skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today I learned that the Department of Homeland Security runs Emergency Relief Operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they have assigned a Deportation Officer.

Why does an Emergency Relief Operation need a Deportation Officer?

It seems like we need, more than ever, to disband and disarm Border Control. Maybe make a new agency, and forbid it to hire anyone at all from the old snakepit.
I've never understood the word to have that connotation of performance.
Windows Terminal and PowerShell. PowerShell is more powerful than most Unix family shells if configured properly. It also supports fish-style autocomplete and vim mode. You can call into win32 standard libraries and create GUIs too. C# is an amazing scripting language with support for REPLs, WebAssembly, and has a speed approaching C.

Registry tweaks must be documented and done properly, remember to maintain good platform and site reliability engineering practices. Windows update will automatically reset the registry sometimes, so keep that in mind.

Windows comes with powerful tools out of the box, and there are even more first party tools from Microsoft to modify your system. PowerToys is a good option. Rarely would you need to reach for third party apps for day to day OS management if you know what you are doing. I recommend the book Windows Internals. Too many people try to shoehorn Unix philosophy into their day to day Windows usage. The NT kernel is designed with a hypervisor/extend-and-embrace usage in mind. At one point Windows even had a POSIX-compliant subsystem. However, keep in mind most of Windows retains their strong IBM/VMS/DOS heritage, and they are very different from the Unix family, you would be in for a bad time if you approach it like a Unix system (outside of the WSL integration).
I suspect it depends on your region, page/post in question and browser fingerprint. A post marked as public isn't 100% guaranteed to be publicly viewable. Sometimes you can view it but merely scrolling down on the page would trigger a login form for example (I've had this happen for pages that are definitely meant to be public such as businesses who'd have an interest in getting as many eyeballs as possible on their content).

I might be wrong and maybe the behavior is actually fully deterministic and isn't nefarious, but knowing the company behind it I'll assume malice until proven otherwise.
Now this is what the OP was looking for, and it so happens that I'm going to look into these too! Thanks!

Quick question because I have no idea what I'm doing: is there any integration in either of those that you know of for one or more 3rd party auth system(s)? I don't want to write my own auth!
It shows a trend of deviant behavior that coincides suspiciously with their work: building and marketing an online space designed to attract children.

You can take issue with it if you want, but the fact is that there is real world overlap.
One of the issues I had with KnockoutJS is that it's pretty easy to leak memory and quite easy to use a lot of CPU. Maybe we were "using KnockoutJS wrong" (entirely possible!), but we had several independent teams working on different products and they all suffered from these problems. Eventually we switched most things to VueJS and the performance difference was remarkable.

I'm not a dedicated front-end dev, although I did write plenty of KnockoutJS code (I was less involved with the VueJS rewrites; I mostly moved to work on backend code and other things), but overall I'd be a bit wary of KnockoutJS. I'm sure there is a way to avoid these issues, but I was never quite able to figure out how.
I've been using ad blockers for so long, sometimes I forget that the web even has ads.

A while ago I sent a friend a link to something I found online, not realizing it was full of porn ads and scam ads. I had to convince him to get off the phone with "Microsoft".
I ran my own email server for a while and to be frank, it was a pain in the butt. Even though I spent a lot of time reading up on the proper way to set things up and tried to apply that as well as I was able, there was this lingering feeling that something somewhere was misconfigured, if not from a mail authentication/anti-spam standpoint, then from a network vulnerability one, and of course it needed to be continually maintained with patches, config updates, etc.

Eventually I gave up and moved to Fastmail. The few dollars per month are worth it.

Syncthing on the other hand I found pretty reasonable when I still had need for it, with my only gripe being that the only UI surfaced by several clients is a webpage which feels a bit janky.
Easy solution: Never spend money on a Meta product.
The source you posted is highly biased against nuclear - and HEAVILY inflated the number of deaths caused by Fukushima, while strangely putting outrageously low numbers for the deaths from Chernobyl.

