skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...there were very organized entities financing and organizing people all over the country and even paying transport and food for them...

So what? Every manifestation has that. People were asking for military intervention way before Bolsonaro came to power. The thing is that the military didn't want to intervene there or now.

> Moreover, there were even high officials at the army that admitted that Bolsonaro was trying a coup and tried to discuss his plans with them.

No doubt that Bolsonaro is authoritarian and dream of being a dictator but besides being an unscrupulous & irresponsible politician he is also a coward. He didn't have substantial support from the high echelon.

My read is that it was a massive manifestation that got out of control. His goal was to show that he wasn't politically dead yet so he would secure his party loyalty and maybe get a second chance at next elections. He achieved that. He cowardly left the country to have an alibi. He lured thousands of brainwashed supporters into the sacrificial pyre which ultimately ended with them being imprisoned for life.

It's worth mentioning that Lula government purposefully let things get out of control. Intelligence services notified government officials days before but they didn't make preparations like increasing . Also there is CCTV that shows Lula chief of security (chief of GSI) giving water and directions to protesters inside the the presidential palace. Suspiciously most of internal CCTV footage was deleted.

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/dino-diz-que-imagens-i...

It's also worth mentioning that from 2021 and onward Bolsonaro became a puppet from the powers at play motivated
by his son being target by corruption investigations.
Chronon, Airbnb's ML feature platform, is now open source
Is that a crime fighting unit that polices the activity of ninjas?

Or, a police officer targeting generic crime but leveraging the elite skills of a ninja?
"Copilot generates one potentially offensive image" is way less of an interesting headline, though.
You are confusing "misleading stickers" and "sales tax" I think
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Meta question: Is this one of those "second chance" posts? Per iancmceachern's profile, this was posted a day ago (2024-04-07T05:12:35), and Algolia search says 2 days ago. Yet after a couple refreshes and an incognito browser, it's showing as being posted 1 hour ago.

Top level response by Animats says "50 minutes ago" but is timestamped 4/7 [1]. Although top level response by theboogieman says "5 minutes ago" and does seem to be [more] correct, with a timestamp of 4/8 17:12 UTC [2]. Really shakes me up on the accuracy of comments/metadata.

Turns out it wasn't deja vu after all and I really had seen this post before.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39958754
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971752
Ask HN: Why are we hanging on to anachronistic academic paper formats
Academic papers are not only dense to read because of the technical content, but the format/layout of the paper i.e. the 2 column format with the distinct table styling etc isnt a very user friendly/approachable look. Is there a good reason why this doesnt change? Is it just that academics dont value aesthetics?
Au contraire - I am paying them enough (along with millions of others of customers) to care about their whole infrastructure
The CEO/cofounder of cloudflare has written about this issue here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
Communicating status has always been a pain point for me. This article was wonderful and timely.
i've been looking forward to seeing this come together for a while now, very cool!
You have to take enshittification into account. My phone is probably thousands of times more powerful than a computer from 2 decades ago, yet I still chose to get an iPod recently, and my listening experience on that has been significantly better. I could go on for hours about this topic, but I'll keep it brief. Application specific devices are always going to beat smartphones. Smartphones can do everything, but they can't do anything -well-.
That is what I got out of the article, too. Attraction for most people is truly innate, it is not something they can really control. If someone prefers to only date within their race, culture, whatever, that should be fine. That is their personal choice; after all you don't have to date them if you don't like their preferences.

This article just seems like more race-baiting and trying to identify a problem, and a victim class, where there really isn't one.
They did sell out, they were acquired by Life360 a while ago.

edit: I don't think Google would have had much to gain by acquiring Tile, the actual technology is very simple, their moat was just the fact that they had the largest install base of tracking apps on Android. Google could, and did, just rug-pull them by pushing their own network out to every Android device with Play Services (so nearly all of them).

The only thing Tile really has going for it now is that their trackers can be used with both Android and iOS simultaneously, if you have devices in both ecosystems.
not true:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/15/japan-economy-inflation...
Is this limited to PDFs or could the same chunking and parsing be applied to plain text, html, and other input file types?
Agreed. I bought a couple Tiles before AirTags were available. They worked fine, but AirTags are just better in every way.
FOI lawsuits on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function and biolabs
You just said a bunch of stuff that normal people don't care about. Those are Best Buy's customers. The store will be stocked with shitty laptops and low end hardware that anybody who works with computers wouldn't touch.
Write the program down on paper, then type it in or punch cards.

