skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While tariffs have been used as a protectionism measure in Brazil for decades, and before tariffs there was a complete import ban for a lot of manufactured goods during the military dictatorship. It never ever helped local industrialisation, instead the country is stuck paying absurd prices for electronics goods while the local production, research and development, etc. are extremely subpar.

It only helped locally produced shoddy products to win a larger market share, quality is underwhelming since they don't have to compete with more better products at the same price.
> On one hand, I really want WebUSB, but at the same time, I REALLY don't want the average person to have WebUSB.

I really do want the general public to have access.

Many people need to interface with devices and we are sadly in a situation where Apps served by closed App Store are the only option.

If I want to distribute a way to allow the wider public to access a device that no longer has official support, WebUSB is by far the easiest way.

In an alternative world where Chrome did not support it, the average person would need to be able to install and run [python or other scripting language].

If the developer was really keen then they might offer a desktop app or go through the long and expensive process of submitting it to an App Store.

I think WebUSB can have a secure UI and I also can’t think what devices the average user has plugged in that could be compromised. I am pretty sure you can’t use WebUSB to take control of a keyboard or mouse (HID), storage, wifi, audio, smart card of U2F devices.

But it’s super useful for proprietary label printers, random toys/gadgets and programming/flashing microcontrollers.
A bunch of countries turn off the internet at the first sign of protests, hell sometimes they just turn it off to stop "a bunch of college kids from cheating during test week"

Coming to a country near you soon
Is there an Onion archive.today?
Yes but because it's trained on text and in the backend, images are converted to tokens, it is absolutely dogshit at navigation and basic puzzles. It can't figure out what Squirrels can about how to achieve goals in a maze.
With respect to culture wars and firing the "vaccine" hesitant it was a regime. Trump is now establishing a regime of a different kind. One can be unhappy with both.
It also requires a Google account as far as I know. I have Google apps but no account signed in. And when I tap on the connect RCS option it asks me to sign in.

Anyway iMessage (and iOS for that matter) is irrelevant where I live so I don't expect this to change anything. I'm not going to be on RCS. The main apps here are WhatsApp and Telegram (the latter more for groups)
If you do something with your car that ends up with it skidding on its side, that's a crash by any possible definition.
Yes, but if you are really picky you will want your background pattern to align nicely with your typeface. Sure, you can carefully try to ensure that each character is a multiple of some fixed unit and set your stripe size based on that. Then make sure that the start padding is correct. But every step of the way any differences in the text renderer and things like accessibility settings overriding font sizes will be working against you. If you want to use this on a website or any other medium that doesn't have a very strict and consistent rendering pipeline I can't think of a better way to do it than a font like this.
nice straw man argument right there
It is as bad as it has ever been………

But border patrol has always been a bunch of small dick assholes, all the way back to Obama.

My wife and I adopted a child from another country. He was 18 months of age at the time.

We flew into LAX. We were exhausted from a long flight. We got to customs. Agents approached us and said that they had a few questions and said that I (the father) needed to collect our bags and they would escort my wife(us citizen), my oldest son (us citizen), and my youngest son(adopted foreign national) to the waiting area.

I got our bags and tried to rejoin my family. They denied me entry. Said they had questions for “them”. After an hour I started to have to raise hell because I had all the supplies for my family. Diapers. Food, etc. I was told it obviously took us a while to adopt this kid so we can wait longer.

I eventually stated that they were illegally holding two us citizens and I was going to call 911 for them to take me serious.

They acted like they didn’t know my wife and oldest wee US citizens. Bunch of bullshit. Fuck those assholes and every one of them that continues to violate our constitutional rights.

Signed

12 year US Navy Civilian.
Listen closely when people tell you who they are.
On the scale of Wild Things happening in US politics, this one is pretty minor. Provoking that sort of constitutional crisis over it seems poorly advised - it'd be better if the judicial system sticks to their traditional role of telling people to do things differently when it has been established that the government is acting illegally.

In my lifetime politicians have associated with flagrant lies that led to 100,000s of deaths and they aren't even expected to apologise. The Iraq war alone is a study - eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project.
And that's why you carry out politically motivated arrests of Chinese citizens on orders from the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_case_of_Meng_Wan...
If we kill enough of a kind it is okay to help them.

Where I live we have enough slugs to feed thousands of hedgehogs but they don't understand traffic. Therefore it is fine to build luxury hotels for them.
Who runs the website for dmv.ca.gov. They got a bug (I think)
I cannot get through their Vehicle registration form.

