skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, strictly speaking, it is suitable for places where all actors make choices in ways we can predict. So even if an actor was choosing, say, uniformly at random (and we knew this fact), we'd be able to incorporate it into analysis to get some expected behavior.
Bari Weiss’ article seems to say that the concerns are bipartisan. Marc Andreesen outright said it was only folks on the right getting debanked and implied it was Elizabeth Warren doing the debanking.
> Turning off camera LEDs and recording video is an old hack and old news.

This.

Some of the linux webcam drivers drivers have had the option to specify the behavior of the LED via a parameter since way back, including turning it completely off.

I remember this was the case ~20 years ago.

One example (look for the led-option)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.1/media/v4l-drivers/phili...

This is straight from the documentation:

"But with: `leds=0,0`the LED never goes on, making it suitable for silent surveillance"
Hi, I added a part to the GitHub repo explaining this, basically its this:

- The extension requires permission to "Access all websites" solely to detect video players and enable Picture-in-Picture functionality across different websites

- No data is collected, stored, or shared with third parties

- All functionality operates locally on your device
Various VPN services provide ad blocking and a phone app e.g. Mullvad
Bingo! That's where the ego lives and breathes and exerts its influence.

And our ego is a direct descendent or our underlying mammalian brains who work hard to grok hierarchies and develop strategies to ascend within, with or without regard to the competition.

To be truly human is to transcend that inheritance by consciously levelling up to the realization we are all just human beings (at various levels of development and skill) and that compassion is the most important cohesive force in every human group, including our entire human race!
The best posture is your next posture.

I'd say as long as you use all your muscles meaningfully everyday, and don't spend hours in a single position, you're good.
I used electrical pvc tape for many years on my macbooks, no damage but I got tired of them leaving glue residue. Switched to post-its about 10 years ago, works perfectly.

I've never tried them on a matte or coated screen though.
https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/
The dealers don't care, the pit boss cares. The dealers will be rotated and cards shuffled more often when a table is hot, and they're probably watching at that point.

Dealer change outs aren't the worst reason to tip them and walk and away a few hands later.
That makes no sense - it was a state entity that made the payout. The polar opposite of free market.

"the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a state entity that manages the grid, paid Colorado-based Riot $31.7 million in energy credits "
> I will not engage further, it's obvious you are not interested in honest discussion of the technical merits.

Well you are neither, all you do is throw unobjective flames around ("gnupg is trash") and post various claims about bad security without backing them up, implicitly demanding that other people do the leg work of disproving your accusations against the GNU project.

Are you working for Apple by any chance?
By tariff they just mean contract pricing, not the tax kind.
So it seems that trying to compete with duopoly isn't working.
Can we assume it is cause there is only few big corporations dominating internet infrastructure in US compared to EU with tons of medium sized and even small business that do it?
I would love some good read about US infrastructure, especially why costs are so high compared to EU?
Maybe, for the first time ever.

Though historically when Spotify has come close to making a profit, record labels see it as an opportunity to demand more or pull out.
They already offer it on their European servers and it's still unchanged. Also, just because it's included doesn't mean everyone is using it to their full capacity.
Many thanks for saying what I suspected when looking at the research publications and clinical trials on neurodegenerative diseases. I was starting to think I was an unproductive perpetual malcontent.

For example, memantine has been tested 5 times in ALS. There even no pre-clinical studies that show any positive effect of memantine in animal models. This seems so bizarre to me.
Is the actual discussed measure available somewhere ? Looking around none of the articles discussing this had references to official documents.

Judging from the info in the article:

- kids will have one year to see which platforms are not categorized as SNS, yet can be used as such.

- kids stuck with brainwashing parents, especially in remote rural areas, will have it a bit more tougher I guess.
It's the language barrier. The German word Tarif doesn't mean the same as the English word tariff.
Git has supported SSH-based signatures for a while now, including those backed by FIDO hardware keys.
That's, non ironically, the answer

Pulling the price too low in comparison, let's say with AWS, will just make your life harder but will not squeeze them in any way
There are a lot of studies that proof that darkmode during day is straining eyes much more. In the night dark mode is better. But most of the "day-to-day" user are working during day.
Small correction:

You can also pass [@helia/verified-fetch] gateways as a fallback for when it *cannot* connect to providers directly (due to transports).
I wonder why English decided to narrow its meaning. Well I guess a language doesn’t decide anything, but I think you know what I mean. In many EU countries it simply means “cost list” or “price list” which can be for import duties but also for a range of other things.

