skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I'm very suspicious of any push for AI regulation in the guise of "safety", etc. There's just too much money involved to trust the motives.
It's hard to see how. MS would have to create an entity entirely separate from MS US... while providing the exact same services.
> objectively bad

I agree that treating people like shit or executing them is bad and most people would agree with you, but it is not objectively bad, since "bad" in the way you use it here is a subjective value judgement, by definition the polar opposite of objective. Just saying.
Perfect timing. It is wrong. Period. While the wealthy have the cash to be able to WRITE THEIR OWN LOOPHOLES, this is happening.

People don't have money to even survive. This is why many people turned to selling stuff online. JUST TO GET BY. They are using credit cards, just to get by. And now they will be in debt to the government because I'm sure a fraction of the people receiving a 1099 actually saved for taxes.

So pathetic they put out this "warning" as if it's going to help anyone. People will have the warning when they receive their 1099s in the mail.

They put taxes on online sales a few years ago. Now this? When the US is in massive debt and seemingly operates without any need for taxes. They just keep raising the debt ceiling. At this point, it's impossible to pay down the debt. Interest payments soon to be higher than GDP. The only solution they seem to be pushing towards is hyperinflation.
Why haven’t Europeans been able to be successful in this area already? It’s not like there aren’t always European businesses working on this problem.

It is striking that both the evil empire solution (Microsoft 365) and the underdog disruptive upstart (Google Docs, at least that’s what it was ~15 years ago) are both American companies. iWork is American, Zoho is Indian.

Why aren’t Europeans producing competitive software?
Probably he is referring to that WhatsApp is from a US company vs telegram with Russian origin.
That does not answer my question at all
May I ask what's the rationale for writing 01996 rather than 1996? I've seen this before but I haven't seen an explanation of the advantage of it.
That mostly seems to be what they did lol!

“ 2. Only Verified Whatsapp Numbers - Country Wise ( This is to cover all the mobile subscribers exhaustively . We generate mobile numbers based teh series allocated for the telecom operators in each countries and then verify / validate those numbers with the Whatsapp Servers )”
I don't think there are any loopholes in that sense. I can easily imagine you preferring to buy a ready team with existing infrastructure for regulatory reporting than building one from scratch. Especially if your financial background is from prop trading and you despise - while having zero clue about - how banks actually manage their risk and communicate with regulators.
It's possible to tell people new information with or without misjudging their capacity to follow, and with or without being boring. All those combinations happen out there.

Just like a book or a movie, your audience has to be able to notice that you're taking them somewhere, without being able to piece the whole picture together until the reveal. If you circle around a concept for a while, slowly inch towards it, and press the Next button on your remote like the grand unveiling of a marble statue, the reveal better be worth the buildup. The other extreme exists as well. Make it too cryptic, and people will have no idea what your point is.

No one appreciates having to wait through the slow exposition of something they already figured out. Spend too long revealing something you've already given away, and people will sleep through your snazzy powerpoint reveal transition FX.

You want presentations to be entertaining because people remember information they're interested in! It's not showmanship for the sole sake of the dazzle. Get people's attention, and your slides stick.
Ask HN: Family reunion/vacation organising for flying in from different airports
I'm organizing a family reunion/vacation and need to find a location we can fly in from several different airports. Is there any tool/website/app for that?
It’s faster mainly. Bank charters take time, buying a bank takes money.
I was about to reply to the skepticism of a poster, who deleted the post in the meantime:

This is a clear context in which re-doing something in the style of some Author can be radically inappropriate:

the visual style is stunningly good, but an unintelligent operation - it is relatively easy to mock a style, while the real thing was the judgement underneath. The Author knows if and why he would have used a curve made in such way in that place - not the simple mocker.

Edit:

in case some wanted to advance the idea that they are contented with the visuals, AJ is a foremost example of visuals studied to serve a content. Not to mention his declared contempt against states of poor hallucination.
It was more sold as a C++ killer than a C killer.
Yeah, I don't like that method for encoding variable length integers.

I usually use something I came up with years ago where the low 2 or 3 bits are the length - 1 in bytes. It's more compact and can be serialized/deserialized without branches in the common case. It uses the count leading zeroes instruction for encoding. I'm sure somebody else has come up with the idea as well.

The downside is you can only represent 30 bits for u32 and 61 for u64. In many cases you know you don't have values that large, so it's fine.

If you're encoding arrays of integers, Lemire has a library that uses vector instructions to encode them in the optimal number of bits. That's even better, but the use cases are far more restricted.
I love the abstractness of Mathematics so I dispute the thesis. And I'm (wrongly) a Physicist.

Abstraction do not "hamper understanding" but the rigor necessary to define the abstract objects of Mathematics is ruthless on your misunderstanding, that's why people do not like it: they cannot hand-wave it.

