skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. The IRS does not say cash back rewards from credit card spend is taxable income, which is as explicitly rewarding spending as you can get.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/110614/are-credit-c...

> So, where do cash-back reward programs fit in? It varies. If a cash-back reward is credited directly to your credit card account, then the income is generally considered a nice rebate that comes with the benefit of using the card. If you actually receive a cash-back check directly, though, it gets a little trickier: It probably also would be considered a type of rebate, but it could technically count as income.
Ask HN: What are your favorite GitHub actions/bots?
Hey HN, I'm going to write a blog post about bots and automation in OSS communities.

I've been doing research, but I'd love to get input from the HN community. I've been amazing at how many OSS communities build their own Github bots tailored to their needs like
- https://github.com/apps/boring-cyborg for Airflow
- https://github.com/jekyll/jekyllbot for Jekyll
- https://github.com/apps/google-ml-butler for TensorFlow

Please share any bots or actions you think are neat!
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Loop-Specific-Pragmas.htm...

The #pragma GCC ivdep annotation also enables this in loops. C23 also has the [[unsequenced]] attribute, which supports pointer arguments for optimizations like these, unlike [[gnu::const]].
That wasn't aimed at you. I meant the general discourse of Enterprise Sales and GTM on HN is filled with FUD
It makes sense to practice stepping down now. If Dante is to be believed, it's a long journey down to Malebolge.
> People do 90% of their work "on the web" or "in the cloud",

I'm much more excited about embedded applications where cloud connected might not be the answer for running an LLM.
If a loved one dies I will also not think to blame Google Maps for the negligence of local government.
No it's not. If what you want out of a Twitter-alike is to be able to decide what the administrative environment is of where your account lives, this is a great answer.

If you don't care about that, then _you don't have to do those things._
Don’t a lot of people keep separate Twitter accounts for different interests/identities too?

To me it seems like the main question is the amount of friction encountered in switching accounts in clients. In more polished clients like Ivory this is just as easy as it is with Twitter.
"Our current rate of energy consumption is unsustainable." How do you figure? We use a lot of energy in terms of the environmental damage of burning fossil fuels, but that's a really terrible way to get energy. All energy on Earth comes from the sun and we only get one billionth of that even reaching the planet. And we use far less of it. There's enough energy contained in matter for all of our current needs thousands of times over.
Why does the US even stil have sanctions against Cuba? The whole "commies bad" days are kinda over. And they have normal trade with China anyway.
K8s defines an interface with requirements (such as every pod must be directly addressable by ip from every other pod) and you bring your own networking implementation. It's never just the standard container networking though as it needs to span horizontally.
You're right, but I was thinking of searching for known passwords. For example, if an Oracle db accessed by developers is tekla / tekla1234, then scan for the string "tekla1234". It should not exist in any file. If it exists in a file, then obviously that is a potential leak.
> Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.

In this context of a conspiracy to control the media as a stepping-stone to control political systems, the word "elites" is a dogwhistle to deniably say "jews".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_trope#:~:text=one%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
Thanks! We actually have an integration with Make launching soon. I can invite you to the private version, shoot me an email -> adam@loops.so
It already succeeded in it's goal however: all the people who wish to use a Twitter-like service, but as a federated system, use it and like it.

I'd rather a service have been a success amongst its smaller userbase than be an anti-success with billions of users worldwide but is a massively unprofitable trashfire that is implicated in multiple state psyops and infowars and is an otherwise unmitigated shitshow with a clown running the circus.
Nothing to keep you from learning out of personal interest and leaving it off of your resume.

The issue is putting it on your resume and thinking it's a criteria hiring managers would use.

If you can build some body of work, whether it's a paper, code, etc that reflects what you've learned, that's infinitely more relevant.
> native RAR and 7-zip file support

That's pathetic. You know what a cool OS would do? Allow the user to install datatype handlers for such things without MS even being involved other than providing the API. 30 years ago.

Not that I really care. Microsoft announced Windows 10 as their final OS, so as far as I'm concerned, once they stop supporting that, they no longer have an OS.
Before your comment gets downvoted to where it belongs, this is so spectacularly wrongheaded that maybe you should explain it.
Rocket Scientist Combine a Rocket Engine with a Heat Shield [video]
What are you viewing on Github for that to happen?
Well today you are doing 100KB log processing, who knows, tomorrow you may end up doing 500KB log processing. It will be All Hands On on late night Friday to eliminate this existential threat.
We can instead look at the statistics for scanning of communications that aren't yet end-to-end encrypted, which will provide a good indication for the effect of bypassing encryption.

