skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we are removing VIN right now.

then you can get a free appraisal without providing any detailed information but if you are going to engage with a dealership and want them to bid on your car in many cases without them ever seeing it... then you can optionally provide this directly to the dealerships interested in buying your car.

VIN is not required to provide a market valuation estimate and we respect hirundo's privacy concern.

separating market valuation from sell my car.
How does this aim to be different from other OSes? What are the motivations of its creator(s) & intended users?
Entity Framework (in .NET) is good. Looks like this package takes a lot of the feel of Entity Framework transferred over to node.js
Aren't car batteries quite valuable and heavily recycled.
The individual driver has no buying power to negotiate a lower price on cars, fuel, or maintenance and the big players are disincentivized to hand him one. The gig nature of the job means he pays consumer prices for everything while Uber skims off the top.

Uber is an attempt to mechanize the human aspect of driving by turning people into machines that produce for them. Unfortunately, in the fever dream that led to its creation, no one stopped to consider why "Big Taxi" wasn't a thing already.
Me too. going through the filesystem on those things was like looking at a digital graffiti tunnel
You are very likely right. The question is how far the approximation can generalise? One way to test that would be to quizz the model with slightly varied prompts. Any human who can “solve” this world problem should be reasonably expected to solve the same problem if we change the subject’s name. ( From Jane to Bob, or Sanj, or even to Xcfg.) Or the name of the object (From balloon to token, or even to embobler). Or the attributes used to segment them. (From red/blue to heavy/light for example)

Or we can try to rewrite the challenge sentences with different wording. As long as the new sentences convey the same problem you would expect that a system who can “understand” them would generate the same or similar solution.

Curiously this kind of thought experiment also shows a weakness of the Turing-test as originally formulated. A machine correctly solving these word puzzle variations could “prove” that it “understands” the sentences, but it would also reveal that it is not a human. Since i would expect a real human to protest against the inanity of the challenges quite fast. ;)
Presumably because you're sitting back and retiring while everyone around you still work. The logic is flawed though, because it doesn't account for the fact that you had to forgo consumption in order to build up a reserve to retire early.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems testing powerful magnets for future fusion reactor
> actually providing banking services to drug cartels and criminal gangs

I don't get that allegation. My understanding is that Bitmex is effectively a cryptocurrency casino.

You can only deposit and withdraw Bitcoin. After depositing you could make bets on the price of various things against the house, then withdraw your winning or losses.

It's not like banking services, nor is it like an exchange-- you couldn't deposit Bitcoin and withdraw a different cryptocurrency or US dollars.
I think most of this comes down to bad education on how to choose a secure password and not an innate inability. And for the most part we software engineers are at fault for advocating and enforcing mostly useless policies for more than two decates.

I would love for more websites to implement something like the zxcvbn password strength meter [1], but unfortunately I keep seeing new services or recently refreshed ones using outdated and hurtful policies like requiring numbers and special characters.

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world” — Henry Kissinger
We already know enough about TikTok to hate it. Unfortunately, the masses don't seem to care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Controversies

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
There's lots of other finance stuff you could be writing bots for... automated technical analysis on stocks, for example, and you can very neatly skirt all the crypto bullshit.
Some huge percentage of Americans already live under an HoA or condo association. They've all but replaced municipal governments in many places.
Yea, that’s not how my company works. At mine, strategy is not all top down.
So... they're building a mall.
Reading Sapiens left me with exactly the opposite world view.

At the end of the day, no animal in history has a history even close to the one written up in Sapiens.
If you are putting business logic in your database, you are doing it wrong. I get your point. Which is why I said it’s sometimes ok to run with raw sql with your orm. The problem is your database is really great at storing and retrieving data. Keep it doing what it’s good at and do your aggregate work on a separate machine where you have cpu cycles to spare. This is the point. I’ve told people before about hibernate and it’s foreign key constraints on models - “sometimes is best to not define the relationship at the model and just make another trip to the database to load”. Heavily utilized databases are a bottleneck to your systems, stop making them do the work. Do it on the edge.
Any search query options! Is there a secret way to search other than Google?
Distros like Ubuntu don't aim to always keep up to date. The value in them is that they're sufficiently recent but updated infrequently enough that they don't regularly break after an update, and support can be provided.

