skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only if you ignore the fact that a database (in traditional sense) doesn't solve the problem of decentralized peer to peer payments, which is the key differentiator of cryptocurrencies.

And the point that the useful cases cede to make a useful product. The thing that is a _feature_ of a cryptocurrency is why people don't use it. I've had this debate dozens of times on here.

> If you've been asking for years, I'm sure that someone, at some point, has told you about crypto's censorship resistance and international payments in places that are poorly served by the banking system for a variety of reasons.

You know what else solves that? Cash and Western Union. And it has done for a long, long time.
Yeah possibly poor choice of words for an international audience. For non-brits, imagine I just said "additional, nature-y non-covered area of your place of residence".
TV made radio irrelevant, the internet made TV irrelevant. Both still exists but as money-losing mass manipulation tools
No one says this.
I genuinely didn't know this. I would have thought I had to do the "copy as pathname" trick with a right-click while holding Option. I already knew the drag and drop feature, so this doesn't really save me time, but it's good to know another nice feature.
Userland Disk I/O
> How do you get started with something like this?

passion is an important part of it, i think almost every obstacle can be eventually overcome if you have the reason to do so

personally if i owned a CarThing, enjoyed using it, and knew it was going to be EOL'd, i would try my best to keep it from becoming e-waste

documenting it makes it even better, since then everyone can share in your passion
That's not even a plurality of the party, it's a faction. Very online people are reflective of a sliver of the party.
I saw the quality of my responses becoming trash, I wondered what I prompted wrong turns out they using OpenAi Models as fallback. The quality of responses between the two are insanely different
My understanding is that it is impossible to probe anything smaller than a Planck length because the required energy to probe such a small distance would create a black hole. So it is almost as if the universe conspires to prevent probing anything smaller.
Why do writing tools have to be a feature of every app instead of an operating-system wide tool like Apple Intelligence? Makes no sense whatsoever to just "sprinkle AI everywhere" except for specialized use cases.
Given that they linked to an article about Aboriginal children being abducted I think it is safe to assume this was an unfortunate typo
> Even though using SDRs to listen and transmit data is not illegal in itself, please check with your local laws regarding the need to have a radio license to transmit on specific frequencies.

Big fat warning here: in some countries such as Germany it is even illegal to receive on bands where you do not have a permit, or to use unlicensed transmitters.

Let me sum it up, in case it is of interest:

- FM radio band (87.5 to 108 MHz): TX banned outside of in-car adapters with extremely low power, RX free for all

- Aeronautics (108-137 MHz), maritime (156-162 MHz) communication: both RX and TX illegal unless you hold a valid certificate (AZF/BZF for aero, ROC/GOC/SRC/LRC/UBI for maritime). Distributing streams or recordings is also illegal, covered by other laws, and importantly includes situations like filming on the bridge of a ship/boat... you may film it, but you have to censor the audio where radio communication can be heard according to §5 TDDDG [2]. This also applies for all other radio communications without a "free for everyone" rule (e.g. corporate radio, public transit radio, ...).

- CB (26,565-27,405 MHz): RX and TX free for everyone, but respect the channel roster and power limits [1]

- PMR446 (446,000–446,200 MHz): RX and TX free for everyone, but only with specially certified PMR446 devices. Ham radio equipment is not allowed, even if kept inside the regulatory requirements!

- Ham radio bands (I'm not typing that list down...): RX free for everyone, TX according to the operator's license (HAREC/ECC (05)06/National class N) restrictions

- ISM: RX/TX free for all but please don't be a dong.

[1] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Sac...

[2] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ttdsg/__5.html
"Corruption" isn't a binary.

It exists in the West. It's bad that it exists in the West. But it exists less in the West than in some other places, and that difference matters.
It is very hard for me to imagine space-based internet ever being able to be competitive financially with an earth-based option outside of special circumstances.
> where passport photos are taken on location

Europe is not a single thing and that statement is not correct.

I'm in Estonia (which is in the EU) and you can either submit a picture online or take the picture on location.
Apple Mac mini review (M4 Pro, 2024): small, incredibly powerful
Exactly. Privacy-first networks (like OP using WhatsApp) already exist and are in use and are $FREE.
>It’s worth noting that you’ll have to sign in to your Microsoft account to use Rewrite, as it’s “powered by a cloud-based service that requires authentication and authorization.”

What?!

What about AI PC, NPUs in e.g Lunar Lake and in general AI@Edge?
But ... keep in mind it will attract insects, birds, and animals, and they may not be cute :). Be prepared for more insects in your house, more bird poop and more possums etc
Usually choanoflagellates are considered the nearest non-animal protist to animals. These guys aren't so far off, and maybe shared an ancestor capable of multicellularity, but they're probably not ancestors of animals. So my non-expert guess is that this pattern of embryo-like division is convergent. If not, the evolutionary tree is about to get shuffled big time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choanozoa and the containing group, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holozoa

Edit: folks, there actually is some interesting science here if you can avoid getting hung up on the silly title.
Ah really? And what about this staged "storming" which rather looks like a guided tour by police through the rooms with the police opening doors?

https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/jan-6-footage-shows-cops-bring...

