skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it ironic. As a kid growing up with the start of the internet, many Europeans and Australians implied the US would soon be an authoritarian surveillance state. I even deleted all my comments and accounts because I believed it (as a kid). Now, about 20 years later, I would wager Europe/Australia will reach that point first.

I sometimes wish I could bring a crystal ball back in time and see how people would react to the future... I think they would be horrified at how far we've let corporations and governments into our lives.
I sure hope you’re also betting on a superintelligent ai that can solve every single problem for a 15-20 year timeline
> These demands seemed outrageous to me. They also seemed outrageous to lawyers I consulted from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, and in the U.K. But my options were limited. I’m a U.K. resident, so a lawsuit against Facebook would probably have played out in a U.K. court, where I would have been personally on the hook for Facebook’s litigation costs if I lost. Facebook is a trillion-dollar company.

Seems like this could have been answered by releasing the source code? Someone else could remake and distribute the app; and if Facebook didn't like that, they'd have to be the ones to file a lawsuit.
I know, it's just weird they make games and Windows software.
I've had frustrating experiences with my insurance before, but indeed in this case I just mailed in a form.
Or its just intimidation like FBI raid on Scott Ritter.
> If you are a criminal lawyer who is directly abetting in criminal behavior

Not a lawyer myself but I believe this is not a correct representation of the issue.

A lawyer abetting in criminal behaviour is committing a crime, but the crime is not offering his services to criminals, which is completely legal.

When offering their services to criminals law firm or individual lawyers in most cases are not required to report crimes they have been made aware of under the attorney-client privilege and are not required to ask to minimize bad actors from using their services.

In short: unless they are committing crimes themselves, criminal lawyers are not required to stay clear from criminals, actually, usually the opposite is true.

Again, presumption of innocence do exists.
Aren't subsidies for the consumer equipment and monthly charges? It is not a monetary gift to Space X, though it would increase their user base.
It certainly feels like social media interactions should be restricted to older children. 13yo seems to be a common cutoff for administering one's own online accounts with various exceptions for many countries [1]. Perhaps social media should be restricted to those entering their penultimate year of Secondary / High school and be accompanied with some form of tuition / certification? (Along the lines of social media hygiene, online safety, local Internet law, reporting etc)

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409
New account comments are not dead by default, they just render the author name in green.
Prohibition did nothing to stop usage, I doubt it did anything to stop usage while driving
Is there research that shows this? Should be incredibly easy to prove given a large percentage of the world consistently masked and another large percentage of the world consistently did not mask.

For reference, I live in a country that had one of the highest masking rates in the world (probably top 10), and this does not seem to be an issue here whatsoever. Not a single time I've heard it mentioned, and given just how huge the focus on child development is here, there's no way it wouldn't be a massive topic.
i think it is an analogy that is useful in elucidating what people view as the morally relevant aspect.

i don’t think it makes a ton of sense to me that the encryption or lack thereof is the relevant factor - if we think that proprietors of unencrypted messaging should be required to turn over chat logs, then encrypted messaging should probably be illegal or we have left a massive loophole in.

the scale being the relevant issue is another thing as well. i worry that if you somehow create a protocol for dencentralized messaging, you somehow then become liable for misuse of what could have been an academic project, etc.
I was in their Covent Garden store late spring/early summer--admittedly not at a peak time--to ask to take a look at one of the new iPads. And, yeah, no one was playing with the Visions.

Even if they're skeptical, probably makes sense for them to be playing with (even very visibly). But I'm not sure I see a general use case at this point.
We can have voter ID once we get a proper national ID to replaces Social insecurity numbers.
This is too funny.

What's to stop an American cloud hyperscaler from creating a "properly patriated" subsidiary that it simply licenses the tech to? Wouldn't that side step the "sovereign" protectionism?

An American company would run circles around this mess.
> But in real life we can choose what we ban. Everything is a trade-off; we can choose to ban something if the harm it creates is considered to outweigh its benefit to society.

This is the principle behind, and popularize by, Nazism and Soviet-style communism. In short, it is the arbitrary use of force against whichever targets the ruling bureaucrats deem to be "socially harmful". This principle leads inevitably to mass murder and war, as history has shown repeatedly and without exception.

You seem to fantasize that you'll be in the in-group who gets to decide who is harmful. But then one day it will be you who is considered harmful. And the state will sacrifice your life for the "benefit of society".
Did it spark one in Colorado or California? No it did not.
> When producing the next token the model effectively has already "decided" the direction where the answer will go

No it hasn't, if you tell it to write a random story and it starts with "A", it hasn't figured out what the next word should be, and you run it many times from that "A" you will get many different sentences.

