skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Termites are only a problem if you enable them with a source of moisture. If you have termites eating your house something else has gone very wrong.
Explicitly failing fast is needed I think.

Failing slowly and producing months of unhappy results is too slow of a feedback cycle.
The Symbian one, yep. Maemo had the full Flash though.
As an owner of a Synology NAS, it's woefully behind on updates. The kernel is 4.4 and the docker version is probably two years old. Yes it works good for a beginner one system does all solution but you quickly out grow it.
Check this out: https://github.com/vvaltchev/tfblib

It worked well for a hobby project. I had issues on certain specific displays I think due to the color depth requirement.
CICO works if you have the patience and discipline to make it work, which few do. At some point it becomes too unpleasant to keep reducing calories or to measure and track everything. Life gets in the way.
Little red book is truly evil. Every Chinese woman I know uses it. It is truly brain rotting. The relationship advice that it promulgates is every bit as toxic as the stuff on TikTok and instagram
Looking forward to the poor security researcher who gets to reverse engineer some malware sample they compiles this into for obfuscation... Its going to be an interesting blog post.
The game is good but it's missing a level where you need to uncheck 500 checkboxes which are hidden behind the "legitimate interest" dropdown..

To me, there's one thing worse than dark patterns - no real choice at all, and this is what FB/Instagram does with its "pay or okay" approach and I can't figure out how is this even legal here.
Bluesky releases its annual moderation report for 2024
And this is why Democrats lose. They are completely out of touch with what the mainstream wants.

Any other Democrat could have distanced themselves from Biden. But his own VP couldn’t.
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Doesn't that imply that TikTok would be deliberately protecting high-profile individuals from CSAM prosecution? That seems like the sort of thing that should have triggered some warm-up scandals before requiring Chinese disinvestment.

It isn't like TikTok are the only part of the internet with a CSAM problem. By default anything that offers file hosting has a CSAM problem. To keep the Chinese away from blackmail material the US would have to ban any form of image hosting served from the Chinese mainland - the CSAM people go to the CSAM, it doesn't proactively seek people out.
Does TikTok have private messages? Any platform with "private" messages can collect blackmail. Tucker Carlson was fired over two texts (or emails, I do not recall).

They may be blackmailed for watching forbidden topics like Russia friendly channels. Or explicit material if TikTok has it.

They may be blackmailed if they are in the wrong social network if TikTok has such a thing.
The guy is famous for companies like Twitter and has a blockchain obsession... Pretty sure you can't just draw a conclusion he's a benefit to society. Def. a benefit to other billionaire shareholders tho. Still off-topic for FOSDEM.
Forcing an unreasonable price for all broadband providers is an excellent way to prevent any from operating in the area. It seems like people learn this lesson over and over — a market is an efficient way to do demand/price discovery.
The text says "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech"

It doesn't say "Congress shall make no law regulating any kind of speech"

The difference between these two, if it isn't already obvious, is that people do not have a right to all types of speech.

Congress can, always could, and always has regulated speech for which people do not have a recognized right to make. Things like fraud or threats are not legal, and Congress is absolutely within their right to make these types of speech illegal, and it would be silly and unfounded to suggest that they couldn't.

Furthermore, your personal interpretation of the text is irrelevant. The Constitution itself delegates the judiciary as the body which can interpret it. And they have, many times, ruled that the 1st has exceptions.

So you may have a strong opinion about what you want the law to be, but you are not correct about what is actually is.
Several reputable European media vehicles said that.
On the UK, the Royal United Services Institute said the same.
It is not a secret, unless someone keeps a media diet of MSNBC and CNN only.
It's not like the spies were routinely careless or didn't do the obvious things a spy should do. They did travel under cover identities but those covers were linked to mobile phone and other data in foreign countries. That left a trail that could be followed to identify real personal data when they intersected back in Russia. They also used public posts on Russian social media. I guess OO7 didn't know a single group photo from some department secretary's retirement party can undo years of spy craft. And just swapping out a SIM when you get back home in Russia doesn't change the phone's ESN.

I'm not an expert though. There's a lot of detailed info on OSINT sources and methods online. The bottom line is it's extremely difficult to put the data genie back in the bottle. The stuff seeps out everywhere and searching aggregated databases from multiple sources and time periods uncovers any connection. It only requires a single slip-up happening one time. This just reinforces that a regular citizen in a Western democracy who's not a spy trained to operate under cover with a nation-state providing authentic false identities, is screwed in terms of maintaining their own privacy.
More the removal of the fairness doctrine.
But it’s acceptable to put in the hands of Elon Musk?
I don't think you're necessarily being lowballed. 0.1% is a reasonable number for a hands-on engineer in series A. Keep in mind that startups typically have maybe 20% of their equity allocated as the pool for stock option grants, and they guard that very closely. They need to reserve possibly multiple % for early executive hires such as VP of engineering or head of sales as they grow.

