skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except you don't need to whistleblow by testifying in front of congress or whatever. You can anonymously post on HN (or similar tech-oriented forums) with proof and it would be enough to get the ball rolling.

I'd bet that very few people would have the kind of access to see what violations of people's privacy are taking place and that proof someone posted to social media (besides a massive leak of innocent people's personal data) may not be verifiable by anyone other than google employees or regulators/government who could get into Google's internal systems.

I suppose that they could if there was a lie_to_public_about_data_collection() function in Android's source code or a massive store of location data that shouldn't exist just sitting unencrypted on our devices and being transmitted to google unencrypted, but other situations would be much less clear.

For example, when you open Google maps, you'd fully expect that your location would be sent to google. You'd also expect that google wouldn't keep that information tied to your account if you'd opted out of that tracking in your account settings. If google were keeping a copy of that location data on an internal server somewhere, associated with your dossier, but not made visible to users (or even most google employees) what proof would you expect to see posted to HN that we could verify for ourselves? Screenshots of the database/internal tool/documentation might be good, but screenshots can be faked and since we don't have access to the database, or the server deep inside google that hosts it, or their internal documentation we'd be unable to say for sure if it the screenshots were real.

Companies are using all kinds of tricks these days to catch whistleblowers like logging anyone who accesses sensitive information and adding hidden watermarks to documents and images. Just going to social media or the press could be very risky.
Creating a small wrapper type over a slice/map is trivial in Go (`type X[T] []T`) , and then you can define the range functions as methods on that slice type. If they allowed generic instance methods it would be even simpler.
Depends very much on the uncle's name and occupation, he may well be an equine veterinarian named Steve.
I'd rather cross at a roundabout than at a crosswalk somewhere along a straight road. Actually, last week I got almost run over in such a situation. A bus stopped for the crosswalk, blinked lights to indicate he'd seen me. I start to cross, and at the same time a van overtakes the bus at 'normal' speed and almost running me over as I could not see the van behind the bus, and the van could not see me. This would not have been possible at a roundabout as all traffic is slow and overtaking is not possible.
I was hoping the blog author would have revealed some plans for supporting a new iteration API in dolt. The range over func API is particularly useful if you need to iterate and compute over something that doesn’t all fit in memory (as is necessary for a slice and map).
I didn’t look into the details of the survey described in this article. A large international survey that covers literacy is PIAAC[1]. You can read about their ‘levels’ of literacy in one of their reader’s guides[2]. The survey suggested that 17.6% of adults in the US score at level 1 or below (basic vocabulary, ability to extract a single piece of information in a short text) and 12.8% of US adults score at level 4 or 5. People with low literacy tend to struggle with vocabulary, or large blocks of text, and will be slow readers who can’t skim text.

You can find some practical descriptions of low literacy in UX articles like https://uxpamagazine.org/people_who_do_not_read_easily/ or https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/23/writing-content-for-every...

[1] https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/survey-of-adult-ski...
[2] See pages 115-116 of https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/the-survey-of-adult-...
It says that 54% read below a sixth-grade level, not at a sixth-grade level. So even if you were to genuinely think that sixth graders are impressive readers, that would matter little, because most of the country is worse. Presumably you need to be comparing them to 5th graders, maybe even 3rd or 4th graders.
Linear threads make it pretty much impossible to discuss multiple topics in one thread.
Because law enforcement must be costly and non-automated to avoid the unbalanced power distribution between an individual and the gov, which only serves the individual and not rules them.

A cost to catch a criminal should be a manual and expensive work from an agent and thus provide no ability to mass abuse human rights on scale. Only on actual criminals when needed.
That is definitely not true for everyone who has had their Google account for years, because back then, location data was an opt-out feature.

I definitely never actively opted in, and Google never disabled the tracking to force previous tacit consenters to opt in to account for the cultural shift from opt-out to opt-in, which probably happened in the early 2010s?
Having multiple Cargo.toml files across workspaces wreaks absolute havoc with editors like VS Code, which perform builds automatically while you work. Makes the debug cycle waaay slower, which is a tradeoff for the faster compile times I suppose?

Unless someone has a way of handling workspaces in VS Code, in which case please let me know
It is same for mobile specifications as well lately, where some countries have different chipset (at same prices!).
Show HN: Marry On Chain
Hello friends,

We launched the (symbolic) marriage on the blockchain. Each wallet receives an SBT (a kind of NFT) marriage certificate. We worked a lot on the design and fluidity of the process. We also have a partnership that allows us to offer the opportunity to get married online for real (recognized all over the world).

What do you think?
I'm working in a tool "voicebuilder" that can take an ebook(epub) and an audiobook (e.g. mp3) and build an ljspeech dataset to train a text-to-speech model with your favourite narrators voice.

