skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear your disappointment. To be clear, this is not mandated at the District level. In NYC, each school acts as its own mini CEO, if you will. They have full autonomy to choose from any contracted vendor, of which there are many reading tool or reading program options. They choose us by choice, and continue to use us, because of engagement levels, learning outcomes and response from teachers :)

I would love to make sure I understand your feedback and disappointment more clearly in hopes to learn from it, esp since you are an educator. While I reference Sesame Street - we are not Sesame Street (as I am sure you gathered from our description already). What parts of our program or model specifically are you depressed by? I would love to either address it or at least learn from your feedback. Cheers.
Hard to say. Apple is often able to release new products at insane price points, but to reprice existing products is more dicey, especially when laptops are one of their most expensive products on offer. I think you have something of a point: Apple products are mostly aimed at people with lots of disposable income, but raising the price still reduces the total addressable market size. The only way to know is to run the experiment.
I doubt it. With all this PR and every boomer on the planet now knowing exactly what OnlyFans is... their user base will explode, and models will come right back.
They couldn't have hoped for more free marketing if they tried... genius.
Is Apple proposing anything? I think they are just going ahead with it
'Jeopardy ' Champ Matt Amodio's Twitter Account Verified After Fan Campaign
Honestly, whether you make it or not in this world is sheer dumb luck for the most part. More power to the people in the neck brace suing the city for a million dollars for the 1 inch pot hole that kicked them off their bike. I'd be right there too if I saw I was potentially leaving money on the table even if the premise was a reach. It's a dog eat dog world out there and you gotta look out for your own.
Oh it's live! That changes everything. I feel like your messaging copywriting on the website needs work. Most people don't read watch everything. What was your super short yc application summary?
> One thing could be companies, recruiters, or manager looking for CS or CE degree specifically. Someone who is 60 outdates CS and CE.

I'm that old, and I have an undergrad CS degree. CS degrees were already common in the early 1980s.
> They bold "We hire old people". They're already primed to think about the age of their candidates, and potentially bias towards older people.

Or they're primed to make sure they try to exclude accidental bias, or are just signalling that people that might forego the process under the assumption that they are already biased against give it a go?

This is sort of like the whole "Well don't white people matter too" criticism to BLM. Saying something matters or you do something doesn't necessarily imply you don't do something else. They've even gone out of their way to say yes, they hire young people too, but you're still eager to read some slight into it.

What way would you advertise this position such that older developers felt welcome that you think wouldn't cause you to feel biased against?
I hope that decision eventually kills twitter threads, but I seem to be able to access it just fine (from the EU) are they rolling it out per region?
As a viewer, I would prefer watching content on other platforms. Problem is: there's none. Someone will mention PeerTube, but no... It doesn't work as well, not easy to navigate. The whole federation thing makes it harder to find content on a platform that already doesn't have most of the well known creators.
>all sorts of craftsman, woodworkers, tilers, roofers, hvac specialists

He also does landscaping, tree removal, fence repair, house painting, trash hauling, electrical, plumbing and general dentistry (if you ask).
Your MBP had 10K USD in repairs. Your point?
All regular media consumption is down, ratings for all news is down, I think we're all suffering from social media consumption fatigue, and there's is also an explosion of podcasts to listen to now.

The Economist has daily 45 minutes, Conan O'Brien is on audio only etc..

And he might actually have a broader audience than before, does it matter that much that guests 'new follower' metrics are down?

I think there's a broader context to consider here.
Better clients can periodically change between random ports and use encryption. I would expect such a client to require a pretty specific search to be discovered. What we can't really protect from is someone watching the global P2P traffic by posturing as another client, but that's a bit more involved than doing a wireshark survey.
For major sports it’s mostly donations, game tickets, TV broadcast rights, concession stands, merchandise, etc.

As an example Virginia Tech football tickets are start at ~500$/season breaks down as 8$/game fee + 400 base price + variable required donation and can go up well over 2k a season for the better seats. It’s a 35,000 seat stadium that’s largely full so your talking a minimum of 20+ million in annual ticket sales just for Football.

By comparison VT has 39,000 students and the athletic fee is 163$ + a recreational Sports Fee of 163$, together it’s 5% of tuition. Which collectively adds up to a similar scale as just one sports ticket sales, but covers general facilities used by any student. Looking across all sports and revenue streams the recreational sports fee clearly isn’t the major funding source and as football etc contribute indirectly to the schools general fund their clearly close to break even if not a significant money maker.

https://www.bursar.vt.edu/content/dam/bursar_vt_edu/tuition/...

https://hokiesports.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEvent...
Yep same here
An absolute slog to read, but interesting vulnerability nonetheless.
Interesting they say they were hiring hundreds of new mods to enforce the no porn policy, wonder how many employees theyre now un-hiring?
Well, the "mobile" Wikipedia design is vastly better on desktop than the default desktop design, but I suppose that's a matter of personal preference.

