skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I’m not so sure it would help, as these bots would be trained on previous customer service interaction.

I’ve been trying to get an Instagram account deleted for the better part of a year, and even with quintuple (!) ID verification and threatening to bring an GDPR case to bear, all I get is what amounts to “computer says no”, in such a talking-in-circles kind of way I am not sure I am talking to a human.
How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie
In Austria, companies can have a Betriebsrat, the... company-council, I suppose. It's made up of employees and they have some legal powers like delaying someone getting fired, they should provide legal health and generally support employees in any kind of "altercation" with the employer/manager side etc.

It's not mandatory and not all companies have it. I once joked, at my first job: "We should create a Betriebsrat!", my boss took me to his office and explained to me for an hour how horrible those are for a company. Companies are absolutely not allowed to prevent employees from forming one and he was incredibly afraid of having one in his company...
Please engage with the substance of my comment rather than just further iterating the argument that’s in your head. It is equally frustrating whether tabs or spaces.

Who on earth is counting spaces?
Both far-right and pro-Nazi definitions have been greatly expanded to cover nearly all of the "original antifa" [1], CS Lewis is a far-right red-flag [2], and "racist" has been expanded beyond all meaning [3]. Meanwhile the Canadian parliament applauded a literal Waffen SS fighter [4], but somehow the 'Nazi-adjacent' label didn't stick to them.

Which is not to say there is no genuine merit behind your accusation, just that, without elaborating, it's impossible to know what they mean, as even just enforcing standing immigration law is far-right these days.

[1] Prevailing opinion among 5872 typical white enlisted men in the Air Forces is: Train Negroes as pilots, bombardiers and navigators, but segregate the Negro both in training and in subsequent duty. - https://ia902302.us.archive.org/25/items/us-war-department-f...

[2] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/cs-lewis-home-office...

[3] https://www.embracerace.org/resources/explaining-to-my-eight...

[4] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canadian-parliament-ovatio...
Firefox about:config check your setting for the network.IDN_show_punycode flag. I've just set this to true myself to prevent this kind of spoofing.
https://archive.ph/KSquB
It's important to point out that the vast majority of conspiracy discoveries start as conspiracy theories.
One of the issue with ascii domains is the phonetic mapping for CJK languages.

For instance right not asahi.com is taken by 朝日 (Asahi shibun, the newspaper), thus the Asahi town (旭) cannot use it. Mind you, the town could take asahi-town.co.jp or something like that, but there is other Asahi towns and places with different writings (including 旭日, 朝陽、浅緋 etc.)

Wanting all of them to have some random ascii diversification is madness, and we're only talking about Japanese places, when the Chinese character space overlaps. (The question of whether these domains are actually registered is I think a chicken and egg problem, and I have a hard time imagining the above conflict space will get a nice resolution inside the ascii alphabet)

Western ascii domains being ripe for scam is an issue, throwing the baby with the bath water would still be problematic.
i guess this will be good news when it gets around to the litigation for them stealing everyone's content.
Yeah! How dare they, referencing literature.
SUA?
The fact that you're not 100% sure is what worries me.
The workaround for a while was to have an old version of the Kindle for PC software on your computer and download the flies from there. You would get older versions that had crackable DRM.

They’ve pretty much closed this loophole. IIRC now you need an older physical Kindle that doesn’t support KFX files and you can download files for that device.

It’s still a crappy workaround because the older file format doesn’t have any of the latest typography features.
> high transitivity of professionals, monopoly of work, high income, and some sort of power law in terms of outcomes, and asymmetric info that can be on the weak side of the negotiation that can generate high payouts

I don't know that I really understand what you mean. Not sure why those, even were they true, would mean people should get fired if they try to unionize. Maintaining high income and "monopoly of work" is one of the points of unions.
Meta is really the worst company I have dealt with in the past. We are trying to advertise with a budget of 700€ per month (in total over 50.000€) and they just can't figure out the payment process.

First they wouldn't let us add credit cards or normal accounts, just Paypal.. okay

Then (after many support calls and cases always by different agents of course) they activated our credit card. One payment got through then no more. Meanwhile on Meta side the "unpaid balance" is rising because they won't charge the card (support didn't help, mixed us up twice and invited us to a video call that was booked by someone else already)

Total madness. They just won't let us pay them
This just strikes me as something Americans tell themselves to justify their living situation
the distribution method for this particular attack was a Google search ad
Music publishers sue AI company Anthropic over song lyrics
Also, Linux 2.4 and FreeBSD 4.x were rock solid, almost at the end of that era.
No nazis, no far right.. Elon agreeing with a point a conservative politician made makes him a nazi to you. Are you even German? Are you actually familiar with AFDs talking points? I take it you're on team anti-evil and saw the target painted.

