skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private protocols can iterate faster, ... like Signal is just integrated because it's all under control of a single entity.

The speed of iteration is of little comfort when what they are iterating is against the wishes of the users who are captive to their network effects.[0]

> It's why 99.9% of users are on Twitter, and not on Mastodon.

I dare say that Twitter also generates 1000 times more revenue than all Mastodon instances combined, so all that's proven here is that having more money lets you make a more addictive website. That's not necessarily something we should be celebrating, especially as users are paying with their privacy and the stability of their societies.

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
Okay, you're right - I can use any basis I want.

There's no shared basis I can legitimately use to argue with them, though, if they don't happen to share my chosen values.
> dairy ingredients, stable electricity and store front rental in a fancy location are expensive

Two of those three are not really marginal costs. Yes, it costs electricity to make the food, but _stable_ electricity is something you already need in the biz, same as rent. If you need a generator, you already have one.

Also, enlighten me: are markets where electricity grids are unstable the same ones where retail space is expensive?
Yes they resell the gift cards. If I quote the article: "... these accounts can all be cleaned out and deposited onto a gift card number that can be resold quickly online for 80 percent of its value"

Additionally, a quick google search for "sell gift cards online" reveals many sites that offer the ability to sell your gift cards. One example: https://www.cardcash.com/sell-gift-cards/
>overall it'll take decades of imprinting himself onto the nation

Does he even have time for that? He's 68.
As was posted in a separate thread, you might look at http://tomu.im/ too
This actually makes the behavior more interesting, since it strongly implies it's a learned thing rather than a fixed action pattern or similar.
The real answer? Because these people are just like us, geeks, nerds, techies, early adopters. They are just the same people we live and work with.

The film Enemy of the State (1998) was science fiction except with the parts where the techy operators were just normal nerds like us. That what was most scary part of the film not the (at the time fantastic) surveillance.
with dynamic language and yeah a multi-paradigm language like js, means you can come up with patterns a compiler can never expect. because javascript is so flexible, your code ends up like a mini dsl yet still remains readable javascript. with typescript, you won't have much flexibility. you lose a lot of productivity fighting the tool i.e typescript compiler
http://www.friendface.co.uk

"A great new site for meeting people!"
PineBook Pro should be significantly faster, and is a little cheaper.
It was sub $50 a few weeks ago and comes with a Merv 10 filter. You can always buy the heavy duty Lasko 20 x 20 for sub $30 and stick a MERV 13 Filter behind it when it's on. The suction keeps the filter pinned to the back and you get HEPA with VOC removal.

https://www.amazon.com/Lasko-FF305-20-inch-Purifier-Purifyin...
Seems to be very tech-involved though.
Thanks! So far we've gotten some early users just through other startups that we know engineers at. Hopefully this HN post drives a few more folks to try it out :) After that we'll likely focus on word of mouth from our existing users (which has already started to happen a bit), blog posts to drive awareness, and probably some amount of ads (e.g. Google Adwords, ads in relevant developer-focused newsletters).
Some gift cards can be cashed out conditionally. For example, California requires that gift cards under $10 be redeemable for cash.

Outside of that, there's a huge grey market for "discounted" gift cards. That's probably where most of these are going.
Turns out it is more profitable to just take everyone's inbox cash than to offer them a service to make their own cash visible to them for a % fee
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Don't know why you're being downvoted, I build .NET code in Visual Studio on Windows 10 and execute it on my Raspberry Pi frequently. .NET is certainly not a Windows-only technology.
I think we will have to navigate similar ethical straits in the development of both organic and inorganic sentience.
Interesting, I never would have thought of that angle
The two main banks in Finland are OP (the one included here), and Nordea which is a shitty bank anyway so who cares. Others are very small banks, like savings only.
Show HN: Free video call collaboration on top of Figma files
> if not by how much people are willing to work to acquire it?

Over what time period?

> Your personal opinion?

Of course. It’s entirely possible to value something you personally cannot afford.
I love this stuff. I wonder if anyone has tried modulating the system fan to send Morse code vibrations or something similar.
they can sell a $50 gift card for $40 or something
I think it's more likely that it would be ethical than unethical. Sentience is "about" the functions necessary for animal life. These functions are a huge waste from a computational perspective. A good bio-computer would be comparable to a fungus, or head cheese[].

[] http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=687
> What you call pride/hubris, I call shame and fear of embarrassment.

It sounds like you're assuming these conversations/learning events occur in public. Why would people feel shame/embarrassment about something nobody can see them doing?

This was the point of my example: if someone is alone in the wilderness, what does it matter to anyone but them—to anything but their survival—if they were to try and fail at building a shelter or a trap?

> It’s hardly surprising that someone who is supposed to be an expert

Who said anything about being an expert?

