skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a good way to read your own books that you load yourself, across mobile (iOS specifically) and the Kobo hardware? That has always been what's kept me tied to Kindle. The iOS app isn't great, but the "email to Kindle" feature at least lets me send my own ePubs and keep them synced across both pieces of hardware.
It would absolutely decrease the amount of non-residential parking. You will be obliged to direct your car to off-site parking when driving to businesses in urban core. That's the main point.

It will be somewhere in the vicinity so it will only congest local roads, which would be much emptier now that they're not used for parking.
I think this is excellent advice.

Kind of agrees with what I had in mind.

It's been said, if you're going through hell, keep on going!

But I say if progress has drawn to a standstill, why stay where you are?

Even if progress has been remarkable, all the more reason to preserve what you have accomplished by coming to an advantageous stopping point, before . . . mothballs.

First of all it really is a complete about-face, away from working so hard toward a goal which is a realistic vision of completion. Overnight your new objective is to stake your ground and maintain distance from your goal instead, as you directly wind down to a halt in an orderly way.

Some well-earned breathing room seems in order.

You may need to catch up on a number of other unrelated things that could be de-prioritized for too long during such an all-consuming project. You may also get a more well-informed viewpoint about why you might want to get underway again, and how or when you would feel good about re-animating the project if so.

Hey it could be like Frankenstein bringing the inanimate back to life, do it on your own terms when you are fully ready, don't set the stage for your own creation to turn against you.
You are incorrect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

From the front page of the Times today, they are renewing the law that says they have to do it without a warrant (FISA Section 702, aka PRISM).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/politics/surveillance-...

You’ll note that this is regularly and frequently used by the FBI against domestic users (such as BLM protesters). Apple processes these FISA demands on over 70,000 user accounts every year, and the number is increasing. (That’s just the count for the warrantless FISA stuff - search warrants are a different (larger) figure.)

They also expanded it to allow them to search Apple’s data on people entering the US as visitors.

> The House also passed several other significant amendments. They included allowing the Section 702 program to be used to gather intelligence on foreign narcotics trafficking organizations and to vet potential foreign visitors to the United States; empowering certain congressional leaders to observe classified hearings before a court that oversees national-security surveillance; and expanding the types of companies with access to foreign communications that can be required to participate in the program.
For you to apply for your green card while in the U.S., you need to be in the U.S. in a work visa status, not in a visitor status. Alternatively, you can get your green card outside the U.S. through a U.S. Consulate (known as an "immigrant visa") but that process would take longer 6-18 months (versus 6 months or less if filed in the U.S.). And your employment as a contractor (as well as your and wife's assets) can be used to meet the financial support requirements.
I would gladly pay for a private search service, that does not use my IP address to add irrelevant search results based on location.
Or possibly some sort of as yet undiscovered stupid bird.
LA today, or LA in the 80's, before CARB and all that kicked in?
I would think people in AdTech would be first in line to pay for a search engine that avoids AdTech. They understand how the sausage is made. They want the rest of us to use the AdTech products but they themselves are going to avoid them where possible.

How often do you think the CEO pf Delta Airlines flies in first class versus on a private jet? My guess is only often enough to gin up a little PR.
Good question but outside my area of expertise.
And I think that the inability to explicitly confirm relationships w/ Stripe et al are ways that users cannot determine whether they are paying w/ their data on top of their monthly costs.
Meanwhile in Canada...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/29/google-ca...

Although facebook/insta did refuse to be blackmailed, and many canadian news orgs are actually harmed by this sort of bullshit link taxing because their media can't be shared on facebook anymore, where a lot of older news watchers get their news

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availabili...
There’s a sentiment which isn’t really being expressed here so far.

I don’t begrudge people who are less fortunate and need help.

I don’t enjoy my food any less because someone who is hungry can get free food from a food bank.

There are so many ways that the government has helped the more successful. I for one was a beneficiary of PPP loan forgiveness (not by my choice but an election of my managing partner).

