skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is interesting to look at it through the lens of what's the social contract between a beta user and a developer?

I think that social contract can be anything you want as long as you communicate it clearly and in advance (they did neither).

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What "beta" means and its timeline varies widely. Mimestream was technically in public beta this whole time but quality-wise has been production-grade software most of that time. Gmail was in public "beta" for 5+ years.

Of course, many apps hit 1.0 eventually... but then a lot of those migrate their beta program to TestFlight to continue to help fix bugs and as a thank you for helping get the software to 1.0.

But the most important things if you do decide to kill the beta track post-1.0 (i.e., take away features from your users) are to: (1) give your users a timeline and sufficient heads up in advance (e.g., 30–60+ days), and (2) solicit feedback from and listen to your users. If Mimestream had done either of those, this launch would have gone a lot better.

Mimestream also offered beta testers a first-year discount code, which seemed like a nice gesture. But then upon reading the press release, they offered everyone basically the same discount. So that cheapened the offer and made the connotation go from "they're thanking their beta testers" to "they're just trying to convert as many people as possible".
Ask HN: How do Chrome extensions bypass server-side paywalls?
The following chrome extension seems to accomplish the magic of bypassing a server-side paywall.

How? Server-side means the content isn't even sent to the browser. What can the browser do?

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
> The AM radio exists within the car. It probably even exists within the parts of the car that normally just get a metal box around it to shield the components. It

When I was young I remember mopeda creating interfernces as far as 500 meters from the TV antenna. Car manufactureres managed to completely quieten that RF noise. So I would say it's doable.
So just yesterday PyPI announced they're retiring cryptographic signatures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044543.

It's hard to keep those things separated. I would very much like the code submitted to PyPI be protected end-to-end by cryptographic signatures, when PyPI has either no resources, or no spine to stand up to a government. Any signatures, even PGP, which should be in place until someone provides better mechanism.
Very cool project. But Sound Blaster is conspicuously missing from this list.
Okay, haven't been flying that much in tje last few years, I thought they were still not universal - at least in europe.
Oke way to protect user data is to NOT ask/collect data in the first place. What's the need of person's full name and address for? Maybe I'm missing the point, but I see zero reasons to have this data in the first place.
I'm not depressed about the changing climate. We could adapt to changing conditions.

But I'm depressed about the lack of will and capacity. We don't manage to come together and decide what to do or to deliberatey control our behaviour. (I.e help ourselves avoid climate change.) So we are in general not very sophisticated as a civilization, this whole thing is just going to happen to us.

A trancendentally smart organism would understand and avoid the crisis before it hits, but we will hit the resource usage ceiling knowingly.
>with thousand page data sheets and programming manuals.

Why aren't those just a library? There is no way everyone deplicates the same work for interfacing with a chip for every single project that wants to use it.
The problem with Eurostar off-boarding is that they force everyone down one narrow platform, with only one exit.
Think I’m gonna snarf snarf. Actually I just looked it up and apparently that word means to eat or drink greedily. Not sure why you used it here
They're not running because they know they shouldn't be there. They're running because they didn't expect you to be there, tromping like Godzilla through their living room.
So what does a Staff Developer Advocate do?
At least one whole book doesn't mean no reading otherwise, everyone could read part of a book and the statement isn't untrue.
Right, as that article explains: The increasing melting of the antarctic ice cap makes it easier for the sea ice to expand because it leads to more fresh water (with a higher freezing point) on the surface of the ocean.

> How does the melting of land ice matter to sea ice formation? The resulting meltwater is fresher than the seawater. As it mixes with the seawater, the meltwater makes the nearby seawater slightly less dense, and slightly closer to the freezing point than the ocean water below. This less dense seawater spreads out across the ocean surface surrounding the continent, forming a stable pool of surface water that is close to the freezing point, and close to the ice onto which it could freeze.
Subpoena = "Ask firmly, but nicely"

Warrant = "Back up the van and haul it away"
I'm not going to argue with your alternate headline. Whether its yours, or the one in the article, or something somewhere in between doesn't change from the fact that we have people who took on debt because another debt is paused.

And that's where I have a problem. If I pay $613 per month for the next 10 years (https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student...), and all of the sudden that gets paused, I will not go out and think: oh let me get a new car with on a 5 year, $400 / month note.
actually I really like to have history visible, I assume this is for people that don't mind to ask the same things every time, or heavily use the tool
Without exception all the folks that are going in on that particular grift are ignoring 3 really critical facts:

1. Segments of the local population are armed as well or better than their security contractors and outnumber them thousands to one.