You're supposed to separately manage the software you care about. e.g. there's a nodejs for people who don't exploit it in their daily use except as dependencies to other software, but if you use it regularly you should manage your own nodejs binaries.
Yeah, it's easy to imagine that as a pretty natural direction for Facebook. It's already barely "social" in the traditional sense of sharing stuff with your friends (at least for a lot of people, based on my impression). If it's way more engaging to separate each person from whatever vestige of a "real friend" group they still have, and funnel them down whatever rabbit hole they engage with the most (regardless of whether it's a misinformation rabbit hole, although I suspect many would be), then I would certainly expect Facebook to do so.
Yeah, it's pretty surreal; there are very few depictions of people interacting. This looks like a Twilight Zone episode.
or "take"
I do a lot of 3D printing. Almost none of it is for replacement parts. Replacement parts sourcing has gotten extremely good online in the last 10-15 years. Need a recoil start handle for a Honda HRX 217? Dozens of vendors of the original part and more selling knock offs. Even as a Mech E and experienced 3D printer with multiple printers, it’s almost never worth my time to make a part that I can buy.
Biking around the streets in my small town isn't very stressful. Crossing the highways is usually fine (but takes a minute to do safely).

There aren't enough people to support '5 minute' walkability though. Lots of things are a mile or 2 away.
Ask HN: Did you take the vaccine? Why or why not?
Vaccine passports are rolling out. I am conflated whether to take vaccine or not. Number of reports said it’s harmful for women of childbearing age, so I am concerned for my wife. Many people reported blood clots. I have high cholesterol so impact is unknown.
As someone educated,I find it’s unnecessary rushed. Quarantine of high risk group would have worked better. Many in 30s with kids planned are doing same things.

As non-citizen of the US, this has additional impact for us if foreign travellers are required to have vaccine as mandatory requirement.

Did you take the vaccine? Why or why not?
Given how bad some of these centralized exchanges have been over the years, I can't imagine this is true.

1. Africrypt - 3.6B USD, founders disappeared
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/s-african...)

2. Bitfinex 36% haircut hack
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitfinex-hacked-hongkong-...) - not to mention being in bed with Tether for a long time.

3. MtGox... the list goes on.
I'd love to be able to follow topics or keywords.
Because the amount of farmers is mostly decoupled from total agricultural output for industrial societies until you hit ~2%. So they're not really productive in the way normal workers are.
Why is exposing a web service considered so much worse than exposing a VPN service? WireGuard is respected for low complexity and high quality, sure, but what prevents a web server from having the same characteristics? And there are plenty of VPN services whose huge public surfaces turned out to be vulnerable, why is running one of these any less crazy than running nginx?
I'd think the forces would still be formidable. But yes, assuming the airship withstands the forces, it would not be thrown around as much (specifically: the accelerations and displacements would be lower) as it gets bigger. That seems plausible to me, by your x^2/x^3 argument.
Fair. He knows plenty, but the clickbait title really hurts the credibility. I’ll eat some crow there.
I think one of the most interesting parts of Ingenuity is that it uses off the shelf ARM processors instead of highly specialized (and old) radiation-hardened processors.
Tesla's purchase covered about 5 weeks of miner fees. It burned up long before it was even announced.
>> Maybe we need others to get things done. Maybe the man would jumpstart his passion if someone shared his thing for restoration.

I think there is a lot of truth to this actually. Admittedly I'm a little sleep deprived right now in that way that leads you reading a statement and feeling it is incredibly profound in a way you might not otherwise... but still I think you are really onto something.

Working with someone smooths out the edges well when things go poorly (if something goes wrong and you are alone it is easier to be grumpy about it than if you have someone with you to say "oh well, we can do X instead" or "It doesn't really matter"), they make the work feel seen and therefore feel more valuable. I can enjoy cooking for (and especially with my partner) but I can never be bothered to really cook for myself, even if I'd enjoy the meal more in the end it doesn't feel worth the time and energy investment when I could just slap together a sandwich or something.

This extends to hobby projects as well in a big way, perhaps even more. Sure I could spend hours painting a picture and have people say "wow, that's impressive" (this is just an example, I can't actually paint), but it feels hard to justify when I have other things I might need to do. If someone else is working on the same thing with you it makes you feel like you are investing that time in them, which is inherently fulfilling.

Even in your example of you helping your friend, once they've accepted you are helping they will feel like every bit of work they do will make your life easier. It's less intense but they will still feel like they are contributing to your efforts in someway, or at least like they are working towards a mutual goal instead of something kind of isolated.
> You can fire up a BBS from your home machine.

Not really given most ISPs ToS, you’ll have to use a provider. Then what if this provider cuts you off, spin your own DC? What if you can’t get peering? How will you connect your DC?

If you effectively create a town square you shouldn’t be able to ban someone because you don’t like the ideas. How will others know these ideas even exist? (which is the point of censorship)
I think employees are more disengaged. This is anecdotal, but the pandemic and climate change have tainted my work with a certain hopelessness. It’s hard to listen to “best quarter yet!” CEO pep speeches and feel like enthusiastic about some new feature you code when existential threats seem close at hand. Combine that with economic policies that seem to create and obliterate fortunes with a hand wave, an increasing wealth gap, and an extremely inaccessible housing market, and it is hard to keep your your hopes up and your nose down.
PG&E software issue allowed 2019 SF gas fire to burn longer, feds say
Interestingly the commit history goes back 2 years and the first commit looks like it's already a somewhat working OS. All commits by one person.
Dropbox/Zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
Show HN: 3D Hologram display to entice QR code engagement
How about "double-plus-ungood"?
Yes, it's an excuse rather than a real reason.

