skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the right unit of analysis is culture not country. Every country has multiple cultures within it, and some of these cultures are larger than others.

Both the US and Israel have high fecundity countercultural religious minorities, such as ultra-Orthodox/Haredi/Hasidic Judaism. The difference is, that minority in the US is such a small percentage of the population, that even though they are growing exponentially, they are still a rounding error in the demographics of the country as a whole (it may be a very different story by the time the 22nd century comes around, but we won't live to see that); whereas, in Israel, they are over 13% of the population, and will likely be 16% by the end of this decade [0] – so their impact on national demographics is much more substantial.

[0] https://en.idi.org.il/media/20567/annual-statistical-report-...
>I don't see the conflict between the two comments.

There isn't. I haven't said that there is.

>You can lambaste people for not even trying to cancel a subscription they don't want while recognizing that many subscriptions depend on light users.

Yup. Never said one couldn't do that, either.

>Light users are not people who want to cancel their subscription but can't because of shenanigans, they're just light users. It's not "the other side of their business", you can have a heavy/light user model while not playing these shenanigans with customers.

Sure. Still not really what I'm getting at, though.

I simply pointed to their comment here as evidence that they understand how gym memberships work, thereby being aware of how convoluted many of them can be when it comes to canceling them, which stands counter to their comment elsewhere in the thread. It's that simple, and I don't know how to make myself any clearer at this point.

Feel like I'm just repeating myself now - not sure if it's a poor explanation on my part or others just aren't grokking it for reasons on their end, but I'll reevaluate and see how I can be clearer in the future.
The Betavolt BV100 – The 50-year battery
I was just in Paris. One of my favorite French cafes got replaced with a Popeyes. :/

My fat american butt eventually relented a few days later and I bought a single breast from them. It wasn't even good Popeyes. Tasted like either they dont know how to make a good crispy piece of chicken or Europe gets sent the scraps.
NFS root docs here https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs...
I did something similar a few years back with a cardboard box I found in the park! It held up surprisingly well while I tried to build a mighty fort - but before I could start building a roof, we got too cold and I had to bring the kiddo inside.

I miss big snowfalls.
> tcf-agent is [...] probably the second biggest security vulnerability after passwordless root SSH.

I thought that passwordless SSH is actually a good idea in general for servers? Assuming, that is, that the public/private key login mechanism is used as the alternative to passwords.
It’s asymmetrical. On one side you have the consumer who wants to save $10 by canceling a service they don’t use. On the other side you have highly paid software engineers, data scientists, and product managers who have tens of thousands of dollars riding on meeting their metrics for subscriber retention. For example, Amazon implemented their “Iliad flow” to make it hard to cancel Prime.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-...

I don’t think it is entirely fair to demand personal responsibility when the adversary has so much more resources and incentives for making it hard to cancel.

This personally affected my friend. English was not their first language and they were tricked by Amazon into signing up for Prime. The extra charges and difficulty of canceling caused much distress for their limited budget.
I didn't know either. Quick google for "forest fragmentation" led me to: https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/forest-fragme...

> Edge effects are even more complicated. They alter growing conditions within the interior of forests through drastic changes in temperature, moisture, light, and wind. Put simply, the environment of the adjacent non-forest land determines the environment of the forest fragment, particularly on its edges. This triggers a cascade of ill effects on the health, growth, and survivability of trees, flowers, ferns, and lichens and an array of secondary effects on the animals that depend on them. Ecologists suggest that true interior forest conditions – you know, where it’s hard to hear cars and lawnmowers and it remains cool, shady, and downright damp even during a three-week drought – only occur at least 200-300 feet inside the non-forest edge.

> And so a circular forest island in a sea of non-forest would have to be more than 14 acres in size to include just one acre of such interior forest condition. Put differently, reports indicate that the negative habitat effects of each residential building pocket within a forest radiate outward, affecting up to 30 additional acres with increased disturbance, predation, and competition from edge-dwellers. This may not matter to generalist species like deer, raccoons, and blue jays, which may actually benefit from fragmentation, but it is hell on interior-dependent species like salamanders, goshawks, bats, and flying squirrels. The smaller the remnant the greater the influence of external factors and edge effects. A wise person once likened it to ice cubes: the smaller ones melt faster.
Sometimes it is also used as protective coloration, to blend in and be passed over for scrutiny because of the outwardly visible religious affiliation signalling 'good person here, no need to look any closer'. That's one reason why Catholic priests got away with all their crap for so long.
In the early days of Rust there was a debate about whether to support "green threads" and in doing that require runtime support. It was actually implemented and included for a time but it creates problems when trying to do library or embedded code. At the time Go for example chose to go that route, and it was both nice (goroutines are nice to write and well supported) and expensive (effectively requires GC etc). I don't remember the details but there is a Rust RFC from when they removed green threads:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b...
"Bad teacher" often strikes me as a face saving excuse. Not that having a bad teacher will not make it harder to learn, but there seem to be a lot of bad maths teachers out there, if I go by how many times I heard that.

