MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vixen99 | 2025-05-14 14:53:08+00:00
OK, that's your experience. On the other hand, https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/05/07/why-the-... offers some pointers as to why a fair number of people have a more positive reaction. Although it is, in a way, an obvious statement, the very last line somehow always stuck with me reading it years ago "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-14 14:53:48+00:00
1. 2FA over SMS is only $23 away from a compromised phone service

2. People love binding individual accounts to specific IP addresses, and large marketing firms especially like websites that use free DNS service to quietly track said users across the session

3. Much like DRM, the account auto constrains a single user to a single IP. Makes sense... unless you run a business account with a dozen people clearing a shared inbox

4. SMS inbox phone numbers are $2.75, and that requirement is bypassed if the company smartphone hardware/emulation is in use for account "recovery"

5. SIM hijacking and email server snooping is far more common than people like to admit

6. People feel safer, but it only increases the CVE difficulty level slightly above third world skill levels

This is why we can't have nice things =3
by jasonlotito | 2025-05-14 14:53:53+00:00
Just to make sure: Google software has the same exact permission structure across the board? e.g. No Google product uses the same permissions NextCloud is seeking, and instead, they are using SAF? Especially for things that do what NextCloud is doing here.

I just want to be sure that Google is playing by the same rules they they put out for NextCloud and other app developers.
by kllrnohj | 2025-05-14 14:54:12+00:00
> Isn’t HLG using floating point(s)?

All transfer functions can generally work on either integer range or floating point. They basically just describe a curve shape, and you can have that curve be over the range of 0.0-1.0 just as easily as you can over 0-255 or 0-1023.

Extended sRGB is about the only thing that basically requires floating point, as it specifically describes 0.0-1.0 as being equivalent to sRGB and then has a valid range larger than that (you end up with something like -.8 to 2.4 or greater). And representing that in integer domain is conceptually possible but practically not really.

> Also DCI-P3 should fit in here somewhere, as it seems to be the most standardized color space for HDR.

BT2020 is the most standardized color space for HDR. DCI-P3 is the most common color gamut of HDR displays that you can actually afford, however, but that's a smaller gamut than what most HDR profiles expect (HDR10, HDR10+, and "professional" DolbyVision are all BT2020 - a wider gamut than P3). Which also means most HDR content specifies a color gamut it doesn't actually benefit from having as all that HDR content is still authored to only use somewhere between the sRGB and DCI-P3 gamut since that's all anyone who views it will actually have.
by jfengel | 2025-05-14 14:54:21+00:00
Gathering raw inflation data is an enormous effort. You need to look at hundreds of products in scores of markets.

The final inflation number is a formula based on that raw data, and is more a matter of opinion. So if you don't trust the BLS's inflation formula, they have an API for the raw data that they gather:

https://www.bls.gov/data/

The data also contains the weights they use, presently and historically.

There are also ways to bias the raw data gathering process, but the BLS's process is generally considered valid. For anybody else to gather similar data, it would be at least as biased, and an enormous effort. Especially since what's most important is the trend lines, and you'd need decades of data for that to be meaningful.

I'll admit that I do not trust the present administration not to interfere. Mostly, they've tended to just delete the data. I hope somebody has backed this up.

But I have not yet heard that the administration was changing the processes. So at least at for the moment, I'd trust the BLS raw data as being compatible with previous data.
by Vinnl | 2025-05-14 14:54:28+00:00
I don't think you can infer that people were using their preferred method just from the fact that they were using it - after all, the status quo was also the result of policy.

> IMO what they should be keeping a careful eye on and tracking is how many fewer trips happen to businesses in those areas.

I think the article mentions this?

> In March, just over 50 million people visited business districts inside the congestion zone, or 3.2 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the New York City Economic Development Corporation (its estimate tries to exclude people who work or live in the area).

See also the "Other business measures are doing OK so far" heading.
by BitwiseFool | 2025-05-14 14:54:53+00:00
My take on the average American high school English curriculum is this: Your teacher approaches the class and says, "I love this book, it is one of the greatest works of literature ever produced and you are going to love it as well. Pour over it with a fine toothed comb and write a series of essays explaining just how much you love this book and how brilliantly written it is. Don't forget to profess just how much you have internalized the morals it is trying to convey."

For some students this approach works. But for people like me it turns what is supposed to be a personalized reflection into a sterile dissection.

I don't blame anyone that resorts to using Cliff's Notes just to get past the assignments. There is only so much that can be said about a certain book, and you can't just write an essay saying "The Great Gatsby was alright but I really didn't get much out of it and I don't see why people think it is so amazing". No, you must profess how elegantly written it is and how you now realize that the American Dream is largely a facade and that greed is what undermines our ideals.