I've always hated the "example-first" classes: they create the illusion of understanding and then you have dozen of seemingly disconnected facts (examples) that are just variations of one simple abstract structure that has not been defined because... I don't know.
That's not what's being discussed. My comment asserts with certainty that a small business will never be punished as leverage against the upstream big corp.
Blackest Friday
I hope you had the a damn fine Black Friday. If you went crazy with the purchases, please consider offsetting your impulse buys with something positive for the environment.

Here's a mini project I made with friends using three.js.
Create a holiday light display with your Raspberry Pi and ping pong balls
Innocent until proven guilty, except when it comes to men being wrongfully accused of child porn
What benefits does the dual-telescope approach give in this kind of situation?
In the last few years I’ve been quietly moving database “rows” from databases to the disk.

Back in the day accessing data from MySQL was actually slower than current SSD speeds. And now you can get all sorts of benefits for free: hard link deduplication, versioning, live backup, easy usage of GNU tools...

I don’t discuss this with certain types of colleagues, but the results are excellent.
Moreover, it was a civil lawsuit and not a criminal trial and it was thrown out by the judge.
That's essentially the same criteria used in America, and CEO would generally be considered an employee in America. Where does the CEO get excluded?

Your link notes that managerial positions carry certain exemptions, which is true in my country too, but that doesn't preclude managers from being employees.

Directors are generally not considered employees unless they also work as an employee serving some other function in the business. This appears to be true in Germany as well. Are we simply mixing up directors and CEOs?
Making a Table of Contents for a contentlayer and NextJS blog
Honestly a pet peeve of mine is how everyone in math tends to pretend that it is easy, at least once they cleared their own personal hurdles. This is, I guess, a side product of the fact that the world of math harbours almost exclusively people people that "got it" early.

If you hear or read discussions between undergraduate math people, they tend to act as if they discovered calculus, the basics of linear algebra, and analysis from the ground up all by themselves!

Same thing with professors constantly scoffing at all the "boring" and "trivial" parts.

What changed my life back then was a math professor for a mandatory course I had to take. He always emphasized that this stuff is hard, even for him, even the "boring" undergraduate basics. Hard, but doable, and trainable. After years of "this is easy, why don't you get it?" math education I was stunned by these displays, it's not that everyone just "gets it", aside from certain geniuses, it's that some get a headstart.

This left such an impression on me that I switched to math major and got my bachelors degree in math (I was very bad at school math). And that one professor is still a huge motivator whenever I try to overcome something I struggle with.
Yes and: My observation is that (poor) data quality is as big as, perhaps even bigger, risk than porting & modernizing code.

Of course, bad code and bad data are cofactors.
FTX US Donated $1M to a Super-Pac Aligned with Mitch McConnell in October
"11 times more likely than uninfected ones to leave their birth family to start a new pack, and 46 times more likely to become pack leaders — often the only wolves in the pack that breed."

Wouldnt it be highly preferable, from the parasites side of evolution, that only the males, that have parasite infection will be able to breed ?

Toxoplasma trying to create their own empire probably.
This is eerily reminiscent of Full Tilt Poker's 2011 collapse, when it came out it had been buying tiny banks from small towns to do some financially shady stuff.
brew install make
gmake -j2 --output-sync=target

on macOS.
I was part of a startup that was gobbled up by Intel trying to innovate their business. Their culture was slow-moving and process-heavy, which makes sense for precise, high-volume manufacturing, but for software development it felt like wading through glue. I had a good impression of management in the group we got acquired into (itself a previous acquisition), but some political conflict with a different group led to our project getting shelved anyway. I quit last year as part of a general exodus.

I keep hearing Intel management saying the right things about what they're trying to do, but I think it will be a long slow process if it can work at all.
Er..no.

I mean, yes, that's what it used to be, pre-GDPR.

With GDPR, the data protection agencies have grown teeth. And fangs. And claws and talons.

GDPR enforcement is young, and the goal is compliance, not maximum fines. So depending on the offence and the offender, they start with a warning or a small fine. This will ratchet up and the maximum is € 10 million or 2% of the previous year's annual revenue (not profit), whichever is greater!

Microsoft's annual revenue for FY 2022 (I guess they are early) was almost $200 Billion. So the fine for them could be $4 billion. Yes, that's noticeable and not something you want to explain to your shareholders.

And of course this seems to apply to their customers, for whom margins tend to be tighter, and for whom IT is not their main business, but an operating expense in the first place. For example, Volkswaken has an operating profit of around 6-7%. So 2% of revenue is around a third of their profit. And also around a third of their entire R&D budget. Yeah, compliance is the cheaper option by far.
Note that this is about the _second_ witch trial, a civil case between two members of a weird pseudoscientific cult.

