skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already and have been dozens of devices that allow you to discretely film people. Not to mention the millions of surveillance cameras from business to doorbell cams.

Why the specific mention of a very non-discrete device other than recency? Calling them “very sophisticated spyglasses” makes it hard to take this seriously. Even though mass surveillance is very much an important topic of discussion.
The first two you listed were downranked by the flamewar detector. The last one was downranked by users. Admins didn't touch any of them.

Note for everybody: can you guys please include the HN /item link if you're mentioning specific threads? That would be much more efficient and that way I can answer many more of people's questions.
In the comment down below, I have written about the heuristics that I created for business starting timing. Some of them are the result of my own experience.
- In my attempts, I was in an unsuitable country, in another attempt in a good country but not in a safe legal status (student visa), and I did not have enough business knowledge.
-These also created a huge opportunity cost regarding my academic results and hindered my timeline to get a high-paying job that would satisfy other heuristics like an even better country, industry, and seed money.
from the article, it doesn’t sound like this guy is exactly like other leakers who leak on moral grounds. This guy did it for revenge against the government. He also showed no remorse for either the child pornography or the leaking so that’s probably why he ended up with a 40 year sentence.
fuck tail latency, as well.
You nailed it my sentiments exactly. And funny, I keep thinking that I'll land in marketing at some point myself. They don't want to admit it, but your average "digital marketer" with no formal education in math or statistics really has no business trying to understand their audience.
OK but what's your skincare routine? How many crunches can you do?
> Most people prefer paintings and sculptures to be in museums, and the notion that live performers of theater or opera could ever be "owned" is abhorrent.

People aren't talking about personally owning a Wagner opera or a painting in the Louvre.

People just want to be able to watch the movie or play the game that they already paid for, without being nickel-and-dimed or having ads shoved in your face.
When someone mentions an approach, and someone else mentions a different approach, neither comment is "for one person only".
No, those aren’t the same thing. Tesla had to be forced to make their product safe by the regulator. If these updates are so easy and trivial in your mind, why doesn’t Tesla do them without being forced to?
sounds like he wasn’t doing it out of a sense of justice, but do get revenge on his office
Why would one ever flag stories they believe will result in the same useless discussions rather than just hiding them?

I think I've only ever flagged one or two instances of spam personally.
As someone with a YouTube channel, from looking at my metrics it's pretty clear that YouTube is being held afloat by a) the fact that non-technical users can't easily block YouTube ads on mobile devices, and b) YouTube Premium.

A single user depriving YouTube of their revenue is inconsequential sure, but when hundreds of millions of people do it (like with blocking ads on desktop) it obviously runs the risk of making the entire company unviable. Hosting videos for free is a great way to lose a lot of money.
Why Don't We Teach People How to Parent?
So assuming one is coming up, how can I protect myself? Pay out everything and store it under the mattress? Hold and hope?

I have little clue how my assets could be affected or how I could untangle the mess that would tell me :(

That said my Trade Republic stuff (not a whole lot) is held in a Deutsche Bank account... There's no way they would't be involved.
> The top comment complains that the title submitted to HN is both not the original headline, and not an accurate characterization of the content of the article.

What do you mean: "not an accurate characterization of the content of the article"? The title pretty accurately describes an admission by the former NIAID director in a House Select Subcommittee, according to the WSJ. That admission is the topic of the article.

> And it's disingenuous for you to pretend that the issue is HN users being unwilling to reexamine the public health response to Covid-19, when the submission is clearly flouting HN's rules.

From HN's rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait;

I think using the clickbaity original title ("Anthony Fauci Fesses Up") would be flouting HN's rules.
If you are writing a book, presumably you would have each chapter in a separate markdown file.

So, then you convert each chapter file to pdf, and then join the pdfs.
naive question - is the situation in portugal different from japan? i was unaware of the issue so i did some brief reading.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65485908

seems like a tourism issue? that and extremely low wages compared to cost of living. If the government functioned for the people, i imagine it would be trivial to place severe limits on short term tourism rentals, but they have chosen not to do so.
This is awesome, I've always been to lazy to set this up and regret it every time someone is over and I have to tell them my wifi password is tacokissies456
Having a hard time keeping food down.
All rendering, ultimately, is client-side. That's inescapable.

So whatever mechanisms you choose to make adaptive designs, lower your throughput and account for slow networks can be done without an SPA.
For all the examples of doing geographic districts I sometimes wonder why is that specific special interest group that gets privileged with a district separation instead of any other way to split people. Prussia split districts by wealth too but that was a way to give more power to the rich.
recently I liked this researches(and have some more) and would love to work on something like this

1. https://github.com/EricGuo5513/momask-codes

2. https://github.com/manuelladron/semantic_based_painting (personal fav)

I'm also looking for some good projects(and a code buddy), if you are interested in collaborating, ping me.
>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states that a safety recall is issued if either the manufacturer or the NHTSA determines that a vehicle or its equipment pose a safety risk or do not meet motor vehicle safety standards

The NHTSA issues a recall. It is up to the car manufactures to implement a fix in whichever ways they want.