[Edit:] I know this is not a great source, but from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-urges-meta...

> Currently, 800 predators a month are arrested by UK law enforcement agencies and up to 1,200 children are safeguarded from child sexual abuse following information provided by social media companies.

There are also some interesting NCMEC statistics which provide a sense of scale, at https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline/cybertip...

> The CyberTipline receives reports from the public and online electronic service providers (ESPs). ... U.S. based ESPs are legally required to report instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or “apparent child pornography” to the CyberTipline when they become aware of them, but there are no legal requirements regarding proactive efforts to detect CSAM

(Reports are also in various other categories aside from CSAM.)

> In 2022, NCMEC staff escalated over 49,000 reports to law enforcement as the reported incident was urgent in nature or there was information that a child was in imminent danger. ... NCMEC designated 49% of the reports from the tech industry as “actionable” when referring them to law enforcement in 2022

(49000 is a heavily filtered fraction of the 32 million total reports.)
I have a third party client manage all of my accounts, and it's relatively seamless. I also have them as a list of browser bookmarks.

If course there's no reason to log in, read and log out of every account, every time you read, that would be silly when most people never bother logging out of any of their accounts to begin with.

Also, it's entirely feasible to just follow people on other accounts from whatever account you're on.
To be fair, many non-conservatives also don't think Trump is elite.
Fully agree. LWRs are perfect for floating. Going to some untested/underdeveloped reactor for especially the first one is really dumb. My favorite meme is the Anakin/Padme one where Anakin says he's going to build reactors on ships and Padme asks: "PWRs right?"
Intel do make GPUs. They're relatively new to the high-performance space, but they have been making iGPUs for a very long time. Their success in the dGPU market is far from certain, but they're making a credible effort.

More to the point, we use GPUs because that's what we have, not because they're optimal. Intel have a lot of experience in designing special-purpose accelerators, with perhaps the best example being Quick Sync - a low-end Intel CPU outperforms pretty much anything at video encoding and decoding. Inferencing is a very different workload to training and there is substantial potential for on-CPU accelerators to massively improve the performance and efficiency of inferencing tasks.
> Can you explain how does one launder money w/ NFTs? Because it's absolute nonsense.

They fact that a person understand something doesn't make it nonsense - and way too high a percentage of internet arguments boil down to essentially this.
The Brits have gone all in on the surveillance society with their CCTV cameras all over the place and now the Online Safety Bill. Still early days, I'm sure it'll be expanded at every opportunity. Maybe 1984 is the blueprint.

In the US the fundamental Christians are grabbing power and they're taking flamethrowers to books and talking about tracking women who may go across state-lines to get an abortion. Self-censorship for fear of being 'canceled' is putting a damper on the spirit of freedom. It's perhaps more along the lines of Fahrenheit 451.

May you live in interesting times.
>one should always be careful to not drive off a cliff, or off the outside of an unexpected turn in the road, or into a fallen tree, or into a pedestrian, or into a stopped car

All of those examples are more visible in low-vis conditions than a missing bridge, due to the presence of physical objects - e.g. cliffs and unexpected turns always have barriers/signage. A missing bridge is the absence of an object. I think this is a really particularly easy case in which to give the driver the benefit of the doubt.
That's genius! The camouflage of the dystopic future...
Anecdata of 4 call centers, yet no one in this video really seems like someone that being exhorted to do crime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac
They all look fine in "mobile view" in firefox, and on firefox in android.

It's all statically rendered html, and I don't see anything weird in the html either.

Do you have a screenshot and some device info so I can look a bit more?
Thanks
Not to mention that the car company would send someone out not only to their home, but in the evening and not only once but for weeks. I'd even have a hard time believing this if they loved next door to the companies HQ. Either the world has changed a lot or this is totally made up.
In the early 90s, at a large financial company I worked for, the system user name/password for a Sybase db was sa/sa. It was so convenient. Of course this was the primordial days but still.
“My father firmly believed in freedom, and Lachlan is absolutely committed to the cause. Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose. Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.”

I would say the lack of self-awareness is astonishing but as is the usual case with reactionaries, this is pure projection.
You can set up alerts with windy.com to be notified about a location have a forecast combination of wind and rain that may work well for forecasting hail.
The headline is misleading once you read the article. The biggest tech centres in India are Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Pune.
The centers of crime according to the article are Bharatpur, Mathura and Gurgaon. The cases are rising in Bangalore according to the article.

