skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are the cities that have to make up the slack for the rest of the country not pulling its weight, and exporting its poverty and problems to them.

Or they are the cities with the worst housing affordability problems.

Or they are just the cities that have these public services. Not a lot of people complaining about homeless people riding the subway in rural Texas, because rural Texas doesn't have a subway.

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Seattle, by the way, got a 'prosecute everything and restart the war on drugs' city attourney and a 'sweep the homeless away' mayor.

Strangely enough, neither policy has done shit to resolve any of the problems. Oh, now the camp isn't in the park, it's on the street bordering the park, what an improvement for everyone...

It took the state legislature to fix the city's problem (by banning SFH zoning, and hitting NIMBYs over the head with a stick), and maaaaybe we'll see the fruits of that policy ripen in a decade or two.
bitcoin blockchain BS
>(even though the claim is that your IP is dynamic, in practice it hardly ever changes)

Every ISP just uses DHCP for router IPs. It's dynamic, you just have to let the lease time expire to renew it.

Or, have your own configurable router instead of the ISPs so that you can actually send a dhcp release command though they don't all support this part. Changing MAC Address will work otherwise.
You can visit lots of commercial spaces without buying something as long as you're polite and not smelly.
This is so weird to me. Have you been using the tool? Have you asked it to review code yet? Just because it gets stuff wrong sometimes doesn't mean it isn't extremely useful.
The web devs have got their shit together. If you delete the cookie banner through the DOM inspector, it comes back.
>The solution is to bring the rest of homeless services and support to the place where the homeless are.

No, it is not. The solution is to reduce homelessness, drug addicts and poverty. If needed create actual spaces for homeless people to go to, where there are actually people/resources which can help them.

Turning libraries into homeless shelters and librarians into social workers is an absurd policy idea.
Yeah, other than sanitizing and validating, you shouldn't be transforming data or you're headed into a state management bug nightmare.
And this is why many people don't want VC money. if I had a company that brings in a million $ annually and I work 20 hours/week when and where I want, it would be a dream come true. I'd rather have this than start the next Meta or Google. However, for a VC or any professional investor that scenario would be a complete failure.
That's extremely different to saying that comparison is fundamentally impossible, though. I agree with the previous commenter that statements like that should be outright rejected before we have the more useful discussion on the point you're making.
> I received a survey from my library a couple of years ago. Multiple choice: "Are our libraries A) doing enough to help LGBTQ people? B) not doing enough?"

Same at my local library, singular focus on LGBT kids content and activism with all budgets entirely allocated to it. Would make sense to rebrand as state-run LGBTQ bookstores, more glam for the librarians than homeless shelters perhaps?
I don't follow. It's not criminal to report a potential crime to the police.
What about putting oneself in the shoes of the dead person. Unburied, next of kind uninformed, potential perpetrator going free. I would hope that if my remains were found randomly that they would be dealt with properly.
People like to shout "cryptobotnet!" every time someone questions the need for absolute security with devices connected to the internet.

You might get 2¢ in about 40 years mining with my IoT light bulb. Good luck with that.
Indeed. First I read of him were some of his articles on stuff he wouldn't work with. There's a passage in his article on dioxygen diflouride (AKA FOOF) that would sound delightfully wicked read in the voice John deLancie.

Brilliant writer!
Hey HN -

We could make high quality product research and evaluations take less than 30 seconds.

Right now, this whole process takes 10 mins - 1 day of work for teams. It requires sifting through search results and review sites to be able to answer specific questions like costs, capabilities, and most importantly the ROI / ability to move a metric.

My thoughts here are that we could help companies find stronger assurance in the tools that they might buy, before they buy them with less effort.

Happy to answer questions! Thanks,
-Will
I thought trolling was banned on hn.
Quantum Hamiltonian Descent – Executive Summary
There is certainly a greater interest in finding real solutions than there has been for decades, yes, and there are absolutely certain groups that are trying hard. I think the trendlines are heading the right direction here.

But, as a society in general, I think we're not actually trying hard yet. We're still largely debating whether or not we should be.
Seems like the financial version of hydraulic fracking.
Add negative threads to fix a program that runs too fast?
"Don't enter internal secret data into third party websites" seems like a pretty standard, run of the mill recommendation.
Ask HN: Have Gmail spam filters got way worse?
I swear the last 6 months I’ve been getting way more spam.

I figured the phishermen had new techniques but today I even got a bcc all one.
> I see them used all the time in FAANG.

Does that mean something? Besides you saying you worked in them? It’s a question ; I don’t know.
(As far as you know, none of your machines were ever hacked.)

Your luck is not good security policy. When I was getting started with Linux in 1992 and only intermittently connected to the Internet via dial-up, I celebrated long uptimes. Now that I do daily banking and other activities on a machine continuously connected to the Internet, uptimes longer than the interval between kernel security updates is just irresponsible behavior.

