skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the banks have proven themselves fairly inept at it.

The problem is that KYC, being a cost centre with no upside other than "it's imposed on us by law", immediately turns into a box-checking exercise.

The industry will barf up some terrible "compliance in a box" solution, everyone will use it, it will eventually get databreached, and the people who brought us Bulletproof Hosting back in the Viagra Spam era will come back with Bulletproof Rack Full Of Quadros.
Observer selection says a plausible materialistic mechanism for origin of life could be extremely unlikely on any given planet, and so could be an impossibly hard problem to solve.
Maybe in certain parts it is. Last time I spoke with them they were transferring some of their on-robot stacks from C++ to Rust.
Am I the only one who thinks that worldcat should be in favor of digital libraries and should make its database available publicly, perhaps by letting archive.org create a mirror that anyone can use?
Discussion:[0] (51 points, 11 hours ago, 57 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159845
The official apology for the video ([1]). TL,DR: it's Lorenz force.

Automatic translation to English:

> First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone.

> We would like to express our sincere apologies for causing controversy by uploading a video yesterday about the phenomenon of levitation by applying electric current to a sample.

> Yesterday's mocking criticism seemed to have an emotional side, and the opinions of those who gave sincere advice were ignored.

> I tried to find and read Lorenz's book that Dr. Inki Kim posted, but I couldn't find it easily. So, I spent the whole day looking for and studying related papers and videos. I would like to thank Dr. Inki Kim for his advice.

> Let me explain now.
> From mocking criticism to sincere advice, people raised doubts about the Lorentz force. First, I don't know what happened to the copper plate not reacting yesterday, but it seems to have been stuck due to a magnet and magnetic force.

> It was a mistake to skip it without repeating the check, and I conducted all of yesterday's experiments alone. This happened because we shared the phenomenon with the team and interpreted it based solely on the information. Professor Kim Hyun-tak said at dawn that this can be explained by Lorentz force.

> Late tonight, we performed the same experiment on a newly manufactured sample and found out exactly what caused the illusion.

> The Lorentz force acts in the opposite direction when the current direction or polarity changes. In other words, yesterday's video showed that the Lorentz force acted in the opposite direction of the wire, and the sample did not fly out due to the tension of the wire, but floated in the air. I will not mention the fact that it did not work in the opposite direction when I experimented with the opposite polarity yesterday because it was a one-off phenomenon and could not be reproduced.
This phenomenon is probably caused by one side sticking to the insulating tape due to heat generation.

> Starting this evening, I repeated experiments on all phenomena, and after realizing that there was an error in the experiment and being mistaken, I am immediately posting an apology.

> I would like to thank everyone who refuted, worried, and supported me, and I would like to apologize once again.

> I checked only 2 of the 3 newly produced samples today, and the zero resistance is clearly shown, and the indirect data is also shown repeatedly.

> In the future, we will check experimental results or data more thoroughly and repeatedly before disclosing them to avoid any misunderstandings.

> If there is anyone who feels that it is important to look at phenomena other than the whole body, we will proceed.

> I have never cheated, manipulated, or lied.
> I will gladly accept criticism.

> One thing I would like to ask you is that if you speak in a gentlemanly manner about areas where you have doubts or doubts, we will also check more thoroughly without empathizing with you.

> I apologize and thank you again.

1. https://gall.dcinside.com/sigularity_point/92116
I did some casual searching on disabling Toyota Dealer Communications System (DCS). The results of that search was not informative.

I highly doubt that just pulling that fuse will disable Toyota's tracking. I'd suspect their tracking is tied into either the infotainment system, OBD, or the PCM. So when you go to the dealer they notice it not working, they put in a fuse, pull your stored data, and remove the fuse again.

With every company being anti-consumer, presume the worst until otherwise proven.

Also pulling that fuse would likely void a warranty.

Post script: It's fun driving a 20+ year old car with a V8. Modern naturally aspirated I4 don't stand a chance. And I'm typically neck to neck with turboed I4 and naturally aspirated V6. People in their shiny new cars losing to a 20 plus year old rust bucket is amusing to me.
If you are getting copies of the emails, I would instead post correct info somewhere "rebutting" everything without rebutting.

Their email: Shitty, defamatory bullshit.

Your posts somewhere: Factual, complete, respectful, never mention that it's a rebuttal.

Also, track everything, search up local laws, find some way to notify the perpetrator that their criminal count is rising:

1. Theft of the email list.

2. Violation of any legal obligation they have to respect student privacy, non disclosure agreements, etc.

3. Defamation which may not get them charged criminally but could get them sued.

4. Multiple counts of defamation and libel as each email tells lies about presumably different people.

5. If there is anything remotely sexual in any of it, go over all laws pertinent to sex offenses.

Try to find some means to notify parents they should not trust the info from this source, you are doing what you can to stop it, each email sent likely adds counts to what they can be charged with and you need help tracking it for legal purposes.

