skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason none of these measures are very effective has little to do with the method.

Most of the time if a pet goes missing, it's dead by the time such measures are taken or very soon after.

Taking measures to avoid the disappearance in the first place can be more effective.

If you have a cat that goes outside, making sure it's neutered massively decreases the areas they cover and risk of run-ins with other cats or predators. Having a cat flap is a huge help because the cat won't get stuck outside and go looking for shelter. Avoid collars because they get stuck on branches(even the ones that are designed to come undone easily can)

And for fuck sake, the number of people who don't realise their short haired cats can't handle winter conditions... I see a lot of missing notices for shorthairs in the winter. Often with days or even weeks since they disappeared. All dead, almost guaranteed. And this goes for longhairs too, if less so.

I have a Norwegian forest cat, who is better suited for cold weather even than most longhairs, and he barely goes outside at temps below -10C, and only very briefly. Longhairs still easily get frostbite on their ears, nose, and paws at those temps. If you're letting your cat outside at all in these conditions, you better have a flap or otherwise let them in immediately when they ask for it. Yes, even when you just let them out 5 minutes ago.
Its nice to see Disney doing something other than destroying the movies, cartoons, and comics I loved as a kid.
It's always weirded me out how many ostensibly Christian households teach their children about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, etc, and let the kids think they are real. Do they not realize they are sewing the first seeds of doubt the children will have in their household religion?
You can switch vendors any time (e.g. to Samsung, LG, Google, or any other Android/Microsoft variants). That's not the same as governments - that feedback loop is way longer. Especially with something as sprawling as the European Commission.

Given the size of Facebook's userbase and its revenue growth over many years, most people don't care about the tracking that goes on there.
i have never understood the possible motivations for developing and launching VN probes. if anyone would like to explain here, i'd be interested.
> I'm not business illiterate.

Then why are you saying they should do something that, if you're not business illiterate, you know they can't do at scale?

> They know they ban a ton of users erroneously.

Yes. And they also know...

> They should have an appeals process for this.

...that anything like this that involves humans will not scale. That's why they don't do it: because they can't and still operate at scale.

> banned users should be able to export their data.

Which, again, they cannot support at scale.

Again, the only way this could ever be fixed would be for Meta and Google (and others) to abandon the ad-supported business model. But the only way that will ever happen is if they lose enough users to get their attention. In other words, stop feeding the monster. Complaining that the monster is bad and is doing bad things is pointless now.

> Impossible to get back.

Which, unfortunately, is why you shouldn't depend on them to store such data in the first place.
But use transport daily. Ironically, at least in the typical North American city, you can’t do anything without a machine to take you over long distances.

In the rural area, you maybe travel once a week to stock up but otherwise don’t need transportation at all.
That removes the binary-to-decimal conversion of the result, which easily could take a significant fraction of running time when using a smart compiler.
Deep fake porn is now an alarming issue we need to act on? Why? Because Taylor Swift? Welcome to the 21st century.

What's next? Will he discover identity theft and block chain scams are a problem or will we need to wait until Swift is a victim there too?
Very cool!

I thought the same thing when I started my consulting company 10 years ago. It'd called Nerdian Inc (My name is Ian). My website and brand name is simply my name: www.iancollmceachern.com
Or be "handled" with proper good old lobbying?
You meant "That number feels too low"
Satphones are illegal or heavily restricted in a lot of the places where spies might want to operate.

https://www.outfittersatellite.com/Countries-with-Satellite-...
Developers are already dropping support for macos, at least game devs are after making a big deal of starting to support macs 15 years ago. Too bad considering how powerful the hardware is finally on these macs.
You’re able to capture a whole world of proximity relations through echolocation.
Oh no, how will Meta ever survive.

Their revenue last year was way over 100 BILLION. Paying 70M a year is a rounding error.
Going for broad strokes here, but Western philosophy and religions are mostly searching for an “objective” God, as it were, as something that must be proven. And while the early Christian cult had gnosticism and other strands, those mostly got snuffed out as it became more of an established religion and part of the power balance.

The current day image and majority of the history of Christianity has always been problematic to me, as in “believe or be guilty”, with little grey or choice. When I went to a service a few years ago to a fairly mainstream easygoing church here, this guilt was still pretty much core of the teaching. That to me pretty much qualifies as “either-or” and all but inclusive.

Instead in some Eastern philosophies (the yoga school and Daoism, probably others) focus on the subjective experience. In the yoga school for instance it allows us to connect to mind, our purusha (soul like quality) and find other teachings and qualities within ourselves. Something that Alan Watts also emphasized in his book “Wisdom of Insecurity”

Current day spirituality is broad and commercialized and has its own problems due to poor teachers who start with barely 200h of study, which is not conducive or effective on the whole.
Driving aggressively occasionally causes others to slam on the brakes to avoid accidents, which creates standing waves also known as traffic jams. So speeding at least slows everyone else down.
Not driving at all is infite speed to your destination?
It's amazing how "shareholders" is now an effective reason to flout regulation and perform malicious compliance. It's almost too perfect in passing around the blame.

