skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satoshi Nakamoto is a man who thought that he could upend the entire structure of human governance and economics with his One Neat Trick. Reality is sure to disappoint him and his followers dearly with time.

>What evidence is there for the physical existence of Jesus?

Limited, to the extent that physical evidence for the existence of anyone from that time period is limited. I think it's fairly likely there was a a person named Jesus who lived with the apostles.

>"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was initially published anonymously.

The publishing of Common Sense was far less impactful on the revolution than the meetings held by members of the future Continental Congress. Common Sense was the justification given by those elites for what they were going to do.

>This place, here, where you and I are conversing… I don't know who you are, and yet for most of the world, this place is a metaphorical "smokey backroom".

No important decisions happen because of discussions here and you are deluding yourself if you think otherwise.

Phishing campaigns can be effective at siphoning limited amounts of money and embarrassing personal details from people's email accounts. If you suggested that someone could take over the world just via phishing, you'd be rightfully laughed out of the room.
There really is no quick/easy technological solution at this point. At this point, except for the ultra rich, living standards will fall quite a bit for developed countries.

I think the largest fear is mass migration and war breaking out in areas below about 40 degrees latitude. This will spread north as southern regions start to get too hot for people to live.

And it is all because in the 1970s, developed nations did not want to listen to scientists and take bribes from the Oil Industry. Back then plenty could have been started, especially with the oil embargoes occurring back then.
Do you mean that WSJ is lying about the statistics of people quitting less?
I actually find my favourite podcasts are the ones that take the fact I’m not retaining 100% of the content into account!

Adam Regusea’s podcast [0] I think is a great example. He’ll leave pauses in and (because of the listener-questions format) will reiterate context pretty often. (“So, [name], you asked if it’s good to [verb]… while when I [verb]…”)

[0] https://feeds.megaphone.fm/adamraguseapodcast (RSS podcast feed, not HTML)
That is just met with outsourcing and offshoring.
I understand the present concerns, and I try to do my part, but I’m pretty sure the hottest day on earth was a very, very long time ago. ;)

Hopefully, we will get through this one way or another.
This is well written. It reminds me of a 10+ years old article on ploum.net, only in French but here's a translation: https://ploum-net.translate.goog/ploum-en-j2ee/?_x_tr_sl=fr&...
Don't know about ME, but I have many native apps on my Mac, and it's jarring when switching to any electron app. It's always janky.
There may not be an outright conspiracy, but I will not be surprised if OEMs are discouraged from (re)introducing physical switches on popular and mass market devices.
As usual, reference to Oberon OS, where Sam gets its influence of how the UI and mouse gestures work.
The targets of the injunction are the following agencies. The wording makes clear that all members of said agencies are in scope of the injunction:

HHS: 80,000

NIAID: 18,000

CDC: 11,000

Census Bureau: 5,000

FBI: 40,000 (double counted under DOJ)

DOJ: 115,000

CISA: 3000

DHS: 260,000

State Department: 14,000

Among the actions prohibited are communicating with "social media companies", defined in the injunction as including:

"Facebook/Meta, Twitter, YouTube/Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat,TikTok, Sina Weibo, QQ, Telegram, Snapchat, Kuaishou, Qzone, Pinterest, Reddit, LinkedIn, Quora, Discord, Twitch, Tumblr, Mastodon, and like companies."

That list, especially given the "like companies" part, includes easily several million people.

Also "Election Integrity Partnership, the Virality Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, or any like project or group".

What makes a group "like" those orgs?

The prohibited topics and purposes of communication are incredibly vague, basically anything contrary to "protected free speech", which has no definition in the injunction and is famously tricky to define in US law.

This amounts to a blanket ban from where I'm sitting.

If I were a low level staffer at DHS this would arguably prohibit me from expressing opinions on this matter to a friend or spouse working at a social media company, for fear of, for example, "encouraging reduction of content posted with social-media companies containing protected free speech". The fact that that example is silly is precisely my point. Injunctions must be narrowly tailored to address the specific conduct at issue. This is so broad as to make a joke of the process and in doing so harms the free speech and rule of law that are at issue in this case.
Pronouns settings path and scope change in Microsoft Graph
That hasn't been the case for any of the Nexus or Pixel devices I bought straight from Google.
I use T-Mobile and I bought my Pixel 5a directly through Google at an official in-person Google store. Does my phone have this Verizon bloatware? What apps should I be looking for?

I googled it and I'm only seeing people complain about this Verizon bloatware from people who bought it through Verizon.
It's been fixed. Send Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml and it will be parsed as an empty tag. But nobody brothers to turn that on. Without an opt-in it's unfixable due to backward compatibility.
I use notebooks and nested notebooks heavily. I've found that a directory-style structure works well for me, especially because the integrated search is also good if I forget where I put something. I have never personally had success with tagging for organization, but maybe that's just me.

