skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes. When you are forced to work and aren't allowed to quit your job, you are a slave.

No. If there were forced-work programs, we wouldn't be arguing about slavery-not-slavery, we would be calling them concentration camps. Unlike the lies of Auschwitz, work will actually set you free.

Work is optional in prison. If anything, it's a privilege, since if you're enough of a problem it isn't even on the table for you. You are allowed to quit your job.

Black American slaves did not earn wages. Their sentence was indefinite. As soon as they stopped working, they were executed.

Auschwitz victims did not earn wages. Their sentence was terminal. As soon as they stopped working, they were executed.

American prisoners earn wages. Working reduces their sentence. They are eventually released from confinement regardless of output.

Prison conditions are unpleasant, but that's not the argument. American prisoners are not slaves.

I'm forced to work or I suffer "punishments" like starvation and homelessness, and I've had wages skimmed by an employer. We can all identify as slaves if we try hard enough.
Telecoms don't even want to roll out all of the infrastructure they get paid by the government to, I don't know that their willingness to do anything is a point I'd try to stand firmly on.
If you’re operating a foreign company from Taiwan then it’ll probably be deemed a Taiwanese company anyway for tax purposes. Check local laws.
"Graphics programming can be intimidating. It involves a fair amount of math, some low-level code, and it's often hard to debug. Nevertheless I'd like to show you how to do a simple "Hello World" on the GPU. You will see that there is in fact nothing to be afraid of."

57 created objects later

"Hm. Damn"

Well .. there is a reason it is usually "hello triangle" on GPU tutorials. Spoiler alert, GPUs ain't easy.
> Does switching to high fructose qualify as tweaking the formulas specifically increase/enhance the addictive properties?

“… a broad scientific consensus has emerged that there are no metabolic or endocrine response differences between HFCS and sucrose related to obesity or any other adverse health outcome. This equivalence is not surprising given that both of these sugars contain approximately equal amounts of fructose and glucose, contain the same number of calories, possess the same level of sweetness, and are absorbed identically through the gastrointestinal tract.”

HFCS is used because it’s cheaper. Not because it’s addictive.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649104/
Fwiw, I've seen users suggest hybrid approaches. Interestingly it could reduce some of the costs they list here and looks like a route one could take to slowly build towards a fully or hybrid federated system instead of jumping straight there. But I am unsure how much the community likes the idea and judging by that last post it doesn't seem like the mods do. But this one takes note as two users were willing to place a bounty on the feature request

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-airdrop/37402
Do you ever sit, I like the idea of this but I try to do half/half so moving this out of the way every time I switch feels like a pain
Related:

Email to Phone Number Osint Tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476792 - Feb 2022 (2 comments)
> except for the fact that you're more familiar with that software and language, thus your 'doesn't X well'.

That’s exactly not my point. My point is that, knowing SQL, knowing what RDBMS’s have and what they are, RDBMS’s are a bad place to stuff your business logic. You have a variety of options that don’t work well. Schemas/queries are the only relevant place where RDBMS’s excel, and because it’s a living system, you don’t really want something so unstable as business logic to permeate through your schema significantly.

It’s not a matter of familiarity. It’s the wrong tool for the job being discussed.
Well yes, Marx (& Engels), building on Hegel, were philosophically still extremely tied to Christianity, resulting in yet another moral absolutism.

Nietzsche has realized that the supremacy of that meta-morality was over, which, combined with the moral failures of Communist regimes, opened up the way to moral relativism (and to moral egalitarianism, which is the other extreme across from moral absolutism that we must be careful not to fall into).
Only in the parallel reality where the SS was famous for trying to prevent a transmissible illness. Given our reality is one where the SS were racist paramilitaries that industrialised homicide, you seem to be regurgitating from the "everyone I disagree with is literally hitler" school of rhetoric.
Ohio's right wing has apparently not engaged in an intimidation campaign against those who are opposed to this [0] and has not received tens of millions of dollars in bribes to make it happen [1], so by the standards of Ohio politics vis a vis energy policy... I have no words. I guess this isn't too bad? Except in all the obvious ways that it's bad.

[0] https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/09/ohio-ag-to-investigat...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/former-ohio-house-speak...
Well said:)

> There's already a jump happening here from "it's not specifically illegal" to "it's a gray area because it's immoral. Even if it was certainly immoral, that does not make it automatically a legally murky area. In fact, scraping seems to be reasonably established as specifically legal.

Yeah, I didn't want to get distracted from my main arguments, but that stuck out to me too - in my non-lawyer amateur understanding, the LinkedIn case[0] means that in the US scraping very much is explicitly legal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
Well if you use glBegin it's pretty easy.

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);

glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f);

glEnd();

And there you go you got a triangle.

