skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add another comment, pro-police commentators should look at clearance rates for crime in their areas. Police are generally very very bad at their jobs! I looked up SFPD clearance rates for the last year -- they solved about 10% of all bulgaries and less than 21% of robberies. 10%!

These organizations have enormous budgets and they can't solve simple, non-violent crimes. Why do they need more funding and resources? Is all of that double OT going to finally stop those "brazen" CVS pickpockets?
I use the Zoho app (iOS and Android) for mail and calendar, so yeah, it syncs that way. I haven't tried setting up another mobile app.
only the good echos
Thanks!

The whole flow works really, really well inside of vscode with the GraphQL extension - you get autocomplete, docs, etc. And upon save, it's that same as if you had edited it in the web UI. It should even be compatible with the GraphiQL explorer extension inside of vscode (though I haven't tried it yet) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GabrielN...

And it's always tempting fate to say "we have more planned", but, well, we have more planned...
This sounds like a pretty dismissive response, I thought the parent raised some good points and I was hoping for a substantive discussion.

I've never understood why discussion around voting laws / election integrity is always either somehow racist or harmful. Seems like a lazy rebuttal against a strawman but I'm open to having my mind changed. Gonna need more than "democracy good, laws bad" though.
I don’t think the stats agree with you. A December 2021 poll by UMass Amherst showed only 21% of Republicans thought Biden’s election was legitimate[1] and 54% blamed the Jan6 violence on Democrats or the Capitol Police.[2]

The numbers are almost the same when broken up by ideology (conservative/independant/liberal) instead of party affiliation.

It’s not an issue of “crazies on both sides” — mainstream conservative views of recent events are detached from reality. There’s a pipeline of misinformation that starts with white nationalists, runs through InfoWars and their ilk, and eventually leads to OANN and Fox News. Keeping the audience’s attention is the top priority, so facts matter less than feelings.

[1]: https://polsci.umass.edu/toplines-and-crosstabs-december-202...
[2]: https://polsci.umass.edu/sites/default/files/Jan6thAnniversa... (page 5)
The pull quote I wanted to see:

> While LEDs are designed to emit light and can thus
unnoticeably encode information through high-frequency flickering, their ability to also perceive light is largely unknown in the
security community. In particular, by directing a laser on the LEDs
of office devices, we induce a measurable current in the hardware
that can be picked up by its firmware and used to receive incoming
data.
Mimestream: A native macOS email client for Gmail
2025 doesn't make sense. SpaceX has a Raptor 2 run-rate of 250/yr today, and they're ramping up, so you're talking about them sitting on around 750 engines, or about 18 full Starship stacks on the low end. The only way things would take that long is if they had a severe blanket roadblock like having to move their entire production somewhere else and spin it up from the beginning. Musk's time estimates are generally terrible, but not perpetually-in-the-future terrible. SpaceX isn't going to build a bunch of super heavy launchers and then just not launch them.
Most of my ideas that I've almost-forgot (passed from easy remembrance, only regained with much mental agony) and forgot-but-wrote-down don't have obvious flaws in them. Maybe you have a good mental filter, but for many of us we just have bad memory.
Hundreds of birds suddenly drop from the sky [video]
Isn't the whole point of taxes that they are for spending we don't get to choose, because if we did, it wouldn't happen? Otherwise what is the point? They aren't Credit Unions or crowd sourcing, they are taxes. You are proposing taxes by direct democracy, and the United States at least is not based on that, because most of our founders came from minorities that were having penalized by popular rule, we tend to favor protection from the tyranny of the majority that you propose. WHile special needs may be segregated, they are still funded by the general pool, you completely failed to address his argument. You also seem to say criticize his opinion for not being in a school this decade, so are you arguing that maybe people who are say, more expert in schools, should make schooling decisions and not just any old person, say someone handed a voucher?
The voucher side always touts the free market, but it completely fail to address that in markets there are ALWAYS winners and loosers, and if we as society are willing to increase that aspect when it comes to children and education. Instead of fixing a sinking boat, it just figures out a way for some to get to lifeboats. I'd like to think we can do and be better than that. BTW I was pro voucher in theory, but the outcome in reality just isn't morally acceptable to me.
I use Apple products and perceive it as a Linux-y place.

Maybe we only detect biases when they conflict our own?
My in-laws lived in Central America back in the 50s, as my father in law worked there for a large international bank. They did have a live-in maid and a cook. My mother in law said at first it made her feel uncomfortable, but was told in no uncertain terms that Americans who could afford help but didn't hire help were seen as selfish. The locals needed the work.

