skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just a question of whether or not there are banners. For corporate websites these banners are often designed to be as confusing as possible as to make turning off spying the least likely option chosen in aggregate.

This is malicious complicance.
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Switch to using Session instead.
I love that Lean completely destroys any suspicion of crackpottery.

There's a common trope of internet comments where you see people say they went off and did their own thing from first principles, pointedly avoiding existing work and preferring to follow their own ideas. And then you look at the thing and it's nigh invariably the disconnected ramblings of a person convinced of their own misunderstood genius.

But if the computer vouches for you, hard to avoid taking it seriously, that's the highest standard of rigor we have :)

(Nice proof by the way!)
There is of course a limit to how much damage a device with such limited capacity can do.

And with the amount of tinkering that happens with these, if it were calling home someone would really have figured it out by now.
And yet none of that was relevant to his career.
I would guess most 32-bit microcontrollers and any SoCs capable of running Linux have some sort of boot ROM, at least for the flash programming mode (especially if it's over USB).
> Contracting is still alive, posing as a contractor while being an employee is dead.

In some odd niches where the pool of talent is very small and client's can take the risk of getting status determination wrong - yes, but this is also shrinking and people retire early.

You have also wrong understanding of IR35. The legislation has been created to protect interests of big consultancies so that their developers don't quit and start working with their clients directly taking profit for themselves.

If the legislation was about "working as employee" then the big consultancies that supply workers who do just that wouldn't be exempt from it.
This is Edinburgh where I used to live at the same pub we used to go to after work for years. Same owners and everything, it's not a fancy pub by any means, but it does have good craft beer and whats on tap is constantly changing.

I mean, even back in 2020 4-5 quid for a pint wasn't cheap, but the beer was good and always changing. I'm sure you can still find a £2-3 pin _somewhere_ in Edinburgh, but that's not where we used to drink.
They run on basically any confumer device, so no.
Wealthy people can afford to set their children up financially before they die whereas normal people might have to, yanno, keep living in that house till the end.
> this needs to come through politics and government.

There's nothing western politicians can do to fix working conditions in China.

Embargo them? The working conditions in China won't get any better, and you'll simply put a lot of Chinese out of work by doing that.

Higher tariffs? That's just a tax on importing goods for China. While it helps the domestic manufacturing sector, it still does nothing to fix the working conditions in China.

Consumers suddenly start caring? The same as the "higher tariffs" scenario.

Any other ideas?
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Looks interesting. But instantly makes me think of the JavaScript fuzzy-search library Fuse.js https://www.fusejs.io/

Possibly a confusing name collision here.
IIRC the press unveiling of the ENIAC boasted that for the first time, they could compute a parabola in less time than it took for the projectile to fly it.

The next milestone years later would be "predict the weather 24 hours from now in fewer than 24 hours"

A lot of the government's interest in advancing computers was the military advantage of being able to predict the weather. Maybe if it was thoroughly understood, they could even control it! Alas.

All covered in the book "Turings Cathedral"
"If wages don't drive inflation"

They do.

"you can lower inflation, increase quality of life and create a more equitable society by putting pressure on business to pay their staff more, and have smaller profits"

If profits are high, then it means that prices are too high. To reduce inflation you need to lower prices, not to redistribute profits from (too) high prices.
> It's interesting, to me, that while my mom, for example, was an incredible "believer" in education, and had defied her own parents and exceeded the role(s) they envisioned for her by many orders of magnitude, she also would often reference "talent" in various contexts when I was growing up.

Do you see a conflict? Talent provides an upper bound on what you can gain from education.
Machine learning allows users to open and control tools in virtual reality
Could literally just sell that on one of the major exchanges over the course of a few hours

I've sold $8M on Coinbase Pro within minutes by setting a limit order (not a market order - although I'm sure some people will reply without knowing the difference) and it didn't impact the price
Nothing an electron microscope can't handle. It's not a hardened security chip. It'll cost a bit but it's probably possible for a company to do it for free to show off their services. This is how die shots usually happen.
Hmm. That’s interesting, and it seems to come down to how consensus is defined.

You highlight the quantity of publications. You’re right. The narrative is already set. The volume is so large.

But what is happening in practice, even in healthcare (at least in the UK), is that little of the theatre is performed anymore. Doctors are mostly unmasked, no one does distancing, and the mandates were unwound long ago. Not sure about testing, but the odd hacking cough here and there draws no petrified stare. So I guess that’s where I disagree: the consensus in practice is running far ahead of the average tone in published science.

I wonder how much that will percolate down. Perhaps we’ll just learn to live with a published scientific position that is grossly at odds with day to day behaviour — how odd! It will give the behavioural scientists something new to work on.

But your basic thesis (that “don’t get infected” is unhelpful advice) is right. It’s simply not actionable.
Vellum: A Go library implementing a FST (finite state transducer)
Why can't WordPress, Drupal and Laravel figure this out? Each, presumably has leadership who are in a position to do so.
Given that they are originated from China, I'm not surprised.

For a while (not any more though) you can't sell an ACR122U RFID card reader online in China, just because mfoc [1] supports it nicely and it got a reputation of "smart card cloner".

[1] https://github.com/nfc-tools/mfoc
Yeah, this feels like the revenge of the blue collar workers. Maybe the changes won't be too dramatic, but the intelligence premium will definitely go down.

Ironically, this is created by some of the most intelligent people.
Adding Lucasarts, Origin Systems (not a personal favorite) and Westwood Studios to the list of formerly great US studios
Assuming decent developers care to enable them in first place.
Generate your AI version in 1 step
I use https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide, which is inspired by z and autojump.
I don't think you are missing anything, I am not aware of anything that would automatically launch new threads when evaluating something.

That does seem like an interesting, although in practice I rarely have to evaluate something that would take more than a a couple of seconds, so manually wrapping it in a future seems acceptable.

On a semi-related note, sometimes I mistakenly evaluate something that will take a long time, or there's a bug and I'm stuck in an infinite loop. CIDER has a command to interrupt the on-going evaluation but I'm my experience it only works about half the time. In those cases having it wrapped in a future would certainly be helpful.
Numbers to go along with assertion?
It ends up losing contact with home assistant regularly for me. All my devices do this (all based on 8266's anyway) and all devices will fall into unavailable for a few seconds. Which is annoying because their return can trigger automations.
Why does about half the country keep voting for a party that is clearly against the EU then? Is it because of their unwavering love of ransomware and other frauds?
People with a lot of assets.
Amazing. Truly amazing if they ship the ship.

Shipping industry could use nuclear. They’re large, in water, carry 1000s of containers. If all container ships are zero emission, that makes a decent difference in global emissions.
Anything object oriented is slower than anything procedural. Boxing and unboxing is expensive, running constructors and destructors is expensive, copying objects is expensive, virtual tables are expensive. And stuff isn't aligned greatly in memory, we can expect lots of cache misses and branch mispredictions.

The fastest possible way is to have C strings in an array and run a function over it.

If there are advantages to OOP, speed is not one of them.

Here's a great talk about software speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoetgxecw8
Given that E2EE messengers usually require being run on a smartphone as primary device, my guess is that they are trying to push the last remaining non-app-and-web-only users to their messenger app.

I'm one of them and I don't like this.
Which only proves the lack of Valve's power against the Windows developer ecosystem.

Lets see how the SteamDeck will stand against a market flooded with Windows handelds, Game Pass and GeForce Now, from 2024 onwards.
yup, that’s what i mean. try switching to a different domain name server
> ...the owners and managers of Western companies, who supposedly share my moral ideals, continues to do business...

SUPPOSEDLY - just like Big Tobacco has always wanted everyone to know the scientific truth about the health effects of smoking tobacco, right?

Capitalism optimizes for profit. If some profits need to be foregone or spent on pretending to share the moral ideals of the consumers - that also gets optimized, to minimize performative idealism and its costs.
Tired of All the Digital Trickery? One-time passwords for humans.
It's essentially an app that provides one-time passwords for humans. I built it out of my own need. Maybe you will find it useful as well.
"Under Chinese competition law, the complainant has to show proof that their business operations were hurt by the theft of trade secrets. Foxconn said that, as a result of Tang’s disclosures, it had incurred costs of Rmb1.4mn (about £150,000) in August from having to raise its salaries."

I don't think this would even fly in the US.
Chromebooks still do this, they just swapped the write-protect screw for disconnecting the battery [1] or using a special closed-case debug (CCD) USB-C cable (which was discontinued and is now neigh impossible to buy). You can DIY your own though [2]

[1] https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Firmware_Write_Protect

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdc...
I'm not quite sure what your objection is? Are you generally against companies providing services related to warfare? Or are you specifically against providing services for the Israel/Gaza conflict?

If the former - if you are generally protesting commercial services for the military - then there are a lot of companies you need to boycott, before you get around to Amazon. Amazon is a small fish in the sea.

If the latter, then cancelling your Amazon account is pretty small potatos to protest the Israeli attack on Hamas. And I would have to ask: have you also protested the Hamas attack on Israel? While the whole situation is a mess, Hamas definitely started this particular fist-fight.
> Better everyone being a poor rice farmer than working in shit factory.

Why do the poor rice farmers line up to apply for factory jobs?
Yes, a system called "capitalism" that works perfectly only in theory, and where bending rules creates winning conditions, and corruption is on always upward trend lines.
> with links to HP-blessed replacement components.

When Framework first came out, HP launched a "repairable" laptop that was as you said. Lots of useful support stuff on their website, etc.

Unfortunately, it turned out that actually ordering any of those replacement parts from HP wasn't really practical. The parts with either permanently out of stock, or some huge wait time (1 year+ maybe?).

Maybe things have gotten better...?
Thanks. Ariel is a rare hero. Speaking out against Israel is a clearly a potential danger to your career, and especially something like this. Imagine speaking out against something else that is making Google a couple of hundred million or whatever. "Nest is bad for privacy!". They wouldn't give a shit.
It's highly unlikely for a generative model to be able to reason about language in this level when based on audio features alone. Gemini may use audio cues, but text tokens must be fed in the very early layers of the transformer for complex reasoning to be possible. But because the gemini paper only mentions a transformer architecture, I don't see a way for them to implement speech-to-text inside such architecture (while also allowing direct text input). Maybe native here means that such a stack of models was rather trained together.
Would there be a way to contact him and organize some fundraising for him?
Yeah I agree. Can the same be said for functional programming (closures, high order functions, etc)? (not procedural)
Rules on products sold in the west. Most manufacturing companies already need to trace the origin of their components, so you could specify what products are and aren't allowed to be sold in the west.
Agreed, this is what US has with married/family taxes.
Which of the 7 geographical continents do you consider it to be part of then?
The Multicam revolution showed coyote is a better default than green, hence the change.
It’s a step in right direction to cool off demand, but the big issue is supply.

Make a law that building permits can’t take longer than 6 months. No nimbysm crap.

Permits can only be denied if the building plans don’t meet code and cause major environmental issues.

Also permits shouldn’t cost a fortune.

Permits are a huge bottleneck. A piece of paper.
Apple Adds Push Notification Data to Law Enforcement Guidelines
I treat the autopilot like every pedestrian, bicyclist and other driver in traffic: they’re out to kill me or themselves suddenly and out of the blue.

Cruise and lane control (Autosteer on Tesla) with a firm grip on the wheel and a foot tensely suspended over the speeder is still nicer than driving completely by yourself.
Effectiveness of LLM in zero-shot semantic annotation of legal texts
What is a whistleblower to some, is a mudslinger to others.
A lot of people in the large EU countries basically want their countries to be museums - so keeping new things out is fine with them.
What's the difference between a "personal" website and a blog? Many people run blogging platforms such as wordpress to host their personal websites. It's just that they call them "blogs" and not "personal websites". To me, the only difference is that "personal website" is an older and less frequently used term.
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I believe it has to do with the fact that the US possesses a vast amount of land, abundant natural resources, a long-standing democracy, no wars on its territory for an extended period, and a relatively large population size.

If you compare that with other wealthy countries such as Germany, then you'll see that they have less land, fewer natural resources, haven't had democracy for as long, were divided until the late '80s, and do not have as large a population size.

Therefore, just by sheer numbers, it makes sense that everything in the US is bigger. Moreover, Germany, for instance, has a culture where wealth is accumulated across a large number of medium-sized companies, whereas in the US, wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top (for example, the ones you mentioned). These are, of course, the entities everyone knows and talks about.
Nice, but there are already a lot of such tools. What is the core benefit of this one specifically compared to the others?
It was a 'last barrel' price, I think a deal before the keg expires etc. When that finished we could still get Abbott only it was £3. I did say it was a special deal.
So it's perfectly feasible to have an open source Wifi, or Bluetooth or any other RF, stack, but only certain compiled versions are actually certified. I understand that the openness in this case would be limited: you lose the freedom to modify and run the software as you wish (unless you want to risk to break the law), but you can still help bugfix, improve the software and verify that there no backdoors / spying features.

The reason sometimes given by vendors that "FCC demands the code to be proprietary" is an excuse.
I agree! In Polylith, the built artifact(s) is an implementation detail and you can decide what to build (a set of Microservices or a monolith) when you are ready for it.
The other side to this is that if you're interviewing and communication is not a decisive factor, you should walk away. You don't want to work in places where this is common practice, as your job will be unnecessarily difficult, communication being the most important part of software development.
Just roll a d100; it will be about as useful...

If you roll over a 75, roll an additional d10 to find out your multiplier score (as in, a 10x programmer).
I can't speak for Austria, however that is exactly what it happens in Portugal and Switzerland.

In Portugal, we use digital ones (Via Verde) and they are activated at time of purchase.

In Switzerland, physical vignettes are always available on rented cars.
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Kaitai is good if:

- your format is fully known (it's less helpful if you're trying to incrementally build a parser while reverse engineering)

- you want to read files, but don't care about writing

- you don't mind that the development is not very active

For writing "tar2ext4" I would genuinely look at how much work it would be to run the ext4 code from the kernel in a different context; there's a lot of it to consider. Or do what the Apple "dmg" tooling does and make a ramdisk.
While I agree, the GP's attitude is also common in many of the "top" software companies, and explains a lot about why they fail to deliver on so much.
You will find Veritasium's video on night vision goggles [1] very interesting. He explains well how they work, and the pros and cons of each implementation and generation.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeJHAFjwPM&t
this thread is why the tech space is in such a shit phase. dev skills will always be better in the long run. i am not suggesting that you hire a shit person. i am suggesting you do not know how to recognize talent.
That's right. The problem is more that it doesn't say anything useful about dark energy and dark matter. Apart from allowing us to infer their existence.
>URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website

googles no1 spot has become scam city hundreds of times for big namens just this year alone

>Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed.

in the time you complained about this problem of your own creation you could habe bookmarked your top 20-50 visited sites.

off topic but i see more and more "I'm too lazy to do x" where the solution would be easier than just being "lazy"
The other option was to put them into CDPATH instead... 6,000 of them?

(I guess you are using an alternative to CDPATH, but you haven't said.)
I wish HN gave me the ability to gild comments like reddit does.
Since like forever, 1600 EUR net monthly is a good salary in Italy. Hahaha, I'm joking - you'll never get indefinite employment contract in Italy. This can explain the invasion of Italian guys to post-Communist countries. In addition to earning slightly more, they're fucking their brains out there. In exchange we can visit Italy in summer, see their old people, be robbed in cafes, restaurants, hotels, or literally be robbed... quite miserable exchange.
Nobody in power in industry and almost nobody from the consumer side cares about working conditions in any typical outsourcing country. Quite the opposite, "less regulation", "lower cost" and things like that are directly caused by ignoring worker rights and human rights (as well as a few other things).

China is not alone in this, just more present in the HN-relevant IT/tech sector. But clothing in southeast asia, mining in africa and south america, logistics/trucking in eastern europe are relevant examples from other regions and industries.

I don't intend to disperse responsibility here or distract, quite the opposite: One of the main reasons the aforementioned abuses can continue is that "the civilized west" systematically ignores those problems on all levels. There are some EU regulations coming up to improve this situation, but we'll have to wait and see on those...
Hmm, but it’s OK to trust that web browsers implement TLS properly? And your router isn’t MITMing you? Or your SSH app exfiltrating all your server information? Why is this different?
That’s a good point, but in theory only one researcher needs to confirm that an executable from a jailbroken app contains a build that’s consistent (or inconsistent!) with the published source code. We don’t all need to do it.
If you collect a vehicle in Austria it's almost certainly already got a vignette (pretty tricky for the rental company to operate an Austria-registered vehicle without one).

If you collect in your car in Germany, as I did, and drive it over the border yourself then you almost certainly won't get one (although I've ever been lucky!) so you need to purchase one (physical or digital) before (or as) you cross the border.
It is not strange to have binding arbitration instead of court, in the choice of law clause and dispute resolution clause.
I didn't get that impression at all. It sounded like OP was saying "Sure, communication counts. But I also have to believe you know how to code."
Looking at the price rise from the trading perspective, traders have been drawing lines and for a couple of months now been saying that the large bull run is around the corner. And honestly, if you zoom out and look at just the lines and the last few large bull and bear runs and don't ask anymore questions, it really does look like it's time for a reversal.

Seeing people hopping in and buying BTC in hopes of riding the next big wave in hopes that the price goes to at least 70k.

Honestly I'm interested in this particular wave since given the recent currency devaluations that have happened since the last BTC peak in November 2021 I'm wondering what the odds are that BTC actually hits that magic 100k number if this is the big bull run people have been waiting for. And if it does, what happens then since that's the magic number the Bitcoin absolutist (maxis?) folks have been waiting to tout.

So basically, not sure if the current wave is anything to do with the actual news or just the retail trading that's going on.
??? FB Messenger is available on facebook.com ?
Also add Infocom and Sierra, both of which got destroyed after being bought.
> Interesting though, that's not what the regulations say [..]

Of course they don't, but thanks for the specific link!

The "gold-plating" - or indeed misunderstanding - of EU regulations has a long and (in)glorious history.