skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that American boys are increasingly preferring video games to sports should also worry you.

You should not worry about the fighting ability of the average Chinese man vs the average American man. U.S. has the most violence-ready population of young men on Earth, and it's not close.

Maybe Latin America or parts of Africa and the Middle East beat us in terms of willingness to commit violence, but we have much more resources, training, and equipment. China has none of this.

In fact, you should be worried about our young men choosing to exercise this violence against you here before you worry about some kind of military defeat at the hands of the Chinese.
I worked on this for a year :)

It was called buzz robotics and had a couple posts make it to the front page here. Even got a YC interview.

I haven’t gotten around to writing a post mortem but I’ll just say - it’s a very hard problem to solve given the dexterity and safety requirements.

Maybe one day.
Or cheating on a massive scale over the past few years, particularly while school was done over zoom.
Your enthuasism is great! Good luck with your plan!
OTAs do not have negotiated rates.

The hotel owner/management sets the price, or the automated rate setting program sets the price based on its parameters and shop of other hotels in the “comp set” (competing hotels in the area). This rate is the “best available rate” (BAR) or “best flexible rate” (BFR), and there may be a prepaid non refundable discount rate option too.

The OTAs then get this pricing information via the central reservation system and then either sell a reservation where the guest pays the OTA the BFR, and the OTA pays the hotel 85% (typically). Or the OTA offers the guest to pay the the hotel directly, in which case the hotel pays the OTA 15% commission.

Either way, it is all very automated, and there is no specific negotiated pricing. But the big brands will typically offer 2% to 6% or so discount (depending on how much hotel management wants to do) on their BFR/BAR pricing as a “rewards member” discount, as a way to avoid paying 15% to Expedia/Booking.

Restricting it to rewards members avoids the hotel from violating any agreement with the online travel agent that they also get the same BFR/BAR as everyone else.
One of the World’s Poorest Countries Put Its Faith in Crypto – Why?
It only shows they haven't been as watered down as the grades?
That list is not curated and kept up to date, and so it looks more
impressive than it is. Several of those places are defunct or have put the Lisp codebase into maintenance mode or sunsetted it entirely.
They can close if it is too expensive to run.
I cant seem to find the actual source of this report. Can anyone find the actual report that this article is talking about?
How's is that different from what happened though?
LA is not the world. And neither is the US.
As a developer I can say that docker is saving me a lot of time that I would have otherwise spent on setting up different versions of postgres, redis, elastic search, etc. For the variety of client solutions we are building.

With a docker compose file in place, all I need to do is run "docker-compose" and everything is up and running.

It's such an upgrade over what we had before.
Would this be vulnerable to spam?
This is the reason why working from home will eventually bite workers in the ass - hard.
You have to get something out of it.

It's the best when the process alone makes you happy, but this isn't usually the case 100% of the time.

The next best thing is getting results. Either because you like what you created or other people like it.

Writing my 50 blogposts in 2017 wasn't always fun, but some of them got thousands of views.
So do you think if Google Meet wants a feature that is unimplementable in Firefox, then it should not be available to Chrome users either?
Where "Show HN"?
The even worse bit suggested that looking at public schools might not be sufficient.

There are rigorous private schools, but many are abysmal.
> When policy drives such a focus on this testing ... it can lead to a dehumanizing of the classroom and in a way limiting what students can learn because everybody is focused on test prep rather than teaching students more holistically,” said Doron Zinger, director of the CalTeach teacher preparation program at UC Irvine.

Do folks like Zinger seriously believe that these kids are actually getting a good education, and the problem is just that the tests aren’t measuring the right things?
Where in the US are private schools charging just $10K for tuition?
Just deleting the account won't solve the issue anyway.

