skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that once this location data is available, it's easily abused by the police. Here are some quotes for you:

That's what, Cory Hutcheson, ex-Sheriff of Mississippi County, MO, is accused of doing; prosecutors say that for three years, Hutcheson abused Securus's system to track all kinds of people — even a local judge — without a warrant.
https://boingboing.net/2018/05/12/extraordinary-access.html

While many departments require warrants to use phone tracking in nonemergencies, others claim broad discretion to get the records on their own, according to 5,500 pages of internal records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from 205 police departments nationwide.
https://nyti.ms/450FPqK

U.S. Marshal Adrian O. Pena allegedly abused the Securus system by simply uploading blank documents and pretending he had authority to track people he had personal relationships with and their spouses.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bqew/us-marshal-securus-ph...
Having been a kid who benefited heavily from access to networks (pre-Internet and Internet), and who went to college while still a "kid": no, absolutely not.

Kids are, in fact, humans, and should not be disadvantaged because of their age.

I've seen plenty of stories on HN and elsewhere about particularly clever 10 year olds who found their ability to participate online destroyed because some service provider figured out they're 10 and COPPA came into play.
For the record NFTs get a bad reputation because the public associates them with silly pictures traded for outrageous prices. However NFT simply means that the token itself is not fungible and can therefore be used to refer to something specific that does not have to be art at all. Tickets would be an example that multiple teams are working on using the same tech, although they may not refer to it as NFT because the name is tainted.
I sort of think that atheism and humanism is the final form of a religion that is self-correcting
> most consumers would rather change device hardware than lose access to WeChat

This seems like an understatement.
Exactly.

Containers are packaging for executables.
https://github.com/vincentbavitz/bezmouse

> BezMouse is a lightweight tool written in Python to simulate human-like mouse movements with Bézier curves. Some applications might include:

> BezMouse was originally written for a RuneScape color bot and has never triggered macro detection in over 400 hours of continuous use.

:)
Might be better to preface this was that explanation. Something like "interesting it didn't hallucinate" and summarize the response. When it's copy-pasted verbatim it looks like spam.
I just logged in less than a minute ago, using Firefox on Linux. No issues whatsoever.
> You know who destabilized my country? The USSR. I've heard nightmare stories from my grandparents and parents (who lived 35+ years under communism). Boy am I glad to be an American

Both things can exist at the same time. America plays a very equal role in world destabilization in the Cold War era to that of USSR, while also the USSR could be a nightmare under communism for the common person.
Mozilla publicly opposes Google's actions all the time, especially when it comes to web specifications. One time they publicly endorsed an ad blocker intended to DoS google's ad servers with nonsense data, an extension that the Chrome Web Store considered to be malware.
Theologians will not agree with you.
Without any intention of snark or confrontation whatsoever, can I ask you

1) Have you personally tried to put this idea to practice? If yes, for how long? Would you be willing to share some details? If no, why not? It doesn't take changing the entire society, you can do something like that literally now. Be creative, travel to a different random town twice a month and offer to clean toilets in a couple of buildings? Again, I don't mean to be snarky with this example, I just think working on 3D printers doesn't cut it as a type of difficult labor. Think more along the lines of going down into a mine, shoveling literal shit for 8 hours, etc.

2) Imagine, the society has actually changed such that everyone is supposed to do a couple days of difficult labor. What happens if someone refuses? A punishment? If there is no punishment, what happens if almost everyone refuses and there's not enough people to sustain this undesirable but critical jobs?
The difference is that it doesn't work on MY container, it works on A container. And I can run the same container byte by byte in my machine, yours, or a production cluster. Most/all of the issues highlighted in this article can be mitigated by making your system more self-contained (less dependencies), or using some layers of abstraction on top (e.g. docker compose).

Despite these hot takes containers are a massive step in simplifying system deployments.
If I really really really need it to work I buy an Apple one.

Otherwise go to a real manufacturer like monoprice or a smaller company that specializes in cable. They will usually work well.

You can’t get good cables for aliamazon bargain prices unless you go used/open box or similar.
Me too buddy. I'm not even sure how I got to this point, but I can't go back.
Yup, strict rules, harsh punishments. Hope we see it come to pass.
IIRC, there were two groups of groups working on it (the process was simple enough that a description from the press conference was enough to get started):

* people looking for fusion neutrons, who did not have much experience with the finickiness of neutron detectors and who reported seeing them when they were getting experimental errors, and

* people looking for excess heat, which was simply inherently difficult to measure accurately.

On the other hand, there wasn't a publication delay for the negative reports; within a week the groups started talking to each other and realized they weren't unique in not finding anything.
I want to emphasize that rights are not won once. Rights must be continuously fought for. Collectively, society has succeeded in performing an outcry against bills like this, and they've done so for well over a decade at this point. It's important to know that this is what winning looks like.

