skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the information I could gather the only payment option is debit/credit card. If this is accurate it looks particularly exclusionary to me because one cannot expect each and every one of the 1.4 billion (according to the linked page) affected people have or can have a bank account.

Also this creates unwritten requirements to traveling to the EU:
1. You must have a bank account.
2. Mastercard/Visas/$otherPaymentProcessor will be aware of your application.

I don’t have an issue with these payment methods being available, I take issue with them being the only available methods. Countries’ immigration departments have no business compelling travellers into a contract with a private entity (the bank), and I also believe their dealings with european immigration departments shouldn’t be exposed to foreign payment processors.

At the very least cash payment at a local embassy should be an option.
This is my own opinion too: I feel that as Canadians we are generally coasting on our past accomplishments/echoes of past economic activity. This blinds is to upcoming challenges and existing problems.

For example: we're ignoring the fact that our economy is heavily skewed towards "fake productive" activities like selling the same house back-and-forth to each other, and the Finance industry (an accountant friend tells me that even in Oil & Gas a lot of the "growth" happens through trading unproductive land stakes). The other heavyweight driver of activity is Government, but that can't be sustained if you're not generating value through other industries...

I also think that Canadians have a complacent attitude to daily corruption ("it couldn't happen here - that only happens in those funny tropical countries!"). This means that corruption flourishes just under the surface in many places.

I think that Avetis Muradyan gives an accurate rundown of this "coasting" mentality in Canada:
https://www.palladiummag.com/2019/09/19/how-not-to-build-a-c...
> Not all nations became colonizers though, war and annexation of some neighborhood land is not "colonization",

True.

However, forcing the invader's culture and practises on the conquered people and taking steps to replace the local language, culture, politico-legal systems and social structures is. Did or did China not do this to the people it conquered?
Why would you refuse if you can get detailed information out of a smart meter about your usage? You can save a lot of power by knowing what is going on and if you have solar you definitely want a smart meter. You also don't need people coming by every so often to check how much electricity, water and gas you have used.

Here in Switzerland 80% of homes are supposed to have smart meters by 2027 but it looks like it will take longer, we are at 20%[1]. Once you have one the energy company has to give you access to (by law[2]) it (rs232, Ethernet what every the device offers) so you can read the data from it.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/kassenstur...

[2] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2008/226/de#art_8_a
Insulating glass better doesn't usually involve making the glass thicker; glass is a reasonably good heat conductor. It usually involves more, thinner sheets of glass stacked with air gaps between them. Argon is often used instead of air (nitrogen/oxygen) because it is a better insulator.
Pro-Palestinian creators use secret spellings, words to evade social algorithms
I now have a mental image of all the world's spy agencies doxxing and demonising each other's agents in the eyes of the electorate of the governments that those agents work under.
Thanks for the trust jakozloski! Happy to serve you
I consult in the industry, and certainly don't know everything, but everything that I've seen says that no, they don't. There are companies out there like Bidgely who claim they can do that to some extent, but they likely can only do that for really big loads unless your meters only powers a very few things.
The whole point of intelligence is the ability to learn. This might just be a case of an animal that already evolved to have intelligence learning and adapting. Orcas are social animals that communicate and and interact. So, they might show collective behavior and the ability to adapt as a group. And obviously we've been hunting them to extinction and generally harassing them in their own natural habitat; even imprisoning them. They'd be well excused to hold a few grudges.

The good news is that they could adapt again if we respect them.
but we germans also severe backwards-oriented to begin with. all kinds of esoteric garbage in daily life is shared and believed in, most things of the modern world is looked at with mistrust, and so on.

the bigger/international cities like hamburg or berlin are a stark contrast however, drive like 50 miles outside of them and not much has changed during the last 100 years, except for buildings/infrastructure in general.

I carry like 20€ with me at all times for when I have to deal with these situations in an emergency, but turns out I increasingly don't need to replenish this cash in my wallet for months.
North of Los Angeles
It's not so much "be careful with your UI" as "when you're actually notified that your UI is treading on somebody, you better stop (treading on that particular person)".
Good point (and little-known nowadays!), but I think that the focus of sumptuary laws tended to be luxuries such as trim, furs, cloth-of-gold or Imperial purple, rather than colourful clothing in general. But I could be wrong!
> Why would I need to provide a better solution to property damage?

Because you want others to believe that that is a bad solution. If its the only available effective solution then it isn't bad.

> It should be obvious, vote with your dollar, don't pump gas there.

How many gas station chains do you have to choose from near you and what makes you think that the others won't just put on the same annoying ads? Voting with your wallet is meaningless for issues where most people will begrudingly put up with something because there are only so many options and there are more important differences to them (mostly price).
> There's no end to that game of efficiency. You end up with either ascetic monk life people or asking for population reduction measures.

