skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just compromise an entire ISP full of routers...
They're openly meddling in EU affairs too wrt tech regulation. Time to look for new allies?
> That is like saying that replacing the car emoji with a train car is changing it from a ‘car’ to a ‘car.’ A squirt gun is not at all the same thing as a pistol

In the context of human conversation via emojis (which is a very specialized subset of communication), can you give me an example of a scenario where the semantic meaning of a sentence is going to change significantly by the gun emoji being a squirt gun instead of a pistol?

I mean this in good faith, I can't think of a reasonable scenario outside of something like:

Alice: "911, what's your emergency?"

Bob: "Help, I"m being threatened"

Alice: "What are you being threatened with?"

Bob: "" (edit: I pasted https://emojipedia.org/pistol in here, but of course HN didn't render it)

> > Am I "manipulating my son's thoughts and culture" by choosing when I intentionally expose him to profanity?

> Yes, and it’s good because you are your son’s father.

If you were right, I would dispute that me being a child's father gives me exclusive rights to manipulate their thoughts and culture so it's a good thing. They are an independent human being. I could use my power and influence to enstill obedience to a cult (aka, religion), or teach them racism. It might take them decades to deprogram themselves, if they ever do so at all.

But I don't think you're right. Keeping profanity out of my son's brain until he grows out of the "repeat everything he hears especially if it gets a reaction" phase is no different than not giving him a gun before he can grow up to be a responsible gun owner.

And conversely, just because I am failing to keep profanity out of his mouth (obviously - most kids at some point figure out potty language and how fun ti is to repeat) doesn't automatically mean he's going to grow up a profane sailor.

Likewise, I don't know if my 5-year-old will grow up to be a responsible gun owner, a conscientious objector to weapons, or a mass shooter.

But I do know that his fate will not be decided by whether he sees a water pistol or a bullet pistol in the gun emoji on the internet.

> Apple is not anyone’s father, and does not have that right over its customers.

And customers aren't citizens. Apple may have a pretty large market share, but it is in no ways a monopoly. It is trivial to avoid Apple products in your life.

If the concern is that they used their power to influence the rest of the tech industry and the Unicode consortium, I mean the list of things like that is infinite. All modern web standards are shaped by tech companies, large and small. The issue isn't that someone CAN influence a consortium, the issue is that you disagree with the decision.

And I can understand if this was a threat to free expression or culture, but the list of emojis is already curated and influenced by the artists.

I'm still curious of an answer to this BTW:

> how does replacing a gun emoji with a squirt gun help make their case or in any way weaken the 2nd amendment? I don't think it says anything about not infringing on rights to a gun emoji?
In case you missed it, OP is also the author of rqlite

(I for one didn't notice at first)
The best thing my parents ever did for me was cultivate a sense of familial superiority.

Other families had the TV on all the time, but we read books instead because we were 'better'. Other kids did drugs and drank, but we were better than that. Peer pressure didn't have much of an impact on me because I was raised to believe that I was better than 'that' for most values of 'that'. And my parents never had to force me on any of this—they just invited me to be a part of their exclusive club.

There might be a way around this that doesn't involve cultivating a mild condescension towards peers, but I can say from experience that the condescension does work!
Wow, they are using AI as some sort of fact machine. We (the general public) already know this is extremely incompetent, but they don’t care.

At least precedent is building and hopefully soon unscrupulous use of facial recognition AI by the police will be enough to convince courts to have a serious second look at the evidence. But the people who are affected now may be imprisoned falsely, that is awful.

It reminds me of that case where police somewhere in the US arrested a person who Google told them was in proximity of a crime at least once, without any real evidence. It is baffling they use these technological 8-balls as fact machines. An 8-ball would be more energy efficient and have better ergonomics, at this point. I hope they are not considering it, but my Llama2 says they are and that’s a fact after all by their measure, isn’t it?
Clojure? Sounds like something Hickey would say.
This is a weird development no one seemed to see coming. Wonder if it will get traction or just a overreaction from the TikTokers
The company lawyers are just as likely to throw said line manager under the bus, should it come to that.
It definitely could be a coincidence.
So the story is highly suspect because ..... ? Because the author didn't provide you with evidence on a message board, in order to pre-emptively defend himself against your scrutiny? Because of some unrelated episode where somebody else fabricated a story as a form of propaganda? And you think that justifies your belief that the story is fake? Right. Good luck with your future conversations.

I was obviously speaking on its plausibility.