Why is your CNN not talking about that? Not fitting their narrative, mhm?
If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, the chicken came first

If a chicken egg is an egg that hatches into a chicken, the egg came first.

We know that the first case is correct because an unfertilised egg laid by a chicken is called a chicken egg despite by definition not hatching into a chicken.

Therefore the chicken came first
Hopefully you make an amazing product and I’m rooting for you, but privacy is probably not a killer feature for social media.

I’d focus on finding an amazing new way to rethink how usage works and privacy can be a nice afterthought. But know this is possibly the most competitive consumer software space in existence.
I don't think that anyone, anywhere, ever says that. Not even in the West.
Writing and Deploying Ducky Script Payloads
> poorly paying weekly gig

What gig? For that matter, what audience? I was in a band in the 90's and we could find poorly paying gigs to a relatively full venue on a semi-regular basis. I took a long break to raise some kids and just got back into it in the past couple of years and... there's nothing out there any more. Nobody's hiring musicians because nobody's listening to them.
Im extremely jealous of this techno optimism perspective. In my view at no point has there been a decrease in monopolisation or increase in democratisation since the hopeful cybernetic 90's, so i just don't see this as good, more like some Tyrell or state owned corporate almost fascist dystopia where everything is owned and censored by the few, and just because it's "awesome and space based" only adds to the exclusivity. It's already leaked Musk is working for the US military, so it isn't some benevolent, utilitarian or even broad scaled project it's a project for world domination and enslavement.
In public shallow interactions don’t need to stay that way. It’s not a question of the possibility of levels of interaction but the rates.

Many people can go to a bar and fairly reliably get laid several times a month. That’s simply not possible for the overwhelming majority of people using TikTok. TikTok / Twitter/ Instagram etc are designed to be shallow interaction so people stick around. Dating apps fill that niche, but also want people to come back.

Being in public allows for the full range of relationships in any setting. You can meet a great friends at a bar etc.
Banning social media for a single child creates social death; banning it for all promotes social life.
Yes.

https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/alarmo_doom
I’m no expert, but isn’t it a normal distribution by definition?
There is this implicit bias in your question that complexity comes from a discontinuous change which can be noticed at one moment, it’s much more diffuse and gradual. Just like we won’t know we are in World War 3 for another couple years.
What’s the problem with the phrasing? Having kids is a sacrifice, and especially for the woman who has to go through labour.
It really is almost hilariously formulaic. I mean, it'd be hilarious if it didn't have such disastrous consequences.

The slide to dystopia which is described or implied by countless fictional books is, in fact, really easy to pull off. It's death by a thousand socially convenient compromises.

I remember when a significant portion of people thought carrying phones around was creepy, or that spending your life looking at screens was antisocial, and these things were actively proclaimed. Contrary to popularly repeated historical revisionist tropes, lots of people had to be cajoled and prodded and pressured into the "digital revolution". Surely others remember that?

And now we're at a stage now where if you don't have something like whatsapp or facebook or instagram or whatever, depending on the culture and the age group, there's a real chance that you'll be socially confronted, and even belittled in some circumstances.
And, as I sadly expected, no response, no evidence, no showing me where I'm wrong. So I have no better idea than I did before. I don't know how a country can continue to exist when citizens won't even talk to each other. I'm so disappointed politicians have created such a divide within the country, and I don't think we'll make it without overcoming it.
Show HN: Real-time AI voice conversations with <0.5s latency
Avaturn.live is a voice-to-voice AI assistant that lets you speak to an avatar in real time. We managed to reach <0.5 sec response time so that the conversation with an avatar feels more natural. Also what do you think about our lip sync? We were struggling a lot to reach our current level.

Initial use case we're exploring: Automated product demos/sales, where the AI avatar can showcase features and answer questions in real-time.

