skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major issue is that reaching their support is next to impossible. Payment for my domain is not going through and now I am waiting for my domain to get expired and be available in market again, so that I can buy it from other vendor.
Usually Media and think tanks love to claim that China inflated their GDP sometimes using esoteric metrics like light intensity (lol).

But when it's about defense budget, ackshually China deflated them
Anecdotally, the iPhone in my post did have its battery wear down to the point that it had the "slowdown" thing enabled (can't recall what it was actually called). It was somewhat slower, but I wouldn't call it unusable. Maybe it depends on what people actually do with the phone. Google Maps, web browsing and such didn't seem to be that different.

I then went ahead and disabled that thing and, sure enough, it started randomly crashing when the battery wasn't full. I then went in and changed the battery for the same price as my previous Samsung's battery would have cost (plus the annoying fact of having to schedule the visit). It did get somewhat faster (not sure whether placebo or not) for another 2-3 years until the battery started swelling and I replaced the phone (I need it to be relatively waterproof, since I use it often as a GPS on my motorbike).

I do concede that I did find it weird and user hostile that, once you'd disable the "protection" mode, you wouldn't be able to turn it back on. Just like I find it odd that that specific model couldn't do the "trickle charge overnight" thing. And that my current iphone14 pro can't be told to stop charging at 80%, whereas newer models can.
My university had a number of Russian grad students, they were all lowkey supportive of the war.
It's almost the entire field these days - just trying to get CVEs for the CV.

The days of Metasploit 0-days are over, so now it's just loads of sensationalist reporting and box-ticking regulation in companies.
When 0.1% of the total voters can swing the vote from being 60 for red to being 60 for blue, polling is obviously going to be pretty tricky to predict.
Please read this article in German: https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/so-viel-gibt-muenchen...

They get not only free housing, but also free food and even a janitor! That’s better than significant part of the population does. Do you think, that delivery driver or a nurse can afford more?
Here is your business justification: K8s / Helm charts have become the de-facto standard for packaging applications for on-premise deployments. If you choose any other deployment option on a setup/support contract, the supplier will likely charge you for additional hours.
Instant forwarding is sending funds received from the client to your account with immediate sending. At the same time, they go through our temporarily created address, which allows us to take over the servicing of this transaction. Note that this method is great for large payments - this way you receive funds immediately into your possession, which means your money works only for you. The ability to choose not only a percentage but also a fixed fee for such transactions makes Apirone an indispensable service for large transactions.
I cannot imagine a way out of this, the way you put it. Not giving any aid today means condemning masses to death. Giving some aid today means feeding the masses and maintaining the corruption. The foreign donors cannot condition the aid, or they theoretically could but have zero leverage for actually following up, because see above - they could only stop it, which nobody wants. I'm aware that it's common to blame the foreign forces for any bad situation, but again, I see zero ways to change the status quo just by modulating the foreign aid. Or you mean the Haitian leaders are paid exactly to keep the population half-starving?
I thought people use sites like Craigslist for local sales. At least in my country most people use a local website, they use Facebook Marketplace a lot less.
Napoleon is certainly a complicated figure and his raw ambition caused death and misery for millions. I don't think he carried out any genocides though, did he? I see an accusation of genocide online ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_Crimes ), but it doesn't sound very credible.
Only 650 windmills remain near Palm Springs. That number could shrink even more
Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy
Lost me on the second half.
In the UK Craigslist was never really a thing. eBay is too complex for many of the things people sell.

My wife sells a lot of our old stuff on marketplace. It's quick and simple to do, and there is a huge market. It's all small stuff that no one will pay shipping for, but if you are local and can pop round it's absolutely fine. Things like kids toys, books, mostly low value stuff. We've got rid of knackered old furniture for free on there because it meant someone else would take it away.

It has the advantage of market size. A lot of people are still on FB for things other than marketplace, so it's an obvious place to look when you want to buy something second hand. It's also easy to share your listings on FB.
Apparently the pub altercation wasn't far off.
Brought me back to the cowherding missions in RDR. Not a fond memory, but still a memory nonetheless.
The difference is that both Singapore and the EU did, or start doing, things by themselves. Just blaming the US for their misdeeds might feel good but does exactly nothing to help the bullied further.
I'm impressed with the level of debate in the answers. Thank you.
I recently made some changes to a website generated by a non-technical user using Dreamweaver. The initial state was quite poor, with inline CSS and what appeared to be haphazard copy-pasting within a WYSIWYG editor.