I would prefer to not have to reboot. I know that is not the world we live in. The stability of the kernel is no longer the reason to think about uptime.

I don't care that you have nothing of value connected to the Internet. I am objecting to the advice about not rebooting.
I think DLSS doesn't do denoising. DLSS uses an ML algorithm to upscale frames using additional information like z buffer and motion vectors. Denoising is used to drastically reduce the number of required rays for ray tracing. I would guess denoising is done first, using a non-ML algorithm, and DLSS is done afterwards.
Try a different server, ideally one closer to you. Lemmy.world is currently the most popular server (located in Finland) which has seen the largest influx.

Here's a big list of servers (and their countries) sorted by MAU [1]. Note that the MAU data is out-of-date now that there's been a huge spike in the past few days.

[1] https://the-federation.info/platform/73
You're missing the Chinese opium crirsis.
The first x86-64 processor has been released more than 20 years ago, so any patents on that base architecture (which includes SSE2) have already expired.
Well, "AI tools" can have a pretty wide meaning.

Isn't Grammarly[1] an "AI tool", for instance?

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/
Beehaw is basically the only server that's super defederation-happy. It will pass.
> What's going on? What's the bigger trend that's causing all these platforms to go so user-hostile?

These companies need/want to start making money. Either due to investors wanting a return on their investment (Reddit IPO, Amazon buying Twitch), or poor decisions which have lead to lots of debt (Elon buying Twitter). Companies can't get free/cheap loans any more since interest rates are high.

Many of these social media companies all followed the tried-and-true "embrace, extend, extinguish" methodology... Offer a free/cheap product until you gain the network effect that kills your competitors, then crank up the prices to turn a profit.
Charts are for asking questions, not answering them. My life goes so much better when I remember that (or importantly, when I can find the right set of words to convince all the other decision makers that’s true).

An experiment gets you a little money and attention to try it a few more times. A few successful runs in different lab conditions should let you get a little money to start systematizing your experiment, and that should get you money and attention from industry, manufacturing.

That has always been an 8 year process at the best of times (most things take ten). Seems like a lot of people don’t have that sort of patience anymore, and they try to make things go from lab to shopping cart in three years or they endlessly loop on generating news articles (aka bullshit).
Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you're quite useful.
How Hackers Evade Program Allowlists with DLLs
Give them a reason to switch, not just the option.

Say "no new posts here, go there." Enforce that for one day and see what happens.
its no different than not putting it into a search engine

microsoft is collect chatgpt info like google collects info off searches
I'd love to see some hard data on your claims because this seems cynical to the point of being inaccurate

As the creator and moderator of a 100k sub these are the last things on my mind - and same for the other moderators. The whole point of creating and moderating that was because 13 years ago I thought it was the best place to build a community that I wanted to exist.

I have no idea if that's true for the moderators for /pics or whatever massive sub-reddits are, but I do know that for a lot, and especially the long tail subs and the folks I see in the /modcoord sub and discord, moderators are people who are interested in maintaining a community because they are interested in the affinity.
By policy, over the next 80 years.
Our King County library spends about $250 per household, and the average family borrows three books. Honestly, given their cost per book, they should just buy books people want and close down.
No offense but this sounds like it was written by GPT.

/s not /s

Just covering my bases. I really can't tell anymore.
>somewhat sensationalistic

What a cynical comment. The title doesn't even say rare, and there's only a few dozen found in "all of Europe", ever. What could possibly be seen as sensationalist here? Thanks for your excellent sources, however.

I know it's trendy to say sensationalist, and it's often true. Just seems like a lazy thing to write in this case.
I'd like to point out that wood 100 years ago was mostly old growth, which differs drastically to the lumber available today.
Just use the pushshift archives?
You flash the OS (okay, admittedly, debian which is nice) onto it from windows with some lugubrious .exe

https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/burner

No linux/macos tool available. No thanks.
BattleBit Remastered
I think between the two sections, the API can access any information that the user could. This means all public information, their own private information, and the private information of others that has been shared with them.

I think the two of us agree on what the law says, I just happened to think it's ridiculous. It would require every large social media company to actively support competitors that are cloning their website, require them to manage the database for those competitors, and do it at no cost.

I coul make a Facebook 2.0 app that shows users everything that they could see in Facebook, but strips out the Facebook ads and puts in my own. Facebook would be required to manage the data of my users at no cost. My app could even submit advertising posts on behalf of my users to Facebook, which it would have to write
> not like I expect gmail to "defederate" an email server

I'm pretty sure gmail defeds email servers all the time. IP blocks are the oldest tool in the toolbox
I purchased a few ARM boards in the past and won't do it again. All became e-waste.

Rockchip notably, great hardware on paper. Try developing something that needs hardware acceleration and it's a paper weight.

