skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My email is jgc@cloudflare.com. I'd like to hear from the owners of RSS readers directly on what they are experiencing. Going to ask team to take a closer look.
After reviewing their terms (https://podial.ai/terms), it seems like there’s no clear mention of how to delete your account or any generated podcasts. This raises some concerns around GDPR compliance (or similar laws), especially since GDPR requires the ability to delete personal data ("right to be forgotten").
If they don't provide any method for users to delete their data, this could be a big oversight. Anyone know if they have an actual process in place for account deletion or data removal? Feels like something that should be addressed if they’re operating in the UK and other regions where data privacy is strictly regulated.
Social media faces big changes under new Ofcom rules
> being less amenable to sideloading and jailbreaking than Kobos are.

jailbreaking sure but what is the issue with sideloading on kindles? You can either email them which is very practical for third party services that support it (I have a digital magazine subscription that supports this for example) or just drag and drop via USB or a manager like calibre.

I have never had any issues getting documents on the Kindle.
Great to hear the docs are good.
They're hesitant to put nuclear reactors in a rocket though, in case it goes wrong.
I am also affected.
Can somebody suggest a good alternative?
Education should be about more than just passing standardised tests.

I always remember my history teacher taking an entire term on the battles of the second world war. He brought in videos, old shell casings, all kinds of stuff. Everyone was into it, even kids who normally wouldn't pay attention.

At the end of term he apologised to us, since none of that would be in the test, and now we would have to work harder to get through the exam material. We didn't mind; he had hooked us on the subject.

But that is now rare. Increasingly teachers just teach to the test. And the number of tests the kids have to take keeps rising.

The best you can say about it is everyone gets the same tedious and stressful introduction to everything, which only proves their ability to remember lots of stuff under time pressure.
I am also affected. Can somebody suggest a good alternative?
You will probably find this article about the species concept interesting:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/
If it is unintentional DDoS, we can wait. Not everything needs to be on demand.
What is the actual significance of the booster catch is ? Re-usability is obviously part of it, but do we really think that thing will just be refueled and sent straight back off in the near future?

It seems to be an incredible feat of engineering, no doubts there, but how significant are the practical implications?

I found this from Musk, which is his usual over the top optimistic self:

In an interview to YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut, Musk said that his vision is that Mechazilla will one day be able to turn around and set a rocket back on the launchpad, perhaps as little as 30 minutes after touchdown.
Sorry, you're wrong. It means 1 5. Just kidding, it is strawberry but it can also be read as one and five. However, it is not fifteen.
If you only wanna read normal books, I agree. But I read RSS feeds, mangas and books all on my Boox tablet. Only made possible due to being able to install android apps for RSS and mangas.
It's good but for some languages, like Japanese, it can be pretty freaking wacky.
IIUIR, Clojure uses the JVM garbage collector to clean up memory.

How does Jank do this whilst keeping the user code… still Clojure?
Are there instructions for getting started with Rails 8? I haven't used RoR in a few years and this looks interesting.

I tried setting up the docker box with 'rails-new' but couldn't find instructions to use the beta, or even how to run bin/rails within the box.
> I also don't understand how it's even done

Ooh, I know this one! "I asked shatGPT to write some code that does X..."

Then they ask that same bullshit-generator to explain the code, or write a test, etc.
> It is not a colonist by any standard definition.

Yes they are. It's true that before the British Mandate of Palestine the population of Syria Palaestina was 3-11% Jewish (Mizrahi Jews) but most of the Jewish population of Israel is not indigenous to that region of the world (like how the Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe and Eastern Russia).

> Apartheid - more complicated.

It isn't, Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch recognize it is Apartheid. As do Ireland and South Africa (countries who have both been victim to Colonist Apartheid violence).

Israel does not allow free passage between Gaza and the West Bank, that in itself is a war crime. Israel literally has a two tiered society, Israeli Arabs do not have the Right To Return like Jewish Israelis do. 50% of Arab Israelis are under the poverty line because of wage discrimination and other factors https://adva.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SocialReport2016... . Israel was even caught practicing eugenics on the beta Israelis.

> Israel should dissolve, and...? What's the next part of the sentence for what happens to the 9 million Israelis?

What are you filling in the blank with...? Nobody is asking for them to be deported. I mean obviously people like Yaakov Fauci would have to give back the houses they literally stole but a "1 state solution" does not require the deportation/killing of the Israelis. Elsewhere in this thread I linked the Oslo Accords, I suggest you read about them, peace is possible.
Steam Deck and AKGs. I've finally chipped away at that monstrous Steam library.
I know it's not a solution for you specifically here, but if anyone has access to the CF enterprise plan, they can report specific traffic as non-bot and hopefully improve the situation. They need to have access to the "Bot Management" feature though. It's a shitty situation, but some of us here can push back a little bit - so do it if you can.

