skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that throwing more people in jail technically is a solution, but it's a very expensive one that does nothing to address the reason why people are committing crimes.

There are many factors at play, and I won't pretend to know them all, but most people turn to crime out of despiration. Throwing people in jail for more minor offences and giving longer sentences will not make repeat offenders less desperate. Not to mention the fallibility of the justice system, and the ramifications harsher sentences has on people who were falsley imprisoned.

As a previous commenter said, the US has tried the "tough on crime" stance many times in its history (e.g. war on drugs, Bill Clinton), and while it is an effective strategy for easy results to report in time for your next campaign, the problem has not been solved, merely swept under the rug.

I personally am glad that the US is at least attempting to find a solution that addresses the root cause rather than the symptoms of crime. But I would agree that we have not found that effective solution yet.
California poised to ban new diesel trucks [video][3 mins][KRON 4]
This has a range of around ten feet, so I think people are fine to tinker a bit.
Is there any reason why the tunnel is curved instead of straight? It's probably cheaper if it were straight (less rock to dig), so there must be a reason for the curve.
Why is your stove on while you sleep?
We will be ok. Tax increases or destruction of our economy is unreasonable and unnecessary.
This is a topic for everyone
Reference? I googled but couldn't find any data, other than a very old report claiming 47% usage. (Not the same as "properly" but who knows what you really mean by that.)

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if less than two percent of all domains are non-junk domains anyway.
First Republic most likely headed for FDIC receivership
> Then I don't have to, as an Asian, wonder how American school buses look like when I "click on all squares that have a bus"

It is funny how our five year old daughter can recognise what American school buses look like, simply through media exposure, despite the fact that buses in our country look completely different (and our school buses don't look different from public transport buses, since they are the exact same buses and drivers, just scheduled on school routes instead of public ones.)

Sometimes I can get rather critical of American cultural imperialism, but this kind of thing is more at the amusing than concerning end of that spectrum. It is a good example though of how many American businesses are happy to offer their products outside the US with minimal or no attempt at localisation–and either don't realise the reality of that lacking localisation, or do yet don't care. It is particularly a problem I think with other English-speaking countries, where people just assume that if the language is the same everything else must be, or else their idea of the differences is limited to a handful of well-known items like date formats
A lot of the comments seem to repeat the "just like how GPT is using our content we created" sort of reasoning - whether that you agree with that or not, I don't see how that justifies the bill for your usage being out of someone else's (not openAIs) pocket?
Years back when I was about 30 - I was convinced that I could tell between a 128Kbit OGG file and FLAC file. Re-encoding the FLAC's to OGG and mixing them up blindly... nope couldn't tell at all!

Nowadays I don't think I would even notice until it gets laughably bad.
Thank you. I will email google and ask them to update spell check
More info here and in the linked paper: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/
Human cloning is still being researched…
Why use redis at all if you don't need shared cache?
Yeah, this is a concern for me too. I'd be more comfortable if I could replace the batteries in repurposed Android devices with a dummy passthrough that pulls power straight from USB-C.
Absolutely. Just more diluted with more cleanup.
You should sit down with the OP and author of this article, Adam. He has a really good podcast called Corecursive, and your story seems right in its wheelhouse.
Similar here, though I use a different app (which requires root) to achieve roughly the same thing. I would not want to be without it and is one of the killer things that makes a phone so powerful nowadays.

It's really sad that Google doesn't give a rat's ass about it and these nice things tend to break with every version (see also: OsmAnd track recording as alternative for Google Location History keeps being killed and needs a different workaround in every second version since Android 4 or so). Termux is being all lovey dovey towards them in the FAQ https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/FAQ#Will_Termux_work_on_Android... (showing Google they're oh-so-reasonable and willing to play ball and provide good publicity) but much as they cover it up with pink ribbons, the FAQ still says: "we chose to force use compatibility with Android 9 APIs (SDK 28) at the cost of ability to publish updates on Google Play." (sounds like they've volunteered to be banned from publishing updates on the Play Store) and "[on Android 12,] spawning several processes would randomly close the application". So as I understand it, it's broken on anything newer than Android 9, but many use-cases still work until reality starts to catch up and it's removed from the Play Store for being stale or when newer Android versions decide that newer-than-9 security practices now become enforced. I dread getting a new phone with a new Android version... every time it's a struggle to get things back in order (e.g. automated backups of all your data, as imo everyone should (be able to) have, but you can't do that without rooting and knowing where to even find your /data).
“Not as per musk” I mean, when you get rid of techno-fixes, you’re left with 100% unrealistic political solutions (Degrowth) and, like, maybe mass genocide? Why are people so conditioned nowadays to be anti-technology in fixing this? There are no solutions that are neither technological nor terrible.

