skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is sad how much misinformation there is about GrapheneOS. If you can, just try it. Their sandboxed play services implementation is far superior to any other solution.

Compared to any other mobile OS, there is no compromise software wise on GOS.
There's a huge problem in the US where custodianship is used to take advantage of senior citizens. People who can take care of themselves are often trapped, abused, and outright stolen from using that system.

However, this is the kind of case where custodianship is probably the right answer. If they're falling for a gift card scam, it may be best that a trusted loved one is given the literal and figurative keys for their own protection.
I used to have my landline wired up to a blinking light and I kept the ringer off.

I still keep the ringer off, but now I never answer my phone 'cause it's always in my pocket and I can't see it.
So if a husband doesn't trust the wife, it is okay to have them clock in and out of the house and wear a tracker?
See how beer evolved through history from Stone Age sludge to craft brews
> A couple of months ago he got a call saying he owned a fine (payable by gift card) for not showing up for jury duty. He got in the car (yes, he still drives... that's a whole other subject) and went to the courthouse to pay the fine, which obviously didn't exist. He chalked it up to a "mistake".
Show HN: Quant GRE and PISA Math scores follow each other
> When can I expect the CHERI version? :-D

"CHERI has three central design goals aimed at dramatically improving the security of contemporary C-language TCBs, through processor support for fine-grained memory protection and scalable software compartmentalization, whose (at times) conflicting requirements have required careful negotiation in our design."

:) I don't think so
HN loves arguing about words.
The system was designed for a different age and doesn't include the same trust signals as email (which includes the actual email content). If the phone system was invented today (anyone can just dial any number and make ringing sounds in anyone's home!) we would consider it preposterous.
>a woman

Not going to comment on the other cohorts, but at least there's a good representation for this one in Elizabeth Holmes.
Yep, they misunderstand where the complexity lies.
Recent and related:

Insomnia REST client now requires an account - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 - Sept 2023 (123 comments)
The dumb thing is that the market WOULD solve the problem if it was allowed to. We have a dysfunctional system with too many regulations but instead of the regulations getting blamed, the market gets the blame instead. And the problem never gets solved.
Localtunnel used to be a nice tunnel. It has gone through some enshittification lately.

> tunnel consent page now requires the tunnel creator's public IP in order to access tunnel content

https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/598

There are free non kafkaesque competitors out there.
If targeting can be done without spying on people, then fine. But it's the spying that's the problem. Whether or not the data obtained without people's consent can be used for good purposes doesn't justify it.
There are some pretty big, obvious reason why true anonymous payments are illegal under a lot of regulations in different countries. Supporting current big businesses is pretty damn far down the list.
We tried that. It collapsed during the Great Depression.

If you look at the real unemployment rate is presently around 7%. During the 2020 downturn it was around the same as Great Depression. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemploymen...

I want private charity to work. Sadly I think you’ll need to have a public private partnership.
If ChatGPT is gonna disrupt any technology you'd think it might be low code platforms.
The antibody test is credible - it's Abbott's. I've tried the finger prick ones and they are not reliable. I had the same type of palpitations with Pfizer's original vaccine and my symptoms match CDC's list [0].

The vaccine caused immediate severe palpitations (up to several per minute) hours after the shot, tachycardia, and the high severity lasted for 2-3 whole days (being worst at night), but then lower grade for 3 months.

Typically long covid kicks in weeks after infection and the timing fits my exposure timeline.

Again, saw a cardiologist and they didn't notice anything wrong, but they can't really see inflammation, I guess. What's strange is that my hsCRP was normal.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...
Yeah, I were programming 6502 assembly at 12. Not that easy to do for a 12 year old now with today's computers
Come on, Google, push this to Google Photos.
Yeah, I think the first example is bad. This shouldn't be used for the photos you took. What's the purpose of having a photo if it wasn't the real moment you captured? I could understand the usage in marketing or event photographies, but for memories with your loved ones (as the first example tries to show it) it just doesn't make sense to me.

Two anecdotes:

1. A friend of mine met his favourite author (traveled from one continent to another for a signing event). When he shaked hands with the author, a friend took a photo. A lady (still hated by us!) step in the middle, and blocked the photo. Maybe an IA or a talented person could remove her, use a footage photo of the author and rebuild the photo... but why? What's the purpose of that?

2. A few months ago during the pandemic I scanned all the printed pictures of my grand parents with my phone. Aftre scanning like 200s, I checked one and I zoomed in: the stupid app applied some IA to make it better and it just was worse. I don't care if it looks better for the untrained eye: my grandparents didn't look like that. I now have stupid horrible verson of the scanned photos, where my grand parents appear with smooth skin and weird eyes.
It's what we all grew up with if you're older than about 50. The phone rings, you answer it. It's a habit. Even caller id wasn't really common, and it cost extra.

