skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - employ the same tactics as google.

This is incredibly hypocritical. I would never want to work with or for, or employ, or be friends with or associate myself with someone who blatantly displayed this level of hypocrisy and lack of integrity.

This comment is also clearly violating the HN guidelines - it's not intellectually interesting, it's naked political activism.
> The FTC regulates content categorization for filtering software on the internet???

Yes! It can make sure categories can't be harmful things or things banned by law(e.g.: "whites only website") but moreover, they regulate the security, accuracy and content coverage standards for such applications. They don't however get to categorize sites themselves.

> No one is saying that parents shouldn’t be allowed to let innocent little Johny see two men holding hands because they are afraid it might turn him gay. The issue is giving government that power.

The government doesn't get that power, it uses existing powers to regulate contentu filtering apps and educate parents to use them, parents get to have that power, as they should!
The tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us CS folks), due to the influence of a popular version which came out in 2012: https://www.musicthing.co.uk/Turing-Machine/
Beano is also marking its 33rd anniversary since 1990 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beano_%28dietary_supplement%29 ) . More than 200 years had elapsed since Ben Franklin had made an impassioned plea for natural scientists of his day to cure the winds ( https://web.archive.org/web/20130305080250/http://teachingam... ) when they were not too busy doing other things like calculating the trajectories of planets.
Now look at the a mid 50's former housewife trying to find a job. It's a cruel world. Try getting hired as even a secretary if you don't know how to use Office.
I’ve never played Pickleball but I’ve watched several YT videos and shorts about it (the algorithm moves recommending shorts with titles such as “best Pickleball point” to me).

And it looks like such an awful game. There’s very little nuance to the game. The combination of the paddles, the plastic ball, and the size of the court means it’s really difficult to do any of the things that make either tennis, or table tennis challenging.

And that’s exactly the point of pickleball’s popularity. It allows anyone who’s hardly ever played before to immediately play with an expert. They will still lose, but they could actually hold a couple of rallies.

OTOH, if you’re playing tennis with someone above your level you’re unlikely to even be able to return their serve because of the pace, spin, and disguise. And if you’re playing table tennis someone a couple of levels above you could serve with certain spins and they could do the exact same thing a hundred times in a row and it’s unlikely you will get the ball back even a handful of times.
What precedent?

Wickard v. Filburn (1942) pretty much blew away any limitation on the federal government’s use of the commerce clause. In that case even a farmer’s subsistence crop of wheat for personal use was found to be in violation of a federal wheat quota because such activity in aggregate could hypothetically affect national prices. If that can be regulated as interstate commerce surely all cannabis production and consumption can as well.
I’m sure there are more than a few instances where TLAs legal said they couldn’t do it but they could buy data so they had an employee spin off a company and became the first customer.

There are always individuals and likely groups at TLAs who don’t have what most people would consider normal morals and/or think the ends justify the means. The CIA has been found to kill, torture, defame, bribe, and work with criminal organizations and enemy states to meet their ends consistently since their inception. Starting a company or organizing parties to create a company to satisfy legal requirements is about the least controversial thing they could do.
Email, online shopping, banking, image sharing, cloud file storage, online office suites, Photopea (online Photoshop clone), YouTube, and many others.
I'll third them. I don't buy a lot of cables, but when seemingly every USB-micro cable in the house crapped out simultaneously, I put in an order for a fistful and they were all good.

Monoprice is solid and their prices are fair. I think I got half a dozen cables shipped for about what one costs at e.g. CVS.
Or it could be you’ve made a ridiculous assumption by comparing commercial airlines to UFOs in the first place.
What? Why? They invest based on market cap for starters. Second, no fund managers call their unit holders to decide what to buy, the suggestion itself is ridiculous.
ClassiCube: An Open-Source Recreation of Classic Minecraft
The author should have asked "Can we just implement it then?" because in some cases you literally can't implement the proposed API. That's the core issue with it. Unlike other contentious browser features, even if you wanted to implement attestation, it may be impossible to do so. More precisely, attestation may be impossible to implement on some platforms to the de facto standard that would develop over time. The de facto standard I refer to is the list of attestors web servers will accept. If your platform can't be attested by an approved attestor, you're screwed. That's why it's not that simple this time. The proposed attestation API is literally unimplementable in general. You can't implement it and you can't not implement it.
I just mean where I have a relative path, set your own paths to what they would be on your machine. The subsequent comment is unrelated
I imagine it would be kind of similar to how we feel about those remote tribes in Brazil or India, or places like that where governments intentionally and prohibit contact, yes. I mean I can’t be sure of that by any means, but I think that if we discovered life on another planet, we would probably leave it alone, unless, of course, it had something we need. And it’s hard to imagine one planet having any resources that are important to somebody who already has faster than light travel.
A combination of enclosures (which had be going on for centuries and peaked in the 18th century with the Inclosure Act), and the Agricultural Revolution which greatly reduced the labour required in the fields (so if you had transitioned from working the commons to getting wages for working private land, you just stopped getting enough work).

