skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate speech is rampant and the service is falling apart. I guess we can agree that Twitter is in a much worse shape than it was before Musk took over.

I can live with people that think different than me (I really enjoy that!). The problem with extremists like Musk is that they can't, so much that they preach the suppression of everyone other than who thinks (and looks, and behaves) like them.
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I feel like I’m being gaslit every time I hear how great the economy is.

I’m spending so much more for basic essentials like food, gas, and rent that there isn’t nearly as much disposable income and money left to save and invest as there was a few years ago. I’ve even received a few pay raises in that time, but they haven’t come close to keeping up with inflation. Maybe the people that think it’s a good economy don’t have kids to feed?
Some dont, maybe provide a choice for people who do.
More than ever self-hosted FOSS is much needed for everyone concerned about privacy. Not your keys, not your data!
Unnecessary paper packaging creates the illusion of sustainability
It doesn't need to, a child understands this. The only thing the article needed to explain was how the title should be interpreted, and it did fine in this respect.
I don't care what powers your service as long as it works.

Chatbots are now finally starting to work (when powered by LLMs).

If I can explain what I'm looking for and the chatbot can understand... that's easier than any UI out there.
Why is the pricing tied to how much time it saves you and what hourly rate are you basing your calculations on?
A Ford Maverick starts in the $20k range. Now that's apples to oranges as far as features, intended purpose, etc...

... but the Ford Maverick exists. Rivian's R1 is _all they have_, and the R2 won't dip that low at all. There's no option there for me.

Not to mention nobody can repair the thing if it goes really sideways.
> there’s no need for most remote jobs to hire only from the USA

You still need people in the same timezone as you, usually
So does Bing, but somehow giving it network access made it worse than ChatGPT at everything.
Hi! We've thought the same and started creating an AI Assistant that is a step further from a chatbot. Check out www.prometh.ai PS Still in early stages
The real problem is that iptables rules aren't composable. In this thread alone there are several tools that add iptables rules (kubernetes, docker, ufw) and they are just dumped without regards to each other.

This could be solved by more tooling.
I'm not sure how quickly you expect a more detailed response. Acknowledging the report and looking into it is the first step to a resolution.
Is your complaint that activation is troublesome and bureaucratic? Isn't that also true with physical SIMs?

With eSIM, you should be able to just have all three eSIMs stored on the phone, marking the one you want to use as active, and switching whenever you want, with no need to carry around physical bits of plastic any more.

This has been my experience with my iPhone 13 when traveling.
Would you like him to write fiction instead?

“This shouldn’t happen, we are working out why it did” is probably the only official response possible right now.

Elsewhere in the comments he’s addressing misconceptions & outright falsehoods about how DDG works.
Ladybird isn’t going to be anything more than a decrepit toy project and we both know it.

They don’t have anywhere near the corporate support real browsers do, it’s just chasing cars.

They don’t have the HR to scale, some day they’ll get Google Docs to work “hurray we did it, looks like it is possible” then they’ll try to get Spotify working. Next thing you know Google Docs will break again. It’s gonna be that times 100+ other apps that people use.

You can call me pessimistic, hell even antagonist, I don’t care. I’m being honest in order to outline how unrealistic it’s become to write a browser from scratch for the modern web.

Andreas or whatever his name will get the apps he wants working and maybe some more, but it will NEVER be something people can just jump on and expect to use as a functional browser. It’ll be some Reddit Discord HTML4.5 viewer.

I’d say if they wanted to make something usable, they’d fork WebKit and bolt on SpiderMonkey, QuickJS, JerryScript or whatever and build up from there. But they care too much about their stupid pride “look what we did”. And that “roll your own” nonsense isn’t attractive to corporate adoption unless they’re some project like OpenBSD that does it with a real purpose, not HN front page gratitude. SerenityOS is advertised, not as a microkernel, not architecture portability , but as a “90s operating system”. That is some hipster bs that only depicts the Amish rate of development Ladybird will take unless they really think about the goal they want to achieve. Because right now, they want a usable browser and they want it from scratch and I can only see one of those happening.

Linux might’ve initially been “Just for fun” but now they clearly mean business
Thank you, I am mistaken.
Our family in northern maine used to go shopping in Canada every few weekends to abuse the weak Canadian Dollar, but then those damn terrorists came in through the exact border crossing we would use and wouldn't you know it, crossings got a little less liberal after that.
Ah, that seems to be correct. I take that back then.
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> it quite often can take 24-48 hours for your physical SIM to activate

In my world, I land in an airport, purchase a SIM card and it works before I leave the airport (or the operator’s desk). It’s often that way with eSIMs purchased via Airalo.

