skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t speak to USA vs Australia as I don’t know what the process is like in the USA, but this is how Australia works. The regulation originated from good intentions - in the 90s telcos would make it difficult for people to port their number, so ACMA stamped that out by prohibiting the losing telco from denying/delaying a port. It was up to the gaining telco to verify the identity of the owner, which was rarely done. You could just walk into a telco, give them your number, and get it ported to a new phone/sim immediately. I did it plenty of times in the 2000s.

Unfortunately these regulations now hurt the consumer more than they help. Imagine if you could transfer a domain name without a transfer code or confirmation from the owner or current registrar. That’s what phone numbers are like in Australia. I absolutely want my telco to deny a port without my permission, but regulation prevents them from doing this. Instead, I have to rely on every other telco in Australia doing their due diligence if someone tries to port my number. It’s a losing battle because my identity has been leaked several times in the past few years. I have to assume that at any moment my phone number will be ported away by a bad actor.

I believe this is being reformed to require explicit approval from the owner. But this is very late and inferior compared to other countries such as the UK with PAC codes etc.
https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/

You may want to look to Sight reading factory. They do a pretty good job allowing you to dynamically generate unlimited sheet music according to your pianistic capability.
The site makes a surprisingly compelling pitch to me, a grumpy and set in his ways vim/Linux user.

But, I don’t know. It is hard to overcome the fact that vi clones have been around for a bazillion years, will almost certainly outlive all of us, and will always be in every repo.
I know, where I live milk is still promoted by such institutes. We know for 40+ years it's bad for health beyond the weaning stage or near starvation.
I've always wondered if ethics class impart any ethics at all. If you're not an ethical person, why would you become one after taking such a class? If you're already an ethical person, taking a class in it is pointless.
> It's not a sale of information to a third party. It's the sale of a business and transferring the business to the first party.

Suppose I let you borrow my car, on the condition that you not allow your son to drive it. When the car gets totaled, you tell me that you gave the keys to your spouse, and they were the one who let your son drive it. So I have no reason to be angry at you, because you didn't directly hand the keys to him.

If you draw an imaginary line around some of the people and assets in a company, declare that the data belongs within that imaginary line, and then say everything inside that imaginary line is being sold, that's the same sort of shell game.

> Is there anything noteworthy going on here, or are we just confused/pretending to be confused about the world and looking to put a spin on it?

Yes. There's a lie being told that "selling a business" and getting customer data along with it is somehow distinct from "selling data".
> a big difference between giving a voice to "the people who work [there] " versus to the people who own businesses there

There is, and in it a tradeoff. The businesses will prioritise growth over liveability and working conditions. Workers working conditions; both will select for incumbency. Residents (within and without) want living conditions and, if they’re economically literate, competition in both business and labour.

It’s an interesting topic that doesn’t deserve dismissal at face value.
To elaborate a bit, "City of London" is not the city of London as one would normally imagine. It is a district only about a square mile large that contains the central business and financial district. It has very little residential zoning and fewer than 10,000 residents (compared to 10 million in greater London). A recent change in law *increased the number of businesses receiving voting power to 32,000, and they nominate a number of voters that scales with their number of employees (and the total far outweighs residential votes).

* Corrected wording to clarify that law change only increases the number of businesses — businesses have had the franchise in City of London for centuries. h/t JumpCrisscross
Most T&C have a clause allowing them to simply end any subscription without needing a clear reason.
And I doubt rocky or almalinux want to start a cat and mouse game of opening accounts and these accounts getting banned by Red Hat.
i would consider even powerpoint lucky compared to an excel file with a bunch of images or even the design being made out of cells, rows and columns... yes, you read that correctly lol.

for all that trouble it still beats getting `design.jpg`
Signs are quite potent signals, static objects designed to inform and direct. It's only by long habituation that we ignore their power. I'm not at all surprised that they captured your attention!
Perhaps it is not the next iPhone but the next Mac. It is a better at home or at work general computing device. I am a cynic and I see it as the next iPad.
Your post is clearly an example of "You said X, so you mean worse Y??" In general, you should try to engage with X and not invent your own Y.

As I previously wrote working so much you can't talk to your kids is not typical. Not every multiple job holder has kids, not every multiple job holder has multiple full time jobs, not every multiple job holder lacks ten to fifteen minutes a day to talk with their kids, some multiple job holders have spouses/parents/etc who can talk to their kids on their behalf, some multiple job holders could afford to work less.

