skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was testing Copilot this night. It suggested a simple snippet, which made me a bit suspicious, so I looked it up on GitHub.

The snippet (after "data_folder ="):

data_folder = "C:/Users/robsc/Documents/NC State/GRAWork/CIData/Output318/"

Search results:
https://github.com/search?q=%22C%3A%2FUsers%2Frobsc%2FDocume...

Although the found code comes from a public repo and is not at all groundbreaking, it does feel a bit creepy for reasons I can't yet articulate.
But what are you comparing it to? Anywhere tropical (or even mediterranean) is going to seem hot compared to SF. Not being able to run until the evening and getting sunburn at 5.30pm are standard in a mediterranean summer too
> workforce is getting much smaller

"Much smaller" will still be about 3x the US one. If that's your best bet, it's not a good one :-D
Fans don't do anything to actually cool the air. They were primarily used in the past because nothing else was available, not because they were good.
Your post I originally replied to said

> They've tried to do this for decades and have failed.... Let's see how voters like it.

My "point" is that I thought the same way you did -- look what a mess Clipper Chip was, they always want backdoors but surely a voice of reason will show up, etc -- but something has changed. Couple the vote in the EU with the way the major tech companies reacted to GDPR (you'd be surprised how many sites simply block all of Europe rather than comply) and it's a wakeup call. There is a real chance of the bad guys winning here.
Imagine deploying 100 of these helicopters deployed from a single Starship.
There are two types of video. Ones recorded in landscape and ones recorded badly.
I think it also dosen't really matter, in practice. While it would be nice to have a language where, if it compiles, its provably correct (for some definition of correct, defined by whatever the language states, I guess), we don't need that extreme to be useful.

I've personally found myself dissatisfied with dynamically typed languages after spending the bulk of the past ten years writing in them (Clojure and Python mainly), because the kinds of errors that I most commonly find in my own code are ones that even basic static types like in Java or even C++ can detect (basic type mismatches) while in dynamic languages, to catch these early, the unit tests need to have exercised that particular case. The problem with that is it puts the burden of thinking of and testing for these cases on me, but we all know that exhaustive tests are rare and hard to maintain. Property-based testing helps, but again, it depends on the data generated whether or not a type mismatch will get tested.

Statically typed languages prevent this type of bug, this makes them useful to me, even if they can't prove the absence of all bugs or can't prove that a program won't halt.
Hackers steal $600m in major cryptocurrency heist
My parents and grandparents have something ecological, made probably in 1950 or 1960 and in late 1990s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger

It doesn't need plastic or electricity to work
China tech giant Xiaomi aims at global smartphone top spot
I really like the idea of disappearing chat. I want my chats to be like an old landline telephone call. Hang up the phone and the conversation is over and what we both take from it are the parts we remember. Massive backlogs of text conversations are just added digital mental baggage in the already overstimulated digital world I live in.

We already have email for things we need permanent record of.
> If you work outside all day you adapt very quickly to it.

Sort of yes, sort of no. In some industries, those who do hard labour in heat have a terrible death rate from kidney disease. There is a lot in the news about this in relation to sugarcane workers.
Eg:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/14/kidney-disease...
"For now" because they are making it harder and harder to do it, and so, it's not a stretch to imagine a day where you simply can't do it. Or you can, but it will be rendered meaningless. For examples, look at how hard it is on phones to change the OS and even then, we're at the mercy of the AOSP remaning open and up to date. On desktop, Secure Boot is yet another wrench thrown into general computing. Or, nowadays, how do we really separate two browsing sessions? A private window is a good shot, but still there's ways to connect that to your normal browsing session.

The protocols and methods that can make the current ecosystem free feel like holdouts from a world that's passed already. I really really wish that the future is not closed, that we can still host our email and websites in 50 years, but when all key players want a closed and surveilled ecosystem, it's hard to imagine that remaining open is not a struggle.

Hence, "for now".
Great idea! Was using it without realizing how new the product is.

What happened to it? The website/service seems to be down?
“Can we remove people from all the loops everywhere? It will be so much cost effective!”

“Gee, I wonder how the world became so dehumanized?”
"So, if after pushing the changes to the repository, you got unlucky enough to notice a bug only on the live version of your service, you'd need to beg for an extra rollout. It most definitely sucked"

Been there, had the CEO tell whole company to write code without bugs, sigh...
This was fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVFNZKuN-g
The Great Suspender was sold to an unknown party which made some less than trustworthy changes, forcing google to eventually take it down for containing malware.
I've got a great story about this, ad absurd, from a HIPAA-covered entity.

