skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention, until on-prem chatGPT is available, companies that care about source code secrecy aren’t going to expose their codebase to OpenAI.

We’ll get another slew of decades long court cases once one line of Oracle or Microsoft code proprietary code comes out of chatGPT.
Notes on Roadtrips
any specific recommendations for a setup?
There are definitely isolated instances that deliberately don't federate with anyone (and thus operate like a typical centralized social network). There are also widely blocked instances that seem to federate with each other and might effectively form an enclave.

It's hard to say in absolute terms. Say the vast majority of instances block instance A, and instance B goes online and begins communicating with the larger fediverse without blocking A (either deliberately or because they aren't aware of A). If users on A and B don't initiate communication, instances A and B won't communicate to my knowledge†, but there's nothing blocking communication. So at that moment A is not totally cut off from the fediverse.

†There might be some discovery features I'm not aware of. Also, there are some edge cases. If a third instance C joins the fediverse without blocking A (like B did), a user on C could follow a user on A, then a user on B follows that user on C, and finally that user on C could boost a post from A onto B's timeline, which I believe would cause A and B to start communicating.
US Appeals Court rules on DRM circumvention in Green v. DOJ
Yeah, I worked on a system where they wanted to make this accessible - until someone realised that yeah, OCR doesn't work on 300 year old documents :)
For sure, I can see how I elided some concepts there; I think my definition was appropriate to the context of this conversation, but I appreciate you keeping me honest.
I don't and don't know any parents that push anything sexual let alone encouraging kids to explore sexuality

I definitely learned before age 13 that being gay/lesbian was bad (I'm bisexual and in my mid 40s). I definitely learned that I was expected to grow up and get married and have kids and if I worked, it was really to help the spouse. I remember my parents suddenly getting upset that I had male friends and didn't want me spending time with them the same way (this was around age 10). No one talked to me about attraction and if they did, never explained that I might feel that way about women as well as men. This is what heteronormativity is. This is pushing sexual preferences on youth.

Exploring sexuality isn't about actual sex acts, but more about learning who you are and who you are attracted to. You know, the sorts of folks you'd like to date and eventually, the sorts of folks you want to spend your life with. This sort of thing is most definitely encouraged, but sometimes the only acceptable option presented is the hetronormativity - you know, "biblical" monogamous relationships that produce children, and if you are female and don't want children, you are broken.

This isn't sexualisation of children.
>This is probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, because nobody wants to confront the idea that we can _learn_ to want to be another gender.

Did you really think this was going to be downvoted on Hacker News of all places?
> What about if bob was gay and Alice was working for an anti-gay Church? If I was bob I wouldn’t want to participate in such business.

This is a good point that I should have considered more. (Not that it really matters but I do try to catch my biases before expressing them.) I was thinking about this more yesterday and this morning and eventually reversed my conclusion because of this argument.
Burrows are not something you need as a beginner unless you're doing something unusual. It's best to forget about the feature. For jobs, press (u)nits -> (z)oom -> (p)references -> (l)abors on your dwarves and adjust their professions, then queue up tasks at workshops.
Yep. You can install "MSIX Core" on Windows 7 or 8.1. The project is open source, even:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/msix-core/msi...

That said, Conveyor itself isn't tested on anything less than Windows 10 and won't automatically install MSIX Core. Windows 7 isn't supported anymore and Chrome is about to phase out its support for it too. So far we just don't see any demand for a better UX on Windows 7, so the user would have to apply that themselves. Or, just download and use the zip version, of course.
>> It's worth noting that being overambitious is often the root cause of fuck ups.

> ...and world changing success.

But mostly fuck ups.
Yes, because of the details of how and why. It's not the number. Yes, thousands of people die every day, but they doesn't make the needless murder of one person any less of an issue.
But, set aside the cost, there is as I see it a not-so-hidden environmental cost, the discarded TV set that could be repaired replacing one or two components needs to be somehow taken care of.

There was a manufacturer in Italy that - at the time - created the "perfect" setup for cheap repairs that produced no or very little waste (old post):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29166395
I was half joking, because software development is largely the process of developing an unambiguous specification - just in the form of executable code.
https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-subscription... is literally what it's called. The page is very careful to say that Full Self-Driving is not a substitute for attentive driving, but.. why else would you call it that?
Makes sense, they've been emailing me 4 times per week. Clearly to get rid of old stock.

Didn't even have the decency to delete my email from their spam list after hackers got my name address, phone number and that I have a ledger.

