skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bangladesh Embassy in D.C. had a similar issue a few years ago. They had a document you needed to fill out that was just hosted on someones computer and when that person would shut their computer down each night or over the weekend the link would stop working. They've at least fixed that since then.
"Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.
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Maybe they were needed to computerize their operations instead of using manual spreadsheets as some recent clownfests were reported to do?
Time of last access + a counter of your visits once your hits reach N>2 is probably enough to separate an individual from the crowd here, unless your site is tremendously busy.
I don't think one needs to point to specific governments or their
actions, and it would indeed be wrong to. The very fact that Pegasus
and similar malwares are openly allowed operate as businesses, that
smartphone cyber-security is essentially a lost cause, that companies
like Huawei were able to ship devices with such deeply embedded flaws,
and that harms are visited upon even serving political leaders shows
that there's an epic power struggle which is out of control at every
level.

Without blaming this or that regime, fascist, communist or whatever,
we need to recognise a new dimension in power, call it
"techno-fascism" or whatever you like... that means it would be
foolish to invest much trust in digital systems at this point in
history. And that itself is a huge economic loss and bonfire of
opportunity for us all.
Not to jump into US political discussion, but the phrase you call out is what was typically called a dog whistle a few years ago.
this is where the wiki "markup" really nails it, so easy to crosslink documents
Robot is an (intentionally) ambiguous term. Is it autonomous? How autonomous?

If it's an RC car with a hand gun glued on, who cares. If San Fran secretly has a T1000 (and they don't but let's play boogie man for the fun of it) then that's different.

Of course, we don't have self driving cars or even automatic aiming for real guns so this is almost certainly just a machine with a human operator making all the decisions just at a distance...
> Morning grogginess is more than just an annoyance. It has major societal consequences: Many auto accidents, job injuries and large-scale disasters are caused by people who cannot shake off sleepiness. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania and an even worse nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, are well-known examples.

Not to make light of these tragedies, but this paragraph got a laugh from me - who thinks of Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as, primarily, examples of _morning sleepiness_?
Sure, I said they're welcome to make a profit.
60 days? On a TN, you get until the end of the day
I hope this is sarcasm, we have many indirect sources we can cross-reference to obtain a fairly accurate estimate of temperatures over tens of millions of years, if not more. Including data on atmospheric and oceanic composition, the lifeforms it harbored, and weather patterns in various parts of the world, to an extent, thanks to the fossil (and glacial, albeit on a smaller scale) record -- some of which we burn in our cars.

Here's a random link in my first page of results [1].
In case you are serious, you are probably going to dismiss my claim.
In that case, feel free to dismiss anything else that bothers you. Rules are for NPCs after all; and climate scientists, geologists, meteorologists, archaeologists, paleontologists and chemists are notoriously unreliable and more biased, partial and bought out than in every other field. (yes, I'm being sarcastic, sorry about that).

Re-reading your question, it has merit, if it didn't come across as dismissive of the hard work that has been done by all these people over the years. Correlation does not equate causation, but the correlation is undeniable, and hypothesis that have been formulated to test for anthropogenic climate change tend to be successfully validated. Furthermore, multiple physical phenomenon at play are well understood, even if their interactions are complex (full of feedback loops, and unknowns: what will happen when the Siberian permafrost will thaw? Methane emissions? How much?). All in all, the picture looks pretty bleak, and we should not play too much with stuff we don't fully understand.

[1]: https://scitechdaily.com/66-million-years-of-earths-climate-...
Hi, author of the article here.

Just to give a little more background here.

Cabin doesn't store a row in a database for each visit. It only stores one row, per day per domain. The attributes for that row are simple tally counts - visits, uniques, bounces etc. So no identifier is stored, and the hits go into the tally. We do not store the fact that a user has visited x amount of times. The demo here is to show how the technique works.

Cabin used to detect only the presence of any last-modified date to determine if the visit is unique or not. But extending it to distinguish hits 1,2 and 3 (by adding 1 second to the start of the day) now allows us to count the bounce rates too.
I'm guessing they probably worked on different teams with their own managers. There is a lot of overlap between purchasing, supply chain, manufacturing, design, etc.. We're talking about hundreds of people.

He also wasn't a manager to begin with, that requires it's own set of training, but we are getting way way in the weeds here to even be talking about this all on one person's point of view. There are so many factors that go into org structures, interviews, cross team collaboration, etc..

