skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholeheartedly recommend Luther Blissett's first novel, "Q"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(novel)
How could Boeing make sure to limit the amount of whistleblowers on the 737 MAX case? Killing former whistleblowers is a great way to send a message to everyone considering the option right now.
> Don't use, don't use, don't use, don't use, don't use. Actually I did use media-wiki, that was quite refreshingly simple. Worked on a phone that is going on 10 years old.

Well good for you, but approximately no-one's using that. So evidently it's not working out great.

> In comparison, big-name web-app stuff like Expedia, Discourse, Discord, Teams, News that uses lots of JS like you claim works like utter trash.

And yet that stuff is a lot more popular. So even with the issues, JS-heavy sites are inevitable.

Which sites manage to be both popular and usable? The very sites that dive all the way into an application approach: Google Maps, Twitch, Trello before Atlassian ruined it. Half-assing it with progressive enhancement etc. is doing more harm than good.

> The off-the-cuff example was AMP pages (which has different issues), but basically worked by heavily, heavily restricting what pages could do at all. Like, e.g. Javascript.

They also severely restricted CSS. And, even with all that, they didn't work very well; one might even say they were a lot more effective at blocking non-Google ad tracking than they were at making web pages faster.

> I'm sure I could find more, and even get benchmarks.

> Your turn.

Uh huh. I'm also sure I could find examples and get benchmarks. Right back at you.
None of those matter when you have google play services installed, which has special permissions to do whatever it wants, including grabbing your location.
We use Mailcoach. There is a version where you pay once for the tech, but you then need to set everything by yourself. It's great if you have the time to set it up properly.
> It's not obvious why this is worse or any less of a deterrent.

I'd say it may not be obvious why, but it's obvious that it is less of a deterrent, because this sort of data trading seems to be commonplace and semi-overt in the US, and much less common (and hush-hush in the rare cases where it does happen) in Europe.

I'd also hazard a guess why it's less of a deterrent: the risk, i.e. probability of successfully getting sued * cost of successfully getting sued, is likely much lower compared to the relatively high probability of a DPA going "WTF no" in Europe as soon as someone reports it.
I can answer how it would be in Qdrant if interested. The index will take around 70GB RAM. New vectors are first placed in a non-indexed segment and are immediately available for search while the index is being built. The vectors and the index can be offloaded to disk. Search will take some milliseconds.
Google asks me every time I need to open their cursed SMS app if I wanted to enable RCS (as if anyone cared about it)

One of the top idiotic designs by google for sure.

I would probably enable it if I believed their SMS app wouldn't become even slower and bugged than it is, still their decision to ask every time makes me not trust them with that decision
The more "interesting" case in the UK was GCHQ analyst seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) who supposedly killed himself by stuffing himself in a bag padlocked from outside, placed in a bathtub, and suffocating himself in a Security Service safe house.

The inquest concluded his death was "unnatural and likely to have been criminally mediated" though with to little evidence to outright state it was an unlawful killing. The police eventually decided he'd likely locked himself in, despite the lack of fingerprints on both the bath and the padlock having made it a rather extraordinary feat for him to get into the bag and lock the padlock.

Which to me goes to show that whether or not you get away with faking a suicide likely has relatively little to do with how well - or plausible - you fake the suicide vs. how well you sufficiently prevent a link to yourself and the power you have to prevent a proper investigation.

At least in the case of David Kelly the circumstances were plausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
The Asian victim you're thinking of is Sunny Sheu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sun-Ming_Sheu
The funny thing is someone told me this in an IRC channel about 20 years ago, a full decade before I'd even be in a position to buy my own sofa. Can't remember which channel it was, certainly wasn't a sofa-related channel, probably Linux related. I've never forgotten it for some reason.
Story time: In Germany in the 1980s an American asked me on the train for a restaurant recommendation in a town of 60,000. I thought hard for a place with good food and made big efforts to describe how to get there.

In the end he asked: Is there no McDonalds?

We had had one for about 5 years, but I had not considered it a restaurant. It's a different thing :)
Right, it's just around the the corner from the train station, 2 minute walk.
Python (1991), Java (1995), .NET (2001), Smalltalk (1972), Common Lisp (1984), Ruby (1995), Perl (1993).

Go is following not leading.

To this day ISO C and ISO C++ still don't include TCP and UDP on their standard library, that comes from POSIX, the UNIX APIs that didn't make it into neither ISO C nor ISO C++.
I have a box in my garage and if cables start overflowing I go through and toss anything that makes it overflow that seems the least useful or likely to be used. It keeps me from starting a new box. :) . I have another box of old gadgets in static bags but I still have a ton of room left in that :)
Well, how do you take down some blog, if there is no legal base for it, because all the content was obvious legal?

