skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're screwed, but that already happens. You have no idea how many people lose their phone or forget some password and just get a new phone/account, without trying to recover the old one.

Parents who lost their child's photos and are like oh well.

Assuming a normal user doesn't use the same password everywhere (which means everyone already knows their password), the alternative is saving them. Lost password or lost passkey doesn't make much difference.

Computing literacy is low so people will just suffer the consequences.
> What is an "illegal protest"?

A protest that the sitting president doesn't agree with.
I think you're describing Tesla, I have no idea lacking context. You couldn't pay me to drive Tesla at this point.
Bitcoin is stable enough. Don't look too close at Tether though. It's a god awful currency though.

Ethereum is probably the most interesting crypto currency. But most of the real life applications of Eth smart contracts are shitcoin pump and dump scheme.

I don't think crypto is a scam because you know exactly what you're getting. Done crypto finance ransomware gangs who attack hospitals and make their operations possible? Yes. Is it a scam? No.
This American defense industry revival soured pretty quickly with its weapons now poised to go to Russia instead of defending the free world.
Nope. You specifically can't disable shorts, no matter how much you want to - so much that YouTube Revanced has this feature.
I thought a lot of the stuff we did overseas benefited us more than the places we did it.
Also recently:

When your last name is Null, nothing works (wsj.com)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113997
They will be fine... but not all of the research will be funded. PhD students are getting the axe [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-univers...
(The perks are free charging and low interest rates on car loans)
> And just like the author, you merely felt justified to act that way, and would have been able to make do otherwise, but chose not to.

I'm not arguing for tit-for-tat. I think it's dumb. I took the affirmative stance I did, only to match the tone of the article. Adding the same absurdity to the counter point. I think we're both equally wrong for taking an unnuanced stance. The author and I both took stances that exclude important nuance. I was partially hoping partially expecting the remainder of what I said would come across. That idea being, options are better, warnings are better, absolutes are problematic.

> The author feels empowered to tell others they're wrong. So I want to do the same;

It would have been better for me to say "So I guess I'm required to do the same here". I'd much rather just suggest options, you can tell because I said as much

> But if that's a good thing or a bad thing should be reserved, exclusively for you to decide.

I don't want to make your decisions for you. Some of the authors points are compelling, I don't want anyone to die because they missed the tsunami warning either. But I find their specific arguments here needlessly restrictive. They're not warning, or reminding. They're saying your social media posts are wrong if you don't do it this way, and accusing the author of being irresponsible. Something *do* need to be easily readable, but that important nuance wasn't included in the article, just like I didn't include how tsunami warning without a doubt, need to be as accessible as possible.
A lot of people are into Pitbull.
Belief Aversion Training: A Method for Changing Your Beliefs
I've always wanted to be able to update what I believe and feel about something like I can update code. This method has worked for me, although it's more like training a neural network model than editing a file.
Surreal "Severance" brilliantly captures the reality of office life
The role of a teacher has been flipped on its head now that everyone can have a teacher in their pocket. Teachers have the advantage of expressing the human part of education: finding the fun, meaning and enthusiasm over the learned history of humanity.
I think “let’s gooooooo!” Is probably closer? Ish
Thanks for the feedback, to be honest, my own experience is actually very similar to yours.

The original pain point probably only exists for small minority of open source maintainers who manage multiple repos and actually search across them regularly. Most devs are probably like you and I, and the mediocre GitHub search experience is more than compensated by using Google.

In its current iteration, it's quite hard to get regular devs to change their searching behaviour, and, even for those who experience this pain point, it probably isn't large enough for them to change their behavior.

If I continue to work on this, I would want to (1) solve a bigger + more frequent pain point; (2) build something that requires a smaller change in user behavior.
I really don't think Trump is entirely lucid policy to policy sometimes.

In his first term he would make offhand remarks about military action at times and the next day deny he said it. They established a rule at the pentagon that nothing he said counted unless they got a written and signed order from the white house.
>> I have a rule-of-thumb: The more seriously you take Discworld, the smarter you get about Roundworld.

Oh come off it.

I've read all the Discworld novels. I've also read every other book that Terry Pratchett ever wrote [1]. All, that is, except for one that I've left for... later [2].

If Pratchett were still with us and heard anyone making such pompous statements about Discworld he'd slap the culprit in the face [3]. See, the thing to understand about Terry Pratchett is that he was quintessentially British, and by that I mean the good British [4]. As such his greatest fear was that someone might take what he wrote seriously and try to follow it like some kind of life advice.

