skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you recognize the motivations of people who would investigate technology that can peer into a closed and locked room.

I recall the first time I read about using a laser to image the contents of a room. It was old-fashioned military technology when I read about it then - the 1980s.
With sufficient access to energy, I imagine you could do Rods from God at significant fractions of c from Alpha Centauri and give Earth a serious bad time. Planetary orbits are kind of regular after all.
All laws require some interpretation in their enforcement, but this is pretty blatant equivocation.

Aside from some archaic language, the second amendment is actually fairly clear. It is clearly talking about guns, and the phrase "shall not be infringed" is fairly strong, clear language.

On the other hand, the 14th amendment say nothing about abortion, and there's no reason to suggest the authors of that amendment had abortion in mind when they wrote it.

That does not mean that such a right does not exist, or that it needs to be explicitly mentioned in the Constitution to receive protection, but any judge who wants to assert that such a right exists is going to have to do a lot more work than one who wants to assert the existence of an individual right to own guns, even "assault weapons" (which is a largely nonsense category anyway).
I've gradually learned that it is very important, for me at least, to learn with other people. I'm not talking about sitting in a class with them, but instead chatting with another person about a particular topic once or twice a week, independently reading/investigating and then meeting up again to continue the discussion.

There is simply too much that can be known about anything
for a serial learning style to be complete.

Having said that, the 'other' person can be yourself, but separated in time, which necessarily results in more gradual learning. In that case it's important to have good recall for what was known at time point a, b, c in order to measure learning.
> (...) who are tired of incoherent "scientific" information that changes every month.

I don't know where you get your information but I saw absolutely zero change in the info on any of the major vaccines since the very same day they've been announced. From day 1 the message was always that these vaccines trained the immune system to lower the severity of Covid symptoms, but otherwise we could still catch it and spread it.

Then only significant change that popped up since last year was due to the inception of the so called Delta variant, which is an entirely new development and had just enough mutations to lower vaccine effectiveness. However, the mRNA vaccines were, from the very start, described as custom tailored to the existing variants, and we're expected to show a drop in effectiveness if the wrong kind of variant occurred.

Personally, when I received my jabs, in both occasions I received a small flier making it quite clear that the current Covid vaccines only trained the immune system to have a fighting chance against Covid, but we were still vulnerable to catch and spread Covid and thus we should continue to practice basic health and safety precautions.

So I really wonder where you got your info, because none of what you said correlates with reality.
>In a separate judgment, the court affirmed that Epic Games was in breach of its contract with Apple when it implemented the alternative payment system in the Fortnite app. As a result, Epic must pay Apple 30 percent of all revenue collected through the system since it was implemented — a sum of more than $3.5 million.

Well, that seems rather BS. To even try for the antitrust case they were required to show how it would hurt consumers. So they did. Which went against Apple's rules obviously.

So it's decided that Apple isn't allowed to do what they were doing, but, Epic has to pay out a fine anyways? Would the case have even made it this far if Epic hadn't done this?

I'm sure Epic is happy to pay the $3.5 million in return for this, and other companies are surely just as pleased. But to have to pay it at all seems like a bit of a legal flaw here.
It might make sense. But it probably doesn't. Without a discussion between the store and the IT guy, this looks like the store having a problem of "we want to sell our items, but the till isn't letting us" and the IT guy having a problem of "when the till locks up, the store's problem is obviously my fault", and the IT guy solving his personal problem at the store's expense because the store doesn't know any better.
There's a reason "tl;dr" is a saying. As the meme says: "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened."

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-aint-reading-all-that
Where Does Biden Get the Authority to Mandate Vaccination?
Because it isn't true. There's some money laundering, sure, just like there is in anything that involves money. But if you actually spend time in NFT communities it's not hard to find real people who are spending money either because they like the token, or because they think they can flip it for a higher price later.
This is a great quote!

I only have a finite number of slots in my brain. If I don't remember it, I won't use it.

Why do I feel like computer industry people turn a blind eye toward this? It may be that successful tech people have practically infinite slots in their brains, so they aren't sympathetic to us regular people that do not. An example is the common question "Why didn't you use [X framework] to do this?" as if the possibility of answering "because I didn't know [X framework] existed" would be absurd.
CobolScript
Sure; you also "risk" the regulating authority deciding it's no longer an issue. Best case, you get to frame the solution; worst case you get the same outcome, the regulator deciding, BUT with you having demonstrated willingness to address the issue.

The only reason to defend yourself is if you legitimately think what you're doing is defensible.
Do you mean some technicality like "only broadcast messages" and the deduplication list or something that can actually stop DDOS?

