skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread is all over the place, I can't read the article since I don't pay for wsj and the archive link isn't working for me.

There shouldn't be a problem with home schooling in a perfect world, but the current situation is horrible.

At the very least we should expect that a student that is home schooled is taught the same basics as someone who is in the school system and we need to make sure that the student is physically ok. Properly fed and not in my physical harm. Something that going to a school provides if a kid has a very bad home situation.

The lobbying for home schooling is downright frightening just how much power they have and how much they fight against what should be basic protections in the name of "parental freedom" since apparently "parental freedom" for them includes abusing children.

It also doesn't help that much of the push for Home Schooling is also based an an asinine idea of "indoctrination" in the school system when many just want to indoctrinate their kids into their religion but stopping them from having a broader view of the world.
If that app has ads then your info is being sent to advertisers.

Why would a flashlight app even need your location?
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Note the difference between being superficial in fact and being superficial in the opinion of the parent. Certainly, (barring some egregious exceptions) all parents want to do what's best for their children and think they're doing so with every decision they make. The real question is - are they, in fact? They might earnestly feel that giving their wunderkind a STEM-only drill-style education is what's best for them - little budding engineers that they surely are. Conversely, having had a dislike for mathematics from an early age, they might unconsciously feel that their future Picasso doesn't need that boring stuff at all, or in very limited quantities. An important upside of attending school is that it exposes a child to a lot of different educators with different perspectives, and different biases. Their chances of discovering what they're good at and what they truly enjoy, as opposed to what mommy sincerely thinks they enjoy, is thus higher.

(Also I hate that this article has just been censored on HN and most likely no one will read this reply).
As I said, it's a valid concern. However the author forget the mention that you need to apply and get approved to use this API. I find it dishonest and alarmist.

Here's the request form that you fill up for it: https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/hotspot-helper/
Audible does not allow for AI narration of Public Domain books currently.
Are you sure that if the US gov would not send help to Ukraine, that money will be used to help homeless people?
TL;DR: using $thing for the sake of $thing is just elevated cargo culting.

He didn’t worry about what the Agile Alliance said to do, he made the solution his own, and he excelled.

In other words, know what your problem is and solve that, instead of trying to force your problem into a favored solution.
For those interested in this sort of thing, you can download chiptunes from ocremix.org that can run in a musical emulator like ChipAmp.

Unfortunately I know of no such emulators for Mac or Linux.
IP gives you a rough location (like which city at best), SSID/BSSID can give you street/building level accuracy if it's in a database like https://wigle.net

Considering the scale of these apps, I'm guessing they have internal wifi<->location databases with fairly great accuracy.
>When Maglio pestered them to write a review, they did. He’d bought them dinner, cooked for them, collected them. That free hospitality makes it hard to write a bad one. Their review was positive.

From a psychopathic view he got a really good setup:

(1) active policeman
(2) cultural differences to wash the line between appropriate and inappropriate
(3) young woman from far away globetrotting with little experience just staying few nights
(4) over the top hospitality
(5) sleeping over in his own home + tranquilizers

>(“You’re 21 and sleep in someone’s house for free? You get drunk in his house and blame the host?”)

What caught him was the usual over-confidence chasing the ever bigger high:

>Maglio was finally arrested, for another attack. An Australian woman with two daughters had been staying with him, and woken in the early hours to find her 16-year-old in bed with Maglio. She’d been drugged and was non-responsive for five hours. Incredibly, while Maglio was under house arrest for this incident, the police visited and found two new suitcases in his hallway, and two couch surfers in his living room – one with benzodiazepines in her system.
Thank you for articulating why the problem is hard to solve. There is very little (financial) incentive to solve it, at all. It’s all cost with little upside. It’s not like new roads or new infrastructure which creates jobs in the short term and prosperity in the long term. At least it’s not currently billed that way. It’s medical bills and social workers and shelters that just prolong the existing problems.
Honest question, does it really matter? Stuff like this [0] makes the whole thing moot.

[0] https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a42189320/the-ne...
They could have given them $313373 or at least $31337 instead.
It’s already there, some of the books I’m listening to on Libby are clearly AI.
Anecdote: the people I’ve met who feel most strongly about that are upper middle class and upwards non-religious folks, and mostly those living in or near cities.

