skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being someone in a voluntary state of nomadism has made me realize that not having a fixed address is de facto illegal. Even worse, it cuts you off from all the things that are “privileges”, but essentially essential. A bank account, phone, driver’s license and so on will all require a residential address. This person even has a home, they just don’t have a recognized address.

I’m lucky enough (like maybe most people voluntarily in my position) to have family that can support me with this. But what about the others? And other people who aren’t doing this voluntarily? It’s all held together with a wink and a nod when you just have to put something down.

Unfortunately, I don’t see it changing any time soon. The unhoused isn’t a strong lobbying block. Not to mention the difficulty in voting in this situation. I get not being able to vote on municipal issues if this status was legally recognized, but surely I should have a say in state (California won’t let my “citizenship” and associated taxes go easily) and national politics.

For the reasons listed in the article, it’s probably only going to get worse. Bummer.
Shooters gonna shoot
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Remember: the most secure device is a device that doesn't work at all.

Thank you SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts for making this a reality.

Well done, everyone.
Well that’s the point of a DIY project, you are going to do it (if that’s the kind of project you want). I wasn’t saying you should build this thing yourself because the busy bar is bad, I was just giving some more data to the original commenter who said you can build something similar yourself for much cheaper.
Well, they do? Sodium, for instance. It's a mod, not a full rewrite, rewriting the client from scratch would mean a lot of boring work like speaking with Mojang's server, but I understand Sodium basically rips out and replaces the entire graphics pipeline of the client.
There is currently ArchiveTeam going on
Before reading the article, I would not have believed the proposition that the US Post Office relies on Google to determine what is a valid address.

I still don't believe it; no evidence was presented.
Yes, but not for power generation. The majority of Australia's coal exports are metallurgical coal, for manufacturing. Australia owns about 58% of the global trade for metallurgical coal, which means everyone imports it from us.
It was probably intentional because they had no other means of cooling the house.
Full-Source Bootstrap: Building Linux from source all the way down (2023)
I imagine they do. But given that Linux has those simple drivers, why not use them?
Why don’t you just use a SmartNIC and P4? It won’t get faster than running on the NIC itself
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read this and thought a week to sort out this sort of thing sounded totally reasonable.
Ohh right yeah, I remember once reading about the headphone-cable-is-antenna, clever!
I guess that’s why we don’t see it anymore in devices, as everyone is using more wireless headphones.
But that's the thing - You probably don't want to sit outside under direct sunlight in a summer afternoon, do you? Unless you live very far up north, having summer sunlight hit your floor is not very pleasant, either. A well-positioned awning can block summer sunlight while allowing in most of winter sunlight.
I really wish the EU would have their own organisation for creating an internet archive that at the very minimum mirrored IA. This is our history and there's only a single place now that has any significant archive of it. It seems like the EU should have a significant interest in preserving it for generations to come.
There is plenty of light being reflected off of nearby surfaces to still brighten up a house with an awning. They’re mostly for reducing direct, intense sunlight.

Plus, if it bothers you that much, there are awnings that retract or fold away.
I haven't seen Windows fuck up the EFI partition or delete the other entries in a while now. After installing it the machine will usually boot directly into it, but it should be just a toggle in the firmware to switch back to GRUB.
I told rules of a strange game of chestnuts to my wife and she decided I’m making this up, the game doesn’t exist. Even after showing the video in the linked article she was suspicious that I might have generated the story with AI.
Might want to speak those words into a mirror rather than the computer.
>“it’s the Google ball on the taskbar and when you click it, the internet comes up” — is the argument to use Chrome that many people will go with.
>I’m not making fun of tech illiterate people either.

The problem here is that when Joe Sixpack buys a Windows PC and starts it up, there is no "Google ball" on the taskbar: there's an icon for Edge, Microsoft's own browser that's included in Windows. Chrome is nowhere to be found. Joe only sees Chrome when he goes to a Google site like YouTube and gets prompted to install it, and goes through the steps of doing so. Joe could just as easily install Firefox, but he doesn't, perhaps because no huge website like YouTube is encouraging him to.
The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'
After living without utility water for several years, it's really easy to smell and taste chlorination in utility water systems. Some systems use a lot more than others, and systems I used to live with and never smelled are detectable now; could be they increased chlorination, but I think I'm no longer acclimated.
That's interesting—I know that NCGS is somewhat controversial and its causes aren't totally understood, so this makes me wonder how many people with NCGS have some other, undiagnosed underlying condition that the gluten's aggravating.
The statement is still wrong. Awnings and local architects are both extinct so clearly the architects didn't kill the awnings.
Their point is why would would anyone involved in this presentation choose to dub this AI an "expert". They're addressing the overall dishonesty in labeling it as anything other than what it is. They rightfully do not want users interacting with an AI that sports a label that misinforms them about what they're talking to.

