skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason why the FT, among others, don't spend much space on human rights issues is because they are inherently transactional publications in nature. You have to pay to subscribe, and those who do expect something in return - I suspect that this is usually a sense of being 'in the know' on business matters. Obviously knowledge of Jill Stein's manifesto is not going to make its readers any money in the foreseeable future.

I suppose I'm defending the FT in the sense that there is no alterior motive, I believe. Compare this to the tabloids, which don't charge for online access and make money by peddling particular business or political interests - mostly shady business, I think most would agree. I'd therefore trust FT on the facts, albeit probably not for wide coverage.
The seeds of life, but the next step, their germination so to speak, is the hard part. All life on Earth is part of one grand tree, so out of those billions of years the step from complex organic molecules to life only was completed successfully once as far as we can tell.
The irony of reading this article surrounded by a cacophony of flashing and scrolling ads is not lost on me.
The real savings only come in bulk
This is typical of Hetzner, if a product SKU is losing money they very quickly make changes, even going as far as to discontinue the product entirely (eg. GPU servers). They definitely don't seem to be a fan of loss leaders.

I'm guessing somehow the traffic usage patterns of their USA customers was very different to their EU counterparts, or the cost of expanding network capacity was a lot higher than anticipated.

It's a bit of a shock for sure but it seems this model is a big part of how they can maintain their slim margins.
Unclear to me why you're being downvoted. I previously knew non-US people refer to rates as "tariffs", but I never heard it in a US context. It's not rare, it's just not a meaning of the word Americans typically know.
Here in Australia we teach kids real bicycling skills like how to socially share bets with their friends on the Sportsbet app for Tour de France 2025.[1][2] Thankfully this bill doesn't restrict Australian kids from learning these important life lessons every few minutes within a 10 hour long loop of Baby Shark.

[1] https://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/cycling/tour-de-france/...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrTFl1gKEuk
Yes, I represent a minority.
Ed Simon's reflection on Sven Birkerts' The Gutenberg Elegies in In Praise of Print thoughtfully challenges the prevailing assumption that digital media will inevitably replace print.
What do you mean by "wouldn't be surprised if America does it too"? Reuter's investigation leaves you in doubt?

>"Russian troll farms are also well documented"

Their effect is blown way out of proportion by Western media.
Reminds me of a 13 year old GitHub project back when Google Photos was called Picasa:

https://github.com/alanhamlett/jQuery-Picasa-Gallery
Check out Cloudflare Stream and see if their prices might work.
If one is able to be comfortable with the unknown (a state that can't be escaped except through a simulation), checking everything isn't required.

It's like juggling three balls in a way: if you can't do it, it isn't necessary to believe you can. So too with knowledge, except it's like a thousand times as hard.
Not only written text is a faster way to communicate information, it is so because it has much bigger context window:

"A moment" in a video is exactly that, a moment of time, either a frame or a couple of seconds that will stay in short term memory.

"A moment" in a text is a page or two facing pages. There can be diagrams or formulas there. It is extremely easy to direct attention to parts of these pages, in any order.

In a video, "moments" in the above sense are generally low information, quickly changing in linear order. In a text, they are fewer and of higher density. It seems that the second type is easier to commit to long-term memory, to understand, etc.
> I think it's true since far too many times obscure things I've spoken about appear in ads soon after the conversation

