skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also been on the train during an unscheduled rendevous, at a station the northbound and southbound trains arrived out of order from their schedule, someone heading to a wedding got on the wrong train. It did seem pretty heroic to radio ahead and pause both trains to get the woman "back on track", shows that the conductors are in charge of their trains and the organization is still human.

Another legally imposed handicap is that they cannot compete with mail carriers - seems insane, the post offices used to be built on top of the terminals for good reason (adjacent to Chicago Union Station and NY Penn Station at least)
Had to dig around to find this thing.. it's a Y Combinator pitch:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/can-of-soup
It’s important to note that the intakes are at 12 feet deep and the river is 200 feet deep and remains below sea level for hundreds of miles upstream.
Dumb question… does this mean that insmod is now unnecessary and can be deprecated?
This will still use Starlink satellites, so it doesn't clear up the issue of whether Musk will be able to shut down US military communications that he doesn't like.

> The deal, with a ceiling of $70 million will “provide for Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related services."

https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1707138990422298826
"home on jam" capability is being rolled out into smaller drone systems right now (it's not complicated per se, just somewhat risky since it could target friendlies).
Same for me. With Mon-Tues work, traffic, meetings, kids' drop off and pickup gets me drained. If there were wednesday break it'd be great. Mon-Tues hustle, a mid week break and then wrap up things on Thu-Fri.
Emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies game
If the device is illegal in the UK, that definitely changes things.
Johnson Controls Hit by Ransomware
In Spanish, too — and other subject–object–verb languages
So...

Not blocking cloudflare China?
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So you've downgraded people without an account?
A $5000 price tag with $600 annual fee would mean oh my god, why am I still using whiteboard now? Apparently jamboard is not that good yet.
Enhancing Disassembly Practices for Electric Vehicle Battery Packs
1. Long Length

2. Complex

3. Random

This blog post is an ad for Bitwarden, but the principles are sound, and any good password manager will help you achieve them.
> They also launched

Couldn't not mention that, could ya
The talk above is available online.
I use the shell almost daily.

I don't pipe command output daily, though. I use the shell because often it's easier than point-and-click for a lot of operations.

The shell has plenty of use cases that don't involve piping output. Saying you shouldn't touch the shell unless you understand piping output is like saying you shouldn't touch a refrigerator unless you know the perfect temperature to store milk.
The author seems like an interesting personality. He's a (self described, but...) finance guru. Great writing.

I'm sad I didn't go see a benshi film when I was in Tokyo a few months back.

I wonder if there is a connection to the rakugo tradition? Seems like it could be an offshoot.
> In previous generations, you had the "breadwinner" and "homemaker" - two clearly defined roles that fulfilled real needs.

This is a false nostalgia. For most of human history men and women did equal amounts of labor. A non-working wife was a status symbol of urban society.

> When both partners are working, who is taking care of the kids? Who is cleaning? Who is meal planning, shopping, cooking, and doing laundry?

If we really want to go back to "previous generations" this was almost entirely done by grandparents or extended family. The idea of a nuclear family household is almost an entirely modern invention. Expectations that a single income was to support an entire household was solely belonged to the post-war baby-boom - before that even children were expected to work!

I'm not saying there is not merit to a single-income household or some people shouldn't enjoy it. But I object to any framing of it as "traditional".

If anything, part of our problem with our current housing market is that in the last 100 years we have mostly obliterated multi-family/multi-generational households from cultural acceptance.
> sticking up for prejudiced statements

I wasn't. I was calling out a fallacy. And upon reflection, in one short sentence you perpetrated TWO fallacies: you were also arguing ad-hominem.

When I encountered your leading sentence with it's fallacious construction, I stopped reading your comment. I've read your latest wall-of-text reply, stuffed with accusations of racism and antisemitism. I think it's fair to describe your attitude as "screechy".

I'm not interested in debating the substance of the G+P with you; your style of "debate" consists of smears, fallacies and abuse. Not playing.
They should be banned everywhere...
Most ignored this device, thanks to cryptocurrency/NFT references in marketing, a red flag.

In hindsight, it turned out to be the right decision.
Essentially crowd-sourced Bellcore?
Indeed fruit companies have been a major force of colonization. The house I grew up in was built on the former estate of Minor Cooper Keith, one of the founders of the United Fruit Company, now known as Chiquita.

The term "Banana Republic" refers to UFC's complete domination of most South American governments through criminal activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
Media itself might be dead.
I just wish it would alert me somehow without needing to see the screen or risk an alert going off while recording.

Like I get it needing to stop.

I tried the other camera route, the lower light performance was abysmal. Now I was going for a higher end webcam route that was good for YouTube. But it was shockingly bad compared to my iPhone. And I have a good amount of light, it was just that grainy look on blacks that really bothered me.