It's a common cycle of broken promises to provide drivers by manufactures, rinse and repeat. The exception being raspberry pi or expressif. Depending on the application.
Just curious. Where do you think that an open source project like PostgreSQL gets a budget to hire anyone? Let alone to dictate a new line of authority to the volunteers who are already maintaining it?

And don't forget that there are valuable volunteers who are likely to go elsewhere if too many new rules are added that they don't want to live with.
I've had a Reddit subscription for mulitple years, and spent more than I care to admit buying coins to guild/gift posts and comments. I also paid for Apollo.

I deleted my account this week, being a monetizable person who is quite bothered.
I personally don't care one way or the other about any reddit IPO payout. Happy for them if they get paid, reddit has been an amazing service for many many years.

What I DO care about is being able to browse without ads and recommendations I don't want shoved down my throat. They could have done things in a way that preserved 3rd party clients but required payment for an ad-free experience. People would be mostly fine with that I think.
I go to the National Library of my backwards little country; some 2 - 3 times per week, when I know I won't have a lot of meetings and I want to focus on work. I go there, in the silence, find a nice place to sit down, plug my laptop, connect to the wifi and start up the IDE. I don't need to buy anything, I don't need to talk to anyone, it's chill in the summer and just a bit too chilly in the winter. It costs me $5 / year (parking space included...) and if I'm lucky I get a seat with an amazing view. Going to and from there on foot is also a bit of exercise.

Before discovering this hidden marvel, which is actually a huge building, I never liked the loudness of working in a cafe until one day when it hit me, why not try the library. Haven't looked back since.
It's more compact than UTF-8 because fewer bits are used for the encoding itself. There are 24 bits, and only 3 bits are used as part of the encoding, with the other 21 bits representing the code-point. (Precisely the number we need to represent all Unicode).

In UTF-8, a 3-byte encoding uses 8-bits as part of the encoding, a full byte worth of bits for the encoding itself, leaving only 16-bits for the codepoint. If you need higher code-points you need to use 4 bytes, where 11 bytes are the encoding and 21 bytes are the codepoint.

So UTF-8 is space efficient for ASCII, but ~1/3 of the bits are used for the encoding in for non-ASCII, versus a fixed 1/8 of the bits used for the encoding above for all 1-3 bytes. The above has a fixed 12.5% space overhead over raw codepoints. UTF-8 has 12.5% only for ASCII, and ~33% overhead for everything else.

Although it is not self-synchronizing like UTF-8, you can synchronize a reliable stream by holding a buffer of the previous byte. If the previous byte's value is >=0x80, the current byte is part of the same character. If it's <0x80, the current byte is the start of a new character, so it's still possible to do substring matching etc, fairly efficiently but slightly less efficiently than UTF-8. It makes it suitable for file storage, but not ideal for transmission.

That said, most sane protocols will prefix a string with a length (in bytes), so self-synchronization is not always an issue.
The policy was dictated by the state of California believe. Funded by taxes taken by the state.

So I suspect they couldn’t rely on CA so the company opted that if you weren’t in CA you were out.

The company could’ve paid of course, but by that time they weren’t that kind of a company anymore.
Readability is a function of familiarity though. I have been programming in Rust for > 5 years, I find it to be an incredibly readable language, because I am so familiar with it.
All valid points but being different is that really persecution? I would only consider it persecution if it harmed them physically or financially and on a large scale, not a small number of cases which will always exist and always will exist.

Take the Acadians ran out of Canada. To me that was persecution. Are LGBTQ being ran out of areas, physically beaten and murdered? No. Do they feel isolated because there is not that many of them? Of course. Are older folks stuck in their ways ever going to accept them? Probably not but that's not persecution just because someone doesn't like you. Only if they physically harm you or cause financial harm out of spite. I don't see that going on some massive scale.
> where you spend a bunch of your time arguing with the type systems

That’s the point. It’s a feature, not a bug.

The type system exists to reduce the space of unsound programs. The trade off is dev time for runtime errors.
> I wonder: how have massive cities like LA and NYC allowed their libraries defacto homeless shelters? It's a shame that public libraries in these cities are essentially unusable to the average taxpayer.

Somehow I doubt that all of the branch libraries of those systems are "homeless shelters." More likely the it's just the larger libraries near the actual shelters. Where "the average taxpayer" wouldn't spend time anyway.
Livestream of Collapsed I-95 Overpass Cleanup/Rebuild
Yeah, I should switch my one USB device that emits keyboard HID events for another USB device that also emits keyboard HID events but is smaller, easier to lose, and has less buttons. ;-)

But yes, I agree with you in principle. In practice, locks are delaying devices and I'm much more worried about MITM or software/malware/supply-chain attacks than physical access attacks to my home office. "Passwords in the keyboard" require a physical presence to access rather than attacking the password-store or sniffing them from environment variables, temp-files, etc. Can't hack the keyboard unless I'm the one pushing they keys.

