skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then we have to wonder as well whether NYC and its surrounding environs would have evolved into the global capital of finance, culture, technology, etc., that it is.

I don’t dispute that immigration enables ambitious people from all over the world who are anti-social enough to leave their homelands to come to America and make a lot of money. How you can bill that as a good thing is what I don’t understand. Ordinary Americans would be better off if NYC wasn’t the global capital of finance and technology. The Netherlands seems to be doing just fine being modestly less rich than America.

> Bemoaning immigration is not unlike bemoaning bad weather.

Immigration isn’t an inevitability, especially when your country stretches from coast to coast with a relatively narrow land border on the south side. Between 1910 and 1970, the US foreign-born population shrank from 15% to under 5%, even with the advent of the aviation industry. The subsequent growth of that figure was entirely a policy choice.
I'm not. from my POV, we are spinning up the economy for war. we're already in world War III, we're just waiting for someone to officially declare it.
> We have 4 days to contest "Know Your Customer"

would have been a better title. The missing information is more easily guessed from skimming the article than the mystery acronym.
Isn't that a bit like saying if your home is broken into, it's your fault for not having better locks?

I would agree that if you want better outcomes, you should learn about and use the mechanisms built into your phone to reduce distractions, but telling people it's their fault that others are treating them with rudeness seems a bit much.
Ask HN: Will invalidation of non-compete increase attrition?
With the new FTC ruling invalidating non-compete clauses, do you think that there will be more company hopping? It seemed to me that there was less of the '18-24 months, then move' culture in WA and TX than in CA.
But I want additional features; I don't want to just port it over.
A small team of planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, Université Côte d'Azur and Southwest Research Institute reports possible new evidence of Planet 9. They have published their paper on the arXiv preprint server, and it has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
I suspect this has more to do with getting TikTok users riled up with the hopes of influencing change. If they do sell, I don't see anybody trying to low ball them since they know what they are getting.
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Same bill as Israel funding is not my argument, it's just something to note. If you dig into this, you will find lots of public statements or comments made by ADL and related organizations about tiktok's influence on gen z opinions of the conflict, since tiktok doesn't ban pro palestine content or videos of civilian killings by IDF like all of the other big social networks do. Couple of weeks later, the ban is introduced and few weeks later the bill is passed. This is as pretty obvious as it can possibly be.
Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
Amazon is certainly supposed to ensure that you are not a sanctioned person or a citizen of a sanctioned country. This was a concern decades ago when I was in shared web hosting.. don't know why it would have changed?
It will, and it's blatant proof the power tiktok has on the minds of americans. The CEO has already put out a propaganda piece talking about how Tiktok being banned is a travesty to American free speech.
Know Your Customer - it’s a term describing how organizations like banks want to know what you’re doing so they can avoid enabling criminal activity.
Yep same here, quite amusing…
I don't play them as religiously as I did when I was younger, that's for sure, but a few years ago I started a tradition around playing video games that has been an absolute blast.

I've got a 120" projector screen in the living room with a giant, half-circle couch that seats ~10 and a good set of speakers. All year I try to find short (1-3hrs), emotionally evocative, single-player video games which aren't demanding of reflexes or wit.

On my birthday, I invite a big group of people over, we all take acid, and we dive deep into a curated set of games for a whole night. We take turns passing around the controller.

It's an absolute blast. I've ran this experience for three years running. People who don't traditionally play video games love to come and watch and get a taste of gaming, sometimes people will pilot the controller for just a short while before getting overwhelmed, but everyone's take away is a shared group emotional experience. There's been standing ovations at the end of some of the years :D

https://i.imgur.com/6F0iSxp.png Here's a list of the games. Highlights have been ABZU, The Beginner's Guide, Milk Inside/Outside a Bag of Milk, and Slay the Princess
Better: https://libdivide.com/. That also optimizes division by non-powers of two.

https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-epis... explains the math behind it.
Yes. By standard I mean that nanometers ("nm") is used to describe physical distances. That's it's normal use, understood by all engineers. That's also how it was born into the semiconductor domain. In that domain, it should have either stayed a description of physical distances, or been replaced.

They could invent codenames, or start using a better (physical) metric, if this one is no longer relevant.
Thank God for the Constitution
All of the above. Drones have changed the face of war, like the introduction of the machine gun or airplane changed war.
But where do the apps come from, if not Android?

The bar for PDA software is considerably higher than in 1997. Even just a calendar needs cloud integrations and instant smart search and whatever. Email is a much bigger can of worms.

