skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the industry standard for advertising. Even way before GDRP!

Remember when Verizon was caught "super cookie"ing all their subscribers http requests?

What did verizon do? moved the super cookie shenanigans under their subsidiary AOL. Then when AOL got a slap on the wrist too, what verizon did? bought Yahoo and moved the shenanigans there. ...When those tactics where not technically possible anymore it sold all ad subsidiaries for the purchase price.

I call that «Regulatory Condoms». It works fine for enforcement that gives warnings before fines.
This kind of tactical suppression of news happened a lot in the run-up to the UK's Brexit referendum.

The EU is a very polarising institution. Unfortunately, loyal supporters of the EU will do anything to protect it from criticism.

Which is one of the reasons it has become such an awful, yet powerful, political experiment. We're not able to openly criticise it.

(watch as my comment gets downvoted / flagged!)
Texas, Oregon citizens gain new data rights: get companies to delete their PII
While an AI CEO may seem a bit sci-fi, it highlights the broad capabilities of tools like ChatGPT-4. But there’s loads more ChatGPT-4 can do besides being your CEO.

It’s like a Swiss Army knife – from sparking that initial idea to breaking into the global market, it’s got your back at every turn.
Sounds great, will keep an eye out.
It seems the mayor of Barcelona is banning short-term rentals to appease the locals. From the looks of it, the discomfort started when locals couldn't afford to live in their city. Portugal also banned new Airbnbs. The same goes for other cities around the globe.

Sooner or later, this trend will ramp up globally since the premise was to rent a spare room, not the whole thing. Tourism will survive since Barcelona has been a hot destination long before short-term rentals.
HP is constantly confirming the stance I have of never buying HP devices in the future. This probably wasn't their aim, but in the past decade I could only hear negative sentiment about them, and reading stories like this - it doesn't seem without reason.
> If this happened on an Airbus plane it wouldn't have ended up on the front page.

Perhaps, but I think its a good thing that boeing is under more scrutiny and is getting more shit than their competition would for the same. Not much more general public can do.
I am not an expert but it seems that many of the real challenges outlined in this blog are handled with what my city (Ottawa, Canada) calls 'supportive housing'.

Basically, a purpose built building with 30-50 small apartments and social services co-located. Residents have to meet conditions to get in, to remain in and progress to the point that they can function in more regular market housing, thus freeing the slot for another resident.

https://ottawainnercityhealth.ca/programs-services/supportiv...

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Our supportive living units are run in partnership with other organizations and provide specialized supports for individuals exiting homelessness. This includes substance use support, mental health care, and peer support. Our programs are designed to be client-centred with a harm-reduction-focus.
[...]
Carruthers is a supported housing program operated in partnership with the John Howard Society with 46 units. Originally, the substance use treatment available focused strongly on Injectable Opiate Substitution (IOAT) with 20 of the available apartments being reserved for people who were enrolled in that program. Many of the original residents have now migrated to other forms of treatment and to different lives where volunteering, work and time spent with family and friends are a priority.
[..]
The Richcraft Residence was the first OICH housing program which offered all available substance use, physical health and mental health treatments in one location providing a full menu of care options for residents.
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Upstream of supportive housing you need good street facing services with social workers and police well coordinated and tracking clients.

Downstream of supportive housing you need to help people maintain the progress they made at living more indepently as a functional part of their wider community.

Remaining problems include:

- keeping clients alive long enough to recover before they die from opiod poisoning

- having enough of supportive housing capacity to meet the need.

- the candidates who do not want to participate, even space was available.
Laser printers are great for the opposite problem as well – super low volume. Since there are no nozzles to clog, you don’t have to waste ink every time you print doing a cleaning cycle.

As the sibling comment says, Brother B&W lasers are god-tier for their purpose. They’re cheap, they last forever, and they just work. I had one for well over a decade, until my wife finally convinced me we needed a color printer, because she needed to print hundreds of pages in color for a project. I got a Brother color laser, and so far, I love it. Toner replacement is going to suck, but at least it’s a rare occurrence.

As to photos, it does a shockingly good job at the type you’d see in a brochure, report, etc. It’s not going to replace an actual photo printer, no, but I’ve never found a compelling reason to print photos at home anyway.
Not that happy about Instant Ink being discountinued; was paying like £12 a year for ink, printed infrequently enough that I could print super high res photos fairly regularly too (think I get 10 pages a month that could roll over to a max of 30)
>justified

How about yall stop factory farming first. But I guess a curious slightly mad scientist is an easier target than an agrocorporation, the guy probably won't feed you to the hogs.
This is definite going to have privacy implications...
No it's not. https://www.dm.de/services/services-im-markt/fotoservice/cop...
Right, but that doesn't mean that now we need to go all sensational about every single instance of regular airplane safety procedure.

