skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented a one up above. SGI IRIX computers connected to SGI DAT drives will gladly save audio off those as well.

Lol, just had to. :]
Yes and? If it keeps 20% of the country alive during a twice in a century event that it's a good justification.
> is cheap compared to building highways

How about cycleways are cheap compared to building airports?

Cycle lanes are not substitutes for highways nor airports.
Showing ID to pass a gate is somewhat different than having a timestamped record of the fact that you passed a gate, but I agree that given it's already surveilled it's not a big difference. Still, small differences add up.
M4 Mac Mini Cluster [video]
fun fact some left handed amino acids are poisonous to most mammals
the only supply chain is raw materials

Citation needed, this seems exaggerated. Eg. I'm sure they use IC's and I'd be very surprised if the facility includes a fab.
https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...

https://support.archive-it.org/hc/en-us/articles/75816418319...

Consider a small donation to offset storage and operations costs.
I wonder how long that site will be up, given his death. Hope someone mirrors it.

It's interesting to read the Nicholas Kristof op-ed from 2006 (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/opinion/03kristof.html) which he links because it mentions the site (in its incarnation as "whydoesgodhateamputees.com") as "part of an increasingly assertive, often obnoxious atheist offensive", and essentially argues that the New Atheists should back off and stop being so mean.

While the New Atheists were definitely sharp-tongued (another page on the site asserts that there's no such thing as an 'atheist', for the same reason that someone who doesn't believe in leprechauns wouldn't be called an 'aleprechaunist', and atheists should instead call themselves 'rational people'), I think they had some excellent points about how the religious point of view is treated as the default in public discourse - and one of the ways that manifests is that arguments for religion (and more nebulous spirituality) are seen as expected and ordinary, while arguments against religion are seen as inherently aggressive and mean-spirited.
Ask HN: Best Payment Solutions for Freelancers in Developing Countries?
We’re building a tool to help freelancers in developing countries (India, Southeast Asia, Africa, etc.) receive payments from international clients.

The problem: Many freelancers struggle with payment systems that are either unavailable in their country, too complex, or charge high fees. Traditional banking and PayPal solutions often have delays, and explaining crypto to clients can be a hassle.

Our approach: We’re developing a tool where freelancers can generate a unique payment link. Clients can pay via credit cards, Apple Pay, or bank transfers, and the freelancer receives payment in stablecoins directly to their crypto wallet. From the client’s perspective, it’s just like making a regular card or bank payment—they don’t even need to know they’re using crypto.

Why this matters:
- Freelancers don’t need to set up complicated legal or banking structures.
- Payments are fast and stable (no waiting for international transfers).

We’d love to get your feedback:
1. Have you seen similar solutions in action? What worked or didn’t?
2. Would this be helpful for freelancers you’ve worked with or know of?

We’re still iterating and want to ensure we’re solving a real pain point. Appreciate any thoughts, ideas, or feedback!
Agreed, that i also have no idea how CISA is performing; i honestly cannot say anything good or bad - since i have zero data to substantiate my opinuion.

> ...But them not being involved in some random project that showed up in your newsfeed doesn’t mean they have severely failed.

I surely and honestly hope that you are correct!
L with stroke is the english name for it according to wikipedia by the way, not my choice of naming. The transliterated version is not great, considering how far removed from the proper pronunciation it is, but I’m sort of used to it. The almost correct one above was jarring enough that I wanted to point it out.
Frightening?
World's response to the climate crisis is already dangerously delayed, and we're at a point where we need anything ASAP. We've ran out of time to massively overhaul infrastructure everywhere.

The US and UK apparently can't even build a single high speed rail line any more.

Car dependency sucks, but we won't be able to fix that in the short term, but at least we can fix its oil dependence.

Cleaner grid will also need a lot of battery storage, and EV demand helps scale that up.
I’ve run into a similar-ish situation working with East-Asian students and East-Asian faculty. Me, an American who wants to be clear and make policies easy for everybody to understand: worried about name ordering a bit (Do we want to ask for their last name or their family name in this field, what’s the stupid learning management system want, etc etc). Chinese co-worker: we can just ask them for their last names, everybody knows what Americans mean when they ask for that, and all the students are used to dealing with this.

Hah, fair enough. I think it was an abstract question to me, so I was looking for the technically correct answer. Practical question for him, so he gave the practical answer.
Just give in and use tailscale, life is so much better on the dark side!
Software has been gaslighting generations of people around the world.

Side note: not a bad way to skirt surveillance though.