Developing that software suite on a non-Android platform seems like a lot of work for something that would still leave many users disappointed to find features missing.
in Ukraine the FPV infantry killers are modified hobbyist drones, in the ~$500 range

the economist: https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology... https://archive.is/nJYJ0
It seems to me like we're mostly in agreement. I agree regulations can have compounding negative effects, though whether that's enough to account for a potential 2x improvement in overall economic output is something I would still dispute without any hard numbers to back up that claim.

I also think you've misunderstood my point about regulations. What I'm saying is that sometimes regulations can serve as a sort of "luxury good", where even if they're a net negative economically (like in your example of the uneconomical safety improvements) the quality of life benefits can still make them worth the cost in a society that's wealthy enough to absorb those costs.

I'm not saying that's always the case. Sometimes the costs clearly aren't worth it even factoring in subjective benefits. Just that its another thing to consider.

I also agree that there's probably a certain point where people would start to value their time more than what we today would consider "luxury goods". Just that that point is probably a lot further out than you might expect, because what's considered a luxury is relative to the cultural standards of the society you live in. Some people do chose to retire in their 30s, but I know a lot more people who didn't do that even though they probably could have.
Futures Exchanges Are for Traders
I believe it was satirical post.
The point is the maneuvers can be much more extreme because the done doesn't need to prevent a bag of meat from rupturing due to high g forces.
ActBlue and WinRed are now used by Democrats and Republicans respectively for fundraising at just about every level, even pretty local races, and they're clearly selling access to their lists.

I donated a small amount to a Democratic candidate for a legislature race in my state (via ActBlue) and spent the next year unsubscribing from mailing lists that sending me hyperbolic nonsense about national races.

I donated a small amount to a Republican presidential primary candidate (via WinRed) and got signed up for campaign spam from Republicans running tight races all over the country, as well as like fifteen subscriptions to different mailing lists run by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times.
> Communities should not be put at risk because some Americans want to cosplay as action movie heroes. What makes you think that flamethrowers of all things are going to be used responsibly?

What makes you think I want to cosplay as a hero? :-)
I've been working on the software end of things:

http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf

and

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/a-different-sort-of-box/36...

and for more see:

https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/programming
Serious question: why aren't false DMCA claims prosecutable as fraud? The elements are there - a knowingly false representation, detrimental reliance, and materiality.
I assume that TOR is vulnerable to the 51% attack? If so I would imagine that state actors have the ability to spin up a million containers each hosting a node and easily take control (or at least be able to start tracing connection from entry to exit node).

However Im sure this would be immediately obvious (unless they have been slowly doing this since the begining of TOR)
Music as an art form is simply not that important to a lot of people. It's more a mood drug. And you're right about the algorithms. In general, the algorithms are judged by the amount of listening that occurs because of them. It's a poor metric for user happiness, but it's what gets used. And in an A/B test, the one that plays familiar tunes is going to win over one that plays challenging tunes.
How ruthless is Amazon, really?
Actually, it seems there is little or no conclusive evidence for this.

[1] https://sleepopolis.com/news/children-night-lights-cause-myo...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000309074442.h...

[3] https://news.osu.edu/night-lights-dont-lead-to-nearsightedne...
They added it back in as an optional thing for child accounts managed in a family in messages. It sure sounds like it's AI based and not hash based in this case.
Every October I get a hundred or so calls and texts for someone named Eileen reminding her it's open enrollment time for Obamacare. It started suddenly a few years ago so I think the real Eileen just entered the wrong number by mistake but I have no idea how to make it stop.
On this specific issue, very probable. China has a law that restricts the export of algorithm:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-...
My goodness. I never would have imagined that!
Exploring UI Design in Flutter: Tips and Tricks for Beautiful Interfaces
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Exactly, the standard library is what I'm after. I am currently using SQLite but I prefer the redis interface
Engines vibrations aren’t really a problem on modern vehicles. You get some, but they’re incredibly tiny compared to conditions. Heck, even on my 25 year old car I don’t really have engine vibrations.

When I do get vibrations, it’s almost always from unbalanced wheels/tires.
Banking is the foundation of all so-called systems. Take away the financing and nothing gets done.
I'm a paying subscriber.

It's not "that much" better for some definitions of "that much".

But they're working on making the best search engine for their customers, and it does have a lot of features for helping make your search better and less ad-driven.

I was trying to find the age of an obscure local lava flow. Google was useless for it. Kagi had it on the third hit. So sometimes it's brilliantly better.

But what I like the most is that their incentives are aligned with mine (because I'm paying them to be).

