skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good news, although this part at the end stood out to me:

> The FCC's draft order said that even with the new caps, potential "revenues for eight out of 12 IPCS [Incarcerated People's Communications Services] providers exceed their total reported costs when excluding site commissions and safety and security categories that generally are not used and useful in the provision of IPCS.

The FCC should be commended for closing these loopholes, but it's notable that these prison phone companies are still profitable even at these significantly lower rates. That indicates that the relationship here was (and is) purely extractive and should be operated purely at cost, if not banned outright.
Genuine question. Wouldn't it be more efficient to check the levels of lead in the people periodically? If a sparrow has high levels of lead then you still need to check the people.

It seems like it would be fewer steps, fewer tests, and less messing around by making testing more available to the people.
Yeah “seemingly” and “effectively” aren’t enough
They are changing laws so if you’re undetectable you don’t have to disclose your HIV status to your partner(s) .. but you could transmit it if you stop taking anti virals or the HIV mutates and then you’ve infected your partners… and just because it’s not detectable how do we know for sure you haven’t transmitted it ?

Seems very wrong.
Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation.

However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do research" without also doing those things.
Show HN: Negotiation roleplays for candidates and for fun (Demo without Login)
Dear Hackers,

for a friend of mine I recently developed a prototype that allows him to let the job candidates for sales positions prove their negotiation skills.

I now turned it into a public demo, to get your feedback.

We have two situations: House Negotiation and Hostage Takers (coming soon).

Have fun and tell me what you think.
I actually don't mind speaking punctuation, in fact it kind of helps. What I really hate is the middle-spot where we are right now, where it tries to place punctuation and sucks badly at it.
Thomas Edison invented the first commercial invention laboratory.

The Wright Bros invented the first directed research and development program, where theories are developed and tested on a series of prototypes, leading towards the objective.
We're in southern California. There's lots of night bike rides, all over the place. Long Beach, Venice Beach, Hollywood, anywhere there's people to spectate - they don't ride to not be seen, lol.
That I'd happily go back to the stone age rather than have him and the likes of him own the tech sector and be left alone in driving it into the next century.

And I'm far from alone in feeling this way.
A highly efficient sorting-based distributed memory k-mer counter
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/supreme-court-clarifies-...

And then one night your partner slips off the condom … then what
The current reality is a superset of (a)+(b)+(c). It also includes (d): Any individual with sufficient money has even more info on you than any single large company. They can easily have all that a corporation can get with just a bit of money. With a small amount of effort, good connections, and (optionally) owning Match Group, Reddit, Amazon, Facebook, Discord, etc - then they can access whole lot more about you.

For most people it won’t matter. But for the people it does matter for, it must be an utter terror.
NASA cancels $450M mission to drill for ice on the Moon
How about you vote for politicians that pass laws to protect your privacy and minimize junk mail instead?

I personally use the USPS quite a bit to ship things and I prefer to use them over FedEx or UPS any chance I get.
[dupe]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40947069
I'm not sure that last part lands quite the way you meant it to.
I fail to see how the British monarchy's approval of Mr. Ive's career path is in any way relevant here, I'm afraid!
a ranch and infinite money
Oh, as I understand it Avro's schemas aren't just "built in" as in supported as a first-class part of the protocol, but rather that each message includes with it the schema needed to interpret it. This adds overhead to every message (it's still a binary protocol, though) but crucially it avoids a whole category of hassles around schema distribution and updating.
IYKYK

> ... and no...

not a great way to elicit feedback
Only in theory. In practice, they're correlated with the other bits and adjacent pixels.
> I feel connection pooling is much more rare in SQLite libraries than it should be. I'm maintaining one implementation (sqlite_async for Dart), but feel like this should be the standard for all languages with async/await support.

I completely agree. But I simply have no reference / good-practice implementations to take inspiration from. I'd be more than willing to have an Elixir FFI bridge to a Rust library (and write both in the process) that actually make full use of parallelism to fully utilize SQLite's strengths but again, I got nowhere to steal from. :) Or I am not aware where to look.
The other commenter is not technically wrong to point at “algebraic data types”, but I don’t think that answer is helpful at all. It’s like saying the answer to data modelling is tuples.

I would instead recommend searching for “functional programming and domain driven design”.
Electromagnets for attracting copper and aluminum (1951) [pdf]
> There is a legal distinction between an “officer of the United States” and an “employee of the United States”.

There's another legal distinction, though; "principal" and "inferior" officers.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...

