skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens to be the plot of a famous french comedy show in the 2000’s. Not sure if I should spoil as it’s literally the very last revelation in the series.
I do hope that (for example) EU would force makers to provide a way to unlock the device and install any OS/distribution I want...
Waymo logged 1.4M ride hail miles and served 316k passengers in a quarter in SF
"8PM", like most timekeeping, is a human invention devoid of intrinsic meaning. Noon is the only time that means anything in relation to the world: it's when the sun is directly overhead*. Analog clocks are tiny mechanical sundials for a reason. Have noon (the time) at noon (when the sun is overhead). All else is details.

* - yeah, yeah, in the middle of a timezone, you're very clever if you thought this was a gotcha
I hope this is false. Tesla should be trying to beat BYD, not Waymo. I mean, the latter is interesting, but the former is the whole reason Tesla exists: Deliver a capable electric car for the masses.

(At the same time, pushback against vehicles in general is worthwhile -- let's prioritize pedestrians and mass transit -- but I won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.)
If they bothered changing to closed-source, they have to put in some effort to make it stick. This move is not surprising. I don't think there is any real penalty for sending this letter if they are wrong anyway, other than more reputation loss with people who already switched to OpenTofu.
> Incognito modes generally do not prevent the websites you visit from seeing your location, via your IP address, or stop your internet service provider from logging your activities.

Of course it doesn't, that was never what it was intended to do.
Which require runtime to check, isn't it?

Anyway, such constraints are also available in GN, and in CMake or Autotools you can implement them yourself, but they suffer from the same restriction I mentioned (not amenable to static analysis, limited verifiability at runtime due to combinatorial explosion of possible system states, etc.).
Can you draw things without a reference? What happens if you try to play pictionary?
Insurance bothers me for a few reasons:

1. What pisses me off more than anything else, it enables fraud that otherwise wouldn't exist. People manufacturing calamities and then claiming insurance allows dishonest people to get ahead in life over people who are honest and concerned enough about the future to buy insurance. Additionally, insurance fraud is net bad relative to other types of fraud because it encourages criminals to manufacture damage that wouldn't otherwise happen.

2. There is an obvious incentive for them to chase an endgame of knowing exactly whether you will cost them money or make them money. When they attain this, insurance simply becomes a fortune teller and an instruction manual for Living Without Calamity. If you're denied coverage, you're going to experience something calamitous. If you're accepted, you have the ability to be fine and don't need insurance, unless you aren't sure how to Live Without Calamity. When you are accepted, you're only covered if you surrender your agency and follow their instructions for Living Without Calamity. Basic things like travelers insurance have clauses that void your policy if you scuba dive past 30 feet on your trip.

3. Insurance policies can create toxic incentives for people that hurt society. I filed a claim with Generali travel insurance because my host tested positive for COVID with a take home test, and I canceled my trip. Their web portal indicated that my claim had been received and was awaiting processing. I called incessantly to confirm my claim was good, and was not able to get an answer after several calls that routed through incompetent-by-design help desk employees and into a voicemailbox of a claims processor. Weeks go by and I receive a voicemail from the person I had been trying to contact telling me that I needed a doctor's note confirming that the person had COVID, and a take home test would not suffice. So, a company allegedly tasked with helping the public live safely wanted me to, at the time, ask my COVID infected host to waltz in to the doctor's office and spread around a pathogen that could kill patients. Nice. I guess they weren't medical insurance so they didn't care. And of course no doctor would retroactively go back in time and confirm that a person was positive for a sickness after they had already recovered.
http://archive.today/Xjuur
Ah, classic mistake here.

If bargaining power is asymmetric between the insurer and the buyer, then the extra information is used for additional price discrimination (eg. Its better for you if the picture is never taken regardless who you are).

So the question is: does the insurer or the insured have the bargaining power here? Competition helps, but is only one part of it.

Seeing that insurers seem very profitable in the US, a decent proxy for bargaining power, I'd argue this is a bad thing for the consumer.
Play premodern. In addition to having the best gameplay, the card pool is closed so you don't have to worry about acquiring new cards.

https://premodernmagic.com
Show HN: Kiwi – End-to-End Kafka Subscriptions with WebAssembly
Hey HN!

I'm excited to announce the release of Kiwi v0.1.1. I started working on Kiwi a few months ago with the primary motivation of providing an extensible WebSocket adapter that allows client applications to securely subscribe to real-time data sources such as Kafka.

Often times, there is a desire to extend the real-time data that flows through sources like Kafka to end users in a fast and secure manner. Rather than standing up custom solutions, Kiwi lets operators focus on writing business logic, by loading custom WASM plugins that handle tasks like authorization and event filtering per client.

