skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so you must be AI, you used the words "extreme" and "generate" in your first comment.

Other words to avoid: light, alright, democracies, swap, ecology, windows, plate, projects...

What a dumb time to be alive.
Definitely not the right move. The old name was perfectly fine and allowed for harmless fun. They can obviously do what they wish, but IMO there's no good reason to destroy good clean fun just because it might upset the occasional person.
> I wonder why is still anyone NOT using e-bikes for delivery.

In Helsinki, delivery (of food) seems to be dominated by larger scooters with flat beds between yoke and seat post/rear fender. Maybe because the food delivery boxes are quite large, maybe because they have lots of insulation for winter use ? Maybe because the fat tires on the scooters are more stable on snow & ice ? Just guessing.
In my view cracking is great because it democratizes games for those who can't afford them. If you can afford it (and the game+company is good), then buy it. That's how you can kind of be for-cracking and for-commercial games at the same time.

Personally, it would be great if everything was free and everyone used good judgement to pay creators. But I admit maybe a large chunk would just pay nothing, including some wealthy people who could well just chip in. While enlightenment doesn't come...
Police in my city go to pretty much every protest and take video and photos (with big zoom lens) from the roofs of nearby buildings. It's always surprising to me that more people don't notice.
Backups and archival are different things, with similar requirements, but different priorities. A backup doesn't care about data you think you'll never need again.
Axiomatic Engineering
MANY Gaza protests in Germany escalated into violence, especially against the press - the local RSF section posted about this a few months ago [1], and in numbers more journalists are attacked at Palestine rallies than at far-right rallies [2], and that one is a legitimate challenge to achieve given how many attacks against journalists came from that wing.

No matter one's stance on I/P, the pro Gaza crowd is absurdly militant.

[1] https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/pressemitteilungen/meld...

[2] https://taz.de/Angriffe-auf-Journalisten/!6072709/
So where is the line that something becomes ‘AI’ and is regulated?
I am not talking about this specific paper, it could "deserve it", I am talking about the format of her channel, where she picks apart some poor postdocs publish or perish paper and smokes it into the ground.

She amps everything up like she is performing for MSNBC and it is exhausting.

I am good with this thread, I capitulate, just not as much a Schumer.
Tinybird Forward Hackathon
Chance to win >$3000 in credits from devtools like Vercel, Tinybird, Dub, Resend, etc.
He taught autobody classes well into his 80s. Here's Gene teaching how to lead (like the poisonous metal) fenders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87fuTnBS2bE
> most of the web is non Google, Amazon or MSFT.

maybe you can point out where that's what I said
I’m a small time landlord and I went the route of no leases. Everything is month to month.

I think it’s a better deal for everyone. I collect first and last months rent at move in.

I’m selective and do an internet search to see what I find. 3 years in and things are good. My first tenant is still living there I have had only 2 move out in less than a year.

My thinking is that the relationship of providing housing is too intimate to trust to a legal contract.

I would rather speak directly to a tenant regarding issues than both side trying to interpret a document. My thought is that if we can’t work it out face to face no document will save the relationship and it’s best for everyone to move on.
Your are correct in your conclusion that individuals dealing with corporations have little power to negotiate terms but incorrect in your reasoning. This is the same fallacy as claiming there are dozens of people willing to do any given job when the number of dwellings and jobs is nearly equal those willing to occupy or work.

Because landlords and especially jobs may receive many applications and review relatively few applicants are often obliged to submit many applications leading to many applications for each job but not many applicants for each job.

The most obvious cause is not merely selectivity but the desire to leave the job app/dwelling listed until the process is fully complete and listings which already have a pre-selected applicants but which are listed for legal reasons.

In fact the sector is most often only actually spoiled for choice only when offering something that is fundamentally a better deal than the price as in any other market even when the factors are intangibles that aren't factored into the price like competent management and good neighbors.

