skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I agree with this. I find it amazing that the world expects Israeli leadership to ignore the stated goal of Hamas is to eradicate Israel[1].

Sometimes I ask people to imagine what it would be like if the inhabitants of a large Native American reservation began shelling a nearby US city after openly stating they will not rest until the USA is wiped from the earth.

I’m choosing the Native American hypothetical advisedly because I think there are some parallels in the displacement history.

To further the analogy, imagine now that the USA is the size of New Jersey, surrounded by states that have attempted also to wipe them out, and that Americans have been enslaved, persecuted, and harried across the globe for thousands of years since leaving New Jersey under duress the most recent time.

I’m not a Zionist per se but I get it, and yet I think the formation of modern Israel had a cardinal sin in it, and now Israel is in a bind - threats aside, assuming there was a miraculous peace, allowing Palestinians to participate in Israeli politics _as is in many senses right_ would likely result in a situation in which the Hebrew people lose self-determination and risk being eradicated once again.

I think, in response to the most recent Jewish holocaust, the founding mentality of the modern state of Israel was ‘we don’t care what anyone thinks of our methods, we will never be without a land of our own again,’ and, as an American Jew, I hate the way it’s playing out, but I get it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant
From public information it's a matter of price and "appearance." No one who's half serious about understanding how the system work would use cameras alone, but remember of all the companies who's serious about putting self driving cars on the road, Tesla is the only one who designs, manufactures and sells cars. Incidentally, Tesla is also the only car company pushing camera only as a "solution" which again, it is not. All other outfits are tech pure plays, so their incentive is more geared towards a working system, because that's the only thing they can sell aside from the dream. If Tesla fails with a camera-only self driving car system, they can still sell cars. Source: used to work in robotics, all my classmates from grad school work or have worked at a self driving car company.
Many years ago had to do traffic school in california. Instructor took us out of class to go watch people at a four-way stop sign. Nobody stopped. We even got to watch a cop not stop.
I added a timeout using:

receiving_socket.settimeout(1)

and then caught the exception.
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The PPP was designed to obviously benefit the businesses that needed it the least:
1) For any business that is fine or growing with COVID. PPP is free money.
2) Your business is in severe trouble with COVID, so you can't even have employees working productively. You can just give them the money, or use the PPP loan as a bridge loan, but you have to pay it back. It's low interest, but relatively short term and you had to start paying it back before COVID is even over.

I think in hindsight all of these loans should have clearly been truly loans, probably leveraging the existing SBA disaster loan program. This is a great program, was already working and distributed some money in COVID. 30 year loans at like 3%, with a personal guarantee.

Basically for any business owner who just needs money to bridge a disaster (the purported target of the PPP), this is way better. And anyone who doesn't need the money, won't take it (saving the taxpayers billions). It's unclear what the losses on this overall would have been, since its a loan, but I think its reasonably likely to be in the $10B to $100B range (instead of the $953B the PPP turned out to be).
On the other hand, those "rough coordinates" you get from a WiFi scan may be hundreds of miles away from your actual location. WiFi networks move.

For example, I have a 4G hotspot with a proper antenna for areas with poor reception. While traveling to a campground the location remains accurate so long as I'm using Maps for navigation (with GPS). Shortly after I arrive and activate my hotspot, however, my phone starts reporting that I'm at the last place I stayed. And it generally keeps doing that for several days (until I'm about ready to leave) before their database finally updates. If I force a GPS fix—which takes longer due to the bad initial guess—it shows the right place for a while and then reverts once GPS is no longer active. What I want is for it to ignore all the mobile hotspots around me[0] and just use GPS and fixed sources such as cell towers. An out-of-date GPS fix would be better than its guess based on WiFi scanning, but Maps no longer supports navigation without what they laughably refer to as "Google Location Accuracy" enabled. There isn't even an option to include the more reliable sources such as cellular service and local sensors (inertial navigation) while excluding WiFi.

