skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are budget smartphones you can buy under hundred bucks (Cubot Note 7). Charging $85 for this is ridiculous.
Create an open source version of Pico-8
Hope you never have a picture posted online with your fingers in view, then.

Biometrics are terrible security tokens.
These folks are ooold. They don’t understand anything other than black and white because they’re just told it’s an issue. Average age of a senator is 63 years old.
>> I'm genuinely shocked that the popular sentiment on HN leans toward more government intervention and control of internet communications

I'm not seeing that as the popular sentiment here. I think we just want FB to stop algorithmically boosting stuff in order to boost engagement numbers and to also start applying the rules equally.
Yet, healthcare systems are currently rushing to axe many thousands of unvaccinated healthcare workers. Don’t you think it sends mixed messages to be claiming that there’s such a dire shortage of ICU capacity on one hand, but to be letting so many fully capable healthcare workers go? (many of whom have already been exposed to Covid and have natural immunity anyway)
Don't make it a small premium then, or make yourself the beneficiary, you're in control of the terms, the other party can choose to accept them or not.

"It’s important to note as well that each of the fields in the contract are totally open for customization. You can make the “Agreed upon 3rd party” the lender. Or you can change the collateral amounts based on trust levels. If you feel like there’s an asymmetry of risk, you can up the collateral on either side of the contract before signing. It’s all in your hands."
I don't think it's "run by" the YCombinator. If I recall correctly, YCombinator pays for HN costs, in exchange for 3 things: recruitment posts, YCombinator new startups posts, and having alumni see each others as orange.
If she were in a visible position where she'd have learned this information, the people in PR could easily look up what projects she was on them come up with a targeted response disclosing only those facts.

However, since she didn't work on anything relevant, they have to do research without any guidance.

It's Day 1. They can't come out and say "we don't know what she's talking about or where she got her data, so we can't refute it."

As PR, the worst thing for them to do is deny something only to be hit by factual evidence; they'd rather know all the evidence to begin with them try to put it in a good light or reveal a good reason for things being that way.
This is what I'm planning for my browser; the web engine will serialize a continuation of sorts that you can load into new instances and mutate in eg cli tools or another computer. Still chugging through basic features like js for now though.
Brilliant!

Although if it took a long time to enumerate the list of elements…
I work in customer service and the queuing theory is something I noticed while working. A single cashier is usually unsustainable for very long but two will get you through quite a rush. Very cool to see it formally expressed.
I used domainholder.io to sell a parked domain, someone here posted it some time ago. Very easy.
> that is because there is a difference between the law and ethics and IMO that is a good thing.

I feel confused because I didn't think I was saying that we should get rid of ethics by codifying everything into law. I thought my main point was that sometimes when people continue to break those unwritten rules, we will decide to write down those rules and enforce more strict consequences—not saying we should always do that.

I actually would prefer if we had fewer written laws and relied more on unwritten rules of interacting with each other. And when someone breaks those unwritten rules, we would apologize and forgive and work together to resolve the conflict and rebuild trust in each other, instead of pushing to punish people in a retributive system of justice.
>I'm a huge fan of offline-first collaborative apps

You and me both, Bruno.
We're last on the consideration list though, always-online software and crypto integrations are the future whether we like it or not. There's money to be made there, why would they reject it?
And this is why kernel developers find userland devs to be misguided so much of the time: thread creation is expensive. Thinking that you're saving resources by destroying "unnecessary" threads is not taking into account the system as a whole, especially when you're adding thread creation into what you probably assume is a fast path (waking up a thread in a thread pool).

<sigh>
Tried Edge, it works as expected. Tried turning off Facebook Container, it also works as expected. So you are right good Sir!

Still, a bit unexpected behaviour though.
I hope you realize the irony of posting smears of a whistleblower to the comment section of an article that decries smearing whistleblowers.

