skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually clicked to commend them on being open that it's "source available" but I see now that was an edit. Seems like a good strategy is just to embrace the source available label, people either don't see the distinction or they're like you and me that will come and complain if someone uses "open source" incorrectly.
Drones have changed warfare at a local tactical level. But your drones and smaller autonomous systems aren't helping if you have overwhelming firepower superiority, ie in Gaza drones haven't inflicted too much damage if you can just drop a couple thousand JDAMS and level out a territory.
This won't work. Foreign nations have enough skill and resources to pass KYC as a citizen (steal someone's documents, pay a homeless for verification etc). And as I understand, US doesn't have a central citizen database so it is difficult to verify a document.
On iOS I've been using "Bouncer" for the past several months to filter messages using regular expressions. It's been doing a great job so far for me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bouncer-private-sms-blocker/id...
I think it effectively affects all web hosts… Certainly how we expect them to work in 2024…

But remember that you can have a perfectly effective web host that simply accepts HTML uploads.

Certainly a tremendous loss of convenience and features but speech itself could still be available under this regime…
Hopefully this app makes quick and easier to get an accurate assessment .... anyway excellent work applying AI to an important issue!
You’re missing a couple use cases there. Particularly the ones when these weapons, which can’t refuse an order like a meat sack soldier would, shoot at _you_. I’m not saying “don’t build weapons”, btw. By all means do. I’m saying as far as risk is concerned, this is by far the riskiest direction imaginable
Unless it's investigative in nature, even the best interviewers still don't take the spotlight.

Larry King, on his interview technique, said "The key of interviewing is listening. I hate interviewers who come with a long list of prepared questions, because they're going to depend on going from the fourth question to the fifth question without listening to the answer"

Though I can't say I blame the interviewer. If I spent that much time flipping through a thesaurus crafting my questions, I wouldn't want to divert from them either.
Cash/Consent
I take issue with this notion that matrix multiplication will lead to billions of deaths.
They said it's not

> We have something much older then Bitcoin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159144
Not sure what "ordinary citizen" means, but all sorts of people are involved in forest management. There must be volunteer firefighters out there with the authority to conduct such burns when needed. And I have personally seen crews conduct burns in the pacific northwest, although only of brush rather than a full forest fire. Certainly some civilians can make legitimate use of this robot.
I ran an experiment years ago. I used a throw-away email along with plus-addressing [0] to register and receive updates from democrat, republican and a handful of media organizations. I knew what the results would be: Unmitigated mayhem. And that's exactly what I got. It was interesting to watch for a few months.

All of these organizations shared (definitely) or sold (assumption) the customized email addresses far and wide. The only other possible explanations for what happened with these email addresses might be that they were stolen during a breach or that a bad actor with internal access shared or sold them. OK, I can buy either of these for one organization here or there, sure. When it happens across all organizations? No, the sharing or selling had to be intentional.

There was no effective way to stop the stream of emails that resulted from a handful of registrations. From my perspective, clicking on "unsubscribe" only served to confirm the email address was good. In other words, perhaps it did unsubscribe you from that specific organization, yet, what you actually accomplished was to provide them with a validated "live target" email they could sell or provide to another organization.

The result was an almost exponential growth of emails. Registering to, if I remember correctly, approximately six organizations led to a constant daily stream of emails form hundreds (did not count them) of groups. Crazy.

I never set out to quantify any of this or run study, so I don't have hard numbers to offer. All I can say is that the explosion of emails was universal across political alignment. Private media organizations also seemed to share email addresses with political party groups and candidates. In other words, I got emails from candidates and campaigns using email addresses I only provided to news organizations (identifiable through plus-addressing).

It didn't take long for me to kill the account and conclude that the iconic "The only winning move is not to play" [1] insight applies.

[0] https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
Remember how MS gave you a €$100 to publish _anything_ on their app store?
Can you not add plugins to Wordpress?
> Iran is one of those dictatorships where the majority of the population already dislikes (or plain hates) the government...

Right, just like the people of Afghanistan must have hated so much the Taliban, with their cruel and tyrannic grip on power... just waiting for a saviour like the Americans to bring them up to the modern age...

Well, we all know that's a load of bullshit now. The very moment the Americans left, without resistance of any kind, the Taliban is back. This happens again and again, in country after country, but people still seem to forget (or not even be aware of anything happening) and think everyone in the world wants to be like them, and when those in faraway places are not behaving like themselves it must be because they're being forcibly coerced by some maleficent dictator or some other imaginary villain.

