skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's the same throughout East Asia excepting China.

I lived in Taiwan for several years and 7-11, Family Mart, et al. pretty much are the one-stop-shop that the internet tries to be here in America. But it does it far better.

* You can pay all your bills at them

* You can get train and plane tickets at them

* You can receive packages at them

* You can eat decent food at them 24x7

* You can get alcohol 24x7 (if you live on the West Coast USA this isn't so obvious - many states highly restrict alcohol sales hours and selection)

* You can get any of these usually only a block or three walking distance from anywhere you might live in any city or town - they are ubiquitous and truly convenient
Just for anyone else scanning for the TLDR reminder of what I probably should have remembered from 8th grade science... Im totally going to take the author's advice and buy my kid some plastic plankton toys :^p

> But if fossil fuel does not come from dinosaurs, then where does it come from? Plankton. That’s right. Petroleum does not originate with the Earth’s largest organisms; it begins with its smallest. Most of the biomass in any ecosystem is contained within the bodies of its humblest members, the ones way down near the base of the food chain. In the oceans, that’s phytoplankton, also known as microalgae. These microscopic organisms, mostly diatoms and dinoflagellates, are wondrously able to turn starlight into food. Through photosynthesis, they produce proteins, fats, and carbohydrates — complex carbon-based molecules. Like most tiny organisms, their generations turn over rapidly. When they expire, their minuscule bodies rain down upon the sea floor, where they form organic oozes that may be miles thick. If these biogenic deposits are buried by younger sediments, and cooked by heat and pressure in just the right way, oil and natural gas may form.

> Taking the long view, petroleum is really a type of solar energy. That may sound nice, but it’s not innocuous. When we burn it, we take carbon from another age, sequestered by ancient plankton, and dump it into today’s atmosphere. There, it traps heat, causes global warming, and acidifies the oceans. In a sense, we’re adding the power of the ancient Mesozoic Sun to today’s Sun, and it’s overheating our planet.

> I’m sure this won’t come as a shock, but don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Dinosaur toys are not made from dinos, but they are made from dinoflagellates that used starlight from another era to stitch together the carbon-based molecules that today we turn into plastic. A quick search revealed that there are actually plastic plankton toys available online, plastic plankton toys made of — plankton.
Like many things in life: hedge funds, renters, land as an investment. At the same time I'm sure some domains expire just because they're not used anymore. Sometimes I find it useful some guy hoarded it to sell for a small fee because they saw its value. The domains might have been harder to buy from some smaller mom and pop that grounded all their links to that domain.
Real scary next step is locking all PCs to MS Cloud and preventing consumers from accessing high performance computers.
Yeah, MVG did a video on it ;-) I can confirm that the exact same trick is still used on modern games.
What happened in 2010? Is that when the Falcon 9 started launching?
I started Firefox with it set to 2000 and all webpages now have blinking and scrolling text!
In this article, some listed operators are:

operator.length_hint
operator.itemgetter
operator.countOf

What's the (historical?) reason the operator module uses different casing standards?
FCC approves CB Radio going FM [pdf]
Professional political fundraising is a thing. It's an industry. They sell their services to issue oriented NGO's, too.

As far as I know (2 decades ago i had some contact with that world) they're all that slimy. "dark patterns" like this are the least of it, they fake addresses, steal data from customers, fiddle accounting, etc etc. "It's not a crime until you've been caught."
> When you send a string to the shell for execution, it seems reasonable to expect >, semi-colons, pipes, and other shell operators to be interpreted by the shell unless you escape them.

Fully agree here. But the problem is the second overload, which can take an array of strings (so looks like a safe API), but concatenates them without escaping.
Is this true? I have no idea how to even test it without causing problems to myself. After all, they pushed me to give them my credit card and physical address.
Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
Yes, yes, and yes. The problem is "virtue signaling" and the ideological capture of politics. People know what they want at the end of the day. "I don't want to destroy the earth" or "I don't want to poison the well" are common enough goals for most environmental people. The problem is a society where worker specialization has ostrated people from function knowledge and the time to understand the full scope of any given issue. We are now dependent on public sentiment towards possible solutions which is normally pushed via politics. We are pushing extremes to break through into action which diminishes the effectiveness of any resulting system. We gather around buzz words or a sentence from some academic article to justify the righteousness and effectiveness of one piece of a complex system. Since people can't be honest in a political environment, we cannot identify the cons or initiate substantial dissent within an approach. We are unified by the common denominator of our intelligence and access to information in order to roar through legislation. We are left with an ineffective system at an unreasonable cost resulting in a poor ROI.