Do you have anything to say about the substance of the revelations? Or just want to interject irrelevant BS about her personal life?
Not to defend FB, but could we please dispense with the notion that she's an actual "whistleblower" at this point? She retained an ultra expensive law firm (same lawyer as in Ukraine-gate), a PR firm, got 60 minutes interview, got verified on twitter within 2 days, got a congressional hearing within a week, and is currently organizing a PR tour in Europe. It's pretty clear this is being funded and directed externally, in a coordinated fashion, in an attempt to ensure Zuck's full compliance ahead of the midterms, without which they are going to lose. Greenwald wrote about this on his Substack earlier today: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...

ShareBlue shills are out in full force: first downvote within half a second, a personal record.
Let's focus on fixing the bullshit of web2, if we want a real change.

Distributed systems are the future, but call me a "skeptic", for me blockchain stuff is not prerequisite for this change.

We don't need to introduce another layer of complexity and vector for abuse. We just need one big infrastructural change - to remove our dependency of big and centralized silos of cloud computing.

Do it and put on top of it <whatever marketing lingo you want>.:)
It seems blatantly accusing everyone mentioning Orwell of being uneducated and misinformed has itself become a meme. Sadly the effect of the unprovoked and needless regurgitation of such ad-hominems is that people regret mentioning him, even when, as you yourself proclaim, the mentioning is perfectly valid.
sorry, my bad. I'm just reactive to a lot of SV/tech libertarian culture that tends to minimize racism and sexism, often using sarcasm.
If you don't have $200, why do you need to take books out, and where is it that you're taking them? What's wrong with reading them right there?
Just jump through the overcollateralized hoops of our game theoretic Rube Goldberg machine and voila!
That is actually really profound!
But rewarding
I’m fascinated (read: horrified) how many people in the comments here are litigating all the ways that this change is horrible / promotes abuse of the library system / is the end of civilization.

We have actual, practical examples of many library systems who have made this change. In every case I’m aware of, the result was an increase in desirable behaviors (like more people borrowing books and a higher percentage of books being returned), with no increase in undesirable behaviors (like theft of books).

To all the folks here decrying how this is horrible, can you cite any example of a library where this was done and it went badly?
If they weren't called "monads," what would be another term you think would fit the bill?
Bookmarks have limitations but I really think the issues most people have are not forming good habits.
> tower pcs are often heavy to carry

Well, that’s why we have portable computers. This is like saying buses are bad for your physical health, because being ran over hurts you. Who even carries tower computers?
You just made mfreed's day :-)
Historically unlike Apple, but becoming increasingly common sadly.

Beyond any tech details, I think the real problem is they've somehow just lost interest (or maybe even ability?) in crafting software to a high, delightful quality bar.
Yes, you would need to inform all the servers of the change, a compliant FIDO authenticator shouldn't be clonable.

However, if you've got a whole bunch of servers you can do SSH certificates instead of raw keys, and then you only need to go through the process once (to get the certificate) since the servers just care that your certificate was signed by the authorised CA.

That definitely makes sense if you're at the "cattle not pets" level of servers where you don't care which server this is, and it can start to make sense even at the scale I grew up with where servers have themed names, so really by the time "All the servers" seems like a genuinely annoying problem, you ought to be rolling out certificates.

Once upon a time I'd have argued that some of the other tricks to do centralised key auth are good, but I think on balance you should just go with certificates.

FIDO is cheaper, although obviously if you already have OpenPGP you don't care about that.
So for a digital platform you are suggesting that after X users they allow no more sign-ups until someone churns out?
> That is akin to occasionally beating God in a game of chess.

So you're telling me ... There's a chance?
I'm not saying it would be better, but you could shell script your platform's equivalent of:

start firefox http://example.com
start firefox http://example.org
start firefox http://example.net

and that would "open a bunch of specific URLs at once" with a single invocation. Or make a filesystem folder with URL links in it and select many of them and open all at once. Or make a HTML page with some javascript which 'clicks' multiple links at once.