And that is a very valid concern. One of the chief issues with all of these chat bots is that they speak like humans with unearned authority. The output is presented with an air of knowledge that it simply does not have because it can't truly "know" anything.
> How does the author know this bit?

They cannot know it, strictly speaking, because it is false. The USPS is legally required to deliver to every address. They certainly don’t depends on Google maps for compliance, or use it as a source of truth.
One piece of advice: Regardless how you do your bridging, I advice to abandon "the holy grail" of single-account-and-app-for-all-your-chat-networks, at least initially.

What I mean by this is that if you bridge using Matrix while also chat using Matrix, to set up two accounts: one for all your bridged chats (fine to mix networks here) and one for all your actual Matrix usage. Bridge chat state can get messy in some cases and keeping it separate keeps your public account and state db "clean".
I haven’t played with it long enough, need to check again.

I’m also happy and surprised that all my music files are there and that everything works. I haven’t touched it in probably 4+ years, and was under the impression that flash memory, especially older generation like 2010, can degrade / bitrot if it’s not powered every so often.
>Your home gains are being taxed already via ever-rising assessments on property taxes.

it's a separate tax that's on the value, not the gains. Moreover, if we're allowed to bring in other taxes as offsetting factors, do capital gains on companies get a pass because corporations pay corporate taxes as well?
I've owned property to rent in the past. I feel it's worth pointing out to folks keen on this route that, while profitable, it's a Lot of work.

Owning stocks is zero effort. You might glance at your results from time to time. Your fund manager does the heavy lifting (and gets a small % fee for it.)

Owning a property is a pretty constant stream of work. Organizing maintainence. Dealing with complaints. Occasionally evicting non-payers. Finding new tenants. Filtering applicants to filter out the non-payers.

It's so much work you'll likely offload this onto someone rise to do. The cost is not insignificant. (Neither is maintainence.)

The returns may be good, but its not "passive income".
> Sometimes the low tech ways are easiest and best.

They’re not even easiest and best, but they’re additive and in the grand scheme of things awnings (and shutters) are not that expensive, so it’s a small investment for a permanent benefit.
for me, my desktop and laptop are the main go-to. the mobile is an extra device with different, more specific use cases

and so I've been a little disappointed with how these devices keep getting bigger and bigger. I was pretty happy with the size of the Pixel 3

I think I like to be able to access the whole screen comfortably with one hand, not fumbling it about. easy to manipulate, easy to pocket.
the Pixel 8 shrunk a bit over its predecessors so I nabbed that, and it's probably at or just over the limit for me, size wise
This is pretty cool.

For one of my projects, I tried something similar where I had code blocks in README.md like:

Usage
-----

`pip install bar` and import `foo`:

```python
import foo from bar
```

Run `foo.alice` with default arguments:

```python
foo.alice()
```

Run `foo.bob` while specifying `baz`:

```python
foo.bob(baz=0)
```

And a Makefile like:

.PHONY: demo
demo: venv
@. .venv/bin/activate; sed -n '/^```python/,/^```/p' < README.md | sed '/^```/d' | python

.PHONY: venv
venv: .venv/bin/activate requirements.txt
@. .venv/bin/activate; pip install -qU pip
@. .venv/bin/activate; pip install -qUr requirements.txt

.venv/bin/activate:
@python3 -m venv .venv

So you could run all those README.md code blocks with:

make demo
I worked on software that sent letters to Indian addresses some years ago. We saw things like:

Mr. So-and-so

Third house on the right, past the old tree

Near government building #5

Smalltown, Kerala

And then we’d do cash-on-delivery payments to these addresses. And it worked! I always imagined working for the Indian postal service would be interesting every day.
Another option for the same purpose is the Web Rendering Proxy by Tenox, which can also supports images/js by prerendering the page and serving and image map to the old browser: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_sale
Firefox is a attempt to placate the original citizens of the web whos tools subvert the add surveillance industry .Google is clever enough to know how full blown antagonism to developers ends up. Oh and monopoly laws.
My partner is an archivist, they attend these sorts of conferences, and we've talked about this frequently. Archivists are at best apprehensive about AI, especially shoddily implemented versions like will almost certainly be the case here.