Elon is an asshole. But the media didn't come after him until he started talking sense on Ukraine. Now every loser with a complex is using it as therapy to badmouth Elon.
I'm fairly sure AdGuard works fine on Safari, though I have heard its performance is lacking -- shame, as Safari is a great little browser (despite my personal dislike for macOS).
> All the above have to abide by building codes, use standardised parts and tools and most have to conform to certified standards which their work is then also validated against.

This is a huge logical error. You just proposed to use the lowest common denominator, but then your response to the analogy is that other people are constrained by rules. Yes, they are constrained by rules, that are very complex, and even then, the constraint ensures a minimal standard, it doesn't block you from creativity. Fire prevention rules will define how wide a corridor has to be, but it won't forbid you to build a wider corridor or to paint its walls.

BTW editing your post to answer a post below you wasn't the smartest thing to do…
I'm not calling for Twitter should be banned, I'm saying that if it chooses to block access to European user then I think that's a good thing, especially if the reason that they're doing that is their refusal to follow EU law. In exactly the same way that I wouldn't shed any tears if Stormfront decided to block access to Europe.
For me to get the lights set up for movie watching would require me to flick 6 separate switches in 5 different locations.

I'll rather just say "Siri, movie time" and the lights fade out automatically.

And if I get up, a motion sensor will light the way to the kitchen or bathroom automatically.
> Of course people on HN moan more when you do that, for no discernible reason, as if having 1000 dependencies is somehow morally inferior to having 10

It's not morally wrong, it's wrong for auditing and general change management. Too many suppliers of small dependencies you have to check.

This is important for larger companies or for mission critical software in sensitive domains.
Strange. I guess it varies with what Google's magic box guesses what an add on a site is worth.
CIDEr: Consensus-based Image Description Evaluation [pdf] (2015)
I know these usecases. In practice, people will still just romanize their name or the name of their city to the Latin alphabet anyway.

The reality is that Unicode is great for communication in say, text messages but terrible for identifiers. People in non-latin countries know this; there's a reason that there's only six countries (from what I can tell) that went with punycode TLDs while there are many more countries with unique alphabets and most of those punycode TLDs see very limited use to begin with. (The most popular being the one used by the Russian Federation, which is also the only entity to forbid using non-cyrillic characters in it's domain names).
Google is US based company, when we will see "eventually be shut down and prosecuted" for spreading malware?
Oh. Ye ok I get it now.
Is the Kobo DRM scheme fully cracked without any caveats?

Could I buy books from the Kobo store, strip the DRM, and load them onto my Kindle?
Depends in what context you are talking about the animals.

Trade in animals is covered by a number of laws¹ intended to protect them, and fb has a blanket ban on advertising trading animals. This is a perfectly logical thing to declare wrong.

What has happened here, most likely, is that a right thing (selling courses about Python and Pandas, the technical things of that name not the animals) has been misidentified as that wrong thing, by an automated system that doesn't understand that two concepts can have the same names, with no practical way for the affected advertiser to appeal or even query the automated decision.

Basically this is a variant of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem.

--

[1] Morals too, of course, but companies like FB work based on laws/regulations² rather than based on what is considered [im]moral.

[2] or based on working around laws/regulations!
I look forward to finding out if we agree or disagree.
That wasn't the point, no need for literature references when you can enjoy that kind of life today when living in less fortunate regions.
> that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle.

Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India?

> people have just one demand. secession.

This is never going to happen: 'The Partition and the violence of 1947 in Kashmir forced the Constituent Assembly to revise its approach and it resolved in favour of a strong Centre. The possibility of the secession of States from the Union weighed on the minds of the drafters of the Constitution and ensured that the Indian Union is “indestructible”. In the Constituent Assembly, B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, observed that the word ‘Union’ was advisedly used in order to negative the right of secession of States by emphasising, after all, that “India shall be a Union of States”. Ambedkar justified the usage of ‘Union of States’ saying that the Drafting Committee wanted to make it clear that though India was to be a federation, it was not the result of an agreement and that therefore, no State has the right to secede from it. “The federation is a Union because it is indestructible,” Ambedkar said.'[1]

[1] The ‘Union government’ has a unifying effect (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-...)
Can you somehow quantify it or is it your gut feeling? Any articles out there?

I don't know if they catch small fish as in this example, it just isn't in the news. The bigger fish happens to be in the news, like shutting down international scam call center - 2 in LV, 1 in LT. Video from police cam if anyone wants to see smashing windows: https://www.vp.gov.lv/lv/jaunums/verieniga-starptautiska-ope...

We are also being educated in many places including schools, government institutions, posters, jobs etc about the risks, about how scammers work and stuff like that.
A bank in France (Boursorama, now Boursobank IIRC) locked someone's account because they did not provide the document.

