skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK at least pretty much everywhere accepts apple pay / google pay, some bars have gone entirely cashless. I don't usually carry a wallet now.
shouldn't be expensive to handle that amount of indices on a dedicated server without breaking the bank
I just came back from short business trip Australia. Getting the visa was an interesting exercise, you install the AU gov app on the phone and fill out a form which at one point photographs your passport and then read yours passport via NFC to validate you were in possession of it and to get IDs and whatnot. It was a little finicky with the passport read, I had to move the phone really slowly across until it detected it and then NOT touch it at all. The submission took just minutes and the approval of the visa came in few more minutes later. Definitely a 21st century experience of submitting your ID!
I am comparing it to getting visa to China in 2000 which required me to send off all kinds of paperwork, maybe even my passport? I don't fully recall, but it took weeks.
You're clear about what he didn't mean, but again: what did he mean by his tweet?
In australia, we have a recent ‘robodebt’ where Centrelink (welfare) payments were evaluated by a debt recovery system, deeming (MANY) incorrect bills of thousands of tens of thousands.

Suicides happened.

As a result of a royal commission into the legality of the debt recovery scheme, it was deemed illegal, and I think all debts were rescinded. Many people in charge were recommended to be prosecuted by the anti corruption commission within the royal commission, the recommendations were made by (afaik) a Supreme Court judge. The anti corruption commission chose not to prosecute.
It's very real. I was recently quoted 30k-43k for 7kw of panels, 13.5kwh of battery, along with reworking some electrical panels. The one coming in at the top of the range were baking in a ton of profit and willing to negotiate down once shown the other quotes. In the end i completely passed, it just doesn't make sense to pay 30k to avoid 3k a year in electric bills.
What do you mean?

There isn't a degree in "Expert".
How would you determine who should "teach high school for one year"?

This would cause havoc in schools as these teachers would be there for one year and then gone.
The security vulnerabilities that affect my PII kinda contradict the idea that the kernel is an implementation detail. It’s not an implementation detail if I do, in fact, have to care about it.
I’ve commented a similar story about australia in the root of the comment stream, if you’re interested.
Reminds me of HK-47 from KOTOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPeI4mX8Nus
> I think you're misunderstanding what "removing pandas" means.

Maybe it’s in the messaging, like the “Farewell Pandas” part?
> Musk said you can use Starlink to circumvent the block if X gets blocked in Brazil

Source? That's super material (if true).
Fantastic telling of it in both text and video form. Great to celebrate these people doing the kinds of things we learned so much from! Thanks for sharing.
I dont find it hard to believe that the bottom 7% of the nyc income distribution have a hard time making ends meet in nyc.
> I've heard that fake data, like from AdNausium, just becomes noise as the advertisers know the patterns to filter them out.

It's actually much worse. That fake data is dangerous because data brokers don't really care how accurate their data is. Even the fake data AdNausium stuffs into your dossier will be used against you eventually, just like the real data will be. If you get turned down for a job, or your health insurance rates go up, or you have to pay more for something than you would have otherwise, you won't even be told that it was because of data someone collected/sold/bought. You sure won't be told if it was fake or real data and you won't be given any opportunity to correct it.
Like it or not, it's effectively a federal ID. Look at some old state drivers licenses and they would be laughably easy to forge today without even photos. And that's not even getting into the back-end information exchange.

I mean, if your position is that state IDs shouldn't really mean much, that's fine. But say that. But without REAL ID we'd require at least passport cards for air travel and a lot of other federal-related purposes. Which is fine I guess but probably a more expensive and heavyweight process than it needs to be.
> Digital driver’s licenses cannot be used as proof of name and address to fulfill the lawful order of a police officer.

You know, it's pretty common for the police to accept registration and insurance on a phone.

I suspect officers will be able to use their own judgement and maybe bow to social pressure to accept it anyway.

Their own judgement might also go the other way depending on circumstances, and even with a digital license available, they might require a physical one.
what rule of law? Elon musk closed Brazil’s xitter office to not respond to it. This is real corruption
It was announced a few months ago: https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/1214
> There is no way to run a targeted ad social media company with 40% margins if you have to make sure children aren’t harmed by your product.

More specific than being harmed by your product, Section 230 cares about content you publish and whether you are acting as a publisher (liable for content) or a platform (not liable for content). This quote is supposing what would happen if Section 230 were overturned. But in fact, there is a way that companies would protect themselves: simply don't moderate content at all. Then you act purely as a platform, and don't have to ever worry about being treated as a publisher. Of course, this would turn the whole internet into 4chan, which nobody wants. IMO, this is one of the main reasons Section 230 continues to be used in this way.
SDL3 is still in preview, but the new GPU API is now merged into the main branch while SDL3 maintainers apply some final tweaks.