No doubt there are people who hire local help and are terrible about it, but I think so long as the employed people are treated humanely, with empathy, and paid as good or better than local rates, there isn't a problem.
I can’t believe there isn’t a white label streaming SaaS yet.
Are you looking for actual quantification? Or are you looking for anecdotes, because simple observation will prove this out.
That may be true for massive companies like Google with huge exposure. But if you are some startup no-one has heard of then you are going to be doing really well if 0.1% of your potential market has even heard of you in the first year, let alone tried your product.
Yeah, I get that. But...

These are tiny little things, less than 4cm in diameter and floating on seawater. They rely on the sun shining on them to vaporize the water, and in fact the linked paper says that the convection cover is needed when outdoors in the wind.

So... it implies that you can't have anything blocking the sun from fully shining on it, because it already has enough problems gathering enough heat when the wind blows, right?

Where does this condenser go? Obviously, I don't know anything about engineering in this domain ;)
The Little Gold Ring
Shortwaver here! There are a number of other companies that have started out exclusively on Gmail like us. It's also a risk to stand up a new SMTP service while trying to stay off SMTP blacklists, greylists, and keeping mail out of spam filters.
Building on Gmail has allowed us to prove out our product market fit more quickly without spending as much time on getting these deliverability issues solved. However, in the future we'd love to have our own SMTP service as an option in addition to Gmail.
I think the new extension architecture is fantastic, and I think it is great that they encourage people to use it.

However I don't think it was smart to kill the raw power of the old extension API. I would have loved for them to add scary warnings to the store, and ruthlessly break backwards compatibility. However they went so far to make it impossible for the average user to run these extensions. You need different versions of Firefox and you can't load them on the store.
Oh I get it, and part of it is driven by FOMO.
Bash is about pipelines which is a rather functional concept. If you can exploit these you can write succinct, readable and effective bash IMHO. If you're just stringing together a lot of conditionals it gets ugly fast.
You must not follow these issues closely, because there are many examples of states picking and choosing which IDs "count", with student IDs usually not counting under many Republican-crafted laws, but other IDs, such as gun licenses, being permitted. Further examples include reducing the hours/days of the offices that issue IDs and shrinking voter registration windows.

Roughly 11% of Americans don't have a valid government-issued ID and many of these individuals are lonely, ill, disabled, destitute, and are now being forced for the first time in their life to provide an ID to vote while at the same time their states are making it harder to get an ID. The Republican party is pushing these policies in almost every state, and prioritizing them over most other legislative concerns. This could not be less subtle.
What do you think of https://github.com/lulzlabs/AirChat?
> "Step one: try turning your computer off and turning it back on again. This is usually a good first step, and you'll be surprised at how often..."

This seems like a natural result of optimizing each search for revenue. Think of a search to solve an error message on your computer. There's a very small number of vulnerable people who are going to spend money as a result of that search, so optimizing for ads would mean tailoring the results specifically for those people, pushing them to sleazy sites where they might spend money on some kind of antivirus scam. The results are worthless to you, but who cares? You're worthless to Google when you're doing that kind of search. Try searching for something that people in your demographic spend money on, and the results will likely look better to you.
The more likely failure mode is that you've lent to something that's leveraged. That can go to zero on a partial drop of the underlying asset. Which is what happened in 2008.
The Wolf Warrior movies are very entertaining to watch if you are a fan of classic American non-apologetic action movies. Basically the same thing but in Chinese ...
Thanks for your comment - in the JIT section under "Jax Transformations" I implement the same calculation on NP and JAX on CPU (and TPU) to get a direct comparison for CPU. I mentioned in another comment that the calculation lends itself well to being JITted, but I have some preliminary data for a follow-up JAX vs NumPy performance comparison.

It's clear so far that NumPy can outperform JAX on CPU for small computations (unsurprisingly). Please let me know if you'd be interested in seeing a more thorough analysis!
Agreed, the Bitcoin transaction(s) which stole and moved the funds out of the exchange did have finality. The entire premise of crypto is that whoever knows the private key controls the account... So this is essentially a seizure of an account. The seizure of funds has nothing to do with finality and everything to do with laziness, complacency and neglect.

If the hacker had hidden their private keys in a secret location (or just memorized them), they could almost certainly have gotten away with it. The hackers were extremely neglectful. It's a testament to Bitcoin's security that it took so many years to be caught given this level of carelessness and the massive amount of money involved.

Some people in the Bitcoin community think the news is fake and intended to harm Bitcoin's reputation... We don't know what really happened behind the scenes. It's hard to believe that people can be so careless.
We produce way more ethanol than is necessary for fuel oxygenation. Indeed GWB sold the RFS as a way to lessen dependence on foreign oil.
I agree with you, but even a lot of smart people prefer one-dimensional, binary worldview.

(a) is actually a subset of (c), no?
No (and it wasn't my intent to suggest that).

My initial instinct was in fact to say "yes, things are faster".