Unfortunately, the Founding Fathers never really explained what the exact difference is.
Just need your AR glasses to facial recognition scan everyone in the room and feed you data about them.
Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
Don't forget about bond wires that need to be run to each die and/or connected to a backplane.
> should be operated purely at cost, if not banned outright

This sounds like a quick route to prisons with no working phones.

Better: ban prison-phone monopolies and unbundle the prison-specific security component from the calling component. The latter is a commodity. The former can probably be done remotely (or by AI listening for naughty words).
> on the shift (?) key.

Disabling Windows accessibility features is an indication of anti-social behavior.
Technically CDNs are not needed, we could just fully drop CDNs as well and cache files by content hash in the browser across multiple sites (<script hash="AAAAAAAAA" fallback="https://cdn..."></script>, instead of by path).

It would make the web faster and reduce tracking.

Now, is that really what Google Fonts or Cloudflare CDN wants ?

Maybe, but it will reduce the amount of data shared to the intelligence groups.
Research like this does not touch on that issue because it’s completely unrelated. Why would someone trying to exfiltrate private data have to do key exchange?

Moreover, if you try to enforce anything by placing a bump in the wire (the only thing defeated by this), you’re gonna lose every time.

This “what if a bad guy has access to technology too!?” argument is tiresome.
Relatedly: I wish there was a practice of acknowledging when you give up.

I've seen so many people just slink away from their PhD's, perhaps with a nominal masters, but always in some kind of defeat, without accepting or sorting out exactly why. That makes the experience dog them for a long time.

People leaving should write an announcement. There should be a public acknowledgement, perhaps walking the gauntlet of those staying who nonetheless applaud your decision.

We can't have venturing without a personally and socially positive way to manage venture failure and its aftermath.
Provided these skills really stick, will the kid be able to activate them when they'll be in an environment full of distractions and impediments ?

How well will they deal with SNS, work notifications, scams, dark patterns and addictive stuff thrown at them at every corner ?

This reminds me of Mean Girls, where a kid raised with lions is thrown into the college environment. Except we now have so many other layers of complications to also deal with.
HTML Tricks to Speed Up Loading React Apps
love this and author's previous posts + work
Python's Built-In Functions: A Complete Exploration – Real Python
I feel you are doing the original phrase a disservice.

"Why did you want to climb Mount Everest? Because it's there" is the famous quote from George Mallory before his third and final attempt to reach the summit - he had lost men in both previous occasions, and he famously died during the third. And as his friend reported, "He said to me that what he would have to face would be more like war than adventure, and that he did not believe he would return alive"[1]. Mallory knew full well that the chances of coming back were low, and not returning from Mount Everest and not returning from Mars are not that different for those who stay behind.

It also occurs to me that someone alive in Mars would be better connected to their family than literally anyone who settled in America in the 1800s. I wouldn't do it, but it's not that impossible to imagine.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/george-mallory-mount-evere...
I suspect that they're betting on a technicality that won't hold up.

IE, if they're reporting on old publicly available data that's since been corrected, are they in compliance with the law?
When you take billions of government investment to get running, where does he think all that money came from? It came from taxes, and now he has to pay in, so we can use it for other companies.
Some of the email themselves have ads too. For instance the latest one for me has a Chase banking ad.
A comedic genius. Rest in Peace.
Your question on right for the corporation to bear arms is interesting but moot. The members of the corporation already have that right.
To use a reference from For All Mankind, "Bye, Bob"
Well, the advice to not use lib and mod is a sound one. I realized that too. Workspaces – definitely, although, that's borderline useful, because it's hard for me to imagine someone growing their Rust codebase without knowing about this feature. Other tips continue the downward trend.

It's hard to disagree with these tips, because they argue for general good (although devcontainer is a controversial one, imo).
But anyone with minimal hands-on experience likely already knows all of that.

Honestly, reading this article the second time I think my initial comment might've been too harsh. Maybe I've been salty after remembering that book by the author I didn't like But I still stand by my words, that the article turned out somewhat superficial and not insightful.
Given the emerald mine and the slums his family run, it make sense he would like fascism, it made him what he is today
US Launches $1.6B Funding Competition for Chip Packaging Research
> K8S done right is literally designed for multi tenancy

No it is not. Not in the way they are using it.

There are two main use-cases. One is multiple teams, in which case they are bound by their company's policies and guardrails

The second is multiple customers. But that also assumes they have no direct access to the cluster. A vendor would, instead, deploy multiple instances of a workload; the customers would not.

Straight from the horse's mouth: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/security/multi-tenancy/

There's also nothing that says that multiple clusters need to be expensive, if they are sized right. They can be as small as you need both in number of instances and instance size. The overhead here is the control plane but, for small clusters, the resource requirements are similarly small.

