skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partly mistreatment perhaps, but moreover gross incompetence by the administration. For years they’ve been unwilling or unable to fix the most basic issue: Mail delivery, sensible health insurance options, pay that tracks the cost of liming in university-owned housing.

They demonstrated that they weren’t able to make things work, so there was no choice but to escalate to a union. I won’t be surprised if heads roll in upper admin once the Board of Trustees realizes that there’s no going back from this vote. I’m sure the union will be a bureaucratic headache for everyone, it’s unfortunate it was necessary.
The BoE is wholly owned by the UK government so your distinction is without meaning. And what is the second part of your argument? It’s ok to waste 45B a year if you’re spending a lot of other money?
A curt dismissal is entirely appropriate for a suggestion that's absurd on its face.

No one's actually going to pay some random mail delivery person to come into their house every day and hang up a newspaper for ten years.
If Titan proved something is that economics is not the only factor what matters here.
And the negative loop starts kicking in. What will be the reason to do a visit to those places that do not have any store or café opened to socialise.
Without people, what will be the reason to open a business there?
And so on...
Fascinating to see this again it's been at least a decade since I first found it. Projects like this always make make me glad to see because it's almost "useless" work that I imagine will be a foot note to some seriously impressive future technology. Very cool work in the mean time. As an aside - this brings back a weird feeling of nosatlgia, but this repository also brought me back to a time where I was stuck in an over-engineered .NET shop and i'm now debating if we start the day off with whiskey after having a flashback to being asked to implement "Ninject" into a massive spaghetti banquet of a code base (collective hope that dep injection fixes bad code).

In case anyone is worried I write software in Rust and Golang now and my life has improved significantly since the origins of this worm and people taking dep injection frame works seriously. :D
And that’s why as a piece of active art work, this is pretty compelling. If you saw newspapers everywhere, why would you want one on the wall?
Side note: I love that you can add html to markdown. I could add the html5 audio player with a snippet I found on MDN. Very cool. I’ve been just doing markdown sans html for years now.
They shouldn't support it because the point of the government is to act on behalf of the society as a whole. Many problems need money: healthcare, transportation, energy, disaster prevention etc. Without the market's price mechanism, in this context represented by the job prospects after graduation, it's very difficult to know how much should be spent paying philosophy and gender studies teachers. We'd be preventing an efficient allocation of resources potentially killing people in the process.

Additionally, while many people have a genuine interest in these topics (and should buy themselves books, or pay their own philosophy college course), many young adults will be happy signing up for this "education" to avoid making hard decisions for their lives (such as getting a plumbing degree). In this case, the government is financing a sort of young adult daycare and party service.
https://interessant3.substack.com

I post three things I find interesting, once a week. Very simple and to the point.

I’m at just a tad over 100 subscribers at time of writing. In the latest issue I shared some research on the “Pink Tax”, a blog sharing MacOS command line tools, and a Twitter thread demistifying a lot of the debate around water quality in the U.K.

For more long form content you can find me on medium: https://medium.com/@duartem where my writing has had over 25,000 reads over the years.

Alternatively I also have a (Jekyll) website at https://www.Santiago-Martins.com
So, the context was about the use of cash because of supposed privacy consciousness. Do wire transfers confer any privacy over credit or debit cards?
NY spent $950M in on a solar-panel factory in Buffalo for Elon Musk
The cable looks cheap indeed, although otherwise you have the trouble of keeping it charged. But other wise "cheap"/simple look imo is a selling point.
I don't know where your actual problem is. The GDPR allows holding data for most of these purposes. You intermingled legal obligations with data legal departments would like to hold in the end there. Only one of those is required.

Also, some of these are pure theoretical in the EU. You're not even allowed to photocopy an ID in Germany; age verification is a checkmark someone sets upon verifying the ID is valid and then (metaphorically) handing it back, not a copy of a legal document that you probably don't want deduplicated to random S3 buckets held by all the companies you do business with. They're not exactly resistant to replay attacks, after all.
Which won't exist because threads is app-only?
Spez said they are not profitable right as they are trying to get their shit together for a favorable IPO.
Do you also disallow su on your system or is it just sudo that's been banished?

Edit: I'm curious because if you still allow su on the system there seems to be little to no reason to set PermitRootLogin in sshd_config regardless of auth mechanism (password, cert, token, etc.).
Took about 4 seconds to load on my iPhone (but can’t control it ofc).
Show BlogScroll some love, yo!
This was the idea of the Lifestreams project:

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
They'll be hackers posting ways to defeat the AI restrictions so it will connect you to a human.
Out of curiosity - were there any commercial applications this was being developed towards?
> The Bluesky infra would not be able to handle scale without invite-only clownshow. Meta can open the floodgates without breaking a sweat.