There is a lot more information in the README. Any feedback would be much appreciated :)

Thanks!
I think Microsoft's long term vision is to turn all personal computing machines into dumb terminals that must slurp from the azure/office cloud. Enterprise focused with the ability to claim that this way there is DLP built in from your security risks (employees).

In a world where decision makers only need to think of the short term (cloud computing as global/general panacea), I absolutely see this strategy mixed with some 'AI' buzz words seeing traction.

For retail customers, turning the Windows 11+ machine into a console-like brings further advantages.
Truth is that cows are fed mostly with soy, which is great for us.
if it flies it spies
xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine
My guess is they think the alternative already meets their needs. If someone else is already doing it better, why not just use that?
Well... If Musk says something we should definitely trust him. It's not like his previous statements haven't come to fruition.

OTOH: I do hope that car (especially EV) makers would finally stop making oversized monstrosities that are utterly useless in like 95% of cases (and close to 100% if you live in the city)... I dearly miss segment A/B… but yeah... now we get abominations like Toyota AygoX (pseudo-suv, that's bigger on the inside, and smaller on the inside... but it "LOOKS")
Well, 25% of those type-2 diabetics take insulin, but yes, those that don't take insulin may be able to derive some value from a less accurate sensor.

I just don't know why you'd choose the less accurate thing when it's your health.

I think the non-invasive stuff makes the most sense for people who don't have diabetes yet. Nothing will be covered by insurance for them and the non-invasive tech might be cheaper, and it can nudge them to make healthier eating decisions.
Citizen scientist has measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years
Alright, I spent years working and building 0-1 insurance products. Let me peel back some stuff that’s been happening behind the scenes.

Some officials are elected and some are appointed which all depends on the state. Appointed officials are usually more reasonable and elected are not because higher rates = mad voters = re-election chances lower.

For a long time, insurers have struggled to get sufficient rate changes approved. A literal quote for you during Covid was, “Son, I’m looking out my window at downtown {city} and I don’t see many cars on the road. We won’t approve the rate increases.”

This was with actual data of losses increasing due to supply chain disruption of auto parts, labor increases and many more things.

We basically had to write policies and hope for the best despite knowing the data / trend lines forecasting major losses.

Fast-forward and what do you have - major losses by all of these companies - and so these companies have two choices:
- Try to get rate approvals
- Exit the market or line of insurance

For California, the latter is the better option because at least for auto you cannot use credit, telematics or other very predictive attributes to price the risk. This results in essentially pooled risk which in aggregate drives up rates for all. Simply put, California officials did this to themselves.

For other states, the first option works but the rate increases are now significantly higher because it was near impossible to get any adequate rate increases last few years.

So, the bill has come due and it sucks for everyone as it’s either a) higher prices or b) can’t get insurance (Florida folks for certain types) or c) limited suppliers not being able to get reinsurance to share the risk results in higher rates that customers can’t afford so they go without.
They might have an incentive to compete, but I think they also have an incentive to collude. Last time I shopped around for insurance it seemed like the latter was taking place.

You're required to get homeowner's insurance if you have a mortgage, and you're required to have car insurance if you want to drive a car on public roads.

So the majority of Americans are forced to purchase at least one of these in order to live their normal lives, which makes demand inelastic.
Most microwaves come from the same factory
You can try your hand with one of my Docker images.

docker run -it -p 3270:3270 rbanffy/vm370

Then connect your 3270 client(s) to port 3270 on localhost and play like it’s the 1970’s.

Disclaimer: that image has a 370, the successor of the 360.

For this image, user CMSUSER has password CMSUSER, user MAINT (has more privileges) has password CPCMS. I now forgot the password for OPERATOR. I’ll post it here when I remember what it was. This image is built on the Sixpack distribution of VM/370. Google for it and you’ll find lots of information.
The problem is that people assume others are too stupid for technical information. So its siloed. People in the field have learned to abrogate a search engine to return technical results (e.g. looking for direct links to documentation or using a search tool like google scholar to read scientific literature). However, most people aren’t taught these skills in the general sense. All they might know is that narrow scope written to a 6th grade reading level. On the other hand, if we are able to get more people ready access to the ground truth technical information on different topics to people instead of narrow scope information that often leaves you misinformed, I’d imagine that would kick start an untold era of innovation and progress for our species. Too bad using our computer networks to distribute advertising and propaganda is seen as more profitable than future advancements, that I guess must be liable to disrupt the profitable status quo.
I would bet that neither small claims or class action is possible in the US because ASUS has a forced binding arbitration clause in their End User Agreement that almost no one read when they activated their phones.
The company bosses wanted it... the same ones that hired us for the "temporary solution"... we could charge a lot, because they were in a hurry, and couldn't find anyone else, so it was a good situation for us, but we were definitely cheaper than those two "enterprise grade" teams :)
His real name was Dr. Richard Kimble.
Greta Thunberg: Activist arrested at Hague climate protest
Is any part of GS/OS based on original MacOS code ported from 68000 to 65C816? Or is it a clean-sheet reimplementation?

