skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well how can I remove my extraneous garbage post, then? ;-)

I'm actually paying attention to this thread because I'm hoping people drop clues about what I should research or play with. Thanks a bunch - cool topic!
The “crash detection” and “fall detection” features on the Apple iPhone 14 and watches automatically call 911 when the devices detect a sudden stop that, in concept, means the user has been involved in a car crash.

I wonder how many times it's been activated not by skiers, but by angry people throwing their phones for whatever reason.

“We are communicating with Apple to get them to pay more attention to this but it feels like we are trying to turn a battleship in a bathtub.”

An easy way to get them to pay attention might be to just loudly announce the intention to, and then start ignoring, automated calls from them, or at least deprioritise them in favour of human calls. The equivalent of nullrouting DDoS traffic.
Seems to be a followup blog post soon after https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ , which was on HN the other day (258 points by Tomte 2 days ago 141 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130726)
It's quite simple math, for instance ambulances deliver every year thousands of people in life threatening conditions, while road deaths are in low hundreds, there is no noncar alternative to ambulance really. Regarding pollution it would be very complicated to calculate, but I think you overestimate impact of public and personal transport on pollution, it's negligible compared to other sources of pollution calculated per capita.
Have you tried diffusionbee? It's not fully native but it does let you replicate prompts.
That's the attitude that causes these problems. Probably their date was set to 1/1/2000 because the database wouldn't allow them to not set a date.
CPacketSniffer: Write a Packet Sniffer in C
In this post, I want to introduce my new project: cPacketSniffer. I worked on it for the past two months. Finally, I worked it out and feel very proud of putting it here!
Many fictional stories have real characters in it. The fact that Pontius Pilatus existed does't make the story around Jesus more credible. In fact, the story in the Gospels tells of a Pilatus who wants to appease the jews. This is at odds with what we know about him from other historians: he couldn't care less of what the jewish leaders wanted and frequently enacted laws against the local wishes.
Does this have any sort of ability to feed it training data? I know I can do that with some SD frontends on Windows - ex: give it 5 pictures of my face, and have it generate a 3D avatar of me.
I knew something like this was in the works, but I had no idea it was ready to try out on Windows 10. I figured it would be mostly limited to Linux hosts.

Well done!
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Hopefully it sounds better than AMBE2+, codec2 and whatever 1st gen Iridium was using at 2400baud.
Helping others seems be something people have found rewarding and motivating for a long time and across cultures. There might be something to it.
Lot of ways you could cut it…

Company that has decades of experience running multi billion dollar global payments system has some ideas about what is important in running a global payments system.
> He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.

What's odd about that? ISNT, DONT, ARENT, COULDNT, SHOULDNT, none of them are Scrabble words. More generally, you're not allowed to misspell words in Scrabble.
> By that definition, a AA game could definitely look better than an AAA game,

Of course...?

> although it would be unexpected.

No it wouldn't; that would be completely normal. I didn't say AAA meant attractive graphics. I said it meant current-generation graphics. Compare a screenshot of Escape from Monkey Island to one of Curse of Monkey Island. No one is going to argue that Escape looks better. But if you released a beautiful 2D-animated game in 2000, that wouldn't be "current" technology.
I'm just gonna be that guy - just install Truecaller. It has been the singular line of defense against all scammers and spammers for most (almost all) people in India and it works wonderfully. Scammers/spammers get routinely identified and blacklisted using crowdsourced information, and with terrific speed and prejudice. I do believe the reason most scammers have started focusing on foreign victims instead is because Truecaller has made it nigh impossible for them to dupe Indians at scale.

Yes, they have the bad habit of scooping off your contact lists to index people without consent, and, on hindsight, is indeed an affront to telephone privacy, but its benefits outweigh those compromises enough.
Isn't it funny that the public prosecutor lose time and tax payer money to investigate on his own this question when no one officially complained about that?

To me it looks like a lobby group like tv media, or movie studios or Netflix covertly asked them to investigate that to issue a ruling.

So that later Netflix and co can change or be forced to change their policy saying that it does not come from them but they were forced by the gov.
Lite XL is a small miracle. I can only echo other comments calling it an "open source Sublime Text". It is at least as responsive as Sublime in my tests, and feels even more lightweight. The executable is only 385 kilobytes on Linux, with just a handful of extremely basic system dependencies (SDL, Lua, FreeType, PCRE).

Sublime Text is now getting squeezed from "above" (by VSCode) and from "below" (by Lite XL), while also having serious competition from TUI editors like Helix which are rapidly approaching it in features and performance. I'm not sure how Sublime can hope to survive long term against all of those, considering that Sublime's development pace appears to be by far the slowest of the bunch.
This headline violates Betteridge's Law.
The idea of multiple-word-identifier not using an underscore threw me at first, but back in history, you couldn't always count on having underscores, etc. It only took a minute to get past it.

