skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what could I do with the personal records of a billion Chinese people?

you use personal details to tailor phishing scams to the victim

If I know you have a grandson that lives in XinJiang I can cold call you and say i'm from the xinjiang police and we have your grandson here under arrest and then extort money from there
Naivety seems to imply that what they are doing is wrong, or a mistake, but they don't understand it fully. Don't you think that's a paternalistic view? Do you know what's best for those women?
The latter two are just a matter of mass production, intentionally delayed in favor of other priorities. FSD is certainly possible, and good headway is being made on it. When it’ll be as good as a human however is an unresolved matter setting aside the hype and speculation.
My comments for when I disagreed with majority.

So I first disagreed with majority at level 10 mercy, I mean if they are dead anyway and trolley running faster only might make it less painful without guarantee what is the point playing the God, they are dead anyway and nobody will guarantee it won't be actually worse if I do something. This ain't exactly euthanasia with drugs proven to work.

Level 12 best friend - I am surprised majority value life of one best friend more than lives of 5 strangers, in the end it's still people and 1:5 seems like nobrainer decision. Now, if it would be family I would agree with majority, but just the friend ain't family and heck even for the family I'd maybe have to consider whether it's old grandma vs 5 young people.

level 13 cant see - well they should then choose different picture, but from picture it seems very likely you can save 5 people instead 1 even if you are not exactly sure

level 15 age - I'm surprised most of the people are ready to sacrifice 5 elderly people (define what age is that, whether they have still 10-30 years of life ahead) and let 5 families to suffer instead 1 baby which still doesn't have even self conscience and family can have other baby and they are not used to it for years

level 17 math - i'm quite badd with these odds and math so I went rather with doing nothing if not sure and was with majority

level 19 economic damage - agree with majority, but don't understand why would people rather destroy 900K worth trams instead 300K worth trams

level 20 external costs - I don't think it's up to me to decide in what order should be trams replaced, also they dont say whether will be the tram replaced at all, way too many variables to consider which decision is better

level 22 - wow, majority of people are mean pranksters

level 23 - TIL majority of people is willing to sacrifice someone's life over littering and rather play God, I'd say 1 life equals 1 life and I won't really change direction of tram over such small thing as littering, now if you would say that person is murderer or drives dangerously that would be different

level 25 lifespan - is one life really worth ten lives each with at least 10 years ahead for majority? 10 years is quite a long time, 50 is longer but it's still just one life over 5
>Why do people talk about minor inconveniences as if they were life threatening.

probably one talks that way about minor inconveniences if:

1. There are a lot of them all piled up - thereby leading to more inconvenience than you could reasonably handle

2. One is going through something else at the moment that is very problematic which then means you don't have the psychic reservoir to deal with the minor inconvenience

3. Perhaps it is a minor inconvenience for most people but is worse for you because you have some other major inconvenience or condition in your life that the otherwise minor one exacerbates.
Not all infinities are equal, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number:

"A fundamental theorem due to Georg Cantor shows that it is possible for infinite sets to have different cardinalities, and in particular the cardinality of the set of real numbers is greater than the cardinality of the set of natural
numbers."
The barrier to create a new exchange is almost zero. The code from Uniswap is open source, you can clone and be running a competitor in a day.

The challenge would be in providing liquidity at levels that could compete with Uniswap's. You can go buy your userbase like Sushiswap did, but you'll see that LPs already learned their lesson that what matters is the transaction volume and these governance tokens being given as an incentive are worthless, so you need to buy both makers and traders.

If you are willing to keep a lot of capital around for a long time and taking the risk of impermanent loss, eventually you will be able to take users from Uniswap. But who would do that?
Ask HN: Are non-solicitation clauses in contracts common and fair?
Hi all, I'm currently reviewing a contract I've received and noticed a 2 years non-solicitation clause in it. This is not the first time I notice this in a contract, and was wondering how common it is in eng contracts and if it makes sense at all to have one.

I never debated about it, and this is the first time I really stop to think about it.
Exactly. I had an open (read/write) ftp server in beginning of the nineties. It was nice, people could put files in there, retrieve what they wanted.

By the middle of the nineties I had to write-protect everything and leave only an "incoming" directory with write access, because some jerk deleted everything just for fun.

By the end of the nineties I was fed up with everyone trying to use my "incoming" directory for storing warez/pr0n so I gave up (yes I tried setting it write-only but what's the point ?). Well, it was fine while it lasted, the community of people on the internet definitely changed in a few years, and it didn't get any better in the following decades.
Browser fingerprinting tools for anonymizing your scrapers
Fallacy of the Beard
They have pretty software that is shit.

