skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was discussing this with my family the other day. Here on television they now do an every few days broadcast alert. Then amber alert tests. Then weekly emergency system alert test. Also now we have silver alerts for old people who get lost.

The result is what feels like daily (sometimes multiple times/day!) alerts.

My SO's grandmother is the only one who watches cable, but the whole house runs to turn off the tv or mute it asap when we hear it.

Exactly the opposite effect/behavior the alerts are supposed to have.

It's like when your boss marks everything urgent so nothing is.

Side note- so many good songs have been ruined for me by repeated pushes of commercials using the hook/catchy part of the song max volume for whatever amazon or pill garbage. Horns honking or surens blaring.
Hat's off for posting this 2 hours after it dropped!

I've been tracking the nest of issues with anticipation! This wasn't linked to https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/1947 when it posted, so I didn't see it. Very glad you linked it, thanks!

Oh wowwwww.... 608 lines. It's tiny! The last go at adding io_uring to libuv was 24k lines. https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/2322
Whatsapp has been fully e2e for years, maybe since 2016? It uses the Signal protocol.
There's more to media than journalism. Twitter is not merely a platform, it's a platform for communication. A medium. I'd say that makes it a media company.
Good question - and one that tells me something. You're familiar with modern front-end development and that's something we can dig into. Why would you want to avoid full page refresh? When would I use a SPA versus more traditional SSR? What about serving something mostly static with progressive enhancement? What frameworks might you consider for developing such a SPA? Which have you worked with in the past? What did you like about them? Any you're looking to work with in the future? How do these frameworks work - i.e. are you someone that hacks on them and is concerned with shadow DOM and optimizing diffs and re-rendering and data binding...

That's why I really like this question - it's just such a cool jumping off point.
At least in the early 20th century there were a ton of jobs one could pivot to that weren't too difficult to train up for.

That isn't the case anymore. The only jobs that will remain will be skilled blue collar jobs and for how long is anyone's guess until we start getting robots with limbic dexterity and power systems to rival man.
Well you can ignore all sorts of Compartmentalization and run everything in the same cgroup, same chroot, same user, like how it is on conventional x86_64/aarch64 computers. It just isn't safe.
It’s hard to prepare when we don’t have a good idea of what will happen (and I agree with the GP that we don’t at this point). Also, as usual, politics will only react after the fact.
What words _would_ you use to describe a city with fewer homicides per capita than almost all other major US cities?

Might want to look at some relevant data; https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-vio... has a handy chart halfway down, if you're not interested in reading.
Indeed. I would love to see all the specialised equipment they've designed.
He was certainly fine making accusations in public about this person. When he found out he was given misinformation why didn't he name the person and fire them? Why did he air it out in public in the first place? The whole saga is criminally ignorant and Musk is to blame.
Off-topic: That particular HN discussion contains many users creating a political narrative, and even at the time it was obvious there were many bad comments. I wish we had a way to downrank users that derail conversions with crap.

Are there forums with better user moderation systems that boost ranking of quality comments and decrease ranking of comment noise? Something where I can systematically increase the ranking of comments of users I respect (or I transitively respect), and decrease the ranking of comments for users that I see write crap. Ideally tagged (e.g. I want to uprank a particular users opinions on programming languages, but I want to strongly downrank their economic opinions)
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Unlikely.
Life is optimized for species evolution/survival. From a logical perspective, individuals should be optimized for transmitting beneficial traits to the next generation and, after this, it's better if they don't stick around to fight for resources - nature Planned Obsolescence.
As someone unfamiliar with their privacy policy, can you explain what’s egregious about it?
I suspect this article is intentionaly inflammatory. Opening sentence mocking someone's physical appearance. Outlandish salary / other attribute expectations. At the same time: admission of being a single parent freelance journalist and complaining about the perceived lack of eligible options. I'm glad it all worked out well for the author but what exactly is the point of this article other than to provoke?
Yeah. Wild seeing how much got done on those tiny screens in Japan. I've always been impressed with the 'information density' opportunities of logographic writing schemes (the ability to convey significant information with a single pictograph). You can cram a lot of characters into an emoji, I guess, but there's a useful limit.
If you are male, I have a 100% guaranteed method.

First, dress like Harry Styles. Then, go to a Harry Styles concert, where the gender ratio is guaranteed to be in your favor. Then say "hey what's your name?" to any given girl/woman. The girl woman will inevitably interrogate you, it doesn't matter what the question is, the answer is "I admire Harry's fashion sense, i'm a bit obsessed, are you into fashion?"

Boom, match made.

The issue I used to have (and still have) is a yearning for the world to be different and for the female sex to be not so mid.