OTOH I'm in that age group. I dropped my landline a long time ago, and I never answer calls on my mobile unless the caller is in my address book. I don't have voice mail either. The habit of answering the phone was not hard to stop, there was a bit of FOMO (if you can call it that) for a while, but every time I answered such a call it was a scammer or a survey or some other nonsense so that's pretty much gone away.

Maybe for those that are truly elderly it's just something to break up the boredom of sitting at home.
Recent and related:

UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37333404 - Aug 2023 (169 comments)
Your friend could still vote, just not run for office at 90 years old. This seems like a fine compromise to avoid the Feinstein/McConnell/RBG/etc pattern.
That would make some kind of sense except they do in fact have very profitable companies in Europe. The question is more around why do employees of a company like Goldman Sachs earn less in Europe than they do in America for the same work.

(Setting aside the European colonial history that could be summarized as "taking all the money from the world.")
Yes, the reasons are big, but they aren't valid or useful unless you are a large incumbent (or the state itself).
> Why shouldn’t she?

Maybe I'm still missing your point, but isn't the writing on the wall here? She's at the top of the hierarchy and her poor decisions negatively affect everyone at the company. Why shouldn't she? Because the company is already bleeding money and employees.

When Nintendo saw a financial downturn between 2011 and 2014, their CEO voluntarily halved his salary for two years. Why should he do that? Maybe because it shows responsibility and expresses solidarity with the rest of his workers.

EDIT: spelling
Aw man, I knew that was bollocks! Haha

I've not come across this as a negotiation thing directly or anecdotally, gave you the benefit of the doubt as maybe it was a super new thing that's not hit my radar yet.

We'd be giving ChatGPT the business for hallucinating, my theory is it learned to do that from internet forums :P
Not to mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show as a singular example of an audience taking part in a showing (a friend of mine showed it to me and other friends at a party, beginning the night by apologizing that he alone would not be able to do all of the normal ad-lib that a full theater would perform).
This is going to sound snotty, but arguments were made for people who sort of knew what they were doing. You probably shouldn't be touching the comments box if you don't know what it does. These thoughts were written assuming a basic understanding of the language they were written on.
Ah thank you for clarifying so you would have to create an abstraction layer on top of the current simd implementation like for example simd_vector(type, size). That abstraction would have to dynamically detect the hardware and dispatch it to the hardware like the project you shared (https://github.com/google/highway).

So technically it sounds feasible but all of the languages like Zig, C++ and Rust picked a simpler approach. Is it simply a first step to a more abstract approach?
This would be ideal, yes.
He literally owns half the very much not public company.
Someone appears to have registered a CVS account using my email address, so several times a week I get their awful spam. And while I could probably block their emails, there doesnt seem to be a way to correct the account email. I'm in Europe so the ccs website isnt even accessible to me. They don't respond to emails, and their US phone number drops me into an endless queue. All in all, seems like yet another scummy company.

My sympathy to any pharmacists, and anyone else, working there.
That's great to hear — thank you!
Declarative GUI for C#
Slint (https://slint.dev) is an open source declarative GUI toolkit to create elegant, modern, and native GUI for embedded, desktop, and web applications. One of the USPs of Slint is that it supports multiple programming languages such as C++, Rust, and JavaScript. Recently, one of the Slint community members added support for C#. Check out Matheus' YouTube video where he walks through the demo applications -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwLFhk5RUwE

Link to blog: https://microhobby.com.br/blog/2023/09/27/creating-user-inte...
GitHub repo: https://github.com/microhobby/slint-dotnet

Star Slint on GitHub: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/

Let us know what you think. Thanks.
Thanks - unfortunately that doesn't include sleeper access for multi-day trips (where the Amtrak experience gets really, really good).
anyone making a "smart" water timer using today's weather forecasting would be something that could be called "The Plant Killer". my area can say that there's 80% chance of rain, yet not one drop can fall where I am while other areas can say they received .25" of rain. sounds like watering isn't necessary. oops. dead plants. There's other times where no weather is forecast, yet I've received .25" of rain. oops. wasted water. also, your "smart" decision to not water because of rain means all of the plants on my patio didn't get watered while I was on vacation/work trip/etc, which is the primary reason I bought the timer in the first place.

Your smart is dumb. Just turn the water on at the time I said. That's plenty smart for me. If I can update the schedule from my couch, great! But...not at the expense of all of this tracking bullshit
What is it going to be for us, when we get that old?
True, I think cutting pay for all executives would make a meaningful difference in a layoff. But don't forget that some fraction of execs might also be getting the axe in said layoff. GP was talking about CEOs specifically.
I think this flow sort of supports that.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/07/limit-third-party-iphone-phot...