Honest question: are they emulating "classical Twitter" to the extent of going with self-hosted inefficient Rails implementation? Or what is their problem with scaling exactly in 2023 beyond ordering more instances in some AWS gui?
How did [1] write an entire article on this and not reference Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch from 2014? https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Heh I just had a bored few minutes outside with a cigarette, but I didn't find writing that comment interesting enough to want to turn it into a new career :)
While the exact details were not understood, the mechanics were visible and explainable to some extent. The Wright brothers were at least inspired by birds. https://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/In...

We still don't know how cells in C. elegans work together. It's neither visible nor explainable on a satisfying level.
Eating shit and scrolling is enjoyable though, right? It just doesn’t sound as socially acceptable to admit it.
I love hackernews
Why can't we verify, views, likes, downloads in big tech?
How many numbers we see everyday in tech websites/apps are just made up via algoritms and their writers or just lie? No way to verify any number and corporations lie all the time.
I only got into Godot when 4.0 came out, but I’ll try 3.5 and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.
This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned.

You are unable to use this screen if:

- subscription is not paid

- company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract

- company decides to sunset software or a product

- company doesn't exist anymore

- CMS isn't compatible with your device anymore
When your employer and the owner of the intellectual property you are employed to work on decide to move that intellectual property to a different server, you either acquiesce or you look for another job doing something else. You have to ask yourself if it's the hill you're willing to die on, and only a few are privileged enough to choose a life of full-time leisure.
Out of curiosity: What sensitive things does the root account protect on your workstation?

On my desktop (and probably 99% of people's desktops here) getting access to the user account is game over. The password manager? Runs as my user - one ptrace and the key can be extracted. Cookies for all my online services? Sitting right there in the home directory.

The only thing root access would give somebody on my machine is to uninstall some random packages or corrupt my install.

And don't get me wrong, I don't like this situation - I tried running some high-risk programs (browser, Libre Office) under flatpak to achieve at least some separation - but it breaks too many things.
It's paywalled and has no citations...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10130297

https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tc/5555/01/10130297/1N...
That’s interesting. I’m having a hard time turning up the article. Any chance you’ve got at your fingertips?
So was I, the first few times this happened.

My experience is that Amazon customer service did a complete 180 in 2020. Prior to that, every issue was resolved to my satisfaction, and they felt too generous, if anything.

Today, every Amazon rep I speak to isn't even empowered to resolve the most basic issues, and sounds like they hold their employer in complete contempt. Which is to say, they follow the scripts and /try/ to sound friendly, but it's clear they hate their employer, and want to satisfice their KPIs to keep their job, but all else being equal, would prefer for Amazon to die.

This also corresponds to a huge increase in problem rates. Prior to 2020, problems with Amazon were rare. Today, it seems like screwups happen all the time. I don't think they show up on any KPIs, though, as from Amazon's perspective, if a customer service rep e.g. satisficied and pretended to issue a refund without actually issuing one, or a customer gave up on resolving an issue, they have no visibility into the issue.

A basic, obvious issue like a missing package or a return will get handled, but anything more complex is now a black hole.
You can disable "Acceptable ads" in Edge mobile.
The same point expressed beautifully by Jocko Willink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMEQMt6yAw
Previous discussion (as linked to in the article) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726
> Call them "process cyclists" if you want, there is a bimodal distribution for how much people use notes apps, and the people near the high mode are prepared to pay monthly for something good, and tend to be extremely loyal.

Yes, but Evernote does not fit that category, it fits the 'feature' category
True-ish. OTOH, they're also busy "selling" their diplomas as uber-valuable tickets to financial and social success in life - for which their applicants, students, and families thereof should be willing to pay any price, bear any financial burden...
It is interesting which special cases are explicitly noted in the GDPR (credit scoring for instance) and which classes of data are specially protected (political alignment, medical data) - and where the lobbying shines through by omission.
Same haha. This was great to realize what i missed when rolling my own rss.
Tell HN: Books Printed by Amazon
I buy a lot of books from Amazon (EU). Recently, more and more of the books I received were printed by Amazon themselves with the message "Printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfillment" on the last page.

They are of decent quality, though sometimes the cover art might be lower-resolution than that of an equivalent book from a bookshop. I double checked and all of these were sold by Amazon themselves (i.e., not a marketplace seller, where I would suspect a piracy issue). The cover material is always this unpleasant matte rough-feeling paper.

Is there anything nefarious going on here? Does Amazon have permission from the publishers to distribute their books like this? The books that I received were of different publishers (Penguin, Basic Books, among others).
I really enjoyed using Railway so far for my simple use case (a rarely-used PostGIS database) and was amazed by how few credits my usage cost - comfortably keeping me in the free tier.