You can look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

...for a better breakdown, but this wikipedia article conflates deaths caused by the meltdown evacuation with deaths caused by the tsunami and earthquake evacuation (remember the massive tsunami and earthquake?).

Additionally, while trying to predict future deaths based on undetectible doses of radiation is a very unreliable task. ...and if you compare it to other energy sources, nuclear is one of the safest, if not the safest of the scalable solutions.
US cities looked like European cities before we decided to change course (they just had grids instead of mazes). We tore down dense cities, built freeways, and mandated suburbia as basically the only development style permitted. We can turn it around quite easily if we wanted.

[1] is a great twitter account that shows the before and after destruction of our cities.

[2] is a great series of videos contrasting our NA development to European development. Plenty of videos demonstrating the course Netherlands was on were following US development styles there too (car dominated inner cities) in the 70s/80s but they consciously decided to change course which is why they look like they do now. So we can change course too. If we want to.

[1] https://twitter.com/SegByDesign
[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/notjustbikes
No one square meter of nature is bad. But you can definitely doom people to horribly die because there is a natural swamp between them and the hospital. People tend to define 'natural' too narrowly, forgetting that 'things that are natural' includes cocaine, tapeworms, rape, birth defects, the Plague and cancer
Starlink Maritime
Building nuclear plants is really not something that I'd put in the category of "things one can do quickly".
Thank you! The "See Reference" makes it much easier to comply with licenses, than GitHub Copilot.
Except these criticisms aren't limited to UCLA. US Universities have created an alternate reality of offenses and priorities not shared by our adversaries, our competitors and many of our friends around the world. As a result our students are graduating with impossible expectations that cannot be met, and they will be flattened by others less idealistic and 'virtuous' to paraphrase Machiavelli. Think I'm wrong, well then give these a listen:

https://www.hoover.org/research/glenn-show
https://www.hoover.org/research/free-speech-archipelago

And predictive policing will become increasingly important as fewer people have any interest in a profession as slandered and scrutinized as police work.
> FYI: Some torrent search engines are blocked by ISPs in Europe, at the DNS level

And some of those now resolve the IP addresses of popular torrent sites, and block their IP addresses -- or rather, redirect connection attempts to a local anti-piracy page.

I know this to be the case for at least one ISP, but it's the biggest one in the country, and needless to say they have a video on demand business as well.
My god, they didn't call you, or anyone, a Nazi. They stated a fact regarding Nazi's relationship to predictive policing.

The fact that you read that and somehow viewed it as being called a Nazi is something that might deserve some self-reflection.
It provides an authenticated rest API (with a premade JavaScript client library) to an sqlite database, so you can store users' data similarly to how you might use firebase.
> you go down hard (unlike ghislaine maxwell)

What do you mean? I haven't been following that case, but it looks like she got a 20 year prison sentence, which I would consider "going down hard."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell#Conviction
I mean I won't name names, but yeah. Best-fit line on CPI was pointing to below zero within the decade (and a common statement was 'humans see crossing 0 as a major milestone, but numbers do not') and we had already seen deflation more or less happening in Japan [0] Italy [1] Switzerland [2] Greece [3] and other small economies with slow-growing population.

Hell, depending on what you believe about globalization and the nature of capital formation, one can still make a compelling contrarian argument that the developed world will see significant disinflation until we start getting serious about global warming (or global warming gets more serious, which is likely what will come first).

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Rw9J
[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Rw9M
[2]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Rw9S
[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Rw9W
> (unlike ghislaine maxwell)

The woman who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison?
Tabs are a better delimiter than commas. Using the ASCII control characters meant for record and field delimiters are even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes
I have this same need and am preparing an evaluation of Meshtastic in the field this month.

