skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the article states that the data sharing agreements do not limit what the researchers can publish. They can share results/conclusions critical of the state, which could then serve as a basis for litigation.

What's weird is that they are being prevented from voluntary testimony on cases unrelated to the specific shared data, thus unnecessarily removing many experts from the pool.
I was feeling the pain of 2FA and 2FA SMS for too long as well and thus build a product, Daito (https://www.daito.io), around the concept of shared 2FA as a service for companies and teams.

In addition to TOTP 2FA (our main service), we also started to offer 2FA via SMS via _physical SIM cards_ hosted in a data center in Germany (we are a German company) as every other solution we tried (Twilio + seemingly 50+ other, non-physical SIM card-based, options by now) was simply not working reliable.

We have been talking to Twilio et al and a lot of telcos, carriers, ISP, providers and seemingly everyone in between: there simply is no easy and reliable solution to this. :(

In our tests the best reliability we could reach for national and international senders&receivers on VOIP-based numbers was only every around 80%. We are still looking for other options, and specially non-VOIP options that are actually affordable, but so far we can only offer a German number (+49). This number however, is way, way more reliable than anything we have seen from others.

We currently support forwarding SMS to an email address, and webhooks for incoming notifications are in the works.
I kinda see what you're getting at, but the way the Republicans get there is through a lot of theatrics and manipulation. I mean how many times has MTG or Gates shown up to a congressional meeting, given their sound clip, and then just left? While the new members have been doing more of this, there was the whole Tea Party thing, Trump (look at how many sitting congressmen hated him in 2015 and then flipped), or the whole "I have a snowball, lol what's global warming" like stunts. It's a different kind of theatrics, but it is still theatrics.

But I'll give you this, you're right that Republicans aren't trying to play some 4D chess. That Democrats are, but doing so with five heads. It's all theater and it is hard to watch.
Does the pipelining in Redis allow you to have the second command depend on the result of the first command?
The photo shows a single family homes development in construction. I can see 7 concrete wall printers on rails that straddle the entire width of long, single storey houses with variable plans. Foundations and roofs seem conventional. With the printers being moved here and there from house site to house site around a very flat and compact development with mostly finished roads.

The article mentions target house prices but does not give any comparison with nearby homes.

Hmmm, let's see. Georgetown, Texas, 1,500 to 2,100 sqf, 3-4 bd, zillow says for that area and allegedly built after 2020: $340k to $660k. This development plans to sell brand new for $475k to $600k. Perhaps there's a lot of demand but Zillow shows more than 200 available. Inconclusive on price.
Is that what they make or what they BILL. IT, Admin staff, paralegal, Jr lawyers, building, pro Bono and other marketing activities etc. It's paid for somehow.
The article says they were using it before hiring him though, so there must have been some prior motivation:

> In fact, you are using Cap’n Proto right now, to view this site, which is served by Cloudflare, which uses Cap’n Proto extensively (and is also my employer, although they used Cap’n Proto before they hired me)
Without knowing all the facts, no; another U.S. company could sponsor you for an H-1B after your current H-1B expires without having to put your name through the H-1B lottery again.
Many modern APIs are more ergonomic and easier to use due to the benefits of hindsight. A redesign and upgrade of DNS is long overdue.
The licensing discussion I heard between Ben Thompson and John Gruber on their Dithering podcast (not sure the details).

Even ignoring that, I think it's still a good outcome for Tesla - they effectively own and control a large percentage of all charging infrastructure in the world. Every other car company adopting their standard means they have a lot of customers that will pay them to charge at their stations (even independent of the licensing).

That plus avoiding a future where without making this transition they could end up isolated with an obscure and incompatible charger that would eventually become a liability rather than an advantage.
Any plans to improve the Rust side of things? The API could definitely use some more work/ docs around it.
How do you know? Because they said so?
https://archive.org/details/barbie_in_monster_high

https://flashmuseum.org/barbie-in-monster-high/
Ask HN: What is something you wish you were taught at a younger age?
Read a version of this online and it's definitely worth asking on HN :)
That's true, but it's annoying when people think in terms of "people from X are like Y." Drive out to rural Oregon, for instance: it's extremely conservative.