I'm not mad about having to pay at all. But ... 5$/month for something that used to be cents in credits feels steep.

At that point, for my use case, it probably makes sense to rent a VPS and run the server on there.

I really liked the whole "scale to 0" aspect Railway used to provide.
This took a strange turn. How are your exact words, over several comments "interpreting vastly more extreme and broad version"?

Yes, I tend to remind people to be constructive, "be the change you want to see" and all. You resorting to ad hominem rather than staying on subject is the only emotion here, all the repetition is slightly annoying though, but no more than the buzz of a mosquito at night. Don't take yourself too seriously.

Anything else you need to get off your chest while you're at it?
I used to work as a major European lowcost airline customer rep and handled Eu261 requests. All disrupted flights were being collected to an excel sheet and let me tell ya, the "Settle" or accept claims category lines always seemed arbitrary. Think 60-80% Deny category on each batch of disrupted flights. Made up and simplified example:

Flightnumber123 - Paris to London - cancelled due ATC disruption --> Decline

Flightnumber124 - Paris to Eindhoven - cancelled due ATC disruption --> Settle

The real kicker: if claims came through a lawyer/solicitor we had to escalate to "Senior Agents" due to "procedural differences", as in the company actually had to pay 80% of time which was an open secret in the office. (but with other shady stuff like waiting for customary UK solicitor's 'Last Request' type of emails to eventually accept the valid claims).
macOS, legacy desktop app: You can export each note to a PDF by highlighting them all, print, then save to PDF. The Evernote client will export each one to a PDF in a loop.

I think there are options for adding the note folder to the PDF header too.

This gets you a read only archive that should be readable far into the future without needing a note reading app that understands Evernote’s export XML (just files and PDF).

Apple notes let’s you import Evernote XML too.
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking
I went to an OpenWorm mini-conference of some kind in London a few years back - a couple of days talking about worm locomotion. Knowing nothing about worms or animal locomotion in general, I was a complete layman with an amateur interest in life simulation and understood next to nothing. But it was still fascinating, and was so cool to meet people passionate about this.
Why isn't this just "telinit 1 && telinit 3" and be done with it?
How many people did it kill if you exclude suicides? Jumping in front of a train is a very common way to kill yourself.
When I was 13 I delivered newspapers, two of the people with subscriptions on my route, both >70 (not sure exact age), one asked me to take their bins out to the street once a week, the other wanted company and hoped I'd come in for a drink every time. They both offered to pay, my mum wouldn't let me accept money from them but I was still happy to go inside both of their houses each week to be friendly. I'm pretty sure I'd have said yes to hanging the front page every day for whatever was worth $5 of 2023 money back then a week extra!

Sure, most people wouldn't want that, and most people wouldn't want to spend $2500 getting a newspaper they'd already paying for to be hung on the wall. But that's not the same as "no you couldn't [do that at all]".
Yes, it's absurd. But for most people paying this amount of money to get a single page of a newspaper on their wall for however long the screen and cloud service work is also absurd. Despite looking extremely cool, it's a pretty small group of people this is targeting.
If you issue everyone a refund, you won't be very successful in business. I think a GPT-powered chatbot (not an old-school one) could screen between:

- Genuine issues

- Scammers

Probably more effectively than a minimum-wage apathetic human being.
GDPR require equivalent protections, not to store data in the EU.
I looked at this a few years back. I've always kept some hope that the Kurzwellian eschatology had some validity. You know, first we simulate a C.elegans and once that's done, it's only a matter of scale up before we can simulate a human and then boom singularity sky. And, really, how difficult is it to simulate a silly worm? after all the connectome is there, we know all the neurons and their connections, should be easy.

Well, when I looked at it I was shocked: it doesn't work! sure it could replicate some basic movements but many things that the stupid worm actually does where still a mystery. The docs didn't seem like people were close to figure it out either. And sure enough, a few years later seems like they gave up. And afaik that hyped European brain emulation project also folded in the midst of corruption allegations no less.

I think we don't understand any of this and we seem very far from it too. I think it's back to science fiction novels for a while.
Pretty decent collection of reasonable advices

Especially this: Make sure you aren’t just doing a glorified version of trying to earn good grades.

So many people failed on this, mostly because of parents. Dont put effort just for the sake of grades, they are worthless.

Just small nitpick to #1

Learning just in time =/= learning via practice

Learning just in case, the opposite of JIT makes sense too, but is "unpredictably effective" - the stuff you learned may be needed and put you ahead, but may not.

I'd add something about living your own life (career, relations, hobby) instead of being "locked" by your friends. Dont go to X school just because your friends go there.