This attempts to balance the scales of what type of support people get who are going through different situations and at different times with different needs isn’t particularly productive. It might feel good in some self centered bitter way, but it doesn’t speak to whether this is a policy measure that has a positive effect on many people and is a net benefit to the economy as a whole.
In the graph in the article you'll notice a steady increase since 2000 and that since the vaccine was rolled out there hasn't been an out of character change, beside the initial drop in suicides.
Your intelligent career decisions won't insulate you from the under-educated voters putting a despot and charlatan into power. An educated populace is better for everyone.
IPFS is slow as molasses and their solution was to introduce paid pinning services. Complete failure.

And then they announced they will willingly and proactively delete any hash that any legislative agency tells them to, and it was dead in the next minute.
Thanks for reporting. Fixing that pronto.
I agree there should be less billboards in this world.
Google News does not show ads.
I disagree — enacting a policy people like and find useful is inherently good publicity.

If your city mayors’ initiatives improve your local library, this will make people who visit the library like the mayor more. This doesn’t make improving the library immoral or unethical.
> So upgrading XZ could even attack already running sshd too?

Doesn't that work both ways, without dlopen updating to the patched version would still leave your sshd running with the old backdoored one.
I agree but we need to wait the next AI Winter, right now everybody is on the LLM hype train.
Hi Peter,

My wife is going to pursue her PhD in US in the coming months, and I'm working as part-time remote employee of a US startup, while owning a startup in India.
What options do I have, which would allow me to visit her for 1-2 months, without affecting my work?

I've heard B1/B2 holders being questioned during entry after they stayed for a month during previous trips.
As I'm not working full time for the US company, I'm not eligible for L1.
Even with regular 5G (sub 6 ghz) you'd take advantage of improvements over LTE like massive MIMO and more precise beamforming. All leading to more people using a network at the same time. Also anecdotally I've found that at music festivals, when cellular data doesn't work, texting or calling usually works fine (At least on AT&T)
Not just the core of Linux user land, but also the pre-linux boot process with systemd-boot. Don't forget that MS has enormous influence over UEFI too.

MS is gaining a lot of technical influence in the open source world. As soon as the regulatory environment shifts, they're going to take advantage of that.
Family Guy made a scene for scene recreation of Star Wars.
I hate ZScaler with a passion.
It has always fascinated me that the people migrating to oregon territory for the gold rush in the 1850's were some of the very very last people to ever see vast swaths of the United States in its pristine, natural state. I wonder if they had any clue that within a matter of a few decades it'd basically all be gone.
is it news orgs or governments? News orgs can't enact taxes without co-opting governments to pass laws.

But I agree these link taxes are a fundamentally broken concept where legacy media looks to strongarm funds out of others for sharing their publicly shared news.
I think surfacing additional information would help increase confidence in the system when it raises a problem.

For example, keep a running passengerCount (or rather display it since it must(?) exist).
If someone has a copied pass, their screen can show:
Current Passenger Count 10
This Pass Last Scanned at 5

If the fraudster & legitimate passenger are back-to-back, that might add some confusion for the agent so they'd need a good way to display this. They can call out to the last person to come back to clear up confusion.

If the fraudster was much earlier, they'd have to go find them. Maybe take a picture of each passenger during pass-scan.

Or simpler: this would be simplified by using Steffen Method boarding [1]: you should know exactly which seat matches a given passenger count number.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffen_Boarding_Method
The blatant vote-buying will continue until the polls improve.
Copyright laws are already strict enough in favor of the rights holders. Don't we all agree on that?

Bills like this are like copyright law on steroids, making copyright holders even more powerful than they already are.
> So if you'll pardon my pun, I think they've probably just duck-taped a standard VPN client app into their browser app

If it's true, then I'll only double the pun.

But that's why I'm also curious about the "No need to install a separate VPN app" part.

Never tried WIreGuard in Windows, but AFAIK it tries to mean serious business, "no connection runs past". So there should be things similar to WinPcap or something like that under the hood.