That is to say that given 6 tenants and 6 landlords all 6 landlords may say they have 5 other tenants competing for the spot only if they all count the same tenants and those offering undesirable terms even at the same price will find they have to settle on average for less desirable tenants.

Then they can all go online and complain that all tenants are terrible and talk about how it took 6 months to dig the non-paying tenant out like a tick.
My time consulting across random organisations really has been the complete exact opposite of what you describe.

I've walked into billion dollar orgs and campaigned unsuccessfully for backups. And I have seen sole traders with cyber insurance.
Hmm, I find it easy enough to open a link or even embed an image in a text editor.
One week is longer than two days.
It was rare to reuse graphics, even fonts. But music was a bit more reusable with credit of course. It also depended on your group, but most groups had an artist, not every group had a musician.
Given who is in charge and how much power they have shown to wield over those systems, yes, definitely.

Nothing I have said makes light of those other systems and the grotesque data gathering that they do.
I honestly wonder how legal that is.

If you bought something under the pretense that you could disable cloud stuff and then it silently starts uploading to the cloud, that's a violation of your agreement.

If they start dropping all requests until you assent to their shrinkwrap agreement, that still feels like a violation of the promises they made when you bought it, but unfortunately has precedent. See also: all the video games that no longer work because the publishers stopped supporting the servers they relied on.
I don't know how fringe this is, but Huygens Optics gives a possible answer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMP5Pbx8I4s. TL;DW: if you assume certain non-linear properties of vacuum as a medium, it seems possible for light (EM waves) to self-contain spatially instead of spreading out, and such trapped energy seems, for all intents and purposes, to behave like particles.

Again, IANAPhysicist, so I don't know what to think of that video, but the channel seems legit, and the explanation is beautiful in its simplicity.
Reddit Rated Sell as Redburn Flags Risk from Google Algorithm
https://archive.today/rx2Df
It's not clear how much interbreeding there was. It doesn't take many introgression events over the millennia to show up in the genetic record. And, to put it delicately, it's not clear any communication was involved in these events.
Cubesats carry laser comms if that's what you mean.
What exactly is a "good demographic"? This sounds an awful lot like judging people based on their inherent characteristics.
Line of sight issues are simply a wattage issue. A gigawatt laser is impervious to rain, a bird, a flock of birds, a bird and the tree it sitting in. Probably the entire forest. Let’s just say there are some solutions well in hand.
The idea that protest provocateurs are all 5th column police plants is, uh, wrong.
Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia
One option is to adopt a front end for your language for existing (legacy) langauges that have been overwhelmingly developed by people who write using Latin letters: you type in your language and the front-end maps it to Latin letters. There are various issues here, depending on the written form of your language, however. Latin letters are effectively block type glyphs, which lends itself to programming.

Other option is for future languages to be formally specified in a globally adopted IL and then your local area geeks are responsible for writing a front-end that transpiles to that IL.

Or we could design and adopt a universal (~visual) glyph for programming. Various structural elements (think [ ], { }, < >, etc.) are pretty much that already. Then we have the (pseudo) mathematical elements (+, -, /, =) which are again universal. That leaves us with named elements which remain somewhat problematic.

In any event, all this seems to be a transitional period's grief. Very soon, you will interact in your native language with some AI and that thing will write the actual code. :)

Regardless (thinking of music notation here) programming notation is ultimately a specialized form of notation. Are you bothered by the fact that a musician in x-land has to learn the notation invented by some Europeans way back when?
Eh, these days there's a lot of investment in the VSCode extension ecosystem.
PostgreSQL, former name Postgres, is the successor of INGRES = INteractive Graphics REtrieval System. Maybe OGRES is the Original Gangster REtrieval System.
Thank you for your work on this.
http/1 traffic is a lot easier to inspect
An unfiltered conversation with Chamath Palihapitiya [video]
Not true, even though that might depend on how valuable you are to a ransomware threat actor.