Also, regarding the first trials, the really inappropriate thing would be some Christian stall, as it would glorify the perpetrators. I don’t see anything wrong with witchcraft stalls - they are at worst neutral.
It's not very buried, Mars'x quote that "religion is the opium of the people" is famous. But it's also misquoted.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The complete quote shows that Marx sees religion as playing an ambiguous role. For him religion is often used to preach resignation "it doesn't matter what you suffer in this world, the next one is good". But sometimes it's at the center of the rebellion of the "oppressed creature". Think the black civil right movement in the US or the Liberation Theology in South America. So it's not blanket hostility.
MQTT was surprising to me too. I’m a big fan and i’m wondering what I can replace with this new found info.

Edit: Qos 0 only so nothing . Interesting though
Only if you see "races" as the American-style social construct and not as people in India and Africa see it, which is at a tribal level. I had an hour-long discussion with a Ugandan once that explained to me the major tribes in Uganda, and he says that anyone can tell the tribes apart just by look and dialect. A European looks at Lagos and sees "Nigerians", a Nigerian looks at Lagos and sees Yoruba, Igbo, etc. The Indians also have a brutal caste system and thousands of sub-dialects originating from provincial clan systems and would never call any of their major cities "homogeneous".

Europeans also had a lot more tribal-based racism in the past; southern vs. northern Italians, Scottish vs. Welsh, even sub-clans inside both of those nations, etc.
A closed/open source server doesn't matter since you can't actually confirm if the open source version is actually running.
Yep, I’m one of the lower/poor class that stopped selling my old stuff on eBay on 12/31/21 as I would have jeopardized my Medicaid status as well as my ability to be used as a deduction.
I've always loved math, but one class I didn't expect to like as much as I did was The History of Mathematics. The mathematical content was usually very basic of course, but putting all the things I was learning in my other classes in a historical narrative was eye opening and magical.

It also gave me a way better understanding of why we do math the way we do today. Of course mathematical truths are the same regardless of notation and method, but even simple things like the prevalency of the "=" sign are choices we made along the way in history. Today algebra is almost synonymous with math for many people, but it didn't even exist as a branch of mathematics until al-Khwarizmi he just wrote his equations out in words! But we made a concise notation over time and we're all much better for it.

And some parts are just funny. Like math "duels" over cubic equations in 1500s Italy
The Citroen Ami – tiny electric car with no boot, 28mph top speed, 46 mile range
Interesting observation, but I think the author crosses a bridge too far here.

> If you’re processing “big data”, disk I/O probably isn’t the bottleneck.

If it fits on a single machine, it is by definition not big data. When you're dealing with really big data, it's likely coming from another machine, or more likely a cluster of them. Networks can also be pretty fast, but there will still be some delay associated with that plus the I/O (which might well be on spinning rust instead of flash) on the other end. Big data requires parallelism to cover those latencies. Requires. It might be true that I/O is no longer likely to be the bottleneck for a single-threaded program, but leave "big data" out of it because in that world I/O really is still a - if not the - major limiter.
Yes, I want to be clear that I was saying you are at least somewhat disorganized (process could be smoother for the same effort and cost), and stressed out by your financials and probably would be in any situation. I didn’t mean to be sneaky with that. :)

You mentioned SCORE; experience with that organization is what leads me to say that some business owners handle this stuff better than others whether their financial complexity increases or decreases. We don’t all have the same personality and gifts and that’s okay.

Replace $1k with the appropriate percentage of revenue for the typical complexity for the industry of the business.
It's borderline a meme stock at this point. Tesla is valued as if it will forever be able to sell every car they make, on earnings calls Elon blows off any questions about demand. In the last few months though used car prices for Tesla have plummeted, I think they're finally about to run into demand issues as they get more supply online
I don't see how it could be?

In the case of a phone with defective emergency calling software/firmware/hardware they must have a means of detecting and blocking such phones from making spurious calls, right?

If they already have this capacity in place then detecting and blocking out-of-network phones from roaming should be trivial.
I have little experience with Linux desktop environments, I use it for servers through the command line only, but the little interaction I had seemed more of an attempt to mimic Windows, so it’s no surprise it behaves similarly.

Most web and mobile developers I know use Macs, by far. Windows development is targeted to enterprise custom software, in my experience. It pays handsomely, but no one seems crazy in love with the stack.

I don’t think Apple has to cater to users of other platforms specially when it considers its conventions superior.

Regarding bépo layout, dvorak is already a tiny niche. Bépo is a niche within a niche. I wouldn’t expect wide support anywhere really.
Signal uses (or used?) SGX for remote attestation, which presumably lets the client verify that the code running on the server is a build of the OSS code and not a modified version. But I don't know the details or if this is reliable.