I fill out all the forms and at the end click "confirm and submit".It then send me back to the first page with a validation error saying the State "field is required".

I fill it in and go through the forms again, click "confirm and submit" and get the same error.

I've tried Brave and Chrome.
I've tried different addresses.
I've cleared the cache.
I've talked to the reps.

Anyone know how I can file a bug OR know a way around it?
Rasti.js – A modern MVC for building UI
Lighten up dude !
Imagine I give you a text of any arbitrary length in an unknown language with no images. With no context other than the text, what could you learn?

If I told you the text contained a detailed theory of FTL travel, could you ever construct the engine? Could you even prove it contained what I told you?

Can you imagine that given enough time, you'd recognize patterns in the text? Some sequences of glyphs usually follow other sequences, eventually you could deduce a grammar, and begin putting together strings of glyphs that seem statistically likely compared to the source.

You can do all the analysis you like and produce text that matches the structure and complexity of the source. A speaker of that language might even be convinced.

At what point do you start building the space ship? When do you realize the source text was fictional?

There's many untranslatable human languages across history. Famously, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. We had lots and lots of source text, but all context relating the text to the world had been lost. It wasnt until we found a translation on the Rosetta stone that we could understand the meaning of the language.

Text alone has historically proven to not be enough for humans to extract meaning from an unknown language. Machines might hypothetically change that but I'm not convinced.

Just think of how much effort it takes to establish bidirectional spoken communication between two people with no common language. You have to be taught the word for apple by being given an apple. There's really no exception to this.
They used this with the IVs mucked with: https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/index.html
I also wonder what limitations you get on queries. Cause in Spanner, there's something about cross-directory queries, or Citus can't do cross-shard FKs iirc. There's no magic way to shard a relational DB, you have to deal with it one way or another.
Would you let people buy 'shares' of your startup idea before building?
If people could buy a piece of your startup idea, like stock, before you build—would you do it?

Ever tried getting real $$ validation before building? What worked?

Just curious if this would be useful or if it’s a dumb idea.
I've done this in the early '90s, when I implemented all published algorithms back then into a Turbo Pascal program, which was allowing me to see full-color images on poor post-Soviet color displays - it wasn't just doing dithering, but also allowing you to pan and zoom, while switching algorithms. Give the limitations of the hardware, I had to implement the algorithms with a running buffer, optimized for panning, i.e. incrementally dithering the image. As some could guess, not a small part of these images was erotic. The program also was able to print on a matrix printer and I was improving it and had some test printouts in my bag. As I was in high school back. At one point some kids put a classroom on fire and they were doing an investigation, so, at one point they asked me to open my school bag and show them the contents. And, yes, I got into a big, big trouble. It was really tough to provide a meaningful explanation that I had only limited set of true-color images and, of course, the most popular were erotic given the post-Soviet interest in erotica and pornography. So, every time when I read something about dithering here on HN, it brings back my memory of being taken to the police station by two cops in front of the entire school for "distributing pornographic materials".
I built my own extension to subscibe to Hacker News comments and get automatic updates when they are updated.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/please-at-me/

It works perfectly on Firefox for Android and desktop Android.

Firefox is so awesome, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
The one good thing is this is going to end the Courts giving 'good faith' waivers to the government prosecutors for everything (oh the cops didn't keep chain of custody on this evidence but that's OK we are going to waive chain of custody requirements because we know you all are acting in good faith is such a BS policy).
Kier, PE actually.
Battery is silly for buses, IMO. Invest in streetcars (electrified fixed-route buses) and be done with it. Streetcar lines represent continued investment, and are therefore more attractive to developers, unlike bus routes that can be changed on a whim. And they've been around for longer. Cut the red tape on building them and on zoning if you want to see serious results.
Certainly not possible in all domains but equally certainly possible in some. There’s not much controversy about the height of the Eiffel Tower or how to concatenate two numpy arrays.
One small point: Token selection at each step is fine (and required if you want to be able to additively/linearly/independently handle losses). The problem here is the high inaccuracies in each token (or, rather, their distributions). If you use more time and space to generate the token then those errors go down. If using more time and space cannot suffice then, by construction, energy minimization models and any other solution you can think of also can't reduce the errors far enough.
AFAIK class action cases are cheaper for corporations than thousands of arbitrations.
Would you expect a "privacy focused" browser to offer you networking disabled by default but the ability to enable completely unrestricted networking in the settings (you can install a plugin for CORS and the like if you want) or to natively provide the privacy controls you need to actually use the browser? If the latter, why is it different depending which attack surface you ask about? If the former, why not just make that plugin part of the browser itself?
There's limited competition in the gig economy? I don't know what you think a free market is supposed to look like then because the gig economy is fully unregulated outside of a couple states and the barrier to entry was being able to write an app on your phone.

