skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't a system like GPT-3 currently limited to reflecting the ground truth data it has seen?

This limitation went away recently. A variant called RETRO (Retrieval-Enhanced Transformer) can use a search engine to take in the exact information up to date [1], assuming you can curate your own text corpus. It's also 25x smaller.

[1] https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-la...
Anyone else notice the connection between concrete blocks and containers? And the connection between Flaw's assessment of the Ennis house and Kubernetes?

Heh heh.
I feel content on the internet was free for so long, people just feel entitled to it. Now everyone is anti-ad, with most not being able to support an argument as to why targeted ads are bad (like any human at Google cares how user 1839028934 watches vtubers for 8 hours a day), but they still feel entitled to consume content for free.
Ask HN: Find developers to work on API back-engineering
I'm a PO that's developing a fintech product in South Africa. Our banks don't play nicely in terms of data extraction and APIs are non-existent. No such thing as open banking here.

I am looking to hire a developer that is a specialist in reverse-engineering the API's that the bank's use to connect their mobile apps to their servers. We would then use the structure of those API's to build our own products on top of. We currently have a version of this product that works using scraping, but we're exploring a solution that is more sustainable.

2 Questions:

1. What specific skills should I be looking for in this developer? Native experience? Backend/API-specific?
2. Where best to look for that type of developer, if anyone has any advice?

TIA
Sponsorblock integration is a huge one.
the search function seems to list more stations than the browse function, in case that helps...
Awesome idea but it seems to have died a decade ago.
IDK if it needs to be petitioned at the provincial or the federal level, but here in Canada I would gladly join in the effort to advocate for:

- Requiring fewer days/hours per week. Like maybe 4x8.5 or 5x7.

- Raising both the "minimum required" and "maximum expected" vacation days per year. We should align with European standards, not American!

I'm pushing 50, so it's already "too late" for me to benefit from any of this. But for the good of the next generations, I'd still help push for it.
Airline accidents almost never have a single cause. It requires multiple failures to align before you have disaster. Malfunctioning radio altimeters could be one of those factors.

That said, this is Boeing's fault. They need to clean up their act ASAP, and it seems like they've been banking on the FCC covering up their mess and are now running around with their hair on fire.

A reasonable stopgap may be to simply not allow 5G towers to use the frequencies ranges in question within some radius of an airport (20 miles?) for a few years until Boeing fixes the problem.
Yes, I think the truckers should be charged for their crimes. No, I don't think their assets should be frozen without an court process.

This is because don't support extra judicial asset seizure as a valid policing tool.

You posed your question as an either/or, but I haven't seen any pardon claim that the truckers will never be charged (not that it would Change my position)

Using a legal system to enforce laws is the line that separates legitimate governments from racketeers. I believe that it should not be crossed outside of active warzones.

Separating people from their money is an extremely powerful tool. People capitulate quickly if you threaten to starve their family and children. It should never be used simply because you don't want to go to the effort of charging someone with a crime and arresting them.
Head tracking (positional) is 6DOF. Got lost in some editing, I'll re-add it.
It's not very clear what kind of setup we get with something like postgres. Is the price quoted for HA setup or normal and what if there is a need for a replica.

Can you elaborate a little.
We had similar things happen around here, with "elite" BBS users hacking into the local college and university CS departments to get internet access. Mostly, they just wanted to get on IRC. Typically these were Sun-3 / SunOS 4.x boxes using YP/NIS. "ypcat passwd" would get you an unshadowed password file that you could start cracking...
> Hm ... I'm not sure if I fully agree or not to be honest...

The comments here seem to agree, but I'm not sure, either. I think there's merit to simplifying the structure like this, but, at the risk of projecting my own brain onto the population, these small "bullet point" sentences eliminate a lot of the _flow_ that I depend on to connect ideas together. Variety in the sentence structure, particularly length, keeps things novel enough that I don't get sucked into reading "automatically" (where I've technically read the words but digested none of them), and connecting words like because, moreover, thus, etc. give me clues about how the bullet points connect together. How one fact or statement follows from the previous.
>Calling the police in most American cities won't get you far.

