skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome. Now I wonder if I'm similarly wrong about mosquitoes... (edit: those suckers do of course transmit, malaria and so on, but not sure about other diseases like hiv or hepatitis, haven't heard of mosquitoes as vector?)
I believe there were a few that caught fire.

I'm sure if they were properly regulated and people weren't importing iffy ones from wish.com that don't meet safety standards, this wouldn't have been such a problem.
> trying to earn an honest living from their chosen profession

Every once in awhile you just have to lol.
Alien life in Universe: Scientists say finding it is 'only a matter of time'
Right, so barely technologically DoH is better than DNS as it's encrypted?

Since anyone can run a DoH server as well, how is that "politically" worse than DNS?

EDIT: Right, so I think I figured it otu: the issue is with locked DoH DNS servers where one can't MITM them anymore due to encryption and not being able to fake the server certificates.
Quite interesting video from Mark Rober about bedbugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8
That's shocking.

I wonder whether Twitter users are really legally liable for copyright violation in tweets they retweet, or whether the enforcers just believe they can get away with it.

I suppose it might differ from one jurisdiction to another. Are enforcers of this kind usually in the same jurisdiction as the supposed infringer?
> you're not allowed to add additional usage restrictions to GPL software

SIMH is not GPL'd software.
A decent timezone converter.

Maybe paste in date/time any format (it checks for ambiguity and asks to clarify) and free text to and from time zones and then spits out the answer
and the time zones it actually used
For FOSS projects based in India there is FOSSUnited: https://fossunited.org/grants
Because you will probably never live in it yourself
And only if they file, which is a big risk to the debt collector since a lot of folks would fail to pay up regardless of judgment.
> if hotel syndicates push mandatory severe bug control (aka expensive) in the regulation, that would make 99% of airbnb illegal?

We can but dream.
Unfortunately not, they're considered "the world's deadliest animal"

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies...

[Edit: posted before your edit. Bonus points for the "suckers" pun :) ]
Erin Ton believes she set a record. The trail running community disagrees
Blue Apron to be acquired by Wonder Group for $103M
Whether or not a telescope is progress in general is debatable, but let's dig into "defunct agrarian society"

The Hawaiian Kingdom fell to a coup, because some white guy thought that the native Hawaiians were too primitive to govern themselves, and that that was why he and his friends were not allowed to setup sugar plantations on the scale they wanted to, and to own the land outright. The story of the US annexing Hawaii is unambiguously the story of a colonizer telling the indigenous people that their priorities (whatever they are) are childish or superstitions or what have you. And when the indigenous people didn't immediately acquiesce to the colonizer's (patronizing) demands, the colonizer resorted to violence. The queen makes it explicit in her document of surrender that the only reason she is doing so is because of the explicit threats of violence made by (all white) insurgents and the US Navy.

There's some implied sexism thrown in for good measure, although it's not clear to what extent it mattered that the white insurgents overthrew a queen and not a king.

Dismissing, I dunno, the Sarmations as a "defunct society" is one thing. Whatever society destroyed them is almost certainly destroyed themselves. But there are people alive today whose grandparents remember living in the independent Kingdom of Hawaii. The conquerer of Hawaii is very much still alive and kicking.
A good samaritan among the staff of their IT consultants and the owners will never know.
Economy is not an end unto itself, I think
Replacing one well known default with another non-retroactively increases cognitive load. At that point it being easier to type is meaningless.
is a few milliseconds in latency really a problem for current LLM models? They are already so slow that users are used to waiting 10s of seconds for a response anyways. I feel like until the actual latency of LLM models improve to sub-second, this is not a product that worth the price.
That was supposed to be denoising, not denouncing, DYAC. Just noticed, too late to
Edit
Now.
Thanks!

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo141943...

From the book's "Chapter 7. Modern Archaeology --
Putting the Evidence of the Alphabet in Place"

"We can now describe the origin of the alphabet chronologically and
geographically with some degree of reliability. The basic outlines are these:
The alphabet was formed in the context of cultural exchanges between
Semitic-speaking people from the Levant and communities in Egypt after or around 1800 BCE. The earliest evidence is dated to Wadi el- Hol, a site in Egypt just west of the Nile, north of Luxor. Later inscriptions in the Sinai and throughout the Fertile Crescent show the gradual distribution
and evolution of alphabetic writing, with most evidence dating from the
fourteenth century BCE and after."

Regarding "how much do we really care what various scholars in the 16th Century made up about the history of the alphabet?" we should, if we're interested in knowing the context in which various claims, which pop up even today, appeared for the first time. The context often explains the motivation which resulted in specific "made up" narrations, some still (often unfortunately) influencing our lives.
> If I have a distributed microservice architecture and I want to keep multiple datastores in synchronization or "consistent" what's the industry best practice?

