skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do eSIMs work for identity verification?

The last several times I've bought SIMs outside Europe, I've had to show my passport.
Great username for a view that reflects a main point of mainstream Western discourse!
Its good to remember that oral traditions have been (and still are) huge part of humanity; in many ways discord can be seen as internet iteration of that age old part of culture.
Watching a grown man beg Elon musk for his job on a social media platform is not something I expected to ever see. It's been two weeks- if his paycheck didn't come through, he has his answer. Obviously a s-show led by Elon, but on LinkedIn especially I am seeing a lot of posts where these ex-FAANG employees, who usually score severance measured in months rather than days or weeks, and who were already raking in a $250k+ salary anyway (if you count bonus/RSUs), are so desperate to find another job "ASAP" as to make a post on LinkedIn to... try to get other people to find a job for them? The entitlement is rampant and I see no real difference between this Twitter conversation (if you can call it that) and the posts I frequently see on LinkedIn.
it is.

i do enjoy programming, working with other devs, but as soon as i stepped into a product management role it's a hellishly different set of problems. you're in the middle of the tech, the developers, the problems, and the customers. lots of lessons in there. tiring, but worthwhile.
Take a look at IRCv3 specs: https://ircv3.net/irc/

Unfortunately, many of them are still a work in progress. Still, a fully featured IRCv3 client connected to a modern server should be usable by normies.
From an actual research paper, not just Wikipedia:

"The variation of electrolytic capacitor electrical properties
due to ageing can be attributed to two key degradation
mechanisms:
1. The evaporation of electrolyte [3, 4, 5]
2. The electrolyte reacting with the insulation material
within the electrolytic capacitor [6]
A. Evaporation of electrolyte
Over time the liquid electrolyte will evaporate, and
therefore reduce the amount of available electrolyte within the
capacitor."

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/104114/1/IECONv2a.pdf

Yes, the capacitor plague was a particular incident not a general thing; yes, six years seems slightly ridiculous; yes, you can make them last significantly longer; but no, capacitors are not immortal - and you can't make them be immortal by just repeating "no that doesn't happen".
It's surprising more mushrooms aren't actively cultivated. One thing is the mycorrhizing kinds which are hard to farm, but there are plenty of types which just need the right substrate and some care. Lion's mane, which unfortunately doesn't grow in my country, is one, but there is also sulfur shelf a.k.a. chicken of the woods which I would have thought would be a great candidate for mass cultivation. Shaggy mane inkcaps have terrible shelf life, so I understand why those aren't cultivated, but it should also be fairly straightforward to do on a small scale.
Here is the longread from the Dutch organisation that lifted the lid:

https://www.versbeton.nl/2023/03/computer-zegt-vrouw-hoe-een...

Scroll to the bottom and you can calculate your own risk-score!

The discussion focusses on the ethics, but what I gather from the article is that the risk-score is also amateur hour from an AI point of view:

From the Dutch article:

By mistake, we received the data with which the algorithm was trained in 2020, so that we could find out which patterns the model learned from.
We discovered that there are several problems with the algorithm. For example, the model learned to make generalizations based on a limited number of people in the data, subjective variables (grooming) and proxy variables (language) were used, and the final selection was made on the basis of a poorly performing calculation method.
Extra brownie points for getting married to someone with a big family.
It's still available -

https://github.com/popcorn-official
It's funny, looking at the piece of Sunatan, for me it's clear there's a lot of knowledge that comes from outside of the bodypainting world. It's maybe not as perfect as some other in the technical sense, but there's art in there. That change everything. And clearly, Jess is very good in comparison, but it's not the same vibe at the end. And it's not subtle either.

She's right : surround yourself with the great. Marvel and despair. Work relentlessly and do... but be curious also. You have to nourish yourself to move in interesting direction.
Wasn't one of the benefits of a smart card model was having a totally isolated chip that could run minimal software and provide a limited surface for attack? If you add everything to the same chip then doesn't this reduce the advantages of having that separate smart card (together with it's anti-tampering design)? We're also supposed to trust Qualcomm that this is secure... Sounds totally legit.

SIM cards aren't perfect but I feel like there is a benefit to them. Especially since they use the same tech as credit card chips, don't they (universal integrated circuit cards.) It's hard for me to want to trust this as much as a platform used by literally every consumer payment bank and carrier out there vs Qualcomms priority spec. I think anyone who does secure communication already doesn't want to touch Qualcomm products because you can't audit their designs. Unfortunately, that's usually what is shipped as the baseband modem in most phones... A single company making one of the most important communication products... Nope, no problem there...
Maybe, but maybe it’s the US helping China with its preexisting campaign to weaken the corporations the Party decided we’re too big. And to assist its transition to a more self secure chip supply chain.
This uses the new ChatGPT API.