I mean it's okay to be bad at something. I sucked in history class, and I'm not blaming the teachers. I simply had zero interest in it as a teenager, unlike maths and physics.
I haven’t been to China, but have traveled quite a bit in Asia. In my experience, you can do most anything for money anywhere. It just takes less money in places with a lower GDP per capita (not accounting for cultural or religious practices).
I don’t get what they’re doing here. Why can’t the AI-ing be done in the cloud? Couldn’t they potentially get people hooked on lucrative subscriptions to cloud ai services too?
traditionally, the weekend gave even more time to sleep on it. modern near 24/7 trading makes that less of thing. back when the traders went home, there was a cooling off period. just like the circuit breakers to stop trading on big loss days to get the humans to stop and think for a second/minute/overnight. the high frequency trading doesn't have these emotions to cool down from, so it's still something that seems to be done on tradition now.
The slope here isn't near that slippery.

There's been a tremendous shift in U.S. abortion, reproductive, and effectively general healthcare since the Dobbs decision in 2022, and Texas specifically has enacted some of the strictest and most vindictive state laws and policies, all of which would and should weigh heavily on the minds of anyone affected by Apple's decision here. Raising that point is absolutely on-topic in this discussion.

I'll allow that the "Thanks, Apple" wasn't strictly necessary, but even that seems within bounds given the circumstances and story.

If you'd like some guidelines here, I'd suggest that political considerations which impact on a story, particularly where those considerations have recently changed or are in flux (both of which apply here) should be permitted.

Totalitarian, repressive, and authoritarian governments and governance specifically operate on the very sort of generic, hot-button, emotionally-loaded issues and matters which HN typically eschews. Where those topics are not materially related to the story at hand I think that they can be reasonably admonished, particularly if the context and tone are inflammatory. In this case the consideration and its significance are material and relevant, even if Chron's own story omitted the consideration (a conspicuous omission itself).

HN's policy puts an extreme onus on those who call out repression, and is effectively a form of tone-policing. I've called this out in the past, and pointed out where you've acknowledged a comenter's stress in response, as here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372792>

As contrasted: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270026>, which bears repeating.

Your own insensitivity on this particular matter is truly disappointing.
I'd rather the black death bar be removed entirely.
> TCF seems to be closedly tied to Eclipse ecosystem. The Getting Started guide suggests several plugins for Eclipse as the main way to interact with tcf-agent. I tried installing these plugins on a new version of Eclipse and it is absolutely impossible. There are dependency issues everywhere and when you actually try to install the missing dependencies, Eclipse does not let you because they conflict with some other dependencies.

I laughed out loud at this part. Some things never changed I guess.
There's no function colouring in Go. Async functions don't have any special colour.
Kudos for taking that on!
> Telling people that you're Christian (in a context where it's not important to do so) strongly signals a desire for social prominence, which is itself usually a bad sign.

This happens just about everywhere, including right here on HN.
> App Store forbids third-party browser engines

Mozilla is justified in challenging it, but I don't know if they want to go pulling that thread.

Safari's monopoly on iOS devices is the only reason a sizable number of developers care about non-Chrome support. Currently, they have to. If the message to users becomes "broken feature is not broken on Chrome" we're on the road to monopolyville. And then Google really doesn't need consensus when it creates new web standards.

The status quo is all sorts of messed up, but it could be worse. Hopefully I'm wrong about this.
Venice Is Drowning: Engineering Expert Explains How to Save It [video]
Walmart tried solar on their warehouse but they had too many fires, thanks to Tesla...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=walmart+solar+fires&t=fpas&iar=new...
A while ago I was a little into controller hardware hacking and did almost the same thing but for an MSX! Even wrote a blog entry, but unfortunately in Japanese (with pictures though):
https://blog.qiqitori.com/2022/09/%E6%9D%90%E6%96%99%E8%B2%B...

And one year later I also used a Raspberry Pi Pico to convert a USB controller's signals to MSX: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/09/using-a-usb-hid-game-contr...

(And later, USB controller to Nintendo Switch, https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/09/playing-on-the-nintendo-sw...)
I also thing the marketing release contradicts the terms of the cleared status by the FDA. The FDA specifically says this is not for screening or diagnosis. So essentially what does this device actually help with? A physician needs to be suspecting something abnormal with a lesion before using. If it is "negative" would a physician really want to trust a device in the off chance it misses a melanoma? If I were a family doctor and was suspicious of a lesion enough to use this device, wouldn't it make more sense to send to derm or just go ahead an biopsy?
ML techniques based on cameras alone are reportedly beating dermatologists at identifying malignant melanomas. One study from 2019 (already ancient history in this field): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31401469/
A hover alt-text would also be a neat and clean option.
It's interesting to read through these chronologically.