It’s very nice to have it called tariff in basically every EU country though. We get green energy tariffs and if it was called something different in each country they wouldn’t be fun.
My friend is a media lawyer in Australia

He can’t even advise if some video game developers he represents’ multiplayer games are exempt from the ban

He says the legislation is just an under defined word salad

Note this was several days ago and it may have been amended in the mean time
Is traffic generally much more expensive in the US than in Germany? This seems to be a US-only change and I'm wondering a bit about the reasoning here and whether to expect this to also change in other regions.
Apparently the gov has been setting up their own system for that:

https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/statement...
This has nothing to do with any possible trade wars or trade tariffs.

The word tariff is often used in telecom to indicate rates and fees for some given quantity of services, and that seems to be the use here.
But the margins?
Not at all. The constraints for ultra low latency are the same whether you use C++ or Java: No blocking IO, no dynamic memory allocation. Using the right libraries such as this one, Java can do a surprisingly decent job while keeping the code more accessible to a layman developer than if it was C++. You still need C++ for applications where maximum mechanical sympathy is required (cache alignment guarantees, etc.) but if you have low latency / medium volume Java often does the trick.
1Q84 marked Murakami's "Float On" moment, chosen I felt to allow him to cash out his career in a Western market.

It wasn't especially superior, just a bit less abstract with a hint of "possible movie adaptation". If you enjoyed his other fiction, check out his nonfiction.
The pricing applies immediately only for new customers. For existing ones, it applies from Feb 2025.
No, they realized that nobody switches away from AWS because of their expensive bandwidth.
> prove that it’s better than what currently exists.

So how do you do that ethically? How do you justify taking off something that you know works to some extent and try something completely new or worse placebo? ie don't you have to construct the trial in the context of existing treatments etc?

These are the kind of challenges that makes drug development slow - in the end you don't do one trial, but a series of trials, slowly building confidence and making the case.

Often that's what takes the time during the clinical phase.

Of course it would be much faster to go straight to a big trial that would show how well your treatment works in conditions optimal to it - however that kind of 'move-fast break-things' approach involves potentially breaking things which happen to be people.

Regulation just reflects the cautious 'first do no harm' philosophy.

Now let's be honest - big pharma will simultaneous complain about regulation and the cost of development, and at the same time know it creates barriers to entry - there is always some frustration about the slowest of regulatory authorities to adopt new methods - however you wouldn't want your regulatory to be gungho.
Thanks for the advice! You’re absolutely right—labeling myself as "junior" might unintentionally pigeonhole my value, and I’ll keep that in mind moving forward.

I’m definitely prioritizing experience and impactful entries on my CV over immediate financial gain at this stage, especially if it means working on meaningful projects with great mentors.

I’ll take your suggestion to scout LinkedIn and company career pages to better understand the market rates. Do you think it’s better to negotiate salary upfront or prove my value first, especially if I’m open to competitive pay for the right opportunity?

Thanks again for the thoughtful reply—it really helps!
I think it's a typo. The original title is "Python type hints may not be for me in practice". Dang, could you change it?
Buy a building, get a Banksy. 'Well Hung Lover' Bristol property goes on sale
Possible enough to entertain yourself for hours if your family likes slots. Less profitable than actual investments.
Thanks, this is the summary I’ve been looking for!
Australia passes law banning under-16s from social media
Sounds like exactly what everyone does not want from AI - publishing content created by users as its own, with no validation or curation of quality.
I'm not affiliated with this effort, but would the following google api suffice? https://developers.google.com/photos
What if the platform is not registered as a business in Australia? You can't fine it if it's not a legal entity there. Simply setup a php Facebook clone and host it in another country.
It may include all my friends from primary school and a photos of my late grandma.

(Disclaimer: I'm so old that at 16 I didn't ever had email. Please don't delete all my old stuff.)
This is only for USA, isn't it?
>None of the bulbs had a CRI higher than 80.

I work for an electrical wholesaler and checked. We have 18 bulbs in stock with a CRI higher than 80, which is the average. The lowest is 55.
Best practices for API update and deployment in an existing Django project
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi... (explanatory memorandum here: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/em...)

And the amendment to the first reading which was agreed to today which has the bits about ID verification being disallowed: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/am... (supplementary explanatory memorandum here: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/em...)
The main point here is probably to force ID control and have a constant flux of fully identified users on the networks ?

The gov gets at least full legal check of any SNS account.
Kids see adults who don't read so why should they?

It makes me kinda sad. Videogames need voice acting now to become successful because nobody has the reading or concentration skills.
When I was a child I taught myself English by playing Planescape Torment.
I can’t get behind a ban because we’re fighting an unstoppable force: the connected future. This is the world we live in and kids will have to “evolve” to their new environment.