My parents brought me up serving at food kitchens and donating to the homeless even as the recessions of 200x were hitting our family. We weren’t alone in doing that.
there was an article on the front page of HN recently about the flaws in the current drug policy in, if I'm not mistaken Portland. Basically, not throwing junkies in jail doesn't actually help them sober up if there isn't a proper plan in place, so they're stopping that approach in favor of a more strict approach where doing drugs in public is a crime.

Before you make assumptions about my person opinions, I'm very pro-legalization, I think prohibition of basically anything is very misguided. If I were in charge, everything, including heroin and fentanyl, would be legalized, taxed, and regulated.
What are you trying to get into/validate?
> Everyone knows phenylephrine is useless.

Easy to say now once it’s proved.
I deployed this a month ago and have been pretty happy with it so far. Even in the self-hosted version, there are some built-in upsell features that make this seem open-core. However, these features are trivial to remove in your local version.

Some people are confused about what signing means. To me, there are three different types:

1. The ability to put a visual signature on a document. If you want this, just use MS Paint or similar tools.

2. Cryptographic signature, using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), etc. This isn't really practical until we have widespread client certificates, or something like EIP-712 in mainstream usage.

3. Digital verification via audit data. This is where eSign platforms really provide their value. It's possible to view when a user opened a document and when they signed it, by logging sufficient audit data about their user client/browser. Think about the unique fingerprint provided by websites like https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/, etc.

Now, DocuSeal seems to only log opening and signature events, along with the user-agent and IP address. For many users, this may be sufficient data, but DocuSign includes a more unique fingerprint. With this data, it's possible to be more confident that a system was used to sign the document than with a wet ink document.

That said, some people also feel that the credibility of having this hosted by a third party adds value, as they are impartial.

Still, for my purposes, it's a great free project, so thank you.
Preferably, these release artifacts are generated by a pipeline, and the hashes are verifiable.
I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that the average Chinese student isn’t a daily victim of insane “culture war” political BS and actually are encouraged to learn. I’m aware this is more complex, but to me it seems like lately certain political entities are ok with dumbing down our education systems.
Homelessness is a housing problem: https://seliger.com/2022/06/29/homelessness-is-a-housing-pro...:

there’s a naive, common view that homelessness is primarily about “mental illness” and “drugs” and other potential contributors to homelessness; while those factors exist, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed. The lower the cost, the easier it is for family, SSDI, Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV, formerly called Section 8), and other income supports to keep a person housed. Intuitively, this makes sense: it’s easier to cover $750 in rent than $2,000 in rent, even for someone with mental illness and drug problems. As the cost of housing goes up, the number of people who fall from the margins of being “housed” to being “homeless” goes concomitantly up. While mental illness and drug abuse are factors, they’re secondary to housing costs, and they’re really red herrings relative to overall housing costs and ongoing housing shortages across America.

The homelessness problem is intractable without zoning reform and the removal of barriers to new housing construction, whether those barriers are height maximums, parking space minimums, or “neighborhood input” or “community input.” Those last two are functionally barriers to building anything, anywhere. We’ve worked on Los Angeles Prop HHH proposals, and, despite that Proposition raising $1.2 billion for housing, not much has materially changed. Why? California makes building anything, anywhere, astonishingly difficult. Until we can increase the supply of housing, we’re going to see homelessness problems.
> An insolvent tenant that has not yet filed for bankruptcy can usually be summarily evicted under contract law, but previously, collecting such evidence of insolvency was time consuming and not cost effective, giving the tenant time to pull out of their tailspin before missing rent payments and filing a bankruptcy petition.

The ability to evict someone before missing rent payments seems absurd. Are you saying this is an element of simple 'contract law' somehow, or that, often, boilerplate leases (contracts) specifically have clauses that allow eviction over insolvency without missing rent payments?