I was intrigued at the foreshadowing of Python's syntactically important indenting.
Non-paywall versions: https://wapo.st/3vhsJ8J or https://archive.vn/OCh2P

This is worth reading for the photo of the pneumatic tube operator, the nut sorters, and the list of job titles. Click "+ Show 117 more" at the bottom of the list to see them all.

I have a vivid memory from when I was a kid in Oregon around 1960 and my mom took me to the downtown department store: the pneumatic tubes.

At the checkout counter, your order slip and check or cash would go into a carrier and whoosh up to the accounting department on the second floor. Then another whoosh and you got your change and stamped receipt.

A few of my favorite jobs from the list:

Cutter-and-Paster, Press Clippings
Getterer
Telegraph-Service Rater
Vamp-Strap Ironer
Wafer Breaker, Semiconductors
If Docker is not a light Virtual Machine, how does it simulate a different OS?
it also uses a special antenna only in new iPhones that T-Mobile doesn't have the luxury of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230620
This is still better that bulk of one-sentence-per-paragraph garbage that is posted on LinkedIn by various self-proclaimed "thought leaders".
What's the difference between this and the Diffusion bee? The DB project has not been updated in a while.
Request a 4-day work week.
What does this mean: "placing advertisements announcing an 11,500% price increase in 4 months in football stadiums". If this isn't ChatGPT or similar, then someone may have received head trauma and needs to see a doctor.

With a likely increase of blood began to circulate on the chain for investors to flog at, when the possessions hit.
26 languages in 25 days: Strategy, tactics, logistics
> I wonder how many times it's been activated not by skiers, but by angry people throwing their phones for whatever reason.

Even just dropping it.

I’m bemused at how many cracked screen devices I see given how often I drop mine and yet it never seems to break.
Shadow banning was originally used to stop spammers who didn't really care about engaging with anyone. At least, that's what the forums I was moderating back when it was new were doing with it, we were just trying to dump the people who were spamming about herbal Viagra.

Using it on actual people was never recommended, because it was always very obvious to anyone who actually engaged with the site. They'd go back to the same old threads on another computer and find their posts were gone, which was incredibly obvious. This just created more forum controversy, e.g. back when pj of Groklaw started doing it back in the day to suppress differing opinions on that TurboHercules controversy.
it's not rf voodoo. it's a highly spread signal at an extremely low nitrate. this has been common for communications satellites for a very long time.
I wonder how much Musks behavior on Twitter over the last months impacted the Tesla brand.

A lot of people I know hesitate to take a seat on a plane, even for a week-long holiday. Having to read about Elon Jet and that Musk takes a whole plane to watch a football game certainly rubs them the wrong way.

Censoring users at will for his own ego or his own benefit also seems to go against what intellectual tech enthusiasts value.

A lot of his tweets seem cold-hearted, passive-aggressive towards minorities like immigrants and LGBT people.

For the people who followed it (not sure if it is many of the Tesla target demographic), it must have been a change from "Smart free speech absolutist who works on accelerating the advent of sustainable energy to save the world" to "Unethical, narcissistic despot with ill will towards minorities".
I remember scrapping up a bunch of PC parts in 2010 to fully load a 900Mhz Athlon machine because it still had an ISA port and I could throw an extra GPIB card in there to interface with an even-older HP spectrum analyzer. Ran whatever ubuntu was out at the time decently enough.
Just to remember that a company is not a NGO, and that a company only purpose is to make money. So a company does not decide to improve the state of art, or help, provide free ideas of the target goal is not to get his share of the incomes.
That’s a symptom. The root cause was lack of resiliency in airplane routing.

It’s the only thing that explains why Southwest was uniquely impacted this week. Every other airline has staff issues, and the same weather to deal with.

With a point to point network, the coordination problem is much larger than with a hub and spoke network. That is probably what pushed Southwest’s software over the limit. But remember, the software didn’t fail by itself in a vacuum. Resiliency problems during a weather event were the root cause.
YOLOing into HOOD was peak 2021.
Just wanted to wish you well brother. I’m sorry you lost your wife.
I’ve wondered the same.
Find a b2b problem that is within your ability to solve and where you know at least one party that could be your launching customer, and where there are lots of other customers. This could be a lawyer, a doctor, your dentist, some industry contact, whatever. Then solve that problem and sell your solution to that first contact and ask them if they can point you to others that might need the same thing. Sell, rinse, repeat. And meanwhile, every new customer should be relentlessly pumped for information about how you can improve your product.

It will take you about three years to get a business off the ground in this way. Faster if you are lucky, slower if you are unlucky or if the market isn't large enough. In five years you may match your bay area salary, in a decade you might be ready for an exit (or sooner, again, if you are lucky). Keep it bootstrapped if you can at all afford that.
In my opinion, the problem is much bigger than just a class of algorithms (AI) and is largely a side-effect of late-capitalism.