The delay could appear when your transferring your number, but even then you can still use a temporary number until the old one overrides it.
Doesn’t people saving more imply a low level of confidence in their economic future?

Kind of like storing food for a long winter?
There are two I had on my mind that I had come across recently:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10145969/Public-fur...

No mention of this "controversy" on her Wikipedi page, either.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/professor-under-fire-for-white-ge...

But with a bit more googling, I found some additional ones.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-uc-berkeley-professor-un...
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/02/texas-professor-white...
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-student-senator-says-...
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/28/barnard-professor-trig...

Look, I agree these things aren't straight out "hey lets go out and gas white people" (Well one of them is). But the pattern is disturbing, and the media coverage is even more disturbing because they're (I would argue) hiding the level of this stuff, thus preventing us from having the conversation. Why do conservatives feel threatened, this is just Affirmative Action and Inclusion (such orwellian terms that hide their discrimination), so why do you feel that way unless you're secretly racist? Well, it's because there is a sustained, and secretly promoted hatred of white people and it needs to be brought to light.

As an example, the Wikipedia page on Brittney Coopers at Rutgers University. No mention of this pretty-notable controversy about her racist comments. Probably edited for months after the story broke until people lost interest dealing with the Wikipedia rules.
A lot of these chatbots are jumping out at you and trying to sell you stuff like sales people. I have a problem talking to them even if they work.
Or maybe it proved that Facebook feed is horrible.

People gradually stop posting so they had to fill the void with nonsense.
> Chatbots are now finally starting to work

Because if you mash HUMAN in all caps they actually forward you to support?
All the replies mention technologies to help you build one, but this chart looks like a modified, animated version of a Petri Net to me, which is a very useful chart for visually describing the flow of data between systems. I've built similar charts using PowerPoint and exporting the PowerPoint as a GIF... same effectiveness for internal use, but not something you're going to want to brag to your friends about.
I always thought collecting license plate data was considered confidential and only be used for law enforcement purposes. Aren't there laws forbidding this?
Far prefer chatbot to IVR menu.
The opening assertion that got me in this thread was that sending data was cheaper than receiving data. Opening post said that they were surprised to find that is the case in the work they did.

To that end, I was asserting that the problem the poster was seeing was that they were too aggressive in how they "listen" for data.
The Queen Mary 2 sails from Southampton to NYC [0].

I think you can get a ticket for less than $1k,though you'd probably be cramped with no window.

[0] https://www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a-cruise/M509/M509
I confess I don't much understand the code here, but this seems the exact point of Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan?"
Even if requests to separate domains didn't work, a 5% user loss is likely something that many websites can afford to ignore.

Remember that Firefox has at least a 3% marketshare. Safari has somewhere in the neighborhood of 20%. If websites are willing to go Chrome-only in that environment, permanent holdbacks won't change anything for those websites.

Particularly not if the solution to those holdbacks is "reinstall your browser and the holdback will probably go away." Which... they'd need to be unless Chrome starts tracking users to figure out who should have what holdbacks :)

The only way that holdbacks matter is if they affect 100% of Chrome users -- ie every single one of your customers/readers will at some point not send you attestation at some point for your website. And even then... telling them to refresh the page becomes a problem.

But it it's only a subset of users, then just banning 5% of users (especially from ad-supported platforms) seems perfectly feasible for a company and would probably be a preferred solution for some of them.

----

User: "Hey, for some reason when I browse Reddit nothing loads."

Support: "Yeah, very rarely a new Chrome install will do that. If you create an account and sign in, and then you send us some verification documents like an ID so we know you're not a scammer, then you'll still be able to browse. Otherwise just reinstall Chrome."

User: "Is there anything else I can do?"

Support: "No, we have to protect our ad integrity. If reinstalling the browser doesn't help, contact Google about it."

----

> Instead, you could create 20 separate top-sites and load them all in tiny iframes. :)

This too :)
These are the chatbots that don't work. They're simple scripts that can not handle new information, and fail to recognize requests that fall out of a very narrow path of wording.
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Yet, you criticize this post instead of the GP who made a claim completely without evidence.
If not equivalent, it is not far from it.
It is survival of the species that counts, and the 'geological' timescales over which it does. Some individuals from that species reproducing is obviously a requirement - but only as a means to an end.

Whether individuals reproduce or not, usually doesn't matter much unless you have really small # of individuals left and it's "have babies or go extinct".