Accuracy is everything, and the way information in the archive is presented to visitors/researchers is paramount. Anything that moves that discussion around that presentation away from human beings into the realm of artificially generated pablum is going to be met with resistance.

Think of it like how /r/askhistorians on Reddit would rather let a question go unanswered for hours so a professional can provide a proper, sourced answer, than let some random user chime in with anything. That's putting an emphasis on accuracy and providing a completeness, rather than a rapid one.

>At the current rate, it will take until 2046 to completely transcribe this series with just humans!,” Lagundo’s presentation says. She said that an AI transcript of the dataset was 90 percent correct and that it intends to share these transcripts with the public in its official catalog in November or December.

What's the rush? Why would we settle on 90% accuracy today when we could do it right and get 100%? It's not like this is mission critical information. It's an archive. Take the time and do it right.

Moreover, why is this so important that we need to burn the energy from AI to do it?
In my experience, hardly any source files require studio.h

stddef.h on the other hand is required by most to get size_t
I use https://metacpan.org/dist/Graph-Easy/view/bin/graph-easy
There is a package perl-graph-easy for it in AUR (it's a command line frontend for the perl library)
> Genealogical

Maybe play the game?
A numerate argument is really easy to make.

It costs money to provide fluoridation. Most municipal water is not consumed by people, and your grass, toliets, and showers don't need it; adult humans don't really either, it makes a more significant difference during the growth of teeth. The monetary benefit of fluoridating the public doesn't seem very big, but is fairly poorly measured. Eliminating the fluoridation budget or redirecting it towards direct dental health initiatives could be a better use of public funds. Maybe the opex isn't enough to care, but when the capital equipment for fluoridation reaches its end of life, maybe don't spend the capex to replace it.
This honestly feels like the kind of thing where 20 years from now we'll be more aware of the side effects and people will shake heads about how stupid "we" were today.

If this is going to be an exception, it'd be truly interesting.
The M1 allows you to use it like a proper laptop for productivity: hook it up to an external display, keyboard and mouse, and it’s a perfect machine for ms-word, PowerPoint or excel. I have my iPad Air connected to a 32 inch monitor for video editing with Final Cut Pro.
It’s not even true, no one had Tamagotchis two generations ago unless your generations are 15 years or so… Or am I counting generations completely wrong? Are kids these days two generations removed from millennials?
When we got a license for a private LTE network in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet, the one stipulation was we couldn't use Huawei equipment...
(a) Not everyone can afford to manage that
(e) They key point is that it needs to be standardized to the point of the vendors supporting it. As long as there is a general API (for example) on the device that I can point a plug-in to, it's fine, but AFAIK such a thing does not exist at this point in time.
How was that a lie?

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-...
Really looking forward to having something with decent vector AND raster capabilites. That niche is currently unfilled unless one wants to run an old version of Fireworks in a VM...
This protocol is in Common Lisp. Common Lisp is not Lisp. Not every Lisp has CLOS.

Common Lisp is not the be-all end-all in Lisp.

Redefining the classes of objects at run-time is not unilaterally a great idea.

It's not obvious how to implement it in such a way that applications which don't use it don't have to pay any extra cost for the support.

There being a defined protocol for what happens when a class being redefined does not add up to you automatically having an application that can upgrade itself while it is running, from any version to any version, bug free. You have to test and debug all the combinations, or else support only certain combinations, requiring multiple upgrades.

This is something that will add complexity to your upgrade plan.

I can see someone like NASA using such a tool for a very specific scenario, which can be replicated on Earth and tested, and then carried out remotely in some space probing vessel.
I think he's talking about the potential for abuse as opposed to something that's currently happening. I'm trans and even sites where I don't look at queer content at all seem to figure that out. It's not hard to imagine how that could end up being abused.
As much as I don't like Google, I'm not sure if Google is the issue here.

* Google's autocomplete not having the address is different from USPS not having the address. It depends on who the bank was using as address verification. At least in my area, addresses are handled by the county road commission, and it cost money to apply for one. I believe there is more paperwork with the post office to then get mail delivered.

