skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that Bulgaria is unfortunately very corrupt. That hurts me too, because otherwise it would be a very beautiful country. But the neighborhood help I'm talking about is of a different kind. It's not just about burdening each other with favors and debts, but actually helping each other in difficult times and celebrating in good times. I'm not talking about trade, which brings advantages, but rather normal coexistence, which occurs naturally and exists independently of politics.
Yes, having access to a doctor is surely a good thing, and knowing one benefits you in every society.
But is it an absolute good or a relative one? Aren't there also people who forego treatments? Wouldn’t people much rather grow old and die at home than in a hospital?
Should you really sacrifice socializing for medicine when it contributes just as much to your health?
Induction’s still pricey, too. The low end of gas ranges is low-priced, indeed. And ranges (can) last a long time, so old-school electric is gonna be the “normal” electric range for many years yet, I expect.

Just checked Lowes. Cheapest induction range, $999. Four gas options are $499 or lower, four resistive electrics $499 or lower.
What I do is make them test everything their code might do. "Oh you built a generic builder builder builder huh? I need at least 80% coverage for anything the builders might build." The code shrinkage you can achieve is remarkable.
Straw man argument; the person you replied to did not say this.
“Octo-Aid” is great if your on iOS.
well said, this is what I was getting at when I said the ideas matter more than the words.
I feel like being forced to print a letter, find an envelope, and mail the letter is a bit much in this day and age. There have been times in my life when I did not have a printer, or any spare envelopes. Should people like me-back-then not be able to cancel their gym memberships? Should we have to track down office supplies to be able to do so?
Yes, Android users do suffer without it, which is why so many were willing to pay for it.
I don't remember where I read this, but I remember hearing that they offer to buy credentials from rogue employees.
Wait until people learn about Google sidewalk if they think this is bad.

It is fundamentally intrinsic to the technology of most digital technology that: 1) their very data-driven nature leads to information gathering, and 2) the colossal and inherently inexhaustible recurring revenues in that data collection will always pull organizations and their leadership towards data collection at scale.

The only conceivable framework for preventing information collection is to attach data privacy to the individual as an human right. Even “opting out” as an intrinsic default won’t be enough, though it is regulators’ and industries’ favorite kick-the-can strategy.

Otherwise it’s just a question of time, as the incentive for profit is overwhelmingly attractive to companies, regulators and markets.

Apple, for all the talk of privacy, cannot maintain the fiction of privacy while simulaneously answering to shareholders with a scale advertising business or really any advertising business of any revenue importance at all. Their promise of privacy for users died spiritually if not practically the moment they decided to dramatically expand their ad business, as it shifted the company from serving users as their customer with devices to making those same users the product to be sold.

So this kind of thing is inherent and will continue to emerge from Apple. The opt-in, limited nature of who is allowed access matters very little. Just follow the incentives to understand corporate behavior.
Updated now. Thanks for catching this.
(posted on other thread)

A no doubt gifted person who was probably put through torture (as they would experience it) in a prison, now locked away for life because they lashed out.

Big clap for all the big brains there who failed this guy.
>npr.org/2026/01/01/

Is this some inside joke?
He hacked a game company and threatened to release confidential information unless they paid a ransom.
In the sense that they both feed the grid, no. In the sense that they have different costs, risks, yes.

Personally I think that the question, "Which is better?" is pointless. It's much more interesting to ask, "What proportion of each generation method should we target?"

It's then just question of "Where would you put a pin in the simplex of generation proportion?"
How is it not DOA? Youtube pays the uploaders for their content.
The conversion is still very error-prone. It can't convert a lot of packages, and the last paper I read, StarVector, half the HTML version is just missing. (I think it hit an error at a figure of some sort.) I reported an error, but I've been reporting errors against the ar5iv and abstracts for years now and the long tail of problems just seems like an incredible slog.
The primary crimes we are talking about are not the violent ones. They are hacking.

You are welcome to disagree with me, but I don't believe hacking Rockstar to get a peek under the curtain should be a crime. So what if we took that part out of the story? What would change? Everything. The whole story would be completely different.

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Call it treatment all you want. The goal has already been laid out, and it's not rehabilitation.

Have you ever been in a mental hospital? They do important work, but that doesn't change the reality of what they are. It's a prison with carpets. Trained guards are prepared, not only to detain you, but even to sedate you.

