skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we really doing this? Are you really serious? Besides the fact that most of the country is firewalled off from foreign media, and besides the fact that only one political party is allowed, and besides the fact that political prisoners are routinely jailed for nothing more than denying a government narrative, holding mock polls, publishing or assembling (and I don't mean held for a day or two like in the West, but jailed for years)

Can a US citizen go on media, or organize a public protest, in which they call Joe Biden or Donald Trump, bad people, with bad policies? Yes, US citizens can publicly call for the highest level politicians in the land to lose their jobs, and with no real repercussions.

People on social media can scream "Let's Go Brandon" or meme like crazy about Biden. But Weibo, Wechat, Bilibili, Douyin, frequently censor even the most milquetoast sarcastic remarks about the CCP or Xi, including the infamous Baozi and Panda blocks.

Can a famous Chinese public individual/celebrity/intellectual, in China, tell a huge crowd and media, that I think the CCP are horrible and that Xi Jinping needs to be booted from power?

Stop trying to draw false equivalencies.

> I mean, some people believe there are no public elections in China, so…

Sure, where the CCP select and approve the candidates, control the election progress, and there is no free media coverage or transparency free of state control. Practically no real international election monitors. And no direct nationwide elections. Rather, a many levels of indirection process, effectively controlled by a President for life. Let's see what happens at Beidaihe and the 20th national congress in November. Think anything will change? I don't.

There's practical no competing, transparent system in these so called 'democratic elections' making them in effort, a Potemkin village with the veneer of popular will, but in fact, nothing of the sort. There are about 50 individuals in the US congress worth more than $10 million, and not a single one who is a billionaire. Trump was the only billionaire to have office. Meanwhile, there are 100+ CCP members in the Congress who are billionaires.

Does this look like a system chosen by public debate, awareness, and discussion?

For all of the flaws in the Western systems, and there are a vast number, it is really tiring seeing tankies try to say "everything's the same" with zero nuance, as if none of it matters.
Dismissing this lawsuit as a conspiracy theory is embarrassing for both of them.

There is ample evidence to document malfeasance by the involved parties, and it’s reasonable to ask NIST to follow public law.
>if a man doesn’t happily accept his wife supplementing her income through selling on-demand pornography to strangers online then he’s portrayed as being anti feminist.

In my opinion, this is hyperbole. I think a less biased and more realistic version of this complaint is something like "if a man disapproves of women supplementing . . .", as opposed to his wife (and assuming the implied qualifier that his wife didn't already do things like this before marriage).

As always, I'm sure you can find someone out there who embodies your complaint, but it would not be representative of popular accusations of anti-feminism.
It's their fault for having a shitty name.
Trump appeared to make money during his election versus the billion the Hillary campaign spent…
Articles like this worship the act of writing on paper, not the process of iteratively putting down thoughts and shaping them.

I use Notion. I also use paper.

I tried using "fancy writing equipment" that ended up too nice for me to scribble on. Because any momentary idea is garbage and not worthy of this nice acid-free, leather bound notebook.

So no I have a stack of very cheap legal notepads that I just put whatever I want on. Sometimes I'll rip the pages out. Sometimes I'll trash them. Eventually the good ideas take shape, and I'll move them to Notion
Only tangentially related, but...

I use Firefox. Anyone know of a way I can have it close all tabs once a day? Either via an external script or an extension?
that's surprising; every support interaction i've had with amazon has been incredibly positive, and i'm a nobody...
*waves hand*

I have at certain points in life considered myself part of this movement. I think I'd still consider myself one, but with a lot more cynicism.

At this point it's unquestionable to me that people will eventually do some version of "mind uploading." However I doubt we'll ever answer the question whether you'll be uploading "yourself" or not - my guess is not.