IT turned on One Drive backups for their desktop image, without communicating to users.

A week later, there's a flurry of a few tens of thousand angrygrams about users storing sensitive documents in the cloud.

... by which they meant (in user terms) "having files on your Desktop."
Ok, my bad, it merely walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Still seen nothing like it on EU internal borders.
> will simply turn off iCloud photos, or iCloud, or whatever 3rd parties Apple will let in on the surveillance

I mean apparently they're already uploading photos to Facebook of all places and getting caught there, so you may be overestimating how smart they are.
Why have this fake deadline at all then? That sounds like it is playing fast and loose with the system, since it practically requires a nontrivial action to postpone.
Acknowledging anonymous reviewers is common in my (erstwhile) field. “An anonymous reviewer suggests the following definition of…” I have to say that it seems odd to me to regard this as plagiarism.
My opinion here is that such policies are unenforceable and will therefore blow up in the faces of whoever implements them. Whoever does not will have the people's backing and will pave the way to the future. Of course, none of us can see the future, so we'll just have to wait and see. If I lived in the EU I would make my voice heard about that legislation.
Lol that is a ridiculous explanation. Most companies’ idea of “developer operations” is “someone needs to babysit that dinky old jenkins”, those that are serious about it certainly don’t call it devops in their job reqs
Everyone wants to live in Shi Tpa Town.
Can you point out a link to comments that contradict each other?

AFAIK, you can use cookie banners, but opting in has to be as easy as opting out. The .eu sites do that.
Empowering Digital Transformation Ethically
Agreed. Besides I don’t think that any serious stalker would actually resort to something so standard as AirTag to stalk their victims. Sure it might deter some random would-be stalkers from having this idea, but feels more like a move for PR’s sake than for the stated reason.
Oh boy, I see the crypto market is on the rise again so it's time for the HN crypto hot takes to grace our eyes yet again. We get it alright, crypto bad.
the real technical challenge is the "transitive hop" problem that we describe. The matching of the data is not so complicated - that can be done with any technology - but searching with Data A, and getting result Z - that was the tricky bit that took us years to solve and was only possible thanks to serverless tech.
> Another thing Tik Tok does is get rid of people who are obese, queer, or otherwise the target of harassment. Their stance is it's easier to get rid of the person being made fun of or limit who can see their videos rather than the 10k people harassing them.

The company I'm contracted to has a similar policy - instead of dealing with inappropriately behaving employees/contractors who have the company's logo/name somewhere in their social media profile they just disallow using the said logo and name - that includes CVs.

To quote a certain really upbeat clam: awesome idea in theory
I struggled to read it.

Sounds like the author found that solving hard problems is hard, and in particular ideology-driven solutions don’t always work.

It’s not a dig at liberal, progressive, leftist or whatever ideologies, it’s true for true whole spectrum. It’s like fixing bugs with language design principles.
True. Give a restaurant positive ratings and all the listings in it will show a price hike in the future. Worse, if you rate the the individual items too, the price of the items you rated positively will be shown higher to you across Zomato. Same with searching for a restaurant or particular food item - suddenly all the prices will be jacked up in that particular restaurant or for that particular food item (this is particularly rampant in Swiggy).
Very cool project.

Setting up a business based on a new DB tech that has one user, though, is tricky.

Playing devil's advocate, how do you plan to make money? Who are the users, why do they turn to TiloDB, how do they learn about it, how do they adopt it, how do they be convinced to pay you something for it? Etc
And, branching out to biology: "underground creepy crawly province" -- among others -- for "ant colony".

What all of these phrases have in common is that their words have been individually replaced with synonyms, with no regard to context. The author correctly identifies this behavior as characteristic of a text spinning service -- I've seen the same sort of thing frequently in spam.
I realize that I need to elaborate my point. I agree that angry users can happen, and lawsuits can happen. There will be news articles that detail the problem. But the pipe dream part is that any of this has significant effect on the platform itself. As long as they offer something that people think they want, as long as people have their peers on it, the platform itself will thrive.

Facebook and Reddit survived tons of controversies already. Is the brand damaged? Maybe. But can you measurably show the impact of it?
I recently switched from KDE to GNOME and I was pleasantly surprised to see the finesse of it. I realized that my misconceptions about GNOME was due to poor integrations in the distros which had it by default.