>The problem is that you provide other examples and then extrapolate from there

You mean like your link?
I mean this isn't it fun to generate ancient rome/alice in wonderland/medivial Poland kind of the world?
Since DE takes place in a world that’s meant to very much mirror ours, how would you deemphasis the political content? Would you just replace it with fictional ideologies? The difference with Planescape: Torment is that the latter takes place in Dungeons and Dragons where everything from history to economics to the rules of physics are completely different. Disco Elysium takes place in a much less fantastical world that’s reminiscent of our own; you’re going to end up with familiar conflicts unless you were to inject a lot more fantasy-sci-fi gimmicks to change how life operates there.
Where can I purchase the cards?
Not at all -- the usability and design are fantastic! (On desktop, at least.)

What, specifially, do you find awful here?
Thanks for that link (bookmarked). GP Had written:

| The loosey-goosey mapping of code points to characters has always bothered me about Unicode.

but the ones you posted are Microsoft's Best-Fit mappings. I'm going to conclude that GP referred to just that.
Yes, and also, I'd argue that anonymizing your location is a sacred feature of the internet that anytime someone builds a better mousetrap we WILL build a better mouse. The internet is not a place where requiring proof of location is welcome.

For online polls, it should never be necessary, either: My rights to vote somewhere should depend only on my membership status to that somewhere, and not my current physical location.
I disagree. I think those things you mentioned as being in the long tail are just things that you like and that you think have value. But there's no reason in theory that the same radicalization process can't be happening with those areas as well.

And if it was happening, what would it look like?

I have a theory, but I don't want to give the game away yet.
Lunase moon phase watch mechanism
>"This needs to be made illegal or at the very least cost prohibitive."

How? Any mechanism to make it illegal will be vigorously fought by the same forces who currently benefit from it. Those forces have unlimited funds to "lobby" lawmakers.

>"hand waved away by the needs of the shareholders and YOY hockey stick growth."

Not needed, but desired. Corporations acting as responsible stewards of capital aren't mandated to grow at a given percentage, just that the capital doesn't decrease. We need to remind corporate America that perpetual double digit growth is impossible, and they can and should be happy with any growth at all.
The impact on the market is precisely the concern. I’ve not seen any studies that show how taxing market participants differently impacts the supply in real estate. So I don’t have strong convictions one way or the other. But you can craft a narrative that foreign buyers are higher margin customers so drive builders to create at higher then their participation rate.

But more generally if you want more of something, generally I’m suspicious of efforts that make that thing more expensive.
That's a really good point. Perhaps the protocol should be expanded with an explicit identifier unique to an extant legal entity (or string of identifiers, to account for ownership changes like acquisitions), so it would be easy for SSO-enabled applications to keep previous tenants' data safe from someone who just buys the domain later on.

Of course, this would still rely on the provider: it might be a great solution for large providers like Google which can implement ironclad formal verification procedures, but if you and the previous company self-hosted SSO, you control the response and can impersonate them completely.
I don't think that's only the third party problem. The way the inventory and availability is managed is not only delayed, but often done manually through a terrible interface. I suspect large chains get better automation, but I've seen how it works in smaller places. The mistakes can be either fat fingering something or just a concurrency issue where the booking happens at a third party while someone else books the same room on the phone. The responsibility there is somewhere in between.
I think you've given some good examples of distressing or deeply undesirable situations that are not because of violence.
By how much? Where I live in IA McDonalds is starting at $17/hour, which is not that much behind California. (and both states are large enough to expect some variation depending on where you live)
Your entire premise is ridiculous.

Advertising is nothing more than bringing attention to your product to your target customer.

And without this so called immoral behaviour I fail to see how any business works.
But the “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” were okay?
Do you need some help with that? I'll be more than happy if antisemites like you won't be using any of the advanced tech we're working hard to create .
For the longest time I had ffmpeg in the same bucket as regex: "God I really need to learn this but I'm going to hate it so much." Then ChatGPT came along and solved both problems!
This is correct. But a public benefit corporation is still for profit. And the "benefit" is very vaguely defined. It might be defined in their charter, but the only people who can hold them responsible to it are the investors. And as we know, most of the investors are VCs... So...
>There's no physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill.

Weird, how do the people get to the camps then?
Thanks for sharing these resources
The closest thing I can find is in the floods cause rain sense, so please post the links

To put this in perspective, people said the same moral panic about tv and that has also been rigorously proven false yet disagreed with by laymen.
Where in there is there something stating "if you don't really want a domestic worker, then simply create the job advert but then make up reasons not to hire applicants and tell us you couldn't find anyone."

