skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean that they need to be, long term.

When the turnaround comes to replace some of those oversized heavy-processing vessels, the preference (in an deregulated market) would be not to replace them.

If epa and other regs that dictate output quotas loosen, it'd been easy for preference to change.
It can't be the UK or France because of their laws around platforms and while Wikimedia has picked Germany the EU as a whole is pretty vulnerable to anticompetitive lobbying for more regulations from the giants that can afford any regulatory barriers.

It's gotta be Norway or nothing.
Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums (https://www.mobileread.com/forums). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s.

For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageBreak, which came out back in 2023 and required firmware 5.16.2.1.1 or lower.
They kicked a bunch of subsidies out from under big AG in their first month in office and the AG lobby is the absolute bedrock of the party. Your assumptions are no longer safe.
I'm pretty far left but I have to agree that some people are not mentally capable of independence, cause public harm, and need to be forcibly committed. I want that to be done carefully and humanely. I don't want someone who sleeps on the street and causes no trouble to get institutionalized. But the worst of them should get jailed, tried, and then sent away.

We also need to support people at risk when they're young. If their parents had mental health support, if they didn't experience a loss of housing as children, if losing their job didn't make opioids looks so attractive, we wouldn't have that many people unable to care for themselves.
I was really swept up in this article and the portrait of Amanda Barrows - what a unique and strong person and this city is incredibly lucky to have her.

Unlike some here, I came away with a deep sense of empathy, and today’s HN snark and frustration bounced off me pretty hard. The public order issues - homelessness in parks, the challenges of shared spaces—have certainly impacted me. But more than that, I struggle with how to translate the state of the world to my boys. I always remind them: every unhoused person was once a little boy or girl. We might be older now, but we’re still kids inside, and nobody dreams of growing up in these circumstances.

What struck me most was the balance of compassion and pragmatism that Amanda brings to her work. It’s easy to be frustrated with the policies and bureaucratic inefficiencies that slow down real solutions - but they are, in some ways, understandable.

The biggest frustration for me is the gap between the mental state of many unhoused individuals and the requirements needed to secure housing. The city surely understands the long-term costs of its policies, and it’s run by highly pragmatic people with limited budgets. But rules are rules, and at some point, top-down accommodations (including medical interventions...) are necessary to bridge this gap.
If you're in the EU (or UK) you have the right to have your personal (mis)information corrected. Threaten legal action under GDPR and follow through.
Well, I guess this goes to show that people have been predicting the imminent collapse of America long before the current admin, at least.
Agreed but sadly for something like Youtube it's basically impossible at this stage.
I've long replaced Mail, Maps, Calendar, Photos, Drive, etc with better alternatives from Apple and Microsoft.
I left San Francisco 20 years ago, but, speaking to the situation in Chicagoland: our municipality funds long-term housing, support, and bridge services for local unhoused, and my understand is that the biggest problem we have with problematic unhoused people --- the people shooting up out in the open, or using vestibules as toilets, or accosting passers-by --- is getting them to take up those services.

It is the case that we have difficulty placing public toilets because of the risks their abuse will pose to unsuspecting users. I don't think it does anybody any good to pretend that these aren't real problems, or that we can moralize past them.

I think, at least in most major metros, we're past the point of it being a live issue whether to fund services to transition homeless people off the streets. Residents will fund those services simply because the alternatives are so disruptive. With that in mind, I feel like any response to this problem that centers on "well we should fund more services" is basically stalling.
Sadly in their business your revenue stream is either locked to YouTube or to Twitch. There aren't viable alternative services ATM and even if you set up i.e. patreon or some sort of stream tipping service, most viewers won't use it.
I did not mind it.

Nudges can be helpful.
Aha. I noticed that the /s/ link hits the login wall even if I use old.reddit.com.
As quoted from the article:

"Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal."
War escalation being reversed?

Sounds like we're on track to trade Ukraine for an Israeli-fronted attack on Iran.
Do they know that or do they think or assume that?

There is supposedly an automated process to remove social security payments from people over the age of 115, unless there is an exception.

https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0202602578
I'd imagine many countries would claim a top spot or two, and transition all canadian addresses to, say, 7.0.0.0.0.0. Big companies would probably get some of their own. Legacy/default stuff would have leading 0.0, sure, but... so what?

No, it wouldn't have taken 'exactly as much work to transition'. See another reply. In 2024, I'm still reading about BGP/routing table issues, and hardware having problems keeping up with IPv6 networking - it's just too large. How was this supposed to work in 1999?

