skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to clarify if I may. Firstly, thank you for you comments. I indeed did get scammed at a time when I was going through a very bad depression which actually had a physiological cause. I thought the website Ripoff Report was a legitimate complaint website. In fact, there are hundreds of complaints about Kasamba (and under its previous name 'Liveperson)on both Ripoff Report and other websites. I started a support group for others who were scammed. It is not a crime to for vulnerable people to be scammed - people lose millions each year to scams. The defamatory content about me was written to try and stop the support group. Kasamba 'experts' were scamming vulnerable people of thousands of dollars.

I had 18 days to prepare for the first trial and no idea what I was doing. A friend did commit suicide but I couldn't obtain any evidence. The court can only rule on the evidence before it and I had no idea what I was doing in a court room in which I was alone and facing a bank of highly paid lawyers. In the second trial (2022) I had a witness from the support group to say that someone did commit suicide but she was terrified that the Google lawyers would know her name because they previously distributed legal documents about a friend of mine to techdirt.com.

I did not know it at the time but Ripoff Report is an extortion racket. Evidence supporting this from the US courts was put into my recent liability judgement. In fact, how it operates is that the website publishes often false content and then charges tens of thousands of dollars to remove it. A 2023 judgement found that it charges USD$5,500 to remove a link https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-casd-3_22-cv-00...

There are a number of other cases, for example, https://casetext.com/case/xcentric-ventures-llc-v-borodkin-7 in which the court has upheld the extortive business practices.

I could not sue Ripoff Report because of section 230 of the communications decency act and the speech act of 2010. I only filed proceedings because I thought it would result in removal. I was wrong and Google decided to use me as an example and refuse to 'mediate'. I just wanted it removed but google decided it would try to bully me into going away rather than mediate or remove it properly.

This is the latest 2023 decision on liability.https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/sa/SASC/...

This is the second liability
I'm fortunate in that I can usually avoid rush hour(s) and have a fairly normal experience. Most of the milage is out on the big highways, away from Bay traffic. Within the city it's fine, as far as city driving goes. Modern vehicles with driver assistance help.

When I do have to get from SF to Santa Clara for a 9 AM meeting... the joy indeed slides away.
It seems like it’d be better if one country could go down that path alone, just so the rest of us could point to it as a reminder of why we shouldn’t do the things that it did. The EU makes it so it has to happen to everyone at once.
I remember a lot of positive commentary on Windows Phone's UI and concepts. It was distinctive from iPhone and Android, which, with Android largely aping iOS, were pretty same-same, so it was a refreshing reinterpretation. And besides that, a third credible competitor was and still is welcome.

I think you were far from alone in your disappointment watching it wither on the vine.
It's just so obvious to me that it's a civil violation, not a criminal one.

The amount of law enforcement resources we dedicate to piracy compared to, say, death threats, illegal weapons trade, etc seems completely disproportionate.
That is so much more than just patents. Vast engineering effort and process investment back up every "economy of scale". Unfortunately there is something about most e-ink designs so far that doesn't scale up in size very well. Really small ones are already cheap.
When will it become easier? After all these companies have gone bankrupt?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem but you don't match payments to transactions. You would have a ledger that debits transaction and credits payment resulting in a current balance.

The reconciliation system that I work on tries to match data from different system to make sure they agree. Like match the Visa transaction file against what our system has internally recorded in its ledger. There is an unique key to match both records so no math involved.
I'm not that you have ADHD if you are primarily in your zone.

For me ADHD means being physical twitchy and constantly thinking about everything.

The zone is the opposite but I never heard someone constantly being in the zone. It's a lot of procrastinating and then hyperfocusing 6h before the deadline
Microsoft tried the Kinect for 13 years. How long are they supposed to let a product run?

It was a cool tech solution in search of a problem.
Sorry but you don’t know the “american tv metric system”, large items lenghts are measured in “football fields” and weighted in “elephants” or “boeing 747s” small items in “human hairs”.
Taxis are not quick or efficient enough to make the cost worth it to many people.

>door-to-door

Doesn't have to be door to door.

I use Uber all the time when on vacation to get to places of interest and then back to the hotel. Trying to incorporate public transit would have added 30-40 minutes of walking, no idea how much additional time waiting. Saving ourselves an hour or so per day of vacation makes it worth it for us.
Corruption also exists outside of democracies.
I don't know if it's just me who spends a lot of time searching for files (maybe because of my ADHD), so I created an extension to organize files by context. It's still very beta. Any bugs, suggestions and improvements are welcome.

Marketplace link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Devanil....