The primary issue is that software systems are inherently rule-driven (algorithmic) and that encoded rules are just that--encoded, fixed--for some amount of time during a release cycle, a system will operate in a fixed way. Private companies are the ones designing and developing these systems, and as far as private companies are concerned the only value they care about is profit. Ethics hardly enters into discussion when it comes to the extraction of the maximum capital possible. As long as there's no pre-established juridical ruling against it, the capitalist is not going to eliminate any approach for ethical reasons. Worse, because the algorithm is the product, these rules are carefully guarded and as the product grows in popularity it is not only the experience, but the algorithmic mode of reasoning itself that begins to dominate--people are complacent about, e.g. horrendous privacy practices because an ethics of digital privacy was never a question to begin with and as soon as companies rolled out products built on this absence it became normalized.

Algorithms in themselves do not make values wither. A society in which anything other than monetary value was already never given consideration establishes an environment in which values wither, whether or not that erosion is realized by digital or mechanical means. It all comes back to capital baby. In other words, algorithms are one means of realizing the obfuscation an a-ethical modus operandi the grand abstraction of near unbridled capital already permits.
NHS bosses want interview panels to justify why they have hired a white person
This has happened to like ten years ago. Had a domain with my last name and after it expired, someone bought it and kept it for a year. The last name is absolutely uncommon and there are about ten people world wide who have it. It's also not a name for another thing or anything. I always wondered why someone would even spend money on it.
My Apple Watch had called 911 or “Emergency SOS” at least twice. I don’t even think it is fall detection but the button getting held down when I’m paddling or duck diving sometimes. What sucks is that when you’re wet you can’t easily cancel the call, let alone understand anything being said on the speaker. Even after taking it out of water mode, if you’re fully in the water it’s a problem.

Luckily after the last situation I opened up the app and disabled all Emergency SOS features so hopefully it does not happen again. Also, hopefully I never actually need it
Startup Is Producing the World’s First Carbon-Negative Concrete
First of all: the accounts are not first hand. They were in fact anonymous. Nobody put their names in these Gospel-style compositions, identifying themselves, until very late when the church decided to name them as we now have.

Second of all: these accounts are not independent. There is the gospel of Mark, and them other authors went on copying most of the previous books, but adding sections that frequently contradict others. So, what we have are not 4 to 6 different accounts, we have a single story that has been copied and edited by several anonymous people.
Elon is basically a defense contractor now (see Starshield). Chinese government is going to turn the screws.
It's a shame since Tesla and SpaceX both seemed to have reached maturity beyond the start-up/celebrity CEO stage. Yes - they're both facing teething issues, supply chain problems, demand, etc - but it'd be easier to write off these drops if the CEO wasn't busy with some glorified SMS service.
I wonder what margin call thresholds are for some loans collateralized by $TSLA...
I seem to remember the Motorola MMUs requiring significant extra wait states for memory access which was one reason (beyond bugs, lateness, and price) they weren’t popular.
adopt. you've reached the endgame help noobs
Nice read. Kind of reminds me of T shaped people - https://jchyip.medium.com/why-t-shaped-people-e8706198e437
it has also falsely reported accidents numerous times
This is great! I’ve been remotely logging into systems for all of my adult life and last week I went on a bit of a bender because I realized didn’t really grasp how these things actually work.

I am not sure I do now (specifically how SSH ties in to this).

But at least I now know more about terminals, shells, rawmode and ptms/ptx and more.

This link right here fits right in with the following ones:

[0] https://biriukov.dev/docs/fd-pipe-session-terminal/4-termina...

[1] https://www.sobyte.net/post/2022-05/tty/

[2] http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmosphere despite warnings
At the margin it creates an incentive to not commit suicide, or to make damn sure you succeed if you do. In a time when suicide was viewed more negatively, I can see why such laws would exist.
This use infamous extremely unreliable Open Weather data source, so while it's nice there is API and you built website, it's not much of use if data it provides is useless. Form over function.

For instance this was accuracy result for Prague in data collected over 6 weeks in forecasts where sources provided different forecast (how many out of 6 correct): AerisWeather 5.5, Foreca 4, MET Norway 4, AccuWeather 2, Dark Sky 1.5, WeatherBit 1.5, Open Weather 1, World Weather Online 1

And I still keep collecting these data and it's not changing.
Why restaurant chains are investing in robots and what it means for workers
How is that obvious? There is literally no known objective method to ascertain if another organism is conscious.
Does trimming your nails have a similar effect?
Worth noting the Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index is down 62% YTD.
I started a project to help me pull content from my insta, twitter, etc with the ads cut out.

The aim feeds still look and feel like the original site, but without ads, or duplicate content.