I am not knocking anyone who actually enjoyed The Great Gatsby nor am I actually dismissing what the F. Scott Fitzgerald was trying to convey. What I am saying, though, is that the heavy-handed approach the English curriculum took in trying to make me enjoy this book had the opposite effect. In fact, I remember virtually nothing about it, despite having read it cover-to-cover and having written a series of essays on it.
by bwfan123 | 2025-05-14 14:54:54+00:00
This is the same asymmetry why I wont buy a tesla until tesla allows any mechanic to fix problems with it. ie, you are beholden to the manufacturer or seller, and are at their mercy. This becomes more important as the car ages.

In this case also, it appears that the customer has no recourse (bad reviews are taken down.)
by bluGill | 2025-05-14 14:55:18+00:00
Dublin is the exception that proves the rule. They somehow managed to convince everyone that they were going to run their system for 10 years and thus it could be trusted, and then continued running it long enough to get people to start using it.

Great if you can pull that off in your city, but I'm not confident you can. For that matter if you can pull it off it means you are lacking smaller investments many years before that would have resulted in some transport that you could have grown over time to what you are finally getting.
by taeric | 2025-05-14 14:55:48+00:00
To be fair, I think this is just definitional? If you would normally do one behavior, but an increased cost to it causes you to do something else; I think it is fair to say the first would be your preference?

Now, if it was claimed as a superior method, that would be different. I could easily see it being people's preference as much from habit and availability as from any active preference. Certainly few people want to sit in traffic. But without an obvious immediate cost, many will jump in the car to drive somewhere.
by jwagenet | 2025-05-14 14:55:52+00:00
> IMO what they should be keeping a careful eye on and tracking is how many fewer trips happen to businesses in those areas.

There’s a section dedicated to this which indicates visitors to business zones are up and OpenTable reservations are up.

If anything, the reduced congestion should be a boon for business deliveries and the congestion pricing should be a rounding error for those users.

IMO, people think driving is their preferred transportation method because it gives the illusion of independence. The subway goes everywhere in lower Manhattan and you don’t need to deal with the time, cost, or inconvenience of parking, traffic, driving stress, etc.
by tart-lemonade | 2025-05-14 14:55:56+00:00
According to https://2fa.directory/us/#banking there are 3 banks in the US that support hardware 2FA (without limitations like requiring a Symantec token or only being available to "high risk" clients): BofA, Morgan Stanley, and Mercury.

Of these three, Mercury isn't really a bank, it's a non-bank financial institution (and as the bankruptcy of Synapse shows, putting your money into these services can be risky), Morgan Stanley has zero locations within a 1 hour drive (important for when I need cashiers checks or need to deposit checks that mobile apps can't handle), and BofA's interest rates are laughable.

There's no FDIC-insured bank which has decent savings accounts, physical branches near me, and supports proper hardware 2FA. The best I can get is savings, location, and (the bank's app-based) software 2FA.

There truly is no incentive for the banks to improve, and I don't think anything will unless congress forces their hands (which seems unlikely, given that the average person has never suffered an SMS 2FA-based attack on their finances and thus has no reason to write to congress about it).
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-14 14:55:59+00:00
I do think the cost thing is a factor.

You've got 30 seconds you shot that, when the editor sits down to put it all together, definitely needs to be trimmed. But if you do that, it's 30 fewer seconds of "content". Your business measures output in terms of minutes of content, finished or watched. If you leave it in, the scene's worse, but how many viewers will stop watching because of it? Fewer than what it's worth to have that extra half-minute of "content". So it stays.

And operating this way, you can shoot 7 minutes of dialog that'd be trimmed to 4.5 minutes in a good edit (it's many individual shots, and most have at least a little on the beginning or end that need to go), instead trimming only what's absolutely necessary and get 5 or maybe 5.5 minutes out of it; do that over an entire 40 minute episode and you've saved yourself an entire longish scene that you'd have had to set up for otherwise, to fill the same time. Each set-up is expensive, so that's also saving you money despite being the same amount of "content".
by miki123211 | 2025-05-14 14:56:39+00:00
> Apple's satellite messaging service is the only solution I know of that can somehow hook into carriers' SMS home router

Are you sure it actually does this?

I thought it was a pseudo-carrier that could speak MAP / Diameter, and just pretended you were roaming with them when you used satellite connectivity, perhaps with the original carrier's knowledge and consent.

As far as I understand, that's how this kind of service usually gets implemented.
by sandofsky | 2025-05-14 14:57:03+00:00
> Does anyone else find the hubris in the first paragraph writing as off-putting as I do? > "we finally explain what HDR actually means"

No. Because it's written for the many casual photographers we've spoken with who are confused and asked for an explainer.