The main reason NASA won't be going anywhere soon is that there is no money available to fund it.

The reason the Chinese are going gangbusters in space is that there IS money available there, with their trillions of dollars in reserves, rather than 30 trillion in debt.
+1 for the NYT feature -- that piece really does a good job at introducing your vision, worth the read
Interesting considering that I remember reading that Kissinger didn't know much about AI until last year or so.
Show HN: I Made a Python Password Manager
I dont think any of those are traded against USD at all are they? If so, do you know where?
Profit from the result, not the action.
Once I get access to their network, what can I do? What does that do for me?
Flutter looks very exciting, iff your team is willing to switch away from JavaScript. I’ve always been excited about Dart as a better JavaScript.
I can't quite tell from the webpage. "Parsec for Teams": is that an AR-meeting-room-with-avatars kinda thing? Or is there some kind of photogrammetry?

Oh -- I see, it's for creative teams to share their design work? sketches, models, etc?
> It's hard to believe that the system can detect that it's the "mean squared error". Is this an explanation a real example from the implementation, or it's just a handmade example?

> Don't you want to use the average instead of "0.5"?

It's from the real implementation. The code was some code a user sent in, which I ran the tool on.

> I tried and got the same outcome.

I fixed the waitlist– there was a problem, where if you typed your email then filled out the rest of the form without editing the email field, the waitlist signup would fail.

The live demo works for me and a couple others.
I think I feel the opposite to you. I want the ORM to handle the trivial stuff like SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=? and UPDATE table SET thing=? WHERE id=?. That's the lion's share of what I'm doing in an app, and it's pointless to type it out with slight variations repeatedly.

On the other hand, for complex stuff, I'd rather write the raw SQL, since it's in a real language and not some half-baked, under-documented DSL that everyone onboarding onto the project will be unfamiliar with.
A master plan doesn't hurt, they could get it wrong but it's not that much worse than haphazard randomness.

The good cities you see aren't good because of early planning. They're good because of constant vigilance to improve and maintain. Subway systems for example aren't usually part of the master plan of the city at inception but are the result of constant vigilance to improve.

Meanwhile western US suburbia is the result of unplanned urbanization reacting to the whims of corporate car culture. Totally unplanned and terrible.

There's a software engineering analogy here.
No, they don't do that either. To mention one data point, there's a founder in the current batch who has three small children and is a solo founder. I don't think YC cares about that sort of thing, other than that the group partners (the people who work most closely with founders) would do what they could to support them if they were getting overwhelmed.

When YC rejects an application it's because they don't think that startup (or that product/founder combination, let's say) is likely to become a big business. That's the theory, at least. Of course it's not going to be perfect in practice, but YC's success depends on getting it right, so there's a strong incentive not to just naively repeat the known, large-scale biases people tend to talk about (you mention age and marital status, one can add race, gender, class, education, national origin, and others).

Also, YC is pretty diligent about studying its failures—companies that applied to YC, were rejected, and went on to become successful—and if there were any obvious patterns in there, you can bet they'd be all over it. I'm not claiming that's sufficient to disprove bias but it must count for something.
At least when this book bombs, it won’t be a secret.
Hey HN!

Just pushed my first public GitHub repo! It's a simple password manager in Python for the terminal. I thought it was about time I started “building in public” and learning more about encryption.

This process gave me a serious appreciation for what has to be done to protect your data.

Would love to hear where you could hack it!
In First Cyberattack, China Targets Israel
If you can compromise their phone, so may other terrible things you could also do easily without having to involve CSAM.
In the demo video on https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/#spacegame it seems like it goes and does an image search for a picture of an asteroid, and them embeds without attribution a direct link to a image hosted on "d.newsweek.com". Not sure I'd call that a resounding example of generating good code...
Not the clearest UI, but https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-quick-... does what you want.
It much easier to manage Unity licenses when we can't actually install it on our machines :)

Unity has this high level plan to be in the business of hosting things, assets in source control, cloud builds, metrics. I'm sure they will have workstations you can rent, same as MS is doing.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a service where developers can provide streaming test builds to end users. (Much safer than sending end users builds in a world where DRM is mostly useless)
Its a joke/meme.

On TikTok, you can see the original sound a video uses, and find all the videos that use that sound, including the original: https://www.tiktok.com/music/You-dont-have-a-double-chin-681...

