skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would depend on what was verified, and how good the verification was.

Here is why the "what is verified" matters. Suppose we verified a large boat in about the right time and place with a flood that would have looked like the end of the world to those involved. This would suffice to change my mind from "Noah's Ark is the Judeo-Christian version of a flood myth found around the world" to, "Noah's Ark is an oral history of events witnessed." This wouldn't convince me that there was a world-wide flood.

An example of a verification of this type is that https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/destruction-of-cit... was sufficient to convince me that the Biblical record of the destruction of Sodom is likely an eyewitness account. While not convincing me that God did it to punish the gays.

As for how good the verification is, before reading on please sit down and think what it would take you convince you that your understanding is wrong.

Convincing me of the literal truth of the Biblical narrative would require evidence sufficient to override the following lines of evidence:

1. Either the date is earlier than Biblical analysis like https://creation.com/the-date-of-noahs-flood describes, or there needs to be an explanation of how the Methuselah tree could predate the Flood.

2. It has to explain how a global flood could have left Lake Suigetsu in Japan undisturbed for 150,000 years of lake sediment. See https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/japanese-lake-sediment-unlocks-1... for more.

3. We have even longer cores from undisturbed ice in Antarctica and Greenland.

4. There has to be an explanation for the lack of signs of water damage to geology around the world. This problem was first convincingly demonstrated by Louis Agassiz roughly 200 years ago.

5. You have to explain things like the Wallace Line (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line for what that is) which are conventionally explained by evolution and continental drift. The distribution of weird species on islands (see Darwin's finches for an example) also poses a problem.

I could go on, but it would take rather overwhelming evidence for me to discount this physical evidence of the history of our world. Which makes me wonder what evidence you think you have that is more compelling than all of this.
Do you actively use "Not Interested"? It helps a lot. Another hack that I have is if I like a particular topic, I click on as many related videos as possible in the bottom suggestion list in order to "guide" the algorithm, even if I won't get back to all of them. Not sure if this has any effect but it has worked out quite well for me.
Given how a Google account or IP address ban or punishment on any of their services can basically annihilate your ability to use any of their services forevermore, including never being able to touch your emails or files ever again, I can see YouTube being very effective with this crackdown.

Especially since they can/do also target any of your secondary accounts, and can also hit family members depending on various backend circumstances that users can't really know about.
Really?

So I am free to torrent all the books that I want, and there is no legal action that can ever be taken against me?

If so that would be news to me.
There was that web demo that auto detected ads on live radio using this. (It just switched to another station)
> You can hardly justify this structure in most other places

Because most of those place where build to be car centric (most of the US?). I live in Sydney/Australia where there used to a massive tram infrastructure which was destroyed (allegedly) under the pressure of big oil to make the city more car centric.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/28/erase...
I had a few horrible experiences with Booking.com and the others where I'd arrive at the hotel and they'd never heard of me, or I'd ask for an extra day in person but the hotel couldn't help me because I didn't book directly with them, or they didn't serve breakfast but Booking said they did and the hotel was in the middle of nowhere etc.

I finally wised up. Hotels basically hate guests who book with a service like Booking.com and they will not lift a finger to help you if anything goes wrong.

Now I use Booking.com, Kayak, etc to find hotels in the general area I need, then use google or DDG to find the website of the hotel (a process much easier said than done because the booking sites SEO the hell out of search engine results), then book directly with the hotel or its parent chain.
And that's why we leap to Firefox + UBO.

Until, of course, we get the modal of death: "For best and safest experience, must view on officially certified Google Chrome (tm) (r) (diaf)."
They cannot stop you from skipping those ads either. You just need to buffer and skip ahead. They would need to develop a very complicated solution that would not solve the problem of people not watching the ads. Actually this would make it even easier to skip the ads.
Fairphone 4 is supposed to come to the US.
> Also, the Taliban offered an unconditional surrender but Bush rejected it.

Citation seriously needed because Wikipedia says the exact opposite.
Since 1999.
It sucks if you are used to it!
Yea I was going to say, just use Debian... But interesting that this exists. Like the Windows decrapify script.
I've been paying since Youtube Red, and I'm almost to the point where it's not worth it anymore. The price has gotten really high, and so much of the content I watch has ads baked into it by the creator, so I still mostly have to watch ads. Youtube's aggressive demonetization of viewpoints they don't like is really leading to a bad UX and is near the tipping point for me.
> > is otherwise from a legitimate sender that complies with your local laws and will honor the unsubscription.