Repository link: https://github.com/devaniljr/context-organizer/
In all your examples the solution came in 1-2 days. How about this common example? One guys merges one small change every week, of low complexity/difficulty by any measure. His teammate fixes several bugs every week, adds a feature or two also, and is on slack non-stop helping others out?

This is daily life in every tech company. It’s true that in some cases it’s hard to accurately rank between two people (because the work is multidimensional) but in many many cases the discrepancies in productivity are obvious.
User data should be treated like uranium, not like oil. Both are valuable, but you don't want to just accumulate and store uranium. You want only as much as you absolutely positively need, hold it securely, and then to get rid of it as soon as you don't need it anymore.
We do ban cars. We have safety ratings and regulations that they have to meet, otherwise they are banned from sales. We also have driving tests and age requirements for using them.

Since we still have cars post regulation, maybe we would still have social media as well.
I loved Windows Phone. I had one of the very first devices (Samsung Omnia 7). I developed several apps at the very beginning. Too bad it never caught up with Android and iOS, I felt it was superior in many aspects (except the ecosystem, of course).
Consider moving to Switzerland then. Not only they're discussing an universal 30km/h (18mph) limit in urban areas, but some cities are also tweaking traffic lights to maximise stopped time on top of that.
Like OpenAI?
Agreed, and regardless of state after impact, it should have been able to determine that someone had been hurt by the collision.

That might be the fix in this case, just hard stop for all cases of pedestrian impact.
How would you challenge bad laws if the Supreme Court doesn't care about issuing contradicting rulings?
Too bad he's giving psychedelics a bad name. That'll make it harder to legalize them.
> I'm horrified but unsurprised that people are willing to share their personal info such as trip itineraries (hopefully not credit card info) with X

Some will even share these things with the whole world!
Upon reading the phrase “elephant researcher” I visualise a bespectacled pachyderm in a lab coat.
You’re right they’re scared about China.

But I don’t think it has anything to do with this decision.
It would be nice of this sort of thing could be made illegal.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't tell me how to feel; I don't care about feelings about this. This is about rights, not feelings. I'm saying I'm going to participate in these discussions, because unlike you, I actually have a stake in them. Taking away information takes away rights. Rights that I might use, or rights that your friend used, or could have used to make the end less scary. In this sense, it is you who shouldn't have a say in it.

Your friend knew what they were doing. You seem to argue only because of your feelings, basing your view around how their death affected you. Information shouldn't be taken away from vulnerable people solely to protect those around them, because they can't handle the choices of others about themselves. That's deeply flawed as a way to build a society.

If you want to stop people from killing themselves, don't take away information. Don't advocate for outright fascist laws like the UK's Online Safety Bill, which this article is made to push forward. Advocate for actually making lives better. Making the world slightly more fascist isn't going to help anyone.
I think if you were building a city from scratch, it's arguable that self driving individual pods is the way to go for the most convenient AND most efficient door to door transport. Maybe you disagree, but its not important because we're not building cities from scratch.

For existing city infra and politics that we have, I think self driving is def the best way to go. Suggesting that an individual should lobby their gov't to fix public transit seems like lower probability of success than voting with their wallet for longer self driving trips.

Public transit isn't one of those things that can be incrementally fixed. Self driving cars on the other hand can incrementally make everything better, that's why its so appealing imo.
I was able to find the first 3 jobs in your jobs section elsewhere.

https://jobs.lever.co/tesorio/a702e44a-7329-43df-bff6-0a05f4...

https://transak.com/careers

https://scale.com/careers/4328006005
There are no clever ideas and no easy fixes for this problem, which is that the vast bulk of child sexual abuse, like the vast bulk of all child abuse, happens at the hands of a trusted adult relative or close family friend, in a context that should be safe.
I'd rather be 'an insufferable cat lady' who stands up for her rights than an asshole - lol!
Car seller Shift will shut down, file for bankruptcy, yet another dead SPAC
If you can't find any instances of politically motivated censorship in Google results you have been willfully blind.
FYI homemade sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickles are all examples of lactic acid fermentation.
I want to use Thunderbird, but man, it's lacking some basic features. Features that used to be available via add-ons, but which stopped working somewhere around v60.

My biggest annoyances:

* Inability to easily edit the from address

-Why: I use Fastmail with 10 different custom domains and custom senders. In TB I would have to manually add in each sending domain. And TB still doesn't "remember" which -from- addresses are used by which -to- address. This used to be solved by the https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id/ . Shockingly, the Fastmail webui does have this feature.

* Inability to minimize to tray on Linux (Windows does have this feature, but that doesn't help me).

* Inconsistent notifications, sometimes you'll get one, sometimes not, who knows why.

