skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNS labels like "ycombina" (tor) you mean? :-)
It's not them who are the problem. Its financial institutions and other services that use SSN as way to verify a person. You should not be able to setup a cell phone plan by providing a name and a SSN. And credit reporting should not be tied to a SSN. It should just be used to submit tax information to the government and have no value beyond that.
> can enact a data privacy and storage requirement for apps?

Sure they can. But they're probably making money from the arrangement somehow. At least the app publishing fee, but possibly also all data going through their APIs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase#User_privacy_controve...

https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/01/us-federal-judge-dismiss...
I wasn't referring to Tether
At one point, Apple started corrupting recordings from the Recorder app on iPhones. One Australian journalist lost his recording of an interview, and the person soon after died.

Of course, there was no way to get Apple to acknowledge the bug, or find a fix. Needless to say, nobody in that newsroom relies on Apple any more.
That is literally how all warrants and court orders work... Comply, appeal, or a guy with a truncheon will give you concussion and we'll seize anything that might have been associated with something to do with the case.
Oh great, another hyper-focused privacy law. They should just pass a law legally defining "reproductive health data" as a kind of video tape.
> Except in american

What? In America liberal is very much displaced from its "original meaning".
Neural nets for porn browsing (not generation): http://driftwheeler.com

Article in The Register (more than 5 years ago): https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/18/smutfinder_ai_is_now_...

"If [you] want more beach scenes, press the sand and water. If you want to see more girls in the woods, press the greenery. If you like to see girls posing on wooden chairs, press the chair. And so on. This is a solution to the problem of large-scale unsupervised image clustering," the developers explain.

Also appeared in Wired.
I completely agree. I get where they are coming from, but this is a great way to loose the current bipartisan momentum against big tech, and change it into another wedge issue.
I keep seeing this prediction, but have yet to see a convincing argument as to how this content is supposed to circumvent existing trust networks.

News outlets are nothing without a track record. People trust names they recognize. You can spin up as many CMS instances, domains, and social media profiles for fake news as you want, but without a history shared with its core audience, all the language models in the world aren't going to convince anyone but the most credulous when the content is coming from unfamiliar sources.
It's clear that Congress doesn't want to solve the bigger problems here. This is token legislation that will not be passed anyway, so the fact that it's only limited to reproductive rights and not all data (not to mention, like, federally legalizing abortion?) indicates that they aren't even interested in token gestures beyond the absolute bare minimum to grab a headline.
The blame lies with the people, who put them in power.
Tone: if you write, cultural differences will always remove any tone; the subtleties will be lost in translation. If you talk to the people, the tone of the voice and the body language is more important than the words.
The chronology in the first paragraph is just nonsense:

> Writing is not natural: it’s an invention, a technology developed roughly 3000 years ago. This is nothing compared to human history.

From the first paragraph on the wikipedia page for "history":

> Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory.
It's about Bean VPN
I'm not too well-versed in the academic/mathematical background of SQL, other than than to say it's closer to relational algebra than Set theory, and the resource to read is probably the 1970 Codd paper: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

SQL does implement the set operations of UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT, but I meant "thinking in sets" more colloquially.

edit: this is more practical than theoretical but the author here actually does a nice job of discussing "set-based" thinking vs. procedural https://www.itprotoday.com/open-source-sql/fangraphs-tags-cl...
We need to drop the "my body my choice" cliche. The entire crux of the disagreement is whether it is really just your body, or whether it is two bodies.
What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
Not sure average individual can take webkit source and turn it into a browser.

Forcing users to a prebuilt Webkit, that they cannot change is definitely not the same.
Having a fire fast culture creates a stressful atmosphere.

It's better to have high standards to begin with to avoid needing to fire people. If you're firing a double digit percent of your hires, there's something wrong with your hiring process.

Most companies use metrics that are weakly correlated with success on the job. When you've hired dozens of people, who will be successful or not becomes quite obvious.
The ghost patterns in most Pac-Man gameplay are designed on purpose, but the directions they turn when running from Pac-Man once he’s eaten a pellet are intended to be random. From a broadly interesting look at the game’s internals (https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-pac-man-dossier):

“The PRNG generates an pseudo-random memory address to read the last few bits from. These bits are translated into the direction a frightened ghost must first try. If a wall blocks the chosen direction, the ghost then attempts the remaining directions in this order: up, left, down, and right, until a passable direction is found. The PRNG gets reset with an identical seed value every new level and every new life, causing predictable results.”

I don’t know how the initial RNG works (the source is available online, but my Atari ASM skills seem to be lacking), but more modern takes sometimes use a linear-feedback shift register, as seen here: https://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-lets-make-a-game-sp...
It's not the same, because Safari is already a minority in the market compared to the Chrome behemoth.
Now that's what I call podracing!