I'm part of a volunteer EMS division within a paid fire department and we staff foot teams and medical carts at large events at our 90,888-capacity stadium (football, concerts, etc; well over 100k including tailgaters at our biggest game of the year) and music festivals with 10-40k attendees on the adjacent golf course.

While we have fancy Motorola APX 8000XE, our on-site dispatch wholly lacks visibility into unit locations and the abysmal cell service precludes software solutions leveraging mobile phones.
I think the problem with this argument is the internet is useful to anyone, not just criminals.
Not sure how the everyone dies plays out from a logical perspective, but I like the framing to push for a choice.
This is FN awesome.

Ill never have use, but I can't wait to see this in the wild.

One thought: FORCE any site that uses this to not be behind a cookie paywall ;-)
I think this may be what I was looking for:

https://www.askui.com/askui-vs-selenium/

Looks like it has been posted on HN several times, each with very little discussion.
Nah, throughout most of history, things sucked if you were rich, and sucked even more if you were poor.
BLE Long Range mode can get somewhat over a kilometer line-of-sight, open-field range.
You could still have holes in a self hosted setup. The self hosted version could forward stuff on to someone else… so you could setup a firewall. But is it really blocking everything or is it just telling you it’s blocking things. This can go on forever, it all depends on the threat model and how far down the rabbit hole you have time to go.
Trie Based Classifiers Evaluation
It’s really corny how this became the word for “I walk around sometimes”. Always taking pains to point how it’s so different from how other people walk around.

I like to go walk around because I’m a normal person. It doesn’t need to be an identity with a fancy word imo
If you can consistently make money the bookies / betting platforms will just ban you.
Ok, so it's a self-hosted CRUD boilerplate with auth written in Go? Or a self-hosted Notion but with less view/UI customization out of the box?
I wonder if you could use this to achieve an animation effect like some 8- and 16-bit games did with color cycling. eg http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
There is also the much larger confusion arising of whether it's an ML compiler in the sense of being a specialized compiler for ML code (compiles a description of a network to efficient ML-specific low-level IR to enable further optimization and code generation), or whether it's an ML compiler, a compiler (or part of it) that uses ML.

The first meaning is extremly common, the top 2 results for "ML Compiler" on google returns[1][2], both using it in the first sense. It's not that ML or ML-like techniques in compiler writing is new but the first sense is definitely at least as popular an interpretation.

[1] https://huyenchip.com/2021/09/07/a-friendly-introduction-to-...

[2] https://petewarden.com/2021/12/24/why-are-ml-compilers-so-ha...
To Roblox's credit, they do take the "Club Penguin" approach: If you're under 13, you can only chat from a drop-down of chat options, and can only see messages sent using that functionality.

Now, that doesn't stop kids from lying about their age when registering, but that's another can of worms.
My 16in M1 Max with MagSafe is not compatible with the older MagSafe chargers
multiple function pointers in a struct is inefficient memory-wise, I think you'd be much better off with a single pointer to a lookup table that can be shared by all instances.

Its even more cumbersome, but its what you pay if you want efficiency in c.
Something I always wondered: the Gamecube had an IBM PowerPC processor with a RISC instruction set. ARM is also a RISC instruction set. Is there some performance boost in running Dolphin on ARM-powered hardware, or is it more or less the same as running it on an x86-based chip? My sense is that RISC -> RISC potentially would be more straightforward?
You're the pirate equivalent of a master jewel thief. "It's so easy! Just hotwire the security system, dance through the laser field, duh!" It's stochastic. They want to cut out casual piracy, those of us who know how to pirate are acceptable losses.
How do these solutions compare in general? zrepl vs sanoid/syncoid vs zsnapsend