This really varies widely by location.

The local police in my sleepy suburb will go full DEFCON 1 if they know a stolen car is in the area. They don't have a lot to do...

It might be worth seeing what the locals are or aren't willing to do.
They certainly can, at most they just use their richly valued stock to raise some more money. Most of the GAAP loss is stock based compensation anyway, not directly spending money.
If it wasn't obvious to anyone (it wasn't to me for many years), the pun is in the byline.

Advanced but without the ads = ~~ad~~vanced
Given Boeing's reliability vector, the fix might be more painful to others than itself.
I really don't know why you're stuck on this mental path. I'm not talking about being famous or even well known. There are plenty of deca-millionaires that no one has ever heard of, and anyone who found out about their bank account would agree that they are rich and therefore their problems are rich person problems.

No one said anything about becoming a russian oligarch or befouling the KGB by virtue of their existence.
I would like to have an app that I can use to scan the face of a police officer and that tells me:

1) Officers name

2) Employment history

3) Current Salary

That's all public information. Not violating any officer's privacy.
Companies are generally stupid, because any group large enough regresses to the median of its members, or worse, the average of its C-Levels. I'm sure they don't consciously see the cloud as less, but that's still the selling point; it's why they value it.
Why doesn't this qualify as warez?
First, these altimeters are not made by Boeing.

Second, the FCC was already involved in their development and certification.

Third, these radars have been in operation for decades.

You are talking about thousands of planes that have to be modified to accommodate telcos. If anyone should pick up the tab for this it is Verizon and AT&T.
Yeah, this guy only had a superficial understanding of JS and Python--he had no idea how they worked under the hood, had no low level experience, no CS background, etc. We already sunk so much effort into the Python implementation that he couldn't get behind a rewrite in another language, and moreover I suspect he was intimidated by a "lower level" language (relative to Python) and figured it would take weeks or months to be productive.

In his defense, if you work in Python and JavaScript a lot, you get pretty jaded on tools and techniques that promise to be silver bullets and the idea that you could have a language that is orders of magnitude faster than Python, easy to learn, better package management and other tooling, and at least as maintainable just wasn't believable. Frankly, I think it would have been an easier sell if I lied and said that Go was only slightly better than Python.
Inlined code still has all the "if" checks of the original code, just without the actual "jsr" and "ret" instructions in between.

Comparing a good C coder to a bad C++ coder is meaningless: By definition, a bad coder makes bad choices, whatever the language.

Bad code is slow in a place where speed matters. It is improved by making it fast. Language choice does not affect this.

What language choice does affect is whether you can afford to spend the attention needed to make the code fast. C++ provides tools to offload busywork, freeing your attention to apply to what matters. It remains the programmer's job to choose that.
They certainly certified them on the aircraft. If it means putting pressure on the subcontractor that actually built them or finding a suitable replacement then so be it.
This is the first time I've heard this idea and I love it. There should absolutely be a standard for this.

EDIT: Ok, I thought about this a bit... would it actually work? Would the packets just find another path, and actually end up using more network resources as they traverse successively longer routes?

There's a trust issue, too: how far up the chain do you propagate the signal "suspected abuse from this host"? How hard would it be to abuse this system to censor people you don't like?
are you allowed to show up armed, in case they are waiting for you? If you end up in a shootout, will you be considered the aggressor? Seems dangerous to me
In my expierience New Pipe is lacking. The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious, besides I've found New Pipe breaks often and it won't let me load videos. It's pretty cool for listening to music while the screen is off, but I wouldn't recommend it as a daily Youtube driver.
I believe it's a result of selfish and/or short-term thinking.
I simply don't care. I don't tolerate viewing ads. I currently use sponsorblock as well. I have paid for YouTube premium at some point but I see no reason anymore. There's enough people who don't know how to block ads and frankly if it ever got to that point I expect the big G to crack down hard (technical and legal means). It's the same thing with ad blocking. I'm sorry but when you have 11 percent of my average network requests being ads I will simply block those requests. Is it selfish? Of course. I'm not claiming to "stick it too the man", I just don't wanna see your shilling. Simple as.
There is still about:robots though, which has been maintained and updated in the new style over the years.