If I remember right, there’s a way to get a “take picture” option in the chooser. I’m not sure how the qr code would then be recognized, though I’m not sure why you wouldn’t have them get the qr code via the system camera app.
Something…seems fishy? Like the example with the guy next to the robot figure. Their model happened to predict exactly the same type of figure?! Diffusion models are not omnipotent…
I stand corrected. My offer still stands.
The 28/36 rule was a benchmark based on the Wagner-Stegal Act/National Housing Act of 1937 under the FDR administration. It stated that no more than 30% of income should be devoted to housing expenses.

[0] - https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-10348
a) that isn't what's keeping them. people don't stay somewhere because things that bother you, don't bother them. you didn't name anything they like about it.

b) the mandatory signup meme is and has always been ridiculous. it takes 8 seconds to create an account. for anyone who gets value out of something, that's not a big ask. if you're not willing to spend 8 seconds then it wasn't for you anyway.
This is a good point, the smaller the layoff the more you can argue that the CEO (or others) should just take a pay cut instead.
Just one more subsidy bro I promise it'll work this time
I have an uncle with mental illness who will click on anything that tells him he's won something or respond to anyone who tells him the same. His phone rings like this. What I don't understand about these lists is that he has essentially no money so while in some sense he might be an easy mark, he is uneconomical to spend any time scamming.
If you're willing to spend time making good indexes and using index hints as needed, you can get better performance/cost with MySQL. Note that PostgreSQL has advanced features not available with MySQL. BTW, you don't have to deal with Oracle with MySQL/MariaDB unless you want support from them.

One thing I'd really like to use is the MyRocks (RocksDB LSM-Tree) storage engine (instead of InnoDB) for MySQL. I don't know what the production usage status of this is, but it seems to be taking a long time getting adoption. I'd used TokuDB with Percona MySQL 5.7 and it was fantastic for high-write workloads.

I would choose PostgreSQL if operating cost doesn't matter much. Developer experience is much better. Less time spent on making queries run the way you mean them to.

I also have good experiences with MySQL replication and multi-writer configurations. This might be better now with PostgreSQL but it wasn't when I looked a long while ago.

What I'd probably rather use is Google Cloud Spanner or CockroachDB though, over either MySQL or PostgreSQL. The way you build queries is different--these work better with larger queries, not rapid small ones. So it's best to start with them than try to convert a working normal SQL system to a distributed one. If you really want to go SQL -> CockroachDB then PostgreSQL is probably better since CrDB supports (a subset of) the protocol (but is explicitly not compatible in terms of supported query features). Just googled it and it now says:

> CockroachDB supports the PostgreSQL wire protocol and the majority of PostgreSQL syntax.
> dialectical marks

Of course dialectical Marx is something else entirely.
"regs are written in blood" happens every time there is a disaster or implosion.

yet again, now we see why the financial markets need scrutiny.
Assuming you are asking about a generative AI way, you could use photos of your new wife to train a LoRA with kohya-ss, then with A1111 you could do an img2img repaint using the ControlNet extension to make sure you get a similar pose. With enough experimentation you could probably get at least one decent result.

At least that's what comes to mind with the things I know you can run offline.
Not necessarily. Many homes outside metro areas have inadequate network infrastructure. Satellite and dial-up aren't enough for the kind of remote work I do.
I'd like a model where every other Friday is off for half the staff. A lot less complicated for companies because they can still operate 5 days a week. Also a lot less radical/daunting from their perspective. But all those extra 3-day weekends, some of which become 4-day weekends due to holidays, will create a lot of much-needed time and space in most working peoples lives.
I wasn't talking about whether or not it shapes behavior. Of course it does. What I meant was that it doesn't change the point I was making, or the ethics of the situation.
To add on to that, the 28% rule is based on the 30% limit from the Wagner-Stegal Act in 1937 during the Great Deal [0]

[0] - https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-10348
If I own it, I can take it home with me. If I own it, I can get a permit to build on it. If I own it, I can refuse to allow everyone else to use it.

This high minded notion of "public owned" is quite different than what we are discussing here. The fact we're having this goofy conversation is sad.
Is there an endlessh for spam calls? Let an ai just sit there and drive them slowly insane so they have less time to defraud other people?
I think that what isn't true is the notion that any law is permanent. Laws can and do get changed or even removed over time.
Very cool. This would be interesting to look into for the simplified drone simulation I have here. If we wanted a drone to only communicate to let's say 4 others, then we might send out a ping and see how many respond, decreasing our range until only 4 respond. But not all drones that recieve our ping can respond since their range may already be decreased. I'm not sure what arrangment that would result in generally, but I'm going to have some fun looking into it, thanks for the info.
Just route the sender to spam? Do you really put this much work into every spammy sender? Any decent email frontend should fulfill your desire in a single click.
My elderly in-laws have lept at the chance to get rid of landlines, only to be replaced by near constant WeChat or iMessage pings. It was this at this point that I discovered that they’re not alone and most people live with near constant mobile notification bombardment, putting almost zero effort in taming it. It took me a while to condition them to use the silence slider which they were barely aware of. Then it made me wonder if messenger apps were actually an improvement. Landlines had the advantage of being completely out of mind when you’re away from home.
I do too, but we are talking about a major vendor here.
Tools to replace pesticides? You mean something like robotic cats catching mice? :) I mean, focusing on biodiversity preservation would be probably more impactful.