But then thinking about it, what struck me as interesting is that things that feel recent, in my head, like QAnon, are rooted in manufactured falsehoods that are already six and a half years old. So it's not necessarily the case.

It might be more interesting in some ways that QAnon hasn't already started a war. Though I genuinely see no particular reason why a conspiracy theory of its type could not; it's not that difficult to imagine in the context of human history.
Chrome is notable for being a memory hog; older devices, almost by definition, do not come with modern amounts of memory. I wonder what the performance is going to be like.

Also, I question how well optimized Chrome OS can be for PC substrates. It's one thing to run Chrome OS on a device built around what Chrome OS supports; Chromebooks are essentially the Mac hardware model: limited hardware that is known to be compatible with the software running on it.

In the wild, though, PCs have a mind-boggling array of different hardware; I wonder how well Chrome OS is going to adapt to that Wild West.
Wordle got its own battle royale
SA used to be in a troll war with the old Slashdot.org tech forum. 4chan was a later 'spinoff' built by a Something Awful user, and taking much of its initial community from there. Given these facts I've never thought of Something Awful as especially free from toxicity.
That claim is bullshit, see my comment in that thread.
I've seen thousands of papers regarding extreme climate change from CO2 emissions. I've seen nothing that indicates lithium mining does anything but local damage. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
Don't they just use the linux kernel for hardware?
I didn't get a chance to run experiments myself, but from other people I've heard JAX is superior.
You can read and write binary, including null, in pure bash, without even subshells, let alone external processes like dd and xxd.

This is a driver/client for a vintage portable disk drive that has an rs232 interface. Any disk drive obviously has to handle arbitrary data including binary including 0x00.

It's entirely in native bash with no external tools and not even any subshells. It does have to call stty and mkfifo once at startup, but that's just startup like to open the serial port, not part of the work.

https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh

The gimmick for reading nulls is not exactly efficient. Basically you read one character at a time and look at the errorlevel from read to detect the difference between "got nothing" and "got 0x00"

It's fine for this case because the drive is so slow and small that even the entire disk is only 200k max. Making bash read one byte at a time for 200k is still nothing today but only because hardware is insane today.

But it's possible. And the beginning of the post does say "as a thought experiment".

Similarly, you don't need xxd to convert back & forth between raw binary and text encoding.

My own similar thought experiment included the idea that, if I'm not going to use any external process I can possibly avoid and only use internal bash features, on the flip side of that, I will squeez bash for all it's worth, allow every bashism possible.
I feel like these arguments always break down along the same lines:

- People who have recently run into an issue that required browser sniffing

- People who haven’t and feel sure that “things are better now” and the practice is no longer needed.

I’ve gotten into these kinds of scrapes many times, and I can assure you all that philosophical arguments about browser-detection-vs-feature-detection don’t work very well when you’re trying to explain to a client why their web app that worked a week ago doesn’t work today (due to a WebRTC bug in Chrome, for instance) and won’t be fixed until the next Chrome version comes out in six weeks.

To folks advocating “ripping off the bandage” as a solution, I’d note that the wound underneath has not stopped bleeding.
My first thought after seeing this was how do I get Bluetooth onto one of these remade upgraded iPods?

Had to look at this device, and it is small but it would be even better if that could be moved into the iPod itself.

Is there possibly room to stash a Bluetooth transceiver inside the case once the large HDD has been replaced with an SD card board like it is shown in this walk-through?
Using the Mexican Army Cipher Disk for Advanced Encoding
Its been a while but when you visited a search engine website it then showed up as an option, not sure which OS / browser that was on though
I think it's reasonable to point out that is not something most consumers are going to be able to do. The only meaningful search engine choice is that available within Safari. And you did install another App, they still aren't used from the system search on iOS, or from Safari itself.

I think you might as well be asking regular consumers to root their device so they can use whatever Apps from outside the App Store, or whatever search engine they want.

Also, even for a technical user, there is simply no way on an iPhone to change to a new search engine not already on a tiny list, and from talking with hundreds of consumers, I have not talked with a single non-technical person who could work out themselves how to change their Safari search engine to even one of the 5 limited choices, let alone a new option.
In my state, most special needs students aren't segregated, but mainstreamed. This has been a movement in education for the last decade. Yes, they might have additional classes with specialized instructors, but mainstreaming is an important goal for most k-12 education systems.
Speaking of inauthentic shills, how much did this guy get paid by reddit? If there was really a time where reddit was a good source of authentic information, it’s many years in the past at this point.
That pricing model is insane. I think it will remain a niche product only used by the wealthy unless they can get it down to somewhere like $5/month for unlimited searches.
One day I'll write a blog post about why we went with Rust rather than Go, but I'll resist the urge to hijack this thread for a Go rant. :P
Oh I'm not defending it. It's a garbage way to pay considering the competitive alternatives they allow.