Things are not black and white. Sure, some people in Iran would love a more West-friendly regime, but almost certainly, most would be horrified if their government suddenly started implementing laws to guarantee freedom of speech, legalize abort, separate state and religion, allow same-sex marriage and sex change operations, and a whole lot of stuff that's only preached by the West and is not at all accepted as good by most of the other cultures in the world... can't people just accept that not everyone thinks the same or want to be the same as themselves?? That goes against the Western's own modern values of being accepting of differences and not trying to submit other cultures to our own values and believes.
Openmediavault
"openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, RSync and many more ready to use. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in small offices or home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge."
yeah that's was the idea !
At https://bot9.ai (most advanced AI based Customer service engine) we are currently building integrations for CRMs, Ticketing tools, Chat softwares, Ecommerce platforms etc which the bot connects to.

For example the bot connects to freshdesk or intercom and handles the tickets / chats just like a normal agent, and handsover to a human if it can't solve or a customer asks, without the company having to change their chat or ticket tools.

Or connects to shopify to help customers answer any pre-sales questions or help them make a purchase decision.

I see the pain in building these integration one by one and currently exploring a few SaaS that will help me have lot more integrations without us having to build & test one by one (Months).

Paragon , hotglue for example.

There are generally two approaches to do this, each with their pros and cons.

A few go with a unified api approach.
The benefit is that you can integrate one Unified CRM API and then use all CRM softwares directly.
While this does give a lot of headstart, the downside is that all CRM or ticket softwars may not have the same terminology and you may get into problems.

For example, intercom does not really have a ticket type system but still people use it for ticketing. Whlie freshdesk or Zendesk is a proper ticket system with lots of variables that can be mapped to a ticket.
With a unified API you kind of lose out on max potential of the platform you are integrating with, at the cost of faster integration.

Then there are direct APIs which still allow faster integration by handling auth, logging, debugging and some kind of unification but you have to still integrate them one by one in your SaaS.
So you gain lot more control, at the expense of time to implement.

By looking at the docs, I see they are trying to go with a hybrid model where they give a direct integration option but i can map the models myself which kind of covers both cases ? Someone from the team can comment. But Interesting.

This is definitely an interesting space which has been mostly covered by zapier. but zaps are ugly, a glue and very expensive for anything serios and mostly used by individuals who just want to connect a few systems together.

In this AI era where everyone is building something with AI and finding out that building the MVP is pretty easy but then gets stuck on expanding because customers wants things to work inside the tools they already use, there is definitely a market for this.

I have sent a meeting request, happy to connect and see if this helps us.
It's a brocessor.
Looks pretty good! This is interesting from the release notes:

> Starting in Ubuntu 24.04, Canonical no longer produces Vagrant images. This is due upstream Debian questions of maintainership and Canonical dropping vagrant from the Ubuntu archives.

Certainly will impact my workload.
It's not just the heat capacity of water, but also the energy required for phase-change from solid (ice) to liquid (water). That's why throwing salt on ice will melt it but also lower the temperature.
I don’t think so. Funny thing is, I’m the opposite. As a sysadmin, I have enough machines (at work plus personal), and I’d rather let someone manage that system for me. :)

The nice thing is, Mataroa is JS free except a couple of keyboard shortcuts. I failed to find a template equally nice for Jekyll, so I started to use the service.
You could read the whole thing but it would be quicker to infer that if I need to explain the joke,
What is the non-cryptographic meaning?
Yea ofc. Nvidia has for mellanox infiniband, nvlink external, and even mellanox ethernet pci-to-pci, no need to involve the CPU. nvidia-docker has a few mods to support this too.
After clicking this link, am I on a list now.???

All the Q stuff makes people look stupid, and easy to make fun of.

Yet, it wasn't long ago that Congress voted for the First Iraq war based on a Saudi plant testifying about Iraqi's shooting babies. (made up story)

The CIA also did fund Bin Laden, back when he was a 'freedom fighter' Mujahedeen, fighting Russians. That is history, but sounds like a conspiracy.

Then there was the justification of the Iraq War Version 2 (Electric Boogaloo), that was justified based on "WMD"s.

Iran-Contra, not that long ago. But if it was described today would sound like a conspiracy theory.

So. It is hard to even talk about history or current events without sounding like a kook.
ECB and random.randint, wow. I'm not sure any dev comment could redeem crypto sins like that in such a project.
Sure, there needs to be a screen, but it doesn't have to do anything more than be the monitor for the backup camera.
> They are not considered firearms by federal agencies

Despite being literally armaments of fire
The one the boring company made was only $500, iirc. cheaper than many guns out there
That is exactly what study 2 of this paper looks at and the answer is that if you control for age, gender and ethnicity, individual raters can't do much better that guessing (r=.02) but if you aggregate the ratings you start to gain accuracy (which matches results for aggregate guessing in other areas.)
Simple ID scans are already on their way out.