As far as I understand: the new GPU API is notable because it should allow writing graphics code & shaders once and have it all work cross-platform (including on consoles) with minimal hassle - and previously that required Unity or Unreal, or your own custom solution.

WebGPU/WGSL is a similar "cross-platform graphics stack" effort but as far as I know nobody has written console backends for it. (Meanwhile the SDL3 GPU API currently doesn't seem to support WebGPU as a backend.)
EcoFlow's $200 PowerStream
Closure is two separate projects, the Compiler and the Library, and this is the Library that's being archived. Might be good to note that in title, if @dang or another mod is around.
The original text was longer, but it was very clear that "incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software" and included examples.

You can see it in the original announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1_ool4r7s&t=1503s
> Assets are copyrighted, are these not the same assets?

Only for the advertising part apparently. I didn’t see the trailer but the poster was relatively samy but different enough to not be a copy. The game seems widely different (and a lot less good).

As I said it’s clearly riffing on the marketing campaign of the complaining indie game in a disingenuous way but it doesn’t seem to be a DMCA infringement as far as I can tell.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the studio trying to make money with a boring idle game by plagiarising the marketing of a good game. It’s just that the title is both aggressive and inaccurate enough to really tick me off.
It absolutely makes sense. What NetChoice held was that the curation aspect of algorithmic feeds makes the weighting approach equivalent to the speech of the platforms and therefore when courts evaluated challenges to government imposed regulation, they had to perform standard First Amendment analysis to determine if the contested regulation passed muster.

Importantly, this does not mean that before the Third Circuit decision platforms could just curate any which way they want and government couldn't regulate at all -- the mandatory removal regime around CSAM content is a great example of government regulating speech and forcing platforms to comply.

The Third Circuit decision, in a nutshell, is telling the platforms that they can't have their cake and eat it too. If they want to claim that their algorithmic feeds are speech that is protected from most government regulation, they can't simultaneously claim that these same algorithmic feeds are mere passive vessels for the speech of third parties. If that were the case, then their algorithms would enjoy no 1A protection from government regulation. (The content itself would still have 1A protection based on the rights of the creators, but the curation/ranking/privileging aspect would not).
I don't recall exactly from memory, but at least the part that states "your activity might still be visible..." has been there for years, the work or school phrasing stuck in my memory since I found it slightly humorous when opening an incognito tab on my personal machines.

I just don't see how that warning could be much clearer, it's certainly written in a way that even a non-technical person can understand. Now whether users read warning messages is a different story...
This is an awesome post and sounds like it was an awesome experience.

I’d be interested to see an alternate-history version of this, in a universe where it was built with a serverless architecture. My hunch is that a lot of the late-night hacking sessions wouldn’t have been necessary, but when it went down (due to resource caps) it would’ve been down down, not just slow.
It's always better to give no data (aside from leaving them with "we couldn't collect that data") than it is to give fake data because that fake data will be used against you just as often as real data would. Don't hand companies extra ammo to use against you, or think that you're safe just because they've written an incorrect assumption about you on the bullet. You're still going to be taking the hit.
I'm not interested in debating politics, so I won't remark on that.

Ignoring the fact that laws don't prevent people from committing crimes... but by this logic would you say the law itself is xenophobic?
This Bivens guy has tried a bunch of ads for this stuff. I'm in his Gamestop case, and others. You go sign some agreement allowing him to represent you and maybe he gets you some money. He never actually does, though. He's obviously trying to shake down a bunch of companies and you'll never see a dime.

But I sign up for class actions all the time. After all, other people will anyway so it's going to run. So it's a tax on all these corps and I'd like to get my money.

Through a different litigation I got $500 on Stubhub once. That's pretty good.
Ask HN: What programming language should I learn?
TLDR: I'm looking for a new language that's different than most that's also usable for building something useful.

For context: I consider myself an experienced programmer, I'm well-versed in Ruby and JavaScript, built massive projects in teams and on my own.

I learn languages that have roots close to C relatively quickly. That is, if I have to fix something in a Python repo, I probably can.

I also enjoy learning human languages, and after a while there are patterns, learning the basics of another Latin language is pretty easy.

I'm looking for the Swahili and the Japanese of programming. Something completely different, that will expand the ways I'm thinking about programming.

I don't really see much benefit in learning Swift or Rust in that regard.

I previously gave Clojure a try, that was a pretty good fit, but the JVM / ecosystem put me off.