In no particular order, I recommend:

* WebDAV to sync your files, I just use some of my fastmail storage and draft off the $5 a month I already pay them

* Pasting screenshots from your clipboard into your markdown works automagically on desktop, drops the file with a generated name into the Joplin file structure. It elevates the tool quite a bit imo

* It is worth getting comfortable with some of the basic markdown annotations. Just knowing to use asterisks and underscores and whatever speeds you up a lot from having to go click the "bold" button or whatever.

* I really like editing with the preview pane open. It closes the loop for me, and is the best of both worlds where I get to just type the annotations at my normal typing speed, but also see the formatted output so I can make changes as I go.
> freezing all the states of page A

If page A requires running substantial javascript components, freezing the state could be pretty hard. What if going back to the page entails restarting the execution of some javascript to render page elements?

Don't dismiss potential security risks as "trivial" either. Maybe it's not a big deal to the person visiting the site, but it could expose the sites to costly hacks.
Yep, that would be a solution for any project which has a build pipeline (anyway).

For the better or the worse, when I deal with HTML directly, I usually just copy the HTML pages as they are on the server and have no mandatory Javascript, if at all. It's easier, and it's also "free backup on production".
You're not being naive. It happened in a flash, without a referendum, and nobody asked for it. It's not that we accepted it; it's that there's nothing we can do about it.
> ...half the value of buying a kit these days is that you aren’t spending hours finding needles in a 300lb haystack.

My guess is that is why techies keep inventing their own Lego sorting machines
There’s also an app with all of the instructions if that’s more convenient
i like my 2.8% mortgage in a high inflation environment.
Its absolutely this and I am shocked at the amount of people coming to the defense of Meta here, like, its not users' jobs to figure that a new app is actually the old app but in a different skin, and merely saying "an Instagram app" wasn't clear enough in obviating it was the same social media account. That's on Meta, not on users.
> Currently, it uses a DB

Nice little program. This is the reason I had skipped it after testing since I wanted it to use it on multiple platforms with syncing handled by me.

Btw, you're adding Kanban support?
...alll the while personal mobile devices get more and more mandated by all the tech BS. Try to perform basic tasks like doing a wire transfer / SEPA transaction without in ~5 years.
"Software quality" is such ambigously defined term that all of these can simultaneously be true (for different products):

* software quality is (more) important

* software quality is not (very) important

* bugs are not important (aka "i don't test, but when I do, it's in production")

* the less bugs you have the better, but they're not gonna kill you

* bugs are safety-critical

* slow delivery is fine

* slow delivery is not fine

In the last 20 or so years working as software developer professionaly, in various teams and quite different projects, I've noticed that:

* people (decision makers, software buyers/clients) always say they want higher quality

* same people very rarely want to back that up with their budget

* people almost always prefer more features to more quality (even when explicitly told that more feature is not a good thing for eg. MVP stage of a startup)

* most people except dedicated QA engineers can only think of a happy path (if everything works the ideal way); this includes not only other engineers (who try to think up failure scenarios but often miss important ones), but also designers (when have you ever seen a design mockup for "DNS lookup failure connecting to the server" case?), and definitely product owners or clients (in context of a dev agency)

* I have never worked on a nontrivial software project that didn't change requirements/scope

Myself, as with many other software developers who chose this field out of passion and not stratospheric wages, was for a long time appalled by this apparent lax approach to quality? Don't you want to have the best possible product?

But working with a lot of diverse clients while doing dev agency work, and running several startups myself, has taught me that software quality is not, and (it pains me to write this) should not be, the top priority. Product-market fit, treating your customers well, having a sustainable monetization strategy, marketing and sales ... if you don't execute well on those, nobody will notice the (lack of) quality[0].

In most organizations (except the ones that are swimming in cash) it's a tough act to balance all of the above. While I wish for all the projects I work on to be the best they can be, a programming work of art if you will, I can certainly empathize for people who must prioritize otherwise.

[0] unless the quality is safety critical, in case I need to point this out explicitly.
Firmware and stuff even lower level still is unchanged right?
DeMorgan's law says there's no difference between AND-life and OR-life if you throw in some negations
>"[Though] there is no legal requirement for the statement to be true [...]"

This is a major flaw in Western democracies. A person acting for the government, making a statement that the public would see as official, should be bound by law to tell the truth; or at least not lie nor commit deception.

People like UK ex-PM Johnson are effectively committing treasonous fraud, by lying to the public, and getting off scot-free.
I think it’s kind of in poor taste to jump to a nazi comparison here so quickly.
Could you reflash it without access to the device?
> Then interfaces like io.Reader and io.Writer mean you can pretty much use anything to read requests and write responses.