Installing vanilla GNOME over Arch gave me a new outlook of it, Other comments about it's padding and non-Linux like UI approach might be valid but I'm sure that will enable someone from macOS feel at home as I've used that for a decade as well.
If you liked this, you might also like

"Friendship is optimal" (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal)

And

"the metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (https://web.archive.org/web/20040401174623/http://www.kuro5h..., strongly NSFW)

Both are stories about a singularity that turns the world into a simulation, in which some can program the simulation.
No, that’s still fixating on the mechanics, not the problem. Package management is not a valuable outcome, it’s a means to an end.

In principle, ES modules do away with needing a package manager. And yes, folks are already working on the consequential gaps in capability.

The point still being, however incomplete it currently is, this is the first-party solution. Node is not JavaScript.
As a fellow Singapore resident, it's undoubtedly hot. The parent's point was that there are places like the Gulf that are unquestionably hotter.

I once visited Kuwait in August, and it was 52 degrees in the shade with near-100% humidity. I genuinely do not understand how some people survive there today without aircon, much less how they will do so if temps go up a few more degrees.
In this real world GAN, the next fake paper can just run replacements on their bogus terms from the table and keep spewing bogus.
Where did I say public - I meant available to the courts if required...
Native Wireguard ties keys to specific internal IP addresses or ranges. This is not an issue for many use cases such as between friends for gaming or by a business to connect remote users to their corporate network. There's no inherent security issue here.

However, this is undesirable for a VPN provider that has a focus on preserving privacy. In this case you want users to get a new IP address each time they connect so that there is nothing in common across connections. This matters to us and so Lightway has this as a core design feature. To get that in Wireguard, an additional layer needs to be added.

I certainly believe that Lightway could be an excellent alternative for any provider who doesn't want (or isn't able) to implement Wireguard. Lightway is Open Source and it has had a full security audit that has been publicly released. Other providers are most welcome to look at Lightway and decide for themselves whether they think it offers them anything of value.
Even when gambling, I don't gamble on a crooked table.
The PNW heat dome was accompanied by cold weather in Europe. I've spoken to farmers who say that roughly 50% of their crops were destroyed by hail. Of course this is region-specific, but it's not just heat we need to worry about.
One thing of note is that them collecting everything on the platform doesn't really hit me in the same way as facebook doing. Somehow tho tiktok gets more hate.

Facebook being a more traditional social media has people dropping info and stuff about their plain personal life whilst tiktok is more of a content platform like youtube.

Also unlike facebook and google tiktok has a thougher time following people all around the internet which is probably by far the biggest invasion of privacy.
"An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty ... sets us apart from all other animals." Then it goes into animals that count. My, oh my.

Mom hen knows if a chick is missing. Can she count? Of course she can, how else would she know it. But show me a chicken that will abstract number 5. As 5 chicks, 5 pieces of grain, 5 drops of rain or 5 whatever, so that five becomes an object by itself. I thought it is common knowledge that our ability to abstract is what separates us from animals, but seeing people interested in horses and crows able to count I am starting to doubt it really is so. Animals (mammals at least) feel like us...love, anger, pleasure...they might not hate as us though. Animals can build...spiders, beavers and so on. They can think, communicate, count, have social structures, dream... It is ability of our intellects for abstraction that differs us from them.

Animals can not abstract numbers, they miss faculty for it, whatever that faculty is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh and quite nice too.

The undercurrent behind https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-... is our romanticized notion of the past actually under-emphasizes the planning that did occur. After those overzealous tower-and-park modernists, we did a big romantic counterrevolution in aesthetics that ironically justifies the even more current neoliberal weak state planning as the default.

I recommend https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo... for trying to weave the needle right for yes planning but also yes a little relativism and humility.
I haven't looked into humidification space directly, but from what I understand, compressor humidifiers are more energy-efficient than desiccant ones. If so, that would make an AC unit more efficient than the dehumidifier/fan combo.

Plus, you'll eventually need cooling or heating; a heat pump is as efficient as you can get. Many AC designs control supply air humidity by dumping excess water with exhaust air (when cooling), or pulling it from intake air (when heating).

The more I look at it, the more I consider heat pump ACs to be a miracle in a box. They're a good default.
Why should small companies be exempt? If you can't afford to pay people a minimum wage, you shouldn't be in business
But then you don't have time bomb any more, is the point.
And you don't have code is law any more.

If you will hard fork every time it's convenient, you don't have anything stable.

If they did it once, that would be one thing. But now it's happening semi regularly.