[0] Yes, I know I could rename the hotspot to use some ugly suffix or other ("_no_map", I think?) to avoid it being recorded in the database. That doesn't help with all the other mobile hotspots I don't control.
What additional insight is created by beating this strawman "liberal", beyond just straightforwardly saying that the media is biased towards its own entrenched power which is intrinsically true and relevant to the topic at hand?
Are you lamenting the aggression or the mere fact that the organizations are being asked to prove adequate backing?
Those lasers do not burn through. #2 does not have to hit exactly the same place as #1 is heating up to boil electronics. No idea, what is meant under lasers in article, but what they were describing could be even be concentrated radio microwaves to fry electronics.

There is no need to use concentrated heat to heat up a tea - your target is making a tea, not making a hole in kettle.
Not an offer, but a suggestion as an ex IT dude that transitioned into devops/site reliability engineering. You could look for a junior devops role somewhere or look for a smaller org with a team where there is a blend of IT and devops work so that you could start to learn the devops side (this is kind of how I moved into the software side more). The pay is great and some of your skillsets in IT will overlap with devops work. Universities don't really teach devops skills so there always seems to be very high demand for the devops side as well. I don't develop apps but have written a ton of stuff in python for managing infrastructure.
I wonder if this includes their keyboard and Blackberry
hub IP.

two things that blackberry phone users love. (in my experience of the last 20 plus years)...
Minimum price for something just makes it illegal to sell if it happens to be worth less.
That is I/O dependent, apparently. If you use the wrong peripheral cards, it seems you're SOL
I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more about Go and internals of the commit log.

https://github.com/bdkiran/nolan

General things that could help with this project:

- Single node only, add distributed support(based on raft?)

- Improve or replace the custom protocol for sending and receiving messages(I wrote the current one, it's not pretty)

- Update the CLI to allow for managing topics

If you're interested in contributing to a Go project, in the area of distributed systems check out the repo or send me a message with your ideas.
Crisis Text Line ends data-sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff
Casting Wordle as a NYT competitor squashed by acquisition is pretty stupid.

Wordle hadn't even been turned into an on-going business, and Wardle apparently had no interest in doing so. There wasn't even a squint-and-imagine-the-future potential competitor here, even just considering NYTs game business.

Yes, at some point you're going to have to pay for Wordle, through a subscription and/or viewing ads or make do with a crappy knockoff. Like everything else. This isn't anyone's first day on the internet, is it? If so, sorry to break it to you.
> This particular thing was not simple and never will be

The user used a currency-exchanging thing, sent it a currency it shouldn't accept as input, and it swallowed his currency in stead of rejecting it.

What's "not simple and never will be" about that? Seems utterly simple to me: The currency-exchanging thing didn't work as it fucking obviously should. And the cryptards have the unmitigated gall to call this shit "smart"... Sigh. Geroffmylawn.
If you only want to encrypt browser traffic and you have access to a cloud server then you don't need to go full VPN, Firefox has built-in support for SOCKS proxying. Configure it to proxy on localhost:12345, then `ssh -D 12345 example.com` and now your browser traffic will originate from whatever server you've SSH'd into, no need to install anything on the remote server at all.
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Alternatively, UBI would provide a new income stream to literally everyone, increasing everyone's purchasing power. In a pure supply/demand scenario, the equilibrium price of essentially anything will increase accordingly, i.e. inflation.

It's a fair point that UBI would result in some shift in market dynamic. But ultimately, most people will still want to get a job to supplement the UBI income, and high demand areas will remain high demand.
A closer look at electric vehicle contactors
>so I don't think you can claim that no one is worried.

No that isn't what I claimed, I claimed no one was worried. Using an article written almost two years after fact as proof against my claim doesn't make a whole a lot of sense.

Now obviously my no one claim is hyperbole but the fact the bill's passing was near-unanimous is my point. Using one of the very few no votes in congress as proof against my claim would make a lot more sense.
Show HN: Pixel Sorter
They aren't, that's why they have shelters and contingency plans for themselves and their families.

If life were fair, they shouldn't be allowed to survive a nuclear war that they start, but life is rarely fair.
Depends - what platform?

If Playstation, I greatly enjoyed both A Way Out and It Takes Two (they're made by the same developer).