A name like “stępień” will without a doubt have many ambiguous spellings across different intelligence gathering systems (RUMINT, OSINT, …). Americans will probably spell it as “Stefen” or “Steven” or “Stephen”, especially once communicated over phone.
> The baseband on handheld devices do not have that much power to transmit and receive from Starlink directly

It turns out they do.
2x2 miles is over 10km^2. Barely.
And that's why having more than 1 kid is generally a good idea. :)

Pity about it costing money though. :(
Bigger number = more betterer
It’s a general right to have incorrect personal data relating to you rectified by the data processor.
„There are no unconnected places in most of Europe“
Then you haven’t traveled with the German railway yet!
When I was a kid there were classified ads like "Pan Am NYC Dec 20-28, E. Smith, $200 o.b.o" for people who wanted to resell their ticket because they couldn't make the trip. There were no id checks then.

In the 1990s the airplanes jumped at the opportunity to have required id checks so they could take control of the secondary market.

It was still possible to buy a ticket like "E. Smith", but that option was cut off a few years later.
This guy is the kenner. He gives the references he used in building his clock, and reviews of each reference as to how helpful it is. Since his clock works :-) I kinda trust that he's qualified to comment :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wm39a6r_k&t=1082s
Yeah, by no means do i believe that infra.-related topics are easy nor cheap nor fast to resolve...in fact, i believe them to be some of the most diffult and/or complex for myriad reasons...I'm just venting i guess because its more a matter of poor decisions made over time, rather than what is actually and technically possible in our society. But, yeah, passing the buck seems to be what happens, and to our greater detriment.
While Europe has a long coastline, there are only a given number of ports capable of the high thoroughput needed to feed Europe’s population. Blockade those and the entrance to the Baltic and Mediterranean, and most of your work is done. Moreover, in a shooting war, merchant ships from other global regions attempting to supply Europe would be targeted.
I guess we don't. I live in the Midwest and was mocked for wearing a mask. Other than restaurants being shut down for a couple weeks, no one did a fucking thing differently. I almost lost my job for refusing to work from the office.
The discussion around this (and a competing proposal, https://peps.python.org/pep-0722/) was quite long and arduous. Anyone who wants to understand why changes in Python packaging seem to take so long to implement, even when they seem like pretty clearly good ideas, is encouraged to look through the related threads (disclosure: I was a significant participant):

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-722-dependency-specificatio...

https://discuss.python.org/t/addendum-for-pep-722-to-use-tom...

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-723-embedding-pyproject-tom...

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-723-embedding-pyproject-tom...

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-722-723-decision/36763

https://discuss.python.org/t/how-would-you-like-to-declare-r...

Also relevant to that topic is the failed __pypackages__ proposal, which at one point seemed like such a no-brainer that some people seemed almost angry about the reluctance to go ahead with it - yet the more it was investigated, the less workable it seemed:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-pyth... (disclaimer: I disagree with many of Chris Warrick's takes throughout that page, although I am generally on board that there are severe problems in the packaging system. It's also worth noting that, despite not seeming to like virtual environments very much, the author has IMO one of the best published guides to virtual environments out there.)
Oh man, this brings back memories. Loved this game, Maelstrom, and the Escape Velocity series of games which augmented this style of gameplay with an open world. So much fun. I pine for games that don’t need half and hour of cutscenes and a tutorial to learn to play.
"Write your name the way it's spelled in your government issued id" is my favorite. I have three ids issued by two governments and no two match letter by letter.
I know an Åsa who became variously Åsa, Aasa and Asa after moving to a non-Scandinavian country. That took a while to untangle, and caused some of the problems you describe.
Yes, all these forms should handle existing names...

but the author's own website doesn't (url: xn--stpie-k0a81a.com, bottom of the page: "© 2024 ę ń. All rights reserved.")
As someone who really think name field should just be one field with any printable unicode characters, I do wonder what the hell would I need to do if I take customer names in this form, and then my system has to interact with some other service that requires first/last name split, and/or [a-zA-Z] validation, like a bank or postal service.

Automatic transliteration seems to be very dangerous (wrong name on bank accounts, for instance), and not always feasible (some unicode characters have more than one way of being transliterated).

Should we apologize to the user, and just ask the user twice, once correctly, and once for the bad computer systems? This seems to be the only approach that both respects their spelling, and at the same time not creating potential conflict with other systems.
Relevant section for the "we do store your password" case:

In other cases, when you link a financial institution to an app via Plaid, you provide your login credentials to us. We store those credentials and use them to collect the data to power the services you’ve chosen and, when requested, securely share it with the app you’re using and establish a secure connection that you control. We then help keep your data safe and private with best-in-class encryption protocols.