Also don't buy BS like "they say this grant could be worth $1m if startup is valued at $1b". Not only is there a small chance of them ever getting to a $1B valuation, you would mostly likely be diluted between now and then by additional funding rounds.
In my case, if I want ethernet it's because I want faster performance (reliably/continuously high bandwidth, and reduced latency and jitter) than my WiFi network can provide. But I've only been able to get that with a thunderbolt-connected ethernet adapter. Every USB one I've tried has been a disappointment.

I don't disagree that the uses you describe make them helpful in those circumstances, but I can't recall ever needing to do any of that myself. I'm happy with the built-in Wifi adapter and its drivers, and all modern routers can be configured/set up over WiFi, can't they? They create a default network when first turned on, or if you factory-reset them using the physical reset button.
> If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, Google could still index the URL without visiting the page. If you want to block your page from search results, use another method such as password protection or noindex.

> If your web page is blocked with a robots.txt file, its URL can still appear in search results, but the search result will not have a description.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

So, a robots.txt will not keep your site off of google, it just prevents it from getting crawled. (But, to be fair, this tool probably does not do this as well)
Yep, it'll take me a minute, but on it. Thanks!
>why are these whatabboutisms interesting but others are not?

I don't agree that they are whataboutisms for starters. I don't present them in response to criticisms of the U.S. to deflect away those criticisms, which is an essential, definitional characteristic of a whataboutism. Everything ususal to the critique of whataboutisms is sufficient I think to address the new examples you present in your comment, which I would say just fall in the same old category.

The critiques of China in this context are "interesting" because they relate to democratic norms, human rights, freedom of expression and the security environment that safeguards them.

And perhaps most importantly, I don't regard democratic values and economic transactions to be in a relationship where the loss of one is compensated by the presence of the other. This is a point which I believe is a relatively well understood cornerstone of western liberal democracies.
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> This grant was given a year ago when I started but was communicated to me only recently.

This is very strange. Normally you'd have to sign to accept the options as soon as they are granted, even if they have a 1 year vesting cliff.
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YouTube gets me to double-click on occasion:

- The page mostly loads

- An ad starts playing

- I attempt to hit "pause" while I go handle a thing or two [0]

- As I'm about to click "pause", the layout shifts to the left exactly enough for me to unmute the ad

- I immediately click again to stop listening to whatever scam is currently being peddled

[0] For some videos I like to read the description before watching. For all videos I like to make it as obvious as possible to Google that there isn't a real person watching the ad (browser not focused, ad muted, ...).
AI slop tax on everyone who does not use it is more profitable than trying to get the few people that use it to pay for it. Surprise surprise.
i.e. peer pressure that exists absolutely everywhere and is in no way exclusive to TikTok.
> insurance companies are currently not required to disclose their math

I started my way towards becoming an actuary. If actuarial work requires public disclosure, it stops being worth investing in for competitive advantage.

This entire article is Exhibit A for why Californian homeownership is fucked.
> What even are the diversion points...

perhaps Diego Garcia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened
https://archive.is/h3RGH
Yes, because it went from like the worst app in the US to a pretty popular one in a short period of time. YouTube has 240 million accounts in the US. Instagram has 170 million. 500k accounts in RedNote is nothing in comparison.

People are protesting because it's cool to do especially when you're a rebellious youngster but I'm pretty convinced it's going to fizzle out. I don't think it's fair to say it's disingenuous to believe as much. Maybe you could say it's "too early" to write it off, to which I'd respond saying it's too early to buy into the belief that it will take over American culture in any way that resembles TikTok.... and, even if it did, that it would not be banned from the US again.
Probably. I was a Protoss main and always sucked at playing Zerg. I used to pray they'd go hydralisks so I could drop a reaver into their drones.
Realtek RTL8156 (USB 2.5G ethernet) is fast and rock solid, even for server use cases. I’d take it over an i225 any day
Daww, I tried. Piss off.
oh yes we want to; I even priced a couple out. Most of the SKUs I found were pretty old, and we couldn't find anything compelling to risk deploying at the scale we wanted.
It's on the wishlist, and if the right hardware comes along; we'll rack it up even as a bet. We maintain Nixpacks (https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started), so for most of our users we could rebuild most their apps for ARM seamlessly - infact we mostly develop our build systems on ARM (because macbooks). One day.
The Fading Battlefields of World War 1
I've always wanted translations of Korean game broadcasts (GSL/ASL). I'm curious what balance their commentators strike between game analysis and entertainment, and whether there's a disparity between Korean and Foreigner game analysis. Do they have a Tastosis?
I mean it's really the booster catch that's revolutionary here. Doing it twice proves that it's not a fluke.
That incessant whataboutism is the only recourse of those who oppose the ban really helps the cause of those who are for it.
> If the general public is that stupid