And they're unlikely to work without installation. Moreover, quite likely require a reboot after the install. But I could be wrong.
The requirement is a bachelor's degree or higher or its equivalent and equivalent can be based on a combination of education and professional experience or even just professional experience. So the H-1B might be an option for you. Also, an O-1 doesn't require a degree but the standard is higher than (and different from) the H-1B.
Private equity firms are buying up local news outfits then lobby to force google/fb to pay up. It's an extortion racket which news outlets refuse to cover for some reason.
https://ballotpedia.org/ is where I go. It has a ton of information, and while all political content is going to have some spin to it, they appear to try to present all sides fairly.
Feels like eliza with a sprinkling of generative ai to add variation
Amusingly this policy might end up meaning that the AI model they produce by training on this data will never be able to produce video that will ever be worth more than 3$ per minute. They are probably unintentionally filtering for content created by people willing to sell for that price or below, and that bias will be present in any downstream model. You get what you pay for I guess?
It absolutely does work as an advertisement. I hadn't heard of it and immediately signed up for it.
There was a recent bloomberg article titled (from memory):

the fed has a problem. There are two US economies but only one rate.

The 95 v 5% split in the US with the middle class worse and worse is a problem. It'll be the same for China except that Chinese politicians are way more attuned to social cohesion compared to the west.
If your L1 runs out before the GC is approved, you are allowed to stay in the US.

Without the EAD, you will NOT be able to work until the GC is approved.

Why is it not automatic? I assume USCIS doesn't want people to just get work authorization by filing frivolous i485 applications
You're assuming that all interactions are equal and calm and it takes little time to organize your comms; It's wrong.

If I am a trans person, my content will be shared with a company that has demonstrated it doesn't care about harassment, about racism, about large campaigns of hate that end in genocides. Meta doesn't care. Its accounts will see all I do, and will easily harass me. No, it is not possible to block them one by one, it doesn't scale. The only thing that starts to work is to block the whole instance because morons tend to congregate to the same instances (that's how the group effect works best). But even that is not enough because then other instances have access, and other people in my circle haven't blocked the instance so can also be targets, and it never ends.

In short: federation works if each island moderates its people. Meta demonstrably doesn't so it's not going to be a good citizen of the fediverse.
"when this is not necessary"

Ah, then your position falls apart. The more people would've been aware of Russia's plans for Ukraine, the earlier and better a formidable defense could've been. Same in as in Taiwan. That requires people understanding what the future possibly holds and how to deter the worst case.
Hello, I was browsing the internet and I found something peculiar, a Termux script that loads gigabytes from the company "telecom or personal." The question is, does anyone have it or know anything about it?
Hi Peter,

For F1 students, is it permissible to use the 3-year OPT period to operate a self-owned LLC?

Can one be employed by another company while managing their own LLC during this period?
Assuming your goal is just to finish, this is pretty standard. Weights make decent active recovery, but I cannot comment on them specifically. For a beginner to running, forget about tempo/5k pace as part of a structured run. The risk of injury is too high for small benefits. Your biggest physiological gains for quite some time will come from low effort, high volume running. I wouldn't taper for two weeks before the race, like you are. I think there's lots to be said for running the whole race distance before race day, and your week 10 seems like the time to do it. Taper hard the following week.
So essentially Canada gets to subsidize news outlets by having Google pay for them as a yearly subscription.

No link tax, just a tax for news.

Sounds... reasonable?
So he's mad they bought promotional t-shirts after a hitting a subscription goal?

If it's deeper than that, I'd recommend adding a summary.
It's a big ask to expect strangers to read a ranting wall of text.
Things in the 20th century were fucked, but almost everyone believed at a bone-deep level that things were getting better. That whatever problems society was facing would eventually be solved, and that for individuals, there was a path to improving their lives. Even dissidents who didn't believe in their society's mythologies believed that a better world was possible.