Meaning exactly nothing. "encryption protocols" may simply mean that when they log in to screen scrape your bank's online banking they do so over HTTPS.

Sorry but this has zero meaning and I maintain: Red bloody flag. If there's any actual proof out there of them doing all this in a secure way, I'm happy to have my mind changed but this is just part of said marketing fluff.
Ansible and the podman Ansible modules
The US government bailed out GM under Obama. Do you know what GM did this month? They spent billions on stock buybacks and millions on bonuses while firing a ton of people. F'em. They aren't a car company, they are a stock company that happens to make cars, a route most large American companies seem to be taking (see also Boeing, whose management cares so much about/is detached from their product that they relocated their management away from the business and to Washington DC).
It's only been one working day since, but, knowing him and the rest of the senior leadership team, I do expect a large correction.
It’s kind of crazy Tesla hasn’t partnered with SpaceX to provide Starlink as an option.
My SO is a Occupational Therapist, so she spent part of her master's degree studying pediatric development milestones. A LOT of those milestones (ability to handle objects with hands, develop muscle strength, resolve conflict with others, etc) depend on playing with other kids in the real world. If a child is proportionally spending more time on a device than interacting with peers, they're going to have problems.

Prime example: W-sitting. Lots of "iPad kids" have an unusual sit pose where they splay their legs out. Oftentimes it's because they're sitting on a device so often that their core muscles are underdeveloped.
Yeah, it's amazing. My language has a Latin-based alphabet but can't be represented with ISO 8859-1 (aka the Latin-1 charset) so I used to take it for granted that most software will not support inputs in the language... 25 years ago. But Windows XP shipped with a good selection of input methods and used UTF-16, dramatically improving things, so it's amazing to still see new software created where this is somehow a problem.

Except that now there's no good excuse. Things like the name in the linked article would just work out of the box if it weren't for developers actually taking the time to break them by implementing unnecessary and incorrect validation.

I can think of very few situations, where validation of names is actually warranted. One that comes to mind is when you need people's ICAO 9303 compliant names, such as on passports or airline systems. If you need to make sure you're getting the name the person has in their passport's MRZ, then yes, rejecting non-ASCII characters is correct, but most systems don't need to do that.
I was lamenting the state of society, that's all. I think any volunteers - regardless of area - are true champions. But, i was simplky casting shade to those in power for their failings, and allowing things to trickle to what i believe is a sad state of affairs. I'm just some rando on the web yelling at (the men who "created") the clouds. ;-)
Carbon negative blockchains via logtrees [pdf]
The setup cost for Starlink on a boat is still massively higher than on land.
AFAIK China also has a relatively ready-to-go carbon cap-and-trade system. Businesses already need to report their emissions.

But they have no incentive to enable it, since countries can't reach close enough consensus to get to effective global climate accords.

(I commented in hopes of getting someone who knows more to reply.)
Excellent, helpful, and appropriate to the context BTW.
Starlink's certainly planning on that, more or less.
Looks interesting, but this is a bit worrying:

... build reliable AI agents with automatic retries and no limit on how long they can
run for.

It's pretty easy to see how that could go badly wrong. ;)

(and yeah, obviously "don't deploy that stuff" is the solution)

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That being said, is it all OSS? I can see some stuff here that seems to be, but it mostly seems to be the client side stuff?

https://github.com/dbos-inc
Good point. If there is an alternate power source, it makes perfect sense to go to spot pricing. If you don't and you have room mates who may not like freezing in the middle of winter, don't.
…Apple has made rack-mounted computers in recent history. They don’t sell chips, they sell complete boxes with rack mount hardware, motherboard and all.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/G1720LL/A/Refurbished-Mac...
This is really interesting. Based on their wikipedia I can see they collect a lot of RF traffic - are IMEIs identifiable with the raw data captured that way? I'm surprised they are not encrypted. I say this as someone who knows nothing about the space.
As shown by C#, it will generally continue to be relevant since both primarily use JIT compilation with ability to modify code at runtime which can violate inter-procedural escape analysis assumptions leading to heap allocations of the objects that are passed down to the callees (there is work scheduled for .NET 10 to address this, at least for AOT compilation where interproc analysis conclusions will be impossible to violate).