Very different gameplay styles, the latter being more of a platformer... but they'd get my vote for co-op games of the decade.

A Way Out might be better with a platonic friend for some people, but that's up to you regarding the story in It Takes Two.
Would love to see Cloudflare support this on Workers
The Midwit Hypothesis
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I’ve only seen the blame shifting work at another layer: HR dept telling us that they made their best by engaging a recruiting firm, they can do us a favor by finding other recruiters, but it’s not on them if all the candidates we get sent are mismatched.
> Do you think any military is going to allow itself to be crippled by patents?

That might make sense in theory, but the history of war profiteering, etc. is otherwise. Militaries are 'crippled' by poor materials (though 'crippled' is an extreme case) - especially at the beginnings of wars.

For example, many think most US airplanes are ineffective against serious foes, including the A-10, F-35 (not my opinion, but many think it), and all the older planes (including the new-old planes they recently signed to buy). That also applies to aircraft carriers. However, there are many vested interests in those weapons programs and they resist tooth and nail. Change requires aligning people within the national security community, the easy part, and then Congress and the President. Uniformed and civilian officials in the Department of Defense can be just as political and corrupt; many of both sorts go through revolving doors to industry and have careers invested in one thing or another, or simply, like many incumbents in many fields (such as IT), bury their heads in sand about change.

> allow itself

They have limited power to make these decisions, at least in democracies.
This is your monthly reminder that Google absolutely does not care about your or anyone else's privacy. They only care about building a higher resolution view of the little ant farm of humanity that they think they own.

> Google has now drawn a line in the sand. Give us all your local SSIDs, local bluetooth connections, with likely even more detail, or they now refuse to allow you to use Maps to navigate.

Oh, that's not the half of it. If GLS's data harvesting practices (including its completely inadequate "anonymization" methods) were made public, you'd realize that your phone is uploading literally everything that could possibly be related to location tracking to Google as often as possible, including sensor traces accurate enough to locate you to less than a meter, what floor of a building you are on, etc.
Why should the rent cover your mortgage?
Bikes and pedestrians? Although I understand a lot of cities don’t have those.
Carl Sagan talked about Eratosthenes in Cosmos[0] actually which is what I was thinking of. He was also able to make a good estimate of the size of the Earth as well. The video has a good explanation of how it was done.

[0](https://youtu.be/G8cbIWMv0rI)
Hi HN! Pixel Sorter is a website for creating glitch art through pixel sorting. I built it over the last two weeks on request from my designer friend who noticed that there are paid apps for pixel sorting and scripts, but not a solid, free website for it.

It includes
- Random, full image, and threshold sorting
- Sorting by HSL and RGB values
- Cardinal directions.
- Regular and inverted masking.

You can get pretty cool effects with the default values, and you can get pretty precise effects through the use of inverted masking.

Caveat: It might panic if you try to glitch an image that's too large. All work is done client-side on a web worker. The pro is that Pixel Sorter will always be free and you retain your privacy. The con is that the app uses enough memory to upset a browser. Incorporating generator functions to ameliorate that is on my to-do list, and hopefully that'll be enough without learning WebAssembly.

Let me know what you think!

Blog version of this post, with images:
www.conorbarnes.comm/blog/pixelsorter
A truly great AI will monitor Instagram post frequency to get to the bottom of this
From the Scots sonnet:

> Zour father biddis zow studie heir and reid

It becomes easier to decipher if you know that it's actually Y, not Z. By various accidents of history, printers of the time used Z for the antiquated letter Ȝ (yogh), which itself came from another antiquated letter-form (ᵹ) and stood for a variety of sounds represented in modern English spelling with Y, J, etc.
Indeed, and going the other way, a snickers bar will get you surprising far across the English Channel in a rowing boat.
"and it was surprisingly difficult to quantify the impact that terminating an employee or cutting benefits would have on morale/culture/performance"

I think it is not surprising, when you consider that a precise weather forecast for more than 3 days is usually considered impossible.

When you deal with very complex systems, where small changes can have a big effect via self enforcing feedback loops - how can you expect to calculate all that?

