skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if it becomes normalized for companies to have several small, localized offices that enable employees to live in lower cost areas while still being within a short drive (or preferably, walk/bike) of home rather than demand that everybody comes into the mothership without paying well enough across the board (not just devs) to make it not prohibitively expensive to live reasonably close by.

In short, as long as hour+ driving commutes are commonplace, WFH shouldn’t be going anywhere.
I meant there's no value added there by Clear despite their fancy machines and the trappings of a security service. They could be replaced by a simple fee charged by the airlines/airport to access a "premium line" for Precheck.
Insiders at TikTok say US is a relatively small market for them and they would not mind pulling out of the market. This is the most likely scenario than an outright sale to US entities
I agree, but it’s worth pointing out that height is also quite strongly affected by environment (we’ve seen average height grow a lot due to improving diets since the Great Depression).
If it's, say, $50/month, that will be easily affordable for businesses and not really most other users. (I'm assuming it's providing nontrivial benefit, of course)
Yes, but at some point you have to know where to draw the line. That line should be national security.

If China is indeed receiving data from TikTok, the future isn't going to be fun, especially with AI tech heating up.

Truth is, when China benefits, the Han Chinese people benefit. Every other ethnicity? Uncertain.

When the US benefits, a variety of ethnicities benefit. The US is now diverse enough where it must work in the interest of a variety of ethnicities in order to operate effectively.

So unless you're Han Chinese, you're more likely to benefit when the US wins.
This is supposed to get everyone's attention. Symbilolicly it represents the betrayal the protester feels from the government. Sadly, too many people are desensitized to this. I guess if the only thing that will get real attention is burning yourself in protest, then there will be fewer protesters and the government and corporations can continue doing whatever they want.
Counter-anecdote, my prescription has slid double digits since I was first diagnosed at about 7.
It may not be enough in the future. The problem is every little incremental change like “giving in” to block content by region ends up welcoming the next incremental step in that direction. Other countries and regions may now apply the same pressure on Pixiv. Some might call this the slippery slope fallacy but it’s exactly how most political battles play out.

In terms of geographies - one thing I read about recently is how various “online safety czars” from countries are coordinating in groups that may soon have the power to implement global content restrictions (censorship) that respect each other’s local requests on a global scale. See this article:

https://public.substack.com/p/cia-recruit-is-pursuing-global...

> At the World Economic Forum, Inman Grant said she had launched a global censorship body called “the Global Online Safety Regulators Network” to unify governments around censorship “So that we could have a form to help us coordinate, build capacity and do just that.
I still manage to attend lots of LAN parties in the UK!

The major one - several thousand - Insomnia (although I volunteer for that), and a host of smaller ones with a much more community feel, such as StratLAN.

Is the feeling slightly different to what I imagine it used to be? Yes, as if the Internet goes down, then many games stop working - but then at the smaller ones (ie Strat), I find I spend more of my time chatting to like-minded people, playing board games, etc. I even have a friend that comes over from NL for it sometimes!

LANs aren't dead quite yet :)
For sure. My broader point is that:

Step 1. fuck with the throttle

Step 2. reach for the PTT button on the yoke, which he confidently states is certain to be where it definitely wasn't on the plane I trained in, lets hope you don't start holding the trim switch which is also on the yoke for 15-20 seconds!

Step 3. Get her straight and level

Is kind of the exact wrong order.
For me, it's pretty obvious that social media is being used to destabize and weaken Western democracies like the US and Britain.

I don't believe that the lurch to the Right we've seen--Brexit, Trump, etc.--are happening naturally.
Look, I think this is potentially oversimplifying things, but imo this is just a reaction to the youth seeing pro-Palestinian positions on social media. The fervor around banning tik tok was reignited around the time that it started being more common to see such things on the app.
The one toll highway in Ontario has cameras at every exit and if you don’t have a transponder it takes a photo of your license plate. Been like that for something like 25 years. I imagine it’s as simple as that.
That's a very clear example.

