skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone recommend a budget WiFi access point with long range? I only have LTE as the backhaul, so the fastest speeds are not a requirement.

I bought a EAP610 which I saw recommended on Reddit, but the range seems worse than the ISP modem's (something Huawei) built in WiFi.
And the community and philosophy/culture the languages come with seems to promote that as well.
Aw Man I loved this magazine. I was amazed to see it for sale at Borders, everything in it was so interesting. I remember the issue with an article on making a magstrip reader by turning a cassette reader head into a mic, recording the audio it made, and playing it into a pc. They included the code to translate it. A month later there were stories all over the news of waitstaff stealing credit card info.
IMO, your second link is the scariest thing. It's basically saying that Nature is going to censor (i.e., refuse to publish) any facts that conflict with their preferred political opinions.
Heh, you write "full support of medicare and SS" as if that's a solution. It's not really a solution (as the article alludes to). IME -

1. Kid(s) that will take care of you, or at least hands on supervise your care and fill in gaps in staff.

2. As little time as possible between being in rehab/hospital, and hospice.

3. Money

If you have at least two out of those three, you won't have a horrible experience dying. Otherwise you end up in the state-paid nursing home gristmill, where you can at least take solace that they've checked the boxes on the paper saying they're turning and cleaning you.
They make a front rack for it as well. But it isn't a bakfiets. But it's also about 1/4 the price.

I've owned a RadCity before and it wasn't shitty at all. The dang thing is still running after 7k miles of rough treatment and crashes. The only problem I really had is with the spoke pattern on the drive wheels. They used way too thick spokes that didn't like being bent at such a sharp angle.
I found very FAST folder-based photo viewer:

https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2

The word "fast" is the first word in their description. I'm using it for about 2 years now, hosted on my Synology
> buttons in such an awkward position that I get cramps in my hand after half an hour of playing

That is a downside of every console/controller, though, because people have different hands. For me, the Switch is painful to hold for more than a half-hour or so because the joycons are so small. So personally I enjoy the Deck, even though it's heavy, but I recognize that it was clearly made for someone with my body type.

> All those AAA titles run like ass and/or look like ass on the deck.

Second this, though. I thought I'd finally finish Sekiro on the train when I got the deck, but the screen is too small for my old man eyes; it was not a good experience.
$3.3B may or may not be on its way to expand Chipzilla's Ho Chi Minh City
Show HN: Pythagora – auto generated integration tests for Node.js API servers
Hi HN,

I just released my first npm package so wanted to share it here.

Pythagora is a Node.js module that creates automated integration tests for MERN/MEAN apps by recording server activity.

To integrate Pythagora, you need to paste one line of code to your repository and run the Pythagora capture CLI command. Then, just play around with your app and from all API requests and database queries Pythagora will generate integration tests.

When running tests, it doesn’t matter what database is your Node.js connected to or what is the state of that database. Actually, that database is never touched or used —> instead, Pythagora creates a special, ephemeral `pythagoraDb`
database, which it uses to restore the data before each test is executed, that was present at the time when the test was recorded. Because of this, tests can be run on any machine or environment.

Also, *if the request updates the database, after the API returns the response, Pythagora checks the database to see if it was updated correctly*.

Finally, Pythagora tracks (using istanbul/nyc) lines of code that were triggered during tests, so you know how much of your code is covered.

Our goal is to help teams that don’t have time to properly manage their test suite to cover their entire codebase with as little as 1 hour of their time. We tested Pythagora on open source clones of apps like Reddit, IG, etc. and we were able to get to 50% of code coverage within 10 minutes and to 90% within 1 hour of playing around these apps.

Feel free to try out the Pythagora npm package - https://www.npmjs.com/package/pythagora

And the source code on Github - https://github.com/Pythagora-io/pythagora

We’re excited to hear what you think.

How do you write integration tests for an API server? Would you consider using Pythagora instead/along with your system?

If not, we would love to hear what are your concerns and why this wouldn’t work for you?
I've checked the provenance of the pieces - and they cone with a signed statement from the original auction house. The auction itself was well documented in the media.

And, in my opinion, the behind the scenes photos speak for themselves.
Sure, many such subreddits

- /r/AskHistorians

- ...

Ehm well I can't think of any more x)
and then sales tax, and then tolls on imported shit, and then the accumulated increases in prices due to others taxes.. at the end of the day, you pay WAY above half your life in taxes. in Europe its of course even more fucked up, where taxes are above 95% of some goods you buy
When I evaluate software, I see having multiple vendors offering to support/host the software as a good thing. After selecting a piece of software I then begin to evaluate vendor offerings. The vendor being deeply involved in the project- such as being the original creator or otherwise being a major contributor, is a huge plus.