It splits the ebook into sentences and matches the audio part for each sentence, similar to whispersync.

My goal is to have a minimum of manual steps and it is working out pretty well so far.

Open sourcing it is part of the plan, but docs are important and it will take a while...
Your misunderstanding comes from a group of misinformed individuals than. Or you've made them up.

Either way, you're wrong.
How would that work? Give Google reference pictures so that they can train a model on it?
Since reading this I've gone looking for the setting in Maps (on iOS) but not been able to find it. Can you tell me where it is?
Anonymous is a bit like Slim Shady back in the day, "I am whatever they say I am" ... but now he announced his own death so I guess the "Shady Sim" is approaching its boring end game ...

aw man, I should have been a farmer, after all, with some cows, sheep, chickens, bunches of dogs and cats, dinkel wheat & corn fields, and a botanical garden for exotic stuff; and of course a wife or two and breeding as our main hobby.
Because the someone else’s kids had a choice?
Commenting sporadically on a forum in favour of cryptocurrencies is not being a crusader.

On the other hand, building and paying for (in resources and time) two websites against crypto, buulding your entire social media persona around it and being recognizable by name for that effort, you will have to agree is a couple orders of magnitude more effort and "involvement" in a cause, compared to a disinterested anonymous coward like me.
Look at classless style sheets. They can only go so far. Don't think you want every site looking like one of those barebones things.
I work as a developer / consultant. Sometimes I show «install as desktop app» on Edge/chrome on windows and people are genuinely surprised, and don’t know about it. I’d bet the conscious usage is very low.

Chrome(OS) and others might use PWAs behind the scenes, so depending on how you count, maybe the numbers are much higher than I’d think?
Electric trains, people
You’re not wrong. But have you considered the difference between mainstream social media (video postings of 15-30 seconds) with HN (share a complex or long article, then have a text debate about it, using sophisticated English)
Fully agree with the article's focus on proper meeting discipline.

This can be coupled with Edward Tufte's suggestions on how to present at a meeting. To summarize, he says that there is no point sending a presentation in advance .. most will not read it anyway. Instead of a presentation, write about 5-6 six pages of prose and hand them out at the beginning of the meeting. Every one will scan the document in their own ways and write up questions. After 20 minutes or so, start discussing the document. This way, the presenter doesn't have to drone on about things that everyone knows, and one can focus on real questions.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/files/Consume_Produce_14_15.pdf
I often hear an argument along the lines "content creators should be paid for their work". I think it should be "content creators _can_ be paid for their work". "Should" implies they are automatically entitled to it.

Put content out there, if I like it, I'll pay. If it's not good enough for enough people to pay for it _consciously_, then it's not good enough, and you stop doing that. You move on to better things and so does everyone else, with the added benefit of the content pool being a little less diluted.
Sure, if your only goal with them is hiding meta info and you're generating your IDs into a RDBMS...
There are plenty of options for handheld computing that Apple don’t make. I am confused by the attitude as if Apple don’t make it very clear what you are buying. Buying an iPhone and expecting it to be something other than a locked down walled garden is wishful thinking
Those phones differ in screen size by two whole inches, so putting them in the same bucket is basically useless.
Completely off-topic. The article is paywalled, and for once I decided to go down the subscription rabbit hole. I am viewing this in Firefox on Windows. But every "subscribe" button on the WSJ page points to an Apple store page for the "app". WTF?!
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I’m not certain this is as big an effect as you might imagine.

I’m an immigrant in Portugal, I have been here five years - and I am far more literate in Portuguese than a good many of the people I encounter here, who are born and bred Portuguese. Sure, they speak better than me, of course, and it took me a while to realise that many of them could barely read or write - but the educational system in rural Portugal did not, and seemingly still does not, produce people with anything above bare-bones literacy.

This isn’t a judgment - purely an observation that literacy is something that translates across language barriers for the literate quite readily, and poor education results in poor literacy - not being foreign.
On the one hand, the Z80 was indeed a CPU you could easily wrap your mind around, on the other hand, similar sheets exist for Intel chips (from the same author: https://vtda.org/docs/computing/MicroLogic/MicroLogic8086&80...), so maybe the differences between architectures aren't as stark as we like to think?

Having said that, I'm not sure how actually-useful this particular reference card is: huge hex conversion table, but no instruction timing chart?

