skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be installing in East Bay, California. And I'm only planning to install one or two systems a month. ...I think I can find my little tribe of privacy people. But, yeah, I'll have some other differentiators.
Has anyone tried this model of monetization: The articles are free online, but only the paying customers can write comments below them (that anyone can read)?

You could of course link the articles from elsewhere and have a discussion there, but then your comments would not appear under the original article.
Worded correctly you can legally prevent police from accessing certain data even though 3rd parties. 1a doesn’t mean shit when it comes so what’s admissible in court. The law is about what police are allowed to hear not what people are allowed to say.
I am truly wondering how much of this is writing with agenda in mind and how much of it is truly ignorance of technology. It is always possible it is a little bit of both, but it is fascinating how much of a polarizing human Musk has become.

I dislike the article's title too. I am not sure which friends exactly are embarrassing here. But here at least I can explain it with attempting at clickbait.
on linux, kde/kate is pretty good... I switched back to full tmux+vim lately to get even better with vim, but I find that kate is the perfect mix between an ide and a terminal based editor. makes me think of notepad++ with a few extra goodies (files on the left, terminal below etc...)
While I don't think rent and xenophobia are related, it really is palpable here specially when you're immigrant and specially now during election (Quebec election are happening next Monday)
People underestimate the extent to which a bunch of opaque "anti-abuse" algorithms control things. Everyone is given a risk score and if you exceed an internal threshold they will never respond to your support requests until your complaint gets on the HN frontpage. Then as justification to continue their pointless cat and mouse game the abuse department types will come in and say "well if we told you why we arbitrarily decided to <steal your money/delete your 20 year old email account/prevent you from logging in with a weird error message> then the real criminals would know how we detected them!"
What happened this month in AI/ML safety research
What makes you say continuous deployment, agile, scrum are in contest with disciplined programming? Maybe I’m misinterpreting the meaning of that term.
How much of this is implemented right now? Looks like it’s just a pitch page to get email signups. Some features, like cross platform + fast performance, or offline mode + real time collaboration, are quite complex. It’s easy to say these things will be accomplished but quite different to actually accomplish all of this in a usable application. If you are the only developer, this is years worth of full-time work.
Maybe the op is thinking of an image based aim bots? Hard to detect if you aren’t running native software on the users computer. However, it solves almost every other form of cheating
> Cyclist feel a lot safer biking across

Feeling safer doesn't mean actual safety. For example, some cyclists feel safer riding facing traffic, but statistically, that's much more dangerous compared to riding in the same direction as traffic.
The problem we have in the United States is we have a lot of growing cities, like in the sun belt were I am, it is illegal to build "missing middle" housing in a lot of places.
OK so why not a rounded square? Or even a hexagon?
What do you mean by "ghetto" specifically? ~35% of Canada's low-income neighborhoods are in Montreal

https://www.signesvitaux.ca/no-poverty
It does describe an awful lot of US cities though. I don't think the article was claiming that Montreal is the only place in north america that looks like this, was it?
Why move the goalpost? Snow clearance does not come from federal money.
Patching an enterprise Exchange Server 2016 to latest security update
Not really no, there's been a bump which studies seem to agree is an aftereffect of COVID, but the media is also paying more attention to it. There's always been some amount of shootings and stabbings in Montreal, and 99% of Montreal is safe during night time.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2021001/article...
https://spvm.qc.ca/upload/02/2021_Activity_Report_SPVM_EN_VF...
OTOH it's already probably a couple decades since some more fresh terminal emulator projects have popped up that kick a bit into the old cruft and provide both lightweight stuff and actual drawing routines for specific stuff. From a graphics dev pov it's not nonsense to decide for rendering on a grid, even for UI, i see it a bit like voxel 3D engines.

So i'm really not sure the "layers upon layers" critique is well suited for terminals, in comparison with say some qt/gtk/electron/<your gui>. Also GP is mentioning emacs, which is mostly the same old cruft as a terminal emulator.
Daniel Negreanu on Lex Fridman Podcast
Corporations are people too
Every single time I hear millennial I think avocado toast. And every time I hear boomer I think of strong perfume.

The words meaning sure hadn't changed, but I imagine the longer its mainstream the more it will morph. Soon we won't be allowed to say it at all, lest we offend somebody with the slur.
When buying houses, I've really only hired them because I don't want to get on a roof myself if I don't have to :-) Or crawl around in an attic, for that matter.

Most folks are pretty bad at spotting problems with houses, because they simply don't know what to look for (and why would they? It's hard to know everything), so an inspector's probably a good idea.