I am also just not really in a position to spend over $1k on a camera when for the most part my phone works if I could just get past one pesky little detail.
If you want to work less and get paid more, there are better alternatives:

1) start a business
2) become a contractor/consultant. You can charge much more than a regular job and cut hours to get paid the same amount as you did before. I've been a consultant for 10 years and almost never work 40 hours. If I do, it's on my side-business and it's by choice.

The problem with these 4-day work weeks is that you are imposing your lifestyle changes on potential employers by expecting to get paid more for working less. It's a losing battle and will most-likely only be temporary, like remote work (I've been remote for 10+ years and it's written into my contracts).
Well, enterprises suck. It's all "contact us for this, contact us for that", low limits unless you pay large sums. Really not very attractive anymore. I miss the days when I could expose Minecraft servers for free. The cheapest plan of $10/mo is more than double what I pay for Firefox Relay & reMarkable Cloud combined.

edit: nevermind, they've actually raised the cheapest plan to $15/mo! But they used to offer TCP addresses for free, and now they don't allow them at all unless you pay $15/mo for them.

Anyway playit.gg exists.
The length of the great depression was a direct cause of failed government intervention, first by Hoover then by FDR. This article does a great job explaining why:

https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/

Here's a quote related to the affect of FDR's imposed federal minimum wage; the consequences are similar to what I've argued above:

"""
The President’s Re-employment Agreement called for a minimum wage of 400 an hour ($12 to $15 a week in smaller communities), a 35-hour work week for industrial workers and 40 hours for white collar workers, and a ban on all youth labor.

This was a naive attempt at "in­creasing purchasing power" by in­creasing payrolls. But, the im­mense increase in business costs through shorter hours and higher wage rates worked naturally as an anti revival measure. After passage of the Act, unemployment rose to nearly 13 million. The South, especially, suffered severely from the minimum wage provi­sions: the Act forced 500,000 Blacks out of work.
"""

Here is a paper that argues New Deal spending crowded out 30% of faith-based benevolent charity:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
> preserving the rights that we have with cash in the digital realm

I think it goes quite a bit beyond that, or rather, the digital and physical realm are not mere 1:1 mirror images of each other.

For example in the physical realm it is really difficult to move millions of dollars of cash from one place to another particularly across prominent geographic or national boundaries (oceans, mountains, countries); the difficulty scales with the amount. Do people have this "right"? Sure, I guess, but in practice and as history has shown us, they've never been able to exercise it.

It's more or less trivial to move huge sums with crypto.
People are not replaceable parts. HR would absolutely love it if all developer 3s were the same - and it should be the case that one developer 3 is more like another developer 3 than a developer 2 - but people are different and have their own quirks and strengths.

And, of course, you're ignoring training costs which are usually a big factor in companies that aren't incompetent. That Senior Dev that's 15% above marketing asking rate but who knows your system inside and out... do you really want to spend six years training a (potentially highly proficient) newbies on all your systems and the subtle intricacies. And how long will it be until you, the manager, trust that new Senior Dev like you did the old? How many fires will you both need to walk through until you see an availability alert and just trust the Senior Dev either is dealing with it or would be ringing your phone if they need extra resources?

It can take quite a while to get a new employee (again, even a highly proficient one) to that place where in a meet your product team can be going over a proposal and your Senior Dev raises there hand and proceeds to calmly explain the incompatibility with the current system and how much it will cost to overcome those incompatibilities - and if they remain silent then you know they've done those calculations and consider it in hand.

Hiring a replacement is an extremely complicated calculations that most companies just punt on - for good reason.
We've got a Keurig (sp?) machine at the office and I've started wondering if those little plastic pods are leaching microplastics or other plastic-ish hydrocarbons into my coffee.
Show HN: PDF Debugger – Inspect Structure of PDF Files
The anchored section linked by the OP has the same title.
Are people still using C# outside of like, corporate settings? I have the impression that especially with the recent Unity scare market share for C# must be trending downwards...
It has an editorialised title, it doesn’t explain what this is really about. It’s basically click bait.

It’s either an ad for human loop or an ad for your podcast.

It’s not meant to be hurtful, it’s just the truth. If the title was instead more descriptive of what the content was. You wouldn’t get the cynicism.
Like “truthy.”
Apple’s Latest China Challenge: A Crackdown That Could Shrink Its App Store
So if I said 8, what does that mean? What actions should be taken as a result? What value has been generated in collecting that data?

Attendance might not be a perfect proxy, but this is way worse.
How is the situation currently in Sri Lanka? I'm considering going there for a vacations.
In the UK, a siren goes off if you do this for more than like 15 mins.