The DFIR report has some insights: https://thedfirreport.com/category/ransomware/
This problem exists in the Dead Rising series as the main character can put almost any item on. There is hacks in the code specifying things down to the bone id to try to overcome this issue.
> Every demographic commits petty crimes and code violations at about the same rate

Do you have data backing this claim? For example, homicides (that are not a subject for reporting bias) don’t follow a uniform distribution, so I would expect other crimes to also be non-uniform.
> Perhaps our parting assessment of the ZIRP era will be it cut to the chase and deregulated gambling.

I considered mentioning ZIRP as a "anyone could get money" and glad you made the point better than I could.
Accessibility? Like with plain text? What a crazy world that would be.
Making stuff last for a long time is very difficult. It's cheaper to make things last for a short time and allow improvement
Twitter started as TXT2MOB for organizing protests, and now it and social media have become surveillance tools. The irony.
Check this one out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuBpKqtHdY

And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3ZQOzyquo&t=385s

The AI generated ones are getting really good nowadays.
Half of Canadians favour joining EU
That is unfortunate. Not enough standards have rationale or intent sections.

On the one hand I sort of understand why they don't "If it is not critical and load-bearing to the standard. Why is it in there? it is just noise that will confuse the issue."

On the other hand, it can provide very important clues as to the why of the standard, not just the what. While the standards authors understood why they did things the way they did, many years later when we read it often we are left with more questions than answers.
Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
Toilet paper cardboard tubes. You'll eventually collect enough, and you can roll the cables into a flat loop, with the two ends on the same side (helps with sorting by connectors), then surround them with the cardboard tube. Store them vertically in a drawer or a box (so you see only the connectors).
Thank you for creating mise! My only gripe with it is that it can do so much that I keep having to revisit certain parts of the docs :) but it is a good thing, it's nice if a tool takes care of many related little annoyances. I made a cheat sheet for myself and that helps.
Does "adopting an emoji" mean something other than "appearing on that page"?

From the adoption page: Each adoption comes with a digital badge and certificate that you can proudly display.
> Line of sight free space optics can be immune to many many forms of jamming

The most powerful weapons on earth already are immune to jamming. ICBMs use celestial navigation (pictures of the stars) to course-correct, which is a form of navigation you cannot jam.
Don't know about auto-rejecting, but as a recruiter I'd run an AI checker if the text feels suspicious. Wouldn't risk it unless you're on a very tight deadline; why not spend the 15 minutes of writing the filler yourself?
Are your backups encrypted and if so, how do you manage and backup the keys?
Reflections on Technology and Society Robert W. Lucky (1996)
I mean, when one text document gets to long, moving sections elsewhere and linking to them.

How do you embed an image? ASCII art?
How about if there would be an active deadly attack ongoing on you? Would working in defense then be less bad?
Which world would you rather live in:
* structured protocols that can be parsed by machines
* unstructured protocols that are unreliably parsed by LLMs that require significant power and latency
I'm saying that there are already collaboration tools like Google Docs or whatever. I don't see how managing notes in such a tool beats having some text files. Working with a browser kind of sucks for write operations. It's fine or even good for reading. But writing into a browser goes through obscure layers so that, what? it can go into a database? Files on disk solve this issue. Grep over files or even a more robust index of searchable data solves the findability problem. There can be other sidecar tools to support discoverability, but I'm just focused on the HCI/UX of a browser for text entry and editing, and find it really poor compared to a text editor with files that you control and can run other tools over.
Something similar was available since the previous century for ship to ship communications where there is a line of sight.

Such communications can't be intercepted or triangulated.
> Whatever it's verifying is insufficient to stop persistent iOS malware, hence the existence of the MVT toolkit

One of these assertions absolutely does not support the other; the newest persistent malware detected on iOS by MVT is from 2023 and targeted iOS 14. In iOS 15, Apple introduced System volumes and SSV. The OS lives on a separate APFS volume snapshot which is verified using a hash tree (think like dm-verity, although the implementation is at a slightly different level). Even Operation Triangulation couldn't achieve reboot persistence for their implant (which Kapersky call TriangleDB); rebooting would require re-exploitation.