Unless we somehow make a literal "Matrix" like the movies, it's just not going to happen and I see no reason we would or should build such a thing.
If you care about preventing those kinds of leaks, do not use mainstream browsers (they are likely to leak even your https URLs to the browser company), and do not access those pages directly using your home connection (there may be mitms between you and the page).
At least you even have the beta. I bought it back when it was 8K, and I'm unable to qualify for FSD because I live at the top of a hill with a tight twisty road, and no mattter how slowly I drive (slowly enough that people behind me get annoyed), the "safety score" considers that unsafe driving and I get dinged. No FSD for me.

If I could refund it, I would, since there seems to be no way for me to get it.
If you don't use a Russian passport your background has little importance in most countries.
You’re making it sound as if Italy is a third-world country heading towards societal collapse. It’s the second largest manufacturer in the EU with a lot of companies producing high-tech products (Arduino is Italian, for example). It’s also a G7 member and the 3rd largest economy in the EU and Eurozone.
I wouldn't call myself a fanboy but I believed he genuinely wanted to advance the electric car, no matter who ends up coming on top. This was the version of reality I saw in 2009 ish. The goal was not to make money. I thought he actually wanted to show the big carmakers that you can actually sell an electric car.

Back then I didn't know about how good public transit is better than even the cleanest electric car because I had never experienced good public transit and well I have very limited imagination (I thought the Dropbox was a sucker that I was taking advantage of because I could get extra 50 MB or whatever by just walking up to someone in my dorm and referring them to use Dropbox, even if they had no intention to continue using Dropbox...)
Wait until they make 1nm robots.
> Dismissing this lawsuit as a conspiracy theory is embarrassing for both of them.

They are not dismissing the lawsuit.
"spaghetti": “At 12:00 AM, between day 8 and 14 of the month, only in January through April and June through December”
Qwik JavaScript Web Framework
how could NIST possibly be "one of our most sacrosanct institutions" after the NSA already fucked them with Dual_EC_DRBG?

whoever wants to recommend standards at any point since 2015 needs to be someone else

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_SP_800-90A for this who have forgotten.
A colleague of mine who is Chinese walked by a protest in China and inadvertently checked his phone. He was interrogated by state police for almost a day during the following weekend.
The fact that it is recorded and available to the wide audience. The fact that the prosecution actually had to present evidence. The fact that a wide audience actually cares about this trial. The fact that this trial is covered by the media. The fact that the whole trial takes more than half an hour. The fact that the defendant only risks his money but not his freedom.
First off, his "fuck up" was leaking it, second it's still protected under attorney client privilege if AJ didn't authorize it.

Your attorney can't just leak (on purpose or accident) information you gave them and it be used against you.

Just because you don't like X person don't allow the government to step on everyone's inalienable rights.

If you went to trial for a traffic violation and your lawyer accidentally forwarded texts of you buying drugs, how would you feel being charged by the state for that crime?

-- EDIT --

> gpm: The law is explicit in this case that the attorney client privilege is waived by the attorney not asserting it within 10 days

Please cite what you are referring to.
No, and HaLow would be an awful choice for a mesh network as there are only 3 possible channels as I understand it.
>> The end result is a bunch of nerds ruining their credit scores

Hilarious and well put! Speaking as an erstwhile musician, this has been my theory about Guitar Center's business model since the 90s.
So you agree that Alex Jones is deliberately spreading lies for personal profit, and that this is harmful, but believe there shouldn't be any laws against it or any punishment for the consequences? Does that include the judgement he's facing now?

Governments have been regulating speech since the beginning of governments. Every society doesn't exist in a state of maximal speech oppression as a result, so it cannot be the case that any attempt to regulate speech chills free speech in general.
> "The LOGO system supports two different (by no means disjoint) environments: the Turtle, Graphics and Musicbox world (ie: peripheral devices which are controlled by a command language) and the LISP world."

Whelp, the lack of an Oxford comma there really through me for a loop until I continued reading. Anyway...