Ever since the MAX crashes we periodically get these threads where a bunch of people who don't understand normal procedure speculate that a totally normal incident is actually more sinister. These are some of HN's least valuable threads, so I'd prefer to preempt it.
I've used supplyhouse.com for years for plumbing projects around the house. I'm in New England, so get most items next day if I order by 3 PM (later in metro NY area) and I think I've gotten only one item wrong across hundreds of items and dozens of orders. On a lot of items, they're cheaper than Home Depot as well.
Yeah. HN is really insufferable about this stuff. Just as prone as everyone else to being pandered to with politically driven clickbait, but acts like it’s God’s gift to Earth because…computers?

Anyone that remotely cares about aviation can tell you that completely routine Boeing-related “news” now routinely makes its way to the HN front page, not because it’s notable, but because everyone wants to post their recycled rants about “MBAs” because they had a bad day at work or whatever.
OneFileLinux: A 20MB Alpine metadistro that fits into the ESP
If you want to do that you're free to buy a phone (i.e. Android) that is has fewer safeguards and lacks vertical integration.

For those of us who value Apple's approach, please let us choose the phone that works best for us, and stop supporting bad politicians who want to regulate our choices away.
Exactly. The only privacy respecting feature I have ever worked on in the Ad space was because vendors (the ad industry clients) were abusing the platform and pushing expensive rich-media formats when only paying for "banners". So we prevented the banners from escaping the iframes they were served in and added measured APIs to allow richmedia ones to annoy the user outside the iframe.

it also had the benefit of cutting down spam since most spammers were scraping the webmail contacts by placing ads. lol. the early 2000s were wild.
Anything is allowed to happen in reality. The situation is the result of who wants or does not want to do what.
We have several working at support who struggle with writing good issues due to dyslexia, lack of technical knowledge (domain experts) or similar.

Was curious if the AI could assist them in a useful way. Sometimes they might poorly explain the problem, which module it pertains to or similar or similar, making it very unclear what exactly the issue is.

I was thinking perhaps an AI component that could analyze what they said and "complain" if the AI detects key information is lacking, or perhaps just re-summarize what they wrote so it becomes more clear when they haven't supplied sufficient information.
And in all previous threads there were other HN people saying "trust Boeing, it's not a systemic thing, they are a honest company and will fix things, it's just how aviation got safe, one crash at a time"
You're right, the article doesn't specify. Either way, for an issue that occurs a long time after delivery this sounds like totally normal procedure.
I was recently at a Festival that requires ticket + ID (https://www.resurrectionfest.es). The key to success was to put a little more personal at the gates, maybe 15 people instead of 10. But it is also true that we have the ID document issued in our early teens it not before. Each ticket verification takes 3 more seconds extra to verify the ID matches, no big deal.

Said festival does their own ticket re-sale to avoid scalping but mainly to avoid shady sites that are known to allow the selling of counterfeits. You can only cede your ticket, not sell it. It is not perfect (e.g. if you don't find a buyer for the same price, you can't sell it at a lost to recoup some money. You get your ticket back) but at least is not as bad as the one from Ticketmaster.
California to impose permanent water restrictions on cities and towns
OK, so he has a concept of a time when the program is written and so on. Decisions about how the program is written, or what is to be written, can involve non-computable metaphysical questions.
That matches in writing the meaning of the word "zero", "null" or whatever word is used in the spoken language.

So it is not a new invention.

When the positional system of writing numbers was invented, the symbol for "zero" had to be used in a new way.

In the spoken language, one says "one hundred and five", without using any "zero" word.

In a non-positional writing system, one would mimic the spoken language, writing e.g. "CV". Symbols for "0" are not used inside any other number, but only for the unique quantity "zero".

In a positional system, one writes "one hundred and five" as "1" "0" "5", using a "0" in the appropriate positions, which allows the reuse of the symbol "1", instead of having to invent special symbols for hundreds.

For very big numbers, the economy of symbols brought by the positional system is great, so its invention has been very important.

The positional system did not need to invent a new word or symbol for "zero", but it had to invent a new way to use "zero", inside the strings used for writing big numbers.
Would you like to elaborate somewhat?

What other countries?

What problem?
Most people need to print so infrequently that they should just print to library or print service like fedex. My library's printing is a third the cost of local printing services. Both have simple ways to send print jobs to a location. Really convenient.
Mendelsons in Dayton was another treasure trove of anything random they thought might eventually sell. Closed in 2020.
My understanding of the comment is that it’s in the context of saving an enumeration-object into a database.