In case you are interested - https://www.fetcher.page/
Currently Osmocombb can be considered a fully open source and audittable GSM stack, down to the baseband and modem firmware.
Too bad it does not fit the phone completely.

FreeCalypso does and is audittable, but it's licencing situation is murky at best. It's based on leaked Texas Instruments sources with a gpl licence stuck on top. But Calypso is essentially abandonware and TI got out of the GSM modem biz in early 2000's so they apparently don't care.

For LTE there's srsUE from Software Radio Systems, but it's a 100% SDR implementation that does not fot any phone and is more of a lab and research tool. But it is open and audittable.
Financial analogies for software estimation
Notably, per the Alaska agent I spoke to about my cancelled Alaska flight, Delta doesn't let other airlines rebook on Delta flights. That may just be an Alaska/Delta thing but it's not obvious full reciprocity.
I'd say dramatically ?

He is so unlikable, foolish and actually rude to people that I wouldn't want to be driving around a car that's associated with him. It' a massive shame because I really think at some point he was a force for good and he really wanted to see progress in the world. Sadly and I mean this in the nicest way possible, he now just seems like a fraud.

I actually think Tesla already had a bit of stigma associated with it, kind of a "show offs" car...but now, it's just a liability.
C'mon, there is a huge difference between an airline selling a seat they don't have and not having it due to an equipment issue.
This is an interesting article, but does little to support a literal interpretation of the Old Testament records of David and Solomon. Instead it makes an argument that there was a fairly sophisticated nomadic civilization in that area around that time.

That's a very interesting conclusion but remarkably different to the Biblical record.
China doesn't care about patents and will manufacture your design for 1/3rd of the price.
>threshold used is 69%

This kind of snark is uncalled for in a purportedly serious domain like financial journalism.
Netflix to start cracking down on password sharing
> Analysts on average expect revenue to grow 54% in 2022 and 37% in 2023, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

That is some crazy growth still.
It seems like you've 'made it', so why aren't you taking a step back to gain some perspective and try out things you haven't been able to?

Also, make peace with the fact you won't be able to get a drive similar to your youth due to the amount of responsibilities you have now. I've accepted that, and you're likely financially better off than me.
The really sad part of this is it removes the motivation to reduce healthcare cost.
In America it has become acceptable to reduced ever choice as between capitalism or burning it to the ground.
Someone very close to me recently got scammed by someone calling from a fake Wells Fargo fraud prevention phone number
My wife was very suicidal in her teens and early twenties. She tried to kill herself a number of times and even ended up in one of those infamous padded rooms. Long story short, she's no longer suicidal and is happy she wasn't successful. I don't agree with expanding scope to "mature minors": life is change but life as a minor is breathless transformation we can't even cognize for ourselves until years later looking back.
Yep, and the modern day thing seems to be buying or hacking the movememt data directly from the telco. For example if leaks are to be believed NSA has access to around 70% of the movement data of GSM subscribers in Pakistan.

That said, there has been a sigint sat parked close below Thurayas sat for ages.
How are governments going to collect taxes once people use crypto across this for thier transactions?
Some more context.

> - a CLI verification option that will test a given % of your backup objects (at random) every time it's run, to give you opportunistic random verification to try find issues.

FWIW Restic also supports this - see restic check --read-data-subset (https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/045_working_with_rep...)

Also Restic doesn't have any problems with buckets with deletions disallowed as long as you allow them for just the `locks` directory. A policy I used for one of my targets looked like:

{
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "AllowAdditions",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:PutObject",
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:ListBucket",
"s3:GetBucketLocation"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKETNAME"
},
{
"Sid": "AllowDeleteLocks",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:DeleteObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKETNAME/locks/*"
}
]
}

And it even works with buckets with object locking enabled since >= 0.13.
…

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:

…

If—; Kipling, Rudyard; 1910
Just giving you some more info on that order cancellation, it's been a few years but from what I remember, a blogger/columnist complained pretty strongly about something that I can't remember like build quality and I think he did it in a way that bothered elon personally so he had the columnist's order cancelled.

Just found the post: https://medium.com/@salsop/banned-by-tesla-8d1f3249b9fb
> How do I get back to who I was, in terms of feeling driven to solve problems and make impact? I feel like I’ve lost who I once was and don’t know how to get it back.

This is an interesting statement. I feel the same, but I wonder how much of the optimism and motivation I had in my 20s was unfounded and naive, stemming from a lack of experience. Having seen stuff play out multiple cycles has made me more pessimistic (realistic?) This makes it harder to become motivated, at least about technology. I guess that's a good thing to some extent, but it's also sad that I can't go back to that old naive self who blissfully worked on stuff without questioning. I think you need to deal with the fact that you can't go back to that old self because you have more knowledge that inhibits the naive optimism.

Maybe try something other than technology? How about working out? Playing an instrument? Art?