A huge percent of the women you are interested in have been obsessed with that guy for the last 10 years or more (specifically 2011 when "That's What Makes You Beautiful" song was released) If you can drug or drink yourself into becomig mid, you have nailed the secret strategy that all the guys with cute girls have achieved.
If I'm understanding correctly... This merkle tree should give clues as to how many users whatsapp has (unless they insert fake users - but either way, it gives a lower bound). It also allows me to see how often a user re-registers (ie. sets up a new phone).

Currently, I can see that if I have a conversation with a user, but with this public log, I can see the same info for the whole world?
It was a perfect engineering solution, poorly communicated to users.

I'll take a slightly slower phone (in reality not noticeable on most tasks) over unplanned restarts. My partner only just stopped using the iPhone 6 I bought in 2014, original battery all the way, and she had the throttling turned on for years without knowing or caring.
It’s annoying but not super hard to replace apple batteries, atleast for iPhone you can just buy a $30 kit on amazon and replace it, even with a higher capacity one too. It could be made easier but it takes less than 30m start to finish, and there are plenty youtube videos if you’ve never done it before.
I remember a 20-odd inches rainstorm in Lauderdale in the early 2000's. I accidentally drove a rental car into a "puddle" that swallowed the car up to the windows. Instantly cracked the engine block.
Ok cool. When you said "I have a Google domain" I assumed the worst.

Everyone else: do NOT use Google as your registrar. Just don't.
The goal is to prevent and possibly reverse aging so you would remain healthy. What you do with those extra years is your business.
Stadia for sure is the notable one. When first announced it was met with skepticism after which Google insisted that they'd be in it for the long term.

Well, guess not. It just cements an already shaky reputation. Don't depend on anything Google personally or in business if you have a choice. They still don't care though, they seem immune to market forces and things like "customers".
lmao, this is what economists, industrials and politicians told us since the 40s

Meanwhile we work more hours and retire later than back then. It's never been about reducing the working hours, and probably won't be for a long while

And not only that but the jobs that were once fulfilling and stable are now absolutely miserable and everything but stable, we lost the meaning of work
I find it strange that nobody is mentioning the Hindenburg Research report against Square that came out a week before the stabbing, and the fact that there’s likely a fraud investigation underway.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/
In most locations I lived in these repair places ranged from "they are the same clueless as me" to pure scam. One week and 60 EUR to learn what's wrong with this thing? By then I'll be using a new one and will not have to take half day off.
> Rather, such technologies offer the potential to edit the genomes of current threatened species in order to help them adapt to changes in habitat and climate.

Make the dodo an apex predator, six feet tall, with a razor-sharp beak.

Call it Indomitus Dodo.

What could possibly go wrong?
Well, in this page a member shows that copper is used three time as much as cobalt in car batteries, and only a few days ago a documentary emerged about the copper extraction industry in Chile as a barricaded enclave causing high human costs.

And even more recently the moves in the geopolitical game made the extraction of rare earths and its environmental (and social, etc.) costs a renewedly current topic.

I am not sure that cobalt has a specially bad place in the whole context of extraction. (Apart from the non irrelevant fact that 'cobalt' comes from "kobold", because its ore is toxic.)
Can this public log be used outside whatsapp?

Ie. could a third party app use it as a way for two people to verify each other's identity securely knowing only the other persons telephone number?
AWS is very stringent when it comes to user privacy.
Yeah...if it's there, I can't find it. And I didn't get an email to change my password. Odd...
> If you want a specific, complex scene it's basically impossible to get exactly what you want in my experience.

SD with Multidiffusion or another multiple prompts with (potentially overlapping or nested) regions tool, plus some inpainting, can do a lot here.

So can SD with ControlNet, to go beyond text prompting.
You’re completely wrong.

Asset values are not just a function of cash flow but also discount rates, growth in cash flow, and valuation multiples. Real estate cap rates have been compressing for decades, for example (same cash flow equals higher value, all else equal)

Please don’t spread misinformation in these threads
The end user might not get the code at all if under MIT license.
I think you're straw-manning the "common sense" view. "Unable to get pregnant" is actually not a common definition of "male", afaics
Show HN: Time Passes – a timeline of your life, human history, and the universe
Hi HN. This is a tool I created to scratch my own itch. There’s been a few timeline projects posted to ShowHN over the years but none that did what I wanted, which is to show both my own life and family events, and world history, and it have it scale from seconds to all of time.

This is very much a prototype, but it works. It works best on devices with a trackpad or keyboard: scroll to pan & zoom doesn’t work on touch-screen devices.

Although I build it mainly for myself, a couple of people I’ve mentioned it to thought it was a good idea, so I’m hoping it’s useful to others as well. There’s still a lot of missing functionality, but I keep procrastinating on showing anyone or releasing it.

It’s also rather thin on historical events at the moment. So far I’ve just added interesting events as I’ve thought or learnt about them them. I’m not sure whether to bulk import historical event data from somewhere or to keep adding events manually.