Demo: https://dashboard.avaturn.live/demo
You can try talking to an avatar about anything
It’s an oxy, moron.
nothing
https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676ad... we get back an undefined PosthogClient instead of populating it
Pretty obviously not, theoretically you could have tens of terrabits per fibre core. The limiting factor is the electronics at either end.
Of course. Communicating that bias in a fun and relatable way is the intent of the question.
"Sign in to your Microsoft account" to use... Notepad? This is not the future I wanted.
But that was used as a non-tariff barrier to prevent the import of foreign goods. If I remember correctly, certain groups also tried to stop the import of foreign beef, because "Japanese intestines were longer [shorter?] and couldn't absorb the nutrition well".
Actually it's more like trading pokemon. You could probably breed each ancient chicken in a chain all the way up to modern chickens but you just can't breed modern chickens with ancient chickens directly.
I don't know what to tell you. Every single woman I've had enough rapport with to have this discussion has told me several horror stories. They have a deep fear and hatred for the type of man who thinks it's okay to sexually harass a woman when he feels like it (something frighteningly many people here seem totally fine with).
Here it's a joke, I think. Mostly.
The direction is inherent to the relationship between energy and other goods. While it’s true that energy has inputs, it’s an input for virtually everything.
Telemetry indicated people were using notepad a lot resulting it being targeted by the AI team to juice uptake numbers.
Laravel Nightwatch: Application Monitor for Laravel
So, they went from not updating in forever, to finally updating it in some meaningful ways a couple years ago, to adding crap that no one wants pretty much right away. Too much, MS. Shoulda quit while you were ahead with tabs.
I am actually working on a logical query language that's a successor to prolog here: https://memelang.net/02/. Any feedback appreciated!
Definitely not, but having fresh herbs veggies available is amazing. With herbs, I think it can be cheaper than buying them at the store (we normally waste tons of herbs if we buy at the store). With peppers and tomatoes, they just taste better :)

This year we may do squashes and eggplants ...
Sticking to my routine, here’s another post on my blog where I continue practicing English, studying Leetcode, Golang, and algorithms. In this post, I’ll share an example that I thought would be useful: it shows my process of initially solving a problem in a straightforward way, then gradually refining and optimizing my implementation.

Happy reading and happy studying! Keep going and don’t stop…
I are
Wiegley's "Today's agenda has 133 items on it," now joins David Foster Wallace's "I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today," in quotes I wish I could recite to others to express how I think and feel.

Tangentially,

> I have over 30,000 tasks in my Org Mode overall. 23,000 of them are TODOs. Several thousand of them are still currently open. I'm never gonna see them all. Even if I wanted to, I'm never gonna see them all.
I don't understand why you think a celebrity endorsement would matter-- at all. One endorsement that mattered was Dick Cheney, the man behind the US's illegal and immoral torture campaigns, and who shared responsibility for the US killing of over a million innocent civilians in the US illegal war of aggression against Iraq. Harris welcomed the endorsement and talked up her war hawk credentials.

She promised to give even more money to the military (it is a zero sum game-- a contributing factor to why Americans can't have nice things that Europeans enjoy, like medical care). She promised to continue to enable genocide of the indigenous Palestinian population by the Israeli settler state. She is reprehensible.

Her center-right to right party attacked left parties, like the Greens (our Green party is anti-war and pro human rights, unlike the European Greens, and is not affiliated with the European Greens). The so-called Democratic party sued to have the Greens removed from the ballot in several states. The Democratic party should be called the anti-democracy party.

So, many people on the actual left couldn't hold their noses and vote for her due to POLICIES of her and her party. In states where good candidates like Dr. Jill Stein, or Dr. Cornell West were on the ballot, they may have voted for these, or they may have withheld their votes entirely. This includes a sizable number of young people disgusted by the current administration's complicity in genocide, and the extreme suppression of protest whether they identify as on the left, or not.

People where specific policy was not a deciding factor in their votes, may have voted against the Democrats because they, rightly or wrongly, blame the insane increases in costs of living on the party that was in charge when rent/house prices/loan interest rates, food, and energy prices went through the roof.

Also, the endorsements of several establishment Republicans for Harris cemented her as the candidate of the establishment. And, the majority of folks in the lower income tiers don't have anything good to say about the establishment that keeps making their lives harder. Trump won decisively in under $100K/yr. earning males. A significant number of people want to see the whole damn corrupt system burn.

It is concerning that the far-right controls all federal branches of government. Hopefully there will be in-fighting, so they do not do too much damage. But, realistically, with the ever rightward movement of the Democrats, eventually, we would have reached the same point.

On-topic: there are multiple examples of US companies (and a US owned Swiss one too), installing back-doors in equipment, encryption, etc. I don't think the political party controlling the executive branch matters a bit for this.
Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
And we can't think of any potential disqualifiers for this ex-president? Nothing at all?
You seem to be of the understanding that Microsoft has some sort of unified strategy that tries to optimize for user experience. Might have been true in the beginning of the company's life, but today? They've been using the "spraying and praying" strategy for the last 2 decades at least and this is just another way of applying said strategy.
You want GraalVM, OpenJ9 for that.

Additionally there is jpackage.
I likened it (and my later work a the token gaijin in a large company), as being a pet, or a zoo animal. Treated well, but never integrated. I was told that I could never be a manager in my company, because it would make Japanese people anxious to have a foreign boss.
Old news by now, but yea.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/3/24286842/nintendo-alarmo-...
> Social media has moved the propaganda power to foreign hostile nations on a golden platter.