Yes because carrying groceries by 15m walk to home is surely on the same level as demanding population reduction measures.
Nobody with money cares about e-waste. Those of us on a tight budget value our devices and lament the difficulty of repair.

My phone is 6 years old, and I'm hoping to be able to pay someone to replace the screen and battery at some point (knock on wood).

I specifically bought a gaming laptop to replace my hoity-toity Surface-with-the-dead-battery-base, thinking it would be easier to repair. Come charge port issues, I happily tear it down only to find that it's soldered in (my 2008 HP laptop did not have this problem).

Even when consumers are forced by circumstances to reduce, and make efforts to reuse, companies essentilly force recycle (which, as you said, is essentially "trash").
Wait 5-10 years for the telemetry systems they rely on to go obsolete.
VC money going up in flames has a tendency to kill their other invested-in companies through increased pressure to become the unicorn that digs them out of the hole. Hopefully this VC doesn’t invest heavily in anything actually good.
Do you still use dial up?
Let's create a hypothetical McDonald's worker, imbued at birth with extraordinary intelligence and capability.

They have a family and are the primary means of support.

They're laid off. Parent post's "act of compassion"

What happens?

In the US, they have unemployment benefits. They have SNAP.

That's probably it as far as immediate. They hypothetically have access to Section 8 housing, but that's contingent on finding availability (current wait-lists are long and conditions of properties variable).

There are some academic / training programs (merit and need-based), but I believe those are all state-administered?

IOW, in the US, not great. I don't have high confidence that housing and initial retraining would be financially/practically attainable to allow them to take advantage of their abilities.

Honestly, in the US, most reliable option for that person would be to join the military.
Actors and musicians used to basically be hobos wandering from town to town, because their art was not essential. Copyright made them kings, yet their usefulness hasn’t evolved. But don’t get me wrong, I love music. It’s just that essential activities like farming didn’t receive the same treatment.
SALOME is an OpenCascade frontend that nobody seems to know about, perhaps because it's pitched for CFD meshing. But it's basically a more focused and stable FreeCAD.
Ask HN: What products or services are you boycotting?
"Oops, I accidentally ran over a faraday cage and it seems to have unintrusively wrapped itself around the wireless transmitter..."
What is this? It made me listening to a random Minnesota radio station where people talk about ghosts.
Perhaps if it was someone else's title, but they are constructing their own auto-complete strings, essentially divining it, so their fingers are in fact in the pie.

Auto-complete also gives the impression that other people have searched or found it, so it must be valid, despite having little correlation. If an employer starts typing your name and google says you're pedo, you're probably not getting the job
The first image is quite disturbing. I wasn't ready for that. Maybe we need tags for those kinds of images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTffic7uq6Y
Even if free there need to be limits to what they can do, and strong liability for anytime else, including if they are victims of a zero day attack.
Indeed! I'm a freak using CSS as intended :)
Solution: use fraudulent DMCA takedowns to take down harassers.
Whether the plaintiff defamed another business or not is not the subject of this case. The case is about Google continuing to publish defamatory statements generated from “Rip off Reports” content despite being forced to comply with the request in 2011.

Now I do agree the plaintiff can also be sued for damages by the psychic company for defamation.

That’s my take on this. I do agree the premise of the case is odd. The in depth case review doesn’t seem to mention if she actually went through the process of having the primary publisher (Rip-off reports) remove the defamatory information.
That is a point
It was paid for out of your monthly bill.
When labor markets get tight like 2019, 2021-2023, the largest income gains, proportionally, are among lower earning groups.

https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker.aspx

Click on “Race” and “Wage Level"
thanks for the info, weird that this isn't answered in the FAQ
> sexual relationships are considered immoral outside of marriage, so a man and woman cannot create a family and have kids unless they get married.

People commit immoral acts in all cultures.
As other commenters have noted this is a classic pyrrhic victory.

If nothing else I have to respect her because I cannot imagine the tenacity it took to pursue this. I can't speak to the merits or substance of the case but I know I don't have it.

It's clear from the article she's a fighter with her initial reaction to discovering this:

"She contemplated taking her life, saying it destroyed her career in research."

To pull yourself together and come back from that is fairly remarkable.

On the other hand, you have to really feel sorry for her. She took what seems to be a slight and spent 12 years of her life putting the time and effort into this while incurring the stress, emotional toll, expense, and what I'm sure are plenty of other sacrifices elsewhere in her life.

She seems to be happier as a result of these "victories" but I wonder how much better things could have been for her if she spent the last 12 years focusing her energies elsewhere in her life and career.
The Sociopaths Among Us–and How to Avoid Them
Also it how scam works.

Every time the probability is non null. Small, but not zero.

Law of big numbers always help scammers. And mediocre sales.
Posting messages and making up that a friend's wife committed suicide is not really "stalking" or "persistently and obsessively harassing". Immoral and possibly illegal? Perhaps. But that's not the same thing.