It's important that I also want to be able to build something fun and hopefully also useful using my new knowledge.
>Not the argument I, or anyone else, is making

That was the exact argument others were making.

>The use of "master" in Git may remind someone of slavery, which we don't want to do. For their sake.

The removal of "master" in git may remind others of fascism, which we don't want to do. For their sake.

>That's the argument actually being made

They'd be delusional and wrong because the etymology doesn't stem from slavery.

>and I think you'll notice it's much harder, if not impossible, to refute.

Just refuted it LOL!

>That's the argument you need to target

Just did.

>whatever high school debate class strawman you can come up with.

There were no strawmen in my arguments.

>Anyone can win an argument against an easy, made up argument.

Glad that's not what I did.
I agree with the sentiment. However i’m not too concerned about this specific situation because at least apple seems to have gone about it in a reasonable way.

They are forcing each state to build an integration, own the infrastructure, database, and code. Apple is also using a known standard. Using a standard is a good thing, and i’m glad that the state is not beholden to apple to run a core government service.

I’m glad apple didn’t push some proprietary BS and try to lock the state into their custom solution.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/15/apple-strict-terms-on-u...

the article uses emotionally charged language like “charges footed to the taxpayer”, but IMO that’s a good thing. It benefits tax payers.
A few years ago (pre-COVID) I somehow lost my license between the car and the airport door. To my complete amazement wasn't a particular issue with TSA. WAS an issue checking into a Travelodge of all places and only made it work by paying cash.
If you lobby your government to make yourself subject to US laws then you should be able to do this.
Yeah, I just tried and confirmed that I still can't update my password on my desktop since I last tried on my phone this morning. It's just made that much harder to try on a phone.

I have no idea. OK, I lied. I have some idea. At a previous job I had a meeting with an enterprise customer who was auditing our security controls. Part of the conversation went a lot like this:

Them: How often do you require your employees to change their passwords?

Me: We don't.

Them: Hehe, you'll have to start doing that!

Me: We comply with NIST 800-63B section 5.1.1.2 that says not to do that unless you suspect a password's been compromised.

Them: Uh, what? Can you send me a link?

Me: You bet!

My boss, to me in Slack: OMFG did that really just happen?

Yes, I did have (and do have) that exact citation memorized because it came up often enough that it was handy to bust that out. "Do you rotate..." "NIST!" "...once every 90..." "SP 800-63B!" "...days?" "5 dot 1 dot 1 dot 2!"
After listening to patio11's podcast [0] with the owner of Manifold [1] I'd suggest that could be a good platform for this bet

[0] https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/prediction-ma...

[1] https://manifold.markets/
My problem is that copy/paste strips out the newlines.

So copy this:

line1
line2
line3

and paste into the input box becomes:

> line1line2line3

(browser slack on macos)
Well, a battery is going to boost it substantially
The claim about the kid who died in 2013 was a poor choice of retweet on Twitter. Anyone who's used Twitter would understand that at 2am after a few beers it's easy to retweet something silly. That single act shouldn't destroy a man's entire scientific credibility, any more than Musk's "pedo guy" tweet should destroy his status as a titan of sustainable travel and space technology.

Malone's discussion around "a form of AIDS" was in reference to the negative efficacy of the Covid mRNA injections recorded by some studies.

Annecdotally my wife (tripled mRNA jabbed) has caught symptomatic Covid twice since being jabbed. I tested positive for it only once (I tested as she had it), I had no symptoms. [Obviously the usual caveat applies. Just one data point, etc].

I don't think the science is "done" yet when it comes to understanding the long term side-effects on the immune system of the Covid mRNA injections.

Your disparaging reference to Ivermectin ("horse paste") suggests you haven't seen the latest studies on this subject: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
It's worth noting that personalisation isn't moderation, An app like TikTok needs both.

Personalisation simply matches users with the content the algorithm thinks they want to see. Moderation (which is typically also an algorithm) tries to remove harmful content from the platform altogether.

The ruling isn't saying that Section 230 doesn't apply because TikTok moderated. It's saying Section 230 doesn't apply because TikTok personalised, allegedly knew about the harmful content and allegedly didn't take enough action to moderate this harmful content.
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/numb-to-truth
It's nearly the same here in urban areas. My physical card almost never leaves my wallet.
we are so back
You said sue the hammer manufacturer. Why didn’t you say to sue the newspaper that ran the ads? The fact that you couldn’t keep that straight in your analogy undermines your argument significantly imo.
no it is nothing at all like blaming vegetables.. there is no cell phone coverage in the distant edges of inland Brazil.. and cell towers can track users.. Starlink directly enables clandestine communication where that is otherwise not possible.
Thanks for the great writeups, this one, the one about scaling, and your work in general. It's been very inspiring.