And yes, it's sad that the "make internet work again" is behind an expensive paywall..
Ok, thanks, as rumoured then.

I was trying to use Tello but despite supposedly activating the esim in my supposedly supported phone (6a), it reuses to do anything. I've just switched to tossble digits which a) works for me, and b) is much cheaper!
Let me simplify this for you: Do you believe that 50kg shells or 500kg bombs dropped on apartment blocks selectively kill women and children, or that they kill the people in the apartment block indiscriminately?

Because the arguments being made here are the former: that somehow the Israeli military is going out of its way to target not just civilians, but specifically an excess of women and children... or something to that effect.

Certainly, the bare statement that 65% of the victims of the war are women and children is intended to make people think that.
No, I believe you're confusing source available with open source.
tptacek, it’s hard to take any of your analysis seriously when you label Hezbollah, a non-state controlled armed resistance militia , with no tanks, fighter jets or submarines a “neer-peer military adversary” of Israel, which essentially has full & unlimited access to US weapons stockpiles and latest defence technology (minus nukes and subs).

You are wittingly or unwittingly utilizing the same propaganda strategy of the IDF to lionize their enemies and exaggerate threats so they can use it as an excuse to commit war crimes and inflict severely disproportionate attacks on civilians. With all due respect, we can’t all be experts in everything so please stick to talking about tcp.
The Linux copyright holders did pursue companies using Linux in the name, and distros were one exception.
There are many people that cannot sleep on planes so "just go to sleep" is not exactly a great response to people looking for entertainment.
In the not-distant past, Apple had beautiful software (OS/lang/frameworks) and sucky hardware.

In the present, Apple has beautiful hardware and sucky hardware.

No idea when they will get both beautiful hardware AND software.

(Frankly, I preferred good old, stable Objective-C - Apple ditched the KISS principle, when they adopted Swift).
I'd prefer we avoid the whole asteroid-ravaging thing.
Now is the time to post garbage on Twitter.
Thank you for this helpful explanation! Hopefully one of these three will be will be good enough for my needs.
> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre

Never had that happen, either with stuff loaded through Calibre or Amazons document service.
How Hezbollah was fooled into purchasing explosive pagers
China Is Winning. Now What?
Looks nice for getting things running quickly!

I would advice people not to use this in production yet, though.

E.g. when using the update command, new files in the repo are overridden, but old files aren't removed.
https://github.com/alohe/quicky/blob/main/index.js#L878
Bitcoin was literally created as a P2P replacement for the financial industry.

The title of its white paper is “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”[0].

How is that not ‘competing with banks’?

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
that will pass. With Starship you can deliver reactor into orbit in a "safe box" such that if anything happens with the rocket during launch and acceleration the box with the reactor will fall without breaking apart. Such box can be made in self-stabilizing shape similar to Dragon capsule so that it will slow down in atmosphere. One can imagine 10 cm thick tungsten and steel walls, etc. for the "box" to not break on fall/reentry or in the rocket explosion. And you don't need it for the whole reactor, only for the nuclear fuel.
agree there, but then again using ort in Rust is faster again.

You cannot compare python with a onxx executor.

I don't know what you used in Python, but if it's pytorch or similar, those are built with flexibility in mind, for optimal performance you want to export those to onxx and use whatever executor that is optimized for your env. onxxruntime is one of them, but definitely not the only one, and given it's from Microsoft, some prefer to avoid it and choose among the many free alternatives.
Well, I guess Winamp cares the most that they are breaking the law, because it's a risk for them. They just didn't realize but now that the community notified them about it, they wisely removed their public billboard showing they're breaking the law.
The Dutch government is a joke they'll happily communicate via WhatsApp. But then the Netherlands is hardly a geopolitical player.

But surely Chinese officials don't use Wechat?
In that case, the keys would be a non-starter. The overwhelming majority of tech requests relate to people forgetting their passwords and getting in trouble because the browser's password manager forgot the password itself.

The reality is that the biggest pushers of Passkeys are the providers with the least amount of infrastructure stability. If you want people to get to use Passkeys, providing an exit tool from Google and Apple is a must, because both providers are godawful at not accidentally mushing up your data. That's not so important if all you're using their infrastructure for is a periodic backup/use it to transfer photos to your PC, but it's a problem for anything that has to be stored long-term.
TBF phones and computers also take "evocative" numbers on their marketing material.

The "Up to 33 hours of video playback" for the iPhone Pro Max[0] for instance is an absolutely insane use case (nobody's letting their phone passively play local videos for a day and a half), and gives little insight into how long it can stay in sheer standby, do video meetings or handle slack.

[0] https://www.apple.com/iphone-16-pro/
It's really simple: ban sales taxes levied by anyone except the national government. That's how other countries do it, and it works fine. Then everyone in the whole country pays the same tax rate, no matter where they are.