I guess that's just my gripe as a liberal who grew up in Texas (which is actually threatening to flip purple in the future due to people like me).
A relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/325

Seems like being able to override was the plan, but not clear it was actually done?
There just isnt enough exit nodes that cloud providers have opted to either blacklist, or heavily deprioritize those nodes' traffic.

I'd want to see every computer connected to the internet turn into an exit node! It makes it infeasible to block those IPs, and also prevents people from being charged a crime for such traffic.
That last 10 years has still seen millions of babies getting hiv through vertical infections. 2022, the best year on record, still had 120,000 children/babies infected.
I don't think the US recognizes "dual citizenship" - as in they dont care, not they force you to give up a citizenship.

Once you have a US passport you are a US citizen, end of story. Doesn't matter which other passports you hold. You can't be denied entry into the US.
This also happens in the US, but it's mostly tourists rather than the super rich. In NYC we have the advocacy group "Stop The Chop" that is attempting to reduce the number of helicopter flights over expensive neighborhoods. I think it is doomed to fail; air traffic is regulated by the federal government, and I don't think they care at all. The best path is to just buy the heliport and shut it down, but I don't think anyone wants to spend that much money on it. ("If we can get it for free, yeah, screw anyone that wants to fly over our property. If we have to pay, honestly it's not that annoying." Don't tell them I said that.)
I have android phone. I develop a cross platform application (FOSS). Every time I push an update to the app store version it's easily 4x the work of the play store equivalent.

I also have to pay apple £80 for the privilege of having my app available for free on their platform.

I would just like to be able to provide users a file and say "here you go, install this" so I don't have to pay apple to bless my software.
AUTOEXEC.BAT is same thing as a sysvinit script.
I mean the root comment pretty much already explained it. It is literally impossible for Worldcoin to actually perform its stated purpose, therefore it's a scam.
Thanks for the AMA, Peter! What are the options for a TN visa (Canadian) holder if they become permanently disabled (cancer treatment) and are unable to work at all? Are they able to renew their TN visa assuming the employer is okay with that?
I feel bad for her sister.
When I saw the title I thought it was this Flash archive, which was recently featured on Kottke.org: https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/browse/

Maybe we're in the midst of a Flash game renaissance.
This right here is the million dollar question. I spent years following the Tesla drama and watching subs like /r/realTesla tear into Tesla's decisions. This sub was filled with "industry people" and well the naysayers have been screaming from the tops of hills since 2010 about Teslas mistakes. Most people ignored them because they are not in the auto industry. This quote from Bob Lutz explained it perfectly: https://youtu.be/GXJnS9RgKsg?t=2687

I watched how they managed to will the Model X into production when it should have never have been built. They dug themselves into a giant grave by insisting on those falcon wing doors but they survived. I watched how they totally botched the Model 3 launch when it should have been the crowning achievement that showed that Tesla was now an established car brand. The amount of drama that occurred at the time was insane: making cars in "tents" in the parking lot, having a terrible body design, trying to force automation in all the wrong areas. In all these cases, the naysayers were proven wrong by Elon's ability to outlast his/his team's mistakes but at the same time they also managed to challenge assumptions that the industry thought was "the right way" to do things. Now we have incumbents copying Tesla's approaches to solving some problems.