But what if I instead wrote:

const accountId = AccountId ("125314" );

There would be the needed checks and balances in the function
AccountId(). Wouldn't that do pretty much the same thing?
In opposition to the other comments, I have worn glasses since an early age and my vision got progressively worse even after wearing glasses. I know many people in a similar situation. As far as I know that claim is not supported at all
well you could use understanding
It doesn't seem like that's true at all.

If the "best model" only stays the best for a few months and if, during those few months, the second best model is near indistinguishable, then it will be extremely hard to extract trillions of dollars.
ArcaneDoor hackers exploit Cisco zero-days to breach govt networks
"""people think problems are easy to solve from the outside because they just don't understand the problem"""

This is called [The Dunning–Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect).
I ordered a copy Merritt K's book for a longtime friend who organized many LAN parties for our friend group in high school and college. He had nice things to say about it, so pick up a copy I guess!
Neither is especially hard

I have done (and do still, sometimes) both

Sometimes I even have it in a subdirectory with a subdomain alias to get there

I do not think it ever really 'mattered' - all that mattered was how you wanted to think about it
I've got my hands pretty full with another project and unfortunately I don't use Twitter anymore since it became X. If you'd like, though, I can send an email to your quilt store's contact email (team@) and you can reply to that to tell me a bit more about what you're trying to do, and if I can give any genuinely useful suggestions as to how I would go about it, I will do so. But I realize technical advice != actual developer hours and if that's not so helpful, no worries.
You’re right. This is what I meant, but I was not at all clear in my original comment.
Rules like these exist in Europe, and flying in Europe is incredibly cheap. For a random weekend in May, I can fly to 26 different countries for under $50 one way.

Airlines here are also significantly less likely to cancel your flights, and in my experience (I've taken somewhere in the region of 200 flights in the last 10 years) there is a bit of wiggle in terms of your actual arrival time, but being more than an hour out is less likely than int eh US.
Hey come on man it’s America. Pretending poor people dont exist is the name of the game.
I don't know that it would make less errors, but the more expressive type system could help you detect those errors.
China's rules are so far fromthe US's that I feel like your comment is distracting from the main point. China doesn't "let everything in," they let nearly nothing in. They are extremely insular. Maybe many companies made most of the the social media sites as you mentioned but that also maybe a direct result of China's extreme grip on the allowed sites there. You can't just pop up a new social media site there without extreme scrutiny from the Chinese government. That's why there aren't that many social media platforms there.
There are different types of danger and I'm not sure which one you're referring to - there's the general economic danger of relying too heavily on one trading partner (if China decides to put export tariff on anything to the US, for example), or literal danger, like national security stuff.

I assume you're talking about the latter because that seems to be what is talked about with TikTok. Again, it seems weird to me to decide, after however many decades of globalism and exploiting China's manufacturing prowess for cheap goods, that this is suddenly dangerous but then proceed to do absolutely nothing about it, except stifle TikTok.

Diversifying supply chains is a good idea - and the US is doing that already, though it seems to be much more in response to the first definition of "danger" than the second. Because if it was the national security aspect, we'd be seeing it happen with much more alacrity and urgency, and not some hand-wringing about TikTok.
So if a company is going to be insincere and act in bad faith, we shouldn't ever try to curb bad behavior?

Such a policy implies the most corrupt and criminal companies should get the least oversight possible.

I might be crazy, but I think that's backwards.
Yes. I did this a while back: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible. That received some contributions from IBM. Unfortunately, HC never wanted to maintain it, then in 0.15 they replaced provisioners with providers or plugins (can’t remember anymore). I had a couple of discussions with their OSS head for TF at the time but the bottom line from them was „why don’t you rewrite it in your spare time”. The problem was their replacement didn’t give access to the underlying communicator (your SSH or winrm). So I hung the towel.
I think my point still stands. You didn’t just learn it. You learned how to do things with it.
The doors of course, will continue to fall off.
Ask HN: Pilgrimages for electronics tinkerers in Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka?
My wife and I are headed to Japan for three weeks, roughly one week each in Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka. As someone who loves to tinker on RPi/Arduino and who appreciates niche/quirky/vintage electronics, where do I need to "pay my respects"?