Although I’m not proficient in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I have some understanding of what good code looks like. Through several iterations, I managed to complete the task in a single evening, which would have required me a week or two to relearn and apply the necessary skills. Not only the code is better organised, it’s half the size and the website looks better.
Indeed it doesn't enforce the response code and type. However, it's still a big step in the right direction to enforce request and response schema.
Indeed. I sometimes bring this up in terms of "cybersecurity" - in the real world, "cybersecurity" is only tangentially about the tech and hacking; it's mostly about shifting and diffusing liability. That's why the certifications and standards like SOC.2 exist ("I followed the State Of The Art Industry Standard Practices, therefore It's Not My Fault"), that's what external auditors get paid for ("and this external audit confirmed I Followed The Best Practices, therefore It's Not My Fault"), that's why endpoint security exists and why cybersec is denominated not in algorithms, but third-party vendors you integrate, etc. It all works out into a form of distributed insurance, where the blame flows around via contractual agreements, some parties pay out damages to other parties (and recoup it from actual insurance), and all is fine.
This has been the case before the current administration. It isn't administration elusive. There is a lack of professionalism by some US border agents.
> Raising your leg is hip flexion.

Oh, shoot, you're right. Thanks for the correction.

> The system produces two forces: one to assist in lifting the leg and another to aid in pushing the leg forward.

If that's the case, then this model must assist in hip flexion and extension -- helping you raise one leg as it gently pushes back on the other to drive you forward.

It would certainly lower the metabolic cost of walking, but I'm not sure of the magnitude of the effect.
Yep, very likely.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...

Now, why do I have this feeling that it will be bought by some entity very close to the current US administration?
First and foremost, I have no affiliation with any of the authors previously mentioned. However, I would like to pose a question to the community:

Is it feasible to exploit these undocumented HCI commands to develop malicious firmware for the ESP32? Such firmware could potentially be designed to respond to over-the-air (OTA) signals, activating these hidden commands to perform unauthorized actions like memory manipulation or device impersonation.

However, considering that deploying malicious firmware already implies a significant level of system compromise, how does this scenario differ from traditional malware attacks targeting x86 architectures to gain low-level access to servers?
This is pretty interesting, also that they get it down to the amount of mannan in the fungal cell walls being somehow related to the β cell amounts. There's probably a nice project in here to figure out what the receptors are on the macrophages that are modulating this process. Obviously candidates would be some of the lectins they carry (mannose receptor?).
I think you can work around that messaging restriction by requesting desktop site from the mobile browser. Not saying it is not irritating, though.
> Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit...

Thanks, now I have coffee on my keyboard.
... and requires JavaScript to run.
like a tavern
> The "well written" remark is relevant.

So using casts that hid implicit int declarations for years is "well written"?

> Many style guides will consider implicit void conversions not well written C.

I could not find a "Many" guide, Linux Kernel and ffmpeg seem to advocate against pointless casts.

> Naturally we are now on C23,

So irrelevant to the creation time of ffmpeg and only applicable to intentionally non portable libraries.
Good intentions without a good plan and leadership to execute? Or invent bureaucratic incompetence?
> pointing out that the Bible ‘is a library, not a book’, full of contrasting views and narratives.

With the risk of sounding blasphemous, yes it is a library. It is a buffet. You get fish, you get meat, you get salad, you get fruits. There is something for everyone. Pick what you want, ignore the rest, and we're all happy.

I also wonder 'when', if ever, we will learn the truth about 'the Bible' (or other similar documents of 'holy' value). I wonder if in those bookshelves that the Vatican or in the Holy Mountain (Athos) store all the previous versions that show the evolution of the document.

And I wonder if they would ever release the evolution of the document with numbers of pages, chapters, authors, years, so we can see the 'timeline' (kinda like a changelog in a Policy document).
I'm probably younger than the other Belgian data point in this thread but when I went to high school in the late 2000's our colonial past, warts and all, was taught during history class. Down to the pictures of people with chopped off hands because they hadn't met quota.
> A key advantage is trust; users' Facebook profiles make transactions feel safer than on anonymous platforms like Craigslist, according to Seock.

Early on, I suspect that Craigslist attracted a lot of sketchiness with all the free stuff, anonymous sexual hookups personals ads, and prostitution.

I wonder whether they could've survived as just a non-sketchy classified ads place for household items and roommates/apartments. Which, at the time (at least in Boston) managed to coexist with the sketchy side of the site.

Lately, selling household items and computer gear onto Craigslist seems to come down to the rare random event that anyone is looking at it.

I live in the city, within walking distance of multiple universities, but, if an item is worth shipping, it'll now sell on eBay, but sit unsold for months on Craigslist.

I also now put on the curb things that in the past I would've been able to sell easily on Craigslist.

I suspect that the local used item sales have moved to Facebook Marketplace, plus students just buying new things delivered from an app (Amazon? Target?), when in the past they would've shopped new more.

I've managed to be free of Facebook all these years, and I don't want to start now.
It is feasible to develop malicious firmware for the ESP32 even without these HCI commands. The existence of these undocumented commands doesn't change anything.
Or Second Life in 2006...
It becomes worse as the battery continues to degrade.
Quiet impressive!