That said, if hard multi tenancy is what you need, then you need to use things like this: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nest...

(for the control plane - you still need to worry about the data plane)
Haha. Tangentially - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven -

"developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones."
> FCC wasn't able to cap intrastate prices until Congress granted new authority.

that's literally all we're asking for!

the only political difference I have with many of you is where absence of Congress or inability of Congress to pass anything means that the agency should do something. I agree that a denial of service by the courts is bad and sad, but I don't agree that something should happen just because Congress won't pass a law.

I think partisan stuff is never going to pass so stop trying, and surface representatives that can bridge consensus so that Congress does grant authority to agencies for modern relevant things.
Headphones, to blame?
TIL there's a center tag and background can be an inline property
He didn't just have an idea, though.

He performed experiments and showed that his washing regime dropped the maternal mortality rate at his ward from 12.3% to 1.27%. That's a 90% reduction in deaths!
> They negligently allowed tracking pixels from certain companies on their Informed Delivery page.

I had to work on a feature like that, where individual client-companies wanted to sprinkle arbitrary pixel-trackers across different steps in our website's workflow for their users... Even today, I still worry I wasn't paranoid enough.

_______

For the curious/critiquing: When conditions are met, the main page JS creates a temporary <iframe src="..." sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">, and the destination URL (signed, time-limited) instructs a different subdomain to host up the icky arbitrary markup.

Yes, I know about the srcdoc attribute, and that would have been much easier except it breaks some tracker-code. In particular, Google Tag Manager silently stopped working, and it was because it contained some logic looking for "real site" aspects. This affected both `srcdoc` and also confused things when testing with `file://` URLs.
Yes, and your conclusion is correct.
How Arizona Ice Tea stays 99 cents (Factory tour)
> Send me an email.

Done.
You really don’t need to know any java. I don’t know java either.

Even if you’re doing java interop, it’s quite easy to figure it out.
Seeing a page like that is refreshing these days. Loaded in a fraction of a second on my cellphone. Healthcare.gov on the other hand shows a blank screen on firefox mobile for ios.
Arbitrary discrimination. From the article:

> “The real estate agent can essentially screen out people they don't want by saying, ‘Oh, this person drives a Ford truck and I only want to sell to high end people so I'm just gonna get rid of this customer'”
There are some legit things to want to know about realtors. How many homes did they pressure people into whom then had various issues they needed to deal with? Or, did the realtor truly find a good fit for the buyer? How about conflicts of interest?

As an anecdote, my neighbors recently were screwed by a realtor that pressured them into a place where they then needed to drop 150k on repairs (about 15% total value). That same realtor was pressuring our HOA president to literally make up information for the resale information so that the forms could be handed back to the realtor just a couple days sooner. Of course all liability would have been on the HOA president and not the realtor.

With that said, a good history of what the realtor has sold before, & how the homebuyers felt about it would be a great tool..
Table are used when tables are needed. Excel like overviews. No reason to not use tables.
For site layouts (multiple columns etc) you would better use divs in a flexbox or something.
I dislike Trump. I am not sure how I can be misogynistic considering I don't even aim for women, I rarely communicate with them unless they are my work colleagues. Look, I dislike identity politics and think likely I am just an awful comedian. I am definitely living in the greyzone politically where both sides catch it from me. I don't respect the rules of engagement here probably more than I should, feedback received, thanks.
fyi

- Langfuse based, video of the LF docs for self hosting on docker-compose

- this is going to be outdated very soon, Langfuse is changing the underlying tech in v3 (https://github.com/orgs/langfuse/discussions/1902)
Agreed, but where this all falls apart is that it's a % fee rather than a fixed one for the services provided.
The logical fallacy where you dismiss someone's concerns or complaints by saying "it could be worse" is called the relative privation" or "appeal to worse problems" fallacy. This fallacy occurs when someone argues that an issue is not significant or does not deserve attention because there are worse problems that exist.

Also theres another fallacy where you focus on dats that support your argument and ignore arguments that dont.

Some problems may be better in modern society but some problems may be worse.
The whole story of the lengths the team involved went to to make it work, transparently is incredible on itself.-
> How does the law differentiate that from jQuery on a CDN? The CDN is also doing some amount of tracking, and some of it is simply technically necessary.

I don't know, it might be an intractable problem. It sucks how there's no way to tell the difference between the payloads of two different 3rd party scripts when they're executed in the browser, huh?
I bought a house last year. Seller had no agent.

