skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. I work in immigration law pro bono and this perspective is outdated (though largely accurate of the 20th century, for what it’s worth).

The lack of social safety net, decline of publicly accessible assistance in healthcare and education, and the unpredictability of immigration enforcement has led to an increase in emigrants from the United States back to Latin America and Asia.

To give a personal anecdote: I was helping a woman apply for advanced parole, which is an immigration action that allows for someone who entered the United States illegally to re-enter in the future, provided certain qualifications were met. In the irony of ironies, she had spent the last several years saving enough money to go back home (and to pay her respects to one of her parents who had just passed), and wanted to preserve the option of coming back the the United States, if possible.

After reviewing the details of her immigration history, I advised her that she was unlikely to be granted this parole, and that if she left she would be unlikely to be allowed to re-enter.

My translation of her Spanish is poor, but the essence was, “If I’m going to struggle, I want to do it where I have friends and family whom I can help, and who can help me. There is no help here.”

She left without parole, effectively banning herself from the United States, and based on the message she sent me the following Easter, it seems to be without regret.

To borrow your words, I think “[o]nly an extremely naive and privileged person would even pretend” that poverty in the United States has a superior character to poverty elsewhere.
Yeah, but the bottom of the market where there's no slack isn't where you start.

Kicking the poors while they're down and/or pulling the rug out from under people who are just barely doing better is not a sustainable way of decarbonizing society and it seems like every decarbonizing policy does just that. We can get away with a few such policies but when they're all like that it doesn't work.
Well, this, the Chinese Room, is still pretty much a behavioristic work-around (as it is still attempting to argue without any reference to internal states.)

Even, if we don't (clearly) understand what "understanding" means, or, at least, aren't able to provide a sane definition, we do know about the semantics of the term and the kind of connotations that come with it. Like a reflexive component. (Which wasn't much of a problem in the age of behaviorism, as this had to be ignored by requirement anyway. If there is no acknowledged difference between a human and a pigeon, what is the problem with computers, as far as the model is concerned?) So we do have a notion of the semantic field and its implications. And these are, well, quite disastrous for this purpose.
I think you are overestimating the influence of Elon Musk on American media, my friend.

Are they enamored with him - for sure, are they in his actual pocket? Doubt it.
Given the tone of your post, it is clear the original filtering mechanism was sufficient.
-> The antidote to fascism is overwhelming opposition, not appeasement.

Where do we draw the line? Using institutions to carry out the project of silencing unwelcome ideas... is to my taste unpalatable.
But I imagine a lot of that is more like "parking" (e.g. drop anchor an wait).
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story
What scenario would justify that feature existing though? Why would they need to make posts from arbitrary accounts?
Yep, I had to convince my wife to get the orange version of this rug:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F9NNJA0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Because I think grey and orange looks cool with our hardwood (and it totally does), and while it took some initial arm twisting, she was sold on it as soon as it arrived as we put it in the room. Our friends meanwhile have a white fetish. Everything that can be white is some shade of white. If they didn't have carpet their house would feel like a hospital and/or wedding, I honestly feel more relaxed in their unfinished basement than their living room
Since it’s not mentioned in the tweet, the unicorn in question is Snapdeal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdeal
That tweet series shows a bunch of individual parcels developed over a typically 6-11 year timeframe. That's necessary, but not sufficient, to generate an entirely "new downtown" widespread redevelopment all happening simultaneously over a 10-year timeframe.
> since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA.

There are some areas where India has leapfrogged ahead of United States and China. Look at digital payments for instance.

Since the 90's we have seen countless examples of how US / western products and services cannot be sold as-is.

Like all markets, India is unique. It also happens to be significant in size and companies homegrown and global focus on addressing local needs.
> and it sickens me to see that my privacy depends on countries and electorates on which I have no say

The problem isn't "foreign rule".

The Swiss, famously independent, have one of the worst surveillance laws.

Doesn't chat control require unanimity in the EU council? If yes, if it happens, it will be because of 'your own' politicians.

Also, the EU parliament votes on this, and small countries have more power than large ones there, more votes per citizen

Lots of these laws are being independently adopted all around the world.

I will believe this is a foreign rule issue once you can show me one democratic country that consistently opposes internet surveillance and defends privacy and rejects 4-horseman based bogeyman politics. And where big countries pressure it to change that.

All countries are susceptible to this brand of demagoguery.

I will grant that the size of the EU enables it to pass surveillance laws that would otherwise not happen - any single EU member state would not be able to suggest change to global law the way the EU can. But then theres China, the US.
This doesn't make sense though - Spotify doesn't pay per stream (no-one does) but by a revenue share. So they would still pay out the same more or less - i.e. your premium subscription is put into a big pool and then divided out, it's not like your individual subscription goes to what you listened to.