2. None of the locals are confused about where the canned goods are being hoarded.

3. Heavy equipment is both ubiquitous worldwide and shockingly simple to operate effectively.
The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy [video]
Manpages aren't all the same quality. Look at the manpage for find(1) https://linux.die.net/man/1/find

An enormous page full of switches and options, yet if you're a beginner it's basically useless. You're just looking for a simple example of how to search for a file. find . -i -name <regex> is NOT mentioned anywhere, you have to figure it out yourself. And if you mess it up, your terminal gets flooded.

Contrast with grep(1) https://linux.die.net/man/1/grep which is short, simple, and easily searchable with keywords

Manpages are very useful, having offline documentation is great. But it is more of a specification reference than a manual.
Slow as molases? I will assume you have actually written quite a bit in it since you seem to like s-expressions and I really can't think of any other language other than lisps that use them.

With that in mind, what other lisps are running circles against common-lisp? I would love to give those languages a try. From my experience sbcl common-lisp is about equal to Go and Java which I consider pretty fast languages.

Its not as fast as C,C++,Rust but when I think of slow I think of Python, not lisps.
I've heard this number means 40-50%
But how could you have done that before you read the man page for lpr?
This article is based off of interviews with climate scientists. If you want their sources, look up the scientists on your favorite search engine, Twitter, or Mastodon.

Al Jazeera is a news journal, not a science journal, usually news journal don’t publish sources in the same way as science journals do. If you are lucky, and the news is about one study in particular, they might link to the study, but most of the time they simply publish the story and it is up to the reader to seek out more details.
Long ago, Apple included a warrant canary in their transparency report. One day, it disappeared. Nothing came of it.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6409575/apple-warrant-can...

The problem with a warrant canary is there's too much doubt about why it disappeared. Did they actually receive a warrant, or is it just a decision from corporate to discontinue the practice?
This podcast really changed the way I think about alcohol. I'll be honest, I didn't quit or even cut back very much - I just love my beer too much. But I certainly am far more cognisant of the effect it's having on me and it worries me (and it should). This podcast is overly long and Huberman can be quite difficult to listen to - he is repetitive and overloaded with caveats for every little thing - but it's worth sticking through.
^ Depressingly accurate.
in latin america the guards just stand outside with shotguns. it can get that bad.
1. What the hell does "vocally pro-police" even mean? How is DA Jenkins any more pro-police than DA Gascon (who used to be a cop himself)?

2. Most of the regulations which make the criminal justice system in California (and the United States) ineffectual come from state regulations and common law precedent. For example, the court system deemed that bail must be offered in almost all situations (even for high risk defendants) and be affordable, and an attempt to revise this judgment to allow DAs to detain repeat violent offenders was defeated by the unholy alliance of bail bond companies and the ACLU.
Those are federal student loans. Private student loans continue to be available[1], and important, as GP states, non-dischargeable[2] (until some recent court cases[2, 2nd]).

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/best-private-st...

> Private student loans are best used to pay college costs after you’ve borrowed the maximum you qualify for in both subsidized and unsubsidized federal student loans. Private student loans come from banks, credit unions and online lenders, and unlike federal student loans for undergraduates, they require a credit check. That means most undergrads will need a co-signer in order to qualify. Private loans also are more expensive than federal loans and typically don’t offer the flexible repayment options their federal counterparts do.

[2] - https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/private-student...

> Before 1976, borrowers could discharge private and federal student loans in a bankruptcy, just like credit card debt or medical debt. But the introduction of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in 1978 caused a major shift with regard to student debt.

> At the time, the intent of Congress was to protect educational loans from bankruptcy abuse. The amended bankruptcy code stated that funds received as an educational benefit would no longer be discharged unless the borrower could demonstrate undue hardship, which is no easy feat.

[2, 2nd]

> One notable case came to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. In the original case, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong concluded that private student loans were not part of the Bankruptcy Code Section 523(a)(8)(A)(ii), which states that any “obligation to repay funds received as an educational benefit, scholarship or stipend” is typically not eligible for discharge.

> She maintained that the section of code did not define student loans or educational benefit, and that referring to a loan as an educational benefit would be “an unconventional way to discuss a loan.” The appeals court affirmed the lower court’s ruling, arguing the U.S. Bankruptcy Code did not prohibit the discharge of a private student loan in bankruptcy.