It's great for beginners because they can see the results very fast and once they want to start having crazy graphical effects or need more performance you can move to shaders.
And this is why we can’t have nice things.

That is so grossly irresponsible, I’m glad to hear that you seem to have never had a dog.

No shelter is going to take a dog with a history of attacking people, let alone a kid.

At the point a dog is doing that, regardless of nature vs nurture, or who is ‘at fault’, it’s too late. They are an active hazard to everyone around them.

Does that suck? Yes.

Does pretending it’s not the case make it better? No, it compounds the damage and makes everything worse.
Can they require users to send them a SMS instead for verification or that more easily spoofed?
I describe our work as an endless loop of taking data from the screen to the database and back again.
To me audit logs aren't "logs" (in the normal sense), despite the name. They tend to have different requirements; e.g., in my industry, they must be retained, by law, and for far longer than our normal logs.

To me, those different requirements imply that they should be treated differently by the code, probably even under distinct flows: synchronously, and ideally to somewhere that I can later compress like hell and store in some very cheap long term storage.

Whereas the debug logs that I use for debugging? Rotate out after 30 to 90d, … and yeah, best effort is fine.

(The audit logs might also end up in one's normal logs too, for convenience.)
Do you mean because of use by the Israeli right wing (Likud) or by Hammas?

"Kill Jews" is clearly evil and should be banned, but banning this phrase ends up smearing ordinary Palestinians who use it to describe an non-violent aspiration, as did the Israelis.

As I said, an over-reaction.
Remind me of GNU Units https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
I'm curious whether there are any theories as to whether this planet is largely in its final form or if it may be extremely early or late in its life cycle, possibly giving us more clues as to the formation of Earth or its eventual death long after us humans are gone.
You're not thinking the Matt Levine way. None of that matters. What matters is whether said (undisclosed) event could be construed to have materially harmed the business, and thus form grounds for a shareholder suit.

The Theory is half tongue in cheek. But the other half is a serious representation of what happens in reality. Levine makes the case clearer than I do how the line of thinking can extend to catch-22s where disclosure and nondisclosure could both arguably be grounds for a suit.
It's usually even more expensive to support receiving messages than sending them, beyond keywords like Unsubscribe. If you want any sort of threading its going to be extra. Also its extra for dedicated shortcodes. When you get an SMS from a random shortcode, there might be multiple companies using that code, but they mix the pools enough that its unlikely you will receive two messages from two companies from the same code. Also shortcodes are usually country/region locked. So if you want to international support, you need to buy shortcodes in multiple regions, and different regions have different telco laws. On top of that, provisioning is very manual compared to the modern cloud.

I supported a marketing platform for a while, and it was so much easier to send an email than an sms.
I remember trying Beyond Compare several years ago (after it was clear CompareIt! was abandon-ware) - it came close, but back then (for me at least) CompareIt! was a better experience. (It was also what I was already used to, to be fair.)

But I should probably take a look again and see how it compares now, because I can only imagine what vulnerabilities might lurk in CompareIt!'s stale PDF/Word/etc. viewers.

Almost any code movement/indentation changes seem to yield messy diffs in vimdiff, while CompareIt! (and others like Beyond Compare) could deal with huge movement and let you see what actually changed.
Can't tell if this is /s or not, so linking this in good faith: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning

Major oversight that there's not one single mention of this specific feature in the article.
> Had something similar happen to me in San Francisco. While I was walking a driver rolled down their window and shouted "white power" at me (I'm white). Very strange experience. At the time I lived in Chicago, walked everywhere, and never experienced that sort of hostility.

?? That’s just surreal
4. The people who think that AI will be able to do everything worse than humans, but at an acceptable enough level for executives, and it's far cheaper than even outsourcing work to other countries.

The trajectory of the last 10 years has been that the quality of the human experience will go down so the people at the top can make more money, and AI fits perfectly into this narrative.
An entirely peer-to-peer instant messaging network, which doesn't rely on a central authority, is technically possible. A $50M/yr burn rate to implement that authority as an act of charity is simply unsustainable. Why do we insist on continuing down this path?

Attempts to decentralize or federate Signal are met with hostility. The Signal Foundation tells us that this is the only possible way; "the ecosystem is moving", and we must exist in competition with commercial offerings, rather than build something small, sustainable, and decentralized. This is great, until the AWS bill is due.
Congrats!