Actual activism keeps this in mind: winning looks like bad things not passing. It looks like keeping an eye out for societal danger, mobilizing against it, and celebrating once the danger has been defeated-- with the knowledge that they must remain vigilant.
That number is insane. I ran sub 3:30 marathons doing 2.5 hours of aerobic training a week, which is perfectly reasonable for a healthy adult.
Ask HN: What frameworks do people use
I would like to know different frameworks and what would be a better way than ask what others use.
Yep. Just download the safetensor version.
I get their issue. The sounds from pickleball are like scratching a chalkboard after a while. I can't even imagine what it's like day after day.
A lot of these superapp mini-app can be just a link. It can be an in-app browser with static link to a college level javascript games page, maybe with credit purchase through native code going back and forth with URL parameters and callbacks. If you're doing superapps you're likely going for a janky bag full of features so that'll be fine.
Exactly. And more generally, some would classify it as "undesirable" that kids can get access to any information their parents don't want them to have.

Sometimes that's a feature, and can help change someone's life for the better. "Oh, I'm not actually evil and sinful, it turns out my parents are just hyper-religious nuts and now I have sufficient access to understand what more normal and accepting society is like."

(I'm deeply thankful that that was not a problem I had myself. I would like everyone else to have the same opportunity.)
I don't see why the author says:

> I had previously abandoned using Scheme because, frankly, I ran out of free time for exploratory programming.

But they find Common Lisp acceptable. In what way are Schemes more "exploratory" than Common Lisp? Isn't that exactly what the author says they like about CL (REPL driven development)?
I wonder what it was like 30 years ago. I would guess some of the same people rode these busses? Were they always like this? I assume the mad dash for the door to have a smoke has been around about as long as restrictions on smoking, before that the bus would've been unbearable to a non smoker.

What I really wonder about this all: was america always like this but people were just more OK rubbing shoulders with each other's filth and sweat in those days, or are these people hollowed out, dying versions of the Americans of yesteryear? What's changed: our willingness to tolerate the greasy, sweaty animals that we are and that surround us, or the health of our society?
32:9 is amazing, the Snap Windows feature on Windows gives me exactly what I want for tiling options. But, whew, physical real estate is killer. I've got a huge desk (Biomorph Pro) and the 49" double-wide display makes it feel cramped.
https://abc7.com/california-proposed-bill-gender-affirming-c...

"The initial legislation said courts deciding custody cases must consider whether each parent affirmed the child's gender.

AB 957 encourages parents who support their TGI children by "making it clear that affirming a child's gender identity is part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child."

It also allows courts to consider a parent's affirmation of their child's gender identity when making decisions about visitation and custody."

https://abc7.com/jurupa-valley-high-school-teacher-fired-stu...

"Jessica Tapia was fired for refusing to follow a state law that forbids teachers from talking to parents about their child's gender choices without consent from the student."

https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/washington-bill-to-allow-medic...

"An act relating to supporting youth,” or Senate Bill 5599, allows host homes for runaway youth “to house youth without parental permission.” Furthermore, the host homes do not need to notify parents about where their kids are or if they are getting medical interventions “"

Plenty more
Python also has this problem which you only find out once you're bitten by it. The encoding of all the built-in file manipulation machinery is platform specific so you either have to do `sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")` or add the encoding to every open call that uses text mode.

So kudos to every language that axes platform dependent encodings. Honestly platform dependent anything is so annoying to deal with. I would love if languages make it painfully explicit when you depend on platform defaults.
Averega joe can Reduce (don't buy unnecessary stuff) and Reuse (don't buy unnecessary stuff).
This was already trivially solvable by establishing a new sysroot, which in all fairness is 90% of the core benefit of containers in my view. The rest of the container features are bloat for most of my use cases.
Worth noting this wasn’t allowed on the early precursors to the internet. Also the credit card company and processor both take a fat cut and maybe deposit the money a few days later if they feel like it.
There is modestly more property crime in Oakland, and slightly more violent crime in certain parts of Oakland, but really, if you’re not coming back at 2AM (which wouldn’t work anyway, BART stops about midnight) it’s really not a problem for tourists.
I think folks conflate too many wild things at once and dismiss them all.

I think there are some interesting questions and folks with pretty good credentials that have came out and given some interesting answers to some of these.

* Are there craft that defy the laws of physics as we know them today?

* Do any governments or corporations have access to these crafts, partially or whole?

* Do those governments or corporations have control over those crafts?

* Were those crafts ever intelligently controlled?

* What type of intelligence controlled those crafts? Is it biological?

* If biological, what is the source or origin?