There is also a bounce limit, but I would expect that (average number of peers) ^ 3 might be plenty amplification
couldn't they already do this? can sue over anything...

It could be years before you get in front of a judge for something stupid like this. and at that point all of the damages are done.
Pretty sure this is incorrect. I read just this morning that we were more like 52% vaccinated
I am 46 but it has always been the same for me: books and exercizes. Tutorials work for me, video's are horrible inefficient for me: I prevent at all cost.
I would have thought it's to-do/kanban or note-taking apps (but with some One Weird Reason they're different and about to take the world by storm). Which interestingly enough is not at all like the reasoning here - they're pretty sticky, or at least until you move on to try the next one - there's just so many of them you're going to need much bigger scope to even start to think about making any money at it. (e.g. Notion has legs, but it's both to-do/kanban and note-taking, and also database/CRM sort of thing. All the others I can think of are minor pieces of a much bigger pie - Atlassian, Microsoft Office or whatever Wunderlist fell into, Github, Gitlab, ...)
That's more insane than having the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMqMYgswsA&t=609s
Seems like the solution for the Cobol problem (https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-y...) could involve something like CobolScript.

Surprised there's not a big cross company transpiler initiative in the works.
I'm not sure I'd include SQLite as particularly good... Same goes for mySQL/MariaDB, too many oddities.

I do like PostgreSQL. MSSQL neutral to positive (nice to administer/setup).
The one I didn't buy was a Samsung M7
If you read the linked book, it covers this point. Yes, the tech exists to build bombs with multi-megaton yields and has existed for decades However, those super-big explosions are actually less tactically and strategically useful. More useful are smaller explosions that can be placed with more precision, and the tech needed to hit with precision has only improved over time. It is more likely that deployed weapons would have yields measured in kilotons. While bigger than Nagasaki, probably still closer to Nagasaki than Tsar Bomba
I think I’d have just hit aliexpress and bought a battery welder for $30 shipped.
Lower the material paper value. The cards have too much depth.

Seems cool so far though. Playing with it.
Wonderful via Twitter as well, @wrathofgnon

https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon
> "psychologists only investigate questions with very clear, obvious answers".

More like, "psychologists often publish results where questions have clear, obvious answers".
In the future, imagine most people in the developed world wearing frames till contacts with a display come along.
> You can always tell when someone squeezes a 1000 page book into 200 pages. It feels short and insightful.

I disagree with this argument. You can most certainly tell when someone is trying to squeeze too much into a too small of a space. The sentences are dense and the information density prohibits actually gleaning anything.
Just dilute the shares until they're worth nothing in a few years. It's how most startups I've worked with handle the situation. You get a fat multi-million dollar payout and your employees that gave up their lives for equity get nothing!
I think it's larger than you think. In some regions ICUs are filled with covid patients and surgeries are being cancelled as a result.
At least then, we'd be honest that it's extortion.
We write apps like this in Object Pascal using Lazarus. Think Delphi but open source.

We have a suite of framework-specific developer apps for tasks like packaging deployments, managing common database tasks, onboarding new clients etc. They were written on Linux using Lazarus, then recompiled on MacOS and Windows as required. There are occasionally OS-specific variations for small pieces of these apps, but Object Pascal has inline compiler switches to make this easy to manage.
> See I do understand the distrust of the state with the ability to cut people off from society, by revoking an id for example. Especially if there are laws around the ID checks being mandatory (which I am generally against).

How does that not already happen, just inefficiently? It's hard to function in the U.S. if you don't have a Social Security Number — that's why people bother using someone else's — and we already have a de facto ID system for most people but it's a patchwork at the state level which was somewhat federalized with RealID.

It's hard to imagine an environment where people would unjustly be “cut off” where the state level system would prevent abuse which would otherwise happen — it's not like, for example, California stopped politically-motivated DHS activity during the Trump era.
Not all of them, but I believe it to be a significant fraction, if not most of them. It is basically part of the franchise business model, and quite frankly, if they did not do business the way they did, then they would lose business to their competitors due to pricing too high.
OK, I see now that Yahoo is still making money, though it's been declining. They're now at just under 2 Billion in annual revenue. That's surprising!

They look to be little more than a news aggregator at this point, so it's just eyeballs from the inertia of users' force of habit to use Yahoo?

I suppose this gives a "life span" of, at most, a few years before the lights get turned off at Yahoo.
> how am I supposed to trust 50 different gateways?

It's your government's job to make sure that you have faith in financial institutions and trust the infrastructure through which financial transactions happen.