Also, Duffy was ripped off by Kasamba.

I think the crux of the matter is: even if you did something wrong, do things like that really need to be preserved on the internet under your real name for the rest of your life? Probably not. And do we really want Google to be suggesting this content years after this minor spat, guaranteeing that people will find it?

"Right to be forgotten" is really about this kind of stuff IMHO: okay, you've had your five minutes of shame and that's all fine, and now lets all move on instead of keeping this prominent for years or even decades.
Ask HN: Can Liberal Arts be self-studied like Programming?
I am interested in reading the classics on my own instead of attending a school. But do you think this is can be done without any instructors for the diacletic
I think we are beyond trust issues at this point.

The whole EU commission system is a rort. It removes the power from the EU parliament and puts it into the hands of un-elected officials who are appointed in back-room deals between the ministers of the member countries.

It could not be further from democracy.
I wish we could get rid of the European Commission. They are essentially a proxy of lobbying agencies, working behind closed doors and stopping the European Parliament from drafting and amending European laws. Thank god the Parliament can still stop bullshit from passing, but the fact that they can essentially just vote yes/no is infuriating.
He is so cool!
I think in reality it is a more efficient use of bandwidth using GSM. The alternative means your utility would have to maintain infrastructure and use up alternative bandwidth. In reality I think there should be regulation to keep some really basic form operating like 2G with GPRS or something on all networks.
> A meter read every 3 months? All of my utilities (electricity, natural gas, water) have monthly bills.

You don't need to read monthly to bill monthly. Our electricity provider used to read yearly, yet we've always paid monthly.
Does a response from lawyers count as "human"?
Yes, it could just be "Hi there, you're using a formula depending on another formula. Do you want to add a check on these rows?"

If the user elects to add a check, then expand on constraints and such.

If the user selects no, remind the next user that "inadvertent modifications could result in indeterminate results."

Eventually, someone receiving the attachment enables it, and a discussion starts for the group as a whole.

One camp may deride the change: it will never be useful, and data is always in bounds. The other may point out some assumptions that were unclear, and now a check exists. Adding it cost nearly nothing, but coverage reduces chances of regression.
To me (non-youtuber), this feels like the common case of a developer trying to (over)optimize the process/increasing the "efficiency" of some business in a way that doesn't actually tackle any of the hard problems.

I imagine that for a youtuber who has hired an editor, the hard problems to solve are:

1. getting more subscribers

2. thinking of things to make videos about

3. shooting videos, including with good lighting and sound
You want that if done with respect to privacy. Your electric car should not charge when rates are high. Your water heater should only turn on when the wind is blowing and there is a surplus of cheap power. (This requires extra hot water storage to make it through a day)
Yeah, Im dual US/Swedish citizen, and the check in is isolated each time. I present my US passport when going to the US and my Swedish Passport when going to the EU. No biggie and never had any trouble throughout my life.
Dynamic typing is orthogonal to implicit type conversion, though admittedly dynamic environments do it more often. Watch out for (void*) in C or accidentally inferred union types in TypeScript.
You're in an optimistic mood today.
There’s been an effort to minimize the damage at very low speed (under 5MPH), but it’s harder to optimize for fender benders than you might think. People tend to break before collision so crumple zones are optimized for lower than highway but still deadly speeds ~40 MPH.

New car buyers also have insurance so they rarely care much about collision repair costs. The fact fender benders don’t total the car is just about the only metric car buyers care about.
Not relevant... contact the admins
Americans have always had an individualist streak, fueled by Protestant Christianity, the cultural influence of Appalachia, and cultural diversity. The communitarian parts of Christianity held that somewhat in check. But as even that falls away, america has become hyper-individualized and morality has become almost completely personalized.
Ha! Good joke. These days they just send out letters asking the customer to read the meter instead. First time I got one of those, I was thinking "What? No, that's your job. Don't I pay you for that?"
Not only is the product amazing, but so is the team that crafted it. This undoubtedly implies that the product will continue to develop and improve at a rapid pace.

It's great that it's an open-source project. So, do you have any ideas about its future direction and what you'd like to develop next? Would gladly join the devteam.
The point is that the population used to be much more dispersed, even 20 or 40 years ago. If more people like me moved back to their ancestral regions, the demand would become a lot more distributed.

The current trend of everyone coalescing into a few ant-like megalopolises has to revert somehow, otherwise we will end up in a dystopia: casket-sized microapartments costing 50 per cent of your income in rent.

Land is enormously valuable in huge cities and that is what is driving the cost of living up. Meanwhile, there is a ton of underused land elsewhere.
Pretty sure the owners of one of the archive sites is a dick and does that intentionally to people who use certain DNS servers
My 2p as parent with RPis + multiple Microbits in the house.

