skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve worked for the govt and no they aren’t a nebulous blob of power with tech.

Yes and I've worked for tech companies that use tracking in their products, though not (my products) for ads, so I know what a tech company can and cannot do.

> The tech company approach of staying willfully ignorant or positions like ITT with “we just build it!” has caused a lot of damage in the hands of the govt users it’s delivered to.

This isn't what anyone in this thread is saying at all, this is a strawman. There are material concerns about collecting too much data. Everything from leaked credentials allowing attackers to access personal data to accidents in targeting systems allowing individual level targeting.

But unless you have proof that there are internal systems in tech companies that build up surveillance platforms and that the government is given access to these surveillance platforms, both of which need proof, then this nebulous concern of "all data gathering is EVIL" is just FUD. The fact of the matter is, individual surveillance isn't useful for most tech companies. Cohort or product level information is required to make decisions. Moreover, storing surveillance data is extremely expensive. The amount of drive space and the systems necessary to facilitate this kind of per-human level surveillance requires large engineering teams and systems. Have you ever created a data warehouse? Imagine that but for this supposed surveillance machine.

> I don’t think it’s possible to in good faith ignore this dynamic or pretend it doesn’t exist and tech products’ role in it. This is actually the first time I’ve run into it like this where both the dynamic and the impact is just totally denied.

Yes everyone on HN and Twitter are convinced that data gathered by tech companies is all evil and that evil billionaires are twirling their mustaches as they enslave entire nations. This is clear. And there are clear risks to data gathering, cogent concerns about social media addiction, and definite monopoly concerns over the networks and moats that social media creates. But to have a coherent conversation on this, we need to move away from "all data gathering is EVIL" to understanding what kinds of data gathering is necessary and useful, and offering individuals rights over their data. TikTok was able to create its own network from scratch which is at least a small counterpoint to the idea that the incumbents are impossible to unseat due to their network advantages.

GDPR is a great step in the right direction and I'm hopeful for even more potent legislation to come out. But the sort of fearmongering that happens in these online spaces over data gathering makes it impossible to have a reasoned conversation.

And if you think tech companies are terrible entities abusing your data, then what are the telecoms doing? Telecoms in every country control the flow of information in every direction. The metadata available at a telecom down to an individual subscriber far dwarfs what is available at most tech companies. Moreover the PRISM scandal actually happened because of telecom companies. So why the ire at tech companies?
Ah, you seem to have had a run in with the down-vote brigade. :) Not nearly as annoying as the close-vote brigade or the comment brigade though. It's not uncommon for them to nitpick on pointless details, ask for clarifications on issues already clarified, or demand that you include links in your question even though those would be totally redundant. Many seem to suffer from Jesus-complex. Apparently, its their job and people asking "bad" questions are not contributing only "stealing" their time. The underappreciated janitors without whom Stack Overflow would collapse...

My advice is to not take it personally and just move on. Ask on another exchange site if the question is important, or ask with a different set of tags so that the brigadiers won't see the question.
This sounds like an excellent first step into imperial units.
This seems overly pedantic. Yes, the article only discusses photos. However, it's not a far stretch (nor hard to imagine) this same technology is running on every Google-enabled service.

If your photos are being scanned the system is compromised. Perhaps the author intended to produce a chilling effect necessary for people to understand this. There is no reason to believe your entire life on the Google platform is compromised and available (freely!) to any government agency that wants it.

Unfortunately, people won't realize how dangerous this is until a skin tone photo of something entirely benign gets marked as CSAM by a robot, and you wont know until the police are letting you know they want you in for questioning. What a dystopian world we live in.
Believe me, even as a white person I would consider living in Dresden a nightmare.
Where do you get these actual numbers from ?

Most people I see making this argument assume that people not buying Apple’s mini offering in crazy numbers was a sign that there was no attraction to small phones. But there’s too many other variables to make that kind of assumption.

If we allow this kind of logical shortcut, smaller Google Pixels all vastly out-sold their bigger version, so smaller sizes have more attraction, right ?
The author took a few liberties with the title and "call" was one of them.

The police said that Google "contacted" them, which could mean an Email, and online form submission, a paper letter, etc., not necessarily a phone call.
> It's just a fact that there's far more men in the industry, it's been like this forever.

It's been like this forever, for very small values of "forever". Programming literally started as a female career path because it had wasn't a highly regarded profession and seen as similar to being a secretary or office manager. Not to mention needing the men in other professions because we were coming off the tail end of two world wars (and the US was sending its young men to the meat grinder of Vietnam).