It seems as though you read that person's comment as "advertising jobs is not required" when what they said was "don't pretend your company's effort to skirt regulations was actually what's legitimately required to abide by them." Regulations DO NOT state you have to go through the motions even if your intent is to hire a foreign worker anyway. The regulations state that you CAN'T hire a foreign worker if you haven't legitimately tried to hire a local worker. By going into the process with the INTENT of hiring a foreign worker regardless of your local worker search is fraud. Regs do not say "You must commit fraud."
That’s a legitimate problem, but it’s one that you should take up with DoT, not Twitter.

For critical services it may even be illegal, since you can’t access Twitter pages without logging into Twitter, and you can’t signup to Twitter without passing a CAPTCHA and other user-hostile gating mechanisms.
Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas
every trufflehog post I've seen on hn has been alarmist clickbait. could've been an opportunity to discuss security tradeoffs of `sub` vs `email` and how to handle `sub` changes, but nope their take is "sub doesn't fix the problem we found"
While it does have a rather unusual/bespoke command syntax (strongly motivating TFA), lately ffmpeg works my webcam more reliably than Google chrome. Too bad my other-side conversations don't have things set up to negotiate a session with it!
I once saw a servo with two smooth optical encoders. A disc, each side is white with a black off-center ellipse on it. Each side lit with a LED through a narrow slit, with a photo diode measuring the reflected brightness.

Each angle has its value of the optical signal, down to the ellipse's symmetry. Two ellipses, painted at an angle between their axes, give a unique pair for each angle, even amenable to interpolation.

This must be quite resistant to both electromagnetic interference and to fast / jiggy rotation. It's more bulky though, and likely requires calibration.
> It's so common place that few are going to remember they applied to a specific company years ago to begin with.

Additionally, it take a single lazily-managed spreadsheet to identify this dysfunction. Surely any positive effect from doing this would be muted (again, likely into the negative) because the company doesn't want to hire you.
And their insecure platform. You occasionally get completely legit-looking phishing emails from the hotel you wanna stay in, because the hotel‘s account was compromised and attackers now send phishing emails through their side of booking.com.

Booking blames this on the hotels (probably true to some extend), but the problem is quite widespread so that Booking probably bears some responsibility, too.
That's super cool! Your product reminds me of https://mailbrew.com/ which I used for a couple of years

> Wonder if you'd be willing to add email support?

I might add support for Kindle/Supernote and send a PDF by email to them, but I wouldn't really want to turn this thing into a business. I already build another SaaS for a living and just don't have enough energy to dedicate to this
Because many people still don't know:

Set dock delay (when it's hidden and you move the mouse to the side of the screen) to instant:

> defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.0001; killall Dock

Undo:

> defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay; killall Dock
Happy to be your personal google, gives me an excuse to look at it again.

This dashboard is good for that https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/global/?categor...

This visualization is also good:
https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
I'm impressed by Eugen. Giving up full ownership is absolutely the right thing to do. But most people in this situation would become too greedy and start rationalizing why they should be in control (benevolent dictator). Hats off! Mastodon is heading in the right direction.
My day job is a “staff” software architect working at a third party AWS cloud consulting company (coming from working at AWS directly doing the same thing)

I am not bragging - I’m just old.

I have “expertise” at some level or the other with:

1. Discovery, requirements gathering, creating project plans, etc -

2. project management (not great. But I’m good enough)

3. Tech lead for a software development project or a cloud architecture “DevOps” project

4. Your standard “senior” hands on enterprise software developer.

5. Every database type imaginable.

6. A “cloud engineer”. I can go from an empty AWS account to a completely “Well Architected” infrastructure using IaC and creating pipelines

While I can do any of those, as a hands on keyboard person, I can only do 40 hours worth of work and I could never complete a moderately complex project that required me to do all six in an acceptable time period. When doing any of that work, I’m operating at most 2x the average person and that’s being generous.

My value add, is that a company can throw me on a conference call or tell me to hop on a plane and deal directly with the client along with sales to close a deal and know I’m not going to embarrass them.

On the other end, by being able to lead and coordinate between the customer, sales, and the hand on engineers , I can hopefully get a project across the finish line on time, on budget and that meets requirements.
It would be cool - 'haps - to use one of the many music/accompaniment algorithms available, adding "nuisance" or "humanness" through AI, creating a virtual musician.-
If you only came across ten thousand years ago, you are just a colonist that killed and displaced the people who came across sixteen thousand years ago. But that said, native born has a definition, and it is where you were born, not where your parents, grandparents or grand^14 parents was born.
Yep, in my game it tried always to "save" player it was impossible for LLM to jail or kill a player to end a game.
I had to explicitly end it by game logic, not by LLM.
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I've had so many keyboards that I can't even count them. I've owned five mechanical ones alone. Out of the ergonomic ones, I've only had one - a Microsoft and it was pretty nice. Almost all of them have been replaced because they broke. Either the keys stop working (most often) or the stabilizers start failing.

