skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the concept and application is awesome.

However I am not sure I would like hardware implanted into my brain if that hardware is produced by an entity that has serious trust issues behind it.

Presumably this stuff will likely not be open sourced and with wireless communications as being an aspect tied to its use how is one supposed to be reasonably assured that this stuff is unhackable within a reasonable manner?

Additionally there's a lot of ethical concerns that come from the research done by Nauralink in particular. If they're this cavalier with their research practices how good are they going to be at guaranteeing to customers this isn't going to lead to horrible diseases or others issues related to their implementation?
I often need legal support for things (CFAA threat every few years and litigation for FOIA work), and this list matches my experiences. A lot of the work is just building a relationship with an attorney or firm you can trust.
Rent seeking is right. Farmers shouldn't be subjected to landlord economics via their equipment. That is, equipment cost shouldn't scale simply to eat farming profit (as rent costs quickly rise to eat rising incomes).

I'd want to see the numbers on exaclty how much supposed always-up farming equipment saves in crop production, compared to farmers that don't use it.

In fact, I know for certain that the most productive farmland in the US, per area unit, is least likely to use motorized equipment of any kind. And when they do it isn't equipment on par with John Deere.
This isn't a surprise, is it? It's not illegal, and this is the NSA we're talking about. The people who hacked domestic corporations for chuckles. If it's not illegal, and it's surveillance related, they're doing it.

Wyden's demand that companies stop selling our data "without consent" is political bullshit. It just means the companies have to stuff a "you consent to X" in their ToS. Which nobody reads, so nobody will push back on. Business as usual.
If you're using DNSSEC-validating resolver servers (many of the popular ones are), then presumably all the signed names in .RU fell off the Internet completely, as if they never existed, for the duration of the outage.
Not only is it possible but it's very often the case in my experience. A manager without any remote experience is going to have a hard time managing a remote organization or team.
Incredible how complicated people can make a simple list or relations structure.

It feels like a complicated data exchange system, way beyond the task of "task management". How does it improve my life beyond a tasks list in my favorite notes app, `Taiga`/`Jira`?
It doesn't even have to be random, just wrong. And much like running from a bear, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy.

You don't have to be perfect, just more effort than it's worth.
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I can think of a few examples that often pose challenges for less experienced Devs, some of whom don't overcome these challenges, whether due to lack of motivation, capacity, or any other reason:

- Handle DateTime in different timezones consistently, according to the expectations of each customer and their geography.

- Proper use of caching, basic search algorithms and data structures.

- Thread synchronization / race condition.

- Anything that requires recursion.

- Database and query tunning.
Apparently not in modern management. So much easier to just spend all day in do-nothing meetings and cargo cult whatever Apple, Spotify, or Google do.
Turning ublock origin off and refreshing the page solved it for me.
Even acknowledging receipt gives them a lot of power.

Remember that they probably have a list of hundreds or thousands of C&D's to send, and if you don't respond they would probably need to file a john doe lawsuit to get your identity from your ISP, and it's unlikely that all that effort is worth it to them.
My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I know Deere has a different and easier problem set to address. However, auto-steer and similar tech have been working well on tractors for a long time.
This is Steven Pinker's call for reducing discrimination in admissions. It's paired with an essay from the other side, here: https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedo...

Which is incredibly weak and acts like Harvard is at risk despite its 40b tax-free, hedge-fund-secrets powered ever-growing endowment.
Good ole Perkins Coie.
While that might be true the costs of going up there are so high that there won't be 10 companies who get a crack at it.

Besides, the radar isn't the only instrument on the rover. There aren't many companies/groups in the world who have the know-how and financial means to do what NASA does here.
> Is not disposable income what's left over after you pay your mandatory expenses, like housing?

No, it’s what’s left after taxes, before any actual spending on things like housing occurs.

> Gross disposable household income is the amount of money that individuals in the household sector can spend or save after income distribution measures.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/regionalaccounts/grossdisposa...
Is it that EMR is bad or is it market capture. About the only company I hear about doing EMR/EHR is EPIC. My wife is a nurse, and in all the places she has worked it is EPIC. Every doctors office I've been to, its EPIC. It seems like EPIC pretty much owns most of the market, so there isn't any competition to really encourage EPIC to be better and there is no will for medical systems most of the time to choose an alternative to EPIC.
A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide
Gift cards are extensively used for money laundering and fraud. A quick search turns up endless articles and reports going back a decade or more.