A smaller stepped transition from 4 billion addresses to... 64k of those would have been an easier transition step, and the ease - mental, UI, training, testing, security, etc would have given everyone involved the confidence and positive feedback to tackle a next stage to IPv6 (eventually).
Working on the ctrl key glitch, not 100% sure where you are seeing it. Thanks for feedback on the titles, will tweak them. This is done on the titles in the other sections, with the original title shown underneath.
This article was really well written. Usually in such articles i understand about 50%, maybe if I'm lucky 70% but this one I've understood nearly everything. It's not much of a smartness thing but an absolute refusal on my part to learn the jargon of programming as well as my severe lack of knowledge of all the big words that are thrown around lol. But really simply written love it
Taxis are a perfect example— as long as you tar the existing system as the enemy, you can get people to tolerate your bad behavior. “Those guys suck, we’re on your side!” Works for presidents, too.
Then they'll have much further distances to commute on foot to their jobs.
> I imagine many network engineers will use IPv6's private address space to avoid ever having to re-address their network on ISP changes.

Except with 10/8 (or 172/12) everyone is using the same address space. How many network have a 10.0.0.0/24? What are the odds of a conflict for that?

But if you have an ULA FDxx:xxxx:xxxx/48 address space, what are the odds that all those x bits will be the same for any two sites? That's 40 bits 'entropy'. Much, much lower (notwithstanding folks doing DEADBEEF, BADCAFE, etc).
It is not at all obvious to me that those scenarios are irrelevant today.

* The US is poised to strongly take Israel's side in a conflict with Iran, which could easily evolve into either a misadventure, oil shock, or WW3

* The US is poised to withdraw from NATO, ceding a significant amount of geopolitical clout to Russia in particular. This would undermine a bunch of our military efforts abroad, relegating them to the bin of "misadventure." To say nothing of the proposed acquisition of Greenland.
Relevant recent discussion:

Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th - 299 Points | 173 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070155

Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" - 121 Points | 94 Comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041726
We had an Apricot that I had to type "park" on before turning off.
We stand in awe
Having a hobby and being entitled to a competitive hobby are not the same thing.

Nobody prevented people from doing diablo speedruns.
Essentially all commercial programs released for the 6502 were written in assembly language. Modern compiled languages like this hope to get close to the speed of hand-optimized assembly language while making the code much quicker and easier to write and modify. At the time systems like NES and C64 were popular, this would absolutely have been relevant. The time schedule for delivery of games was often extremely tight, and anything that would have let developers accomplish more in less time (with fairly minor compromises on execution speed) would have seen strong usage.
Blame the rapacious capitalists that have essentially ripped away the safety nets that Americans used to enjoy. Cost of living has skyrocketed while labor wages have stagnated.

Blame awful economic theory such as neoliberalism, “trickle down economics” that has allowed a few people and corporations to acquire a significant amounts of wealth while not paying back into the system that helped them get there.

Decades of tax cuts to the wealthy while cutting funding for federal/state programs.

Corporations are buying up all of the property and jacking up the rates. Minimum wage hasn’t been increased since 2009.

What we need is a political party that _fights_ for the middle class. We need power to shift back to labor instead of the rapacious capitalists that instead of investing the profits into the company (ie, increase wages for labor) it’s reinvested into stock manipulation tactics such as stock buybacks. The shareholders, often foreigners as well, get paid while labor holds the bag.

Fuck the culture war. The next war is a class war and it won’t end well if this country continues at its current trajectory.
I am talking about taxation and being able to provide essential services. Not everything need to turn a 'profit' but government budgets are not unlimited.
Noted. Could you suggest some tips or references that could help. I would be really grateful
Where have you heard the Trump admin wants Israel to attack Iran? I haven't seen that news.

And yes, ending the Russian-Ukrainian war is in fact de-escalation, even if giving Russia what they want is the outcome.
This is interesting with some quite prescient predictions especially on the date they could happen. But it is also wrong on some call outs. Still, it is sobering to see how there had been signs all along.

When giants like the US are falling, often there will be signs. These initial signs are never taken seriously and by the time the issue become obvious, the momentum has already built up. At this scale, once events are set to motion, no single entity can change its course. The time and specifics may differ slightly, but the outcome is, imo, inevitable.

People will struggle and attempt drastic measures. Yet I doubt it will help. If anything, the combination of pride and desperation is more likely to hasten a violent end.
Totally agree, and I'm not trying to minimise the harm that this does to our spaces.

Decades ago there were institutions that these people were placed in. We decided not to do that any more, for good reasons and bad, and I think maybe we should revisit that decision.
This is inevitable. US attorneys are being given orders inconsistent with the law and DOJ rules. US attorneys are resigning instead, Democrat and Republican. Eventually the only people left are those willing to follow Trump's orders rather than the law.