You literally cannot get more unregulated than that. What is your vision here?
I'm excited to hear why you put "vaccine" in scare quotes.
Preclearance locations have more traffic and so tend to have more nasty interviewers and more random denials. TN interviews elsewhere are much friendlier. Choose a land crossing if possible.
I was so excited. I knew it was too good to be true.

Something like this will basically destroy legacy platforms like tableau, sas etc
Not related to vehicle battery energy consumption, transit agencies have been reporting their BEBs struggling up hills due to drivetrain components not being good fits for their terrain. Surprising finding, with the OEM sending replacement parts as a result.
Elon Musk's Starlink Pushes Its Way into India
I don't actually use the program in my stead, I just put it up against other programs in computer chess tournaments.
People run postgres at scale which is much "larger" than what you are running, which isn't to say that your workload isn't substantial, it is. But there are folks who push it harder, both in terms of writes/rows and workload complexity. It's one thing to write a ton of rows into a single table, it's another thing entirely to write into many tables, index all of them and then query them at scale; you didn't mention much about your workload complexity so I'm not trying to suggest it isn't complex, but there are certainly plenty of folks on this forum who can attest to it being tricky to scale high write workloads, in large organizations with many stakeholders and complex query loads.
Have you read any of the disclosure forms? They're a joke. I read the 990 for one organization (NLIHC [0]), a mostly-government-funded organization with >10M in "revenue". They're required to list their three most cost-intensive activities in field 4a of the 990, and brother, those people don't do a damn thing. They listed 1) they helped local governments spend tax money 2) made 8 pamphlets (the one I saw was ~10 pages long), and 3) they helped some other organization prepare some webinars. They list more fluff and nonsense (including attending conventions), but no meaningful deliverables. They couldn't even be bothered to proofread their one required deliverable, as evidenced by the bullet points which they copy/pasted into field 4a!

They employ 40 people and their CEO makes 400K, BTW.

These orgs do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[0]https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521...
https://archive.ph/P0PkO
1984 but we chose it instead of it being forced on us.
I don't see any information about domains that are used for those email aliases.

Apart from that - the idea of the project is just pure fire, I would love very much to have thousands of different personas for the nasty tracking huge corporations that entangled the internet.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regime

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

Relevant quote: "In politics, a regime (also spelled régime) is a system of government that determines access to public office, and the extent of power held by officials. The two broad categories of regimes are democratic and autocratic."

It is true that as a term it has accrued some negative connotations due to the frequent use of the all-encompassing "regime" to speak of governments where their exact denomination tends to fall on the autocratic side of things. From a journalistic point of view, it is better to use a neutral term than a charged one; which unfortunately as you've noticed yourself it can taint the term to readers who are not familiar with its exact scope.

But it is correct to call it Biden's regime, just like the current administration (perhaps a better term given its popularity in the US) is part of Trump's regime.
Or worse ANC.

On the Bose 700 headphones there was quite a bit of controversy after many users reported the ANC performance getting worse after an update. This was a few years after the headphones were released, so there were theories of it being intentional degradation to get people to upgrade.

Personally I didn't notice any difference. Bose denied any wrongdoing and seemed to spend real effort on investigating the customer complains.
Wait until you hear about a politician that started his own meme coin right before entering office. I'm sure those attacking audited non-profits would go after such a blatantly fraud and abuse prone politician first.
In UTF-8, your standard latin characters are encoded just as they are in ASCII (1-byte each), and all UTF-8 characters are 1-4 bytes. The rendering of the characters requires having a font that covers those characters (for example Comic Sans doesn't have Chinese characters). A website can rely on the users' installed fonts or have a font specific font the client will download in it's CSS, but in any case that's orthogonal to the encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
Potentially, but it’s fine as long as it’s done on the device and only notifies the user. Like ‘This might be spam, are you sure you want to view it’ or ‘This message might contain nudity’ if people care about enabling that kind of filter.

As long as it never will call out to any external server it doesn’t break the security.
Aren't we all...
I’d do the opposite. Take out $200 every day. Re-deposit it. Overwhelm the system.
I don't think you're misunderstanding. I think the person you're responding to is misunderstanding that we were referring to trip end points (layover locations).
> this mission was largely a success. What can he possibly mean by that?