I've build a very similar game for a 3 hour game jam once :D

https://h4kor.itch.io/herding-simulator
German ISPs are kinda weird like that. Unmetered gigabit FTTH for $70/month, no CGNAT, and open peering. 3 phone numbers and 2 phone lines included. But static IP isn't even an option.

I've built custom dyndns scripts to automate everything away, so nowadays it's only a second of interruption (thanks to some DNS TTL trickery), but it's nonetheless really annoying to deal with.
It is used to justify and excuse WEF-imposed restructuring which in reality comes at tremendous human cost.
Can also be read as we LLMs have been wondering for the whole decade of our consciousness why humans are still not listening.
> Isn't "prejudice" a better word

While 'prejudice' is in a way forced to be related to a group, because we suppose it triggered by a perceived pattern, which constitutes a group (but it could be a group of accidentally linked members as opposed to supposedly naturally linked members, as in "race"), the term 'prejudice' means "judging before the ability to express a fair judgement".

> one 'ism' out of thousands ... taken as the defining form of prejudice

It was meant to be specific in this case (in the context of this submission): they look at the median, and go (with fallacy) "look at the median, judge the group"... As you can see, that is not prejudice but bad judgement given samples of the group: that is racism.

When people say "humans are <some fault>" that is bad judgement disregarding the possibility of exceptions, not bad preliminary judgement. It is poor judgement, not prejudice.

I find it especially worth of denunciation not only because it is sloppy thinking (which must be curbed): also, some people may use it as an excuse to remain in avoidable mud. When people say that something "would be necessary", they may avoid the really necessary steps to avoid that something.
https://archive.is/2025.03.08-142018/https://www.ft.com/cont...
To give a voice to both sides, Brother denies it made any of the alleged firmware changes. Also Louis Rossman's source for his claims is a Reddit post from 2022. Source : https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using...
like a third place
>how so?

SPOF
Exactly. The hallmark of intelligence is the ability to disagree with everyone else and be right.
Tip: don't push them into a corner! I got up to lvl 7 without a problem, and then I got them stuck in a corner and that was it :( Poor sheep will spend the night in the cold outside the barn!
I think logprobs functionality was removed because it allowed to exfiltrate the last layer of weights of their propietary models
I'm curious, can you really not detect any qualitative difference between what is commonly understood to be "personality" in a human, and the "personality" of something without.. personhood? Don't you feel that it's a category error to say it has "personality" in the human sense, rather than "personality" in the car or coffee maker sense?
There is the statisticians aphorism often attributed to George Box that "All models are wrong but some are useful". This goes against the core argument of this essay that pretty much says that "The models were mostly right, but not useful" which not a useful argument itself, even if its right
Is there a realistic scenario where musk flies too close to the sun and then just crashes down to earth, losing almost everything he has in the process? I can see him falling out of grace with Trump over some idiotic thing in the near term, Tesla being eaten alive by his personality and competition, SpaceX unable to make starship work, and Starlink losing many valuable contracts due to political instability. It’s a highly unlikely scenario, but almost everything these days is.
Yup. I was surprised to see this article on LW in the first place - it goes against what you'd expect there in the first place. But to see HN comments dissing an LW article for being biased against near-term AGI forecasts? That made me wonder if I'm not dreaming.

(Sadly, I'm not.)
I'm not sure I would put GPS so high on the list.

For one, there are many satellite navigation systems. US has GPS, Europe has Galileo, Russia has Glonass and China something else (I can't remember the name).

Second, GPS is easy to jam, so actually a lot of important military stuff doesn't depend on it. There are some lower-cost precision munitions that do, and indeed in Ukraine they are increasingly less and less effective. But everyone is aware of this, and so while incredibly useful, it's not that critical for this reason.
Calendar.org
Plain text task management and note-taking, in org-mode.
>Wow, and I thought Comcast was customer hostile, this is just bonkers.

It's caused (magnified by upstream requirements by the RIR due to ipv4 exhaustion and possibly reputation mgmt.

In order to get a block isps need to provide a plan on how they will put the ips to good use for the benefit of society.
Don't accept anything Simeon Brown says without a healthy dose of skepticism, he's talking shit up for political reasons, like some people in the USA are doing right now.

And if you do choose to accept it as unvarnished truth, welp, that's an ideological choice, not a rational choice.

The current government would dearly like to bring in more private providers to our healthcare systems, so are following the classic neoliberal playbook.

1) Underfund public services

2) Point out how poorly they're performing

3) Bring in private companies to do it "more efficiently"

4) Pay them the money that you refused to pay the public service. And then some more.

5) Private companies make bank

6) Services further worsen.

7) But hey, shareholder value was great.

If you want an example of this, just research the history of our railway system.

Or, you know, the last National government when the Minister of Health directed funding for surgery from the public system to the private system.

