skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I use mostly stock emacs. If that's already owned, then I guess I'm screwed. I'm very selective about adding additional packages or using other "uninspected" elisp code.
It appears the government at times invents laws so they can go after criminal gangs (see RICO)
The medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies
I think the biggest recent example is the Russian war in Ukraine. Usually it is liberal-types arguing against American forays into the business of other countries, but they are the same group demanding more money and weapons be sent to Ukraine.
In most developed countries outside the US, electronic bank transfers and payments fulfil 1 and 3.
Some other nice things about cash:

- It's useful with children. A concrete representation of value is tangible compared to an abstract number in a bank account.

- It's great for gifts

- It's harder to refuse: I've had a restaurant make a mistake and then refuse to charge me. I left cash on the table when I left.
>Generally, R2's user experience is way better and simpler than S3. As always with AWS, you need 5 certifications and 3 months to securely deploy a bucket.

+1
It doesn’t seem incredibly classist. It is incredibly classist. I hate to be the bearer of more bad news, but there are all sorts of other -isms that are necessarily involved in class discrimination. Thanks for wearing your cursed opinions on your sleeve anyway.
I am so disappointed that there are camera LEDs out there that they aren't hardware connected to the sensor. Especially when there are bio-metric sensors out there that can do a crap-ton of calculation all in-device so no privacy concerns arise. I wonder if any of them are vulnerable to a firmware attack.
It's a bit unfair to characterize that as a surprise on how much S3 bills you, no? The surprising part here is lack of DDoS protection on your end or leaving a bucket public and exposed. AWS is just charging you for how much it served, it doesn't make sense to hold them to a fault here.
I love the new sidebar + vertical tabs, although it does not seem to be available to everybody: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/sidebar-and-verti...
Just add a whitelist for apps that aren't for distraction so users can decide what they need.

Maybe make suggestions based on screentime if possible.
In installments of $.25

More to the point, everyone involved with the creation of the game is retired or dead.
I Put the Entire Planet into Unreal Engine (Kindof)
Are we talking about the book "Souls in the Great Machine" or real history?!
Yes but mars man bad.

Ergo if everyone who hates mars man proclaims that the alternative to mars man website is “the next big thing” and “exploding in popularity” loudly and often enough, then maybe it will actually become popular outside the mars man bad crowd.

You know it’s manufactured when news outlets are comparing App Store download rankings of X and BlueSky. The new app versus the one that’s been around for nearly 20 years and already present on most devices it ever will be.

Meanwhile in the real world nobody has heard of BlueSky or really cares that people they’ll never interact with no longer get banned for being bigots on X.
Tell me when there isn't a 1kg headset involved in any of this.
Patent, trademark, copyright, etc are all supposed to benefit society as a whole. The point isn't that corporations get to lock things away forever. The goal is to incentivize innovation, both technological and cultural. The more companies make the argument that 'thing x from a long time ago is crucial to us now' the more I think that our current IP laws are actually slowing down innovation instead of incentivizing it. Maybe we need a new system that starts costing money after a point to maintain IP rights. That system would recognize the value taken by private companies holding on to old IP to the detriment of society and force them to come up with new things to justify their existence instead of living off of that one thing they did right 100 years ago.
> Also, the series lacks character development. Yes, people become more cynical and burnt out, but they are already very cynical and burnt out to begin with, so there's really not that much to build upon...

Bodie, Carver, Daniels, Cutty, and those are only the ones I can remember on the spot now...

And Bubs! Bubs has clearly the best character arc ever
>> Andreessen...said...to destroy political opponents, tech founders, and the crypto community..."30 tech founders were secretly debanked."...

What 30 tech founders were secretly debanked in the last 4 years? Is this covered somewhere?

Is it impossible to know if it was done secretly and they didn't want it publicized?

I can't tell if this remark is about the SVB run [0], or, separately, about individuals having their accounts frozen/shutdown for political/ideological reasons?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086836
My brain compares cities to planned suburban developments complete with their wonderful HOAs.

My brain concludes that Ellen thinks we are building our computer systems in the least bad way. :)
Get Reddit Enhancement Suite and start tagging posters. Fully ten percent of /all is literally one account posting karma bait.

I've also seen entire threads get "replayed". Bots will post highly upvoted comments from the last time a link was posted etc.

Nearly everything that makes it to the front couple pages of /all is posted by people pushing an agenda, or worse, literal Russian accounts fomenting hate. Remember, their goal above all else is to make you angry, tired, and get you to give up on functioning democracy. Lots of people on the left and "democrats" are fighting with talking points straight out of the kremlin. That infighting is the point.

Everything you see on reddit is meant to make you angry. Someone will mine Twitter for the most hateful nazis shit/most objectionable "I hate men" post, and post a screenshot on reddit as if that's a meaningful representation. This is intended to piss you off, because you will "engage" more if you get pissed off.