Not to use a distributed microservice architecture.
"Decrease the ability to transmit infection diseases"

Why dont they say stop and not decrease ?

So they can transmit pathogens ?

How did this paper get published
A likely candidate would be modern materials used in mattresses and bedlinen.
knowing the current french government, i would say their response is going to be:

1- create a green number with an automated response that tells you “you should have paid better attention”

2- blame immigrants

ps: this is not limited to paris , a friend of mine found one bug in her train near Cannes
Bedbugs have been a problem for years in Paris, but of course the government starts to think about it for the Olympics. Regular people can rot in hell for what they care
Ugh, the conjugaisons are a torture. I was lucky and knew how to speak and read and write in French before I had to study them or I'd never learn the language.

I learned to read and write in French before I started school; I'm not a native French speaker btw, but Greek. I learned by reading Asterix and Tintin and I'm not half joking. That's how I also learned to read and write in Greek (by reading Disney comics in that case), also before starting school.

I don't know if it was just me, but the combination of text and images in comic books is almost as good as being immersed in the culture of a language. Illustrated books, that simply have a few images along with the text aren't as good for that purpose. With comics you get to read text that directly relates to the goings-on in the images, and it's the next best thing to living in the real world and observing people speak as they go about their day.

It also helps that text in speech bubbles tends to be short, and the things said aren't too complex, but not too simple either. There's some puns in Asterix that I only ever got much later, and one in particular (a Roman named Oursenplus) that I only finally got when I heard a French colleague say it out loud (with a "sh" sound at the end rather than "ss").

Of course, no school is ever going to stoop so low as to teach kids to read and write in their language or a foreign one with something as base and vulgar as comic books. Or it'd be something along those lines. Even in France where comics are big they wouldn't think of doing that. And yet, in my case at least, that worked out much better than all of school taken together.

I bet computer games would also work in the same way. Good luck convincing educators that kids can learn anything useful from playing mere games. Unless it's chess I guess.
The ESP chips are barely power efficient enough to run on battery with C.

Like, honestly, I'd not put anything but compiled languages without some sort of runtime on those chips except if I have something like "update an eink display twice a day" use cases.
> Yes you are right that allowing speech that questions election integrity does create some instability. But the way to deal with that instability is not censorship. Censorship just convinces people even more that something nefarious is going on.

Holding aside whether to use the word "censorship" or "moderation" (and whichever word we choose is politically motivated rhetoric), you're making an unsupported empirical claim that I find questionable.

Ideas are contagious, and very bad ideas are capable of spreading and doing significant damage. See all the disastrous revolutions that killed millions of people, 20th century fascism, among other examples of bad ideas that spread via free speech. This speech was a critical part of the chain of causality that led to mass death.

Contrary to popular sloganeering, the reality is that more speech doesn't always correct bad ideas, and in many cases has no impact.

> If you look at history, top-down censorship has been one of the best tools used by dictators to seize and keep power

That's correct, but how did those dictators gain power in the first place? Often via speech. They used their freedoms (of speech) to undermine freedom (of speech). Hitler wouldn't have gotten into power if he didn't convince over 30% of the population to vote for him via the words that came out of his mouth. This is the Tolerance Paradox, which has unfortunately become cliched but is still as relevant as ever.

> Without freedom of speech, democracy really is doomed.

You've constructed a false binary. I don't think anyone wants to make it illegal or impossible to question elections. The best idea I've heard is that there needs to be some trial in front of a court, where the evidence is brought forward. If the person lied, they go to prison for doing damage to democracy -- analogous to defamation being a crime (but in this instance, the defamation is against society more broadly//the state, instead of an individual). If the person told the truth, then some other people go to jail for rigging an election. If the person made an innocent mistake; well, that's also up to the courts to decide. What I don't want is a media circus, where nothing gets resolved and everyone becomes cynical.
Apply this tool in reverse and live fast and dangerous?
So why do we exclusively use blacklist to refer to bad things we want to exclude?
But code using these monadic operations can also be quite clean… toy example:

auto askForUsername = [&] { … };
auto lookupUserByName = [&](auto name) { … };
auto printUserDetails = [&](auto userId) { … };

auto details =
askForUsername()
.and_then(lookupUserByName)
.and_then(printUserDetails);
>> It is a scourge in the UK as well

Do you mean in AirBnB’s or generally? Fwiw I don’t know or know of anyone in the UK that has ever dealt with bedbugs. They’re a thing I’ve only heard about in TV shows set in NYC.
After Rosemary was mildly sedated, "We went through the top of the head," Dr. Watts recalled. "I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary some questions. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backward... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." When Rosemary began to become incoherent, they stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
Does anyone have an example of a copyright troll like this? I.e. a company that offers this kind of copyright enforcement services?