> Then spends 2/3rds of the article on a tone mapping expedition, only to not address the elephant in the room, that is the almost complete absence of predictable color management in consumer-grade digital environments.

That's because this post is about HDR and not color management, which is different topic.
by DonaldFisk | 2025-05-14 14:57:09+00:00
> In the last recorded statistics, the White British population in Britain had been reduced to 54% by births

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_British , "In the 2021 Census, the White British group numbered 44,355,044 or 74.4% of the population of England and Wales." In Scotland the percentage is 87.1%.

You might be referring to the percentage of recent births to non White British parents, which is a different thing. (And, if someone's parents are, say, Polish, but they're born in the UK, surely that makes them White British.)

> It's a staggering, utterly unprecedented rate of demographic change that historians will look back on with the same or greater significance as the Anglo-Saxon or Norman invasions.

Well, we mostly speak English with a lot of vocabulary from Norman French, rather than Welsh or a close relative of it as we would have done had those invasions never happened. And I don't see that changing as a result of recent immigration.
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by vel0city | 2025-05-14 14:57:31+00:00
> Back in the day asking my computer to "do" something was the thing I always dreaded, I could navigate, click around, use chat programs like IRC/ICQ and so on, and everything was fine, until I opened a program or "did" something that caused the computer to think.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. When I'm actually using my computer, its orders of magnitude faster. Things where I'd do one click and then practically have to walk away and come back to see if it worked happen in 100ms now. This is the machine being way faster and far more responsive.

Like, OK, some Apple IIe had 30ms latency on a key press compared to 50ms on a Haswell desktop with a decent refresh rate screen or 100ms on some Thinkpad from 2017, assuming these machines aren't doing anything.

But I'm not usually doing nothing when I want to press the key. I've got dozens of other things I want my computer to do. I want it listening for events on a few different chat clients. I want it to have several dozen web pages open. I want it to stream music. I want it to have several different code editors open with linters examining my code. I want it paying attention if I get new mail. I want it syncing directories from this machine to other machines and cloud storage. I want numerous background agents handling tons of different things. Any one of those tasks would cause that Apple IIe to crawl instantly and it doesn't even have the memory to render a tiny corner of my screen.

The computer is orders of magnitude "faster", in that it is doing many times as much work much faster even when it's seemingly just sitting there. Because that's what we expect from our computers these days.

Tell me how fast a button press is when you're on a video call on your Apple IIe while having a code linter run while driving a 4K panel and multiple virtual desktops. How's its Unicode support?
by dhosek | 2025-05-14 14:57:45+00:00
Kind of reminds me of my dream in 2001 (although at that time, the core device was a Palm Pilot, not a phone): I want something that I can carry in my pocket and use anywhere, but I can also sit at a desk and connect to a display, keyboard and mouse (I’d prefer a trackpad now) and have a full computing experience. 24 years later and we’re slowly creeping towards that dream. I had hoped that the fact that iOS was based on MacOS meant that the iPhone was going to get there sooner rather than later, but not so much.
by jboggan | 2025-05-14 14:57:50+00:00
I remember in 2014 going to play a Bitcoin poker game at some Google VP's house way up in the hills, Charlie Lee was there. We tried to buy-in at the beginning to a pot address but no one could get their Coinbase SMS 2FA to work because we had no reception so we ended up writing IOUs on scraps of paper.
by alexjplant | 2025-05-14 14:58:30+00:00
Disclaimer: I don't own a Tesla or $TSLA or otherwise engage with Musk or his business ventures. My observation is apolitical.

---

I stopped reading here:

> Fictional concepts such as Mad Max’s tanker-based War Rig are often the inspiration for real-world creations like Ford’s custom-built F650 Supertruck, a tractor-trailer sized monstrosity that can carry 120 gallons of fuel, tow 30,000lbs, and be reinforced with bulletproof armor. The truck is how insurgent fighters get around war zones and what storm chasers use to run down tornadoes.

The linked articles make no mention of the F-650 Supertruck. All I could find with a quick Google search regarding these use cases are Hiluxes/imported F-150s and domestic customized F-350s respectively. There's also nary a mention of said trucks being inspired by latter-day Mad Max films. Inquiries via Kagi's LLM facilities confirm my conclusions.

Why bother writing any of this if it simply isn't true? Such glaring falsities don't inspire confidence in the more substantial parts of the article... there's more than enough wrong with the Cybertruck to write about without resorting to whole-cloth fabrications to make the point.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-05-14 14:58:34+00:00
You can grant permission to multiple folders you know.

