skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> her voice quavered recalling women who killed themselves after G.I.s who had taken them as common-law wives subsequently abandoned them and their children.

That would explain a lot if the same thing was occurring there

but, info?
> Personally I'd rather be working on a system that's massively important with less flashy tech, than building more inconsequential apps with the latest frameworks.

I am the same type of person. Solving a problem and creating a great product can be very rewarding and is my primary motivation.

There have been times in my career where I have been thinking more about how I could sneak in a new technology in a project. In those cases it was a sign that the things I worked on were not motivating enough, or a bad work environment. I'm more aware of how these things affect me now that I have the benefit of hindsight.
> I can't find one example of people not being able to name something that exist

How about "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
Flight simmers like using physical button boxes instead. It takes around two weeks to get used to the button locations even when they don't match the virtual cockpit.

A good old mouse works just as well and its microswitches give a nice tactile response.
Well, and there's no such thing as opening a file and modifying some small part of it. That's emulated with a full rewrite of the whole object.
Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
Vue Playground
Build and design vue components and applications with drag and drop elements, transform tools, sliders, routing and color picker in a visual designer. Push and auto-deploy to GitHub pages or export static build for self host like netlify or heroku.
> The wrong abstractions can lead to coupling and complexity.

This comes to the old quote:

* "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein.

Abstractions undoubtedly add complexity that quickly becomes unmanageable. By now everyone is already aware of the horror that's the enterprise version of Hello World, and YAGNI/gold plating are renowned antipatterns. Many codebases have already succumbed to the perils of premature generalization, where the good old rule of 3 of refactoring serves as a shield against it.

But still some developers succumb to the siren song of abstracting away things.
Plus a bunch of people actually died from low quality or incorrectly manufactured alcohol (that isn't even a reference to when the government intentionally poisoned some). We're seeing the same problem today with fentanyl getting into other illegal drugs.

Pornographic content also has an analog: If companies need to be illegitimate to provide it, then they won't be quite as picky about if the content itself was produced legally or illegally (e.g. CP and other abuse/sex trafficked originating content).

Banning pornography won't make it go away, it will just make it unregulated.
AI turns people’s thoughts into text in real-time
Chegg drops more than 40% after saying ChatGPT is killing its business
If the countries are more similar, the results have higher precision. If less, then lower precision.

Such things have been done. I remember a study discussed on HN where they used the same neighbourhoods before/after a change of law. That wasn't porn though, I think it was strip clubs, and the result was something like "when a strip club opens in an area that had none before, the number of sexual assaults in the vicinity decreases by a few per cent".
How Do We Ensure an A.I. Future That Allows for Human Thriving?
Aren’t they already the same? You’re just not applying the same metric in both cases.

The chance of dying in a car accident isn’t the number of miles driven, it’s the chance of a failure happening and killing you — the distance driven is simply more rolls of the dice.

The same with parachute-failure — the number of chutes opened is the number of dice rolls. You should be saying skydiving death rate is X per chute
For contracting in Europe: They will ask you about your rate and find a placement based on that. You should decide what's your price and be ready to show your experience that supports it at the interview.

Usually they won't tell you the rate beforehand because they don't even know it. They know a rough budget and then it depends on your level of experience. Their budget info can be a range between (for Europe) e.g. 300-800 EUR/day. They will take a very senior guy for 800 EUR and they will take a less experienced guy for less. It all depends on your level, but they are unable to assess it themselves - the client does that, the recruiters don't have the necessary technical knowledge.

About chatting: Just be very direct and straight forward with them. Tell them exactly what's your situation and what you're looking for. You can only gain by this - they won't bother you with deals that aren't interesting to you. Don't over complicate it, I send them one-sentence answers if that's enough. If somebody stops replying or takes too long, just move on. There's plenty more. Similarly, if you take too long, they will just move on.
more so the idea that you work and then pay them tribute in order to live and survive in a space they "own"
The law is:

> 72 (9) "Reasonable age verification methods" means verifying that the person seeking to

> 73 access the material is 18 years old or older by using any of the following methods:

> 74 (a) use of a digitized information card as defined in this section;

> 75 (b) verification through an independent, third-party age verification service that

> 76 compares the personal information entered by the individual who is seeking access to the

> 77 material that is available from a commercially available database, or aggregate of databases,

> 78 that is regularly used by government agencies and businesses for the purpose of age and

> 79 identity verification; or

> 80 (c) any commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional

> 81 data to verify the age of the person attempting to access the material.

