skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because their advertising business is still wildly profitable even with the ad tracking changes. If they continue to reduce costs and stop investing in the metaverse they’re a great company.

Now, add in TikTok potentially being banned in the US and you can see their social media apps being even stronger positioned.
Societally we only value quantity of life. Quality is completely secondary.

When you consider that dying of Covid was considered to be a fine sacrifice to make to keep the economy flowing, you realize there isn't really even a principled objection to dying under your own terms.
After the Wii U floundered, Nintendo released the Switch mid-generation, which is generally not the right time to release a new console ID tire assuming for success. But we saw how it turned out.
Making our social interactions even more fake. Can't wait.
Tell HN: My Show HN didn't get posted via HN webapp but unofficial client
Hi, just sharing an observation I had recently, not sure if it's an anomaly with my post or a more common pattern.

Recently I had posted a Show HN link via news.ycombinator.com webapp but that post died in a couple of hours and I wasn't able to put a comment on that either like I have seen in other Show HNs. Nor were other HN accounts able to see it

However, when I posted the same link again via an unofficial native app on Android, I was able to put a comment also, as well as other HN accounts could view the post. Just curious if anyone else faced something similar?
I'm getting several per week in Italy, now mostly about Amazon stock - previously it used to be mostly about crypto something. So boring.
They inherit a lot of issues from C like badly defined types; they imply on some unfit conventions like \0 terminated strings; they do have some issues defining the memory managing model (but I think that's unavoidable).

I have never dwelled on low-level compatibility for long, so I certainly don't know about most issues. But even with a very small view, cleaning the leggacy looks like a very worthwhile thing to do. Maybe after Rust has gained more adoption, we can start to make C adhere to it, instead of the other way around.
Linux doesn’t have “a package manager”, the distros each have a different one. Is there a tool that will generate a package for each district from a single input? How about testing them? It’s a bit easier now with docker but it’s good that a number of things have forked off of Debian in that you have at least a prayer of getting that package right and covering a lot of people.
It seems to me like the Chinese Room Argument does not address the notion that in carrying out the algorithm, a possibility that the original author is instantiating a computational mind whose contents are inaccessible to the substrate hosting the mind. In other words, this argument falls because it does not resolve the hard problem of consciousness.

The pan-psychism argument is an interesting parallel to the Free Will Theorem. I am a bit wary of assuming of which side of the possibilities the outcome must fall.
Could you explain why do you think that "reason" is different from "probabilistic associations"? I thought human mind is not deterministic and just good at pruning the improbable patterns retrieved from the memory (when looking for a solution). But I am new to these things
Telsa is not worth the valuation. Just speculation it may be in the future which is bad, stocks are bought on what its worth today.

Telsa is valued at the same as all the other manufacturers combined, which is obviously wrong and Elon got a free purchase of a social media company out of it.

All a bit bonkers really
I have never, ever, seen a good comment that includes an accusation of a dog-whistle.
I am unable to speak for the management because I have no knowledge of their particular situation or extensive experience in the matter.

I can only speak about the forces that act on development teams and what could most likely in my mind explain the current situation.
There may have been nefarious intentions, and a lot of smart people I follow go that way. But I'm still more charitable than just about everyone I know. I call it the "entropy of ignorance". When dealing with a novel rapidly spreading pathogen that we have no experience with, there are more ways to make a wrong decision than a right decision. A wrong decision then opens up more choices where another wrong decision can be made. A purely statistical argument would show that we'd get the outcome wrong.

In non-emergency cases, we have some random people that follow the right path and that message gets amplified and we find a solution. In this case, that didn't happen (or maybe I should say "hasn't yet happened"). We are seeing with the latest twitter files that some people who were more right then wrong were silenced. The bias towards a more right answer was taken away. Why were they silenced? Could be something as simple a trying to make an easy message "anything that promotes vaccine hesitancy is bad" because good people truly believed that the vaccine would get out of it and they didn't want any confusion.

Back to your comment about "worst case scenario." Yes this is bad, if the vaccine (and in particular the boosters) are actually destroying the immune system, we have a problem. Typically we would have tested this for a long time to see this effect (which is not unknown in the immunology community) but for some reason "we didn't have the time" and we rushed it into millions (billions?) of people. That is bad. Can it get worse? Yes! What if the latent IgG4-enabled virus evolves in vaccinated people and we get another outbreak of a worse virus?

You can probably imagine more bad scenarios. I was a co-author on a paper about significant more (1000x) pregnancy and fertility adverse events after the COVID vaccine compared to the flu vaccine. So we're talking generational effects!

Anyway, not to be too doom and gloom here, but I think you're right "it's more complicated than that" and "we need more data" we just need to collect everything we can, make hypotheses, test them, and learn. That requires lots of open communication.

