skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys need to try, try, try to figure this out without the passport verification. I've spent a lot of visits to India and having to hand my passport to some local shopkeeper feels like an invitation for identity theft. People who grew up in the USA have been told their whole lives to protect their documents and this is a pretty big leap of faith for little benefit over grabbing cash from the ATM.

Edit: to be more helpful, a system like this would be more exciting for me - Upload the passport in app, the passport is verified only by a salaried and background-checked (you know, like a police clearance certificate) staff that is a employee of your company (not a third party or contractor). Have a clearly written policy about record keeping, security of the storage, pursue legal charges against employees who don't adhere to privacy policy. Etc.
It wasn't actually possible to make a proper implementation from spec before Java 1.5. Quoting Wikipedia

> The original Java memory model developed in 1995, was widely perceived as broken, preventing many runtime optimizations and not providing strong enough guarantees for code safety. It was updated through the Java Community Process, as Java Specification Request 133 (JSR-133), which took effect back in 2004, for Tiger (Java 5.0).
I think there's pretty widespread agreement that it looks bad!
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yeah it's odd, if they do it for brand does that mean they'll now do it for all? of course not and they haven't, this feels unusual for them, so why target brand specifically?

this is going to make his conspiracy's seem true like they are targeting him

but it could be as simple as advertisers don't care about aerosmith because it's bigger than steven tyler, whereas brand is purely a youtube based opinion show and he is the main star of the show
Tor (The Onion Router) uses it.
They should also measure the CO2 emissions of a human at resting state vs. a human engaged in the act of writing. This would reveal the exact 'cost' of human writing.
You should take some time to learn more then. Some interesting things have happened in the past two years.
In the comments are a whole bunch of men commenting that don't appear to have any understanding of women whatsoever.
If you want your shit actually not to smell, you better make it a pedal-powered bike.

With those German-made Continentals made of dandelion root, I hasten to add. (See article.)
IMO it's a misdesign in the same way as e.g. JavaScript's "this". Most languages figured out 40 or so years ago that scoping should be lexical.
Have some examples? The few I see are things like victim-blaming (37576676 37576735) or just "innocent until proven guilty" which adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.
Your "broadcasting in the public interest" is also "government funded propaganda with limits on free speech"
This is why I only buy HomeKit devices. I have two switches whose manufacturers completely shut down, and this had no impact on my usage whatsoever. I’m not in love with the proprietary aspect but as a user this is exactly how it should be.
I wonder what the median shareholder got!
Not quite a formal webring, but openring [1][2] provides a similar way to generate a list of posts from RSS feeds for static site generators.

[1]: https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs

[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring
It's annoying that ".internal" isn't one of these, since mDNS uses ".local" by default - I've seen a lot of orgs using that in particular to avoid exactly the mDNS clash.
They used a turn of phrase of which the full meaning was implied.

That meaning being “the concept of innocent until proven guilty is only universally applicable in a court of law”.

So unless your psyche has any force beyond itself or it happens to be a court of law, your gotcha lacks any meaningful effect.

Beyond you grandstanding that is.
If you have working code that uses reactive frameworks, think twice about refactoring. Primarily , because it /works/. The reactive calls might also have some non-obvious semantics that could get lost if you don't carefully translate them to virtual threads.
Euclid with diagrams is modernism! The original texts didn’t have them.
Believe me, it is not simple. The AdWords system is not only more complicated than you imagine, it's more complicated than you can imagine.
> That's a pretty big assumption, which seems hardly scientific.

It's hard not to point out that the authors aren't scholars in this field, but essentially AI apologists.
Sure, but then you have the really interesting challenge of trying not to block your next door neighbour who’s accessing your service via tor/satellite.
So it’s possible, and there’s countless articles explaining how.

But at face level… your phone is so personal that it’s pretty easy to mess with basically all of your life.

When you have someone’s unlocked phone, you can usually get access to their emails, and use that to reset most accounts. Finances, social, emails, often work etc.

Here’s the WSJ explanation if you want:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...
I think it would require new paradigms, though. The existing popular patterns assume cooperative concurrency. We've had preemptive threading for a long time and UI programming has not made inroads with it. I don't see how using virtual threads makes this an easier lift.

My fear is that we'll end up living with a bolted on async/await style for this stuff but with worse syntax. Still, I'm excited to see how it shakes out.
The secrecy around Los Alamos was less what they were doing and more how they were getting it done and how far along they were
Hey thanks for linking my site! I was wondering where the extra traffic was coming from :)

If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

Also, I have been slacking a little with the newsletter because of life events. Since there have been several sign ups since this post, I'll be more active in getting the weekly newsletter out.

Thanks for looking!
Isn't everyone with the root password a US Citizen? Last time I checked SpaceX's job opening, a US clearance was required.
>I hate the future.

