skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly I enjoy figuring out how things work. I have a friend with declining health who has been repairing things since his youth in the 1950s. He always wanted an atomic clock, we ended up fixing several. There can be quite a bit of improvisation and hacking in the repair process.
I don't think it has anything to do with the market size, which after the Brexit fiasco and the pandemic has shrunk considerably, but it has the most to do with the UK labelling itself as a democracy while behaving like a dictatorship when it comes to surveillance and other "think of the children" laws.

I would say Apple is pointing out the hypocrisy.
> Why not?

Because then it loses value.

Think of it as if a publicly traded company just issued bajillions of shares onto the market. This is what dilution is, and the price of each individual share plummets, thus screwing over all existing shareholders. Normally, dilution is limited, but with this, i would be like issuing many times more shares than already exist on the market.
Ask HN: What's the most interesting text-based AI tool you ran into recently?
This isn't Reddit, please make higher quality comments.

I think the GP is likely aligned with you anyways.
If they can’t or won’t forgive you: Try not to make the same mistake twice.

You can’t control what other people do, only how you react to it.
No, why? The point was EEs and MEs, or rather traditional engineering heavy culture produces bad software (never mind the first software devs tended to be EEs), so Juicero is good example of a software-leaning culture producing shitty hardware products.
Opposite, actually. They said they're making Messenger and Instagram Direct e2ee.
As someone who isn't in academia, I've heard of this being a problem before, but in the context of research related to computer science, it seems like private research at companies like Microsoft might be better for such research. A lot of interesting research comes from Microsoft, and I don't think they have a problem of over-incentivizing the speed of research publication.
That said, I'm not in academia (and have never done research) nor employed by Microsoft; I'm an undergraduate in computer science. Just speculating. Do you think this could be plausible, or is it way off?
They're already doing this. That's why Chatgpt is so successful. They sanded off the offensive edges by showing some Nigerians CSAM.
I don't think the OP lives in the UK :)
> I dont think hold em is equivalent to gambling

Hold’em (assuming the bets are money, obviously friendly games are possible) is 100% gambling.

> It is definitely a skill/game.

While some regulatory regimes either treat gambling different or not-gambling where a particular criterion for skill involvement is met, that’s not really material outside of consideration of the application of those regulatory regimes.

> It has an element of randomness just like most board games for example, but it's not gambling

Betting money on board games (whether or not you are also playing and betting on yourself), even those with no random element in the game itself (or nothing beyond side/turn-order selection), is gambling, too.

Where there is randomness, even if the game is largely skill-based on its face, playing for real stakes and the selection process it creates will result in games tending to be more dominated by chance than the game structure itself would suggest unless participation is mandatory and matching is random. (Even when there is not randomness in the game on ita face, as random and out-of-game events that effect player performance can’t be eliminated.)
Can you please not post in the flamewar style? We're trying for something else here, and you can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kevin Beaumont: “Random bit of Microsoft telemetry dropped in this ”
Didn’t call it enabling, more of a retroactive salve. Responded to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802843
AutoEasy: New AI Car Buying Startup
Then Pfizer had a tornado destroy a building and 50,000 pallets of medications: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...

It's going to get worse.
Prusa stripped all the open source logos from their latest board
Didn't Facebook (now Meta) buy WhatsApp, and it was originally its own thing? I guess you can say Meta kept WhatsApp operational, but I don't necessarily consider it a privacy win for Meta to just buy up some privacy-centric technologies with their billions.
Going to check it later but I hope this means that now you can stop all the “I am from 2021” messages.

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EDIT:

Well... Looks like I won't be trying it,

This feature is not yet available in the UK and EU.

This means they know that this can be abused to get ChatGPT to say stuff that would otherwise be strictly blocked by the system prompt.
I hate air travel. It's gotten considerably worse and more expensive over just the last 10 years. I wish there were real alternatives available; I would honestly pay the same as a flight ticket for a ship to cross the Atlantic if it took less than 2 days and it meant I get to stretch my legs a little.

Same for taking a train. Recently searched for Seattle to LA, it takes 30h on Amtrak compared to a 2h30m flight and it costs twice as much (I'm sure if I wanted to book the flight in advance it would've been even cheaper to fly).
And did you Google yourself on a clean computer?
Hate crimes are actually not really based on intent. They are based on motivation.

You commit a crime because of a protected characteristic if you act “wholly or partially” because of that characteristic. This may be demonstrated by showing that you were biased against the victim.

Think of it this way: 1) what did you do 2) what were you trying to do 3) why did you want to do that 4) what led you to want that.

Bias plays into the last two while intent is more about the second.