Anyway... pure nostalgia caused me to go through an old Z80 assembly book just now ("Advanced Spectrum Machine Language"), and I found some code I wrote a good 35 years or so ago: https://ibb.co/fvqtwkQ

This was printed on thermal paper (not sure about the printer model: I don't think it was the original ZX Printer, as that used differently-sized paper), so sort-of impressed it survived that long (most printouts I had from that time long faded). As to why I wrote the code or what it does: I think it was to create an animated tape loading screen, but...
> there doesn’t seem to be anything in the entire crypto industry that isn’t fraud or crime

> If the only answer is “crpyto” and essentially all crypto is fraud

Emphasis mine.

There can be no intelligent conversation with someone whose confirmation bias is so deep they live in a black-and-white world.

You have no interest in a conversation, only shouting slogans and exaggerated claims.
Apple have no obligation to allow their devices to do X even if the device is capable of it. It’s well understood when you buy an iPhone you’re getting a closely managed experience. If that isn’t acceptable, buy something else
This is how we avoided COM registration for Blowfish in YR, maybe this well help you.

https://github.com/Phobos-developers/Phobos/blob/develop/src...
Put it this way: Can I build an executable using this, that I could confidently give to a Windows user who has never heard of WSL?
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>Samsung claims this is not an error on their site

That doesn't necessarily make it true. There's no guarantee that the clueless underpaid rep whoever claimed that from Samsung's side actually knew what they were talking about or have the contacts of Samsung Semi engineers to ask for correct technical specs or would bother with it even if he could #notmyjob.

It could very well be a typo or copy/paste error that the rep can't verify so they double down on it being correct (our company doesn't make mistakes policy) with the excuse of different markets since product segmentation is a real thing even if it might not apply here.
More expensive "official" samsung.com/uk/ price, but Samsung UK official Amazon listing is already cheaper than cheapest Polish distributed drive while samsung.com/us/official Samsung US Amazon/bestbuy is 40% cheaper than that.
You should really read the book “How democracies die” for some insights and signals how it begins.

Maybe it’s because I’m from Europe and there are numerous examples (Germany, Spain, Italy,…) how it starts, but there is no single bone in my body that does not think that Trump has the same traits. (Not that the solution should be violence)

And the problem is that “the shining city upon the hill” is dimming and it’s becoming more and more a bad example for other countries. I never ever would think to live in an age that political parties would question if we should throw basic human rights in the trash while dealing with people we don’t want.
For podcasts the answer is to use the show-notes feature to post the URL.

For phone calls the answer is to send a text message.

If you're communicating by audio and have no textual 'side-channel' then yes things are more awkward, unless it's a simple and memorable URL (e.g. example.com).
have gotten 3 jobs off here . wonderful place.
Why is Marc Andreesen the voice of cryptocurrencies? He is ONE voice. A loud one for sure, one I do not like either, but he's got no more authority than a random joe in Indonesia, for example.
Setting dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false changed the user agent on my mac to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Moderating content supports the principles of free speech
In a society that is increasingly less centered around reading, unused skills will atrophy and replaced with other things. It's not like the underlying genomics to execute the entire human spiel are getting better in step with societal change. Something's gotta give.

Furthermore, and despite my own inclinations, I have a hard time looking at literacy as an efficient delivery mechanism. In fact, I suspect the amount of time we spent reading for anything other than strictly pleasure will look fairly silly before long (at societal level and a humanity timescale).

In part that seems almost deliberate: Most of the "important" writing, to this day (and even though there has been some push back), prides itself in being fairly exclusive. Well, there you go.
Precisely. I refuse to get invested when we know it will end up like Facebook - completely useless with no posts from anyone you actually follow.
The EU disagrees with your statement at least for some X. So Apple indeed is under the obligation to allow users to those X if they want to sell their devices in the EU.
In the article they talk so much about funding schools which will improve immigrant literacy. But I think, that funding is not the problem. When you migrate to a new country you just naturally get into a bubble of your nationals. Its much easier to make a connection with other people from your country because of your common experience and culture. Then you just live in this bubble. You are in US, but all your free time you are still talking in your native language with your friends and family. Probably, read news and books in your native language too. So English language just needs to be on the bare minimum to give you a job. Hence low English literacy results.
Their pricing is similar between Poland and UK, especially when you consider taxes.
Poland X-Kom: 1 649,00 zł
scan.co.uk: £323.99 (1 636,33 PLN)
> Another big area of hype is "prompt engineering." That one seems to have calmed down slightly, but for a while, there were large swaths of the Internet who were amazed that the set intersection of "talk like a decent human being" and "be precise in your communication" could generally lead to good results.

I think your comment conveys your obliviousness of the problem domain.

The main driving need for prompt engineering is not an inability to "talk like a decent human being". That's just your personal need to insult and demean people who are interested in a problem domain you know nothing about.