I mean, things like X-games get a lot of viewers, why not the above?
Bullshit. That story is made up. AI tech can't collapse a society.
It seems they could also just cease use of the 'offending' informationa nd use generic imagery or descriptions instead. For bandwidth/processing reasons, I'd prefer as much text and as few graphics as possible anyway.
Given that >90% of non-vaccinated patients did not get a Alzheimer's diagnosis, this seems wrong.
Agreed, I'm just pointing out that not only were they generally simple, they had controls & instructions on the cabinets.
> Living with parents out of sheer necessity where parents look down on their offspring for not proving themselves in the world probably would not.

Not that I condone such practices, but how does that not affect birth rate in India?
There's no shortage of Atlantic and New Yorker sob stories about how some abutting farmers are taking it in the ass over some new development.

This isn't an America problem.

It's a people "wealthy enough to have so few real problems they have spare fucks to give about what their neighbors are building" problem.

If the "HN Class" of people (very roughly speaking) would actually give a F about other people's property rights this problem would evaporate overnight. Cities and private developers could buy what they want and develop what they want. But nope, enforcing conformity and having veto power over the next big box store or freight terminal is more important so that means no new anything gets built.
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>Given the filibuster in the Senate, this bill is more about messaging and fundraising than actually trying to pass a bill.

Based on previous actions, should the Rs take control of the Senate, they will remove the filibuster. And if they then lose control, they will take a page out of Wisconsin's playbook[0] (ultimately unsuccessfully[1]) and put it back before the Ds take control again.

[0] https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/gop-controlled-s...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705536383/wisconsin-governors...
libc tolower() works on a single char at a time. This post is about the gains you can get by converting multiple chars at once.
Gun rights are privacy rights. If you don't have a right to self defense, then the rest of them are just vigorous handwaving.

This technique of taking something controversial and pretending it is not, doesn’t actually win over anybody.
So how about them sheer stresses over time?
Through this logic, iOS already allows firefox etc to run on its platform, if Firefox != Gecko.

except the issue here is the rendering engine and who controls in at the top level.

I don’t wanna live in the world we’re 90% of the Internet only supports chromium, yet everything from Edge to Opera use it now. Firefox and Safari the last holdouts keeping google from dominating all web standards.
> You can take the bums off the street (and put them in shelters)

There's your problem, I think. In the US, at least, the elements of our polity that favor "taking the bums off the street" are mostly unwilling to pay for things like shelters and mental hospitals.
my rule is to weigh whether or not its worth making a comment very carefully. nothing without a clear justification. never say 'I would have done it this other way' - unless its a good friend who you often discuss style issues with. comment on things that you feel would make a substantial difference on schedule, maintainability, or function - and provide a clear reasoning with which to argue against.

wasting your peers time trying to enforce your style isn't just non-productive, it sours everyone on the whole exercise.
I know of the codes, but I couldn't have told you .lk was Sri Lanka off the top of my head, nor would I necessarily assume that because the site linked to is a Sri Lankan site, it's talking about Sri Lanka.
HN needs more parody accounts. Thank you for your service.
How to Temporarily Disable Face ID & Touch ID on an iPhone or iPad
FYI if you only have a limited amount of compute, latent diffusion models will converge much faster.

https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion
The standard tolower() / toupper() take a single character only; bulk strlwr() / strupr() are nonstandard (if commonly present) and—more importantly—virtually unused. I suppose implementing this technique in the C/POSIX-locale version of nonstandard stricmp() / POSIX strcasecmp() might be helpful in some cases, because people do use that one, but I still expect that any situations that truly call for an ASCII-only case-insensitive comparison (parsers?) will be doing much more work per byte for other reasons (state machine, perfect hash, etc.).
Ask HN: Why is computer generated music not as impressive as DALL·E 2?
Maybe composing good music is more difficult than creating a quality painting regardless of whether it is done by a human being or computer?
I don't see why people who adhere to the first interpretation should stop articulating their position.
It's sometimes refreshing to have people just write what they want me to do, clearly and without embellishment. Even if it's sometimes nitpicking, I know that if I just fix it I can then merge my patch. I don't have to wait for a second look from them because their comments were so direct "write this instead".
So should the same bill also make vaccine requirements federally illegal?

“Bodily autonomy” is a vague and nebulous concept. And it’s also another way to show one’s bias because to a pro-life person abortion is a violation of the unborn child’s bodily autonomy.

You wouldn’t talk about being able to commit murder as an exercise of bodily autonomy on the part of the murderer. And again to someone pro-life that’s going to be directly analogous to how they view abortion.
Weird take; I wonder what an alternate universe where the Jaguar didn’t rival the Saturn in terms of difficulty to develop for would look like.

