skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is the Apple Trackpad badly designed then because it lets you use it in a wired manner?

Why can the trackpad be used wired but the mouse not?
In my country, you can buy a pre-paid SIM in a store without providing any kind of ID, making it impossible to retrieve the phone number once you lose it.

I'd be very surprised to learn that such things are not possible in the US.
This is a weird one.

On one hand the US massively over spends on "military spending", partly because it over spends and partly because a whole bunch of weird (corp) welfare and jobs programs (and things like research too) are incorrectly classed as military spending.

But also the US has way way too high a debt level for no actual reason (just under taxing special groups, no real wartime costs, no amazing jump forwards on infrastructure or social capital etc).

What's not to hate?
I kind of feel like this is being done already with Webauthn and Passkeys. Another couple years of user's upgrading/updating devices, and the option to use a passkey may be as ubiquitous as using SMS for MFA.
The thing is, SMS 2FA is still way better than no 2FA and users are more likely to use it since it requires very little effort on their part.

Having to scan a QR code is too much friction compared to just asking for their phone number which will then send a code that a modern phone OS will then be able to autofill all without leaving the app and going into the messages app to retrieve that code.

Edit: I have 4 YubiKeys and a Ledger Nano S that I use for critical services, such as my Google accounts and domain registrar, and I _still_ use SMS 2FA out of laziness for most services.
>In other cases, the world is changing in ways that place growing demands on maps and location data. Nowadays, all social media has a location component so we can geotag our digital lives, and fitness and exercise apps, like Strava, augment how we interact with the world with virtual leaderboards based on GPS trace data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20734665

DonHopkins on Aug 19, 2019 | parent | next [–]

When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Devices.

Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard!

That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department.

The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road.

They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.
It’s likely that someone else registered that. When this was posted, domain was still not taken
> See this argument falls apart because

No, it isn't. While kv is easy on its own, the IDB API was never the right answer to the demand. This is exactly the reason why we (devs) are so hot about the persistent client-side storage. We want just use something like SQLite (or WebSQL, or Postgres) and forget about the IndexedDB nightmare. I'm pretty sure, we will see a huge boost around libraries and tooling when the things get more stable eventually.
There is legislation, the secure digital identity act making it's way through congress. It would task NIST to create a standard.
Just milk the job while looking for something new that does sound interesting.
Oh, scalfani, he was quite invested in FP talks too.

It's funny, I'm calling cover effect (forgot the idiom, but basically when big medias put you up, your uptick is over) on simple FP. I think mainstream absorbed most of the idioms (map filter reduce, decorators, composability, lazy streams etc) and there's nothing else in that bag to push.

That said, I do believe that FP as an abstract multi stage modeling language is still gonna help in the future because it raises provability which is something that I personally miss every day in most mainstream languages. You're never too sure about anything and it's tiresome.
If you want a PR nightmare for yourself, then that’s how you create one.

There is probably more than a century of tradition and expectations around how journalists can work with press releases. Whether companies could sue them for releasing press releases (it‘s in the name!) is in that light mostly theoretical. Because no one would sue.
It's a government thing, my workplace had no say in the matter as long as my GP said I needed it.
To add a sarcastic comment, the US could just increase its military spending to outspend the interest payment then to solve the issue.
Impossible -> gedankan experiment != gedanken experiment -> impossible.
Wow so e-scooters in Paris are net negative for society.
Upvotes and comments from brand new users is a red flag to many on HN. You should avoid.
I completely disagree. You're right that everyone has biases - including the authors of the AI who will therefore choose a biased training dataset. When the tool they are constructing has unparalleled power, and is very likely to negatively impact the lives of those who the authors are biased against (consciously or not), it's entirely fair for those impacted groups to be concerned.

Every dataset has a skew to it, which should be accounted for during training. If the authors don't explicitly account for such things, out of ignorance or bias, then that skew, that bias, will be ingrained in the AI.

