skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... a FREE, new feature ..."

Why are you complaining about this punch in the face? It's a FREE new punch in the face you ingrateful parasite!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jkwcbx/if...
Don't forget HBO's Homeland and Hatufim/Prisoners of War.
The Dingo's Fate
By the way, Wine is more stable than Windows itself in supporting older Windows ABIs.

Someone should develop an analog for Linux itself. I.e. support for older / historic ABIs that would be translated into whatever modern Linux has.

Some isolated example of that is SDL 1.x translated to SDL 2.

Wine itself already exists, you don't need to develop any new distro for running Windows programs on Linux. Just improve Wine if anything is missing.
> We want companies to compete on features that have value to users.

What we want and what actually happens are two different things. In many cases there isn't a whole lot of competition. For example, Apple's only competitor for mobile OS is google.
I've used OnShape a fair bit, and it's pretty solid for technical parts. But recently, I've been doing prints of 3D scans (which work surprisingly well these days!!), and OnShape is sorta the wrong tool for the job for that.

I'm using a crazy combination of pre-processing in Blender and then post-processing in OnShape today, and feel like I should be able to just use Blender for the whole job.
> Vibe coding isn't for building production code. It's for exploratory prototypes - figuring out if something is possible and trying different versions of how it might work as quickly as possible.

I know people have different mental workflows for solving problems, but I never understood the concept of building software prototypes to see if something is possible, unless you're doing scientific research. I can understand building prototype for demo purposes (to avoid technical speak and to have a common reference for discussions).

Either something is possible or it is not. If you don't know, that just means you're lacking knowledge (and maybe it's never been done before). If it's possible, the only thing left to figure out is the cost of the solution (and if it's acceptable). The nice thing about software is that you don't have to commit everything at the beginning. You may build a working skeleton of the solution that you flesh out as the project goes, but I don't see that as a prototype.
Well, I'm just saying people claiming it was about Trump criticism is easy. For example there's another case where a UK band was denied entry and the band had to cancel their performances. Which the band played up as denied because of vocal Trump criticism. Yet buried in the fine print of the reporting they admitted they had the wrong visa to be performing in the US.

It just keeps seeming to be these things where the press is really pushing this narrative but the stories they bring always carry an asterisk.

To be quite honest I have alarm fatigue when these keep popping up. They all register as clickbait. I have not encountered a single one yet that wasn't smoke spun up for clicks and outrage.
>> We offer free, scenic content by supporting it with ads.

Sheesh
I hope dang looks at this and takes this for the warning it is.

Curiosity cannot survive neutrality towards authoritarianism.
> Shipping binary files is just plain bad in every way.

Aren't .class and .jar files "binaries"?

> Java already solved this problem, for the most part

Maybe, just maybe, there are some drawbacks that mean that in fact it's not solved. Otherwise perhaps Java would've completely obsoleted C, C++. Some of us design applications which can't tolerate the worst case GC pauses, for example. Some of us design applications which we can't afford to spend extra time heap-allocating nearly everything.
Yes, one of the MANY cultural reasons. One less thing I have to think about when paying for food. There's honestly too many reasons to list: cost, safety, food, transportation, work life balance, education, being near family, and to see more of the world.
That's the delta-V to get away from Earth, and 90% of it is spent shifting from a circular low orbit into a transfer/escape orbit.

When you're coming back, you don't need to spend that energy. Instead you slightly adjust your aim so your transfer orbit hits the atmosphere instead of missing it.
Looks like the lectures from a prior version are on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62EaLLH92E_...
Ok, but then you just say, we have enough naturally occurring fluoride. Adding more is just a waste of money.

Or, toothpaste has enough extra fluoride, adding it to water is just a waste of money.

This is not that. This is the US health system being lead by a bunch of woo-woo people who don’t understand how research works.
DOGE sounds like every bad junior programmer I've known talking about how amazing they are: "I could write this whole thing in Javascript in a weekend."

When I hear that, I just want to watch reality sneak up and slap the hubris out of them.
Win32 is quite extensive for an OS API. It covers the space from low-level stuff like syscalls and page allocation and all the way up to localization, simple media access and GUI. So everything from glibc, libsystemd, libpam to libalsa and egl on Linux side. And it is all stable.

Microsoft also provides quite good stability for DirectX and other extension APIs. You can still run old .Net apps without issues as long as they didn't pull a Hyrum's Law on you and depended on apparent behavior.
No, even then there are things like Mandatory Integrity Control and Windows Message Restrictions / UIAccess. I'd dive into to deeper but I just got home from going out haha. Those terms should help you dig into it though!

I do fully agree that desktop OSes are a legacy security model and they can't hold a candle to that of iOS. Android is getting there, but because it also started from mostly an open all-access model it's been having the same warts.
Probably better to put in a separate restricted vlan. Who knows, maybe one day some piece of firmware code will kick in to start rotating MACs to lie who the device is to get a connection.
Apple TV has to be one of my favorite purchases over the last five years. It just does what it says on the tin and gets the hell out of the way otherwise. I've bought three of them and disconnected all our tvs from wifi in favor of using these devices.
It’ll be totally pointless. China will just finance an overland rail route in Mexico in the worst case. Belt and road is still in progress.
Fluoride in Toothpaste: Do not ingest.

Flouride in Water: Ingest away.

I do not understand how these two can co-exist.
Thank you very much! I was about to post almost the same thing, so I'll reply to your post instead (and upvote):

It's pretty funny to read a critisism of linux s/w distribution along the lines of the dificulty of distributing binaries.

This is one of the biggest security vulnerabilities of windows. 3rd parties distributing binary executables.

At least in a typical linux distro the binary is built by the distributing org, with some review of where the source comes from.

Downloading a windows app from the internet one has no idea what source is included in that binary.

I'm also not a fan of non-distro based systems such as flatpack. Again, I would prefer my binaries built by the distribution, or if need be, locally.
20$ is nothing in google ads while in this case it can fund a novel way to market local-first apps. Let's spend more money with small tech and less with Big Tech.
Like you, I also find the paper's findings interesting. I'm not arguing that LLMs lack the ability to "think" (mechanically), but rather expressing concern that by choosing the word "thinking" in the paper, LLMs might become anthropomorphized in ways they shouldn't be.

I believe this phenomenon occurs because high-performance LLMs have probability distributions of future words already reflected in their neural networks, resulting in increased output values of LLM neurons (activation functions). It's something that happens during the process of predicting probability distributions for the next or future output token dictionaries.
It brings me so much happiness that there is enough overlap between software people and jazz playing people that this is on the front page
> via toothpaste.

I wonder how many people really brush their teeth on a regular basis.

> either campaign to change it or vote with your feet.

I imagine that campaigning to change it requires notifying people there is a problem, and getting it into the news and spreading that news.
The tools for scams are already built and in use, and they're way better than what I'm seeing here. The only example I see with a real photo is a static photo with a mouth wiggling and no other movement. The rest are cartoons, with a similar effect.

I get the concern, but squelching fun use cases isn't going to prevent people from building the bad ones or even slow them down.
Pretty sure I read that fluoridation is a communist plot to undermine American public health [1].

Sorry, that was the John Birch Society from the 1960's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_water_fluoridati...

(I'm having some fun, but it is in fact the first thing that comes to mind when I hear objections to fluoridated water. Since we're talking about RFK and Utah, I kind of assume it more or less stems from the same fears.)
The test may be to see if there's a market for the product. What you'll learn in that test is much more than a binary answer.
I don't see God or loving in his response. Maybe they believe in sadistic aliens from millions of big bangs ago?
After a house guest decided to accept the EULA and connect my smart tv to the internet it took me years to figure out how to get it to function without being connected to the internet.
> Maybe the US should look into how other countries have solved it?

How have other countries solved it?
I can only speak from experience, but it's been absolutely solid, incredibly easy to maintain (because there's been so little change), and I don't feel like I missed out on any groundbreaking front end tech at all. I literally have some elm code that's been in production doing it's thing for 7+ years without any maintenance, but more importantly it's not scary to open it up and make changes 7 years later either.

I doubt it's a silver bullet for everyone, but it's been phenomenal for me as a solo dev w/ my own product. I feel so much better about my elm code than I do about my React code. I have to do all the other things, like marketing, sales, training, support, back end, etc. It's nice to launch a UI and know it'll last (and also that it's easy to refactor and augment too!). Elm has turned my into a statically typed functional fanboy. It's been a gateway drug to Haskell, OCaml, and F#.

I see the same promise with Roc, although I bet Richard will update it more frequently than Evan w/ elm after 1.0.
"Poorly worded" makes it sound like incompetence. This was deceptively worded.
Some apps like Obsidian needs permission to access every file on the device. It is surprising Obsidian isn't getting called out on that very much.
The US rarely looks into how other countries solve problems. (i.e. Universal Healthcare, High Speed Trains and so), this is the sad part of "American Exceptionalism"
Why does Microsoft continue to publish a Windows 10 ISO.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...

Does MS try to force an automated upgrade on anyone who installs it.
> but it's equally true that you could lock down a TCP socket to a specific process with about the same amount of work.

How, actually? With UNIX sockets it can be a matter of setting file ownership and mode (at worst, a chmod and a chown).

What's the equally simple way to restrict access to a locally listening tcp socket?
It's because it stores the files there so you can sync them with other permissions. And also that your notes aren't deleted like they would be if they were stored in the internal app storage. There's more granular options for filesystem access available but if you implement them you limit yourself to the latest Android releases.

According to Exodus it has no trackers and it's an open source app also so you can see what it does (though tbh I didn't check that for the mobile one)

If there's apps to call out there's way worse than Obsidian.
How does putting people in these extrajudicial prisons meet requirements of habeas corpus?
This was my use case, I created a stupid simple blank web page that I set as my new tab page: https://aboutblank.page (source: https://github.com/sphars/about-blank)
> Banning it seems like the wrong move to me...states should simply decide to continue adding it or not.

Isn't that exactly what's happening here? A state deciding to not continue adding it?
This is why one should never, ever, allow their television to connect to the internet.

Feed it via HDMI from whatever device you choose, but DO NOT let the TV connect to the mothership...

Or, just accept the consequences...
You’re talking about WebRTC which may or may not make use of a TURN server. And I assume there are other uses of TURN which are completely unrelated to WebRTC.

Use of a TURN server does not imply hiding of negotiation details. The TURN RFC [1] does not mention anything related to media encodings or WebRTC negotiations at all.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5766
Tourism is gonna be hit.
Education is gonna be hit (especially if the rumors that the US is canceling hundreds of student visas as we speak for crimes such as liking certain tweets).
Exports are gonna be hit thanks to tariffs in raw materials and retaliatory tariffs by other countries.
Government sector jobs will be hit.
Retail will be hit due to tariffs.

We are already seeing a reversal in sentiment and none of these impacts have actually been felt yet.
I don't mind re-purchasing software if it ages out gracefully.

I recently bought a (non-subscription) copy of Softmaker Office. If I have to buy a newer version ten years from now, that's okay. It's got better file compatibility with Word than LibreOffice and it doesn't force me to connect to the internet or anyone's cloud.
I found my experience with AI Chat vs web search much different than OPs. For me AI chat almost always gives better results than web search. Most of the time I use it it's when I know that what I'm doing is possible but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. For example writing some SQL recently I wanted to know how to write a query in a slicker way and Gemini was able to output something that I'd never have been able to search for and that coming up with on my own would have required 30 minutes to an hour of reading docs.
> Say, you have an operator working in london, and the director in new york, you want to give them the highest quality picture possible.

This is exactly the insight I was hoping for. Thank you.
What they're referring to is the fact that very few countries in the rest of the world even consider the possibility of adding fluoride to the water supply. It's basically just the US, Australia, and to a much lesser extent Canada.

It's not a debate everywhere else because adding fluoride to the water is objectively an unusual thing to do that they just... don't. Presumably they get fluoride other ways.
> "AI" used to mean state search programs or rule-based reasoning systems written in LISP. When deep learning hit, lots of people stopped considering symbolic (i.e., non neural-net) AI to be AI. Now LLMs threaten to do the same to older neural-net methods. A pedantic conversation about what is and isn't true AI is not productive.

I think you are misstating the problem here.

All of the things you name are still AI.

None of the things you name are, or have ever been, AI.

The problem is that there is AI, the computer science subfield of artificial intelligence, which includes things like expert systems, NPCs in games, and LLMs, and then there is AI, the "true" artificial intelligence, brought to us exclusively by science fiction, which includes things (or people!) like Commander Data, Skynet, Durandal, and HAL 9000.

The general public doesn't understand this distinction in a deep way—even those who recognize that things like Skynet are fiction get confused when they see an LLM apparently able to carry on a coherent conversation with a human—and too many of us, who came into this with a basic understanding of the distinction and who should know better, have bought the hype (and in some cases outright lies) of companies like OpenAI wholesale.

These facts (among others) have combined to allow the various AI grifters to continue operating without being called out on their bullshit.
This is why all of my TVs are airgapped. I don’t understand why some people don’t just get an Apple TV or similar and keep their TV completely ignorant of the LAN and internet.
Vibe coding is the worst thing that's happened to our profession in the last 20 years. Or perhaps the best, after all, someone has to debug those catastrophic messes masquerading as applications.
Another take would also just be that it hardly proves they don't drink water, just that they also like something else.

But the "soda" category these days is also pretty overloaded: full sugar coke vs Coke zero is a very different calory intake.
No, they couldn't, thanks to the Constitution. They have the rights of due process and habeas corpus.
Would love to nominate Postico here — very few software purchases have made me so thoroughly satisfied, but the combination of a functional free tier + very generously priced tiers for students and professionals alike has left me happy to spend money on their software.
Radioactive isotopes in nuclear fuel: do not ingest.

Radioactive isotopes in banana: consume away.

Understand now? I'm not even defending anything other than how two things that vaguely appear contradictory, are in fact, not.
so true. everyone's so inconsiderate of their 'line go up' mission!
Smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors send US states racing to attract the industry
Move fast, kill things: startups reinventing defence with Silicon Valley values
ita disconcerting to see such naivety around security issues on hn.

not that windows is keeping passwords in plaintext, but that it's not immediately obvious that un-sandboxed apps that run on your windows/linux/mac desktop have virtually unlimited other avenues to capture passwords given they can read the entire state of other windows at the very least.