> Some see the 2nd Circuit decision as hope for a loosening of the criteria in private student loan bankruptcy discharge. However, in June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Texas woman who sought to have her private student loans discharged under a different standard — so it appears that the undue hardship requirement may still be in effect.
What's the minimal reasonable footprint in terms of memory requirements and processing power for such a 'tiny IOT device'?
> impossible to calculate the amount of good

Oh that's easy actually. It's zero.
Global watchdog calls for UK to regulate crypto in same way as stocks and bonds
Exactly. Now, when people are cooking meth in the Airbnbs, sure, THAT's I think a pretty good "unexpected" type use. Parties? NAH.
Oh for sure. The giant ASCII satellite name every time you run it is definitely juice, too. Even changes colors on my birthday, so i get a yearly happy birthday text from my old coworkers haha
Highly recommend this video and all of Perun's
Common Causes of False Positives in Software Security Testing
Relic and Massive were two of my favorite RTS studios but unfortunately they kinda died.

Massive went from ground control 1/2 and World in Conflict to doing pretty poor 3rd person loot shooters for UbiSoft and Relic just did CoH and CoH: Warhammer.

RTS as a genre has died unfortunately it used to be one of the biggest genres in PC gaming but the rise of console gaming and online play seemed to have completely killed it.

It’s now seem more or less relegated to indie games and nostalgia farming (AoE and Homeworld).

And many indie games don’t seem to be able to balance the gameplay well enough. I had pretty big hopes for iron harvest but the balancing is so broken that the game is simply not challenging enough and the maps are often too damn small for any strategic play.
> Within the century we will be living in a world where a lot of our most basic needs can be fulfilled by fully autonomous machines.

How can you possibly know that? Answer: you can't.

Back in the 50s it was assumed we would have flying cars by now. Turns out we don't.

Dismissing my point with "well in 100 years.." is, to be blunt, a lazy, bullshit response.
The checkbox's checked/unchecked state is not a good way to convey a popover state.

Some other limitations of the checkbox hack compared to this new `popover` attribute:

* doesn't support closing a popover by pressing the ESC key, something interfaces that can overlap other content should support
* doesn't support closing by clicking anywhere outside the popover
> because it is the only document/philosophy in history that has determined the limits the people place on government rather than government determining the limits on the people

Really? The only document in history?
Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?
> Now look at Zimbabwe where government printed 100Trillion bank bills and the currency's value was destroyed in a few years.

Why can't they use US Dollars or Japanese Yen instead?

And if they're a country like Argentina where they print a ton of money and then ban US Dollars/Japanese Yen (etc. etc.), what prevents them from banning BTC as a means to protect the local currency?

Either the country is working in the global economic system (and therefore has access to global currencies like USD / Yen / etc. etc.), or it isn't and its probably cut off (including from BTC).

> But trying to judge the merits of BTC on how easily you can buy coffee with it is as dumb as trying to judge a fish by its ability to swim. They are not meant for that activity.

At larger than $1000+ valued denominations, you've now got the problem of counterparty risk, because BTC organizations disappear every few months. Who and/or what are you buying in BTC, and why do you trust that the other guy is going to keep existing 6 months from now? Even large companies like FTX turn out to be shams and disappear overnight.

Why do you want to transact with denominations of that size with people who are clearly untrustworthy?

On the other end, trying to use smaller denominations to experiment and grow the community... we have the random price of transactions (ex: $30) that prevents the use of cup-of-coffee-like transactions.

So BTC is dead on the small-end due to transaction fees. And its dead on the high-end due to unreliability of the community. What exactly should I use BTC for?
Sam Altman sells superintelligent sunshine as protestors call for AGI pause
> The fact Clinton and Bush allowed this to happen is disgusting.

It actually happened under Carter. https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/private-student...

> But the introduction of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in 1978 caused a major shift with regard to student debt.

> At the time, the intent of Congress was to protect educational loans from bankruptcy abuse. The amended bankruptcy code stated that funds received as an educational benefit would no longer be discharged unless the borrower could demonstrate undue hardship, which is no easy feat.
I don't have a problem with this as it was 5 particular users and not "give us all the data for for all your users". They didn't really have much of a choice. I don't think they would have had a choice in any of the 5 eyes countries or their allies
It’s only “the virus” if that’s how shallow you want to go and ignore the fact that the whole planet was forced to try WFH and people liked it, so that’s why they want it.

Worker rights came from events that you call “people feeling entitled”.
those are all things you actively agreed to, in advance, in exchange for some sort of consideration (job, not going to jail for illegal things you've already done, etc)
That’s the best principle to follow. Agreed.
every time you visit they force some kid in a third world country to answer captchas until they can pay for one article's worth of content
Respectfully disagree. If you spend your life running away it changes your psyche. It changes the way you interact with the world, fear becomes the driving emotion. As my dad, who used to lead special forces groups used to say, it "leaves little grey marks on your soul". As long as the odds are not against you, stand and fight. You do whatever you think is right though, I understand your point and where you are coming from.
"Just because you're right doesn't mean you won't go bankrupt in a court of law proving it."
Yes, obviously the number of expected deaths is ~ the number of people alive / average lifespan.