* No easy way to tell if Thunderbird is using IMAP Push

But at least I'm glad they put an IRC client in. If there's one thing I always wanted my email client to be, it's an IRC client. (sarcasm)
And if there's no HTTP download you can wait forever :)
Naturally, the target market for Qualcomm are Windows ARM laptops that regular consumers can buy at the local shopping mall, or Android devices.

With luck, maybe one of the ChromeOS might decide to use it, although given the capabilities of Web based software would probably be a waste in hardware capabilities.
I always envisioned a kind of world peace where all car manufacturers got together and in a not-designed-by-committee way developed a mesh protocol where vehicles and “the city” (i.e. traffic lights, railway crossing and so on) could communicate data to each other in order to ease some of the limitations of current autonomous driving technology.
Show HN: Continuously backup Windows PC into cloud
Redundancy payouts?
Just switch to Linux already. It's really there. Some compromises required, sure, but they are already far and between.

Keep it for gaming if you need. But give Proton a try first.

My almost 75yo dad switched recently. I swear I'm telling the truth: his main complaint was, after buying a new printer, he couldn't find the matching drivers. I told him just to print, and that was that.
WW2 "not ended on the Japanese side by nuclear weapons", it ended when U.S. bombed out of existence 2 whole Japanese cities with nuclear weapons and with subsequent defeat and subordination of Japan witch to this day is puppet of U.S.

Since then U.S. waging wars and launder money out of pockets of tax payers into conflict zones it created and back into its own industrial military complex. Here is some punchy whataboutism for your, deal with it.
please see my comments above
Make sure to bookmark this for the next discussion where people insist nothing like this can happen in Europe.
Because it's their prerogative to support an agenda, work to pass laws and enforce them, not to strong arm private companies into obedience with threats of retaliatory regulation.
Microsoft had an Android compatability layer in WM10 betas, as well as an iOS layer. They didn't launch either, afaik, running the apps without platform services isn't great, so then it's a push towards developers --- port your app to WM10 much easier... But there's still work, and IMHO, the user share on WM10 wasn't compelling enough for new developers to do the work.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/3447036-microsoft-android-a...

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-officially-cancels-...
The Kinect (and especially the cheap knockoffs that followed) changed the field of amateur robotics, just not gaming... in robotics, there was a lot of "it was great for us but we really have no idea why they did that" :-)
Right on time, will give it a try as I need to make a new logo, will report back if I actually use it!
People who trade in images of abuse should be punished on some level; however, they are the smallest part of the problem, the people who actually abuse children for the purposes of taking pictures are the real problem and I highly doubt you're going to catch them by scanning text messages.

It's completely wasted effort and does nothing to stop pedophiles or to protect children.
I think this might be less of an issue for HN browsing American nerds (who likely have great Internet connections) and more of an issue for people in developing countries or with poor network infrastructure.
I wonder if those parts will require calibration which will require apple's permission.
> One Tesla Model 3 driver, Nick Caraciolo, told Business Insider that "300 miles of range can quickly become 100 miles of range if you're speeding or it's hot outside or too cold. It can be very deceptive and a gas-powered car can seem more accurate in that way."

Speeding? Surely that will have the same proportional impact on ICE vehicles since it is wind resistance related?
No one has come up with a good theory so far. There’s a small chance there’s a change in the battery charging circuits, but it could just as easily be a simple segmentation decision.

I think you’re right that it’s purely a life preserving thing. Filling up a battery to 80% is better for it than 100%. So if people are willing to make that choice they may be able to use the battery a little longer as they’re not stressing it as much.
This sounds vaguely familiar. I've seen almost this exact chain of reasoning somewhere and I can't quite put my finger on it.
Is this supposed to be like Zapier but embedded in the product more tightly?
I see. Sounds like HIPAA was written for a world that no longer exists.
H.264 and VP8 are available essentially everywhere. Reasonably recent versions of Android and iOS (5.0 and 11, IIRC) include support for H.265 and VP9. The APIs on both platforms make it very easy to query available media formats, including hardware acceleration capabilities. Hardware acceleration is particularly important on mobile for power consumption reasons, so you should use it wherever possible.

If any app developer believes that they are better able to implement a secure codec than Apple or Google, I have a bridge to sell them.
If you found this problems in nestjs then most of them should be in Angular as well. As it is explicitly told in the documentation that Nestjs is a copy of the frontend framework.
Windows Mobile as a brand came out in 2003. The "Windows" brand itself was massive in that era.

Apple branding isn't too much more inspiring (Mac to iMac to iPhone).
>However, the current attack on Gaza is guaranteeing support for Hamas for decades to come.