In the end who was right? I never really did get an answer to that. As a software guy I thought let me stay in my lane and trust the automotive industry people because thats what they do for a living. Before the pandemic I was so sure that following established industry insiders was the way to get insight. Now, I dont know anymore. But I can't reconcile the fact that as a software guy I know that the way Twitter was handled was a complete mess. Is this just another attempt at bungling along until it actually works? I guess the real deciding factor is does he have enough runway to keep plodding along until he figures it out?
With the right advice, you should be fine to travel. Never has a client of ours in your situation had an issue entering the U.S.
How does the serialization layer impact your rpc choice?
> a liberal pipe dream

Non sequitur political flamebait in the top comment. HN continues its slide.
> the list of DNS record types

Actually authoritative list: <https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-paramete...> That list also has linked references for each entry, whereas the list you gave only has references for 9 of the 51 types it lists.

If we exclude entries explictly marked as experimental, obsolete, deprecated, or reserved, the list you gave is still missing these:

• AMTRELAY

• ATMA

• AVC

• DOA

• EID

• GPOS

• ISDN

• L32

• L64

• LP

• MINFO

• NID

• NIMLOC

• NINFO

• PX

• RKEY

• RT

• SINK

• SPF

• TALINK

• WKS

• X25

(I know, many of these are de-facto deprecated: SPF is abandoned for TXT, GPOS was replaced by LOC, and the entire usage of WKS was obsoleted by the recommendation of RFC 1123. But they are not marked as such in the list from IANA, and I still often see SPF records in the wild.)

Also incomplete, but often has better references: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types>

(Not to mention TYPE, which I have also occasionally encountered.)
Perhaps I am just optimistic but AI doesn't seem necessary, nor does fusion. Fission is more than capable of providing enough power and if we are going to do this via sequestration, we may as well start now and forget net-zero.

I definitely think this is an organisation problem, not a technology problem. Societies are not organising to fix the issue, instead it seems they are hoping the global free market will eventually make it economically beneficial in the short term, to save the climate.
are they being called in as expert witnesses?
I wouldn't get this worked up about a simple term that keeps things understandable for a layperson, lest your head might explode once you see how people are anthropomorphizing some AI "companion" bots.
New York did once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways
Creator here. I add the static to mask the video buffering ( since each channel change triggers a video load ) I'm flattered though that you think of me as young. I very much was a child of the '80's :D
Ask HN: Detailed step-by-step Git checkout
I'm trying to figure out a weird issue I'm having with pygit2 and checking out a remote branch in a git repository. The code examples I've found so far don't seem to do what I want, so I am trying to get back to basics:

I'd like to follow a step-by-step of exactly what git does during the command "git checkout".

The articles I've found so far either deal with other commands, or they gloss over what seems to be important steps.

Does anyone know of a good, step-by-step, detailed guide to the internals of git? Specifically git checkout?

Ideally it would detail what action is taken on each relevant entry under refs/remotes/origin/ and then refs/heads/ because that's the bit that doesn't seem to get mentioned.

I hope someone can help!
Many of the systemd components are separate and optional. You can easily eschew from systemd-timesyncd and systemd-resolved, for example.
The overall quality of an individual employee has declined considerably. Mass hiring and layoffs are to an extent part of a more elaborate hiring process. Right now market dynamics are making this possible but as things tighten up there will be salary depression and more intern type roles coming back as the "hiring" process gets extended where previously it was compressed.
If you still want to give it a shot, you shouldn't need an active subscription for it to work. But I do totally get moving away from the streaming world. Even bandcamp is losing its ground as a safe a haven for making sure artists are paid their worth.
Startup Pivots: How we Iterated on 4 Ideas in 12 weeks
Pivoting with Purpose: Dive into the journey of moving from weak PMF at nearly $1Mn ARR, to a more robust, founder-market fit product, leveraging customer discovery and first principle thinking.

This can help if you're thinking of changing your startup's direction, or if you're starting something new, and want to learn how to really understand your customers and their needs.
Author doesn't get that there is no "eyeball database", only a database of hashes.
There’s a name collision with “Python Remote Objects”. Which I have to see as unfortunate, given my scars from that other pyro.
A hash of a biometric has the exact same negative properties of a biometric data point itself: That it is not concealable, you cannot change it, and that it is tied to you explicitly. Surely you see how a giant database of biometric hashes provides the same usefulness to bad actors as an actual biometric database? It's a unique identifier tied explicitly to your physical body. Anything that hash is tied to can later be trivially de-anonymized.