If not, corporates like Apple will continue to exploit your misplaced trust by charging you 30% - 50% on every transaction. The solution isn't Apple or Google or some other corporate, but your government and better regulations.
You really should try Postgres. I was a professional Oracle developer for 15 years, then we had to move to Postgres since we simply couldn't afford the Oracle licensing fees anymore. It took 2 years to move our database over - mainly because we had to rewrite thousands of queries from Oracle sql syntax into standard-compliant sql syntax. Anyway, I truly expected Postgres to by worse than Oracle. I was wrong. The performance has been equal to or greater than Oracle. The documentation in Postgres is so good it almost makes me weep. I had no idea the Oracle documentation was so bad until I had something to compare it with. Installing and managing Postgres is so much easier. Backups, replication, etc. are far far easier and less error prone than Oracle. I've literally not found a single thing to complain about in Postgres. Now I wish we had moved years earlier.
... because you want something that jq can reliably parse from the filesystem listing output?
The one I did get was an LG UN550
How did you get the phone number you used to create the Apple ID? Mint?
That's just it: jumping from discussions of the biological repository of consciousness straight to souls might be missing a whole big area.

These thought experiments got me thinking about how a conscious entity might better be considered as its "world line", not just its instantaneous physical embodiment. Call that a soul if you want, but there's no particular reason to.
Or the other quote: “When you’re fundraising, it’s AI; when you’re hiring, it’s ML; when you’re implementing, it’s linear regression.”
> Besides, isn't the competition here what we want?

Depends what you mean. The subtlety that is always lost in these conversation on HN is how deep does the competition have to go? I don't think anyone seriously argues that iPhones do not have viable competition in the smartphone market. And yet, if I as a consumer want to use a smartphone which places strong restrictions on third-party developers (which is one of the most significant reason I use iPhones and recommend them to friends and family), somehow those restrictions are considered "anti-competitive." If these restrictions are lifted or prohibited, that clearly removes one of the key differences between iPhones and their competitors (mostly Android phones), and it baffles me that this could be construed as a more competitive smartphone market for consumers.
Not even a monopoly question (the ruling says it can't call Apple a monopoly).

However Steam is not a walled garden. Feel like they charge too much? Go to itch.io or make your own website with Paypal button. It is your machine, your OS.
Show HN: Create static HTML backups of your Slack workspaces
The word itself comes from Category Theory. That's why a comprehensive understanding requires it, since the implementation of the concept in programming derives from the definition in CT.

The difficulty of understanding the concept is blurred because both the implementation and the mathematical object are called "monad", but they are technically different. The implementation of it could be simplified as many do, but it still doesn't explain the actual math object's definition. The implementation is not as abstract as the math object, which means it is also not as powerful, so it becomes a limited understanding by definition.

From my perspective, CT is the math of abstract composition, and is foundational mathematics from which other maths can be derived. This highly abstract nature of it, makes it hard to "simplify" further with an explanation. Monad is already by definition as simple as possible, and it's confusing that its implementations in programming get the same name (although I'm not sure naming it differently would help either).
They're not as good as they were. The win32 docs are a a thing of beauty. I used to actively enjoy writing win32 code, in stark contrast to my experiences with Core Audio which is a similar sort of C API but documented by Apple, which is to say not at all. It is hell on earth.

Powershell, though. I don't know how you could even document powershell. It's insane.
The Apple fee model favours cheap shitty apps because that's the best way to not get gouged by Apple's fees.

Relaxing that model will lead to better apps overall because finally you can invest and charge appropriately, you just need to trust yourself to not pay in apps you don't trust.
Abuse would include if you were charging ridiculous amounts of money for your monopoly service, like Ma Bell did, right? What about deterring competition with portfolios full of braindead patents? Buying legislation that puts high barriers around the market? I think the separation between government and big business is a farce, today, and in combination they're way more oppressive than high priced telephone service was way back when.
Bravo to Epic and team, but I have to say that the web will win out long term. It's cross platform, "just works" everywhere, and developers are free to choose from any payment system. They also don't have to live in fear from retribution by the platform owner.

Our startup Wonder is building a decentralized 3D platform in the browser for Unreal Engine 4 developers who want to ship their immersive applications on the web, be it games, product visualizations, even VR apps. We plan on extending support to Unity and other engines in the near future as well.

The biggest innovation is that we offer the tooling to optimize, package, and distribute rich software online that previously could only run on desktop. Thanks to WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebTransport, and WebXR, even the most demanding applications can run client side in the browser.

Developers are free to host their creations on their own terms, without a middleman saying what they can and can't do.

Here's a link to our Discord if you're interested in hearing more:

https://discord.gg/cFJV6Yu
It looks like they're just using the ::face:b00c suffix on a /64 they own
Well, I am not planning to let my air quality monitor connect to the internet, let alone to my home network where my computing devices are. So, there’s that.