A lot of people get told to delete offensive emails from stalkers for their mental health. It de facto destroys evidence and helps cover up the crimes.

Provide people a list of best practices for dealing with social aspects of the issue. If an email says "Sally is a slut!" do not argue about Sally and her sex life. The correct thing to do is remind people this comes from a malicious actor, it's untrustworthy information intended to hurt Sally and her sex life is no one's business.

Rinse and repeat: "This is intended to be malicious. The source is a thief who is likely a disgruntled employee. Their actions amount to career suicide. It's only a matter of time before we identify them. Until then, any information from this channel should be disregarded."

Less personal info that is more relevant to school function:

Perp: "The school is pissing away money for stupid reasons!"

You: "This is our budget. This is why it gets spent that way. Sad that things are so expensive but doing x instead of y fails to achieve the desired result."

Real world example: A school in a hot, humid place turned off AC all summer while school was not in session to try to save money and came back to a rampant mold problem that they couldn't afford to remediate. Turning off the AC was penny wise and pound foolish.

As much as possible, do not mention the malicious email campaign when publishing accurate information to keep people informed about what's real.

When it's over, assess what parts of this information campaign you want to continue with because it was unexpectedly beneficial to inform people.

Best of luck.
...a clock which can be made from a ring oscillator, consisting of an odd number of NAND gates wired as NOT gates.
No idea. The markets did lunch Meta in the gut today though so who knows what the outcomes will be. It feels like a lot of goodwill but investors don’t agree (even though EPS was up)
Antivirus pioneer Symantec declares AV "dead" and "doomed to failure" (2009)
"Secondhand smoke linked to secondhand coolness"

"Schaumburg Man Dimly Aware Of Shadowy, Non-Schaumburg World Out There"

"Clinton Injected With Highly Unstable Experimental Growth Serum"

"Beer! It kicks ass!"

Lastly, the 9/11 issue is one of their greatest achievements. They struck the perfect balance/tone, avoiding "too soon": https://www.theonion.com/issue-37-34-the-september-11th-issu...
nevermind the people losing jobs over this
DSA is what is going to make it possible for Intel to compete at all. Without it, they are going to have fancy machines in fancy foundries that are too expensive to attract any customers.

To the best of my knowledge, DSA never made it out of the lab.
Or alternatively, block port 22 entirely on your firewall and use something like Tailscale to access the machine.

Of course, now your attack surface includes Tailscale, which has had it's own vulns in the past, but I think blocking all public traffic ends up being much stronger than any weaknesses Tailscale may introduce.
MFJ had the coolest iambic keyer:

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/morse/0804.html
F* seemed promising at one point, but haven't heard much about it in a long time, what happened to it?
I don’t think you understood their comment as yours doesn’t seem to make sense as a response. They’re saying that libertarian can be left/right but Reason in particular skews right.
Oh wow, I didn't actually know that. Thanks for the interesting trivia
I think that's too broad and somewhat outdated. C++ has const, for example, and you're expected to use it. Java and C# give you final/readonly, and not only that, but immutability is becoming more idiomatic, with the language increasingly encouraging it. For example, in modern C#,

record Point(double X, double Y);

is immutable, whereas the mutable equivalent is the much more verbose:

record Point {
public required double X { get; set; }
public required double Y { get; set; }
}

Java goes even further by not even having syntax for mutable records - if you want something like that, you have to write it out as a regular class.
> DUBLIN, Ohio, 2 April 2024—OCLC has acquired cloudLibrary, a platform that offers access to a wide variety of digital content through libraries. The acquisition will help OCLC support public libraries in their efforts to successfully manage accelerated shifts to digital collections.

Perhaps this is what went wrong.

I expect Anna's Archive also "offers access to a variety of digital content through [the internet]", but without the sort of irritating restrictions that cloudLibrary might impose.

After humanity invented a library where billions of people could read nearly any book, we promptly burned it down with legal and technical restrictions, to satisfy a life+70 copyright regime enacted primarily to preserve the commercial value of a tiny fraction of works.
and we could pronounce it "sguiqle" or "squiggle"
Claiming this law is unconstitutional seems like an interesting tactic. On the one hand you could claim that any action that affects speech of citizens indirectly - such as forcing a platform to shutdown due to sanctions (not this exact situation) - is unconstitutional. Such a precedent could help protect fundamental rights. On the other hand such a ruling might prevent the general practices of trade policies or economic sanctions that are normal and not necessarily bad.

