skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not a euphemism for low pay work.

As the article describes, many of the laborers are forced to work and many are unpaid. They are punished with violence if they do not work: solitary confinement and parole rejection.

It's supported by the 13th amendment, which uses the same language ("slavery" being legal punishment for criminals): "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Tokenizer UI for Mistral and Claude
I use the OpenAI tokenizer UI a lot when prompt engineering.

Token count for inputs allows comparison of different data formats (YAML, JSON, TS) and is a crude measure of prompt importance weighting. For outputs it is a relative measure of output speed between prompts (tok/s varies by time of day) and a crude measure of compute used in outputs (why “Think step-by-step” works). Token count also determines the cost of a prompt.

Since there’s no equivalent for other providers, I built one for Mistral & Anthropic. If it’s useful, I can add other providers too - let me know which you’d like.
App Store is as scammy as Google play store.

Apple vets every app through their review team but it’s a shit show of inconsistency.

Apple’s wall garden doesn’t do much other than rent seeking.

I got scammed in an ethereum site back in the day. Wasn’t a big loss but it was the straw that broke camel’s back.

If it was my credit card, I would have been refunded. Coinbase did fuck all, couldn’t even reach a real human.

I sold all my crypto a few months later.

Crypto and stock market move in tandem. Crypto has much higher trading fees. Fidelity gives me zero fees.

From a value investing perspective, crypto was a bad and unsafe investment.

I agree that folks who got in 10 years early made a fortune, but last few years have lackluster growth.
etsy

etsy has the wildest stuff.

edit: maybe this is common knowledge, but I was pretty surprised when I was shopping for a chopping block last year.
Been using StackEdit myself but I might check this out.
Unhealthy Diet During Pregnancy Is Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
FTS == Flight Termination System.
Good points. I dropped SYN now because of feedback here.

Thanks for the digraph vi info. Thanks to you, I added a vi-specific page in the repo for your tip.
>if we want a true indie web, we must be prepared to fight for it. Hope is not enough.

This argument would be far more convincing if I saw some gifs of dancing bananas, rainbow colored text, a main text column that spanned the entire screen width, a repeated background image right under the text, a music playing widget that autoplayed music, and it changed my cursor to a pencil or something.

Right now, I'm looking at a medium post that's not on medium. This is what I see.

Is it really your personal website if it doesn't contain your mixtape?
> I have a theory that the people who fall over themselves pushing "modesty" laws are ones who really just want to add a layer of "performing forbidden acts" to their own sexual perversions.

Maybe some. I have another theory that people pushing "modesty" laws want to enforce their values on a world that doesn't share those values.
Randomly offensive passphrases aren't really a problem. There's only one person who's supposed to know it and if two or more know it then it's just temporary and up to the person who "owns" it to make a new one.

Also, I don't care how sensitive someone is, if the tech that clicked the "Generate" button informs them, "it's just random words strung together :shrug:" how offended can you be? I mean, seriously?

If anything we should be doing our darndest to intentionally make passphrases as offensive as possible so that people are encouraged to change them right away! Generating temporary passphrases for new employees? Feed a picture of them into an AI that's trained to generate insults about their appearance!
Cool!

I guess this method would put some constraints on PCB design, since the need to scan the die physically would mean that you'd need a margin around it where nothing protruded higher vertically.
Yes you're exactly right.
Evolution of a High-Performance System: From Synchronous to Seamless Scalability
Reproducing toomuchtodo’s excellent rebuttal [0] in the sibling thread where you posted the same thing:

Login.gov does not provide a sufficient level of identity assurance (IAL2 [1]) to serve as the IDP for this pilot and IRS functions in general (ID.me liveness check and facial recognition). IRS is working with Login.gov to upgrade Login.gov to deprecate ID.me for this purpose [2] [3].

Would it make sense to not proceed with this pilot until this was ready? Certainly not; Login.gov will catch up and meet IRS in the future as Direct File expands next filing season. Very similar to when Social Security Administration (ssa.gov) transitioned from ID.me and their internal IDP to Login.gov.

(Login.gov partners with USPS to perform in person identity proofing for those who cannot perform remote proofing via a mobile device)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3-Implementation-Resources/63A...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851

[3] https://fedscoop.com/irs-to-adopt-login-gov-as-user-authenti...
Yes! This is why I’m so bullish on atproto as a platform. This stuff operates at an infrastructure level, meaning you can build other applications to use it too.
Good catch, thank you. An accidental omission. Fixed now in the repo. Fixed in the next IETF Internet Draft.
Porn isn't speech. It falls under obscenity. Questions like

> What counts as a porn site?

are really stale, and too often sophistic attempts at obfuscating what is rather clear.