The only thing that does not do is appear in the browser UI itself, and browsers go a long way to try and make sure bookmarks don't either :|
So what happens to a star inside a "perfect" Dyson sphere?
Similar to how privately run businesses budget to take shoplifting into account as an operational expense, so too can libraries. Imagine if Whole Foods charged every customer $200/year as "insurance" for those who do shoplift, there probably wouldn't be many shoppers who would accept this change without also changing how often they shop there (or stop altogether), and that's even considering that most Whole Foods shoppers are likely financially stable enough to afford to pay that out of pocket.

Unlike Whole Foods, though, as a public good (and already funded by the taxes of everyone who walks in the doors), libraries have a mission to make books accessible to as many people as possible, not just those who can pay what's a $200 fee, nor are they trying to make a profit, so they have even less incentive than Whole Foods to punish their patrons.
Yeah, I guess I was reacting (badly) to "to be simultaneously ignorant enough not to realize that a drone could be used for harmful applications".

I, personally, don't ever want to let that argument stop me from building shit that I want to build for fun. Like I pointed out, Hiluxes and F-19Ws have become well know "tools of trade" for freedom fighters and terrorists. Obviously totally not the intend ofd the designers, and even in retrospect nobody sane would say "Toyota should never have built and sold the HiLux because it's too easy to mount a machine gun in the tray!"

Could my ongoing projects to build sub 100g autonomous drones be misused by people to do harm? Maybe? Could my experimenting with LoRa Mesh Networking be misused by people to do harm? Maybe? Could my project to try using GPS and ADSB to aim a camera with a high powered zoom lens on a gimbal to take pics of planes be misused by people to do harm? Maybe? Am I going to stop doing any of those things because of that? Nope. On the other hand, would I experiment with a drone carrying explosives? Nope. Would I mount a laser on the camera gimbal auto aiming at planes? Nope. I don't know if my personal lines in the sand have any valid arguments behind them other than "that's just where my personal morals/ethics draws the line", and I wouldn't hold other people to account for having their own lines drawn somewhat differently. But I will judge both far ends of the bell curve there as "way too irresponsible" or "way too paranoid".

Having said that, two companies in another comment of mine here DroneSheild and EOS have both tried to headhunt me (DroneShield directly, EOS I'm 98% certain it was them the recruiter was trying to pimp me to..) And both times I was _seriously_ tempted just because the technical challeneges seem like so much fun. I declined both approaches though, having decided I didn't want to work in that industry. My dad was a defence contractor pretty much his entire career, so I don't judge people who _do_ choose that industry. It can certainly be lucrative, and _most_ of what dad worked on at least was defence or training, rather than attack weapons.
Are you saying you learned nothing in your physics degree? You learn different things when you do stuff like soldering, but you still learn things when you practice math and theoretical problems.

The main value of a degree is that basically nobody learn those things properly on the job. So after a few years in industry the person with a degree now knows both theory and practice, while those who just worked only knows the practice and has a glaring lack of theory. And theory is extremely valuable, modern society cannot function without having a lot of people who understands the theory well. Not everyone needs it but some do.
That's ok, I've planted 920,000.
So if I want to rent a Ferrari, now I need quarter million dollars lying around and also be fine with locking it up for the duration of the rental.

And this is all a smart contract, so if there's a bug and I lose my quarter mil, tough luck.

This proposed system is worse in all ways compared to the current system of laws and insurance that facilitate affordable, mostly friction-free rentals.
Blah blah non free software blah blah DRM blah blah JavaScript

So? Nothing new? The same shit in windows 10 is in windows 11 (+TPM requirement)?
Extreme compatibility exercises are not for the squeamish... Many tables and even un-closed <p> tags.
So, other big city libraries have already done this.

Somehow they haven't developed "cottage industries" in selling library books on ebay.