Edit: For clarity adding the definition of "transactional data" - there's no clever loophole there either. Basically, data mine/data broker shit. Perhaps less maximalist than "just check the ID", but hardly what anyone would consider a meaningfully "minimal" solution either.

> 84 (11) (a) "Transactional data" means a sequence of information that documents an

> 85 exchange, agreement, or transfer between an individual, commercial entity, or third party used

> 86 for the purpose of satisfying a request or event.

> 87 (b) "Transactional data" includes records from mortgage, education, and employment

> 88 entities.
“Coal is the foundation of the economic engine”

We’ve had 40 years to not be in that situation in 2023.

Now we need to line up a bunch of miracles by 2050
"It’s a long-buried part of South Korean history"
This is factually wrong. The geopolitical driven sex trade is a big issue in common Korean discourse (e.g. newspapers, social media, politics, etc). I would say that it and the historical victimhood native are overemphasized in Korean society. They are a strong country now, no need to ruminate in the past.
> I ask because my sister is diagnosed with RA, and is on methotrexate, with her hair falling out.

I also take methotrexate for my RA - does she take folic acid?
That is a consolation, but only a small one when the state violence apparatus is standing by to punish those who use them. It must never be illegal in the first place.
Show HN: Jamsync – A version control system based on rsync
Hi! I’ve been working on a new version control system for the past couple months and would like to know what you think.

Jamsync aims to enable software engineers to deploy code in realtime and solve the scaling and UX problems that developers in large companies run into. It's still early in development but functions mostly as a fast file backup and syncing tool currently.

Let me know if you have any questions!
The Search for the Lost ‘Jeopardy ’ Tapes Is Over. The Mystery Endures
For some phones and configurations, you can change your MAC address:
https://www.wikihow.com/Change-a-Mac-Address-on-an-Android#:....

Generally you will need to be rooted to change the MAC address.
If it's fake, and the strange head bandage immediately raised some alerts, I find both exciting and worrying that AI can now create credible hands.
Is there at this point money in even modestly expensive investigative journalism? Getting people there, having them spend some time on site with all the work involved, to produce what one piece week or a month? Will that sort of content garner return?

While on other side, you can rewrite AP or Reuters. Pick some twitter post. Or just throw stuff at AI... Or sit in relatively cheap office and talk to microphone producing hours of content a day. While people throw money at you and sponsors pay for you selling out...
I'm honestly surprised that there isn't a "good enough" "is adult" verification browser api thingy.

Where "good enough" wrt. correctness doesn't mean crypto-graphically pro-oven but only "you need to do some hacky things to circumvent it". Because IMHO for anything which doesn't also require to know the _exact_ identity of the user that is good enough.

Where "good enough" wrt. privacy doesn't mean perfect, but means for the "age verification provider" not worse then what fingerprinting can do even if you have a ad-blocker and for the "age verification checking" website means yes or no and that's all they get (preferable, in worst case also the identity of the "age verification provider" (e.g. some organization) id but under no circumstances anything more than that).

Where "good enough" wrt. usability means you have to use an verification provider of your country (because what adult means differs).

This solution isn't perfect, it doesn't distinguish between different countries having different ages for being adult and intentionally doesn't handle other age steps like 12+, 16+ (mainly matters for games).

Honestly the only real problem I see is that in the US it can't be used to buy alcohol because for some reasons they don't allow adult to buy alcohol until 21 (but do allow them to do decisions way more dangerous then that). Except it's not really a problem as the US can define "internet adult" to be 21+, given that this is mainly needed for porn, buying alcohol etc. the US would love doing that anyway AFIK.

I mean sometimes the perfect solutions is just to bothersome bother with it (the perfect solutions probably needs something like 0 knowledge proofs to preserve privacy).
On websites which use geolocation to select a local store (home depot), mine are frequently several hundreds of miles away when I'm on my phone.
This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how Rust and unsafe work. You sometimes need to use unsafe Rust for low level work or C/C++ FFI; that doesn't make the rest of your code unsafe as long as you A) use it only when necessary and B) ensure that the basic invariants are maintained and the basic contract between safe and unsafe code is upheld. This whole "well it uses unsafe in parts so its suddenly all unsafe and we might as well use C" thing is a bit silly.
sqlite, dbm and similars, various zip libraries and the file formats build on that
The problem with your model is that it relies on there being “proven” technologies to begin with, but who is going to prove them if not those very groups you deride? You’re proving the necessity of the early adopters and hype suckers if anything.
In a way its kind of immaterial if there is a "run" on a credit union. I can't imagine very many members have shares over the insured limits (250k in checking, 250k in savings), so the deposits have to be almost entirely insured. Also all the little old widows whose GM pension gets deposited every month are not gonna organize and pull their money like silicon valley VCs. They could still be insolvent and get federalized or whatever, but the damage to real people should be minimal even in this kind of unlikely scenario.
You're proposing a technical solution to a political problem. It doesn't work, this should be fixed at the source.
AI will obviously kill many aspects of the internet. There will be no test to distinguish human versus AI to post BS content at a pace 10^9 times faster than humans can filter it out.