Since I'm old, I remember writing FORTRAN -- it was all caps back then -- programs in my dorm room and then going down to the computer "room" and accessing the Dartmouth Time Sharing System to type it in and run it.
Israel withdrawing its soldiers from Gaza doesn't mean that Gaza is not under occupation. There's no Palestinian soveriegn state. All of Palestinian lands and the entire Palestinian population are under occupation, and according to International law, the responsibility of the occupier, and have the right to resist.
Finally, this was announced about a year ago but kept getting held up by the effort to standardize stalker detection across Android and iOS. Seems like they've finally got it figured out.
If you like that article I think you'll really like this video. It's about the same thing but goes over a lot more data: https://youtu.be/8UAsN9wvePE?si=Kom5C1u4T7yX29jb
Is that on the cloud?
If so, no thanks.

I’ll take either a local LLM or a licensed therapist whose career I can ruin if they spill the beans.
NASA Eclipse Explorer by zip code
>The shoebox of pictures will still be there in the closet even if I stopped thinking about it many years before. And it will be easy for someone to know what it is. A bill for $10/month is the kind of thing executors get rid of.

Random shoe boxes of thousands of photos will get chucked by the executors - no one has time to go through them

No one cares

So ... if you're only worried about them maybe surviving your passing, don't worry: they're all going to the great dustbin in the sky (or in the front yard)
>> any object can become a black hole if it is made dense enough

[big 'if'!]

> any material (of any density) can be made a black hole if there is enough of it

There is an awful lot of intergalactic medium out there. It's of "any density" (albeit very low). How come it's not a black hole? Isn't there "enough of it"? (cf. the "missing baryons problem").

There is an awful lot of atomic and molecular hydrogen gas in the Milky Way and practically every other galaxy. In our galaxy it totally dwarfs all the matter in our central black hole, the stellar black holes, and in all the luminous stars combined. Seems like "enough of it". It's of "any density". How come it's not a black hole?

And so forth.

> (actually, one should properly talk about the circumference)

Why? Also, since we're being properly, what's the circumference of a spinning black hole and how does it evolve with the spin parameter?

Extra credit: assume that you mean the mean density of the interior of M87*, how are you arriving at its volume? (You might cast your eyes over Bengtsson & Jakobsson's extension of work on this question by Christodoulou & Rovelli at respectively https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01907 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2854 -- when you calculate the volumes in a relativistic spirit, the interiors are very large, far too large to support your (commonly used) throwaway line about dense-as-air/less-dense-than-water). Alternatively, what do you think the BH interior modal densities are?

("In their paper CR [Christodolou & Rovelli] estimate that the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — whose area radius they assume to be not much larger than the distance to the Moon — now contains enough space to fit a million solar systems. A decent estimate for its spin appears to be a/m ≈ 0.9 [5]. It follows that CR overestimate the volume, but only by a factor of 10 or somewhat less". And from CR: "flat space intuition does not apply to the curved geometry inside the hole [...] and the interior volume keeps growing with time").

I of course expect this comment to be thrown into a deep (gravitational) well, actually.
There are mechanical switches with near 1 mm travel, comparable to laptop keyboards. E.g. Cailh choc switches have 1.3 mm travel.

(I would love to see scissors-action keys available to build custom keyboards, but I haven't seen any.)
In some places, rejecting that person because they are trans could be considered a hate crime. Just because someone will not date me because I am Southeast Asian, or I won't date them because they are not the gender I prefer, does not make anyone racist or transphobic. It's a personal preference.
I wrote a programming book back when tech books were a thing you had to go physically buy from a physical store (more than 20 years ago now). The publisher sent advanced royalties, which was money that was mine, free and clear (it wasn't a small amount either - certainly enough to compete with a full time salary for similar time commitment and knowledge/skills needed). I wouldn't see any more royalties until I'd sold enough to equal what my advance was. If I never sold enough, then I wouldn't see any new money - the original advance was still mine.

I did end up seeing royalty checks, though not until the book was translated from English to Italian. For some reason, it sold comparatively well in Italian, pushing me over the threshold to earn royalities. The one actual royalty check I saw for my book was a grand total of $0.02. I never cashed the check and keep it in a desk drawer somewhere.
FWIW, I got married in Germany (as a German to another German) and it was surprisingly straightforward compared to other acts of bureaucracy that I've seen.
Antonymph: An audiovisual experience using the browser
Chebyshev Straight Line Linkage – Kinematic Analysis [video]
This is Modern Art.
But why http?
> Are you using Pihole to block ads at a network level, but not also using a browser extension to block them at the client?

A lot of Pihole users don't bother with browser extensions. In extension-only use cases, these results would just not show up. With Pihole, you have to copy and paste the URL and just enter directly in the browser. It's not like a huge roadblock.
It seems that OP isn't so much fearful of new technology as they are fearful of dying (and killing others).
I don't know what methodology Shirley's company used. But yes, Teletype machines were very common in the mid-1960s.