For example, if I only train my AI on it's knowledge of chocolate from ads for a particular brand, it's going to have some very opinionated, very wrong ideas about chocolate. This example is silly and obvious, but similar skews happen all the time in real datasets that the authors don't have the time or expertise to recognize.

When people who do have that expertise speak up, we should listen to them and fix it, not just blindly trust "the data" and whatever our fancy algorithm does with it. Garbage in, garbage out.
On the other hand, a family member set up facebook with 2FA, but using a TOTP built into facebook (is this really a thing? It seems to be) -- such that when he switched computers and facebook decided he needed to re-auth, he couldn't get to the TOTP anymore.

If this doesn't make any sense, it probably is because I have the details quite right, but the end result is I was unable to help him make any more sense of this, and there appears to be literally no way to regain access to his facebook account.
I appreciate your response. I genuinely was assuming it was well and clearly understood what I meant by "socio-economic status", but looks like I was wrong. In light of that, I totally understand your initial pushback to it. I hate vague and non-explicitly-defined terms, when it comes to policymaking, as well.
This is the reality - conglomerates like Reliance Industries exist and have very wildly divergent business units.
That payments are increasing is not good, but the US owns its debt in dollars, which gives a lot of flexibility in the long term to do all sorts of shenanigans since the US controls the dollar supply.
I ran into this earlier this year too. I quit and took the 3-4 months off from work that I could afford. I gained a new perspective on work and realized it was a smaller part of my self worth/life than I thought. I got a new job that reflected perhaps the only/most enjoyable part of tech I enjoyed: straight application development. I immersed myself in it with old associates I worked with before from my favorite job. I kept a daily list of tasks meticulously watching over my attention and how I worked and would resequence the list at any point in the day I would start to feel blocked/like I didn't care/lost, so I would stay on task and remain immersed. After following this pattern and working the full 8 hours everyday and not working from home as much as possible. My mind again felt healthy and focused again, now I find it effortless and even happy at work again. Even as pressures mounted with higher work load I realized staying busy doing actual work was the answer I sought and then stopping right at 5 and not thinking about work at all after that. I hope my comments are helpful. It's what I tried and it seemed to work for me. I called my task list in TextEdit my dopamine hitlist. I know it sounds overly simplistic but it helped me solve the core of my problem:burnout, by staying focused at a new job with a fresh start with people I could trust/or try to trust. And sticking to a rigid morning routine, exercise each morning, that didn't allow for distraction and then sitting down and starting my list no matter what till it felt natural again and I felt like my burnout was gone. But honestly I had to change EVERYTHING, so it in no way resembled my old job. I also ate right, took different vitamins I thought would help: D3, Multivitamin, HTP-5, etc. I don't know how much those helped, but even as a placebo, I knew it was the intent to focus on simple tasks and small wins that carried me through my transition back to caring about work.
True, the table isn't super clear. It'd be better to list the creators before listing the proxy technology each mesh uses.
You can't really inspect the source of most modern JS web apps without deobfuscation tools. Similar tools exist to disassemble WASM binaries and turn them into something readable.

Specifically for finding crypto miners, web requests will be an obvious sign of something fishy happening. You can see everything in the network inspector and if the binary uses some kind of additional encryption of requests, you should assume it's malicious.
Thanks for sharing, I'll look into it. Importing it here will possibly double the price of the system I ordered, but it's again good to know.

Thanks again.
I just picked up an acrylic, 23” Cinema HD display (https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...), and it is stunning. It even has a higher resolution screen than most 23” monitors available today (1920x1200).

I’m not sure I personally like it as much as the aluminum displays that followed it, but it is such a head turner that’s almost like an art piece in addition to its function.
pypi.org (the Python Package Index) did the same thing in July, with some amount of criticism from the community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037562

At least they gave away security keys to try and spin it in a positive light: https://pypi.org/security-key-giveaway/ (well sort of, if you already have 2FA on, no key for you valued maintainer)
That's debatable. Nature has certainly killed more humans in history than humans have. Dramatic climate change or nuclear war could turn the tides, but at the moment nature wins the danger contest.
Can't upvote this enough. People who say "we should all just use WebAuthn" need to understand:

1. Theoretically, they're right

2. Realistically, it feels like they've never interacted with the non-tech public, and all the issues and problems that need to be worked around with hardware keys.