Having 100% of a small pie is often worse than having a good percent of a larger pie. Fostering a large Open Source ecosystem increases the size of the pie- even if you have to share some of it.

Of course, any business is a lot of work, whether your software is Open Source or proprietary. Open Source is a great strategy, but it doesn't guarantee success.
Beyond Hersh's unnamed source, not that I know of. Again I don't believe it disbelieve it. But I don't dismiss it out of hand because it's not enumerated in an NYT article or a wikipedia page.
As I said, the model is vague at best. Regardless of how the information is stored, a child knows that a ball is a thing with tangible behaviors, not just a word that often appears with certain other words. A child knows what truth is, and LLMs rather notoriously do not. An older adult knows that a citation must not only satisfy a form but also relate to something that exists in the real world. An LLM is helpless with material not part of its training set. Try getting one to review a draft of a not-yet-published paper or book, and you'll get obvious garbage back. Any human with an equivalent dollar value in training can do better. A human can enunciate their model, and make predictions, and adjust the model in recognizable ways without a full-brain reset. An LLM can do none of these things. The differences are legion.

LLMs are not just generalists, but dilettantes to a degree we'd find extremely tiresome in a human. So of course half the HN commentariat loves them. It's a story more to do with Pygmalion or Narcissus than Prometheus ... and BTW good luck getting Chad or Brad to understand that metaphor.
Ridiculous. https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates It's clearly closer to "just under HALF your income..."
> through some underhanded political BS

There is this weird assumption that Bitcoin was "managed" or that political forces were at work. It was simply a war between some developers and others.

Not to you specifically, but in this thread: I find it troubling, this new reflex of ascribing to dark conspiracies what are banal historical facts.

The growth of the blocksize was inevitable once it took off; now we have lots of shitcoins, and a few that are stores of value and some that are means of exchange. Lots of hucksters showed up, but no one planned anything. (And looking at the state of things now, it clearly shows).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/17/bitcoin-x...

never ascribe to conspiracy what can be ascribed to stupidity.
Critical Drinker made me realize a couple years ago that I'm not crazy and movies really are generally unwatchable these days, with a handful of exceptions, many of which he points out.
Singapore pulls plug on Covid tracking program
It's more like. The building is on fire. The fire department denies it is on fire and calls anyone who claims it is on fire a liar. Then they admit it is on fire and pretend like they always said it was on fire. Then they point the water in completely the wrong direction, and call anyone pointing this out a liar. They use the fact that those same people were already known as liars as evidence, without mentioning that the 'liars' were in fact correct. Continue ad infinitum.
I was there around the same time, I remember selling dollars on Florida street in BA and hearing the news about bitcoin on the street. Thanks for bringing back that memory :)
This entire topic really comes down to where I want to live. If there was an office near me I’d love to go in. However, I don’t want to commute. I live in the city I grew up in. I love it here, my whole family lives here. So I’m also not interested in moving.
Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website
many places in the US have a similar option called at home hospice care. Also free. Provides equipment and multiple home visits a week.
My company is doing the same thing. Layoffs haven't happened yet (but anyone who isn't in denial knows they're coming), but we probably had a record number of promotions.

The reason for this is that you want to butter up the employees you're going to keep before layoffs. Getting promoted after you saw coworkers you respect get laid off makes you feel gross, and companies do need to do something to increase morale.

The funny part is many people at my co. believe promotions are evidence that we couldn't possibly get layoffs.
This was kind of my point though. It's a really net-benefit to the company but couched as a severance benefit to the individual being laid off.
After going thru this it made me double down on SRS Recall with Anki and it has helped me a lot. For things that you can get solid repetition thru daily life, work, etc it isn't necessary, but if it's not something that you'll encounter often enough now using SRS will speed up the initial learning stages.

Like mentioned above though don't get caught up in optimization. Just make your cards and review them.
> sarcastic detractor

My sarcasm detector led me into thinking you were a sarcastic detractor (heh).

I get your point though; perhaps PowerShell should've stuck with the initialism aliases only (`gci`, `cpi`, `ri`, etc) and people wouldn't have nitpicked on this as though it was some powerful argument against PS.

Perhaps there could've been a banner saying `hey, this is Windows, use `gci` instead of `ls` with these xyz options`.
I assume that if this is a serum that comes only from bovine fetuses, more cows are slaughtered per pound of cultured meat than per pound of natural-grown meat. That would make this much less sustainable.
What do you mean Jeff Lawson is a fantastic financial focused CEO?

His company has never turned a profit has it? I believe TWLO is one of the most unprofitable of large public tech companies.
I am not highlighting the US as a shining example of anything. but if you are happy to pay, make it optional? it seems to me that you are happy to force others to pay? biggest gang wins?

seems to me that "some of us" will be perfectly happy buying the services, and some other of us will be perfectly happy NOT buying the services
Had a similarly convoluted network for some years... over time you realize it's just pointless to waste time maintaining and troubleshooting said setup.