How does these facts convert to the headline of `India's biggest tech centers are cyber crime hot spots`?
What's the difference between a private mastodon server and a private reddit, or discord server ? What's the use case ?
Unfortunately, child predators are likely to get themselves into as strong a position of trust as possible - coaches, church leaders etc, so I would expect them to attempt to become a safeguarding lead. They could then also use the data to explain why they were taking certain kids into one-on-one sessions.
I guess main the problem is the secrecy. Even the article is unable to say exactly what information the app has, and who has access to it—they mention safeguarding leads being the users, but then talk about how "schools" get notified when a student has an encounter with the police. Does this information get sent only to qualified professionals with clear accountability, or does it get sent to a shared email address that the administrators' receptionist reads?

The secretive approach to this is unsettling, because it implies they know they're doing something they'd get in trouble for. It sounds like the administration's response was "well, this app was public, parents could have read up on it if they wanted", which resembles the old better to ask forgiveness than permission tactic. Clearly, every part of this plan should have been proactively explained to parents beforehand.
From the home page, clicking on Pricing does absolutely nothing. Clicking on other things in the menu goes to those pages, although by opening a new tab in a very user-unfriendly way. Maybe it's gated on having created an account first, but personally I wouldn't create an account without first having any information on pricing first, because there's a high likelihood that I might just be wasting my time.
Hope it's because he's dying of something incredibly unpleasant.
Google importing data from OSM would certainly raise some hairs in the legal department.
Here's the description of the system from https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/social-care-and-health/...

Think Family Database (TFD)

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The Think Family Database (TFD) supports and connects safeguarding professionals from Bristol City Council and other public sector organisations.

The data collected by Insight Bristol is securely held in the TFD, and includes information from approximately 50,000 families across Bristol.

The TFD pulls together data from several public sector sources including:

-Bristol City Council (Children Social care, Early Help, Education)

-Avon and Somerset Police

-Department for Education

-Department for Work and Pensions

-South West Commissioning Support Unit (SWCSU)

The data from these organisations displays vulnerabilities or needs. It gives practitioners working with families an understanding of:

-the family's immediate need

-which services the need comes from

The practitioner can contact the relevant service. This helps the practitioner better support the family because:

-the practitioner can discuss the family's immediate issues with the agencies involved

-the family does not have to repeat the same story

This embedded approach helps practitioners coordinate support for families who are most in need. Sometimes those families are obvious but often they are hidden. The TFD highlights the hidden issues.

Using targeted analytics, the system also helps identify children at risk of:

-sexual exploitation

-criminal exploitation

-not being in education, employment, or training

This information supplements the wider council Think Family approach.

These models do not replace professional judgement or decision-making. They guide and supplement the work of professionals and provide information about children at risk that professionals may not easily see. This early identification means that support and interventions can be put in place to stop problems turning into crises.
> Host your own Mastodon server then, allows you to administrate your own account.

But that's the thing, I as an end user don't want to and shouldn't have to. Hosting my own instance is a pain in the ass that introduces needing a server to run it on, OS maintenance / updates, Mastodon instance maintenance / updates, paying for everything, ... It's a huge waste of my time and energy when decoupling identity from content solves it much more smoothly, for a much wider audience. If the goal of Mastodon isn't to attract that sort of audience, that's a separate issue, but that doesn't seem to be it from what I can see. Identity and content can both be federated without tying them together.
Not that I have a better estimate, but I'm curious about where you got that 0% from
See https://www.google.com/search?q=why+imperial+is+better+than+... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odVPwNgD8w4 (the guy argues FOR fractions!), https://youtu.be/JoDQOqB5cZg?t=221 ("based on the size of everyday objects"), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anmm7phETE4 , https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=why+imper... , et cetera.
And the same people who celebrated shutting down nuclear now put the blame on cars and block streets preventing working class people from getting to work. And as such, the far-right party polls at a record high right now.
Yeah sure. All these corporate news networks do is propagandize the public with State Dept. talking points all day. That's why we've been in endless wars for the last 20 years in case you missed it. Where this comment belongs is top of mind for the entire country which is being bamboolzed by these networks.
Most companies don’t have unlimited budgets. Performance-oriented organizations profile and then spend money where profiling tells them to.