Tesla even has their own page where they list these Recalls. Tesla has no problem with the word. Elon Musk, a noted individual that likes to say it like is, has not come out against the word either.
https://www.tesla.com/support/annual-and-recall-service

How about instead of fighting the words, you fight the car companies that refuse to use their profits to correctly follow the established safety protocols.
If I were the police, I would consider not kicking in doors with guns drawn in response to prank phone calls, but that's me.
Mine is a MS WIndows application with variable export functionality: https://palettewb.com
I don't think its any less convenient for my partner than if I worked in an actual office. Plus, I still have the added benefit of no commute, which means more time with my partner.
But that's now how most people view a recall. That's the point. It's clearly a move meant to drive clicks. A news source could write, a "software patch to fix blabla was sent out" but they instead opt for the more alarming language that has its roots in physical units of x item returning to a service center for service.
Reverse-Engineering the Synacor Challenge
It is still better than RV, and you avoid most problems in summer.

Mudslides are great point, thanks.
It looks like DRM removal might be a post-2009 thing?

(from wikipedia) Music on the iTunes Store was the original use case for the development of the FairPlay DRM scheme (such friendly naming!). It was apparently the SJ "Thoughts on Music" letter that started the end of DRM for purchased music, but my somewhat cynical opinion is that was also the point where streaming was becoming more plausible and streaming services complete undermine everything by explicitly removing the option to buy music.
Here's my contribution to foundational physics: the "large" extra dimension being discussed? It's emergent from the implementation details of the computonium our computational universe ("simulation") is implemented with.

Metaphorically I would call it "the wiring," but I assume that's metaphorical. What we observe internally, is the aggregate consequences of constraint satisfaction given the implementation specifics of the frame universe.

Me I also wed this to conceptually related concept is the emergence of coherent-universe-constraints that Wolfram has been writing about. Where things like relativity emerge necessarily from [information] propagation, regardless of implementation substrate.

The GUT is probably lurking in that marriage fwiw.
I would be really happy if you elaborated on why you think that was a mistake. I am considering a similar road.
I have been doing Java projects since 2006, and as mentioned on my edit you might have missed when replying, pattern matching, try and ? are just another way to package checked exceptions in a different coating.
The warning lights only exist on the LCD screen, this is what changed

https://twitter.com/DriveTeslaca/status/1753302155275157637
I'm a bit confused here. These are recognized as being harmful.
It's written all over the msds for these.
What is the real change that is going to occur?

I remember dealing with these substances in tiny quantities in the lab, and they were treated as carefully as cholorosifonic super acids. A lot of care goes into their disposal or recycle.
One problem is making methods that can detect waste streams at under ppt levels, which is pretty difficult, but that's the best effort for dealing with these substances at the moment.
Sure, and for ad-revenue driven companies like Google and Meta having good parental controls actually harms their business instead of improving on it. The incentives are all wrong.

That, and parents only have kids of the age that this is of relevance for, for maybe 4, 5, 6 years. So you're targeting a feature not only for a small segment, but one that is transient.

And if you screw it up, there's all sorts of potential for liability. You have to be careful about what you promise, etc. etc.

All the more reason why the answer probably comes down to: gov't regulation instead of expecting them to do this voluntarily.
Okhsv and Okhsl: Two new color spaces for color picking (2021)
Sounds like subsidiarity? "Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
(Shrug) I don't require scientific proof of the inverse-square law. It's self-evident to the point of being axiomatic. Standing 6 feet away from a virus source will expose you to about 44% fewer virus particles than standing 5 feet away from one, while not imposing any real hardships in most public interaction scenarios. What's controversial about that?

If you demand precise scientific rigor in all aspects of everyday life, public health is probably not the career field for you.
The cars are fundamentally unsafe until fixed. That is what a recall means: there is a safety defect requiring prompt removal of unfixed cars.

The manufacturer can avoid refunds by fixing their defective product by creating a new, safe, fixed version and upgrading all owners for free. Whether that can be done remotely is independent of the presence of a safety defect demanding removal of all cars still containing that defect.
You identified the concept as niche, but I would argue this should be a first-class priority in web design.

We will all be disabled at some point, permanently or temporarily. So many great tools are unusable due to accessibility reasons (like Streamlit!).
Adding a little bit of random delay to any scheduled / triggered actions is always a good idea, and is usually very cheap to implement.