If banning the production and distribution of pornography is not possible with an outright ban, strangling this monstrous industry through onerous regulation is a pretty good tactic. And it's not new. Israel effectively requires citizens to ask for permission from the state to view pornography, for example, while also using pornographic content against what it regards as its enemies (e.g., pornographic broadcasts from a captured TV station in Ramallah some time ago).
How is “harmful to minors” defined here?
What's the license of the code? I don't see any in the repo https://github.com/tk04/Marker
"You maladroit equine galvanic fastener"

https://xkcd.com/936/
Good point. That really destroys the stability of the spatial layout.
> Isn’t the point of markdown that it’s a bridge to ordinary text editors?

Yes, but visualizing the _rendered_ markdown is very helpful to debug the content.
My objection is purely on the ick factor of performative charity and skinner box interactions with the public.
Yep! The Free Fillable Forms thing is roughly equivalent to printing out all the forms and filling them in by hand, but you're just doing it with forms on the internet instead of mailing them in. Most peoples' taxes aren't rocket science, you definitely don't have to pay for tax prep software if you're capable of following instructions and doing middle school level math.
You really believe the negative effect has been nothing? I totally oppose this law, but I think claiming that widespread access to internet pornography has had no ill effect at all is denying your own lying eyes.
> The illegal bases which were being funded, built and used for biowarfare development by the CIA, specifically targeting Russian genotypes, were built and operational for years before Russia invaded.

The article you linked makes no mention of such things.

There was no coup in Ukraine either. Ukrainian parliament unanimously voted to remove Ukrainian president from office after he gave an order to shoot at peaceful protesters, resulting in over 100 deaths, and fled the country fearing criminal prosecution. All members from his own party voted in favor of that too.
Further than genetics, the training section of the article touches on directional and non-directional training, and training at distances.

It seems that you would likely be working with a message sender, and a pigeoneer preparing resources for the teams in the field. The pigeoneer could possibly have cohorts of pigeons at different stages of training and performance, and it would be bad to foul up the bird selection when sending them into battle. The specialization of this reminds me of one of the things my grandfather ( Korean War era ) used to say, "If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well"

A System is laid out here so that any qualified private could go through the basic training and have the tools he needs to be a successful pigeoneer, supporting his unit and providing the records in standard form to lower the bus-factor impact, and enable his promotion.
That would be Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, and his mission was to insult the entire universe, in alphabetical order.
There hasn't been a 1040EZ for a while. That said, I don't really disagree. For people who don't itemize deductions and only have a W-2 and maybe a 1099, filing taxes should be mostly a pre-filled-out no brainer.
Chrome Android Vibration API Demo
IMHO, two things keep Boeing running afloat: 1) the Airbus production queue is already full for upcoming years, and 2) their military connections and strong lobbying within US airline companies. If there were more competitors in the US, Boeing would have been out of business years ago.
Yeah sadly it does seem to be growing, I have been noticing that in many areas of the US a stigma around sex is getting worse and worse. Sex is natural and fun and we should be able to talk about it.

I am thankful that within my group of friends we can openly talk about it.

> I do think there need to be tighter restrictions on the industry exploiting people, though. That seems to be a consistent fact: many people have claimed the industry is exploitative, and that there are few if any protections against it.

I for sure agree with that. There are problem with the industry, particularly how woman are treated.
All the work involved in felling, cutting and manually sequestering the wood sounds like it could be more expensive - and a lot slower and less scalable - than direct air capture. (Which is already uneconomical)
To be fair I think the conservative objection is not quite that filing taxes needs to be annoying. The concern is more that automated tax calculation makes it easier for people to be blissfully unaware of how much of their money is going to taxes. Even now most people have minimal awareness of their tax burden thanks to automated tax withholding.
You're kinda making my case against "downtown" Florence. I should have been clearer. The countryside and most of the rest of Tuscany is more pleasant and doesn't trap heat in the summer like the city does. Even there, though, some places like San Gimignano can get too touristy. See the baffling trend of torture museums as an example...
I don't think I'm particularly in denial about the prospects of AI. I think it's going to be hugely disruptive and could possibly put me out of a job.

But I'd like to posit a hypothetical counterpoint, just to get you thinking. So far, all of the work on AGI has been the result of brute forcing. We've tried to develop a structural understanding of how the human brain works, and we've failed. So we've fallen back to torturing circuits into reorienting themselves into compression algorithms for human knowledge. The mechanisms that these tortured circuits used for doing so, the structures they produced in N-dimensional space to embody that knowledge -- we have very little understanding of how these things actually work under the hood.

I think a lot of the grandoise hypotheses about the future of AGI emerging from this avenue of invention are overly optimistic. Why are we so confident that this brute force approach will continue to bear fruit for us? At what point will it overcome the long tail of inadequacy that it's currently exhibiting?

The 20th century bears several notable examples of would-be-transformative technologies that have since stalled, and failed to live up to their promise. Nuclear power. Space travel. Industries buckling under the weight of their own complexity, suffering from the human inability to keep the emergent externalities in check. Why would AI be any different?