Me, I spend the entire time at an AirBnB distracted by noticing every single place work wasn't done quite right, every cut corner or lazy shortcut, every interesting (or "interesting") material choice, "oh, looks like they replaced this shower insert but didn't want to fully redo the drywall so took the lazy route and added trim", "uh oh, this tile shower floor has serious drainage problems", "interesting, this doorway must have been added", et c., but most people aren't like that.
there's also something inherently compelling about the outsider who gets something more right than the experts.
I like Montreal and Toronto. I live in Toronto because I like the diversity, but I'm sure I would happily live in Montreal too.

That said, it isn't fair to compare housing costs between Quebec cities and Ontario ones. Land tax is much, much higher in Quebec to the point where even just across the river from Ottawa you'll see 2x housing differentials. Add in language laws of Quebec which, I'm actually in favour of, and you'll end up with parents preferring Ontario even when they have a choice of where to live for work.

Lastly, the scale on those maps matter. Montreal is much smaller than Toronto. My home city has a bunch of condo buildings, yes, but they aren't all surrounded directly by suburban homes. There are a decent number of midrises and row houses, though not as much as I would hope for. But when looking at maps, it's important to keep in mind the absolute SCALE of Toronto. Toronto is HUGE. Only two American cities beat it out in size, New York and LA. Montreal has more midrises around its core in large part because its core is so small and that is the natural function of the mathematics of things. In Toronto we build our core up, up, up. Over twenty-five buildings are over 200 meters tall, compared to Montreal's measly two.

We can learn from some of the things Montreal does right, and I agree their midrises are generally speaking better than ours, but it's more complicated than this article makes it out to be, even if there are real lessons to glean from its good faith take.
You could also, if you wish, audit the telemetry events and determine if it's worth turning off - or decide that it's okay with you that they're using that data to improve their free product.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry#_vie...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry#_gdp...
Certainly not everyone that this type of thing happens to gets front page attention. I don't know that it ever got resolved but, even if it did, the "I was able to convince tends of thousands of people to talk about my issue until someone paid attention" is not a reasonable process to go through. Even in the best case, he lost access to his accounts for an unreasonable amount of time. If he used the same account for business, that could be financially disastrous.
Well the Brits just implemented Yield Curve Control, so I'd say the sky is at least drooping.
This happened to me once about 3 (?) years ago.

I do not send emails directly to vendors. Email from them comes through the amazon intermediary system. I would reply to necessary vendor communications using the web interface.

The spam email I got was for a seller asking for me to review some product.

I contacted amazon but got no satisfaction. I had to change the email address I used for (only) amazon.

I figure someone inside amazon was bought out.
Sigh.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/netscape-cuts-prices...
In which circumstances are companies not allowed to ban people for fraud? Power and water utilities I guess?
Unless it can be made billable it is usually frowned upon.
VBS's role is to mirror the kernel and wall it off through a hypervisor. So your kernel/usermode can't access the secure version. This basically lets it compare the "secure" kernel and the regular kernel structures. Things like the process list, Driver executable regions, signatures, and such are mirrored. So when a process spawns and it's added to the process/threadlist. Those operations are mirrored in the secure kernel then randomly checked for security.

VBS also secures things like the scan timer/event and some other methods people used to use to disable it. http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=8&a=5&p=18 .

The performance impact shouldn't really be noticeable at all. All you have is some memory operations which are "Duplicated", but not really since COW. But i'm not that much of an expert on patchguard besides the really basic functions.
Well, it's true that I spent a lot of words attacking the claim that making a terminal emulator snappy (in the usual case, maybe not Zalgo cases) would be difficult, and it is also true that naikrovek didn't actually make that claim. Rather, they claimed that the Windows Terminal team didn't know how to do it. Which, I mean, maybe that's true, but it isn't that hard to figure out. I think it's more accurate that they didn't bother and made up rationalizations for their shitty software after the fact.
Should be no problem, except for the problem of setting up an LLC "just for that". I've no idea how it works in the states, but setting up a firm, in many countries I know, is no easy task, and comes with associated costs, both one-time and recurrent ones.
The problem is that there are too many "axes" to encode and simple version numbers would have never worked to encode that all: protocol version, port version, top-rated speed, top-rated power draw, optional features, etc. Not every device needs 80 Gbps and 200 Watts, and if every USB "4" cable had to support that minimum it would greatly increase costs per length to support a tiny fraction of devices. It would drastically simplify things when you go looking for a USB cable for a device, but the cost market of USB cables would look a lot more like, say, HDMI cables: just about only short cables and quite a bit of expense to them.

This new branding initiative may be on the right track, encoding the two axes most obvious to end users of cables: speed and charging strength. (If cable makers move to the new branding. They don't have to. That's the real confusion that USB should fix but can't. Branding is a suggestion, not a requirement.)
Tellers could have gotten twice as efficient and still double in size if the number of transactions requiring human intervention increased four-fold, especially if the move to online banking has driven an increase in fraud and user error. It's a number that scales with regulatory demands, transaction count, total volume, and so on - not number of active users.