This also affects your argument about "forensic" imaging (also - if you're asking the device for the image, it's always a logical extraction; if you don't trust the device, why do you trust the backup data you asked it for?): post-iOS-15, unless boot security was compromised, in which case you have bigger problems, you'll get the same bytes back for system files anyway.
> 4G just couldn't handle heavy loads well, so data caps were needed to constrain demand.

In many parts of the world uncapped data has been the norm since around GPRS.
"ChatGPT generate 300 words about why https://occupry.com/ will fail because AI is bad but don't use any of the words from https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop..."
Ask HN: An IDE that lets you add photos as comments?
I always catch myself screenshotting stuff and trying to drop it in as code comments, much like one would when writing up technical docs on Notion or Google Docs.

Anyone that currently does this / is working on it? I guess this would need to be supported by version control as well? The programming language too maybe?
Why Vibe Coding Makes Me Want to Throw Up
Your epigenome changes in response to your environment.

Taking antihistamines changes your epigenome.
Have you considered buying a new phone? For some reason I notice my older model getting slower /s.
I love this size for my 64GB MacBook Pro. I’ve been going back and forth between Mistral Small and Gemma 3. I love how quick this model is.
Discussion (261 points, 2 days ago, 295 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367987
PHP has grown up but in its wild youth was notorious for such gems as mysql_escape_string vs mysql_real_escape_string, rather than proper parameterization

It's not so much about Turing as it is libraries and patterns

After all, as I understand it this very issue was caused by escaping SQL rather than parameterizing it
Yeah, I glossed over the Rust stack overflow case. I don't know why: Literally two parent comments up I did bother to mention it.

That said, I actually entirely forgot Go catches nil derefs in a segfault handler. I guess it's not a big deal since Go isn't really suitable for free-standing environments where avoiding CPU exceptions is sometimes more useful, so there's no particular reason why the runtime can't rely on it.
The only reason BeyondTrust implemented that was it wasn't untrusted user commands. They sanitized the data, so it should have been fine. The unfortunate problem was that the sanitizer didn't sanitize.

Systems are built on a set of expectations. Undermine the expectations and you undermine the system.
> They’re not perfect

Oh wow. Better make an exception in this one specific case then.
It's just "bait and switch" (which is illegal in most countries) with a few more steps.

They should be forced to offer a refund.
One use case is developing reference boards for homebrew hardware.

https://santroller.tangentmc.net/ is an open source firmware for plastic instruments (think Rock Band and Guitar Hero). Their primary target is the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Each iteration of the games came with their own bespoke controllers, with different circuits; yet at the end of the day, they're all just bags of buttons attached to a microcontroller. Santroller teaches the RP2040 how to convert those button presses to the format various gaming systems expect. Individuals can buy a Pi Pico and some wires to mod their own controller with Santroller. Or, you can go on Etsy, where people have had boards printed for specific guitars. Instead of soldering to a Pi Pico, you can plug the ribbon from your Guitar Hero World Tour guitar onto a RP2040 board that someone had made to accept the ribbons from that specific guitar.
This is great! I've been thinking about building something like this for ages since I started using Smappen [0] for mapping travel times on road trips. Super useful way to travel if you're on an open-ended trip with flexibility.

[0] https://www.smappen.com/
It's also detecting when a file on DOS/Windows is opened in "ASCII mode" rather than binary mode. When opened in ASCII mode, "\r\n" is automatically converted to "\n" upon reading the data.
> Twitter started as TXT2MOB for organizing protests, and now it and social media have become surveillance tools

Propaganda, communication and surveillance vary only inasmuch as the sender and/or receiver are coöperating. When done in public, communication necessarily empowers the other two.
I specifically constrained it to the US because I'm aware that the dynamics and tactics of these movements are highly regional and I simply don't know what it's like elsewhere.