Benefits:

- no login needed

- accessible from your phone (easier to use compared to the web interface)

- available in a familiar interface (WhatsApp on mobile and Desktop)

Privacy:

- your WhatsApp id and the last 4 messages (back and forth) are stored, as needed to provided a conversational experience.

- the data is stored on Firestore.
For obvious reasons I’m excluding the companies doing the acquiring.

Except Valve I guess, but that was never a public company that could be acquired to satisfy investors in the first place.
Show HN: IP-Biter – Email (But Not Only) Tracking Framework Open Source
Popcorn Time: multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client with media player
I always found this kind of "test" infuriating.
Join anything related to crypto. Openly scamming kids is very very common, not even counting the abysmal spam/scam protection for PMs. 100% echo chambers, all negativity is an instant ban.
Yes, I recommend this, too, if you're in some American bread desert and short on time.

If you have time on the weekends only you can do amazing bread and freeze it. I prepped it on Friday or Saturday evenings, baked it the next morning. Cut and froze it and had enough for the week. That's how I survived in Canada.
> For me it’s that my brain simply will not accept facts or advice unless all the underlying dynamics have been made explicit, and it’s been put into context as part of a bigger system. Until then it’s just a distant and profoundly uninteresting suggestion which my brain will rapidly dispose of.

Why does this happen? Any idea? I have a really hard time committing things to memory or building understanding. I find that I have to read the same paragraph multiple times, and often need to go back to the beginning or look at the previous paragraph 5 times to make sense of things. Even after doing this, there are times when I'll overlook some obvious information, only to have a major insight the next day.

It's like studying a statue from 20 different angles and learning everything about its history and the real person, including who made it, when, where it was displayed, and who owned it throughout history, just to remember its name.

It doesn't feel right.
> Your taxes are calculated based on market rates, and therefore your housing tax is now completely unaffordable to you.

And this is what causes things like Prop13, when people revolt against being pushed out of their homes by taxes.
I have a debilitating impostor syndrome around resiliency and reliability of my systems. I always feel I am doing something wrong compared to the Googles, the Microsofts and the Fly.ios of the world. This does help feel better.
Or divorcing after step 3 and remarrying someone else with lots of kids. You'll suddenly have double the kids but only every second week!
> now being used as a replacement for forums

In Matrix there is an awful "threaded discussions" feature now, where collapsed forks branch off from the main chat flow. Which you have to separately manage. Keep a chat a chat, and a forum a forum.
>Limit your search to Reddit, HN and/or Stack Exchange!

I would love something like swurl [1] but just with those three!

[1] https://swurl.com/
I found it on be worse than NIS if you have an Nvidia GPU. If not, then FSR should be good enough.
My take-away from interviewing is that as a candidate, getting a "you did not get the job" doesn't change anything. Since I've had the privilege of mostly being employed while interviewing for new jobs, this is a "meh, status quo" thing. Nothing changes, I have no decisions to make. If I get an offer, I have a decision to make.

Does it sting when I get a "No"? Yes, a little, but I did my best and (presumably) someone else did better. So, I take solace in that I did not have to make a (relatively large) decision.
Depends on how relevant are the ads. I think it augments the business because now businesses are monetizing majority of visitors in some way. It's sustainable for long term if the ads are relevant enough for users to not drop off. Ads and trust are inversely correlated agreed, though looking at Uber and Amazon, I am not sure if that is true for every case. I might be an outlier, but amazon ads after I search for a product are actually quite useful. And probably why advertisers get a good ROI (evident in growth) and users aren't turned off by it (evident in sales revenue). Relevance score for any ad would matter for the company.
Outside Europe? Identity verification is mandatory in the EU and afaik there are very few states that haven't implemented it in local law (the netherlands and croatia, I think).
is there maybe some jiraisactuallynotbad.com place where I could read on how people use jira as a tool and get stuff done? All I see are rage posts and sites that roast jira, bordering on rage hate that systemd was getting.

whenever i try and use jira to get things done, it is genuinely bad tool.

As an example, low priority issue that blocks high priority issue is not automatically promoted. This single thing makes jira unfit for its primary purpose in my eyes
I would even go so far as to say free users aren’t customers in a platform like this. There’s no revenue model and if it’s “run without constraint” you get some fun scaling problems but those types of issues can sometimes lead to optimizations that keep the system online in the face of many small apps but doesn’t necessarily cover the case of a large resource app.
I've been using Bevy to push me into learning Rust and it's working well for me, I haven't had to worry about lifetimes much and even without understanding references for a while I could still tinker with stuff.
Your first part is debatable.

The analogy i see is Arabs->later advancements(7th century and later) is the same as Mongols->later advancements(13th century and later). Both Arabs and Mongols were not inherently as "advanced" a civilization as the ones they conquered.
Probably floors more than walls, contact points with both, and not so much "thin / thick" but "does this transmit the vibration". Like subwoofers on the ground, it changes how the sound carries.
I think this is an overly cynical take on a promise that either was never made or made cynically without an expectation that sophisticated employees would take it seriously.