I found an old 2017 issue about one user's reasoning when deciding between sanoid and zsnapsend: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/issues/102
Some managers are just team members with organizational skills, they're great. Others are ladder-climbers who use bullying and economic force to advance. The more hierarchical an organization,the more likely you are to find the latter type.
Link [4] that I sent you says otherwise. You should find some links to back your position.
This feels like a stable equilibrium problem. To get out of the U that they find themselves in, some collective amount of energy, applied at the same time, is required. Individual defections or other actions wont work, and attempts at collective action so far have not succeeded (eg invoking the 25th amendment in the last administration was floated but could not get very far). Barring a truly catastrophic shock that breaks the hold of the supporters, such as a mass shooting/massacre in the Senate carried out by an obviously and undeniably pro Trump person, or an absolutely crushing democratic landslide, I cant see it changing any time soon.
Yeah, I meant the goal was good, even if the current implementations didn't work out as expected (at least, as far as I know). But if not the token economy, what other advantage can new entrants offer to compete with the network effects of larger companies?

The goal wasn't just to replace the existing winners with others, but to do so in a way that ensured the gains of the enterprise would be more equally shared with the community. If the token economy can't do this, might there be another way? Or should we declare this a utopia and give up trying?
Russian influence operations at work. Russia has been promoting anti-nuclear sentiment in the West since the 1960s.
How many of the languages that were spoken 10000 years ago do we still speak? Launching nuclear waste in space is dangerous, not because of what it will do there but because a lot of rockets explode on their way there scattering parts as fine particles all over the world.
The future of apps. The article was saying running Electron Apps locally for privacy, I predict those that care about their privacy will go for paid for web apps that protect their privacy.
All Facebook needs is data that they can tie to a phone number or primary email. Geolocation and first name would be enough for that.

I think the real reason for requiring Facebook accounts was just padding user numbers and events for a quarterly report (likely for somebody's bonus to land).
In hindi, aimless strolling is called matargashti. There's actually an amazing song by the same name from a fantastic movie called Tamasha, which is all about matargashti in life.
As they should, with 8 billions inhabitants, assuming that peace can be kept on good intentions is the pacifist fallacy. We just got a wonderful example with the invasion of Ukraine. You can be nice, you can play nice, you can apply sanctions, send strongly worded statement, and yet Ukrainians are dying and tanks are still rolling in.

You know what's stopping the Russians? Javelins and Bayraktars.
Check out streamlit: https://streamlit.io/

All Python, no need for JavaScript, css, etc. Lots of example templates.
meta (heh): can’t view this page without accepting all cookies, including Facebook ad ones, which it says you can control on your cookie settings page (404 link) but if you don’t have a Facebook account you can’t access
Swabs for Covid testing made Stefania Triva a billionaire
I think the problem here it is not obvious, on the surface, that predictive urban crime software is horrid and inhumane. Only after digging deeper and perhaps reading the books and popular movies you mention does it become apparent. You can't simply say, if it is not obvious to this person, then they are unfit for teaching. The "obvious" parts need to be spelled out in detail.
It’s so absurd. They call their children sneaky liars in the Anglo-sphere and then never tell them the truth in a silly attempt to “protect” their innocence. Of course they are sneaky liars?
Yes I know. Basic game theory comes to mind.

But if you have closely observed China, you know that it is not some private hacker arguing in favor of development of AI drones in some private forum.

It is some Harvard/Stanford/Peking/Tsinghua educated scientific policy advisor deep inside the army/government doing this job.
There is definite interest, lots of content out there. A summary / survey might be a good place to start.

Some other subtopics

- open source / COSS

- B2B vs B2C

- Playbooks for sales that show that it isn't scummy, misconception is prevalent

- founder led sales

- how to build a sales habit from zero

There are a number of technical people who would like to turn their ideas into businesses and sales is the last thing they want to think about or do. Helping them to change that and succeed could be a good goal.

Books I've found helpful are "Crossing the Chasm", "The Challenger Customer", and "To Sell is to be Human"
I'll never forget the day someone on the subway shouted "I can't believe character X dies!"
I’ve only once built a reasonable igloo in the manner depicted in the video. It requires dry snow having a consistency a bit like styrofoam. Snow caves in a big snowdrift or under the branches of a large snow covered fir tree are much more likely to be practical shelters. (Be careful not to warm up the cave under snow covered branches too much or the roof of you cave can collapse and melt.

