skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance companies should try to hire experts to improve digital security of their clients, and then sell some insurance covering this kind of loss.

I'm not really fond of insurance companies, but as long as there are no solid and MANDATORY security standards and practices put in place, nothing will change. Maybe government should just inspect and validate the sale of software if it's secure enough. Of course the process will involve more work, but it's not like the silicon valley cannot pay for this.

It's like we're at an age when the seatbelt and speed limits are not even made into laws, and we're still somehow surprised of accidents.
Yes, and in practice it's a pain that forces/highly encourages you to use the Microsoft Store.
> what make you think China will "cut off the world" IF that happens?

You think leading US chip designers would send their designs to China?

The well organized state of industrial espionage by China, is a pretty good reason this won't happen.

Furthermore, the rest of the world would be forced to embargo anything related to Taiwan.
Why not boycott Walmart?

If low pay is an ethical concern shouldn't people take aim with their own purchasing power?
Any idea what the historical price of sidewalks was? My search engine foo isn't turning up much before 2007.

I've been wondering how the nice sidewalk / walking / biking places I've enjoyed were built.. was it super cheap in the 80s and skyrocketed since?

I've gone down the rabbit hole of semi-current pricing for sidewalks being built and road expansion in this mid-size city - and it's just dumb that a sidewalk install can easily cost a million dollars for a block or two for example.

I can't imagine building neighborhoods today that mimic what I miss from the past in another state - but there's no way it cost that much to build back then either I'm fairly certain.
What can I tell you? You work around bad managers, not “typical” managers, IME. The typical productive ops middle manager is a pretty stressed out animal or left on the side of the road, the typical senior ops manager has an easier daily life punctuated by episodes of challenging and rewarding hardships.
Good managers _are_ hard to find relative to good individual contributors. On that we agree. Most individual contributors who think they want to be managers quickly find out it’s not an easy or fake job - it’s a damn hard job to do correctly. Bad managers beget bad junior managers, but that’s rarely sustainable in the long term for an organization, again IME.
And here I thought that taxi drivers and graphic designers would be the first professions to be killed by AI ...
The idea of this encoding is to store two bytes of data in three characters. To me it's not obvious why you need a base as high as 45 for that.

Assuming you either want to store two bytes, or a trailing one, you have 256*256 + 256 combinations: 65792. Using three base45 characters, you can get up to 45^3=91125 combinations. It looks like base41 would have been sufficient. That way you can get rid of some of those special characters, making it easier to use through different transports.
I think that's more a specific vendor / android thing?
I just bought a 2016 iPhone SE second hand. It's running the latest iOS 14 right now, and is officially supported on iOS 15 too.
They list nvidia RTX as their minimum requirement.

i9-7980XE: 1.3 teraflops

RTX 2060: 52 teraflops
I always wondered why people in Florida don't build houses out of bricks instead of wood as we do. I thought they would do much better against a tornado. It's now obvious that's not the case - quite the opposite, in fact, as the bricks and other heavy materials torn apart cause more collateral damage, crushing whatever (and sadly, whoever) is around on fall.
I think you’re talking about the gofast video which is not the tictac or “flir” video from 2004. Gofast and gimbal were from 2014 and 2015.
Back-end development! It's quite a paradigm shift from front-end, a lot of known unknowns and even more unknown unknowns, I'm trying not to panic too much as I'm deploying my Sass in production. I'll get good eventually (but the anxiety might never go away).
>This is probably to influence housing prices

>we have a problem with giant cities where you cannot even see the sky anymore...

Our problem is, that we externalize cost to much. Moral people take care of their waste/byproducts and side effects -- unless they can't see it.
Like invisible CO2, overseas exploitation or paramounting debt. We have build our society and lifeforms on top of these externalities and some day will be pay day, so it is reasonable to either limit consumption or pay for sustainable disposal now.
Compact cities reduce metabolic cost of our processes and you can't really bring the luxury argument while looking at the current over all decline.
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Can anyone put private startup shares into a Roth IRA?
On Android if you have a powerful enough phone (or better, built in Lidar) then the "3D Live Scanner" app by Lubos Vonasek Programmierung is something to checkout.
But consumer electronics are written off on much shorter timeframes than cars. Are we going to require support for electronics for 7 years? I would be in favor of it, but I don't see it happen. Device was EoL in 2015, the vuln is from 2019, breach 2021. Even if we take the vuln date, that's 4 years after EoL. The question then becomes: is it reasonable to say that electronics are expected to have a life half of that of cars? I could argue both ways on this.
I've started with a Creality CR-10S, and later on get a Prusa MK3S, meanwhile my brother took the old CR-10S, and get two Ender 3s.

I have to admit, that the CR-10S, and the Ender 3 is a lot of printer for the amount of money they sell them for - though, of course, you need to be prepared to fiddle with the printer more. But if you dial it in, and you gain experience, there aren't a lot of things you couldn't do.

