skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Restricting company’s freedom to choose a business model is not the answer.

Only, that's not how it works in our (and pretty much any) society. We, as a society, choose what we think is acceptable. And then we make laws to enforce that people behave in a way consistent with that. A company is not free to deny service to someone that is gay, or black, or married; just because that is their chosen business model.
Thank you. My church has a food store for those in need and debt counselling for those in financial troubles. We have homework clubs and a youthclub. We also have a type of youthclub for adults. I am going on a 16km hike with a group of men from church on Swturday. I have friends and connections from every walk of life. We are a community. A community for which I am very grateful.
There is also on shoring, which isn’t switching China from a direct to transitive dependency.
China was, for a few years, rapidly modernizing and a relatively open society, unless you were notably politically active. That's not exactly "freedom" but it wasn't a pervasive surveillance state run by a president-for-life. Nor were they a serious military threat to anyone, much less Taiwan or Japan. I saw this firsthand interacting with people in tech in China.

The US <cough>Obama</cough> was too optimistic about the effects of trade engagement with China (and Russia) and now we get some whiplash making up for lost time.
I may be wrong, but from what I understand they are not directly responsible for covering the fraud. That burden is sent downstream to banks and merchants. If they had been held responsible we would probably have a lower rate of frauds. They don't even enforce 3D secure for all countries.
> has been pretty controversial course which other members of the department gave accused of not sufficiently preparing students for the second year curriculum which mostly use imparative languages like C/C++/Java (which they don't really teach you either) resulting in more topics pushed into third year.

This complain is very typical in case of Scheme or general FP based courses. Everyone wants to be taught the most shiny trendy language of the time.

Infact, UWaterloo uses HtDP for its introductory course and I've heard that they churn out excellent developers who understand the data they are working with.
> quickly found out that there is actually no way of running GOG on Linux

But GoG is a website, not an application. The games they've ported/adapted to Linux work great, at least for me. I've never had the slightest trouble.
It's sad that these scammers are victims themselves, but measures that reduce the extent to which these victims can victimize other people are a clear net good for society. You won't save a trafficked scammer by hanging up early so he can move on to easier marks, but you can prevent him from using the next hour to make a new victim out of somebody else.

Or to put this in other terms; you're a Ukrainian machine gunner. In the distance you see Russian soldiers. You know that many of them are from the Russian gulags, unjustly imprisoned in an oppressive autocracy, quite likely for a crime they didn't commit, and now forced to invade a foreign country. You pull the trigger and mow those victims down, because if you don't those victims will make victims out of your friends, family, and fellow countrymen.
Lightweight Virtualization: Libkrun, Vsock, Metallize
Certainly, and I imagine that there are plenty that we interact with on a regular basis. For example, door security sensors (like for Ring) will be off nearly all the time. When someone opens the door, they will power up, send a notification, and go dormant again. I don't know if this will happen within a single millisecond, but it certainly could if there was a design need.

For many simple embedded systems that plug into the wall, the "boot" process will happen in under a millisecond. But it will take considerably longer than that for the voltage levels to stabilize.

The real thing which differentiates these from a PC or phone is that they are not running what we would typically call an OS. They may be running an RTOS (a very simplified OS), but for many of them, as soon as they have stable power, they are off to the races (Just like the home-computers of the 80s. Just plug in and go.)
> This is already happening with more than ~80% of products that are "Made in Vietnam" and at least ~40% of products that are "Made in Korea."

The Philippines are famous for this too.

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/201...

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/201...

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Vol_48_No_...
LG monitors get firmware updates, I wonder if one of them contained this fix.
> I really wish there is a way to fact check all, instead of depending on good samaritans in a comment on HN to point these obvious misconceptions out.

You mean like reading original sources? Frequently, big research projects like this come with an official paper[1] and/or blog post[2] explaining what they did.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/code-llama-open-fo...

[2] https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-cod...
2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map
I think the problem is there are vastly different types of people that we all lump under the term “homeless”. And each of us is likely picturing a different type of person when entering into these conversations. The homeless can range anywhere from:

a single mom who works in an office making 1.5x minimum wage, but whose expenses have risen (perhaps by medical) and she fell behind on rent, and now lives out of her car. Still employed but just doesn’t have the capital to get back on her feet.

To:

A complete drug addicted mentally ill schizophrenic who shits on himself. Hasn’t had a job ever, hasn’t been educated, and can not hold a cogent conversation.

I wouldn’t dream of giving cash to the latter but would certainly consider doing so for the former. Both are homeless. And conversations about solutions to the homeless are fruitless if we treat them the same. The English language is rich and it needs more words to disambiguate these two classes of homeless.
I use google drive and google photos.

Photos go in photos, everything else goes in drive.

Within google drive I follow a getting-things-done-ish approach. I have two folders at the root -- one for general filing, one for current projects.