I don't own a Tesla, but whenever I ride with friends the center console shows an overhead type view of the other cars around. The cars randomly blink in and out, indicating it doesn't know if the other car really exists or not.

A cars UI has has exactly one function: provide accurate and actionable information to the driver. You should never need to second guess the information you are receiving.
The short answer is that we don't really know; they are related to some of the most mysterious aspects of representation theory and number theory.

What we know is that these dimensions support lattice structures with exceptional symmetries. The intricate geometry of these symmetries interacts with number theory to provide spectral data (automorphic forms) that have very rare properties; this is the starting point for Maryna's investigations.

Okounkov's popular scientific exposition "The magic of 8 and 24", linked in the article, goes into considerable detail on the constructions.
Agreed, they don't say anything about replacement trolley, maybe the new one will kill just slightly less people, maybe they won't replace it at all, way too many factors to consider and I am not really management of transport company to make these decisions.
youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/For you/)
youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/New for you/)
youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/People also watched/)
youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/Previously watched/)
youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer:has-text(/People also search for/)
Nearly all links on that page are dead ie. all links I tested.
I bought my PHEV to get carpool stickers and use better parking with free charging at work. The stickers expired and I don't work there anymore, but it never made sense to get rid of, so I still drive it, but rarely charge it.

It's way more convenient to pump gas for a few minutes every 600-700 miles than plugging in every 20 miles. Especially since I would prefer not to charge to full; I live on a hill and pick up 1-3 miles of charge on the way out of my neighborhood, I wouldn't want to miss out on that if I filled up.
But your PHEV still needs oil changes and other maintenance, and has all the same failure modes that conventional ICEs have: plugs, coil, belt-driven water pump, the belt itself, timing belt, etc. One of the really nice things about EVs is the reduced maintenance.

Just out of curiosity, how much EV range does the Prius have? I drive 51 KM each way to/from work. So every day I drive 102 KM (about 60 miles), that's about 15 kilowatts-hours and costs $2.50 to recharge at home. If I sign up for day/night rates that will drop, but I don't know by how much.
> Many websites were better in 2005 and had greater uptime.

Citation needed. There were a lot less sites, maintenance windows in the hours weren't uncommon, there was no security to speak of (SQL injections, no SSL/TLS, etc.), and sites could do maybe 1% of what today's sites can (not saying that all of it is good or necessary, bit i quite like a non-insignificant amount of those new features like native video, audio, graphics, dynamism, etc.).
Overwhelming majority of kids videos are not marked as such. In particular, non English kids videos are super rarely marked as for kids.

That is the reason why youtube kids is something we gave up on fairly quickly. It is useless as majority of kiddy educational content we wanted them to watch was not available. And majority of what they themselves wanted to watch was unavailable too.
What happened is the exact opposite:

The Shanghai police thinks like you, so they purchased a very expensive "private deployment of Alibaba Cloud", which in China usually works like this:

1. The customer build a data center.

2. Alibaba Cloud purchases servers, deploys them in the customer's data center along with all Alibaba Cloud software (same as in the public cloud).

3. Customers do whatever they want to the thing.

Basically by "private cloud" they really mean it, something AWS won't ever do.

In this case, the system is technically "not connected to the Internet", but we all know what this mean: it certainly will be occasionally.

Most cases I know, the customer cite "data security" as the reason why they would like to do this, because on-prem are always more secure right? But I hope we could agree on why this does not work:

- It is now very difficult for Alibaba Cloud to do ops work on these private deployments, so ... there will be maybe 2 releases per year, or in some cases never, including security patches. It's not rare to find a 5-years-old struts2 vuln in the control plane of such private deployments, and in the coming years it would be log4j2 I guess.

- Alibaba Cloud put serious effort into securing their public cloud, and even covering the ass for the customer. For example similar to GitHub+AWS secret scanning, they also proactively revoke access keys once the key appears on the Internet. The customers, on the other hand, usually do none of these.

In short, security is largely an Ops work and economies of scale also work here.

In the end these on-prem systems depend solely on network isolation for their security, and... air-gap does not always work.
“Solved the philosophy”, what does that mean? Also would be nice to see my score on few distribution graphs.
> Is there any alternative organizations like NIST but not-NIST?

DJB

OpenSSH basically decided to ignore the NIST competition and implemented Streamlined NTRU Prime. https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0
If you made GPT-3 respond to onlyfans DMs you would have some hilarious results.
I had a benign cyst removed from my neck, about the size of a grape. I casually mentioned it to my dad some time later, and he said he had a golf ball sized cyst removed from the same location.

