skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US executives can be compelled to testify truthfully under oath. There is no "Chinese law compels me to keep this secret" defense to perjury charges in the US. If credible evidence emerges, Apple executives will eventually be forced to admit whatever they know. The only viable strategy here is to have a broken system and plausible "not know" it's being exploited, but that's a very fragile approach (technically risky, vulnerable to whistleblowers) and it only works once.
The UK Govt managed to squander every opportunity that was given to them, and I say this as a tory/leave voter.
Maybe it is because of Debug vs. Release mode (and the optimization level coming with it) but I see a speed difference on the order of 10-100x vs. Release mode GCC
Starting as a baby gives you a better chance at building a foundation for the kind of lifestyle you want when you reach your teens or twenties. Those baby years will go by quickly anyway.

It isn’t really suicide because your consciousness isn’t extinguished, you just end up unconscious for a bit while you restructure.
In theory yes but the problem is many people here (England) end up picking the session beers and then drinking 10 of them.
I presume GP's comment was meant to be read "to protect the children[? and protect] the rest of us from terrorists?
> why didn’t those idiots use this unverifiable data I disapprove of?
I checked the sugar content of one the other day and it was like 12% sugar or something ridiculous.
Yeah. Speaking in generalities, decentralization increases overall resilience of a network because it isolates the extent to which bad things can spread. Centralization increases efficiency (and efficacy, if the ruler of the centralized power is competent), and the likelihood of a system-wide failure.
> veganism does nothing to address this

Veganism would help solve climate change (15-25% co2, also methane and n20), deforestation, pollution, soil erosion and overfishing (5 things out of 7 causing overshoot of the carrying capacity of our environment).

> because the tiny extent of their natural habitat is underneath what is now Mexico City

I'm aware.

I was responding to the question why I'm interested in these topics, and I never suggested that axolots' problem could be solved by veganism.

You're right that veganism would not (probably) help in this specific case, but that was not the point of the comment you were reacting to.
Ask HN: What can migraine sufferers do post-incandescent ban?
I don't have migraine myself, but I live with a family member who does. Never felt comfortable around CFLs because your house becomes a toxic waste accident if you drop one, and LEDs are a migraine trigger. My reading has lead me to believe CFLs have the same problem with migraine anyhow. My family member works from home because the lighting at his office is that bad. I thought the ban was staved off for a few years but we both heard on local news last night it's just a few days before the ban. Somehow we missed this before now. What can we do? Campaign for a medical exemption to be added?
> Now that Raspberrt PIs are back in stock

Didn't see retail 8 GB models in probably over a year, had to confirm, sweet:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/RASP...
The privacy train has already gone.

We should just accept the status quo. We should not fight for privacy aby more. We should accept global surveillance without a fight.

No. We van do something. We van limit our data. It may be futile, but I cannot leave things be like that.
Can’t edit my comment from Octal for some reason. It wasn’t cancer but some sort of heart defect.
The wording reminds me of something I'd expect to read from a marketing person hoping to avert losing customers to an open source protocol.
„Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter, built on the top of LLVM and Clang libraries.“

I don‘t understand your comment, do you care to enlighten me?
Sadly, debunked:

https://www.mashed.com/439154/can-eating-yeast-really-preven....
That's the search for materials he's talking about, not 1000 attempts and 2 strokes of luck to synthesize the identified "superconductor."
Those examples are still different from reality.

You're decided to add a condition of "held by the post office" to the letter example. This is not at all what I wrote. Once the letter is delivered (as it was in my example) that recipient may give it to the Government without a warrant. The government may just not forcibly take it without a warrant.

Again, NSA isn't going into your digital home. They're going into Verizon's digital home and Verizon has invited them in there. Sure Verizon has information there that you gave them but just like if it had written Verizon physical letters it's not _your_ home its _Verizon's_ home.

It's fine to think of this like a loophole but gathering information and selling it really isn't some novelty that didn't exist in the 1700s.
> Costco electronics are often times priced very similarly to Best Buy [...] If Costco is breaking even on them, are you implying that also the other retailers are?

They break even in aggregate across everything that isn't memberships, but there is a bit of variability in margin, so, maybe, maybe not.

OTOH, brick and mortar electronics retailers have for quite a while had narrow margins and pushed things like high margin extended warranties to make profit (or, for the vast majority of them, just gone out of business.) Costco includes an extended warranty with purchase.

> Tons of people buy their Apple electronics at Costco, so I have to assume it is a significant percentage of their revenue.

