skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will fully admit this is a big problem with Apple. God forbid you have two iCloud accounts and want to merge (not just the photos) My sister has two from living in another country for a decade and me, our dad, her husband, and her gave up after hours and hours and multiple trips to the Apple Store. I see there are some software out there but it shouldn’t require it to merge what are essentially files, and who knows if they will merge everything. I think we’d have to download individual documents, maybe in batches of 10, from what I remember.
I’m confused, play is something small children do, not teenagers. Do they just mean free time in general?
An Artist Helped Millions of Drivers with a Counterfeit Highway Sign
CIQ spins out its own Red Hat Ansible interface take: Ascender
I get "Something went wrong :(" because flashmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com requires Referer HTTP header to be set, but I actually like this as error details shows me the link to .swf file to use in a standalone Flash player.
That depends on how you define node. I would not call the software you run to connect a "node". And in that framework, I would say that node=relay.
In addition to the Pixel 4a I also have an iPhone X and in 2023 you can really tell how sluggish the phone feels with iOS 16. I can only imagine how much worse it will feel with iOS 20.
> gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services

This is NOT enforceable outside the UK any more than Chinese law enforceable outside China. If you are a messaging service, just close all your business entities in the UK and they have no more jurisdiction over you. People in the UK can still use your messaging services unless the UK decides to implement a firewall like China.

> which will destroy end-to-end encryption

I don't trust any E2E encryption unless at least the clients are open source. How do I know the NSA hasn't inserted a backdoor into WhatsApp?

And then if the clients are open source, the back doors they insert (via git pull requests?) can be removed.
The more of these the better! I find when I'm learning something new I end up wanting to see a bunch of different versions of the same exposition until one sticks.

I also recommend this one for following along in code: https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/
Quite interesting. How does one resolve this?

Naive me would have d observe a and recalculate its value by recomputing b and c then.

Other naive but complexity indulging me would store a dependency graph and use this graph to determine when one should wait for a value to update.

Surely there must be an easier way?
I started seeing this dehumanisation spring up even here on HN, comparing LLMs with human brains and human thoughts as similar regurgitation to LLMs. I’m afraid it will get worse as this technology advances
Yeah, the idea that kids will only do stupid things once isn't necessarily true.

Similar story: I have a good friend who, as a kid, regularly had to have poison control called for him. It didn't matter what his parents did to hide the stuff he shouldn't drink, he would still try to get to it and drink it. Despite having to have his stomach pumped multiple times.
“The Russian Conquest of Central Asia”: Book Review and Analysis
LLMs have a firm grip on common sense. It's because it allows them to deal with the utterly unexpected they are deemed useful in robotics. Not to perform delicate movements, but stop doing so when police enters the room.
Truly.

I was at a park concert once, the kind where everyone is sitting, and there was a large family in front of me. One of the kids (around 12 I would guess, old enough in any case) kept standing up, roaming around, and generally blocking the view of the people behind him, even though he wasn't watching the show (he was literally munching on snacks and facing back in the crowd). I wouldn't have cared if he was excited, dancing, enjoying the show, but that was just not the case.

I asked him if he could sit down so I could see. His dad immediately got in my face and demanded that I apologize to his son. He didn't leave until the police got involved.
One option is to apply for Global Entry/NEXUS for Canada. You will have a single potentially miserable interview with a CBP officer who might bring your denial up because I'm sure they ask if you've been refused entry before. But if they're happy, you can enter the border without speaking to any agents (or a significantly reduced chance). Once cleared, on arrival, they snap a picture of your face at a kiosk and wave you through on an iPad (no passport involved). It works out to around 20 dollars a year plus your home country's admin fee.

This doesn't solve your problem entirely but if you're legally allowed to be in the US then there's nothing underhand about taking advantage of the program.

I think NEXUS might be easier, but when I did this as a European the border agent didn't really know what to do and was very grumpy that I didn't provide a US address to send my card which I was told by a different airport I didn't need. Once that was sorted, I haven't had any trouble since and it usually eliminates queueing at the border.

If you're physically in the US, do it at an airport if you can get an appointment - they tend to be much more relaxed than the border guards.
oregonian here.

full service in this context just means some gruff gentleman pumps your gas. getting your windows washed or oil checked is all but non-existent. so no, i don’t think there is any appeal for tourists. it’s an inferior experience.

gas stations are extremely understaffed these days, to the point where it’s rare at some stations for all the pumps to even be open. cars queue at popular stations while two employees man a dozen pumps. it can be agonizingly slow and frustrating.

i’ve read and heard a lot of pushback on self serve and i don’t get it. iirc stations are still required to offer full service on a portion of the pumps, so folks who don’t want to pump still won’t have to.

edit: all of this is of course my anecdotal experience from the willamette valley area.
That’s what the journalists are there for though - to do double checks and verify sources. This is CNN, no?