> "Our experiences, especially with young students, indicate that programming in LOGO may serve as a bridge between natural language communication and reasoning and the formal and abstract symbols and reasoning in mathematics and programming languages."

If anyone is interested in this, there are the following books:

* Exploring Language with Logo: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262570653

* Visual Modeling with Logo: A Structured Approach to Seeing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262530694

* Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics: https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Geometry-Mathematics-Artificia...

* Computer Science Logo Style: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html

It's disappointing to me that Logo died out and didn't remain around or evolve, and I find it a bit sad that many kids are getting introduced to programming via something like Python or Scratch. I feel there's still space for Logo, and it would be cool to see an easily downloadable and installable version of it.
The Latest Study on Red Meat and Heart Disease: A Red Herring
apple sidecar gives you this if you buy the ipad.
i mean, rather than pop up slack notification messages, just talk to me when alerts come in. visual notifications are annoying to me.
We put a report together for Amazon showing what has happened and if approved, they will allow us to keep the payment as if the item had not been returned and then they are now supposedly putting customers on a three-strike system where Amazon will potentially cancel their account for repeated misbehaviour.

This does not scale. It also isn’t worth it for low margin or low cost items. While it’s nice to hear this brand has a positive experience with Amazon, my experience as a third-party brand much lower down the totem pole is Amazon seldom investigates or respects such reports, and inevitably sides with the customer. ‘Customer delight’ is the dogma they preach 24/7, even though customers make mistakes or sometimes commit fraud.
Super impressive splitting there, wow. Just curious, was your source a lossless or compressed file?
There is practical and very much effective way: it is called propaganda: you don't need to regulate speech if you can control what people think (and national security, wokeism will take care of the rest).
I think the parent comment is really onto something here. Isn’t this just weaponizing Cunningham’s Law?

Few people can resist the pull of being a smart-ass and telling others they are doing things wrong. It’s kind of brilliant.
Apple didn't either (for premium smartphones) until, arguably, basing their manufacturing there helped standup a large infrastructure that could easily be turned around to make Huawei, Xiaomi, and other devices.

If Apple had somehow managed to make iPhones in Vietnam instead of Shenzhen, would they really be facing the premium tier competition from Huawei they face in the EU?
That’s a great way to explain it though.
JS Party episode with Qwik author, https://changelog.com/jsparty/237.
I suspect a good part of it is that he knows and knew all along, but he made his money this way, and now his thought process is (rightly or wrongly) that if he acts like he sincerely believed it, then it's less evil to have said what he said because he was 'mistaken' and not a piece of shit.
> You do have to click through Apple's EULA in order to use the machines at all.

Someone does. You can walk up to a Mac at a friends house and use it without accepting any EULA.

The machine doesn't physically check who accepted the EULA.

You can do everything without ever accepting a EULA yourself.
NotJustBikes has some excellent videos on the differences between US and European cities, this one captures many of the issues - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Ah, this one. It was discussed on HN back in May [0].

The main problem is that they aren't performing an analysis of mDAUs, as you imply. Their datasets are:

1. Followerwonk Random Sample – "Marc wrote code to randomly select public accounts from Followerwonk’s active database, and passed them to SparkToro for analysis. Casey on our team further scrubbed this list and ran 44,058 public, active accounts through our Fake Followers spam analysis process"

2. Aggregated Average of the Fake Followers Tool - "Over the last 3.5 years of operation, SparkToro’s Fake Followers tool has been run on 501,532 unique accounts, and analyzed thousands of followers for each of those, totaling more than 1 billion profiles (though these are not necessarily unique, and we don’t keep track of which profiles were analyzed as part of that process). ... We’ve included it for comparison, and to show that an analysis that includes simply random Twitter accounts (vs. those that have been recently active) may not be as accurate."