One bad actor and our existing communication network dies.
I was everyone hired porn stars to perform their disingenuous PR talking points.
At least they'd look nice.
That doesn't scale well. How does it expand to PCs, SmartTVs, tablets, games consoles, etc?
In related news: The population of Salt Lake City experiences a boost in happiness, productivity and population.
Are you using it to replace large portions of your workflow? enlighten me.
I was thinking about this. Do sites like Pornhub use DRM in their players? Asking because AFAIK browsers will pass a network ID that does not change when DRM is used. In Firefox it is in "about:networking#networkid" and they don't make it easy to change that. I believe Chrome has something similar. I think it also uses serial numbers? Could be I am mixing up identifiers used in DRM vs. browser specific integrations.
Even if his education is in physiology, most of his fame is due to his work as critic and historian of the perfume world, having written some best-seller books.

His scientific works have been heavily criticized though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction
If they pay for carbon neutral things, is there an issue? Ofc, maybe we should make all but bare necessities carbon negative, with taxation for example.
> That's incredibly judgemental.

I read the post initially as mocking the self-importance of the "1%". Also a bit judgemental, TBH, but in a friendly way. Who cares about what Scott Hanselman thinks, right? But the later parts indeed trend towards patronizing.
The source[0] marks the image as such: "Иллюстрация на обложке: изображение сгенерировано искусственным интеллектом", which I think is probably the best "tell"

0: https://uproar-crowned-964778.appspot.com/2023/04/24/my-dlya... via https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1653118082766852097?s...
No problem, mate.
Yes, something that has access to your actual ID.
Which mental health apps? There's a massive difference between Calm, Better Stop Suicide and PTSD-related apps. Also it's not like people are making a choice between whether they meet friends or install Calm.
I am addressing the original argument. The original premise was mere amusement that such a chemical could exist which could alter the mind. What I’m saying is that there is more than just chemicals which can change your mind.

If you say it is obvious that everything you ingest affects you, then what about time? Both of us are clearly ingesting time, it is simply another one of our inputs. And, of course, it is obvious that time affects our mind and body.
Mutatis mutandis. ISPs aren't required by law to supply accurate geolocation AFAICT, but neither are you, neither am I, and neither is the company in the building next to your office.
This ^ but it's an employee owned company. And since the company is doing so many things, like running schools and towns and pensions and scholarships, we should have some of the employees represent all of the others to make sure all the voices are heard. We could vote on those representatives and even have two different sets to keep them in check.

Either a portion of each employees pay could fund all of this or since the company is providing everything then we could just do without pay entirely. Not sure which method is best really.
Yes, dark windows prevent eye contact and communication. People aren't walking with baclavas on, it's the same for blacked out windows.
Bayesian search: A simple rule to find stuff you’ve lost
I wouldn't call COM useless, it has served as Windows OOP ABI quite well for the last 25 years, to the point of having been copied in some way to other platforms.
No one wins. You end up living in a police state and when you do experience crime, it'll likely be more severe.

The root of systemic criminality is in the failure of society to justify why it's rules should be respected. That doesn't mean that people should "get away" with crime but it does mean that if you actually want to reduce crime, not just punish criminals, society must convince those people that lawful society is something worth participating in.
> Diversity should only matter in that it furthers the level of basketball being played.

Why? It seems to me if the NBA wants to continue to exist in the future, they should want to get as many people as possible playing and watching basketball. Why does it have to be about furthering the l bel of play, rather than getting more people playing and watching and participating?
Landlord Software Is Making Life Hell for Renters, Report Says
Somewhere in Utah, an FBI agent giggles
Fun app for wallpapers made of particles
Is Comcast Throttling Me?
Half of these things in the U.S. are broken

- Elections are no longer trusted thanks to a radicalized right

- There is no freedom to protest, and the right to free speech is easily forgotten, distorted, misapplied.

- The news can say whatever it wants without consequence, unless another big corporation sues them.

- There are absolutely not protections for whistleblowers. We have seen this time and time again.