There are some overlaps, but I would consider what intent to be different.
Intent is what outcome you are trying to achieve. Motivation is Why you want to achieve that outcome.
If you are interested in images' role in public perception of events--particularly suffering and tragedy--you might look to read Susan Sontag's essay collection "Regarding the Pain of Others," published in 2003:

> To the militant, identity is everything. And all photographs wait to be explained or falsified by their captions. During the fighting between Serbs and Croats at the beginning of the recent Balkan wars, the same photographs of children killed in the shelling of a village were passed around at both Serb and Croat propaganda briefings. Alter the caption, and the children’s deaths could be used and reused.

> a single photograph or filmstrip claims to represent exactly what was before the camera’s lens. A photograph is supposed not to evoke but to show. That is why photographs, unlike handmade images, can count as evidence. But evidence of what?

> Indeed, the very notion of atrocity, of war crime, is associated with the expectation of photographic evidence. Such evidence is, usually, of something posthumous.

> And, of course, atrocities that are not secured in our minds by well-known photographic images, or of which we simply have had very few images—the total extermination of the Herero people in Namibia decreed by the German colonial administration in 1904; the Japanese onslaught in China, notably the massacre of nearly four hundred thousand, and the rape of eighty thousand, Chinese in December 1937, the so-called Rape of Nanking; the rape of some one hundred and thirty thousand women and girls (ten thousand of whom committed suicide) by victorious Soviet soldiers unleashed by their commanding officers in Berlin in 1945—seem more remote. These are memories that few have cared to claim.

> Shock can become familiar. Shock can wear off. Even if it doesn’t, one can not look. People have means to defend themselves against what is upsetting—in this instance, unpleasant information for those wishing to continue to smoke. This seems normal, that is, adaptive. As one can become habituated to horror in real life, one can become habituated to the horror of certain images.
This gives me a ping of nostalgia from back in the day with JPEG was new and you had to have an external application to see jpg files until the browsers started adopting the standard. Then you had to decide if there were enough jpg images on the sites you liked to warrant changing browsers!
> Of course there's nothing standardised, and nothing interoperable.

This is so very much not true. On what basis do you even claim this?

Web components are JavaScript objects that extend from HTMLElement. They all share a common interface of attributes, children, events and properties.

You can get a reference to any web components any set a property on it:

document.querySelector('my-element').someProp = {};

This works on all web components. It's interoperable because there's no special React, or Angular, or Vue version of an API to set properties.

> There's literally no way to pass objects as attributes to web components

How do you even get a reference to an object in HTML to pass as an attribute, if you could?

And who cares? You can pass objects as properties to web components. Attributes are string-valued, why would you want to pass an object to them?
I'm not really sure what gate is being kept here.

The reviewers know what they like. If you like that thing too, you go get that. If you don't like that thing, you don't have to purchase it. Their tastes are just as superficial as fans of a sports team or movie franchise.

I absolve you of the need to like the things that rich people like, if that helps. There's nothing there to be kept out of. There are plenty of foods to like in the world, and if the sneering of fancy restaurant critics bothers you, you have my permission to flip them the bird. Preferably a free-range heritage breed bird.
Once you get over the novelty it gets pretty annoying.
Show HN: PDF to Form Converter
Hi HN,

A friend and I hacked this together to turn PDFs, docs and raw text into an easy-to-fill online form.

The hardest part was getting the prompts to work reliably. We're using PDF.js to parse the document, asking OpenAI to extract the questions and calling the Fillout API to create the form.

Let me know what you think: https://fillout.com/ai-form-builder (free to use + no sign up needed)
A friend with an existing successful "lifestyle" web business asked me for advice on potential web3 avenues for his company. We talked about it, mostly focused on the aspects you mention here. For us, that's what web3 meant, that and effectively letting the users be in control of as much as possible, enabled by blockchain tech.

We had a number of discussions about it, and found a potential route forward, but it was a very different business model from how he is making money now. In the end, he decided he didn't want to risk the money he's making now for a more uncertain path.

It was an extremely useful exercise, though, and a good way to understand what's out there and how it can be used. I think the version of web3 you mention is possible, but it's so different from how businesses operate now that it will take a very successful high profile company built from the ground up around web3 for the ideas to go anywhere. The risk just feels too high for existing companies, and even most new startups. You're turning over a lot of control and trying to succeed anyway.
The best service the Fed could supply for the average American citizen is a federal checking account paying interest at the listed Fed rate.
>because it's not "information for all" anymore.

Anyone who has thought google was doing anything good after they bought doubleclick is living in fantasy land. They pretty much immediately started playing advertising extortion games and they optimize for more viewed google ads with things like AMP and making ads harder to notice. Google stopped caring about "information for all" the second after they made their original research paper and realized they had a significant competitive advantage to make some money with.
Embedded projects can be more complicated to build than the Linux kernel in two respects: Embedded projects are usually cross-compiled; whereas, one is ordinarily building the Linux kernel for that machine or one like it. And, hardware vendor code is usually bad.