That said, this is also very much a cultural phenomenon rather than a global one. Percentages look very different in other countries than the US and Europe. But this is tangential because I'm not talking about HN needing a "50/50 split" and you're claiming HN merely has parity with the industry overall:

> You're assuming there's less women because "HN is as it is", but isn't it far more likely to be because there's just less women in the industry? It could be either, but we can't just assume and take drastic action. It's not that there's zero women here.

Did you look at the polls that were linked?

2008: 17.5%

2009: 0.54%

2013: 0.57%

That 2008 number is somewhat similar to a random number I could find about SV in particular but still well below the 25%-ish figures I'm seeing for tech overall in most other statistics. And that figure came from a poll with an order of magnitude fewer participants. The other two aren't "zero women" but they're a rounding error away from that.

> But in this community, what are the issues that makes women -allegedly- not feeling welcome?

Why do you ask someone on HN instead of looking at what people are saying about HN outside of HN? Of course calling it an issue requires you to actually agree that it is bad or a problem.

If you don't agree that something is a problem, that's literally an unwillingness to change, no matter how justified you think that unwillingness is or how much you disagree with the thing being a problem.
She's probably looking pretty normal/like a German, no problems then.
Wrong link i think
Sure, those things might happen. None of those things happened in that Nebraska case though, so using it to as a specific example to support your claim feels a bit off.

Especially considering the fact that the original comment omitted some pretty crucial details that end up painting the overall situation in a very different light.
A key innovation of electricity is that it is a fungible form of power transmission. In particular, this allows the decoupling of concerns between the generation of energy and the application of energy.

I hope green energy enthusiasm doesn't take us back to the days of waterwheels being directly connected to grist-mills.
1. Don’t.

2. If it seems worthwhile to do so, take the time needed to establish the trustworthiness of the app by verifying where it originated and how it got to you. Then decide whether to run it.

An answer I would like much better: Run it in a VM. But I haven’t tried that on macsOS yet. Hope to soon.
This article reinforces my feelings towards moving away from email which is not hosted by myself. Maybe to host your own email on your own machine is just a weird way of applying security by obscurity (since I host on VPS so I don't fully control the hardware I run my email on), but having hosted my own email for more than a decade now I am feeling it's the right thing to do.. For some time I was wondering if publishing my docker images for postfix, opendkim, dovecot and openvpn would help anyone, maybe I'll put some time into polishing them..
The big thing for me at least, beyond phoning the police is that arguably losing your Gmail account is as bad as having the police called on you in the first place.

No email -> no banking -> no rent -> no house -> ??
At those temperatures you'd need something multi-stage with liquid metals, which is going to be a nightmare to engineer - you'd need some way of preheating it to melt it so you could turn it on in the first place, for example. And heat pumps are much less efficient at high temperature differentials, as would be the case here.
For sure. In theory, I'm in favor of nuclear power; especially as we try get to zero/negative net carbon emissions, nuclear plants have real advantages. But when I think about American business culture, I have a hard time imagining the company I'd trust with something that requires an extremely long-term focus (plants run for decades) and deep social responsibility.
Nazis only care about skin color. You could be from Mars - as long as you are white, all is ok.
The line that caught my eye: your camera is being tricked into metering reflected light which, in bright sunlight, causes it to read the scene incorrectly because of harsh highlights and shadows…

Effectively: Try to override clashing inputs by using a reasonable average setting. Seems like I could (and probably do) apply that in other venues: cooking, music, personnel management, etc.
There is a theory that repeated weight loss is harmful, because dying or shrinking fat cells release toxins that they’d been holding. That the obese are mainly harmed by having their fat cells cycle more as they gain and lose fat, voluntarily or not.
The problem with this sentiment lies in West germany where West germans always looked down on East germans. They were slightly better than eastern europeans so to say. Well at least they spoke german right?

West germany sucked dry East germany of their young and ambitious and used them for cheap labor. Well it was not really that unexpected.

You cant expect people to develop in all aspects as they have vastly different experiences and probably had different upbringing than you.

Btw east germans are way less racist and xenophobic towards their fellow Europeans from East Europe compared to West Germans.

Anecdotal evidence but i have seen it too many times to dismiss it.
Totally, assuming you're able to situate the wok in the middle of the New Mexico desert, and are satisfied with the safety profile of not putting your hand near it lest it become part of the dish.
Thoughtcrime is not a thing in the US, do not know about other countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

Though Think of the children folk have often tried to make it illegal.
Solving a problem nobody has solved before: lots of fun, easy to focus.

Solving that same problem 33 more times for different clients... no fun.

(Sound familiar?)
Way less stress. I'm working part time for the moment and it looks like I'll have to get something else full time, bc my original plan for making it work fell through. But if I ran out of money in the meantime, I could easily get full time hours at my current job.

