skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How hard is it to spin your own registry and clone those images there? I’m not heavily invested in my company’s infrastructure but as far as I can tell we have our own docker and npm registries
Would they? I don't spend a lot of time on niche forums these days, but the question boils down to "Would you not accrue positive karma over time from posting?"

I'm sure there are forums out there sufficiently expert that's not the case... but that doesn't feel like most forums (even niche).

Exhibit A: me, who doesn't post particularly interesting things on HN, but eventually accrues karma simply from time
There are surreptitious ways to achieving covert monitoring on iOS. To say this applies to Android only is simply untrue.

You can do things via MDM on iOS for example and install spyware “monitoring” apps/set OS level permissions that are invisible to non tech saavy users.

Also if you have access to the device and the iCloud password/device pin (e.g. abusive partner scenario, etc.) then non tech saavy people don’t stand a chance against being secretly monitored.
March 15, 1985 The first domain name is registered
Today is the 38th anniversary of the first .com registration.

Symbolics.com was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation out of Massachusetts.

Today, the site is an AI tool providing interesting facts and information related to the Internet, DNS, domain names, IP etc.
Yes I am, and I clearly remember the D3.js project. It has been almost 10 years, crazy how time flies!

It's nice meeting you again on HN :)
Fwiw, I do this for everything I release. But I doubt that's much "better" than something like flatpack, because just static linking doesn't really help me with dependencies at build time.

Flatpack Runtimes do this for common dependency lists, but still allow some customization, without me having to recompile openssl- or some other annoying upstream.
As a technologist, the tech of VR is neat but as a human I haven't found the use case of the social Metaverse compelling and I don't see how better fidelity or tech will make it fundamentally different enough to suddenly become "must have" to the mass market.

VR is great for some kinds of immersive gaming and I can see media consumption as compelling when the resolution, optics and FOV get there but I'm no longer confident there's some magic use case waiting to be discovered that makes the social Metaverse "the future" Zuck thinks it can be (even if it's not Meta who finds it). As for telepresence, the 'Zoom-like' format works well enough and I don't feel any need for increased immersion.

I admit I could be wrong, and the technologist in me kind of hopes I am, but I now think there's a real possibility it just never goes big.
Back in the 80s, GM only had like 10,000 key barrels that they used for all GM cars. That meant that you had a 1/10,000 chance of unlocking another GM car with your GM key. Didn't even have to be the same model or maker, as long as it was GM.

They solved this by adding the little chip to the key, so that even if you could open the door, you couldn't start the car with the wrong key, because it would read the chip in the ignition barrel. My uncle was involved in the testing and got to drive a Corvette for a while because that was the first model they tried it on.
umami.is (self hosted)

- easy to set up (Vercel + Railway in my case, but there are even more simple approaches)
- easy to add to new projects (takes 1 minute to embed)
- does 99% of what I need (I'd like to see a nicer funnel UI, which I think it's coming in v2)
Come on... ad populum appeal is not a strong one. And you can run most Smalltalk distros with a headless option. Let's not pretend using it for IDE is the same as deployed to production. Be fair.
EFS will handle 1000 readers/writers. We tested it as a data exchange medium for computational tasks. The meta-information APIs in EFS in my experience are faster than S3's (LIST in S3 is notorious). The overall amount of data we stored in EFS was pretty limited (single-digit terabytes), though.

I wouldn't use EFS to store petabytes of data, but if you need a resilient and scalable storage that you can easily integrate into your application, then EFS is great.

One thing that I loved, is the ease of use in local development. With EFS you can simply mount the shared volume into your Docker/K8s container in production, and a local directory when you're developing tasks locally on your laptop. You can even run tasks without a container and monitor their output by looking at the exchange directory. There are AWS API emulators (e.g. Localstack) but they are not as convenient.
You should disclose that you're the owner of that website. Your post comes across as an advertisement.
An idiot in my neighborhood getting robbed because they leave their garage door open at night causes my insurance premiums to go up, but they are still an idiot.
It could be a rare hash collision. It wouldn't happen to you but with millions of Teslas out there it would happen to somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if this were real.
There’s a difference between maximizing yields and diversifying risk. I’m talking about diversifying risk. The yield is the company’s equity.
> Either the app goes through their servers and back to the car, which would make it impossible to unlock the wrong car

As if there's no opportunity for defects anywhere in that mountain of abstractions...
Well, if I understood the point correctly and if it happens too often, it could become too much of a burden (as in not enough sales to make it worthwhile.) Developer might end supporting only one runtime, deprecate and put out of support all the old ones. That's a problem for users and eventually for developers too: it they don't know how to create a release for everybody, they won't.
This seems a great app to get access to via using a scam!
To which company are the machines and territories sold too, and who owns the majority stake of the "spin" out company?