3. All Followers of @ElonMusk on Twitter

4. Active Followers of @ElonMusk on Twitter

5. Random Sample of 100 Users Following the @Twitter account

The last three datasets are obviously not relevant for getting a good estimate of mDAU authenticity. The second dataset may include inactive/duplicate accounts, and it's not clear how random the account selection is. The first dataset (as well as the second, to some extent) suffers from only including public, active accounts, which very much is not the same population Twitter is working with:

> We define mDAU as people, organizations, or other accounts who logged in or were otherwise authenticated and accessed Twitter on any given day through twitter.com, Twitter applications that are able to show ads, or paid Twitter products, including subscriptions.

In particular, note that Twitter has no requirement that mDAUs have public activity.

In addition, the article contains this bit at the bottom, which further reinforces that these numbers aren't comparable:

> We are not disputing Twitter’s claim. There’s no way to know what criteria Twitter uses to identify a “monetizable daily active user” (mDAU) nor how they classify “fake/spam” accounts. We believe our methodology (detailed above) to be the best system available to public researchers. But, internally, Twitter likely has unknowable processes that we cannot replicate with only their public data.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31397137
Metallica's Death Magnetic was another truly dreadful example of the loudness war - Thankfully a better mastered release came out in 2015. I've just got my hands on this release and comparing it against my original copy it is a night and day improvement - especially on "All Nightmare Long".
What if it's just able to break a particular RSA file after several billion attempts to keep it running long enough?
Show HN: SSHD Wizard – combine any SSD and HDD (Win only)
Apple also provides ample documentation
That could actually be a win-win, since return fraudsters now have no method to do their work, and you have the opportunity to pay with anonymous methods.
Windows 95 is unironically the pinnacle of UX design.

It uses beveled borders and colors to allow users to consistently differentiate between:

* A button

* A focused button

* A depressed button

* An input field

* A scroll bar

* A menu item

* A selected menu item

Each has a distinct and unmistakable visual identity that borrows from items and metaphors every human has encountered. Widgets are large enough to press. You don't need to guess or pixel hunt. Many buttons have both icons and labels.

It's a marvel of ingenuity and something I've not seen accomplished in any UI framework from this side of 2010.

It's especially stark in comparison to interfaces that look like this: https://imgur.com/IHjQEzM

Like, why do I need to hover over something to figure out if it is a button? Why do buttons look like menus? Why are there buttons in the input field? Is it an input field? I can barely tell, everything is nearly the same shade of grey. And why are all the buttons so incredibly tiny and why don't they have labels? I have a 4K screen. I have plenty of pixels.

You maniacs! You blew it up!
Yes but people haven't quite figured out WHY people should be offended at Microsoft for doing this, so it's quite convenient for them before people discover their reasons for being mad.
It crashed because of his antics.

The house was appraised and you signed a contract to buy it as-is. Then you take a hammer to every window and pipe then try to use that to negotiate a lower price.

Sorry, that is not how it works. It's clear that this is a continuation of Musk's feud with Twitter's management. His goal from the onset was to damage Twitter.
Weird for you to gatekeep the metal genre, when in the Netflix docuseries for Woodstock 99 even the lead singer of Korn talks about how everyone should be able to enjoy a show without being assaulted

People were getting trampled after falling down in the mosh pit, and there were several reports of gang rapes happening amidst the chaos. It's not really justifiable behaviour
Why does it have to be either? My comment was merely about leak of data to China. Whether it is non-existent or not is something I'd rather not find out.

It is after all a personal decision and to each their own.
There are plenty of very practical ways to legislate speech, we already do it all over the place.

We don't live in this legal abyss, most institutions make decisions for their business, but also for what they view to be higher, civic purposes.

Cable and Broadcast TV standards aren't just about profit maximization, they're kind of there to set a 'decency precedent'.

I mean, for the same reason you don't see 'porn everywhere' - you don't see the kinds of hyperbolic stuff Jones is saying all over the place.

Almost all organization have thresholds of various kinds, certainly Search, Social Media, Netflix, Cable/Broadcast in general, news outlets, Cable carriers, Academia yada yada.