If you're on OpenBSD, their cron supports randomized ranges using the ~ operator (see <https://man.openbsd.org/crontab.5>). Otherwise, you can use something like 'sleep $(($RANDOM % 60)) && some-task', but beware that $RANDOM has a range of 0-65535; you won't get the full, uniform 86400s range for daily jobs.

If you are unable to add a different random delay on every invocation (e.g. you have an RSS reader that only allows you to specify an exact interval), pick some nearby prime number, e.g. 37 instead of 30 or 45, or 71 instead of 60 (71-60=11 being a prime is also great).

If you're deploying a whole fleet at once, you can also vary the exact timings of cron.hourly, cron.daily, etc between machines.
Like others above, I write long form in Word/docx and convert with pandoc. Word supports styles that help experiment document-wide with look, it has an outline mode that helps with re-organizing material, and it handles inline media gracefully. Any of that is painful in markdown. There's no way I would write 20-500 page document without Word.

I use markdown for the 90% of my writing that is blurbs (and parse it into something like a graph/knowledge kb, and often render via pandoc to pdf, word, Anki, and html).

In both cases, I restrict myself to using features that can be parsed.
I totally disagree except to the degree the provider is broke, close to broke in which case capitalism can yet help. When you're worried about money one may manage for money the exclusion of all else. It's a distortion only not a counter argument for capitalism.

The issue, ultimately, is crappy management. The need for, the good outcomes that could be achieved profitably, are insane in possibilities. Many country's demographics now include a lot of retiring people.

I continue to think basic TQM (which has gone out of vouge unfortunately) would help a lot.

Look at psychology in the US: a lot of providers will not even get involved in the insurance side of the equation. Patients pay cash. The patient is stuck with the insurance and re-imbursement, if they can figure it out.

The supplier side --- medicine and insurance and to some degree politicians --- made the paperwork system extremely bad. Simplification and elimination have got to be on the table.

Part of the problem is the patient is dis-intermediated The supplier deals with insurance directly --- hospitals in the main:

* the supplier can bill the patient's insurance wrong, for the wrong procedure, for stupid high amounts, and so on. The patient is not empowered to push back on that because the patient doesn't hold the checkbook

* hospitals and outpatient stuff like MRIs etc. don't publish a price list for the patient. Granted this is changing slowly. But why has that taken so long? Because the patient doesn't have the checkbook so why bother? Payment is done out of sight between the supplier and insurance company. It doesn't matter what the customer thinks.

The stuff where capitalism works better is when the customer knows the price, the supplier has no choice but to be upfront about it, and the customer will fire the supplier, refuse payment, or dispute payment for crappy supplier quality. The supplier can't get payment no matter what if the customer isn't going to provide it. Conversely, the supplier can refuse service for bad customers. This way both parties are encouraged to act smartly.

If I could wave my magic want I'd like to see a scenario in which,

* Customers pay insurance premiums to insurance companies in return for a bounded amount of access to a cash account.

* The customer must deal with out-of-pocket and co-insurance to eschew abusing the insurance company, fraud, and feckless spending. There must be bounded access to cash so the customer prioritizes what needs work and what doesn't.

* The supplier presents the customer with an itemized bill

* The customer --- and only the customer --- pays the bill electronically to the supplier through the insurance company's B2B payment system.

* Patients must get involved in, and start owning up the fact they can't refuse to take a zero on the dollars and cents of the care they're getting.
My problem with this method is that it's not convenient especially when there are lots of paragraphs. When you highlight all the paragraphs and press shift J, it unwraps everything into a single line. This results different paragraphs ending up on the same line. You also need to undo the changes you made to avoid disturbing the original file content.
Ask HN: Is it lucky the 4th spatial dimension doesnt mess our "personal space"?
Im not versed in M theory or string theory. Could a mathematician elaborate with the general consensus regarding this please?

thx
FWIW, I read stories about it at the time (interested in the technology, not Pentagon contracting competitions). What I read before the announcement thought the outcome was unknown, and nobody before or after presented it as lopsided. Certainly I didn't read everything, so YMMV.
Related: Pindigo is a great tool for tracking high scores and has global and friend leaderboards.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pindigo-social-pinball-scores/...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascrewaske...
LLMs are like crypto, where scams and scam-adjacents are everywhere.

I am the biggest local ML advocate you will find. My 3090 is either running Yi 34B queries or other experiments all day, my job is with local LLMS... But I am totally OK with heavy handed AI-related moderation. I dont want the sea of AI grifters to have a single second on the HN front page.
I don't know what requirements they are referencing, but the SAE standards are defined after well after touchscreens. (I believe touchscreens date back to the 1980s).