Microbits are far more limited in their capabilities but they are a useful stepping stone because they are limited. They can be used like a piece of lego as part of a larger creation.

They have inbuilt switches and sensors and it is easier to connect extra components to a Microbit. You don't even need a breakout board. They run off batteries quite happily and once you have uploaded a program onto the Microbit you might only need that single battery box. And if you have two or more of them then you can use the inbuilt wireless connectivity very easily.

The proprietary nature of the code running the RPis and Microbits is not a factor for me. Once my kids get closer to being teenagers hopefully there'll be some fully open platforms available for the next steps.
Ratatui: Cook up terminal interfaces using Rust (new version released)
I don't think it's reasonable for Google to remove content whenever someone just says its defamatory, in the absence of a court finding that it's actually defamatory. Otherwise we'd quickly lose every reference to Biden winning the 2020 election once it was widely known that the rule existed.
The air carrier is responsible for taking the passenger(s) back if they are denied entry into a country.

So the airlines will deal with many people falsely checking the box (“I am a blank; I don’t need it!”) and remove the checkbox immediately.
Cool but basemaps are a very tricky thing from a geographers perspective. There are several border conflicts. When it is open source there could be some manipulation.

Immediatelly getting downvoted. All I'm saying is that official map boundaries these days should be used.

Because I can again not post because too fast here my clarification: I mean official not commercial or proprietary
That is a relief, thank you. It must have been a myth.
In a "humanity collapse" scenario, for surviving humans it would be much much much more valuable to have 'reboot instructions' for hunter-gatherer to industrial society, than beyond.

Of course you'd want to do both (early steps, and advanced knowledge).

And there will be various kinds of low-hanging fruit, to propel newly-industrialized society into the space faring internet age. Skipping resource-wasting, fossil burning stages entirely.

As for culture (novels, music, games, software, movies, etc): who cares, whatever makes it through the bottleneck in whatever way, shape or form.
Fun, but extremely unpleasant. The more stressed I get the more difficult it is to relax my eyes and see the pattern.
I'm just wondering how the Google internal legal dept handled this for 12 years.

I'm imagining they called it the Duffy file and gave it to interns every year.

Or maybe assigned it personnel with low annual reviews. "Dave, we're giving you the Duffy case until you get your numbers up."
Show HN: Svelte by Example
Hi HN!

I always loved the format of Go by Example, glad I finally had an excuse to create something similar!

Love to hear any feedback on the content/format/design/… And hope this can be useful to share with people that want to dip their toes into Svelte.
It wont create demand because its not efficient and therefore nobody will invest huge amounts of money in it.

> providing additional power to spacecraft in deep space

Very likely an extreme niche application or wont happen.

> powering lasers for light sails

Again, an extreme niche or wont happen.

> or maybe as a directed energy weapon.

Same thing.

In a world where Starship exists, you can throw a deep space probe with gigantic amounts of solar panels, that seems cheaper then having a separate space craft.
Also notice how many former government workers have been poached by Thorn.

Now if my memory serves me right, we have seen this kind of entanglements before in the financial services(the big banks and the SEC in the US) with the disastrous consequences that we all know.
Self-Efficacy: The Key to Understanding What Motivates You
I wanted a B2 bollinger, and still love the concept. As a work truck, this has some features that would save me hassle. Also like the simplicity. But last I checked the cost was over 100k, which blew me away.
I don't know what irritates you so much. Nowadays NVMe SSDs are cheaper or the same as SD cards per unit of capacity.
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That's the best reply to the baby analogy i saw.

Thanks.
I was working for a start up company that had internal documents leak and got published by the media. The DMCA takedown requests were ignored by the big tech companies hosting the documents.
> stealth in space

Absolute stealth isn't possible, because infra-red and thermodynamics, but IIRC being indistinguishable from the noise is fairly plausible — so long as you have a direction you're confident you can beam the excess heat in with a laser or something similar (if you're wrong and there is a sensor that way, you show up like an even bigger sore thumb).
But the flow of information (for individual appliances) should be unidirectional from the supplier to the device, not the other way around.
More like, “What a coincidence!”
I missed the specs and seeing that I would tend to agree. This seems rather disappointing. I'd certainly be curious to see what it looks like hovering so close to your eyes.
I run my household on 4G too. I live at the center of the town. My ”realistic” speeds with a CAT4 LTE router are 4-34mbps. My guess for this range, is that other people are using the network too, so I cannot get the max bandwidth all the time.
I also own a CAT6 LTE router (serving currently another house), which doubles the bandwidth, so around 8-68mpbs, quite better. With a 5G router I expect quadruple speeds, so around 32-270mbps.

Now we finally reach a usable area, where I can zoom or netflix anytime during the day. :)
> Moving to the Netherlands, I also saw them a lot in the fields, much further away from the sea.

I think you’ll find most of those are Dutch, as a defense against attacks from land.