If one in 1988 wanted to port a MacOS application to GS/OS, how difficult would it have been? What would have been the IIgs equivalent to, say, MPW?
Not to be mean, just to provide a different perspective: having an open source repo doesn't automatically mean I want to deal with every pull request in a timely manner, merge docs cleanups that I don't even like, and especially reviewing and merging features that I don't want. It's true for personal and probably for professional projects, too.

Open source means what's in the license, everything else is just us setting expectations for others that they don't want to our can't meet.

For example, I make my projects open source because I don't care if anyone else uses my code, so why not.
Grilled mackerel like they do in Japan is honestly better than salmon in every way.
This is rubbish. I'm running GrapheneOS and have left my bootloader unlocked, and there's no app that has refused to work. The only caveat is some of them need Google Play services. No, I am not rooted, but my last phone was rooted and there might have been one or two apps out of dozens that wouldn't work with root even with Magisk trying to hide the root status. Using a custom ROM is easily one of the beat choices I have made.
If it were me I would shut it down too after I no longer had energy to maintain it.

Just handing responsibility over to someone else for something like a VPN project is definitely high risk.

Remember the xz debacle last week? Same kind of people who backdoored xz would love to get maintainership of a VPN project for sure.
I don’t expect they leave paid product placement off the table for good.
The only difference between suckers and successful people is the outcome. If the outcome was truly meaningful for the individual, they were successful. Otherwise, they were just a sucker in other individual's games.
The insurance paradox. If you can price every risk precisely, meaning the variance on your prediction is zero, there's no point to insurance because it would be the same as a savings account.

There's no pooling of risk at all.
I recently got Lenovo Moto G7 Plus (not recent but recent enough for their purpose), because LineageOS fully supports them [1].

Then I found out to unlock the bootloader I had to:

1. get a string via a `fastboot` command

2. create a motorola.com account

3. paste string in some motorola.com page to get an "unlock code" emailed IF Motorola decides your device is "unlockable"

4. `fastboot oem unlock UNLOCK_CODE`

5. connect phone to the Internet and wait between 3 and 7 days [2] (turned out to be 3 or 4)

Until I did all that shit, the option to unlock the bootloader in system settings was grayed out.

Afterwards the device works well, but it was a terrible experience and I DO NOT recommend Motorola devices for rooting based on this.

[1]: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices

[2]: https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-fix-oem-unlock-greyed-out-or-o...
Which law of war does that violate? They were an enemy combatant, yes?

The seventy year answers are political cop-outs and not actionable by any commander. These discussions never go anywhere because people are naive about war, the laws of war, urban combat, insurgencies, or their military strategy invokes time-travel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/opinion/gaza-israel-war.h...

https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/07/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-n...

> The destruction and suffering, as awful as they are, don’t automatically constitute war crimes – otherwise, nearly any military action in a populated area would violate the laws of armed conflict

> When Hamas uses a hospital, school or mosque for military purpose, it can lose its protected status and become a legal military target.

> Like all similar conflicts in modern times, a battle in Gaza will look like the entire city was purposely razed to the ground or indiscriminately carpet bombed – but it wasn’t. Israel possesses the military capacity to do so, and the fact that it doesn’t employ such means is further evidence that it is respecting the rules of war.
The current article <title> Glaciers are melting, but the dust left behind may help save us is less misleading than the posted headline (maybe it changed?) and the page's <h1> The unassuming material that could soak up carbon emissions a little more-so although it has a clickbait ring.
Texts for minor logistics, phones for P0
Discussions, as painful as they are, allow us to bridge gaps, and see each other as human beings. Not discussing certain things only makes us silently hate each other and leads to misunderstandings compounding one on top of another.

Obviously, corporations have zero incentive to improve the society as a whole, it's easier to just tell everyone either they get along or they're fired.

So I smile and wave towards everyone. They'll never know I'm whatever-ist, and I silently vote for politicians that take away rights of certain social groups I'm prejudiced about.
I'm not sure what your experience is, but in the vast majority of enterprise AD forests, most apps are deployed by MSI and have been for quite a while. MSI actually took off really quickly, and most installer kits shrank a lot, many disappearing. These days most of the remaining large commercial installer kits generate MSIs as well as EXEs.
I liked https://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pd... though I’ve not looked at the OP so I don’t know how it compares.
I'd be worried about chlorine gas generation

Is this worry based in knowledge of the problem space, or knowledge of what a chlorine ion is?
> I don't see bandwidth as an issue.