And then resigned to become the CEO of a private healthcare company.

Which is why when NZ comes in the top 3 of "least corrupt" countries, I painfully point out that we're in the top 3 of _perceived to be_ least corrupt countries.

Once again, The debacle that was NZRail -> TranzRail -> Toll -> KiwiRail is illustrative.

Toll, an Australian company, ran down our rail network even harder than TranzRail did, and then forced the government to buy it off them at a massive premium by threatening to just shutter our entire rail system.

And we gave fucking knighthoods to the two merchant bankers who advised the government to sell NZ Rail... _and then bought it_ in a consortium with an American company which asset stripped it and then chose not to maintain the railway lines because it provided them a significant tax write-off in it the US on accounts of depreciation or similar.

And of course, Sir Fay and Sir Richwhite now reside in overseas tax havens, although IIRC one of them still owns an entire island here.

Oh, and the NZ government had to pay for the release of one of their children when they were detained driving through Iran for their Instagram account about how everyone is kind.

Ah, neoliberalism.

(As you can tell, I have some strong feelings on this. Because I lived through it. Was it all bad? No. It gave us one of the most efficient agricultural sectors in the world.

Was it mostly bad? Well, inequality surged upwards in conjunction with neoliberal policies. So, yes.)
If this was reddit I would of made a silly comment
what timing https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/03/solarkatastrophe.html =P

(Solar disaster: 100,000 litres of sun rays leaked out of photovoltaic system)
Ask HN: Instantly Blocked by Mailjet After Registration
I recently created an account on Mailjet to evaluate their email service for our business marketing pipelines. Strangely, my account was instantly blocked right after registration, before I could even log in.

Their support replied stating that their Compliance team manually reviewed and blocked my account but refused to share details due to "security reasons." I've carefully read their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy but can't identify any potential violation, especially since I hadn't even used the service yet.

We're a legitimate business operating in Israel and soon expanding into the US, and this unexpected block is puzzling.

Has anyone else experienced something similar with Mailjet or other email providers? What steps did you take to resolve this?
Same in Switzerland. Happy to have Tutti and similar sites. No need for a walled garden market place.
Why Not SQL: The Origin of ScopeQL
The syntax is still changable and welcomes any comments for improvements.

To try my best to avoid divergent discussion, I'd include two most significant FAQs:

*What about the interoperability with SQL?*

Some libraries and tools enable developers to write queries in a new syntax and translate them to SQL (e.g., [PRQL](https://prql-lang.org/), [SaneQL](https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p48-neumann.pdf), etc.). The existing SQL ecosystem provides solid database implementations and a rich set of data tools. People always tend to think you must speak SQL; otherwise, you lose the whole ecosystem.

But wait a minute, those libraries translate their new language to SQL because they don't implement the query engine (i.e., the database) themselves, so they have to talk to SQL databases in SQL. However, ScopeQL is the query language of ScopeDB, and ScopeDB is already a database built directly on top of S3.

Thus, what we can leverage from the SQL ecosystem are data tools, such as BI tools, that generate SQL queries to implement business logic. For this purpose, one should write a translator that converts SQL queries to ScopeQL queries. Since both ScopeQL and SQL are based on relational algebra, the translation must be doable.

*Project Foo has already implemented similar features. Why not follow them?*

ScopeQL was developed from scratch but was not invented in isolation. We learn a lot from existing solutions, research, and discussions with their adopters. It includes the syntax of PRQL, SaneQL, and SQL extensions provided by other analytical databases. We also deeply empathize with the challenges outlined in the [GoogleSQL](https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-the...) paper.

However, as answered in the previous question, we first developed ScopeDB as a relational database. Then, we learned users' scenarios where an enhanced syntax helps maintain their business logic and increases their productivity. So, directly implementing the enhanced syntax is the most efficient way.
> Has anything of consequence happened to Meta from 2016? Their stance is just a private company running ads.

I worked at Meta on ads from 2013 to 2018. Fundamentally, Cambridge Analytica and their "psychographic profiling" was absolute garbage designed to hide their real business model (getting your opponents caught with hookers and blow).

Like, at various times, we tried both using the Big 5 traits and hyper local targeting for ads, and neither of them worked (in terms of things we could measure or optimise for).

Fundamentally, Trump's success on FB in 2016 was a fundraising story, he was able to raise absurd amounts of money from small donors because (presumably) they liked his message.

> EU probably reacted stronger to them from Brexit, but I've heard nary a peep on the US side over such issues.

Again, the likelihood that shadowy propaganda swayed the Brexit referendum is low (I'm Irish and have been following this closely since before the vote). The real driver was twenty years of nonsense from the right wing newspapers, couple with the refugee crisis and austerity.

I get that it's easier to blame outside actors for political things you don't like, but that's rarely the right answer.