I use a combination of google keep + taking pictures of things to capture things quickly that need later attention.

This isn't perfect. I don't like having to use google docs for all text, for example. Would much prefer to use plain text files in most cases, but they aren't editable within the google drive ui. Luckily they've released the pageless layout relatively recently, which improves the experience a lot.

The pains I have are not worth investing in a custom setup. I just don't have time for that. I want to spend my time accomplishing things, not organizing files, or even worse -- keeping my organizing system online and constantly having to tinker with it. I just can't be bothered.

I'm happy with the fact that at any moment I could have any of my physical devices stolen, ruined, etc. and I would be mostly back on my way as soon as I get another.
[..]There is a growing chorus of complaints that Google is not as accurate, as competent, as dedicated to search as it once was.[..]

This is always a strange claim for me, because it does not even remotely match my experience. And now we have the rise of Chat-AIs, and people who claim it's so much better than google, which also does not even remotely match my experience. And now I ask myself: am I just too stupid to see it? Or are the people too stupid to not see it? Do I search just too different things from what others search that I can't see it?

And then I also remember the claim that the youth is insanely uneducated about technology and the modern world, even worse than old people, and I wonder whether this is the reason for those claims. Do those claims all come from young people, who live in a very different world and are just very clueless about those things?

So at the end, does Google end, because it's not cool with the youth anymore? Not hipster enough and getting lost in the difference between the culture of the generations?
How do you not have photos (or a video!) of the finished project in operation??
That’s literally one of the questions at stake. If I buy a machine — whether I’m compelled to or not — why shouldn’t I have the right to fix it myself?

A contract does not contravene federal or state law.
Yea you would need really good failure detection if you were going to "hit the gas" with a bunch of insulin. Part of the solution is going to be controlling risk via the dosing algorithm itself, so you never get in those situations where you are at risk of severe hypo in the event of a (glucagon) site failure.
It is impossible to have cordial relations with China while they are threatening to invade our ally Taiwan, and building artificial islands as military outposts in the South China Sea. The unfortunate reality is that China is now our enemy. That situation will persist and probably worsen at least until Xi is replaced.
This is based on 14.0%, 7.0%, and 3.5% of the FDA recommended values
And converted to "mouse equivalent dose"!

in the research paper there is a math:

"The FDA recommended maximum DIV for aspartame for humans is 50 mg/kg (33). Based on allometric conversion utilizing pharmacokinetic and body surface area parameters (43), the mouse equivalent of the human DIV is 615 mg/kg/d. Therefore, the male mice received a daily aspartame dose equivalent to 14.0%, 7.0%, and 3.5% of the FDA recommended human DIV, and the females received a dose equivalent to 15.5%, 7.7%, and 3.9% of the human DIV. The estimated average daily aspartame intake in humans is 4.1 mg/kg (44), corresponding to a mouse equivalent dose of 50.68 mg/kg (43), which was the dose delivered to mice consuming 0.015% aspartame."

The "mouse equivalent dose" calculated by this paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804402/

- Larger animals have lower metabolic rates

- Physiological process of larger animals is slower

- Larger animals required smaller drug dose on weight basis
> it makes war even more pointless than it is today

What do you mean war is pointless? When you are at the receiving end of Putin's imperial ambitions, how is it pointless to defend yourself? Is Ukraine just supposed to roll over and die? And if Ukraine fights back and could manufacture and use this type of weapon robots, should they just say no, because it's pointless?
Pollen's tagged xexp is probably the most sophisticated approach to this I've seen. Though hiccup is about as good and easier to work with. https://docs.racket-lang.org/txexpr/index.html
Yes, the person that invented the name couldn't possibly imagine anybody was stupid enough to practice that thing he described.

At the same time, that process he described was the standard procedure for government and any large corporation contracts.
Surely there has to be a job somewhere were you can do Kevin Mitnick-sque stuff and have to get paid in bitcoins in some back alley transaction behind Defcon. :)

I've seen so many $10's of thousands wasted on pentests which are just nmap/nessus scans wrapped up into a nice PDF. I wish there was more in-depth stuff going on.
Should probably have 2018 in the title. While I agree that R Lee Ermey was incredibly well cast, and would be quite charismatic as an envoy for the American armed services later in his career, I can't believe that anyone who has seen "Full Metal Jacket" would be enthused about going to war.
An update to the 2022 VPN affiliate relationship map. A handy reference for who is owned by who - including their status or whether they're actually part of a bigger corporation.

The reference article for the map itself with key updates & findings: https://blog.windscribe.com/the-vpn-relationship-map-2023/
See this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4wYV0V-5s
speaking from experience, forking out $50/Mo for a colo to self-host a communication platform really starts to get old when everyone's first question is "why don't we just use Discord"

I guess it can make sense if you're a business. But then the question is always "why don't we just use Teams"
>Do you want those people managing something like maps or places on maps

Yes. The USPS is actually pretty good at it too. They even have their own API you can use.