I'm trying to understand how this works. E.g. what is their business model, is this something that would be used by individual photographers, by agencies or by corporations, etc
As a software engineer with a keen interest in photography, I've been using a method to allow others to benefit from my work, while also enjoying the spread of my photos in various public forums. I upload my pictures to Flickr and tag them with a Creative Commons license. This makes it easy for anyone to search and use these images without worrying about licensing fees; they just need to provide a link back to the original source.

This practice has brought me a lot of joy over the years. My photos have appeared on Wikipedia, in concert promotions, and even in a special Ibiza edition of Monopoly. The Monopoly team didn't have to, but they sent me two copies of the game as a thank-you, which was a lovely touch.

For those of you who are like-minded and have photos that could be of public interest, consider setting a Creative Commons license on platforms like Flickr. Doing so could ease the burden for small publishers like ianVisits, allowing them to use high-quality images without worrying about legal repercussions.
So true. I am very very often on France and had to throw away my bed and couch in France and Germany because of those shitbugs. We tried products and professional help but they came back or where still there. Since we changed interior and take precautions when we travel they are gone.
But it’s hell.
Because I also rent apartments for holiday, that I own, and there I change the mattress regularly and everything else is leather now.

Many of my friend have them also. Didn’t realize it was a problem on national level but it feels like it.
Btw Germany has them also .
Happyx: Nim macro-oriented asynchronous web-framework
Historically there have been restrictions on key size (and bad algorithms) - to my knowledge, neither is currently the case: there is no known way to break a 2048-bit RSA key (although if there was, we probably wouldn't know about it)
In V it works automatically for all enums via a builtin str() method:

my_enum.str()
I suppose that could work, but then it'd be harder to keep track of which fd is custom, we'd have to search through a map each time we call close() for instance.
It's an evolution away from the previous norm of complicated usage-based licensing schemes that fall under the term Rights Managed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_Managed

They're still in use, but represent a smaller share of a much larger pie created by Royalty-Free licenses.
Huh? Who says so?
Gonna go back to the days where the company owned your accommodation & you had a house as long as you had the job?
It’s trolling because the photos are easy to substitute or not use at all. No one is going to knowingly post a blog photo costing them 400 quid. It’s a gotcha.
I've always considered magic_enum pretty useless because if your enum is large enough to need such automated features, it's too large for magic_enum's template hacks so it fails, crashes the compiler, or makes your build times go insane. It only works for toy enums with a few small values.

So instead, I've resigned myself to scripted code generation at build time, and it's one of the things about C++ that makes me feel kind of grossed out.
Fun stuff, got through all the levels but the difficulty only really scales on the last level!
>Graffitis

Graffiti is already plural, or at least uncountable.
Do you recommend retargeting website visitors on LinkedIn (my audience is very present on LI).
Charities, even small charities, have lots of money. They can handle small license fees. They want to comply with the law/regulations/licenses just like any other business.
Ente-io-auth: open-source 2FA app for Android, iOS and web
Previously (including several comments from CF folks including cofounder eastdakota): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674097
Sounds a bit like the urban myth about the tank classifier, where all the photos of the enemy tanks were taken on a cloudy day.
How would that be different from existing solutions, like ARKit?
Indeed, and even worse, lots of people probably used the same algorithm (that is quite basic in the end) for a lot of things before without making a lot of fuss but "we did an academic paper about it, so we consider ourselves as the inventor of it". "How come we don't get credits for being genius".
Yeah, this entire topic is strange to me. Is the crux of the issue that some devices come with unchangeable DNS servers, so when these are configured to be DoH then they can't be MITMed?
TBH, you should treat them as if they don't ("size of part library shouldn't be part of the evaluation, let alone top of the list of "standard questions"). And generally external libraries are suboptimal as well, for various reasons. What I want is tools for quickly importing and generating footprints, like Altium's generator (and support for mechanical dimension constraints like mechanical CAD has had forever would really help. It boggles my mind that no PCB tool has them, it would be such a killer feature)
Oof, that's frustrating and a recent change. There used to be a quality selection at the top and a "Download all" button that would download an archive of the entire purchase.
I am often on south France and yes they are there in abundance.
yeah, you're right, of course. What I meant is that it made a free license non-free and that got people concerned
> Just the fact that Rust has well defined semantics for overflows would save so much time and money

This is a compile-time option in GCC and clang (fwrapv).
Albigensian Crusade
And make the average Parisian replace their 60 old mattress?!? Nonsense! /s
If you look at things like htmx and the principles that underpin that many would say the past 15 years have been a holding pattern waiting for browser APIs to catch up and provide a decent front end experience.