The example that comes first to my mind is a grandchild trying to teach their grantparent to post photos to Facebook on their iPad. The grandmother explicitly—even "infamously"—has no experience with computers or anything to do with them. If their friends/family/etc. were to observe the situation, they'd have a preconception that the child would know more about "posting photos to Facebook" than the adult would.

And yet, despite nominally having no real way to be "shown up"–no presumed domain expertise to lose; and despite nominally wanting the grandchild to teach them how to post photos to Facebook; and despite the grandparent being intrinsically motivated to learn how to post photos to Facebook (because they enjoy the social interaction that comes when friends see their photos); the grandparent still won't bother to focus at all on paying attention to / understanding / remembering what the grandchild is saying.

I would describe this as a kind of learned helplessness, except it's more like contextual helplessness. It's not that they can't learn how to do this–they seem to be able to learn it from a peer their own age just fine. But when it comes to those they think of as people they are supposed to be teaching, their mind just turns into a brick wall.

I would compare it to the prevalence of people who get their romantic partner to open jars for them, instead of buying one of those gripper gadgets that allow them to open the jar. If their partner offers to buy them one of those, they'll often actively refuse the gadget! They think of this job as something someone is supposed to do for them — something they shouldn't have to do – rather than something they want to get done by whatever means, as efficiently as possible. Despite it not being a hard/complex job, or a matter of comparative advantage.
The Lightning-to-HDMI adapter is also an insane miniaturization. It runs a (very) stripped down version of iOS/darwin (not sure what apple counts it as) that is loaded in about a second when you plug in the phone, establishes a network connection, and streams compressed video frames over the network over USB to the HDMI.

That's why when you use the iPhone HDMI adapter, everything looks a little bit compressed. Because it is.
Reselling for 80% of value per article.
How to find out a real necessity
Great study & article. Perhaps incense is not the most scientific test, but it's effective enough for this setup.

Does anyone know if there is raspberry pi add-on or device that acts as an "air quality" sensor, or similar? It would be interesting to monitor this a bit more scientifically in real-time in a variety of environments.

Lastly, I think I've seen this here before, or on reddit. I was inspired to do something similar myself - I use a 19" box fan and a purple 3M MERV furnace filter, 20" square. Except the rounded corners they are almost exactly the same size. Some white duct tape around the edges to seal/hold in place. Total cost is about $40 usd for the fan & filter. I would anticipate a similar performance to the leaky MERV's, as mine is filtering more air as a ratio to total air flowed by the fan.
I believe Aaron Swartz[1] was arrested for something similar where he was sending batch requests to access documents.

His case didn't involve fraud like here but it sets a precedent for causing undue burden on a computer system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#The_download

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On a side note, can anyone explain why covid mandates are fine but abortion laws are evil? Those groups have heavy overlap of supporters and both are about bodily autonomy.
The reason git won was in part due to the success of GitHub. It was the first code sharing platform that wasn't a crap.

Once open source projects started moving to it from older platforms (Sourceforge, Trac, etc), developers who might not have cared so much about VCS flavours followed.
Gmail only allows connections OAuth clients, by default.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9003945?hl=en
"I kind of like #lemmy, but I'm bothered by the fact it is done by a tankie who deflects human-rights abuse as soon as it's done by an authoritarian regime he believes to be communist or anti-united-states.

To mass murder done by tankies he response with, "Imao sounds like we got the fuckin high score then u fuckin lib."

How is it possible that no one is bothered by that?"

https://social.linux.pizza/@syster/104501160324001706
The mandatory response to that mandatory link is the article "The PGP Problem: A Critique".[0]

[0] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp
Monkey see, monkey do.. monkey no think, monkey only tik tok
Interestingly, you don't seem to have the Rick Roller badge despite this comment.
Pubg Mobile Live Streaming
https://youtu.be/hB72-_RTxPs
Last year when the west coast was blanketed in smoke, I setup a box fan with a HEPA filter. It probably helped, but we also found that the fan's motor was working really hard. The cord's connection point to the fan started melting (unbeknownst to us), causing the fan to intermittently cut out. I only noticed the problem when, long after the forest fires were gone, we noticed a strong smell of melted plastic coming from the fan itself.

All in all, probably a good tradeoff to clean our air during the dangerous smoke levels, but there's the risk of burning out the motor.

Be careful out there.
One thing I've found trying to find HEPA filters is that many reviews complain of the filters themselves having some kind of stinky off-gassing. I don't know what the reason for this is, or if it's a problem, but it is worrying.

Reviews on most air purifiers seem to have examples of exploding fans and melting components almost burning houses down.