>Think about your interactions with the government

My public roads, building codes, food safety, food affordability, stable power grids, advanced medical care, space exploration.

The government is plenty capable of doing good things, however people letting carefully crafted legislation, get passed or even created, that supports private interests is a societal illness, not a fundamental issue with government capabilities.
same here: 100% satisfied and am paying of course, online all day, and yet not overextending my search quota. very valuable in my experience that kagi exists.
The Toyota Sienna isnt a PHEV, at least not yet.
Why would a PHEV use a resistive heater instead of running the engine cooling system?
Honestly, I'd take a slightly different tack: ban all advertising except that which focuses on product features (like a lot of old-timey ads did), and then have strong enforcement of penalties for false advertising. Then limit innovation in delivery to places where it's both not intrusive and already established (e.g. media publications, etc).

The manipulation and excessive proliferation has to stop, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a business being able to reach out to tell people about what they're selling. There just needs to be strong regulation to speak for other interests in society.
Or just fix them? A test shouldn't ever, ever, ever be flaky. It can happen because we all make assumptions that can be wrong, or forget about non deterministic behaviours, but when it does a flaky test should be immediately fixed, with the highest priority.
Not plugin though, at least not yet. AFAIK the Chrysler Pacifica is the only plugin minivan on the NA market at the moment.
> Westerners want results tomorrows but the Japanese will take incremental steps that maximize the chance of success over an incredibly long time horizon. Very different mindsets.

This may be true, but unfortunately the timeline we have created for ourselves with regards to climate change is unyielding. The scale of the problem is that we need to take as many IC cars off the road as fast as possible and put as many electric cars on the road as possible if we want to avoid disastrous climate scenarios.
I used to use Actix Web but started using Axum because I needed better WebSocket support due to needing GraphQL subscriptions, but Actix Web was still really nice when I used it.
I suspect there is a large difference between "old Google" and "new Google" (maybe there is a cutoff year, like... 2012? I don't know.).

I would love to compare people who passed the old interviews and worked at old G, to the new ones, and just see what kind of culture, personality, and technical competency each side had. Then you get to see how those people shaped the company and how public opinion changed.
As in most of europe?
The Honda Insight came 2 years before the Prius. I’m still bitter because it came in manual, which no other hybrid since has.
Cool whitepaper, bro.

Too bad that the whitepaper's test sensors only works on particles greater than 300nm.

But it does rejuvenate the mask for another working day and alleviate N95 mask shortages.

But does not measure for virus-sized water-based particles.
Those of us in the 3rd world have always known this.

US mandates on removing protectionism were never for them; they are for others. Their recommendations on how to run our economies are always like this; they are never for them, it's always for us.

They sometimes use fancy speak like "decoupling" in hopes we won't be able to tell.
I daily drive a Gen 9 on Linux, it works fairly well, it even gets BIOS updates through fwupd now! However I cannot state how bad the display is, it's dragging-a-window-leaves-a-visible-trail bad.
Having better beef doesn't translate to building weapons or global communication networks. Spinning up a new cattle ranch if supply is cut off is trivial. They are not on the same level. The movements we are seeing now are matters of national security.
If you use Mac and haven't looked outside Firefox, note that vertical tabs are in Safari, with groups, and group sync.

Vertical tabs (plus tree tabs) are also in Kagi Orion. Which unlike Safari also runs (a subset of) Firefox (and Chrome) extensions, about 70% as of their last FAQ update:

https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#extensions
Microsoft was pretty loved back "in the day" (80s to 90s). Maybe not as much as an enterprise OS company but their developer support was pretty awesome before most people had access to "everything" via the Internet.

I'm not sure anyone else really qualifies as a big very consumer-facing tech company in the modern sense from that era or before though, of course, there were many once popular companies like MySpace that just flamed out. Yahoo! might be an example.
i.... 100% agree.

google still is king for every single type of search i do. specially code related.

i've tried again and again to use "Chat-AIs" and they get so much shit wrong while implying they are correct that i just gave up.
So what if Google sends me targeted ads?
> But I can't stand the scammy adware infused OS Windows has become

Set up the drivers for a professional level ASUS motherboard last night, during the installation of the drivers, which was essential because LAN and Wifi didn't work without them. It showed me ads for Norton 360 and WinRar over and over during the installation that seemed to take way longer than it should.

Then it told me an update was required and preselected in the update was install WinRar and Norton360.

Like ASUS, please I'm begging you, just charge me the $0.20 to $1 more that these ads earned you direct to me. Please just charge what you need to make a quality professional product and have some self respect for what you're shipping.