I think there are probably many easier ways to make money. But that's just my guess. Regardless of the reason... it hasn't happened.
It's easy to feel weird as a kid with less perspective over the world. I have empathy for anyone who felt they weren't like the other kids around them for good, productive reasons. Sure, thinking interest in computers = Asperger's is an immature way to convey this. But otherwise I think it's worth celebrating whenever anyone has two-sigmas-above-average nerdy interests, why not?
The row limits in Airtable seem absurd, and to me make it seem like a great tool to use for prototyping but not for long-term production. The biology lab I'm in has a bunch of Filemaker databases I've been thinking of migrating to an Airtable-like system (because I can't be the only person who knows how to use it or maintain it) but we'd already be at 50k rows! And there's no way a small academic bio lab is going to pay "enterprise" plan money.

TL;DR I've been looking at Baserow as a possible solution, so thanks!
I have actually told this one at a party (well, not exactly a rager)
"Two 12 Inch Pizzas have less Pizza than one 18 inch pizza."

and we did the math to prove it to ourselves. Blew our minds... an actual valid use for middle school math.
I'd like to propose another dimension (or perhaps something that counts as a modifier to intelligence): confidence and cowardice. I would describe myself and my high school friends as, nearly universally, clever, lazy, and terrified. The difference between those who today find themselves in successful careers and those who don't is whether or not they acquired some measure of self-confidence in the interim. (If you noticed that this implies that such a personal quality is malleable - and further considered that uncontrollable circumstances might contribute to its shaping - well, yes.)
Doesn't sound very decentralized to me.
Frances Haugen stands to earn hundreds of millions to billions of dollars from the SEC whistleblower award. That seems relevant to the conversation when she's accusing FB of prioritizing profit over the public good. What are her priorities?

In terms of teens' mental health personally I feel that school affected me more negatively than social media. I would be surprised if the majority of those who responded to the surveys didn't feel the same. It seems the likely result (if any) of all this will be to further entrench FB by making onerous regulations that only they can afford to comply with.
Having to have an extra $200 around to leave as a deposit at the library would exclude many many library patrons, and is definitely not the "best system". It's one of the worst possible systems.
Why do you think they have a pessimistic attitude?

I´ll use myself as an example.

I started coding professionally at 23 (I´m 43). For years I pushed myself to be the best coder I could. At 35 I got laid-off. After that I just got sucky jobs were I´m treated like they have me there as a favor (and I work with the latest, and I´m, even with the pessimism, a top performer).

A coworker of mine that thought that coding was a losers job, coded for some months and went to work as a B.A and later as a PM, nowadays is an engineering manager which earns way more than me and is treated way way better. His whole programming experience is an 8-month part time stint with Winforms. And sadly he is not the exception...

In most places devs are being had.
Windows is rapidly heading to where iOS is. The TPM requirement isn't a trivial thing.
copilot has surprised me on multiple occasions. If I code in an unfamiliar language, copilot was super quick at writing the code I needed based on the method name (instead of needing to fallback to stack overflow).
100% agreed. This is why we’re building it for mobile web and not as an AppStore app
I recently was looking to add my yubikey to one of my banks (BofA) and I could not for the love of god figure out how to add one. I know BofA supports it because there are many articles about adding it, but I couldn't find a way of doing it from their website. The best I could do from there was SMS 2FA.

I finally found a link from just googling around that took me directly to a page where you could add a security key. But the catch was that I had to have an active session if I wanted to add a key. If you weren't already logged in in another tab, it will redirect you to the BofA dashboard after you log in. From all the time I spent, there is no way to get to that page from the BofA web dashboard.
Very frustrating and annoying experience. But atleast it is out of the way now.

FYI you can only have a max of 2 yubikeys.
Managed Service for TimescaleDB (MST) and the new Timescale Cloud are just two different products. (Not v1 vs v2.)

They are both in active use and development. Different users will prefer one over the other.

We could do a better job describing the differences on our website - noted (thanks!)