I don't know, but I suspect the previous reply comes from someone not in the situation they're describing. That is - the basic question I posed is how you could not know that your kid's school was bad. A response was that poor people had to work so many jobs they have no time to talk to their kids and I responded in turn by explaining that no, that's not the answer. I suspect the respondent is not particularly poor and isn't even explaining his own situation.

Now, as for what my point is - my guess is that the modal reason people don't know how bad their kids schools are is that they aren't evaluating what their kids learn. I think that's bad and I'm trying to shame that behavior. Parents should be involved, should be tracking what their kids learn, and should be doing something about it when problems arise.

I think attitudes like "some people have to work multiple jobs so we can't blame parents for being complacent with the poor public school system" are bad.

Going back to what I wrote about the previous commenter not being in the situation he's describing - I think it's a common pattern for the rich to give bad advice to the poor. "Oh, you poor poor person, don't worry that you don't know how your children are doing at school, it's probably because you're so busy working! This isn't your fault, etc etc". I would say that if you don't know how your kids are doing in school you are failing as a parent and should immediately correct that. Education is vital to improving your child's circumstances and if you want a better life for your child you should do your best to insure your child is well educated.

Again, just going off guesses, I bet the previous commenter holds himself to a higher standard. He won't ignore the education of his children, but will defend others doing so - assuming they're too busy to pay attention.
A lot of people are looking for the next iPhone.

My bet would be there is none in our generation and we spend the rest of our life with two kind of computing: one that fits our hand and other devices to deal with the rest.

The question becomes, is this inherently better and more convenient than a laptop ? If it's not, it will stay a nice accesory, like the watch is a nice accessory.
Damn, maybe we should protest or something?
Next time you’re in a grocery store, check out the mats the cashiers stand on. Thick, flexible rubber.
I spent a while trying Kakoune years ago and I have one minor complaint and one major complaint. Leading off with the minor complaint (because it’s more annoying than severe): it is designed for multiple cursors editing as the default, rather than single. That is, many of the normal movement operations (such as search) have the side effect of leaving behind extra cursors, like little breadcrumbs, that take an extra keystroke to dismiss.

Perhaps this makes sense for people who spend all day doing large-scale edits on highly structured files but it makes no sense for the kind of everyday editing that I do. Most of my time is spent either entering brand new text in bulk at the end of the file, or jumping around and making one-off changes via searching. When I want to do larger scale edits (I use vim, the editor kak was intended to succeed), I reach for :%s///gc to do confirmation-based global substitutions (or sometimes :g//s///gc instead of %s).

So I really don’t see the advantage of the multiple cursors approach, especially given that the files I’m working with are thousands of lines long. That is far too long to get any visual feedback benefit to using multiple cursors for whole-file substitutions.

Now on to the major complaint. For some reason, the developers decided to buck the trend of plugin-based editors by not including a built-in scripting language with a nice API. Instead, people wanting to extend Kakoune are expected to write bash scripts (!?).

Sorry, this is a colossal mistake that dooms the editor to irrelevance for the foreseeable future. They would have been far better off just picking a nice scripting language (how about Python, Ruby, or Lua) and building a really clean, sensible API for it. Bonus points for building in a package manager that can browse, fetch, install, and update plugins automatically. This is the one massive area of weakness for vim (VimScript? Ugh!) and they missed the boat!
So you assume your fellow humans are stupid and will fall for this crap, and must be protected at all costs including the cost of regulation preventing speech?

By the way, how's that scammer SBF doing? I heard he managed to scam even more money than that funny YouTube ad, and I think he was advertising on mainstream media too. Even got to lobby in Congress.

This is still far from the leading mainstream narrative that "your fellow humans are stupid". By your anecdote I can learn that here we have another person who's capable of recognizing false information, therefore it isn't dangerous.

Anyone who fell for disinformation is welcome to step in and contribute an anecdote to the opposite statistics so maybe I'll be convinced people really are guillible and need protecting.

Somehow it's always other people who the speaker thinks are more stupid and will fall for something he sees as a scam.
Related:

Kakoune Code Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975052 - Jan 2022 (170 comments)

Kakoune, a punk-rock text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716187 - Oct 2020 (2 comments)

What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24685267 - Oct 2020 (94 comments)

Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313794 - March 2019 (58 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781780 - Aug 2018 (45 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165919 - Dec 2016 (327 comments)

Kakoune: a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152499 - Dec 2016 (2 comments)

Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484653 - Oct 2015 (34 comments)

Mawww's experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764028 - June 2015 (15 comments)
> Is it normal for the state legislature to make changes to a city charter? Why Seaford?