I’m against what Russian forces are doing across the board, but explicit Russophobia gives that regime exactly the kind of ammunition they want. They can paint this picture that we’re all just biased and out to put them down as a civilization and as innocent a society. Even when it’s scientific discoveries.

Projects like these go on for decades, right?
Sure thing. https://imgur.com/a/GsLYW6W
The specific instructions for iPhone users are at the very bottom.
Can you further elaborate on "price discovery" and how monetary policy interfaces with the bond market?
Also, curious to better understand how you interpret monetary policy and bond markets ultimately impacting high-end tech hiring in a more concrete example.
Agreed. Animations definitely helped. I noticed that more "errors" with wide landscape images than tall portrait ones. I have to imagine that's because the dataset is pulled from the web and the web has a preference for vertically segmented design
Mastodon was really never going to be that place where most of the internet moved. It would've been nice in a perfect world, but it's simply not set up as an advertiser-friendly social networking site that would attract celebrities and brands, and quite frankly I think the vast majority of its userbase considers that a feature and not a bug.

Still, I believe that BlueSky and Threads remain a looming existential threat to Twitter. One important role that Twitter filled was being the de-facto centralized RSS feed. It is by far the thing that I see that Twitter is still used for, even by ex-Twitter users and people like me who never used the site in the first place.

To be the centralized RSS feed, you need a web-facing interface, so you can pass links around over the clearnet. Threads doesn't have one. BlueSky isn't even open to the greater public yet. But either one of those could change overnight.
I am employing reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate the problem with the comment I replied to.
One of the best, but also strangest explanation of DNS I've seen is from "A Cat Explains DNS". It's wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtFk2dtqv0
Thanks for the above feedback, I greatly appreciate it. I agree on your comment regarding a shared route as opposed to individual pick ups.

The idea of a "zero waste diversion quota" sounds interesting as well.

A lot of food for thought....

Thanks for the appropedia link as well.
>a Harvard leadership expert

I can’t read the article but who’s that “leadership expert”? Aslo, success has nothing to do with leadership and what not, it’s mostly by luck, just like gambling but with a non rigged machine, or maybe rigged a little.
Death of the physical library
IIRC Michael Levin has started limb regrowing experiments with mice. He might've mentioned it in some podcast he was on.
I used to work on datacenter NVMe products. I wrote the tests which validated them (mostly functional not performance). I left that company before things got hot with fabrics, but I really want to see that stuff succeed. It looked really cool.
Can you further elaborate on why monetary policy is directly related to profit margins?
My understanding is that monetary policy / interest rates is controlled by the FED. When they raise rates then money is more expensive, therefore profit margins shrink, and the hiring bar has to increase.
Is a reentry permit a document that can be obtained by filing the I-131 form, or how can one obtain such a permit?

Could you spell out what "2 years at a stretch and generally up to 5 total without issue" means for non-native speakers?
This is such an amazing list. Thank you so much for sharing!
The Lancet’s Scientific Chicanery on Temperature-Related Deaths
I had a friend in jail for a short period of time. I couldn’t let her languish. So I did those $25 hamburgers and $13 phone calls. Everything about this was repulsive to me. But for someone so gentle I couldn’t not do these things.

Recidivism is the goal and not something we try to avoid. So sick of the way this country treats people.
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." https://youtu.be/edCqF_NtpOQ
Is it, in fact, larger than Lick Observatory's? I looked through that in 2003 or so.

> To her surprise, the telescope and its 60-foot-long metal tube were still balanced enough that they could be moved with just her hands. However, while the telescope was operational, it was difficult and stiff to move. Over the first month, Dr. Bauer had to determine whether the stiffness was due to a ground-down gear and figure out all the places the telescope needed to be greased and oiled.

I know Lick's can be moved by one person, by hand.
i only skimmed the home page, but it seems far too opinionated for general use. if you're starting fresh and plan to use tremor as your all-encompassing ui kit, it seems fine. but at that point, why not grafana, retool, or some other no-to-low-code dashboard solution?
>>Phones are mass market devices that children, elderly, disabled, and uneducated people use.

I really really despise this narrative in modern society where by everyone must lower their standards, expectations, or limit themselves so we can cater to the lowest common denominator of society.

This is like saying we need to limit the speed on highways to 20 because some people can not figure out how to drive at 70...
Not clear at all, at least for me.
Get some diabetic shoes with custom made orthotics. Will probably cost about $200. Will be life changing. Like walking on a pillow. It's about 3x the thickness of a normal insole, amd will be custom modeled to get weight off of whatever you need releived.
Many users here are far more insightful than ChatGPT. You might get some OK comments with ChatGPT and a stray upvote here and there, but I think you're more likely to get banned if you employ ChatGPT to write your HN comments at any significant volume.