Personally I love working on in an “older” style way here the server just sends html to the browser and we don’t need to built an app twice (once in the fronted and once in the back end).

The real magic comes in having the older, full stack approach, sprinkling in JS as needed and then having modern CI/CD for deployments.
Thats science slang . Science is rarely absolute.
Your colleagues can’t afford AirBnB? Where do you people work anyway?
My father worked in Chernobyl in the 90s, there was Win95
Hairworm Horrors and Talking Tomatoes
Maybe. I mean, it might makes moral sense maybe. IRL, these things play out in unsatisfying ways.

"that would make many loans more difficult to issue"

Maybe in some cases, but I'm broadly skeptical. Selling bad debt is usually not an important part of non-shady businesses models. 2nd order effects, if any, are likely to be the main concern. If a business is known to offer 10% settlements after 2 years... that predictability will eventually be taken advantage of.

Honestly, I think the debt stuff (also aspects of copyright) are just the loose ends of major industries. Most bad debt or long tail IP assets aren't worth much. But if you can bundle, they're never too small to monetize.

Once you have an industry dedicated to squeezing that last drop... you probably have a destructive industry.

IMO, the best solutions is policing. Somehow, policing is rarely mentioned as a solution to corporate crime. That might mean occasionally tweaking laws to help make policing effective... but that only makes sense ifyou are already policing.

I bet these trolls are as sloppy as the victims they're targeting. At least in debt collection, at a certain depth... they're not doing any due diligence. Often, all they have is a name, number and sum. That means they often are collecting on BS premises. Charge them with fraud, or racketeering. A business practice premised on demanding payment of a debt, without proof that the debt is real... that's an extortion racket.

I wonder if the trolls here can stand up to scrutiny. Do they actually own the rights? Have they based their business model on strategic avoidance of due diligence? From what I've heard, IP trolling exists by exploiting liability limits of both corporate law, and practical law enforcement.
Not the same, but I recently have got problems with moths. So has my parents. This also used to be unusual.
I live in the UK (north), and I've never in my life heard of anyone dealing with bedbugs here, and can corroborate with the sibling that the only time I've ever heard about them is through US popular culture shows (I thought they were just a warm-climate bug)
No, but there is a stable kernel API and ABI to interface with them, unlike the VFS kernel API that constantly changes and induces breakage in ZoL.
I agree with the most part of what you wrote and I don't want to turn this even more into an unconstructive flame war than it already is.
I just wanted to reply on the following point:

> I knew HN had a bunch of conservative and libertarian tech bros but…holy shit. This whole thread is unhinged.

Many people on that thread seem to not be american so thinking of them through a US political lens may not be pertinent - the politically-loaded, US-centric, source of the change may also be the source of the frustration with it in the first place (see the bottom of this reply).

Just on this point, I consider myself left-leaning (and from what I can see, US democrats would mostly be at the center - and Biden center-right - of the political spectrum in my country), yet I share the point of view of the other commenters regarding the "master" change and the ways it is pushed.

> In what universe is master/slave not racist

For the "master" part at least, I would say most people do not link it to slavery because most people are not from an english-speaking country.

For me, when I read master I may just think about master recordings. That does not mean that it may or may not have a racism-linked origin (I have no idea about that) but understand that many people around the world don't do the connection. Then, as it is mostly US people that push for other to change that name vehemently, this make many people think that those are americans that want to push their current political ideology down someone else's throat (which has a completely different cultural and political background) and may elicit a strong response.
> Rust's where each variant is its own type.

Is this... right? You can't use enum variants as types in function signatures, variable declarations, etc.
Your statements are corect, but my conclusion is that people weight a giant screen as much that there is even no market for someone who weights the physical keyboard. I remember keyboard smartphones from 00's and it became unexpected for me at that time that we are heading into the no-button future.

How did that happened? Can I at least run Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp on ARM device with SIM-card and a physical keyboard which is not an ARM-laptop?
Even enforcing has a dumb ring to it.
PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study
I live in London and had bedbugs in my apartment 2 years ago. I knew what to watch for (colinear musquito bites), so got rid of them at the first sign.

No idea where they came from, though. But the building is old and they might have crawled from a neighbour's bedroom.
yea this is where i was gunna go, agreed
Then make it closed source and sell usage tokens. It reminds me of kids on Scratch copying programs made by other kids then put "I MADE THIS!" in the description box.

A whole chapter could be written about turning (other peoples) images into executables and assert ownership with a new kind of DRM.