There is a good reason companies are trying to move us to a "passwordless" future, but there is also a good reason they are going very slowly - they know there is no silver bullet.
For comparison, the old, dying, 'legacy' social media platform Facebook added 24MILLION new users in the same period.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

To rub it in - If Facebook & Mastodon were the only two social networks to 'switch' to, FB captured 99.8% of the 'switchers'.
If 24 Million new users had signed up for Mastodon, that would be a story. That only 0.2% of them chose Mastadon shows how bad the open, federated alternative really is.
Functionally, the US has such a huge debt level because borrowing costs were so low for more than a decade. Rising debt payments are the signal that will, on decadal scales, force the US to pare back borrowing and raise taxes.

(Raising taxes will probably also slow the economy, encouraging the Fed to lower interest rates, and the cycles cycle anew...)
The ISP in your area could be an unnatural monopoly. In my experience these companies have lobbied out local providers and bought all the competition to make them the only offerers in some areas. It happens more in rural US. The issue also crops up with gas stations in towns and then again with dollar stores as well, in this case they are replacing grocery stores.
Traditionally the federal government would crack down on unnatural monopolies so that's why you don't typically see them, but look at the regional level and you can spot them.
You won't because people are married to their phones now. Anything else is an alien concept. Cars don't use keys anymore, people are going to be dumbfounded why their computer suddenly does.
This mirrors my experience directly. Before smart phones, I found TomTom to be more user friendly than competitors, but they were slow to boot up, the battery was only useful for providing clean power vs the car electrical system. I tried using my TomTom for walking Navigation. The battery lasted long enough to reach my destination, but luckily I remembered my way back to the parking lot after, because the battery did not make it.

Google Maps on my phone works fine, and on my current Pixel 5A, I can navigate off battery for a three or four hours. Plenty of walking time to hit multiple points in a day of walking.

Maybe some day the TomTom app will be competitive with Google maps, but for now, Google maps is the reference by which all other mapping will be judged.
"circle head"?
Have you looked at Mastodon? Have you not noticed they're called "Toots?"
Hey hey, Founder here!

Thanks a lot for your feedback, and I think you are right in a couple of things. We definitely need to work on the slogan.

Just to clarify our goal: we indeed don't plan to replace the underlying file system, we will essentially be a file manager. The main advantage we see is with automated folders (i.e., you can dump all of your files on your Desktop and NeveMind sorts everything out for you - based on both "content" and "type" of the files). We then provide search on top of the collected metadata, as you said.

We don't plan on offering cloud storage, we plan on integrating with DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc, so you can sort your files everywhere.
I'm mostly in agreement.[1]

The thing that humans have an edge in that machines currently do not is story telling. Compelling stories presented with skill, beat even the most talented of people; let alone a machine.

We want to know that if we fail or if we allow someone else to fail on our behalf, that we can still convince the rest of society to give us another chance. So we get very good at telling stories that do not necessarily correlate to reality.

And right now "I was maimed by a human doctor that I trusted to operate on me" is a better story to tell those around us than "I was maimed by a robot that I trusted to operate on me". But I think that's mostly because we have more societal practice coming up with the human doctor failure stories. If you told someone that a human medical system failed you, you'll get sympathy to some extent. If you tell someone that a robot failed you, they'll say, "what did you expect to happen?" And the fear is that the implicit, "Don't trust that guy, he trusted a robot" isn't far behind.

[1] - So, 'rationally' if we had a doctor who could save every patient (who would otherwise have a 0% chance of life), but who also kills a homeless person for every 1000 people saved, then we should let this doctor roam free. (And maybe 1000 isn't enough people, but I suspect 'rationally' you can make the numbers work with some N.)