After collecting everyone's biometric "ID", that database can be helpfully leased to Peter Thiel's (one of the early investors) wonderful surveillance machines, so now when the officer pulls you over "for a broken taillight", their body camera can get a nice view of your iris and buy your entire worldcoin history from say Palentir, for a price of course, and zero warrant.
The main point of the article is that the CDE is preventing those who partner with them from testifying about anything, even what's unrelated to the data CDE provides - 'Viewpoint discrimination'.

> That begs the question: Did the research lead to the desire to be an expert witness? Or did the desire to be an expert witness define the nature of the research project?

I don't think these questions are productive. You can't truly know why someone does what they do. And making the suggestion that the researchers tainted their research because of the money is purely speculative and unfair.
This is some very valuable perspective. Personally, I previously also struggled to understand why. For me, the thing that clicked was to understand protobuf and Cap'n proto as serialization formats that need to work across API boundaries and need to work with different versions of their schema in a backwards- and forwards-compatible way; do not treat them as in-memory data structures that represent the world from the perspective of a single process running a single version without no compatibility concerns. Thus, the widely repeated mantra of "making illegal states unrepresentable" does not apply.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
It was super addictive for sure. And wow, you did end up figuring it out! Did you use cheat codes by any chance?

If not, kudos!
I have a similar story. I was working at Microsoft and part of the internal arcade alias. One day, somebody on there mentioned a team was moving buildings and had some arcade cabinets in their storage room that they had to get rid of, one of them being a Street Fighter II: CE cab. SF2 was my favorite arcade game as a kid, so I needed it. I asked how much and they said free.

I got excited and quickly rounded up some coworkers, one with a truck, to go down to their building and "rescue" it. It ended up in my office and needed a few repairs. Over time, I learned how to do minor repairs here and there and even did a monitor tube swap (found an old CRT TV at Goodwill that became the donor).

The thing is huge, so became a nuisance when I moved teams a few times. I got good at putting it on a dolly and transporting it myself from office to office. I left Microsoft years ago, but kept the machine and it's now sitting in my home office.
I was listening to NPR yesterday in the car. The topic fecal bacteria levels on the beaches. The host just blurted out that Climate change drives fecal bacteria levels on the beach. I was curious to hear his reasoning so I can understand the logic behind the statement. But.. nothing more was said of this.

I have a similar but not exact feel about this article. It mentions a study, but the logic in the post does not seem rigorous enough. NPR is great, but I think they are doing a great disservice by not checking their arguments.
I'm going to spend the rest of my Friday watching Happy Tree Friends.
“California currently has 18,170MW (18.2 GW) of interconnections to neighboring states in the Western Interconnection, equivalent to approximately one-third of its annual peak electricity demand.“

In my view, 33% of annual peak is not weakly interconnected. Granted that number is from 2003.

I work on hydro electric plant control systems not transmission planning so I can’t say what industry insiders would call weakly interconnected, but on the systems I have worked on one or two ties is weakly interconnected and dozens is not.

https://www.electricpowergroup.com/Downloads/pFinalCAElecGen...
That's the main idea behind accelerationism from a Landian perspective. That capitalism is just getting started and that it's unstoppable and that it won't transition into socialisim like Marx predicted but rather will encompass more and more of everything and be the vehicle for the next evolution into a cybernetic species. It's the evolution of evolution and it's unstoppable. So get on with it and learn to love it.