Short of that, ban sales taxes levied by local governments; only allow states to levy them. It's easy enough to figure out which state someone is in.
Microsoft's new cross-platform virtual machine layer written in Rust
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-...

https://www.nytco.com/press/response-to-recent-criticisms-on...
Penrose is a library for building your own tiling window manager in Rust
I do prefer nil being the false value as well as the empty list, even if it makes it more awkward to distinguish between 'there is a result, but the result is an empty list' and 'there are no results'. But that has nothing to do with car and cdr in Common Lisp treating nil as though it were `(cons nil nil)'. The only value in that I can see is would be if rplaca and rplacd can do some useful things with that (so `(setf (car symbol-that-currently-points-at-nil) foo)' and `(setf (cdr stcpat) bar)' do those useful things).
really sick writeup, felt like a thriller novel
For those who didn't read the whole article, the conclusion is ->

"
As it stands, as a first generation product that’s heavy, very expensive, and has a very underbaked OS and app ecosystem, I have a tough time recommending anyone to go out and buy one. That being said, I’m taking it on every flight I go on.
"
I think Amazon would be fine because of the money it makes on other products, but I agree paying the author directly is a more principled approach than just paying nobody.

Worth noting though that it’s not just Amazon and the author in the picture - you would be stiffing the publishers in this scenario, and they paid to get the book printed (and edited, and designed, and shipped to physical stores, and maybe some publicity, and probably gave the author an advance).

You might think “who cares?”, but if the author didn’t (traditionally) sell any of the books they published then they wouldn’t ever get another publishing deal, so you’re harming their career. They could self-publish, sure, but worth keeping in mind the author doesn’t necessarily want that, because of the benefits publishers bring (if they didn’t bring any benefits, people wouldn’t use them - they’re not idiots).

It’s very complicated, and I would argue that people using shadow libraries “for authors’ benefit” ought to be speaking to more authors about whether they want that kind of help. But I agree your plan is much more honest than paying nobody, even if it has some potentially negative effects at scale without more coordinated action.
> Bitcoin Cash

Please… let’s not all get Flat Earth around here
What percentage of books do you think make $m in sales? 0.1%? 0.01%?

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
Next.js export, hosting on Cloudflare pages, and then using Cloudflare workers for any server side stuff is also a great option.
You can request account deletion by emailing legal at context dot ai, we have a process for this
Clojure doesn't have a standard, well-maintained dataframe library - so it is not suitable for any medium to large data science.
I cannot speak on when it was actually introduced.

I only added my experience because bongobingo said 2021 and cited a tabloid "article" as proof.

The feature definitely predates April 2021, how long? I have no idea, possibly only 6-7 months, as I bought mine in October 2020.
The dimensions quote is:

Heavy Booster is 232 feet tall, and 29.5 feet across, and weighs something like 275 tons

and that's precision engineering - multiple pressurised chambers, flared and clean flowing pipes for fluid routing, nozzles, etc.

These things are no easy build, they take time, high skill levels, resources, etc.

30 minutes turn around on reuse is BS for now, they'll take weeks of fine toothed retesting and examination to clear them for reuse - but that'll still be a considerable saving of time, money, and resources compared to a complete new build from scratch.
Now, which is more pleasant to read (arguably the more important question for all, but the most primitive of applications)?
"The Crowd" (1928) is on YouTube, if you want to watch it.

"Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin has much the same theme, is much better known, but not as good.
TypeScript client for OpenAI's realtime voice API
Why? Because OpenAI's version uses JS.. but it's 2024 and every JS/TS dev expects typing to "just work" – especially for APIs released by multi-billion-dollar companies.

• strongly-typed, drop-in replacement for OpenAI's JS version

• all events and handlers are properly typed

• lots of subtle bug fixes (strong typing FTW!)

• includes a simple relay server

• includes several node.js examples

• includes OpenAI's realtime console demo

• 100% open source

Would love feedback from the HN JS/TS community && thanks!
Isn't it more apt to say that the people who donated the axe to the museum were the same people who originally made it, and that the axe was illegal when it was made as well as today?

I may totally have missed details here, I haven't paid attention much, so please do correct me if I'm wrong
I might be misremembering but I recall that Nvidia's BlueField DPUs use virtio when communicating with the host machine. From what I gather searching around it's virtio-net in specific
That’s the main subject of the linked post by Doctorow.
Yeah. IPs are NOT identifiers. At best they are a session ID. Using IPs to ban players on the basis that they've been used by a cheater before seems extremely unfair and probably even an opportunity for denial-of-service.
I think the author has the average script kiddie in mind, rather than the HN crowd.
FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out.
Both CRA and Vite seem to be a mess, I don't know how people work with that.

