skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI is investigating him but no federal charges have ever been filed. The state situation is also a bit more complicated than the grandparent suggests. There have been both jurisdictional struggles and a county government refusing to pay sizable fees for outside special prosecutors (not state prosecutors).

The guy belongs in prison but is not just refusing to be prosecuted, nor does he have the ability to do so.
Public US hearing on UFOs [video]
Hearing just concluded. If you listened to it, what are your thoughts?
Seems like we’ll have to regulate this space by forcing companies to make their web apps and websites to working in Firefox.
Conventional wisdom is that it's good to allow kids to be bored (by which this generally means: not intervening as a parent with an activity) as this will compel them to take action, creatively or otherwise. It just might not be the actions parents expect. You can take away the tv, but that doesn't automatically mean your kid will color or build a fort.

I think "spontaneity" is informed in large part by habit. If you teach a kid to build things, how to draw, read, etc, they might be more inclined to explore this out of their own volition.

I mostly daydreamed. I had crayons and paper, but was not compelled to use them that often. The Legos collected dust after I followed along with the schematics.
I'm curious about the license change? This is an executable is it not? Invoking it as a separate process does not require you make the software calling it GPL so switching to MIT should have no affect in the common case.

If the authors really wanted a more permissive license, then instead of relicensing from AGPL to MIT they should have relicensed from AGPL to AGPL with linking exception. An example of a project that is GPL with linking exception is libgit2 [1]. This licensing is more permissive but still permits the author to sell commercial licenses to those making closed-source code changes.

[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2#license
At least on OS X, yes. All of the recording/storage is local, but when you ask any kind of questions involving AI, it sends relevant pieces of history (as text) to OpenAI. This may have changed, but it was the case when they launched the beta.
I think there’s also a variety factor, heirlooms are usually very unique and fun-looking. But yes I think taste is generally good too. I’m growing heirloom Zucchini and Tomatoes this year. The tomato flavor certainly isn’t bad, about on par with other good garden tomatoes. The zucchini on the other hand is out of this world good, and retains the flavor even when the fruits are large, unusual for most other Zuccs. (Variety is Costata Romanesco)
Pub houses are abbreviation for Public houses in Ireland. And that is where people drank.
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> Will this person's bank implement WEI in such a way that none of this person's devices (computer, phone) are supported and will this person not be willing or able to switch banks, only then buying a new computer comes into view.

Yes, they will, because it has already happened.

On Android many many banking apps block rooted phones and custom OSes by using Play Integrity and Safetynet. And then games started doing it too, you can't play Pokemon GO unless your phone's OS passes Safetynet. And then restaurants joined in. Sorry, you can't order from McDonald's unless you pass Safetynet.

When does it stop?
My guess is that on desktop, the endgame will involve implementing Easy Anti-Cheat levels of anti-tampering into the browser to prevent anyone from proxying through an automated Chrome instance or whatever. On Android, Google already has SafetyNet or Play Integrity, they can already refuse if the app or operating system has been modified
Clickbait/misleading title. The author reported the incident but never "hunted down" any culprits.
Expo these days is pretty extensible and the option to write your own IAP module is a bit easier with Expo Modules, which let you write custom modules with Kotlin and Swift and set up a config plugin to automate changes to your Android Studio and Xcode projects. It definitely would be good for more IAP modules to provide config plugins and automatically integrate with Expo.

The ability to write and run your own update server is a part of Expo Updates and it is not going to be removed. The Expo Updates protocol is an open specification here: https://docs.expo.dev/technical-specs/expo-updates-1/.

Separately, EAS provides an optional, hosted service that implements the server side of the standard Expo Updates protocol and supports both simple and more advanced deployment patterns, for instance: https://docs.expo.dev/eas-update/deployment-patterns/. It also integrates with EAS's build service and appeals to teams looking for managed cloud infrastructure.
To start, the admin boundaries and POIs are given a more permissive license. They’re mission is to make permissive map datasets.
Birth rates don't appear to be reacting to that sort of economic incentive so far, as tried in other countries. Possibly it's just not enough or being done wrong, but that's not something you want to bet your country on.
They say absolutely not, and that everything is processed and stored locally.