You chose this future.

But you can choose a better one: use mechanical switches. No cloud, no complexity, no need to pay homage to some malevolent centralized authority just to turn on a lamp.
This hasn't been my experience. In fact GPT4 seems to absolutely excel at DevOps boilerplate automation stuff (GitHub Actions, Docker compose, Cloudformation, etc). It still struggles on more strictly software development stuff like algorithms though.
> Richard Nixon

Watergate happened a long time ago, not sure how relevant it is nowadays. It seems like the standards that politicians are held to have since crumbled, IMO. Nowadays it seems to be quite difficult for a politician or party to harm the public good or democracy enough to decrease their chances of reelection. The USA seems somewhat better in this respect than the EU, though.

> Anthony Weiner

Is there any hint that he was actually corrupt?

> Roy Moore

As far as I can see Moore was actually successful despite his corruption, even though he was actually sanctioned for it. In the end his fall was only caused by moralizing allegations about how he spends his private time.

> John Edwards

Again, it seems like he only lost his popularity due to his immoral actions as a family man, not as an official.

> compare YouTube demonetization to historical racial violence

Various kind of (physical, murderous) mob violence still happen regularly around the world. Some necklacing videos are available on the Web.
>absurdly high cancer rate

Source please.
I'm getting 10s for your last code example (not 9s)
While it's not my place to adjudicate his innocence or guilt, the decisions by platforms like YouTube and the BBC to immediately curtail his revenue streams are ethically contentious. Such actions, rooted in the pursuit of reputational safety for these organizations, inadvertently presuppose guilt, potentially skewing public perception and compromising the accused's ability to muster an adequate defense, particularly in terms of securing robust legal representation.

For high-profile figures like Brand, while the financial impact may be substantial, they often have other resources at their disposal. However, for smaller creators, who might be living on the edge, this could be devastating. We need to remember that behind every headline are real people with real lives. Ensuring fairness and empathy in our responses, especially when the stakes are this high, is crucial.
The Twitter files encompasses more than just the Hunter Biden laptop story (where the FBI did indeed say the story was likely disinformation , despite knowing it was true. Whether this was bureaucratic dysfunction or deliberate remains unclear).

It also encompassed purported COVID misinformation (much of which turned out to be true). Government agencies and government sponsored NGOs did indeed direct social media to ban specific individuals advocating against blanket lockdowns.

The notion that Taibbi et al. aimed to show that Biden is some illuminati-like shadow figure ruling the world secretly is a straw man. It did indeed show what it sought out to prove: the government directly and indirectly directed the censorship carried out by large social media companies and often labeled true facts as misinformation.

Read the injunction itself: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23867628/preliminary-... that prohibits communication between government and social media companies precisely because of this coercion.
Question from someone who has zero knowledge about managing infrastructure: is all of that absolutely necessary? Only one is marked "we can afford to lose", but $228/mo for a monitoring server seems extremely excessive. Even $44 for "private communcations" (I'm assuming something like RocketChat) surely have cheaper alternatives?
Sorry for the confusion. Not a native english speaker here (although I've been living in the US for a few years).
Even then it’s a rather unfortunately named legal principle.

It would’ve been better for it to be called “not-guilty until proven guilty” since criminal courts aren’t in the business of establishing innocence nor do they have the power to declare someone innocent.

But I guess that doesn’t roll as nicely off the tongue.
Disagree, I think this is not a good read on Apple strategy and you may be heeding the wrong lessons in computing history.

1. The passive vs active framing applies primarily to non-Pro iPads. I don't think it can be reasonably argued the $3k Vision Pro is attempting to cannibalize low end iPads. iPad Pros are very different beasts that are designed for a particular type of creative output, and are very capable general purpose computing devices now.

2. There's no particular incentive to cannibalize iPad over Mac, its hard to fathom what dimension that makes sense on. They're happy to cannibalize any product, but their main MO is 'look what cool shit we can do with the latest tech' and Vision Pro is today's version of that. Apple is demonstrably way more interested in building out iOS/iPadOS and we've seen that over the past 10 years, to the point Mac users had to basically revolt to get attention.

3. Of course Vision Pro is based on iPad ecosystem, as its a far more modern set of conventions better suited to mixed modal input than Mac. That isn't a reflection of VP's purpose, but of engineering and design realities - it's far easier to grow iPad/iOS into a top tier spatial computing OS and ecosystem.

While MacOS is wonderful, it's really a product of a particular conception of computing, and shoehorning a 40 year old desktop OS paradigm into entirely new input modalities and ergonomic contexts makes little sense. The puck isn't going anywhere new, the desktop OS modality is baked. Apps will need to adapt to the wondrous new capabilities and constraints of the platform.