My recommended stack: node, npm, typescript and esbuild.
Though in that particular case it may in fact be the nails in its feet causing the phenomenon.
The gym needs to have a bar making and selling overpriced "health drinks", and also a store selling overpriced merchandise; then getting more people into the gym would actually be profitable.
There's no difference between a "subsidized ad-version" and what al_borland said: that they "paid to not have ads on the Kindle"

You can get a Kindle for $110 with ads, or for $130 without ads.
Target audience?
It's cool and all that you're making an exception here, but how about including a "no, really, I'm actually a human" link on the block page rather than giving the visitor a puzzle: how to report the issue to the page owner (hard on its own for normies) if you can't even load the page. This is just externalising issues that belong to the Cloudflare service.
> nothing specific about next.js

But why do people online complain so much that Next is difficult to self-host? Is it just because self-hosting is difficult, or is it something about Next? I suppose the fancy stuff such as "skew protection", which is probably going to be quite important for anyone using server components and server actions, is going to be fiendishly difficult to achieve.
Not all goods are VAT-qualified for that reason. We have that safety valve already.
Vite is great, don't know why you'd make your own life hard like that.
This is an issue with techdirt.com. I contacted them about this through their feedback form a long time ago, but the issue still remains unfortunately.
While it's simple to run NextJS as a simple Node process that server-renders everything it's not trivial to run it in the way the Vercel does, including running middlewares specifically on a different edge runtime (as well as supporting the `export const runtime = "edge"` directives); incremental static regeneration (statically pre-rendering some set of routes at build time and then hosting them as static files from a CDN rather than computing them at request time), and so on.

I'm guessing this solution doesn't really do that stuff, but for many apps it's not a big deal if it doesn't.
I’m using Miniflix and I always run into that on a few blogs which now I just stopped reading.
I have been Principal engineer at a company you have heard of, and hands-on CTO at multiple start-ups. I feel qualified in stating that my views hold across multiple job roles, from engineering to project management.
But not anyone in this conversation, though? I'm not sure "someone said this on the internet" is a reason to respond to it.
the mental gymnastics it took to write this hot take must be "force" too
Data Model Engine: Tesseract (Cube)
Is this some kind of joke?
My keychain has two physical keys, and these change only every time I move.

Of passkeys, I have quite a bit more, with new ones added at least every few weeks. That makes them much harder to physically or even logically replicate one by one.
I've used phosh and plasma mobile and honestly I can't understand why would anyone put phosh by default.

It's much much slower (and ugly, which doesn't help)
> since the DNA and gene expression of an individual actually changes during its lifetime, and those changes can be passed down to offspring through various mechanisms.

That statements need a whole lot of backing. It contradicts the Central dogma of molecular biology [0]. The idea that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime is called Lamarckism which was disproven more than a hundred years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_bio...
This article aims not for readers to merely absorb information; it's about experiencing the process of paying attention, which ties directly into the message. The style embodies the substance. The deliberate pacing, repetition, and reflective tone mirror the very practice it's encouraging. The text invites the reader to slow down, pay attention to each concept, and let them unfold naturally, step by step—much like how the author advises living life.

Similar to knolling, it methodically arranges ideas and concepts in an orderly way, encouraging the reader to appreciate each in its own space. The writing is intentionally uncluttered, asking the reader to focus on the essentials, without rushing through or trying to grasp everything at once.

The writing itself serves as an exercise in mindfulness, requiring the reader to approach it with the same careful attention that the author advocates for in life.
> Hacking might be characterized as ‘an appropriate application of ingenuity’.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

It's not far off a hack. And not OP but personally I've got very few problems with getting one over on massive corporations like Amazon.
Always been a thing, I think. When you bought it you could pay like $20 extra to not have them - you probably paid and never thought about it since, I imagine.
The website is built to get attention, the attention is here right now. Nobody will remember to go back tomorrow and read the site again when it’s available.
That's an effect of massive demand, not a cause (or not a first-order cause). If you know (and vote for) loads more demand is coming the more you wait, you will wait. If demand were more limited to natural population growth levels, there'd be no point waiting.
In any case, it blocks German Telekom users. There is an ongoing dispute between Cloudflare and Telekom as to who pays for the traffic costs. Telekom is therefore throttling connections to Cloudflare. This is the reason why we can no longer use Cloudflare.
Few companies are stupid enough to use the same sender or even domain for marketing and important transactional mail.
If you can trick someone into installing a malicious extension with arbitrary permissions, you can already run arbitrary code on every webpage they visit, including their logged in bank, social media, etc.

You think an attacker is right now thinking "Man, I know exactly how to make a lot of victims install an extension, but I can only steal their coinbase wallet and bank accounts, if only there was a way I could run calc.exe on their machine too..." who's going to pay more than $20k to upgrade from "steal all their money" to "steal all their money and run calc.exe"?
You typically have to stop in LA, Singapore, or the UAE. The NZ -> Europe flights are brutal, and the trip back is typically even longer.