skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How important is a zero-install experience to you?
I have personally found myself very hesitant to download or install applications without explicit recommendations from close peers. On the other hand, web experiences can have wait-times significantly longer than it would take to download and install a typical app, but I don't bat an eye. It almost seems to be a hallucinated mental-hurdle.

I'm wondering if my lived experience is common and if there are any well-known statistics to back-up or reject the claim that zero-install is very important to encourage product usage.

(My career is not very product-focused, so this is all very foreign territory to me.)
i don't think that's true, given that these are the same things she says on her blog and on the honeycomb blog
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05444
You need to use the Wii remote in reverse so you can make a fake window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

(can't believe this was 15 years ago now..)
>I'm trying to imagine what a world would look like where generative text models are commodetised to the point where you can either generate text locally on your phone, or generate GBs of text in the cloud.

Dead internet theory for one. Scalable spear phishing and scams. Scalable automated offensive hacking. SEO far worse than anything possible today. Mass manipulation campaigns.

Social interaction would also be strange. Every messenger and dating app able to automatically reply and suggest sophisticated messages.
> For people hoping that this will ensure a longer sentence, likely these charges will run concurrently with one of the bigger ones.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t result in a larger sentence; looking at the rules in the Sentencing Guidelines, it looks like the campaign finance violations would be a separate offense group under the guidelines, and final total sentence is determined by starting with the offense level for the offense group with the highest guideline level, and then adjusting it up for other offense groups based on how many other groups there are and how close they are to the offense level of the highest group, and even offenses so far below the level of the highest level group as to not warrant counting in the final offense level can be factors in setting where in the range of the highest offense level the sentence lands.

With just a cursory review, it looks like the basic misappropriation of funds would be in the mid-40s and the campaign finance one would probably be 30+ (in both cases ignoring some adjustments that apply about the same to both groups, and don’t effect the relative level), so probably far enough to be only a factor in the range not setting the offense level (though it might get close enough to have a half-unit, and which would be a one-level boost.)

Also, the rule is that once the total punishment is determined by the guidelines range, all sentences for individual counts are concurrent if the count with the greatest statutory maximum has a long enough maximum to fit the total calculated punishment. That seems unlikely in this case (I don’t think any of the individual offenses allows life imprisonment, and the basic misappropriation looks like it easily tops the maximum 43 offense level which calls for life imprisonment; 30 additional points for the amount – the maximum possible – does a lot for that.) Otherwise, sentences run concurrently sufficiently to accommodate the total punishment up to the statutory maximum for each individual offense.
the collective wisdom of the HN community

Made me smile
People I know personally very well work at the World Bank.

There are certaiy bad decisions and policies, but no secret plot to keep developing nations poor for unspecified nefarious reasons.
This happened to me. An eBay buyer lied that the item I sold was never delivered. eBay sided in their favor, I was scammed by the buyer. My PayPal account went negative and bank account was debited of a few thousand dollars while a freshman in college. I hate PayPal.
Just happened upon it, but shockingly have actaully had many people use my referal codes from it, ~80 within the last week. The SEO seems to be pretty good, seems like they are showing near the top of results for a lot of refferal codes related search terms.
>I'm not sure how you expect us to manually count 150 million ballots quicker without using any hackable electronics.

The solution to vote counting scales right along side the problem. You use more human counters. If it takes 2% of the population to count votes, then you just...keep using the same percentage, just more people.

I reiterate: There is no good faith reason to use electronic voting machines. It injects an ability to scale up election fraud, and that is all it does.
There's the cheating, and then there's the fact that there are far too many man-children everywhere these days. They whine, complain, throw tantrums worse than toddlers do. It is absolutely painful to hear a grown man whining about something in a GAME.

For instance, I played a free to play game. The servers just went live and it was the VERY FIRST MATCH of the game. It wasn't soon before one guy on our side was crying because we all sucked. I see this type of behavior everywhere.
Spread out is key.

Franchise Tax Board of California felt like I owed them taxes (which I didn't) and emptied one of my bank accounts without even giving any advance notice. Luckily it was a smaller one. A year later and I still haven't gotten my funds back, even after having my accountant spend hours on the phone with them and them promising to give it back.

And you're right... people on this site time and again keep going after crypto as being a horrible scam... yet they keep on using Paypal. Well, if you hate crypto so much, what would be a better solution to the Paypal problem?

Op posted this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30269141
Here you go https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368171693_A_room_te...