Apple does something shitty, they had to because they owe it to the shareholders. The shareholders are protected by the fiduciary protection allotted to their gamble so the company is in no way responsible for having an ethical or socially beneficial business model.

Corporate interests have us all by the balls.
Using AI and LLMs in docs-as-code pipelines [video]
> there is a 1.2 trillion dollar corporate real estate debt bubble caused by speculative investing during COVID that absolutely cannot be allowed to crash in 2024

Total BS.

Total.bs.

Forcing people back to the office won’t make bad investments good. The bank bailouts of 2008/9 are still fresh enough wounds that another one is not on the table. Inflation finally going down also underlines that point. No money printing is on the table either.

The bubble will pop and the investors will lose their money and the stone will continue to roll.
Whenever I think of MS Teams, I'm reminded of Paul Virilio's research on dromology ("speed as a weapon") and how the inhibition of speed (productivity in this case) can be a weapon too, whether intended as such or not.
i’ve often wondered if mandelbrot is what you get when you do a simple quadratic iterator in complex numbers, what are the comparable sets for quaternions and octonions??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_availability_anti-sp...

> allows satellite authentication,

and

> May 1, 2000 it was announced that SA was being discontinued, along with a United States Presidential Directive that no future GPS programs will include it.

How viable is Starlink as location service, now?
The bicycle machine emits nothing and can be used pretty easily in cities.
I think society converges to you last proposal: People get local co-working spaces.

That is also for the employees advantage. Your social circles are not bound to your employment anymore and will outlive new jobs.

However, this will also commoditise jobs even more as the main thing you need to change is the Zoom like you login to work weekly meetings, which is to a detriment for the employer.
All Apple Deserves from the Press is polemics.
> My biggest problem with the RTO argument is that it's not quantitative.

I have never seen any reasonable examples of what could be "quantified" here though. To be clear, leaders at big tech companies are not so worried about "number of tickets closed in office vs. remote" or some such related easily quantifiable metric. And the jobs that are easily quantifiable are the ones that leaders are least worried about doing remotely (both up and down the spectrum, from call center workers who can be measured on number of calls, to diagnostic radiologists who can be measured in RVUs).

Corporate leaders, especially in tech, are largely worried about a slow deterioration/decline in innovation, general employee dedication (i.e. employees feeling less connected to their job), and overall quality. Those things are extremely difficult if not impossible to measure, especially since they can take years to pan out. I'm certainly open to hearing counterpoints, but I haven't heard any yet that sound believable to me.
Wouldn't batteries used in a home power backup situation be rarely cycling? (unless you completely go off grid as the earlier poster was suggesting)
I’m mobile iOS developer and have been for several years. The different pain points with iOS development (documentation, Apple) and how Apple is behaving right now, is so disgusting that I want to change focus to anything else than Apple development.
I found the same thing when researching motorcycle fatality rates. Yes, they are dangerous, but something like 50% of fatalities involved a drunk motorcycle rider. I don't recall the stats for not wearing gear.
Pollution caused by a factory is an (almost certainly) unaccounted-for externality, a market failure hidden from the consumer of a good but known to the producer. Pinning the blame on the consumer removes it from the agent who is both directly causing it and actually able to effect change.
for me the browser version worked fine on all os, nothing fancy,but get the job done
"Climate sensitivity to CO2 possibly higher than assumed" by Sabine Hossenfelder [video]
It wasn't completely out. We were using it all day yesterday for video and.phone conferences without issue. Chats were slow and image loading was hit or miss.
Elm claims the same thing as justification for its lack of updates

https://iselmdead.info/

But that usually doesn't go over very well
The meaning of ^ and $ in perl regexes can be altered by modifiers at the end of the regex. A 'multi-line' regex, with a /m at the end, makes them match the start and end of any line.
I worked in that very lab, side by side with Lanny Smoot for four years straight.

The man is 100% passion and 110% invention.
Good. They should make things that aren’t restricted to a single platform.
Sure, but that's not the case with Apple. There are a number of smartphone manufacturers (even 'Android' isn't one category - there are many variants) and there aren't many laws preventing new entries into the market that can be sustained by potentially happy customers.