Downloads is blocked because it would include everything you download, possibly including private stuff you don't want other apps to access. Just save the stuff that you want synced to a different folder.

I guess if you really want everything synced (e.g. doing a full device backup) then that would fall under Google's exception for backup apps and it would be allowed full disk access. Those are kinda separate use cases though. Maybe Nextcloud could make a separate "Nextcloud Device Backup" app which does that?
by tecleandor | 2025-05-14 14:58:51+00:00
True!

Another surprising format:

I was starting my 'career' in 1999, in a Spanish TV production company. I remember a guy that had a business selling a 'curated' Netscape bookmarks collection. Can't remember the price, but the company paid for it, and he sent it in some physical format (diskettes?), and we imported it to our writers computers.
by georgemcbay | 2025-05-14 14:59:05+00:00
Sorry you are going through this, both the situation and the responses you are getting from the 'tough crowd' folks.

I'm lucky enough to not be in a similar situation currently (I have a software development job that I enjoy) but I have a feeling that the majority of people who are dismissing your experience out of hand are probably also among the lucky ones who haven't yet been forced to confront a new reality formed over the past 1-2 years and are suffering from similar delusions as people who think their health insurance in the US is fine (because they haven't had to actually use it for something expensive and become a cost center for their insurer).

I've had a long and varied career in software development and the early 2000s dot-com crash (and the subsequent near-global-hiring-freeze that took place in the US tech sector) is the last time I've ever had even a temporary worry about being able to find a new job easily. While I haven't yet experienced it directly this time it feels like we're currently in a similar environment, except its a lot less clear that this one cycles out in the foreseeable future, if ever.
by ramesh31 | 2025-05-14 14:59:08+00:00
>The increased speeds are excellent for those who can afford the toll. This is a universal benefit of toll roads for those people.

Anecdotally that seems to be the case. The largest burden of this tax is falling on low income commuters who live off the train lines and have to drive into Manhattan, yet all of the money is going to... the train lines (MTA). Understandably they're not too happy.
by pyrale | 2025-05-14 14:59:08+00:00
My original message was simply here to remind people that technical decisions we make have consequences on who can use our services.

You were the one introducing this vocabulary (as well as claiming everyone living there does it by choice). Now you try to move the debate again with people "demanding" stuff. None of this vocabulary or framing exists in the original article, or in mine.

Let me clarify the question: why do you insist on framing this debate in a way that makes a moral claim about people's character?
by marssaxman | 2025-05-14 14:59:10+00:00
I had this problem a couple years back, when I was living in a small coastal town where cell service was spotty. Generally I could either be in a place where I could receive text messages, or a place where I could get access to wifi, but not both at the same time. When I wanted to get into my bank website, I would drive 20 minutes up the road to the next, slightly less small town, where I could get wifi and receive SMS, then drive back when I was done.

If I had stayed there longer, I might have found a better solution for my personal situation, but the experience as it was left me pretty uncomfortable with mandatory SMS 2FA as a general security tool. I'm sure there are many other people running into similar edge-cases.
by theamk | 2025-05-14 14:59:13+00:00
I think what has happened is the author has no idea what "email backend" was, so he just decided to ignore that part and build the only backend he knew, web-app backend. And those terms are pretty different. The "email backend" is the service which actually stores and transfers email, in the author's case it was turso + postman.

So from the interviewer's standpoint, author was asking about few details of implementation, like "can I use third-party service for email storage?"; and the response was of course "yes, you can" (because assignment was pretty clear that backend does not need to be advanced or even present, and that it's UI that matters)

I guess the question worked as intended, and filtered out candidate who cannot even read the simple requirements.

(The amount of effort was disproportional though, but I am not sure how to solve this in take-home context without discriminating against people who have busy schedules and/or work slowly)
by stackedinserter | 2025-05-14 15:00:20+00:00
What's accurate in this article? It's very vague, it can be tldred into "we won't go anywhere, although AI does more and more of our work"

> Radiologists do far more than study images. They advise other doctors and surgeons, talk to patients, write reports and analyze medical records. After identifying a suspect cluster of tissue in an organ, they interpret what it might mean for an individual patient with a particular medical history, tapping years of experience.

AI will do that more efficiently, and probably already does. "tapping years of experience" is just data in training set.

> A.I. can also automatically identify images showing the highest probability of an abnormal growth, essentially telling the radiologist, “Look here first.” Another program scans images for blood clots in the heart or lungs, even when the medical focus may be elsewhere. > “A.I. is everywhere in our workflow now,” Dr. Baffour said. > “Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I.,” he said. “But it will be humans and A.I. working together.”

Maybe you'll be able to happily retire because inertia, but overall it looks like elevator operator job.

What's so special about radiology?