And human social dynamics seem to be at least as complicated as the global weather.
Hey, move fast and break things. And call your terrible experimental technology "autopilot".
In the general case it's impractical for electronic sensors to accurately measure the mechanical state of the vehicle. How do they tell us the suspension is rusted out and about to break? (In theory you can play some clever tricks with eddy currents or something but that's not going to be feasible for real world sensing.)
That still requires an app to have location permissions to do.
> And, compared to existing means-tested aid, UBI reduces the disincentive to outside income.

Important point.

Especially people currently on disability are actively disincentivized from doing any amount of work. Worse, they're even disincentivized to do volunteer work out of terror that someone might report them as able-bodied and they lose their benefits, even if they are legitimately disabled and merely trying to contribute the tiny amount that they can.
I wasn't focusing on guilt. I pointed out the logical fallacy in you stating the burden of proof was on the fact checker.
You can compile the C code to WASM and then compile the WASM to safe Rust (I wrote a prototype for this and it works). Though as with all WASM, it protects the environment from the C code, but the C code can still corrupt its own WASM memory. iirc Firefox is even starting to use this approach to sandbox some of its components (though they compile the WASM back to C).
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Or maybe stop starving and killing the children living in Gaza who will then make proud soldiers of the Hamas when they grow up, repeating the endless circle of violence?

And maybe stop encouraging Qatar to fund Hamas[1]? Yes, you read that right, and the source is a reputable Israeli newspaper. Hamas is a really convenient opponent for the Israeli government: they are evil, corrupt and basically harmless, but they are a great excuse for everything else (“we are at war, stop asking questions”).

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-netanyahu-...
I was doing some work for a $30MM/yr ecommerce retailer whose business was up 30% YoY pre-pandemic and began a trend of doubling in April 2020. They were still hiring and got ~$600k for free. Another $50MM/yr company had flat/slightly up revenue and got $1.2MM. Both companies are notoriously stingy with W2 worker pay and bonuses, and remained so even after getting bailouts.
At the point where Google's failures to release working, marketable, and financially successful projects are causing them to leech off freeware.

Remember openstreetmaps is also free. I fully support freeware being paywalled as that would decimate FAMANG's userbase.
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The major difference is Linux can update in the background, with out much effect on working performance. Linux also doesn't force you to update, or block shutdown/boot events to perform an update. Its simply a much better experience.
If your data is worth that little, which it is, then yeah let's make it illegal for companies to coerce people into giving it up with boilerplate contracts. The impact is too high and the benefit too low.

This is not a slippery slope toward outlawing anything you could possibly sell.
This is an under-rated comment. The industry as a whole lacks discipline. Nobody wants to do things that are "boring".

I've seen some movement in some aspects - I no longer have to fight for introducing automated testing - however this is mostly cargo-culting which means I have to fight for doing things in a relevant way instead of accepting copy/pasting stack overflow.
As of a few years ago, lidar added at least $7500 to the cost of a car. That's a huge price difference for a consumer.
Today's “nice wrapper” is tomorrow's platform play
Outside the problem definition
It uses images to vote. Nothing about this website spells standards-compliant, bless it though.
These days, notions come from many places besides journalists. Plus, lumping all journalists together, from the NY Times to the fly-by-night Russian propaganda outfits, makes the term 'news media' meaningless.
I had that problem with my old car which had an aftermarket radio with bluetooth. My current car has android auto which uses a USB cable to connect to my phone.

Sure I have to use a cable now, but I deal with none of the hassles of bluetooth. I just plug it in and it works.
...because no one other than waymo is doing it? This is still a big achievement.
I mean, It's not just ARM. There are plenty of x86 laptops that can get 13-14 hours of battery life under light use.
You might enjoy this: https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE...
Yep, and beyond that, there's still a need to remove cars from the world, both to fight climate change and to make cities livable again (see any video from the "Not Just Bikes" YouTube channel for support for this argument). Moving everything to autonomous cars (even, yes, electric autonomous cars) will not solve those issues. Smart urban planning and structural reform are the only things that really stand a chance there.