Decarbonization via electrification while simultaneously transitioning all electricity to renewables (& maybe some nuclear) is the most straightforward method. Besides solar radiation management, like sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere, which is scary-cheap. Or accelerated weathering.
There are times when it's very useful to have programmatic bindings for diagrams, I've used them multiple times when I want to create a diagram that represents the structure of some code, auto-generate a state machine diagram based on the code, etc. These are very handy because you don't need to keep documentation up-to-date.
Direct Air Capture
Statistically you're at such a higher risk on the road than anywhere else, it's best to minimize the amount of time spent in a motor vehicle. This is why I don't waste time putting on my seatbelt, run all red lights, and always floor the gas pedal for the duration of my trips.
>If we had properly authenticated traffic only that verifiably comes from a human (...)

Sounds very dystopian and DRM-y for me. You would have to enforce this at the OS or even hardware level (because otherwise bots will just lie). And probably mandatory by law.

Unfortunately I don't think we can force devices to differentiate between "user-originated" and automated traffic without changing internet fundamentals and locking it down.
https://neighbs.us/

Really fucking dumb. Uses browser geolocation to tell me which neighborhood in San Francisco I'm currently standing in. Grabbed the lat/longs of each neighborhood from the SFData [0]. It works by plotting a circle representing your location + uncertainty and determining which of SF's 117 neighborhoods intersect with it. If your circle intersects with more than one neighborhood, it's smart enough to categorize them in order of certainty. It even automatically updates as you move, it's pretty fun to sit in an Uber and watch the neighborhood change as you move across the city. Learned a lot about polygon intersection algorithms, they're pretty amazing!

Built it a number of years ago when I moved here. Since it runs entirely in the browser, it's hosted for free on github pages and I don't need to maintain a server.

0 https://datasf.org/opendata/
> This right here is Android's killer app

Similarly, for me, android's killer app is that I can still get a phone with an SD card slot and an aux jack - so my music is with me, without needing to rely on a flakey old phone rightly condemned to the junk drawer.
In the 2000s I was addicted to Elisp and contributed a ton of OSS code including JDE, EDEE, and tons of other tools.

But... I had just a MASSIVE amount of code that was literally just for me.

Emacs basically became my OS.

Emacs allowed you to just eval code on the fly and the IDE would just adapt. No reload required. So if you wanted to do stupid stuff like make control+enter open the current URL at the cursor, you just write a three line script. Then you add it to your elisp on load.

... but mine got WAY out of hand. It was just mountains of code.
This seems like such a pointless semantic flex to me...

In this case has the game not become Game A + Game B ?

It's just a larger game with a distinct winning strategy because the ruleset is expanded right?

What's the significance?
There definitely was a Mac mini-Din-8 serial port version as well. I believe it was the original, before there even was a version for PC/Windows: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Connectix_QuickCam
It looks very simple. Public awareness and pressure will gradually change those incentives and emissions will be reduced significantly. At the same time people are going to adapt to the new environment as best they can and live on. If everything goes well, living standards around the world in a hundred years will be a lot higher than now.

Of course, this is not a given. A lot of people have to work very hard to get there. A lot of people have to change their minds or die, their opinions losing relevance. Alot of people will get unlucky or won't have the means to adapt to the new conditions, resulting in some of the worst humanitarian crises the world has ever seen. Conflict and war is a possibility that might work against this solution. There might be some big issues noone can think of now.

However unsexy this might sound, this is the solution and it will happen. The question is when and how much suffering it will take to get there.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business ...

Interesting, where'd you hear that? :)

Haven't heard figures regarding SQLite's business side of things (yet), and doing some online searching isn't turning up anything useful.
I think you might still run into rejection with that since its like not in sync with their immune system. So it would probably be better to temporarily have them on a pacemaker or mechanical heart while you grow a heart inside of them to replace the old one. Or the equivalent for other organs.
Reliability is critical in a router. Linksys was sold for more than a decade with OSS firmware, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/the-w...

> people still buy the WRT54GL in large enough numbers that Linksys continues to earn millions of dollars per year selling an 11-year-old product without ever changing its specs or design. "To be honest, it somewhat baffles my mind," Linksys Global Product Manager Vince La Duca told Ars. But production won't stop any time soon as long as Linksys' suppliers, including chipmaker Broadcom, keep selling the parts needed to build the WRT54GL. "We'll keep building it because people keep buying it," La Duca said ... The WRT54GL and other routers in the WRT54G line have sold 31 million units in their 14-year lifetime. The WRT54GL is the only one still being manufactured and sold.
I only got stupid dogs around here.... :-(
Which phone is that? Even Samsung (who once mocked Apple for it) has dropped those external features.
I’d recommend looking up a local farmers market if you can, the stuff in the supermarkets isn’t anything special most of the time, whereas you can find some amazing bread / cheese / butter etc at the markets. Also some pretty average stuff, but you might get lucky :)
Ever heard of zero-knowledge proofs?