However, even so, I would not allow such a doctor to roam free. Perhaps irrationally.

The same with AI solution. If I could make an AI/ML/whatever solution that does significantly better than people, but also has terrifying failure conditions that people do not have, then I would probably choose to not deploy.

For example, an AI truck driver who never kills anyone while on the road, but randomly goes to a school and mercilessly hunts children in the playground. Maybe it only gets one child per 1 million people who would have otherwise died on the road. However, the failure is so horrifying that it shouldn't be allowed.
Why? How is it AI's fault that it can solve problems humans have proven unable to solve? And then you think it's AI's fault when we can't explain how it's solving the problems we can't solve? There's a reason we can't explain why a neural network detects it as a cat or dog, it's because we can't solve it ourselves, so the exact mathematical intuition is literally beyond our ability to describe (so far).
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Raise federal income taxes rates and create additional tax brackets. Or, better, replace discrete tax brackets by a monotonously continuously increasing function t=f(x), where x=taxable income and t=effective tax rate. The function could have certain properties such as t>0 for all x>standard deduction, t=0 for x<standard deduction, lim t (x->infinity) = 0.5 or something like that, and df/dx > 0 for all x > standard deduction.
You should be able to upvote the 50-60 poll choice.
What agency do Chinese people have?
This game is also written in Nim: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
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Until 100 years from now, when more general purpose AI are having what could be described as experiences, and can be asked to draw a picture of how they feel when thinking about being unplugged/death.

We hoomans love to think we're special, but quantum tubules etc besides, we really are just biological computers running a program developed over our evolutionary/personal histories.
As someone who uses Scala on a daily basis, I might be biased. However, functional programming is truly the future because of its mathematical guarantees. Pure functions give us referential transparency i.e. we can substitute a piece in a large layer and still expect the entire thing to work as long as it has no side-effects. This has so much relevance to software maintainability. The downside is that, to take advantage of this mathematical guarantee the code has to be pure through and through. A single side-effect can spoil everything. Immutability, is another aspect of pure functions i.e. a pure function wouldn't mutate its inputs.
WhatsApp, a few Matrix clients for certain (Element, FluffyChat, Cinny), Threema (the old WhatsApp way with plans to do it similarly to the new WhatsApp way).

I am not aware that forward secrecy is contradictory to that.
How do you even know the person you found is the person you wanted? Also if people flock to specific instances it will just keel over and die.
It will take a while but I'm hopeful that Passkeys--some variant of which has been being discussed for well over a decade--will finally get mainstream adoption. I'm not convinced tokens ever will at least outside of particularly high value accounts.
I'm no fan of Adobe, but to me this sounds like a completely legitimate business decision.

Of course they are not going to pass on the savings to the user, except perhaps indirectly by having a way of easing the shareholder pressure to increase revenue per user, and thereby being able to push license price increases into the future. (I don't know this is how it would play out, but it is a possibility).

Removing something they are bundling from Pantone today also gives Pantone an incentive to build a direct relationship to the users, which may actually be an opportunity in disguise for Pantone. Or perhaps not: Pantone might find that they are worse off if the market turns out to be smaller in terms of profit potential.

(Disclosure: I don't use Pantone. However I do use color palettes from various manufacturers of paints. Very occasionally. And my requirements aren't really at the level where I need to use a calibrated toolchain. I make pictures, I spray paint, and if it roughly looks like what I saw on screen I'm happy.)
Discussing FP without mentioning induction and proofs always makes me wonder.
Feels pretty sketchy.
Assuming that a human stereotype is untrue is just as biased as assuming it is true. If you judge a model by how well it confirms your previous bias, then the model tells you nothing you didn't already know.
Wonder how that worked out lol
Arguably the US sells so much debt because there's a hot market for it; the question is will it be a slow cooldown as that market begins to go away, or will it be a sudden shock with all the associated fun?

You could argue that the massively inflated military budget is why we can sell so much debt, but any simplistic version of the story is likely to be wrong in key details.