Akihabara is on my radar of course but what shops in particular? The literal shrine to the electronics god in Kyoto is also on my radar.
I can't get this to work reliably on mobile firefox, and I don't see any non-react examples which is strange given their value pitch is "use any front-end". Sortable works everywhere and has nice simple examples: https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable
To quickly locate, via artist-mode the spot to be filled in a pdf, view via pdf-tools https://github.com/Nidish96/cart.el as dummy handwritten fonts I like:

\usepackage{pbsi} % for most text except all-caps
\usepackage{fontspec} % for all-caps, require XeLaTeX o LuaLaTeX
\usepackage{pifont} % for check marks

\usepackage{xcolor} % for a dummy ink color
\newcommand{\blue}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{#1}} % as a handy wrapper

usable like, for as much pages as you need (a \clearpage between them)

% block for page 1, repeat the block for 2, ...
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node at (current page.center) {\includegraphics[page=1]{ToBeFilledPDF}};
\begin{scope}[shift={(current page.south west)},every node/.style={anchor=base west}]

\node at (50mm,237mm) {{\blue{\bsifamily normal text}}};
\node at (29mm,170mm) {{\blue{\fontsize{12}{13}\selectfont\bsifamily scale text size as needed}}};
\node at (62mm,199.7mm) {{\blue{\ding{51}}}}; % a checkmark
\node at (135mm,24mm) {\includegraphics[scale=1]{signature.png}};
\node at (1mm,2mm) {{\blue{\fontspec{QTChanceryType}\bfseries ALL CAPS}}};

\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}

where coordinates came out from cart.el wizard-clicks, then eventual small change by hand to perfectly align. It's not super quick, Xournalpp is quicker, but via LaTeX you can input anything, with very nice dummy handwritten fonts, you can add images if needed (for instance insurances form at least in Italy/France) etc. Next step is eventually make them (a bit long) a PDF/A, adding an eventual vector version of the signature, adding an eventual PADES signature or even embedding the LaTeX source into the pdf, just to teach a lesson to those who in the 2024 still send non-fillable pdf forms meant to be printed, filled by hand, scanned back...
Yep, you’re absolutely right
Step in the right direction.
Refund?? What someone paid for their ticket is not relevant. To be made whole someone needs to be given the current market value of their flight.

If I purchased a ticket for $399 but a comparable ticket now costs $799, I can't buy a new ticket with that refund.
It receives information about the spacial frequency content of the image. If you're unfamiliar, it's definitely worth looking into the specifics of how this works, as it's quite impressive! Here's a few relevant Wikipedia articles, and a Computerphile video:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_codec_example

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2aEzeMDHMA
I think it's a mistake to assume the West can freely flout how much it's fuelling the war machine without facing consequences. Sooner or later.

As Chinese FM Wang expressed today: The rest of the world is not fooled by the West’s rhetoric. They see the hypocrisy and the warmongering, they understand the true intent.

And again. Unlike the West, China continues to show much restraint. Less than it used to, true. But they have quite a bit of room left to escalate. The West has not. Not where it doesn’t get painful and dangerous.

Which is probably where we’re going. So be it.
Personally I don't like Mikrotik very much. It's just too easy to turn on some feature that disables offloading. I run Ruckus/Brocade ICX6610 and ICX7150 in my lab currently, though the 6610 uses more power than makes sense.
It claims to have a knowledge cut-off of 2021. Not sure if its hallucinating or its true.