Depends on context. New York City, for example, ceded control to Albany after going bankrupt. The same path appears proximate for San Francisco.

In this case it looks like enabling legislation. Dover isn’t giving Seaford’s corporations a vote. It’s giving Seaford the right to give corporations a vote.
We've never been ready! The 'mid-truth' media was already so full of propaganda and misinformation and inaccuracies that there was no hope of sorting through it all reliably.

People have been experiencing and complaining about information overload since the invention of the printing press, and then the telegram, and on and on.
Which is a disaster far beyond kids missing some school in my opinion. Kid gets in a car accident, or falls of their bike in a bad way, they're then (preventably) missing school forever.
Arguably there’s pretty meaningful intersection between those two sets of information - e.g. when purchasing medicine with a credit card.

Edited to add example.
> It's just a big company getting its ducks in a row which takes time.

It is most common for both sides of a transaction to announce simultaneously. This was a bit weird in that SquareSpace made an announcement and there was nothing from the Google side. If Google was still preparing their communications, the norm would be SquareSpace waiting for Google to be ready.
"so that when the consumer less expensive model will be released a couple of years down the line there's already an app ecosystem ready."

....

You think that developers are going to create a thriving ecosystem of apps when there's no market until several years down the line? Bit of a Chicken or the egg problem isn't it?
To me, that’s like complaining that software requirements are written by software people instead of user representatives; sure, you can do it the other way around, but it largely leads to poorly written requirements.
I think both of you need to look at the amount of patents related to the Apple's AR glasses and their related vision products a lot more since it give lots of obvious clues about where Apple will take their Apple vision based products.

All publicly available for everyone to see. [0] No inside information needed at all.

[0] https://www.patentlyapple.com/face-object-recognition/
Doh! Thanks for the spot. The 2nd part is actually from a different scene, but I combined them both and updated the links above.
I think they mean 100x better than they'd be without it, not 100x better than a "1x developer" (whatever that means anyway).
Not really.

Sales Tax and Property Taxes recovered by 2022-23 in most counties within the Bay Area (excluding SF county which only represents 9-10% of the Bay's population) as RTO began being enforced, Asian and South American tourists returned (with some new countries now - lots of Thai and Argentine tourists now beyond the traditional SK/PRC/IN/HK tourists), and the spike in high value property sales refilled coffers.

That said, the 1-2 school years spent remotely will continue to have a statistical impact in the coming years.
> - Diversity teams are the least diverse

IME DEI is usually a function rolled into HR (although they often contract with diversity training firms), rather than a separate team, except at large companies. Where there are separate DEI teams, they tend to be the most diverse, at least among the white-collar workforce - the requirements for these jobs tend to be quite nonspecific, because they don't really need to do much besides write stuff and give presentations related to diversity. These tasks can, at a pinch, be mostly handed off to interns and ChatGPT, or else involve cribbing from preexisting presentation templates. The actual engineering, PM, etc., teams tend to be less diverse - graduates of specific university programs tend to be less diverse, in the non-euphemistic sense, than university graduates as a whole.
Anyone know the font in those videos? I think it looks pretty good.
Discussed a few times:

More hindsight on Vim, helix and kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36066347 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Helix 23.03 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35384691 - March 2023 (93 comments)

Helix 22.12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890655 - Dec 2022 (40 comments)

Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494840 - Nov 2022 (166 comments)

Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33147270 - Oct 2022 (306 comments)

Helix: A post-modern text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33039390 - Sept 2022 (2 comments)

Helix, Terminal Modal Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30847041 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Helix 0.5 released (Kakoune like terminal text editor) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043889 - Oct 2021 (2 comments)

Helix: a post-modern modal text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358479 - June 2021 (365 comments)
I don't usually feel the need to spread religious truths to the masses, but I'd be happy to know to that it was because of me that someone learned that the best vi(m) really is emacs in evil-mode.
right, you've read the tea leaves.
My main issue with SUSE is 3rd party support.
For example docker doesn't have an official repo for openSUSE/SUSE, so you are stuck with their outdated version or Podman, which is also outdated.
This guy is featured in the So You've Been Publicly Shamed book, and it definitely seemed like he was pilloried pretty hard. It is interesting, though, which journalists get tarred and feathered and which ones are celebrated.

Certainly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak have massive journalistic ethical errors: the former fabricating news for the US Government and the latter blowing a CIA agent's cover (the Plame Affair). Yet, they are celebrated journalists.