Young people today don't have that belief. And they're probably correct. Our society is visibly committed to not solving any of the problems facing it, and the levers of decision-making are very clearly out of the hands of anyone who cares about solving them.
This article reminds me of arguments I heard on why letting goggle spy on you is OK: I don't have anything to hide, This pays for the service...

The big problem isn't each specific issue, the big problem is the ever encroaching corporate intrusion into every crevice of our lives.

Without pushback there is no limit. There's the annoying inconvenience of a commercial required to operate your remote control app, but what do you think about a subscription model for braking in semi trucks?

This may seem an extreme example, and it is by intention, but if regulations don't prohibit such charges, and companies can make money by implementing them, wouldn't any "libertarian" say that they should?

Accounting ledgers don't have entries for anything except dollars...
The cascade was born from a time when the hope was to apply your own styles independently of the site's style, without overriding theirs completely. I think the standard languished and fell out of favor, but that was the hope.

I'm having trouble finding the original video, but Jacob Thorton (@fat) did an insightful talk on the whole affair called "Cascading Shit Show"
Go for AI?
Related:

I Lost Faith in Kagi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314
Call or email the NVC (there's an email address for questions) and if that doesn't work, get your Congressional representative involved (something that is done all the time and probably would be helpful here).
Post holes are useless, because you can split left and then split back to the right. So all you need are the n tokens.

Hanoi isn't a good model for this, because the posts are not fixed in place and the units are all identical.

It's a bad physical game because the player has to do all the work to enforce the rules. The environment doesn't provide any useful assistance.
At 100 bytes per sentence, you could fit 10000 example sentences in a megabyte, and compression would increase that by a factor of 6 or so. I don't think you need an on-device LLM to have enough example sentences.

If you don't know where to get that many sentences other than using an LLM, try Tatoeba https://tatoeba.org .
In fact, HN is the only place I’ve heard anything about Kagi. I’ve done my best to evangelize to non-HN friends though :)

If anything, I’m interested in what the evolution will look like as their customer base expands beyond HN types…
I wonder what their marketing is thinking about this. Google One is effectively just Google Drive storage with some feature add-ons. Until now, that VPN was their only 'additional' thing in the package. Without the VPN it's just a few enhancements to existing products that aren't compelling enough.
This makes me think of a fun fact I learned this week: by default Unreal Engine parses dates with a broken regex that stops working on European daylight saving time, and pretty much everyone around here have to patch it themselves to have a game that works in summer…
Kagi just works for me. I pay a monthly bill and I get a good search engine. Until they do something that disrupts that relationship or signals a disruption to that relationship, the things in this post don't strike me as that, I don't have much patience for posts like these. It's like a child making a "dead game" post for a game that made a change they didn't like.
A PR is easy to automate, hook into, an preserves ownership of the commit.

Yes it bypasses YOUR workflow, but a PR works for everyone who uses GitHub.

If you want something else that works for everyone who uses GitHub it's an issue, or an email with a patch file. Why a patch file. DO you want to own the change the bot suggested? There are a lot of orgs where the ownership matters more than the linting.

You could just make the change yourself, sure, and then run it through your normal workflow... then your the author and commuter of the change...
Thanks for your response!

Honestly I get the T-shirt part this way. You got to Doo crazy stuff as a start-up.
I also get that you try ai stuff. As long as you keep up de search.

However what scares me is the apparent lack of knowledge about privacy, gdpr and what is PII in a product that, to me, is all about privacy.
Have one person in the company be an expert in privacy and GDPR etc and use their insights, since it is critical for your right of existence.
“If you buy a car that does not have the hardware for full self-driving, it is like buying a horse. And the only car that has the hardware for full self-driving is a Tesla"

Bro, I'm sure the hardware is okay, but what about the software?

It's 2024 and Tesla is paying $$$ to keep FSD injury and death lawsuits out of the courts.
Serving optimally performing ads to billions of global users is a radically different problem than serving optimal search results and accessory features to a self-selected 50,000 or 500,000 customers.
I’ve actually played it on my steam deck and it runs well.
ELVIS Act
I wish you well, Paul, and I'm glad that you're making open source work. I was just saying that what Bruce Perens is suggesting isn't open source.