I’m aware this wouldn’t have solved the other issues - such as the desperate need for a ‘Killer App’, and - of course - the big Sonic/Mario problem of the time, which was a major draw into SEGA or Nintendo’s camp.

The system - as is - is probably way more capable than what we were able to see from the software we got.

I read that a ton of Jaguar games actually abused the sound chip (I think this was it?) - which was a Z80, or something similarly simple to develop for, and thusly some of the software was literally using maybe 20% of its potential.

The previously-mentioned SEGA Saturn would often be similarly abused (though not nearly quite as bad as running most of your program code off the sound chip) where programmers would use only one of the core graphics chips or only of the SH2’s (or both…) which resulted, of course, in much; much poorer performance than the serious powerhouse the Saturn was during its lifetime.

Many PlayStation/Saturn ports of the same side by side make this difference brutally obvious. (The Saturn DOOM port is, sadly; a notorious example. It was Carmack’s decision not to run it on the 2 VDP’s - to which he later acknowledged was a mistake.)

The Saturn and Jaguar debacles really woke up the industry a lot to caring about developer needs - with documentation and follow through with developer support so poor that even at-the-time behemoth EA refused to support SEGA’s next console, the Dreamcast; in what would’ve been an unthinkable move 5 years before.

EDIT: after making some corrections, I realized on editing I pulled all this info from memory; which honestly makes me one hell of a geek, lol…
Regulation only means disclosures. It's just as easy to lose money. Most startups fail.
SERIALIZABLE is ridiculously slow if you have any level of concurrency in your app. READ COMMITTED is a reasonable default in general. The behavior GP is describing sounds like an out and out bug.

Dirty reads incidentally weren't supported for quite some time in the Sybase architecture (which forked to MS SQL Server in 1992). There was a Sybase effort to add dirty read support around 1995 or so. The project name was "Lolita."
Taking a photo only gives you copyright over that photo, it doesn’t stop other people taking a similar photo.

A lot of business try and claim copyright of a subject (like a tourist attraction) and try and prevent photography of it, but that’s legal BS in any jurisdiction I’ve heard of.
Offtopic but related:

Conventional commits: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
I think the strategy would be to try to get it done within the EU. If people had to change their marketing materials to sell to Europe, they'd probably take out any spurious or misleading references to FOSS from the beginning. The EU has very much shown that it is concerned and willing to act over descriptions/names when it comes to trade.
Not my area of expertise at all, but I would imagine 8 mins on a track is easier than 8 mins climbing a steep mountain road.

Just as a very unscientific benchmark, looking at the instant fuel consumption on my car shows that driving slowly up a mountain road (i.e. to a ski field) consumes about 3 times the fuel as flat driving at highway speeds.
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... Aren't there tons of companies like Trolley that scrape data, etc. without issues?

Like, I assume these do: PriceSpy, PriceRunner, PrisJakt, Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, etc.
The buggy AND is really interesting to me -- the comment suggests that maybe the programmer meant to use an ORA instead, which would have been a clever way to check if both bytes of the Y position were zero. But that's still not something that makes sense to check, right? Assuming I'm understanding the video right, that'd only unlock the scroll if Mario was way up above the top of the screen...
I don’t think they will actually remove the filibuster.

Most of the things Republicans care about such as cutting taxes and confirming judges can be done without the filibuster (see reconciliation and how the filibuster is no longer for judges).

For the Democrats, much of what they want to do is vulnerable to filibuster, so the Republicans will act like the legislative filibuster is sacrosanct, since it doesn’t really birth them and cripples the Democrats.
> I grew up in a relatively rural state where firearm ownership and usage was pretty much assumed and a normal part of life because law enforcement and animal control services simply aren't available at the speed you need them in an emergency.

> In an urban area there are different considerations that might weigh less heavily in favor of unrestricted access to firearms.

Law enforcement isn't available at the speed you need it in an emergency, anywhere. This is often recognized in the statement "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away". Law enforcement's job is to enforce the laws after the fact.

Animal control may be available at the required speeds just because animal-related emergencies generally allow for more time. If you have a mountain lion hanging around outside your door, you can just not go outside until it's gone.
> No Republican can sign onto this bill without being accused of supporting abortion

This framing may be what it takes to get Arizonans and West Virginians to support a limited lifting of the filibuster.
If you want to use tor without having tor installed on every computer you need an http proxy that sends traffic through the tor network if its an .onion and every browaer needs to know this http proxy.
Yes it is. A single large judgement anywhere in the country and the malpractice insurance for all doctors everywhere in the US is bumped up just for premiums. Some disciplines like OB are forced to pay a quarter of a million in malpractice insurance every year just to practice. For others, it went up from 30 to 50K per year just this year alone. When that happens every practitioner starts requiring expensive tests that have a tiny % of catching something, but may catch that stroke that triggers the $100 million lawsuit. 60% of doctors in the US are sued every single year, with each case worth 100k for the doctor to defend, and almost all are without merit. If you want to cut down healthcare costs, insurance and tort reform would be the #1 place to do it. Create a pool of money to cover bad cases and push out bad doctors, but the current system is untenable and benefits nobody in healthcare.
Hmm, yes, there are only 2 or 3 instructions that can execute concurrently - but your observation made me realise I can eke out another by masking is_ascii more thoroughly. Thanks!