Yes, "the document", without telling which document. When calling the support, they first said that it must be indicated, no kidding. And then they said that it was not possible (despite getting screenshots).

It is sometimes a matter of having the wrong attribute set somewhere in a database and welcome to hell.
JSON Schemas to Nickel Contracts
Debug Helper Using OpenAI for the Chrome Console – Chrome Extension
ķ does look a lot like screen dirt though. ö not so much.
Assuming that they don't dox themselves some examples that would trigger a filter:

- Phillip K. Dick, etc., So like a body part or cuss word, or even an ethnic slur, for instance in Papua New Guinea a hundred or so people have the surname “Wop” which might trigger an algorithm. “Fokker” is a Dutch example of this, refers to someone who was an expert in getting animals to breed—possibly some other culture has a variant like Fucker that's the same.

- The name could be identical to a celebrity, for instance a Malcolm X born to Arthur and Jenny X having nothing to do with the more famous person of that name. Then you would still say “it’s because of my surname.” Alternatively the celebrity could be notorious e.g. if your name were “Jack Hittler.”

- The James Randi Educational Foundation once dismissed an application for a prize that they administer, because the person did not appear to be using their real name. This had to be reopened when notarized copies of a court order changing the name were submitted, confirming that he had indeed changed his first name to Prophet and his surname to Yahweh. So if that guy has kids with more normal first names...
Lesson learned: don't click on that Appeal button. That's the human confirmation they're looking for in the otherwise 100% automated system with no human in the loop.
> And, yes, it tends to glow blue, not green.

No, it doesn't glow at all. Water under irradiation do glow (Cherenkov effect), but the rods themselves don't glow.

> But you are not seriously alleging that radiation from spent fuel rods isn't deadly, do you?

They aren't. They would be very deadly if they were out of water with people around, but it doesn't happen under any circumstances, so the risk you're talking about doesn't exist. It is as nonsensical as saying wind turbines are deadly because “if you got hit by a rotating wing you'd be cut in half”.
Genetics have nothing to do with it, it's more about culture and identity. These people see themselves as a separate people the same way Americans see themselves as separate from Canadians and Mexicans or how Californians see themselves as distinct from Texans and vice-versa.

They want that to be recognised in a similar way to how the Maori were recognised in New Zealand.
I found this strange as well and have been wondering if there is a hardware constraint that no one is aware, yet.
New X users will have to pay $1 a year just to post on the platform
In Screenshot Meta says both were made by technology.
Crazily enough, the domain shown under the ad on google ads isn't automatically pulled. You can set it manually.

Attackers exploit this by first using a genuine domain to get the ad approved, and then altering the info after the campaign starts. I saw a similar attack like this on twitter a month or so ago.
> I think the issue is that for almost everyone tens of servers is the sweet spot.

For single node deployments of containers, Docker Compose has usually been enough.

For multiple node deployments, Docker Swarm (possibly with something like Portainer) has worked well for years: it's easy to create clusters, they don't require much in the way of resources and running workloads is pretty simple, definitely in part thanks to the Compose spec.

Of course, there have been issues over the years (CentOS 7 I think needed masquerading for networking to work properly back then) and people might be conflicted about some things - personally I love my "Ingress" being just a web server container with whatever configuration I give it, others might want Traefik or something else, whereas more advanced use cases like task scheduling and replicated storage across the cluster don't have anywhere near as many solutions as Kubernetes does.

Then again, none of those are a deal breaker for me. Of course, something like Podman can also be considered, or maybe Hashicorp Nomad if you don't mind HCL.
If a catalog low performance $1 mirocontroller is good enough, then it's probably the right answer. A low cost FPGA (~$5) with an embedded CPU is also a great choice.

If none of the off the shelf components can meet the application cost, power, performance, size, weight, security constraints, you have the choice of either abandoning the project or spending $10M-100M to design an ASIC. Our chiplet approach fills the gap between ASICs and off the shelf FPGAs.
Earth SETI is basically just looking for directed signals: hypothesised to be either intentional communication attempts directed at us, or signals that we happen to be in line-of-sight of. Omniidirectional signals that could be detectable over interstellar distances would require immense amounts of power at the transmission end, and anyway may even be detected by conventional radio astronomy observations.

The popular conception is that our undirected, historical tv/radio signals might be detected by ETIs - and that therefore this is what our SETI efforts are looking for. In practice, the former is unlikely using known scientific principles, and the latter isn't really being attempted for the same reason.
>If you only consider desktop/server software to be actual “software” then yes. Otherwise I don’t think that’s accurate

I was replying to:

>yet look how long it took for it to become (somewhat) competitive in the PC and server markets.

As for:

>Why? To be honest I find the somewhat religious level fanaticism related to RISC-v somewhat baffling

I won't entertain the question, due to the loaded tail.
Can those affected sue 23andMe?
Imagine in the year 2023 with internet connected phones and still each phone doesn't have its own web server?
Ambiguity exists in all languages, e.g. what mail.com refers to?
If you haven’t already, you should check out MakeMKV.