The federal government is nearing a state of abeyance. It's run by a mafia. Why wouldn't they come for judges next?
I made this comment before digging deeper into appropriations impoundment.

However, it still seems plausible (in my limited understanding) that this strategy could still be the goal, if the goal is to first push appropriations impoundment to SCOTUS.

Here is the best cited and approachable article I found on the subject within the context of these events:

https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/the-overlooked-conundrums-of-imp...
The perceived return could be timing and presentation.

If he has to spend the rest of his term negotiating back and forth over which flag flies over a particular outhouse in Western Crimea, he may not see that as being a successful deal-maker.

Being able to say "we got buy-in for our first proposal, took me four days to end the conflict" fits his image.
re: #3 a lot of the recent reporting (usually citing 'world gold council') points out that most of the large central bank purchasers are some combination of russian commodity purchasers, intertwined with the russian economy, or might otherwise want insulation from relying on USD for international exchange.

Because of that I'd also clarify/quibble on the 'confiscation' aspect. I expect the larger motivation is freezing russian entities out of SWIFT and dollar denominated banks. That interrupts foreign transactions even more than losing access to reserve capital.

PS: I dont think anyone's moved beyond freezing access to existing russian assets, eg disputing rightful ownership, yet.
Is FrankenPHP stable? It looks good but quite new
How were these specific colors chosen to represent the internet?
This only a problem if you pass the nested function as a function pointer and you have a machine with a no execute stack.

The processors I program for don't have no execute stacks so the use of a trampoline is of no consequence.

Also my memory was that no execute stacks were heralded as the solution to stack smashing attacks. No execute stacks problem solved. And turned out if you're vulnerable to stack smashing no execute stacks won't save you.

So I feel we threw out something good, nested functions for some cargo cult security. And since no one uses them the reactionary luddites on WG14 are free to hope they go away.
> A few days ago, I was prompted to verify my phone number by Google. Immediately after completing the verification, I received an email notifying me that Google had overwritten all my personal information. It turns out that because my mom is the one paying the phone bill, they automatically "verified" the name on my account to be hers and updated everything on my account without my consent.

It sounds like someone at Google (not necessarily a programmer) needs to read "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers:"

> 4. A phone number uniquely identifies an individual

What a bureaucratic nightmare.
> Well, that's what we're saying. The distinction lies in ideal/perfect, vs imperfect.

No, that's not. "Exist in nature" doesn't mean "perfect". Totally different concepts.

> Norton's dome requires an infinitesimal point of sorts for the math to work out. Does that exist in reality? Idk, but it certainly seems dubious.

A cone requires a point at the pointy end. Does that exist in reality? I've certainly seen a lot of objects we call "cones". And they were pointy.

The point is, if you say Norton's dome doesn't exist then you mean cubes don't exist. And we all agree cubes do exist. A perfect Norton's dome doesn't exist, just like a perfect cube doesn't exist. But a regular Norton's dome certainly does exist. Just like a regular cube. Again, it's not an exotic shape. But it doesn't need to be perfect to exist -- otherwise nothing would exist at all!
After going through 8 specialists, I ended up learning a bunch myself, and paying out of pocket for the last one.

Patients need to be more involved.
This is silly. Everybody has something to hide. For example the credentials to one's bank account.

The debate is never "I have nothing to hide" vs "you have some things to hide". It's about what power the government has to spy on you, in order to protect you. A lot of people think something like this: if the government needs to look through people's stuff in order to catch terrorists, well, I myself am not a terrorist, I'm ok with that, as long as they keep me safe.

A lot of people are purists though. They say the Constitution states that the Government can spy on you only with a warrant granted by a judge based on probable cause (Fourth Amendment). There are edge cases though, and these cases were debated and will continue to be debated for as far in the future as we can foresee.

The idea that the debate is simply about "I have nothing to hide, so everyone can spy on me as they like" is a complete straw-man.
Are scrollbars to indicate scrollable content a design failure too? The site seems great to me, and I don't have issue with the explicit indicator.
This comment captured a lot of my thoughts about the article, Amanda and many of the other comments on this thread, except that you put them into words much more capably and eloquently than I was able to do. Well stated.
Exactly wrong making up fake data would poison actual data. The pupose of these systems isn't to look correct to people on twitter. We have zero reason to believe we are cutting checks unreasonably inaccurately.

There are of course going to be recently decreased not yet accounted for and a tiny number of fraudsters collecting grannies check.

Individual annual audits 200 USD per person would cost 136B over the next 10 years. Far more than fraud it would deter. Fraud which is already minimal.