Extra info: earlier this summer I started to put together a figure to illustrate the "entropy of ignorance" It's outdated, I've learned more since then, but this was my best understanding this summer. You can see how it's easy to have a bad decision keep compounding into more bad decisions. And they can easily happen randomly, it doesn't take nefarious reasons.

https://imgur.com/YZKu3Wn
> Note that in some countries these scams are far more prevalent than in others, they'll go for the low hanging fruit first just like any other business

The reason for this is language barriers, it's not some countries doing things better than others.

> Shipping a SIM box would already be much more work than just changing a number in a database

They don't even actually need to ship one, there are thousands of them operational already. This is a massive industry.

Even if you cracked down hard on SIM boxes, the scammers will just purchase routing from botnets. This won't really impact their costs, and will be essentially impossible to take any meaningful action against.
Should just text all pilots to bum-rush any plane they’re equipped to fly. Why not add the two front seats into the free for all?
Yeah, I do not see how stopping the spoofing (which I am all for doing) would be anything but a minor inconvenience for them.
I agree - Musk's behaviour is harmful to his personal reputation, his businesses, his investors, and sometimes beyond. Also utterly unbecoming a CEO of companies which routinely have human life at risk, serve critical national security interests, etc.

(Yet I would not bet against him making a success of Twitter, as he has Tesla and SpaceX.)
Energy products. Megapacks are sold out for 12 months in advance right now and the queue is getting bigger.
I’m not saying it’s a WebView, but obviously it works extremely similarly. It is not a native app framework.
Also, sending such a reply may turn out to be a chargeable message, not included in your standard plan.
It isn’t. You certainly used MD5, SHA1, SHA256 or SHA512 as hash, with SHA256 being the most likely one. All of these are very easy to bruteforce – if someone has one of your passwords, bruteforcing your master password won’t take all too long.
No, the SIM boxes live in the US.
My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email.

– Wanna go for coffee?

– January is busy. After?

is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
Of course that won’t really help.

The vast majority of scams are “romance” scams.

These are people who don’t have accents but good job prejudicing your father against a whole group of people while not actually protecting him from scams.
SMS has hung on for three reasons:

1. Reading a message is low-obligation compared to answering a phone or taking physical mail out of a box.

2. A shorter message has less room to both contain a scam and a cover story. Necessarily, either the payload or the cover story or both are thinner in an SMS message than a scam email.

3. But most importantly, social customs around text messages conversations are different from phone etiquette: besides being unauthenticated, caller-id came after decades of being expected to answer the phone without knowing who was calling or why.

A stranger sending a legitimate but unexpected text message feels obligated to explain WTF they're contacting you. "You don't know me, but..." Scammers, on the other hand, are trying to bypass this. "Oh, you know me."

Tying into point #2, a low-data channel like an SMS conversation is a high-context interaction. Have you ever gone back and read old SMS conversations and noticed a difference between the richness of your memory of the interaction and the sparseness of what the text actually said?

(Google search results pull the quote, "Generally, high-context cultures prefer oral communications, while low-context cultures favor written communications." My thesis is the telephone is a technology that turns oral communication into a low-context activity, and SMS is a technology that turned textual communication into a high-context activity. It's not impossible but more difficult for untargeted scams to go unnoticed in a high context channel.)
Totally agree. The biggest fallacy in tech circles is confusing s-curves with exponentials
"Pushing for peace" doesn't mean anything. It could mean to push for an unconditional surrender of Ukraine, or for an unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops, or anything in between. The fact that you use this phrase along with the term "regime" tells me that you're a either a Russian propagandist or a someone who has been misled by Russian propaganda.
It’s hardly working at all under Wayland. Copying to clipboard has been broken for at least 18 months. AgileBits doesn’t seem to care. [0]

There are also sync issues (items created in the desktop app won’t appear in the browser extension unless I restart my browser), which aren’t occurring under Windows nor macOS.

„Poor“ Linux support absolutely does the situation justice.

[0]: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/667970
> It's not the tool, but the wielder.

It’s following the tao of the ox. That’s why he didn’t need to sharpen his cleaver for a decade or something, it just “naturally” went into the empty spaces, rather than stumble against bones and sinews.

(If I remember correctly; my old Burton Watson copy is now sadly long lost.)
Nothing says that they cannot put the SIM box in e.g. the US or Canada. It does not have to be in India.
That was a reasonable strategy a while ago - if conservatives hate electric cars for tribal reasons, you've got to make an electric car they're allowed to like.

At this point it just seems like he doesn't have any friends though.
I don't get it either. It doesn't give more information than `turbostat` or `powertop`. In fact it gives much less information. And installing the kernel module starts timers that immediately become the main reason the system is awake and drawing power, at least on my Intel "Raptor Lake" desktop.
Right. Like I don't want to jump to conclusions and attack the sender's site just because I got one annoying email. Maybe I'm just having a bad day.