It really seems like there's room in the air purification market for a company that is really trustworthy, effective, and affordable. Apple could do it, for example.
I imagine this will be overturned on appeal. Basically all nonprofits have an interest in the case now including the Center For Public Broadcasting.
> (if the ISP blocks the account) “Those customers are likely going to get super pissed off and call up the ISP mad as hell,” Bill said. “And that customer service person is then going to have to spend a bunch of time explaining how to use the webmail service. As a result, very few ISPs are going to do anything about this.”

If someone had copied your door key, and was breaking into your house each week to look for food, then you probably would want the police to change the lock. Or at least let you know you need to.

This just strikes me as a regulatory issue - we have to be able to trust our online services. As such, the level of security needs to be upped by fiat. Its not a popular idea but a FIDO key for everyone in US / Europe would be within the bounds of feasible in next 10 years. Hell just SMS 2FA would massively cut back on this.
No idea, but a precedent might be similar to fake 911 calls? (assuming those two things are equal, which they aren't in my opinion)

Speaking of precedents being broken…
Ask HN: Best practices for OTA updates of IoT devices?
They say there's no such thing as an internet of things, only an internet of unsecured linux boxes.

And indeed, I'm terrified to think how many throwaway IoT devices get put out into the world with years of battery life, and no practical means for updating firmware.

So, I am wondering what recommendations, best practices, tools, etc the community uses to support (and secure) remote, OTA updates for IOT devices. For Linux based SBCs I imagine there's more options, but I curious as well about simpler microcontroller systems.
Indeed, everyone works in its own way.
Most on this scene started because people had obscene support by some OEM, so just for personal interest.
But after a while you see the whole community behind it and you don't have much of a choice to start sharing your work and goals with other people.
https://pybenchmarks.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=nu...

"Python Interpreters Benchmarks"
It was tried in the 1980s using nerve tissue from the Permian Basin Superorganism (PBSO). The computers actually made it to market, and were substantially faster than silicon on the market at the time. However, the cost and unreliability of maintaining life support for the biological components made them impractical for anyone except a few dedicated customers. By now, Moore's Law has well outrun what was capable with those early biocomputers, and since 2007, doing research with tissue from the PBSO has become substantially more difficult.

You can see a scan of an ad for the system here: https://bit.ly/3gYXs3v
COVID-19 already is like a common cold for the vast majority of younger patients. Over the long run most people will get infected as youths and build up immunity which protects them later in life. There will be no significant herd immunity effect, but fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...
Ah, that's a shame. Those were some of the last holdouts of pre-PC world before things got ridiculously uptight and sterile
It's probably a bad idea to willy-nilly "docker run" something too - but in this case it's extra silly - the demo requires docker and docker-compose - so the downloading/instruction might as well have been just:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knadh/listmonk/master/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up demo-db demo-app

And a note that demo app runs on port 9000. Even better would be a demo docker-compose.yml, so that "docker-compose up" was enough.

Now, should you run some random docker image(s)? Maybe not. But it's easier to see what's going on - maybe you spin up a vm and run docker there, isolated?
The MERV 13 is neither a HEPA nor VOC filter. It is almost as good as a HEPA filter (it performs the same function albeit it's very slightly less effective), but it doesn't filter out VOCs. For VOCs you need an activated carbon layer.
I hope they got around to fixing the D garbage collector, which was, and possible still is, pure garbage.
I'm afraid that's not how the real world works. It has never worked this way and it never will. If you want laws/regulations to "always be followed", you have to make the enforcement extremely effective and the penalty extremely harsh relative to the benefits gained. Most people in the west do not wish to live under such repressive systems.

As an aside, I think accounting for anticipated fines is required by the regulations. So at least they were following those regulations! Talk about irony, lol.
>In Europe the last time I saw a cheque was in the early 90's, and they are still used in Canada for things like rent.

It's still a thing in France, mostly because you can control the moment it's cashed in, it can be used as collateral for rent and so on, and because there's a tradition of paper documentation cheques play into.

But people of my generation rarely bother to get a cheque book at all, bank transfers are just fine.
What’s going on with the McDonald’s ice cream machines?
That might help in San Francisco, but in Seattle, that's lost hours dealing with a soaked interior.
I'm not sure about Gmail, but Outlook does, and it's kind of interesting to check out https://account.microsoft.com/security > Sign-in activity and see all the random IPv6 addresses unsuccessfully trying to connect via IMAP. My email was in some random db dump (with a password I didn't reuse) probably a decade ago and apparently people are still trying to cred stuff it.
Nope, just calling out their utter disdain for anonymity (for "those people") ... while being anonymous!
What I would love would be something that would work in a dashcam mode, constantly storing the preceding n minutes with the option to save parts to file. Useful for example for those times I am testing/debugging a gui app and I trigger a bug but cannot later reproduce.
Sometimes there’s more than one person in a home.
I don't believe it's the norm anywhere in the US for the police to change your locks by fiat, or to go lock your unlocked car doors. That's not something I think a lot of people want.
See also:

C-to-C charger cables with Bluetooth remote activated dual payloads:
https://sneaktechnology.com/product/usbninja-custom-type-c-t...