It's easy to feel slighted when you don't have a full picture. What we do know is the work pace is so frantic that I wouldn't attribute these things to malice immediately. Just a lot of people trying to do a lot of things in a short amount of time.
I read some of the threads about the Airdrop changes, and some people argue it actually increases security (for reasons that are above my technical understanding). The fast track to release in China was odd, but I don't think it's super cut and dry that it was at request of Chinese authorities.
all men are pigs so our life spans are only 20 years

joke obviously
I particularly love the idea that TMI and Chernobyl, not failures of nuclear regulatory bodies or human factors.. nope. Actually, the workers were just unable to shake off sleepiness! They should have gotten a better breakfast, and then Chernobyl would be fine!

It's a bizarre puff article.
> You can observe this as a manager, when you can see the salaries of people and watch the pay inequity get worse and worse to punish people who have been there a while.

If you’re the manager… do you let this happen intentionally? Why not fight it?

I constantly hear how people want to retain their employees since it’s cheaper than new hires. Why not take actions to reward the loyalty?
> I believe it's the only way to view HDR images

What about the format Apple has been using for years? Is it AVIF?
One notes that rural teens and young adults die of suicide at nearly twice the rate of those in urban areas. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...)
npm install crypto-exchange
You'll be fine. Just stay away from crypto.
Sorry. Large Language Model. Like the GPTs and OPT.
> Currently, regulations require passenger to turn off their cellphones or activate airplane mode before takeoff and during the entire flight. The practice is a security measure to avoid interference with the plane’s electric and telecommunications systems.

Airplane mode is now mainly for the cellular networks to not have a lot of phones in the plane have handoffs between cell towers all the time. It would be far too easy to do “terrorist attacks” if you could simply bring down a plane with a turned on phone.

> It has also been found that cell towers on the ground can become overwhelmed due to phones in the sky. With how quickly airplanes travel, cellular signals would have to be bounced off of cell towers at high speeds.

https://nci.edu/2022/06/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about...
New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
porntipsguzzardo
I'd be surprised if anyone tried to argue that fossil fuels have been anything less than instrumental in achieving our modern comforts.

The issue is:

1. Oil companies knew about fossil fuel harm to the environment, and then lied about/tried to cover it up. They've directly played a role in climate misinformation. They've done that so well that we now have armies of people with no relevant knowledge on the topic arguing that climate change is a hoax.

2. If the danger of fossil fuels was acknowledged long ago, we could have prepared for it in advance. This would have eaten into profits, hence the motivation to deny it's a problem.
Ask HN: Would VCs fund startup that only uses WhatsApp as a distribution channel
I am launching a consumer facing startup that uses WhatsApp as the only channel to interface with customers. I want customers to have a native experience and I don't envision building an app to serve customers.

In your view, would VCs be concerned about "counter party" risk if I use WhatsApp as the only way to interact with customers?
The point of political donations (at this scale) is not to get your preferred candidate elected. It is to get leverage with the candidate who ends up getting elected.
What do you mean by "live application"? Is a PHP application under nginx "live" or not?

If it is "live", changing a file will immediately be reflected in the application on the next "eval", i.e. require or execution by the interpreter.
If I understand DoorDash's corporate structure, the founders have dual-class stock and voting control, so board could not remove them.
GDPR doesn't just cover personal info, it also forbids tracking without consent, which includes cookies and other means. This is just a technical trick to track someone sans cookie, so I'm 100% certain they will fine anyone doing it unless they get consent.
There is Minetest, which has at least one configuration that attempts to mimic vanilla Minecraft, but I'm not certain how accurate it is.

The stored data structures are well understood for both versions. See for example https://www.amuletmc.com/ (Editor, Python) or https://github.com/df-mc/dragonfly/tree/master/server/world/... (Code, Go)
Strings/lists under concatenation do not form a group since concatenation is not uniquely invertible. (In the sense of "there is no list -xs that you can concatenate onto xs to get the empty list.)
Stallman came up in the time of mainframes and dumb terminals; so he had mainframe concerns and mainframe critiques.

His relevance now is because we too have shifted to mainframes, but we don't call it mainframe and dumb terminals anymore, we say 'cloud' and 'mobile'. We are rebuilding the future in effigy of our past because it's what we know. Stallman's critiques being relevant again are a testament to the cyclical nature of humanity, like bellbottoms, hightop fades, and vinyl records.

Now if you don't mind, I must iron these JNCO's, times-a-wasting!
I recently wired up a twilio phone number to a cloud nano instance that was just running ~100 lines of code to receive SMS messages, call out to GPT3 (just davinci-002, not the new 003 or this new chat model) with a dialogue-esque prompt ("The following is a transcript of a text message conversation between two friends..." sort of thing). I kept a running transcript of the last 100 messages for each conversation and just fed it into the prompt to get the message to respond with.