I don’t know about Argonne, but at NIST all our papers are supposed to have full text up on PubMed within I think a year. I try to post to arxiv when I submit to the journal. Ironically paywall journals are easier for us from a budget perspective because we don’t really have dedicated funds for article fees like academics get with NSF funding

Edit: I just saw that it’s “request full text”, which I found disappointing
This sounds mildly apologetic for someone who lacks basic empathy, or is just a giant dick.

Smart, Fun and Nice: there are LOTS of people who have all three; don't settle for less!
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of reading a statistics textbook." There is enough material for, like, 100 blogposts or maybe even more!
One issue with running standard gauge trains to Barcelona are the extremely high track fees on the cross-border (Perpignan-Figueras) segment.
When I was younger I probably would have thought it would be awesome to make money from playing video games, but now I feel like the activity changing from a hobby for fun into a livelihood has only been for the worse. This trend may exist for many other hobbies as well such as blogging or making internet content.
Everything that goes is common sadly. This includes:

- Reading from and writing to memory (either by direct means provided by windows, by custom drivers, or by exploiting installed vulnerable drivers to bypass secure boot and such)

- Reading network traffic (particularly nasty because it can be done on a device where the game and Anti-Cheat is NOT running provided you get access to SSL decryption keys)

- Having an external device react to your video feed only (either "dumb" aka on colors, pixels shapes etc. or fancy with AI and stuff) and then react by a "faked" input device (mouse, controller, etc).

- Modifying game files (e.g. replace texture walls with transparent textures)

- The very easy way: Simply exploiting game bugs. E.g. you can cheat in Fifa on console (!) since years by doing stuff in the system menu. Fifa will just disconnect the game without giving you a loss for the match.
This isn't security in the same sense, and consider they also do ban waves for a reason.
I very much experience all of those things you mentioned, especially the masking and hearing hypersensitivity, but I guess I thought these were "normal" experiences... or more accurately, I never considered that not everyone might not experience life like that. Doesn't everyone get really bothered by noises sometimes? Isn't everyone putting out a lot of effort to interact with others well? I don't know. I am regarded as friendly, and having good social skills, but that took tons of practice and study. For example, people mention that I make great eye contact, am confident, and a good listener. But I never made eye contact with others until I was 15, when I read about the importance of it in a book, and suddenly realized it was a thing other people did. I started trying it out, but find it hard to guess how much is appropriate... and doing it too much apparently seems like I'm very confident, but actually I just don't know what to do exactly.

I'm late 30s, and my son was recently diagnosed with autism after having a lot of conflicts at school, and getting kicked out of a lot of schools. I didn't expect this because he seems "normal" to me.

Any advice on next steps? Is it worth learning more about this or doing anything about it, and if so, what?
Very cool! Is there also a way for teammates to share authenticator-based 2FA codes?
Seems like there's been a shift in the industry away from SMS for 2FA due to security concerns, most recently at Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update...
I typically don't mind if there's small grammatical errors every few pages. But if the sentence structure is consistently confusing, and there are several glaring mistakes, it usually signals to me that the author didn't care enough to proofread/edit their own writing. If the author doesn't care why should I?
Interesting data! And very different from the anecdotes presented in another top HN discussion today, detailing fierce competition with software engineer job postings receiving 100x the number of applicants compared to just a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34913015
Fraud is not a well-bounded problem like authentication. There is no cryptographic way to prevent fraud. Using behavioral analytics is about the best you can do from behind a keyboard, and if you share the way you're measuring it, people can change their behavior to work around it. One alternative is to put more onerous restrictions on users, so that it is hard or expensive for them to buy or sell on eBay, in which case people may just buy/sell elsewhere. The other alternative is to insert more humans into the process, at which point, you start to look less like an auction website and more like an auction house.
Very interesting! I do notice this effect, too. Wonder what it is: the color green? The wide open spaces? Animals? Certain soundscapes? Water noises?
> must be more to the story when someones account was permanently banned

UK banks do this as well, could be anything from having direct debits not sent despite plenty of funds in the account, so you lose things like domain names, websites, to being banned from accessing funds from your account and caught in a regulatory loophole with the banks refusing to talk to you. Their internet surveillance of customers is excellent!

I've been locked out of my bank account for 6 weeks with the banks refusing to talk to me, Cahoot (Satander), GiffGaff are the latest to mess me around, basically they can d546dcddb8d207a80fe40e762023fbee !