I think parents and schools need to change the role they play.
So basically we need to get into space to

- Create O'Neill cylinders whose only purpose will be farming of food. Ideally automated function with minimal crew which can have complete control over the environment so no pesticides needed by design and can be on the sun 24/7 to achieve maximal efficiency in growing crops.

- Mine minerals from asteroids to avoid gravity wells. This will solve dependency on random dictators controlling resources (Russia), accusation of neocolonialism (Africa) and avoid destruction of untouched nature (Ocean floor, Antarctica)

- Move heavy and polluting industry out of Earth and closer to primary inputs from meteorites. This will resolve out of control emissions which will be growing as population in 3rd world countries will get as rich as Western countries.

- Build a satellite swarm shade in front of Earth to reduce amount of sunrays falling onto the Earth and to prevent runway climate change. This can have also triple use as such shade structure can produce electricity in practically unlimited amount and concentrate this electricity into a beam aimed at a collector on Earth / industrial station on orbit or use it as a weapon by aiming such beam onto a target.
A very easy way to find such "visual" collisions is described in section 4.2 of our drunken bishop paper: http://www.dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf
Ah I understand now. Thanks.
China's EV price war is so brutal that BYD is trying to pinch its suppliers
I'm just curious — what could be a potential use case for such things on the backend? For bot detection, it seems quite unreliable. Would it be more suitable for server-side rendered UIs? Or am I missing something?
Awesome nice work!

Does this work for video?

I recently digitized about 80 home videos from 30-40 years ago. Each of the 80 videos is 2 hours of 5-10 minute recordings from the olden days when turning "record" on and off didn't automatically create a new video file. I've been wondering the best way to post-edit and share them with other people in my family.
What's wrong with their use of "tariff"? Looks fine to me!
I work on landing pages occasionally that have to account for SEO so can definitely sympathise with the uphill battle here. Like the OP, I was immediately put off of the "brand" when I saw the flood of AI stuff. It's like seeing how the sausage is made.

I think there's an extra level of trust that needs building from a branding perspective because of how personal it feels to hand over personal images to someone to host for you, even if they become public anyway. It's interesting to see how people react to this sort of thing as it's very new.

Good luck!
Hei there, have you tried putting this through AI to help you get started?

I can see you going from idea to prototype with 3 or 4 agents to help you.. system design, data design, tooling, deployment.
Too bad I already cracked up and upvoted the perceived joke (unless your second comment digs even deeper into layers of irony)
The Great Tech Wake-Up Call: VCs Discover Billions Wasted on Inefficient Teams
Can a Comma Solve a Crime?
Well i have Pinebook Pro and it's pretty much abandonware, pine doesn't do any software and OSS lacks maintainers, nobody want's it, e-waste laptop. Take it as you will.
Isn't it funny how some text changes the voice in your head? Now you're hearing the best voice. It's amazing. I tell you. It's the greatest voice. Everybody’s talking about it. They are saying it's incredible. They say they've never heard as beautiful a voice before.
Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework
It sounds like I can just move my bandwidth hungry servers to europe and eat the latency penalty- is that a correct read?
Don't worry, this is performative law making. There's going ot be an election in March, probably called in January. So the government will probably return, then fix and alter this when they work out just how impossible it will be to enforce.

OR, everyone in Australia is going to have to prove their age to use social media, and TBH, social media ain't that great. It just may be the cold shower we all need.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264733
I was wondering how "social media" was defined. Anyone got a link to the actual bill?

From the article:

> "Messaging apps," "online gaming services" and "services with the primary purpose of supporting the health and education of end-users" will not fall under the ban, as well as sites like YouTube that do not require users to log in to access the platform.

Almost every "social" apps are basically messaging apps these days. What's the differentiating factor between banned and not banned? Having an algorithmic feed? So YouTube is not banned because its doesn't require users to log in to access the plaform? Can Instagram enable browsing without logging in (and disable some features except DM) to avoid the ban then?

Also, now kids can create YouTube accounts to use shorts as Instagram reels, community posts as Instagram Posts and subscribe to each other. But hey, that's not a "Social media" right?
Elon Musk Hides X Engagement Figures Amid User Exodus
Last week, I met at a conference with a startup doing exactly that: https://modernaizeapp.com/. They said they don't generate code but help extract functional and business logic.
I **LOVE** ALL of your content!!!
I own a brand-new keyboard that has buckling-springs. You don't need to resurrect an '80s IBM keyboard.

0: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M
It died because alternatives weren’t blocked from being used in certain internal OS functions.