Today it's ISP router + separate AP (better coverage). Chinese hackers aren't attacking my network, and if they did, cool, have at it. Basic firewall + NAT + AV covers 99% of use cases, even in a business, with the right configuration. Turns out I don't miss pfSense either.

Makes sense for keeping skills up to date, though, and as a hobby, I can see how one can get into it. Reddit's r/homelab has some crazy builds to check out.
I feel like if you look at the amount of equipment and staff here it obviously costs a huge amount to deliver this care. Regardless of who pays the $100k+ cost remains.
Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops probably
I think we're looking at things backwards.

The question that society seems to be encouraging is "how are we going to pay people to take care of the old?".

The question we should be asking is "why are we paying strangers to take care of you when for most people, their children should be there at the end of life helping, showing love, and thanking mom and dad for all they've done?".

There's a significant cost to the direction that society has gone in the last hundred or so years.

> Deemphasizing the importance of family bonds by encouraging government to be the social safety net. This problem will only be exacerbated by increasing the social safety net further.

> Compelling nearly all women into the permanent workforce, ensuring that most families are in no position to be able to do anything other than maybe get in debt to pay a stranger to care for their elderly parents.

> Encouraging women to have fewer and fewer children even while encouraging mass migration to replace the existing population, ensuring that the problem will be even worse the more time goes on.
for a normal AP, then I'd get a second hand ubiquity LR off ebay.
> (I work on Nushell)

Ooooh! Awesome! Thank you for your great work, I'd have 2 big questions:

1. Do you have any visibility into when things should stabilize enough for a 1.0 release? 1 year? 5 years? Impossible to say?

2. And the be-all-end-all of Linux distro packaging, Debian. Any plans to include it into Debian? Usually when this happens the package propagates to many, many downstream distributions, such as Ubuntu & family.
Exactly this - if you're still making massive profits then layoffs are unnecessary.

You could just instigate a hiring freeze and let natural attrition run its course.

But that would involve having some balls and managing a business in a way that is good for everyone.
Every system costs $$$ to get medical care.
Someone recently mentioned they have "AI fatigue". Is Rust fatigue a thing?
Custom Home Built by My Buddy and His Dad
I know this is mean to be an example of awful design, but I could totally see it becoming trendy
Try again. His parents were first-generation immigrants and his dad died when he was little. His mom was an RN, he had two younger siblings, and he worked at Kroger his last two years of high school. Our friendship fell off because he never had time to hang out. Perhaps being bilingual was his "unfair advantage"?
Using ClickHouse with Clojure
https://www.insidescience.org/news/brain-seven-magic-number

For those unaware the number 7 seems to have a special place in the human brain as it's the number of distinct things most humans can hold in their brain at once before needing abstractions or other devices to keep track of the information.

It's also the point at which our brains seem to switch from "a few" to "many" and because it's prime it's the highest a few number that we don't mentally split into groups of other numbers.
> also can we please start criticising all those other people just trying to get shit done when in the middle of an emergency. I think those firefighters are doing shit jobs too, because you KNOW they could've put that burning building out better than they did!

Do you mean stop criticizing?

Also, what an absurd proposition.

Should we not criticize George W. Bush & the US Government for invading the wrong country in the aftermath of 9/11?

After all, it was an emergency!

At what point does the response change from "it was an emergency!" to... jesus christ you people are incompetent. And you're attempting to censor all the competent people....

Insert some meaningless comparison to firefighters/other heroic profession
That's bullshit. Meritocracy means some people are better equipped for task, job or position, and therefore they should be preferred, since they will likely perform better. It doesn't matter how they came to be better at the skill, which often does involve lots of hard work and taking chances where others don't. What matter is that they are better. If you don't like the distribution of who's at the top, then you can address that elsewhere, such as providing more educational opportunities, or promoting qualities like hard work, appropriate risk-taking and persistence across the board.
> there is no such thing as painless oppression or making it "less painful"

What kind of opression do you prefer? Filling a tax form every year and paying what you calculated under the threat of arrest (while telling yourself you are voluntarily contributing to society and less fortunate) or being raided by a warband with guns on random intervals taking whatever they please and leaving you only what they at the time believe will let you bounce back so they can raid you again sometime in the future?

Either you are one who enacts or profits from violence or you are affected and robbed by violence. It's a constant setup since the beginning of the human race (or even before that). The only change that evolution of civilization delivers is making the violence predictable and gradual, thus less painfull, thus allowing for more efficient economic activity. If you make oppressors work harder for their cut they'll just take more from you once they do take it.
Taking Back Control: Finding Focus and Choice on the Internet in 2023
>How do so called digital nomads handle it from a tax perspective? Do they maintain a residence for tax purposes?