If there would have been a legal angle, they would have send out lawyers letters instead. That was apparently not an option, so crime was the only way to go. And that no one at the top gets prosecuted for this, is quite disappointing.
Direct link to committee report: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24481375/gino-hbs-inv...
I mean, I think Schwartz committed suicide, but Epstein?
I could never imagine eBay doing this in 2019. 2 bloggers really got a CEO this hot and bothered? Were they really causing that much of a hit to ebay's sales or rep?

This sounds like one of those early 2000's trolling moments before such commentary conformed into a blob on modern social media. But given the rest of the events of the '20's I shouldn't be that surprised.
I also used the very same script until I stumbled upon this on hn [0].

#!/usr/bin/env bash
langs=(eng ara fas chi_sim chi_tra deu ell fin heb hun jpn kor nld rus tur)
lang=$(printf '%s\n' "${langs[@]}" | dmenu "$@")
maim -us | tesseract --dpi 145 -l eng+${lang} - - | xsel -bi

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704483#33705272
> They’d need to demonstrate what good the public receives from their existence, or their assets get sold and the company dissolved.

If their assets get sold and one entity buys all of them then they could just carry on operating the same company with them. The most likely buyer for something like that would be a competitor. That seems bad.

Maybe we could require the opposite. Their assets get sold, but can't all be sold to the same party. You split the company up, e.g. by delaminating vertically integrated components into separate companies. That way it's easier to enter the market and compete with any of them because you don't have to replicate the whole stack, only that one component.

You might not even need to have a vote, just some rules for when this happens automatically, like when a company has more than e.g. 35% market share, because that's too close to a monopoly and you wouldn't want a trust to form. We could call this anti-trust.
Just moved to Canada. When it gets warmer I will move further to the north.

Besides that - recycling and avoiding single-use plastics as much as possible.
I guess this is what happens when you de-Google and loose access to Gboard.

/s (I fully agree with the sentiment)
Unjust Deserts? Why the bonuses for engineers are a terrible idea (2004) [pdf]
That's just a link to Gelman's blog. You seem to have meant to link to https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/14/heres-the-...
I get concerned when anyone builds a skyscraper. It's typically purported to increase density and thereby create affordable housing. What actually happens is that I still can't afford anything in the skyscrapers, even in non major metros, and I'm in the top 1% of earners. I guess affordable only applies to the top half of a percent?

Destroying land to build them, I don't care who's land, is typically in opposition to environmental efforts. So before you say it's not my business, stop and consider that this is everyone's business. And using minorities as a scapegoat through what might be an underhanded deal might be pretty disgusting.

Since I don't know which it is, I'm asking.
I was using Safari iOS with AdGuard
It's a usability issue, not a privacy issue.

Google photos are closed source. For all we know it could have analyzed all your photos locally and trickled the result to Google servers a thousand times by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY
> 0 product managers

This is the win.
Should have given him protection, quite bad for the USA that they cannot let the truth succeed in this case. In the long term there is no cheating about safety possible anyhow.
Yeah... unfortunately, they just show you the gear you should switch to, not the gear you're currently in (although that information is obviously available). So much for keeping your eyes on the road as much as possible...
Only if we leave Smalltalk, Erlang, Java and .NET ecosystems out of the picture.
On suicide watch, with both guards asleep and the cameras out?
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. First, behavior is not motivation. Second, if someone is evil is a moral judgement of behavior and intentions, not a clinical diagnosis. Third, there may be different "levels" of sociopathology, a spectrum if you will, but that doesn't excuse all of them.
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts energy cost
AudioMind
AI model that natively processes audio as the input modality to fully utilize all the information available in the audio signal.
The FTC and DOJ want it to be legal to fix McDonald's ice cream machines
Watching people with binary-valued probability measures talk to people with multivalued probability will never not be amusing.

The resulting conversations have such fundamental disagreements.
Where is the evidence of safety and efficacy then? There's a reason why the NHS has scaled back usage just to clinical trials - this evidence is very much lacking.
You can just put a bunch of crap in wikipedia itself, TLS doesn't help much here.
I hope that, at a minimum, this gets the government to realize/reaffirm how destructive it is to them when they do shit like this
You wrote a wall of text about a link, but you failed to paste a single link.

Enough.
almost as if the public appreciated the diversion
Ah just saw rjzzleep posted an updated version here. Happy to steal this one again :)
Show HN: Making a Compiler to Prove Tmux Is Turing Complete
>Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself?

Yes, I do. Like you, I found the circumstances of Epstein's death incredibly suspicious and thought it was a murder. But the more information that has come out, the more it looks like it was a typical prison suicide. [The latest AP article](https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-jail-suicide-pris...) is pretty good.

>Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his Manhattan jail cell with his hands over his ears, desperate to muffle the sound of a toilet that wouldn’t stop running.
It's not the "English language", the term "conspiracy theorist" was literally invented by the CIA to smear people who alleged the CIA was conspiring against the public.
I'm sure it would work if you built it from source.
Not really a Caveat, if it only had an Deb you could argue it doesn't work on non-Ubuntu/Debian, which is far bigger caveat.
My client, the sky, is suing your client for copyright infringement.

Additionally my client is suing GGP’s client for the offer of water, in which my client believes they have a valid interest but were not given due consideration in the making of this offer.
Hard disagree. These are the people using their time wisely, and it's hilarious in some sense that the company shot itself in the foot by laying them off, ironically by using a tool to automate it. It's a bad thing to help increase productivity all of the sudden? It was a poor decision by management that reflects a culture of treating workers like arbitrary units that can be generated or destroyed with no consequence. Downside is that the rest of the team got some fallout, but it's not like they're not paid for the time anyway.
I agree with all you're saying.

My point is just that we explicitly define intelligence as things humans excel at and other beings don't (and you are right to point out that in the − not so distant − past, the distinctions wasn't so much humans vs other beings but white aristocracy vs other humans).

And we've been doing the same with AI for a while: beating a chess grand master would have been considered an unambiguous proof of intelligence 50 years ago, now I don't think anyone would argue Stockfish is actually intelligent.
Curiously, the Boeing branch that works for defense comes from the McDonell-Douglas buy: pre-merge Boeing main bussiness was comercial airplanes, MD was focused on military contracts. And arguably, all the current Boeing problems come from that buy/merge.
TLS doesn't hide destination address, if you connect to LGBT site whose IP is known, you land in jail anyway.
Is anyone refuting this? It’s hardly a wild claim.
Is that plausible, though? Why would he not have used that leverage to prevent captivity?
Polyglots do not process all foreign languages the same way in brain
big pharma entered the chat
Some years ago I found a leatherworker, who sells simple handbags/clutches starting at about 300 EUR. He also sells wallets and belts. He has a limited selection of styles, but they are made-to-order thus you can select the colors when you place your order.

He isn't local to me, but I've met him and watched him stitch his bags together and chatted about his style (minimalist, sleek). I couldn't afford anything from him at the time (his smaller items were sold out), but kept his card handy. I'll provide a link, in case anyone is interested.

http://www.foerster-taschen.de/
what's wrong with boiled broccoli?
There's a good choice in formaldehyde free boards these days. In the UK a popular one is Sterling Zero.
Prisma Pulse: Simplified database-event driven compute
You can still ask their hosting company to take down the content for example, or try to pay them off, or other things.

Or since it was in the US make up some bogus claim and take them to court and hope they cannot afford court proceedings and fold.
> I really wish Boeing defense got spun off, them being under the same leadership is a threat to national security.

Don't look at their board of directors unless you want to fully realize the magnitude of what you don't yet realize you're saying!
I have a persistent notification in the play store to enable notifications.
With Yevgeny Prigozhin, the method was ingestion of surface-to-air missile: https://babylonbee.com/news/leader-of-failed-russian-uprisin...
More like the holy trinity 99.998% of CS majors couldn't code if their career depended on completing.

https://youtu.be/TRZAJY23xio?feature=shared&t=2346

I don't agree with a lot of what Steve stood for, but he was right about this dynamic range observation.

Cheers =)
Did you read the parent?
On motorbikes, there is often (at least in older ones) a neutral indicator but no gear indicator: it prevents this exact situation I guess
Croatia's tourist pearl Dubrovnik seeks to reclaim city for locals
Neither does Tadatem ;)
> Due to majority of worker being spinless and complicit to corner cutting and other unethical practices.

I think companies that might end up doing that kind of stuff first off cultivate that culture. Either in their entire company, or with the people who are going to engage with criminal activities. Security people, upper management, ... Like in the ebay case linked above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal#Stalking...

I'm not sure we can deduce that most employees of the corporate world are cynical and unethical from just individual cases like this
i suspect adblocking is still insignificant at youtube scale, thou overrepresented in tech circles
"You were hired to do a job." --- It's not as black and white as that. You're paid for your time and expertise for a number of hours/day. You do get as job description but that is just for reference. That is the "minimum" for your job in most companies. Things can be added or removed as the job progresses.

If you write code (any unrelated code) during work hours - it's done on their time, they paid you for it, they own it.

If you write code(work related) even outside working hours - They own it. At best you might get some money for your overtime and such.

if you write (urelated) code on their laptops on test it on their infra outside work hours - gray area, can go either way. most likely a settlement and they get the code.

if you write unrelated code and test it with you own resources - depends on the lawyers but, in most places, it's yours to keep. If the CEO suite or senior management see value in it. Be ready to to defend it.

