to be usable to identify broadly what region a user is in, using this attack.

Can one disable those features in Signal? Would be annoying becuase they are nice, but yeah.

If you don't want that attack to be able to locate you somewhat (or at least locate your internet endpoint, if you are using a VPN or something), you will need to turn off signal previews and network image displays. Right?
SEC Crypto 2.0: Chairman Uyeda Announces Formation of New Crypto Task Force
Only twice as large as the "minimal" dev images I have to work with.
All the reputable pollsters agree with me, including probably THE best pollster: YouGov

See: https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...

If you don’t want to believe reputable pollsters you can look at state primary polling results. For those, the uncommitted movement received 9% of the votes in the Democratic primaries.

And Kamala lost by 1.5% in the general election.

You can thank us in making sure your candidate was defeated. Maybe next time don’t live stream Jews killing thousands of Muslim children on Instagram with the support of your candidate while pretending it doesn’t matter?

lol you really thought Gaza didn’t matter in the election? Even I don’t believe you believe that. Be serious.
Interesting project. I am assuming this is not geared towards business clients who print thousands of labels a day, but more of a fun things to print to thermal printers for individuals? Correct me if I am wrong.

I like the twitch stream, fun approach.

I've wrote quite a few labels in ZPL, which is used for Zebra printers. The reason I've used ZPL code is that serialization happens on the printer itself. Therefore, it is an easy fire and forget.

Can this integrate with a zebra printer? Can this handle large number of prints? Serialization?
necessary for those of us who forget what they're doing whenever they open their phone. The ability to tell my phone "shut up I'm at my desk" without opening it and being confronted with the home screen & notifications (and then forget what I was doing) is a super cool idea.

I have ADHD though
If you don't, your geopolitical adversary might be the first to build AGI.

So in this scenario I could see it become necessary from a military perspective.
Not at all- we're mammals but we're also humans, and you need to navigate both sides of that in a way other species never could or would. What I am talking about is essentially a form of BDSM that absolutely requires consent, deep mutual trust, and communication- even more so than usual when trying things like this together with a partner.
You need a private subreddit. Do not use nextdoor, we do admin there and it's just constantly fending off racist garbage.
100%

People who have takes like this have likely never zoomed out enough to understand how their software delivery ultimately affects the business. And if you haven't stopped to think about that you might have a bad time when it's your business.
I would love for developers to stop messing with most apps.
State of UK digital government review
Fair, but then they nationalize all your assets that you have in the country.
If you look at the companies that went public from 2018-2021 (boom/tail end of the latest "bubble"), you should assume that all of those generated somewhere in the range of 25-500+ non-founders who cleared $1m+ worth of stock pre-tax (a small-mid cap SaaS will be on the lower end, Uber/AirBnB will be at the higher end).

It's harder to know from acquisitions, but I'd guess that most of those with sale prices >$1b generated ~10-250 non-founders with $1m+ share packages. I think that the Qualtrics founders said that they minted 250 millionaires from their initial sale to SAP.
Cars do not strictly have higher capabilities than horses. GP was pointing out that horses can think. On a particularly well-trained horse, you could fall asleep on it and wake up back at your house. You can find viral videos of Amish people still doing this today.
What should I NOT write tests for? (2021)
The Inuit Are Genetically Resistant to Ketone Production