It will do some adapting to future possibilities, but it doesn't calculate the sentence once like you suggest it will, it comes up with a new sentence for every token it generates.
> free school lunches

What are you referring to?
You can charge for an emulator as a service for building and packaging it on the App Store (assuming you have permission somehow) or as long as you can definitively prove that you built it via some "clean room design" - that will protect you from legal issues should anyone decide to litigate you for stealing copyrighted code. Backward engineering something (an emulator) to run software (a game) is not illegal, as long as said software doesn't run copyrighted code. This is how WINE exists, after all. Yes, I know WINE is not an emulator. It's a compatibility layer.

Will anyone litigate you for a DOS emulator at this point? Likely not.
> M-line Macs have been beaten in pure-performance terms since the day they were released

I don't think anyone would ever argue this based on performance alone, which is why I think your geekbench link is irrelevant, and I think a fair reading of parent's comment talking about "efficiency and performance" would mean these two aspects taken together, not independently.

That is, nobody is surprised a beefy server chip has more computing power than an M3, and nobody is considering an Nvidia H100 a competitor to an M3 in any sense.
What if you write your letters in a cipher?
Most of the icons in my car have no correlation with their function. Every designer of these thinks he's Susan Kare.

For example, what's the icon for "stop"? There isn't one. We've all simply memorized what a red octagon means. There aren't any icons for verbs, only things, and with the very limited space for a drawing, they aren't going to reliably be interpretable.

My keyboard still labels keys with "Enter", "Delete", "PgDn", "Shift", etc. That's because there's no icon that means it.
(Genuine Q) why do so many Americans [appear need to] have a therapist compared with - sorry, not sure how to put this - the rest of the planet?
Nope, it didn't even arrive on their end, it prevented me from sending the message and said I wasn't allowed to send that. So they are pre screening your messages before you send them.
This would he huge. Aside from the huge benefit, it would be great not having runny nose or cough 6 months of the year.
Another local first library. The movement is taking off.
I wasn't super great at typing until college. Don't rush it.
> most Chinese characters are phonetic

Which makes my point. Icons are not progress, they are regress.
There's things like https://www.meetup.com/ but honestly I haven't found any. The dead internet theory seems true. I block reddit, facebook, x, etc in /etc/hosts - Search top 100 websites by traffic and see what's really going on and who owns what..

I've been on the lookout for one. Wish there was a cool one. I go out and volunteer for sanity.

The issue is, the big platforms are where everybody else is. To them, the internet IS facebook, insta, X, etc..

To us, it's something more.
Not my website. A friend of mine from school who was also one of the lead Infocom game designers. But feel free to ping me. My email should be in my profile.

I'm actually a Cambridge/Bostonite though live about an hour West. Peel free to ping me about local stuff. Some local Boston movies (e.g. Good Will Hunting) are pretty weel documented, others are in areas I probably wouldn't go out of my way to visit, but lots of good routes.
Hijra
this should be an API. Closest thing I’ve found is IMG.LY, and it’s kinda meh.
Exoscale has a simple sign up, with a credit of EUR 20 to get you started.

(I work there, and my job tomorrow is to get my 2 apprentices new accounts so they can start following the self-paced training in the Exoscale Academy.)
I'm working on a CI/CD tool that runs scripts in the some of the most popular programming languages rather than YAML.

My motivation has been some recent jobs/roles in which no-pipeline-feature-gets-denied YAML scripts have grown unmanageably large.

I'd be interested to hear of any pitfalls that any of you might foresee. Other than this is a pretty hefty undertaking - that much I can already see on my own. :-)

https://fluenci.co
Someday it might be interesting to see article or video on just how Lidl's logistics and supply chain works on these special products. There is the staples, but how these shorter run campaigns are rotated around.
Which is something that should be proven in court.

Problem is if the police arrests the owner of the apartment but not those doing something illegal inside it.

Out of metaphor: Durov has been arrested because he's Russian and the west is retaliating as hard as they can.

Under the same assumptions Durov has been arrested for, Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey should be in jail too. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/twitter-saudi-...
Thank you, I'll address it right away!
Probably the old-school mentality of pay hierarchies: Managers must earn more than subordinates. Thus if the salary expectation of a high skilled engineer is higher than some of the management class, it's often viewed as obscene. Usually as an engineer you achieve certain salary levels only with additional management duties.
> sightings being super common before smartphones

https://xkcd.com/1235/

> It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though

https://xkcd.com/2572/
Management and those hiring don't want this because they like to silently discriminate in hiring using various personal biases. They will never admit it, but they do. With a correct standardized test, they lose this opportunity. Right now, the closest thing to such a test may be your StackOverflow or similar score.
I don't think they were design/build contracts.
Show HN: A Reddit Version of Product Hunt
I often found it frustrating how most channels did not allow you to share anything about your startup. Product Hunt has been lately full bots as you'd realized.