Remember what he quipped when he was knighted for "services to literature":

"I suspect the 'services to literature' consisted of refraining from trying to write any"

And that, as they say, is that.

______________

[1] Yes, even "Where's my Cow?".

[2] Problem is, I don't remember which one so I'll have to read them all again to be sure. Hey, win-win.

[3] Gently. He was a gentle man.

[4] Think Lord Byron, not Lord Elgin. But without all the drinking and womanising, just the big heart.
Is Prn and Nul also reserved? That goes back to DOS device names.
Too slow. You could do better!
Passwords are still leakable, guessable, and can be phished. Passkeys are “second-factor-only”: your device responds to a challenge and acts in a similar capacity to a yubikey. The private keys contain much more entropy than a password, never leave the device, and the challenges and responses are both signed with site-specific keys so they can’t be phished. So from a security perspective, a lot is gained.

From a user perspective, instead of trying to get the dang webform to autofill, I just smile for a second and become authenticated.
Sorry, in what language can you treat pointers as just addresses? Sure, assembly, but beyond that. Maybe Pascal?

Everything else has provenance rules and magic unrepresented metadata around it that makes a pointer more than just an address.
crypto the tech is not inherently scammy

crypto the industry is mostly built on magical thinking and grifting people tho
Are you from the US?
Bitcoin is stable? I assume you mean in versatility, not value.
Adams, Tate now this, looks like the administration is looking for best scammers they can find.
KeepassXC famously has no network sync of any kind and supports passkeys.
We've done enough to bananas
I'm considering cutting out American services as well. The US is starting trade wars left, right, and center, and the current government has barely gotten started. With the white house siding with the Russians, threatening war against Canada and Denmark, and the whole NATO situation, I think it'll be foolish of me to depend on American services. For all I know, our countries may well be at war by the end of the year.

As for privacy: American privacy laws are even more of a joke than the GDPR. The lack of privacy rights for non-American citizens is the main reason the GDPR bans storing PII in the US.

As for free speech: the kind of free speech American tech companies are offering right now is not something I'm very interested in. America ranking lower than my country in every freedom index I can find also doesn't help.

Furthermore, paying a browser that actively does business with Yandex doesn't sit well with me, even if it won't affect me directly. The comments the CEO made about not caring about "geopolitics" doesn't reassure me much, either.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my...
> I’m still trying to figure out what a post-trust future looks like.

Same as the past.

What do you think religions are?
Yup, the left also occupied the capitol, smeared feces on the walls and tried to block Trump's inauguration earlier this year
i'm yet to have a good chat with a bot. never met one in a dating app tho, but you raised a quite neat point... what's the end point? make effective bots that out of the blue unmatches you? if that ever gets out in the wild, either the company risks (i guess) a huge legal fee or users migrate to reliable places/video chatting right after matching turns into a user 'handshake' verification
A bigger pie isn't desirable if most of the slices go to a select few. Or to use Lincoln's rising boats metaphor, a rising tide isn't great if most boats are full of holes.
Depends on the field.

Psycho* is rife with that.
Running Tracery Bots with LLMs
Closer to having your existed devices work similar to a yubikey: it’s a signed challenge-response, per-site, instead of a single shared key.
>People in the US tend to think it refers to things that are actually mixed economies or primarily market economies with strong social guarantees. Think things like the Nordic model or the European model...

Yes. This is what people in the US mean when they say socialism in general conversation. They don't mean pure Socialism as Marx talked about it. Similarly when people say the US is a democracy, we know they don't mean it's an actual pure Democracy where everyone votes on every issue.
> If, say, Republicans drafted a bill to split red rural areas off CA into its own state, as often proposed, what sane Democrat would ever support it knowing that it means +2 Republican senators in Congress?

> The only way it could possibly work out is if states are carved out in pairs - e.g. separate deep red areas from CA, but at the same time also do the same for deep blue areas of Texas. But deep blue areas also tend to be the ones that bring in the most taxes, so Texas Republicans might balk at that on economic grounds...

Couldn't they find some way of splitting CA into 3 states, two "blue" and one "red", such that you'd get two new Democratic Senators and two new Republican Senators, which would cancel each other out?

> For the same reason, we aren't going to see statehood for Puerto Rico or DC anytime soon.

Puerto Rico isn't a solid lock for the Democrats. PR's new Governor, Jenniffer González-Colón, is a Republican, and prior to becoming the Governor, she was PR's non-voting delegate to Congress. Of course, it would be a gamble for the GOP, but not one they'd be guaranteed to lose. Especially if you consider Trump has made significant inroads with Hispanic voters over the last two elections, and the GOP might do even better if they were to pick a Hispanic candidate.