The main driving need for prompt engineering is aspects like not being able to control how context is formed and persisted in a particular model, and how to form the necessary and sufficient context to get a model to output anything interesting. Some applications require computationally expensive and time-consuming runs, and knowing what inputs to provide to a system which by it's very mature is open-ended is a critical skill to adequately use the system in professional settings.

Let's put it like this: GitHub copilot is a LLM service which is extremely narrow in what are their applications and use cases. Yet, you can't even get it to add unit tests to a function following a specific style without putting the effort to build up the context it needs to output what you expect.
US site pricing doesn't include taxes, keep that in mind.
If Apple loses the notarization battle then that's impossible. Any app that wants it would be able to request the relevant privileges.
More correctly: I'm concerned about the continuation of the very real right wing violence Trump's supporters have repeatedly demonstrated, as well as a potential escalation of that violence in retaliation for an assassination attempt (especially in the hypothetical where it had been successful) which was carried out by a person who hasn't been identified as being left wing or right wing, but who quite likely was left wing/will be assumed to be left wing regardless of who they turn out to have been and regardless of what their true motivations actually were.

Of course, it probably isn't as "interesting" when phrased that way but feel free to stick to the least charitable interpretation or phrasing you can think of if you need to.

EDIT: looks like they ID'd the shooter. Motivations are still being investigated but it appears that he's a Republican (according to state voter records). The closest thing I've seen so far to a sign that he hated Trump before the shooting was a one time $15 donation to ActBlue on Biden's Inauguration Day.
Cybersecurity is a big topic, and issues of trust aren't exclusive to URLs. Search engines are often manipulated into showing malicious pages high in their listings.

If you're communicating with someone you trust, it's better if they send you the URL directly.
I do not need to read an opinion to know what to think about The Shawshank Redemption. I can think for myself.

I like the movie, it's one of my favourite films of all time, and I am sorry you feel I and a large contingent of people are misguided because they have a different opinion than yours or your favourite critic's.

I have rewatched it in the past 6 months BTW.
You can turn on their international plan on a month-to-month basis fwiw
> 100% PLASTIC!

How times change.
Yes but it's about 130 millions illiterate adults in a 300 millions population country. It is important.
"Firey but peaceful" were the immortal words uttered by on-location CNN anchor Don Lemon before being hit by a bottle, as arson raged behind him and dozens of people were killed.
Conversely, one protestor who
was unarmed was killed on J6.

(And before someone "corrects" that - four people died at the capitol, but, two were natural causes and one was from drugs. Given the number of people was easily in the high hundreds K, statistically that's less than should generally be expected.)
Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/micro-chart-cpu-reference-...

has a few more charts from the same publisher.
That’s impressive picture!

Considering that this was the first bullet fired, photographer didn’t have any advance notice to start capturing burst photos, but they did - very lucky capture!
Why would you avoid iOS updates? I only buy middle of the line used iPhones about every 3 years, and had no issues all the way into EOL. Apple keeps their phones updated for 6+ years and they always run smoothly. It's like the only great thing I can say about the company. Changing the battery yourself is easy too.
I do want to release the code, but it may take a couple more weeks. It's currently a mess of research code that's mixed with some other stuff I was working on so I would need to do a cleanup first. See you on the boat!
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> So the actual real humans that some AI would compete against are also easy to defeat, right?

No one in this equation is some sort of undefeatable god. Humans have the benefit of quantity and diversity.

> people working together for common causes even when they would otherwise want to do all those things

Yes, and still I believe there would be a lot of posturing and arguing if you get multiple top people in the room.
Some people seem to really hate that site ..
If you combine an Apple Watch with Apple EarPods you get exactly that
First off you're making the mistake of equating ads with tracking. You do not need tracking for ads - context based advertising is widespread on YouTube already.

Secondly there's nothing special about these services except their moat. Even when serving video was a novel problem, there was dozens of competitors. Nowadays it's a solved problem. If they leave, they'll be replaced overnight, just like many other social networks, messengers, video platforms, etc. before them. They'll go far not to give up a position they will likely never claw back.
> for 7-8 years. Not sure if phone calls on company equipment were recorded or retained though

For a front office role - archiving of; emails, internal chats, external chats, phone calls / squawk lines, browser history, pc screenshot every X interval, same for work laptop at home. Office cctv, room microphones, mobile phone calls + text messages + device monitoring to ensure no other apps.

> I never do work on personal devices nor do I use work devices for personal activities

This is now the way.
In my own experience iPhones somehow just love eating through battery doing nothing. I know because I have an iPhone I hardly use. It takes around 3 days to completely drain the battery doing nothing laying on my desk. Airplane mode does extend it by a lot. Android is much better at this, probably thanks to the "doze mode".
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