Looking at your presentation [1] it's clear the ergonomics are going to be a sticking point, which is a combined hardware & app ecosystem problem: the novelty of windows everywhere bumps up against the human factors / ergonomic fatigue constraints of moving one's head around around more than a few degrees (and whatever you do, don't optimize for looking up!), and app windows with tiny UI elements are going to be similarly fatiguing and unable to adapt to the promise and limitations in accuracy of gaze tracking.

There's a reason WinCE's desktop OS paradigms failed in PDAs whereas iOS succeeded - you need to reinvent the experience when you move modalities. I would argue the exact same thing will happen in AR/VR: sticking with a desktop OS paradigm is a losing proposition.

Just my 2c. Personally I really want to see a variety of offerings and possibilities in the market but I also want them to be based on sound reasoning and approach, which I go into a bit in this essay on category-defining products [2].

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/seeking-investment/

[2] https://nickpunt.com/blog/category-defining-products/
Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine (50m)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO2DZjOkY
how much does this portfolio piece cost you?
There is even bigger financial incentive in general to shut up / deplatform an outspoken, high-profile leftist (as in a person who threatens profits), or a politician in general. So such accusations should be considered with caution.
Being better than Spotify is an incredibly low bar, and not really what I was comparing against. The iOS music player was very pleasant to use before they haphazardly added Apple Music to it.

As you mentioned, it's full of bugs. Bugs happen, but they seem to have gotten out of control lately.

Top issues:

- 3/5 tabs use lazy load and anything less than great cellular/wifi means waiting to see anything.

- Speaking of cell/wifi, it really shows that this app was designed in a lab under perfect conditions. Music just... stops if the connection is weak when streaming. Was it another bug? My airpods? My car's bluetooth? Who knows, and who needs feedback anyway.

- Listen now tab can show a grand total of one (!!) full item before needing to scroll. On my phone with 1,483,776 pixels. It's also sorted in an arbitrary order that I cannot change.

- The Browse and Radio tabs are not at all personalized to me, so I don't have much to say about them and are mainly ignored.

- My library tab, my mainly used tab, is littered with album views of "Recently Added" in favor of adding a bunch of taps to things I actually want to listen to (Playlists> Playlist Name> Song/Play button) requires 3 taps.

- The album view in Recently Added makes no sense outside of downloading complete albums, which seems exceedingly rare. The music topping the charts is a bunch of singles and maybe EPs, not full albums. Even if one is not into pop music, adding music from a newly discovered artist, it's probably not a full album, rather a song or maybe a few tops. On top of this, it requires two taps or a long hold gesture to play it!

- Search is weirdly segmented for no reason, and is a step backwards from what Apple already solved with Spotlight. I always want results from my music first, and Apple Music second. A "no results" screen is useless for me, just show me Apple Music results, don't add yet another tap. Oh and search has Browse categories of course.

I could go on for a lot longer, but these issues grate me every day. Everything just requires too many taps or scrolling to get what I want.
How does list comprehension change anything here? This has the same problem:

add_n = [lambda x: x + n for n in range(10)]
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 19
You'll want "Inventing the Schlieffen Plan" and especially GJ Meyer's "The World Undone".

The second deals with prewar military strategy, showing that European militaries expected trench warfare and ineffective offensive, until the Ruso-Japanese war, which made them switch gears, believing a strong offensive and bayonets could overcome machine guns.

One interesting point is bayonet designs in the 1870s and 1880s were wide, meant to be used for digging, entrenching. But by the 1910s, they were suddenly long and thin to give soldiers "more reach" akin to spears!
These sound like consumer issues to me.

Kafka had been extremely reliable with latency, even under load in my experience.

If you’ve got badly lagging consumers that are trying to read from very old points in the topic while everyone else is at the head, you’ll definitely see some increased resource usage, but again, that’s mostly a consumer issue, and I’ve need seen performance degrades that much.
> The letter of the law allows anyone to be guilty of rape, in the U.S. at least

That actually varies based on jurisdiction, some states have separate laws with different offense names (often with similar conditions and punishments) for different kinds of sexual assaults, and still have “rape” being specific in the same way that it is in Britain, in some states and the federal system, “rape” is not a specific offense named in statute but is sometimes used as an informal name for some offenses. (E.g., in the federal system, the title of the relevant section including, but not limited to, the common law definition of “rape” is “sexual abuse” [0], and the word “rape” does not appear anywhere in it.)

[0]
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2242
Except, and I know you must have read this somewhere else by now, that Youtube is not the State.

Your employer (should you have one) doesn't need to wait until a court of law proves you guilty of a stealing paperclips before they fire you, and a restaurant doesn't have to wait until a court proves that you are being a public disturbance before they kick you out.

A private corporation has the right to do whatever they want with their product/service unless they are compelled otherwise by the State. Russell Brand is free to sue Youtube in court if he believes he has been inappropriately damaged, as you do.