The only sense in which a mobile link "forces" you to see a specific design is that en.wikipedia will redirect to en.m.wikipedia on mobile devices, but the inverse is not the case: en.m.wikipedia will not redirect to en.wikipedia on a desktop computer.

But here's the thing: the only way for me to ensure that all Wikipedia pages will use the mobile design on my desktop is to either 1. create an account to change my theme preference and always be logged in on all devices, or 2. use some browser extension. Both of those options are roughly as difficult, and option 2 is also available for you to ensure that you always see the desktop design!
So the quotes are unreadable on mobile
Except in this case, it's a very short-term part-time CTH arrangement, which would allow someone to pursue the opportunity while still employed and get paid for their time. Better than an unpaid full-day interview from the prospective employee's perspective.
Officially, Twitter's verification process is "paused". However, they'll clearly verify someone on an ad hoc basis if enough noise is made.

https://twitter.com/verified/status/1430598196699533319

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623714/twitter-verifica...

Will Twitter ever just admit that this is a completely arbitrary program and just by its very nature is unable to be effectively scaled?

We're talking about this in the Twitter subreddit too. I'm one of the mods. We're not reserved with our criticism of Twitter, Inc, a company which has been very hostile to its users:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/pbhcfp/twitters_ve...
This looks great, congrats!

Since academic researchers are your customers, would you mind sharing a few tips on how to get your product in front of academic staff?

I'd assume the university department has to approve this expense, or do researchers pay out of their own pocket to avoid budget justification?
Apple have stated that they will make the database of hashes that their system uses auditable by researchers. Does anyone know if that has happened yet? Is it possible to view the database and if so, in what form? Can the actual hashes be extracted? If so then that would obviously open up the kind of attack described in the article. Otherwise, it would be interesting to know how Apple expects the database to be auditable without revealing the hashes themselves.
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro 15. I had a swelling battery issue twice. My Macbook wasn't part of the battery recall but it had the exact same issue detailed in the recall.
The first time I had to call the customer service and in the end they let me be part of the program and replaced it for the 1st time.

The replacement also included a screen replacement that cost $400+. The total cost was ~$600.

However, after exactly 12 months, the battery was swelling again and it wasn't covered any longer because it has passed a few days when I called in.

Then I recently I have both of the Macbook speakers broke and made lots of static sound. It would cost ~$300 to replace them. I'm debating whether I should just buy a new M1 or wait for another M1X coming.

Having & maintaining a Macbook is costly over years. It does break just as often or even more often than my Dell Latitude. And the cost to fix is often in the 5x-10x range.
How do you handle live data vs fixed data? If I am making a report, I want the charts to remain static - if not, over time, they may not match with what is said on the report. Is there an option to, after saving the report or run the query, to make the values static forever?
This doesn't have anything to do with my original point.

400 square kilometers is a huge area.

But sure. You "only" need one of those to match the output of a nuclear power plant. You "only" need to fully clear that area of all obstacles (including trees, for example), and provide that area with roads, access points, battery storage, power transformers...

Edit: take this report on area comparisons between nuclear, solar, and wind with a grain of salt. https://www.nei.org/news/2015/land-needs-for-wind-solar-dwar...

But even if they are 10x off, that's still enormous land requirements.
I got an iPhone in 2008 and 2 years later an OS update rendered it too slow to be usable. It annoyed me so much that it became the last Apple product I ever bought.

Every non-Apple smartphone I've had since then has remained usable until I was ready to replace it on my own timeline, even after as long as 4 years.
Just reading through that code it seems like readbility is only intended to work on English language websites? Like it checks for nodes with class names matching /and|article|body|column|content|main|shadow/ and uses a minimum length of 140 characters for matching nodes that are reader-able. Seems a bit lazy for a company whose stated mission is "to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all".
That makes it easy for people around you to see if you're using the latest device as well, or still stuck on some old device. I don't care for devices-as-fashion, but I feel bad for teenagers who can't afford to always have the latest iProduct.
As an old—and disabled—person, I found this a rather patronizing comment.
You can implement delimited continuations with regular call/cc and a mutable cell. Of course, like all abstractions based on raw call/cc, it's not modular: you can't do that and use the result inside, for example, a multitasking scheduler that itself uses raw call/cc as well.

http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html#traps

Closer to your point, there are a few other implementations that offer delimited continuations natively. See https://wingolog.org/archives/2010/02/26/guile-and-delimited... for a 11 year old post on adding them to guile scheme.
> I doubt most "technologists" care about writing code for their phone to begin with

I program my computing devices constantly, and with my phone being a computing device I have near me almost all the time, I naturally program that as well.