But the number of people dying due to climate change is a difficult to pin down number. Do you or do not include for instance people dying in wars when the proximate cause for the war was climate change or mass migration? Some believe you should, others say that wars have always been fought. So it's a tricky problem for many intrinsic reasons and it is an even trickier problem because there are so many ways to interpret the data.

All this adds up to us doing nothing until it is way too late.
Sorry. I refuse to partake in this scam any longer. If there isn't a service where someone walks to me and takes effort to make my life easier, I am going to blatantly select 0% tip.
Its always better to just get at the underlying, usually far dryer scientific paper. Even if its not in your field try and read the intro and the conclusion, the authors will describe why this is generally relevant with much less flowery language than the press release. Even a word like “novel” is bold to use too many times.
> Because like I said it's not our responsibility to.

This sort of rhetoric is absolutely poisonous and supremely counterproductive to any social movement. No cause is too righteous to require participation in the political process. If there is an issue in society that you want corrected, it's on you to persuade others to support your cause. The status quo is innocent until proven guilty, the burden of proof rests on the prsopective reformer. That's how democracy has always worked!
The use of surveys and questionnaires to measure employee performance has become increasingly popular among organizations in recent years. However, despite their apparent ease and convenience, these tools have several drawbacks that can ultimately hinder employee growth and development. There are multiple problems that can come from using surveys and questionnaires but below we'll highlight the two big ones.
More CO2 captured is meaningless if that CO2 is shortly released as the dead plant decays.
Are the main parties happening in AirBnBs? It would never occur to me to throw a party in an area I didn't control and was responsible for a hugely overpriced damage charges.
Ah, it sounds like there are a variety of laws throughout the world. It does sound like the US recently moved to allow digital signatures for this and related purposes though. See https://scarincihollenbeck.com/law-firm-insights/copyright-o...
This is a bit odd, both Disc Golf and Ultimate have "gone pro" with professional leagues some of which is even broadcast.
Amazing how upset users here get over the very reasonable response to very normal police work.
Well you certainly snarfed it up
It's easy to say when others feel the same way, but I'd like to believe it's mostly a matter of adapting expectations to reality since there's no realistic way to get 8 billion people agree to what the proper way forward is.

We have less than 100 million people living a lifestyle that 7900 million people try to achieve. A few prominent people on the top blames it on the 1500 million or so, that have managed to achieve what most of us call basic decent living. Yes, the bar has gone up the last 30 years. Significantly. Yes, many would be fine on 1990-levels. Many wouldn't. The next 5 billion or so work hard to catch up regardless, and they're offsetting anything the smaller part does, by the sheer amount of growth. The poorest 1½ billion that's left are mostly trying to survive. The rest of us could have done _something_, but it's the ones who are worst off that'll take the worst blow.

I'm over 40, and learnt about this in school over 30 years ago. My grandparent's generation knew, and did nothing. My parent's generation are still struggling with basic things like throwing glass and metal in a separate container for recycling. The time for solving this with wonderful technological innovation has come and gone. We _could_ try to force some kind of return to sustenance farming, but previous attempts at such social engineering have ended in near-genocide. And so, all that is left is to deal with the consequences of deciscions that were taken long ago.

The good thing is that more and more people agree about climate change being real. We might have screwed up preventing disaster, but at least we still have a chance to dampen the impact.
Shitty, grim, blood-soaked first thought in response to your comment: I read something 30 years ago that suggested the maximum sustainable "utopian" carry capacity of the planet was something like 3 billion humans. Regardless of the accuracy of that claim deleting a sizeable percentage of the world population is technically the most effective strategy we have for seriously reducing carbon emissions.
At home, I use characters from the first anime I watched as a digisub concurrent with it airing in Japan. It had considerably more female characters than male, so I use the male names for printers.
Does it apply to military flights? Military aircraft & the logistics to support the aircraft has huge amounts of emissions. The manufacturing & effect of the ordinances they ultimately drop on targets (some of which are civilian) pollute the area as well. Storing Jet Fuel has resulted in pollution of aquifers.

There are other means, such as diplomacy, to solve conflicts, btw.
As in eagerly consume into poster's lexicon I think.
What I like most about this is that it's not just a chatbot but rather a full in-app help center with a chatbot built-in.
https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2...

Made from joro spider (AKA golden orb spider) silk.
Personally I would rather not set a precedent of handing data over to government agencies just because they ask nicely, even if it seems like it's for a mutually agreeable good cause. That is, I would rather they go through these "formal" channels, even if it seems a bit heavy-handed.

Further, whatever they're investigating here is probably "important", for some definition of important, so they likely value the ability to lean on non-disclosure clauses etc.