I easily modified mine to mimmic Apple Keyboard USB IDs to avoid notifications. Works great!

Cellular GPS tracking car charger:
https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Locator-Professional-Listenin...

Cellular GPS tracking USB charger cable:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124

I have been making, collecting, and testing toys like this for more than a decade.

It is a race to the bottom on price now.

Your best defense for USB code execution attacks is use Linux with USBGuard or QubesOS with the default USB quarantine VM.

Windows and Mac users are currently easy targets. I don't know of any good defenses there.
More damningly for the "guns preserve liberty" position, I'm pretty sure that, if anything, private arms had more of a role in resisting and suppressing the US civil rights movement, than in aiding it (and yes, I'm aware of the Black Panthers and the early history of 2nd amendment advocacy organizations). Women didn't gain the right to vote at gunpoint, nor did under-21s. Japanese-Americans went to the camps and had their property stolen, despite their guns. Guns don't seem to be doing much for liberty or justice for Native Americans. And so on.

Truly: when have private arms been indispensable in advancing the cause of liberty in the US? We have lots of examples of expanding freedoms and liberties, and even a few of successfully resisting the curtailing of same (though we actually seem pretty bad at that despite all our guns, and tend to fix those things later, if we do at all, rather than avoid them in the first place), but when have guns been what did the trick? The closest thing I can think of is the Civil War, in which some organized regiments fought with personal muskets and rifles until they were issued something (much) better, but, like, a lot of those private arms landed on the "preserve slavery" side of that conflict, which seems to be a recurring problem with the private-arms-preserve-liberty thing, which is that they seem to be at least as useful for doing the opposite. They played a role in escalating criminal violence (e.g. Bleeding Kansas) without which, maybe, the course of the war would have been significantly different, but that's getting pretty far out into "butterfly flapping its wings in Japan" in terms of tracing causality or necessity, and again, the "keep people literally in chains" side got at least as much mileage out of private arms as the "but maybe don't, though" side, in that part of the conflict.

[EDIT] Downvoters: I'm very interested in counter-examples, so please do post them, if you've got 'em.
You can buy air quality sensor boards that should be pretty easy to integrate with arduino or an rpi. I have one from sparkfun.
You just need to increase the total area of the filter material that the fan is pushing air through. I've seen people shape them into a triangle or box with plastic/tape over seams or openings.
I would say that 2 is the most important. You have to spend time writing things and 3 and 4 are seem overkill and wasteful - rather just use the time go over 2 again.

1 depends on how diligent your are at attending class and how interesting the class is. I usually tried to find other student(s) who took notes.
It would be nice to see this test done with other particulate sizes. I'd wonder how effective this is for smaller particle sizes compared to competitors.
Of course I understand why people use python if that's where the jobs or better pay are, I have no confusion there! Or for that matter, if that's where the libraries for doing certain kinds of work, like machine learning as you mention, are. None of that is a mystery, as reasons to use python.
I have dd-wrt on a tp-link router and it works great and has been for about 3 years now. No issues. I just have to check the site about once a month and see if there's an update. I wish that was automated or had a notice in the web gui a new one is available. Very configurable and stable.
Having a passing knowledge of how ML works, I always wondered how these algorithms can use such dense data structures -- it makes a lot more sense now that I know they can be compressed and still searchable.
previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442097
Explaining Systemic Racism to the Right
One of the key features of the expensive purifiers is reduced noise. Box fans are rather loud.
Further proof that the library system is just plain being broken by publishers.

There's a lot of bad shit in this world, but oh boy do I wish some of our country's leaders would solve problems like this. We don't elevate youth or those around us by limiting access to knowledge.
> I believe it should be regulated from the get-go or else it will be too late by the time the biological substrates reach animal-analogous intelligence.

I assume you are also a vegan? I would put my energy into fighting animal meat and animal husbandry today than worrying about a level of technology we probably won't reach for at least a few decades if not a few centuries.
Honda is not bringing the e to North America at all, so there isn't any pricing to compare. If they were I'd be camped outside a dealer to get the first one.
I see your point and agree that it would be extraneous to model awareness for a biomachine whose purpose is efficiency. But what of the inevitable research that will expressly attempt to create AGI using said unaware computation paste?
Yeah, brainwaves seem to matter much less in science news I've seen over the last decade than they did before.

I think brainwaves are probably mostly an epiphenomenon of the electrical signals that make up our brains' computation. Of course, EM waves being what they are, there is feedback between that computation and EM waves. But I think a good way to think about it might be like a computer giving off radio signals during certain computations, like [].

[] https://news.softpedia.com/news/emitting-radio-waves-from-a-...