People have been making claims like this since at least the early 90s, about TV then, and no one ever credibly claims to have worked on something like this. I've worked with purchased ad data and I've never seen this data or anything that implies that it exists. It seems far more likely that its a trick of memory. You ignore most ads you see, but you remember ones that relate to odd topics that interest you.
Same thing, but ASR is the 'official' term for it.
Is this a signal of a larger pivot in their business model towards targeting a higher-cost US enterprise market? A lot of brands have successfully transitioned to selling the same goods at luxury prices recently-maybe a webhost with a decent enough reputation can do the same.
Even China does not have a blanket VPN ban
You also have your smartphone with its microphone and cameras.
It's a matter of perspective, I don't do IPv6, when AWS decided to start charging for IPv4, I moved to Oracle Cloud.
I’d love some more info on using custom voices in HA. I have an esp32-s3-box that I am setting up holiday to do voice with HA.
I decided to move to Oracle Cloud when they made that move.
I’m not saying all doctors are perfect or even good, but surely there would be at least some occasions where a patient tries this supposedly very effective treatment, gets better, and the doctor is left curious.
You can make them a limited user account and enforce parental controls (both in the OS and maybe on the router) if you really want to. Don't be surprised if they find workarounds...

Back in my day, my peers and I just had unfettered root (well, admin) access to our machines. I dunno if it's realistic to protect kids from all the things anyway. Whatever you shield them from is just going to seem even more appealing, and no doubt their friends will find it for them if they really want it.
Show HN: Cap – open-source screen recorder with custom S3 bucket support
I read the sentence a couple of times to try to figure out what the phrase “ephemeral gauze” was intended to convey but failed to make sense of it. So, I figured that “gaze” may have been the intended word, i.e., readers pay particular attention to text while they’re in the process of reading it (gaze) but that it’s quickly forgotten when they move on to the next unrelated thing they see on the Internet (ephemerality).

I’m only familiar with gauze in the context of first-aid kits and other medical usage so I’d appreciate hearing your interpretation of “ephemeral gauze”.
>extradite Chinese dissident Miles Guo, a target of Beijing

Who let's not forget, would go on to hang with Steve Bannon during the Trump years and use influence to build up scams to defraud 1,000s of gullible anti-PRC Americans (and others) out of a billion with a B dollars - he was the fraudster CCP claimed he was all along (scammed banks in PRC), albiet a connected one with some limited insight into old CCP drama, hence US treated him as valuble anti CCP dissident. Truly top kek leopardsatemyface development that no one would have forseen.
it's sad how comfy the world for spawning request is versus when you are on the receiving side.
If one can get RSI in the wrists as a touch typist, why couldn't one get RSI in the shoulders or elbows as a 'hunt and peck' typist?
Can confirm that the enterprise I work for does not care one whit about the odd $5k mistake. It's all a drop in a bucket anyway.
The things people say in the era where comment fields have been removed from news websites (in the name of "avoiding misinformation")...
As someone with a lot of experience using all the main tools on the market I’d advise that traffic split and assignment is the just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to making your own tool.

If it’s a tool you ever want to get into production you need to focus on which metrics you are collecting, how you’re collecting them, how you’re defining a session, how are you defining a user, how are you complying with data privacy laws, what tools and data platforms are you integrating with, what safeguards are you implementing to ensure that you’re not leaking sensitive information, how are you handling code delivery, how are you accounting for ad blockers… to name a few.

I’d personally look for some open source tools and assess what features they provide/how they provide them to get a good idea of what is required. Better yet, I’d try and get some trials on the current market leaders such as AB Tasty, Optimizely, Web Trends Optimize, Monetate and VWO.

You’ll notice that they all offer more than just A/B testing…
Not a language difference, but a design difference. By calling availableToPoll before polling you can poll a batch of messages without blocking or locking on each message. This design decision allows the ring to perform batching naturally. And batching is very important for perfomance. java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue does not support batching.
Since the article uses lots of big words, phrases and memes (when a few simple words would suffice), and assumes you know it already, Conway's law is simply that your technical architecture will reflect your social/organizational architecture.
Lots of film production goes on in Toronto, I especially love how Roy Thompson Hall always shows up in anything vaguely sci-fi. Vaught headquarters in The Boys, U.N. headquarters in The Expanse, it was even in the background of a few scenes of The Handmaid's Tale.
thanks. apple have been several companies depending on the era. if you're not a fan it's hard to keep track.
Hey everyone! Richie here, founder of Cap. After nearly a year of building Cap, we’re thrilled to unveil our latest relaunch.