> I don't know what you mean by "non-buggy web access".

Webkit is extremely buggy and the only supported way to access the web on iOS. On other platforms, if one engine is buggy, I can use another.

> Photo sharing's never been a problem—what am I missing?

Uploading photos to your server in the background.

> I don't talk on the phone much so maybe that's actually terrible

You can't route calls through other services, you can't record calls (which the first makes trivially possible), you can't have your phone answer the call for you and show you a realtime transcription or save the transcription for later viewing, you can't have the phone wait on hold for you, etc. The iPhone is extremely limited as a phone.

> Device restarts? How often do you think I restart my iOS devices?

Every single time you need to update a system app.
I definitely agree with this strategy, but try to limit it to mainly 2 primary systems, and maybe a couple older repurposed systems. Basically I have one for my professional life, one for my personal life, and an old laptop dedicated as a tv streamer.

But I don't travel much, and if I did I would probably only have one primary system.
I know several creators (sex workers) who moved to other platforms (such as JustForFans) in anticipation of the ban and don’t plan on returning
> I mean, it goes on, but to me that reads as someone struggling to come to terms with something that happened to them when they couldn't consent. Most people would not be okay with having their naked image broadcast to the world before they could consent. And then add in the idea that others made a ton of money off content that used their naked image, and they saw almost none of that... it's understandable.

As soon as the child pornography argument falls flat on its face (assuming the prosecution is actually that boneheaded), the defense may argue that the magnitude of possible harm is very different considering how the body, mind, and memory of an infant hardly recognizable to their adult counterpart and that there is no sort of humiliating aspect to the album art that would cause the public to view the adult Elden in any negative way.

It's not as if Elden doesn't have some point to make. It's bad that he hasn't been compensated for being pictures on one of the most iconic albums ever made. But unless there's something revealed in trial that I don't know, it doesn't appear that the record company or the band did anything wrong. It all hinges on whether there was sexual child exploitation, and although some people on HN seem to believe that the image of the naked body of an infant is inherently sexual in nature (which is creepy to me, but what do I know), I highly doubt that a judge, jury, or regular people are going to buy that argument.
The Patriot Act was sitting in a drawer waiting to be pulled out when the opportunity presented itself. 9/11 gave them the opportunity. Thousands of pages of laws got passed within months, with virtually no review.
Looks like it. From what I've seen in various installations the turbines stand really far apart.
I'm pretty happy with the Onyx BOOX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27521248

Turns out I was wrong about security. Password recovery requires a separate cloud-based account. Setting a password does not.
I think a big issue is that mental illness diagnoses are yes or no, but people experience actual mental illnesses on a spectrum. for example, you can be mildly depressed or completely hopeless, slightly traumatized or full-out PTSD with hallucinations, controllable or uncontrollable OCD, etc.

Also, the same mental illness could have 20 different causes, and a method which cures one of those causes is ineffective against others.

The people with mild illnesses need help too. The people with more serious issues need more serious help. But when someone says “I’m depressed” you don’t know if they’re a little upset or genuinely miserable. You don’t know if it’s because they’re life is boring right now, their dog died, or there’s a serious chemical imbalance. So in essence, saying “I’m depressed” no longer means much unless you state the symptoms.
>Wouldn’t a rebooting phone have the same outcome?

Yes it would, but in a way that would have hurt the brand much more.

>Why go to the bother of only targeting specific handsets with degraded batteries with this strategy? Why return the phone to full speed when you replaced the battery?

The iOS patch wasn't all that specific, and it isn't sure it really did target degraded batteries. For all we know, they slowed down old devices without really checking the battery but merely assumed the battery was bad based on age.

But assuming that Apple messaging is true this time, and remembering Apple used to deny the throttling, we can reach the logical conclusion: According to Apple itself, Apple benefited from consumers upgrading iPhones when they could have just upgraded the battery.
Actually no, there is almost no chance that it will be harder to transfer skills between machines than it is to raise and educate a child.

Something very weird would have to happen for it to be that hard.
I find Rob's writing highly enjoyable too. It is witty without talking to the reader like he is 10.

Not very HN-y, but I recommend his serie on being a parent : https://robertheaton.com/married-with-kids/
the author just decided to note it in a readme file
instead to avoid the need to clone his repository
manually

Isn't it the other way round? Because the dependency is noted in the readme, one has to clone his repo manually?

If it was in the setup.py, one could just run setup.py and everything would be set up.
Pretty much the only threat to the Visa/Mastercard duopoly is public awareness that leads to antitrust enforcement. They're usually immune to any kind of backlash but this seemed to strike a cord with many people who are frustrated with America's puritanism (myself included).