The question will be perennially 'what to enforce and why' but we definitely already have standards.

Aside from fighting about the rules at various institutions, we then have 'legal' rules (a bit different), and of course we probably want to make sure there are at least some forums where anything can be said.
Corinth Canal in Greece Shut for a Whole Year and Counting
Ask HN: Why does this spammer keep calling me when he loses money each time?
I use my phone for a small software business so I can't just block any unknown number. A call from a customer or potential customer could come from anywhere. I must get a dozen cold calls a day from spammers/scammers.

I automatically just hang up if the other end is a recording, but if it is a live person I will let them give their sales pitch. Even if they are just paying slave wages to some outfit in India, it still costs them something to have a live person speak to me. Every minute I keep them on the line is one less minute they could be scamming someone's grandmother. So if I am not too busy, I think it is a public service to waste a few minutes of their time. If everyone did this then these shops would have to change their business model or go bankrupt.

There is a certain outfit selling insurance for 'final expenses'. I have no doubt that it is way overpriced and if I died then if by some miracle they were still in business; then my heirs would probably have to fight them for any money they owe.

I have tried everything. Politely telling them no (after making them repeat everything a few times). Telling them to get lost. Telling them I am way too young. Telling them they are scammers and I will never fall for their scam. Nothing makes them take me off their list. They must have called me 100+ times. Every time is a complete waste for them, but they keep doing it.

As Butch Cassidy would say, that is bad for business. But they keep doing it.
Many of his attempts have gone beyond 'shielding' to outright illegally hiding assets.
I've been sort of flabbergasted at the amount of money involved. Evil pays quite well, apparently.
> Aside: I really wish people would link to court documents whenever they talk about an ongoing lawsuit.

I just want to second that and thank you for the link. Most reporting is just horribly bad at covering legal stuff because all the stuff that makes headlines that people click on is mostly nonsense.
Treat it with ignore. If you can state honestly you're ossetian, ingushettian, georgian or abkhasian nobody will hate you for using a more specific to avoid the bile.

Russians smile less in photos. I don't know why theres a culture of "this is serious" when the camera snaps. Break the mould and be uncharacteristically overtly happy and invite happy people into your life.

Value your culture. Especially food culture. Pilmeni and kvass are worth celebrating.
Yeah the approach is restricted and more compiler support for this kind of workflow would be incredibly welcome. I wrote this in part to try to get more folks in the Rust community thinking in this direction. The hot-reload support that Zig is planning sounds really exciting and I would love for Rust to have something similar (one can dream, right ;).

That being said, you can still go quite some way with this approach. On the one hand, simply being able to twiddle an algorithm into shape is really handy when making a game, visualization or exploring data.

On the other hand, you can also serialize state or keep it in a generic form like a serde_json::Value. Serialization of course needs some kind of migration on the part of the code using it (if the data layout changes it loads an old version and needs to convert it to the new form) or defaults for newly added fields/types. However, this is true in general, even in other languages.
anyone who says uber is a worse version of taxes has to be inhaling the backend of the exhaust pope.

I have travelled all over the world. Every place that doesn't have uber and only has taxes are a huge pain in the ass. They tend to be over priced and getting a taxi when you need it is a matter of luck. In mexico, I had to walk to walmart to flag a taxi and get their whatsapp. Tnen it was a matter of if he was working when I called him. IT got better when I had a dozen taxi guys on my contacts but I still had to wait for them and only If I had cash. and that was where it was good. greek islands were worse! they jsut sit around playing chess till someone comes to them for a ride and the prices were exorbitant. also in cash.

Anyone who tries to say that taxes are a better experience needs to be smacked into reality.
If you can clearly hear adjacent units then that sounds to me like improper sound isolation. Typically condos tend to have much better sound isolation than apartments in the US (apartments will typically cheap out on the party walls).
Address not found - I think you may have HNd yourself?

Brilliant name, by the way.