"Liveness checks" where we have to turn on our webcam and let some stranger make a full biometric model of our head to use basic internet infrastructure is the dystopia we deserve, and it's the one we're gonna get.

I hope the "AI" was worth it. Let's see if you can fix this problem you created.
Consider yourself lucky. I too am in Germany and and I get calls on almost a daily basis. Robo and otherwise. Same with WhatsApp messages. I have my number for close to 20 years now though.

Unless this gets regulated Telcos will continue to enjoy their profits.
Waymo is geo-fenced. Tesla's approach is designed for a global scale.
> I'd question whether people even need to know OrgId is a string.

I mean, with numbers it's even more confusing (this might be a TS bug?):

type SpecialNumber = number & { __brand: "SpecialNumber" };
let n: SpecialNumber = 42 as SpecialNumber;

n++; // works (but should break)
n+=1; // breaks
n = n + 1; // breaks

I understand the purpose behind it, I just think it's needlessly confusing and obtuse, and would be curious to see any serious code base that uses branding.
That's not really how actual tyranny works. There is no requirement for equal treatment.
> all of the things in this article represent complexity and behaviours that don't add anything to anyone's lives.

A cynic might point out it added a lot of makework to the lives of its creators. And that this is why we can't have nice things like proper specs instead of 'living' ones.
I suppose that it may depend on the airline how they handle such cases. I do not remember which I had used then, but it might have been Lufthansa.

In my case I had bought the train tickets separately from DB (online) and the flight tickets directly from the airline (also online). At the airport I have just shown the train tickets and it would have been easy to verify that indeed it had arrived with a huge delay, so it was not my fault.
They shut down in 2023. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184546
Data formats don't typically have comments because they are (supposed to be) generated by machines and read by machines. The .DATA sections in binaries don't have comments... Network protocols don't have comments... Pickle files don't have comments... JSON is supposed to just encode data.

It goes like this:

- XML was created to allow humans to write human-friendly data encoding (AKA "markup") that had lots of features they wanted programs to take advantage of.

- It turned out the format they chose was great for the machines, but really annoying for humans.

- They refused to change the format for humans, so humans got sick of it, and decided the problem was it was "too complicated" (as opposed to merely "too clunky").

- So they created some other formats, which weren't in any way better, but were simpler, so they could ignore the fact that they made the formats too clunky.

- Some formats' designers were opinionated, and decided things like "comments are an anti-pattern in a data format", so they took those features out.

- So now humans could manage the formats better. But they still wanted programs to take advantage of useful features - like multiple data types. So they implemented multiple data types in the formats.

- But the humans forgot that humans are still pretty dumb, and that most people never read specifications. So the users of the new format would incorrectly use the format, and run into the different data types accidentally (like true/false or null in JSON, or "The Norway Problem" in YAML), and claim the problem was the format, and not their own ignorance of it. (isn't the human ego amazing?)

- So the humans, not having learned from history, invented yet more data formats, with even fewer features, so that they would not continue to screw up the things they themselves invented. And so you get things like "restricted yaml" or "toml" (which is basically an .ini file, a format from 50 years before).

A data format that allows comments is called a "configuration file", and is supposed to be primarily read and written by humans, and requires a machine to implement a parser for it. Those are not always easy to write, which is why most people today have chosen to use data formats rather than configuration formats. But that has the unintended consequence of humans not understanding that types in data formats are a thing.

Back in the day we wrote the configuration format for the human, and used data formats for machine<->machine communication. Some of those data formats were very easy for humans to read, but that was largely an accident of the fact that most programs had records so simple that we separated everything with newlines... not an engineering decision as much as a "hey, it's really easy to just read an entire data record as everything up to '\n'" thing.

Over time people have sort of become confused about what each format is and how it should be used, and what for. The data format churn (and constant griping) will continue, forever, because humans never learn their history.
We were told, "No customizations. Do it SAP's way and do NOT complain. If something doesn't work, it is not SAP's fault." We had no stakes to hold.

If ERP has an "impossible task at these scales," they ought not to claim that their product does otherwise.
You realize you're going against the rule "never respond to spam".
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
It's likely that the painting's history's been obfuscated, considering art stolen during WW2 is still up for restitution in a number of jurisdictions.
You can rest assured that my phones are well managed. As well as phones can possibly be managed. Their volumes are set to zero, they are muted and their ringtones are explicity set to silence on top of that.