It's not like governments (which also have a monopoly on legal violence, something no corporation has) or political parties at all.
> The only way out of this ever-deepening quagmire is to forbid this business model

I'm not sure this would actually fix the problem. The existing Big Social companies are so committed to this business model that I don't think they are capable of switching. I think some other company (that doesn't exist now) would have to figure out how to run the all-users-are-paying-customers business model at scale for things like search and social media. But who would run such a company? The company that was in the best position to do this, twenty or so years ago, was...Google. They had the tech resources, and they had the "Don't be evil" motto, which back then they were actually making some effort to live up to. And yet nobody there tried to get this done. Who is going to do it now?
A monopoly would be cheaper in a perfect world with no corruption, and no profit motive/incentive. Competition seems to be the only way in our current capitalist society to reduce the prices consumers pay.
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Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
Returning to Python full-stack development after a stint with Node, it seems like using async/await is not widely adopted enough in the Python ecosystem to actually use?

In no particular order

- Django doesn’t have an async ORM? (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/async/)

- Django Rest Framework has no async support? https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7260

- SQLModel’s section on async support basically says “docs coming soon”? Yet this is designed to be used with FastAPI? Why would the docs not start with async/await? https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/advanced/

- SqlAlchemy/asyncpg => you can’t use it if you’re using PgBouncer (necessary most of the time with Postgres) in transaction mode? What?? https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/issues/1058

- Ubiquitous “requests” library used in most docs examples, no async support https://github.com/psf/requests

- Top package for GitHub REST API, no async support https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub

- …on and on…

What’s the point of my nice FastAPI server if nothing internally can use async/await? How is everyone else doing this?

/rant
This is a nonsense take; look at historical scripts like uncial or Carolingian miniscule, which were written with quills and definitely involve lifting the pen, often multiple times per letter.
It is fitting that Siddharta left his wife and infant for his own spiritual quest, though.
This seems like just the sort of thing you would say if you were trying to hide something and discredit the whistleblowers. It could also be the truth. Or something in between. But there isn't any particular reason to trust him.
This is neat and all, but it seems to be yet another attempt to solve the (to me less-interesting) problem of how to have people use their feet as input for navigation in VR, while keeping them stationary; rather than an attempt at actually creating any high-fidelity sensation of moving through space in VR, according to your own human "internal accelerometer". (I.e. the sense you have that combines inputs from your inner ear, wind against your skin, interoception as g-forces smush your organs around, etc.)

I presume that doing the latter would necessarily involve allowing you to actually move away from center within a bounded space — and then subtly re-centering you whenever you're not moving.

Has any company ever put effort into developing a VR floor technology that works more like that? One that allows you to actually feel like you're moving?

I bring this up, because it seems like the technology on display here could actually be made to do something akin to this, with a few more tweaks:

1. build a large room covered in this surface;

2. configure the surface to not actively slide you around while you're moving, but instead, to only begin "re-centering" you when you stay still (or when you are walking slowly enough that your "internal accelerometer" isn't receiving much input anyway);

3a. design the VR experiences consumed through such a platform, so that you'd mostly only have reason to walk, with "free-roam" areas where running would make sense only lasting a few seconds at a time, broken up with dialogue / interactions / etc. to give the floor time to re-center you.

3b. Or, if these are VR games, then as another option, use a stamina system in the game that depletes as you run in real life (bonus if your character's stamina drains exponentially the further you get from the center of the floor); and have the player wear a force-feedback resistance system (i.e. a TENS unit on their legs) that effectively cripples you physically from doing any more running, for as long as your character is out of stamina. (Verisimilitude!)

4. Either way, you probably still need a fallback if you manage to get near the edge of the room somehow. Like if you're completely ignoring what's happening on-screen and just running in a scene where your character is supposed to be stationary + talking to someone. So have the floor actively re-center you, like is shown here, only when you get near the edge — and hyperbolically, with more force as you get closer to the edge.

5. Some impetuous people will run full-tilt just to see if they can overcome the floor. So make sure to pad the walls. :)

That being said, while I think that kind of set-up might work... the real trouble with it is that a passive system doesn't prevent people from bumping into one-another. Which is fine if players' real-world positions are meant to correlate 1:1 with their in-game positions (or if, like in the demo video, there's no true per-individual "VR", just a shared wraparound screen in the room.) But it probably means that for true "immersive VR worlds" (i.e. a hypothetical VRMMO), you'd need one huge room per player. And that's a bit impractical, price- and space-wise!
> per-capita emissions were revealed to me to be a trick that corporations have played

As opposed to individually moving to a rural area "since it’s better for the environment?"

To be fair, for Zaphod Beeblebrox "per capita" doesn't mean "individually," but . . .
It's hard to compare the risks of personal vehicles and door to door trips with the risks of rails and planes and maybe even city busses.

I'm pretty sure door to door personal planes would be a lot more risky than door to door personal cars.