You can of course just unplug the whole phone at the wall - but you have to do that for every one in the hosue.
You're not gonna like how our justice system works if you think the adversarial approach discounts the results.
Clarification on file duplication: DVC tries to use reflinks if the filesystem supports it, and falls back on copying the files. It can be configured to use hardlinks instead for filesystems like ext4 [0]. This improves performance significantly.

[0] https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/project-structure/configurati...
Big Tech’s Dream City Plans: Terrible
How is it insane? I shipped an app and made some decent money. How much did Apple / Google do for me? Well, without the app stores and hardware sales I estimate I would have made $0.

There is value in building and maintaining an ecosystem. I get they nobody likes paying a middleman, but there is value there.
> I wonder if there's a service where you can sign-up to be randomly connected to other elderly people.

It's not specific to elderly people but back when I used Dialup[0] many of my matches were elderly folk who just enjoyed talking to someone about what's going on in their life and telling stories about their youth.

[0] https://dialup.com/
RISC-V is rapidly building the strongest ecosystem.
this makes me want a flipper zero
> We benefit from taking bad paths and learning from them.

Up to a point. Nothing is simple.

Systematic net-negative transactions are worth inhibiting if not prohibiting.

For instance, predatory lenders that knowingly put disadvantaged people in moments of dire need on a long road of financial slavery, and inevitable bankruptcy, are a cancer.
Not according to the condescending maintenance guy who was replacing my broken dishwasher at the apartment I lived at years ago. You should have been there for THAT lecture.
Ok, we've taken authenticity out of the title above.
Here are some better words of the top of my head:

Intentional

Contextual

Everything about this project goes against the meaning of authenticity.
Astonishingly, Harold Fisk did this in 1944 without any LiDAR: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-...
Just a thought, but would it be possible to hot patch at the time of loading the binary? I realise it might require updates to the binary format, but it might be very well justified.
It isn't a few - every single new user who is upgrading from an old phone has a bunch of stuff to copy over. That process taking hours and leaving a hot phone with a dead battery is a really bad experience.
Someone years ago gave a random number (which was mine) to some telemarketer, and now I get many many calls and texts every day from people who think I am her. Impossible to block since they come from everywhere. https://thecodist.com/i-am-not-betty-and-i-cant-do-anything-...

I never answer my phone anymore.
...good? Isn't this kind of the point of Five Eyes? Seems like it's working as intended. In this case Canada is extremely justified to use whatever intelligence they have at their disposal I think, this was an extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil by a foreign government. Still blows my mind. At least with the UK Novichok case it was a foreign national, this was a Canadian national.
Resets, Leaks, DDoS and the Tale of a Hidden CVE
Social media companies have the most defensible datasets with actual longitudinal human behavior.

If you want some big graph attention mechanism to know if people are going to get divorced? Just to pick an example.

AI will bring back the IP trench warfare about the “graph”, twist: they don’t care if it gets updated.
In my opinion that is not how you should be timestamps localized to a time zone in Postgres. You should instead use:

SELECT now()::timestampz at time zone 'US/Pacific'

The output is a timestamp that has no time zone offsets and therefore is localized. However I've noticed most novice programmers don't fully understand the implications of 'at time zone ...' syntax.

It makes sense to me that the actual time zone is not stored within the timestamp itself since tomorrow a time zone can introduce DST and therefore some timestamps that were valid today will no longer be valid tomorrow.
Interested too case OP responds
TIL:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
They do, one of the very best general purpose programming languages on the market right now, but the information spread about it is not uniformly distributed.
let me give you an example. when i draw a mustache on a face in ms paint in brown, that's contextual but not authentic.
iOS 17 comes with a voicemail transcription feature. Not sure how useful that would be since I don't even remember when was the last time I got a voicemail, everyone just hangs and sends a WhatsApp message (if anything) at least in my country.
Polycam released web 3D Gaussian Splatting Viewer
Slightly related, the soviets operated mechanical computers which used water instead of gears and levers to compute things. Apparently they were used well into the 80's

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/vladimir-lukyanovs-wat...
I always wish there was more specification surrounding his Perlin noise algorithm he has on his website. For example, asking what the range of output values is does not have an easy answer.
It's great but too baity for HN so I put a phrase from the first sentence up there instead.
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly
How can that possibly be true? If forests were around for thousands or millions of years before humans started chopping them down, wouldn't the effective rate of carbon in the air be near 0?

