skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any discussion on any forum in the early to mid 1990s you would often see a comment "don't flame" (aggressively argue or insult). Argumentative people were not seen as normal by people on a BBS or forums of the time. Even casual swearing was not tolerated. Both of those behaviours are now very common and accepted or seen as normal or worse yet not even noticed as a problem.
So your argument is that it's coercion through implied threat, or that social media companies are so complicit that they will just do anything the "right" government official asks of them? Is that government censorship, or a problem of weak service operators?

I don't think there's a compelling case for government agents' top priority to be moderating online speech, but ensuring that the American people are not being subjected to massive mis/disinformation campaigns is a legitimate cause.
Average people address it by having cash. If you want digital cash crypto is your best option.
IME, door openers only last 15-20 years, at least in the northern US.
Most of the planet has below-replacement birth rates currently in a rapidly declining trend. These declining birth rates are not only leading to rapidly declining population, but to exponentially declining population. Right now, most homes that should be for families are inhabited by one or two elderly persons, while almost all real estate worldwide is owned by the elderly or abstractions they control, such as funds etc.

Unless you invent an elixir that makes people live 200 years or if the elderly start burning down their houses out of spite, there will be no housing shortage.
Ages ago when I got my first pair of glasses, already working as a sysadmin/system engineer with long hair and a unix beard... my friend and colleague said on my first day @ work in glasses, something to the effect of:

"it's amazing how by just adding glasses you went from stoner to professor"
> As a very happy apartment/flat/condo dweller, the suburban home life feels to me like being trapped in a tiny deserted island (the cartoon ones, with a single coconut tree), just a tiny personal plot surrounded by endless nothingness, with nowhere to go within reach. When in the suburbs I end up just staying in the couch all the time, because I can't be bothered to face the big journey necessary to go places, feels very isolating.

This sounds like a cartoon version of suburbs! Can you point at actual suburbs (google map links) where you might be surrounded by endless nothingness and can't walk anywhere?

I've lived most of my life in suburbs in the US and have never experienced this. The only time I lived in a place I couldn't walk to any destination was when I lived in a quite rural area. But that was rural, not suburban.
Indeed, and now it's just a hassle dealing with Guava CVEs that get flagged up for functionality that doesn't actually require Guava.
yeah but apparently its single-user only
”They’re not allowing our spam on your phones!”

I get so much SMS and email spam. I get so little iMessage spam. If getting green texts from Android users is the price I have to pay, so be it.
Garage doors openers have a life of 10-20 years. There are many many millions of existing homes that need new openers every year.

Also, openers are also a common up-sale when other components are serviced or replaced. For example, if you get a garage door replaced, the installer will often recommend a new opener at the same time.
Jihad as a broader term means to strive or struggle towards something, and it can refer to nearly any kind of pursuit, whether internal or external. To put another way, you could also roughly translate it as the Minister of the Agricultural Effort, albeit that would lose nuance.
is it through paywalls? cuz that hearts my heart.
I don't understand how opening iMessage would sell existing iMessage data to anyone?

Today, if an iPhone user sends a message to an Android user, that message is sent via SMS. If Google wanted, it could already scrape the message. What would change if the protocol was open and the message was sent to the Android device using iMessage?

There is no expectation for Apple to give Google read/write access to the iMessage database (not that it exists, but still). What is the downside of users being able to interoperate and use the protocol?
This isn't new tech, it's just a chat bot that triggers payments, with some light trademark infringement. The reason they're burdening their product description with twee jargon is because their target market is people who choose products based on these buzzwords. If it were a broad target market it would just use English to describe this stuff, and it wouldn't be explicit about dodging the policies of the platform they've chosen to trade on.
As someone (I forget whom) said, the best way to attract criticism is to try to do some good for someone else.
> A patent covers not just the molecule, but the treatment.

That sounds crazy. How can someone patent the process of healing? What else could patenting the “treatment” mean? Are there any examples of this?

> Patients aren't really equipped to make this decision. It's made by doctors and by insurance companies. They are often reluctant to prescribe/pay for the "almost as good and a lot cheaper" drug, for fear of exposing themselves to risk.

Why would they have risk, if the government has already declared it legal to sell? Insurance companies and government are known to prefer cheaper, generic medicine, and a common complaint is insurance companies and government requiring prior authorization for brand name medications.

> There's also the regulators. If the drug manufacturer can convince the regulator that the old drug is dangerous, they can simply forbid it.

This would be pretty big corruption. Are there examples?
Eh, I posted it and removed it, given that prior owned cars is often used by sites to verify identity.