Friendships decrease/end too. You may barely see them 5 years later due to... life
Had a very similar experience with creating Instagram account a while back. It's pretty stupid but in the end I think it was for the better.
It is a decent list, but it probably should be qualified that for a good portion of the population, general education is likely not a bad thing. I love that the article emphasizes practical knowledge, but as I am trying to remember my younger years, I think I rarely thought about any of it in those terms.
Can it display arbitrary stuff? Maybe whatever is streaming over the network?
Man you just hit me hard with this... Also add one insanely overbearing mother that expects straight As and a perfect child, on top of some bullying and such... Really leads you to just want to curl up and not take risks anymore. I've just been discovering, through the aid of therapy, just how much my mother has affected my whole life up to this point. I love her and she was doing her best. I really believe she was, based on her mother (oof, even more insane lol). Man has it done a number on me in every way you can imagine.
I only mention this because your piece of essentially having the fear to move any personal projects to portfolio projects is very real with me,as well.

Side-note... How old are you? What frameworks? What personal projects?
I'm 40 and just REALLY beginning this journey into coding and as much as I love it it is also insanely overwhelming because of reasons you started and also my terrible ADHD. So hard to stay focused on learning a piece at a time. My brain wants to open all the links, check out all the courses and YouTube videos... And it becomes too much.
They followed the standard though. They returned 200 for a resource that exists.

Many responses here seem to be based on the misunderstanding that this is about "not following a standard is sometimes okay-ish", when it's actually about the fact that the standard does not rigorously define what a "resource" is and what it means for the resource to "exist", other than a circular definition based on status codes.
The two sequences look very similar, and could be implemented the same way, but the actual implementation could not be more different.

> If that's true, why would it not simply pipeline sete and the following instructions and simply execute (or not execute) sete according to its prediction, and then double check itself and reverse (or apply) the operation if the prediction was wrong?

You cannot just reverse or apply one operation. The way speculation works, when the frontend encounters a conditional jump, the entire architectural state of the current thread is stored, and all future memory writes are held in the store buffer and not written out. Then a long time, potentially dozens of cycles later, after the je is executed in the backend either the old state is restored and the pending writes are discarded, or the saved state is discarded and the pending writes are released.

In contrast, in ALUs, the inputs for instructions are always available before the instructions are scheduled to execute. It would be possible to implement sete like je, but this would imply significant changes to how and where it is executed. ALU ops cannot trigger speculation because there is no machinery for storing state at that part of the pipeline.

And no-one is ever going to implement cmov or sete like a jump, because moving the op from being an ALU op to being one that is speculatively executed in the frontend like jmp would make both positive and negative changes, and that would be a significant pessimization of existing software because for decades cmovs have been used for unpredictable values, where sequencing and waiting for the real value is a better idea than speculating and failing half the time. Using a cmov serializes execution when any following operations use the value, but if you can have independent work after it, you can always successfully execute that. Speculating at an unpredictable CMOV would cause that to be thrown away uselessly half the time.
I'm speaking in terms of no adoption.
A lot of chat bots will email a transcript of the interaction to you.
What exactly does this extension do that regular HTML5 couldn't do?

HTML5 allows service workers for offline abilities.

HTML5 has copy and paste...

If it isn't good enough for Google Docs, then perhaps Google should be making it better for all websites rather than making an extension for just their own site?
Most likely using the WebPageTest tool at https://www.webpagetest.org/
The main point is a lot of kids had single parent moms and were basically unsupervised after school. Having extracurricular’s or sports would hopefully give them more structure and discipline and something productive to do along with building healthy social skills rather than just veg out at home at best or go out in the streets at worst.
Ye. The title makes no sense.
The parenting factor is actually quite interesting because while I think most of us would agree that parents look older faster, the overall trend is that they make up for it by living longer than their non-parent peers.

It's not a huge difference: 2 additional years in men, 1.5 in women; but it's significant enough[1].

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[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28292784/
This one is not very big but is only $200 something:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804712947613.html
I feel like this almost falls under dont ask to ask https://dontasktoask.com/ which is a clearer ask.
Threads is a repurposing of Instagram's backends / APIs. Instagram has been based on Python from the start. Therefore Threads happens to use Python. It doesn't mean that Python is the language that one should pick when building this sort of app given alternatives that don't require an in-house fork. The full post makes this reasonably easy to grok but I'm sure the hacker news "title-only" UI is misrepresenting.
Note that your code computes the number of nonempty strings.
Would be interesting to me to have something like this, but in landscape mode, and with slowly changing blueprints of aircraft, rockets, ships, cars...

Example: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Portals/14/EasyGalleryImage...