What is your evidence that propaganda efficacy scales inversely with intelligence?
It is still noticeably slower on a large codebase.
And what would be the supposedly fearful consequence…?

The human population on average becoming slightly more discriminatory of skin color?
You know how much money Apple had to pour into processor R&D to build something competitive with x86? That bet paid off for Apple in the form of the M1 and its successors.

Intel is still profitable so they're covering their own R&D cost and they're still in second place in process technology. TSMC is undoubtedly charging a hefty margin for their cutting edge fab process so the economics might work out for Apple doing its own fabbing.
Thank you—fixed.
I agree but I was replying to the comment about computers specifically, meaning desktop and laptop form factors rather than mobile phones, especially when I say "near future"
Well, it makes sense. Canada still has a significant English-speaking majority. Even if Québec in isolation has a French-speaking majority, there's a very large incentive for French-speaking citizens to learn English because their province is surrounded by primarily Anglophone regions.

There are also other factors at play. Montréal has a fairly large community of native English speakers and receives a lot of tourism from Anglophone Canada and the United States due to its status as the largest city in Québec (and second largest in Canada). It also gets a lot of immigrants, many of which are (at least initially) more proficient in English than in French.

I can't say I'm entirely familiar with the situation in Switzerland, but as far as I know the country has four official languages, none of which are English. It also doesn't border any English-speaking countries. It seems English is mostly used as a lingua franca for communication between citizens who don't otherwise share a language rather than due to the direct presence of native Anglophones. Also, Romansh aside, all national languages of Switzerland (French, German and Italian) are spoken in areas that directly border a country where that language is the national language (France, Italy, Germany/Austria). With Switzerland being in the Schengen Area, its linguistic regions may be considered to be part of a much larger individual linguistic communities, which I feel may also diminish the need to learn other languages.
Telling everyone "just get better willpower" is about as useful on a societal level as looking at a disabled person at the bottom of a set of steep stairs and telling them that the struggle is good for them.
Friend. Why would you insist on painting this in a simple political framework and, more amusingly, assume I follow it that same framework? I am not upset. I am disheartened, dispirited, demoralized, and dismayed, but I am not upset.

If that is the case, why would you start the sentence with a 'so' suggesting you made a leap of logic, where nothing of the sort actually occured given that it is almost a complete non-sequitur.

I am open to a conversation, but I think, and please correct me as needed, that your political bias blinds you in ways that affect any and all discussions.
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and extremely badly in this thread. We've asked you before not to do that. We have to ban accounts that post like this, and I'm sorry to say that what you did in this thread is well over the line at which we'd normally ban someone, especially given the past warning.

I'm not going to ban you right now because the other account was also breaking the rules pretty badly. If you keep doing this, though, we're going to have to ban you.

Commenters here need to follow the rules regardless of how other commenters are behaving or how wrong they are, even on a topic as divisive as this one. Especially on a topic as divisive as this one. Note this from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stay within the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it.
That makes it illegal to display pornography to minors. It doesn’t make it illegal for minors to see pornography.
All spyware should be illegal. A law to reign in the ubiquitous data collection on everyone's computing devices would be great. Maybe start by requiring all data collection to be opt-in and for a specific purpose. Make it illegal to deny functionality that doesn't strictly require the requested data. "Paying with your privacy" shouldn't be a thing. Crush every data broker.