This video illustrates the original intent of the joke: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialreggiecouz/video/68368175634...

With the fat people posting, the joke is that they actually do have 'double chin'.
Right, this makes little sense unless there is little market competition.

Alternatively, this might just be a morale thing and remote workers in the Bay Area don't actually make financial sense due to productivity losses. Google will placate existing employees, but they won't hire new remote workers at Bay Area rates.
Yes, it’s coming to macOS Monterey, as well.
I'd look instead at the Atlantic article [0] that is the germ of of the book. The authors, also including Dan Huttenlocher of MIT, opine that this AI era is potentially as big as the Enlightenment era. Thinking will not be the same. The tone, for lack of a sophisticated term, is woo-woo meta. These are smart experienced people who I would assume would be making a conscientious effort to make an important point. But, it's lost on me. And, I too am skeptical of Kissinger and of Schmidt. Personally, I think when we look back on the period, the story will be about our tragic inaction on climate. Hopefully there will be a heroic coda to that. By comparison, AI will be just another mode of industrial automation.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/henry-k...
It's like universities -- the faculty lounge tends to be as far-left as you can get, until the grad students try to unionize.
On LineageOS, the "Android version" screen shows the dates for both the "Android security update" and the "Vendor security patch level" right next to each other.

Xiaomi's update schedule isn't terrible, but it's disappointing that even its flagship devices only get quarterly updates, while other brands including Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme commit to monthly or at least bi-monthly updates for their flagships.

https://www.nextpit.com/how-many-android-updates-manufacture...

Not everyone is willing or able to flash another OS onto their phones, and considering its success, Xiaomi can afford to do better to protect its users with more timely updates.
Rightscorp Site Triggers Security Warnings and Links to Cannabis Site
The danger is that this is further down the slippery slope.
I don’t see it as winning and losing. I see it as deciding where to stand and where to contribute in my technical life. How do you personally trade off velocity (code fast) vs correctness, completeness or performance? Javascript generally values velocity over generalisability. (“It’s better to implement something quickly and worry about adapting it to other problems later”) compared to most Java code. It’s not necessarily better and worse. It’s a question of fittedness with your own values and the values of your project.

If you consistently write code which fights the ecosystem your code is written inside of, it’s quite painful. Writing Lua without ever blocking is hard. Writing javascript with large, deep class hierarchies is awkward. I’ve seen people write pure functional Java, but if that’s what you’re into you should probably consider just using a different language.

And to name it, Java does not feel playful and flexible to me. Not compared to ruby, Haskell, python and javascript.
> The live example on the home page doesn't seem to work. I assumed JS was supported and typed this:

It currently works for me. Can you try again?
> Almost everything known until now about the planet Mercury comes from Mariner 10’s orbits during 1974-75

Er, rather than "until now", surely the article means "until 2011, when MESSENGER went into orbit around Mercury"
I use parsec at home to run a gaming machine in a gaming room... and use the same machine as an art creation machine in another room, parsec is one of the few solutions that plays well with pressure and stylus, custom resolutions and even 120 hz (surprisingly useful when trying to have responsive UI in art apps)

any of that going to change?
Impressive, this looks more feature complete than a mere toy while the source code is succinct enough to be understood.
The site only lists rents for studios/one-beds, but the application plan approved by the Tempe City Council includes a number of 2br apartments and a handful of 3br. The mix is as follows:

41 du/ac / 636 units

- 456 one bedroom

- 134 two bedroom

- 8 three bedroom

- 38 live-work one bedroom

Disappointingly, it shows some 152 vehicle parking spots on-site — it seems the exemption they got only applies to the residential parking requirements, and the commercial spaces are still fully parked.

The reduction to three stories (from five) also seems like a shame — the added shade and density from taller buildings would likely have made it a more livable site.

https://www.tempe.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=78664
Looking Good vs. Getting Good
The CTO of copyright troll Rightscorp redirected the company website to his personal "cannabis play". Incredible.

> Gregory Boswell also happens to be the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rightscorp. In fact, Boswell is the person who wrote Rightscorp’s software and system, starting on a PC in his garage.

> On Linkedin, we also read that Boswell is running Greenearth which he relaunched as a “cannabis play,” hoping to provide content and services to the now more legal and growing cannabis business. However, it appears that this wasn’t a massive success.
Thousands of people over thousands of years report seeing gods, spirits, etc while under the influence of psychedelics.

Christianity is all about gods, spirits etc.

We have here a Christian illustration featuring what looks like a famous psychedelic.

It takes very little shoehorning to connect those dots.
Parsec's latency is great, but it's not great for text (like to the point I can barely read text in VSCode). Are my settings off, or is this an acceptable tradeoff for the heavy graphics workloads they are targeting?