Indivual audits of client accounts for obvious issues and fraud is already a thing because the experts that are responsible for such aren't complete morons.
PSE&G which covers parts of NJ
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The Amazon letter soup of the month is FNIRSI - I am questioning whether they are actually a letter soup brand. They have a bunch of impossibly cheap hand-held tools, including oscilloscopes. I picked up their multi-meter and power supply and they actually work.
Making the Web More Readable with Stylus
Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI
You literally have that backwards. The misinfo is that COBOL would be back-dating to 1875, as is made clear by the linked StackExchange thread and anyone else that has actually used COBOL. Regardless, people without an accurate age in the Social Security database should not be getting payments either, even if they are not actually 150.
>The really sad thing about IPv6 is that it's a relic of a bygone era. The internet was envisioned as a thing where every device on every network could, in principle, initiate a connection to any other device on any other network. But then we started running out of addresses, ISP's wouldn't give you more than one for a household, so we started doing NAT, and that kind of sealed the internet's fate.

I thought the problem was lack of upload bandwidth for almost all households without fiber to the home. Surely, if people had symmetric broadband internet at home, then there would have been commercial solutions to allow devices to connect to each other, thereby decreasing the need for giant cloud providers.
That's just hand waving. The vast majority of people with capital will only ever be willing to invest based on expected returns. If they don't have a chance to make a significant profit on a risk-adjusted basis then they won't invest at all. They'll just keep their cash in the bank or spend it on consumption or real estate instead.
The smart LLM's are great at this (Gemini Flash seems accurate and cheap), but they can't be trusted not to engage in unexpected censorship, typically skipping parts they find objectionable without reliably telling you that that's what they did. That's annoying enough if you're dealing with, e.g., names that happen to spell something awkward, but it's a big problem if you're scanning medical notes or something else where the awkward text is legitimately needed.

Anyone have success with prompting them to "just give me the text verbatim?"
It's also a recommendation in Material Design:

"Cut off grid tiles in the view’s initial scroll position to communicate the scroll direction for content overflow."

https://m1.material.io/components/grid-lists.html#grid-lists...
Most likely not. The easy wins have been accomplished, to push beyond that you'll probably need to fork the kernel and various related components, and make desktop-focused changes while backporting bug and security fixes. I think the job would take a lot more than 20 devs.
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Gotta love HN, only popular site in world where a list of hex codes on a nicely formatted website gets to top ranking
Mate, I’m Australian and even I think a gaol is just a dyslexic watching soccer.
To further drive home what actually happened with FDR, his policy proposals were repeatedly taken to the Supreme Court and a lot were struck down. It took the SCOTUS to realize that they would soon face a legitimacy crisis if they continued to enact the policy perspective that they wanted.

Oh, and before someone comes and brings up the court packing proposal, it didn’t have to happen, and FDR’s main claim to making the proposal was that he had a mandate based on his, iirc, at the time 3rd supermajority sweep of the electoral college, unlike, say our current President who claims a mandate while not even winning 50% of the popular vote and fell way short of even 400 electoral college votes.
It's a lot hard to re-enter society if you're separated from everyone and everyplace you know. Sure, it could be cheaper in some ways to ship the homeless out to bumfuck nowhere, but might be less cost-effective than you think, and certainly less humane.
And how are they going to earn this money for actions that help the community?

It's much better when you can issue your own money supply
New Kindle Jailbreak Works with Any Kindle on Any Firmware: 5 points | 45 days ago | 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579291
It automatically prevents the outside world from being able to access the inside network. Which is the main function of most of the firewalls.

Pretty much everything else in a firewall in the modern world is just useless feature creep.
No, the claim without substantive evidence is that COBOL backdates to 1875.

If the source-of-truth for SS payments is the database and associated COBOL system, and that system reports payments being made to 150 year olds, that is bad. We should not be doing that. It doesn't matter if the birth date was deliberately added as 1875 or if the COBOL system replaces null date values with 1875 (which does not seem to be the case if you read the linked thread).
But none of the things have happened yet, nor are there any signs they're immediately about to.

They might happen any year.

And fortunately, Iran isn't doing anything belligerent at the moment -- they got their butts kicked last year and are missing a lot of their previous protection. And no, the US isn't "poised to withdraw from NATO". Nobody's even talking about that. I mean, a lot of bad stuff is going on, but withdrawal from NATO has not been in any news cycles.
You don't replace the bank with a random person, but with a smart contract trusted by the community. The whole point is to eliminate trust in the middleman completely from many transactions, and prevent a growing class of conflicts from even starting. That is why you don't need to post surety bonds, for instance!