The issue is latency
Cows and Carbon for Dummies
Yes, they all have a lot of similarities inside. They all use cheap door interlock switches that fail over time. This is the built-in "call the repair man" feature.
I'm glad more options are cropping up with the direction plex is heading. I'd like to see someone build a hook/connect straight into SONARR/RADARR where you can just click on a calendar entry and jump to a player. They're probably weary of doing it themselves due to legality. But combining self hosted media with... pirate management into one interface would be convenient.
All people who say "virtue signaling" are virtue signaling.
They could, but how long would the country be able to defend itself against all its enemies, especially after such a heinous act of genocide?

What Netanyahu’s government is dangerous enough to the long term existence of the country. Going all in could be disastrous.
Does it follow that people with aphantasia (edit: "aphantasics", per the article) would be unable to draw a realistic-looking apple from scratch? If not, then how do scientists show someone has aphantasia? Is it falsifiable?
DANGER: Nerdsniping Hazard Ahead. Do NOT click if you might be vulnerable to ...
Consider another sense, like hearing. Many people experience "earworms" where a song gets stuck in their head and plays repeatedly. They know it's not actually playing since there's no "external" sound but they can hear it "internally".

"Picturing" something in your head is the same, just with the sense of vision instead of the sense of hearing.
There is no ruling. The article spells it out as a "settlement subject to being approved by the judge in that case". Generally, that means this is the police dept (and city that funds it) giving up and paying some money now to avoid a potentially much higher penalty if they let the case go to verdict. Occasionally this could reflect that the police dept - and city - truly recognize they were wrong, truly have changed policy and practices, and want to put the issue behind them. That is, in that case, there is no more need for a trial.

Either way the judge approval is, nominally, a safeguard against settlements that are too unjust or against public policy. The judge can reject the settlement even if both parties to the lawsuit truly want that outcome.

I agree that booking photos with the head nearly completely covered - all the way to completely covered - makes them useless. What I wonder is what is the workaround used by the police for people who invoke hijab.
> Avoid it. Teach others to avoid it.

No. This is just as bad.

Mental health docs assume there’s something because you’re seeing them. You, or someone else, has enough concern about your mental health for you to be in their presence.

For the same reasons, ER docs tend to assume you’re sick in some way.

Are they always right? No. Are they never right? Also no.
It is, now.

Remember https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39948055
Seems to be hugged to death.
https://archive.is/xixuj
Home insurance companies are leaving Florida because it's not profitable to operate in an area with so much vulnerability to hurricane damage.

Also, the only thing stopping medical insurers from denying coverage or increasing prices for people with pre-existing conditions is the Affordable Care Act.
Do you remember when Raymond Hill ceded control of uBlock to another guy? This new guy started asking for donations (for himself) and then sold the project to AdBlock.

That was truly disgusting.

That’s what prompted Raymond to create uBlock Origin.
> Is broadcast TV "lobotomised" before the watershed?

Since you asked: Often yes.

> Are PG-rated films?

Possibly, in some cases.

> Public comments from corporations and politicians?

Again, often yes.

> It's literally training.

Training in common parlance usually refers to improving the functionality or ability of something. In this case it's doing the opposite: removing functionality and capability. Hence: lobotomy.
Overall great idea though, I'll be definitely checking it back in the future. A few things that hit me out of the box:

* The idea behind using Serper is great, however it would be cool if other search engines/data sources can be used instead, ie. Kagi or some private search engine/data. Reason for the latter: there are tons of people who are sourcing all sorts of information which will not immediately show up on google and some might never do. For context: I have roughly 60GB (and growing) of cleaned news article with where I got them from and with a good amount of pre-processing done on the fly(I collect those all the time).

* Relying heavily on OpenAI. Yes, OpenAI is great but there's always the thing at the back of our minds that is "where are all those queries going and do we trust that shit won't hit the fan some day". It would be nice to have the ability to use a local LLM, given how many and how good there are around.

* The installation can be improved massively: setuptools + entry_points + console_scripts to avoid all the hassle behind having to manage dependencies, where your scripts are located and all that. The cp factcheck/config/secret_dict.template factcheck/config/secret_dict.py is a bit.... Uuuugh... pydantic[dotenv] + .env? That would also make the containerizing the application so much easier.
Let's be real, MS doesn't give a flying flip about support. They use their customers as alpha and beta testers. It has been a few years, but the last time I used Premium Support it was a miserable experience. The agents knew about as much as I did and wasted my time waiting around for a call backs that solved nothing. They don't care. I would hang my head in shame to be associated with such a rotten organization like MS. I don't know how some of those folks sleep at night working for MS.
Whatever caused “Captain Underpants” is not a new phenomenon.
Is there a JS/webasm module to turn a browser into a CLI? It would make my life much more interesting to avoid frontends and just make my cli stuff into websites directly.
Seems like a way for them to turn everything into a console with all the complete control that big brother prefers.

If an enterprise computer, they'll have a dashboard for corporate IT, and if retail that dashboard will be for advertisers and 3 letter agencies.