It's just a matter of incentives. We could pay every adult in Gaza a salary of $40k for less than the military aid package that just passed. Imagine a world where you say something like "for every 1% reduction in Hamas attacks, you guys will get a 1% raise this year". Couple that with a forced end to the apartheid, and overwhelming foreign investment in infrastructure, and I can't see how things wouldn't work. The alternative has been tried for decades, at much greater expense.

You couldn't buy the Nazis out of invading Europe. You couldn't buy the Russians out of invading Ukraine. But you could totally buy the Palestinian people into giving up Hamas. They just need hope and a plan. It's not intractable, just a matter of will.
I doubt it would have succeeded. The latent associations with the unreliable and bloated Windows CE was too strong which had a halo effect — the vibe was that Microsoft tried to shoehorn Windows into mobile devices where it doesn’t really work.

It wasn’t until later than Windows Phones came out but the association with Windows was just too strong. I owned a Nokia Lumia and to be honest it was an ok experience with the tiles and everything but the iPhone just felt so much more polished as a consumer device. The Windows branding was a liability to be honest.

Microsoft’s design language felt too corporate and if you look at any of their OS interfaces today they’re just so uncool. Smart phones are lifestyle devices and being too corporate is a liability. (Unless you’re BlackBerry but somehow there’s a coolness to the BlackBerry branding — even Obama used one. I doubt he would have used a Windows phone. )
"It was bad/slow/unstable" Sure, but that's irrelevant.

No, it's pretty much the only thing that mattered. The iPhone wasn't the first smart phone, not by a long shot. It was the first smart phone that worked well enough for the masses. HTML5 video wasn't the first video framework either, it was the first that worked well enough for the masses. If Apple had thrown their weight behind flash, we wouldn't be having this conversation… because mobile would not be as popular. Users were not clamoring for another flash experience.

Sure, if literally everything were different flash could've been great. But that's not how life works. Sure, Adobe could've added a bunch of spit and polish (ignoring that flash was inherently bad for video), but they couldn't / didn't.

If flash were some sort of killer feature, surely Google could've doubled down on it and flown the "look how much better than Apple we are" flag. Or Palm, or Nokia, or Blackberry. Nobody defended flash because no users wanted it.

Adobe couldn't even get the desktop experience up to snuff, they had no chance with mobile. That is not and was not an Apple problem, that's an Adobe had an "awful product that nobody wanted to use on their hands" problem. Flash was as popular as it was because a.) that's all there was and b.) it allowed for abusive ads so adtech companies loved it.
we've had uber pool for a while. if that's your definition of public transit then sure, self driving pooled cars would obviously be good.
My memory is fuzzy but was:

Windows Phone == Nokia?

Or was Windows Phone not Nokia?
Consider a web server serving multiple ongoing requests from different users (with separate permissions). Each of them uses a buffer at some point (either a Buffer or a Uint8Array)

If the buffer doesn't have any cross-contamination with global state, there's no way one user could access another's data (because it's behind an object reference that never comes into the scope of the request logic for the other user). But if it did, and a malicious user found some other kind of vulnerability, they could potentially access data across-scopes
Commonlisp IRC Discusses Shaving Yaks
I don't think that's true. Often times at night, there are long times for certain lights so the bigger throughput street can have more time on there. Human drives know about this, and will take different routes to get there. It's unclear that Cruise is mapping out light timings and their changes, although you would think they would.
It makes sense that research gets spun off into commercial technologies. It doesn't make sense for there to be 15 different vendors, each claiming to have a special technology, when it was all the same free technology all along. Their differentiation is imaginary. That's why I use the word laundering in one sense: they are turning the same innovation used by everyone into a fake unique innovation in their marketing materials.

Now, it's not network hardware people alone who do this. You can go to DuckDuckGo or Cloudflare, they do the same thing, they give fancy proprietary-sounding names to free stuff they pick up off the Internet too. I'm not saying that's bad, and I'm not saying it doesn't exist. It does exist, it is good. It just isn't something that sustains 15 companies all doing it at the same time, just one company can do that, it will take all the prizes. And that's why it's laundering, because the competition was imaginary, you might as well have gone straight to the source in the first place, and indeed, that will happen! It happens in operating systems, which encompass huge amounts of software functionality nowadays, it will happen in networking hardware.
And we have ubiquitous and efficient public transport.
> With what strings attached?

My guess - calibration. Parts will require to be calibrated using proprietary Apple software.
“Oh! We see you replaced your battery. Please connect your device to a Mac and launch calibration app to make your battery operational”, or something like that.
Is this supposed to be some advanced form of satire or do people actually read this kind of stuff seriously?
why do you think they will go bankrupt?
I got 92%, I’m proud.

I did best when I worked intuitively and fast.