No matter how much I unsubscribe from their mailing list.
Yes, there is. But all certificate issuance is cryptographically logged, and DNSSEC signatures aren't. You can spot and react to misissuance of certificates.
By investments do you mean App Store commissions? They do make quite a lot from that. Not more than they make on hardware sales, but it's a pretty substantial fraction of their revenue.
Why does the US have a AAA rating in the first place? It owes more than its GDP in debt repayments. If I owed more on my credit card than my yearly salary, I doubt I'd have a AAA credit rating.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...
Thank you, ChatGPT! </ha-ha:only-serious>
I think not being able to procure n95 masks because mask production was all off-shored, particularly to China, was a real wake up call that supply chain security is integral to national security.

Ukraine was the moment that showed that: "No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other." is a false idea.

Hong Kong made it clear that the idea of increasing prosperity in China will not lead to it's liberalization, nor can China be relied upon to be bound by documents that are "historical documents that no longer have any practical significance."
The SPV can, in theory, commit fraud and transfer ownership of the asset out from under the SPV owner.

If it does that, the directors are in Deep Shit.

The transactional architecture is basically: paperwork is prepared as a set of legal warranties. NFT purchase also pays for all of those warranties giving a very strong set of legal protections to the NFT purchaser.

The key is simultaneous execution of all the contracts as a single atomic transaction without any chance of mis execution or somebody changing their mind half way through.

Think of it as a vending machine for legal obligations. Automated obligation.

Smart contract.

Everything is a Turing machine in the end. Everything can be done on paper. All that really changes is defect rate and transaction cost.
What a fascinating planet you must live on where legacy doesn't exist, or if it does developers can see into the future and know what will be 'nonsense' in 10 years time, or make the whole thing moot because of course they rewrite their build framework for every release of the build system, having unlimited resources at hand. Must be nice there.
This is the sanest idea of all, it seems. C++ could easily have a library of build and dependency-tracking classes with a sensible API. Then you could use anything you want in your build "script" that C++ has to offer and not have to jump through hoops to accommodate the most complicated use cases. (And no, you would not be needing a build script for your build tool.)
The dollar value of that crypto price is variable. Even if the price in crypto constantly updates, the cost to you in dollars is always in flux. For no discernible reason a cryptocoin can fluctuate in value.

Today one coin will buy a coffee while tomorrow one coin will buy a PS5. There's no incentive to transact with crypto if there's any assumption the value of that crypto will go up tomorrow.

For a seller they can get wiped out if they accepted payment for coffee in crypto and then the value of that coin tanks.

Knowing the crypto price is immaterial. You can never know what the value of the item will be. It's like paying for everything with lottery tickets.
Why can't they at least give you an estimate like every other industry?

If you take your car to a mechanic, they might charge $100 up front to diagnose the problem and then estimate another $1200 to replace your transmission. At that point, you either say go ahead and agree to the price, or say no and get your car back and take it somewhere else.

That seems fair for everyone involved.
Unless we get to a point where entire codebases can be maintained and extended with code that adheres to functional requirements and is free of bugs, there’s still some room for humans.

Consider highly contextual problems: today I faced an issue where some updated code could have negative side-effects given certain database state. A regular set of tests did not catch this issue – only my knowledge of the possible states did. I doubt an AI will be able to solve such problems any time soon.
No responses and negative downvotes for describing an actual experience, and providing a productive and professional answer despite that negative experience. Talk about unreasonable snowflakes.

Just goes to show anyone that matters how far the HN community has fallen in recent years.

You want to de-amp and be unreasonable by marginalizing me, I won't contribute at all, you can learn how things are without my help. Whole attempt at manipulation is saf, with the idiot controlling the bots in the majority.

Stripping people of agency and voice like that is very evil, and anyone participating in that will eventually have that negative karma come back at them, and it will be magnitudes worse the longer it takes.

If you can't be civil or reasonable, don't do anything.
According to Gallup's poll in early 2022, which they present as estimates, 0.7% of the US population is trans. In India, 0.6% people self-identified as hijra (Sahastrabuddhe et al., 2012). In the 2011 census in India, 0.04% answered with "Other" when asked to choose between "Male", "Female" and "Other".

Canada included the question in their latest census and the result was 0.2%. In my opinion, a mandatory government census provides data that is more accurate than Gallup's phone poll.

"The proportions of transgender and non-binary people were three to seven times higher for Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2006, 0.79%) and millennials (born between 1981 and 1996, 0.51%) than for Generation X (born between 1966 and 1980, 0.19%), baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965, 0.15%) and the Interwar and Greatest Generations (born in 1945 or earlier, 0.12%)."