I have heard that so often, that this or that technology is faded out in the car industry, and in reality, that just ment, the factory is carefully dissasembled, shipped to some 2nd world or 3rd world country, reassembled and buisness just continus or more often then not, actually expands. Fridges, diesel cars, you name it.
I want a personal agent that surfs the web for me, strips out the ads, spams, and scams. I find it unimaginable that everyone finds this so unimaginable.
Correct, we developed Oblivious DNS (first as a research paper and then as a service) to do this. Here's a quick writeup we did about our alpha service that we're planning to roll out globally:

https://invisv.com/articles/dns.html
> This is just a ridiculous statement. Main argument from whom? Discrimination in what contexts?

"impossibility of fairness" is to support the argument that it is fair to discriminate against races if it means that we can get the racial distribution we want. College admission does this all the time. When companies does this in black box models we don't see what they do, but we know for a fact the effect of such policies on the processes we have more insight in, such as college admission, and the end result is discrimination against Asians.

Wrapping that in a flowery language doesn't change anything. Why not just admit that you support discriminating against races to improve diversity numbers, because that is exactly what the statement is about?
I have the same kind (IIRC it’s called deuteranomaly).

I find increasing the brightness of the display helps, but it’s still a pain in the arse to distinguish the two when the lines are thin in this example.

Just for fun, can you make out the lettering in this image posted to the fediverse: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/109786201604517074

If you have deuteranopia or deuteranomaly, you should be able to just about make it out. With normal colour vision, on the other hand, it’s meant to be nearly impossible to see.
That’s a pretty old scam, but kids these days seem to have easier access to credit cards than when I was growing up, so I expect it is quite lucrative.
It hasn't made a dent because people had very limited use of AI assistants so far. With the progress that ChatGPT is showing, that can rapidly change and Apple can become old news - same as Nokia and Motorola, that once dominated the mobile market.
The biggest surprise (for me) from the dart mission was that the asteroid wasn't one big rock. It's more like, dust and gravel and boulders all stuck together with gravity.

As much as I love a certain Michael Bay movie about a rag-tag group of drillers tasked with drilling an asteroid in space, it seems unlikely that would be necessary.

Seems like, the two obvious approaches are a push or an explosion.

Using an explosion to diffuse the parts of an asteroid, and that might be a whole lot easier than previously thought, since the thing is only weakly held together. The other approach of giving it a push seem a whole lot tougher, since they're not rigid.
I still just use apt on debian because I'm a dinosaur apparently.
> In my mind it's like giving a less experienced and error-prone engineer the code I'm working on to refactor.

You have almost 20 years of professional experience on your resume and likely were coding before that; it is difficult for me to believe sometimes, but most programmers have nowhere near that level of experience as the field is constantly increasing in size and scope: when I was in college, Computer Science was one small major people could enter that had only momentarily become popular due to the Internet... now it makes up a third of all students at major institutions that I would have assumed should be doing more interesting research work :(.

Regardless, you (and I) look at this AI as an engineer that is much less experienced than we are, and which is mostly able to code in repetitive ways with a ton of boilerplate that it sometimes gets wrong anyway; but, I think, for a remarkable number of people--even ones on this forum, where I often want to assume everyone should be an expert but in fact a lot of people just got into doing this work last week--that AI actually already has more experience than they do (and, now that they are using it so heavily to do their job, maybe ever will) and thereby makes fewer mistakes.