Either way, TikTok itself has shown itself to be undeserving of public trust, given they finally admitted that some US user data is in fact store in China:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

Personally I think TikTok is also a national security threat because it seems to recommend content that radicalizes Americans or creates political polarization.
Those expenses sound quite high, that is the problem. Middle class is still couponing - groceries should be half that at best. Just don’t eat organic or top quality cuts. Even in HCOL it is possible to rent a passable 2-bedroom for 36K a year. And a house with 18K property tax does not sound middle class to me at all.

It just that we’ve severely stretched the definition of middle class and people’s expectations in the US are too high. That’s why immigrants will eat your lunch any day.

Childcare is the one expense that unfortunately hits middle class the hardest, no way around it. I think there’s room there to relax the regulations around childcare a bit (allow at home daycares, relax max number of children limit) - availability at this point might be more important than quality.
Walter, you and I have known each other for a long time. Not in person; we've never met. But through our interactions here on HN.

I have a lot of respect for you and for everything you have accomplished.

So I have to ask you directly: Is being "boring" or not the way we should decide how to express ourselves?

Regarding a "quick test" vs. a "sanity test". Instead of judging this on what is "boring", why can't we make a choice on which is more respectful to our peers and colleagues?
Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 9)
I concur with your points here. I was gonna say that cars put a lot of folk out of work.

But I think perhaps we give AI too much of a rosy future. The clue is in the name.

The first hint is the I part. Intelligence. This can be hard to define (in humans) much less measure.

Take school for example. It measures ability to memorize and recall, and then uses this as a proxy for 'intelligence". "Smart" kids get good grades, by regurgitating information. But few jobs require this specific skill. Generally speaking doing well at school and well at life are not well correlated.

Google is good at memory.
AI is good at presentation. Again, when a human writes well we use that as a proxy measure for intelligence. There is reasonable overlap there, but its far from perfect.

When computers first became popular (80's more or less) there was a lot of existential panic because computers remember really well (and do arithmetic really fast.) Some people described them (incorrectly) as intelligent, despite having skills we associated with intelligence.

Modern AI adds "writes well" to the mix. It writes so fluently that it appears to understand. Since we implicitly associate understanding with intelligence we describe the program as "intelligent". We even put that in the name.

Naturally we then project it forward to embody it with abilities that come with "intelligence". Which is legitimately scary.

But, perhaps, the moderator should be the other word in the name. Artificial. It's not really intelligent, it just mimics it really well.

Obviously computer software will evolve, and jobs will evolve. Typing pools have disappeared, and I would argue "secretarys" are so unrecognizable from 40 years ago that we can declare that job (at least as it was) extinct.

Cars killed the horse rearing, stabling, grooming, buggy industries. Airplanes killed cross-atlantic passenger liners. Progress kills jobs all the time. But, so far, it's created more than it's killed. I'm not sure this tech magically undoes that trend.
It's unjust because it's grossly disproportionate, especially given the lack of mens rea.
What's the point of 'theshovel' ? I don't get it.
> It can be optimized away by a compiler to just fixed integers, sometimes

Yep, SBCL does range analysis and can do inline fixnum or unboxed arithmetic.
For a few months last year every time I searched for information about a package related to software available in homebrew, the first few results were to a site that clearly just had crawled all of the links in homebrew, and templated out a site of links corresponding to each package name. and thats about it. It would have been nice if the generated pages contained any useful information, but alas it did not.

There's got to be a better way.
Would that call for replacing that function with some kind of inductive abstraction to help it see that it generalizes to N byte numbers?
Incandescent :)

It was FT8, which is a weak signal data mode. Very often you can make contacts hundreds of miles away using less than 20 watts.

However, I was probably using between 40-100 watts for that contact - you can't get much further apart on earth than we were!
To be frank, I'd be more comfortable with this sort of thing more if there was a full-fat government-based ID platform. Some sort of SSO-style "Sign on with identity.gov" button, where it tells you clearly exactly what information is granted to the vendor, which should be pretty much "nation of citizenship" and nothing else, before you click through.

I trust a "trusted third party" far, far less. Inevitably it's a data hoarder like our credit-bureau overlords, which has commercial motivations to ask for more data than needed, and hold it longer than necessary, and will likely suffer only a slap on the wrist when they inevitably data-breach.

We really needed a coherent plan for national and digital ID 20 years ago, but as they say, the second best time would be now.
Sure, within the website I have to unmute it and up my volume to hear anything, but it's still playing without me having to switch off the physical DND mode button on the side of the iphone. My phone remains in DND mode and I still have no audible notifications.
As someone who was fortunate enough to see their previous comment, it sure wasn't wrong, though it sure was inconvenient for the Temporarily Embarrassed Billionaires here who are happy to sleepwalk the rest of us into fascism if it means making another buck.