I don't have a dog in this fight but it certainly reminded me how much power V+MC have to become an existential threat along the likes of Google and Spectrum. Next time I write to my Congressman about antitrust, I'll be sure to put them top of the list now (for all that's going to do...)
Which is why the inconvenience of the customer waiting for a mailed rental would be a foobared, inconvenient prototype of Blockbuster that never happened, compared to the real one where you just get the item over the counter and take it home to watch.
Bold claim.
At the moment we don't fully understand the brain and intelligence. Even what makes the difference a living and a non living accumulation of atoms is unknown.

But this doesn't not mean we couldn't create a superhuman AI in the future or by accident.

I think we don't have the capabilities to do so but this isn't a 100% certaincy more like 99%
Not could be. Is.
I won the OnlyFans reversal bet

Any prediction markets on an Apple CSAM reversal?
I don’t think naked baby photos should be commercially licensable at all.
I find the videos distasteful, unfunny, and frankly lame, but think the harm is self inflicted and inflicted by the parents.

I think it is more similar to if a child watches a racing video, then steals the parents keys and gets in a crash, than an epileptic trigger.
The simplest is to fetch the OSM tiles directly (and cache them!)

imgurl = "https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/{0}/{1}/{2}.png".format(zoom, xtile, ytile)

the tricky part is to known which xtile, ytile to fetch, but Stack Overflow has the answer [1].

Then you can draw over them with `PIL` and also `cairo`, in order to lay SVG shapes onto the map. Cairo is somewhat hard to grasp, because it is outdated, but it draws perfectly smooth lines.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/28530369
My root certificates are provided by a Debian package, not Google, so if I'm trusting anyone, I'm trusting them. (And their judgement of the root certificates).

It's not unheard of, that root certs are revoked for unsecure behaviour. It seems like the system works to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
The intent was to be a little hyperbolic and self-effacing. In terms of competent and capable developers, I think it’s hard to get a better return on your skill set than adding “data” stuff. And honestly I think it’s one of the most critical skill sets that is lacking across the board. So many bit companies have great data engineering teams, but generally other dev teams are left to design their own databases, which is a shit show. And even then, it’s amazing to me how difficult it is for data engineering teams to move from framework to framework without just mapping old solutions onto new technology.

My career has been primarily focused on something like “bringing modern data-driven solutions” to big companies. The one thing that is a constant challenge is that most teams (and leadership) aren’t prepared to handle responsibilities of data engineering and stewardship in transactional, operational systems. I feel like critical responsibility when I come on as a consultant is to impart knowledge about managing their data.
It’s the same thing but more time consuming.

If you knew this was happening, you’d create N accounts, match with the same person, and average queries over account pairs.

Also, if the error is constrained to be the same, then the attack is reduced to estimating the radius of a circle where you are given points on the perimeter, which you should be able to do in very few queries (3?). I haven’t worked out the triangulation math but you’d basically solve for x^2+y^2=r^2.
I predict no reversal. No one cares about this besides for privacy zealots who complain about literally everything.

"Real" people actually care about getting to see their iProstitute naked though.
you know, if expanding batteries were so problematic, why the heck does Apple glue them into the topcase?
Does it? This just gets things flagged for another test and then manual review, it doesn't flag you as a pedophile or something.

It seems to be getting a lot of attention because it's an easy target, but it doesn't seem to be a very meaningful one given the system they say they use.
Mega Security White Paper [pdf]
“ Unlike most other cloud storage providers, only the user controls who has access to their data. From the outset, MEGA has been designed around user controlled end-to-end encryption. This means that files, messages and audio/video content is encrypted on the user’s client machine before it gets transferred to the MEGA platform.”
1. The attacker can use multiple accounts to collect data, so an offset specific to the viewer wouldn't work

2. If you can collect the offset location over a longer time, you can correlate it with likely travel paths (e.g. along major roads) to figure out what the offset is.
Assuming you’re talking about notion: collaboration+sharing is what brings the real value to these tools. Enterprise is where the money is and they’re not going to pay for a wiki+project management tool without those two features.
Promotions within the same title ... aren't really promotions.
Seems like this CSAM tech could be super useful in China for detecting winnie the pooh or other evidence of thought crime against the regime. Even if Apple doesn't end up rolling it out, I'm sure Huawei is taking careful notes.
I’m imagining a cell phine where it’s associated to a phone number no matter what. A lot of consumer providers are incapable/unwilling to provide data-only services. Maybe you can get a machine to machine plan, but that reduced feature set is going to cost you.
What reader(s) do you like / recommend?

I've used FBReader, PocketBook (who sell their own ebook readers as well apparently), the NeoReader (default Onyx software), and have some familiarity with Kindle.

PocketBook enables some (but insufficient) metadata editing. The NeoReader has an excellent UI/UX generally on BOOX devices, but has no management capability.

I tend to have a large number of documents on my devices (1,000s). Management is critical.