After using this setup for a few years, it's been pretty convenient and not totally off the rails w.r.t. security best practices and recommendations: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_yo...

99% of my passwords are in vaults of some sort and are subsequently backstopped by 2FA/Authenticators. In the case of heightened paranoia (or if anyone other than my immediate family had any kind of access to my office), you could even do something like `1234-$MAGIC_KEYSTROKE-5678`, or `amazon-$MAGIC-2023-01-01` making it a bit more like length-increaser in the "bring-something, know-something, be-something" triangle of authentication.

Buy one and try it! Buy one of these too, and report back if you think it can help your security posture: https://www.securedrive.com/product/secureusb-kp-encrypted-f... ...I'd like to get one and try and figure out how to temp-mount my core password-store, then share/auth that between my various home computers.
> Everyone just started using unchecked exceptions because they provide an easier coding experience.

Yes, in much the same way that no longer checking for error codes provides an easier coding experience.

But it makes your code more crashy.
> the small east-coast college town where I now live has a clean, bright, pleasant library that serves as a community educational space for all

Small college towns have a couple of real advantages over big cities in this regard. First, they're small, which helps a lot. Second, they tend to have more funding available per-capita than large cities do.
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/cse227-spring20/papers/bess...
If you're on Mastodon, you need to use @startrek@startrek.website instead of !startrek@startrek.website
I think the emphasis is on "never scrape from YOUR local/residential network".
There are plenty of reasons not to want your IOT bulb to be insecure that are unrelated to people mining crypto.

A pwned IOT lightbulb can be used to help DDOS sites. It can relay DDOS traffic, eating your own bandwidth. It can be constantly probing the other devices on your network looking for vulnerabilities, until it pwns something else and is able to slurp down your passwords and credit card numbers.

Are you seriously suggesting that having an actively malicious computing device inside your home network is no big deal?
In most cases, yes, in all cases, no. There's a lot of variants of "enumerate all devices on a private network if you visit a malicious webpage" exploits.

https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks...
Crimes and harassment were punished, not put up with and subsidized.
I don't motorcycle anymore but did for a long time and did both a huge amount of riding and some very serious maintenance jobs. I have kept bicycling thousands of miles a year since. In the past I did a bunch of different types of bicycle racing. Never did motorcycle racing but I did go to quite a few track days.

In general with a few exceptions everything on motorcycles is far more competently engineered.

Bicycle manufacturers brag about engineering a lot but actually seem to employ very few engineers. The bicycle industry is still re-engineering things like brakes over and over when all those lessons were learned on motorcycles decades ago and the bike companies could have copied almost all of it from motorcycles.

There's just a lot of stuff on bicycles where the tools are more expensive than the motorcycle equivalents and the maintenance procedures are more annoying. Motorcycle brakes are a great example. Things are relatively standard and all the tools are affordable and the maintenance procedures are great. Do the same job on hydraulic disc brakes on a bicycle and it's all terrible. Tools cost 3x more and might be vendor specific, procedures are terrible because of the design of the brakes, and the job probably takes longer.

You can go spend more on a Trek or a Specialized than a lot of motorcycles at this point. Other than the amount of carbon fiber there is almost no justification for the price, especially since 99% of the bicycle is outsourced.

I always found the education level among motorcyclists in terms of how a bike actually rides much higher. The % of "expert cyclists" who understand basics like counter steering is shockingly low, and bicyclists are far more likely to have poor understanding of how to ride in traffic safely. Mostly because motorcycling actually has a training & education system. I always felt like motorcycling actually taught me more about bicycling than the reverse.
understandable? i have lost any ounce of compassion when dotcom, greenwald, snowden and others have went full-bore pro-kremlin.

the us and copyright bs is an iconic duo which i hate, but going after piracy is whatever compared to destroying democracy and freedom and pushing people to support legitimately evil empires
And it seems the whole site is down right now.
The article discusses the forgotten rights and innocence of children. It highlights that, despite numerous international conventions and declarations advocating for children's rights, many children around the world continue to face various forms of exploitation, abuse, and neglect. The author stresses the importance of fulfilling the rights of children, including the right to education, healthcare, protection from violence, and the right to participate in decision-making processes. The article concludes with a call to action to prioritize the well-being and rights of children to ensure a brighter future for them.
sounds like a reinvention of usenet...
Any evidence, more than "they will do because they can do"? Technically, they can do that, but only if they think it's a great idea to play with a relentless stream of lawsuits where some of them may put their business into existential threats.
1) Not fully - we have to pull / compress information as part of the prompting.

2) It's an early stage product, so we're still ironing out some bugs and core features to make it excellent.
One sentence says "in the wild" and another says "impossible to retrieve". Can't be both.
Average internet user has no idea how subreddits work.