Clearly carbon was getting back into the air somehow or there is only a limited amount of carbon forests could ever have stored on the face of the earth.
I'm tempted to get one, but it's going to be sitting on a shelf, along with my Oculus Quest. Gaming is a thing that sounds nice in principle, but I rarely can get into it in practice.
I think it's sensible to use Cloudflare Tunnel for this purpose if you care about security and still need it to be free. It's run by a $21B company that has a lot to lose if they get caught doing anything bad with your data.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/

They have being doing this for 2+ years as a marketing exercise, afaik.

Downside: Their documentation honestly isn't the easiest to go through if all you want to do is to setup something ngrok-like.
What name registrars allow one to to create unlimited subdomains on the fly like how Localtunnel does it?
> which would you say is more pro-privacy?

Whichever one you trust with less data. Neither of them can be held to a bar of inscrutability because both of them manufacture surveillance devices. You can't even deny it.

> Apple's business model is completely different than Google's, and so painting them both with the same reductive label doesn't make sense.

Their business model has nothing to do with the topic of privacy-washing though. That's why I responded to you in the first place; your assertion that these revenue models matter is nonsense. It's a quaint fairy-tale you tell yourself to justify storing sensitive data with them. I'm not going to jostle you awake, but I am going to remind you that they're no more transparent in their approach than Google. If anything, your original comment highlights just how effective the duopoly is; both of these adtech companies are being treated like Marvel vs DC instead of Moloch vs Satan.

So... as far as privacywashing is concerned, I'd trust neither of them. They're both proven snakes who lie about their opaque infrastructure and do little to contribute to society's collective safety, online or individually.
I had a nice chat with someone from Walgreens about the horrible wait times and staffing issues which turned into shelving issues when I was picking up a prescription while wearing my union solidarity tshirt.

The long & short is the conversation was that Walgreens management simply had no concept of how to talk with their workers and relations had broken down.

Simply raising salaries would solve most of their problems but the inability of Walgreens to address is likely a symptom of a deeper problem.
Suffice to say I think this would only work in places like Europe where everything is relatively densely connected by rail. For me personally I live in North American and I visit my family in Europe once a year. Cutting me off from them would suck and effectively force me back to Europe :) this seems like it's coming from a place of "privilege" per se of everything being nearby.
I updated and deployed the HTML for my personal website from my iPad. It was possible but extremely frustrating and inefficient, plus it depended on my having already setup Github Actions for my local repo, which I'm not sure I could have done without a proper computer.

I had fun doing it, but the fun I had was getting my entire setup to actually work. I wasn't even remotely productive on the iPad.
Send and receive SMS with a clean, simple API
> Is it such an immoral act to want to share the news that you are selling a new cool product?

The goal of advertising is to induce a feeling of dissatisfaction which can be relieved by giving money to the advertiser. Making a profit by encouraging people to experience the suffering of unfulfilled desire does not strike me as an especially virtuous practice.

> it's a consenting relationship

Not hardly, not most of the time! Perhaps one could argue that I have consented to advertising if I have picked up a trade magazine, but public advertising is intrusive and always unwanted, as far as I'm concerned. I block it when I can, ignore it when I must, avoid it always, and I applaud those who vandalize billboards.
They are certainly producing a lot of plastic trash.
Does redblobgames.com have its own RSS/Atom feed? In its footer there is a link to the feed for your other blog, simblob.blogspot.com. I'd love to keep tabs on both of these blogs in my feed reader.

Big fan of your writing, btw!
Very nice old school Geocities look.
All well and good until someone in your family has a prescription that can’t be mailed.
Are you aware of Photopea? It's FOSS and a very capable alternative to Photoshop. It evens runs smoothly on my old Android 5 tablet.

https://www.photopea.com/
From 8 to 4 coffee then beer.
IIRC Benjamin Franklin tried to make use of diacritics in his (U.S.) newspaper, and it didn't fly.

English could use a spelling simplification, but it's not going to happen -- it's too late and there's too much inertia in the current way of doing things.

Also, FYI, the circumflex in ê in French isn't there to change how e is pronounced but to denote that after the e there used to be an s that has been dropped, and that's how it always is for the circumflex accent in French. Sure, être is not pronounced the same as it would be were it written as etre, but I think that's accidental and not really the essence of the circumflex accent in French.
It's somewhat implied in your phrasing, but I think it is also important to be explicit that you should also record the software/model version of the AI used (as part of the signature/metadata). Otherwise it's not very meaningful, since there's no way to know whether the inference was generated by a malicious program or not. There's a corresponding challenge for the vendor to do proper versioning of the system as they develop and improve on it.

Depending on your needs, it may be useful to know about all inferences which happened (even if they were not used). Some kind of append-only ledger which records metadata could be used.

Happy to chat more on the topic, as I am actively working on something similar - bobbie.chen@anjuna.io