> those are the worst

If it's legal in your area to send unsolicited commercial email, obviously that problem is not just going to go away because it gains them a competitive advantage to do so.

> [when m]y email got on some list somewhere and now I am getting an emails from various "trusted partners".

Yea that isn't legal where I live. For me, that would totally fall in the "smash that report-as-spam button" category, so I can very much understand your sentiment
Amazingly said
never heard of it mate
No. Nowhere near that. It's a steaming turd.
January 6th or not, the very fact that Trump intentionally persistently spread misinformation to delegitimise an election he lost is a clear and direct attack on the central pillar of democracy.

The election was not stolen. He knew. He lied and used his media reach to convince tens of millions of people that the election was fraudulent when it wasn't.

What more do you want?!
If we had leaders that put America first, we’d claim our reparations from Saudi Arabia.
The article says

> [..] a more likely model is that the 2009 brightening was caused by a stellar merger. What appeared to be a bright massive star was a star system that brightened as two stars merged, then faded.

But wouldn't it be cool if this was because someone brute-forced the nine billion names of god?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
YT premium starts at $20/month in Australia for a single person, that’s far more than most other streaming services and you still have to put up with advertising and clickbait from creators.
Isn't TCP + TLS, with false start or TLS 1.3 also three round trips?

C: SYN -> S

S: SYN + ACK -> C

C: ACK -> S

C: Client hello -> S (no need for two separate packets, but almost everyone sends the no data ack)

S: Server hello, certificate, server hello done -> C

C: client key exchange, change cipher spec, finished, application data -> S

S: change cipher spec, finished, application data -> C

In theory, you could use tcp fast open to shave a round trip, and you can use TLS 1.3 early data to get to application data on the second round trip where there's a session to resume, if the client sent data is OK to replay.
Good. Similarly there are people who are happy with Yahoo and stuck with it since a long time. Overtime, all the most important/common features in Gmail are also in Yahoo.
Ask / Tell HN: Issues with Vercel Deployments
Vercel Status is showing issues with" function executions that are causing an infinite loading issue for a portion of our customers"... but I'm having issues with builds never getting started, remaining queued indefinitely. Anyone else? Think I saw some CF issues earlier today as well.
I mean US was building things, just the wrong ones (bombs and fighter jets)

The infrastructure destroyed by the US is probably of near zero value, given that they were fighting against failed states. Yugoslavia being the exception in this.
Yes. They were not an ally until after the war started. You don't get to say "nah we don't need you" and then rely on billions of dollars after the fact, and then join the pact and reap the official benefits once the going gets bad.
I worked for a defense contractor when the mistargeted drone strike on Ahmadi occurred killing him and 9 family members (including 7 children). Based on internal information available at the time, there's a very good chance that the drone strike was mistargeted due to software bugs.

In particular, a "track this car" feature that worked against satellite and aerial surveillance was available in software used by those in the military's operations teams. I've poked around in that software to determine that it was definitely buggy, but this did not prevent the feature from being offered to users. I've been assured that users were essentially told "don't click this button that automates watching vehicles and instead do it yourself", but laziness and crisis crunch time of the American exit from Afghanistan makes it very realistic that users were overwhelmed and trying anything to stay on top of things.

I lay those deaths at least partially on software and the cavalier way that life-or-death circumstances are systematically ignored by the defense contractor software industry.
Yeah this. Keyboard is shite on the new T14 gen 3. Horrible to use.
The cloud service. I don't know what it's called exactly. It just says "Zscaler".

In terms of better solutions, I would prefer a completely different approach. Securing the endpoint instead of the network. Basically the idea of Google's "BeyondCorp".

What happens now is that people just turn off their VPN and Zscaler client to avoid issues, when they're working from a public hotspot or at home. In the office (our lab environment) we unfortunately don't have that option.

But by doing so they leave themselves much more exposed than when we didn't have Zscaler at all.
This happened to me via Expedia, more than once. Both times I had driven hundreds of miles and was forced to pay for a second hotel due to this issue.
JSON is there for human to read a record of data by group.

I think it is only good to use directory as data table to store JSON data files,
but not for JSON data properties.
It is an interesting comparison, but it would be nice to compare the same algorithms to understand the cost of each language (genericity of c++ over C, safety of rust over C++).
@dang I wonder why we don't just generate these things at the bottom of every article? My extension does it already, but I feel like it would help a lot as a core feature.
From my point of view YouTube with Adds is unbearable.

It is that way by design
Time based OTP is pretty sensitive though. Probably that is what broke?
I will start there and see where it leads - thanks!
Buy color toner refill kits. Melt a hole in the cartridge with a soldering iron, refill it, and seal it with aluminum tape.