If the huawei thing is accessible in the local network, that is almost exactly what I want. I can connect it to a raspberry Pi on an isolated network and extract the data I need. Thanks for the tip.
I agree and am hoping that you will list some of the learning materials that you feel stand out as far superior :)
I think the other, possibly more meaningful issue, is Apple's control over who can and cannot make an app for their devices.

If you put a product in BestBuy, it's understandable that BestBuy would not want you to offer a very cheap upfront price, and then to have all sorts of 'add ons' sold directly to consumer where BestBuy doesn't make any money.

It's fair that BestBuy sets terms that they can participate in the follow ons.

The limiting factor here, however, is competition.

If anyone could make an AppStore for iOS, then the issue of Apple's or BestBuy's 'terms' could be side-stepped.

The power imbalance is caused by a lack of competition.

If there was competition, app makers would find a place where they were not constrained by in-app purchases, or something along those lines.
You are saying something different. Writing about something or teaching somebody something can be excellent ways of improving your own understanding of a topic.

Forcing yourself to interact with concepts in different ways improves understanding, definitely.

This doesn’t say that being able to teach or write well about a topic correlates with understanding. Understanding is an effect of writing not the other way around.
Two holdings is too few to allow a user to understand the tool. This is a crowded space with Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, StockCards, Finbox, TradingView, etc
Oh no. What fresh biblical hell is this codebase.
> Currently there's a hole in the Web 3.0 stack: the runtime platform. While Ethereum is able to run programs on its global blockchain, there's no ideal way for users to run apps on their hardware. This means that intermediary services are cropping up to run applications which connect to blockchains. If this continues, the intermediaries may turn into the same kind of silos that the Web 2.0 has. Atek solves this by acting as a platform for users to install and run Web 3.0 applications, giving them ownership of their wallets, their data, and the programs they run.

core mission statement right there.

it dovetails with, attempts to right so many of the imbalanced out of control madnesses that were well chronicled in the recent "Web3 is a stupid idea". this article argues, rightly in my mind, that web3 is little more than a combination of one particular browser extension MetaMask and one particular client side file web3.js, which seem radically less than a system deserving the "web" name needs to bring. while there's plenty of blockchains galore under a lot of web3, the protocols to expose and use this web3 stuff are strikingly absent, & radically centralized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457762

commputing power is incredible & figuring out protocols & systems to share collaborate & distribute ourselves & our systems over is still the great open frontier. for all the hard work going into web3, it feels more like folks agreeing to give up systems, agreeing to let outside powers become our new systems. very much love Paul's sense herr, his attempt to reopen computing for the user amid this early distributedizations.
The author makes it sound as if "interesting" tech only exists for the sake of being interesting, but interesting tech becomes interesting because it (purports to be) a better way of solving problems than whatever the old way was. I'm old enough to have worked on Cobol at one point, and Cobol is "boring" but it's also bad, because it was designed around the constraints that existed at the time it was created (as was Java). If you're interested in something that doesn't seem like a step forward in usefulness, I wonder why you'd actually be interested in it to begin with.
As wisely said, “the ‘Facebook for X’ is Facebook”.
You might enjoy youtube-local: https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local
I dunno. I am surprised that there isn't something like "walk score" for a "visit score" - especially one where the score is based on what you want to do on your visit.

I get that when you're traveling to a new city, you usually have an idea for what neighborhood you want to stay in. A lot of cities - there's only 1-3 neighborhoods that are walkable and good for tourists.

Still, I'm surprised there's not an easy way to see what things there are nearby with some sort of ranking order based on what things you want to do.
Well the table manufacturer is not obliged to make it possible or easy for you to use the table as a chair, a bed or an airplane. I'm not really a fan of Apple but it's not that they are hiding the fact that you can only install software on the iPhone via the app store. It's the way they choose to design their product and it's an inherent feature of it (and part of their business model). Should all companies which build devices which include general purpose computers internally be legally obliged to make it possible (and easy) for users to install arbitrary software on them?
In Solvespace we use native GUI on Windows, MacOS, and Linux (GTK). This is probably not what you want to do, as we don't use any GUI widgets - only popup dialogs and menus. Everything in the app itself is rendered using OpenGL. Even our "text window" is drawn using OpenGL and GNU unifont (this is something that really needs to change BTW).

The platform abstraction code is here:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/tree/master/src/pla...

There is no other platform specific code anywhere in the app, but like I said above we don't support widgets.

There is also an emscripten port in a branch, but it doesn't want to build recently.
I don't agree, if you were to define end-to-end encrypted backup this is what it would be.
Texas is going all in on laws that won’t survive Court scrutiny.