Let's just say it's one of the top Japanese auto manufacturers.

Generally, Toyota and Honda will give you good results for their signature cars (Corolla, Camry, Accord, Civic). Subaru, for some years and models do as well. I think Mazda and Nissan are a tier lower, but there may be exceptions (in model/year combination).

One tip: Try to avoid cars with chains. That's an expensive, mandatory maintenance.
> Few things last 100 years. Children's toys seem particularly fickle. Pet rocks, pogo sticks and scooters have all had full boom and bust cycles while the jungle gym — unflashy, workman-like, no fuss — keeps children coming back. Why is that? It may be that the act of swinging and climbing in the jungle gym contains just enough risk...

Or, maybe it is because we are primates and it is in our DNA.
> David Weigand, chief financial officer at Supermicro, said on the call that rack-scale and AI system sales accounted for 53 percent of revenues, which is $1.12 billion. Sales to large datacenter customers and OEM appliances to other vendors (of which we also think Nvidia is one) accounted for $1.17 billion, up 26.3 percent.

This explains pretty much the whole thing. People are building new racks at an unprecedented pace, it is like a gold rush, and anyone who is selling tools (whether it be TSMC's raw wafers, NVIDIA's chips, or even a company that only builds HVACs for datacenters) is probably going to see their peak.
It doesn't really matter for HN purposes, one frontpage slot is sufficient to discuss a single day of outages - the comments are the same.
Why Your Hardware Wallet Must Have a Display

In the realm of cryptocurrencies, safeguarding digital assets is a paramount concern. The tools chosen to manage cryptocurrency holdings can determine the level of security or susceptibility to risks like hacking. This article explores the world of cryptocurrency transactions, emphasizing a critical vulnerability that could threaten financial security. Picture conducting cryptocurrency transactions blindly, exposing yourself to potential attacks that could deplete your digital wealth. This blog examines the crucial role of having a display in your hardware wallet to protect crypto assets.

Cryptocurrency transactions involve a dance of data between your computer, running the wallet's companion app, and your hardware wallet. When initiating a transaction, you input details on the companion app, which then crafts an unsigned transaction sent to your hardware wallet. The hardware wallet, housing your offline private key, securely signs the transaction, which returns to the companion app for blockchain broadcast.

A potential vulnerability arises with wallets lacking displays, like Tangem. In such cases, once transaction details are entered, users tap their cards to sign and confirm the transaction. While convenient, this opens the door to skilled attackers compromising the app, leading to malicious attacks like spoofing and phishing. A compromised host can manipulate transaction details, deceiving users into approving fraudulent transactions.

Trusting the host blindly puts funds at risk, as users may unintentionally send assets to unintended addresses. To mitigate this, manual scrutiny of transaction details is crucial to avoid falling victim to attacks like spoofing. Hardware wallets with trusted displays become a solution to fortify defenses against such threats.

A trusted display directly communicates with the wallet's microcontroller unit (MCU), with open-source code enabling users to verify communication. This ensures transparency and safety, eliminating black box intermediary components. Such displays provide users with transaction details, empowering them to cross-check and verify against the companion app, reducing reliance on the host alone.

The isolation of hardware from remote internet attacks enhances security. A trusted display acts as an intermediary for verifying and confirming transactions visually, allowing users to review essential details before confirming. It is crucial to recognize that no security on the host device or companion app can compensate if the hardware wallet cannot independently validate transaction data.

The significance of a trusted display cannot be overstated, as its removal compromises the security benefits of hardware wallets. Manufacturers initially experimented with displays as a cost-saving measure, but Ledger and BitBox discontinued models without displays due to security concerns.

In conclusion, a trusted display is not an optional feature but a fundamental component ensuring effective protection of cryptocurrency holdings. Selecting a hardware wallet with a trusted display is a wise choice for securing digital wealth with confidence.
The post I replied to claimed subscriptions were ‘moneymakers’. That’s obvious, it’s literally people paying money to be a subscriber.

What’s not obvious is if they pay the bills. Chances are that like in most forms of media they don’t. Just like newspapers still have ads because subscriptions don’t pay the bills.

But hey, you’re free to try to set up your own channel completely funded by subscriptions! Good luck! Perhaps the talent that left this channel will even join your channel. If those subscriptions bring in enough money to pay them of course.
I was using the one linked from their own homepage.
Where is the financial incentive beyond the seed funding here? Big scientific efforts like this have always been well-suited to government funding, or in some cases industrial R&D by a big established group with a separate profit center. When you have a project with a 20+ year time horizon for any meaningful progress, I just don’t think the capitalist model is going to yield fruit.