Back in April, we introduced the first early version of Cap, and the response blew us away. We gained thousands of users, hit #1 on Hacker News (Show HN), and trended on GitHub with over 5k stars. Most importantly, we received incredible feedback that’s shaped the new direction we’re excited to share today.

The star of this release, v0.3.1, is our biggest feature yet: Cap Apps.

These are community-submitted apps that extend Cap’s functionality in exciting ways. The first app launching today is S3 Config, which lets you connect your own S3 bucket. With this, all new shareable links are stored and served directly from your bucket, giving you 100% ownership of your data.
> There is a higher level, which you cannot have without the support of society

Is that true?

I get what you are saying. In my mind it is more like: it would be nice to be wealthy, but you don't want to get wealthy enough that you show up on the radar of the world's bad actors.
I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying. But it sounds like the parent said there’s a miracle treatment that the medical community is ignoring for lack of a financial incentive (and they then go on to mention a financial incentive?)
That seems incorrect. The mayor is the mayor of Greater London which includes the City of London, although the City also has a Lord Mayor, as London boroughs have elected or ceremonial mayors. In other words, the City has its own mayor in the sense that other parts of London have their own sub-governments, although with a few differences such as policing and city status.

> The mayor is scrutinised by the London Assembly and, supported by their Mayoral Cabinet, directs the entirety of London, including the City of London (for which there is also the Lord Mayor of the City of London)

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

> In 1965 the county was abolished and replaced by Greater London, a two-tier administrative area governed by the Greater London Council, thirty-two London boroughs, and the City of London Corporation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London
You've had musical training since you were 5? And you say

"Sometime when I was ~12 years old, I remember surprising my clarinet teacher by correctly repeating some random notes that he played. He told me I had perfect pitch, but I didn’t think so, because I couldn’t name notes for any instrument other than the clarinet."

Okay, so then this doesn't seem like an article written for the average musician (person).
I wish the guy behind Dune3d had joined Solvespace development instead. His GTK4 UI on all platforms would have been nice. I'm hoping to address some of the solvespace shortcomings in 2025, but he really needed assembly with STEP files which I don't see happening soon.
Do you know that AWS uses other companies data centers in many places in the EU?
Super cool.

Typo here “Show your art, keep friends up-to-date or share family photos with lode ones.”
I am not an expert (I am a retired R&D telecom engineer) but here is my take:

* As for cancer, there are several (many?) ALS variants. The first gene to be associated with ALS was SOD1 G93A allele in 1993. It stayed the only ALS gene known until 2006. That was a curse for research as ALS with SOD1 origin is less than 2% of total cases, and even for SOD1 there are dozens of mutations associated with ALS, some with 6 months of life expectancy, others with 20 years.

* Most commercial animal models are SOD1 G93A mice [0]. The G93A mutation represents roughly only 0.4-1.4% of all ALS cases worldwide, yet it is the most used animal model!

SOD1 G93A ALS models are also the less costly animal models.

* I think another important thing is that ALS starts often in hands (split hand phenomena) and targets skeletal muscles. But humans' nervous system for hands is very special, only shared with other upper primates. Other mammals like mice have an interneuron between the upper and lower motor neuron for hands. We do not, there is a direct connection between upper and lower motor neurons, reflecting the importance of manipulation for humans. Therefore for me, we can't prove with mice at pre-clinical stage, that a drug is efficacious or not (many drugs have some efficacy in animal models, but none in humans).

* Some publications pretend they can use individual cells, fishes, or nematodes as animal models. That's laughable, it's ignoring the importance of anatomy and physiology. We are complex animals, our hormones, our immune system, and our metabolism are important to understanding ALS. The proof of that is that ALS patients who have the best life expectancy have a BMI of 27.

* Other publications pretend to make their own animal models with some chemical, like BMAA, a neurotoxin found in certain cyanobacteria. Those publications smell bad behavior for me.