Better to spend $70-150 than $300-1200 on new cartridges.

PS: I'm currently in the market for an 5-15 year old HP Color LaserJet but still assessing which model tends to be more reliable. There were a lot of lemon SMB Color LaserJet models. Suggestions welcomed especially by staff IT people who support these things.
This filter catches most newsletters with very few false positives: `contains text "unsubscribe"`

Most important emails don't contain "unsubscribe," but newsletters are required to include it by law.

I added some other things to the filter like `from:noreply`, but my primary inbox only gets a few emails per day, while my promotions and updates inboxes get many more emails.
Sure yeah, my point is just that the sample "conversation" that OP did is silly and wrong.
I used to pay for youtube premium but it would still show ads sometimes so I cancelled it. I'll never watch ads and I sure as hell won't pay to remove them and still watch them. Turns out the most consistent and easiest option is also the cheapest, so I pay nothing and never see ads.
> What are you going to do, cut up your gold into tiny bits to give to people?

You could carry some Goldbacks: https://www.goldback.com/
I like it, and I'm rooting for you, but personally I do not fight losing battles. Debian and Fedora are quite nice these days.
Everybody has a voice here, buddy. I'm exercising mine. You don't get to pick and choose who gets a say.
I just tell them that I saw a better deal on gestures broadly the Internet and they give me some discounted rate.

This happens all the time with every single type of service provider, why would some shitty service like Booking.com get to mandate no one can offer any other discounts?

What, just because there's some sort of aggregator service out there that you've partnered with you are not allowed to offer coupons, discounts, or your own booking services yourself? I would find that VERY difficult to believe.

Plus, based on what we're hearing everywhere, potentially losing your contract w/Booking.com seems like a blessing.
Yes and no. There is a distinction between "making money" and "commercial". But even then it's pretty slim in the law. For once the US law is short and compact. (Keeping in mind that in the US much of the law is in regulations and how the law has been used in earlier cases - still usually the law is not short...) Here it is:

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107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.

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In the US, plenty of criticism is done as part of a job, an enterprise to make money, a business. Same for news reporting, same for teaching, etc. The new work makes money - at least as part of an overall activity - or it doesn't exist. So after that it's up to the court to interpret "commercial nature" within the previous list of activities that are mostly professional. Anyway: You'll have a better time is you can claim "nonprofit educational" - even if you make money by selling the new work. You can make money selling the new work, and still operate a nonprofit, non-commercial legal entity.
Do the math with 20x the number of homeless.
So what problem do you think Haskell thinks it's solving?
The standard playbook on this is: table it for 6 months, then try again as quietly as possible. Repeat until the outrage is tolerable. Works great for corporations and governments alike. Eventually people won't be outraged and will just quietly take whatever they're giving us.
That's ok, we split the internet then.
My sense is to avoid this have a personal blog.

That being said how many people write blogs with grammerly or chatgpt these days. The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice.

My sense is that you use this technology you might be happy with the results at first but on later review you just notice something off in some sentences and maybe it just doesn’t flow right. I’m not convinced that it will replace writers jobs yet. Especially when you want to create something authentic and unique.
We now know how cats purr–why they purr is still up for debate
The only other Free Software STEP reader of any competence might be the one in gCAD3d. It's written in C. But even if you can read STEP there is the problem of triangulating trimmed NURBS surfaces. I've been wanting to lift that reader and put it in Solvespace for linking parts in assembly but it's a big job and we still can't support all the types of geometry you might find in STEP.
AI-powered parking platform Metropolis raises $1.7B
You too could reflect on the accuracy of your claims, particularly the one that relies on mind reading. Will you?
How is lion air 610 related to that? The issue was not the single unapproved part but a whole series of malicious business decisions and corporate misconduct by a internally corrupt airplane manufacturer.
> Where practical is in the sense of an engineer (or in their terms, a CS practitioner),

Configuration processing. E.g. I'd like my yamls to be decidable, though I'll settle for guaranteed to halt[1].

[1] https://dhall-lang.org/
Love it -- the best AI based tool I have seen for investing/trading
Isn't it also used to intercept outgoing network connections and redirect them sidecar processes? Envoy and friends?
I used to be a Thinkpad fanatic due to nice build quality and good Linux support.

But in the past few years, I have taken to just buying Dell's midrange business laptops. The build quality can vary by model but they are cheaper, ubiquitous, have great support while in warranty, and Linux always runs just fine on them if you pay attention to the hardware you're buying.
That all can be achieved by using file system as database.