I had one embedded project that I handrolled the makefile for, and it was all in pure C, no OS. That was fine, but ensuring that the versions of the hardware abstraction layer, and other drivers I wanted to use from the same vendor was a source of annoyance. Keeping track of which source files were to be enabled and disabled in the makefile was also annoying.

Another project I am working on uses platformio on an RTOS (and a much bigger micro). Platformio is written in Python to handle all of that 'seamlessly' and it does work pretty well from my perspective. And I don't have to manually install separate toolchains to /opt (or wherever) and keep track of them; it 'just works.'

I like the makefile approach. With only a little work, it's possible to make clean build directories without .o files littered around like mouse droppings. I know exactly what code is being built, and, because I usually have to write the linker script, where it is being put. But once it gets more complicated with different toolchains and compatibility problems (and it usually does if you have an RTOS), it sure is nice to have something like Platformio.
How does apple work in russia then?
Absolutely good point. I'm sure it was the pastry version they were using.

The incredible thing to me is that if I heard hiryuuzu, I would never have assumed it came from either of these Portuguese words. But, if I say it a few times, it does fit the Japanese tongue and how they would repeat it back if they heard a Portuguese speaker. Japanese does not really have a pure F or a pure H sound, it is in between, and of course, the Portuguese lh is like nothing in Japanese, but fits ryuu. Which is great, being in between L and R. I just love how these off kilter sounds resolve to that romaji.

I love even more how the Kanji pronunciation fits and then the Kanji they chose to use for those sounds. It is really fun when a foreign word suddenly gets Japanese characters and there is no historical reason for that. The word just sprang into existence without a backstory at that second.
> At least for you it's easy, because all google apps exist for iOS, but switching away from iOS is absolutely impossible as there is no iCloud

1. Download Google Drive for iOS

2. Go to the Files App

3. Select all in your iCloud Drive

4. Copy

5. Go to your Google Drive in the Files app

6. Paste

Just like you would copy files from one drive to another.
Seems like a system prompt for the UI version. Welcome addition!
This (and learning stdlib better) is precisely why on a Python project of mine, the only external dependency is a C shared library to run some parts faster than Python can (making giant arrays of ints and shuffling them). I bundle precompiled libraries for the architectures I have available, so you don’t have to make if you don’t want to.
Powell seriously discussed CBDC in his recent testimony to congress. He mentioned it was far off.
How feasible is it to throw a water rich asteroid towards Mars?
How can a consumer actually try this to send money? This says Wells Fargo is live now but after logging into Wells Fargo I don't see any obvious new feature.
We Will Never Run Out of Resources
As if to prove your point, those video lectures are from 1986.

I took the course in 1999.

And yes the material is just as relevant today.
What, Apple Pay/$GooglePayThing wasn't good enough? What problem does this solve other $PROBLEM that Amazon is having? Because I'm trying to picture myself as someone that would use this. I guess I'd have to be tap-to-pay-phobic (or incapable), and leave my wallet at home (because there's no chance of being pulled over for a traffic infraction).

I guess I would have to be capable of simultaneously saying, "cool!" without also saying, "OMG, what a privacy nightmare!" Seems kinda like a small market, but I'll bet money I'm quite wrong or Amazon wouldn't be doing it.
Arizona has a law, aptly titled "stupid motorist law" or "idiot's law", which specifically addresses this.

Yet people still drive into flooded roads and get swept downstream on a regular basis because "it's just a couple inches of water".
https://archive.ph/6PLpY
> It would open up the possibility of real-person communities with fewer bots and trolls.

I would be 100% unwilling to engage with public online communities if I had to reveal my real-world identity to do so.
Well people pay for features in cars which they don't want and it is making the car as a whole more expensive. More features in the internet does not raise my internet fee.
This is why comments in the code aren't that useful, and why commit messages are essential.
I think you're wrong about historiography (and your highschool history teacher too).

"History" is accounts (stories) about the past.

"Historiography" isn't about the past; it's an account of how historians "do" history. I mean, historiography would include accounts of how past historians used to do history.
Officially, sure, but you shouldn't pretend that Google's funding isn't the main survival line for Mozilla as an entity, and that there isn't pressure there.
>A self-hosted digital signature system isn't worth anything in court; the other parties will simply reject the authenticity of any data held within it and the amount you'd have to spend to get that data into evidence would probably pay for several centuries of DocuSign's enterprise edition.

When self-hosting it - you can integrate it with AWS s3 Azure or Google Cloud files storage - those are the trustworthy third parties that provide the entire history of logs to ensure that the documents were not altered and signed at specific date/time with the specific content.