Because I remember what the employees of the state did to me as a kid. Scopolamine is used on infant age primary school kids right here in the UK.
Us Georgia Tech folks like to take a bit of credit for him too, lol.
This makes absolutely zero sense as cheese is also a product that the peanut puree most certainly is not, what am I missing?
The main safeguard of the American election system is thousands of seniors who donate their time and patriotism and enthusiasm for the process into making sure things go well. They typically take things very seriously and are rather robust, as the system is designed to bring in party representatives as well as these wise watchdogs. Most important actions have eyes and consent from every involved stakeholder. In some states, is a genuinely impressive example of distributed processing and consensus.
It’s nuts that they can ban you without explanation. There should be a regulation that when somebody gets banned that they

* are notified of the ban
* there is an explanation
* some process to appeal

This will get even worse the bigger the tech players get. They can afford to throw a lot of people under the bus because they are only a small percentage of users.
There’s also a cost factor: a Teflon pan will be considerably cheaper, and most people don’t factor in the service life. Once you’re used to something you usually replace it with the same thing.

The other trend was Nixon pushing low fat diets. By the time actual scientific results debunked that, a generation of Americans had adjusted recipes to avoid using as much fat as you need to cook optimally in cast iron and it’s still common to find people using techniques which pretty much require non-stick.
1) this is a research device and a theoretical scaling law; it’s not been proven.

> We conclude that with well-engineered, large-scale optical hardware, it may be possible to achieve a 100× energy-efficiency advantage

Emphasis on may.

2) in the real world, constant factors matter (as you allude to). For example if an ASIC gets a 1000x speedup (optimistic; we saw this for BTC) it might be the better choice for this generation, but start to lose next gen and beyond. If an ASIC only gets 100x or lower then it’s not favorable this gen.

So sure, this tech might win in the long term, but I wasn’t making any categorical claims, just noting that there are multiple horses we need to track.

It would be quite foolish to dismiss custom silicon solutions based on this paper.
> So, Sundar, when do we start thinking about where Google will be in 20 years instead of the next quarter?

Why would he care?
I think you're overestimating how good parents some people are.

In Quebec they moved kindergarten down to 4 years old because they realised some kids are very "under-stimulated" at home and it sets them for failure for their whole academic career.
Does this work on wayland?
You mean Beta wave right? Just want to be sure.
ByteDance almost certainly does many tens of billions of revenue a year.
My kid weights 14kg and my 60 kg wife can still pick him up and walk with him. 20 kg with a good backpack is achievable to pretty much everyone.
Prop 13 has distorted the market of residential, but, at this point, it's baked in. Individual residential housing will turn over--the owner will eventually die.

Where Prop 13 has been terrible is on commercial real estate. Most office complexes in Silicon Valley have dozens of sublease layers in order to avoid triggering a reassessment. Forcing those to unwind would be a gigantic boon.

Unfortunately, those people have a LOT of money to throw around. The last time this popped up on a proposition, the commercial real estate owners spent a FORTUNE to defeat it.
I'm not quibbling. It's fiat currency in El Salvador by any definition.
No, not really. Their project solution was a collection of webpages. Github didn't generate any HTML or code that went into those pages.

Visiting github.com to look at the pretty-formatted readme was not part of the project.
I don't know what games you play, but in the games I play (Mostly Overwatch), cheaters are a pretty rare sight.
Reader's Note: "Privacy loving" typically means "want to watch Spiderman Movie on Canadian Netflix"
"He gave almost nothing to Republicans that he needed. And FTX hedged bets towards useful Republicans."

sources ?
I struggle with focusing in lectures while taking notes so I built an app
Okay. Good, so it’s mechanical. I was ready to sacrifice my arm so good to learn about this beforehand :)
I built an app that lets you focus on your lecture by taking your lecture notes clearly and accurately. Would love for you guys to test it out and give me feedback
The lack of a breakdown into which got how much is a either a journalistic failure, or deliberate obfuscation.
My solution: orgzly syncs to a local file, the local file is synced with synching. Works flawlessly for my files.
Me too. Definitely a possibility that they live at an address associated with a scammer, or that address is on some restricted list.
didnt know companies can just take money from your account. broken bankings system
As absurd as that story is, it's not as bad as some of the shadowbans some companies do. I have an old instagram account that I didn't use for a long time, and recently I logged in because I met a local musician and wanted to add her.

Anything I try to do, I'm told "Try Again Later
We restrict certain activity to protect our community."