I built my own Prusa, I think it's a fun experience, if you like building. My CR-10S came in two parts, I needed to screw them together... my MK3S came like a car after a crash test. But since put together, I haven't had to touch it, it operates like a wonder.

Of course a Prusa's price tag is much steeper compared to an Ender's. Prusa is an European product, the construction in my opinion is better, and they take a lot of care of the hardware and software. I don't want to go into nationalistic battles, but I was happy that I could buy a local product.
Our Ender 3 didn't have a bootloader installed, so when we wanted to update the firmware to a more up-to-date Marlin, we had to take apart the machine, and flash a bootloader on the AVR, which is... troublesome for somebody who doesn't know about microcontroller flashing too much.

Regardless, I think for a beginner, the Ender has an extremely good value, and perfect to get into 3D printing, as it opens so many possibilities.
I could print parts for the household, which I wouldn't ever find anywhere else. I've fixed multiple household appliances. The freedom that if I need something special, I can make it.
As a consumer, this is the reason I have boxes with hundreds of £s worth of routers which I've taking out of commission, because the manufacturer stopped updating them.

This really shouldn't have to be a consumer issue, it's wasteful to have to replace something like a router after the short EoL and inevitable vulnerabilities are found.

Perhaps we need more modularity, so core components can be swapped out to upgrade them.
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Ask HN: Is it legal to simulate a product? (Windows in this case)
I admit, I'm pretty dense when it comes to copyright/licensing topics, so here's the question: Is it legal to build websites/apps that simulate the Windows operating system and use icons and images which are copyrighted by Microsoft? I have seen quite some such as these webs/apps:

* http://windows93.net/

* https://98.js.org/

* https://winxp.vercel.app/

* https://desk.glitchy.website/

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lr_soft.windows98simulator

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visnalize.win7simu

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MrToddy.Win10BUG

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jesusdigitalrd.jpcsim

... any many more you can find on Play Store.
Webtorrent is a thing so it could be done.
This is a good point.

Its probably that "there is still a lot to be done" thought is actively demotivating and that's the issue.

Perhaps having too many plans and goals for a given project rather than just enjoying the task as you mention can get in the way.
In my view, both nihilism and foolish optimism seem to be coping mechanisms. Very few can really look this issue dead in the eye and still live a joyful, productive life. It’s a serious, pressing issue at a scale that is hard to imagine.
I agree. No matter your current view on industrial meat production, it's clear to me that at some point in the future people will be saying something along the lines of "We used to grind up animals and stuff the bloody pulp into their torn out intestines."
Do y'all do meetups for this? Or just apply to random conferences and talks?
> It all started in Israel. We suggest that a local group was the source population," she told BBC News. "During interglacial periods, waves of humans, the Nesher Ramla people, migrated from the Middle East to Europe

Hm, how convenient for people who claim they have divine rights to the land. Odd racial superiority vibes here.
Shibari.
I try to do it. One thing that helps is my Logitech MX keys, it switches to my Phone with the push of a button, so I don't feel the need so much to install Signal and Telegram on my work laptop. (I still do of course, it's just too easy... but I try because I understand the problem.) What is nice about my employer is that they ask you to fully wipe your drives (throw away the encryption key) before handing/sending in stuff. It's as much protection for them as it is for me.
as most products become connected you will have to pay a premium for products that are not - especially as companies try to make profits from tracking (as in SmartTvs).

People who are not rich enough to buy everything single purpose will have to pick and choose.
Corroboration on the ROI of Personalisation
Wait, can you explain this to me?
I'm not convinced you can compare Ulysses to Gravity Rainbow and Infinite Jest. Ulysses is not a postmodern book. Apart from their length, there are few things bringing these books together.

Gravity Rainbow has Pynchon's inimitable prose, constant segue between language register and mingling between the trivial and the profound. Infinite Jest is rambling and convoluted but it is extremely funny from the get go. Both can be a joy to read even if you don't finish them.

Ulysses on the other hand asks more from its readers. You can pretty much ignore the references in Gravity's Rainbow and still get (or not get) the point. Meanwhile, Ulysses is full of oblique metaphors and layered references which make it impossible to understand without knowledge of the referenced material.
Humans regurgitate their preferences, find and cite evidence that reenforces their world view. We're still animals.

The smart ones use this to influence the rest.
Phone costs aren't really something I pay my mind to anymore, has become such a small position. For me these tools are for direct communication with direct contacts.

Wouldn't want call centers contacting me through such a service, so I compartmentalize my usage with classical telephone services.

> For my use case?

Skype is fine for that, but I think Microsoft will discontinue it at some point.
Yeah, that was ridiculously racist! Let's get her cancelled!
> the general-purpose semantic web is only useful for huge companies like Google, with the engineering capacity to understand all the different types of data that might be found.