You can buy it or use it free with the beta keys, and it should solve your problem.

https://makemkv.com/
> Seriously, our whole approach and tooling ecosystem is tripling down on idiocy. Editing the same, single source of truth, plaintext code directly is an idea that needs to die.

I use Obsidian, because it's a cool notepad software that stores everything as plain text. This means at any point in time, if Obsidian stops being developed (and supported by up-to-date OSes), or there's a new better software, or stops being free to use - I can just stop using it, and I still have my notes. This is just one of many strengths of the plain text. Compatibility is another.

I know, I'm not actually editing those plain text files directly. I can, however.
I guess the interesting question is how this approach compares to FPGAs in terms of cost and performance. Given the functionality of the different chiplets as soft IP, wiring them together and loading the design into an FPGA should be easy enough. So how much more would I have to spend on FPGAs to implement the same functionality as a typical combination of chiplets? How much more to match the performance? Or are there no FPGAs that could fit the functionality or match the performance?
Ask HN: Interesting 2-3h coding projects in Python?
I recently switched jobs to become a full-time Python teacher. I am going to teach a 60h course next month so I am looking for interesting projects related to algorithmics, basic data processing, OOP, etc. My course is split into 3h sessions so I need rather small projects (2-3h).

Any suggestions?
Characteristics of Recurrent Visions of the Nonphysical World
Whatever about other aspects of RMS he has been pretty consistent on his opinion on the spirit of the GPL and its relationship with free software since its inception. It has been a common tactic over time to question the spirit of the GPL to fit some other agenda. If others want to claim free software means something else then fine - but the original intentions of the GPL are in black and white.
Universal clipboard is pretty great too. It's another thing I wish was just an open standard that all the things supported, not just the Apple ecosystem.
New dating of cave art reveals history of Puerto Rican people
I believe the post is about the server-side caching, or “re-calculation” of post rankings, not client-side browser caching.
Check if anyone who is competing with you has personal connections with Meta, or someone just don't like you.

Meta staff have been hijacking Facebook, Insta accounts (and few dozen have been fired for doing so). It would be not surprising if some working for Meta, or their spouse or friend, is doing what you are doing and they are cutting your legs.
There is a wealth of data that shows the male performance advantage in sports. The difference is so stark that even the most elite female athletes are at a disadvantage compared to teenage boys: https://boysvswomen.com

This male advantage remains even for those who choose to lower their testosterone levels; they retain strength and muscle mass above women, and their overall skeletal structure remains intact too: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846503

One can also easily see the difference when comparing equivalent female and male competitions. For example, here's a graph of weights lifted in a decade of World Masters events, combining both W35 and M35 - it's very obvious which data point is the male competing in the women's event: https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/JrzQoA6fWKtYdm8auCMj6RKil0Y...

What all the data we have so far shows is that allowing males to compete in women's sports disadvantages women
and shatters their athletic opportunities.

> I think they should be included because it's the human thing to do.

Women are human too you know. Their needs matter as much as those of men, and more so in female-centered spaces. Women's sports don't exist to be a therapeutic setting for men who desire to be women. They're for female athletes, who deserve the same opportunity as male athletes to enjoy fair competition and have their athletic excellence celebrated.

> I think a lot of conservative types not long ago didn't think women should even be playing sports, so it's ironic that the sanctity of female sports is so important now.

It's important for female athletes regardless of what opinions conservatives may or may not have about this issue.
It looks unlikely[0].

But if you are still going to make that claim about ARM success in 2000 vs RISC-V now, then better source the data to support it.

0. https://riscv.org/news/2022/07/europe-steps-up-as-risc-v-shi...
Today they have 86000 employees so the reduction is about 16% of the total work force.

It's not nothing but I wonder where and what types of work gets cut first. Usually it's not people producing stuff like programmers but roles that companies in times of trouble realize they can be without.
Surely they'd have to give this up the moment they receive a FISA national security letter?
Fab.

Fascinating to see how clunky apple.com looks even relatively recently.
The root cause is alphabets/fonts with lookalike characters being permitted in security-critical contexts. Tracing further, it's the mindset that this is a valuable feature, and not a reckless risk, that is to blame. Browser designers should have been feverishly working to further disambiguate Il1O0, not add more risk by allowing a multitude of whole new alphabets!
GitHub Actions on PR don't run over your commit by default
Instead, they run over a merge commit from the base branch.

This means CI is always running over commits that don't exist anywhere in the repo, and change whenever master changes.

If you re-run GHA after master changes, CI is testing over different code.

Posting because every senior developer that I know is surprised to learn this.
Spot instances actually make this manageably cheap!