Like Typescript might (for example) represent enums as integers like 1, 2, 3... at runtime.

What happens if you decide to store a “delivery status” enum in a database? You would just be saving a number into the database, which can be hard to understand.

If it’s a string, then the value stored in the database is clearer and doesn’t depend on you being lucky with the Typescript compiler that the same enum type is compiled to the same integers after new releases.

I only realised this issue now, but it’s what I understood after reading that comment.
Heh nice term! Being respectful to my colleagues, I call this "privacy theater", borrowing from the "security theater".
Quit the puritanism. it's less disrespectful than insert cookies on your clients http requests tho.
It doesn't work that way, as made clear on this thread it's hard enough to get meetups going when they're free.

Asking people to pay for entry means that in most cases the meetup won't happen at all.

If meetups don't happen we all have to lose from it, not just the meetup organizers.

Isn't it a worthy goal for a society to facilitate the free exchange of ideas?

Why should corporations or a patron be in charge of deciding whether that can be done or not?
I guess I'll add that this is mostly possible using a Docker-based workflow, but the hope is that one day we could get something more lightweight.
Of course mail did and does work.

Horses did work, and would still work if we still used them.

But for an official service to necessitate a physical form lettered to them, that is simply unnecessary overhead for the individual, for society, and for the environment.
What do you mean HN is insufferable? As i write this there isn’t a single comment speaking unreasonably against Boeing in this thread. The story making the front page is a result of a few people clicking a vote button, not preaching a mission statement.
> What I find extremely annoying is that no one is charge saw this coming. How stupid do you need to be to release an online-only subscription laser printer?

How is it possible that Putin wasn't aware of the state of Russian army on the eve of the invasion? Is it possible that all generals constantly lied to him because he killed everyone who disagreed with him and surrounded himself with yes-men, creating an alternative reality for himself? Still, being an ex-KGB agent, and maneuvering through all the quirks of Russian politics, he should be perfectly aware of how the system works. Yet, he sent to Ukraine tanks without fuel nor ammunition. How come?

The more I read about the shortcomings of totalitarian states the more I understand why corporations work the way they do.
Whether or not it's a good thing in the abstract, these HN threads are always disaster zones. People who are actually informed don't bother to show up, so it's just a bunch of low-effort complaints about Boeing that bear no relation to the article.
The secret hospitals offering criminals new faces
Yeah, a lot of these articles conflate use of zero as placeholder, numeral and number. But the real critical conceptual step is the last step of using zero like any other number (mostly) in arithmetic.
It's quite a thing to behold that the only technological advancement in printing technology in the last decade has been the erosion of ownership to the point of absurdity. In a fair world, this decades long clownshow should have caused the mother of all anti trust lawsuits, yet here we are.
What is that popular hacking forum mentioned?
I remember the contradictory thoughts when I first filled in my work iPhone with my personal data.

Apple had some sort of mind control that had me excited to give them my personal information.

At the same time, I was horrified that I was giving so much information to Apple.

With Apple, it felt fine, their branding made you feel special. With Microsoft, you feel extorted. I'm sure people will nitpick differences, but after PRISM, its just branding. Apple commercials make you feel better about Apple, even when they do M$ level of bad things. M$ is just so terrible at pretending to be pro-consumer, they are oblivious.
>If you don't assume law of excluded middle, you can't.

You can't, under your logical constraints.

God has no such constraints, not just in the physical but also in the logical realm. He can make it so that assuming the law of excluded middle and not assuming it at the same time, is compatible and consistent.
I've used both DB Browser and SQLiteStudio, and I prefer the flow and interface of SQLiteStudio.

It's been a few years since I've used DB Browser, so I forget exactly what I didn't like about it. Maybe I should download it again and try it out one more time and see if I still feel the same way.
Competitive programming skill. Just right click any where on Win11 and see how slow the menu will pop up. 100 of thousands Microsoft employees and NONE of them can make thing work faster.
Yeah but this is still one entity and setting is based on cookie, per device valid up until cache gets cleared.

Browsers should handle tracking preferences in settings and it should be "deny" by default for all non-essential purposes. There are technical means but no will to respect such preferences. Tho, Global Privacy Control which is the successor to Do Not Track header managed to fine Sephora company in the US for ignoring opt-out request [1]. So, maybe there's some hope...

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20230510060201/https://www.reute...
I am in EU country that has similar system, but it has some problems:

- keeping verifiable trail for digital documents is difficult. You have to go to notary, and print verified copy at cost of 1$ per page. Old paper system just sends you hard verified copy for free.

- there is a fiction of delivery for digital mail.

- digital documents get deleted from mail box after 6 months. There is paid version that preserves them. There is no way to archive them outside of government servers, because signature trail expires.