Quotes like "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism" and Mark Fisher's (CCNU and Nick Land, etc)ideas around capitalism realism sort of sum it up.
One of the gotchas I encountered is that DNS is asynchronous, with possibly a long delay before reply. C apis make it look synchronous - which I think makes it harder to work with. There's also the detail that order of replies can be any.
(I found too many developers expected synchronous and instant replies)
Love this. Needs a chat functionality like old Arconai used to. Would spend hours there :)
That's not strictly true. There's some recent work (as fascinating as it is incomprehensible) on generating datasets that share most aggregate properties with the actual dataset (measured through joint probability distributions), but do not reveal more than some epsilon of information about any individual contained in the original data set.

These have the potential to revolutionize private computation and analysis, as they provide provable hard (theoretical) limits on the amount of information you can learn about individuals regardless of the type of analysis performed on the proxy dataset.
I’m surprised twilio doesn’t offer a “sim hotel” where you just mail in your actual SIM card and then interface with it over their api…

It solves all of their terrible new a2p 10dlc issues and would be genuinely useful.

Actually, there are all kinds of ways to solve their 10dlc problems and make their platform useful (again) for something other than spam but … that would be a boring and useful service and not customer engagement at scale.
You can't sponsor your parents until you are a U.S. citizen and you must be a green card holder for 5 years (unless you are married to a U.S. citizen) before you can apply for citizenship. Will you be managing any employees in your position in the U.S.? Are you managing any employees now?
I worked on that trial! Maybe I saw you there :)
NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
Agreed! We wanted to share what we had today and iterate.

We have a section at the bottom on "Ensemble of experts" - allowing you to change the percentage run with the base model vs the refiner.

I am most excited to add the ability to change between prompts
Yea, they're dropping the native generator for /etc/init.d, I believe. Scripts placed here implicitly became systemd services.

Nothing of huge value is lost. Distributions play an important part, we shouldn't forget. They can maintain something like this for users, if so inclined.

This mostly hurts third party/ancient/naive packages that you probably, eventually, won't want to install on your distribution for other reasons.

This won't affect any packages natively provided by your distribution of choice. Think those random RPMs/DEBs you get from an external vendor -- UPS, keyboard, whatever.

They've had over a decade to see the writing on the wall, adding ~12 lines to their entire codebase/packaging spec. Probably a net-reduction given the NIH-syndrome of these scripts.

Instead, I've seen them make this directory, put their scripts inside, and just expect things to work out. It did, arguably by chance. The compatibility was deliberate, but support isn't forever.
> Why is there a difference? Who is determining bad VOIP from good VOIP?

I don't know :(

> Are there steps you can, or are, taking to work on having your numbers legitimized?

Sourcing the phone numbers from a company with a reputation to defend - Twilio - is the main method.

> Where are you sourcing your numbers?

Twilio
believe it or not, they make more! they make money off of what the associates and junior partners bill, too. but yes, that figure is what they bill.
I got it to work in an acceptable way with an 8BitDo Pro 2. I control the movement of "Tron" via the right stick and the aiming cursor with the left D-pad.

The main thing I notice on the environmental version is the Sark voice acting, I still wonder if they actually got David Warner to do it. :)
No. Most Texans believe in "climate change" and consider regional warming effects to be axiomatic. The primary debate is:

1) Is it s/anthropomorphic/anthropogenic? (Caused by humans).

2) Is it really that bad for the Earth? (Does the heat help and/or can the ecosystem adapt).

Most of the debate has moved from "is it happening" to these other questions.
Well, nothing compares to the insane brokenness of real life, haha.

But yes! FAB game.
> Fuck around and find out.

That's your view of human rights...? Well okay, I guess you and I will never see eye to eye.

> You suggest I “look into it further” as if I didn’t just say I was a privacy researcher.

I was responding to your statement, not your credentials. I don't say this to insult you, only to explain because you seem to want an explanation, but your statement was ignorant and lacking nuance. (Your statement, not you personally.)
One thing about google proto is that, at least in many languages, every message throws off a ton of garbage that stresses the GC. On the send side, you can obviously re-use objects, but on the receive side no.
A network engineer or a teenager motivated to communicate with his girlfriend when not at his dads office.