DC, I agree it is unlikely Republicans would agree to it.

But, admission of a new state only needs a simple majority of Congress – in a Democratic trifecta, like Biden had 2021–2023, or Obama had in 2009–2011 – that DC or PR statehood didn't happen then was ultimately due to decisions made by the Democrats, not by the Republicans – if the Democrats had been totally committed to it, it would have happened over Republican objections – but obviously they weren't.

A Democratic trifecta could easily happen again – e.g. Trump II turns out to be really unpopular, and Democrats have a big win in 2028 – but will Democrats do anything more about PR/DC statehood in 2029–2031 than they did in 2009–2011 or 2021–2023? I doubt.
The average person can be fooled into supporting anything most of the time. The list of bad wars Americans have supported (at least initially) is longer than the good ones.

Normative language used as shorthand for current consensus for whether the conflict was justified given the likely alternative outcomes for not engaging.
That just means that Columbia doesn’t value research except as a way to get money from the government.
horrendous name
Postfix is only superior when you have lots of things to chain. C doesn't have any chaining at all. f(g(x)) is just as good as f(g(x))
Show HN: Buildless CommonJS require and ESM imports mix with importmaps
I was ghosted by a company after going through multiple hours-long interviews. It's the first time it's happened this egregiously.

No communication after 3 rounds, including with very senior people. Last interview was a month ago. Sent two requests for updates. Nothing.

If this helps eradicate the issue I'm for it.
Sure - you can't stop regular people from making small purchases from other regular people.

But the INSTANT that a regular person becomes a regular small business, the tax authority can and likely will ask to see their records. The INSTANT someone buys a car, the government will be interested in knowing how they paid for it.

Even in the most extreme situation, the government can and will demand taxes to be paid in its preferred currency. How are you gonna get hold of a substantial amount of dollars or remnibi or whatever without getting caught?

This stuff is enforced and no amount of math can beat thousands of years of the state figuring out how to collect taxes.
This is one of the stupidest, most amazing things I've seen in quite a while. I'm glad to see someone doing something silly just for fun and not just hustling.
Still a no from me. Right now passkeys are just a way for services to exert more control over users. I don't see that changing for decades at minimum.
They don’t allow any search engine in safari now that apple has become an ad network. This is why there’s a weird workaround for Kagi. The search for pay deals are the priority. For those on Mac devices, Orion is excellent now imo.
That was fascinating. Thanks for posting that
I was enthused when it first got added to KeypassXC but after a few attempts I couldn't get it working and haven't bothered since. Something fundamentally isn't quite working here and I am not a big fan of the workflow for them its entirely out of my hands and I am not a fan of that.
This is going to be amazing for validation and debugging one day, imagine having the fix PR get opened by the system for you with code to review including unit test to reproduce/fix the bug that caused the prod exception @.@
I'm curious how you think this can be analyzed effectively.

Yes, I'm aware of bytecode analysis, but that's a slow difficult process, and for browsers, the release cycle is short enough that by the time you're done analyzing the current version, a new version is out, and it's significantly harder and less useful to diff a binary, so you end up having to basically start the analysis over for the new version. Unless there's something going on here that I don't know of, that's simply not a viable means of keeping track of browser security.
the way your response was phrased implies to readers that you agree with the accusation of prejudice.

if that was not intended, my apologies.

an agreement of the accusation of prejudice would imply a lot about your beliefs
As someone who has simply studied a bit of geology I agree with you--noise-generated mountains look wrong. Long ago I played around with attempting to generate terrain with faults (take a line across the world, raise everything on one side, lower everything on the other. Start with some big ones, then add more making the step size smaller as you go) followed by erosion (pick a pixel that's a local maximum, move a portion of the difference between it and the lowest neighbor to that lowest neighbor, that's the new cursor, repeat until everything around is equal or higher.) Very compute-intensive, though, and not suitable for on-the-fly generation (the faulting step might be possible with a noise generator, I see no way to do the erosion and without it everything's too harsh.) At the macroscopic level it looked a lot more realistic, I had neither the memory nor the CPU power to do too fine a model. I simply couldn't hold a large map, nor were 16-bit integers granular enough to make good slopes.