But when I asked it about the best LLMs it suggested GPT-3, Bert and T5!
The problem is that "the internet" is still a series of connected physical cables and some entities do in fact control those. They can push off people who are using encryption they don't like or serving content they don't like, if push comes to shove

And for the specific people who are trying to make a living through selling smut, payment providers are making their lives hell
They would book you on another flight. They wouldn't necessarily compensate you for the delayed/canceled flight.
Once again they are ahead of the curve. I was already impressed by the road designs limiting vehicle traffic to the outer ring of a city, making it harder to drive in the city center in favor of other transportation options, having scooters, subway, trams, bikes, and accesible walkways as alternatives and then going as far as to regulate noise level!

If only this kind of thinking was available in the US. :/
ISTR that turnpike highways in the eastern U.S. simply record when cars reach each tollbooth. If a car arrives too soon at a booth, the driver is automatically fined for driving too fast. Can anybody confirm this?
Also, perhaps China doesn’t want its own children to consume the same content they’re spoon-feeding to their adversaries’ children. For reasons.
That's when you install a device management profile on all corporate machines that locks them to light mode. For security.
Same! Love it.
Rabbit R1 was such a dumb product. You have to buy a proprietary piece of plastic to use some flavor of chat GPT.

Never encountered a person with one.
There were basically some toys that let you do a bit of BASIC or whatever hooked up to your 13” TV. But S-100 bus, Apple, or PC clones weren’t cheap.
The way I see this is that democracy is extremely susceptible to tools that can change public opinion en masse. This of course applies to Western social media as much as TikTok, and I'd love to see regulation around all social media algorithms to ensure they're unbiased. I see this as a good start to counter a real threat, which is China's ability to influence US elections through TikTok.
Discussion: [0] (33 points, 18 hours ago, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140675
Classic Mac OS used colon (:) as the path separator, so slashes were perfectly acceptable in file and directory names.

Even in modern versions of macOS, the GUI still allows you to create files and folders with slashes in their names; the slashes get recorded as colons in the filesystem.
I agree with the palestine point but good spot on the “local laws.” Pretty sus.
There's a current trade war in which the USA is trying to "friend-shore" manufacturing and has imposed massive trade tariffs on China.

China is unambiguously a foreign adversary of the USA, as well as many/all Western democracies.
Yes, a law was just created specifically so that tiktok could be in violation of it. Before today the platform wasn't in violation of any law and there is still nothing unique about what they've been doing compared to US owned platforms, and while their existence as a non-US owned platform has been made illegal TikTok itself wasn't doing anything illegal as a Chinese owned platform.
The technical reason for this is just that the algorithm fails to distinguish between these two groups. Probably its just a hard problem to solve from a sample of what people listen to. I suspect a significant fraction of people that like black swing also like white swing and that results in the algorithm being unable to resolve that there are two features there and not one.

You really need a level of manual curation that a big data statistical model just can't provided at scale.
I know what this comment is getting at, but I think the details matter a lot: https://jacko.io/object_soup.html

For comparison "C++ shared_ptr is only safe with tree-shaped structures" would be getting-at-the-truth-but-kinda-weirdly-worded in some similar ways.
Not wrong, but arguably, the entire basis for our civilisation since the dawn of time - it's why we've had societies forming from groups of like-minded people, evolving into city states and then nation states.
It's a rebrand + censorship then? I'm not sure the distinction you're trying to make exactly, it's not like Douyin is a completely different thing from Tiktok, so I think "completely separate platforms" is also a stretch. The core technology and parent company/ownership is the same for both.
Are Unpaid Take-Home Interview Assignments Ethical?
Decline in heart failure deaths has been undone, led by people under 45
What is wrong with dessert? Last night I cut strawberries with my kids and placed them over some banana ice-cream I made in the morning. Not everybody needs to avoid sugars, especially if the diet is balanced and varied.
It’s less a trend and more that yt rewards it. Not sure if that is actively rewarded by algo or just organic but I recall when it started some YouTubers being reluctant but did it anyway because it worked. Think some even semi A B tested it
This is the 3rd time I'm trying to share a perspective that keeps getting flagged.