The internet doesn't want you to be happy or successful or informed because it is literally less profitable.

There are entire popular subreddits that are mostly agenda posts, either literally part of an operation, or outright useful idiot sycophants.

You almost cannot make it to the front page anymore without a bot farm to to get the "momentum" going on your post. Otherwise it just cannot compete with the manipulated posts.
I'd like a law to this effect.
There is re**ed and then there is this!
A list of the ones that are being used in different regions/countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages_by_numb...

Also, for the very young:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_sign_language

Wonder if it'd be easier to create a 'universal' sign language than a universal spoken one (e.g., Esperanto, or an old lingua franca like Latin).
An IVF Mix-Up, a Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
Who else bookmarked this Ask HN thread never to revisit?
mastodont went nowhere... same here with this other runaway from X coz Trymp thing
The TLD they're using.
Arguably a much, much bigger problem are the (many) microphones of modern devices.

These usually get neither an LED nor a switch, and unlike cameras can't easily be covered, nor pointed away from potentially sensitive topics/subjects.
"does not learn like human" does not mean "does not learn".

It is alien to us, that doesn't mean it is harmless.
Oh, you think people choose Emacs instead of Vim because of keybindings?

Then tell me please, how often do you do your research in Vim, using LaTeX embeddings while taking annotations to a pdf that's rendered in the adjacent window?

How often do you take notes, while watching a YouTube video while controlling the playback, speed and volume from your editor? I can watch the video, while following the transcript karaoke-style, pause, speed-up, mute the video whenever I want (so I can start typing), I can grab the pieces of transcript and ask an LLM to give me explanations, etc.

Do you read RSS in Vim? Are any RSS readers as well-integrated and feature-rich as elfeed.el in Emacs? I honestly doubt it. And it's not a matter of skepticism over the quality of Vim extensions. Emacs has far fewer active users and even fewer of those who build things in Elisp, yet it remains the most integratable thing ever. The thing is - unlike VSCode, Vim, Sublime, and IntelliJ - Emacs allows you to change any given behavior of any function - built-in or third-party - with such great granularity that is simply not possible anywhere else.

What about email? Is there anything close to the level of notmuch, mu4e or gnus? I seriously doubt any vim plugins provide the same level of integration.

Do you manage your Jira (or whatever project management) you do from Vim?

Do you control your browser from Vim? I do it from Emacs and it's very cool.

Can you perform a dynamic search on YouTube, Google, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, your browser history and other places while typing the query only once? I do that all the time in Emacs.

So, Emacs is not about keybindings. Because you can change them in a way that no other editor lets you do. In Emacs you can use whatever modal or non-modal editing flavor you want, but that's beyond the point.
You mean a big list curated by actual humans instead of an algorithm? Tons of work, but I also think the payoff would be worth it.

The fact that we have things like those awesome-* lists on GitHub make me believe it would be possible.
Yes, Florida for instance recently had their first documented cases of malaria in decades - immediately following the launch of a GMO mosquito manufacturing and distribution lab.

Not to worry: the scientists at lab promised the two events were totally unrelated.
At least it will be preserved in the PR title.
Indeed; I’m still enjoying games from 1994. They haven’t stopped being fun simply because they’re old. They also represent a significant learning effort over the years. One of the things that makes a game enjoyable is having learned how to play it well. I’m not likely to make that kind of investment in too many more games in my life. I haven’t got that kind of free time. So for me as well, it’s not old games versus new, it’s old games or nothing.
Fantastic, another nothingburger proof of concept for people to point to when arguing in favor of more manufacturer-lockdown-based "security". It's not a coincidence that this demonstration is on one of the last generations of laptops that can actually be secured against Intel themselves.

In reality, remote code execution should be considered game over, end of story. Trying to obfuscate to hide that fact just ends up creating more unknown places for malware to persistently hide. The same knowledge that allows one to write new camera firmware also allows one to verify it on every boot. Meanwhile the camera model that hasn't been publicly documented is an ever-present black box.
I've yet to hear a single ecologist equivocate on eliminating aedes aegypti, the primary vector for the worst vector borne diseases, and have heard many endorse the idea. Even so, things like Wolbachia give a means of effectively inoculating the vector.
Of course it can.

Cameras and microphones and write enable must have physical switches, not software ones. When will people learn?

Never.

Me, I unplug the camera and mike when not in use.
The quiet part out loud cliche is overused and not relevant in this case.