I had a few of my friends message it. For the non-technical friends, it was amazing to see the transcripts. Even though they knew it was an AI (superhuman response times), they had full conversations with it as if it were a human. Some of them chatted for over an hour!

A lot of people loved using it as a friendly explainer, basically a human interface on top of wikipedia. Other people used it as a sort of therapist, just dumping their problems and thoughts and it would respond in a helpful and friendly way.

Most people had no idea AI had progressed to this point, and I'm sure they could have been convinced that this thing was actually conscious.

Of course, my technical friends very quickly found the edge cases, getting it to contradict itself, etc.

I've had some ideas on how use OpenAI's embeddings API to give it more long-term memory (beyond the 100 most recent messages) which should clear up a lot of coherence issues. Gonna implement that as my next weekend hack.
It's not 'whataboutism'. Two tech companies are adding comparable restrictions on their technologies to humor the political interests of a government.
Mostly support people in my experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

Isn't amphetamine = speed?
My point is while 'imaginary lines' seem theoretically interesting to point out when we discuss free movement, it's far too ingrained into animals to really change. Maybe in the distant future we will have planets as borders instead of country lines, but the lines will be there!

Also any reason to point out Chimpanzees have wars including patrolling land borders and recon missions :)
7859.

Firefox seems to have problems around 8000 (or maybe it's just me?), so don't go there :).

If you do, and Firefox crashes at startup, you might need to delete (or better: rename) some files under .mozilla/firefox/<profile>/:

.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4

.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/sessionstore-backups/recovery.baklz4

.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/sessionstore.jsonlz4

You'll obviously lose the tabs opened since the last start.

You can have a backup with Tab Session Manager (for Chrome too):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager/releases
It doesn't say the end date is only for visa holders. It's just saying that visa holders will particularly benefit from it.
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-un...
Maybe they didn't apply, but was approached with an offer?
I always found the people who say “Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences” are the authoritarian assholes, but that may just be me.
Your take is cliché, factually wrong, and makes you look callous all at once, congrats! Any other major religions' holidays you'd like to dismiss while you're at it?
The problem is that the numbers depend on a bunch of decisions made under a variety of pressures and constraints to solve a collection of business goals that we (the `people not involved in running the company) may only have a limited view of. There may be situations where it's justifiable to throw people at a problem versus a solution that uses less people. Inertia can keep the results of those decisions around for a long time.

Someone could certainly go through the exercise of deciding how many employees Kraken, Twitter, etc "should" have to perform the functions that someone is aware of, but it's an imprecise straw man at best.
The 80s and 90s had businesses gushing at the opportunities to

* liquidate unions

* avoid environmental laws

* take advantage of cheap labor

Both parties fell over themselves in paving the way for US businesses to move the bulk of their manufacturing outside the country.

The Chinese millionaire kids who are buying houses for cash are a product of the distillation of thousands of once blue collar jobs that burned to move production overseas.

Any derision in the quality of Chinese made goods should be directed at the companies themselves. Those factories are built what they are told to build. That brand that was once a mark of quality that is now making a shoddy product is just extracting value. Your Macbook Pro and that power tool in name only are made in the same place.
Unlike ink jets most laser printers will let you disable the low toner “lock outs” although by default it may refuse to print.

Then you just wait for the streaks to appear to know when you’re out. You can shake it to extend the life once that occurs. I’ve printed hundreds of pages after the printer said I was out of toner.

There’s probably some small quality loss but for text you don’t really notice if it’s not streaking.
Another country that is using E-goverment effectively is Saudi Arabia, almost everything is digital.

As for privacy, What is privacy? Do you have something to hide?/s
Because many minorities have been oppressed and disadvantaged, all minorities must be oppressed and disadvantaged. Any group whose success contradicts this idea is hushed away and eventually portrayed as part of the oppressive majority. Whiteness acquired through success. The Narrative must be preserved at all costs.

There are real problems regarding race, wealth and opportunity in life. Identity politics hurt everyone but the politicians.
Jacobin isn't just biased, it's agenda-driven. They're cheering specific outcomes and jeering others. To the parent comments' point, Jacobin is just an echo chamber for Socialists who want to hear Socialist opinions from other Socialists. That's different from wanting to read factual news and rational analysis from sources who believe climate change is real.
Not per capita, which is the only sensible metric to use. Germany, Canada, Australia are all higher on that.
Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle between the extremes you posed? Both vendors only lease your device to you; it's ultimately under their control. There's a big open android world in between the Apple and Huawei ecosystems.
In addition to the income limits (that right-wing media LOVES to conveniently leave out when lashing out against loan forgiveness), the loan forgiveness was for only up to $10K.