You can craft a workload which violates the hypothesis by only allocating objects that live for a long time but both JVM and .NET GC implementations are still much faster designs than Go's GC which prioritizes small memory footprint and consistent latency on low allocation traffic (though as of .NET 9, SRV GC puts much more priority on this, making similar tradeoffs).
We have a Volkswagen e-Up with a max range of maybe 150 miles, we drive it every day with longer trips on the weekends and I literally never even had to charge it outside of home in the few years I owned it.

Not everyone's use case is the same.
jQueryUI does something different and they are not mutually replaceable. JQuery does not do what tailwind does. And tailwind does not do what jQuery does.

JQueryUI is also in maintenance state, basically a retired project.
> Now we get wilderness livestreams! What will that do?

My guess is there will be some more wilderness livestreams streams, largely made by the people that are already going out to these places to produce content.

Are you particularly worried about a group of people that so far had no interest at all in taking pictures or videos in the wilderness but will now show up in droves to make competing bits of strictly-live content? Who are these users??
There are a number of ways you could handle this, but none of them make wireguard seem user friendly for this use case.

If you're using WireGuard for point to point or to access a specific subnet, this isn't an issue.

But a common use case is to use WireGuard like you'd use Mullvad or Nordvpn and tunnel all traffic through it. And if you need exceptions for private address ranges or specific services, you end up having to generate a CIDR list (the WireGuard mobile app can do this for you if you check the "exclude private addresses" checkbox, but no such checkbox exists for wireguard tools on Linux, and it's a hardcoded list anyway), or add routes yourself, or fiddle with firewall rules.
Not only that, those small batteries do cost a disproportionate amount of money to replace.

If you want a real world opinion, check the EVClinic blog…
Are we sure they don't actually validate against a more generic postal code field? Then again some countries have letters in their postcodes (the UK comes to mind), so that might be a problem anyways.
This article implies that you have to use NAT with Wireguard which really isn't the case at all. Normal subnet routing works fine provided your destination hosts know to use the wireguard server as the gateway for the wireguard subnet. Just configuring a static route on the normal default router is generally enough. Certainly, there are cases where NAT is useful, for example I redirect attempts to use public DNS to my local DNS.
> Now we get wilderness livestreams! What will that do?

Encourage others to explore the wilderness?
That interview is brilliant. The reporters trying to smear the two made such fools of themselves. My favorite bit is when a reported said "This isn't gathering much sympathy with the public," but here we are looking back on it and laughing at the moronic reporters instead. Love to see it
Sounds like someone is getting ready for Advent of Code!
Why Does the US Still Have Lead Pipes? Blame the Lead Industries Association
https://archive.today/u1i5f

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Industries_Association
That’s the best one of the lot. "Dein Name ist ungültig", "Your name is invalid", written with the informal word for "your".
While i agree that cybersecurity is no way at all an easy thing, i politely disagree that it is indomitable. I'm gonna stretch your intent there to use a cheesy analogy: its like saying humans thought buidling anything over rivers was simply beyond their tech means, so bridges were never invented...But, you know, we have the technology to cross over rivers. (I know, i know, inventing bridges and establishing new standards for safer worlds vis a vis cybersecurity is not the same thing, sure, sure, ok.) :-)
There were many terrible electric cars out of China for years. Every province had its own little EV manufacturers. China's car industry is less concentrated than the US, but the big players are winning.

BYD is only the 9th largest carmaker in China. SAIC, Changan, and Geeley are the top 3. SAIC and Changan are state-owned, but Geeley is private, as is BYD. SAIC makes about 5 million vehicles a year. General Motors, over 6 million. BYD, around 3 million. Tesla, a little less than BYD.

Reviews of newer BYD cars are quite favorable. It's not like five years ago, when China's electric cars were not very good.

BYD has a simplified design for electric cars. The main component is the "e-axle", with motor, axle, differential, and wheels in one unit. There's a power electronics box which controls battery, motor, and charging. And, of course, the battery, made of BYD lithium-iron-phosphate prismatic cells. Talks CANbus to the dashboard and driver controls. BYD offers this setup in a range of sizes, up to box truck scale.

BYD and CATL are spending huge amounts of money to get to solid state batteries. The consensus seems to be that they work fine but are very hard to make. The manufacturing problems will probably get solved.

(Somebody should buy Jeep from Stellantis and put Jeep bodies on BYD E-axles. Stellantis is pushing a terrible "mild hybrid" power train with 21 miles of electric range, and an insanely overpriced all-electric power train. Stellantis prices went through the roof under the previous (fired) CEO, and sales went through the floor. Jeep sales are way down, despite customers who want them.)