I can look at real terrain and do a pretty good job of judging whether it will be easy/hard/impossible, I've never seen a game map where that was true.
Until you lose the device. Or you're given security codes and those are again, leakable and guessable. No normal user is going to accept their phone being stolen and losing access to their bank account. It's bitcoin as unregulated fiat levels of wishful thinking
Why would you say that? How is the current timeline not already shitty enough for you?
oh wow that's super cool, I tried it and it's very fast indeed. thanks for sharing! will spend more time to understand how it's implemented
For the pitbull lovers, there's http://www.pitbullparty.com/
Like much of US automobile culture, the emphasis on what's best for the cars and their occupants. Yes, the NHTSA ratings are heavily tilted towards the safety of occupants of the vehicle. Highway and road design are also skewed towards the best outcome for the automobile. Think of it like a trolley problem where the ideal result is the least damage to the trolley and harm to its occupants.

A relatively new term has come into use, though: Vulnerable Road Users. The current state of automobile and road safety has drastically reduced the number and severity of injured and killed automobile occupants. What's continued to rise is the numbers of pedestrians, cyclists, people using wheelchairs and mobility devices, and even people who work alongside automobile infrastructure.

The lack of concern for anyone outside of a motor vehicle is part of why driverless cars have been licensed despite well-publicized incidents involving these vehicles, e.g. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...
Pitbull Party: An Interactive Web Experience
Allegedly. The monomyth has to be stretched very thin to fit over some of the greatest stories told by humans to each other.

Take the Iliad. Where's the monomyth? Achilles is an asshole, he gets into a fight with his boss, causes his bestie to get killed and then gets killed himself. There's a wooden horse. End of story.

No monomyth there, guv'nor.

Nor in the Odyssey. Smart guy wins the Trojan war with impossile stratagem. He pisses off the God of the Sea and takes 10 years to reach home, losing all his companions along the way. A little massacre to clear the air and they live happily ever after. End of story.

No monomyth.

I could go on. But, you know, that's the Iliad and the Odyssey. Should be enough.
Same, in a way. I've been using it for a couple months on my MacBook Pro M2 Max, zero issues. Recently I installed it on my work laptop, M4 Max, and I get frequent crashes. No idea why it would make a difference.
There are many objections to crypto on this site and they're almost never about privacy or security. It's disingenuous to pretend that:

- stability

- throughput

- power consumption

- taxation

- monetary policy capabilities

are all made-up objections from people watching too much cable news.

Yes, the consequence of crypto's failure to support a large subset of these is best distilled as "this is useful for criminals, grifters and not many others."
And the people dismantling the government are philantrophists /s
Yup, and legitimate educational stuff gets rated 18+. Thus people end up with a very unrealistic impression of what's actually normal anatomy.
Nah, US safety ratings are stuck in the 70s/80s, and haven't really been much of a barrier in a couple of decades at least. Almost anything on the road will pass, and getting a 4- or even 5-star rating is common. "In the 2020 model year, NHTSA crash-tested 353 cars in the U.S. market, according to its website (many of those cars were different models of the same make; for example, NHTSA tested the 2020 Corolla four-door, four-door Hybrid, and hatchback). Of those 353 cars, 73 percent received a perfect five-star rating" https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-us-invented-life-saving-...
The crypto-currency value is manipulated by billionaires, and get-quick-rich schemes. Consider Hawk Tuah and Trump-meme coins. It's overall poor for monetary value, with daily radical fluctuation.

As a technology it's interesting. I think NFTs was an interesting idea, looking for a problem to solve. Proof of ownership can still be substantial. Kickstarter was attempting to use it, but I think took the wrong attitude towards it. And selling NFT "art" was an exploitive get-rich-quick scam from the beginning.

Probably one of the more legit uses was CryptoKitties, where it used blockchain as proof of ownership for game pet generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoKitties
The UK abolished slavery by an act of parliament. A parliamentary monarchy is a historical quirk that does not need the monarchy to function.
>Stop spreading misinformation.

Facts are definitely treated as misinformation by a certain class of people these days, that's for sure.
I wish SQRL would become more popular.

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
> 1. Money can be transferred from one person to another without intermediaries such as banks.

By replacing them with the intermediary of cryptocurrency exchanges and the blockchain itself - both of which charge fees on transfers which are often significantly higher than traditional banks. Is this actually a benefit?

> 2. It provides an alternative to hyper-inflating currencies in places like Venezuela.

Can you point to any evidence that cryptocurrency is actually used as a medium of exchange within these countries? Or is it primarily a means of capital flight?

WRT. negative social costs, I'd add that the anonymous and irreversible nature of cryptocurrency transactions leaves consumers with little to no recourse if they're scammed or make a mistake.
I will buy a Tesla as soon as Elon relinquishes control over the company and resigns from its Board.

Not bloody likely to happen, but a person can dream.