I have HN to thank for exposing me to a ton of new tech/trends, but I think more importantly exposing me to smart, passionate people coming from very different perspectives, who I'd have never met otherwise. It's so valuable to know what's really out there and what's possible with a little time outside the comfort zone.
If you need something between Git LFS and Perforce you could try Anchorpoint. It's a Git based version control software and has stuff like file locking.
Most people outside of tech and finance still know the familiar product brands better than the new corporate identity.
They do that and everyone moves to WhatsApp or Telegram. Your comment ignores the whole private chat app landscape.
She was inadvertently healthy, lmao
Certainly psychological addiction though does exist?
I asked ChatGPT to repeat the letter A as often as it can
Signal agrees: (from the article:)

... legacy telecom operators have realized that SMS messages are now used primarily for app registration and two-factor authentication in many places, as people switch to calling and texting services that rely on network data. In response to increased verification traffic from apps like Signal, and decreased SMS revenue from their own customers, these service providers have significantly raised their SMS rates in many locations, assuming (correctly) that tech companies will have to pay anyway.

...

These costs vary dramatically from month to month, and the rates that we pay are sometimes inflated due to “toll fraud”—a practice where some network operators split revenue with fraudulent actors to drive increased volumes of SMS and calling traffic on their network. The telephony providers that apps like Signal rely on to send verification codes during the registration process still charge their own customers for this make-believe traffic, which can increase registration costs in ways that are often unpredictable.
Fixed now. Submitted URL was https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/zimbra-0-day-used-.... Thanks!
Poison: The Common Method of Political Transnational Repression
> And what has the field yielded? Are there actual effective addiction treatments now?

For food, gastric bypass does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_bypass_surgery#Physiol...

"For example, it is still widely perceived that gastric bypass works by mechanical means, i.e. food restriction and/or malabsorption. Recent clinical and animal studies, however, have indicated that these long-held inferences about the mechanisms of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) may not be correct. A growing body of evidence suggests that profound changes in body weight and metabolism resulting from RYGB cannot be explained by simple mechanical restriction or malabsorption. One study in rats found that RYGB induced a 19% increase in total and a 31% increase in resting energy expenditure, an effect not exhibited in vertical sleeve gastrectomy rats. In addition, pair-fed rats lost only 47% as much weight as their RYGB counterparts. Changes in food intake after RYGB only partially account for the RYGB-induced weight loss, and there is no evidence of clinically significant malabsorption of calories contributing to weight loss. Thus, it appears RYGB affects weight loss by altering the physiology of weight regulation and eating behavior rather than by simple mechanical restriction or malabsorption."

> Can we even tell whether somebody is addicted in a non-subjective way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Food_Addiction_Scale
Were any individuals found liable in the Big Tobacco trials?
This can be a premium feature. Run your own server and for a little bit of money you can configure your client to use an alternative server. Client code is what make it private and secure, so you want to use their verified client even with your own server.
> after building on nights and weekends for the past 2.5 years and reaching 2,500 paid customers

Huge accomplishment! Hats off to you for pursuing what makes you feel fulfilled.
There are several steps between using AWS and building a datacentre.

- Using similar services from cheaper cloud providers

- Renting VMs

- Renting whole servers

- Renting rack space + power

- Renting larger spaces (many racks, or part or all of a whole floor)
The fact that your link returns a ”403: forbidden” error is a delicious irony.
Total salary bill: $20m. 50 staff so average salary: $400k. I'd be happy with $200k USD - that's more than I get paid in my country at current exchange rates.
Certainly, but it is slow-acting, whereas Salbutamol is fast-acting. As such, Fluticasone is not useful during an acute asthma attack, whereas Salbutamol is.
https://interviewfor.red
Vaccines can be prophylactic, or therapeutic (to fight a disease that has already occurred, which also includes some cancer treatments). Only some vaccines offer full sterilising immunity.
I've been using WhatsApp when the nominal $1/year fee was still around, but somehow never ended up being actually charged, and I don't know anyone that did.

It's possible that they were only enforcing it in some regions, though.
For the parts of such systems that you would need an RTOS for this isn't really a likely replacement because the OS is way too complex.

The sort of thing it could help with is servicing hardware that does run hard realtime. For example, you have an RTOS doing direct control of a robot or medical device or whatever, and you have a UI pendant or the like that a user is interacting with. If linux on that pendant can make some realtime latency guarantees, you may be able to simplify communication between the two without risking dropping bits on the floor.

Conversely, for the common user it could improve things like audio/video streaming, in theory but I haven't looked into details or how much trouble there is currently.
Yeah this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. One can shame and belt their kid into compliance, and it might even get them (barely, only if they're lucky) all the way through university but holy shit the lifelong damage of self loathing and burnout and broken relationships it creates is im-fucking-measurable.