*edit* came back to correct this and see that I have already been corrected. If you ask Rewind a question it explicitly says your question and ‘relevant’ web snapshot are sent to ChatGPT 4

Sorry for jumping the gun
Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
Reproducing is the easiest way to spread your culture/country/ideology. If your population stagnates your tribe may vanish.
I really doubt we've been visited by aliens but one could have stolen a ship and took a ride here not knowing how to fully operate it. It's entirely possible their government is suppressing the existence of aliens and we've been visited by their whistleblowers/journalists.
"You really believe pizza exists ? Wake up, sheeple !" ;)

(Sorry, I could not resist.)
Show HN: Apache Wayang, multi-platform execution engine
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My knee-jerk answers for where to not stay are downtown, anything near the Tenderloin, anything in the mission close to a Bart station. Bayview/Hunters Point is also on that list, but no one accidentally stays there.
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If left unchecked these behaviors go beyond playtime and into careers.

Kids without harmful social media influence will often go into careers where they do useful things.

Kids who watch rich influencers all day think about how they can make money making YouTube content, or playing video games or acting like an NPC, or even just starting an OnlyFans.
In theory, maybe possible. But honest-to-god critical thinking/sincere question: given that multiple countries have had satellites, deep space observation methods, giant telescopes etc how is that alien ingress have never been noticed? Aliens couldn't have known that US/UK were the preferred destinations - countries with large surface areas like Australia, Russia, Brazil and India don't report such activities in general.

Why is that UFOs are coming up as pop culture topic just now in last few decades - and no concerted & corroborative evidence exists from medieval or prehistoric times (apart from some cave paintings where imaginations have been at play of superior beings).

Human race always had a creative tone to recording our history - we borrow philosophy, allude to existence of supernatural, and of God almighty. When it is about non-planetary life, definitive evidence _must_ exist all over the planet that we were visited - not just one country. Or am I being too cynical?
For context, Overture Maps is a project that intends to enable large players in the geospatial space (TomTom, Amazon, Microsoft, but notably _not_ Google) to leverage open data sets (OpenStreetMap among them) alongside proprietary data and processes that they own.

The consortium intends to enable a framework for enhancing geospatial data based in open data sets (e.g. OSM) with their own proprietary processes, and re-release it with a permissive license (the Community Database License Agreement - CDLAv2), but keep the data and processes required to create that dataset proprietary.

The project has created a lot of conversation in the OpenStreetMap community, but in general I think it's good to see so many resources put into the OSM-adjacent world.
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> 17 year olds drinking beer between their late afternoon classes is not unheard of and often tolerated.

Well, it's between classes, in their free time.
Short fiction has never been a lucrative business. The 'slick' magazines that paid top-dollar for fiction were able to do so because people bought the magazines for the other content. The 'pulp' magazines typically paid very low rates for fiction.
That’s a feature, not a bug, I think.

Low barrier to entry is really important for new software. So it’s this struggle with some orgs trying to increase lock-in (Microsoft, Oracle, etc) and a constant stream of new products taking off, dominating the world, and getting knocked off themselves.
By this logic people are also forced to work for Uber/Amazon/other exploitative employers of low-skill labor. This undermines many arguments against unionization, treating "gig" workers as employees, or in favour of "right to work" laws. Yet the political leanings of those opposed to vaccination are often anti-union, pro "right to work", etc. So this doesn't help illuminate what they mean by "forced", unless this is a framing used out of convenience to justify their opinion in this specific case.
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>I can't stop watching.

I think that's the intended result. This is a distraction.
It does and it's quite annoying, given that controversy is often a source of insight. I think this guy is probably BSing and that these hearings are a sideshow, but I'm still interested in the nuggets that come out of these discussions and don't mind they fall short of being perfect examples of discourse.
Assuming it's not detectable via taste I would find a way to pre-make and randomize test/control doses of the additive, and add the assigned vial for that day to my morning coffee.

Biggest issue I think would be making sure that there aren't any tells like flavor or some quality of the additive.
I'm not sure. Music goes in cycles, like the 80s generated a lot of crap and then gave way to the explosion of the alternative music scene.

For an actual semi-objective measure, think about how often you hear songs from the 60s and 70s, and from the 90s (and early 2000s for hip hop). And then think of all the crap that's gone by that has no staying power. I'm sure it's partially my bubble, but there were bands in the decades I mention that are going to be widely listened to for a long time, while in between there's a ton of throwaway. Basically you get original, defining music as new genres emerge then runs of derivative crap between them, it's not constant.
> This proposal is just so throughly user-hostile that it's impossible to criticise it based on technical grounds. It's not a bad proposal, it's a dangerous, evil and malicious one, so criticising it in details is futile.