The bizarre part here is that anyone who paint themselves into a corner with ruby, then decide that they need to implement an entire new fancy VM instead of just find targeted bottlenecks and rewriting them in C++. They writing complicated native programs to make a VM that is only 15% faster when they could rewrite specific sections that are slow and speed those up by 200x or more.
Good from the administration/moderation point of view. This limits the influx of users and shares the burden of moderating them. The instance still federates with the rest of the network, so nothing changes from the existing users' or the network's point of view.
> People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes

The conservation efforts of the majority of the world are undone when one nation accounts for 30% of the global CO2 emissions. No amount of paper straws or reusable coffee cups will undo the coal burning Shenhua Group does every year.
This is the kind of thing where it might be ask for a panopticon where the parents can see precisely what kind of queries are run on their data, by whom and why, with a time limited ability to keep query data secret for police investigations and such.

Fighting against this type of data sharing on principle will probably fail because there are some legitimate use cases to Keep the Children Safe for this type of data.

It'll be hard, however, to push back a request that all data access requests are logged with justifications because, after all it helps to Keep the Children Safe.

You might also discover that the appetite for this data might wane entirely if they can't access it without being monitored and without having to justify themselves.
Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)
Most in aggregate. They're 22nd for percentage of use coming from renewable which is less laudable considering the state is ginormous by landmass and has perhaps the best opportunity for generating renewable energy of any state given its location and said size.
My biggest question is which makes/models can have the surveillance anti-features disabled by unplugging a specific module or two, while losing as little legitimate functionality as possible.

Using products the ways we want rather the way manufacturers tell us to is what the tech community used to focus on. It's certainly not a panacea, but it is better than news articles remarking how everything is so broken but in the end just giving in. Barring something like a non-loopholed US GDPR making the surveillance business illegal, self help against corporate control is all we've got.

Also there are a lot of people comfortable working on cars for which this could be a gateway to seeing tech as something that can be modded and controlled rather than an impenetrable black box.
Because for a long time if you wanted to build a website with no money and no experience those were your only options!

JavaScript and HTML for obvious reasons. PHP because if you didn't have your own server, you couldn't run anything else (while there were free hosting providers that would host your PHP scripts).

Nowadays there are tons more options.
> Poor neighborhoods are policed far more heavily than wealthier neighborhoods.

I see this sentiment often. If this were true it would represent a criminal opportunity to victimize "wealthier neighborhoods." As far as I can tell: that does not seem to be the case very often; and victimization rates are higher in "poor neighborhoods."

I can see the logic of an argument that excessive legal criminalization induces cycles of harmful involvement in law enforcement and legal systems. However, using the language "policed far more heavily" as opposed to "criminalized far more heavily" places the blame on a convenient-to-scapegoat blue-collar occupation rather than directly upon the powerful people who compose the ever-expanding encyclopedia of laws and regulations.
Netcraft confirms it : Windows is dying.
Very often (especially in tech) we spend so much time surrounded by people who are really talented. It's an environment that makes us very prone to self-doubt. This article reminded me how even for those with natural talent, some degree of hard work and discipline cannot be substituted.
There's more nuance than your absolute stance. There are a wide variety of quality of carbon credits - some systems are much more reputable than others - same with project types. Industrial and regulatory grade credits are legit. Voluntary third party retail carbon credits not as legit.
Well, there was a reason the continuation of WW2 against the USSR was called "Operation Unthinkable". There was simply no way anybody could afford to start a land war against the USSR in 1945.

But yes, the Western values always have been over valued (no pun intended). Just how much over valued becomes clearer by the day. Still, democracy is the best available form of government, and there have been serious progress in tue last decades. I just wished tze West would wake up and start to live those proclaimed values (which aren't bad at all) and not just so lip service.
Fosstodon didn't become a private Mastodon server. It made it a little bit harder to create an account on its server. Users on other servers can interact with Fosstodon on the same terms as before - nothing changed for them.
> I received two responses of people who actually produced something. The vast majority, it seems, are professional note-taking junkies.

Is external visibility of some output or work product the sole marker of true utility of these tools if one is to avoid the judgement of intellectual procrastination? I’d rather think that’s not the case.
I don't have an answer for the people who want to leave Twitter but refuse to touch anything that isn't a perfect clone with complete feature parity and a comparable user base, but plenty of people - even "non-technical" people, manage Mastodon just fine as an alternative. It really isn't that difficult.
The climate change crowd probably shouldn't be so glib about cars being murder machines. Supposedly, they are murdering an entire planet.

Also, at least where I am, the drunk driving rates are high enough, that murder-by-car isn't exactly uncommon.

I don't think your counter-argument hits as hard as you think it does.
I feel that's not specific to airlines however. Car manufacturers, groceries, white goods, etc.

Big companies have just figured out that scale and vertical integration kills everyone smaller.
Static typing is in active development: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...