Canada's government also adds this under their data comparability section: "Belgium (0.5% among people aged 18 to 75 in 2021) and New Zealand (0.5% among people aged 18 and older in 2020) have also published representative survey-based data on their transgender populations.

Other countries have published 2021 data on transgender people using crowdsourcing and non-representative surveys, including Ireland (0.6% among people aged 18 and older), England and Wales (0.6% among people aged 16 and older), and the United States (0.8% among people aged 18 and older)."

Being transgender is not a mental disorder or illness, but rather a natural variation of human diversity. Everyone has the right to express their gender identity in a way that is authentic and comfortable for them. I fail to see how the topic of a mass social media-induced illness applies here.
The browsers absolutely cannot migrate to a different set of DNS roots. It's only been in the last 5-10 years that they've managed to get as much control over the root programs as they have now, and there was a lot of behind-the-scenes drama involved in that. And TLS certificates are, when you come right down to it, a browser feature.
It is hard to read this list objectively and not conclude immediately that while "limited use" "don't scale" "slow" and "privacy issues" are hypothetically solvable(?),

the divergence between investment and expectation and reality is exactly as great as critics assert,

and that it is indeed entirely the energy and momentum of greed and grift that keeps this from collapsing back to its natural state,

one I was close to prior to the grift, when the technological challenges and approaches were collectively known as "the decentralized internet" and there was not dirty, funny, fake, and stolen money fueling a narcissistic crime carnival.
What I really would like to see on the Moon: more investigation about peaks of eternal light[1]. These are points close to the poles of a body which receive sunlight (almost) continuously. On the Moon, if there is an area with a few peaks which are illuminated for long enough and with icy water close by; it is possible to store energy in the form hydrogen and use it for the periods without light.

That could enable permanent settlements on the Moon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
I used my last iPhone for 7+ years I believe, and didn't feel forced to upgrade when I finally did either. How is that Apple have "perfected planned obsolescence"?
Some of those mistakes they have made are totally inexcusable, and I don't want to come across as defending them. Just trying to get some more context because I am clueless about the medical devices field.

Those devices are developing on top of decades of research and use and not pushing into something so new aren't they? I am guessing it is probably less, but how many animals have been killed over the entire development of artificial hearts?

And something like a heart can be developed almost entirely outside of a body right? You can make an artificial heart pump blood in a lab. And then test pumping blood through a cadaver. Is there any way to external experiments like that for the brain? I wouldn't expect a cadaver to have neurons firing to be able to measure them. What experiments are they doing on live animals that could be done without them while still learning the same information?
I'm not disagreeing that apple has some responsibility here. I'm saying they've pretty much done all they can without the cooperation of external forces.

Some things they could do are:

1. Make sure android phones also detect Airtags out of the box by coming up with some universal standard. This is not entirely in their hands.

2. Collaborate with LE to try to detect and warn of stalking behavior.

They could feasibly try to do #2 and brick devices that are likely to be involved in stalking, but I'm not sure if this is technically feasible (too high of a false positive rate would obviously cause issues, and it's not a lot of data to go off of).
Is this the goalpost now? That a "meaningful percentage of the global population" uses your creation? That's a high bar.
I was recently at a restaurant that used a QR menu. However, they are in a weird location and have no cellular service for my <major carrier> provider. They also have no wifi. I simply couldn't get enough connection (a trickling 1-bar) to actually load the menu.

They had no paper menus.

I had to use another patron's phone to get the menu to order. Nonsense.

The whole back-and-forth of this, asking the server to try to find a paper menu, etc took almost 20 minutes, and left me as a customer immensely frustrated with the business and despite that it is a very unique spot, I haven't been back since.
> Babies cry for every reason and figuring out what’s wrong (if anything) was stressful.

Yep, but it's important for would-be parents to know that that's normal and doesn't take all that long IF you are being an attentive parent. Some parents can tell by the "kind" of cry what their baby wanted. I could never do that, so I always just went through a mental checklist every time: Poopy diaper? (Usually you can smell one before it upsets the baby, though.) Hungry? Tired? Wants to play? Wants to sit down? Wants to get up? Etc.
For flying; try cutting the elastic and then tie both sides together behind your head. May make it a bit more snug on your face (which helps prevent your glasses getting so fogged up) but no back of ear pain at least :}
Sounds like you got lucky. Every time a unit passes over their own trap, there's a chance of it misfiring on them.
If appliances break less frequently or are repairable more easily they will last longer. That means you can spread the higher cost over a longer period of time.
I just think of it as getting paid $100 to go to the gym. And I get to exercise the more colorful parts of my vocabulary. :)