I give and receive gift cards often enough, and no, no one is going to bat an eye if you're occasionally buying something with a gift card. If that's the primary way you interact with the financial system, I'm going to assume you're involved in some kind of crime and I've got a good chance at being right in that assumption.
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Hopefully we can finally put all this racism and sexism behind us once and for all.
1 hour lunch is excessive now? Americans, I swear
Profiling your Numba code
Why not post the solution here in this thread? If you're going to write it out in an email anyways...
Contracts are usually on the order of 10 years.
Then have a plan B.
Growing wheat on your own land for your own use all within one state is regulated as interstate commerce because you didn't buy wheat produced in another state.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/317us111

The explanation is: "Congress may use its Commerce Power to regulate or prohibit activities provided the economic effects of such activities are substantial."

Note that "substantial" is not wrt what an individual does but "what if everyone did that?"
Actually, funding every employee to buy a really kick ass ergonomic chair for home office is use is probably dollar for dollar one of the best benefits most companies could offer, and may even make financial sense - less missed days for surgeries, happier healthier employees, etc.
Pyodide examples using urllib3 in browser still requires using fetch, so this still requires javascript.

What does this practically mean?

Does this ever point to a future where we can use urlib3 instead of fetch?
Really shameful that they lock away standards under such high prices that people have to go to such lengths to not buy them, with potential results like this. If it's a standard it should be available. It maybe made sense to charge a printing fee back when they were only available as books but I can't believe a crappy pdf was $200.
I went around Oregon in 2008 and it seemed every beer bar (like brewery taps and specifically beer themed, not just a regular bar) had a single beer engine, usually with some local real ale on it.

I've seen a few in NYC, usually Williamsburgy areas. Beer festivals might have a cask or two as well.

Otherwise I've very rarely seen it in the US.
Housing isn't mandatory - the government doesn't put you in jail if you don't pay it; you just get evicted. Disposable income is basically just income minus required taxes.
So far I think I've had one false positive for the word 'but', and tens of true positives. My theory is that the one thing clickbait video makers are not is creative.

To allow for false positives I've stolen an idea from HN and simply made the videos hard to see.

The current iteration of the filter looks something like:

www.youtube.com###video-title-link:has-text(/^you won\'t|^you will not| but | except |^when the|reacts to|^when you|wait for it|^\d+ (\w+y|amazing|strange|best)/i):upward(.ytd-rich-item-renderer.style-scope):not(:hover):style(opacity:0.1)

I haven't gone through all possible ways that youtube pushes videos at you, so I may have missed a couple.
Sigh. Please don't call the Elastic license "open source". It's nice that the source is available, but this is not an open source license.

EDIT: per responses, it looks like this is outdated information and the project now uses AGPL!
Ah, you can set a Google alert for "AI" and limit it to only HN articles:

- https://alerts.google.com

- query: `ai site:news.ycombinator.com`

- Sources: web
I called Toyota dealer service center near me. Gave them my VIN and they said I already had my airbags replaced years ago. I have a 2004 Toyota Matrix. So there's nothing new? Maybe catching the last remaining ones that did not get serviced?
Medical records are typically stored electronically so that, for example, doctors can refer back to your medical history (as can you). I'm not sure why COVID results would be unique in not being stored--and, in fact, seem like something that would be less sensitive than a lot of stored data.
Each key will produce a different sound even if it's just a touch screen surface keyboard due to being in different positions on the surface and having a relative position to the microphone - it may be more difficult and require a higher quality microphone.

Once you isolate and cluster all the key sounds you end up with a simple substitution cipher that you can crack in seconds.
I think that only blocks them from recommendations, not search results.
To me nutrition feels so complicated these days in that pretty much everything that you could think to eat has a bunch of detractors claiming there's reasons why it's unhealthy. I found a video recently listing something like 6 reasons why oatmeal is unhealthy.

With that said, for the last few years I've found a few things that work for me that I've incorporated into my routine. In the morning I'll eat a naval orange and drink green/black tea with a bit of honey and cream. Later I'll have some store bought guac and Costco Mary's crackers. Sometimes I'll have add some Kimchi, feta cheese, fresh vegetables, hummus. Costco frozen fruits are nice too for smoothies or just plain snacks.
I don't have data on this, but I've got a lot of friends who are trying to have kids right now and really struggling. How much of a declining birth rate is tied to disruptions in average human fertility?
> Most of the unfinished buildings will be completed in 2-5 years.

If not fallen down by then. The Tofu Dredge of Evergrand won't age in anyway for even other developers to acquire for completion.
Many of us aren’t in a position to change jobs willy nilly, the job market isn’t like that anymore.
Didn't China also issue a ruling that AI should conform to proper socialist values? I'm not sure how they are enforcing that though, Biden's executive order seems to have a lot more teeth (and even then, there is no standard yet, they just want information shared).
I'll take the article's word about the PIC12 devices, but there are plenty of chips from Atmel, NXP, and TI that match that form factor. Plus the whole universe of Chinese clones.