As for rooting through their comment history, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, my friend. So far yours is "cars good", "California bad", "won't someone think of the poor companies (unironically)", "public transit bad", "everyone does propaganda so it's okay when Russia does it". Is this comment hate-based, in your opinion?
sunset() triggers me due to all the times I've seen companies "sunset" APIs only to still have them in production 5 years later.

Let's change it to cancelled()
Or maybe we are repeating the experiment of the 1990s/2000s and can't wait to see the results confirmed?
"Things You Should Never Do, Part I"
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155489
I can’t tell if you’re saying that sex trafficking doesn’t exist, isn’t a problem or that people don’t care about it. All positions are bonkers, but which one?
It might be possible those CBs heard that far away are actually 4 watts - but it's much more likely they're illegally boosting their output.

Still, you're totally right that in ideal conditions propagation can be astounding.
British conservative, I think it’s hilarious if sweary, but that’s just Australians. Outside the US conservatism and Trump support are, shall we say, loosely coupled. More British conservatives would prefer a Biden victory to a Trump one (40% to 31%).
I noticed you were very vocal and outspoken in the original thread. Good to see you again.
Isn't the ARRL kind of outmoded these days though? Before the internet they were the US clearing house of all quality ham publishing and a great deal of organization. They had a big role to fill. Today, however, that communication flows independently on the internet.

I'm writing as an ARRL member that renews every three years. But I spend way more time learning from forums (groups.io, QRZ, blogs, etc.) and YouTube than anything the ARRL is doing.
The source map is released by mojang itself.

Before this exists, there is a community project to de-obfuscate naming back to readable human names. And it usually took about a month after new minecraft version released. But this is no longer needed because mojang now release the actual mapping.

So microsoft(mojang) do want to make modders live easier out of own willing. Not just because it is java. Or they don't really need to publish that at all.
Definitely a problem. Aside: the US retirees I saw in Mexico a few years ago seemed to group together in a few locales that were a bit wealthier or touristy. e.g. Puerto Vallarta and Ajijic.

Pricing out thr locals occurs in wealthier countries too. Very noticable in my country (New Zealand) which encourages wealthy foreigners (Peter Thiel, Shania Twain) to buy up nice real estate over here. Our lefty government slows it down but then our righty government gets in and they open the gates for a couple of million down. A bad deal.

One-off sales are shite economically versus recurring revenue.

New Zealand's dear leaders don't seem to understand the value of selling subscriptions.
Isn't that just the same thing in different clothes? Just a different protocol offering the same features of authentication and encryption - often using exactly the same primitives?

Is it "Security through obscurity" assuming fewer people are attacking vpn protocols that than ssh? And I'm not sure that's even true
My favorite

"More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas"

https://www.theonion.com/more-american-workers-outsourcing-o...
(Assuming ADT here refers to Algebraic Data Types, as opposed to abstract data types)

Swift, Kotlin, Scala and Typescript all support forms of ADTs, just with different names.

- Swift calls them "enums" (like Rust)

- Kotlin and Scala has "sealed classes"

- Typescript has "discriminated unions"
New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander To Viewers In Real Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpK_r-jEXg
Curious if DOS 3.30 will follow soon. It felt like I was on that version for ages growing up, messing with assembler on the families Amstrad 2086.. good times.

Edit: really appreciate the effort being put into preserving this software history btw
“CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years”

https://www.theonion.com/cia-realizes-its-been-using-black-h...

They also had one that they didn’t run making a joke right after 9/11 to the effect of…

“America Stronger Than Ever, Say Quadragon Officials."

Also the routine “No Way To Prevent This” headline after every mass shooting only continues to gain potency.
I don't think much of this writing style. What's the tor attack surface? Are all the tor boxes on the internet backdoored by the NSA? Is tor a honeypot or is tor not a honeypot?

As far as I can tell tor was designed by spooks to allow remote agents operating in foreign countries a means to communicate with headquarters without being traced. It was never designed to allow two entities to communicate anonymously. The metadata always gets exposed, doesn't it?

Using tor also violates the hide in plain view principle, which all real spooks adhere to religiously.
Boeing and NASA move forward with historic crewed launch of new spacecraft
Bluefin Effect System
The other factor is the drop in teen pregnancy. I think the birth rate for 26-35 hasn’t changed as much as the teen birth rate has dropped (which is correlated with poverty)
Atlassian products are very complex. Jira alone has sophisticated low-code automation, extremely thorough templating for projects, a rich API, extensive support for i8n, meta-projects (Jira Plans), an add-on marketplace, and so on. Confluence is pretty amazing too when you really understand what it can do.

Edit: Jira’s tight integration with GitHub and ability to drive/be driven by GitHub actions is also a big deal.
Internationally recognized name brand? Way better comp?