I am resetting all the passwords for all my accounts. It's super annoying and it will days for me to reset all the passwords. But thankfully I have MFA for all important stuff.
Gpus are expensive. You need at least 10 gpus to quickly render stable diffusion images. If you want to run a service you need more of them. Thousands per month easily reached.
Quite disappointed to see it only runs on newer macs, especially so as it’s about the same as an app I was using maybe 20 years back ! (Axon idea processor - the only thing I missed about windows!)
Yes, but I want an AI that tells me what kind of laundry folding machine to build, or better yet designs it for me. That's where we're going.
There is a simple solution, but nobody will like it.

Give the teachers a base pay. Then, they get a percentage of a bonus amount. The percentage is calculated based on the percentage of the students in the teacher's class meeting grade level standard at the end of the year. The teachers will figure out how to teach them. Money, especially if the bonus could be 20-30000, is a big motivator, but those bonuses are still cheaper than the failed programs usually tried.

Q: what if a teacher gets assigned a poorly performing cadre of students?

A: assign the kids randomly to teachers. The ups and downs will average out.

Q: what if the teacher cheats on the year end tests?

A: have an independent authority do the testing

Q: what if the teacher teaches to the test rather than anything valuable?

A: change the test so that passing it reflects learning
It's still possible, but only on extremely low-resource microcontrollers, such as the PICs and AVRs from Microchip (and Atmel, now part of Microchip). Many of these are tiny 8-bit micros with only a few dozen bytes of memory, meant for simple applications.
> use oAuth login. This looks like "Sign in with Google", "Sign in with Apple", "Sign in with GitHub", etc. I'm pretty happy using Google's oAuth everywhere

No, don’t ever do this.

1. Google or Facebook or Apple now know everywhere you have an account

2. If they choose to disable your access to their service (as happens regularly and without due process), you can’t login to any website.
My brother in law is finishing up at the U of O and nearly everyone who went to college with him from his small town Oregon high school washed out of college. The high school system left the kids completely unprepared.
> more powerful, sure, but not that different and inspired by printf

bit of an understatement. it is an almost turing complete version of printf.

https://arcanesentiment.blogspot.com/2009/02/value-of-extens...
Great to see this catalog! I’m extremely excited about the current wave of ZUI / infinite canvas apps & was surprised by how many apps there are. So far, my favorite infinite canvas apps have been InVision Freehand and Excalidraw.

This category of app might finally be the “killer app” that drives tablet adoption & moves digital collaboration ahead of the physical whiteboard.

Freehand has changed how I work with my team. It’s phenomenal for documenting workflows. It’s also better than PowerPoint at evolving a slide deck. Amazingly, it works well enough on a phone to reference on the go. Currently too expensive for large teams though.
I wonder if the idea here is to encourage you to charge the headphones sooner to extend the battery's lifespan. Sure you can get another hour from that 10%, but doing that often can hurt the longevity of the battery
FTX.us had $8B in US customer funds. Let's assume that SBF is lying and that FTX.us is indeed affected and those funds are worth $0.

U.S. retail banks steal ~$8B from American consumers every 3 months in the form of overdraft charges and fees (source, Moebs: https://breckyunits.com/the-great-bank-robbery.html).

If FTX is a scam, throw the book at SBF, sure. But crypto is the only hope I see for American consumers to stop getting scammed.
Sure. Why does Firefox make it hard to implement this feature then?

And by the way, I agree with you/OP and feel similarly about siloed web features. But we're having a discussion here. It's unfortunate not everyone on HN remembers that downvotes are not for disagreement.
I tend to agree. Really the C standard needs to be yeeted away from WG14's grasp. Because they're responsible for blocking safety related improvements.
Because the alternative is an existential crisis.
> Once you send an email and it's grammatically moronic and full of typos, the jig is up.