Not that everyone writes great comments, all the time, but I'm arguing you probably won't break into the 1000s of HN karma if you try to automate it (because you'll probably get shadowbanned first)
> Bologna, Italy time

Mo' soccmel, what a precise timezone. Do you use the clock over Palazzo d'Accursio? ;)
I was attempting to get Airalo/Ubigi working and have seen many many people talk about how easy it was to get working on their iPhones.
The UI could use some work, it's functional, but some polish would improve the overall appearance and user experience. It's a nice game, not to take anything away from that, but looks like it was made in the 90s/00s rather than this decade :)

Perhaps take a look at various Map websites, Google, MapQuest, Bing, OpenStreetMaps, a fullscreen interface where you can zoom and pan easily would be more user friendly
Not a react dev, but having a comprehensive test suite is the only reason I feel comfortable pushing code changes and upgrading dependencies. It is difficult at first to build the habit and discipline to always write comprehensive tests for new code, but it is very worth it.
> Not part of human nature. Save the children/Rethoric is embedded.

This is ahistorical. Childrens' rights are a late-19th Century creation. We have become child worshipers, we are not naturally child worshipers.

There's a quasi-Christian doctrine that states that children are born virtually unstained, and that being unstained makes you more deserving of life. As you grow older, you are stained by the demands of the world, which makes you less deserving of life. However, the idea that a child's life is more important than an adult's life would seem moronic to people much before the 20th Century. It just takes 6 years to make a 5 year-old. It takes 51 years to make a 50 year-old. 5 year olds know almost nothing, and need to be taken care of. Every 50 year-old has a bunch of knowledge that can't be recovered, and generally can take care of themselves.

You know we used to send them into the mines... and we used to value them because of how deeply they could get their little hands into factory machinery.
I am not sure as well, difficult times and there doesn't seem to be a clear path forward.

I am not sure if we can create an app to fix this one...

Maybe generative AI can help, or some sort of social movement.
Thank you - getting this solved would be a massive help as juggling 3-4 physical sims has been quite annoying. Being able to flip them on/off in the phone as described possible would make things so much easier.
Google TV on Chromecast does that, kind of. I have a list of favorite free channels that I sometimes shuffle between. The channels themselves come from Plex, Pluto, freeve and Google TV itself.
This isn't a problem we have as a species. It's not biological, it is cultural. The racial categories we use today were created in the 17th century to justify the white supremacist apparatus of slavery and colonialism - prior to that, people tended to categorize humanity by tribe, ethnicity or religion rather than superficial physical traits. Asian people, for instance, didn't see each other as the same "race" until white people came along and assigned them that categorization.

You, I and everyone else are stuck in this way of thinking because we've been so thoroughly indoctrinated into a system of white supremacy which permeates the entirety of Western culture, it isn't even noticeable, like we're in the Matrix. It persists because it's useful for keeping the power centers that benefit from it entrenched, and everyone else divided.

We can move on from it, but I think the first thing we need to do is recognize that it isn't inevitable.
For me, the issue isn't so much DNS itself, but more that there are more things that try to resolve names on your PC, like /etc/hosts and all the stuff you put into resolv.conf.

Then you read online that you should try dig or so and those tools don't really match up with what your tools do(=resolving via libc), because dig really only does the DNS part.
Indeed, even if you take a completely deterministic view of human behavior, you still have different people at the end of the day.

Someone fated by circumstance to commit murder, is still a person that murders others. Someone fated by circumstance to saves lives is still saving lives.

You have to figure out if you want to treat these people differently, even if you dont blame them for the things they do.
Interested in folks’ thoughts on how BeanMachine compares too.
If you only buy devices with LineageOS support, you can continue to get updates for a very long time. I would not want to be at the mercy of the manufacturer for the software.
Thank you! At this point we reapplied but left thinking, what if we had filed a motion? The main thing was they did not know how quick it would have reopened and I risked running out of authorization in the meantime.

They did not strike me as particularly knowledgeable as to getting a Congressional office involved even though I brought it up. Just big-tech provided lawyers, not sure how effective they are when the process deviates from usual
Never thought about it like that. Thanks for sharing that perspective.
Yeah I tend to switch back and forth just about every cycle. Currently on Pixel 6. May swap to iPhone after September.

When I'm on iPhone I miss the customizability of Android. When I'm on Android I miss the ease of use of the iPhone. Which is probably oxymoronic. Lol
> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking.

Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie, but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking.