This law is different to that, it's all about specific actors, not about behavior and actions. A "people we don't like" list. CNN could be on a similar list soon. All constitutional of course - the law will specifically mention how this is all for national security. And no one's speech is being suppressed, the journalists can always write for a different news channel.
> How can they blackmail me? Please explain

They may not be able to. But it sure would be helpful to have a list of people in likely financial distress with addresses close to military installations. Such a person may not ask questions if given a job offer from an influencer or whatever to take selfies around town.
not aware of a double notif bug - do you have a github issue for it?
Reminds me of the old Rackspace days! Boy we had some war stories:

- Some EMC guys came to install a storage device for us to test... and tripped over each other and knocked out an entire Rack of servers like a comedy skit. (They uh... didn't win the contract.)
- Some poor guy driving a truck had a heart attack and the crash took our DFW datecenter offline. (There were ballards to prevent this sort of scenario, but the cement hadn't been poured in them yet.)
- At one point we temporarily laser-beamed bandwidth across the street to another building
- There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire.

Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days. We worked with Facebook on the OpenCompute Project that had some very forward looking infra concepts at the time.
Allow us to filter out China apps and most of the problems with rogue apps will be gone.
Idk the math isn't mathing. In the US drugs are moved using graffiti or word of mouth or dead drops because dealers are operating under the assumption all digital devices are monitored. If they use phones at all burners are discarded not sim swapped

Is the FSB/GRU more incompetent than my local fentanyl dealer? new identity, plastic surgery, contacts to protect iris scanning, no digital comms except in house tech, avoiding legal entrypoints seem to be the very basic in today's age especially for a hit

Tom Clancy lied that's a few hours of my life I'll never get back lol
I think you took offense because you interpreted my "project management" statement to be in scare quotes, where that was certainly not my intention - I literally just put them in quotes to highlight that I was quoting from your previous comment.

I certainly didn't mean to denigrate the job of project management. But I do agree with the other response - project management is just about ensuring a job is done on time/budget by tracking and managing a complex set of dependencies. I will say, at least in my experience, that really great official software project managers (I mean that was their job title) are worth their weight in gold, but they happen to be quite rare (again, emphasis on "in my experience"). Too often I worked with project managers whose thought their role was scheduling meetings and constantly asking all the engineers if the Jira board was up to date. But I think this because, when done correctly, the project management role is a challenging one that takes an unusual combination of attention to detail, communication skills, and ability to stay motivated on what can feel like boring tasks in the moment.
this is a rabbit hole I can jump down with a good cup of tea tonight thanks bud
You also broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. That's seriously not ok, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, and regardless of how badly they might be breaking the rules.

It doesn't look like we've warned you about this before, but it does look like you've been breaking the rules when arguing about divisive topics in other contexts. That's not ok, and we eventually have to ban accounts that do this, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stay within the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it.
> It would help if instead of answering a comment with questions, you share what you know. So how much is the cost of wiring, installation, programming and making greenhouses in the span of a year? How much copper is needed per capita? What do you know? Tell us!basic led grow lights for agriculture

[Trivial googling shows you $750K to $1.25 million Euros per hectare](https://www.floraldaily.com/article/9574650/half-fewer-order...). At 400 square meters of greenhouse to feed a single human being (a reasonable estimate, lower bound being 300 under super intensive conditions with experienced growers), that's at least $30K _per person_ under the existing constraints of the industry just for an industry-standard greenhouse. You could of course lower construction costs and do the bare minimum, at the cost of a dramatic decrease in yield.

That of course assumes materials and fabrication is abundantly available and wouldn't see an impossibly high rise in materials and service costs if suddenly the entire world were to demand greenhouse construction with the attending demands in electricity distribution, power generation, and the sudden need to turn most of society into a sort of high-tech agrarian population, something that just doesn't happen in a year.

This took me 5 minutes to Google.
> It isn't like TikTok are the only part of the internet with a CSAM problem

Of course not. I was just providing an easy example of what TikTok may have that we don’t want the CCP to.
> Just the extremely common cases where humans deliberately use red lights because of the fact that they are perceived as being very bright. Stop lights, brake lights, tail lights, emergency vehicle lights, aviation obstruction lighting, emergency flairs, emergency exit lights, etc.

Green lights have the greatest perceived brightness, and green is used as the go signal in traffic lights for that reason. Red light (1) has a common cultural association with danger stemming from its association with natural fire, (2) has the least impact on night vision because of the relative insensitivity of human eyes to it; the former is the reason it is used or things like stop/warning/etc. lights that might be used in any background lighting conditions, and the latter is the reason it is used for emergency guide lighting and signage that are likely to be used in dark background conditions especially where people would be at substantial likelihood of transitioning the illuminated area to an even darker environment (such as one without or with nonfunctional emergency lighting.)
It is a textbook example of ex-post-facto re-contracting [1]. Durable agreements and enforcement are a pre-requisite for society.

If we negotiate and make a binding deal, I need to believe you will hold your end of the agreement.

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