One of the witnesses at the hearing today, Cmdr. Dave Fravor (Retired), seems like a really normal guy, not some previous "UFO nut" out to confirm an existing bias.

He said what he saw was amazing, it defied anything he had ever saw, and as a pilot himself... he wished he could pilot it. He flew up next to the damn thing.

Now whether these are illusions or not, whether they defy the laws of physics as we currently know them, I don't know... but these folks have stated that there are up close photos as well as radar data that backs up their claims that should be released to the public.

I like to think that I still retain a chunk of that curiosity that I had as a kid. I can be a skeptic at work and professionally.. but I don't know how we can advance science past a stalemate if we can't suspend disbelief for a minute here or there and entertain the idea that there are some wilddddddd things we may not currently know about.

I think we should potentially waste some time and always follow these leads.

In the off chance that they were ever true, I wouldn't want to be in the group that just dismissed it because of my own ego.

If they're false, let them sell books and make YouTube videos for the rest of their lives. But we shouldn't just dismiss them outright... especially if they're willing to go under oath and have specific directions to point.
Gary Taubes's Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is pretty good.
It's like the surprise in the comments on that HN post about TLAs buying data from advertisers.
In Taiwan my buddy combined the extensive battery swap electric scooter infrastructure with a huandao, which means around the island trip. It took him like a month. He said it was interesting but tedious, needing to stop sometimes every hour if he was riding hard in the mountains. I think the big scooters can go something like 120km flat on a double battery stack.

That same ride can be done comfortably in a week on a gas motorcycle or overnight in a car if you can change drivers. In a train it can be done in just under a day.

I just don't think personal vehicles are the path forward for moving humans.
Maybe, maybe not. Fedex and others are experimenting nonetheless, so we'll see how many problems it solves vs introduces.

https://www.truckinginfo.com/10183205/blockchain-once-overhy...

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/about/policy/technology-innovati...

https://www.supplychain247.com/company/blockchain_in_truckin...

A common misconception is that smart contract enthusiasts believe it replaces existing contract law. It doesn't, though in some cases it removes the need for relying on it with digital services. It is meant to enhance the letter of law by adding additional guarantees.
As a parent, I want the responsibility for educating my child on the dangers of the Internet based on my core values. I don't think the government should get involved. We have very different ideas on what is safe or not.
Apple may be one of the few companies that actually follows it, too.
Library author here - yes, one execution happens per tile, if you have CloudFront in front those will only happen when the PoP has a miss.

With 512MB RAM these generally complete in under 100ms so the unit costs of Lambda are within a few multiples of Cloudflare Workers (.5USD / million invocations)
The 3-dimensional PCA doesn't produce much clustering at all (just a big diffuse sphere), but t-SNE after a few hundred iterations reveals a handful of pretty clear groups.
Watch the hearing. The two pilots are in no way making statements like that.
Worse how? Carrying groceries home in a plastic bag, then using that bag for trash, costs one plastic bag of resources. Carrying groceries home in a cloth bag, then using a plastic bag for trash, costs one plastic bag of resources. Those are pretty much the same, as long as you're not burning through cloth bags.

To put it simply: Using something twice is not better than avoiding a use and then using it once.

And when I get plastic bags at the grocery store, a third of them end up too damaged to put trash into. The small size also makes them a lot less efficient at containing trash, despite them saving material by being half as thick.
For everyone that went straight into the comments, this article is meant to guide people through _preventing_ situations like "it works in my container."
Ah but psychic readings are personal comissions, not mass marketable!

I ordered a cat scratcher. Cat scratchers are perfectly commodity things.. but mine wasn't. I ordered a handmade one. What I got shipped was a repurchase from Wayfair.

I sent a single picture of the box and got a full refund.

Yes, I got a cat scratcher but the handmade part was a material term of the deal.

Paying someone to do a psychic reading is not buying a paragraph of text. You are buying an action.

If you hire someone to tweet original tweets on your behalf and they just use a bot to retweet random clever sayings... they have in fact engaged in fraud!
I guess I was thinking the analogy fails because LF is still disappearing, but sushi places are thriving despite the availability of hot pockets
But that's different! Some crazy might use that data to go hurt them or something!

...wait...
It was a dormant account. He was squatting on it.
It’s really dependent on what reviewer you get. I develop a coding app for iPad (Codea) and for the longest time was not allowed to let users share their code in any form. I asked the reviewer “but they can just copy and paste it?” And the reviewer said “that is ok.”

In the end, it was down to whether it _looked like_ your app was downloading executable code more than whether it actually did. Reviewers are non-technical, and when the policy is technical they often make an inference that may be incorrect — however they will not budge on that without consulting actual engineers further up the chain, which can take weeks

They have become a lot more relaxed about this policy in the last five years or so (ever since Shortcuts)
Let me preface this by saying I used LISP professionally in the '80's for about ten years.