I did have this exact discussion when I started with a global 500 corp as I do write code for various things when needed and also write small apps for extra £. The above pretty much sums up the discussion with the UK lawyer. It's not my job to write code but I do to make my life easier. I also document it for handover if I decide to leave.

EDIT: a few typos and the below

The lawyer's advice was, if I write anything unrelated that I want to keep - publish/sell in my wife's name.
My ability to interact with government services largely depends on access to the Internet. Various services are exclusively online, including the ability to file records of and pay taxes for my business.

So yes, in 2024, my ability to interact with the society around me largely depends on my phone, which does indeed make it precious.
But with MSIX requiring installation, couldn't the cached credentials be tied to the container? I would think that the OS would need to protect the container to some extent, and thus an application that could break into the container would effectively already have filesystem privileges equivalent to administrator access.

It'd be more tolerable if self-signed certificates were allowed without janky workarounds like adding them to the cert store. There are too many significant downsides to commercial code signing certificates for individuals, like cost, loss of anonymity, certificates getting revoked for bogus reasons like antivirus false positives, and the slow creep toward more things requiring EV (like maintaining reputation). The majority of the time, the only actual trust I have in an application and its developer is from past history, and for that all I need is assurance that a new version was signed by the same entity as the last version.
On an unrelated usability issue:

They have recently updated their login page. Now instead of a single TAB to get from the user name field to the password field you need something like five key presses to get to the enter password page.

Yes, I should not use that surveillance company in the first place. Or in their opinion never log out, not use cookie auto delete, Firefox account containers etc.

Unfortunately I try to balance between the two standpoints.
Yes, that’s part of their advocacy. “I do this so I don’t see why everyone else can’t too”, blind to how insane the on-ramp is.
Al Capone got a jail sentence for not paying his taxes.

There's no bill of attainder involved when you break a law that existed before you were even born.
Off topic question, what happen to hyphae when they meet? do they fuse? do they knot around eachother?
My property value is dependent on what happens to the neighborhood around me. It's literally my business. That makes the rest of your comment just ridiculous.
> I'd say it may not be obvious why, but it's obvious that it is less of a deterrent, because this sort of data trading seems to be commonplace and semi-overt in the US

But that's because the US doesn't even have the law requiring express and freely given consent, so they just stick the consent in some agreement nobody reads next to a box you have to check. You could have that rule without having the whole GDPR.

In this case they apparently collected the data even if you never checked the box, which is just egregious and now they're getting sued.

> the risk, i.e. probability of successfully getting sued * cost of successfully getting sued, is likely much lower

Certainly this is not because plaintiffs would be unwilling to file claims if they could.
It has been brought up with SEBI. Just search on Twitter. Zerodha and other brokers have paid too I think.
How does that happen when all the houses are being purchased as investments to rent out (or not, as often happens)?
We don't know. But I can imagine that when the rich American that comes into your country and has very young girls as his girlfriends ends up in jail, and you're a local and get very involved with that situation, that there's going to be a lot of drama. maybe one of those girls was your lover or is your sister. and then there's drug business happening. the guy ends up in jail, which means he gets to go home to America and never face consequences for what he did to your family? It's not hard to imagine why he was murdered. we'll never know the true story but whatever it is, I'm sure it's a good one.

He wasn't killed over not paying his us tax bill.
A favorite of both my dad and I. I've only read it twice -- once as a teenager and once as a college junior -- and loved it both times, while he rereads it every so often. As my dad would say, it's the type of book that you can read many times and discover something new every time.
And yet, most IT will see it as an opportunity for locking down systems and policies, instead of the call for help shadow IT is: people want systems that are reliable, efficient, and adaptable to rapidly changing business needs. Providing them is part of the core mission of IT, and they're failing at it in some companies. One anecdotal example: I'm responsible for doing trainings at my company. If I see someone providing trainings on their own, creating their own class material, using their own platform... basically wasting company resources; I don't consider it shadow training but I take it as an indication that A. they have a need B. are very willing to work to achieve it and C. I'm not filling up that need properly, maybe not even communicating correctly about it. I take ownership and I don't play vigilante. When IT are providers, helpers to the employees, instead of self-appointed inquisition on a mission to purify the systems and its users, it works for the best.
It's tongue in cheek, we kill in many different ways.

Drowning related however, the most known is this one (even got a wiki page, so it's really well known!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boulin

But Choukri Ghanem also managed to drown himself in Vienna.

A related death was Albichari, a 37 yo dying of diabetes, and 6 years later, Bechir Saleh assassination attempt by a commando (with his bodyguard crew saving him), so the DGSE clearly have multiple ways of doing business.