But if we made a list of the worst offenders (based on how many contributions of this sort their email inspired). Well then there'd be a bit more objectivity behind them being truly the worst, and I'd feel a little better about putting on the black hat for them.
I have helped defend claims brought by coal miners against their employers, and, while I obviously am restrained from giving specifics, a number of the miners were not without skills that would permit them to work in mines, yet they persisted in working in mines.
It all feels very Trumpian; once he’s outside his comfort zone (very visible with the software engineering and politics in particular, in Musk’s case) he tends to just take his lead from whoever flatters him most, and promote/repeat this complete nonsense.

This is actually quite odd behaviour. Most high-profile people, confronted with something they don’t understand, will keep quiet; looking stupid is too much of a risk for these people. If the former PM of Russia drunkenly tweets about you, _you do not engage_, no matter how nice he is about you.
Some other recommendations:

Don’t Make me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug

https://builtformars.com/ UX case studies

https://www.nngroup.com/ UX analyses and articles

Coursera has some UX courses you can audit for free
Well. The UK is not immune to spam calls. Here is a YouTube video of hacker going after a call centre that was targeting the UK. They were making millions of dollars per year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyEoOfSECp0

Indian knows english. It's hard to target non-english speakers.
They already do? Usually I see gift cards packaged in a sealed paper envelope that and the redemption code itself is covered up with tamper evident paint.
"Paid for" does not necessarily mean "good" just as "expensive" doesn't necessarily mean "bad."

I'm not trying to opine on the Canadian health care system, as I've never experienced it nor given it much thought, but arguendo, if a part of the calculus for wellness is "is it cheaper to kill them?" that would be a deal-breaker.

(Again, not saying that's what is happening, but I am always skeptical of the payor's ability to dictate the treatment for reasons you can infer)

There's such a sliding scale of what is good and right here, and I think reasonable people can draw their lines at different places. Plot these as points on a line, and I think everyone will draw a line somewhere:

* suicide should be allowed
* medically assisted deaths are different from suicide and should be allowed
* people assisting in death should be prosecuted
* if it is hard for law enforcement to distinguish assisted suicide from murder, prosecutions are allowed
* it is okay for your doctor to prescribe death
* it is okay for the state to encourage death as the most cost efficient means of care
* it is okay for the state to withhold care if it is too costly to administer
* it is okay for the state to kill anyone they deem burdensome

A definition of "good" may still contain characteristics that cross a line that a reasonable person has drawn, and I can't imagine how someone might convince another grown adult to draw their line somewhere other than what feels intuitive.
Why I won't buy a Tesla (as of today) even though they are amazing.

I rented a model Y, and the ride, fit, finish, comfort, speed, venting is super cool, charging, range, power/speed settings that affect drive experience, all _amazing_ ... but... (no particular order)

- Door handles SUCK, open the wrong way and often require TWO hands. (I am not old/feeble)

- Unlocking the door SUCKS. You have to tap the key card multiple times, or in an exact spot.

- Locking the doors SUCK. You have to either find some obscure tiny lock icon on the touch screen... or just walk away an HOPE it locks. I actually couldn't tell if the car actually locked because it AUTO UNLOCKS when you get near it.

- The touch screen SUCKS. While many simple controls were easy enough, and the large screen was nice for navigation, most of it was miserably tedious. Repeat actions should be easy, but it was a constant chore to find and re-find.

- The physical controls on the steering wheel (you guessed it) SUCK. They are not labeled, and they are context sensitive so you are required to look at the screen to figure out what they are affecting. But sometimes, it's a tiny spot on the screen that it affects, and you can't see what it is doing. And since it changes what it affects, you can't rely on muscle memory.

- Lane controls SUCK. It constantly wines and alerts you, and warns you, and steers back into your lane. I tried multiple times to shut it all off, and I could simply not turn somethings off. (I work in IT, I googled it, there was nothing obviously locked down the rental company)

- Price (sucks)

Why is lane control seemly required? (my opinion) Because all the car's controls are out of your safe driving line of sight. Without this I think most Teslas would be in persistent minor/major accidents. The bad so far outweighs the good...

I hope they either allow disabling the babysitting features or make a simpler car without them. Add real physical buttons. Put a _real_ dashboard that you can see without getting distracted.
That’s a great read! Fauci explains what facts he didn’t have at the time and why learning those facts changed his mind.

If Covid was only transmissible by people with symptoms, you could control spread by asking those people to stay home and everyone else is clear — no masks needed. If it’s impossible to know if you’re infectious without testing, masks make more of a difference. More effective ones are obviously better.