And of course, about:mozilla is still present.[0]

[0]: The Beast continued its studies with renewed Focus, building great Reference works and contemplating new Realities. The Beast brought forth its followers and acolytes to create a renewed smaller form of itself and, through Mischievous means, sent it out across the world.

from The Book of Mozilla, 6
It does. I'm not saying that choice is wrong at all, I'm saying that particular choice is a matter of engineering vs. engineering and not engineering vs. marketing.
Boeing does not usually make avionics. Companies like Garmin, Collins, and Honeywell do.
Does Youtube offer to not track you in any way when using Youtube Premium? (This is a serious question. I don't know what features Youtube Premium has.)
https://github.com/orgs/YTVanced/repositories?type=all
Is that so, though? I've often read (but sadly cannot reproduce links at this point) that ad revenue is a multiple of subscription revenue - meaning a paying subscriber is worth a lot less than a non-paying-but-ad-watching subscriber.

Maybe if ads were somehow banned and services would only exist on a subscription driven basis, we'd have have more content worth buying and less clickbaity stuff.
It might be lower hanging fruit to start with something like a VR renderer for openscad - it would be amazing to be able to type openscad code into a floating window and see a live updating floating render of the object I am building next to that. I suppose the bounding box of the output could be considered a 3D vr window of sorts.
I dont use vanced but I am looking into it. Allegedly vanced has an iOS alternative. My reasoning is that Google is disgusting and has created a defacto monopoly. There is no way to outcompete a free product at scale so there basically can’t be an alternative. So I obviously use video and that means I use youtube. I dont want to support google, never want to see an ad and I honestly don’t care about the creator. If i did find someone who I regularly watched I would probably support them directly. I would never want to use youtube premium and infact constantly being bombarded by ads for youtube premium is a major reason i use an adblocker…
church tax only for those who declare they are part of religion, this is voluntary and you get some benefits, as additional holidays I believe. I always left the religion option empty and never had to pay church tax.
Didn't the ads model emerge in part because in the early days it was really hard to pay for online services?
Maybe it's a regional thing, but I don't know anyone who calls that "systems programming". I'd personally use the term "backend programming".
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i'd love to know the crossover between vanced users and people who get outraged when their youtuber complains about getting demonetized.
To add: if you ever read an FCC label on a device it says “must be able to accept harmful interference” or similar. So I’d argue the Boeing devices are the ones out of spec, should be immediately revoked as out of compliance by the FCC, and be done with it so the masses can enjoy 5G in peace.

I believe no agency should consider downstream effects of applying the law, to ensure fairness. Why should Boeing get a pass but say an out of compliance robotic lawnmower gets enforced?
When making the netcode for my web game, I highly valued TypeScript support so to get it by default, I defined the message types in TypeScript so they could be used directly[1]. I see that this framework defines its messages in .yml and converts it to types (stored in a folder kept out of source control).

I'm not sure which way is best, but it is very nice to have the feature support of `.d.ts` files when creating complex message types, as opposed to needing to learn a new thing. Clearly if this is going to be a cross-platform framework (not just web) then using TypeScript as the source-of-truth makes far less sense.

Anyway, very impressed with the binary format/delta encoding feature! That's been something that I know I _should_ do but am putting off until I see signs of sending raw JSON being problematic.

[1] https://github.com/connorjclark/gridia/blob/master/src/proto...
I do pay creators - through Patreon or buying music or merch.