SGX and remote attestation described here:

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
What needs to be true about me and my website to possibly be subject to Abmahnungen? Does my website need to be hosted I'm Germany? Do I need to reside in Germany?
if you watch the documentary "jodorosky's dune" he goes over it, and basically boiling down to the studios "liking the concept" but "not getting the director" especially that he wanted total creative freedom and to make the movie as long as he saw fit, but studios wanting a smaller budget and 90mins etc

btw, the incredible storyboards for dune are a feast if you can bits that are floating around
I have a small section dedicated to Paredit in my Lisp in Vim post: https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

Direct link to the Paredit section: https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html#get-started-with-par...

This section introduces only the most basic features like electric returns, regathering, slurping, barfing, etc. For a complete documentation of all the features, it is worth entering :help paredit-keys directly in Vim. The help manual is not too long. Takes about 30 to 40 minutes to read through it and try some of the commands that look interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682057
Kolab was originally an open source alternative to Exchange developed by BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) and different companies. I don’t think it has been very successful though.
In the US for instance we are ruled by the like of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
Aren't CDNs against GDPR in some cases? Seems like an overly broad regulation that is enforced by often dismissed in judgement. Changing nothing, adding headache, and preventing meaningful regulation from taking its place...

And when you request data from companies, you don't even get what you want a lot of the time because it is often aggregated.
> there doesn't seem to be any reasoning or evidence in that post supporting "uppercase is the better option", just that uppercase produces a larger number of word classes, which might be correct or incorrect

this sentence appears to be nonsense. the code doesnt check "word classes", it cases folds two characters and compares them.
I was agreeing with the person I replied to. Most of the rest of the thread is implying this affects self-driving somehow
I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need MS products ever. I thought it was just hard lobbying that made it so our instituitions have to use that garbage.
Giger at least saw his art go somewhere, wonderful work.
>citizens of California, who are woefully underpresented in Congress

You don't know that Congress includes the House of Representatives? I did not "intentionally omit" anything. And I also mentioned the electoral college, which you "intentionally omitted".
$100k and 50% royalties
Y-10K awareness: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...
All the dystopian nightmares are already here.

A few more steps closer to paid doors to your apartment from Ubik: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...
Snowflake. It does not work internally the same way as BigQuery but is substantially equivalent in user-visible functionality.
> Donation came just days before FTX declared bankruptcy
> Bankman-Fried became sixth largest donor in midterm elections

Why there is no investigation? Why he still can speak on NY Times event?
I NEED this RIGHT NOW - awesome and thank you so much to the submitter! I'm writing my first action and there are so many facets to interacting with the runtime environment that I was testing by pushing updates. Checking my commits, I see that I committed and pushed 19 times this morning and most of them could have been avoided using act. I should also note that my Action is a bit odd since it has the local (to Docker) checkout and then calls back to the GitHub GraphQL API to make changes.
Probably a german address in the imprint. I can't imagine they'd bother with anyone abroad. They're just after easy money after all.
While I don't believe this is part of any master plan, if twitter is able to come out the other side of this with a different revenue model, this could inadvertently be really good. Advertising has destroyed the internet. I understand that losing advertiser revenue could destroy Twitter, it would still be great to see dependence on advertising broken.
Those are lovely images.

However while there is an awful lot of 'background symmetry' AI seems woefully incapable of 'human figure' symmetry that, to me anyway, it really sticks out. Eyes not quite the same size, breasts pointing in markedly different directions, bone structure on the face markedly different to each side.

To that end I am also amazed at how forgiving our brains are for this stuff (a bit like being able to listen to music over a fuzzy, in/out AM station without much bother).

Anyway, thanks to whoever made this. I think there could be a market in 'imaginary film posters'.

P.S. Did it really need the 'Disney' logo on it though?
Glad I came to the comments, it's amazing.
Targeting in terms of detecting and maintaining a target track so that other platforms can employ weapons against it. The US Air Force is considering replacing their current fleet of E-3 AWACS aircraft with a satellite system. Obviously those satellites will be vulnerable in a conflict, so there would have to be a way to rapidly replace combat losses.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42487/e-7-wedgetail-ra...
Yup. Sleep is killer. The Steam Deck got me playing and buying PC games again because it's sleep mode works unlike a normal PC. I COULD hop over to the PC 10 feet away but then I'd have to boot the whole game up, get the controller connected, etc. then if I want to do something else I have to wait for a save point or check point.
OpenOffice was German (Star Office).
I was about to say 'I can't tell if this is AI generated or not at this point' mostly as a joke based on first impressions, but it's actually shocking that it turns out to be.
IO also meant network to me.
Often the target(database, or device generating telemetry) is 10+ms away. That round trip time is bottle neck by physics(speed of light). side benefit of sqlite being local file system/memory.