It seems that you have to:

- not be hypocritical (it is a greater sin to preach and sin; than simply to sin)

- be younger (established powerhouses can steamroll these accusations)

And to GP: thank you! The number of times Dan Ariely is involved in this data fabrication stuff does make the whole thing seem a bit fishy. At best, he is bad at trusting people, which makes any claims he makes low-coefficient since they could be from data from fabricators.
I've seen people work themselves into knots trying to figure out how a house could possibly be clean enough to walk around in one's socks. That indoor floors are somehow so intrinsically dirty that one simply must keep one's shoes on to avoid contamination. And I always wanted to ask: How else would we keep our floors clean?
If you already have your own functions or variables named max, min, or clear in-scope, they will shadow the new built-in functions and your code will continue to use your own version of the functions. No breakage to existing identifiers that match the new function names.

(This is the same behavior as the append built-in function today, for example. These things in Go are _not_ reserved keywords, they are simply global functions that can be overridden at other scopes.)
TI's graphing calculators work essentially the same way. As does GNU Units.
In like one city maybe. There's a difference between "Started opening" and actually contributing to the success of apple products. I'd bet apple sells many many many more products that they get apple store traffic.
Excellent! Thanks for the tip. I always forget that quick menu is there.
> And again with Objective-C it's impossible to prevent private API usage unless you have some sort of App Store model which can inspect the binaries and prevent abuse.

A alternative is to sandbox applications to prevent them from calling anything else than the official API, and to use a less restrictive sandbox for applications signed by a key owned by the vendor.
> recent law change allows for 32,000 businesses to receive voting power

If I remember correctly, the corporate vote traces precedent through guild votes.
What is "neutral"?
It did not already come as you say. We are in a new era. It is now very easy to target specific people over a wide geographic region and to do so cheaply. It is easy for bad actors to hone in on those susceptible to the false beliefs they peddle. Hence the rise of morons who won’t vaccinate their children. I’ve read that around 50 percent of the posts online are bot driven. Soon that percentage will be a lot bigger. This is an era of easy, cheap, targeted messaging. It’s an era where we will mostly exist in information bubbles whose messages cater to what we are most susceptible to being influenced by.
facepalm, should have been strlen+1, not sizeof+1
Seems like these changes only benefit you if you have an Intel processor. If you have an AMD or Arm processor, you won’t see any difference.

Also, interesting to see assembly again after many years. Haven’t touched that since college during a compilers and assembly course.

Edit: never mind, amd has implemented these “sha-ni” instructions since “Zen” [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions
You do use your face though and goggles can make drinking from a mug tricky. Hot drinks can also mist up your lenses if you linger near your nose hole.

My experiments using straws in VR just led me to stabbing myself in the gum, lip, nose and cheek in various painful ways. The perfect vessel is a long neck beer bottle. Easy to get into your face-hole and won't bang against your goggles. The downside is how easy it is to knock over.
Ask HN: What to do when your Instagram account gets suspended?
I am a very casual IG user and access it monthly usually from a Firefox browser. Don't even have the app downloaded. Few weeks ago I was scrolling, all of a sudden I got redirected to https://www.instagram.com/accounts/suspended and asked for a phone number for a confirmation code, which never gets delivered.

My setup shouldn't have any red flags in it. I access the Internet using Comcast from the US, no VPN; the phone number I gave is a vanilla Verizon number (and tried another one as well); I have tried various browsers, even new installations just to see if things work if I remove all ad blockers and other extensions. Console Log in Devtools has a few errors but none seem like a smoking gun.

So what can a humble Internet user do in this Kafkaesque situation?
The fact that the term "ethics" is used so much in a CYA way, or else as transparent rationalization of whatever worldview is currently dominant among the PMC, has given me an almost allergic reaction to that word.
I don't think that's the issue. The author has a large bunion on his left foot (or is holding it as a very odd angle) and may have gait issues. I am an inveterate people watcher and am often surprised by others' posture and gait. It may be that his toes are doing extra work to compensate and with each step are pulling the toe box of a normal pair of socks forward. This would tie in with some other points they made about foot health/comfort problems.

I walk tens of miles every week at marching pace, mostly wearing the same shoes, and never have any of these problems, other than one very small recurring callous. I've never tried toe socks but am OK wit Japanese style tabi.
> The second sentence of your link literally says the average income for white people was four times higher than black people.

How is that relevant when GP was saying that it's wealth that makes the difference, but the stats show equivalent wealth between the two groups we were talking about: Oranians and black South Africans.

The point is that by the data, these two groups aren't wealthy, there's nothing to suggest that Oranians have "a lot of money", and thus GP's assertion is incorrect and was just a random claim not backed by the data.