Difficulty bomb is pretty much a marketing lie by now.
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If we can get some AI bots to review these papers, we've come full circle.
> The default, if I'm reading the article correctly, is to not disappear messages.

But that is exactly what the default should be and what's needed to thwart large-scale blanket surveillance of the whole population.

If the mere fact that ephemeral messages are enabled raises a flag, that kind of defeats (part of) the purpose.
This is useful.

If you change the line:

elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);

to:

elements[i].style.position='absolute';

it will unstick the header without deleting it.
Russian classics (Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi etc.) have never failed me.
>But I didn’t say that they are all as a group incapable of travel.

That's true, my bad.

That said: It's not just a few people that have exited the rat race. In many impoverished countries there is no rat race even available to join if one wanted. True youth unemployment is higher than the official numbers in pretty much every country on the planet, and even by those official numbers there are several large countries with the majority of the youth unemployed.

>the billions of folks who can’t travel (according to you because they are too weak to decide to)

I never said that. In fact, I respect people who would never want to travel regardless of the opportunity - it's an unusual preference to have. Amusingly enough I believe people like this are partially necessary to preserve the magic of travel; many of the most authentic characters I meet, rich or poor, are people who are 100% their village, they were born there and will die there. Those people are often the fabric of their local community.

Worth noting, I don't disagree with your initial assertion, which I'll summarize as "if your life sucks, a screen can be a good escape." What I disagreed with is that the urban poor can't watch sunsets, or that money is a prerequisite for travel.

Anyway, to articulate my point clearer, what I dislike is stripping agency from the poor. Yes, obviously, living in poverty is devastating to your health and happiness and stress and so many other things. But it doesn't mean you can't watch a sunset, or that it's impossible to travel. So, hey, if you can and you want to, stick out your thumb and see where it takes you.
i don't think they would necessarily advertise a plan to attempt e2e this early. what if it proved to be infeasible? reversing course after an announcement like that would be a massive black eye.

have you ever seen a system like this that would be capable of flagging accounts for hosting bad material with a tiny false positive rate while being capable of e2e encrypting the material at rest like this one? i haven't, and it's an awful lot of engineering going to waste if that's not the goal.
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To the right, in this context, means more statically typed. While the notion is natural, the sentence is uninformed. When I wrote the article, I hadn't yet read Charles Petzold's excellent Annotated Turing. Although I had heard about the halting problem before reading the book, I hadn't internalised it. I wasn't able to draw inferences based on that labelled concept.

> After I read the book, I've come to understand that general-purpose static type system can never prove unequivocally that a generic program works. That's what Church, Turing, and Gödel proved.

This is not exactly the right inference. You can have a language that has the property "if it compiles, it works", that language just cannot also be Turing complete.
Hard pass for me. But in 25 years maybe as an option.
The Monetization Trap
One thing to watch out for will be the treatment of divisive topics. It's eaten up so much of classic social media players because divisive content does well in terms of raw engagement, but it's not been my experience on TikTok. I wonder if there is explicit anti-divisiveness bias in the consumption experience.
Again, you’re gatekeeping because of your personal believe. Check how the market looks like outside of your bubble.

Industry has moved on and if you need somebody to manage direction of your infrastructure (yes, be it just Jenkins or whole AWS) you will search for DevOps Engineer. There is no serious tier.
Although clearly a marketing demo, it is nice to watch.

"NeXT vs Sun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
Show HN: Fake Data Generation in Swift
All Tomorrows Animation
I need some fake data for the staging of my app, I make a Swift package for it, called EasyFake.

Data is from faker.js and supports a lot of content: address, name, animal, internet, URL, finance, helper, image, lorem, phone number, system

MIT license free to use. Hope you find it useful
POV:You see the TITANS
How do I check my server, which doesn't have a browser installed?
There's also the audiobook version https://unsong.libsyn.com/
Pretty good article, and relevant to HN.

Products we use in our society are often based upon huge amount of theoretical work, going back to long time ago.

Our society is heavily focused on entrepreneurs and businesses builders. They work hard, and do their part, but that’s a small part of the whole work necessary to produce commercial applications.
Get Ready for Three Digit User Agent Strings
>“ant colony” -> ”underground creepy crawly settlement”

Wow, and it passed peer review.
I would really love to hear more about your experience regarding the client customizations. So far the two things I can see are domain model customization and rule customization. Obviously with the rule customizations being the more challenging one.
Just tried it. Like you said, it mimics Winamp Milkdrop but it has not aged well.