Yeah, that’s not the hard part at all. What about routing, converting from/to json/params/cookies safely, sessions, authz/n..
https://giuliomagnifico.blog
What if the phone records audio and then uploads it when you remove it from the bag?
Gizmodo’s Io9 Published AI-Generated Star Wars Article Filled with Errors
way to prove his point my dude
The Saturn hardware was a mess because of last-minute additions welded on in response to their “Oh Crap!” moment of seeing what the PS1 could do.

The Saturn was made to be the ultimate 2D games machine. It had incredibly powerful 2D sprite hardware. But, then the PS1 announced it was all about 3D! Suddenly the hardware engineers were ordered to retrofit 3D into their 2D beast. So, they tacked on a second CPU and some other chips as fast as they could. If you open one up, you’ll see wires haphazardly stretched across the boards connecting the extra hardware to the original design.

The Saturn’s “3D rendering” was a clever desperation move. Turns out, with powerful enough 2D sprite rendering hardware, you can scale, rotate and shear a square 2D sprite into the distorted configuration that is equivalent to an 3D transformed rectangle viewed in perspective…. So, just tell the game developers to build their 3D scenes out of sprites instead of triangles!
I love HN legal threads because engineers have great (logical) legal analysis, but with a terrible (practical) understanding of the law. And every so often a someone with legal training chimes in like "wtf guys"

It's like watching a good software engineer try to build a circuit board without google: I see how you got there, but damn, that's... not gonna work great.

Idk the law either, though, so I can't judge
This unofficial number comes from a climate model published by the University of Maine as opposed to one created by a government agency or the WMO. Several agencies have their own climate models so “official” is very vague.

Generally in the US “official” numbers would come from the NOAA and the NCEI would be the one publishing them.
> Y Combinator is an American company and the website is hosted in the US.

What else would this imply?
We are (most) probably not in a computer simulation
You. I like you. Follows my own thought process. Few people would jump immediately to the axiomatic foundations of set theory.
Now if someone would just make an app that can figure out which set my bricks belong to. I have at least two sets that I can't find the instructions for, because I have no idea what they're called or which number they have. The bricks are fairly unique, they can't be in more than 10 sets.
I've quoted you several times asking for clarification, in almost every reply, but I'll bite because I appreciate the more constructive turn this is taking.

> Avoid individuals entirely, and focus on institutions who are meaningfully harmed by their inaccuracy if discovered.[1]

> "This is from an anonymous source who has no incentive to be accurate, so it is of unknown quality." is my "gripe". It's the gripe you replied to originally, so stop gaslighting.[2]

The incentive in this case being monetary (even though OP sells the book to those who are willing to pay, as I understand you he has no incentive to be as correct as possible). And because I either know nothing, or everything about a subject it's either completely useless to me because I already know it all, or dangerous because I won't spot mistakes.

> Either you are an expert on the topic of systems engineering and can assess the quality of this submission but don’t need it as you have better sources, or you are not an expert and can therefore not assess its quality (it comes from a random person on the Internet, after all) and therefore can’t safely use it.[3]

I don't agree it's that simple, knowledge is a spectrum and I will never be done learning. I'm also confident in my ability to sift through bullshit and don't need to be spoonfed from an institution with a stamp of approval to find value.

Based on that I'm not even extrapolating, I'm reading you literally that content should be avoided purely based on the messenger and not the content itself.

And to avoid getting misunderstood, I understand bias is a thing but it goes both ways. I'm not trying to argue individuals are better than corporations or institutions. Good content exists from all sources. I enjoy reading post-mortems from FAANG, but take them with a grain of salt. And I also have some repos starred containing similar content I'd like to dig deeper into at some point.

Some of the best content I've read are from passionate individuals who like to poke around the edges, they are the innovators as I see it. But I'm bullish on open-source and free software, so there's my bias. Universities are often outdated, Institutions (for example the FSF) have their agenda and corporations push their stack. I still read them all, but with a conscious mind.

To summarize: I'm arguing your claim that individuals can't be trusted and should (always) be dismissed based on WHO they are, and not WHAT they write. You're of course free to have that view, and I get the gist of what you're trying to say, but to dismiss that content completely is extreme. If you would've just said "not for me" and moved on, or a comment on some of the content in OP I would have no opinion what so ever. But you're claiming it should have no value, for anyone, ever. That's what I'm questioning.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602841

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609072

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36606230
You can make some good guesses about levels of unpredictability based on previous experience though.

For example:

If the job involves dealing with anyone from Samsung or LG, it will take 2-3 times as long as you think.

If the job involves adding in a commercial third-party component which has a website about it, and that website doesn't clearly explain what the benefit of the thing actually is, the job will take 10-20 times as long as it should.