I can't agree more strongly. I sat down to write a letter to the FTC, and I can't even articulate my objections because after reading this spec my only response is encompassed in "WTF is this shit?". I've worked in my past with members of the Chromium team and I've generally found them competent and well-meaning, and I can't see any amount of well-meaning (and some lack of competence) in this spec proposal. This feels like a shift in the behavior for Google far beyond their existing slow drive to consume everything, to something far more draconian and direct.
It's only going to work in the main Safari since that's the only thing that supports extensions.
That's my point though, fish populations are _not_ universally in such dire straights. Yes, bottom trawling does cause extensive habitat damage, but bottom trawling is completely banned in lots of places.

Yes, sharks are in _extreme_ decline in lots of places and face lots of overfishing, but I'm not actually sure that many species (if any) are at risk of _extinction_. (That doesn't mean we shouldn't be against shark fishing, it's ecologically disastrous, but be wary of claims of extinction).

It's fine if you don't want to eat meat. But lots of people do. I've worked with lots of commercial fisherman. They can be (and in many places already are) powerful allies for sane, sustainable fisheries regulation. When you say things like "commercial fishing is universally bad", you communicate that you don't care if they are willing to limit fishing pressure and sustain populations, that you are going to try and ban them anways. At that point, why shouldn't they just fish as much as they can?

I'm 100% onboard with algal aquaculture. I think it has a lot of promise. But that is completely orthogonal to conventional commercial fishing. The two are not competitors and in fact can be complements to each other.

The options are not "either seaweed farms or devastated ecosystems". It's exactly this kind of false dichotomy thinking that is counter productive.
It hasn't been sudden.
No, Valve is specifically noted for not having a kernel-driver anticheat in a landscape where most competitive games do use them. Notably, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, and Valorant's Vanguard all use kernel drivers, but no Valve Anti-Cheat has, because they've focused on server-side heuristics and crowed-sourced detection instead of trying to force the client to rat itself out.
WebKit yes. Safari, no
There's no dissonance. You just need to completely ignore what people say, and make your own high-quality model of what they do. Here's a hint: study different personality types, model how they set their personal goals and what makes them happy.

You'll end up with a very cynical model, where most people can't plan one and a half step ahead, and can be easily convinced to do very dumb things. But, like it or not, that's how society works. And every successful person has figured out, and is ruthlessly abusing this model.
An interesting case is the state of Georgia, which was a free state check out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Georgia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield

Of course people knew slavery was wrong, but profits. We may not have slavery today, but the same kind of people are around, for example against minimum wage increases or for non-compete agreements.
There is intrinsic complexity involved in distributing physical goods. Software complexity is mostly made up.

Would billions solve software distribution & longevity? How?
The same way every other whistleblower who has been successful in the past has done it: providing direct incontrovertible evidence to the public
Only if you have racy accesses which you should not.
>"that is not yet proven to be effective solution for past and present racial injustice"

What is this even supposed to mean? We can't be "not racist" unless its proven (by what means?) that its effective in remedying (how is this judged?) past racism?

This is a platitude thats orders of magnitude greater than that which you are attempting to criticize.
They were charging $100/yr [1]. Literal peanuts. Actually, that is unfair to the peanuts, it is literal pocket lint.

The average cost of a developer is more than $100/hr. mold needs to make you 0.05% (not 5%, 0.05%) more productive to directly pay for itself. If mold saves you 13 seconds a day in linking time it directly pays for itself. This ignores the knock on effects of reduced build time shortening the feedback cycle which completely dwarf the direct benefits.

It is ridiculous that such dirt cheap pricing for tools is viewed as a problem. As we saw in a post yesterday [2], this is why they say there is no money is tools.

[1] https://bluewhale.systems/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869747
Good to know. I may give it a shot myself.
Sometimes Drive stops working for me, trying to download something results in a redirection loop.
Clearing the cache sometimes fixes it. I suspect the Firefox anti tracking settings but I haven't bothered to test it.
More like Links on a 486.
If this happens, I won't use anything else but IRC, XMPP, NNTP, Gopher and Gemini.
The Jungians have much to say about daydreams. It is an active form on exploration on topics the subconscious is wrestling with. They have techniques to induce and explore daydreams in a directed way.

“Inner Work” by Robert Johnson is a very approachable text. It focuses on using two technologies for personal growth: dream analysis and active imagination (basically day dreaming but you write it down and have a convo with your subconscious).