- In such a divided and hateful climate, jury trials are regular people bringing their personal biases to the court room. Picture the average person and decide if your freedom is safe in their hands. That's forgetting that Jury's decisions can be overridden (Breonna Taylor)

- Presumption of innocence (see above)

- There should be term limits for Supreme Court justices, whose seats were completely stolen from the democratic party.
Where can one buy an internet connection without being at least 18 years old?

To use your analogy, it is parents who are paying for the alcohol and then leaving it in a place where it is easy for their children to access. Responsible parents either teach their children about appropriate alcohol use or make it difficult to access, or both.
To be clear, I hate all of these ideas.

But, I think Apple already does this. https://developer.apple.com/wallet/get-started-with-verify-w...

"Information about past presentments — including where, when, and what personal information you share — is encrypted and stored only on your device. Neither the state issuing authority nor Apple can see your presentment history."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213046
My US based sense of "freedoms" gets really itchy when I read that ... like let me decide that, not sure I get why my kids have to be involved in someone's cultural type initiatives.

Granted if it was just say a class about ... something, whatever, but picking the full time language for the school is a lot for someone else to decide for me.

I suppose the argument is that if the parents picked they'd just pick one and there's no choice but I'm kinda ok with that.
My biologic (brand Xeljanz) prescription was $5000/month but was paid for 100% through a special program from my pharmacy/drug manufacturer (I'm still not 100% clear how). I had to stop because I was dealing with an infection, but I just wanted to share that because it's still new for you.
If your technology was better you wouldn't have to downvote an opinion on that tech.
It is funny, the article claims to test the 64 bit code on "Dual-core Intel Xeon 2.6 GHz 64-bit processor with 4096KB cache". That is a really poor description, as it does not tell us what architecture the processor is. But one can go through a list of all Intel Xeon processors to find the ones that match the description. Turns out that there are none.

If we broaden the search to 2.66 GHz processors there are 4: 5030, 5150, 3070 and 3075. All released in 2006 and 2007. This means it is either one of the last "NetBurst" CPUs or one of the first "Core" CPUs. Assuming "Core" the relevant operation has a 5 clock latency, as best I can tell. This is down to 3 clocks on pretty much all modern X86 CPUs. Modern CPUs also get an extra load port, so I doubt the relative difference is much different on modern CPUs.

Overall it looks like a pretty bad benchmark, thrown into a paper on collision likelihood, which itself looks like an academic exercise with no relevance for the real world.
The words and meanings of songs have never been important so long as the tune was good. Yankee Doodle was essentially a dis track, but Americans liked the tune, so it was adopted as a patriotic song anyway. Stadiums of homophobes will happily stomp and clap to We Will Rock You.
But banks are not in practice limited by reserve availability. A central plank of modern central bank dogma is control of interest rates which is significantly exercised through liquidity loans to banks in order to satisfy their Basel III obligations. That policy goal necessitates free provision of such loans. The reason deposits are desirable is because it's cheaper for the banks to borrow their liquidity from punters than from the inter bank market or from the CB. I guess in some very roundabout way what you say holds some water, but deposits certainly do not limit the ability of the bank to make loans, which is in truth limited by the availability of credit worthy borrowers.
> To artificially build denser by policy doesn't produce opportunities - those opportunities would have to be there first!

Density is an effective way of substituting for transport speed, which is the binding constraint on many opportunities.

The number of coffee shops I can choose to visit on my 15 minute break after stand up is limited by the density of the urban environment, for a given mode of transport.

Many public, private and social enterprises have this dynamic. A police station needs to be within a certain travel distance of the outskirts of their community to be useful, likewise a supermarket or nightclub.

There is an argument that, at a certain extreme point, density might have such a negative impact on transport speed that it might increase transit time. I'm personally split on this issue. Density definitely hurts motor vehicle speed but has little effect on walking speed and might even improve rail speed.
At least people aren't dumping their savings into it like crypto. Wellm unless you plugged your GPT-4 API key into autoGPT then good luck. Endless loop {cha-ching}
I would only use a mental health app where the provider is hipaa bound.

There’s a rash of “non-health” mental health apps and that’s just scary.

But even under hipaa providers, I expect they are deidentifying under safe harbor and reselling as much as possible. Imagine the training possibilities on all transcripts “scrubbed of pii.”
With records now available in Java and C#, not only can you do the same there, but you get even more assurances such as overloaded `.equals()` and `.hashCode()`.
The HCI course at GA OMSCS by Prof. Joyner is very high quality, and all the lecture videos and material are free and open for nonstudents as well:

https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6750-human-computer-interaction-...
Interfaces also form type hierarchies.
I thought this was a real paper at first.