I won't be forced to watch ads or use a UI I dislike though.
> Kyra is autistic and profoundly deaf. She was born premature at about 27 weeks, just a little over 2 pounds, which has impacted pretty much everything: eyesight, hearing, digestion, sleep patterns. A strong tremor in her hand makes it impossible for her to use American Sign Language. Her parents think she recognizes a couple dozen signs.

The most important thing when writing is to know your audience. Given the goal the original ProPublica article (talking about how the the state of Arizona is not helping disabled children) the original paragraph is preferable because it succinctly and clearly communicates how serious Kyra’s problem is.

In the first sentence, “profoundly deaf” has a specific meaning and conveys the seriousness of the disability. Similarly, 27 weeks is a lot more helpful than “born early”. Many children are born before 40 weeks (early) and generally anything after 36 weeks (after the lungs have developed) is pretty uncomplicated. However, 27 weeks is very early and has a high complication rate and requires state of the art neonatal intensive care. In addition, 2 pounds is very small for a baby(average is around 7 pounds) and again requires a lot of high tech medical care just to survive until what would be full term.

In addition the words “tremor” combined with “impossible” conveys the severe medical nature of the problem more so than “shaking”. In addition, with the simple version, it is ambiguous whether using sign language is because of preference (self-conscious) or because it is impossible.

Again consider the goals of the original article. It is to point out the injustice that a child with a severe medical problem is not getting the care and help she requires and deserves. The original wording does a much better job of making this case.

The most important thing in writing is knowing your audience and your goal.
The difference (systemic vs non-systemic) is not just about magnitude, but also in who Lehman's counterparties were and the effects when those counterparties (those who were exposed to Lehman) could not get their expected capital (and the chain reaction of events that sets off throughout the capital markets and then the real economy). I remember reading some stat that claimed Lehman had derivative contracts with total notional value in the 10s of trillions.
Call me silly, but I'd like to buy one of those cars w/o telemetry.

"

So it was a surprise to Subaru fans when Massachusetts dealerships started selling its line of 2022 vehicles without a key ingredient: the in-car wireless technology that connects drivers to music, navigation, roadside assistance and crash-avoiding sensors.

“The dealer didn’t bring it up,” said Joy Tewksbury-Pabst, who bought a new Subaru Ascent without realizing she'd be missing out on the remote start and locking features she had before trading in her 2019 model. She also lost the ability to check wiper fluid levels, tire pressure and mileage from her phone.
"

I want that, I don't want my car to be connected to a 3g/4g/5g modem sending telemetry wherever I go.

I don't find value in checking out my car fluid on my phone, I find value in popping the hood and visually confirming it. The car stops what, every 400 miles for fuel? Not that much more to pop the hood and see what fluid levels are.

I find value in not letting the auto companies be able to track, measure, analyze my car usage.
The benefits of YouTube Premium far exceed the monthly cost. I only realize this value prop when I try to access YouTube in incognito. Eye opening.
There's a major browser zero-day being used in the wild requiring immediate browser update basically every week it seems like.

Stay up to date or use the browser in a very safe environment in a way which does not have access to or use any of your personal information including accounts/passwords/etc.
Ya. I don't think anyone would want to provide their social profiles. You should just eat up the cost of risk score.
This is not true. 5G uses spectrum way outside the band that RADAR altimeters are supposed to be using. Boeing had years to fix their shoddy RADAR equipment, and the fix now can be as simple as fitting a high-pass filter.
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Funny. And those atmospheric effects are really underrated compared to indoors.

This one time, for some months, I had these really terrible things called corneal erosions. I'd wake up, open my eyes, and in doing so my eyelids would pull off bits of eye tissue. No warning. Absolute literal screaming pain.

Darkness was really needed for a while, for recuperation. Among other things, I learned that the difference between indoor and outdoor light levels is really quite something. I had previously underestimated the difference.