Edit: Tellers also tend to be general purpose account managers at smaller banks, so if you called up the bank you'd eventually get forwarded to someone on the floor at your local branch instead of a call center.
Deepfake tech allows Bruce Willis to return to the screen without being on set
No, they're not. Two-prong power supplies need to have EMI suppression capacitors which connect the secondary side of the power supply's transformer to mains [1]. The mains voltage is present on the output, but the maximum current is low enough that it is safe. It is considered not an issue by manufacturers [2] and it is a fact of many practical power supply designs. Please have any idea what you're talking about before you throw around technical terms like "galvanically isolated". You're clearly not an EE.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/478607/feeli...

[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/notebook-tingle-sensation-wh...
I've found the extra complexity of IDEs unecessary and detrimental to my productivity. I like to keep it simple: neovim with LSP and fzf in a tmux session.
SREC mandates are used to achieve a percentage of renewable generation, not an emissions quantity.
But police (well, anyone, really) can still take a photo of protestors and examine it manually, right?

The technology is just a tool that makes it easier, but in principle changes nothing.

I guess my point is that there isn't any fundamental change here, we have just made things easier. Maybe before, compiling facial databases if everyine was just impractical, and now it's easy.

On a scarier note: anyone can do this. You can tell the police to pinky-promise they wont use it, but nothing stops me or you or a corporation from taking photos and identifying the people on them.
There was an innocence that hadn't yet been lost then. We didn't have to worry about security, toxicity, and money in the early hobbyist/enthusiast internet of the 90s. We were able to let it be "built organically by people because it was fun".

The reason not everything was a mall was because it wasn't yet mainstream and there was a years-long head start before monetizing it at scale was solved. Today, the monetization (and other predatory) patterns already exist and will be ported over to any metaverse from the start.

Any metaverse will resemble Facebook or something equivalent. Discoverability will resemble Google or something equivalent. Community interaction will resemble Reddit or something equivalent. I don't see how this would be avoided.
Any group of galaxies that is gravitationally bound will end up in effect putting the black holes into orbit about each other. The orbits will be across incredible distances and move very slowly, but it will happen. Orbital energy over time gets converted to gravitational waves and thus they spiral inwards. (All orbits actually spiral inwards, it's just the effect is so tiny that in all but extreme cases you won't notice it within the current age of the universe.)

Galaxies which are not gravitationally bound won't encounter each other, so it doesn't end up merging the whole universe into a single black hole.
I don't think the US is the example to follow here ... you want mass shootings every week? this is like saying well you can put your hand in boiling water after all it's not as hot as the sun lol
How are earnings artificially inflated?
A super simple example:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/73473191/1282216
I am stunned by the "Navy has operated 5,000 years of reactors".

But, I come back to my basic thesis on nuclear power. It's the A+ game or bust
Yes the US fricking Navy can do it well, but the minute the Soviet's ran out of
cash they just let it all rust. If we lean on nuclear in the carbon energy transition then when we run out of money, can we afford to let them rust.
I know, the CAQ is full of xenophobes, and it can suck not looking white in Quebec (although much less so in Montreal). I'm skeptical that it drives rent prices in any detectable way.
The average London commuter does 10k steps without even thinking about it, and used to do that 5 days a week. I can see total walked miles decreasing across the board during the pandemic, even if walking did become our national sport for a short while (mostly due to being the only time and place you could get drunk with your friends)
People who can’t be put in prison as a deterrent, who can be dissolved, sold, etc
Yes, for like $60 or something ridiculous like that.
No one is giving you an unsecured loan in Tether.

What's your collateral?
I don't get along very well with the HN Rust Community (and I think I'm even less popular with them than they are with me), but fair is fair and the Rust folks have been absolutely revolutionizing the modern terminal experience.

Put differently, I take the opposite view: seeing that a piece of terminal kit is written in Rust gives me a quite high Bayesian prior on the quality and usefulness of the tool. Something like 70% of the command-line nix packages in my home manager are written in Rust.
At what age did you call to report that you broke the TOS by certifying you were over 18?

PayPal really kept a dormant account with an underaged persons PII for 7 years? Interesting.
I've kept my 401k investments the same. I still have a good 30 years before I have to sweat bullets about it. If money is still coming in during low points, I shouldn't have to be too concerned, unless I get laid off.

I'm also stocking up on necessities; food in particular. Not only is there a recession, have you noticed how many crops weren't planted, and how much less fertilizer is being used? Livestock numbers are down, too. Famine is coming.

> I see comments on HN once in a while about how they did [clever thing X] during a recession years ago and made money.