So you had industrialists setting up factories needing cheap labour to run the machines, and a mass exodus of the countryside population to the cities desperate for work. Hello Dickens.

This is how you get an explosion in petty crime, disease, poverty, hulks, and eventually, transportation of the troublesome poor to Australia.

The industrial revolution was so destabilising to society that colonialism was a very convenient solution. Just go somewhere else, shoot the natives who resist, and the poors can have that land.
Even this is not a fair comparison IMO because even people who don’t mind carrying the majority of the work eventually often get tired and frustrated with this and in my experience this tends to happen at a similar rate to when they enter their most productive years.
I really hope that is the case because it’s a great story.

I also can’t imagine a species that has interstellar travel, but manually operated ships. I think we are not that far from humans not operating any forms of transportation anymore, and we are at best thousands of years from having the technology to visit anywhere life may exist.
I’ve thought about this topic many times. At times, I’ve found the conflation of various meanings of “real” to be confusing at best, but more often, I find it to be a mark of confusion. Coming to the conclusion that someone else is likely confused may seem uncharitable. (At the very least, blending meanings in this way is prone to misinterpretation.) Nevertheless, criticizing word choice and conceptual understandings is important, particularly in any culture (especially mainstream American society) that too often skips over self-reflection.

While thinking about “real America” most recently, I had a conversation with ChatGPT while reviewing the English Stack Exchange[1] and various etymology web sites. As a result of this research and conversation, this response emerged *:

> Dictionaries define "real" as "actually existing or happening, not imaginary, not fake or artificial." When used in the context of describing people or groups, "real" often signifies something genuine, authentic, or without pretense.

> Now to the claim: when "real" is used to describe communities or individuals, it is often in contrast to something perceived as inauthentic or disconnected from the majority's experiences. The term "grassroots," for instance, refers to the most basic level of an activity or organization, therefore, when someone talks about "real" people or "real" America, they often imply these grassroots, everyday experiences.

> Poverty, while a difficult and complex issue, is an experience that many people across the world can relate to or understand. The struggles associated with financial hardship often seem more "real" because they are visceral and undeniable.

> On the other hand, wealth, especially extreme wealth, is experienced by a smaller portion of the population. The lifestyle of the rich and entitled often includes privileges and luxuries that the majority do not have access to, which might make their experiences seem less "real" or relatable to many. The wealthy are often seen as living in a kind of "bubble" that separates them from the rest of society.

> It's worth noting, however, that "real" is a subjective term in these contexts and its usage can vary greatly depending on who is speaking and their perspective. People of all economic statuses have "real" experiences, but societal narratives and cultural biases often shape how we use and understand terms like this.

I think this writing is somewhat useful. You?

P.S. A few words of pre-defense against knee-jerk criticisms of my use of ChatGPT here. I consistently use it conscientiously and critically. I’ll grant that I might write something better if I did 10+ hours of concentrated research. In this case, I combined my experience with ~20 minutes of thinking.

* I say emerged deliberatively. The way that I use interactive AI technologies is shaped by my experience, education, and skepticism. Don’t assume that generative text is roughly in the same ballpark; the difference in quality is substantial based on how a human asks. The text is path-dependent; you would get quite different results.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com
I don’t think it’s easy to make the Drake equation go to zero, though it is within the relatively limited section of the universe from which of visitor could get here.
> So why would they prevent me from having two forms of Real ID, like a driver's license from one state and an ID card from another state?

Having DLs from multiple states implies that you’re a resident of multiple states, which you legally cannot be for things like voting and taxation.

I’m honestly surprised that you were able to get a driver’s license without having any sort of proof that you lived there. Most states require you to provide documents showing an in-state address
I agree something needs to change. I disagree that we should shoot ourselves in the foot and hope that somehow it leads to something we want too.