If the job involves a new feature Amazon or Google have just launched on one of their devices, and you are being CC'd on email chains involving representatives of Amazon or Google who are claiming implementation is very easy, the job will take a minimum of 6 months and may never be completed because the feature will be dropped or replaced with V2 before V1 ever actually works.
That should concern you even more.
Probably an age thing, but I’ve never understood the point of Lego instructions. Or the sets.

The whole point of Lego was creative free form building. Remove that & it’s dull as hell. It just becomes model building with poor quality models as the result.

I’m happy other people find it fun, but to me it misses the entire point in favor of weak licensed “kits”.
Does reliable detection matter?

I think platform holders saying "AI content is unwelcome here", and loudly kicking off violators is more than enough to send the required signal.

The goal is not to have 0% generated content, it's to brand yourself as _the_ source for thoughtful, human writing. Having an occasional article slip under the radar is fine.
GPT uses BPE wit 50k or 100k token vocabulary from what I understand.
Given that a lot of space is taken by words and subwords this is not nearly enough for the CJK alphabet.
Because it’s the citizens who can put pressure on the politicians.
I get a kick out of them needing that to dictate how they choose to collaborate with other beings

When the rest of us didn’t need that
I’m definitely living a for loop and package.json life.
> but it does have a native client.

Its an electron app.
No. They can locate anyone's phone on demand. The services that do this can generate a likely street address from GPS or tower triangulated location.

This is how many criminals now get caught while on the run. It isn't magic police work but rather the personal tracking device everyone carries. Likewise some spree killers have been tracked down by geofencing phones known to be around all crime scenes and zeroing in on the one that shows up at all/most of them.
exactly, when we finally make that black hole we get to go right back to absolute zero
Upvoted because this is on-topic, interesting and in no way negates the headline (which is disturbing if true).
Given it happened well within recorded history I was excited to see if there were any contemporary accounts of the event, but disappointingly the article doesn't cite any, nor does it indicate whether there has been research on that facet. However remote in the Himalayas it may have been, surely such a cataclysmic landslide must have been felt and heard a significant distance away.
That was what killed it for me. After they rewrote in Electron, using the app always felt sluggish, and despite the fact that it didn't actually interfere with any of my uses of it, I went from really liking their service to tolerating it as the lesser of several evils.
And also the storyline, where big corps destroy the planet for profit.
Never heard of Hot or Not? This has to go to the Dutch voters of the early 2000s.
This piece reads like an elaborate retelling of the Tower of Babel
If we're assuming a well-funded and motivated attacker, surely any device is fair game for being modified to record you even when it's apparently off?

Of course this applies whether it appears to have a removable "battery" or not.
Climate change denier! /s
Grey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasites
There's a plugin for that (trademark icon) https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Audio+recorder
This is a great reminder for parents of lego-addicted kids to get their into STEM by entering in FRC. It starts early, with legos!

https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll
I have some family who are dispatchers (not in the US), and they have the ability to immediately get location data directly from providers if they think somebody is in imminent danger. They can’t do it to track a suspect (not without a warrant), but they would regularly do it for suspected suicides, or when a caller communicated they were in danger but failed to give their location for what ever reason.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many jurisdictions around the world had similar systems.
Average can be such a misleading statistic. There are people who will see 17°C and all they say it's a pretty reasonable temperature.

"An average person in a heterosexual couple has one boob and one ball."
How to use sentence-transformers to generate text embeddings locally
Several? There’s Judaism and Christianity. There’s also Islam which came later, whose scriptures contradict with canonical Christian texts. Islam also exhibits religious deviation from ethnic bias.

Other so-called Abrahamic religions are beliefs tossed in a blender with some of this and some of that, sometimes ethic emphasis, sometimes syncretism. But no serious reader should consider them “Abrahamic.”
> I was under the impression that most of the funds in field like ML come from fees from undergrads and donations by alumnus, or by private companies.

In the United States, tuition makes up less than 35% of most universities' revenue.[0] Donations are significant, but if we were to just look at research funding, it would mostly be government grants.

"The federal government is by far the largest funder of academic R&D..." [1]

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cud
[1] https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20202/academic-r-d-in-the-unit...
I don’t know where to store all my tons of scanned paper documents to be automatically OCRed, searchable, and accessible on all devices :( Do you know any other solutions?
Nothing that players own is being taken away:

> "...removes over 180 cars and motorcycles from in-game stores."

> "...making them nearly impossible to purchase and use if you don’t already happen to have them unlocked."

> "Yes, if you own one of these cars you can still drive it around and enjoy it."

> "...these vehicles will “occasionally be made available in other ways” citing the prize wheel..."

Is this really newsworthy? The options available for purchase have changed. I can see that might be mildly annoying, but it doesn't really seem like an HN topic.
I remember feeling utterly lost when my browser barfed because I typed

<script src=“…”>

without a closing

</script>

like I would for an <img> tag.