It's a great language. It is right up there at the top of my list with Assembler, APL and Forth as languages that taught me so much more than the typical C-like language path most people are exposed to today. And, yes, I used those languages professionally for years.

I have always said it is important to learn these non-C languages.

However...

> I've spent some time contemplating future-proof programming languages because I want to ensure that code I write will be usable in the future.

I think it is clear that it will not be long until you can use an AI-based tool to translate any program from language A to language B. And, in fact, likely improve, maintain and extend it.

For example, you might be able to have the AI tool write a function or module in assembler targeted at different processors and be able to accelerate critical code in a platform-specific manner that would be almost impossible for most developers to manage and maintain today.

I experimented with some of this using ChatGPT. We built a product using MicroPython that require hard real time performance. Sure, MicroPython was not the right choice to begin with. This was one of those projects where we walked into something that morphed and we were stuck. Being that I am perfectly comfortable in assembler, I replaced chunks of code with ARM assembly routings. The performance boost was massive, of course.

As an experiment, I wrote a specification for one of those modules and asked ChatGPT to write the code in ARM assembler. It took all of five seconds to get a listing. Let's just say it took me a lot longer. The code was not optimal, yet, it worked just fine. Someone like me, with experience in the domain, could easily take that as a starting point and improve from there. Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to write the same code in C, C++, JS, Python, 8080, 8085, 6502, 68K and x86 assembler. That probably took a minute or so. Did not test all of the generated code. All of it looked like it would run just fine.

In other words, I believe that, today, the only reason to pick a language is likely something like: It's what I know and it has the libraries, frameworks and support I need. In some cases, it's because it's the only way to achieve required performance (example: Python is 70+ times slower than C).

Code longevity is not likely to be an issue at all.
Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards
How would you even differentiate between retries? If you isolate it by domain, the website can redirect you 10 times, each collecting an attestation token. They could perform statistical analysis with cookies. Websites could even force logged in users to conform to a particular browser (banking apps already do this). It's difficult for me to understand how the authors can miss these implications. They even said that with holdbacks the websites can still perform statistical analysis. Statistical analysis is not just a tool for aggregate data. It can be applied to a single client with enough other identifiers.
p5.48xlarge $98.32/hr
The SaaS Playbook by Scaleworks
Sorry that was unclear. What I meant was: a while back, I was exploring Scheme (motivated by SICP) and then ran out of free time. Now, I’ve got some free time again and want to try Common Lisp because of the REPL-driven workflow.

It wasn’t meant to be a comment on Scheme vs. CL.
Google’s “web integrity API” is a system to prevent use of software not authorized by a centralized, unelected authority. Even Google’s deceitful claims about it aren’t about copyright, but auth and anti-cheat.
The Open Programmability System (OPS) is an open platform that provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to achieve device programmability, allowing third-party applications to run on the device.
Just smoke weed. I’ve had all my best ideas stoned.
It’s not an amalgam (that means a mercury alloy) or any metallic alloy. It’s an oxide (more complicated than that but there’s more oxygen atoms than metal atoms).
Can you trust an article where they refer to the University of Virginia as UV and not UVA?
> I want to emphasize that rights are not won once. Rights must be continuously fought for. Collectively, society has succeeded in performing an outcry against bills like this, and they've done so for well over a decade at this point. It's important to know that this is what winning looks like.

That may be, but once in a while it'd be nice to pass something positively affirming specific rights that prevents anyone from easily trying again to take them away. Constitutional amendments are hard to repeal. And some states have passed legislation that says things like "this can't be repealed by the state legislature, only by a vote of the people".
I appreciate gonzo journalists like hunter s Thompson or Andrew Callaghan for showing what I always considered "real America" and "real Americans." The people you meet at the DMV, the people that live in that one town that's copy pasted on every freeway in the country.

If you like stories like this I highly recommend reading some hunter s or watching some of Callaghan's videos.
Not in that way. Arabic expansion grew a new layer above cultural heritage of East Mediterranian region, and Persia, and its most important centers were exactly there, showing a lot of continuity with their "pre-coffee" roots. Which I think contradicts your theory.
Fair but LN is not a smart contract. Bitcoin can't do smart contracts the way a chain like Ethereum does, it's functionality is very limited.
> Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc, are all working together on this.

Are they? Is there any evidence those companies support the proposal? I haven't seen any statements to that effect, but I might have missed something.
So tired of actors abusing their celebrity by pushing politics 24x7. Bring on the AI, please.
Pointing out problems is hatred. Right.
This sounds so amazing, why is Common Lisp not the most popular language out there? (asking as someone who almost never writes code)