Weird. It's almost as if we were related.
That usually requires physical access to the server to select it during boot.
age, home address, phone number

names and relations to family members and all their phones and addresses

previous addresses

a lot of it is collected from voter registration data (so your party affilition can be gathered as well)

I was royally pissed when I moved into a new home and literally a day after I signed up for internet service with Spectrum cable I got spam calls that know what state I'm in and my new home address is up online before I ever get around to updating my ID etc so I assume my data was sold immediately by them
I'm surprised, DW was that early. I wrote by hand from about '96 using pico on a Sun system. I remember discovering frames and SSI in about '97.
33% of people will kill themselves over another individual (sure...)

17% of people will kill themselves over killing 5 clones

Come on guys, consistency, please!
The Singular 'They'
What PII
Anonymity is a broad term though. I would be incredibly surprised (and fascinated) if anyone on HN can find my true identity from my account, even with an e-mail address in my profile. I also know that Google (and therefore powerful bad actors or law enforcement) can easily figure it out, since I've logged in to this e-mail address from the same devices as my private e-mail address.

If I'd need full privacy, I'd have to add many more levels of security in my daily life that I don't find necessary. I just don't want people (or a SWAT team) to show up at my door because I triggered someone on the internet. That's why I post from multiple different accounts on different platforms. Though, I'm sure, in the future some form of AI will be able to link them all based on writing style and similarity of content of my posts. Guess I'll have to find another way to remain somewhat anonymous then.
Test driven marriage?
GM's been trying to figure out the non-ICE drivetrains for three decades. They have a tradition of one step forward, three steps back. I'm confident that GM will take another step forward. I'm also fairly certain they'll take as many steps back as well.
Except BYD is not the "Big Boy".

They sold 730k cars in 2021.

While respectable, it's less that Tesla's 900k and clearly not in the VW / Toyota league.

If anything, it's BYD and Tesla that are chasing the big boys while the big boys, with the exception of VW, still seem to be half asleep when it comes to EVs.
“Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets. The U.S. Has Women.”
Eh, I like Slack. Can't relate.

Turn off the friggin' notifications if you don't like them. (I don't understand why anybody leaves notifications turned on on any app, tbh -- I turn everything off the first time I see it.)
I see no mention of GM in the article. It talks about Chinese automaker BYD.
Came here to say that. Most people in my circle were starting like that, playing around in Netscape, finding Composer and be like: Wow, I can make web pages myself.

Soon the even bigger revelation came: It's all just plain text!

Also: I don't remember anyone using books. The web was much smaller back than, but if it has had anything in abundance it was resources for learning how to make websites.
it's all so theoretical, I think we need to do a more concrete simulation to see how it all plays out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRhrfhP5b4
I just look a the collective actions of Microsoft. That's a way bigger indication of what it's trying to do.

Nadella is just a person. It can't steer a behemoth of a corporation going on the same path for at least 30 years, with a DNA planted by its founder and built upon "acquiring" other people's source code and being "inspired" by others' ideas.

On the other hand, I just see Nadella as a softer talking version of Ballmer. He's just acting soft, but threading the same path with same insistence and rigor of Ballmer.

I don't trust Microsoft as a corporation, period. Their current ambitions and actions only reinforce the image I have in my mind which is formed by experience. This is a strong opinion, firmly held. I don't swing it around to hit people with it, but kindly show them whenever need arises.

Lastly, Why is it so frowned upon to not like a company in a non-violent way and voice one's opinion?
I find the implication here that GM makes good cars amusing.
Still better than this barely usable garbage called Google Chat.

Messages from 6 months ago shown as "TODAY", PM/mention notifications delivered to GMail after 12 or 24 hours, no possibility to mark message as a reminder, "PWA" needing page refreshing and 25MB downloads...

Zulip is a godsend in comparison to this joke of a communication tool but sadly businesses like "ecosystems" even if it distracts productivity and communication.
I knew someone from the Netherlands would elaborate!

I actually saw the fact pointed out in a comment. It's brought up quite often here—even a fairly narrow query finds many instances:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=netherlands%20religion%20nazi&...

Some have citations, too. HN is proving quite useful as a knowledge engine.
Surprised on the answer to the “worst enemy” one. I wouldn’t really call anyone I know personally my worst enemy, so I figured it’d be someone like Mao or Hitler, and of course I’d just have it run them over.