For example, Tymshare, where I worked for several years, was founded in 1964. Their customers used Teletype machines at their own locations, dialing into a Tymshare mainframe and paying by the hour.

There were a number of similar timesharing companies in that era. Call Computer and Dial Data come to mind, along with Transdata where I worked in Phoenix before moving to the Bay Area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter

I had an office at Tymshare's Cupertino headquarters, and a Teletype at home to work remotely.

This proved handy one year when the company was doing some final acceptance tests on the Xerox Data Systems (XDS) Sigma 7. The problem was that all of us preferred the competing DEC PDP-10. So the company really wanted those tests to fail.

My manager called me into his office one day and said, "This conversation is strictly between you and me. You are our best Sigma 7 expert [I'd worked on the similar Sigma 5 at Transdata] and even you like the PDP-10 more. But at this point the only way we can get out of the Xerox deal is if the acceptance tests fail."

I took the hint, and the acceptance tests mysteriously started going haywire!

Eventually I failed to cover my tracks well enough, and Xerox spotted my username in a core dump.

Back to my manager's office. "Xerox figured out what you were doing, and we had to tell them we would fire you. So, you're fired. But you still have your Teletype at home? And you have plenty of other work to do on the PDP-10, right? Can you work from home unofficially and keep track of your hours? Just stay away from the Sigma 7. After this all blows over, we will re-hire you and pay you that back pay."

So I did, and they did!
Streaming Killed the Video Star
I definitely didn't.

I don't know where it came from (as both my parents seemed to like their work) but I was sure from a very young age that working was one of the dumbest ideas I'd ever heard of. I was always shocked when classmates would have some plan or idea for what they wanted to do as adults.

My parents would be like, "If you want ______, you'll have to get a job to pay for it." So I just made the decision to not want things lol.

And so I just figured out how to live pretty simply and be happy with less so I could care less about work. Of course things get more complicated over time but it's served me pretty well.

I have a job that passes the time well enough and keeps me stimulated mentally, but as I tell people I work with, "If I win the lottery tomorrow, it's been nice knowing you!"
Excellent description, and further additions for the cynicism.

(opinion) Human society large rewards narcissism. Diligence is usually rewarded with exploitation. There's actually academic supporting the 2nd. Therefore, most politicians are largely selfish and mostly interested in being on TV, being the center of attention, and holding sway over other citizens. (Not all, just the majority). The only metric is "what gets elected." However, like "green" anything, the optimization is usually "do nothing, and color the corporate logo green."

Causes further issues. The optimization becomes, "focus on highly incendiary minutia, while avoiding anything risky, and maximizing viewer attention and anxiety." Issues that will allow them to say they're valiant, while exposing nothing especially damaging for the next election.

The American fiscal funding fiasco this / last year is typical. 6 months, and America finally has a budget. All the while, it's mostly arguments about minutia like "Homeland Security impeachment", who the speaker is, where Military can get abortions, whether a base will get funding, migrants on buses, and weekly CR shutdown "thwarting". It literally became weekly federal budgets around Feb-Mar in America... Meanwhile, a lot of enlisted in those abortion / base (yes/no?) states are wondering whether they're going to get paychecks. People on boats complain about having no ammunition to shoot with...

London's sewers are another excellent example. Dithering and dithering about repairs, about maintenance, about public toilets. Except the Thames is bright yellow, people won't go swimming, and when somebody asks, they're response is "well, btw, we're actually £18,000,000,000 in debt. Make -£2,000,000,000 per year. Have for years. Nobody even noticed. lolz." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Water Obvious optimization, nationalize while decrying the evils of the private sector. Quietly also nationalize the debt to the public in a line item somewhere that nobody writes about. Squander resources for years. Sell back to industry claiming the salvation of capitalism.
> The task is rendered even more difficult by the fact that most people lie in job interviews.

Woah what? Seriously?

Back when I was starting my career, I had an acquaintance tell me that "everyone lies" and to feel free to pad my resume, because "everyone does it" and if I didn't do it, then my overall impression will be discounted anyways down to below what my actual capabilities were.

I always chalked that up to him being a sales guy, so of course he's going to lie cheat and steal his way to the top, and insist that everyone should do the same.

When I have interviewed candidates, I can tell when someone has lied about something, because they can't talk through their process for doing the thing they claimed to have done. The details won't be there, and/or will be wrong. It's not common.

I don't put stuff on my resume that I can't speak to. Things I don't remember that well, I remove - no point in putting down stale skills that you're going to get dinged on.