So bringing cloud storage providers as a thirdparty when self-hosting will bring enough evidences to the court to defend the signed documents.
The same thing happens when a town decides to string fiber on their utility poles and sell transit. All sorts of reasons why that's a terrible thing. Same for importing drugs from other countries. And on and on.
For richer, for poorer*

* but not less than $200k, this is a marriage not a charity.
> "backdooring the model"

> mouse arrow pointing towards a butthole
Oh no, how the OEM manufactures are going to serve you ads, when your car won't have internet connection, obviously paid by you?
Human psychology is not a world view. This is not a matter if opinion. You are just stuck on an extremist view where sex is cool in a ll context when it isn't.
It's probably the end for our image of a dominant purely biological humanity. This isn't so bad or unexpected though. We are just the latest step in the universe's growing comprehension of itself.

At one point the self-replicating molecule was the most advanced cognition available in our little corner of reality, then at various times we had single celled organisms, colonial organisms, etc etc until eventually we got humans. There have been phase changes in the nature of cognition many times, this will just be the latest.

What comes next is just the latest link in a chain of continuous increasing complexity of life stretching back to the first time a couple of organic molecules reacted. It's exciting to be alive in a time when we get to see one of these phase changes. It's like being alive at the dawn of civilization or when the first fish crawled out onto land.
"I'm for the jobs this comet will create."
Please make your substantive points without snark. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> But I think it's sometimes necessary in order to get people to take these events seriously, since they can negatively affect so many people.

Overreacting can have equally bad outcomes, I think. Social isolation sanctioned by pandemic era school lockdowns left me with depression, social anxiety and suicidal ideations - none of which I have managed to fix so far. And I know I'm not alone with this in my age group (in high-school at the start of the pandemic).

Now, I think the resulting number of suicides does not reach the amount of people saved by the countermeasures in total, but it's nevertheless something to consider. (Well, but it's much harder to find a direct correlation in the first place, so really who knows.)

(Re-reading your comment, I now realize that maybe I was completely missing your point, in which case I'm sorry.)
FYI, this depends on where you live. In some states a threat of violence can count as assault while in others that’s not true. Some states don’t even have a battery charge, they only have assault.
"May have" because OP's HN name is "tempaccount3333", and I did ask them to email me once before, but I don't see anything—so I need them to reach out so I can identify their account and see what's going on.

There's no identifying info here (name or business) and we don't see any emails referencing this thread.
+ student loan repayments returning, which i expect to lower consumer spending elsewhere in the economy.
no just a qualifier on personal experience eating around japan. there are almost no michelin starred tempura restaurants in north america, like 2 total in the US. the tempura places in toronto are all bad so i stopped going.
This isn't true - I've been hiring programmers for many years and Meta/FB are definitely on my blacklist. I consider the damage they've already done far worse than Enron and they're not finished yet.
I sure wonder how anyone interacted with friends and family before discord eh?
That comparison is why this is a bad analogy.
Please make your substantive points without calling names. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>"Ten euro airline tickets are only possible because others, like workers and taxpayers, pay the true cost."

Well this would then be one of the subsidies that actually works well and is value for people in Europe.

In Switzerland the drop in quality of the railway system has been eminently observable over the last 5-10 years, the railway company has basically 0 accountability in terms of delays and botched repair/expansion and unlike airway the quality drop after Covid has not recovered. And that is for what I would consider a Top 3 railway system in Europe, the rest are mostly worse.

Also, 29% increase over a decade in greenhouse emissions is 2.5% a year, I'll take that any day of the week given that air travel has gotten better over the last 10 years. If somebody is going to be emitting CO2 it should be the most efficient industries.
Because there are many Americans who are small gov and against excessive taxation. A CBDC is "too far" for a lot of people who believe that.
Transforming Kubernetes Developer Environments: Shift to Request-Level Isolation
Supposedly, it's because of more centralized surveillance and control.

https://medium.com/beyondmoney/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-cbdc...

https://medium.com/illumination/how-the-central-banks-digita...
There are several businesses that claim to help with this process, including providing convenient links to those removal processes for many big entities. I cannot advise whether they are grabbing all your info too.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042915/why-f...

China never asked them to compromise. They were banned in 2009.
Prism also involved an NSA program that was done without the knowledge of the tech companies. They inserted a splitter on the fiber lines leaving data centers to copy all the traffic.
The article didn’t really explain the significance of this discovery. Wikipedia has a decent article on “Single Layer Materials” [1], quoting,
“The major expectation held amongst researchers is that given their exceptional properties, 2D materials will replace conventional semiconductors to deliver a new generation of electronics.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-layer_materials