I can assure you that lawyers/doctors have FARRRRRR more than that.

I worked about 30 hrs/week while going to school. I didn't take a summer break. I finished my BS in CS in 2014 with about $45K of student loan debt that I paid off in 6 years.

For me to get upset now about people having some of their loans forgiven seems weird to me. It reeks of "I suffered, so should you!" energy. It'd be like fighting against new treatments for a disease because a loved one died from said disease already.
I work in the field of Data Science and one upsetting reality has started to sink into my mind over the last year.

In a business there is top line and bottom line. There are a lot Statistics/ML/Data Science jobs that are about moving that bottom line. You build something to optimize something to reduce costs.

The value provided by the bottom line people is less visible than the value of top line people. The easiest way to move the move the bottom line is by just getting rid of people. So when the axe falls the bottom line people get cut and it's hard to understand why.

It's the same thing as people say about fires. When you put out a fire you are a hero. When you prevent the fire in the first place, everybody thinks it's business as usual and nobody understands why you are needed.
It's ridiculous that you can circumvent the rules that easily.
Depends on how private. Speech is communication, which almost always necessitates more than one person, and the other people are perfectly within their own rights to provide some consequences to the speech they hear in private.
I'm not sure I understand that point. JavaScript has one way to encode strings (WTF-16), many things that compile to WASM have another (UTF-8). The only thing that I see happening is that people generally are starting to recommend the use of UTF-8 as internal string encoding, and particularly across bridges.

The question is IMO not really about if someone operates on unicode code points or not, but what encoding strings shared across a WASM bridge should have and coming to one makes sense.
Time wasted filling in forms and talking to service staff should really be tracked and associated with the business or government agency, then it's possible to actually assign a "bureaucracy/red-tape tax" based on the hours they waste for people using the service.

Without externalizing the cost of all the time wasted, it's just too easy to push time-costs on to the consumers/citizens. It's already a huge problem, and I suspect a major cause of loss of productivity in the western world.
> I recently sold a piece of property in India and it took literally 10 minutes to do the transaction at a local district office. You just go to a place and get a scan while signing a document that says you are transferring the property. That handles everything ... changing the owner in the public registry, etc.

Even that is excessive. Digital signatures (if available) do the job.
Show HN: Your Year in Text (open-source Spotify-Wrapped for iMessage)
Left on Read is an open-source iMessage analyzer for Mac Desktop that I helped build. Learn your top words, emojis, group chats, contacts, and relive your funniest messages. We also built a "Your Year in Texts" experience (think 'Spotify Wrapped' for iMessage). No data ever leaves your computer and we are proudly open-source: https://github.com/Left-on-Read/leftonread

The app is free to try, but in order to keep the lights on, we charge $2.99/month for premium features (such as filtering and sentiment analysis charts).

Left on Read works by copying the chat.db sqlite file on your Mac found at ~/Library/Messages. This is why we need request full disk access. We then run queries on it and display graphs with react chart.js.

We've happily seen a lot of people entertained by our app thanks to some viral Reddit and Tik Tok posts that we've done.

We built this project for fun, so thanks for your support and any feedback is welcome.
Isn't the key to waking up alert and refreshed to do so between sleep cycles (so no alarm). You just have to keep consistent lifestyle / schedule so you wake up same time automatically.
>While I'm sure no one will care to enforce it

Pretty right. In the HFT world, we have people going on non-competes all the time. During that time, most firms do not pull their visa petition from USCIS, pay continues every two weeks and the employee is still technically an employee of the firm, just that they're on garden leave. This is done by firms so that the employees do not have to leave the US during their non-compete.

They're not doing any work, so technically still counts as a visa status violation.
It's usually an equity issue, or championed as such by equity groups. America is so car dependent that for folks at the margins failing a driving test is the equivalent of losing your job. That's why DL renewals almost rarely require any re-testing and never require demonstrating driving skills.
Umm no. Unless you’re in a looked soundproof room talking to yourself speech is a social activity and no one gets to dictate how others interpret and react to your speech.
This non-digital game was designed for zoom play. It’s available on a “pay what you want” basis:

https://susd.itch.io/rats
Its not a next gen image format, though. Using single frame H264/H265/AV1 MP4s is the next gen image format that is already being used. This is what HEIF is (HEIC is H265 in HEIF, AVIF is AV1 in HEIF, AVCI is H264 in HEIF, etc). I can already do HDR with these, and several phone camera apps (such as Apple's stock one) can save an HDR photo as HDR in that format.