I certainly knew at the time that I was triaging masks because health care workers were more important than me. I still have a note on my fridge from February thanking me for donating some N95s I had from wildfire season. The trade off was pretty clear.
I am almost not affected by ridicule, I consider it just confirmation that I am not doing something right. But I am not offended by it and I think it works for some people, so it has a place in the world.
Same reason the U.S. allows all other sorts of privacy invasion like the White-Pages-like search sites that will gladly share ( for free ) your past 11 something U.S. mailing addresses you've resided at, the names, ages & addresses of your family members & a whole host of other information ( you may have to pay for this bit ). All you need is someone's First & Last name. Even the U.S. state is not really needed.

The reason being someone is reaping massive benefits from whatever loophole allows for this kind of data collection & is shoring up initiatives so that loophole isn't plugged.

Now try the same search with a U.K. resident or E.U. resident you know of. I'd say you will have a markedly tougher time gaining access to similar information, with just a few clicks & without ever pulling out your credit card. I have no clue if U.K. is similarly compromised off late but a few years ago ( prior to Brexit ) it was not the case.
AI will consume half the electricity on earth and it will still be pretty dumb at this point lol. We need to find a better solution than scale up.
I suppose it's not that easy. They can use international VOIP providers to route their calls, maybe even run their own, rotating the numbers they use and disguising the actual origin. If that wouldn't work you could probably hire people in other countries to put some agent software on something like a smart phone and use these.
The difference is all in what is being delivered. The way customers value food is very different from if they're shipping say, a chair to their home. If a chair costs $100 and you're paying $10 to ship it, no big deal. That's 10% of the cost.

If a customer orders $10 worth of food and sees another $10 of fees, their interest in it decreases significantly - and they have many alternative ways to get food with less overhead.

You're right about restaurant-specific options though. The economics are somewhat different and may work out more favorably, though I still suspect they're taking losses for the sake of gaining customer interest. There's no way delivery costs them half a pound!
He's basically a defense contractor now. That can't go over well with China.
This is the expected and typical behaviour of a monopoly organization after several decades.
A clarification: it's not so much that there's a list of prohibited names, it's more like some people had "clever" ideas and the legal naming process has a judge involved to validate that names are not outrageous or could cause harm to a child. Once it's been ruled out, it's unlikely to have a different result on a second occurence.

Examples (from the process above: keep in mind people actually tried)

Titeuf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titeuf

Fraise: (strawberry) because of the expression "ramène ta faise" ("bring you ass over here")

Jihad: for obvious reasons

Joyeux: (happy) from the dwarf name

Patriste: (notsad) an attempt to circumvent the above

Babord / Tribord: (port / starboard) someone tried that for twins

MJ: trying to honour of Mickael Jackson's death

Griezmann Mbappé: you can guess

Mégane: because the family name was Renaud (close to Renault, which has a car named Mégane)

Mohamed: because the family name was Merah (Mohamed Merah being a well-known serial murderer)

Fañch: a traditional Brittany name, initially rejected because the ~ diacritic, which does not exist in the French alphabet. Was later overruled and allowed.

The horrible part, though, is about all those terrible names that are not rejected as the ones above were but are obviously a sort of sad, tasteless joke and very very bad for the child.
There's no reason consumer SIMs should be able to call more than N distinct numbers in any 24h period. You can implement reasonable rate limits to prevent abuse.

However, even if we assume that SIM boxes are a magic solution to carrier interventions, that still raises the cost from the current status-quo. Implement enough of these barriers and the entire scam operation becomes unprofitable and no longer worthwhile.
Rewrite.js – a minimalist s-expr based term rewriting system
rewrite.js is estimated to be a Turing complete, s-expression based term rewriting system. Its intention is operating over s-expressions to expand asserted template occurrences while aiming to be intuitive enough to introduce code templating to non-technical users.

rewrite.js may be used as a curiosity computing platform, formula application system, proof checker, problem solver, and pretty much anywhere where any kind of computation is required, as long as slower performance on intensive computations doesn't go beyond limits of user patience.

rewrite.js is designed as a creation with only one kind of rules: substitution rules. Being such a minimalist creation, complete rewrite.js implementation takes less than 400 Javascript lines of code.

To get a feeling about rewrite.js appearance, this is a math expression rewriting code in rewrite.js:

(
(
REWRITE
(
(VAR <a>)
(RULE (READ <a> + <a>) (WRITE 2 * <a>))
)
(
(VAR <a>)
(RULE (READ <a> * <a>) (WRITE <a> ^ 2))
)
)

(X + X) * (X + X)
)

The above example results with:

((2 * X) ^ 2)

Aside from criticism, I'm particularly interested in possible rewrite.js usage ideas.
It's not just India.

The rise in the random texts (which end up pushing investment scams) also originates in off shore call centers in Southeast Asia.

Often times they get migrant workers with promises of jobs, but then take their passport and force them into years of repaying for their relocation fees.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62792875
> and giving someone else a copy of my passwords

Except you're not doing that. You're giving someone else an encrypted blob.

The screwup here is that LastPass also stored a bunch of unencrypted metadata.