Just seemed like a rather large leap to assert based on pad pattern alone. /shrug. Whatever. Not really that important.
Ask HN: What if we didn't care about data breaches?
So many times I've seen headlines that claim N people's records have been exposed via X data breach.

This created a thought I've never really had before.

What if there was no consequences for gaining access to data?

Or put another way.

What if we didn't care about data breaches?

For the most part the only reason we care about data breaches is because identity and authenticity. If society found a more convenient way to address the concerns of identity and authenticity via means that can't be exposed by persisted data or need to be encrypted than there would be no consequences for data breaches.

I get this is like saying "what if money had no value"
But to that same point, think about the diffidence between printed bills vs a credit card. I guess this is a closer analogy to my thought. At the end of the day its the medium and that medium's application that is the problem in most cases.
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Every time fertility decline comes up I consistently see the same arguments about why fertility is declining: people are just not comfortable enough to want to have children. I just don’t buy this.

I have seen reasons like workspace discrimination, lack of parental leave, economic uncertainty and poverty in general used as reasons why young adults are not choosing to have children and it doesn’t quite make sense to me. Objectively along all those axis, societies have improved with time from the early 1900s and the birth rate keeps falling. Can someone help me understand why European countries keep trying to increase the comfort of their population expecting to increase birth rates? I understand social programs with payouts can be popular and perhaps paying to solve the problem is appealing to the population but I don’t see why we would expect those policies to actually increase fertility. I would understand if this was simply a case of government programs that people like even if they don’t achieve the desired outcome.

I think a much simpler microeconomic analysis explains the decline in fertility: opportunity cost. People in child-bearing age have too much other stuff with a larger expected payout than having children. For example, a lot of people might prefer to work hard to improve their socioeconomic situation or travel the word over raising children. Under this model, more government provided comfort won’t increase fertility because the vast amount of costs in child bearing comes from the opportunity cost. Even in a world without parental discrimination I would find it hard to argue that parents should automatically be promoted in their work but that may actually be the more significant cost. A parent may forgo promotion or other gains for parenting.

I am not sure what a better solution this problem is. We probably need to reframe childbearing in a different way through so that having children is not subject to this type of utilitarian analysis.
If you see that stuff, just ignore it and move on. I think their algorithm targets engagement and counts dislikes/blocks/reports as engagement as well.

I blocked one video like that and all of a sudden my recommendations that were tech and comedy centric started being prepper/anti-antifa/weaponry/pro-republican/Jordan Petersen/Ben Shapiro/Pro-trump general dog crap, and the more I blocked and reported the more it sent my way.

I cleaned my browser history and it kept coming.

I was losing my mind with frustration as it got so bad I had to explicitly go to my favorite channels just to see their videos.

Then, I deleted my youtube watch history and it stopped but reset all of my stuff to their generic front page. That was exasperating.
Yeah Gmail immediately came to mind for me. It feels natural tbh
I don't know what that has to do with this topic. Starfire (and similar) farm tractor guidance systems are not that. Zero farm tractors use military GPS.
> if the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments

Paging Brandon Lee...

No death is more indignified than getting killed by a safety feature.
Consider public IP addresses. Geolocation can link an IP address to a region as imprecise to a country to a more precise region such as a city. Combining rough location to a few other data points can greatly narrow down meatspace candidates for a particular account [1]:

> According to one landmark study, these three characteristics are enough to uniquely identify 87% of the U.S. population. A different study showed that 63% of the U.S. population can be uniquely identified from these three facts.

If you have a significant online presence, your gender or age might be revealed by the way other users address you on some website. If a website happens to collect gender or birthday, then the website might share/sell the info to data brokers.

If police manage to narrow down the location of a potentially incriminating online action to a household, then the police could physically show up with a warrant and ask about who was using which computer in the house at that time.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymo...
>> How long are commercial real estate contracts usually for?

It depends. Amazone has a 17 year lease on space in Manhattan. 3-10 years is pretty common.

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-inks-17-year-lease-4700...
Many workers face death if sent back to their cartel-run homes. It’s convenient leverage for exploitative business

I'm simply responding to "Immigrants, legal or illegal, can walk out of jobs that are bad enough.", not trying to make it a contest over degrees of slavery / indentured servitude
Average out-of-pocket cost for a broken bone is $2,500. Certainly not nothing, but kids don't break a bone every month or probably even every year, so it doesn't seem like too wild of a number in the long run.