It's marketing to a specific niche of tech bro, which is probably a large enough segment of Newegg's customers to justify it.
Love the War Games reference.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5d7f5bc3-4ceb-4d18-87f7-a146f9c...
It's a weird feeling to realize how we're all just hardware, and it might be possible to wake up someone who's "brain dead"/vegetative by LSD (the paper mentions how psychedelics affect this cortical electrodynamics, and as this old article[1] mentions the LSD).

Imagine someone flipping a switch (in the future where tech to control the electrodynamics exists) and you're awake and aware of your surroundings again.

[1] https://therooster.com/blog/scientists-want-to-give-psychede...
Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Not any other sort of income, including things like parental leave benefits.

(Not exactly) Pro-tip: if you are in pretty much any EU country, and have anything on top of earned income (rental income, any form of government-paid benefits), you are possibly better off not claiming the FEIE - there’s a reason you have to specifically request it when filing, and it’s not because the IRS want to be jerks (about that, anyway).
Incredibly, ethanol is subsidized more than once. Corn itself is subsidized and then there's a credit to blenders. And on top of that fuel sellers are required to sell a certain amount.
Thank you for the advice. This is a little special because the owners of the loan company have been fined by the SEC for precisely the naked short selling I am accusing them of (without revealing them, an unrelated case is https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/sec-charges-filed...). Naked shorting a stock to 0 and claiming tax benefits is what some of these toxic lenders do. I am invested only in the amount I can afford to lose. But I would like to not lose even that :-) so will heed your advice.
I don't think it's worth reiterating, at least not in the context of attempting to argue that "finality does not exist in payments," because it involves using a contrived definition of "finality" that no is ever using when they consider whether finality exists in payments.
>And video is somehow less unique

This type of video - yes. You and I are both writing unique content right now. Redditors produce thousands of unique posts daily.

There are only so many suicide videos on the internet though and the amount a person can produce per day is inherently limited.

It follows that fingerprinting said videos should be feasible.

>So very little training material for the AI, then?

And? Youtube does this with a single example for copyright purposes. Not all algos have to be backprop DL
This is literally addressed in documentation.
If real wages are one of the primary drivers and has been steadily eroded over the past several decades, them maybe we should think about legislating a required COLA based on the CPI? I think the Netherlands or someplace does this.
The reactionary political takes can be pretty exhausting to be honest. There is a stark contrast between the nuance and depth of the technical conversations compared to the politically adjacent ones.
More non-liberal views would be interesting. The common notion on HN is that anything that's not liberal is automatically Fascist or __insert_the_worst_interpretations__.
Your argument supports the original poster. It is no longer a conscious choice, "Do I search for this via Google? Maybe I should use Bing? What about DuckDuckGo?", it is, "Oh, lemme Google that".
Is this the exact analogy for what happens when companies are required to institute a “backdoor“ for encryption?
My github page said I was 26 years old. But that's wrong. I guess you get the data somewhere from github but from where actually?
Reading this comment makes me wonder, "How long until Facebook lobbies for prisons to give inmates access to FB?"
What does "a critical point or phase transition [of the] electrodynamics of the cortex" mean? Electricity doesn't have "phases" AFAIK (well there's two/three-phase power but I don't think that's what they're talking about).
Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory (2019)
Contrary opinion: the Unix philosophy advocates a level of granularity larger than you posit - grep has a single responsibility, but is not a "tiny function"
Because it's software and once you created it you can duplicate it, customize it with the fraction of the cost and time.

"Why try to beat nature?"

If we wouldn't try "beat nature" we would be still in caves or would be extinct. Nature is "beating" itself with evolution and we are part of that.
Nothing wrong with being insecure.

But most of us try to work on those aspects of ourselves rather than own it and just be an aggressive prick to others..
It's also expanding faster than the speed of light.

There are right now some galaxies that are so far and moving away so fast that they will effectively stop existing from our perspective.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars are going out.
Apologies, yes, I did read that like a suggestion of 3rd party reviews fixing AMZN reviews.

To continue the thread but being on the same page, I still think reviews are not something that humans can handle correctly. The people looking to game the reviews will always try harder than the people trying to stop them. I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people. I might ask people I know personaly and am familiar with and would be willing to trust their assessments. Randos on the internet just can't prove anything, because of course a bot could say/do everything a person would try to prove they are not a bot.

For those that are willing to put faith in reviews, have fun. Don't let my pessimism stop you.
My approach has been to put out something as early as possible and then be very responsive when people ask questions, make suggestions or report bugs. And this has resulted in lots of useful feedback for all 3 products I have developed. It takes time though and you have to go the extra file with support.
Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices