skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are Trump supporters fearful of, other than the government that is actively attacking them?

People who aren't white, people who aren't straight, people who are transgender, people who aren't Christian extremists, people who don't think the government is a giant ball of evil incarnate, etc.

Trump literally tried to overthrow the government in 2020. This isn't debatable: it's a fact. In any sane, functioning democracy, he'd be jailed already. It's scary that such a large fraction of this country fears and hates everyone else so much, and this country so much, that they'd be willing to use violence to overthrow it and install a dictator.
Perhaps not such a stunning bilateral one, but two-sex chimerism definitely is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera

And I can really only say "perhaps". Humans have often hidden or killed their abnormalities for much of history, and birds significantly outnumber us.

(edit: there's a semi-recent example of noticable partial bilateral human chimerism actually: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/health-and-wellbei... Seems like largely a numbers game to me.)
I thought this way until I had kids.
Amen. This is somewhat reductive, but you need to identify the problem your users are trying to solve, look for similar examples in the wild, and commit to one you like. Avoid reinventing the wheel to satisfy your ego unless the product truly requires it.
Interesting, nice list.

I'm checking these out.
> Hell, my vacuum stops moving when it detects it crashed into something (likely torque required to move wheels is larger than expected).

Ha ha, that's a good take. Maybe you could help musk and point him to that vacuum :D

On a serious note self driving sounds like a near impossible problem due to deadly corner cases that take intuition of a general purpose AI.

Driving in California is probably the easiest level of complexity. How do you drive in inner EU town and cities?

I will believe when I see it. Otherwise any claims of 'we almost have it working' are lies to me
The case against the desktop, by analogy with the TV, is the way that it takes over a room, that it makes it hard to focus on anything else — unlike the laptop, which is easy to fold and put away.
Just this week

https://tz.primozic.org

useful and quick GUI to see the time across the world.

on phone:

touch & swipe to pan the map / highlight timezone (upper clock)

tap to select a timezone (lower clocks)

swipe left/right the line below the clock above to change the time
Great to see Microsoft deploying some of it's capital to develop SMRs, the potential seems great, but governments don't seem to have gone further than nuclear submarines.
What is essential is to have important data stored in more than one place, something this journalist failed to do. Just storing it at home would also be a mistake--in case your house burns down.
Well, no. Lawyers that have good arguments just use those good arguments.

Lawyers with no good arguments throw everything at the wall.
This is clever.
It's a script that reads openzim files, and then cleans up the MediaWiki HTML into a sqlite database. The encyclopeida service then does some basic rendering to produce this website. Search and navigation is provided by tortured misuse of a PATRICIA Trie.

It's very much a one-off sort of a thing that's not super well documented, but here are the sources: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/encyclopedia.marginalia....

It's a surprisingly light service. I used to host it on a raspberry pi 4 for a long while, and it wasn't significantly slower than it is today.
I think the best advice you can give anyone for tech in the 21st century is to never, ever rely on any Google services or products
To be fair, Cloudflare has also been lighting money on fire for 14 years. Maybe not as extreme as some AI companies, but they have never posted a profit once and just became cash flow positive for the first time in 14 years.
I can only speak for the company I work for, but that's more or less exactly the mindset the C-suite has about AI. The CTO nerds out on it so wants to work on it for the sake of saying he works with AI (nothing inherently wrong with that mind you, I can respect a genuine nerd moment like that), and the CEO sees our competitors pushing out AI solutions (aka calling OpenAI's APIs) and demands we "do this AI thing everyone else is doing".

It's just a hypewave of people following eachother blindly without stopping to consider why we need an AI in the first place. We're not doing anything groundbreaking with it, in fact half the features we're shitting out with our AI experiments are things that have existed for a decade at this point, except we can now label it as an AI thing.
> The Apple Genius went to get a manager or something and the manager checked the "proof of purchase" and then connected the iPhone to the store Wi-Fi and did some stuff on their iPad and rebooted the iPhone. The iPhone did a reset and then it was unlocked and ready to be setup without any hurdles.

The thieves figured out you just need to know (or be) an employee of any of the 500+ Apple stores. I assume that some theft rings have this process quite streamlined.
> I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that the modern phenomenon of violent Islamic terrorism did not exist a century ago.

That is incredibly untrue. The roots of this conflict don't go back to 1948 or 1967. They go back to 1918 when the Ottoman empire fell. Prior to that jews and arabs lived in relative peace in the same area-- until the allies overthrew the Ottomans leaving a power vaccuum and uncertainty about the future, which lead to frequent civil violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Nebi_Musa_riots

What happened in 1948 to trigger all its famous events? The British finally withdrew from the area they called Mandatory Palestine and left the inhabitants to figure it out for themselves. But by then both sides had a lot of distrust for each other from decades of tension. And the British knew they were living a shitshow behind since dealing with said shitshow as precisely what they had bored of.

> On 7 and 8 March [1920], demonstrations took place in all cities of Palestine, shops were closed and many Jews were attacked. Attackers carried slogans such as "Death to Jews" or "Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs!"

It is really important to note that the roots of this conflict are over 100 years old, and the reason it didn't exist before is there was a authoritarian empire operating the area keeping the peace and keeping self determination totally off the table for everyone but the Ottoman's Turks.
I have started to just create physical photo books a few years ago.

It started as a gift to my girlfriend, but now every year we take our best pictures of the year and put it in a photobook. Cant be deleted that way. All the other photos are less important indeed.

I store about 20gig of important photos on my laptop (weddings, events, ... the really important stuff) and everything else is just dumped into google photos. We'll see how that works out in 20 years. But I feel at ease
Proportionally. If you used up your naive T-Cells on your way to 60/70s there aren’t many left to lose. Whereas if you dumped them all on a few Covid infections in your 20s and 30s you’d see a proportional uptick in younger deaths alongside the life expectancy drops that we’re also seeing. As for the below pandemic death rate, folks can’t die twice and the aged were dry tinder for SARs
> finish converting all of the Amazon into a giant pasture for beef.

I do not believe that it's going to be so simple like that, since the government has social and environment pressures as well. And being completely pragmatic, the issue with the pastures is more structural due to the Military Regime from 70s [1] in a failed strategy than to some availability of land to do it [2].

[1] - https://g1.globo.com/economia/agronegocios/noticia/2020/10/2...

[2] - https://mamiraua.org.br/noticias/gado-amazonia-criacao-pecua...
Breaking: Guy at big company had an idea
an organoid is hardly a brain
They are on the infrastructure side of cellular networks now, they are not irrelevant just because they're not seen by the consumer.

And the Nokia rubber boot factory is still doing well, after splitting from the main company in 1990.
Well, what he needs to do is get a lawyer, though I'd expect he has one, given that he stuff has been seized by the FBI.

I bet in a week you couldn't even sync that much data tho.
According to the article

Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account. This was a plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers for a while.

So he wasn't expecting it to be free forever at all.
At least they are trying. On the other hand, what are you doing?
It will be a travesty of justice if fraud charges are never filed.
I agree that is a serious concern, then. I thought it sounded like voting machine hacking where the dramatic headlines are hiding the fact that the hackers had physical access to the machine.
Click and drag to draw lines.
The last time this came up, it was pointed out this too can be bypassed.
That's patently false. The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, for example, doesn't apply to corporations.
https://www.microfeed.org/

Private podcasting / photo albums for family members, using Cloudflare Pages, R2, D1.
No. We should do more like this if “we have an uncertain energy future”.
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Tell HN: Cloudflare R2 is degraded in APAC for more than 24h
Anyone noticed longer than normal incident resolution from cloudflare recently? R2 is still degraded even after 24h - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/2hpw98q7rsdr
> And, yes, some people have asked why Tim doesn’t have other backups around, but (again) the FBI took all of his shit.

Let's not victim blame, especially when the victim wasn't stupid.
The supreme court said that people don't lose their first amendment rights just because they form a political advocacy group.
The Alien and Sedition Acts kind of were an attempt at that.
The next step should be adding lab grown brain tissue to existing brain tissue.
Seems ludicrous that they can get a warrant to take everything if he really was just hitting URLs.
https://postacard.co - I wanted a dead-simple way to create a postcard from a pic on my phone/device and then mail it, without a required login/subscription/ad-laden/SEO'd-to-death interface etc.

Had the idea while on a trip with friends last year in Mexico. The postcards we sent were a huge hit with our boomer parents.
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When will a regulatory entity step in and stop large corps to run services at a net loss. In essence, the whole tech industry relies heavily on venture capital supported bait&switch.

Giving services away for free or selling under value is clearly anti-competitive behavior.
> something this journalist failed to do

Given that, the reason he doesn't have local copies are the FBI going after him and seizing all of his stuff. Even if you have them in a safe deposit in a bank, they will get it.
You bet! I submitted five :)
https://archive.is/pnMP7
Should be noted that the 6510 was used in the C64, and while it's a superset of the features of the 02, you can't simply put a 02 in a system that makes use of the additional features of the 10.
However, it's sufficiently similar that an adapter with the extra logic implemented in discrete gates and transistors has been achieved (the 10 has an IO port and can tristate, which the 02 cannot).
Ah - that makes sense - but does not seem to be OP's original claim.
Have you looked at photopea.com for a Photoshop alternative?

It's browser-based and they have a decent free version.

Wish it was open-sourced
I mostly make small stuff for myself or to explore an idea or topic. Most recently I made a small CLI python app that moves my mouse to a specific area using cosine interpolation. The reason being I hate the youtube homepage's mouse-over autoplay "feature" and I found a spot on the homepage that will allow me to scroll through videos without having my mouse on a spot that will cause autoplay. So I made it so, if I'm moving my mouse, it just moves as I tell it. Once it's sitting, after a delay, it retracts the mouse like a pen at a bank. So I can explore as much as I want then, when I'm done exploring, it moves my mouse back! No more forgetting my mouse in a spot that causes autoplay.

It's small and simple but it makes my life better!
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My wife’s Scion lets out the worlds most painful screech if you try to lock the doors with one of them open. My Mazda will just… lock the doors. I don’t even understand what the Scion is trying to accomplish. It’s just trying to mock you I guess.
People really need to understand that Google is a garbage company that can't be relied on for anything. I've spent years as a consultant, and several more in the startup world, and I'd rather host all my content in us-east-1 than rely on google.

* I've had customers get their cloud accounts shut down for a literal three cent billing error,

* I've seen people who use Google for advertising pay thousands of dollars and suddenly stop getting their ads shown,

* I personally ran a website with Google Ads, and the first time I tried to cash out was accused of click fraud and had all the earned money stolen,

* I've had product managers for GCP lecture me that I shouldn't be using "preview" services (despite services being in preview for years), and then tell my I should have used a different service . . . that was also in preview.

One of my more recent startups was actually funded by a Google based venture firm, and they wanted to know why we refused to use GCP. My answer is that I wanted the startup to actually succeed, and it wasn't worth the risk of dealing with Google's horrible support.
Great argument, how people may or may not use a browser in the future :) What if instead we look at current reality, which is what I outlined in my previous comment?
We had MS reps give a demo of Copilot chat for our company recently. I was already using it for autocomplete but lemme tell ya, chat is something else!

If I want a refactoring or feature change, I can just swipe over the function or line of code that needs changing and tell chat to do it! The written function appears in the chat window so I can read it or copy it. That has been huge for small, ugly changes that are error-prone and I don't feel like making myself or looking up syntax for.
I’ve made a similar observation before. Most “negative” Tesla posts disappear quickly, even though they seemingly have enough votes and comments to stay up. Probably flagged to death.
Absolutely, the idea of "coercion codes"/"distress codes" or the like goes back a very long time, long before electronic devices even, it's a pretty natural idea that someone could use different canned expressions to code for different responses that attackers wouldn't be able to distinguish. All the core aspects are in place on iOS to do a system both user friendly and quite powerful around that, and years and years later it remains too bad that's hard. In fact in a touch of irony it was at one point quite feasible and pleasant to do with a jailbroken iPhone and Touch ID. The Touch ID system actually distinguished between the various registered fingers (up to five), which in turn meant you could use fingers themselves to trigger other behavior. So "unlock with either index finger" could be "normal", but "unlock with thumb" or middle finger could then run scripts of your choosing in the background.

It would be a real boon if Apple themselves did it, incorporating not just codes or biometrics even but also arbitrary information from phones sensors if advanced users wanted. So for example you could explicitly set a few geofences and say that certain actions could only be done within them (and only at certain times of day even), or certain apps viewed at all (by literally keeping the encryption keys for them locked away unless all conditions were met). If it's not even possible for you to comply when traveling in the first place and that's widely known and transparent it reduces the value in trying to coerce you.

Such a system could also be useful outside of security fwiw, just in ordering our lives. Someone finding distraction hard could lock all their games and social media apps in a view accessible only at home and forbid any app store purchases as an aid in avoiding temptation. Anti-engagement instead of trying to get more engagement.
Pretty sure GDPR/CCPA prohibits them from actually making use of this data. But simply collecting data for temporary use is enough to get the expert journalists another day's worth of copy.
There is also the concept of Visual Reorientation Illusions (Necker Cubes being the most familiar) which give some idea of the dimensional boundary translations etc. 1<>2<>3 and some 3<>4

There is a Facebook group and this account on X is collecting VRIs https://twitter.com/VRIs_Hugh
1) Physical Media that YOU physically own & control.

2) Off-Site Backups

Regardless of the threat, whether it is just bad media, house fire, ordinary thieves, or the FBI, relying on some cloud service as your only backup is a plan to fail.

If it is a threat if someone reads the backups, encrypt.

Sure, as a supplemental convenience, use Google or something. But as the only backup of your life's work? I feel really bad for them, they're obviously gutted. But at the same time, Google has been so publicly unreliable and high-handed for so many years (decades, really), that it's hard not to also feel some, 'whelp, what did you expect, doing something like leaving your valuables out on the sidewalk?'.

Edit: And test your backups
I think this should be switched off, and against the law, but the tweet is hyperbolic. It specifically states that the data is not for training.
The title is wrong. He had the option of paying for the space at least for the time that it takes him to download and archive the data himself.
> Doing things that way in 2023 struck me as so horrifically out of touch

> Clearly a distinctly minority attitude

So... Not at all out of touch then, as most people seem to be fine with it?
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> Also, I don't quite understand why nobody worked around this yet?

Apple implemented proprietary codec for AirPods to have high quality audio with mic when connected to macOS/iOS device. With other host AirPods fallback to A2DP/HFP, and macOS with non-Apple headphones has the same problem, as described in this blog.

I think Bluetooth protocol spec is not free and because of that ecosystem is very fractured.

I hope the situation will improve with Bluetooth 5.3s LE Audio/LC3[1][2]. Regardless, it's not backwards compatible with existing Bluetooth devices...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/bluetooth/comments/1746e02/does_blu...

[2]: https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-le-audio-lc3-explained-2...
Honest question, what do other nations do to determine credit-worthiness? There has to be some sort of risk assessment on the part of banks and other financial institutions. And that risk assessment would have to be made for immigrants there as well, presumably with less/zero data?

FWIW, as much as Americans complain about the credit score system, it's mostly not a problem (for most people, most of the time). It's not hard for a middle-income person to earn and maintain a top-tier score (800+) and the lowest possible APRs when borrowing.

And assuming a prospective employer would assist you with finding housing, it's not hard for an immigrant to begin building their credit score. Just make sure your landlord reports rent to the credit agencies and take out a credit card. 3-6 months later, you have a decent score.

Identity theft is a real problem, but that extends well beyond the credit agencies.
Thanks!

> Yours is much more interesting though.

Yeah, it's absurd in so many different ways. My favorite bit is the idea that "big heating" can get a kid expelled from school. It really is a piece of found art.
I think there are three things here - which are not mutually exclusive.

1. No amount of practice will enable me to break the 100m world record - or even probably be within 30-40% of it.

2. However, training would dramatically improve my time.

3. Most importantly, in life I could beat Usain Bolt by simply starting running 5 seconds earlier - ie for most things peak performance isn't what matters - it's effort/persistence.
Yup. This is how it happened with social networks, mobile apps…
Learn the basics and it's amazing the mileage you get. Care enough to try to become a beacon of actual knowlege, and master basic research skills, and the world is your oyster. There is nothing stopping you in this day and age from getting to the bottom of a question other than asshats like Broadcom or Nvidia who go out of their way to foster trade secrecy at all costs.

Cars, electronic devices, manufacturing tools/processes, lawn equipment, chemical processes, software, algorithms, common subassemblys, logistics, mechanics of materials, measuring systems, what excuse does one have to not develop some level of familiarity with these aspects of modern life in a day where information is literally at your fingertips?

I'll give you that the well is heavily poisoned, and that sometimes a return to dead tree mediums of info storage are required to boost signal; but there isn't really an excuse to remain ignorant other than willful ignorance. The answers are out there, you just need to have the will to hunt them down and wrest them from the world.
More than one in five young Americans doesn't know when WWI & WWII were, what countries were on which side, why they started, or what's imortant about them. But these kids will get better, same as we did. This headline isn't good, but I wouldn't take it too badly.
this doesn't bode well:
https://docs.plane.so/self-hosting -> 404
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Nuclear is a reasonable source of green power, but this is the fourth-or-so time I've seen a MAANG suggest they're going to use it. I'd ignore this until someone breaks ground.
> And in my view it's all based on a flawed premise: that farming needs any kind of technological revolution. It just doesn't. It's mostly fine.

if insiders think it's "mostly fine", that might explain why you only see outsiders coming in with radical ideas.

Sure farming is mostly fine at producing food efficiently. And coal is mostly fine for producing electricity and oil is mostly fine to fuel our cars.

All those things are mostly fine to achieve their primary goal, they are absolutely not fine once you consider externalities. You hinted at it but seem to brush off the external cost as a small thing to be improved. It's not small and that's why it's not a flawed premise. Being able to reduce land area used by farming would be a major win for humanity.

I do agree with you though that this can't be solved by a bunch of technologist in isolation.

Rocket-industry insiders also thought our one-time use rockets were mostly fine and having a reusable rocket was a pipe dream anyway. That took an outsider to change the status quo and now companies that used to be at the top like Arianespace are a decade behind.
The battery swap demo was essentially a subsidy scam:

> In 2013, California revised its Zero Emissions Vehicle credit system so that long-range ZEVs that were able to charge 80% in under 15 minutes earned almost twice as many credits as those that didn’t. Overnight, Tesla’s 85 kWh Model S went from earning four credits per vehicle to seven. Moreover, to earn this dramatic increase in credits, Tesla needed to prove to CARB that such rapid refueling events were possible. By demonstrating battery swap on just one vehicle, Tesla nearly doubled the ZEV credits earned by its entire fleet even if none of them actually used the swap capability.

From Ludicrous, Edward Niedermeyer
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