If you want to buy a mice model of ALS:

[0] https://www.jax.org/jax-mice-and-services/preclinical-resear...
Tor in Russia: A call for more WebTunnel bridges
Every time I read about the next generation not being able to read, I recall all the boomers falling for penis enlargement pill scams again and again. Exactly the people who complain about standard tests being too easy nowadays are the people who panic at the sight of a self-checkout.
Perhaps immune-based therapies like CAR-T are based on the premise that there are many cancerous cells in your body all the time, but your immune system deals with them, and it’s only when it fails to do so that you end up in the pathological state. So the “single cure” is the normally-functioning immune system?
What do you mean by true ergo and better posture?
First I have heard of an attempted ethnonationalist theocracy in the US, mind citing what you are talking about?
> I'd guess that some games should be banned too but not everything. Something like Street Fighter is widely different from Roblox for example.

Which one do you want banned?
How will the Australian government compel such companies to comply?
That's more of the sort of behavior one expects from legislators making broad surveillance apparatuses under guise of protecting children on the internet.
>Defector

A chinese fraudster who scammed PRC banks that "defected" by claiming to be a dissident, that PRC said for years was a fraudster, who would go on to defraud Americans out of a BILLION dollars, because US state department thought he was some anti CCP dissident with deep insight into the CCP, instead of you know... a fraudster. Though to be fair, both could to be true. I hope US got a billion dollars worth outdated info from him.
Very wrong on all 3. It's an extremely naive world view.
Vaast bikes [0] makes magnesium bikes today, I own one (A/1 gravel) and it's a very pleasant ride.

[0] https://www.vaastbikes.com/
Isn't Hetzner impacted in Europe at the moment from a cable cut? Wouldn't surprise me if there is a wave of people moving stuff over to the US because of that. I don't know much about cloud though. I believe "The Ship has arrived and repairs are underway, which will still take some time." and "the repair may take up to two weeks.".
> But then there's nothing stopping adults from creating and selling proof values to kids

That's also true for alcohol and tobacco.
There's plenty of people who either (claim to) love Hitler or who - according to the media at least - are ardent followers of his philosophies (for lack of a better term) as well so in that respect he's right up there together with the others.
Some old people become very gullible.
I agree 100%. If a company wants me to do a standardized take home test, I would consider it. If they asked me to balance tree on the spot I would tell them there is almost certainly a well maintained open source library for that or there is google. If they want me to do what amounted to a sprint in thier domain, I would tell them my consulting rate.
Disable it all in the BIOS?
Or marijuana or cocaine. It’s super easy for the government to deny access to things people want by fiat, as evidenced by the fact that nobody does cocaine anymore.
Hi, thanks for feedback. Project is in stealth mode at the moment, I was not expecting the response.
probably streaming platforms have better content on the US and everyone wants to exit there? so they are mostly serving US traffic for several vpns all over the world connecting to CDNs in the US.
Wow those are insane numbers and so sad. Are the local governments not doing anything to help?
This is a frustratingly bad article.

The primary argument is hedonistic. The author is arguing that the state of mind created by reading books is what's valuable, and not the content.

This infuriating for me. This is like writing an article in defense of pistachio ice cream. The author has a sensation they enjoy that they want more people to enjoy. I would have trouble coming up with a more trivializing case for physical books. You might as well just talk about the joy of the smell of old books. It's pleasurable, unique, and completely missing on the internet.

The author fails to connect that pleasurable sensation to anything meaningful and so can be easily dismissed.

Whereas other writers, ones the author quotes even, have pointed out how long form content trains concentration, short and long term memory, and critical thought, this author fails to convince that books are anything more than a warm blanket for the mind.
Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go
Hetzner – 20 times less traffic for a higher price
Includes beautiful modern themes, e.g. azure https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/tk9.0@v0.53.0/themes/azure
A Corruption Case That Spilled Across Latin America Is Coming Undone
Defeated them militarily and conquered their country?
thx for feedback. project is in stealth mode. always a good idea to be skeptical.
It's worse than that. The entire notion of an independent arbiter is deceptive at best, because the decision making will always come down to how the questions are framed.