On the other hand - Psychology Today as a source of such things has been known to post articles like this on topics which have been roundly debunked in the field. So this could also be one of those bad opeds.
I guess everything was "remote". My dad had to mail his code (punch cards) from (IIT) Madras to (IISc) Bangalore. He did say it was a pain though.

* IISc - Indian Institute of Science

* Madras, now Chennai was probably an overnight drive in the late 60s.
"Did anyone else not have a dream job when they grew up?"

I probably had a few over the years. Being a dev was one, I guess. How wrong I was. Maybe it wasnt really a dream job but just a job that I thought if be good at and could make some money. I can't even imagine what a dream job would look like today - they all seem like shit.
Yes. I wanted to be a UPS driver as a little boy. Because I loved getting packages.

Being a cake shop worker seems entirely aligned with five year old me. I just had never been to a cake shop at that time. :)
Thanks! I called them last week and they told me I couldn't do anything without a specifically Dutch ID. ISTR seeing booths with no staff in the past, I will look again next time.
Because it then creates a victim class which can use that "victim" status to for change and gain power for their position. That is the way America works now.
And not interviewing is worse than useless and extremely unfair.
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Agree, but it's a format that so so engrained in academia that it's not likely to change. But with the advent of LLMs that will readily read the paper and summarize it in the tone of voice of your choice this doesn't seem like an obstacle for people outside academia any more.
> I think leaving out such accutely critical non-orthogonal "parameter" is damaging significantly the study

That's a totally separate question. Does America have an entry-level religious wage gap in need of explanation?

Like, if I were doing this study in India, sure, that would be a target variable. Perhaps moreso than race.
After a car break-in, I got myself airtags and an old iPhone. I was really hoping that the rumors of airtag support coming to Android were true.
Google is like store-brand Apple. But their home devices are so much better (but still somehow not ‘good’) that more people have coverage with them rather than HomePod so they’ll get the search assist from there.

I’m surprised they can only do proximity, though. AirTags do direction quite well and can sometimes even tell altitude difference.
Just FYI, XFCE has a dbus dependency, so it might not be what you are looking for if that's a problem for you.
I've had good experiences with GTKSharp.
This is an illegal investigation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
Hoping for an upcoming movie in the vein of BlackBerry (2023)
Would you say that applies across the board or just for top Alpha level cities? Do people choose Manila over Vancouver? Or Jakarta over NYC?
Probably not the same kind of cake shop, but I know a software engineer who used to run a successful upscale US cake-decorating shop.

He's very no-nonsense, in a non-jerky way, and had a good intuition for noticing problems in company operations. After he left, I was discussing hiring plans with management, and I remarked that we probably aren't going to be able to hire someone as good.

Maybe managing a bunch of artists who get to design&build exotic cakes for a living, to be a successful business, is a transferable skill.
Title is clickbait.

Tldr of the article: don't do unstructured interviews, do structured ones.
Google is quite good at these little screw-you features:

> At home protection. If a user has chosen to save their home address in their Google Account, their Android device will also ensure that it does not contribute crowdsourced location reports to the Find My Device network when it is near the user’s home.

This is a feature that is fundamentally on-device, and it’s even a privacy feature, but for some reason it requires a Google account.
Salt, air and bricks: could this be the future of energy storage?
Does it still require the device to be signed into a Google account?
Anything's possible. But the vendor can increase price or refuse a discount instantly. While that government client would require a years-long large and costly project to migrate - and their track record on completing such projects is terrible. They might be able to run new projects on different vendors but it's not likely they will ever completely migrate existing applications.
Teaching to See (2012) [video]
Still one of my favorite "documentaries" of all time.
Would anyone have details on how Pixels can be found even when out of battery?
Yup. Just under a 501c3 to help ensure pgrx outlives us.

Huge thanks to TCDI (www.tcdi.com) for continuing to fund development.
Because starting measuring input latency from before the input is flat out wrong. It would be just as sensible to start the measurement from when your finger starts moving or from when the nerve impulse that will start your finger moving leaves your brainstem or from when you first decide to press the key. These are all potentially relevant things, but they aren't part of the keypress to screen input latency.
Sure. But more importantly, how do I disable this completely?
Where are the numbers showing this soft on crime method works? Everything on the ground proves otherwise, and it seems politicians are trying to gaslight people for some reason. This is actually outrageous and it's taking advantage of how most people are uninformed and just vote the same party in every time.

> It notes that the campaign has been funded by major corporations like Target, Home Depot, and Walmart, and backed by Republicans like Rep. Kevin Kiley.

So what? What a ridiculous take.