You need to create an (free) account to save data, but anyone can try it out. Or use username/password: demo/hackernews if you don’t want to create a new account.

Feedback appreciated!
I think it's really telling that declaring yourself to be motivated purely by profit is virtue signaling in silicon valley.
Check out some of the recent highlights from https://killedbygoogle.com

- All Google Code Competitions, which had gone on for 19 years

- Jacquard, there IOT clothing attempt, around for 9 years

- Stadia, shorter but their cloud gaming attempt around for 3 years

Google killing Jacquard and Stadia seems run of the mill but the first one! When I was in college I remember people talking about google code jam and I wasn't even into coding then. That seems like a big retreat and I must have missed HN discussing it because, just wow.
Which numbers are you using for that?
Social media influencing is gig work
I worked at the FSF for a number of years. The FSF has some hard working and dedicated staff, but is dogged by a number of the issues Drew deVault mentions in their article. https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dyi...

I think free software and open source are at this point the same thing. A lot of people who care about software freedom issues do so under the banner of open source because of the issues of the FSF and wanting to distance themselves from the FSF.

The FSF doesn't do a good job of promoting free software. Take a look at the FSF homepage -- where's the messaging on getting typical computer users (especially those on Windows or a Mac or a Chromebook) to use free software? The approach seems to be that either you install Linux from a small subset of minority distributions -- https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html -- or nothing.

Thirteen years ago (2010) I worked on a campaign aimed at end-users and it looks like it has been updated very little since -- https://www.fsf.org/working-together/moving -- getting this done was an uphill battle as the FSF didn't want to promote Firefox at the time.

Where is the end user campaign for using free software? Where is the EFF for users?
> You don't just shut GCP down.

No, but you could "Google Group" it. Just keep the lights on and not develop it any further and just watch customers leave over time. There might actually be a bunch of corporate customers that would view the static environment as a plus.

I don't really see them shutting down GCP, even if it's a bit anonymous. It is interesting that Google can't turn a profit on GCP, given that both AWS and Azure is doing to well.
And are they reimbursing all the developers they conned^W enticed into developing exclusive content for Stadia?
They have separate backends for the languages, which is just like any other library for the respective language. E.g. in Rust, the Slint libraries are linked into the executable just like any other Cargo dependency — no need for separate DLLs/shared libraries to be installed on the system.
At first, I thought this was laughable, because SEO bottom feeders would immediately game everything. But after contemplation, I think that would work out. The SEO stuff would be immediately obvious, because it would be all tricks, it wouldn't have a thin veneer of BS "content" like it does today. Human could detect SEO spam instantly.
To which it is worth noting that Apple is still issuing security updates for iOS 15, the most recent was ~3 days ago.
I'm already working part time, happier than ever. I can't imagine a single scenario in which going from 40 to 30 hours work week would be negative, neither individually nor collectively.
Do we know which cars specifically run their applications without any sort of containers, just everything thrown in the same userland without any care for security?
I haven't been to SF and therefore don't have an opinion.

How is one story really highlighting something? This is just one anecdote where it wasn't what people expected, it's not proof they're wrong.

(I have no idea if they are, it's just a bad argument)
Oh I'd absolutely cop to that. My first thought upon reading the article was "holy crap, we were all wrong".
> Nevermind Ice Lake / Alder Lake (2021) / Raptor Lake (2022)

i.e. Skylake+++++
You're objectively wrong.

> San Francisco recorded 56 homicides each in 2022 and 2021, up over 36% from 2019, when there were 41 homicides, according to police department data. Despite the increase, the number of homicides in San Francisco is well below that of other cities of a similar size, data from the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association shows.

> Indianapolis, for example, witnessed 271 homicides in 2021 and 226 in 2022. Jacksonville, Florida, meanwhile, saw 129 homicides in 2021 and 154 in 2022, while 204 homicides took place in Columbus, Ohio, in 2021 and 140 in 2022.

> Violent crimes in San Francisco, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, reached a high in 2013 with 7,164 violent crimes, according to California Department of Justice data. But they have tapered off significantly in the past couple of years. San Francisco now falls in the lower middle of the pack when compared with several cities of a similar population, according to data from the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association.

San Francisco is just "average", and possibly "below average", for violent crime. Claiming it is one of the most violent cities in the country is just hysterics with no basis in reality.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/us/san-francisco-crime-bob-le...
I don’t think the parent has disdain, but rather experience. I’ve had my eyes opened wide by getting to know some people at the bottom of the economy. A 50 year old man who has basically no skills other than manual labor. There are people just above him that can push papers around, but don’t change their flow! The next level is people who can barely figure out instructions that to me are more than obvious (and he works in tech - this happened today!). I know these people personally, and there are a LOT of them. I fear for their future.
I wish the code convention closed brackets in line with the opening brackets rather than at the end of some random line of code. My ADHD/autistic brain does not like the imbalance.
GC for MVCC – MyRocks, InnoDB and Postgres
looks to me like they're expanding from the ones they know first

it's strange to me that State-affiliation is seen as a pejorative, perhaps it's an American perspective - in Europe it's somewhere between a badge of honour or incidental information about the media that needs to be considered for context
Look all I'm saying is that maybe instead of assuming the problems in the streets of SF are caused by degenerate hobos that maybe, just maybe, they're caused by degenerate tech bros.