So I decided to create an exclusive subreddit for anyone to launch their startups without having to worry mods will take it down.

Only 1 rule. Title should follow this format <Name of your startup>: <One line short pitch>

Example: "Stripe: Easiest way to integrate payment with any website"

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Precisely my point - moderated messaging in the modern era will ultimately be unenforceable.

Which is why I don’t see why certain services should be legally penalized just because they don’t happen to be E2E encrypted. Like if Telegram was instead e2e encrypted, why should that be legal if what they were previously doing wasn’t?
That's not really the point: point is those claims pretty much disappeared compared to the 90s and early 2000s.

Maybe there's other factors at play, such as X-Files ending, or people getting more interested in flat earth.
In the post WW2 era, have any of these direct stipend programs been successful?
That's not really accurate from a legal or health plan perspective. Therapists aren't physicians but they do have somewhat similar (though lower) legally mandated licensing requirements.

https://www.bbs.ca.gov/applicants/

Therapists are considered healthcare practitioners. They have NPI numbers. They can submit claims for professional services to payers using NUCC 1500 forms or X12 837P transactions, just like physicians.

Therapists can choose to join health plan provider networks, just like physicians. On most health plans even out-of-network therapy is covered, but the patient financial responsibility may be higher. Mental health parity with medical benefits is legally required (although some payers aren't fully compliant).

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/men...

There is a legitimate shortage of licensed therapists in many areas because education is expensive and reimbursement rates are low. Most therapists still work in small, independent practices rather than as part of large health systems so dealing with insurance billing is a huge hassle and overhead. Thus many therapists don't join health plan networks and require patients to pay directly.
Telegram, an app known to be used for illegal activity, isn't blocked by French ISPs?
Yep. Your explaination is basically what I was getting at

In this case, Telegram showed bad faith moderation. They are not a lawyer, and don't operate with the same constraints.
Clinical trial to reutilize expired blood to start in Japan
That is exactly my point. It has been 10 years and aside from some small baby steps, no incumbent has declared clearly and vocally that reusability is the future. They're all in denial. The Russians, the Chinese, Europe.
If a court orders twitter to take down a tweet, and twitter doesn't comply,
then I believe anybody that is responsible for that inaction, including Elon if he was aware and didn't act may be tried
> Several insurers told ProPublica that they are committed to ensuring access to mental health providers, emphasizing that their plans are in compliance with state and federal laws. Insurers also said they have practices in place to make sure reimbursement rates reflect market value and to support and retain providers, for which they continually recruit.

Journalists could use an LLM to fetch the obligatory predictable responses from corporate spokespeople, to insulate the journalists' souls from that.
Wow. That paper made no effort to even contemplate whether the improvement was related to reduced particulate matter or to reduced organic gasses. The filters were installed in response to a gas leak — one would imagine they were carbon filters.

Sadly, the literature on the effect of gas concentrations on human intellectual function is incredibly muddy.
Yes.

Facebook - and Whatsapp and maybe Instagram too - need to be reframed as a global public utility rather than a private enterprise.

It would take some doing... But they're too big, too powerful, and too spooky to be allowed continue as they are.

Think of it like nationalizing water or rail services - expensive and complicated at first, but ever so worth it in the end.

"But that's not fair to the founders and shareholders!" - Fuck 'em. Facebook has done so much damage: amplifying misinformation, polarizing societies, warping our most vulnerable minds, selling scams, etc. Shareholders ought to count their blessings they haven't been held responsible yet. They made their money - enough.
Looks like someone wanted to make a humorous comment? What a shame. As a hackernews user I MUST downvote. No humor allowed here.
Show HN: A simple Next.js waitlist template with Notion as CMS
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because telegram just works really well tbh.

it is lightweight, pretty much never goes down, has reasonable features.
What kind of medications are we talking about, for what "issue" (suicidal thoughts or "my parents are disappointed because I did not go to college and I am feeling worthless") and what is the effectiveness, especially long-term, of either medication or talk therapy?

I certainly present anecdotes, and I also live in this world and I notice and I observe and I evaluate. The comment I am responding to does even less.