Yes, they exist for treatment, but that doesn't make them a good fit for everyone. We can, and should try other avenues first. I'm not content to throw up my hands and give up on this person. I'm not content to accept this system as the best our society can provide.
10-meter accuracy is not coarse location. Even for a single router the Wi-Fi range gives street-level address.

I’d say city level position (a good case of reverse IP mapping) is a coarse location.
>but we have fixed function dedicated robots for each task: dish washing machine, clothes washing machine, Roomba robo-vac, etc

But we don't have a clothes folding machine, precisely because the task is infinitely harder, from a first principles view, than anything a futurist imagined. VR/AR is the same. It's not just scaling up computer power because it's a matter of not having the physical ability to manipulate reality, energy, and matter the way we need.

Science isn't magic. How do you do haptic feedback to hands? That's an essential part of any AR system that isn't just a gimmick, and yet it's basically impossible without clunky gloves. How do you prevent damage to the human eye over extended use like a 9-5 job? The human eye did not evolve to "look at" different things that are in actuality on a screen an inch from our eyes, it really upsets the brain and the muscles that control vision, which is why VR/AR can be so tiring on your eyes. That cannot be innovated away.
And tech used the part during a repair, did system configuration with the board, realized that wasn't the issue, and then removed it and sent it to back to apple. I've had a tech do it once.

I'm not sure how the "Diag" board would have ended up in the hands of a customer. We note that the part was opened and used.
Red Hat supported a lot of research into this and there's some really interesting stuff, but nothing that is very compelling for commercial use. What uses do you have in mind?

To my mind the more interesting stuff are the PCIe FPGA boards like https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/u200.h...

One particularly interesting research project was using the FPGA fabric to remap addresses, allowing database tables to be "virtually" rearranged (eg. making a row-major data source into a column-major source for easier searching). https://disc.bu.edu/papers/edbt23-relational-memory https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14349.pdf
> So he's confined for life.

> unless doctors deem him no longer a danger

It's down to him and whether the institution he's in can do anything for him.
Does MMS support naming groups?
I am not sure the consensus here would ever consider relative moral value of attacking a 'bad guy'. I am personally saddened that a clearly brilliant mind will waste away. I, for one, do not doubt that his skill could be put to good use. Not to search, I remember being a kid and saying all sorts of things that would get me in trouble today.
Microsoft didn't get dinged for shipping IE by default. They got dinged because, to promote IE, they engaged in a lot of fairly nefarious things, forcing their OEM partners not to install other browsers, for instance.

It wasn't just "you can't have a default web browser in IE", and reducing that case to that is ahistorical.
> The world produces a whopping 380 million metric tons of plastic annually, and a large part of that plastic ends up in the world’s oceans and rivers.

That's an average of about 50 kg of plastic produced per person per year which is insane but I wonder what the median is and what the distribution looks like. How much plastic does a person in the US go through compared to someone in a developing country? How much of that plastic is used in industrial settings to support our infrastructure compared to plastic we actually touch?

This is horrible but now I really want to add some plastistone to my mineral specimen collection.
I hope Nvidia comes along and scoops up Altera. That will show Intel a lesson.
Schools are still teaching mainstream Protestant values. The theology has just evolved.

I didn’t claim there was anything improper about it, I’m just describing the dynamic that exists. I will disagree with you about “consensus.” I think people who hold this particular ideology are in the minority. But they are dramatically overrepresented in the education and journalism fields.
It's real. I remember bracing myself every time I got someone's number off a dating app for the inevitable comment about my "green bubble". These are people in their 20s in NYC. And (for most people), a rant about ecosystem lock-in and being able to do what I want with my hardware etc wouldn't exactly make me come off as more attractive...
> Nuclear Fairy

Not the worst way to describe the US Federal Government, but not a great one either.
Every year Intel announces a new failure, and every year I feel more ashamed for having Intel as the bulk of my software engineering experience on my resume. I saw the signs when I was still there and attending quarterly updates. It felt like in one breath they admitted to missing the mobile boat and in another they said only gamers need dedicated/discrete powerful gpus.
This is tragic -- I bet this kid could make great contributions with some support.

> The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.

> Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
I don't know if you're referring to my post when you say OP but the death penalty was very much not in my mind when making my statement.
I'm not advocating for phone number, simply saying that "assuming/forcing email is insufficient"

Giving people the option between phone, email, or whatever is a better approach so they can plan accordingly.
As a long-time vim user I admit this is probably true compared to modern IDEs/editors in the majority of developer workflows today. On the other hand though, if I'm logging into random servers and manipulating any kind of text, especially over a low-bandwidth, high latency connection, I'll make a VSCode user look like a kindergartner who hasn't learn to hold a pencil yet.
Can Google Bounce Back?
Inspired by Ian Hickon's reflection on his 18 years at Google, I reflect on how Google got into their current slump- and what they can do to bounce back.
I don't think it makes sense to equate English speaking Wikipedia (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to) with a different language Wikipedia. Different cultures, most likely fewer people sitting around spending every free moment starting drama on wikipedia
And I would suggest it's a bad idea to base your entire business off using that API.
Pretty high - each location sample is hundreds of kilobytes if I remember correctly, although it was possible to trim that down if you knew there was a strong signal or you were happy to have some probability of an incorrect location.

Annoyingly I can't seem to find the paper now.
That sounds like something that might also wipe the laptop...and all of the new owner's data with it.
> probably not with the same ORM or even the same language

I mean, they shouldn't? Like you've just identified a bug: another application can access your database. If another department needs your data, they should request an endpoint that you control. You should be using an "application database"[1] not an "integration database"[2].

[1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ApplicationDatabase.html
[2] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntegrationDatabase.html
What's another name for a shared self-driving taxi? A bus.

Self-driving vehicles paired with congestion taxes could usher in a golden age of mass transit. The congestion tax is the important bit though.
If you read the disadvantages to SirusXM from one of their own group companies (Pandora Media owns Cloud Cover Music) they admit it's hard to cancel.

https://cloudcovermusic.com/music-for-business/siriusxm-radi...
I offer old Apple gear to friends so that they can iMessage and FaceTime.

If I were mainly on linux, I'd do the same with open messaging apps. (admittedly, not mobile ones. YET)

Except that I already gave away all my old PC hardware.

There's actually a benefit of using software that's not tied to a phone number, a drastic decline in spam. I really don't intend to apply for a laborer position in Alameda.

And let's face it, the unreadable white type on a bright green background punishes only the Apple users who have to squint at it. (Will rose-colored sunglasses work?).(pulls out No. 25 photographic filter) YES!
It's sad to see how Apple behaved here. Kudos to Beeper for fighting the fight, their entire team spent sleepless nights to find solution after solution.

Although personally I thought Apple wouldn't try to block them because it might look bad with with a potential antitrust case, this is sort of why we haven't tried moving to Windows or Android at Texts.com

I'm glad to see Beeper getting back to focusing trying to make the best chat app in the world, we aren't Apple but we'll fight like Apple for that claim ^^
None of these three cases involved the Waymo car behaving in ways that are not that uncommon among human drivers, and our theory of mind does not make us nearly-infallible predictors of what another driver is going to do. Your objection becomes essentially hypothetical unless these cars are behaving in ways that are both outside of the norms established by the driving public, and dangerous.
It’s not that I trust Apple, it’s that I trust Apple infinitely more than I trust the largest spy network on earth and existing without a smartphone today is difficult.

If you need a smartphone, you can choose between a company that has some missteps, or a demonstrably evil spy network. I know who I am choosing.
>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.

It's very practical and used in certain jurisdictions, with very high rollout rate of personal certificates. Within EU regulatory framework it's also a thing and has legal meaning, then there is US government with their weird fixation on contact-only smartcards.

That being said, it's globally deployed with an "advanced", rather then "qualified" profile, where provider applies a signature with their own certificate (or ethemeral certificate issued to user on the spot) and embeds it into pdf as a field.

European Commission even has a library [0] in addition to the law for that.

It's kind of a mess, but nobody really cares until somebody tries to challenge validity of their own signature, which is very very rare. As a former industry insider I would say it's all a security theater and you can as well exchange emails to confirm existence of a contract. It's just more convenient to have a document with a signature as a single artifact, even if it's produced in ms pain as you rightly suggest.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/D...
Can JSX bridge the gap between code and design in web dev tools?
No reason not to except it's just not very big in the US.
Hopefully he will get the right sort of help.
I agree that the ransom was immoral, and probably should be criminal.