And it's a job I can leave at work, where I very immediately have an impact on people, and don't hate people after every shift. Before, I was working in political/civics communications.

Which is why I'm taking my time figuring out what to do next. I don't want to jump into another pressure cooker.
> have the baggage of enterprise agreements

Snowflake let's you roll into pay-as-you-go after a contract expires.
Hi tobiemh, will there be any plans to add native support for Svelte / Sveltekit?
It is satire. It is a spin on a famous quote by Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) about Linux (or "GNU/Linux").
re: PiBox

It's a Raspberry Pi that is ready to go 'out of the box' so you can install software immediately rather than fiddling with it.

I believe the PiBox OP linked is intended to be a PiBox that comes pre-installed with their software, Photostructure, so you can run your own instance easily without fiddling with a Raspberry Pi.
TaskTXT (https://tasktxt.com/) looks to be a really interesting product in this space

The creator made a few videos on the motivation & implementation of it. He goes into such great detail in crafting subtle almost unnoticable animations in the app.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdBgVZn5NI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjKxpks13Zw
Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories
It's all around the ethos of ease of use. Snowflake does a lot of smarts in the background so that you don't have the overhead of managing indexes. And not just indexes, there is just less human intervention required overall compared to something like Teradata or even a modern lakehouse.

That said, they've kind of introduced it with the Search Optimization Service, which is like an index across the whole table for fast lookups, but even that is automatically maintained in your behalf.
I think the standard formula is "no evidence". Incidentally, check out https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...

But I think that the position of "until we have a court decision proving corruption, one could not reasonably talk of a possibility of corruption, and discuss appearance of conflict of interest" is naive at best, and completely boneheaded at the usual case. Corruption is notoriously hard to prove, especially "soft" corruption where there's no direct bribery but more like alignment of interests diverting the interests of corrupt functionaries from serving the people (who even knows that that means?) to serving their private wallet and/or ideology (well, that one is much clearer).

And there's tons of the press talking about German politicians being too cozy with Russia, even pre-dating the war. So what? It's not like German voters cared.
Tip-flation has some restaurants asking for up to 30% in tips
Thanks for this comment. I didn't realize that cooking green chiles was different!

My grandfather was a farm worker. He would bring home red chiles from the fields and roast them in the sun on his roof. So my first reaction to this story was "what's the big deal?"
It's the landing page for the product. You can click features for more info on the features. Pricing for more info on the pricing. It has pretty much everything you need.
Aside from Billy Wilder saying repeatedly--both in print and in person from 1976 onward--that it did? This is picking a nit on a nit, but I'm not sure that qualifies as 'quote investigation,' as by the same reasoning, we can't attribute anything to Socrates because his teachings were only later articulated by his students.

You have to remember that we're talking about a pre-TED-talk era--that is, prior to the boom in independent cinema and 'the democratization of film'--in which émigré directors who worked within the studio system had no real incentive to lecture in public about how they did their work, particularly if, like Lubitsch, they never achieved fluency in English and retained a heavy Germanic accent. Since Lubitsch never produced any written instructive material about his process, it's not mysterious that it would be hard to find a citation for this idea. And while it's possible that Wilder made it up, there's no real evidence to suspect he did. After all, nearly all of the anecdotes we've heard about Lubitsch come from his colleagues.

The quote is usually attributed to "Ernst Lubitsch, as told to Billy Wilder," which is entirely accurate as far as anyone knows, and was good enough for the fact checkers who reviewed the New Yorker's recent profile on Lubitsch [1].

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/ernst-lubitsch...
It will only come back if the universe runs in a loop.
How many articles, podcasts, tweets, and comment replies did it take to finally put a dent into the endless repetition of the myths about Section 230? Cloudfare is continuing to use the very same faulty logic: that, somehow, preventing the most egregious misuse of their service would create some sort of requirement to do so perfectly, in every case, or to assume liability for everything crossing their servers.

There is no such mechanism in either law, logic, or morality.

Morally, rescuing a drowning child does not create a requirement for you to rescue every person in danger of drowning, everywhere. Because that would obviously disincentivize anyone from ever helping, and it would also just be impossible to do.

Legally, there just is no law or principle of that kind. The laws that exists, for specific domains, do the opposite: Good Samaritan Laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law) protecting individuals rendering help, as in the drowning-child example, from any liability, including for failing in that very rescue effort, for whatever reason.

More similar to the Cloudflare case, Section 230 does exactly the same, but for publishers on the web.

As to logic: if you once jumped into the water and got that child out, just in time, people may indeed expect you to do it again, under similar or easier circumstances, because they remember that you are a good swimmer.