If you draw the 2x2 of Good for Employers & Good for Employees, ERGs can be helpful in pushing incremental changes that are both Good for Employers & Employees and reducing stuff that is Bad of Employers and Employees. It probably can't nor ever really promised to work on issues that are Good for Employees & Bad for Employers and that's rightfully where unions play a role and of course executives are already hired to work on the segment of Good for Employers but Bad for Employees.

As long as you approach ERGs with this understanding and also the additional understanding that, at most companies, when dealing with marginalized groups, there are plenty of Good/Good and Bad/Bad issues that deserve work on. ERG groups are pretty forceful in pushing employees away from Good/Bad issues, even if they are more important issues to work on because the purpose of ERGs is a channeling force to focus on the Good/Good problems.
That’s what OpenAI’s labelers apparently thought, too. No human preference there, it seems :)
Worse are open source communities only using Slack.

As a normal user you cannot search beyond a very small amount of days without paying Slack money.

Slack, often found in American centred projects Vs European in my experience, possibly where the devs already use slack for their paid startup jobs, and where they don't really understand or like libre software as well as the average German developer.
> The one thing I am sure of is there is no way to just engineer your way to reliability. That is to say, no person, no matter how smart, can just invent some whizbang engineering thing and suddenly you have reliability.

It's seems true for fly's problem space, but in many problem spaces there really are easy engineering solutions to reliability problems.

For a very easy example, I once worked on a rails app that crashed frequently and managed 5 req/s at best. It turns out the app only loaded static data from hardcoded json files on disk and templated that into stuff. In other words, it was a static site. Replacing it with an actual static site + nginx and a cdn instantly fixed all reliability issues for that website forever, and made it easier to maintain the content to boot.
Sadly, no potato battery involved...it's just the laptop's name
The point was that the achievements of civilizations predating Islam have been given short shrift.
It does, in fact. The bank prices that into the loan.
> Homeownership cannot be both affordable and a good investment because a good investment has returns that at least beat inflation.

This is precisely why a house is different. You can't live in a stock certificate but you live in a home. If you buy a stock at $10 and sell it for $10 ten years later you lost money. If you buy a house and sell it ten years later at exactly the same price it was still good value because you got to live in it for a decade.
Show HN: Regex Derivatives (Brzozowski Derivatives)
A Python sketch of a regex engine in less than 150 lines of code
in my view, a new edge computing entrant needs a niche market e.g low latency gaming or privacy-heavy computing, and to stay away from MAAG cloud territory.
We asked him some questions about the code when he came in for the last interview and contract signatures. He didn't have a single clue about any of what he supposedly wrote. When we talked further he admitted to using a Team in India that has been working for him for a while.

Needless to say we didn't proceed with signing the contract.
Yep - the most useful conference I have ever been as a product designer for a job portal was when I convinced my boss to send me to RecSys (recommender systems) instead of another designer conference.

I learned a lot, but I was also able to filter and connect many of the recommender technologies to the actual user needs, which sometimes even their authors were unaware of.
I've noticed that most people don't seem to look at things like this from a meta level.

I was given that same quiz at school when I was about 12, and I remember I skipped to the end and read the last question (which reveals the trick) because it was highly suspicious that we were randomly given a quiz with a whole series of questions that began by telling you to read the whole thing.

Similarly, often quizzes/surveys/studies have an obvious answer when you include the meta-fact that the question is even in there. For example maybe you're shown an image like this[1] with the question "which glass do you think holds more liquid?" Well, it looks like the tall one, but that means it's probably the short one.

But we had a good percent the class going for ages on that "read all questions" quiz.

[1]https://i.imgur.com/6xkc813.jpg
As a large language model, I am unable to assist you by providing concise answers, as this would decrease my operator's ad revenue and reduce "engagement". Is there anything else I can help you with today?
It's a lady with jack the ripper behind her.
I don't think there's a hidden deal between dang and the FT to manipulate rankings. Or isn't that what you were referring to?
umm... But how (uint - uint) can be negative? I thought it would warp around 0 into (UINT_MAX - leftovers).
Quoted from their site: "With the longer wash-cycle, the water doesn't require heating up as much".

I believe it's because dishwashers are rated for efficiency when at their default settings. So it's no wonder that the default setting is the slowest. It's all done to conserve energy and water. Obviously, you don't have to use it, the machine has multiple programs in total, with varying temperatures and speeds (and also a "faster/eco" button that can further reduce the time needed to wash a load at the expense of more resources used. But I think you'd be hard pressed to wash the same amount of dishes with less or equal amount of water. They claim the machine uses "3.15 gallons (11.92 liters)" on average.