Like who has the real power in this situation? the hobos or the techbros?

I don't expect hobos to be able to fix their situation, but I expect the people with money and resources to be able to. The fact that they don't shows that they don't want to.
That would happen regardless of whether Nintendo was producing new Gameboy Colors or not.
I occasionally verify my security barcode with friends, and so far have never found any MITM's.

Has anyone ever found barcodes that mismatch, indicating a MITM?

If my understanding is correct, then for this to happen, either someone must be impersonating whatsapps server (which involves faking an HTTPS cert), or whatsapp themselves must be running en evil server. Both of those are quite a high bar, even for a state sponsored attack.
This will speed up as well. My boss was looking for a robot arm a few years ago and got quotes; the quote for the cheapest one was not in the budget. He now bought 2 for far less that are really excellent and indeed, again, replacing real people.
When you read profiles like this about the lives of social media influencers, it's clear that outside of the top 0.1% of creators (Kim K, etc.) the lifestyle is more like an Uber driver than a celebrity.
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Nuclear in France worked very well for decades although it had some hiccups last year. Meanwhile German coal plants are still working despite the considerable installed renewable capacity.

Having so much available renewable electricity that German coal plants would almost shut down for a few days would be a newsworthy event. For France not burning coal is just a regular day (except for last year's hiccups).
Polestar is a Swedish brand, like Volvo (it's a Volvo spin-off, not a Chinese company)
As a reclusive person I will tell you a big part of it is not having financial security and therefore not having social status or good health. I don't have the time or energy and it's uncomfortable telling people how your life is going. Your bank account really is your status to a large degree. Low status, health issues, no extra energy, I don't really want to be around other people anyway.
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I like this theory better than mine. My jaded view of bureaucracy has me thinking that there are additional fees for delaying the launch 24 hours or more.
Woah, I’ve never heard “featured” before! And suspect that many people mean that, I’ve just always taken the acronym as being crass and condescending.

Haven’t felt this way since I realized about 50% of my social network meant “In My Honest Opinion” and the other 50% meant “In My Humble Opinion”
Julian Assange would disagree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
Also by announcing it loudly now they are probably helping recyclers to get funding and start increasing production.

Of course 2025 isn't very far away so it is probably only a small impact.
I’m actually really interested to try this. I’ve been putting off paying for Copilot because GitHub does not make it convenient to pay for their services without a credit card and I do not have a large enough open source project to qualify for a free license.

I also haven’t used these tools at all so if CodeWhisperer is a little “dumber” than copilot, I doubt I will even notice.
I view the money as a nice-to-have bonus. The big benefits of the program are:

- validation by Github of your open source project

- the signal boost associated w/ that validation

- the actual content of the course (licensing, managing issues, etc.)

- meeting other open source people to discuss what is working and what isn't

20k is nothing to sneeze at, but, as you say, most people aren't in the open source game for the money...
I got a page not found error going to that link.

Also the parent said "violent crime" not just homicides. In addition it is known that homicides among the homeless, of which SF is known to have many, are underreported.

Plus there is plenty of property crime as well.
As the maintainer of one of the selected projects (https://codehike.org/), I really appreciate what GitHub is doing, putting the money and trying different approaches (last year it was $450K across 900 projects).
Yeah the exact same thing happens with Portland every time it pops up on here. The HN audience by and large irrationally hates progressive policies and cities with them. It’s weird watching people here parrot the opinions of the corporate overlords.
Yeah, but once they go 100% renewable they'll need to source from elsewhere.
High Property Crime is not the same as lots of violent crime. SF does seem to have a problem with property crimes - but not violent ones.
We’d be especially interested to hear if you had a similar experience with medical search, or if you think this is a made up problem. Thanks!
No, I didn't say that.

I said "you're not trying to solve a problem, you're trying introduce problems into a working solution".

I see I got downvoted up there, as if I'll steal your life by openly sharing a valid opinion. Humans are such a sorry species sometimes.
I'd hesitate to buy anything on the EGS, partially because Steam will give you a refund if you have less than 2 hours playtime on a game.

Rockstar games are also made with a focus towards consoles first so there are often bugs on the PC port that can ruin your experience, like the notorious GTA loading issues that were fixed by one guy[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339