Also, you're absolutely right about largely good and creative people.

I built a OMCB clone because the concept possessed me; i threw it online, a day later, okay a couple of dicks, whatever. Holy shit someone put a huge Hokusai's The Great Wave in there! (My version uses a fixed width/height, a big scrollable canvas, so that was easy to spot)

Seeing that felt so good, so joyful :)
Moderating content is explicitly protected by the text of Section 230(c)(2)(a):

"(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or"

Algorithmic ranking, curation, and promotion are not.
I don't even know what this library is (quite an ungooglable name), but I don't get it. It's open source licensed. Why not just, like, not "close" it? Just keep the code and the docs up.
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Incognito also uses separate cookies from your main session which is the tracking that people are concerned about.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/03/07/corruption...
it is much more unreasonable to leave the country to try evade the rule of the law
A bit aside but anyone have experience using elastic managed on Azure with a many terabyte+ cluster for prod? Just curious if having less control etc has ever been problem.
Got it, thanks. The model I got has the fn and Ctrl keys swapped back to normal. They seem to have gotten the message.
They are complying with local laws. For more absurd that it may seem, they are receiving requests from the Supreme Court to do illegal stuff.
I'm not the GP, and I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think what they are complaining about is this sequence of events:

- ElasticSearch was open-source
- Amazon offered ElasticSearch open-source as a paid service
- ElasticSearch was not happy about this and changed their license
- Amazon forked ElasticSearch (the open-source version) and created OpenSearch based on that, continuing to serve OpenSearch
- (Few years pass)
- Amazon and ElasticSearch are now buddies

I think GP is talking about the events that transpired a while back before Amazon and ElasticSearch made up.
I’ve just got to say that this kind of thing enraged me. Who cares about the impact on people hit with sudden expenses? Or the environment when we dispose of e-waste? No, we want to goose profits by being despicable.

As I creep closer to retirement, I look forward to spending some of that time contributing to the fight against abusive bullshit like this.
Yeah I've always wondered how bar tabs would work. Can they automatically be rung out (with the usual 20% tip) at the end of the night? That would seem to make sense and means people don't have to show up the next day asking for their cards back.
Unfortunately he deleted the tweet and I can't find it anywhere, but it was mentioned during the whole "Twitter Files Brazil" saga where Musk explicitly said "Starlink userd won't be affected if X gets blocked".
>no user of a microsoft system can audit the entire "supply chain" of that system,

Yes you can, you can access the source code to audit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative
This is exactly the kinda bug where you want to make a big splash though. You don't just want the guy to silently fix it, everyone in the database needs to be vetted again.
Yes! adding a hourly notification is on the table.

Also when I active a task, gnome-pomodoro is hooked too, which has timely dings, to remind me I'm working on something.

Converted the web app to PWA, and added to startup, so I can see my tasks as soon as I log in, but one issue is I rarely log out
It's up to them to decide whether they will honor the takedown notice or not. But yes, not honoring it means they forego their safe harbor protection and can themselves be held responsible for damages.
I was trying to remember if it was RIM or Nokia
This strikes me as a shit post; but does it have any specific contemporary reference its making?
I love this topic. I helped with a book chapter about psychedelics in human cultural history. We discuss the 118 mushroom-shaped carvings on Stonehenge (more likely to be amanita muscaria than psilocybin mushrooms). Another story we explore is the chemical evidence for cannabis use by ancient Judaism. The holy anointing oil given to Moses in exodus may have contained cannabis!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363178879_The_Enigm...
Softwares comes and go, and in this case closure served its purpose and it is now superseeded by better tools.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss
As one of the people who found the original Discord server back when the site was live, I can attest that this is absolutely true.
The text of the Third Circuit decision explicitly distinguishes between algorithms that respond to user input -- such as by surfacing content that was previously searched for, or favorited, or followed. Allowing users to filter content by time, upvotes, number of replies etc would be fine.

The FYP algorithm that's contested in the case surfaced the video to the minor without her searching for that topic, following any specific content creator, or positively interacting (liking/favoriting/upvoting) with previous instances of said content. It was fed to her based on a combination of what TikTok knew about her demographic information, what was trending on the platform, and TikTok's editorial secret sauce. TikTok's algorithm made an active decision to surface this content to her, despite knowing that other children had died from similar challenge videos, they promoted it and should be liable for that promotion.
https://g1-globo-com.translate.goog/politica/noticia/2024/08...