I guess it could help shift some streams to indie artists with a less favourable contract compared to the big 4 record companies, but it hardly seems worthwhile?
> Nearly two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese.

That means the issue is systemic and one needs to look at things outside of individual control. Yes, often systemic issue can be overcome by individuals - by the top quartile kind of individuals with more luck, better genes, better education (including what they picked up at home while growing up), more money, more suitable lives than the majority, or with outliers in levels of personal discipline. But systems should work for the people that actually live, if you need to blame two thirds of the population(!) it's most likely your system that is wrong.

Yes you can look at most of the individuals that are part of those two thirds and find what seems to be personal choices - but you miss the environment and the pressures from it that lead people into making those choices.

For example, that a lot fewer people know how to cook today than several decades ago (example link: https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/ar...), do yo want to blame each individual? To me this very much looks like a bigger societal issue. It's not like people make such choices after careful consideration, it "just happens" and they "slip" into those behaviors without much deliberation, based on their living situations.
I know about the extensions, it's exactly how I was able to run that specific applet, but that's a high friction experience for the user. If the applet does not run it's very unlikely I will install an extension (or search for a Firefox alternative) unless I'm very motivated.

I'm thinking more like a line or two you can add to your pages hosting applets, and it would enable any modern browser to use it. Minimal friction for the webmaster, zero friction for users.
Almost every monday when the "discover weekly" is rebuilt i get new songs which are not in english.

I have no non-english songs in any of my playlists and when they show up on discover weekly i flag them.

I would think that recommending me Spanish/Russian music when my entire collection is english should flag a problem with the system?

Yet week after week at least one song on discover weekly is in some foreign language.
An important detail: the whistleblower is mudge. I'm at a bit of a loss for words comparing him to Ken Paxton.
Isn't that true of any subsidy? If 40% of my bike is subsidized, I only need to buy and resell that bike for greater than 60% of the purchase price.

I bet you'd get less resellers, but you'd definitely still get a lot of them.
You don't need to leave Europe. You can use an open platform like Linux and relevant tools, and also educate your close ones what is going on. My experience is they're using spying tools such as WhatsApp or Messenger out of inertia, but when they learn about privacy concerns, they are willing to use an alternative solution, and this is something that spreads around.
I'd prefer a 4 wheeled electric horse, even if it was limited to 20mph.
Well this isn't helpful for those of us that care about Java in the browser. In any case, JPro is really more "Java projected in the browser" (or like twitch/remote-desktop). It's a shortcut with significant drawbacks. I'm more a fan of TeaVM, CheerpJ, J2CL and JSweet.

https://reportmill.com/snaptea/
I guess they're trying to say that things like Uber, Amazon, Door Dash, AirBNB, Venmo etc. have a strong foothold in USA, but in India there's a lot of "home grown" alternatives that have beaten the US big tech to adapt to the Indian market. eg. Ola, Flipkart, Paytm, etc.
And if one of the people turns out to be a creepy perv, the other one can leave without having to depend on them for a ride home in their car.
Actual Java in the browser (working, fast, passes Lighthouse) with TeaVM:

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-in-the-brows...

For example, try this 5-letter word game:

https://frequal.com/wordii/
I've been scrolling looking for this. This, I think, is the actual correct take. Not resale value, or mass appeal which is a symptom.

There have long been studies on the connection between societal optimism and color choice. The fashion industry and car industry in particular are trailing indicators for public sentiment on the state of the world.

https://www.pcimag.com/blogs/14-pci-blog/post/104991-how-col...
Yes, but that's not the point here.

A typical whistleblower would say "There were security problems, and the head of security ignored them."

Here, it's "I was the head of security, and security was shitty. I was doing a shitty job, and that's a terrible scandal!"
> I trust them to investigate fairly and proportionately.

Should we trust authorities with unlimited power because... you said so? (no snark intended)

The last 2000 years of history show it's not a good idea. Prove me wrong.
Google found an image of potential cp, literally a naked child, and forwarded it to the authorities to figure out if it was legit.

Other than the person having their Google account suspended which is a separate issue from the surveillance I see zero issue with the events as they happened. In a bygone era where you had to get photos developed I would have expected the 1 hour photo employee to do the same.
Beware the trickledown effect of who recommends software to non-techies.
See "Using Neutralinojs from your source files" here: https://neutralino.js.org/docs/how-to/extensions-overview/
Search PDF text, tables, images with Python and CLIP
It's a common enough problem that Distrokid has a support article on the matter. https://support.distrokid.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015182574...
Are they more inflated than prior to 2008?