Taking a neurological imbalance and turning it into a morality thing is abuse. Even if unintentional. This is real. Parents look for simple answers like "give em the strap" but how is that less reductive than "give em the pill"?
Yup. It started in the 3rd century BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
Show HN: Document OCR for Node.js with GPT Vision
GPT Vision is probably the best generic OCR and document parsing tool out there. It can handle invoices, contracts, receipts, and even hand written notes. However, there are some limitations to the API that make it hard to work with:

1) No support for JSON output
2) No support for PDFs

llm-document-ocr is a simple Node library that does these pre and post processing steps for you. It converts PDFs into PNGs, crops whitespace around the images, and parses the JSON output.

Hope this saves you some time if you are building your own OCR stack on top of GPT and other LLMs!
There are also wrinkles in the distinctions between subtitles and captions, definitions of accessibility, the application of accessibility to fair use (and related restrictions on distribution), the definition or existence of fair-use exceptions in different jurisdictions, and on and on.

The bottom line is that most of these points haven't been challenged outside of that BREIN case, nor do they cover some of the more valuable uses of authored or revised subtitles, such as subtitling and captioning works that never had them, or in languages that weren't translated, or to correct significant translation errors.

The legal cases of subtitling are especially pertinent now that we have relatively accurate, low-cost, easy to implement realtime speech-to-text. If many devices that play video can now add subtitles, or even captions, locally in real time, how much value is there in paying lawyers to pursue cases to protect the copyright of _just_ the subtitles? Is editing a subtitle script generated by a speech-to-text engine also a copyright violation, and if so, who all is violating the copyright? The person who feeds the video to the engine? The editor, who could be a different person? The distributor of the resulting subtitle file?
The price changed a few times but they definitely had a lifetime thing once.

All pricing was entirely optional

Here's one reference to a different price (can't find lifetime except for people complaining that Facebook didn't honor it on original ToS)

https://www.wired.com/2011/11/whatsapp-messenger-app/
Maybe half the time o slay dragons on those A game days, but if there is not some big problem needling me I’ll work on smaller things.

I suppose this is true of lots of people, I just have different categorizations for what constitutes a dragon.
The quote you pulled from the article is literally the oil company's PR rep - and the claim is addressed later with full context how the labs weren't equipped to handle fracking testing since they were setup for different purposes. From later:

> Since 2012, a trove of new data had accumulated from USGS, EPA and state regulators. He obtained EPA’s methanol testing results through a Freedom of Information Act request and downloaded the rest of the information from the Wyoming oil and gas regulator’s website. All of it was publicly available, waiting for the right person to spend a year crunching the information.

> The end result: a peer-reviewed study that reaffirms EPA’s findings that there was something suspicious going on in Pavillion. More research is needed.

> The sampling wells contained methanol. They also contained high levels of diesel compounds, suggesting they may have been contaminated by open pits where operators had stored chemicals, DiGiulio said.

I've seen fracking proponents earnestly arguing that the pollution in local water supplies wasn't from the fracking, but from the other associated activities e.g. wastewater disposal and some of these open-pit storage options. Kind of important that those associated activities literally only exist due to the fracking!

It's definitely true that in well-run sites with well-regulated wastewater and inspection regimes, fracking can happen with very little impact on groundwater or surface water -- it's also definitely true that there's a very strong profit motive for operators to cut corners and that in many places, they're in bed with the regulators which leads to a lot of otherwise avoidable pollution. It's alluring to claim that fracking is safe because it can be performed safely -- but the reality on the ground is much more mixed.
Where'd you read that?

A quick search through clinical literature reveals the following points:

1. Brain Chemistry and Sugar: Sugar activates the brain's reward system by releasing opioids and dopamine, similar to addictive substances.

2. Behavioral Similarities to Addiction: High sugar intake can lead to addictive-like behaviors, such as cravings, tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms.

3. Contrasting Views in Research: While sugar affects behavior similarly to addictive substances, it's debated whether this is due to physiological addiction or other factors like emotional dependencies.

4. Physical Effects and Overconsumption: Excessive sugar consumption is linked to health issues and may create a dependency cycle, but this is not universally accepted as clinical addiction.

5. Human vs. Animal Studies: Evidence for sugar addiction largely comes from animal studies, and translating these findings to human behavior is complex due to multifaceted influences on eating habits.

The real answer here is: You don't know. You don't know because clinicians and researchers don't know, so if they don't know, you damn sure don't.
I'm not sure whether poisoning is "the common method" nowadays, but it surely used to be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123729
This is what happens in my company (super tight on security) - except the PIP part. think we use strikes instead + training
Manual picking is not so bad if you're only trying to meet your own needs, rather than trying to make a living at it; my family used to visit "u-pick" farms when I was a kid, and we could easily collect all the fruit we would need for a year in a few hours of work. My mother spent far more time canning and preserving it all than we ever did picking it.

Perhaps this idyllic post-scarcity future would include networks of community orchards, akin to the "p-patch" garden system we have in Seattle.