No? That's what QuillBot is for, and QuillBot, like, exists. It's already the world we live in. Anyone for whom English is a foreign language, anyone with sense anyway, already is using QuillBot before sending an email.
unrelated, old thread was locked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33176877

does Komorebi handle the random teams/windows popups effectively?
meaning. the popup takes focus for my window manager hot keys and moves the little pop up across the screen when i want to move the window i am using accross the screen.

and generally, windows based 'windows' like outlook dont get captured by autohotkey key bindings.

didn't know any other way to reach out since the old thread had no 'reply' buttons. so i ended up here ;)
how do you submit an app?
Or nobody ever cared, since forming an opinion of someone or an organization solely based on whether they can reproduce standardized spellings is myopic at best.
This reminds me of a dream I had the other nite where I was trying to use a smartphone. I remember getting super frustrated because it was unusably slow.
Nationwide the average K-12 Catholic school is 10.2k. https://research.com/universities-colleges/average-cost-of-p...

Overall: “The average yearly tuition at one of the 22,440 private K-12 schools in the United States is $12,350 in 2021. This includes the average tuition at a private high school of $16,040 and the average tuition at a private elementary school of $7,630 (Hanson, 2021).” https://research.com/universities-colleges/average-cost-of-p...

It also gives a breakdown of expensive and cheap states.
We should tax downloading and using the app. Maybe show some warning labels and horrific photos of what the app can do to you if you use it too much. Ban its use in certain areas.

It worked for limiting cigarette use and TikTok is at least as bad for you. I think it’s worth a try and the legal precedence is already there.
The kernel desperately needs a product manager, who says no.
What to read to understand intelligence and espionage
https://archive.vn/cd0L2
& the entire crypto coin industry; ducks ;-)
I've been contemplating lately what types of everyday items could be used to create a simple calculator / full adder, outside of the digital realm. Something like candles would be interesting to experiment with. I haven't thought of how it would technically work yet, but if anyone has ideas please share.
Where this came from is stuff like the DES crypt implementation where passwords were truncated at 8 characters and then 7 bits were extracted to form a 56 bit DES key. You simply couldn't have long passwords back then. The first widespread crypt implementation that could handle long passwords was probably PHKs MD5 based scheme in 1995 -- contemporaneously around the release of Netscape Navigator.

If you only had 8 characters then you needed to include multiple different character types and needed to not use dictionary words. So for the early internet those became the standard recommendation until long-password-supporting crypt()s became standard in operating systems.

Having gone through a decade-ish of those password standards in the 90s by the time all the operating systems had updated their crypt() standards a lot of people didn't really notice until the xkcd comic in 2010. And now you've just got to fight 30-ish years of inertia of those being considered the standard.
Looks like already Ubuntu 20.04 has it as a loadable module. However, it can be started only by a privileged user and it requires user space tools. So I would guess it's not running unless the sysadmin has actively configured it.

Even in Linux 6.1 it is marked experimental.
Well, based on the amount of elementary grammar and spelling mistakes that we see in social media sites, people are not learning anything from these tools.

And even a grammatically correct email might be confusing, etc.
The options grant appraisal for startup employees seems very optimistic - 70% it's worth nothing. 25% payout is equivalent to all the backpay you would have gotten if you had worked at a big tech co. instead. 4% life changing money but not the richest person you know. 1% you are the richest person you know.

Was this the generally the way people thought about it back then? I remember seeing fairly pessimistic valuations around 2013 though, and I see it more like 10-15% chance of big tech salary equivalent, and 1-2% for life changing.
Top-tier HN comment
https://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm

We have to agree to disagree I suppose. There would absolutely no purpose whatsoever in setting bail at $250 million and then accepting a home valued at far less as guaranty for the $250 million. In CA at least %10 must be provided to the court.

In New York, defendants may be charged a percentage of the total bail amount ranging from 6% for bonds under $3,000 to 10% for bonds over $10,000. For example, bail on a $10,000 bond is typically 8% of the total or $800.Feb 17, 2022

https://www.tsiglerlaw.com/how-do-bail-bonds-work-in-ny/#:~:....
Out of curiosity, what has Zelensky done to improve Ukraine before the war, other than not being a Kremlin puppet?