At this point, one could well argue that our species has a better shot at (longterm) survival when fewer individuals reproduce, vs. when our numbers keep increasing. If so, depopulation would enhance chance of our species' survival.
Right above that line in the docs is a pretty clear view of 'Hello' and 'main'. Its a file "hello.aum" which declares a module 'Hello' with a function called 'main'. You compile the file to be an executable by giving it function to run as the entrypoint. This really couldn't be clearer I dont think.
I wish the article went more into the feud and reconciliation, rather than leaving it as an exercise of the reader, especially since the subtitle is "Meet the feuding twin sisters...".
Any plans on supporting redshift as target?
>90% no longer have to pretend to give a shit what the 10% think anymore

The 10% that do all your work for you?

I guess that's seems pretty shortsighted. When I go to work, I expect the asshole (that just watches me get shit done) to be decent company, worth a laugh or really willing to grab things I need.

If you can't bother to 'pretend' then I'm going to stop pretending for you too.
I guess we'll see who gets to keep getting paid.

You know, have some decency.
Many businesses, big or small, are cheapskates. If the paid offerings don’t get you much over the free one, many companies will just take the open-source thing and make it work for them. Does the “Cloud” offering even get you any support?
You’re right, and that’s part of the reason I remarked my comment’s shallowness. It was more of a personal lament rather than a strong criticism of what looks like a really interesting language.
I think "the kind of person unwilling to be a doctor without [some level of] protection from medical malpractice lawsuits shouldn't be qualified to be a doctor" would be false - there's a lot of reasons someone might want protection from constant litigation in a high-stakes job, even if they are trying to do it well. What do you see as the key difference between doctors & cops here? Other jobs don't have qualified immunity per se (except other governmental jobs), but there are plenty of jobs with specific licensing/insurance that seems to be trying to do something similar.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Police and sheriff's patrol officers and transit and railroad police have some of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations."[0] It's certainly not the deadliest job, but I'm guessing it is vastly overrepresented in deaths & injuries compared to most jobs (and many potential officers' next best option).

In 2021 police & detectives in the U.S. had a median wage of ~$66k[1], lower than the national median of ~$71k[2]. Again, not the worst paid by far, but below median.

Obviously a lot of this depends on location; different areas have vastly different crime rates, and police in a wealthy suburb probably are very well-off compared to the night shift in inner cities.

Police work is far from the worst job you can get, but it still seems harder than a lot of (most?) other work. Though I don't feel qualified to make a subjective comparison to other jobs of similar pay & starting requirements.

I'm not sure what you mean by police unions trying to stop car chases. Presumably chasing criminals through sometimes-dangerous situations so they don't get away is a core part of the job description?

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect...
[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect...
[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...
Zero trust.
"Doesn't want people like me to exist" is also not equivalent to restricting marriage rights. Conflating these two is an expression of toxic victimhood, and not a good starting point for well-reasoned debate.
The same reason is why my roof has corrugated metal sheeting, rather than plate.

This was a question I had students prove out. With the bending moment of inertia being related to the cube of the thickness for a flat plate, the maths trickles out very quickly.
The solution for the space problem is obvious: just make the wall wave in the longitudinal direction instead of the transversal direction.
>What is the process of getting attlestation certified?

Reach out to an attestor and discuss with them what the process is for them to trust you.

>How much will it cost?

It will likely be free. If not it will be significantly less than the cost of writing an OS.

>This presents enormous barriers of entry to both hardware and software entrants

Hopefully they are high enough that fly by night malicious actors do not bother with trying to get their insecure hardware and software to be trusted, but row low enough that good actors can prove that they can be trusted.
I also oppose these bills. The effect of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which I have read, is that anyone under 18 years old would be prevented from viewing any content that a (most likely inaccurate) classification filter deems "harmful". This type of mandated censorship would never be accepted by adults with voting rights for themselves, and it is unfortunate that lawmakers continue to target the disenfranchised in this way.

Section 3(a)(1) is most concerning:

> SEC. 3. Duty of care.

>> (a) Prevention of harm to minors.—A covered platform shall act in the best interests of a user that the platform knows or reasonably should know is a minor by taking reasonable measures in its design and operation of products and services to prevent and mitigate the following:

>>> (1) Consistent with evidence-informed medical information, the following mental health disorders: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/140...

It is ridiculous to expect a website to censor any content that can induce anxiety or depression, which is what the bill requires. How exactly is that even supposed to be accomplished? Blocking distressing or negative news from reaching people under 18 will only lead to the next generation being less informed and is not going to build a better society.

I will be calling my senator and representatives to reject these overreaching bills. If you are in the United States, it only takes a couple of minutes to let them know why this bill is unacceptable: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Related, one of the scientists who discovered Lyme disease summarized the current state of mRNA vaccines earlier this week in an interview:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/07/the-case-of-t...
I don't think you appreciate what you are asking here.

Infrastructure in London was melting last summer, lots of our infrastructure will have to be rebuilt, which is severely inefficient, and will require even more energy.
> you just swap the physical sim and have new service.