I agree with your other point that data crunching is not necessarily going to help. Low-power RF emission from lightyears away will be well below the noise floor. Some more innovative, speculative approaches would be a better use of that money, even if they all lead to dead ends.
Amazon, of all places, had this defect in their login flow for the longest time which was only recently fixed.

It was so bad that when you were waiting for an SMS code, after you received it and autofilled it in iOS, their website and app would automatically submit the input, and so hitting submit on your keyboard would cause the backend to reprocess the code a second time, invalidating your login.

It was obvious someone slapped the implementation together and it was so embarrassing.

Yet, I’m still nonplussed that we keep screwing up forms.
Who is the "we"? Israeli lobby influence appears to be steadily increasing.
Try out a local language model for the docs you can't get chatgpt to write.

You can run small quantized models on apple silicon if you have it.

I've been using a 70B local model for things like this and it works well
Sciter/WebGL is officially published in v5.0.3.0
Much of that material is already available at https://archive.org. It might be good enough for some purposes, but limiting it to stuff before 1928 (in the United Sates) isn't going to be very helpful for (e.g.) coding.

Maybe if you added github projects with permissive licenses?
"Another" referencing this earlier one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38190401
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Probably by using fleets of diverse AI agents as startups to organize, research, simulate/prototype, refine, and propose novel ETI detection systems. This approach is already used in other domains, after all.

Whether it's a good angle, I don't know. But it's a perfectly reasonable one, methinks.
CIA Maps
SMS spam in Europe? Living in Germany I haven't gotten a single unsolicited SMS in my life - and some of my phone numbers are public on the internet.
> But I'd guess that at least 10 of those 100 developers might say something like "business logic belongs in framework-agnostic pure functions, unless you have a good reason not to."

Those 10 developers might have a decent answer to the question "Where should business logic live?" (decent depending on other design considerations).

But that does not answer the question I asked them, which was "What is business logic?"
83 rps would be a challenge when hitting a Java EE app written to make use of tutorial-level ORM code without any caching or optimizations. An app where a request takes 300ms to resolve (pulling numbers out of hat for an average poorly written Java EE app; ignorantly assuming 300 ms are spent with 100% CPU utilization of a single core), would require a 24-core machine to keep up with 83 rps. Accounting for some peaks in usage (how about 5x around 7-8am?), 400 rps could make almost every morning an "all hands on deck" event for the ops?
There were cities that literally defunded the police. More accurately, they deliberately engineered a crime crisis to discredit police reform activism under the common misunderstanding that "defund the police" means "I want the Purge" and not "stop sending cops out to shoot at homeless people in a Wendy's drive-thru".

The thing about cops getting taken off the force is that it actually happens fairly commonly. The term of art in law enforcement for them is "gypsy[0] cops", because they jump from force to force whenever they do something that attracts media attention. Ironically, they are enabled by literally defunded police departments who are looking for someone they can pay peanuts to go issue traffic tickets all day. The really abusive bullies are their perfect employee, at least until they cause a media stir and have to be fired to save face.

In all these cases, there actually is active pressure from people to reform and it does go to the people that matter. The problem is that those people have a vested interest in keeping policing brutal, and they are also rhetorically slippery. They will actively misinterpret your sloganeering, they will ignore your political writings and pamphlets, and generally seek to embarrass you until you go away.

Less depressingly, I do recall a few cities[1] run by people with their heads on straight that did what the "defund the police" people meant, not what they literally said. And it turns out that, given not-crooked people in power implementing these things faithfully, it does work. The problem is entirely the people at the top making the decisions. What we need is not merely bottom-up pressure, but an explicit democratic mandate - i.e. infiltrating local government with competent politicians favorable to the cause.

Also, maybe we should change the slogan. I vote for "Refund the Police", because it has a double-meaning: send back the violent interventions and fund non-violent programs instead.

[0] Their words, not mine.

For those unaware, in Europe this word is basically the N-word.

[1] Whose names I frustratingly DO NOT REMEMBER
IANAArchaeologist but everyone should take this paper's main conclusion with a huge grain of salt. There is a lot of nuance to radiocarbon dating and I think there are several problems to their methodology.

They use the generic SHCal20 calibration curve for the southern hemisphere which is generally fine for testing bone and some plant matter but they didn't find any fossilized plants and I doubt it's accurate for soil samples in a volcanically active area. Gunung Padang sits atop an extinct volcano and Mount Gede is miles away uphill with active vents and hot springs. Local emissions of C14 depleted carbon dioxide and dissolution of ancient carbonate minerals in groundwater usually throws those numbers way off. The samples will appear older because the volcanoes are constantly dumping C14-poor carbon into the environment from deep in the earth.