Sometimes I get annoyed how US-centric the conversations can be on here but given the subject is american police using a US-made surveillance tool against protestors in the united states I think it makes some amount of sense this time.

Thanks for the info about another area though, it is interesting to me.
Also during that heyday Cisco planned a sprawling south bay campus that was going to cost a fortune and house tens of thousands of new employees.(I lived between cisco's HQ and the proposed new campus during that time. The dotcom bubble burst and the campus never saw the light of day.

A similar more recent parallel is Google's San Jose village, it was going to be constructed in 2020 and after and also house thousands of google employees along with mixed use commercial, I lived in Willow Glen at the time and people were buzzing around this new campus and all the new economic activity it would provide. In the back of my mind I remember Cisco's endeavor and felt like this new village would meet a similar fate of implosion. And sure enough the pandemic hit and the village project hit the breaks, most likely never to return. Having big office projects in San Jose with the leading market tech companies is something akin to invading Russia, you always fail. /s
Tim Maudlin's "Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory" makes for an excellent read! It addresses tons of questions which are rarely answered (let alone asked) in your run-of-the-mill university-level QM class.
It’s a fun way to donate.
Fun fact: MySQL (and I'm sure many other databases?) lets you pass in values directly as hexadecimal strings.

I've avoided SQL injection since ancient times not by escaping strings, but by transforming any given input via "0x" + bin2hex(value) and plopping that into the query.

No quotes needed, no code buried deep in included libraries needed, handles any kind of data possible, and also no funny business sneaking in based on how you may have mangled the input.
"Cut the anti intellectual bigotry" is just way too aggressive for HN comments. If you say you didn't mean it that way, I believe you, but then the issue is that you (and I don't mean you personally—almost everyone does this) are greatly underestimating the provocation in your comments.
Would be great to have multiple layers of times so you can plan out possible routes over days.
I one worked on a commercial product, a mix of C++ calling our own C libraries, that had 4000+ LOC in a single case statement. This was one of my first jobs out of school so I was shocked.
Not anywhere I checked.
I mean both active NOCs and also those who (they cop to it later) "worked for the CIA" at some point.
Not 25, but about 30 years ago, Peter Shor showed that quantum systems could be arranged and evolved in a manner that we could factorize large numbers exponentially faster than using classical means. That was a humongous expansion in what we thought were the possible physical evolutions in our universe. Related ideas have been used since to significantly expand our understanding of blackholes, for example.
> Jefferson proposed to let the constitution expire every 19 years. I think he had a point there

You want every state to come up with its own way of determining how to send delegates to a convention literally unbound by any law?
UTF-8 encodes a unicode codepoint into 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. Assuming that you have a valid UTF-8 encoding of a codepoint, then the first byte tells you how many bytes are in the encoding. 0-127 inclusive means one byte, 192-223 means 2, 224-239 means 3, and 240-247 means 4. If the first byte is 0xC0 (192), then the sequence is two bytes long. However, not every 2-byte sequence that starts with 0xC0 is valid UTF-8. The uppermost bits of the second byte must be `10` in a valid 2-byte UTF-8 sequence. 0x27 does not meet that criteria, so `0xC0 0x27` is not valid UTF-8. If your escape function operates at the level of unicode codepoints but doesn't actually verify that they're valid, you end up copying a single quote into your "escaped" buffer that downstream parts of the code will hit.
These type of comments make me cringe. Nowhere does the OP describe what Portugal is like in itself. It's very often compared to something else, like California. Portugal is Portugal.
Tagged files are too useful. 4 byte tag name, 4 byte length of the object, then the binary data of the object. You see these all the time. Sometimes you see the size before the tag name.

Occasionally, you also see a file header, followed by a size, and an "x", that often indicates a block of ZLIB compressed data.