Thank you very much for compiling this list!
Love that I’d never previously noticed it. It’s a nice subtle gesture by HN, rather than an overly overt one.
I also feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

> "Global climate change will have far reaching impacts and change ecosystems across the world!"

> "Yeah, but solar panels will impact the ecosystem of this local desert so no."

> "You realize the local desert is also part of the global ecosystem will be impacted by climate change right? Right?..."
I get calls for jobs that would increase my TC by 100k, jobs I’m confident I could land, and I won’t interview for any of them. That’s how much WFH means to me.
They shouldn't have put it on the building, but rather constructed large shaded areas over parking. It would have helped to reduce the urban heat island effect that you get form miles and miles of pavement.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot... but almost in reverse
> At this point, there is no conceivable extinction level event humanity couldn't avoid or avert

Um, how would humanity deal with a supernova going off within a few light years? I am still not convinced it will deal with climate change until billions die.
And _that_ will replace software engineers?
I would like to see this, and I would like the link text to always be the name of the person so honored, and nothing else. Horizontally centered, for preference, because nothing else nearby is.

These are names that should be known. If someone learn nothing else from a tradition here of doing them honor, then let him at least learn the names themselves. Everything else can follow from that, or I think would be wasted anyway.
I'm playing a lot with MicroCeph. Its aopinionated low TOS, friendly setup of Ceph. Looking forward additional comments. Planning to use it in production and replace lots of NAS servers.
Go doesn't have function coloring. Greenlet, Lua, and libco solve the problem without function coloring by adding a stack-switching primitive. Zig solves the problem without forcing function coloring on all consumers of functions by having the compiler monomorphize functions based on whether they end up being able to suspend.
Why go to an icky desert to see sand dunes when you can go to the beautiful great lakes and also see sand dunes!

https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/discover-amazing-...
Well, I just can't imagine how constant scrutiny and involvement would help what is ultimately a management and expectations failure. "We hired x to concentrate for long periods of time and improve our test coverage, but they're not so good at checking their email and responding to customers within 15 minutes, guess I'll need to start calling them frequently so they get better at that".

Seems like poorly considered delegation, or a system problem. Good managers should be able to identify or discover through conversation if someone will benefit from more specific and frequent interaction, and bad ones decide it'll be a good choice and work backwards from that.

In other cases, or if established up-front, one should expect a certain range of regular capabilities be within some agreed upon parameters; you probably wouldn't ask your system administrator to get on the sales floor, but you might ask your sales people to be able to work the cash register and lock the doors.
The Final Nail in Psychiatry's Antidepressant Coffin
'Filterworld' explores how social media algorithms 'flatten' our culture
If people stop watching a channel, even if they're subscribed, unless they have all notifications enabled for the channel, YouTube will just stop recommending it to them and notifying them about new uploads. This isn't a conspiracy; it makes a lot of sense for a recommendations engine, and it more accurately models a pattern that repeats itself time and time again: person gets big off of something popular, that something falls off a cliff, and unless they pivot and their audience pivots with them, they also fall off a cliff as their audience gets bored and stops coming back. Why should YouTube keep prioritizing and recommending videos to the people that no longer watch them?

IMO, YouTube has done a much better job recommending content from small channels the past couple years, and has introduced me to some great creators I would otherwise never have known about. Perhaps part of the recommendations have come at the expense of "channels you used to watch and maybe still would if they actually put out something fresh for a change," and there certainly is a conversation to be had there about the lack of transparency from YouTube whenever they change the algorithm, but as to which is better (subscriptions vs. small channels tangentially related to your viewing habits) is a matter of personal preference.
Kyle Chayka: "What I worry about is the passivity of consumption that we've been pushed into, the ways that we're encouraged not to think about the culture we're consuming, to not go deeper and not follow our own inclinations."
> It’s weird because you chose wording that isn’t entirely correct

My wording was entirely correct.

> and also chose to ignore that whether a lawyer is present or not, you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself

Irrelevant to the point I was making, which was specifically about how our right to counsel differs from the US.
Japan does not have the same house affordability problem. Houses and rent are low compared to most 1st world countries (not including the «luxury» accommodation).