Probably not. Apple electronics are big ticket items, but people aren't buying new iPhones or MacBooks all that frequently. The revenue from a person buying a MacBook and iPhone every other year is dwarfed by that of a person buying groceries every week.
Well said. I personally don't feel Jar Jar to be "a significant character who changed movies" as Best says, but I'd never agree to the amount of hate poured on the person for playing this role. The "Phantom Edits" and related versions drastically improved the prequels for me because they limited the aspects I didn't like. It's ok to dislike characters in movies. Leaving death threats on answering machines is beyond anything appropriate.
My partner and I went 36-4 in our senior year* in policy debate because we continually argued that the federal government was inefficient and corrupt and we should instead just give block grants to the states. In the mid 1990s in Montana, that was a nearly unbeatable strategy. It's always been about finding the one argument that the judge will be unable to ignore instead of about the actual evidence you have for all the rest of it.

*we lost the state championship to a team from Hardin, MT, population about 4000 and guess where the state championship was held that year?
I wonder how much age and general ossification are playing a factor.

Germany is essentially the oldest nation in the world at the median (very close to or beyond Japan's figure). The median closing in on being 50 years old, is going to tend to crimp the output of the labor base vs the population scale (active workers vs retired ratio). The only offset to that is either extreme productivity increases (have to make your remaining workers far more productive), or immigration.

I rarely hear anything about the kind of high-skill immigration efforts that, for example, Canada is known to pursue the past few decades. Germany should be a tech juggernaut.
The one thing I dislike about matrix is how it has to use http. IRC is an escape from the web. The matrix api is simple enough to use a couple of curl commands for basic chat though.

A simple "everything is a json schema" protocol but over TCP/UDP would be cool.
High-Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality [pdf]
These alt debates were well around 20 years ago. It was incredibly rare that they succeeded because:

a) most judges didn't really like it when the debate becomes some weird meta thing.

b) most teams that ran this were NOT good at debate.

What seems new is Judges completely throwing out the substance of the debate and relying on their own political views for the round.
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What leaked court docs tell us about AWS, Azure and Google cloud market shares
AP’s licensing deal with OpenAI includes first-mover safeguard
So there are 7 cameras that are better. There are only 6 flagship phones of any merit (Apple, Xiomi, Samsung, Huawei, Oppo, Google), so 8th place puts it behind the last generation Pixel phone. Seriously, while the iPhone is a superior to the Android flagships in most respects, but if you’ve used a Pixel then the iPhone camera is a clear step down.
Where do you host the bot? Not everyone has an always-on server.
Currently, doesn't seem to be a way to auto generate a corresponding language profiler for program(s) running withing the vm (vs. standard profilers for language vm compiled to).
I guess this means he intends to pay the rent on that building...
The war on drugs has done incredible damage to chronically ill, and patients suffering severely. The amount of relief patients could get from debilitating pain was far better in the 1800s than it is today.

People often end up rehospitalized or denied care entirely because their pain or anxiety goes unmanaged or because they "might maybe be drug seekers".

Our current laws have fast tracked ordinary people to heroin or otherwise dealers. Difficult to imagine that wasn't part of the point of them...
> RFK Jr is a public idiot

I’m just curious if anyone else finds the ad hominem attacks without any supporting arguments tiresome.

If you disagree with a person’s positions or proposals, by all means cite specific critiques, but calling them names without justification seems childish and weak - something you would do when you have nothing meaningful to add to the discussion.
It has been a long time since I set up my first iPhone, which was in early 2012. I have since been migrating my settings to new phones each time.

I don't remember the Maps app asking for permission to get my location or the Contacts app asking for permission to read my contacts. They do this?
Yes. Because let's be honest, what actual harm occurred? "Someone you didn't authorize to know things about you used that information to put together a political influence model that didn't work" isn't exactly irrevocable damage.

The market will not protect our privacy, nor will the law. The only thing that will protect our privacy is to stop giving the data away, and to aggressively combat attempts to harvest it without our consent at the infrastructural level, and probably to stop using the internet so much because the whole machine is one giant data collection, collation, and aggregation engine. It's what it's good at. Facebook can't take advantage of this data if their warehouses are choked with noise data or their data collection bugs are DDOS'd or nobody hires their former employees or the data just isn't there because people are living more local.

But the government? The government will not protect Americans. The theory of harm here is not demonstrated.
Compensation Decoded: Tech and leadership salaries at early stage startups
And Nuitka does optimize: https://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html#optimization
I'm sure all 30 of Nostr users will benefit.
Could you share what some of these substances are?
Ask HN: Facebook Account with 2FA Hacked. How and What to Do Now?
A few days ago I woke up to a text message with a FB SMS 2FA code and a bunch of security emails saying that emails/phone numbers were being removed from my FB account. I was able to get back in by uploading my driver's license and subsequently deleted my account, but I'm trying to figure out how this could have happened and what steps I should take to determine if anything else might be compromised.

Devices: Ubuntu desktop (only device logged in to FB. Chrome with no extensions), iphone, and macbook.