I have validated my phone number, the account is in my actual name, and I have provided current photos, etc. My understanding is that this is a shadowban. Why? Who knows. There's no support.

Most amazingly, there are people who have followed me but I cannot follow them back. Same "Try again later".

I really hope these companies die. But it's really a shame that the executives who make the decisions to run them like this don't also suffer financially. They always walk away with a golden parachute. I don't believe in hell, but if there is one I hope they get to explore it.
This isn't really the right venue for such detail, but a wealth of information is a search away. Sorry to be evasive, but the security guy in me is much more comfortable being evasive about things that could be leveraged against people.
Smart and Work Hard are only two of the 5+ components needed for success, of which Luck, Opportunity and Timing also belong. I'm sure there's more.
you could start out 4 times lighter than a modern battery pack and end up only 2 times lighter when discharged..

that would be fine!
Automatic decompilation and analysis of binary files with Ghidra and ChatGPT
I'm not sure if "cheat" is the exact word to use here. They were all bought accounts or in the process of being boosted.

One way to tell is by looking at a player's match history and seeing their account plays one or two champions for a while repeatedly getting MVP with 20/0/x, and then suddenly switches champions and either plays significantly worse or somehow playing even better depending on the ELO. The opposite is also true--consistently playing horrendously, then suddenly switching to different champions and steamrolling beyond their ELO.

There are networks of boosters and account sellers. Some people spend full time hours farming hundreds of accounts to level 30 for ranked play, and these accounts are purchased by other boosters who spend full time hours getting to Diamond+, to then resell. This is how you can find fresh level 30 accounts at the highest ranks--it's account farming.

When you analyze closely, the majority of the community is composed of these bogus Chinese account farms. Hardly anyone is actually playing the game. This problem goes all the way even to the Challenger level; streamers constantly deal with this problem and Riot doesn't do anything.

Even when League was having betting problems at the Grandmaster/Challenger level, of people betting against their own games and then "soft throwing" to make money, it wasn't Riot that did anything about this. It was the betting companies themselves that banned League from being gambled on their platforms.
Not your keys, not your coins. The government can do this with your bank accounts too.
That's just glossing over the issue - the difference is in how the tools are used, not just that they employ mathematical algorithms. I guess that's your point? Not sure why people post this way, it's impossible for me to tell what point you are making, I have to make all sorts of assumptions about what you are writing and why. So, my bad.
I agree. When I starting working we had a manager that was formerly a SWE on our team. They retired and were replaced by a series of people over the years that, for the most part, didn't have a programming background. At first I was a little dismayed over this, but I eventually realized it doesn't usually matter. It helps for them to have tech knowledge, but like you said they do things I wouldn't care for, but need to be done.
And remove all the annoying ads and news from the browser frontpage?
> long road

But how long? Longer than 300 miles?
Many night trains running through Germany will have some intercity seating cars operated by Deutsche Bahn, which doesn’t operate sleeper cars anymore. The seating cars won’t require a reservation, just a ticket.
Google is also one of those companies pushing for RTO though, from what I understood.
IMHO, the only reliable solution is community-managed or "dedicated" servers where there are trusted admins that have the power to ban cheaters at their own discretion. I don't think this problem is solvable "at scale" in the general case. Unfortunately the gaming industry has spent the last decade taking power away from gaming communities and replacing it with proscribed matchmaking and map rotation - so the tools for community policing haven't advanced much beyond a "report" tool.
And I’m sure charged billiards balls present plenty of fun challenges.
"The economic reality which we face today differs from the one we had predicted."
It really is far off.

In dark sky spots in New Zealand, places where you commonly have photographers producing amazing colourful photos, this[0] is what you usually see with the naked eye.

The brightest I've personally seen the Milky Way was at the Atacama desert and it looked like [1].

0. https://petapixel.com/2015/04/04/what-the-naked-eye-sees-in-...

1. https://amazingsky.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Lyu0eggqPYo
I don't mind the pre-programmed walls of text, but please don't make them too big. I got a wall of text answer out of Garmin--which promptly scrolled much of it off the screen. Unfortunately, what was left (in the window they constrained the size of!) was a coherent whole that was completely irrelevant. The relevant part had scrolled off fast enough I didn't realize there had been more.

(And I never did get anything useful out of their support, but they ended up fixing the bug.)
> sites like Amazon have just made it impossible to work as somebody who is just trying to declutter

Literally impossible. I am permanently banned from selling again for the offense of “inactivity”.