Japanese houses are pulled down and rebuilt from scratch every 20-30 years, and concrete buildings last 40-50 years before being torn down, which provides a deterrent from the housing being used as a nest egg. Then there are also cultural nuances where the Japanese people prefer new over old, hence holding on to an old house is uncommon. Property inheritance taxes are also substantial or sky high and make it unpallatable for most people to financially commit to a house long term to pass it on to an family member.
I wouldnt have believed what happened to me until it happened.

If you are not familiar with narcissistic abuse, they approach pretending to be someone they are not. They pretend to be your mirror, study you, use your language, mirror you.

Then they begin abusing you, it triggers something called a "Trauma Bond."

I had never experienced or even heard of this before. I could not stop thinking about her.

It is extremely addictive and sinister. The only solution was to get away to break the trauma bond.

These are things you simply cannot understand if you have never experienced it. I am a different person now, I never knew that something like this could happen.
There are quite a bit of limitations, though I haven't looked in much detail besides the quick/casual try to see if they work for some of the works done in ActionScript 3.

I tried running an MMS creator/generator, built for the teams at Nokia (2004-ish, I think), and it didn't work beyond the initial interface. I also tried a K6 science lesson builder app done for teachers backed by Pearson Publishing -- it worked to the extent of some interactivity, but the audio sync, etc, was not. So, I gave up.

I might be missing something, or some setup but I'm not too keen on it, anyways.
They link to a video[0] showing it was the OG RasPi in 2014
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Str9MnQapQ4?si=3dkT8IlF_B7VN0H...
What would happen to an uncoated pi? Would the whole pi have to be coated? I just realized I know very little about that part of electronics.
At least we agree on what is happening.
Works great, depending on what you want to do. Running on SBCs or computers with cheap sata cards will greatly reduce the performance. It's been running well for years after I found out the issues regarding SMR drives and the SATA card bottlenecks.

45Drives has a homelab setup if you're looking for a canned solution.
Depends. If the breadcrumbs are key material which correlates to other known incidents from the same group, or exclusive tooling, or C2 infrastructure, then there is definitely something stopping them from putting breadcrumbs there. They'd have to hack the other group first in order to do so.

I agree with you that seeing evidence would be nice, but I understand that there is the possibility that evidence supporting the claim exists and at the same time cannot be released to the public.
There are a number of conformal coatings that can be used to keep a circuit board dry at fish tank pressures. Parylene is my favorite as it isn't too harsh on the board materials and coats even underneath the surface mount components. Doesn't usually stick to the board though so it's more of a perfectly sealed bag around the board. It's good for basically forever.

If you unplug the connectors you rip a hole in the "bag" though and the connectors will corrode. The way around that is to use expensive hermetically sealed connectors that are designed to operate underwater. Each side of those will cost a few hundred USD for boring round connectors. I have never tried to run e.g. HDMI through a bulkhead but such a connector would probably be impressively expensive.

Anyway the best thing about Parylene is you have to send your equipment out to have it applied, no do it yourself here. The spray on coatings are usually sticky, messy, and not that great overall in comparison.
So they're lying and completely to blame, right?
The mail itself https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b98b29cf-27d9-49e0-b10b-1848399...
https://expatcircle.com/cms/travel/find-and-book-flights/
If the live and neutral cables of your electricity supply are seperate and accessible, you can buy a meter that measures power use with a clamp (loop) that fits around the live cable. Perfectly safe, they were often given away by electric companies in Britain in the 2010s to encourage thriftiness.

Here's a zigbee one: https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/tuya-zigbee-single-clamp-...

Here's one with an app: https://aeotec.com/products/aeotec-home-energy-meter/

You'll find many more if you search "clamp energy meter".
I thought so to but, apparently, it was just bad timing: layoffs happening in the slowest period of the year. I'm noticing things are picking up again (at least for senior positions).
Yes, but COVID and social media has put them on STEROIDS.
Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]
I don't know how it works for First Nations bands, but from my perspective as a long-time church volunteer, we're often expected to make use of our personal resources for our volunteer roles. We pay out of pocket for supplies and stuff, we're driving personal cars, there's not a lot of guidance about how to structure our email or other online accounts. The church is certainly never going to give us a church-owned computer to do stuff on, or a church credit card to rack up expenses. We may get reimbursed, or we may be out of pocket as a "donation" to support these ministries.

It's one of the most difficult things about being a church volunteer, for me. I finally got wise on the account front, and I've created accounts which are totally separate and dedicated to doing only church volunteer activities, so that it's not mixed in with my personal activity or data. And in terms of USB thumb drives or something, I can purchase separate ones. But when it comes down to capital expenses and such, we seldom have a choice but to mingle our personal lives with those volunteer roles.
If they are open with it, that is definitely not narcissism I agree.

If they hide it, plus express all the other dark triad traits (sadistic / malignant behavior) I agree its different.
On Leibniz Notation
Any thermal impact after the coating?!