There's ample evidence for their other conclusions like the multiple stages of building but they'd have to corroborate the radiocarbon dating with several other methods and create their own calibration for the region to really confirm the dating, which isn't necessarily an easy thing to do.
You're making the mistake of assuming the ad is for the best offer you'd be interested in instead of the one that makes the most money from you (i.e. the worst one for you). The expected utility to you is negative.
> More dense construction in urban areas will probably help make single family homes affordable for those who want them.

That seems highly unlikely. Let's look at how SFH have become very affordable in the densest area in the US, Manhattan. Or the second densest, SF.
Holy See (Vatican City)

Population growth rate
0% (2014 est.)

Turns out having a nearly all male population sworn to celibacy doesn't increase the population much.

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/holy-see-va...

Which puts it at 194/236 in terms of world population growth rankings:

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/population-grow...
I wouldn't say I'm 100% OK with it, more just accepted it. I don't think there's any real way around it with a streaming lifestyle. The streaming device wants data, the services want data. Even my TV I believe asked if it can view what's on the screen.

Even if I had a dumb TV, and a secure trustworthy streaming box, the services themselves(Netflix et al) are collecting the same data, no?
The latter part is true, just FYI for anyone, you do need reading glasses eventually post-Lasik. I had it at age 29, and now at age 45 (and starting around 42) I do need reading glasses for anything closer than about a foot.
The assertion that DHS was funding the program (or using it as a tool) is an unsubstantiated leap. Stanford was gathering and analyzing intelligence with national security implications. There is an obvious public service in sharing this information with DHS.
Weird - I thought some genius had come up with a way of combining all the permissions you have given in one ssh-key like colour grid.

I think of all these app permissions (I have similar thoughts looking at iphone settings) as being some sort of Marie Kondo epiphany - I don't need a better UI - I need less stuff.
To clarify, I only meant `inert` is another (fairly new) tool that can be useful, not a complete solution. For example, you can use it to prevent the user editing the fields of the form while the current field values are being submitted. You don't need to use it on the submit button.

As far as I remember, for similar behaviour you either have to add `disabled` to all the fields (then remember to revert only the `disabled` attributes you added if the form submit fails...) or wrap all the fields in a `disabled` `fieldset` tag (now you have to research if there's any quirks when you nest `fieldset`s).

Saying that, why keep the focus on the submit button? Are there no better alternatives?
In practice, what does this mean? No more restricted parts? That the service tools and software will be available for anyone at a fair and reasonable price? And if so, who dictates what is a reasonable price for the required software?
Now that's targeted advertising!
> it is intellectually dishonest

Good lord.
"In the Skidmore study, among people who write with two spaces after periods -- 'two-spacers' -- there was an increase in reading speed of 3%..."
There are lots of different factors the come into play as you go higher.

Above 3 floors you need elevators for the disabled, while shorter buildings often cant get by without. (check with a lawyer for what your local law says - I've been told that the 3 floor isn't what the ADA doesn't actually say the highest is, just what most consider it to say). Even without disability laws, people generally want elevators to go higher.

Conventional wood framing is the cheapest, but 5 is about the max floors you can get. Brick framing can apparently get you to about 10 floors. There are lots of other construction methods - check with a proper civil engineer for what the limits and costs of each are.

Somewhere around 6-15 floors your city water will no longer have enough pressure and so your building will need booster pumps. Similarly, drain water needs special care to ensure the falling water doesn't burst the plumbing.

You local fire may code allow for less strict standards if the fire department ladder trucks can just drive up to each window and rescue someone in a burning building. If that cannot happen people need to get down the stairs in case of fire (I've always wondering how the disabled will do this) so you need to ensure those stairs can be used in case of fire.

Floor space per person is also a factor. Richer people tend to be willing to pay for more space than poor people, and poor people tend to have more kids. Thus if you make larger apartments you don't need as much elevator space. This one is tricky though as rich people tend to prefer newer buildings so you might discover that when the building gets old you can't rent some apartments because of the building max occupancy. Still, office buildings tend to have a lot more people per area, and they are more likely to leave at the same time, so I don't think space per person can be a big factor. (but school dorms need to consider all students going to class at the same time)

As the person paying for a building you get to optimize those factors (generally for profit, but you can pick other considerations). Good luck.