> Compared to the company's first spacecraft, Athena flew smoothly.

Reminds me of the comedian opining on the flipped over airplane.

“Did you know the pilot was a woman? [hecklers] Woah woah, I’m not saying women cant be pilots, thats not even accurate. She flew perfectly….. what I am saying is that she can’t drive”
The office building is a Bell Labs building in Holmdel. The aesthetic of the town feels a bit like upstate New York. But the town of Salt Neck (200m away) was filmed in Newfoundland. So they are going for permanently cold and remote but with familiar elements.

But the cars are not normal for any of those places in the modern era where people own smartphones (as the characters do.) In fact, my parents used to own Ms. Cobel’d exact VW Rabbit in 1983 (in silver) and it was not a great car for snow. They replaced it with multiple successive 4WD Subarus as soon as that was an option. The RWD Volvos are better and kind of timeless New England cars, but I’d imagine those year/models have passed into rust by now except for a few that were exquisitely pampered and kept away from road salt.
You got me man, great troll
NYTimes lost any and all credibility when they hired a literal Israeli Military Intelligence propagandist to write the their headline shock inducing piece on 40 beheaded babies, infants in ovens, and mass rape.

These have all been widely been debunked, including by Israeli media. But NYT never retracted their propaganda piece. This gave a free hand for the IDF, with U.S backing, to commit mass murder on an industrial scale in Gaza.

How are they even relevant anymore, and why do people pay to consume literal foreign propaganda? The purpose of the news media is to inform, but these guys are doing the complete opposite.

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1761740292015767736
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schw...
The rise of intelligent infrastructure for LLM applications
Sounds cool and it also helps bring to light corruption. So hopefully this business goes out of business soon and we can focus on higher level corruption.

I will sub just to try it. I am more into crypto tbh.
"licking fascist boot every time it"

wdym about this???
Bankruptcy, like death, often happens lowly, and then all at once.
What's this in reference to?

This is OpenAI asking, not the GOP. There's no GOP policy mentioned. From the article:

> The Trump administration has generally signaled its intention to take a hands-off approach to regulating the technology.
I suspect plenty of government money directly flows to newspapers as part of various campaigns to sway public opinion on certain politically important topics.

Perhaps moreso outside the USA where just a handful of paid articles can sway some topic important for US foreign policy.
Lightning ports very rarely fail or get loose - it’s more robust than usb-c in that regard, which is already a high bar - it’s probably dust in the port
A relative’s doctor’s practice just got acquired by one of these private-equity-backed profit-hungry medical chains.

I went with him to an appointment. As a condition of checking in to see his doctor, on a silly tablet at the office, he had to sign away his HIPAA rights for them to sell his charts, along with his identity information, to advertisers or any other third parties. I was beside myself.

Wasn’t long afterward before he started seeing insultingly specific (but medically incorrect) prescription drug ads, almost exclusively, on his TV service.
I mean, this wasn't particularly popular in Canada at the time.

And yes, we did it for who we thought was our biggest ally, and the fallout definitely wasn't worth it, considering the charges were eventually dropped.

Living in Canada and having European family I can tell you the attitudes towards both the US and China have shifted a lot recently.
> I am considering options where self-hosted users and cloud users (perhaps as a premium option) will be able to do this though.

yeah that sounds great!
i think the one site i recall doing this acted as a fancy email forwarder and header exchanger; allowed the user to create N aliases, and it would forward them all to the users email. then a user could reply and the server would basically grab the body and convert the outbound headers to match the alias (i can never remember the website anymore though- and it lacked open sourceness or i'd have self hosted that if i could)

many iterations is the way to go - im one who always favors options and tinkering (and sometimes with minimal reading; extra challenge mode) - wont be for a month before i can attempt the self hosting bit but i do plan to try it (so my feedback will be very delayed)

thanks for doin all the hard work
good luck and dont burn out!
Thanks for your insight. The amount of damage that Proterra did to the overall BEB adoption rates should not be underestimated. I work with many agencies and so many of them are running from BEBs toward FCEBs in large part because of their, or sister agency, experience with Proterra buses.
Bioage.fit: Track and Optimize Your Biological Age with AI – Feedback Welcome
Hey HN, I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on: bioage.fit. It’s an AI-powered app designed to help you discover and optimize your biological age by tracking sleep, nutrition, and activity patterns. Inspired by the growing interest in longevity (e.g., Bryan Johnson’s work), bioage.fit provides personalized insights to reduce your biological age and improve overall health.

Key features:

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