There's a whole lot of discussion about Twitter shrinking and high profile people leaving, but they don't. Stephen king comes to mind as a big critic that threatened over and over to leave, but he hasn't.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684978651857596429
They're hoping people will start hiring rent-a-cop type security firms for their areas. Not joking.
Barbie Defines Feminism
Genuinely curious, since almost all (all?) of your submissions to HN seem to involve the climate in some way: what do you do for a living? What causes you to gravitate towards these types of articles and discussions?
> Let this series of badly-thought-out bills be destroyed in the courts once the courts find that reality bats last.

How? I thought the UK courts can't override Acts of Parliament, because the courts are subordinate to it (unlike in the US).
Hey! Thanks for writing this, this really helped me setup VyOS as my main router/firewall for my homelab.

Do you have any plans to expand into IPv6 functionality?
> would imagine the most important qualities to have in an interview are going to be charisma and an ability to reason through technical problems.

No, they want the code to match their expectations. I interviewed last year, and breezed through the early and behavioral stuff, occasionally being up leveled or oddly positive feedback in the process. They'd often quickly move from interviewing to selling me, talking openly about (relatively good) salary, etc. Then I'd do the leet code* part and lol, bye bye. And after about 10+ rejections, as I got better (and similar) coding questions, suddenly that all changed. Rejections became offers, "not good enough" became "one of the best ever" -- same person, same(ish) questions. They all just care a LOT about the quality and speed of the coding part (along with the level of style and communication they expect). Its not unreasonable, I guess. Its odd, its frustrating. Maybe its accurate. But its best to accept what it is, get REALLY good at the coding part, and you'll get a lot more wiggle room if you're bad at the other parts. And if like me, you are great at the other parts, expect to do a lot of interviews to get the offers, and / or a lot of practice (but I strongly recommend interviewing first, as demoralizing as it is, because the companies you like tend to all ask same style of questions, I practiced tons of stuff I didnt end up using).

*They were rarely leet code, usually more realistic coding questions. But same vibe.
This is essentially a broad price increase without saying it as things stand today. Most AWS services require IPv4 and in most cases even if you don't require IPv4 there isn't even a way to turn it off.

Example: if you run load balancers you are going to pay for every single IPv4 address with no way to turn it off, even if you are IPv6-only. This means an ALB with 3 AZs (What AWS recommends), went from 20/mo to 32/mo and no amount of planning or optimizations can lower that cost.
A disturbing number of Americans would be very happy if they didn't.

See: "tough on crime" winning elections everywhere, three strikes laws, mandatory minimums, and the surprisingly popular viewpoint even in relatively liberal areas that more crimes should face the death penalty. The last one is particularly eye-opening: when I point out that the death penalty costs the state more due to appeals, the response I frequently get is that the solution there is to make the death penalty easier to apply and block appeals on it. "Execute all drug dealers" and the like.
i've actually noticed that tiktok is good sending me back to creators if there's an update to something that went viral.

or there are times where i'll get a clip from one angle then an hour later i get another video from a different perspective
Seems neat. How does the whole i/o process work with github, and how is my data and content secure?
The translator Steven Lattimore is still alive. GP probably won't live to see the translation become public domain. As an alternative: read the J. M. Dent translation and then, if you want to study it from first principles, learn Ancient Greek for the real thing.[1]

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLi...
it uses mostly the same sigils and syntax elements from C, like &, [], etc (the ${} is for string formatting, that in C is written %d, %lu etc - which is arguably worse)

for me the problem is that it changed the meaning of & gratuitously
Exactly. We already have RMS, the job of Cassandra is already taken.
>Race is not a useful scientific guideline for any kind of scientific study.

Tell that to prostate cancer researchers.

To say race "isn't important" is completely ignorant.
My personal take is that it's a stress response in the US. Our society and economic system has evolved to put the vast majority of people one or two paychecks away from poverty. When you feel like your life is miserable, and you have no hope of improving it, it feels good to see righteous violence done to someone lesser.
There are people who ascribe all kinds of different brain states to binaural beats. But as of yet, I don't think anyone has ever done a "blind" test, where they listen to binaural beats that are supposed to imitate an LSD trip, versus one that is supposed to make you relaxed, etc., to see if it is possible to differentiate their "effect" on the person.

I'm willing to bet without knowing ahead of time what you are supposed to expect, nothing related to what was expected will happen.

I'm a collector of all things snake oil, so of course I find this an interesting field. I have total doubt there are any effects (other than outright annoyance over the sound itself) to be had from them.

Slow repeating patterns can relax people (Enya and Jean Michelle Jarre are two musicians who have mastered it), so I will give it at least that level of leeway. But the rest, I'm quite sure, would not stand any level of testing on people who aren't pre-told what to expect.
Maybe start with something a bit easier?

The RC2014 is a good cheap beginners' kit, I hear.

https://rc2014.co.uk/

1. Start with a ROM BASIC.

2. Upgrade it to run CP/M and learn some CP/M apps.

3. Get TurboPascal or something and write & compile some Pascal code on CP/M.