By and large you need a relatively small amount of money to inflate an asset. The difference between all bitcoins being worth $10k each or being worthless is potentially just one person willing to pay that $10k for only one.
Its a pretty common practice to include manure when fertilizing a field. Would you eat manure?

There's lots of things that are safe to use in their expected capacities that I probably wouldn't eat.
Using the Spotify kids app is a solution to this problem.
One piece of evidence is that authorities pushing hard for surveillance do not actually care about removing images they find, even though removal requests are easy to file and are obeyed by hosters.[0]

More evidence is that this sort of crime is being exaggerated in its severity. E.g. this study found the risk of adulthood psychological trauma is minimal when relying on objective evidence of abuse.[1] It is filthy and bad, but the total damage seems hardly enough to justify abolishing privacy.

There is always going to be a tradeoff between safety and freedom.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353026

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0880-3
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But that's not because of the "poverty is worse", this is because of harsh anti-immigration laws. And yes, of course, leaving friends and family completely is not an option for many.
I don't really care if anyone reads my todo.md and notes.md to be honest. But if I had to choose, I would choose end-to-end encrypted.
The 90% precision seems to be text only and without the rate of false negatives it is pretty useless.
Could be the software only finds text that are pretty obvious grooming then 90% precious is not so good.
That’s a common misunderstanding: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
Ammonia at standard temperature and pressure is a gas. It is poisonous to breathe if enclosed at sufficient density, but once it gets outside it's no risk to anything.
Ask HN: How do you organize or rename PDF files (books, papers, etc)?
Is there a tool for finding metadata of pdf files based on their hash or content? Like MusicBraiz Picard for identifying and tagging mp3 files.
Hey Lee. I'm not saying it doesn't work :)

I'm just saying they are talking about something else.
This specific whistleblower also happens to be mudge. It's funny how the initial top comments here don't seem to have any clue about who mudge is.
Following the trend should we be expecting Chrome XUL addons?
A major rule in life is to listen to what people do, not what they say.

What they'll do is listen to every online conversation anyone has.
There would be chaos in agriculture lasting over a year, in my opinion.
Hahaha, good one.
Side question: any sign of at least borderline-viable farming techniques without pesticides or herbicides? By viable I mean, as a complete replacement for current agriculture.

I know next to nothing about this, but have had some shower thoughts that a different agriculture system could be viable if we increased our expectations for farming's labour intensity. I probably got the idea from permaculture videos, because they seem to get impressive results, but it also requires some skill and a lot of work.

I'm half-expecting a hail of downvotes, but maybe I'll find other people that have been wondering the same.
No, that depends entirely on how it's written.
so they have a database?
You're conflating minorities simply existing in public with incredibly toxic assholes choosing to be incredibly toxic assholes in these platforms. That's not even remotely the same thing.
This is crazy. Every single one I looked at was like this. Are these even real people playing guitar? If it were piano I’d say it’s 100% just MIDI arrangements.

I’m gonna look into this more. I have friends trying to break into the industry and gaming the Spotify and TikTok algorithms is (unfortunately) a big part of that these days. Having fake, phantom artists filling up your flagship playlists is so anti-creator I’m truly appalled at Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wdHPx6lvGu3MvTH61uvTi?si=3n...
> Why should they listen to voices on the internet who aren't even their customers?

People tend to exchange and discuss ideas on HN and this is no different.
The burner is potentially problematic. Inefficient combustion can lead to carbon monoxide, a poorly maintained burner can start a fire. Gas leaks, kerosene spills, etc. Electric refrigeration is much safer.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1998/cpsc-warns-that-old-servel...
Note this was in 2007, during the height of the H1B body shop scams. The USCIS visa system was overwhelmed by companies like Infosys and Tata just submitting 1000s of applications for clearly underqualified, yet cheap candidates for jobs that didn't exist. This writer probably got their visa rejected over a less qualified candidate because of the quota limits for H1b.
> the only viable solution I see for my country is an exit from the EU

The UK thought so too, now they're frontrunning the EU on scraping privacy. I honestly don't even understand one could think an EU exit would address those problems in any way - corporate lobbying is inherent to politics, just look at your national government (whichever that currently is). And realistically speaking, the smaller the entity, the less likely they are of placing meaningful restrictions on US tech firms (like the EU did with GDPR).
This is sadly how a lot of economies function. Something is dangled in front of you (life in the big cities, citizenship in developed countries, etc.), and in order to get that you must agree to be exploited, to different extents. This way inhabitants of said economies get to enjoy the fruit of such cheap labor.