Without it would have taken much longer.
Just a suggestion, you can learn about automq (a message queue that has rewritten the storage layer based on Kafka), which has done a lot in automatic recovery and self-balancing, maybe it will help you. If you don't need it, you can ignore this comment.
I feel the tinge of nostalgia reading that but I can't stand the cynicism about the present-day:

>“Society’s become so straight-laced and it’s not good for people. The early internet recognised that humans are 360-degree people with dark and wonderful things. Now we’re kicked into a corner online based on the moral values of three people in Nebraska,” Eva laments.

Every time I turn on the computer I enter a world of AI-generated lucid dreams, decentralized crypto economies and videos of incredible technical feats like the vertical landings by the Starship space vehicle.
It's far from ideal but if you search for an album, you can quickly select all of it. Here's a video of Or, my co-founder showing that - https://youtu.be/7gi58SuQ6Rk?si=LQu8fJBDflVR11Rs&t=38 (links to the exact second)
The moment I saw the live vs. dead comparison it hit me: center of lift vs. center of mass. Why would the butterfly's wings ever project that far forward when there is zero mass out there to lift? I suppose it's not impossible -- maybe the butterfly is hard-braking? But in normal flight that just wouldn't work. I never thought about it like that before, but now I can't unsee it.
Hard-Won Software Development Habits
For those of us who weren’t around at the time, could you d on what made it good? Thanks!
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264668

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264789
"He can’t even advise if some video game developers he represents’ multiplayer games are exempt from the ban"

There are a lot of issues with this legislation, but I'm not sure this is one of them. Games like Roblox are so exploitative, they're probably worse for children than most social media.

See, for example: https://www.eurogamer.net/roblox-exploiting-young-game-devel...
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;

Linked to the legislation in another comment.
as if the person who wrote the email doesn't know the actual meaning of the word.

The word "tariff" has a few different meanings. I'd say they're using it correctly, just not with the same meaning that the word is commonly being used in the news right now.
> Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources.

That is utter nonsense. If the customers who are 'covering the costs' have a problem, they can move? Yet even still they are charging those SAME customers who now actually receive less resources, even if they were using them or not.
It was expected considering during the last year everyone on Twitter was shouting left and right that everyone should use Hetzner because it is cheap.

Yeah it was cheap - only because the demand was low and they were competing on price.

Now it will only go up.
From the article:

> Social media companies also won't be able to force users to provide government identification, including the Digital ID, to assess their age.
Not really, CDNs with regional pricing usually charge almost if not exactly the same amount for NA and EU traffic. It's the other regions that tend to be more expensive.

I wonder if this has anything to do with how Hetzner operates in each region, they run their own EU datacenters but AFAIK they just rent rack space in the US, so they're more at the mercy of upstream providers.
Guess Australia will get a lot of kids well-versed in VPN use.
That is what they (explicitly) said in the email: users using next to no bandwidth were offsetting the costs for the heaviest users. That was no longer sustainable.
I don't think I agree.

Part of the point is that this is for "rolling release" type software, so always implying there *could* be breaking changes is a reasonable approach - kind of a versioning equivalent of defensive programming.

Another comment elsethread notes that they call this out as a deliberate choice in the FAQ.
Excellent blackmail against teenagers. Pointless against me as an adult.
> “Wen Stephenson at the Chicago Review claimed […] he experienced no difference in parsing Seamus Heaney on the page as opposed to the screen, asking “does it matter that it is transmitted to me, voice and word, through a computer? …the question is beginning to bore me by now.”

Well said. For the act of reading digital origin changes the quality but only in minor ways. What we all failed to anticipate we’re the gross effects of segmentation, disintegration, infinite duplication of media.
There is a coming agricultural robot revolution.
Already tested are planters and harvesters
that work to eliminate weed seeds, while simultanoiuslty planting "benifitial" plants.
The planters work like dot matrix printers
and each sead is planted in a specific place, for a specific reason.
Harvesting is itself indiscriminate, with
a "waterfall" air jet "ai" powered seed seperator, collecting each type of seed.
This technology, was first pionered, by
Debeers,in the 1950's for seperating diamonds and is in widespead use for many
sorting jobs.
During the growing season, robot weeders
and robot "insect preditors" will take care of infestations, while inproving soil fertility by letting benifitial plants,insects, and animals to thrive.
These types of agricultural practice will scale, down to family acerages, and of course there are many precision computer
controlled devices already imbeded in all of the largest agricultural equipment now.
Pestisides can be largly eliminated,
yields can be increased, labour can be reduced, quality can be improved.
Seems like the companies in US trust AWS just in case and this too cheap german company is suspicious. I would take guess that those who actually use Hetzner in US use it solely to abuse the generous traffic and not care that much about compute. Where in EUrope many companies never jumped on AWS in the first place.