Beyond that, I don't agree with any of this. If a company wants to keep secrets, then they are welcome to try. Let that be their responsibility.
Go down to market, grab cheap prepaid phone, Fire Stick, and a Bluetooth keyboard, and you're off to the desktop races. Pivot in from literally any remote desktop, shell, anything.
I really like the heavy grates though. Some of my recipes require me to really go to town on heavy cast iron pots and pans. Busting a glass top is a real bummer. In such cases it's almost better to have the old-school electric burners (there's a reason apartments almost never have a "nice" glass range).
Replace your payment card with privacy.com card and pause payments. Wait until gym will reach out to you for nonpayment. Then cancel.
Isn't that also down to legislation mandating devices to be off and have a maximum off power draw? Mind you, phones seem to be doing alright in that regard.
We need nuclear for the baseload that doesn't dump CO2 into the atmosphere. This is the way.
There are a number of good resources at https://ebf.io, including a couple of links to books. I haven't read those books personally, but I would be surprised if "BPF Performance Tools" by Brendan Gregg isn't worthwhile.
Yeah. I’m also not using React. Vue would be nice and so would Phoenix. I think they might add Vue support, as they do for headless-ui. Phoenix is less likely imo.

The paid nature makes it hard for the community to fill in that gap, which is a shame. I’d love to collaborate on a Phoenix version of Catalyst.
VideoPoet
Wait a second. You accuse the West of being overly reductionist? Isn't that an incredibly reductionist thing to say? There isn't a monolithic "West". There's billions of people with widely divergent attitudes and beliefs.
No price announced which usually means it is not an amazing outcome.

Employees might not even make anything depending on the strike price.
The _data_ yes, the _database_ no. The data will get migrated to different solutions at different times. I've lost track of how often I've been porting MySQL to SQL Server, SQL Server to Postgres, Postgres to Mongo, Mongo to cloud etc.

EDIT: fixed capitalization of "PostGres"
For the last few months, I am consistently receiving spam calls (on my mobile number) shortly after I left the house regardless of weekday, time etc.

I never thought about the idea that an app can track when I leave my (most frequently) used WiFi and derive from that I left home.
golang almost accomplished to be non scary language, but the users have been fighting back
Finally a modern format you can copy&paste from and read on one of the most popular computing platforms!!!
The article literally responds to this...they said if Apple wants reasonable (key word, reasonable) compensation for the resources used, they're more than willing to pay that.
This mentality is fascinating to me. In a sense, nobody owns an Apple device. It's more like renting: the landlord keeps a bunch of doors locked and has strict rules, but the place comes pre-furnished and includes millennial-grade amenities.

I can see the appeal if you don't particularly care about owning a device, but it blows my mind that people become so dedicated to this way of living.
Request for Information: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software
How else are they going to make you look at their logo for 15 seconds?
Full Title:

Request for Information on “Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software”

PDF whitepaper from CISA describing the

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/SecureByDes...
It’s not just that: for email providers, they’re responsible for storing messages that their customer has received. Your server you pay to maintain holds your messages.

On iMessage, all messages are stored on Apple’s servers (at least in-transit), even those that would be destined between two Android users communicating via iMessage.

At least with email it’s a bit easier to filter out spam, but iMessage is also E2E encrypted so automatic spam detection is much harder.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689852 - Dec 2023 (121 comments)
They did take off, it's just hiding really well, because digital (as opposed to electronic) part of the signature isn't a feature you pay for, it's an implementation detail you are not supposed to care about.
This discussion appears to have run off the road with an unexpected turn.
Sadly more and more countries require mobile service providers to check identity of the user before providing a phone number. Not everyone wants to be easily identifiable IRL. Meanwhile, unique e-mail addresses are available by anyone without proof of identity.

And the goal more often is to identify a unique user, not have a user that can be traced back to real life.
"The gang's attacks on tech giants including Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games cost the firms nearly $10m."

Were these actual costs or typical made up bullshit?
Did they though? No price announced which means it's not even clear if investors and employees were made whole.
Sure, but let's not fool ourselves. It isn't exactly a cost center for Apple to run the service nor would it be to scale up usage to include Android users. The cost would be a rounding error to Apple.

From a business perspective, I'm much more sympathetic to arguments that iMessage is a perk Apple wants to keep as incentive for more users to switch to Apple's ecosystem and, likely more important, lack of cross-platform interoperability raises the cost for existing Apple users to transition to Android.