As I understood it, before the war he was sliding down in the polls, becoming unpopular because there haven't been the massive crackdowns on corruptions he was campaigning for (like in his TV show), with him also being uncovered in the Pandora papers as having various hidden assets [1] and only his resistance to the Russian making him the most popular leader ever.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-o...
> You’re assuming an attacker can access this database somehow?

Well yeah. Protecting against this is the exact reason passwords aren't stored in plaintext.
For me, it's "huh" and "hmm"
That's different, though. That's breaking out of DOOM, not implementing DOOM in DOOM. You might argue that the "reference implementation" (i.e. ID's DOOM) is the "canonical" doom and thus this counts but... it's still not "DOOM implemented in DOOM", it's running x86 code.

Not to take from that achievement away, though, I just don't think it fits in the context of this post!
https://archive.vn/sfHLG
Check out "The Tyranny of Metrics" book for why this won't work.

Weird to say it's simple.
As said in that thread, I don't think that counts in the context of this achievement here. It's not a "DOOM implemented in DOOM" thing.
What is your source of information?
Yes, obviously, I'm just saying it's a potential vulnerability that doesn't exist if you don't store the LSH. The LSH doesn't need to be reversible - I'm just saying that you now have a situation where if you can find multiple people with the same LSH, if one their passwords becomes known to an attacker for any reason (the attacker could be one of those people!), the other passwords are now much easier to guess.
Two things can be true at once, and I fail to see how crypto is going to keep American consumers from getting scammed when the one constant for crypto has been rugpulls and scams perpetrated on people giving crypto companies money.
Good list, but I think it actually understates the advantage of security keys over other methods of 2FA. It's not just that they're physical objects, it's the protocol (either FIDO U2F or FIDO2/Webauthn) is fundamentally resistant to phishing attacks. Take the author's example of accidentally logging into accounts.google.com.evil instead of accounts.google.com:

If you and/or your password manager are tricked and enter your username and password, all other 2FA methods are vulnerable to an active pishing attack where the attacker site relays the login information to the real site in real time. You enter your TOTP code or hit "yes" on a push notification or whatever, the real site logs you in and passes your session cookie to the attacker and you're hacked.

With a security key when you log in the browser tells the key what website you're connecting to and about its TLS certificate. If the security key wasn't registered with it exactly, it won't work.

It's almost impossible* to get phished if you use a security key as your 2FA method.

* There are few ways. If you're phished during first time setup of the security key, or if the attacker gets a valid TLS cert for their website and impersonates accounts.google.com with a network level attack, or if they manage to get a trusted private CA onto your machine and do the same, or if they can exploit a 0day in the browser or the key to disrupt that communication and lie to the security key about the site's identity. But the bar for these forms of attacks is significantly higher.
Actually half of Russian internets went south. Do you, Ukrainian, want to google something on your mother language? Use Tor or wait tens of years while Ukrainian-speaking folks use to speak enough for you to be able to google anything on cyrillic languages. Seems like you, English speaker, do not help your not-English speaking nation a lot.
Credit unions exist and that hasn't stopped the overdraft charges and fees, has it?

Why would crypto?
I don’t think that means anything though. Doom the game is not a Turing complete programming language. You could write doom in the underlying C and then have it run on a screen in game but that still wouldn’t be doom running doom.

In fact now I’ve confused myself, what would constitute doom running doom?
It is, until it isn’t I suppose. I’ve worked at places where the ORM (or equivalent) was nicely utilized and we were able to cache things via redis as we got bogged down then migrate to a multi-layer structure with caching based on date + popularity across a DB cluster, nodql store and browser store (this was really nice.)

But: I’ve also had to deal with “SPAs” that evolved a few dozen independent routes a massive backend all coupled to the database with no ORM/class layer. This was not so nice so refactor when it came time to scale
Having an egregious misspelling on a prominent sign in letters 8 inches high that every student sees going into the building every day reflects what on the school?

That the school does not care about education.