He warns the imagination one if you really get into it can be all consuming. Reminds me of MD as this guy is going thru it.

Might be worth talking to a Jungian therapist (or any therapist really). A Jungian might want to lean more onto the day dreaming to uncover a message if there is one as opposed to trying to “manage it”.

I daydreamed heavily when I was younger. A combination of isolation and ways to process hormones and unresolved trauma - what I discover many years later.
isn't the bolt $30k whereas the cheapest tesla is $50k? seems significant.
> What did he expect?

Why this cynical attitude? Perhaps he did expect it and he is now clearly and publicly stating it in a congressional record so something might be done about other whistleblowers.
> If I'm a developer and get to chose what to charge, that means I can ask people for $0.01, and they would get access to everything from all developers of this "platform"?

You can do that but you will not make a lot of money that way. The number of subscriptions you can sell is limited so if you sell all of them for $0.01 you will probably wish you had asked for more and when you have sold out, only the more expensive subscriptions sold by other developers remain and they will make more money than you.

> The example on [0] where a developer pays credits when they get a subscriber is confusing. Should Devs "top up" somehow?

I don't know exactly what you mean by "top up" but the credits are turned into subscriptions when sold. This is how we make sure the developers can't sell infinite subscriptions. The plan is then that with time, the developers will get more credits so that they can sell more subscriptions. How fast they will get more could depend on the current value of their account, where the value could be calculated from the credits and the number of subscribers they have.
Riff on this: When your product is a monkey reciting Shakespeare while standing on a box in Central Park, you don't start by building the box.
Wow, "created" seems like a heckuva stretch in this title.

It often seems like the intent of this kind of a dishonest title is to imply that so-and-so was the real force behind some thing (see also, Hidden Figures) but was not given credit due to systemic <insert all powerful force of oppression here>.

For me, the real effect is to read everything that comes after with extreme skepticism.
> You’ll be fine street parking at golden gate. You’ll be fine street parking at Buena Vista. You’ll be fine street parking near Dolo. It’s fine, I do it all the time.

I do too, and wish this was true there are “car safe” areas, but it’s really just best advice to not worry about it in the city. the Muni is cheap, Uber/Lyft are very convenient, and I just yesterday filmed a car smash and grab on Fulton street, in broad daylight by Alamo square. A lovely group of tourists were a few feet from their car when it happened. Thieves are very brazen and will be wherever tourists are, all it takes is to leave a coat or something in the back seat they think might be covering something up. I love this city, and violent crime is basically nonexistent, but property crime is very common and not prosecuted.
How the 'lazy girl job' took over work TikTok
I'm a Rewind user and really enjoy the product, but this isn't quite true. Again, maybe this has changed since the beta, but the "Ask Rewind" page has the relevant info[1]:

> No audio, image, or video files ever leave your machine. Ask Rewind only sends relevant text-based data to the cloud, excluding personal sensitive information such as credit card and Social Security numbers.

> When you ask a question, only the text of the most relevant moments from your past are sent to GPT-4 to generate an answer.

[1]https://www.rewind.ai/ask-rewind
The unpleasant area that you hear about in the news is basically just the border between districts 5 and 6 in this map: https://voterguide.sfelections.org/sites/default/files/image...
I agree, if you're a shareholder you should feel obligated to - but everyone has the right to discuss whatever they want.
The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence
The disease of brown rotten teeth ;)
> They make hardly any money from Spotify.

They make hardly any money from the record companies.
Yup. Getting old is a tough pill to swallow. An early sign is when you don’t care about new music.

Face it, popular music exists for teenagers to claim their spot. Their unique identity from previous generations. The new and fresh - it’s about today and they are today.
itt: Tell me you've no clue how a ferry works without telling me you've no clue how a ferry works.
When I was at my first bigger class reunion we visited our old school. Most things had changed - schools are more living creatures than buildings apparently.

I sat down at my old place in the classroom and looked out the window. When I saw the old tree in front of it, it immediately struck me:

How many hours must I have spent watching this tree and while dreaming away utterly bored by what was happening around me.
That colourful internet of yore coexisted with doing your banking at a bank. Now, banking has largely moved online and banks have eliminated a lot of their physical locations. Ditto for accessing government services in many countries. The concern here is no longer being able to do important everyday things without using a supported browser, even if a small hobbyist internet for nerds, freaks, and outcasts survived out there.
That's a totally different type of AI.
What kind of fearmongering, rage-bait, shit article is this?

> As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

How are those even related?