The claim here is that an automated process backed with enough data and computational power can distill any of the world's most intractable conflicts and come up with a compromise immune to "toxicity" and human bad-faith. I'd submit that in any conflict in which at least one actor is acting in bad faith to begin with, in the absence of an overriding ethical framework, any such compromise would result in a worse outcome than making a decision that one side was right and the other wrong. It's the compromise between hens and wolves.
in CGT, humans make the final decisions, it is a game designed for humans first, AI just came later
I've heard there is a cafe in Billingsgate you can go to first thing in the morning and get a scallop and bacon roll for £8. I need to try it soon.
Uber disrupted taxis because taxis were a sleazy experience, with dirty old cars, “broken” meters and rude drivers that tried to get you to pay extortionate prices if they knew you were in a pinch.

Stop trying to venerate the taxi industry, they’re horrible.
Of course we need laws in place to require such licensing. The fact that people are having their voice stolen now does not mean that there should never be a case where a voice can legally be cloned and used by a third party.
This could give some bad ideas to some peoples...
Someone’s never been on 1998 hacker IRC.
That's probably why they want AGI and robotics.
https://archive.ph/LRkbW

> the court has undone cases in which senior politicians and business executives had pleaded guilty

> The findings upended Latin America’s political landscape, shutting down multinational businesses and leading to billions of dollars in fines and hundreds of convictions

> Some of the region’s most prominent politicians and executives were sent to prison, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil
One of the most frustrating things about Duolingo is that they refuse to have an International English setting for the language you are learning from. I’m trying to learn french but WTF is a ‘stroller’ or an ‘eggplant’ or even more frustrating are the ones where the word is almost the same in the UK as in France e.g ‘athlétique’ in French is ‘athletics’ in UK English but ‘track’ in US English.
Note, that someone somewhere made a decision not to hardwire the led to the camera enable line. This to me is far more of a scandal than the fact another person decided to exploit it.
> Multiple runs do not solve the problem. For example, if you have your 1st test-run reporting 11%, 2nd test-run 8%, 3rd test-run 18%, 4th test-run 9% and 5th test-run 10% how do you get to decide if 18% from the 3rd test-run is noise or signal?

In your 5 sample example, you can't determine if there are any outliers. You need more samples, each containing a multitude observations. Then using fairly standard nonparametric measures of dispersion and central tendency, a summary statistic should make sense, due to CLT.

Outliers are only important if you have to throw away data; good measures of central tendency should be robust to them unless your data is largely noise.

> Any sufficiently complex statically compiled application will suffer from the same variance issues.

Sure, its a rule of thumb.
thx for feedback. wasn't expecting such a big response. project is in stealth mode
Nobody likes price rises but many companies are doing it due to disappointing year end financials and needing some positive news for next year.

IMO 2025 will a big year for being forced to run lean (no DevOps teams trying to emulate Google, ditching pointless microservices architecture, reducing JavaScript churn etc) and having to be agile in responding to vendor price changes. And of course CTOs desperately thinking AI will reduce the wage bill with no impact
A lot of developers that aren't purely obsessed with frontend or AI-like niches find Leetcoding rote. Ultimately it's just about facing a question you are unfamiliar with and whiteboarding it with a potential employer - it's only humiliating if you've got an ego to swallow.
It's mind-boggling that this is not enforced by hardware: as other commenters has said, both by powering the LED from the same power as the camera, and also by making the enabling of that power use a simple hardware pulse-stretcher that would prevent the attacker from enabling the camera at such a low duty cycle that its flickering would be invisible to the user.

Ideally, the same should also be true of the microphone pre-amp, with its own LED separate from the camera one.