But I think that is a somewhat unimportant point because the requirement intent is to make sure the warning is conspicuous. I'm not sure that touchscreens would be inherently different in that regard. Or are you thinking there's something unique to the touchscreens that makes them meet that intent in some other way?
I’ve always felt like this is how I would best succeed, too, but only after the initial spark. I have business ideas, but I haven’t had the one that really feels like it could go somewhere. What was your process of “idea linting” like?
> but crypto (in the sense of cryptography) has been around for decades and is definitely here to stay...

But that's not the sense under discussion. "Crypto"=cryptography lost the language war and was completely supplanted by "crypto"=cryptocurrency. I really wish the word could regain its original and useful meaning, but it's too late now.

Ironically, "I work in crypto" went from meaning something useful to society to meaning being a parasite on society, and you'd best not accidentally use the phrase expecting people to understand it to mean the original thing (cryptography).

(Yes, not all uses of cryptocurrency are a parasitic detriment. But if you happen to be working on actually useful stuff and we meet socially, then please be very quick about saying that you work at doing something with cryptocurrency or blockchain that is intended to provide actual benefit. If you just say "I work in crypto", I will excuse myself at the first opportunity.)
> give off vibes [...] that they aren't disciplined enough to "specialize".

You're right, but it's still sad that curiosity (aka "lack of discipline") is frowned upon. I have learned Go and Rust because it could be useful in the next five years. HR hates it when recruiting, but management is happy if you do this after you are hired because they think you're some kind of "tech leader."
>> That's true if you re-define rent to mean payment for a service...

You're paying for the use of something (software) not a service. I can rent a U-Haul by the day (rent) or I can pay for the use of some software by the day (rent). Calling the use of software a "service" was just a fancy way to disguise what's really happening to make it sound more acceptable.
If you are committed to using Pandoc to generate the three formats then I don't see why you can't commit to Pandoc's flavor of markdown.
No shaming intended. This is not meant to be applied retrospectively.

I believe now that an SPA is unneeded, precisely because of how far the technology has come.

And I believe that SPAs are the cause of a lot of that advancement and have pushed back-end approaches to level up to help realise some of these benefits.
>universities that churn out tepid, conformist graduates who nobody would ever want to employ

We call them MBA's in these here parts.
Debian 64-Bit time_t Transition Underway for Addressing Y2038 Problem
insert poop emojis
The privacy battle was lost a long time ago. Just easier to assume you're being filmed / recorded / monitored at all times.
You just MENTORED them into how to find a mentor. :-)
> keep ARP, ND wasn't a great idea after all

there's nothing wrong with ND and it addresses several security vulnerabilities, namely ARP cache poisoning. But the real reason why ARP was removed is because it's a layering violation.

> NAT support (because it's everywhere these days)

nothing at all is stopping you from doing NAT on IPv6, except for the fact that everyone hates NAT, even people that pretend that they like it.

> Correct DHCP support (SLAAC wasn't a great idea after all)

SLAAC is a great thing. Also, DHCPv6 also exists, which allows you to do exactly what DHCP lets you do. Android doesn't support DHCPv6, but that's not IPv6s fault.

- IPv6->IPv4 interop (one way)

There's no such thing as one-way communication if we're talking TCP. Besides, it's still fundamentally impossible if the other end has no idea what to do with the source address.
I'm not sure why anyone would use default installations of any developer tooling on Mac? Was the first thing you did when you finished initial startup on your mac not "install homebrew, then install the most up to date versions of git, python, etc. etc."?
Then what is the alternative? Going back to metal and wood consumer goods at the scale western consumerism exists today versus the pre 1960s would probably be impossible and really throw gasoline on the entire climate crisis.
Here's more info on how this solely UI-related recall affects the interface: https://twitter.com/DriveTeslaca/status/1753302155275157637

Incorrect Font Size on Warning Lights/FMVSS 105: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCAK-24V051-8380.pdf
Beware of wealthy people saying they wouldn't do it again. They are just validating their own lifestory: it was hard, incredibly hard. Implicit in that statement are approximately 8 billion other statements, where they believe they suffered more than than every other individual on Earth who makes less than them.
Vulnerable to what exactly? Engine failure? It has two engines (like the Blackhawk) and either can drive both rotors if the other fails.

Do helicopters typically float?
Tiny BLDC motor controllers can be had for under 1.5 cents, plus a microcontroller (which most devices have anyway). (six 1 amp mosfets, plus a few passives, and about 1 cm^2 of board area)).

Unfortunately they normally need a control loop that runs at at least 10kHz for saliency measurement, which means all the other code on the microcontroller needs to be well behaved and not have millisecond long critical sections. If you can't do that, you need to add another 5 cents for another microcontroller.
At a former employer, the company wanted everyone's machine to have full hard drive encryption, thankfully we were on Linux and the vendor they wanted to use was not compatible. Even so, I always encrypt my installs on laptops, not so much workstations (I didn't install it, and reinstalling would be a mess) since at that point you're physically in the office building and we have more serious problems.