I'm not sure what will happen in the future, but I would be surprised if an AI model estimating a person's insolvency would meet requirements of evidence. Maybe the AI knows the renter, say, used a payday lender twice in the last month and that has a 98% correlation with insolvency in the next three months (making up all these numbers, I have no idea, but it sounds almost believable). I would still be surprised if a judge allowed this to become evidence of insolvency. But of course it depends on the jurisdiction.
Which is why you would use waves of consecutive detonations consisting of more and more (smaller) nukes. Think of a cone pointed towards the asteroid. The tip would be the first initial large nuke. Because of the mass and velocity of the asteroid, it is unlikely that the fragments would spread out all that much. You are right that there would likely be fragments that still have an orbit that would lead to collision. After the first explosion you would detonate 5 more nukes spread out evenly to further perturb and break down the asteroid remnants. You would repeat this many times. Each time the nukes could be smaller as the mass of the asteroid remnants would be getting smaller and smaller making the force of the nukes more effective against them. This would probably only be suitable for ruble pile asteroids, but I would imagine those are the hardest to use ablation with, so it may still be appropriate to use more destructive methods.

There are two goals with this: (1) break down or deflect any large chunks to prevent damage related to ground impacts. (2) cause enough change to the orbits of the asteroid remnants such that any subsequent collision with earth would be spread out over time to prevent overheating of the atmosphere via clouds of debris.

The best solution is always to have the asteroid remain as intact as possible, but for certain asteroid types and scenarios, it may just have to be good enough especially as a backup.
So you're saying it's a joke on multiple levels.
I work in this space and have dealt with variants of this exact vulnerability 20+ times in the last 3-4 years across a wide range of login providers and SaaS companies. The blog post is correct, but IMO the core problem itself is too far gone to be fixable. Delegated auth across the internet is an absolute mess. I have personally spoken with plenty of Google and Microsoft engineers about this, so I can guarantee they are all already well aware of this class of problems, but changing the behavior now would just break too many existing services and decades-old corporate login implementations.

The "fix" at this point is simply – if you are using "Sign in with XYZ" for your site, do not trust whatever email address they send you. Never grant the user any special privileges based on the email domain, and always send a confirmation email from your own side before marking the address as verified in your database. All the major OAuth providers have updated their docs to make this explicit, as the post itself points out. In fact I'm surprised there even was a payout for this.
They burned me out of Magic. It used to be that the game had distinct spoiler seasons, and the Standard format and game as a whole used to stand still for a while and be explored at length. Even the rotating Standard format had a period where you could grow really familiar with the format as it was even if you weren't a really plugged in grinder. Eternal formats changed slowly because power creep, while present, wasn't completely nuts.

Now, the environment is a neverending spoiler season that it's impossible to keep up with unless you're one of those NYC squirrels on crack. See a graphical representation here:

https://onlyontuesdays27.com/2022/10/18/30-years-of-magic-th...

Meanwhile, power creep is out of hand, which means more releases are more relevant to more formats, the quality of the flavour has progressively gotten worse. There's more and more of "millenial writing" that substitutes being good with being sassy. When the game costs an arm and a leg, why bother.

D&D, similar deal. You have a fantasy setting, which should mean different creatures. What does Wizards do? Progressively remove more and more differentiation between different races and creatures. A 3m/10ft tall minotaur and a half-orc are both defined by strength, both get a +2STR which just feels wrong. But wait, there's more! A halfling can now decide to have the same bonus. It cheapens the setting when things don't mean something anymore.

Similarily, RPGs are generally about overcoming challenges. And we get, what. Wheelchair-accessible dungeons?? Coffee shop modules for D&D, of all things, instead of doing the concept in a more suitable system like a FATE derivative? College student representation obsession's run completely off the rails, and it means the product starts failing at its core purpose.
> The mob's purpose in the the plan devised by Eastman and enacted by Trump [1] was to serve as a distraction / excuse for Mike Pence to launch a contingent election with fake electors who would certify Trump as the victor, thereby terminating our democracy and ending the American experiment. Pence refused to do this and that's why the peaceful mob started chanting "Hang Mike Pence, Hang Mike Pence."

How was this purpose transported from the minds of the planners into the minds of each individual member of the mob? Was there some sort of training program that hasn't been covered in the news yet (assuming I haven't missed anything)?
If you have to explain the joke...
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It's seriously ridiculous. I have had a prescription for Adderall for over 15 years now but I have to pay $175 every 3 months for a new prescription. They last about 2 minutes on the phone. That's $10,000 I've paid for a doctor to do nothing!