Not even complicated to implement.

See couchDB for how to handle "what if two people are editing a file at once".
That's not true other than in the sense that “courts are the only ones that can make a determination that an act would violate copyright law outside of fair use considerations” is also true.

Its true that many times fair use will be somewhat harder to predict what a court would decide on than other aspects of copyright law, because the statute and precedent in combination are less clear, but that's not a categorical distinction.
I have to admit, I have no idea of what you're trying to say.
It’s booking.com, they are notorious for not being competent adults. Just check out this article about their working conditions [1] (you might want to google translate it you happen to not speak Dutch).

1 - https://www.computable.nl/artikel/nieuws/development/6777910... (
The result will eventually be a mixture of trusted hardware and software, from server to client to GPU to display, that will not display the content if any of that locked down blobby chain is not perfectly as it should be.

Even the concept of "changing the channel" is something to eventually lock down in this way; don't let the users change tabs or modify the window or display state at all until trusted ad content has verifiably finished.

The saving grace is that you'll probably be able to just get up and walk away until it's done, at least for some time.
Some of the Most Interesting and Weird Manuals in the Internet Archive
> We drone-killed a minor US citizen in a foreign country without a trial.

And his US citizen father[1]! There's a good article somewhere about Obama toiling with these decisions (he reportedly gave the go ahead for both dronings).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki#Death
Just saying "well, the Holocaust was worse" isn't exactly the best defense of foreign policy, is it?

When you claim to be "the land of the free" and a "bringer of democracy" you can't be doing a Guantanamo without coming across like a massive hypocrite. Morals and ethics can't be thrown away the second they become mildly inconvenient.
Voltage issues can also be a big problem, and cars have notoriously dirty electrical.
Just wanted to say, thanks for co-reading it with me. This was fun, and your commentary is insightful. I hope you have a nice week(end).
Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis?
>Feasibility of an implantable bioreactor for renal cell therapy using silicon nanopore membranes
Yeah, I think there's all sorts of reasons to avoid Twitter/X for emotional and psychological health, or even because you just have some standards of good taste. But the big exodus after Musk just seems like people outraged that the particular flavor of their cesspool has changed.
That's incredibly illogical. If you intentionally make something unbearable, you end up with X/Twitter. Google might be stupid, but they aren't Musk.
X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
Does anyone have a good explainer for how the NTP protocol works? I can't quite wrap my head around how you could possibly synchronize two machines in time over a network with unknown and unpredictable latency.
I guess no one left to say "No" to him at Twitter HQ.
But Education costs too much and we have to cut.
Can't give school teacher raises.
Freedoom
It's not that weird, you are reading too much into the subtext. The web is in a transitory state, platforms change, people move. Wishing for more content to be available on a specific platform without blaming the author is an acceptable comment in my view.
Transactions mean you can build faster as you don't have to write a bunch of code to achieve those features
You can drop YT logins completely. On desktop use Firefox Account Containers to always open YT in an isolated container and never login. On Android, just use NewPipe. Of course, you won't have personal recommendations, playlists, watch later, etc. bu in the current state of the things, it is a feature.
Yea same with private planes and stuff like that.
> And that's why we leap to Firefox + UBO.

> Until, of course, we get the modal of death: "For best and safest experience, must view on officially certified Google Chrome (tm) (r) (diaf)."

Which will probably happen super fast (unless antitrust regulators get involved) since Firefox's market share is in the toilet and continuing to drop.

Firefox also can't push too hard, since (IIRC) pretty much all their funding comes from Google.
And you know what? There is life without google, too.
Oh man fuck Dell. I get through one every 9 months at work. Absolutely the worst laptops I've ever used. Precision series.
It was in the MIC and security states' best interests, made popular by taking advantage of a tragedy and wielding propaganda. Honestly, GG to the people running the show at the time. It was a very clever play. Have to give credit where credit's due. We willingly surrendered so many rights.

We literally have all of history as an example of how bad Afghanistan invasions go for the invader. One prime example being the Soviet Union utterly failing just ~two decades prior.
> It's because the Russian people support what Putin is doing.

How could you possibly know that this is the reason?

What is it about these topics that cause people to think this way? Imagine the mess we'd have if we wrote software using this quality/form of logic, it might be as big of a mess as the political world.
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

DWORD TurnOffWindowsCopilot set to 1.
We had that forever. The only real trigger is the pandemic stimulus, both the PPP “loans” and the stimulus handed out to normal people. That lit the fuse.
I don't find these figures regarding casualties in the article.
When general aviation was affordable [video]