GCP/Azure are still supported on MST.
And where do you put it? A billion tons of CO2 doesn't convert to nothing. A ton of CO2 will convert to several tons of non-gaseous product like (say) calcium carbonate.

For the sake of illustration:

CO2 -> CaCO3
44 -> 100 (molar numbers)

so one ton of CO2 gives you just over 2 tons of calcium carbonate. Extrapolating that to roughly 35 gigatons of CO2 per year means that we would have to find somewhere to put about 80 gigatons of calcium carbonate per year.

That's a mountain range per decade. :)
…and who controls the mobile web browsers?
Yubikeys, for me, are convenient second computers for burying private key material that is only accessible via the physical presence check.

I feel I am 10,000x more likely to be attacked from inside my computer by a digital intruder than from any other vector. I lock my Yubikeys with a PIN but I’m not convinced it really protects me against anything that might actually happen to me. Jason Bourne, I am not.

If you, on the other hand, face targeted physical threats on the daily then you have my sympathies. Stay safe.

(Ps: any recommendations for an HSM with a more exciting presence check? I’d like to shoot a hoop / shoot a tin can / shoot a shot of wheatgrass every time I log in, rather than just press an ambiguously hello/green blinky light.)
So you would tax HN based on the number of monthly active users it has?
What if it is not censorship but rather we apply same standards for Facebook feed that we have for newspapers. If a newspaper publishes something false that hurts someone, they can sue newspapers because editors should have caught false information.

Facebook or social media algorithms now optimize feeds for engagement even if information is false or harmful. To me algorithms are new editors. So people who are hurt by these algorithms should be able to sue companies that run these algorithms.

If social media companies want section 230 protection, then they should not use any form of algorithms. Show everything without prioritizing anything.
Sometimes I read things from crypto maxis and wonder if they’ve ever read what history was like when there was no trust (and thus no credit) and everything operated in manners such as the above.

Like, I get it, I do: the Fed is out of control (ahem, my username) and inflation yada yada. But in no way is this better from a capital efficiency/economic utility/user experience perspective. I’d rather just book a hotel or airbnb where my credit card can play the role of escrow, or judge and jury (or an actual judge and jury if things really go sideways).
Good point - Digital Ocean Spaces is a cheaper alternative while still using S3.
Because if I can automatically log in through authorized_keys (used by my scripts), then it doesn't make sense to also have an authentication method that requires a key.
The issue with the NYT is not around factual reporting but that they are shifting away from fact based reporting to opinions that are being presented as facts.

I read an article about a voting bill that had passed in some Republican state. The whole article was about how this is voter suppression, how Republicans don't like minorities, what politicians on Twitter had to say. In the whole article there was only ONE brief sentence that mentioned what was IN the bill.
That one got me good, so my future at College Board is as bright as yours. However, I don't think the argument by demonstration in that video is particularly convincing.

Instead, I think's its easier to note that that the _center_ of a circle of radius r travels 2 * pi * r distance over one rotation. In the problem, the center of the smaller circle has to travel further than the circumference of the bigger circle - it traces a circle whose radius is the sum of the two radii.

So, if 3 * r_small = r_big, the center of the small circle has to travel 2 * pi * (r_s + r_b) = 4 * 2 * pi * r_s, then divide by 2 * pi * r_s per rotation to get 4 rotations.
As a European I learned in metric. When I first learned pounds, it was as the imperial system's equivalent of grams and a conversion factor was given. Force in physics class was taught in Newtons (kg*m/s^2).
Is that really a problem though? Most people would just add their friends via username and bypass the whole user discovery process. Discord has demonstrated that this works perfectly fine, even with anonymous accounts not tied to emails.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to a novice. So are the <T>, <B>, and <C> types ? Clojure has collections like [vectors], {maps}, '(lists/seq), #{sets} and a bunch of primitives that can fill up those collections, so I'm not certain how this relates exactly... Are promises and futures always monads?