But easier than parsing the general web

This a very interesting assumption to tackle - how non-google players can leverage all those new semantic jsonlds? I'm pretty sure the barrier is lower to build a product aggregator or a product comparison site based on scraping the web. What else?
Except, this does nothing for the already-existing cities, so it is just a planner's fantasy, unless the price of transportation becomes so high to cause the cities to transform. I think this is rather unlikely.

I am thinking, couldn't we consume less energy for transportation just by making lighter vehicles? 95% of the energy used by a car is expended just to move the vehicle itself, not for its ultimate purpose, which is moving a human.
In the US this is illegal. If you use copyrighted works without permission you are violating copyright. If you use their likeness in a similar product/service/convention you are violating their trademark.

The best recourse provided by law is parody. If the intent is social commentary for the sake of the commentary itself you are protected. That means it must be clear to a common person your work is a joke.
I am thinking, couldn't we consume less energy for transportation just by making lighter vehicles?

Like bikes?
Okay so this is like putting image segmentation data into a GAN and getting the opposite result, right? Or is there something I'm missing?
I've never heard of acupressure mats before. I might check that out.
We'll see if the inflation in ancient human species stands up to scrutiny.

Here's a great TED Talk about dinosaur species being mistakenly identified because 'scientists have egos': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI&t=102s (well worth a watch, it's a great story)
A couple of things I've learned over time:

- Soft skills matter, but performance (against your metrics) is still what matters in the end. Group dynamics only comes into it when you have a bunch of people at the same level of performance.

- You'll be ahead of a lot of your peers if you stay positive and don't gossip and don't do office "politicking" (in a bad sense).

- Plan your career around three year stints. At the end of each stint, evaluate your career progress against your long term goals. Don't be afraid to transfer jobs or take time off for learning (e.g., by getting a graduate degree).
Snapchat "takes a picture" by just grabbing a frame from the viewfinder instead of, you know, using the proper API.

This could have made sense back when Android imaging situation was more of a mess, but the current API obviates the need for this.
>> I go further, parenthesis are really just functions (in the mathematical
sense); so all of first order logic comes down to making functions into
variables (a la `y=f(...)`).

I don't get what you mean. Here's a quick reminder of first-order logic (FOL)
syntax. In FOL, an atomic formula or atom is a predicate symbol followed by n ≥
0 comma-separated terms in parentheses, where n is the arity of the predicate,
terms are variables or functions, variables are quantified over functions and
constants, a function is a function symbol followed by m ≥ 0 comma-separated
terms in parentheses where m is the arity of the function and a constant is a
function with arity 0.

A FOL language consists of disjoint sets of predicate symbols and functions, and
variables. So for example, suppose you have a language with set of predicate
symbols S = {P/2} (i.e. P has arity 2), set of function symbols F = {ƒ/1} and
set of variables V = {x, y}. We can create the following atoms: P(ƒ(x), y), P(x,
ƒ(x)), P(ƒ(y), y), P(x, ƒ(y)), P(ƒ(ƒ(x)),y), P(x, ƒ(ƒ(y))), ... etc.

We can combine atoms with the two quantifiers, ∀ and ∃ and the four logic
operators ∧, ∨, → and ¬ to make well-formed formulae: ∀x∃y: P(ƒ(x), y)) ∨ P(x,
ƒ(x)) etc.

With this in mind, how is FOL making functions into variables? Can you explain
this a bit?
> Because Ulysses could not be legally published in the United States, it could not be copyrighted

I'm struggling to understand that particular statement. Can anyone explain?

EDIT: "Copyright exists automatically in an original work of authorship once it is fixed in a tangible
medium"[0]

If you write out your original thoughts on a piece of paper, that's fixing them in a tangible medium, right?

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
FFTs or integer factorisation are pure-functional tasks and seem more suitable for a simple library call and local computation, without involving the network or adding new external dependencies -- assuming you have code running somewhere with sufficient compute.

i find APIs that let you interact with or observe the world far more compelling (e.g. get the latex forex rates, make a phone call, etc), especially if they put a nice stable interface in front of a lot of complex or evolving details you'd rather not have to care about.
Go just about anywhere in the world and you can charge your laptop with a simple adapter - yet take a USB cable and and it's anybody's guess whether it will work - even if you can physically plug it in.
This is a very valid and important point. I'm involved in tech training for the company I work for, and during lockdown we've provided a lot of material as videos and self-study documents.

A lot of those have got very good, and we have to ask ourselves what value we add to the learning process. It's still something we're discussing, and it's definitely led us to alter how we think about training (and out of our safe areas!)
I am just surprised people actually swallow it that willingly and are delighted that the market is played against them.
A pretty good rapper.
Both, but the biggest issue has been reverting to my side while asleep. I've re-aggravated my rhombus muscle a number of times doing that.
I'm actually much more optimistic about it. I've been getting into wgpu in the past few months and although you can target the web, you can also directly target each platform's native graphics API - Metal, DirectX, and Vulkan.