It was never quiet the industry wanted to preserve profits and they said it out loud multiple times.
None of those qualities are true of crypto currency. It is not anonymous with bitcoin, it is not final as with tether, and KYC makes it not censorship resistant either. And for all this it has fairly high tolls too. Crypto is not a currency used for trade except illegal trade. It is a greater fool scheme.
This exploit picks up audio, too. The shutter helps make sure you're not accidentally sending nudes to North Korea's hacking teams, but audio can still be hijacked unfortunately.
Taping your camera doesn't necessarily look like anything. I have a small piece of electrical tape over my webcam, and it blends in so perfectly with the background that other people probably wouldn't see it unless they were specifically looking for it.

(I personally just leave the tape there all the time, because if I need to videoconference, I’d rather connect my mirrorless camera with a much better lens and sexy bokeh.)
Here's an excerpt (which is in a map passed to peg/compile) for numeric parsing:

:nonzero-int (* (range "19") (any (range "09")))
:int (+ "0" :nonzero-int)
:decimal (cmt (* (? (<- :int)) "." (<- (some (range "09")))) ,parse-decimal)
:fraction (cmt (\* (? (\* (number :nonzero-int) :s+)) (number :nonzero-int)
"/" (number :nonzero-int)) ,parse-fraction)
:integer (cmt (number :nonzero-int) ,parse-integer)
:num (+ :decimal :fraction :integer)
As I recall, some of those stories turned out to be "customer doing shady things, Stripe is in the right". But the others were different, like "Stripe actually screwed up and fobbed off their customer until it became a PR problem"

Personally, I don't think a complainant's apathy towards commenter curiosity counts as an admission of guilt. However, I know Stripe use to have quite the fan club until more of their ex-engineers (such as my own friends) started sharing stories of their internal chaos, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264
OP I'm on firefox 131 on Ubuntu and your site is basically unreadable.

Dark background and the text is the faintest of shades lighter.

I don't mean this in a nitpicky way. Normally I'm fine with most sites.

I have to highlight the text to read it.
Very much related: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness...
Ip rights should just end after a relatively quick slice of time. You made your money off it, now it’s time to pass it on to the public. A payment model just ensures the only entities who can hold ip long term are corporations.
Of course not, and it’s completely correct behaviour: if a server advertises it supports Range requests for a given URL, it’s expected to support it. Garbage in, garbage out.

It’s not clear how you’d expect to handle a webserver trying to send you 1Gb of data after you asked for a specific 10kb range other than aborting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dale_Archerd
I know somebody in a similar situation who has pondered getting a C.D.L. because many the older blue collar people who he knows has one but decided against it because everyone he knows who drives a truck is fat.
Well, they could put in a memory controller for both DDR5 and HBM on the die, so they would only have one die to tape out.

The Max variant is something they are using in their own datacenters. It would be possible that they would use an HBM solely for themselves, but it would be cheaper overall if they did the same thing for workstations.
No amount of microphones will ever be a bigger problem than a single compromising photo or video.
Eh. If it's not a physical power-disconnect switch, one could imagine it still being able to record audio, which still sucks.
I can see why some people might be concerned about the camera, but I'm far more concerned by the microphone. There's far more sensitive and actionable information that can be gathered from me that way! I'm glad that macOS started putting a light in the menubar when the microphone is in use, but I'd prefer to have unhackable hardware for that instead.
Why do you think that? Can you point to some early philosopher of law that made such utilitarian arguments?
A post-it note works if you don't have a slider.
But what about the publishing company?! Think of the publishing company!

/s in case.
How are 70b LLMs running on that?
I'm a known exhibitionist. It would damage my reputation if there weren't nudes floating around.
Hey man, yeah I actually saw that! Before this I used another safari extension for it but I thought I could automate it - born was AutoPiP!
Related:

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/The-Uni... ("The Unintended Consequences of Pakistan's Solar Energy Boom")
What is your point? That doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Thousands of years is literally nothing on an evolutionary scale. Modern humans have existed for at least 100,000 years.

Bread became ubiquitous because it didn’t require hunting or gathering, i.e. it supported ever growing communities of stationary humans. Not because some ancient nutritionist decided it was good for you.
To be fair, from what I can tell ThinkPad X230 is from 2012, which is over a decade ago, and my guess is that this practice was not yet common place.
This is potentially really cool. It has navigation issues on mobile (iOS) where you can't drag an adequate amount
A rare example of practices from Google which would be transferable to other organizations.
> When will people learn?

Different persons learn this at different times (or never).

But then market dynamics come into play, as well as the current state of the legal code / enforcement.
Drinking water bottled in plastic also means the plastic leaches into the water.
> which they used to help establish friendly dictatorships across Eurasia, from East Germany, to China (simultaneously, the US put an arms embargo on the legitimate government who were fighting the communists)

How did Russia establish a friendly communist government in Hungary in 1919 when it had no troops there? Actually England armed the Romanians to overthrow the Hungarian communist government.