CloudFlare claims to support Privacy Pass, which is supposed to use a zero-knowledge scheme to solve for this for Tor users.

Unforunately, the integration has been broken for a very long time and bug reports aren't tended to.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...

https://privacypass.github.io/

https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension/is...
> Reference? I googled but couldn't find any data, other than a very old report claiming 47% usage. (Not the same as "properly" but who knows what you really mean by that.)

https://www.bimiradar.com/glob

Properly aka working SPF/DKIM and DMARC set to reject/quarantine, called "BIMI Ready" there.

> Also, I wouldn't be surprised if less than two percent of all domains are non-junk domains anyway.

Possibly, which highlights the issue with SPF and DMARC being default-open.
I don't understand why it is obvious that for any games A and B, composition C has any relation to A or B.
I thought Apple finally floated or at least talked about layoffs. Is there any tech company (or any other than Apple) that hasn't whacked a slug of people right now? Does this indicate their management can't really plan properly and over-hires or just hires people to keep them off the street? Or that they can't count and over-fire/layoff? Or it's just me-too to satisfy Wall Streets short-term fixation?

How many people are really required to keep the lights on and even create new things vs. how many people have been hired and now laid off to drive the stock price?
Yeah, this seems pointless. Here's an example of the paradox:

1) Hitting both nails and screws with a hammer is a losing game.

2) Screwing both nails and screws with a screwdriver is a losing game.

Paradox alert! If you hammer the nails and screw the screws you've transformed two losing games into a winning game!
The Possibility of a Paperclip Maximizer without Breaking Laws (skip to t=10)
Wow, there's a lot of CIA boating lore. This article also mentions the prior disappearance of CIA operative John Paisley from his sailboat in 1978, 18 years earlier: "Paisley’s decomposed body was found in the bay a week later, weighted down by two diving belts and containing a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities said it wasn’t clear if he was murdered or committed suicide."
Reminds me of season 5 of person of interest where the super intelligent AI known as "the machine" is giving relative directions to a character using ascending tones for right and descending for left, or something like that. The other character preferred directions in positions on an analog clock.
What kind of battery life would you see with one?
I played it for a few months just for the economics of it. This is how I learned what it means to 'corner the market'. I was trading water runes. It was a resource that had a niche usage for high-level wizards, when people wanted to sell it, (e.g. when they changed battle strategy), they usually wanted to sell them quickly, when they wanted to buy them, they also wanted to have them quickly. Also it was required for some more advanced spells so the people who bought them had been playing the game a while and had a lot of gold coins. Also because it was for such a niche use, substantial sales didn't occur very often. At one point, I had enough Runescape gold to buy up every offer that came up on the market for a low price, then I just waited for a desperate rich person to buy them all in bulk at a much higher price. Nobody else could provide them in bulk because I bought up all the smaller offers and big players who were engaged in high-stakes battles and had a lot of gold coins didn't want to run around buying up small amounts from a lot of different people.

Eventually, I had enough gold coins to buy a rare purple partyhat which already cost like 50 million gps at that time. I quit the game when I went to university, sold the partyhat and gave away all the gps to some in-game friends. I regret doing that haha becuase now they're worth billions today and you can sell them for real money for thousands of dollars.
Understandable - we used to have a clear plastic roof over the kitchen and in the summer even dry herbs and spices were at risk of spontaneous combustion.
Given an approximate location, even I could do that. You just look at the camera angle.
Twitter to take 10% cut on content subscriptions after 12 months
Wow, I thought HN filtered all emojis. TIL.
I don't know of a single ISP that gives /48s out to customers. Maybe a /56, but I think even that is rare.

IPv6 is way better than cgnat, but ISPs are still doing their own internal routing for much smaller blocks. Meaning the block itself is functionally the equivalent of a shared IPv4 for abuse prevention purposes.

But also, I could just not know about the ISPs giving out /48s. My window to this is from the abuse prevention side.
Chang and Eng Bunker
I do like math, but what's the rationale for including this highly obscure mathematical article on HN? Does it relate to LLMs, for example?
Mycodo: Environmental Monitoring and Regulation System
Probably the backup and update system for my desktop.

All of my Linux boxes use btrfs as the filesystem.

I have some tools that makes snapshots of all the subvolumes I wish to keep backups of and does incremental transfers of them to my NAS. It will incrementally transfer any non-synced ones as well, so if you run make-snapshots multiple times without backing up, they'll all end up on my NAS eventually.

You can also have it create a writable snapshot out of the latest full snapshot so you can muck around with updates without breaking your current environment. It also updates the rEFInd configuration dynamically so you can boot into old snapshots if the one you're working on is broken. You can also have it spin up a VM to test as well.