In my opinion, the best keyboards are the ones that are very easy to clean :) Ideally, switches should be chosen based on your hands since everyone has different preferences. I'm currently using Keychron K5 SE ultra-slim with Low Profile Optical hot-swappable "Banana" switches, and it's the most comfortable keyboard I've ever had — and it's not even that expensive (for a mechanical keyboard). Before that, I had SteelSeries' top model, and it broke after about a year.

Building custom keyboards is next-level, and I think I'll pass on that. What matters most is that it's comfortable to type on and easy to clean. A piece of advice for beginners: don't buy keyboards from Logitech or Apple. They're overrated and not worth their price.
> Of course what passes as modernity today would have been considered progressive back in the past, but you fail to mention also that many such of those debates back then also never panned out and fizzled out (aka non-substantive), while others were actively fought against and rolled back.

Sure, but Graham isn't suggesting there is some radical progressive movement with any real power. The question is whether wokeness, however defined, is mere performance or carries some real substance. The only people who believe there is any sort of ascendant left are on the far right, and Graham certainly isn't there (he's a middle-of-the-road neoliberal centrist).

In fact, the lack of an ascendant left was the argument used in the debate among historians and other scholars of authoritarianism on whether or not MAGA is a fascist movement. Some (those who typically associate themselves with the more radical left) claimed that MAGA cannot be fascist because fascism must be a reaction against an ascendant left and there isn't one. The response to that arguments by those who say MAGA is fascist is that even though it doesn't exist in reality, such an ascendant left does exist in the MAGA imagination.

> That's why also the point of "conscious bias against defining new forms of heresy" is just reiteration of the etablishment view of slow, iterative change vs highly disruptive change, of which the former can more effectively keep authoritarians in check.

Maybe, but Graham isn't claiming there's some radical left with some significant power. He's clearly not a radical, but his point is that wokeness isn't radical, either. If anything, he thinks it's mere radical chic and believes that to be different from the "real" protest movement of the sixties, and I pointed out that radical chic was levelled at the time against that movement, too.

> The point is that for PG, and for the majority that voted Trump, Wokeism isn't working

I seriously doubt Graham ever entertained voting for Trump, and those who did would find it hard to define what wokeism is (only that it's one of the many things they're against, including Graham's neoliberalism). They would find it hard to consistently define anything.
Fwiw, someone created a webextension that provides the WebSerial API:

https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

I tried it a while back to configure my keyboard but it didn't seem to work at the time, I think it is a nice solution to Mozilla's problems with the API though
So as a manager you get to fire 5% without you being affected then in turn the other 95% work harder to make you look better. Sounds like a win win. I can see why you are in favor of this insane policy.
Practically if you go to a bigger city, it's just not feasible to look at hotels directly. Who has the time to check the 100 of pages, each with their own lookup/booking system, each possibly not available, each listing the size / facilities differently?
Check out his video on turning one into a catapult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF78MpQqejI
How does this compare with csound?
Booking.com or frankly any other aggregator are great until the moment you have a problem and need to talk to their customer service. In that moment you realize that Booking.com does nothing that you can't do by yourself with same effort.
> the ONLY benefit is to Microsoft and their data-collection business!

Not really. The 3 letter agencies (CIA, NSA) also have a stake in this.

Although CIA put NKVD and STASI in a negative light, they learned a lot from them.
> No one participating in a moral panic thinks it is a moral panic

This argument feels like a Kafka trap
It is kind of disingenuous and dishonest to say that there is no value or meaning on those Americans born in American soil, a nation should prioritize the people that live on it or well at least care for them and make them useful for nation building in the future.

Canada has proven that importing punjabis for almost two decades and ignoring the local people is not effective. So yeah there is a meaningful difference and saying native born in this context allows us to steer the conversation towards taking care towards those in the country already, which is something that neolib governments have not done in the last decades.

I say this as a person that was not born in the country he resides in now, but saying "calling yourself "native born" doesn't mean a thing " is a dishonest way to try to dissuade and delete necessary words that work towards more fruitful conversatons about how to improve th esytems in North America.
> lack of algorithmic curation

They can get that elsewhere. Mastodon will never win that battle. It's not wrong to want algorithms feeding you content, it's just that Mastodon will always be like the tenth best option for those users, and they always will be. Mastodon's advantage is with users that don't want posts written for algorithms. (I used Twitter that way for many years, but when they killed off Tweetdeck I visited less and less, to the point that I just don't often go there any longer.)