They left at least 20% on the table because they:

- Set the initial price so high that no one else looked at it (even though the price they set it at was probably slightly below market)

- Further scared off buyers by dropping the price (people probably wondering what's wrong with the place)

- Jumped on my offer without waiting for other bids (I would have gone much higher if I had found myself in a bidding war)

- Thought they could sell to another buyer while we were under contract (who knows how much they had to pay the other buyer to walk away)

All because they didn't have an agent telling them not to do any of this stuff.

But hey, they didn't have to pay that 3% commission!
I'm hindsight, after the recent xz backdoor, combined with the fact sshd runs as root, we probably shouldn't use SSH for everything.
> This is one of those things some people are okay with, up until the point where they get bitten by it.

> I think even you'd be upset if you started losing out on job opportunities because one of these services confused you with a convict of a similar name or address.

Wait a sec, though. I think significantly fewer people (read: almost no people) are "okay with" misinformation being reported about them, than are okay with actual information about their history being reported. There are three separate cases here: (1) accurate information regarding whether a applicant is a potentially good customer based on their history, (2) accidentally inaccurate information about that, and (3) fraudulently inaccurate information about that. The "some people" who are okay with "this" are okay with the first. If you have to lump the second and third in to drum up outrage, maybe that's a sign that the outrage is not all that appropriate.
Last time I looked about file IO it involves calling out to some Java class that I had no clue about as I don't use Java. All the doc of the time just assumed you should be able to figure this all out.

Edit: it's been like 5 years
Great job, Naya! From one lady programmer to another :)
I wholeheartedly agree with where you're coming from, but don't try to login to your IRS account these days without first taking some Xanax (tm).
They probably set a low fine to minimize the risk of the decision getting overruled by some Court for having a "disproportional fine". However, had Meta chosen not to comply, the fine would surely rise and the agency would pursue further actions such as restricting its businesses.
Having a family is now a cliche..? OP gave his opinion like everyone else and his position is just as valid. Ultimately having a family and children gives most people purpose in life. I think exposing inclusive point of views can help him figure it out on his own.
Agreed. Explicit is only better than implicit when you have a mechanism that can reliably identify instances where you forgot to do something.

Actually for resource management I'd go so far as to say that implicit is better than explicit in the vast majority of cases. Now if only the rules that determine what happens during initialization in C++ weren't so horribly convoluted.
Lol, bots are probably better at solving them these days than we are, anyway. CAPTCHAs go both ways, y'know...
A domain rewrite permanent redirect is pretty straightforward.
My father has lied to me.
It's because of the constant churn in Google's shared infrastructure.

I've been the maintainer for production services left orphaned by departing ex-Googlers. They usually go down within 3-6 months of their previous maintainer departing - either there's some PCR because the cluster they're homed in is going down for maintenance or transferring to another datacenter, or their dependencies migrate to a new RPC format, or somebody sticks a new quota on internal requests for a service, or your PA loses machine budgets, or your RPC deadlines are now more than the average latency for that service. It's stupid stuff like that - assumptions that worked a few years ago don't work anymore when the infrastructure is a moving target.

Google's code is immensely complex, so once the institutional knowledge goes out the door, debugging and fixing problems becomes very difficult. Your maintainer, once the original author has left, is probably doing this as an unfunded 20% project; she will get zero credit on her performance review for making sure that a service her VP doesn't care about stays up. So it's usually easier to do nothing and just let it start failing. Announcing a turndown is actually a courtesy in this case.
Hard multi tenancy can't realistically be achieved in the same logical K8s cluster. And it is a moving target, which makes trying to secure it by admission controllers... not a great plan.

One needs to look into things like VirtualClusters to even begin to consider hard multi-tenancy with potential hostile tenants(https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nest...). That is just about the control plane. It doesn't even touch the data plane.

How secure that is even with the extra layer, I do not know. Even in the VM land we have seen crazy VM escape exploits over the years.T
Yeah who wants a baby soaked in bath water? Throw it out!
Ok I now understand better what happened:

The price for using images as part of your prompt has indeed not changed between GPT-4o-mini and GPT-4o

Yet overall, captioning 500 images now costs me 5x less. This is because when I'm captioning an image, I'm providing both an image and a text prompt. The cost of using the image in the prompt stays the same, but the cost of the text dramatically dropped.
I think this is true for many states, however I personally am not interested since callsigns are easily looked up online. I don't really want to be driving around with a giant sign on my car telling every random passer-by who I am.

I do sometimes wonder if the privacy of amateur radio operator info should be reconsidered - having my name and home address plastered all over the internet just because I have an amateur radio license is rather annoying.