Of course, the US, England etc. invaded Russia and fought the Red Army during/after World War I with the Polar Bear expedition etc.

Stalin dissolved the Comintern during World War II, and the Communist Party USA dissolved as a political party as well at that time.

With Albania and Yugoslavia, Red Army troops passed quickly through a small corner of Yugoslavia and offered little help to Tito.

Insofar as China, the Soviet ambassador as far as I know was the only one who accompanied Chiang Kai Shek to Taiwan. Mao took China back from the Japanese with little help.

Greece probably would have become communist after World War II, but for the Truman doctrine and US involvement, Russia did not get involved at all.

Moscow's lack of support helped in the breaks in relations - with Yugoslavia, Albania and the Sino-Soviet split.

What you're saying is rather ahistorical.
All that really matters is: where do the advertisers choose to put their dollars
Manhattan Project was 1942 ~ 1946, while McCarthyism was 1947 ~ 1959.

Contributing to the rise of McCarthyism was:
>a growing obsession with perceived dangers posed by internal subversion in general and Soviet and Communist Party espionage in particular, fueled by reports, some public and some held within the government, of Russian spy operations in North America, accompanied by a new Communist "hard" line that echoed general Cold War tensions;

So, correct: The Manhattan Project(full of academics, some(many?) of whom happened to be liberal) was as you put it "chock full of soviets" and the natural reaction to that realization was to clamp down on liberals.
That is not my front page…
From the title of the article, I was really hoping to hear about an experiment to discover the value people placed on their privacy.

The article has a top-down idea for reducing the use of large bills, but no mention of a price-discovery mechanism.

Are you aware of any work in this vein?
> Cameras and microphones and write enable must have physical switches, not software ones. When will people learn?

Your preferences are not everybody's. Personally, I'd be totally fine with a camera and microphone LED that is guaranteed to activate whenever there is power/signal flowing from either.

> Me, I unplug the camera and mike when not in use.

That's a bit hard to do on a laptop that has both built in.
I think this is the correct thing to do as far as copyright law goes, but it seems to me that copyright terms are far too long to fulfill their original purpose: incentivize the distribution of creative works. Originally copyright was for relatively short terms (20 years IIRC). It is now life of the author + 70 years or 95 years from publication if the copyright holder is a corporation. Some organizations advocate for perpetual copyright terms as well.

Given the extremely long terms now available there is little incentive to quickly extract value from the copyrighted work. Patents exist for the same reason and have been similarly coopted by their holders.

Edit: if copyright terms were shorter publishers would be incentivized to keep their games in print and to update them for newer media/platforms.
after it can read my keyboard, .ssh files, browser cookie files... i couldn't care much for the camera. and everything you run can already do all that. occlude stuff you npm/cargo/mvn/go/pip/mix install. not to mention those git hooks or build scripts of that project you just downloaded the source in vscode and it's already running all that for your convenience right away.
"Add an LED next to the camera, our customers demand it!"

"Job done boss!"

That's it. That's what happens. Nobody ever reviews anything in the general industry. It's extremely rare for anyone to raise a stink internally about anything like this, and if they do, they get shouted down as "That's more expensive" even if it is in every way cheaper, or "We'll have to repeat this work! Are you saying Bob's work was a waste of time and money!?" [1]

[1] Verbatim, shouted responses I've received for making similar comments about fundamentally Wrong things being done with a capital W.
BlackBerry Storm, hands down.
What exactly about "exclusive right to copy or distribute" do these people not understand?

If you don't like the current state of copyright, write your Congressman.
Not an expert but my understanding is that it's only feasible on a small enough scale to eke out tiny profits over the long run, too much success will get you rapidly 86'd.

If anyone reading this is intrigued by games of chance with an available skill edge and is considering learning advantage Blackjack, I'd highly recommend learning Poker instead. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other players, and the house is not incentivized to clamp down on the edges available (though of course they take a cut of everyone's winnings). And it's an endlessly deep strategic game instead of a mechanistic counting game that advantage Blackjack is, which is to say, it's actually fun.
Fun!

Amusing little occurrence: playing around with different dates and movies, I got one where the still (from Love Actually) was of a different movie the characters were watching in-universe (Titanic).
Allegedly, Bluesky does not plan to ever have ads on their app. They have some other monetization plans, yet to be announced publicly
Thats true, but in the end the web extension itself can work with all browsers (if the apis are implemented of course). AutoPiP for example would work without any modifications in chrome/firefox but they implement their own PiP api so it doesn't activate the macOS native one...
Some laptops (I've seen it on a lot of Thinkpads) include a physical cover that can be slid over the webcam when you aren't using it. While that doesn't cut power to the camera or mic, I figure would pretty straightforward for manufacturers to add contacts to the camera cover to use it as a power killswitch instead of just a privacy cover.