I predict a future where increasing global hardship, conflict and scarcity renders the current type of energy-intensive AI approaches infeasible.
And in the case where you don't/can't provide a P45 they take an "emergency" high rate of tax instead. Which you can claim back once the information is provided, or at the end of the tax year. I don't know if you can legitimately decide to not provide a P45 for some personal reason, but it could be an expensive decision (in the medium term).

I would say this definitely reflects your personal stance on privacy, I think most people would rather have the money they earned sooner rather than later.
You certainly can legislate freedoms. The biggest news of last year was enabling legislating away access to abortion in many states for example.

Internet freedom is harder to legislate, but with enough backing you can legislate things in a way to make it difficult for the common person to access certain websites, which is certainly impactful.

It hasn't happened yet but there is nothing to say it wouldn't happen with enough time and backing of certain politicians.
That’s a privacy nightmare.
> the mass timber framing uses four to five times the volume of wood as the light-framed wood framing.

So... basically "buy more wood?" I think I'll pass.
I've been following this newsletter since Matthias launched it - I recommend going through the archive [0] if you're into personal websites and the "IndieWeb". On a similar vein, I also recommend Manuel Moreale's newsletter "People and Blogs" [1]. Props to both for promoting the greener pastures of the internet!

[0]: https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/

[1]: https://peopleandblogs.com/
Any tips or books you'd suggest?
I'm a parent. Like the person you responded to, I control purchases on my child's devices. It's not difficult, and if you need help with that - or any other parenting advice - just ask.
Thank you. I added a comparison to RSV.
Glad you like it. I'll update the readme to include state management examples. Thanks for the feedback!
Would that help at this point? Or has the culture fundamentally been changed?
Agreed! It says editing. Does that include tracked changes?
"United was hoping to swap orders for the MAX 10 for the Airbus A321neo"
Or just increment a token in the already-secure password you're being forced to rotate like a sane person.
It will probably require Chapter 11 at a minimum, which, at the rate things are going, isn't out of the question.
Show HN: Android keyboard, keeping screen for app (i.e. termux)
I have created Android on screen keyboard, that takes no screen space and allows apps to utilize full screen. Should be particularly useful for apps involving heavy text, terminal/termux would likely be of particular interest for this sites audience :). And it also allows simple use of modifier combinations like Ctrl+Shift+Left and similar.
Heh, I used a photo of myself sitting on the couch with my chihuahua looking up at me over my laptop screen and it replaced her with a St Bernard. The hallucination is strong in this one.
I'm probably thinking too much like an engineer and not a lawyer, but what if the sites this bill is intended to apply to add enough SFW content to push the NSFW below 1/3 of the total? Or does the phrasing of "distributes" mean it needs to be <1/3 of consumption and not just <1/3 of what's available?
The Airbus backlog is so comically long it's hard for me to imagine why United would even suggest that they could get A321s. If they're not already in the queue, they're not getting A321s. Is there something I'm missing? Some way for United to jump the Airbus queue?
> I know that HN has a very pro FOSS culture,

Err, what? I don't think we've read the same thread. It's shock-full of people trying to justify this kind of behaviour, presumably in a vain effort to feel less bad about their own abuses.

> seems to extend to the expectation that companies and products should exist out of the goodness of developers’ hearts.

Corporate shills and bootlickers seem to have this weird misconception that companies and products just naturally deserve to exist and impose themselves on society.

> But charging willing users for an API that costs money to maintain is “abusive”?

The API already exists.
Wouldn't that be deeply problematic in case of illegal content being posted?
Composable moderation means we’re not limited to what Bluesky does, however. If I want to set up a moderation server that does tone moderation, there’s nothing stopping me from doing that.

I tend to agree about the utility of Bluesky as a medium for discussion, but that’s not what I want to use it for, so that’s fine by me.
"Outperforms" is a stretch; its skill is on par or slightly exceeds the state-of-the-art NWP models currently run today, but you as an end user would not notice the difference between GraphCast and the ECMWF HRES. Furthermore, raw model guidance is almost always passed through a blending and statistical post-processing process alongside competitor models to fine tune the forecast, and there are no rigorous benchmarks of whether or not the inclusion of GraphCast improves this process because very few groups are running it operationally.

Also, it's worth noting that GraphCast's outputs are a tiny subset of what we would traditionally forecast as weather parameters. You can't out-perform a competitor on a task that you aren't solving!
I can understand being opposed to these laws on the principle of freedom of information and freedom from government interference, but why are you explicitly hoping for specifically children to receive pornographic material? That's a very strange thing to wish.
That's not a problem of one party making things up. It's the fallacy of defective induction, aka. faulty generalization.

Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes.
Do they do it all the time? No.

Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes.
Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.

It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.
This looks like a neat app for non-developers, but for dev's it is really hard to beat the VS Code extensions for handling markdown.

My heavily used ones are: Markdown to HTML (copy), which lets you write and preview markdown and then copy+paste it as html into things like newsletters, CMS, etc. as a single step.

The other one is Markdown to PDF, which lets you organize a series of markdown files into a coherent structure and then spits out an ebook on command.
>Today it’s punish the broadcaster if viewers have an issue.

Always has been. MO of the U.S. regulatory State has always been "go after the platform". It's why "freedom of the press" is about more than newspapers and reporters. Even if no one seems to argue on those grounds.
Author here. Here are top advantages from the top of my head

* pywebview hides its browser nature. Right click, text select, shortcut keys, swipe gestures etc are disabled by default.

* window manipulation functionality. Move, resize, minimize, maximize etc

* native file dialog support. These are more capable than browser's own file dialogs.

* native application menu

* with the new version you can get a full file path on file drag and drop. This is not possible in browser.

* two way Javascript-Python bridge. You can invoke Javascript from Python and Python from Javascript

* If Javascript is not your cup of tea, you can do quite a bit in pure Python.
How do you find a meaningful definition of “simpler” mechanisms? / How do you differentiate ML from AI? (Many view ML as a subtype of AI.)
Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism
All respect to McLuhan, there are obvious and meaningful differences between a message and its delivery!
Clive Palmer refloats Titanic II plans 10 years after first announcement
>With talk of regulating TikTok, I've wondered what the US would do if TikTok sent a notification saying, essentially, "just connect to our servers in China". The kids would do it, and then what?

Regardless of how you feel about TikTok, the current bill as written is completely absurd on the face of it. It names China as a "foreign adversary", as if everyone just suddenly forgot that our entire economy is completely interdependent with them as our largest foreign trade partner, and that the loss of that trade would mean a massive loss of wealth for most Americans.
Agreed, though it's not just gov interference but also the wrong kind of regulation. We've let mega corporations larger than many countries create digital fiefdoms that take away our agency. There is no free and open internet if a company doesn't want the blue bubbles to talk to the green bubbles.
I used Nix for a few months several years ago, so their documentation is probably better now than I was when I used it, but yeah, I find the Guix documentation to be much more pleasant to use than the Nix documentation was when I used it.

This is partially because it uses an existing language, rather than a home grown language. Guix was also my entry point for learning Lisp, and the abundance of learning material for the language will probably always dwarf that of Nixs homegrown language. I actually watched all of the SICP lectures; I found that to be an incredible resource to get my footing.

It's also important to note that Guixs documentation is readily available on the system using the GNU info utility, which if you're not familiar with, is like man but on steroids. If you use Kagi, I also made this lens[0] that allows one to search through the web version of the documentation, the mailing list archives, and the IRC logs all at once using !guix.

[0] https://kagi.com/lenses/l7mPOuJp7zljHquBjsekFn6dM9Thw1A8
You're directionally correct. :-)

USV terminology is units, records, groups, files.

Spreadsheet equivalents are cells, lines, sheets, folios.

Database equivalents are fields, rows, tables, schemas.

The USV Rust crate provides iterators str.units(), str.records(), str.groups(), str.files(), so it's easy to get the parts you want.
> MBAs

Friendly reminder that Boeing has recently had a series (EDIT: one, also terrible) of engineers as CEOs. The MBA trope is a noughties-era Silicon Valley meme.
I don't think there is an easy fix for a very complicated problem.
Sold my startup but Stripe don't allow country changes to accounts?
I thought this was crazy personally.

They also begin to restrict payouts when they realize your address data is not matched up correctly with the account (i.e. UK and UK).

I made a tool to fix this, making the migration process between an old Stripe account and a new account easy.
So going with Max 10s wasn't a realistic alternative anymore (at least in part due to deserved regulatory scrutiny on Boeing), so to still have leverage in negotiations with Airbus they switched to Max 9 as their backup plan?
nice win for Europe
There are plenty of ways to bypass parental consent, and as a former 12 year old, I assumed it to be my raison d'être.

My favorite racket was the prepaid credit card laundering scam. I'd give my cash allowance to a friend, whos parent would buy a prepaid credit card as a gift for some vague friend's birthday. I could then use the credit cards for online purchases (specifically a Runescape Membership).
Dynamic DNS is just updating a record when your IP changes, the only external service it requires is the API for your DNS provider.

A friend just ordered static IP on her residential connection, it can be an option.

If you really needed to there's nothing stopping a private person ordering "business" internet. I don't think that'd change their ToS on hosting websites, but if it's light traffic do you really think they're going to notice and take issue with it?
Yeah! Only a, "distasteful mail pouch of ratty cuckoo dejecta" would use a 3rd party service to generate passphrases!