They probably have a "permanent address" at a friend's house or through some service. And it's probably technically fraud. That said, the US is not really setup for citizens not to have a permanent address in one state--even if just for things like driver's licenses. You can do things by the books for tax purposes but I suspect a lot of people moving around don't.
A lot of us aren’t making average HN level salaries and many have a lot of responsibilities. Saving 50% simply isn’t feasible for most people, even in this industry.

It is not “trivially easy” to take a year off. It’s reckless.
I think a lot of us have a good feeling about early/first employer. But I am not sure we would feel the same if we started that job today. "It was better back in the days" mentality.
Shocking diseasedgreen didn't make it into the CSS spec
While as a relatively healthy person I've been continuously disappointed at paying approximately $1500 a month in taxes[1] towards the Canadian public health care system (a quick google suggests ~30% of tax revenues), I also was happy to see that my grandpa spending ~6 months in palliative care cost them very little (if anything), compared to something like $180K in the US.

I think the biggest point of contention is that reasonably well kept and healthy people are receiving little to nothing for their money in the present. eg, I got tons of push back asking for simple lab tests like cRP or dermatology cancer screening which would have been less than 10% of what I contribute to the system. Another time I literally waited in a ER room until my loss of blood made me a triage priority. The amount of resources available due to the market distortions means they have to defer you until you're worse off than when you walked in.

Compare that to fast (always <1 hr, even for non emergency things like a dislocated finger) and reasonable waits anytime I've been to a hospital in the US. Mind you I've also probably spent a total of $40k (not my portion) in ~8 yrs of residency between insurance costs and copays, more than half due to a heart attack scare and ER trip that ended up being myocarditis from the vaccine.

So what's my point in all this rambling? I think there's a ton of unlocked value in the US system to do more preventative care, but the US is anti-paternalism and often lets people do stuff that costs them in the long run (unwittingly or knowingly). But there's a hidden truth to Canada's system appearing so rosy -- at least as the payer and consumer I feel I get more for less in the US. Whereas in Canada you have better average outcomes because you take marginal care (eg preventative tests) from those who pay, and give it to those who cannot pay but may have a marginally more improvable conditions (eg bleeding out, having a heart attack).

[1]: compare to about a quarter of that in medicare on much higher earnings
> Exactly- Facebook laid off 7% of their staff and then followed it up with a $40 billion stock buy back

FB laid off about 14% of their staff.
It's written in Rust, it can't be terrible! /s
You're accusing mild opinionism by being even more opionated.
In general, I have been thinking about how to get some earnings from this, it would allow me to spend more time and continuing to improve the tool faster. I am still not sure the best way to do it without scaring away too many users. If I could get some earnings and also increase trust that would be great. Need to think about this idea, maybe I can do a test and see how it works out...

(I already ruled out ads, since I don't want to clutter the tool and also most ad networks are not exactly privacy friendly which one of the main ideas behind the tool)
I agree with 99% of the statements made here, but I think a lot of them are now problems.

I think the big thing to consider is: We're still in the early days and there is a lot of low hanging fruit. It is possible that the number of potential injection attacks is innumerable, but it seems more likely to me that these will end up following patterns that will eventually be able to be classified into a finite number of groups (just with all other attack vectors), though the number of classifications might be significantly higher than structured languages.

That doesn't mean we won't find zero days, but it does mean that it won't be nearly as easy as it is today and companies will worry less about repetitional damage. If we could reliably have a human moderator determine if message is prompt injection or not, that should be able to be modelled.

I also think key to the approach is not to necessarily catch the injection before it's sent to the model, instead we should be evaluating the model response along with the input and block outputs that violate the rules of that service. That means you'd still waste resources with an injection, but filtering the output is a much simpler task.

Even as models get more capable and are able to do more and more tasks autonomously, that is most likely going to look like an LLM returning a code block that has a set of commands that are sandboxed. Like the LLM returns 'send-email <email> <subject> <message>`, which means there still will be a chance to moderate before the action is actually executed. Unless something changes significantly in the architecture of LLMs (which of course will happen at some point), this is how we would approach this today, and judging by bing's exfiltrated prompt, appears to be how they're doing it with search.

Also think, for things like Bing, and what most people are doing prompt injection for, the interest in this will subside once open source models catch up. This will also mean a new era for all of us because the genie will be fully out of the bottle.
okay... so now lets say i pay 30% in taxes on my income, great.. now I go into a store, and I buy some things.. woop, how much sales tax? oh shit, now we're at 50%. how many tolls and various other insane things have to be paid to the government?
indeed, if you extrapolate this out several decades then you end up with companies far less competitive on the global scale

and the same applies to societies too