*steps off soapbox
Some? Literally all are clearly based on pornography.

First is veg&butthole, then boobs, next is doggy style etc etc (edit: it seems the order isn't consistent. So I'm likely seeing different images then you.)

You can go through them all and see the original pornography if you look at the shapes. To me, it looks more like they started with the real images and tweaked them to make them artsy.
“Your unlaminated, out-of-state driver's license is proof enough for me.”

There really is a Simpson’s quote for everything.
I wonder whether they are considering this because people are leaving 1Password for Bitwarden, which has a self-hosted option…

Personally i would never pay for a 1Password subscription. I did buy all the standalone versions/upgrades, since day1.
> Also, Google has intentionally crippled Android and background app running, so you have to depend on FCM to deliver notifications, and you can't deliver FCM notifications uf app is installed via apk or fdroid or other third-party appstore.

FCM could indeed offer support for non-play-store apps, but weren’t background apps on Android leashed in because abuse of the capability was rampant and was torpedoing users’ battery life? I remember this being a pretty big Android issue for less technical users and an annoyance to more technical users.
it needs to be turned into a flashy webpage with lots of JS animation. pretty tough to get lots of traffic on a pdf file.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting non-technical problems in your field?
Looks like it picks up parts of the mail thing as a scooter only in a few frames and the score is way below 1% (I set the minimum threshold to 0.01%), here's an example: https://imgur.com/a/9pSTwut
I usually find XML to be too verbose. I would love to see more music notation markup formats.
Can argue SpaceX is a global telecom company which is selling excess transport capacity to fund their transport cost center.
That's the exact problem with the bill. Of course a car that refuses to be driven drunk sounds like a great way to stop drunk driving.

But the technology to feasibly and reliably do that does not exist.
As far as I can see the claim made here is not correct.

Assuming the images do as claimed match the hash, they must also match the ‘visual derivative’ in order to trigger a match.

The system isn’t as easily fooled as is being claimed here.
Cheetos are extruded cornmeal paste that's been fried and dusted with powdered cheese, salt, and MSG
Testing.

Maybe a bug only appears around midnight, or near Easter. This makes that easier to reproduce.
> We had Bosnia during Clinton years.

Oppose them or support them, it was literally American bombing campaigns that stopped the Bosnian genocide and the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.
Eh, Wuhan has over 11 million people in it. It's much bigger than any US city, and almost all US states. A lot of stuff is going to come from there, especially shady network traffic. The city has also been there for 3.5 thousand years, so a lot has come from there historically as well.

I think this is one of those things where you hear about a type of car or something, then you start seeing it everywhere. They've always been there, but just never triggered those recognition circuits until they were primed to.
> The system is not as easily fooled as you think.

I would like to believe that is true, but the negative consequences of even generating a false-positive is enough to not attempt to upload any image.
I assumed that these are reverse engineered from legitimately illegal and problematic porn of known origin.

Not sure exactly how you'd go about doing it, but it seems like there might be a process for 'evening out' areas into solid color that maintains the hash? In which case you're running extensive image processing on illegal images and making variations from those very images.

More info on how this is done?
When Amazon Customers Leave Negative Reviews, Some Sellers Hunt Them Down
Our public education in the U.S. is a travesty. There's really no incentive to remain up-to-date on information, and it seems to be getting worse.
Unless it's an average (or “up to”) of three weeks, or if part of the work is bypassed by meeting certain standards to start with.
Any links you can share on the emotional healing work you do?
Google Chrome will disable alert() inside cross origin-frames
The Ultimate Retirement Calculator
I understood it as "5.7 million per life saved" so you need to mulltiply that number by few thousands.
You're right, they could be trying to get people to ignore. I think it's more likely they're in an awkward political/diplomatic holding pattern.

They definitely can't say that they are continuing to investigate unless they've been cleared to do so, since investigating starts implying patterns of responsibility.

It's definitely a gong-show.
It can also be bets. You buy domains based on likely emerging markets, trends and keywords and you drop them if they stop getting traction. May be awhile before you actually catch much traffic or value from those words but it only cost $12/yr while holding the bag. You prune the ones that fizzle out.
The solution IMO is a decentralized domain registry. Maybe we can even have a way for multiple people to own the same "domain" and pin the one they find most useful.
It's nice to see that the very first music video they played was "Video killed the radio star."

40+ years, and I've never actually seen the music video for that song...
Indeed. On the bright side PC gaming may save humanity.
If I don't have a root access to the device - it is not my device.
We had worse crises before that didn’t change societies so deeply

During the Red Scare, loyalty review boards were instituted and civil servants insufficiently 'American' were sacked in the thousands.
Is there an equivalent tool for *nix OSes?
Run some trail software forever.
I think much of it has to do with that they were originally written for books, magazines with thorough editorial practices and a reputation to preserve.

'Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine'[1] another HN favorite comes to my mind. It was originally written for Physics Today magazine.

I don't think it's limited to only long form content, Even today printed news papers which have been in existence for >=~100 years does have better quality of writing than online content(even from the same news media) due to some resemblance of their editorial practices.

But all those printed newspapers are on the verge of bankruptcy or already dead. Their online counterpart is now only concerned with how many articles can be published/hour, There's not even proof reading because of this as they have to please Google, Facebook, Apple for those screen time.

I've noticed when I give interviews to online news the writer often has to work with their web-admin to fix errors in my statements after publishing(when it's different from what I actually said)and often it takes several hours if it even happens. Where as in printed news papers had the habit of error correction in the next issue.

[1] https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin...
No, messages and regular file backups aren’t checked for child porn and the online photo library has multiple checks and reviews to prevent any false flagging.
> weren’t background apps on Android leashed in because abuse of the capability was rampant and was torpedoing users’ battery life?

Yes, you can still run in the background but you need to show a persistent notification to that effect. The user can then choose whether to hide it.
Old people don't remember URLs anyway. All they need is the name, and then they can either search it up or their browser will auto fill it or they'll click a link or a bookmark.

I don't even remember any URLs beyond the top five or so sites I visit. Is Kijiji a .com or a .ca? No idea, but my browser knows.
Well, look again - some of the group of points reach right to 200ppm.

Equation of line has nothing to do with reaching 200ppm, as that is average - adapted to whole timeline. Would look completely different in a different scope.
Don't forget how it started at Google.

Long before they claimed that they scan email for child porn, they made an email scanner to appease China, on a condition they will not target dissidents.

I think all remember how it went. Seeing their intimidation work, it only fired up the Chinese government, and led them to only increase their attempts at arm twisting, until Google clumsily pretended to "be tough" while still doing their last attempt behind the scenes negotiations, which, to their big surprise, got them banned overnight.
This looks pretty cool and I’ve bookmarked it to check out the next time I’m on Windows! It’d be nice if you had a couple of YouTube videos or something that shows how it works, just to see it in action before downloading and evaluating.
No, but I'm trying to explain the sampling bias, not talking about growing up obese. If you randomly sample obese people at any age, 18 or 81, your sample will still be biased by years-spent-obese.

There probably is some effect from growing up obese, but the sampling bias is hugely relevant to interpreting the statistics, and it's not talked about much.
I would need RunAsTimezone
I always assumed that they didn’t have the keys to unlock my vault, so even if something was compromised it is all encrypted with no way for them to access it. What is the advantage of self hosting?
Someone please post this to the Apple subreddit. I'd love to see hell breaking loose over there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28055160
> In general, you'd need land for solar panels equivalent to your entire neighborhood to merely duplicate and provide your current energy use just from your own home.

That's false because it is based on the assumption that you should convert the input BTUs of your natural gas heater directly to hypothetical kWH consumed if substituted with electricity, which is silly because if you are trying to generate 100% of your energy consumption locally (a goal of questionable value itself), you would change your mechanical systems to electrical ones that are 3-5x more efficient at delivering space heating than natural gas furnaces.

The most efficient nat gas furnaces are 96% efficient, but heat pumps routinely achieve 300-400% efficiency. That works out to far lower energy input for space heating.

A far more sensible approach to local electricity generation is to move to more efficient building and mechanical systems and only generate enough electricity via solar+storage to power critical loads during a grid outage.

> And that doesn't even cover EVs being charged!

Given, the average American commute distance, EVs will always be a grid coupled technology due to their huge energy requirements. This is a good thing because they will needed to provide buffers for grid and home resiliency to less predictable power supply and demand patterns.
author sounds like they are dealing with what most good people suffer through: a radical overabundance of non independently spirited normies, bearing limited ambitions, small horizons, & low inherent drive. anyone of character appreciates & can mutually enhance those others of character, even if unalike.
Here's an object with over 30 members: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.uri?view=...

Your second and third statements are simply false.
Your example incorrectly assumes the entire solar constant went toward carbon sequestration and this is obviously not the case.

The overall energy efficiency of the natural photosynthesis to sequestered carbon process is not inherently more efficient than man-made alternatives. The efficiency of the PV cell is just one small factor.

A much more accurate way to calculate sequestration potentials is to measure their energy cost and multiply by available energy.
Hidden for now, gone in the next release.