Sometimes the facade of a convenient modern life is built entirely upon an underclass who are intentionally kept in that situation just so they can continue to be exploited. This is of course neither healthy nor sustainable.

Of course incentives and promises of upward mobility after some hard work are nice, but one must question themselves: if the local economy will simply cease to function when there are not as many people willing to be exploited, is this model still ethical?
UK government is working hard to replace all the worst aspects of the EU with homegrown alternatives.
In what universe should I be charitable to the government?
It's not unlimited power, this is a specific power for a specific scenario - detection of probable CSAM in a person's messages.
That is the art of politics. She said it, so the others do not have to, and in exchange she will be owed something else from the others.

I bet if the vote was singularly for legislation about carried interest taxation, the votes would have been the same way (given their historical voting patterns).

I would be more persuaded if carried interest was not already a contentious issue that Repubs have had plenty of opportunity to change themselves. The fact that they did not indicated it is not just Sinema who is against removing the carried interest loophole.
What are you referring to? Keffals was not accused of any crime. I don't even think KF was known to be spreading rumors that she was. They just swatted her with a fake tip that they didn't even pretend was real.
> and my complete ignorance of GNU parallel [...] 16 years later

Parallel was created 2002-01-06: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/20th-birthday.html

It did, however, only become a GNU tool in 2011, so I think it is completely fair that you were ignorant about it 16 years ago.
I think it does logically - in any countries where you have more direct democracy than the EU flavour, certainly easily achievable in respect of the Commission.

Whether that has any practical difference given the nature of politicians and politics in general, well, at best your mileage may vary.
No, I am not saying that.

I'm saying that you shouldn't dismiss what he's saying because he posted it on Twitter and/or because (you feel that) people are bashing the government.

He's a journalist at a well-respected newspaper, who has practical and academic experience using and interpreting data for his journalism, communicating his story in accessible way (both accessible in a pedagogical way and because the FT has a paywall). Engage with what he's posted and evaluate it on its merits, not just dismissing it because it's a Twitter thread containing a viewpoint that you don't want to be true.
Yes there are significant and multiple areas where private healthcare companies are being paid to 'provide' services to the NHS in a classic outsourcing process similar to what you would see in IT.

Private company charge a lot more, pay their staff a bit more to attract workers from the NHS, extend their contracts to provide more services where there are NHS staff shortages. Taxpayer money turns into company profits. I wouldn't object if it provided more efficient care but it doesn't seem to.
Seems like most of the discussion here is focused on everyone's own experience with this, but can I just recommend Robin Sloan as a human in general for folks to follow in their lives?

His 2 novels, "Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore" and "Sourdough", are both really engaging reads. His 3rd novel is in progress and it seems like it's going to be more of the same quality. He also has a couple of novellas and a bunch of great short stories (some of which he did limited printings of and mailed out and one of which was procedurally generated and unique to the person who purchased it).

His newsletter is constantly filled with great media recommendations and he's always working on something interesting in that bridges the media and tech worlds.

He also makes great olive oil (Fat Gold).
I really hate this kind of language, but it is really useful in an American corporate context, as I have recently realized while doing an executive MBA program. A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success. A lot of other Americans don't care about their co-workers, and don't want to put in the effort to figure out how to actually respect people (calling cheap places to work "discount" is a good example of this). Sometimes, the same person is in both groups.

The way to usefully make both groups work with others is to use language that is devoid of meaning and, in particular, lacking value judgments. That way, you can say "Steve, can you explain the learnings from your recent project?" and mean either, "Steve, you fucked up, what are you not going to do again?" or "Steve, your project went great, what tips can you share?" That way, Steve can feel recognized for his achievements even when Steve did something that was really stupid. Steve's colleagues have an emotional barrier, too: they won't feel bad for Steve if you are calling out his failures, and they won't feel bad for themselves if you are saying that Steve did something exceptional.

It's really fucked up how we have created this sanitized dictionary, but it's too effective in a corporate context not to use it.
Recoll http://www.recoll.org/ . It's an excellent metadata indexing and search program. It is not hashing based for organizing uniqueness of files but it will help you with finding things within the files.
I’d say so-so. Depends on the use-case. Two wheeled are definitely easier to ride with a faster pace, but they’re much harder to balance when heavily loaded. I have tipped over with heavy loads on emergency stops.

Two wheeled also wins when there’s little space or the track is bad. What’s better really depends on your cycling proficiency, your intended use case and the road network you’ll likely use. And whatever you do, test-ride a few different ones to figure out what works for you. Avoid buying something off the internet without ever trying. (Things are different if you’re buying your second, third,…)