So the browser might have some unavoidable overhead, but for most games it probably won't even matter, and others using the wgpu API can target native desktop platforms.

A voxel game, Veloren, recently migrated to wgpu and wrote up some of their experiences here:

https://veloren.net/devblog-125/
Try Okular made by KDE (yes there's a Windows version of Okular). Free, open-source and lightweight.
Classic WTF: The Mainframe Database
Personally I hope ecological collapse nips this black mirror future were tumbling in to.

Things feel bleak.
Which operates in an industry entirely different from labor. You’re delusional if you think acting and manual labor are in the same bucket. Besides, every union differs from the next but they’re generally all cesspools of political wrangling and promotion based on seniority. Everyone I’ve known that belongs to a union is just cashing a check and waiting to retire with a pension, 0 ambition.
I agree. This is all a red herring.

I think the negative effects really come from the delivery suppliers also being the digital shop fronts, so it's not easy to just switch to another delivery company, nor to start a competing delivery company.
WD screwed up. However, users must have a backup policy for when (not if) data hits the fan. For important data, having multiple onsite copies with few of them totally dumb (as opposed to smart IoT) and multiple offsite copies should become a habit.
Well, I think there is enough interesting research to put things in place. Not in single model. But, we have

0. This neural thing, of course, to create landscape-like 2D projections of a plausible scene.

1. Wave-function collapse models that synthesize domain data quite nicely when parametrized with artistic care - this is a "simpler" example of the concept. https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

2. Fairly good understanding how to synthesize terrain. Terragen is a good example of this (although not public research, the images drive the point home nicely) https://planetside.co.uk/

So, we could use the source image from this as a 2D projection of an intended landscape as a seed to a wave-function collapse model that would use known terrain parametrization schemes to synthesize something usable (so basically create a Terragen equivalent model).

I think that's it plausibly more or less. But it's a "research" level problem still, I think, not something one can cook up by chaining the data flow from a few open source libraries together.
You moved the goalpost
also pixel art is cheaper. realistic scenarios are more expensive. so more value here
IOT products are inherently unsustainable.
Well, overpriced anything makes a terrible investment - housing, stock market, art, land, etc. Education is no exception.
Here's an explanation with some real-world data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

(Also, my hard drives always fail after I put them in the bathtub. Lol.)
Is it "the most popular solution" really?! Because I can't seem to find it implemented anywhere. I am all in favor of a carbon tax, btw.
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Best of luck!
I had a similar idea and never followed it up.

The way I see it is this: there are always a bunch of devs learning their trade.

At one point I would have great ideas but be missing two or three key components that I couldn't build.

I searched for out of the box solution for one time tokens and for a way to store date in transit for automation - nothing existed that I could use so I built it - but I've 20 years experience now and wanted to share my solutions.

Yes, you can do all of this in AWS yourself, but sometime you just want to solve it and move on.

Sometime you want to tell a client it is 0.0001 per record and that their business needs $5 per month to automate/integrate/remove something that costs them a lot more.

And charge them a decent rate for the solution, not the tools.
Because QR code scanners are very widespread already, can be understood by even basic cameras nowadays and some devices are hard to update or would need yet another self-invented thingy, which would make people rather more suspicious if done for something like the use case this initially had – codes for verifying that a person is tested, vaccinated or recovered OK on borders and the like.

I at least find it good that existing solutions still get optimizations, even and are enhanced, vs. just throwing everything away at the slightest issue and redo everything, the that churn just costs a lot of $€£ while never bringing out something mature, i.e., useful for the masses.
I thought a big part of that was that birds have big variation between juveniles and adults, something that mammalians have less of... (let alone primates)

Looking at a time when multiple hominid groups lived in relative isolation over large spans of time, admittedly without expert knowledge, it seems to make sense to me that there would be quite a bit of variation of "species" (though I also suspect the various species are more alike than most breeds of dogs...)
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Indeed I imagine in the future they'll make enforcing low emissions zones, EV charging/parking etc a lot easier.
Just checked, it got jfk in 19 questions
For context, it seems this encoding was covered by this discussion a few days ago:

What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27589913
Abstract, abstract painting.
They are not perfect and not always as responsive as I’d like.

They issue security updates for their current OS and 2 versions before, AFAIK.
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Not sure this makes any sense, the 6 years past EOL consumer linux device isn't running a browser.

Or are you assuming the user's browser itself is compromised and is running random javascript hitting the NAS address? That would be unfortunate, but I'm not sure I'd blame it on the "6 years past EOL consumer linux device"