- good luck with using digital documents at the court, there are laws, but those are unenforceable. Your fancy digital doc may just get thrown out as a fake.

- government owns all servers, and may just decide to delete some digital documents.

In short new "digital" system is buggy, cumbersome, abd very expensive if you want safety and reliability. Cost of paper is negligible.
What about a partial vacuum?

Perhaps there is a hapy medium between air resistance and cushioning? Reducing the air by an amount might help.

Although, I'd be surprised if they hadn't thought of this already :)
> Let's simplify by assuming that planes are in the sky forever and don't get added or removed.

If planes are around forever, wouldn't you be better off interning them? e.g. having a single global std::vector<Plane> (or std::array<Plane, N>) and passing around offsets in that array? And your PlaneVec would just be a glorified std::vector<size_t> (or int)? I don't see any value in maintaining a reference count if you're never intending to clean up these objects.

(The argument for using int here would be if you always have fewer than 2 billion planes, and so you can store a PlaneVec in less space. size_t is indistinguishable from Plane* in this context; you have the same amount of indirections either way.)

As I said, shared ownership has its uses, but most instances I've seen could have been replaced with a different model and would have been less painful to debug memory leaks and use-after-free.
>Why don’t you take a wild guess here?

I think that the only position consistent with your prior statements is that burglary is just one of those things that happens sometimes, and if the homeowner really didn't like it, they'd move. Caveat emptor.
>Invoking a fictitious god with any arbitrary property doesn't make your argument consistent

Logical consistency only cares about propositions and their relationship, it doesn't care whether an entity involved in one is fictitious or not.
Obliteration of attention spans, introduction and proliferation of (mentally and physically) unhealthy role models, the proven by now adverse effects of social media, the rising teen suicide rates etc etc etc
Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat
>life on Gotland is way more interesting due to the tourism

Perhaps those people don't want "a little more people there", and think their life is enough interesting as it is?

>Personally I think the anti-tourism mindset is stupid and that is what I was trying to convey in the text.

Try living in some places burnened by tourism and see how bad it gets. And consider how Gotland might be in a trajectory to get in that list, as welcoming tourists can easily cascade to further tourism and changing the local economy, and then it's a race to the bottom.
Slight difference between EFI and ESP. Works on my EFI laptop, my ESP32 board wasn’t having it.
Cause exploding hard drives are metal AF
> What I find extremely annoying is that no one is charge saw this coming.

I remember when US airlines started charging for checked baggage. Many more people started carrying on their bags, resulting in slower boarding and deplaning, and therefore problems for the airlines.

I read an interview with an executive at one of the airlines, saying that he didn't see this coming and was taken totally by surprise.

I am bewildered at how these people rise to positions of authority without even the most basic ability to predict obvious consumer behavior.
C++ might have a bad reputation, but in many fields the only alternative, in terms of ecosystem, tooling and tribal knowledge is C.

Between those two, I rather pick the "Typescript for C" one.
You are the very reason why I use adblockers, and block a bunch of URLs and IPs on my router (to protect myself and my family), _and_ try to convince loved ones to up their security/privacy game; while at the same time I know that most people are sheep and have this exact opinion, so I own stock of MS, Apple, Google, and others, that 'feed' on the people with that mindset.

It's kinda like those Silicon Valley execs that make these (mental) poisonous products but don't let their kids use them...? So thank you for the dividends, but I will feed my family (mentally) healthy stuff and not (mental) junkfood.

All because "hey the poor ad execs need one more speedboat!". Thank you for your service :)
Rule of thumb when it comes to monopolies: always err on the side of rentierism. In fact, it should be incumbent on their defenders to prove (insert greedy activity) is not practiced by said corporation
That sounds exactly like something which we will be launching next week. We are working on an AI assist which will ask questions while creating issues in aspects like

1. If that can be broken into sub-issues

2. If it lacks information according to a template that's created in association with the label. For example: Label bug: You can explain in the template what is expected (Some deployment information, logs, screenshots etc.) and the AI assistant will help in ensuring those contents exist.

We are also exploring if there are more such cases where AI can help. Do let us know your feedback on this once we launch
Are HDD's a significant consumer of the world's helium, in the scheme of things? I had thought helium was used only in a few bleeding edge drives, and they went to normal air as the tech matured.
If there’s a silver lining in all events that is happening with Boeing, definitely will be the adjacent fixes and data collected around potential problems and of course the time given to solve those issues.

I do not have and insight on how that industry work, but I imagine several stealth patching, design philosophies receiving on field data, and a lot of learning due to those incidents.
California pays 4 cents per kilowatt hour for solar + storage.