I also have a prescription for this ointment to treat eczema. Last time I ran out I tried to call my dermatologist for a refill, but apparently he's retired now. So just to get this stupid skin cream I had to make an appointment with another doctor, wait a month, and pay money when I already knew exactly the medication I needed from the pharmacy.
I don't think there is a huge difference in output of English vs Scottish territorial water wind output.

There is a massive shortage of Scottish -> England transmission though. So it's a lot better to build them closer to where the power is needed.

However, there is nearly 10GW of HVDC in the pipeline to transmit power from Scotland to England (look up national grid eastern link 1, 2, 3 and 4).
Seems like the entire food regulatory body the USDA and the FDA are just in the pocket of the industry. Lack of funding is the least of it. Paid off and corrupt is likely the better characterisation.

Seems like Literally nothing you eat is regulated at all.

Unless it kills you. Then if it kills people the FDA acts only after they see a good amount of people dying.

Almost all of this is universal knowledge now. I wonder why there's no outrage or pressure to change.
> Probably because you're not the person who is called when someone with mobility issues can't get to a bus stop.

I realize you’re accustomed probably to arguing by using these types of straw men with preserved topics that cannot be criticized. But you’ll need to show some data exhibiting how many ramps were blocked by scooters versus other obstacles around here to garner any credibility.
Bill is a voter, voting on matters of extreme importance to us all.

Also, evolution is not a belief, it’s a fact. Raising a population that can’t tell fact from fiction has profound consequences to us all. Those plumbers and electricians interact with us all in complicated ways, not just their jobs.

The PISA assessment by the OECD demonstrates that only 13.5% of American students age 15 were able to distinguish fact from opinion in reading tests.

In a democracy, that matters more than plumbing and electrical job ability.
War in Ukraine Has China Cashing In
I bought apparel from Uniqlo a couple months ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well the system worked. It felt like magic. It took me a moment to double check, be amazed, and realize that checking out was really as simple as throwing all the clothes into the designated area, pay, and put them into a bag.

Sadly the system is probably not going to work for supermarkets that sells cheap items since presumably there's a non-trivial cost for the RFID tags and they'd eat into the margins too much.
I mean you’re not wrong it’s just the fact that this structure exists in the first place continues to be disheartening.

Not new…I’ve been disheartened about this for 35 years at least.
All professionals knew it did nothing. But the problem is by law FDA only needs to certify that OTC medications are safe not that they are effective. So drug companies go to town making billions off those old safe but useless medications

The real change is to add the mandate of efficacy to FDA for OTC medications.
Good move! Do you have a link for that? Would be interested to hear it

FWIW, the Roland D50 did something similar, and used PCM samples to model the attack/transients... you could then use subtractive synthesis for the body of the sound. I would guess Pianoteq's key/striker modelling is a lot subtler!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_D-50?useskin=vector
Your comment boils down to “Dave’s a great guy so I’m sure he does right by his children”.

But thanks to extreme lobbying by the HSLDA, we have no way of actually knowing that. We don’t know their test scores or even if they’re reading at their grade level.

And although Dave appears outwardly great, we don’t know if he neglects or beats his kids. Just no way to know that. Abusers don’t look or act outwardly like abusers, that’s how they get away with it.

Cmon man, think a little before sharing a personal anecdote that is just “my friend good guy”.
You have a good point there. I understand that citizenship is tracked at the federal level and not the state level; although the federal government relies on local county records to prove status. The system requires an overhaul and the states should have a bit more power to police their own territory.
> com.apple.developer.networking.HotspotHelper

Where do you revoke this entitlement on iOS? Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network? Or is this something else?
The data used is clearly listed in the John Oliver video, but you'd have to have checked to know that.

I don't comment on things I haven't read or watched, but it's clear not all of us do that.
If it took that long for regulators and the drug industry to figure out that phenylephrine is worthless, I certainly don't hold out much hope for more advanced cures.

The same is true if corruption rather than incompetence is the explanation.
The whole site seems to be a one-person news site, so I'm willing to bet that the HN user is probably the author.