Timeline:

* 3:15am - First SMS from FB with a code

* 5:20am - Second SMS from FB with a code

* 6:45am - Emails beginning to be removed from account

I've had the FB account for a while and hadn't changed the password in about a decade so I'm not that surprised someone was able to get the password, but I have no idea how they were able to get around the 2FA challenge. As noted, this happened all while I was asleep so I didn't enter a code anywhere. Is there a way to bypass 2fa on FB if you fail a few times or is it likely that they compromised my iphone or macbook to get the codes?

Another strange thing is that the FB emails geocoded where all the email removal actions came from and they were all from my city in the US, but the hackers added themselves to a dormant ad account I had and all the emails were Vietnamese names. So maybe they were able to do some sort of session hijacking, but I only use chrome for FB and firefox for everything else and don't have extensions installed on chrome.

Since this happened I've changed passwords on all my emails and other important accounts. I checked for forwarding emails they may have been added to any of my accounts and couldn't find any. Are there any steps/recommendations I should take to bolster my security now/figure out how I got compromised? Thanks!
Ahhh, I thought this would be about real cyberdecks people are actually building now. These devices are basically laptops without a hinge. A "slab" computer with a small, wide-format display and a compact mechanical keyboard layout. They seem to be an off-shoot of the mechanical keyboard builder hobby.
Who are you suggesting fuzz what?

The bug wouldn't have occurred in a normal mastodon installation since mastodon's recommended configuration is a single postgres database, or at the very least to use synchronous replication.

Also, very typically, fuzzers intentionally use simplified configuration, so it seems even less likely fuzzing would have caught this interaction.
This is Google's general strategy for dealing with any controversy surrounding web standards, not just the big ones around ad blocking. The first thing that they will always say is, "critics don't understand what we're trying to do and they're unknowledgeable about the spec and there's a lot of misinformation floating around..."

Literally any controversy about a standard that Chrome adopts, that will always be the first thing that Google says. It's just a standard pattern.

Being able to say, "I understand people's concerns and I have concerns and we need to have a conversation and iterate but it's just hard with all this misinformation floating around" allows Google to position themselves as a reasonable party while also allowing them to completely ignore any criticism that is inconvenient because they just lump it into the misinformation category.

If the gaslighting doesn't work, Google's next step will be to talk about how the debate has spiraled out of control and how everyone needs to "remember the human." If that doesn't work, they'll lock down and refuse to talk to critics and then plead with critics to be patient because "we're working on it."

Then they'll make some minor changes to the spec and claim that everyone's criticisms are outdated and go back to the gaslighting again. That's already happened here, the original spec did not mandate hold-backs, in fact it suggested that hold-backs were not a desirable solution to pursue. Now all of a sudden it's, "why is everyone so mad, don't they know we have hold-backs?"

If everything falls apart and Google has to backtrack, the closest thing that you'll get to an apology from Google is that "we need to be better about communicating with users/developers." It's not that anything was wrong, it was that the web standards teams just weren't able to communicate how right they were.

And then we'll repeat the process with whatever the next controversy is.

----

I wrote a little bit about this process back in 2018 when web audio was the controversy (a comparatively minor browser change with very few privacy implications): https://danshumway.com/blog/chrome-autoplay and I keep paying attention to how Chrome approaches controversy, and it's pretty much always following this pattern, it's wild how consistently this has played out with Manifest V3, FLOC, Topics, etc, etc...

Developers and users should get better at recognizing this stuff during debates about Google policy, and they should go into conversations with the Chromium team about web standard controversies expecting that they will play out this way.
If reincarnation is real, isn't that already happening? Granted, it is not the same exact base material that gets rebuilt in a baby, but in a way the dead body gets decomposed, eaten by other animal and join the soil through feces or get cremated and join the soil/water. Then after sometime, someone gets pregnant gets nutrient form the soil (plants, fruits, grass fed beef...) and a baby is built. Obviously some of the individual base parts will go to other creatures too.

We only miss the memory, that which makes us individual human beings. I wonder where the hell does it go. That's is marvelous to me. Where does the memory go?
it's worse: anything you put on a computer will become public. Paper and pen rule.
I've had an interesting time transitioning our project from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry now that the former is EOL'd. We use the otel stackdriver output. Anyone have a refernce comparison between GCP cloud metrics vs. a prometheus monitoring stack?
This is not a thing on HN because this is not a thing in real life. Over the sixteen-year period between 2005 and 2020, nearly three-quarters of the 138,230 tonnes of natural uranium imported into France came from four countries:

Kazakhstan: 27,748 tonnes (i.e. 20.1%);

Australia: 25,804 (18.7%);

Niger: 24,787 (17.9%);

Uzbekistan: 22,197 (16.1%).