I dream of robots capable of weeding, replacing herbicides, and selectively pruning/mulching to reduce fertilizer usage.
> In most large metros you can live a little further away and have some solid discount and same wages. Better be ready for that commute that starts at 6 am though.

I mean you just invalidated your own argument with the 2nd part, but sure. Wasting time in a commute negates any discount you might have had.
STIR/SHAKEN probably has helped a bit, but the amount of times my dad has infected his phone with viruses and been "called back" by someone after a robodialer called them shows that regulating the "good guys" hasn't really stopped the bad guys much, just made their list of targets somewhat smaller.
There’s a database client lurking in there too. I nearly always forget it.
The way the voting and political systems work create a huge advantage for the incumbent, particularly in a state like California where there's a huge Democratic majority. Primaries usually work on a plurality system, so even if the voters don't like the incumbent due to age, they have to all agree on the replacement, or the incumbent will win with less than 50%. Primaries also don't have a very high turnout rate, and so the incumbent can magnify their advantage in fundraising, political connections, etc. This goes double for a very old Senator that has had a long time to build up that political capital.

There are also political costs to opposing the incumbent from within the same party. Running a competitive race will be seen as disloyal by many people in the party. It's much less risky to just wait out the incumbent and then run.

For similar reasons, it's really suboptimal for the governor to be choosing Feinstein's interim replacement. Effectively one person will get to choose California's senator for the next 20-30 years.
If you hadn't made the code self-evident, I wouldn't have found the bug!
Please provide ASAR buildS.
Thank you for specifying that you do not have a family. More people should give their life context when they make posts like this, positive or negative.

There has been a time in my life for each type of work arrangement, and there will be a time for retirement. Talking without that context is just going to result in talking past each other.
and how much of that was due to Windows having garbage security protections?

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Transcription practice really helped me associate IPA with speech sounds.
That’s why I made the only-urban clock face, or the only-train clock face :)
Further, almost all advertisement is party A selling party C's eyeballs to party B, without involving party C at all. Some people buy Vogue magazine specifically for the ads and cool, but my start menu on my monitor attached to my computer all belong to me, not Microsoft to then auction off to somebody else. A deal that changed after I made the deal with Microsoft that didn't include that. That's clearly immoral.
I Visited a Web Site That Demands My Email Address to Spam Me With Newsletters.
First time I’ve heard that and that’s probably true for everyone I know as well.
> They are using Linux to avoid paying the licences.

Windows already doesn't charge any license fees for screens less than 9" no?

It may have started out that way but I think with projects like DXVK, Gamescope etc.. it is also about controlling the whole software stack to provide a console like experience. Also allows them to do things without worrying about drivers from AMD or some random Windows update breaking their customization.

Another interesting thing maybe Valve's idea of reducing the friction. People used to purchase their games on steam even when pirated copies were easily available.

Now that there are more competitors to Steam (Windows Store, Epic, Uplay, Orign, Gog, etc...), Valve is creating their own vertical to make it easier for people to ignore those places when buying games.

Eg. I had the option of purchasing a DRM free copy of an old game on Gog vs. the same game on Steam Deck. On desktop, I'd have definitely gone with Gog. but on the deck, I actually went with Steam that day. Still baffles me.
I bought these gloves and they do the job: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09225MZX3

I had to adjust my typing position a bit, so that my hand isn't so vertically close to the keyboard.

I later bought some much cheaper gloves from Temu. They seem almost the same as the Ergo gloves except for the quality of stitching. The quality of stitching doesn't seem to matter.

https://share.temu.com/X0FjxYzp7iA
They're bored. It's a lot of work to stand up and leave the house. Phonecalls are the most convenient and accessible human interaction they have. My grandmother loves talking to people she knows are scammers, just to ease the tedium. She's been talking to the same neighbors and children for literally fifty years otherwise.
> then you might as well accept the obfuscation to preserve some semblance of "privacy."

I don't accept Google's approach because it is intended to reduce my privacy from them. They are not trying to preserve some semblance of privacy, they are trying to preserve some semblance of their ability to spy on us.

I reject their position entirely.
Time to check Ad Topics in Chrome Settings to see what information advertisers are getting from me...

Nope, nothing I wouldn't wouldn't share publicly. Just like every other time I checked.

(I won't copy it all here since I'm on mobile, but otherwise I would. it's all very bland topics like "Online Communities.")

It's technically targeted advertising, but only barely. I voluntary share much more information on the Internet.