* PO Boxes are also not really a Google issue? A lot of places just don't accept PO Boxes. Using a mailbox service at a UPS is nicer for this reason. It looks like a normal address + number so it's usually accepted. Though you still can't use it to register for a driver's license, I was able to use one to register for a bank account, when I lived in a tiny home for a bit.
This depends on the platform. Many embedded systems are based on arm these days and have modern toolchains available.

I cannot remember the last time I saw C99 used. C codebases generally use C11 or C17, and C++ code bases use C++20
Okay, but there is a plethora of problems that I don't see a simple solution for. How do you prove you're nomading primarily in California? Or at least long term enough to have say in local politics.. and what is sufficient? 180 days a year? So if you move around 3 states you have no residency..? Voting is the right you get.. but how about the obligations? Are you on the hook for state income taxes?

There are additional issues.. like say getting served a jury summons

Having a registered address is a bit of clunky solution to a host of problems.

I've lived a decade abroad and I honestly often have zero understanding of my legal status in the US. I can sort of figure out my status with the IRS - but for instance, am I still a resident of California? (the last state I lived in) Can I vote for state issues there? Can I renew my driver's license there? Do I need to pay taxes there?

Am I stateless and have no way to get a license to use when I go back for Christmas? It's all a weird vague greyzone. For instance I have a license registered with a family member's address.. but I ignore jury summons entirely
Low to none. Fungi and diseases are reduced by changing the host every year. A longterm culture plant is a study in constant counter measures apolied.
Organic food already has a higher cancer risk due to the fungi intake associated with it.
Nice, this reminds me that I made myself some time ago an avatar for a forum, and it has these crazy eyes standing still. Unless a few minutes passed, when they rolled. Only one person noticed it.
most non-embedded and non-legacy codebases could use c23, that's not an insignificant set
>Currently at least 50% of online ads are outright illegal in most parts of the world.

source?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298430 had the comments
why would I use this when I can use railway.app and coolify themselves for $5?
Rust lifetime is just a label for a region of memory with various data, which is discarded at the end of its life time. When compiler enters a function, it creates a memory block to hold data of all variables in the function, and then discards this block at the exit from the function, so these variables are valid for life time of the function call only.
That’s almost demonstrably false if your goal is to get funded.

Just look at the pear AI guys.
The beta version works fine, lets just keep it.
What's your point? Doesn't it only matter where things are now, not how long it took to get there? Or is this about more people knowing C++?
There is a limit to how far you can postpone death without actually reprogramming the DNA. We have likely plateaued it. We are not going to have people living to 200 by just doing more of what we are doing, with greater fervor.
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-... has some sample images from mine - it's an 8MP camera. Not amazing, but also not a 2MP potato.
When a meteorologist says there will be unusually high temperatures, or unusually low temperatures, do you deny these facts? Do you just laugh with your silly little "lol" as the elderly die from these abnormally extreme temperatures? I do hope you respond and tell me, in great detail, the facts behind your gruesome and morbid laughter.
I always feel Arc is the admission that the borrow checker with different/overlapping lifetimes is too difficult, despite what many Rust developers - who liberally use Arc - claim.
> For comparison's sake, do you have build times for Pumpkin? I'll assume that's where critics may target.

How bad could it be? I cry while async-stripe crate builds.
The reverse approach has issues as well, primarily for assets that aren't easily divisible.

The obvious example is family farms, or indeed the family house. Capital taxing the asset on death means a (potentially large) tax bill happens in many cases this can't be paid without selling the asset.

If the sale was to another family looking for a farm, then that could be argued is neutral. But it won't be. It'll be sold to a mega-corp because they have more money to spend. So in a couple generations you kill off areas that are primarily small farms.

This doesn't just apply to property. The family silver collection, the family business, the list goes on.

Inheritance tax is tricky. Just passing money down entrenches an aristocratic class. Taxing it though destroys value in all kinds of areas.
> due to inevitable enshittification

PlantNet is led by an alphabet soup consortium of French research institutes like IRD, CIRAD, INRIA, and INRA so I don’t think enshitification is inevitable - though I don’t know why it’s not open source. It’s funded by grants and donations with no incentive to enshitify it for more revenue.
Meta must face US state lawsuits over teen social media addiction
> Is that giardiasis treatment, or just let's kill everything and hope for the best? Glad it worked out for him.

The second one.