I live in Texas now so there isn’t as much opportunity to make use of these skills. Buffalo, on the other hand had plenty of snow.
It's not brainless, there is a very intelligent cohort of people who stand to gain a lot of money from investments shifting away from nuclear energy into sources they are personally leveraged in. People aren't generally able to form grassroots movements without the consent of at least some of the moneyed elite.
This is great news!

Yet another validation that SCCs are useless. Until US Privacy Law gets an overhaul or CloudAct is abolished, there is likely nothing that can be done to match GDPR privacy requirements.

Next victim will be a brand new GA4 with its reversible anonymization tricks.

Eventually, we should have a long hard look at AWS.
Trust your nuclear scientists/engineers because they know what they're doing and are, in fact, not playing god
unironically, yes. in an ideal capitalist system, money should flow to those who can best allocate it, so stupid investors losing $$$ to more savvy investors in financial pvp is the market working as intended.
There is a world of difference between a modern Gen III+ reactor, and the 1960s design of Fukushima and Chernobyl.

It's like comparing the dangers of doctors using 12th century blood-letting and leeches vs getting an MRI.
with that reasoning they would need to allow Google or MS AD accounts.
> It reads like a hit piece

There’s nothing wrong with a hit piece if it’s factual
No. Only a child-acting parent yells at their children. It might be popular in your culture, but it doesn’t make it right.
They did release a headset. It's just that it flopped.
If I assume the best, and the author's account really did happen that way, then the school (and the parent) have done a poor job of sex ed.

> I didn't pay much attention to sex ed until it actually became relevant to me

It was several weeks after the daughter's first period. Probably pretty relevant. And the signs of puberty start showing up before then.

But note that this wasn't a sex ed class, it was "a module on ‘identity’". Even if we limit ourselves to sexual identity, that topic includes heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transexual, and asexual.

Even P.E./gym should have covered something on how exercise and phyiscal fitness can affect how comfortable you feel in in your body.

> and the child had no exposure to sex ed whatsoever prior to the talk on transgenderism

For the author's theory to be true means at least 6 other parents also did not talk to their children about sex ed -- and that's assuming every single one of those children concluded they were trans, which seems far outside the odds.

If I assume the best, then this sounds like such an outlier that there's no take-home lesson to learn.
Wow literally the only thing people seem to be putting up as an argument for working on this is "someone else will do it otherwise."

I mean, yes this tech like most others is dual use. But let's for the sake of argument assume that we know this tech will mostly be used for military purposes.

Yes, others might still develop this. But in the meantime "we" (whoever this is, reminder: HN users aren't just from the US) get to miss out on other things we could have invested millions/billions into. That infrastructure project? Gone. That research into new/better energy storage? Gone. That quirky project about preserving natural habitats in the third world? Gone. By the way, that one might have actually contributed something to a lasting peace in the region. But hey it doesn't matter because we'll win any armed conflict with our drones.

That might sound bitter and/or idealistic, but ultimately if we accept that the funding of whole branches of research depends on how much benefit it provides to the military, then ultimately we can say all day long how we value nature and human rights and all these things, but we're really just dressing up a really fancy warrior armor with some Greenpeace badges.
Renewables are getting here faster than nuclear.

At a fundamental level this is because you can mobilize a lot more manpower building renewables than you can building nuclear. A million homeowners adding solar power versus decade-long nuclear power plant projects.

During the past decade in Germany, renewables added more power generation capacity than all the remaining nuclear reactors did combined. That energy is here now, and half of it gave benefits already 5 years ago.

So I don't think it's wise to divert money from renewables and storage to build new nuclear, but keeping existing nuclear around for as long as possible is a completely different matter.