Bulk throughput isn’t really my aim, it’s just a convenient way to get numbers big enough to be easily measurable :-)
>People (mostly) don't change - they (have to) die for change to happen.

An excellent justification for the forced retirement at 65 years of faculty in universities in East Asia. The sclerotic atmosphere in most US research universities, where over-privileged professors often linger into their 80s, has in my lifetime led to a growing intellectual stagnation in many (most? all?) academic fields.
> I wonder why this data can't just be stored locally on the device?

Period trackers can achieve better prediction by training a model on massive data.

Fitness trackers in general have all sorts of reason to upload data.

The most legitimate reasons are that the dashboards and backups are online.

Fundamentally, the predominant business model is to take people's data as payment.

This continues to be the norm that numbs people into giving it without question or concern.

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How accurate would Apple or Facebook be at predicting someone's period without asking?
If you run outside during the summer then there is a heat stroke risk if your house is just as warm or warmer as outside.
An out-of-order CPU will interleave things for you. Any modern CPU should have no issues running many iterations of the loop in parallel, as nothing should depend on the previous iteration.

But, given that the task at hand usually deals with very short inputs, there's not much to interleave with anyway.
>worried about projects which are trying to help won't actually make anything better and often will have real negative consequences

the worry is misplaced because stupid projects are compensated by good ones. This obsession with efficiency, which seems to be an artifact of modern economic logic is one of the culprits of why nothing gets build. Effectiveness matters, not efficiency. This is just the same logic that VC investors use. nine out of ten startups are crap, some are scams, but it doesn't matter. Better to waste some resources than to build nothing at all.

China understands this. People will laugh at empty ghost cities or wasteful vanity projects but they're compensated for by what works and tacit knowledge generated in the process. America's gilded age or new deal era or cold war military projects were no different. Better to go big and get something done than do nothing at all. And that's usually the two choices.
Apple Readies iPhone 14 and HomePod Upgrade in Flood of New Products
It is not a waste of hiring team time if we avoid hiring a candidate that doesn't meet our standards. We try very hard to find good candidates, but it doesn't mean we will stop interviewing if the candidate pool runs dry. We'll just have to spend more time looking for quality applicants.
Correct, interstates are not supposed to directly visit every home and business in the country.
My wife had a (legal at the time, medically-administered) abortion as a teenager, which effectively put her on a List of Fetal Murderers.

She is now terrified that abortion will be made retroactively illegal and she will be captured by bounty hunters. Her family's generational experiences with other Lists didn't end so well for them.

I'd tell her the retroactive thing is silly and has never happened before, but precedent no longer seems to be a factor in Supreme Court decisions so I can't help but feel I'm telling a German Jew in 1935 that she's being silly and there's nothing to worry about.
What is the point of using MongoDB with multi-document ACID transactions? Enabling durability in MongoDB is usually costly enough that you can't find a performance benefit compared to Postgres. With JSONB support in PostgreSQL, I dare say, it can express anything that MongoDB can express with its data model and query language. That leaves scalability as the only possible advantage of MongoDB compared to PostgreSQL. And the scalability of MongoDB is rather restrictive, compared to e.g. Cassandra.

And I would never trust a database that has such a bad track record, regarding durability as MongoDB, although I admit that PostgreSQL had theoretical problems there as well in the past.
Original, arcade cabinet Pac-Man got an update after a while that eliminated the deterministic patterns. I'm sure the owners of 7-11 stores across the U. S. rejoiced, as I was one of those taking up space for quite a while for the price of a quarter (of a U. S. dollar).
I am not a brand ambassador or a living billboard and some random company is not part of my identity, which is why I dislike wearing t-shirts with company logos.
> a well-to do medical software company based out of Verona, WI

You might as well just say Epic Systems LOL
Firstly, NDAs and waivers are not bulletproof and may not hold up in court. And even with a rock-solid NDA guaranteeing a victory, going into a courtroom is not a desirable situation for any person who isn't being paid to be there.

Like I asked in the comment replying to your previous one: what benefit does this give the business whatsoever? This will cost money, time, and very possibly headaches (whether reputational or legal), and for no benefit to the business. Why would they consider this?
It's not the same, libc's tolower takes an int as an individual character