I dunno maybe macos is slightly better, and wayland definitely has some things which are better about this, but desktop os and $locally_installed_app means $locally_installed_app basically has root, there is just an exploding amount of vectors.

I'd like to see a linux based distrubution use some of the sandboxing in Android, it would be a order of magnitude improvement over what is going on now.
You are assuming the administration will respect legal decisions. This is sadly no longer a given...
Nope, the bill as written prevents local municipalities from making that decision.
"It's just a goddamned piece of paper" -- a different Republican POTUS
Yeah, let's also send there Tesla short sellers... Sounds impossible right ?

Well, Musk emphasised, they need to go after the people who are 'behind' the protests. He already shared multiple tweets with 'leads' (for now it's only Soros and the likes).
John Y. Naka, 89; Brought Art of Asian Bonsai to the West (2004)
And we'll pretend it's Christmas day in my atomic garden
> A property that tells the OS “my app is related to domain example.com”. Make it an array of domains if you must.

Elaborating on the sibling's comment: There is already such a property that apps must set in their manifests in order for them to be able to react to links/intents for domain-associated-with-the-app.com.

But it doesn't address the question of how a browser is supposed to be able to open links to domain-associated-with-the-app.com in that app, without Android revealing to the browser whether the app is installed or not. In short: The browser will, by construction, be able to determine which apps you've got installed or not.
About 2 years ago we got a deal on a smallish Samsung for our nursery. The thing is haunted.

On more than a couple occasions in the middle of the night I've heard people talking. On working up the courage and getting out of bed I've found the TV tuned in my daughter's room to one of those Samsung Internet TV channels.

My wife and I never use those, so it's absolutely bizarre.
Iirc, in the earlier days of LCD tvs, the ones meant for digital signage sometimes had different color calibration, and also sometimes had weaker processors than their consumer bretheren because they weren't really meant to display high-framerate motion content, and were mainly used for static images. A friend's dad picked up a few for cheap when their employer was updating some of the ones they used for digital signage, and they struggled with some types of 1080P content, especially when the images were messy and rapidly changing (think close up tracking shot of a soccer game.)

Not sure how relevant that is today, but likely still something to watch out for especially if you're looking for a cheaper dumb TV. Also, if you're getting a used digital signage TV, if you can try to run through some basic color and motion video tests on it before you buy it; mostly to check for burn-in and backlight quality.

Also, are there decent OLED dumb TV options available yet? I rarely watch anything on my TV, so when I do it's generally something more 'special' and I rather like the gamut that OLEDs offer for those occasions.
Or take the back off and remove the WiFi module
> Everything is tracked, everything is logged, its been this way for a long time and there's nothing you can do about it. You have zero privacy in the internet and you're an idiot if you think otherwise.

But this nihilistic, all-or-nothing attitude is another kind of naïvety.

There are absolutely still ways for people to keep large chunks of their online presence and activity private. Using E2EE services like Matrix and iMessage, for instance. De-Googling sharply reduces the amount of information Google has about you. Etc, etc.

It may not be accessible—or even understandable—for everyone, but the idea that absolutely everything we say, do, want, and think will be collected and tracked and there's nothing we can do about it is just not true.
“I have strong opinions about something I proudly admit I’ve never read” is quite the take.
My understanding was that to start working on a product, you must have prospective users/customers that you can talk to to get the the gist of what they would like, the build a MVP and then iterate with the feedback you receive. In this case you already know that what they're asking for is possible or not.
> This is the US health system being lead by a bunch of woo-woo people who don’t understand how research works.

The majority of the developed world does not fluoridate their water supply. The US has one of the highest rates of fluoridation in the developed world. Within America, fluoridation rates are highest on the East Coast and in the South, and lowest on the Left Coast.
What no one is saying about the first city-wide facial recognition zone [video]
They could. It might not be legal, but this Administration doesn't care much about that, and good luck enforcing a writ of habeas corpus issued by a US court on a prison in El Salvador.
An example of bank bailouts? jesus man, pay some attention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...
If you have a "smart" TV you'd like to avoid connecting to the internet for reasons like this, you can try disconnecting the wireless module entirely. I had a Sony Bravia TV I didn't trust, and after popping off the back I disconnected the wireless module's ribbon cable. The android-TV OS handled it gracefully, and now I don't have to worry about it attempting to smuggle data through any other WLANs in my apartment building.
I’ve found it very helpful to write out the boilerplate to allow you to write the few lines needed to do what you conceptually want to do.

Also great with figuring a regex pattern in 5-10s instead of getting derailed by SO or Google search.