In fact, what Bruce is proposing is a "source under glass" license. Look, but don't touch. Pay to play. Microsoft offers some companies access to the Microsoft Windows source under that kind of license. Is it open source? No.
Check out Enzyme, it's the only software that's been able to innovate in this space for a while
The easiest solution here is to compare data to countries that allow student loan defaults. AFAIK this is most of countries. There should be good data if the issue is real, or hypothetical, or political lobby based.
> If I save 60% on energy for heating every year but then require all the energy needed to build a new heat pump every 5-10 what am I really doing?

Activism.
Light isn’t RGB. We just receptors that react to certain wavelengths. I suspect the sensors on the telescope have a range of wavelengths they are sensitive to. It would be a straightforward translation to shift it to map it to the visible spectrum without varying the relative intensities to accentuate certain aspects of the image.
> "out of all the things I can do, what should I be doing right now?"

I mean aren't you really asking "What should I be doing X years from now"?

If you're looking at your feet you're only going to notice you've walked up to the edge of a cliff moments before you get there. I mean, even with re-education you're taking long term training now in hopes it will work out in the future.

So, pretty much you've said nothing interesting here other than survival of the fittest, which didn't work out great in the past when the unfit were destitute but still alive to cause problems like crime and vagrancy. Is part of your great plan in making things better just unaliving these people?
To be honest, liblzma using systemd seems like an unimportant detail more than anything else.

On my laptop there's 141 binaries in /bin/ that link against lzma; an abbreviated list with similar entries omitted below. And that's a fairly minimal Void Linux system – the list for an average Ubuntu system is probably a lot longer. Sneaking in via kmod, grub-install, udevd, or xbps-install seems just as viable as sneaking in via libsystemd. Perhaps a little bit harder, but not much.

It will remain problem as long as you have a single command that runs your malicious code as root. Being directly linked against sshd was convenient, but there's all sorts of devious shit you can pull once you've got root, and it doesn't take that much more effort.

% for f in /bin/*(*); ldd $f 2>&1 | grep -q lzma && print $f
/bin/amdgpu-arch
/bin/bsdcat
/bin/bsdcpio
/bin/bsdtar
/bin/bsdunzip
/bin/c-index-test
/bin/clang-*
/bin/clangd
/bin/diagtool
/bin/ffmpeg
/bin/ffplay
/bin/ffprobe
/bin/find-all-symbols
/bin/grub-editenv
/bin/grub-install
/bin/grub-mkimage
/bin/grub-mknetdir
/bin/grub-mkrescue
/bin/grub-mkstandalone
/bin/kmod
/bin/lspci
/bin/modularize
/bin/mpv
/bin/nvptx-arch
/bin/pp-trace
/bin/pskctool
/bin/qemu-*
/bin/rtorrent
/bin/tiffcp
/bin/tiffdump
/bin/tiffinfo
/bin/tiffset
/bin/tiffsplit
/bin/udevadm
/bin/udevd
/bin/update-mime-database
/bin/xbps-alternatives
/bin/xbps-checkvers
/bin/xbps-create
/bin/xbps-dgraph
/bin/xbps-digest
/bin/xbps-fbulk
/bin/xbps-fetch
/bin/xbps-install
/bin/xbps-pkgdb
/bin/xbps-query
/bin/xbps-reconfigure
/bin/xbps-remove
/bin/xbps-rindex
/bin/xbps-uchroot
/bin/xbps-uhelper
/bin/xbps-uunshare
/bin/xmlcatalog
/bin/xmllint
/bin/xsltproc
/bin/zstd
I think this comment is the one that finally made Orion click for me from a business perspective. Without it you're sharecropping on land owned by your direct competitors who fund their browsers through money coming in from search. If you ever encroach on their revenue even a little bit they'll fight you tooth and nail.

I think it's a crazy ambitious bet but I can see why you're making it.