Like, I thought that sitting in a vehicle with tinted windows in the daytime might be similar, in terms of light levels, to being in a room inside a house during the daytime. So I'd sit in the back of the family van for a while, during a vacation trip for example. But it was not even close, for practical purposes.

I do have to wonder if some people are more naturally aware, at some level, of the difference, and they calibrate to it, either consciously or unconsciously. Others may think the result unhealthy. But that may also be a subjective perception worth questioning in order to get at important details...
It feels strange to be used as a reference point, but we’ll take it! Like other folks on this thread, I’m interested in seeing what you do with Simula One. I agree that it is the sort of ambitious though likely niche product that is worth testing the wide open future of VR with.
How about 3D modeling with something like Blender?

BTW, the key to making stuff like that work well isn't just the UI affordances, but latency. Head tracking, room tracking, video passthrough for AR, all highly sensitive to latency. You can see the effect even in the GIFs on your landing page: in the AR mode the floating windows slightly lag the external view when the user moves their head.

Latency is what makes many people nauseous (ie. Cybersickness), but as far as I know no one actually benchmarks it for VR or AR headsets or for VR games, and headset hardware makers keep chasing higher resolutions (and secondarily framerate). Everyone is familiar with resolution vs. framerate vs. scene complexity (eg. "polygon counts") tradeoffs, but latency figures in as well and no one makes the effort to benchmark it (and let's face it, it's pretty hard, even in a research context) despite the huge impact it has on consumer acceptance. It's the elephant in the room everyone ignores except to blame someone else (software people blame the hardware, hardware folks blame the software, etc.).

Now, you're trying to make this a general productivity environment, so resolution is more important than usual to be able to read text without eyestrain, but for immersive gaming the available hardware has been more than good enough resolution wise for at least two Moore's Law cycles, possibly as many as five. The same can't be said for latency.

And there are much better uses of the GPU than just pumping out more pixels and complexity, particularly for AR use cases: object detection and tracking, pose estimation, object masking and removal/replacement, etc., and all of those are even more sensitive to latency than resolution compared to VR.
Finally, a random HN Cloudflare thread!

How am I supposed to reach out to Cloudflare support?

If I start at cloudflare.com, and click "Support", "Contact Support", that takes me to the Cloudflare Dashboard. In the upper corner, there is "Help Center" and "Cloudflare Community". In the bottom, "Contact support". "Contact support" and "Help Center" both lead to the same page: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us ; that page has a giant "Submit a request" button on it. Clicking that takes me … back to the dashboard. I suppose there is the community, but the UI seems to imply there is a "file ticket" thing, but the UI seems broken.

Also, your RDAP implementation — is the API (not just the web UI) to it something people are free to use? Additionally, it's not quite RDAP; it doesn't conform to the RDAP RFC (RFC 9083) in the eventAction string used for expiration dates. (It calls the eventAction "Expiration Date"; the RFC calls it "expiration". Parsers are picky.)
The nicer areas are where the best cars to steal are located.
Nitpick: Rust comes with GC in the std lib: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-04-rc.html
"In 2015, Front page posts on a given day would have "xyz in Go" and it was JavaScript before that."

I use the prevalence of "In X" posts as a sneaky measure of maturity of the given language. A language is "mature" when people start posting projects written in it on HN without highlighting the implementation language.

Rust & Go have both hit this, BTW. But only a couple of years ago, and you can still definitely see "In Rust/Go" posts with some regularity, so they haven't hit full maturity, where it wouldn't even cross the mind of a poster to mention Rust or Go as if it were a weird thing.
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Did you just describe Stack Overflow?
Unless the airlines are installing the altimeters themselves, it seems like Boeing is still the relevant company. If your car’s airbag has a malfunction, the car manufacturer does the recall even if the fault lies with the airbag manufacturer. Presumably Boeing would then go on to sue the altimeter manufacturer though.