Only Niger is in Africa, and France has 10 years stored in case of geopolitical conflicts.
https://archive.ph/SoHL9
I was first introduced to 3% beer in Norway. It was crazy expensive (due to taxes on alcohol) and really good. I was disappointed that I couldn't find anything similar in the US.
I see. Thanks for the explanation :)
FFMPEG and ImageMagik would be a stretch but one could do with this openCV/Python. Of course easier said than done. You need to deal with image alignment, contrast changes and some math to get things looking clean. Having it all bundled on the phone is nice.
I am really close to buying the astro slide for this reason. they plan to support debian, and I'm just waiting for the day that they say debian is fully supported to buy one.
No, the comment you’re replying to is actually a bit rightfully offended by the casually offensive remarks being dropped by the grandparent.

The problem is fundamentally that Android users drop this microaggression all the time about how apple users are brainless sheep, who don’t have any sense and just let status drive all their purchases, and don’t even see it as offensive.

amd fanboys do the same thing with nvidia users, insisting that “mindshare” is somehow the sole reason that AMD lost ground over the years and that nvidia customers are all dumb brainless sheep too.

It’s actually quite offensive and extremely pervasive, and if you dare call it out you get people like you tut-tutting about how offensive it is to be pointing out your offensiveness.

The problem isn’t the indignant reply, that’s just human nature, the problem is the person who dropped yet another “all apple users are status-chasing sheep” thought-terminating cliche. That’s offensive and pervasive and really should stop especially here of all places. It needs to be said and you are in the wrong for shouting down the people trying to say it.

Again, I know that it’s so absolutely normalized and pervasive that android/AMD people probably don’t see “[other brand] users are brainless sheep” as being offensive, but it is. Like that’s not even a dog whistle, you’re just saying it right out loud. You’re telling a forum full of the general public that a good number of them are brainless, and you’ve been doing it for so many years that you don’t even see why that’s wrong.

MacBooks, iPhones, and nvidia cards are all quite good products and have many many things going for them, there is absolutely no call to be insulting by suggesting that people haven’t done any research because they chose a different product for their needs.

Like how poorly socialized are people that they think calling other people “brainless” to their faces isn’t offensive, or to tut-tut at other people for being upset about such conduct? Especially when here of all places people have most definitely considered the technical merit of the alternatives.
My favorite is Run Wild from Athletic Brewing Co.
Interpreters are slower than compiled code.

Python is an interpreted language.

Yes, dynamic recompiling, JIT-ing, etc etc.

But you used a interpreter (for C++) with some expectation it would be faster than a language that is itself interpreted? I mean, I guess you could assume that the stronger typing of C++ would provide an advantage over Python...

But if you hear "interpreted", you should assume 10x slowdown at minimum, unless there has been human-centuries invested in performance improvement like the JVM.

RE: "nothing in the original message about expecting faster that interpreted code" He literally said "it's not any faster than Python" which is an interepreted language. He was expecting interpreted C++ to be substantially/perciptibly faster than Python ... an interpreted language. In case you didn't know a "scripting" language is 99% of the time interpreted.
Substances that make you feel good are for the elite youth when attending Harvard, Yale, Oxford, … not for the regular joe.
Bloody revolution is not really appropriate here, the majority of the House of Lords is already not hereditary - of 780 seats, 90 are occupied by hereditary peers and AFAICT they will no longer pass their seats on.

The issue is whether the leaders of the commons should be able to appoint people to the upper chamber for life, whether the church should have a seat at the table etc. Or whether the upper chamber should be directly elected. It’s a matter of governance and constitution more than embedded privilege.

So as much as “Guillotine the nobs” would be a popular cry, most of them aren’t nobs in the first place.
This is on par with the trend of biohacking ... from ozempic, ADHD meds, transgender hormone therapies, to cheating hangovers ... You can't cheat nature, for long at least.
It's not essentially the government though.

Your example is knowing the location of somebody. That's it. You example isn't about knowing who they're calling, what they're saying, their Wordle high score, their pictures, theirs emails, etc.

I don't doubt you had highly detailed geolocation. Just make that your poll though since that's what you have an example of.
In a word - nope!
I'm sure no one gets special treatment here, surely. No one pays apple to look the other way, surely. Everyone treated equally in this scenario seems like the most likely result. /s
I think even without that there was likely still at least theoretically a race condition.
> The thought crossed my mind, but the only example I'm familiar with is Atlanta-- a few blue droplets on a red ocean, yet the state is currently represented by two Democratic senators, and the House is split. There's something weird about this but I'm not a political strategist enough to understand what's going on here. Is this where population matters-- density of the metro area outweighing the rest of the state?

Yes, Atlanta metro is about 60% of the population of the state of Georgia.