If I'm traveling, I don't really want to have to manage my physical SIM while it's outside the phone. With eSIM and a service like Airalo, I can use the airport wifi to get data on my phone (or do it ahead of time), not have to pull my current SIM out of my phone, and the price is really low too. I use it every time I travel to Europe.

It's true the time delay is a little bit annoying but it seems to me the tradeoff is "preserve physical SIM" vs "wait 10min-2h". Pretty fair trade, no?
By cost cutting measures, replacing the unrealistic dividends phase.. I have no idea why a ex-monopoly taking every action it can think of for accelerating its descent in market share would be seen positively for getting to barely profitable by steps that are no doubt sacrificing future sales.
Interesting. Would CO2 taxes fix that?
>pointing out how ridiculous the parent comments stance is.

So now it's ridiculous for someone to want to not have to lay out their entire life story to a border agent to go into a different country? Funny, we did that a lot before now.
Shame they never fixed this. Would have been nothing to add a fn keyword at the beginning of all function definitions and then use the MS EEE strategy to bring it into the standard. Of the many changes the committee could make with C, I have to believe a function keyword would be among the least contentious.
Looking nice, I like the rationale.

Some questions from my side:

- 1. As far as I understand, there are multiple models for a linear type system. Which one does Austral implement? Is it verified to be correct?

- 2. Since there is a static checker: What are the limits on 1. expressivity and 2. scalability?

- 3. What is the intended memory model (pointer and synchronisation)?
Git through CLI for a new programmer is way more harder than an expert like you getting a feel for GUI. Ultimately the expert needs to learn new ways and tools before expecting novice to learn one. Git is just a tool and not the endgoal itself. VSCode has an excellent extension called Gitlens that provides UI for most basic git operations like branching, checkout remote branches, commit history, revert, stashing. It will take you an hour or so to familiarize with it. Teaching that extension should be sufficient for a new programmer
U Aalto wireless charging: distance 5 times antenna size and 80% efficiency
Why, of course they want to, and they do. Not _you_, perhaps, but it’s like billboard ads: the thousands of eyeballs ignoring them are being outweighed by the few who react and drive revenue.
I also want a % for traditional web links (ignoring all the non-web links pushed to the top). Is it 80%? 60%? 99%? "Primary source" means what?
> I think "traditional web links" is the main (and I think should be the only) product of a search engine

I want room for both.

There are times I want the search engine to stop "helping" (sic) and just give me a straight search based on my terms.

There are other times where I'm looking for something specific but I don't remember exactly what it is, so I want help correcting/ narrowing down my search.
Up until every Chrome tab spawns a new Fuchsia OS.
Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks
They're just like us. They deploy on Wednesday and hang out until Friday when they tell the boss it's completed.
Facebook's years of ignoring Official Events API requests (exploiting Covid)
It takes incredible mental gymnastics, and a massive ideological blindspot to consider flooding our atmosphere with billions of tons of carbon, and causing a climate catastrophe to be 'the status quo'.
Basically all of the music I've bought in the last 5ish years I found through the channel Years of Silence. That person apparently has a very similar taste to me. Rujnuj has remained my favorite album for several years, especially since I found translations of the lyrics last year.
There’s a lot of brokers without ordering guarantees. ActiveMQ for example.
I wonder if an earthquake of that magnitude completely saturates the accelerometers in the phones and that leads to either them being mistakenly dismissed as an error or the system fails to solve the location and magnitude and doesn't send out an alert without having that solved (e.g. without location and magnitude they can't decide on the alert radius). Obviously there needs to be a generic large radius warning "Impending large earthquake possible in your area" when a certain threshold of devices all peak out.
The strongest man on Earth can build the Great Wall of China.

That sentence has the same fallacy as yours.
I clicked the top button and got a 400 error.
Yes, it's harder for Windows. Desktop operating systems don't have all the details figured out especially around detecting and controlling automation. RA has been around as a concept for decades, and implementations in consoles/phones/servers do pretty much work for a while, but RA that works on general purpose desktop computers is very new and really only Apple has it.

The Windows team would need to at least:

- Get apps using MSIX (package identity)

- Design an API to get an RA for an app that has package identity. Make a proper keychain API (or better) whilst they're at it.

- You don't have to block debuggers or code injection, but if those things occur, that has to leave a trace that shows up in the RA data structure.

- Expose to apps where events come from.

- Compile databases of machine-level PCRs that reflect known good configurations on different boards. Individuals can't do that work, it's too much effort to keep up with all the different manufacturers and Windows versions that are out there. MS would need to offer an attestation service like Apple does.

Some of that stuff is already there because they pushed RA in an enterprise context for a long time. I don't know how widely adopted it is though.