Bytedance does not have to divest because it's against the law for the U.S government to prevent Americans from reading, viewing or saying what they want. Will be struck down by SCOTUS.

Does this comply with HN's site guidelines?
Was this supposed to make my eye twitch? Don’t give them any ideas.
A lot better than what was happening before, which is issuing airline specific expiring vouchers
>Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

The gang in charge will NOT permit any challenges to its money monopoly.
First, I love Upscayl. Just used it to make about a decade of early lower resolution digital family photos 90s and early 00s printable and beautiful on HDPI screens. It's fantastic software.

> Not developing on and doing little testing on Windows sure sounds like the problem to me.

Most open source developers are not going to switch to "developing on" Windows because of posts like this. Nor should they. Upscayl is on GitHub and would probably appreciate some testing and fixing on Windows.

As a developer, I don't use Windows at all. When I make cross platform software, dealing with MS-DOS anachronisms isn't interesting or fun. For paid work, yeah, OK I'll do it. But for free stuff, I can see where a developer might not want to put a lot of effort there and focus on the interesting part of their project.
Maybe is me but this seems way overengineered
Have there been any controlled studies on whether the use of fresnel lenses on books / screens to move the focal distance to infinity helps reduce / prevent myopia?
It seems the repo is gone. Anyone know what happened to it?
TikTok isn’t a news organization. It’s an entertainment platform.

I don’t understand the people coming out of the woodworks saying this is suppressing “freedom of the press” or speech.

Set up your own domain, get a VPS, upload your trash to VPS. There ya go, no more “censorship”.

Oh wait , you don’t want to do the work to set this up? Sounds like a personal problem.
Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years
I grant that the DEA deserves scrutiny for its handling of the Adderall manufacturers. [1]

[1] https://reason.com/2024/02/26/dea-shuts-down-drug-factory-ev...

Stepping back (hopefully to clear the air), I hope you can see this: it is hard for others to tell when you are using a phrase sarcastically to criticize some other party's usage of the same phrase.

Aside: unfortunately, the use of "war" as in "war on drugs" often corresponds with armed conflict... though to my knowledge, this is not a recognized problem with amphetamine mixed salts.
Also craft computing - similar to techno Tim
Don't take my question as aggresive, but why do you think you're "way better informed" since you started using it? Better informed on what?
A US company would never be allowed to own any kind of social media company in China. You can't own a broadcast station in the US as a non-US citizen. Rupert Murdoch had to become a US citizen to buy Fox. I don't know if I agree with this but you can't say there is no precedent for it in the US or in China.
And trading his sailboat for a pontoon boat. Probably made out of carbon fiber, with the biggest beer cooler on the river.
Google's search results are just bad. For example, search: "Does Quebec have an NHL team?"

The results suggest that Quebec does not have an NHL team, because it confuses the province of Quebec with Quebec City. Montreal, in Quebec, has the Montreal Canadiens and this isn't mentioned in the search results at all.
Aww! Cute picture! Look at those Cargo pants/shorts... wait...

Why does home-boy have a f-ing machete?!
There's quite a bit of cognitive dissonance in the article. Or I'm not reading it properly.

On one hand he talks about charging for his plugins, and on the other he says that open source is not sustainable unless somebody pays for it.

Yes. Somebody does pay for it. Either the programmer himself, or the company that employs the programmer. But somewhere along the line somebody, somewhere is paying for open source programming.

Yes there's a bit of quid pro quo. I'll use the gcc that somebody sweated blood, tears and money over for free. But the gcc that I use today allows me to put my software out there 'on the cloud' for the next person to use for free. Have I sweated blood, tears and money to produce my software? Yes, of course I have. Do I want cold, hard cash for that software? No.

There is a old principle here: 'Pass it around' or maybe 'Pay it forward' is how you first saw it. But I received gcc for free from upstream, I pass my own software downstream for free too.

"And so it goes."
Not really, if you read the full link. The Snopes felt like it was bending backwards to disprove the story. It gave nuance—but the principle is still the same.

Am I missing something?