Google is going to maximize revenue which means making it as shitty as possible without you leaving. How many ads can I cram down their throats before they split? Kagi is also maximizing revenue, but they want to make it as great as possible so you don't leave.

Are the results worth it? It's up to you, really. Try it for free--if you don't miss it after you run out of free searches, then it's not for you.
I meant an absolute nightmare of a bill in general and for the IaaS providers. The US is winning the AI race because of their open ecosystem and capability to execute and these types of things hurt that bad.
I guess I view Debian et al similarly to how you view Go: distros like Debian have been incrementally iterating on a simple design since the 90s and their package systems have become a Katamari Damacy ball of mud around a core designed for having a single agreed-upon version of each C library shared by all software in the universe.

Now to reliably distribute Linux software, it’s very popular to distribute the software along with the entire userspace the software compiled against in the form of a Docker container.
>in the USA, don't donate more than $200 to any political campaign. If you donate more than $200, then those contributions have to be reported to the FEC

You may get on additional spam lists if you donate but that's not what happened to my friend that's now getting multiple campaign messages every single day.

She never donated to anybody. She simply registered to vote. Even though she avoided putting her cellphone # on the registration form, the voters registrations are public information and the databrokers hired by political campaigns cross-referenced her name & address to find her cellphone #.

Replying with STOP doesn't help. The endless SMS texts have gotten so bad that she's giving up her phone number that she's had for 25 years and switching to a new # to get her privacy back.
I think for big corporations that the flip doesn’t switch on the status page until it is approved by legal and they get a “comms” message prepared. It isn’t as automatic as we’d like to think.
That's because, to my knowledge, none of the major internet providers took advantage of it being eliminated, presumably because the idea of "faster internet access to Netlfix" or whatever didn't test well with audiences who were used to the status quo of net neutrality. Had the ban remained in place, it's possible that status quo would have been slowly been eroded.

EDIT: Upon reading another comment, and California's Net Neutrality law, it's also possible that ISPs didn't deem it worth it to see if California would sue companies that provide net-neutral service to Californians but non-net neutral service to out-of Californians.
Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
https://archive.ph/s40xd
Reading the comments here is giving me the disturbing realization that the war in Ukraine is extremely valuable to the US because the US gets to collect immense amounts of data to inform perspectives on how modern technology is revolutionizing warfare with minimal risk to American troops. And that's with technology in the hands of an extremely motivated ally against one of our top rivals. This opportunity doesn't come very often, and I can imagine there are a lot of parties interested in it persisting at least until the value in the observational data starts to tail off. Along with other concerns, this may be a reason to parcel out exactly what tech gets given to Ukraine at which times.
"and applications", not just operating systems.
have you tried spaceteam?
If the messages are automated this works and is legally required. Many political messages may be a template but come from real humans. It's a way around the law.
Question: On a typical ESPHome device, reporting temperature (say every 15 minutes) via wireless to HomeAssistant, what battery life is possible ?
To me, what happened is that my tastes have changed. I no longer appreciate games that are huge time-sinks and require grinding or mindless tasks. I prefer things that are engaging and allow quick gameplay sessions. I tend to gravitate to Fighting Games and Indie Games, and I haven't played any of the huge recent AAA successes.

Other than that, gaming with my kids. Minecraft, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Cuphead, Lego games, etc.
Ever since coming across this idea I have wondered what a (likely relational) database which deeply embedded these concepts would look like.
Right, that's my feelings exactly.

I was playing RimWorld one evening, had everything running smoothly, put the game on 1x speed, zoomed out, and was like, "Wow. This is nice. Some chill music playing, all my pawns moving around doing their thing, me emotionally vested in the outcome but not needing to contribute right now. At some point I'll need to provide input, but right now I can just observe and relax." and then decided to try and build out something similar, but that runs in-browser and on a longer timescale.
Thats an interesting point about the age of manipulative sales strategies! I didn't consider it.
And I agree with your position that emotions change over a rather long timescale.

In fact that's exactly why I'm concerned about the speed of technological development in psychology and data science. I fear that it's no longer salesperson vs consumer. Now it's salesalgorithm and a large chunk of the behavioral science academic efforts vs consumer. The power that the producer wields is increasing at a much faster rate than the emotional awareness of the consumer.

My perpective is influenced by the Center of Humane Tech's positon. The people behind 'The social dillema' documentary and the 'Your undivided attention' podcast. Manipulative capabilities are increasing FAST. And I believe that this speed of change is unprecedented.
Some people don't find immediate status alerts intellectually stimulating and suited to HN; flagging is a way to indicate that.

The flags may or may not be cleared by the mods later.