I also wrote my own tiny dynamic DNS service I run on my blog's VPS so I can bind my home network's IP address to a domain name. It's just a tiny node.js app that acts an an authentication frontend to update a bind server's DNS config.
Wow cool, thanks for finding that! Interesting to see how my idea of revenue potential matched with reality. I guess it matched pretty well, however I see he hasn't done any advertising and I feel like revenue could grow 10x or more if more people knew about it. At that point it seems like it would be a worthwhile project. Tricky to market though as it's one of those things that people don't know they want until it's explained to them.
By which party?
I mean are friend circle is pretty tight

But just once he can't pay for a meal? I find it a little weird.

But again we are friends so it is what it is
America is a scary place.
I wrote some js to take a textfile list of events with start/end dates and lay them out on a timeline. Nothing fancy, just a way to visualise time using a simple, human-readable and -writeable text file as the source.
It seems that there is something very wrong with the entire Android privacy community, because fighting between different open-source projects in this space never stops.

From the technical point of view, only Daniel Micay's GrapheneOS currently takes security really seriously by providing constant system updates. It seems that you either have to use GrapheneOS, or buy an iPhone, if you care about both – security and privacy.

The people who are attacking Daniel Micay often incorporate a lot of his work into their own projects. And, naturally, that might make many of them feel inferior or even incompetent – if they are doing this for years to stay in the competition.
Y1: Apple 30%, Twitter: 0%, Creator: 70%

Y2: Apple 15%, Twitter: 10%, Creator: 75%

Surprised that the headline doesn't say Apple takes 30%
Update: Latest gem still has the elevated error rates from the service we're connecting to but NOT the resource leak.
Docker is only for containers, right? I wanted full VMs.
That's interesting. I just looked again and I had exactly the same problem for this same site and raised it a couple of years ago as well. The same guy, Ward Cunningham, sent me the text of the page but was otherwise not receptive to my plaint (but wasn't rude). I guess if enough people (more than two anyway) start complaining maybe he'll listen.

I do share your frustration with clever shit over basic usability. Flipside is, I guess, Cunningham isn't your average guy. But I think lesser mortals are still allowed to disagree.

Anyway, thanks for actually complaining instead of just moaning and doing nothing like so many others on the web.
>nobody in America wants to do a post-doc (based on my experience speaking to colleagues looking for both things in the respective places)

I think that is dependent on the field. Maybe this is true in CS or something. But nobody gets a faculty job in (for example) biomedical science without doing a postdoc. And often more than one.
Funny thing is he said if he got married he wouldn't have them sign a prenup because there will be enough money for everyone....
> When your culture tells you to resist, and you do, you have given up due process.

If not due process if it’s possible to “give up” due process.
Yeah ever since the Sydney fun and games, Microsoft seems to have gotten the AI to end the convo as soon as anything even slightly referring to AI internals is mentioned
Looked at it, although the configuration felt messy at times. Need to try it out
I had read some years ago that putting this "fee" on sending email wouldn't really deter the spammers, when they find one sucker (and they do find them, and there's usually more than one) they can extract so much money out of them that it would still be worthwhile to spend the pennies sending those emails.
I won't say but if I mentioned their name on here everyone would know who they are.
How are the file sharing capabilities, especially with Linux?
I would not use 3.11 yet. I’ve had lots of issues with packages not supporting it and other headaches that still need to be ironed out. I’ve had no issues with 3.10.
What do you see as the problem with this attempt?

https://privacypass.github.io/
I had a case 15 years ago when .255 were accepted in WebGUI and the stack really tried to get that IP, found out only by running Ethereal on a directly connected patch.
You can type control codes (except for NUL, DEL, CR, LF?) on the Linux console by pressing Ctrl+letter. Might add some security to your disk encryption password, unless you need to enter it from a GUI :)
FYI I tried CLion for Rust, but did not feel any improvement of experience in comparison to VS Code + Rust analyzer plugin, so I cancelled CLion. In fact, VS Code somehow felt better.

I do use Rider 50/50 with big Visual Studio though. Mostly because I feel that the need to eventually switch to Linux is creeping as Windows adds more junk.
Whenever we get a flood of unwanted traffic dumped on us, it's coming from thousands of different IPs. They hijack everyone's old IoT trash and un-updated printers and wifi routers and Android 3.1 phones and use those to blast traffic. If it were coming from one IP address nobody would be bothered by it, it would be easily solved with rate-limiting rules on the firewall.
It seems like the definition of "human things" is shifting. At least in it's current form, it's just a more advanced tool that allows people to be more productive.
Repackaging junk instruments and calling them AAA is fraud, right? How about we start with the people who did that