Those days are probably behind me though.
> their unrestricted ability to mint stable coins and use them to manipulate the market as they see fit

What stable coins do Coinbase or Kraken mint?
There's a new Netflix series called Hot Skull around this theme. I haven't watched it yet but it looks like the premise is that a word virus infects people and they start talking gibberish.
The cost of the thing is effectively irrelevant if you both need it and don't get the bills for weeks/months. If patients are expected to self-ration, they need the info up front...
Crypto transfers aren't subject to these issues because they aren't regulated. For instance, cards (Visa, Mastercard & Verve) can't be used to deposit on these exchanges because they'll have to be processed by a fiat operator, which usually requires a license. Because the government has banned the use of crypto, any entity caught wanting will have their accounts frozen. This also makes it really hard to deposit money into these entities by anyone. They can easily be blacklisted because they have accounts in their names. I used to work for one of such entities. I've also had my bank account frozen by the Central Bank of Nigeria for withdrawing naira that was sent from said 'blacklisted' entities.

Because these crypto exchanges are P2P based (e.g. Binance P2P), I can exchange my USDC for Naira that's deposited directly to my account. Because these are individuals, it's hard for the government to isolate bank transfers that are made for the purpose of crypto. For caution, people making such transfers tell each other not to add a description with a crypto-related word to these transactions.

Adoption for real day-to-day payments in low-volumes (like paying for groceries at a shop) is quite low, but high among high-volume merchants who import/export goods and are in dire need of USD liquidity and ease of payment across countries. Tough Central Bank policies give them an incentive to find the best rates & transact with lesser barriers. There are no official figures/solid data, because all that activity happens in informal channels (like P2P).
That might be a good thing, as most of modern music totally sucks.
This tugs at the heartstrings but it is more sentimental than substantial. Why not consider the number of people with potential and talent that would never discover it because they didn't need to work or apply themselves thanks to a UBI?
> 10x the number of price points is nuts.

When you RTFA, you'll learn that Apple is also making it far simpler to manage their app pricing in 45 currencies/175 storefronts. For example:

"Starting today, developers of subscription apps will also be able to manage currency and taxes across storefronts more effortlessly by choosing a local storefront they know best as the basis for automatically generating prices across the other 174 storefronts and 44 currencies. Developers will still be able to define prices per storefront if they wish. The pricing capability by storefront will expand to all other apps in spring 2023."

Additional capabilities are noted in the announcement.
I really wanted to build something like this but never found the time. The challenge was ETL-ing all of the data provided by hospitals.
Ask HN: What do you use to backup email?
Howdy HN,

I'm realizing that I don't have a good story for backing up my email. I rely on my provider, and with the recent rackspace outages, I want to start backing up my emails locally.

How do you folks handle backing up your email?
This is so obvious and so "acceptable" even in security circles that I have thought for a while that it is a tacit acknowledgement that state actor attacks are "OK".

Trusted CAs should be one of the most scrutinized and controversial aspects of system configuration, and OSes should support a variety of trust models.

I've run this by a few security "experts" and the response has always been that it's a UX issue and the goal is to have websites load correctly without the user seeing and complaining about opaque security errors.

It's quite absurd. The rewards for compromising a single CA are so great that surely most state actors have succeeded in doing it at least once.
I don't see anything to support this in the literature. The overwhelming majority (94-98%) of youth who transition maintain their gender identity many years later as adults. [1][2] It's hard to imagine they would continue treatment if it was making them miserable.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/transgender-kids-tend-to...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
Ah yes, gatekeeping and name calling. The cornerstone of "established" science everywhere. There is no need to denigrate Graham Hancock's hypothesis as "crackpot" and it certainly isn't a proper theory. Science welcomes all ideas only to discard them with proof to the contrary. Unfortunately, much of archeology is inference not proven fact. The farther back we go the more inference and less fact we have. There is certainly a possibility that an advanced Pleistocene civilization existed and was destroyed by a cosmic impact. To dismiss these ideas as "crackpot" is one of the most unscientific claims I regularly encounter.

We know there are human built megalithic structures that are dated at the end of the Pleistocene. We know that the Pleistocene ended abruptly with all North American megafauna perishing and immense amounts of meltwater entering the oceans. We don't know if there were a bunch of distributed civilizations with similar technology levels or if there was a global civilization that shared knowledge before or after cataclysm. We also don't know what caused the end of the Pleistocene. This is the realm of hypothesis on all sides.