Survivor bias. Most clever financial things/hacks lose money.
Presumably because the Date of Birth on the account is immutable, and the son's ID (even when he becomes 18) will never match it?
I apologize for upsetting you. You sounded as if you thought FEMA didn’t contribute financially to storm management in New York. I agree the other user’s comment about snow removal was flippant.
Or ML.

If a user/keyword/whatever gets negative karma because previously-blocked nazis fawn over it, newly posted Giorgia Meloni videos will carry a heavy burden, even if that particular video isn't anything to complain about. The ML will guess that the nazis are going to like it, and load the new videos with negative karma.
The numbers are net federal dollars received per resident of the state, and they are ranked at the bottom.

California received the lowest compared to how much California paid the federal government. Florida is ranked in the middle.

Although, I clicked on the source and data is from 2013 so I wish I had found a more recent source.
'A fluke': The oldest webcam is still watching over San Francisco
[code] redirects to the same page
The way they do this read is interesting, and especially why they don't just read the files on disk directly.

> The Postgres Scanner uses the standard libpq library, which it statically links in. Ironically, this makes the Postgres Scanner easier to install than the other Postgres clients. However, Postgres’ normal client-server protocol is quite slow, so we spent quite some time optimizing this. As a note, DuckDB’s SQLite Scanner does not face this issue, as SQLite is also an in-process database.

> We actually implemented a prototype direct reader for Postgres’ database files, but while performance was great, there is the issue that committed but not yet checkpointed data would not be stored in the heap files yet. In addition, if a checkpoint was currently running, our reader would frequently overtake the checkpointer, causing additional inconsistencies. We abandoned that approach since we want to be able to query an actively used Postgres database and believe that consistency is important. Another architectural option would have been to implement a DuckDB Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Postgres similar to duckdb_fdw but while this could improve the protocol situation, deployment of a postgres extension is quite risky on production servers so we expect few people will be able to do so.

> Instead, we use the rarely-used binary transfer mode of the Postgres client-server protocol. This format is quite similar to the on-disk representation of Postgres data files and avoids some of the otherwise expensive to-string and from-string conversions. For example, to read a normal int32 from the protocol message, all we need to do is to swap byte order (ntohl).
So this looks interesting and I wanted to test it on a use-case I have currently. I want to query both a csv and a zipped csv living online but it doesn't appear that is possible. The csv plugin implies you can only work with local files, nothing over http(s). This kind of seems like a big oversight for a product like this, no?
It's as if they are different countries with different security and networks.
That’s Amazon Go.
Tried to verify my age at 16, which locked the account. Called them and they said they can't do anything until i'm 18. After 6 months I was able to withdraw the funds into a bank account I owned. Only at 18 was I able to log in and redo KYC/driver's license upload.
How about we just call it a game? It’s not clear why we’d need to find a new term because you have a nostalgia for games based on their login requirements.
Having lived in both places: Chicago.

Dense downtown core, though Toronto has more people living there versus just offices. (Though that's been changing for a while now in Chicago). Similar scope of mass transit, where the trains don’t reach big chunks of what used to be suburbs and surrounding communities. Similar population. Great big ol’ lake right there.
Will do! Currently using alacritty and enjoying that
I'm unreasonably disappointed that it lacks a neck and head.
Which is why you use a buck-boost converter if you want to get a specific voltage above 5V out of a usb wall wart.
Can anyone explain this article to me? Why would America want to be like Montreal at all? A fair amount of US was built with some considerations in mind. I am not sure what Montreal has to offer here.
What I think you find if you dig into it, is that they can't find the balance of trade-offs they want. I can find a completely walkable city near me, where I could walk to everything I could possibly want, and at reasonable prices ... but crime is too high for some people.

They want the low-crime high value suburban life in a dense environment, and that's what they often can't find. It can be really hard to get this out of them, you basically have to keep providing examples of what they say they want until they finally break down and admit why they don't work.
I'm becoming more and more hesitant to pay for a game that has an online component because at some point in the future it may go free to play.
What exactly is a “proper code editor”, and why does Neovim not fit the bill there?
Can't speak for op but one common mistake I see is having a bunch of JS developers try to make a CLI and being surprised it is slow.
Let’s test your memory, what is it?
SEC Charges Two Canadian Software Engineers with Insider Trading
Yes, treesitter is a sea change. Besides the quick and error-tolerant syntax highlighting it provides, plug-ins which use it to manipulate syntax are remarkably fast and accurate.
Funny thing I look at Tesla and my system and I’m seeing that my all in price for my panels + 3 powerwalls in 2020 is within 10% of what people in my town talk about paying for panels today. A lot of that cost gets eaten by installation and inefficient practices.

I’m kinda with you on building my own off grid system - but, I don’t think I would’ve had the know how of where to start without the knowledge I got from getting my Tesla system installed.