Unfortunately for him and all his fans, this isn't hearsay from randos coming out of Reddit/Tumblr, it's a direct accusation with evidence and witnesses in an investigation being conducted by his former employers and the UK police.
Shines a new light on the old joke that a new machine is so fast it can run an infinute loop in 10 seconds.
I’m talking about developing a game in the editor, not playing it.

You can easily develop a low end game in unreal.
I never said that my ideal video hosting website would lack moderation.

Ideally I would have control (which I can delegate) over moderation rather than someone I disagreed with, and not have to spend much time or effort on moderation either.

Training and/or fine tuning my own moderation AI would be a useful feature.
FWIW, you have a competitor who could very well figure out a UPI payments piece shortly (they don't seem to support the QR codes piece yet) (https://wise.com/in/blog/send-money-to-india-with-upi) and they have built in passport verification without the shopkeeper & scanner part. It'd be good to start without the rigidity of that step.
Without getting too involved with details (I was working for a certain company that doesn't like people talking in detail about anything I did there), I had a program that routinely started other processes. I was required to use Java or Clojure, and we had a sort of quasi-RPC thing that would spawn process on the shell, get a result, and return that result as a string. This application wasn't super performance-oriented, but it was enough to where a 5 second start time was untenable.
Don't confuse the word touching, or when two things get in contact, with the actual human sense of "touch".

You don't smell and see through your hand, do you...
I sadly agree: Popcorn time and webtorrent was the most recent "improvement" into torrent technology .

But for the tech progress available now, we should have the MPAA, RIAA and all other copyright cartels shivering on their knees, with 100% anonymous, distributed data transfers

In my youngster time (80s and 90s), there were a lot of ideas and projects: kazaa , ed2k, kad, mute, i2p, freenet, bittorrent among plenty of others.

But it seems young kids today are busier o other things (tiktok influencers?) Or they had become highly profit driven.
Also, test IDN top-level domains: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
This is from 2013, but it's becoming ever-relevant even 10 years later.
I also had this same issue and found this on the official microsoft blog which also contains info on how to actually enable the new features.

wsl --update; wsl --update --pre-release

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem...

EDIT: you also need to be on the latest windows insider build to actually take advantage of the experimental features.
Whoa, .alt is finally a proposed standard with a real RFC number. Really happy about this, it's sorely needed in some spaces.
It very clearly does matter.

OJ Simpson was not found guilty of murder in a criminal setting, yet he was still a pariah.

It took years from the first public accusation for Harvey Weinstein’s case to come to trial. Was it wrong for his production company to fire him before a judge had rendered judgement?
No he's serious. I once saw an F150 get tipped over by a light breeze.
> Do have a reference for PDF supporting circular arcs?

No, I could've sworn PDFs supported arcs but I was wrong. :) So when rendering/converting PostScript to PDF, circles/360° arcs must be converted to béziers.
education for one. children need to learn to care for each other, to listen to each other and respect and love each other for example. this can and should be done in school. (besides ideally the parents as good role models)

what young people see as love is often just desire. the desire to be loved. they think if they love someone the other will automatically love them back. they don't understand that loving someone requires wishing the best for that person, unconditionally.

i love you because you are a human being and i want that all your wishes and goals come true.

but for a healthy and happy relationship this is not enough. we need to align our wishes and goals and work together to achieve them.

providing an environment where young people can learn that, is our job as society.
> Google has been using Samsung modems since the Pixel 6.

"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
(with apologies to Douglas Adams!)

The various google/android/pixel discussion forums are _full_ of "the p6/7 is a regression compared to p4/5" threads. I can confirm that I get much more reliable connectivity with my p4 compared to my p6 and my p7 is only marginally better than the 6.

Regardless, my *whole point* is that it's not a coincidence that we start getting "extended support periods" when QCM isn't supplying the CPU. Up until ~2020 (when the p6 would have been under development) there was no serious competition in this space and that's why google and pretty much every other android device used QCM. Now that there's a second option that's even remotely close to QCM in performance, the OEMs are taking it ... and we're getting extended support as a result.

Samsung will have "won" when even QCM has to capitulate and starts offering extended support.
Conversely, if I was a sleazy person with a big public profile I'd present myself as an unwavering ally of the common folk, because historically this schtick works incredibly well. Jimmy Saville was considered a living saint in the UK, and it was only after his death that the truth emerged.
No. Since there is a lot of disagreement about this in the surrounding comments, I just watched 20m of an old Russell Brand YT video. As of a few minutes ago there were no YT ads in the video. That includes the very beginning and the end. However there were Brand narrated promotions in the video.

The video was actually much easier to watch without the blasted YT ads that normally pop up every 5 minutes. And I suppose Brand still gets paid 100% for the embedded promos he narrated and negotiated with the advertisers.
This feels very much like crypto. Same sort of absurd "justifications".