Source: https://1password.community/discussion/115018/support-for-lo...
faketime '2008-12-24 01:15:43' /bin/date
My point was about government mandated safety features.

Backup cameras have value for the consumer in preventing accidents and damage, the government didn't need to mandate their inclusions on cars as consumers voluntarily were willing to add this feature for years.

However, when the government forced all consumers on all to have to add this feature that is where the line was crossed.

I drive a fuel efficient Chevy Spark, it cost me maybe $11000 brand new. I drive an average of 5000 miles a year. When I have to replace the car, it will cost a lot more because now it will have cameras and drunk driving gadgets, etc. I dont even have an automatic transmission or power locks - these features are a waste of money for me, but the government is forcing me to purchase safety features and the economic value to society is spurious. I'd rather there be a sticker where my rear view camera is saying 'in lieu of camera we made a $2000 gift to clean water in Africa, it saved more lives, trust us'
Fixing things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Testing features like:

- night mode

- calendar 'today' visualisation on different days of month etc.

Cheating like:

https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/how-to/hacking-time-spee...

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-extend-the-trial-period-o...

In that last link, #1 is actually (coincidentally, that wasn't in my search) the software submitted here.
I much prefer a system where connected insiders push through un-replicatable papers in an opaque quid pro quo system so they can pad each others' tenure committee packets!
Please elaborate. Many of us avoid the services of the four entities you mention, completely or almost. Their «servers», or their intrusion (monitoring) more difficult, requires strategies, but there are ways. Where would those four crucial for one's economic survival?
But not all, the author says: I get many email messages that say something like "I tried to extend the trial period of xyz software with RunAsDate and it didn't work". Running a software with different date/time can be used for many legitimate purposes and for these purposes RunAsDate was created. I have never said implicitly or explicitly that RunAsDate can be used for extending the trial period of a software. For some shareware programs, RunAsDate might really work, but many shareware creators are smart enough to detect that the date/time was modified and when they detect the time change, they end the trial period immediately.
Please don't bother yourself to send me a question about extending the trial period of a software, because these kind of messages are simply deleted without answering.
I wouldn't oversell HN either. Arguably the value of HN lies in how relatively few users it has compared to FB or Reddit. Bringing to market a competitor to android/iOS that everyone including your parents could and would use would cost literally tens of billions. HN doesn't have that much clout, nowhere close.
The thing that everyone has their panties in a bunch about here and a that like an antivirus scanner, there will be a hash match to child abuse images when you send it.

The current practice is that Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc scan the content of your cloud storage.

The scenario that you described is a risk and has been since cloud providers started scanning 10-15 years ago. Some large companies scan their file servers as well.
When your printer can't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619
I don't know what they used in the seventies, but now they use hop oil extract. The extraction process eliminates the possibility of the skunking/lightstruck reaction. Most colorless glass bottled beer use that today, though not all. The green bottle beers mostly don't, though they're still susceptible to skunking.
I'm sure I'm also missing lots of things but a small correction:

* You can receive AND SEND packages there DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL.

Also These couple of years,

* You get govt-rationed masks there during mask shortage.

* You make appointment for Covid vaccine there.
Of course Apple knows where the hashes come from and they know whom they send flagged account info to. You’re drawing conclusions from false assumptions.
Used to commute on one of those double decker tech busses down a few Interstate highways in the Bay Area, and from those you can get a good view into the cabins of other commuters’ cars. Every day you can see about 50% of drivers playing with their phones while driving. And it’s not just people occasionally glancing at their phones in their cup holder. They are holding the phone in their hand, scrolling through god-knows-what, typing/texting, watching videos. It’s totally insane! At least half of drivers are doing this. What can possibly be this important on Instagram that you’re willing to risk your life for?
What hash algorithm are they using? If this is legitimate (I’ll be honest - I’m not clicking) then surely any hash this easy to pre-image attack is completely useless? Why wouldn’t they be using a cryptographic hash here?
I don't know, this sounds a bit like a Rorschach test to me.
Just do away with the legal limit altogether, drop it to zero. If you've had anything at all to drink then you should not be operating a motor vehicle on puclic roadways. If you get caught DUI then your license should be permanently revoked. I wonder how drastically improved the alcohol related traffic fatality statistics would be with that law. The regulation currently up for consideration clearly violates the fourth amendment.
I'd just like to use this comment to show appreciation of Nirsoft's stuff. Great useful single function utilities for practically anything, for free, without any catch.

Many times I've needed to do something that seems simple but isn't exposed easily, and rather than figure it out myself there's a gui or cli app that just does exactly what I need.