We can target the problems directly without giving up our fundamental freedoms. If our elected officials were interested in doing that, they would have done it by now. What they are interested in, is restricting your rights. You're advocating for giving up your freedom without actually solving the problems you want addressed.
the idea of "signalling" comes from economics and game theory to explain some indirect forces in the market. If a company gets a reputation for vigorously defending intellectual property even when the amount in question is minor, or slashing prices in markets where they face regional competition, etc., they "signal" to potential future competitors that it might not be worth it.

Doing something virtuous has an intrinsic value, and also sends a signal if other people see you do it. Your intent has nothing to do with the signal.

I was simply bringing up virtue to making the point that recycling's failure can backfire without saying anything about virtue signals.
Well they were not that huge, but most of organizations had "board of honor" with photos and names of best workers displayed for everyone to see.
It was mocked ("look at those idiots that work for free, lol") even before USSR died.

And monuments are only for the very, very few.
you didn't necessarily change the result of (do-it first), you may have, but that just means you introduced another error.

i think the approach here is to accept that you fixed the bug for the second call, but you will still have to go back and retest the first call.
Owner hired an extremely “senior” developer. Was told to let him do his thing.

After he spent 3 months building a web app, I asked him how he wanted to deploy it.

Perfectly straight face he said we would take his developer machine to a local data center and plug it in. We could then buy him a new developer machine.
It went downhill from there.

I ended up writing the application from scratch and deploying it that same evening.

Owner hired a lot
Of strange people.
I love the Naruto reference.
Source? That sounds like it would run afoul of the 1st amendment. Most likely it's actually implemented as something vague like "intimating a public official", and prosecutors use the threat of a charge to bully people into stopping.
Oooh fresh Derek Lowe, awesome

Enough of all the UFO nonsense, this is what matters for the future

> If these data reproduce, the superconductivity of this material seems beyond doubt.

> Another welcome feature is that their procedure for preparing LK-99 seems quite straightforward. You can bet that furnaces in solid-state materials labs around the world have been cooking yesterday and today to try to reproduce its synthesis and the properties, and we should be hearing about the results of these experiments very soon.
> seven different kinds of antivirus software

The last time I counted up all the different persistent, security-related agents running on my corporate Windows box, it was actually 14.
The spam in my timeline and likes from obvious bots is magnitudes higher than even a few months ago.

So I’m not sure why advertisers would want to increase spend there
This sounds intriguing but the alternative of Emacs + language servers + Mx-chat-gpt, etc. just works so well that even though I own a current JetBrians license, I don’t think I will spend the time for this.

Sometimes, tools are just good enough and it is better to work on projects that play with new tools.
That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it? What does it say to you? [video]
I promise you there will be lots of lawsuits because of this. Lawsuits that for the most part don’t do any good for the public.

Making this a private disclosure to the SEC is fine. But public publication only 96 hours after discovery will lead to issues.
No, whatever issue you are experiencing is not simply Twitch blocking Linux. I can login fine from Linux from chromium and firefox.
Worked in support for a long time. Very true.

The real trick is trying to get the support guy to tell you what to do to get the right attention ... IF they know.

I used to do that all the time when I did big time networking gear support. "I, the support guy, can't just send you a new router (price like $200k+), that's just the policy, I gotta do X, Y, Z. That will take a bit of time and here is how that works ____ . But if you can get _____ to tell me to do it, I'll do it."

Now as a support guy you have to know the lay of the land before you deliver that line... but I was lucky enough to know and that org had good policies and so on.

What is AMAZING is some customers didn't realize that I just gave them the route they needed to go to get exactly what they wanted and they'd complain and whine. Like guys ... come on. I'd also tell them what to do to get closer to that goal faster without pulling strings, but that meant they had to do extra work, lotta folks didn't want to do that either.

Granted consumer support guy, probably has no tools / doesn't know the magic words / people and so on. Also probably afraid to tell you. Support personnel are most often "valued' for a short time but in reality are seen as a cost in most orgs and treated like garbage / scummy pawns. At one company I worked at the engineers would invite me over to their building when they had food catered. They knew we got jack squat (support almost never got food catered in), we had management who only knew how to prove their worth by penny pinching, and the engineers liked some of us / knew we saved them a lot of time.

Side story: I don't know if Amazon ever had human support but right now I've got something that shipped 3+ months ago and it is "On the way but running late" ... for 3+ months. In the past Amazon would just give me a refund outright... Now Amazon just sends me between two different bots that can't help me at all... The seller has a bunch of posts and feedback all the same, people not getting the product. Amazon bot don't care tells me to talk to the other bot. My review (almost the same as the other reviews now warning people about not getting product) was rejected.
A car can exist, though. That's the big difference.