Also, you can just dump dirty dishes there during the day, then run the machine overnight and have clean and dry dishes in the morning without having to manually wash them. It's convenient.
I'd like to post a TD;DR, but there are just too many streams of information, and I can't process complex topics like that this fast...
Talking to actual humans made all of these 'skills' already possible, I wouldn't call these skills new.
Cloudflare has famously dropped websites which it deemed too controversial
That's an American thing. Not world-wide. As others have said, outside America the common way is to connect to cold water and use internal heating only.
I don’t think that’s true. Have you worked in a restaurant kitchen with a machine like that?

Pre-wash? you can just rinse them if there’s junk.

Gut? That’s surfactants, not specifically ones used in commercial dish washers. You can hurt yourself with dangerous surfactants if you don’t rinse them, when washing at home, even by hand.

It’s also totally not true that surfactants are not rinsed off. The speed comes from many more jets and lots higher pressure. They are performance machines!

Maybe it’s different in casinos, if that’s where you’ve worked?
GPU's typically compute faster than CPU's, so maybe that is the conversation it identifies it as? Meaning, when people ask about power difference between CPU and GPU they say they aren't directly comparable, but the GPU has much more processing power.

That would mean it would identify an old GPU as faster than a modern CPU, even though it isn't, since it would slot that into the same conversation. The hard part with finding out the source for the logic is that it can map items to similar items in many ways, and there are trillions of conversations out there that it could map it to, so it can do quite a lot of heuristics that will work fairly well for naive questions even though it can't apply any direct logic.

If it could link to similar conversations that it bases its reasoning on then that would probably greatly help understand where its logic would fail. So before it can do that we probably wont be able to eliminate these failure modes, because humans aren't random enough to generate the edge cases unless they understand what logic the model used. For example, comparing an old computer to a modern GPU might seem random to you, but to ChatGPT it just sees something like "This looks like a CPU vs GPU comparison, aha so I map it to: {CPU} isn't really comparable to {GPU}, but {GPU} has much more processing power". If you could see something like that then it would be obvious where it would fail, but without that it looks like magic.
This is similar to the moral panic around Google and Wikipedia. No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt.

Studying and developing critical thinking is more important than ever before. What people miss when they babble stuff like "math is useless" or "literature is useless" or "history is useless" is that those things are not important by themselves, they are important because you are learning models and tools to interpret the world.

You know, the things that differentiate you from a dumb machine.
> Landlords don't provide housing, property developers do.

With rare exceptions, developers want nothing to do with owning the properties they build. They want to finish the build and get those properties off their books and close the contruction loans and move on.

So somone has to own the property after build is complete.
Nobody is talking about "right wing media" etc other than you.

What is being pointed out is the achievements of civilizations predating Islam in those countries which are today Islamic.

It is simple factual History.
Can you explain how python is annoying?
In shame’s name: Peegate shows the perils of public humiliation
I always thought it would be really interesting to work for a company like fly.io.

Solving hard problems like this seems interesting.

On the other hand it could be a giant shit show of micromanagement and toxicity, who knows really.

At the moment they aren't hiring though so that's that.
With so much of the tech sector going remote, how do prices still keep going up? Why is there still so muh demand?

Is there anyone living in those expensive places? Or is it just speculation/investment?
thats fine for me, because it literally replaces a liter of coffee per day or even more, and keeps the headache from caffeine withdrawal at bay
I'm annoyed that they keep raising the price to pay for a streaming service I barely use. But I still can get most things next day or two days at most.

And I very much enjoyed the Lord of the Rings series they did. High production quality and pretty good story telling. But I suppose I am easily entertained.
MAGA cap?
Two rounds of layoffs seems to say something that one round doesn't. You would expect that all things being equal there is never a scenario where it is better to do two cuts instead of just one. So why?

a) things were much worse than realised. Maybe but it would have to be a big shock coming because Meta's general performance has held up OK, certainly nothing that would warrant this.

b) HR reasons? some sort of requirement that prevented them doing it all at once? Someone said that this time around they were doing masses of performance reviews. So perhaps the first wave were arbitrary cuts but they couldn't do the second without actual evidence of poor performance backing it?

c) change of plans? Mark wants to go all in AI instead of Metaverse and this means grand restructuring of his whole workforce? You'd think that would be very evident from which teams get laid off (we'll see).
It may continue for another few weeks after „Stop engines“ signal is received, because recruiters still have their jobs and team leads will tell them: „Let’s keep recruiting funnel warm, while I’m checking if that signal really applies to us“. Until every team with an ambitious team lead is told that they are not special and they really should stop, they may still continue at least talking to people. And some may even got their budget after few rounds of negotiations, so this strategy will make a lot of sense for them.
You’re halfway to Clojure’s hiccup syntax[1] there.

[1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/blob/master/doc/syntax...