Do other people have a worst enemy in their life?
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry
It's not trivial, dunno about US, but in many (developed) countries around world not providing help to someone (passing around car crash without stopping, if you don't see anyone providing help) has legal implications.
To explain the remark of majormajor a bit further:
A philosopher can translate the attribution of the quotes to certain arguments or ‘thinking structure’ of the mentioned philosopher. It’s important not to see the argument and it’s supporting discourse in isolation but in the context given by the quoted philosopher’s work. This may look like name-dropping but is essentially a important as specifying if a certain mathematical trick only works in a Hilbert space.
> I'm a systems architect. Blockchain is garbage tech

The goal is to build a permissionless and censorship-resistent financial network. This has been going extremely well. People referencing their engineering credentials and arguing that the "tech is garbage" always have lots of opinions on the usefulness of such a permissionless and censorship-resistent financial network (not a tech question), but are notably silent as to which technical decisions where incorrect, and what the correct ones are. The latter is key, because unless there is a better way to build for the desired goal, there is no tech-deficiency here.

And to put the timeline into context: Note that AMMs like Uniswap, a key infrastructure innovation in the space, are about 4 years old - before this, it was basically impossible to exchange two tokens in a decentralized way. Other key pieces like cross-chain communication systems and rollups are still being built.
Nothing is ever just a matter of mass production. Scaling brings its own, massive problems, some of which Tesla experienced with the relatively simple Model 3.
If pulling the lever is going to kill someone, I never pull it. The only hard one is if pulling it will save my own life, I probably would in that case but it would be wrong. Pulling the lever makes you a murderer instead of a bystander.
I don't know this guy, but how can he confirm this? does he possess any inner information? why I got the feeling that he is so eager to put a conclusion on this when it is still open for debate at this stage.
64bit? Not so fast!
We could just add a flag to signify "time after 2038" and "time before 1901". That would give us another 68 years into the future and the past. Doesn't that seeme like a great solution? /s
Looks good (or is it just nostalgia?):

- familiar font on grey background is quite readable

- blue underlined link tell you what to click on

- link turning violet to indicate you've visited it already? Genius!
Golang high-performance non-intrusive distributed transaction solution
I loath these and related libraries. They promote a style that diverges from regular Emacs Lisp code that makes it hard to read if you are not familiar with the additional language, and on top of that frequently promote a wasteful and inefficient style (e.g. instead of searching a buffer it is converted into a string, split on newlines, filtered and then checked if the filtered list is nil). I've sent out numerous patches to remove these leftpad-esque dependencies from projects that often only make use of one or two functions, that more often than not are just alii for built-in functions. Of all these libraries dash has some kind of a legitimation, but all the rest I consider code smell and makes me question if using the package is even worth it.

Also note that (besides dash), emacs-devel decided against adding any of these packages to the ELPAs. This has made it harder to add a number of packages to NonGNU ELPA, but has been a good excuse to get rid of the dependencies. If anyone is looking for some good Elisp exercise consider sending a patch to replace f/s/... with built-in functionality.

In case dash/f/s/... provide functionality that is not available on older releases of Emacs that one still intends to support, consider using compat (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/compat.html), a library that I have been developing that attempts to backport recent developments for older releases.
Maybe it's changed, but in the Netherlands PHEVS were mostly bought because of lower taxation when driving them as a company car. Because the companies paid gas, people used them as regular cars and ended up polluting more due to the weight of the batteries.

We've had some changes in the taxation scheme though, so this may no longer be relevant.
Strange it's not measuring sales.
Mathematicians Are Trying to ‘Hear’ Shapes–and Reach Higher Dimensions
This article could be about 20% as long if you cut out the rambling. You say modern SPAs are terrible but don't provide any examples of what you mean by that. You go on a completely irrelevant rant about Icelandic culture in the middle. But it's a post complaining about how modern web dev sucks, so HN will upvote it anyway!

We don't need more talking about what apps are good and what are bad. We need more doing and building (coincidentally what the people actually working in these ecosystems and trying to improve them are engaged in)
Which number? 2038? Because that's what you are replying to.
This. But even what the article agrees with is wrong: "It only works if you focus solely on western Europe, where the decline of Rome left a nasty gap in the records." -- There is not really a gap. We have fewer records, but still covering a lot. They may not be autographs, but that is not very different from the situation with antiquity. And when it comes to supporting chronology, numismatics is probably the best evidence. It would be impossible for a forger of history to bury hundreds of thousands of matching coins all over Europe.
I remember seeing that and thinking wow, a Sandler film can be good!

Other than that I think you have to go a long way back for toned down 'dopey' though, before he hit that particular stride. Or maybe I was just younger and not so bothered by it - can't think of an example at the moment.
Sioyek 1.4 – Academic PDF Viewer
I don't think there's one. I am only aware of `blog.google`. The root is `.google` itself, everything before that is conceptually like a subdomain.