But in the Cloudflare case, acting in the obvious case does not change anything, because there is absolutely no doubt that they have the ability to shut down any customer they do not want on their service. Doing so therefore does not give any (valid) extra ammunition to further requests to act.
Yeah, this appears to be more for fun than anything. Sandia has done concentrated solar research for decades. Roasting chiles is a New Mexico tradition. Hey, lets throw a chile roaster on the top of the solar collector tower! I'm only surprised it wasn't done earlier.

Not really a practical or serious technology at this time.
Capital is itself a product of labor.
Its "the valley of the clueless" because west TV could not be received for geographical reasons.
To be fair, with very few exceptions, every email you have is also on another server somewhere. The large majority of them are likely on servers owned by one of the big boys.

On the bright side, if you own it, at least an AI can't shut you down and ruin your day.
> Progress this year has been pretty amazing. If they didn't progress or didn't try to make it work, then I'd call it a scam.

It should have been complete years ago in 2020, at Level 5 FSD; so what do you mean about 'progress'? After missing more deadlines and claims, the price of FSD increases again despite the multiple malfunctions from lots of testers.

One example of a devoted Tesla fan / investor (Whole Mars Catalog) doing controlled experiments and driving around the same San Francisco street(s) is hardly a generic case of the whole situation.

> You're not reading that SAR chart right

I have read it correctly and Tesla FSD is still not Level 5 as advertised and by definition of the SAE chart.

Even in the video the driver is still paying full attention and has to continuously intervene by touching and guiding the steering wheel. They still have their attention and their eyes on the road which is not required for a Level 5 robot-taxi FSD system supposedly due for 2020.

So Tesla knows they are selling a Level 2 system still requiring the full attention of the driver and still not even close to the Level 5 robo-taxi claims, but was marketed as Level 5 anyway to mislead their customers with the help of their loyal fans doing videos of controlled experiments to fool new customers into purchasing an unfinished product.

Given it frequently malfunctions, the generic excuse is: ‘With each update, it gets better’,‘There is potential, buy it now before the price increases again’ or ‘It will get better soon, its early days’.

It is clearly not early days and we have given it enough time to be Level 5 FSD and it still isn't close even if they were given up to this year to finish it. So it is definitely a piped piper scam selling false promises to their customers. If this was a different company, there would be class action lawsuits all over this.

You need to really snap out of it.
I cover that in the readme, but the short answer is that the server running maps.earth has 64GB of RAM and 6 physical cores. It's using about 600GB of disk space, but the disk usage might change because I suspect my Pelias index is missing a lot of information.

https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway#system-requirements
Yes you're right. Accessing IndexedDB from WebAssembly needs to go through JavaScript. The only benefit from our perspective is that building it in Rust enables us to use the same logic and code that powers our entire database platform. From a performance aspect, you're right, it still needs to go through JavaScript.

So we don't use any features from IndexedDB at all really. We literally treat IndexedDB as a key-value store interface like RocksDB or something like that. So all of the indexing is done within SurrealDB, and is stored in IndexedDB as a set of binary keys->values (Uint8Array if I remember correctly).

When we want to query a whole table, or a subset of a table, SurrealDB determines what individual keys to load or what key ranges need to be loaded to perform the query.

Would love to chat further about this - it's a really interesting area of discussion for me!
First they came for the Special Hats, but I did not speak out -- because I was hatless...
Fun idea! I’ve worked in technical roles at agencies and DSPs (the tool brands use to buy programmatic ads), and currently work at a dsp. Here’s my two cents:

Assuming it’s a good idea people will use, you’ll run into a couple issues:

1. To build this you have to break a lot of privacy rules. You’d need to tie and individual user to all of their individual impressions (ad slots they viewed) on every site/page. Because you’re billing them for the ad slots, you need to track and store their behavior, and be able to tie it to individual auctions. Privacy and technical difficulties everywhere.

2. Digital advertising is wildly complicated. You’d need to outbid every single other advertiser on every single impression. Because auction are first price now (rather than second price) it’s going to be ridiculously expensive to accomplish this. At work I have advertisers with some impressions where we bid $200+ cpm. ($0.20 per ad slot, so some page views would cost $1+).

3. This could actually work if you didn’t guarantee 100% coverage and just said like “reduce ads on pages by 33% while still paying pubs”. Then you build an audience segment of all your customers and just go to any dsp and bid on that segment until you reach the profit margin you want. Bill customers an average or just a monthly subscription to avoid tiring individual users to each of their impressions. (Although your creative will get denied/flagged because you must have accurate branding in the creative and it must clickthrough to that same brand’s site)

4. This will probably be impossible after 2024ish when cookies are gone.

5. Users you do this probably clear their cookies or use the global opt out, which would make your system not work.