This only happens because it's become normal all across windows software and tools.
You’ve conveniently dropped the word “potential” from the start of your quote.

> any real world use case

I can see plenty of real world use cases where a trade off between ease of use and accuracy might be acceptable, there are a plethora of technical solutions to improving/checking accuracy and workflows can be designed to prevent “bad outcomes”. Certainly enough potential here for a set of plucky founders to give this a crack.
One thing that bugs me (with no solution in this site) is the Breakpoints panel that opens everytime a breakpoint is hit.

In Chrome, this is not a big issue because the panel is on a separate column (compared to the main panel where variables values can be browsed).

In Firefox, both panels are in the same column. When many breakpoints are set, one must scroll or click to close the breakpoints panel before any work is possible.
> Not a fan of the bare words instead of strings either, which means this cannot be naively evaluated by a Lisp.

Most Lisps (all that I know of) have a way to convert symbols to strings. The hard part is resolving the ambiguity between what should be text, and what should be treated as an HTML node. Like, what if I wanted to actually write the string "(b thanks)" on a page? R7RS could probably do this with the pipe identifier syntax[0], but I think R7RS is fairly unique in its capability for identifiers (and thus symbols) with such a wide range of supported characters.

[0] https://standards.scheme.org/corrected-r7rs/r7rs-Z-H-4.html#...
I think it would benefit from a rating system and a sort or filter based on that rating.
You can thank the Reagan administration for that. They gave the rights to all Federal court records to WestLaw. There was a small company (whose name I forget) who got shafted as DoJ gave everything to WestLaw. And if you file a case in federal courts, you have to use WestLaw's page numbering. Which you can only get if you subscribe to them.

The semi-joke is that we have the best legal system that money can buy.
Home Office considers plans to put electronic tags on asylum seekers
The issue in Florida is also idiosyncratic to the state -- in addition to macro factors such as an increase in reinsurance costs (driven by increased cost of capital) and increased weather volatility (driven at least in part by global warming), Florida has had an issue with insurance fraud. They had a set of laws and court cases, unlike any other state in the country, that created a financial incentive for contractors to inflate (or make unnecessary) insurance claims. They would work in concert with litigation mills to further inflate the size of those claims. The way the laws were setup it often allowed the attorneys to get a 3x multiplier on their fees (which they would inflate to begin with).

So you would have a situation where a roof needed to be replaced, should cost $30k. A roofer comes up with an estimate for $60k (and maybe pays the homeowner back a $10k kicker), gets the homeowner to sign over the insurance policy to him. Then he hires a lawyer who spends $50k of his time litigating the case. Let's say the court sides in favor of the insurer and awards $30k, the lawyer still gets $150k (3x multiplier on the $50k of fees).

As a result you had Florida accounting for 8% of the homeowners insurance claims nationally and 75% of the lawsuits nationally. There are billboards for insurance attorneys EVERYWHERE in florida.

The phenomenon impacted big national companies like State Farm that have similar claims handling procedures across their book. So State Farm would handle claims exactly the same in Florida as in Illinois and get sued 10x more often in Florida because of the financial incentive to sue. It also impacts Florida's state-owned insurer, which does compete very vigorously in the market and is the largest insurer in the state.

David Altmaier, the former Commissioner of Insurance in Florida, wrote a good piece on that situation - https://floir.com/siteDocuments/ChairIngoglia04022021.pdf

Fortunately Florida took a really good stab at fixing the problem with some legislation passed last December. It will take a while to see if the legislation worked, however. Meanwhile we still have the macro factors (climate change, reinsurance costs) to contend with.
https://bestsreview.ambest.com/edition/2023/february/Florida...
It will always be cheaper to buy $1 if it's being sold for $0.30;

The trick as a business owner is:

* Will I be able to use this service until they rug pull?

* Will they exist for the life of my project?

* How painful will they make switching.

Paying $50/m for complete ownership of your video platform is not only comically low it's almost absurd. I pay more than that for SaaS tools like Fellow or Bonus.ly; that's before you start talking about Asana or Figma or the myriad of other tools.

That something is cheap is not an excuse, jitsi is very easy to use and easy to host. Though I will recommend going with 8x8 simply because it helps fund development and people are terrified of actually owning anything these days (because they said they didn't like sysadmins and now ops skills are worth spending 11x more for a service to not have in your company, which is another topic entirely).
Maybe they should have a little sign over the button that says 'do not push.' (like some crossing signals on streetcorners now--many walk signals are on automated timers, the buttons are vestigial, so little signs are posted over them)
NASA, NOAA etc. do weather, accuWeather and others use federal weather data as the underlying source (and lobby and even install themselves in power to try and keep the government side less user friendly).
The colours and text/image distribution remind me the low quality ads that appear at the bottom of some news places that simply it's a bunch of clickbait and penis enlargement ads