After all, if I find a misspelling on a headline on one of my web pages, I fix it. Wouldn't you?
A book teaching assembly language programming on the ARM 64 bit ISA
I haven't worked on it in a while, but you might like textbeat (https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat). It's a midi tracker and REPL that lets you type in music theory-like terminology and plays it. It's nowhere near a modern DAW but it's cool for tinkering and learning.
Submit an issue on GitHub!

I’m one of the creators. Got a bit backed up due to personal circumstances, but I have time carved out in the holidays to make changes.
> change the test so that passing it reflects learning

How?
Blurring works just fine with jitsi and ff. I wonder what crazy hack or secret Firefox API the jitsi team came up with that google can’t figure out instead of shoving chrome down our throats…
When I responded the tin said “powered by VSCode”
I trust Google login and oAuth to be protected with better security practices than the general login. AdSense and other cookies means they probably know where you have an account regardless of if you login. I like that "Sign in with Google" allows me to not make another login and password. For certain sites, after using "Sign in with Google", they have made me make a local account anyway as backup. I don't think a generalization like "don't ever do this" is helpful.

I am curious why you say blocked accounts happens regularly. I have heard of it happening to people, but not often.
That's mostly because people don't care about their social media posts.

What I am saying is that it is demonstrably the case, that writing with stupid grammar and spelling mistakes is not a problem for working professionally. Tools exist that can fix it adequately, and people actually use them.
Yes! picoCAD comes with an exporter that can export to MTL/OBJ which can be imported anywhere basixally
Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica case for $725M
I say this in good faith: I don't understand what you are trying to express.

Can you give concrete examples of who the CIA would want to jail or not? Why do CIA employees lose when regular Joes gain and regular Joes gain when CIA employees lose?

Who decides who should or shouldn't be sent weapons. How informed do you think you are compared to the people who make the orders to route money or send weapons?

I am not a CIA lover by an means. At best the CIA supports countries like Ukraine and Taiwan. At worst CIA plays "realpolitik" and puts American interests, particularly those of Americas upper class/aristocrats, first.
GitHub to require all users to enable 2FA by the end of 2023
The current metric is gamed pretty thoroughly, wouldn't you say?

Besides, businesses operate on metrics every day. It's the bottom line. It works. You just have to pick metrics that are the goal of the organization.
Fair enough. The HN title said “powered by VSCode” when I responded. This is why we have rules about exact titles I suppose!
> Oracle and Walmart reportedly at that time brokered a deal to run the US arm of TikTok. Do you trust them?

Well, I trust them more than I trust China. I guess we should have done nothing instead?
As customer, I haven’t really seen any innovation from Google in the last couple of years and the quality of their core products (search, YouTube, Gmail) has rather deteriorated than improved.
As opposed to the people who came before them, who are exceptionally brilliant and not just those who were born when times were good.
No. ChatGPT is basically a bullshit engine that sometimes generates words that match reality. Trusting it unconditionally is a bad idea.

If I ever use *GPT as my primary search interface, it would be prudent to double check its answers against a real search engine’s results.
2 + 2 = _

Fill in the blank.
LastPass breach is worse than you think because URLs were unencrypted
It’s unimplementable in FF because google doesn’t want to implement it.

Background blurring on meet.jit.si works just fine in Firefox. They’ve obviously found a way to implement what google can’t.
I am out. Metric system would be helpful.
Backups! Copy of key at friends house.
Maybe. I've never hired for FAANGs but from the other side of the interview table, I'd much sooner hire someone overflowing with energy and enthusiasm for homebrew game consoles or hacking a TI-83 calculator, than someone who has practiced the right exercises but has no passion for the work, doesn't remember when they stopped loving tech, and would have pursued a different major if the big bucks were elsewhere.

It's not hard to tell.
Reuters

The bond is meant to ensure that if Bankman-Fried flees, the government could confiscate the family's assets - including their Palo Alto home - up to $250 million. Reuters could not determine the family's total net worth.

Bankman-Fried said at a New York Times conference on Nov. 30, following the exchange's collapse, that he had $100,000 in his bank account.