As a cyclist, I've personally been injured by rail infrastructure and never by cars. So I'm more worried about street car projects with rails in the road than I am about cars. (Although, I certainly check for unexpected cars more than I check for unexpected rails.)
It's a lot easier to worry about sulfur dioxide and NOx producing rain compared to worrying about global carbon emissions. Climate Change seems best dealt with at a local level, with the cause of the problem being pollution.
> For some people's threat models that isn't good enough, but for the vast majority of people—people who aren't being pursued by state intelligence agencies but who are squeamish about how much data a company like Google collects—a pinky promise from Brave or Mullvad is good enough.

Who are you to say it's good enough (and ridicule people who disagree)? We don't have too much evidence of it, because they have very few options and of course most people are not informed and lack the expertise to understand the issues (a good situation for regulation). At one point lots of people used lead paint and were fine with it; they would have told us.

> Yes, at some point if you're going to interface with other humans you will eventually just have to trust their word.

There's technology, such as the authorization tokens used by Brave, that reduces that risk. Of course, no risk can be complete eliminated but that doesn't mean we shouldn't reduce it.
There's depth in the Christian community (as there's always been, of course). I think you're right that a fundamental driver of conversion is people looking for a home, but a running problem for the church today, and especially for many of the more evangelical varieties, is the tail wagging the dog, so to speak - the parishioners pushing the priests, as opposed to the priest guiding the parish. There are churches who provide welcome homes for people and who build their communities towards love and support of their fellow people, but there are also plenty churches who see themselves as the armies of the culture war, and whose members indeed joined because that appealed to them.

Incidentally, re: "modern spirituality feels hollow" - there was a good article in the Atlantic* recently arguing that the fundamental problem for the modern church isn't that it asks too much of its members, but that it asks too little - that by not requiring its members to actually demonstrate their beliefs, it robs those beliefs of any tangibility and makes the whole exercise hollow.

I'm not a Christian, but I do think there was something lost in the country when we discarded the church as a common moral frame - the only other shared philosophical framework we have is the market, and whatever the limits of the church, the morals of the market seem to be making for a much colder society.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/christian-...
Inclusivity and universalism is largely a legacy of Greek thought, and it’s relevance or non-relevance to the new movement of Christianity was an important topic in the first few centuries after Christ.
In my own personal experience, having cooked with both, I prefer lump charcoal lit with a chimney. I've never found rocks, metal, nylon rope, or PVC left behind in my Weber.

But well, that's just like, my opinion, man. The article opens with this disclaimer: "One has to be careful about generalizations here because each brand is different."

I have indeed not cooked with all brands of briquets nor all brands of lump charcoal, so same disclaimer applies to my opinion.
While some banking apps do this, I wouldn't call it common. I have ~10 bank/brokerage apps on my GrapheneOS device and they all work just fine.
> I cant control how people react to that so :shrug:

No, but you should be aware of how you come across so that people don't dismiss the substance of what you are trying to say because of the form in which you say it.
Ur the city was also built on antecedent cities and cultures. And what programming language isn't built on an antecedent language?
If the battery is being used to address the duck curve, it cycles approximately every day.
I think your comparison with Greek gods is unfair.

I would say Descartes is a better parallel. In fact it is just a recasting of his ideas.

It is not science, but it is perfectly respectable philosophy.
You're right that excluding "eval {" is not necessary because it only occurs in the already excluded subset, but that search link is missing a lot of matches since the space character in my pattern has turned into a plus sign in yours. Try this: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context%3Aglobal+repo%3A%5E...

There are also some cases (excluded in this search) where a charset parameter is passed around and eventually passed to eval in the LoadCharset function, e.g. from the RTF parser through the Recompose method. Not sure if that's always safe.
I didn't buy it new but I use my 1972 Fender Rhodes electric piano daily.
Slow roads – endless driving Zen in the browser
I'm not going to cryptographically sign my Git commits, and you shouldn't either
Yes, but space is still vast. The chance of one hitting earth is infinitesimal. Also, "they are free" isn't strictly true. Where do they get the resources to reproduce? Using unbounded exponential math implies a sort of paperclip maximizer that would eat up everything in its path.
That certainly will happen. It's part of the "despite whatever setbacks, attacks, and sabotage occur from within and without" aspect. Israelis need to be able to turn the other cheek in order to break the cycle of violence.

I realize that this goes against human nature and may be impossible.
I'm out of the loop. What happened?
And to pick up the other point, the "contest" was not about #2, the general well-being of people everywhere. They're businesses.
Curiosity. Scientific exploration. Detection. Defense. Finding a new home. Meeting the neighbors.

We're already sending probes to Mars, so I imagine we would send VN probes if we had them, so it doesn't seem like much of a stretch.