You can extrapolate this further. Why would I allow my 15 year old to start driving? What if she gets into a car accident, and I have to... shudder... pay her medical bills? I think the potential monetary liabilities of your children's life experiences should not be the focus, or even something considered too much.

When I was in 4th grade, I knew a kid who fell off a playground, got a sharp pinecone seed behind his eye, and broke his back. He's healthy today, his back and eye are okay, and his family is doing fine financially. Breaking a bone won't destroy you physically or financially, but thinking that it will just makes the urge for safetyism stronger.
I think you'll get a different distribution of answers to this question from managers and ICs :)
> This drives me insane. For some searches, you're not going to find anything near what you're looking for if YouTube decides that their "personalized" search results will be better.

Yup. YouTube search is essentially entirely worthless. The purpose of the search bar isn't "show the user want they want to find," it's "show the user the videos that will make us the most money."

Amazon does the same thing, but with product search results.

For both of these, I never end up using the built-in search engine, I always go to an external search engine like DuckDuckGo or Bing. Which have their own problems of course, the least of which is that they generally only index YouTube, but there is no other decent alternative.

> especially when it actively decreased my engagement.

Agreed, but it's likely that you and I are in the tiny, tiny minority. Most of the people who use the YouTube search function are looking for entertainment, not content related to specific interests, tutorials, or information. See the top search queries for YouTube over the last year, basically ALL of them are to do with music, movies/tv, and video games: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?gprop=youtube
Before we sold our fintech SaaS startup in 2015, we received a C&D from Dealogic and I thought, wow, we've made it into the big leagues! My adrenaline wore off pretty quickly though, because after our attorney sent them a defiant letter warning their London law firm to not mess with a Texas LLC, we never heard from them again. We were flying below the radar, so we just surmised some Dealogic customer had showed a Dealogic sales rep our product, and they probably carpet bomb anytime they see anyone playing anywhere near their entrenched & wildly expensive product.
Oh yeah you're right. In fact I just remembered the sun is going to explode in 5 billion years so it's all pointless anyway.
Trading illegal drugs is illegal, but entire black markets still exist for that purpose. Monitoring illegal transactions that have no physical footprint (unlike drugs) is very difficult.
There's the part you mention, with the supposedly derogatory term of "breeders" applied to people who have the temerity to produce children.

There's also the dramatic cultural shift toward self-centeredness and self-fulfillment. "Follow your heart!" "Me time." "Self-care." In terms of caring for one's mental and physical health, this used to be framed such that you prepared yourself to be a useful and productive member of your family and society, not that you were doing it for yourself. The "follow your heart" nonsense emphasizes feeling over thinking, and seems to be aimed at much more, but also weighs in here.

Humans have been ruining the earth. But we need to raise better humans to fix it.
Yeah, the blood bank companies end up looking really evil in that. If you were a hemophiliac in the early 80s, you were playing Russian roulette constantly.
You can set a Google alert for "Lisp" and limit it to only HN posts:

- https://alerts.google.com

- query: `lisp site:news.ycombinator.com`

- Sources: web
But when it was activated it was clear that it was activated. Or was should that also be shown more clearly?
To me it says that working in an office+commute is much more draining than working at home. So much so that they work only the required amount. When they worked at home, they worked more because it was more enjoyable.
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I invite anyone proposing meritocracy as the solution for reducing discrimination to pick up a copy of The Tyranny of Merit : what's become of the common good? by Michael J. Sandel
I'm confused what battle you are talking about - it sounds like a good thing that LinkedIn is making it harder for people to get our data and "prospect" us.
There is no "meaning" of life. What even is the meaning of meaning?

Asking about the "meaning" is reallly just asking: How does this affect ME?

Even asking this question is a demonstration of our species' general lack of appreciation for how outragously improbable our existence is.

Stop worrying about your "special purpose" and start being thankful that you're a winner of the trillion-to-one lottery that lets you sit here and think about these things...

How does this apply to the birth-rate issue? Simple, we need to intelligently manage our population size, which means having many-many less people on the planet...
I have seen poor management manifest more in WFH scenarios with work and official communications extending well past normal working hours, usual latency in tasks notwithstanding.

Also, this is tangential but I would be interested in what proportion of employees actually have a good home workplace set up, because it seems highly dependent on income and many (including myself) aren't generally equipped to make it as complete and focused as an office.
Well for starters the argument wasn't about economics, but who would value a power efficient processor like this.

Scroll up, enlighten yourself.
I don’t know. Sounds good, but is there any data to back that up? “It’s all about power” or control sounds like such a cliche at this point.
Along with the Google Search algorithm, it's hard to get anything that's actually relevant out of it anymore