If it's a prolonged outage or there's a postmortem shared, those are less likely to get flagged.
It has to throw burning liquid. Point musk's "flamethrower" at someone for a second and you will burn their clothes and hair. Throw burning gasoline or napalm at them for a second and they will need head-to-toe skin grafts.
Is there any Founding-era historical legal precedent (Bruen) regulating or banning this type of arm that one carries on his person for offensive or defensive action?
Thanks understood, that makes it quite simple and intuitive thinking about it.
That was just part of the definition that I quoted.

In the full context, it is quite clear it is targeting things like EC2, dedicated hosting, etc.

https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-46

I don't think it's reasonable to read this as if MS Excel qualifies as an IaaS.
If the glue has failed, there are some serious craftsmanship issues regardless of the joint type.

With the exception of the joints labeled "...with key" these joints are all very remote from the types of joints used in traditional Japaneses temples which do not use glue.

These are mostly western style joints, which are also very beautiful and useful, but generally expected to be assembled with glue.

Great resource!
> blaming on a skill issue

No I'm not, I'm blaming it on the lack of organizational framework. I expect people to leave a mess if there's no guideline; there are more ways to do a thing wrong than to do it right.

> hard to then read and edit afterwards

No, that's what I'm saying. It's quite easy to read and edit - when organized. Maybe I'm the first person to invent conceptual organization of utility classes?? In which case I ought to just make a plugin for it.

Also, Tailwind has first-class support for grouping utility classes, such that `.button` can apply 15 different styles at once if that's your preference. So, you know, the exact same as regular CSS.
Errors usually happen during IO, but not in the main business logic and those two can be neatly separated.

But If you are coming from java I can understand the single error handling block is more comfortable, but coming from JavaScript/Typescript it's much more easy to check if err != nil, than to debug errors I forgot to handle, during runtime.
I don’t think so. It could be more governed by the opportunities. There is not as much startup and vc activity in Wa compared to CA.
AMD also publish a fair bit of documentation - https://www.amd.com/en/developer/browse-by-resource-type/doc...

Includes full ISA documentation of their current and past offerings, though look like they tend to be aimed at implementors rather than "high level" description for interested enthusiasts.
Israel did flatten Gaza. They don't care about killing innocent civilians.
I'll be less hostile to crypto when the benefits of cryptocurrency outweigh the environmental destruction caused by its mining.
You can't opt out of the SoC baseband. Who knows what is pushed over the air to the modem?
You talk about beef, look at what they did with a project for Canadian Government. They are not the same IBM they were 50 years ago. Now they are a consulting firm and a shitty one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303555
"The war was aborted after a DMCA takedown request"
There was never one culture, but the fragmentation was far more coarse.

I was into D&D, so I was exposed to anime, comics, Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Tom Lehrer, because those were a certain subculture.

I was never a comic-book nerd, but I could probably name a dozen different series from image comics in the 90s because I was surrounded by people who read them.

I flat out dislike watching Mel Brooks movies, but I can quote about 90% of Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles because that was a part of the vocabulary of that group.
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Probably not? NCs in WA were just "don't update LinkedIn". Plenty of 18-24 month hopping happening in the tech world (even non-tech focused companies) in WA.
Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
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All right, but in that case, I must ask you to explain the comment, because it make no sense to me at all.

Firstly, the choice of backslash in DOS 2 didn't enable backwards compatibility with anything because nothing prior to DOS 2 used the backslash character for this.

Secondly, I do not see any basis to say that somehow MS looked forward in time, at the future, and chose a character unused by any other OS.

As early-1980s MS did not have a time machine and thus was not looking forwards, then how did that choice help future compatibility? How was the use of backslash better for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (because that was the first one with its own VFAT filesystem that didn't just call DOS) and subsequent releases? How was a backslash preferable to anything else?

How would using any other character be worse?

Would choosing a character used by other OSes not have been _better_ for long term compatibility, aiding source code conversion and porting?

I really do not see what you are trying to get at.

Incidentally, I entirely agree that its compatibility record is astonishingly good, but I can't see any link from that to the choice of directory delimiter.
> Looks like intelligence is a collective property and not the domain of any one individual.

The one question that has kept me up at night the most (can’t recall who posed it) was; “What are we building? Ants build ant hills, beavers build dams, what is humanity building?”
Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field
Could at least point to https://www.redditstatus.com/ instead of Xitter
tl;dr; version of the review: Ruthless enough that they deserve to be the villain in a far-better-written-than-this-one book.
Can you explain how that works for each other grouping that is capitalized, but is not also true for white people?