I mean it's not like the power of domestic propaganda has waned, it's just in a war for the attention of the ignorant with other interests (most of which aren't foreign powers, by the way, but simply capital). Social media that enabled independent coverage and discussion is still there for the adults in the room and it would be a true loss for any society to sweep the rug out from under the people who care to look beyond the for-profit newsroom (i.e., almost all media that's readily accessible at least to americans).
> i would like to point out, twitter’s valuation was higher before elon bought it.

I think Elon isn't optimizing for Twitter's value. He is optimizing for his personal utility.
> His supporters realize he is a blowhard and adjust accordingly.

He's not, though. A lot of Trump voters were shocked when he really tried to repeal the ACA. Marketplace did a piece on it, visiting Erie county PA after the repeal efforts. You shouldn't assume he's BSing, as he's tried to do just about everything he said he would. I can't imagine voting for someone and thinking, "Oh, he'll never do the things he says he will."
>an unfortunate typo

No, it was not an unfortunate typo. You have merely not bothered to take anything more than a superficial glance at the details.

Please, before you rush to be right about something you know nothing about, try a simple google search, at least - especially for such a subject where some of us were victimized by our own governments.

The link given goes directly to the section on the White Stolen Generation:

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/...

(Look at the URL...)

The "white stolen generations"

Did you know that in Australia there is another stolen generation, one which shares the pain and consequences? It's called the "white stolen generation" to distinguish it from the Aboriginal stolen generation.

In the five decades up to 1982, the newborn babies of young, single women were forcibly removed from them for adoption, a practice sometimes called 'baby farming'. Mothers were drugged, tethered to beds, not allowed to see their babies, told they were dead. [54] Many of these adoptions occurred after the mothers were sent away by their families due to the stigma associated with being pregnant and unmarried.

More than 250,000 white mothers lost their babies to forcible removal at birth by these past illegal adoption practices. Groups such as Adoption Loss Adult Support and Apology Alliance offer help and support.

Between 2010 and 2012 apologies were offered by Western Australia, South Australia, ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered a national apology to those affected by forced adoptions in 2013.

Source: A guide to Australia's Stolen Generations - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/...

Then there is this:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/white-mothers-of-sto...

.. and of course you could read what Wikipedia has to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_Australia

In fact, an "apology" was given by the Australian government, but as we can see, it was not enough.

General public awareness of the subject, as you have demonstrated, is terrible. And, yet again, Australia gets away with it as a result.
> Trump’s platform and policy plan is actively transphobic, is it rhetoric to call this what it is?

It is fine to say: "I think his policy is transphobic.". Do not say or imply: "If you support Trump, you must be fine with his transphobia."

Not only is the latter a disrespectful way to have a political discussion, it's also likely to backfire once people are in the voting booth. It is especially likely to backfire if people take the time to actually look at his position and find it to be moderate.
Some evidence of why not to bother:

1. Tar Pit Ideas: https://youtu.be/GMIawSAygO4

2. Tar Pit Ideas, the Sequel: https://youtu.be/GU9iT7MW0rs
It's pretty common on earth that people grow food in proximity to their home and where the soil is fertile. It just takes an american to make it into an "Aha" moment, hence the snarky remark about fish and ocean. But there you go.
Clinton's was I'm With Her, wasn't it? Not sure about the others off the top of my head. TBF I'm With Her isn't nearly as compelling as Make America Great Again.
Eh, companies would probably be permitted to keep using the systems since "it's the industry standard, there's nothing more we could've done", and it would just become another instance of regulatory capture.

See, e.g., the GDPR, which as written has strong language against storing data, but as applied is riddled with 'reasonable' exceptions that have never been tested in court. It's like Schrödinger's regulation, it's both incredibly restrictive and trivial to comply with (unless you're Super Evil™) at the same time, somehow.
His wife is literally an immigrant
I think a bigger debate is why did it cross the road...
I haven't been able to make it in a while, but I really liked Tech Startups In The Pub [0], for a social meetup -- just heed the rule! (no pitches)

[0] https://www.meetup.com/tech-startups-in-the-pub-relaxed-netw...
Ideology: Do We Need It?
Your superficial dismissal of this situation is highly offensive. Please inform yourself.

Yes, white children were stolen and officially trafficked by their governments, as official policy. From around the Commonwealth, in fact.

And some of us are still suffering.

>Sounds like you're not qualified to talk on it.

What part of "(Disclaimer: White Stolen Generation Australian.)" didn't you understand?
I'd love to see footage of the underwater soccer cheat in action.
The bigger concern is the latency. Even if some technical progress increases the bandwidth, latency is bounded by speed of light and couldn't be as low as cable.
code that uses errno is also a bit harder to understand. I like the way Rust does it -- if a function can fail, it returns a Result.