You can't say "Well I thought I was getting REAL magic", because that doesn't exist. You can absolutely say "Well I thought I was getting a REAL car", because it's expected to buy a car, and cars exist.
> What that means is that people were sharing unproven things. Some of the things were later proven, and some weren't.

For example, early in the pandemic when the surgeon general of the USA and the top doctor of Canada both advised against wearing masks, would you classify that as the authorities "sharing unproven things"? Perhaps they should have censored themselves, instead of shutting out the voices who pointed out that the worldwide evidence was overwhelmingly in favour of masks being effective?
Actually, plastic bag bans may increase overall emissions:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...

TLDR: garbage bags are thicker plastic, so the ban increases overall plastic use. Replacing plastic grocery bags with paper or cloth also is more resource intensive; cloth bags have to be used an average of 130 times to break even.
Actually, it's both. Back in 2022, you have to install either WeChat or Alipay to scan the government's health code literally everywhere.
You made me think about how my phone has 5 times as many pixel across as my first PC(I personally owned) yet I can't do half as much with those pixels as I could with that PC....

How is 3000 pixels not enough to let me arrange windows myself but 640 was?
You provided a lot of very precise numbers that you pulled from some source you researched, but you didn’t share that source with us so your numbers are useless.
Well the 4th amendment does not mention a limitation to the government. It says "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" it says nothing about limitation to government actors.

It does go on to talk about Warrants which are government instruments, and I agree that taking pictures of licence plates on public roads would not be a violation anyway.

But you can't argue that because I'm a private person, or that because TransUnion is not the government, that it's legal for us to go searching through peoples houses or papers or effects.
That first one was discussed (a bit) here:

The ‘Mad Genius’ Mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19342544 - March 2019 (17 comments)
> Meaningful enough that whole businesses have been based on it.

What's the highest valuation of any of those companies? Now what percentage of MasterCard's current 380 billion market cap or Visa's 485 billion market cap is that?

There's other factors with porn at play that have been discussed. But yeah, I don't think a multi-hundred billion dollar company is going to risk having all its assets seized for engaging in activities that are considered illegal by the federal government. Small companies can take this risk. These aren't the same.
I made one in one of those electronic kits in the 80s that had springs you poked wires into. Pretty cool to pick up “the station” on am (there was no tuning I think loudest won)
Shiller (of the Case-Shiller real estate price index), came out recently and stated he expects the buy side to slow down once the Fed signals they're done raising rates. He typified buyers as willing to pay increased prices now because they don't want to buy at higher rates. I think I saw it yesterday...
Solar panels have an albedo of ~0.3. Asphalt around ~0.05. That makes it 6x better in terms of heat reflected.
Yes. The content in the database remains the same. Developers can continue creating themes and plugins as they normally would.
Show HN: Emaction – GitHub styled emoji reaction for blogs
Just For Fun.
Of course they don't, that's why it's equally ridiculous for them to say they don't have the power because it's not their money.

These companies have far too much power. Regardless your feelings on ESG, Blackrock pretty much made every company in the US kowtow. That's too much power for any one company to have...
> There is no 'right to revenue'

There absolutely is. If someone produces a thing through their own hard work, they own the rights to that thing, and you do not have the right to consume that thing without paying them for it. You do not own the rights to other peoples' work.

If you disagree, then prove it by going to your boss/company and telling them that they don't have to pay you unless they want to (and that you're not going to engage in any enforcement or legal action against them, because you don't think that it's wrong).

> Record companies are very much like start-up accelerators

Record companies are completely irrelevant to the issue of piracy.
> Capitalism at least tries to use human selfishness to achieve a better outcome

Maybe you're not aware, but it was the socialists who coined the term "capitalism", and their definition has no relation with the one you gave.

The definition is simply: the system where private property of means of production allow the accumulation of capital.
You can probably use the usual tricks of money launderers to obfuscate the ownership structure of the LLC. eg. you're the beneficial owner but the director is listed as your lawyer.
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More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879461
I apologize. I fixed it. The demographics were from the census and the weed numbers were from the previous pew article
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White Flight from Asian Immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools
My problem with vanilla jupyter notebook is that they hide every settings from you. Look at those 4:3 ratio dead zones on two sides, who would have thought that you can edit the css or javascript preference to increase your screen real estate?

People told me to use extensions but none of them really actually work, including the installation process.