Disabling calls altogether can't be done. You bet I looked for that knob. Calls are literally baked into the OS. I even asked the phone company to turn off calling. Nope. So I have to live with constant useless annoying notifications that some bot is trying to call me whenever I'm actively using my phone. Welp. At least I managed to turn off voice mail. That was an especially horrible advertising vector.

Only reason I even have active phone numbers is WhatsApp. Technically, I only need SMS for the verification codes. Explaining that to the phone company is futile though.

Anyway, this only fixes part of the problem. Every other person in my life carries a phone with them. Older folks even have landlines. All those phones ring. A lot.

I don't generally make a habit of "configurating" other people's phones, for obvious reasons. I've tried convince them. It didn't work. They're OK with being routinely woken up by useless phone calls every single day because someone somewhere might one day need to call them on that phone to relay important news or something. It has a visible, measurable impact on their quality of life but they refuse to get rid of the phone. I think that's incredibly inhumane but it can't be helped.
CO2 emissions are ripping and will continue to do so in China and India.
You can't stop that train, either.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
Thank you for the insights and looking forward to chatting!
Dear Mr. Stewart,
I'm glad that this strategy works for your organization, but personally, this sounds like a terrible idea. It's as if I was a carpenter organizing my tools and instead of wrenches, hammers, and saws I call them small, medium, and large tools. Why would you deliberately omit any reference to their function or role?
Congrats on the launch! I played around with it a bit and it seems really cool. I only wonder about asking for users to sign up from the "upload" button. I feel like you should consider giving visitors a look at the results before you ask them to create an account. Just a thought.

Another thing to consider, possibly, is a counter/indication of how many free variations you can try, and a way to rotate the suggested layout (it keeps suggesting I block the patio door with the couch lol).

Just some preliminary thoughts!
How are you answering? Is responding with STOP not working?
Answering my own question in case others find it helpful. Here's the original source of the research.

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/04/vulnerabilities-across-keyboar...

> While many keyboard apps operate locally, solely within a user’s device, IME-based keyboard apps often have cloud features which enhance their functionality. Because of the complexities of predicting which characters a user may want to type next, especially in logographic languages like Chinese, IMEs often offer “cloud-based” prediction services which reach out over the network. Enabling “cloud-based” features in these apps means that longer strings of syllables that users type will be transmitted to servers elsewhere
3. A distrust in everything leading to more sway in public opinion.

4. Deniability in everthing that wasactually said. I think it's either Elon Musk or Donald Trump whose lawyers have argued in court/public that you can't be certain they actually said it.
Unlike the Tesla "flamethrower" referenced in the article which is just a propane torch rather than a liquid flamethrower, this appears to be much more like the actual weapon of war?
Yam Yam and Karina Rykman would fit in your list. Thanks for it.
kWh, not per hour
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying for something else here.

You're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This isn't the US joining China's practices, they aren't cracking down on all foreign ownership, they're targeting China as a tit-for-tat. Tit-for-tat is the right response to a defector like China, the US still cooperates with other cooperators like those in Europe.
Totally valid question I struggled with for years.

Simply yes, the most of the investment happens when shares are issued - notably the IPO. However companies can issue new shares, or buy back/retire shares and reissue at a future date. The value from people holding shares maintains the price for which companies can cash in at a future date. So demand for shares on the market is sort of a store of value for companies.

Your question on reinvestment: a company is under no obligation to return profits to shareholders and can reinvest as much of their profit as they please. Amazon did this for years. Of course there are practical limits to this as board members often are representatives of shareholder interests. When a company no longer can make new credible investments, they are likely to return excess profits to shareholders. Different companies have different mandates from shareholders and different levels of scrutiny for what counts as credible reinvestment.

Now in practice there is the added layer of shares representing the interests of the make up of the firm. Board seats often are shareholders, creditors give preference to firms with valuable shares, Ceos are often paid in shares as sometimes employees at many firms.

Ultimately, there is no legal claim to profits from shareholders, nor is there legal claim to control. (Look at Google's multi class share obfuscating control). However giving profit and control helps stoke share price which is the store of value for firms as well, helps maintain access to credit/ financial strength, and represents the interests of the firm itself (via its board, creditors, CEO, employees etc.)

TLDR: companies issue /reissue new shares to finance their business. Maintaining share price stores value for business (and new demand builds that value)
New social classes emerged with capitalism to replace the feudal classes. This is the core reason why socialists aren't very fond of the bourgeoisie.