The second scam is, of course, couples counseling. I have sporadically watched Showtime's “Couples Therapy,” and I know several people who have gone to a couples therapist. The cost of a 50-minute session with the therapist presented on the show seems to be $700. After watching parts of the program, I can give my prescription to all the couples featured, free of charge: You need to break up and find someone else. It may be a collection of anecdotes, but I have yet to see a couple “fall in love again” or “settle their differences” after expensive couples counseling sessions. It's time to move on.
That's exactly what is going on nowadays, anyway. In Poland we have Chmura Krajowa (national cloud), aimed at public, non profit and finance companies. It's basically more controlled local Azure and GPC region.
I’m thinking aloud with you here and not dissuading anybody from taking care of their mental health but wow people really need to learn long term coping techniques. The amount of times I see the word “gaslighting” used to describe everyday interactions has really made the word meaningless in sincerely emotionally abusive situations. Tiktok brain telling everybody that they are screwed together wrong really should be addressed at a policy level.
The EU didn't arrest Durov, France did.
seems concerning although the result would probably be similar if he drew it by hand
Yes it does. Click the wrench at the bottom of the window ("Tools"), and the first option is "Insert Vertical Space".
It's not a question of need, it's a question of want, and available resources to support those wants. The US is sufficiently productive that it can allocate people to relatively less important tasks. If a country barely produces enough to eat, then there's no room for therapists. No knock on therapists - this is basically true of everything. The more productive we are, the more "extra stuff" we can afford to have/do.
I would have already switched, but, apparently, the pipewire authors decided it shouldn't daemonize properly:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5867

Taking a dependency on systemd is a strange choice for a project who's entire point is ripping out Poettering's second-to-last train wreck.
i find history and search very reliable in my experience but agree about the calls compared to e.g. messenger
The author is exaggerating the risk, even if Facebook goes all the way, via hiring the most expensive gold plated Magic circle teams, and wins, the judge wouldn’t assign 100% of the inflated costs to the author.

Of course they could still be on the hook for normal costs relative to the actual workload imposed (i.e. what the median law firm would charge), but that’s a potential consequence for any lawsuit whatsoever in the UK. Or any other ‘loser pays’ jurisdiction.
>Eliminating child pornography and organised crime is a societal rather than 'government' interest.

Empirically speaking, governments have had absolutely zero success at this, but their attempts to do so have gotten them the kind of legal power over your life that organised crime could only dream about.
The arrest tells us that he said no to one country, it doesn't say much about all the others.
There are still plenty of living Americans who were born in Jim Crow places that refused to issue them birth certificates, who were born at home because their counties had White-only hospitals. Anyone who says that it is fair to demand documentary proof of citizenship is either unaware of American history, or arguing in bad faith for a regime that disenfranchises minorities.
That would lead to the “mark of the beast” and anti-govt crowd never voting again, which would be fine, but hypocritical for any voting advocate.
Update: Issue as been fixed for me. If it still persist for you, write an email to

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frankly signal is a lot buggier than telegram and people like having their chat history.
Well SpaceX has delivered reusable orbital rockets, it is currently developing starship, those were stated pre-requisites for his mars plan.
Blue origin has delivered New Glenn but it's only suborbital so far? Still possible, at the stroke of a pen, they'll get the needed funds to develop capabilities (so at Bezos mercy), they also are actively bidding for government contracts (where the money to make it sustainable is).
Virgin Galactic went bankrupt and no one seems to be willing to fund it, so no to them.
I don't follow Bigelow closely, I see they closed down.
Terrible takes notwithstanding, of which there are many, the issue I see with such arguments is that it's always possible to find legal violations that technically justify prosecution or imprisonment. However, the legal system only functions effectively if we trust that those handling the gray areas are motivated by the common good, rather than serving the interests of a select few or protecting an elite minority. Simply focusing on the arrest and comparing it to the alleged criminal activities on Telegram, along with the supposed lack of enforcement by the company, seems like turning a blind eye. It ignores the more likely reality that this is part of a broader effort to establish a censorship regime, with platforms like TikTok, X, Telegram, and Rumble already targeted. Accepting the official narrative and pretext at face value feels, frankly, a bit naive.
> Diet, exercise and good sleep, keys to longevity.

So simple. Why didn't I think of this earlier
I've been seeing content that has some adult vlog or podcast content mixed with a random video game. It seems like very disparate content is being combined. Does this work well? I've never really liked it and wondered why a more interesting video isn't used instead of some tiny portion of a random game.
Origami-inspired robot folds into more than 1000 shapes
I don't think the problem is that people can't be helped, I think the problem is that most therapists are bad at their job. I would not meet with anyone that has not gotten a PhD equivalent or gone to med school at a reputable place.
This sounds interesting, but I do not totally understand your description. Could you explain further what you are building?