I don't know what that feels like, but it is certainly a very different experience than we are having. Maybe in another year or two, we'll have that experience also: if the AI gets good enough to become your peer, maybe we will find it interesting to use (or maybe we will become so demoralized, having not been in the position of having to work in a team of people better than us for so long--and these AIs wouldn't even be people!!--that we give up on the art entirely). I mean, imagine for a moment what it would be like if you found yourself in awe of the AI and were learning from it... I think it explains a lot of the confusing excitement about this technology.
Well, I've never hired someone to replace a battery, so I clearly don't know the going rates. $100 was steep enough that it caught me by surprise, though.
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This quote in the article seems overly optimistic:

> "While Google does not permit the sale of such apps on its Google Play app store, Android phones commonly allow such invasive apps to be downloaded separately via the Web. The iPhone, in comparison, does not allow such “side loading” and thus consumer spyware apps on this platform tend to be far more limited and less invasive in capabilities."

Recommended:

https://citizenlab.ca/2021/12/pegasus-vs-predator-dissidents...

> "After confirming forensic traces of Pegasus on Nour’s iPhone, we identified the presence of additional spyware, which we attribute with high confidence to Cytrox. We further conclude with high confidence that it is unrelated to Pegasus spyware."
What do you mean? Did you perhaps confuse Don't Look Up (2021) with Armageddon (1998)?
Trad Fi vs. Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: comparison of product features
Teaching your kid not to play in busy streets wouldn't be victim blaming, it would be victim blaming if your kid got hit by a speeding car and people immediately started questioning how well you taught him street safety. The problem with victim blaming isn't that it seeks to teach people to avoid becoming victimized, the problem is that it gets brought up when people have already been harmed, making it insensitive, unhelpful (something something barn door), and, often, deflecting blame from the actual bad actor.
Autocorrect strikes again! Yes, I meant rclone - thank you.
What about dichloromethane: that was/is used as well?
I am now educated. Thank you.
Weird, and I thought fractional reserve banking was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
Every operating system has different fonts installed by default. Unless you use custom fonts, you can't be fully consistent, but the website has some groups of similar fonts that should get you the same style regardless of operating system.
There's always the first time you hear a particular story. There's a continuously increasing mapping from how likely such an event is to when you should expect to hear about it for the first time.
But it’s not bad to diversify risk early on and have a plan for that. High yield savings accounts and treasury notes are standard practice. We’re not talking about founders taking moonshots in the market. We’re talking about $35MM in a bank account that doesn't even match inflation.
Absolutely. I'm pretty new to infra and I learned in our big company AWS environment. I've dabbled a bit with home servers and stuff but I have no idea how to manage a bare metal host "properly".
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, writer of poetic fiction, dies
For MVNO on Verizon's network, any recommendations? I pay some absurd number for my Verizon plan in the Pacific Northwest because the mountains cause other providers (TMo, for example) to have no reception constantly. Verizon is basically the only choice. However i rarely use it, i spend 90% of the time on Wifi. I just want to be able to get texting/voice SMS/Phone/Data for emergencies (not just 911). So perhaps an MVNO is of interest to me?
Author here. I'm without electricity but can discuss the 8086 if anyone has questions :-)
Even dumber, it should have just been pointers to encrypted files hosted on any arbitrary web server.
I remember someone abusing a ticketing system I had to work with for reporting technical issues with a vast computer network, raising a ticket with an attachment from some absolute nutcase in multicolored manyunderlined .RTF format which was like as you described as "hate mail" in the subject line and the ticket being closed as "not hate mail", still makes me chuckle every time I think about that
Musikalia: Building a better iOS music player for kids
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Your comment reads like the statement of a very naïve person who hasn't witnessed the past 30 years of computer technology.
I agree, good things can be said about everyone. Hitler liked dogs, and liking dogs is good in my book. His push for the Autobahn also shaped much of modern society (in the US notably by inspiring Eisenhower to establish the system of interstate and defence highways), which was also mostly good (though the US took it way too far). But we like to paint everyone either as a Disney prince or a Disney villain, as if people in power were not humans.
I don’t know about him but the argument that he sucks because of the examples given is not valid reasoning. How do you know he is so bad? You made a claim that if he is the best then there is no value in that business. Do you have more than the two examples given?
Flatpak is great for self contained apps, but it seems problematic when it has to reach outside the sandbox. I ran into this in VSCode and with CUDA video processing filters, but I'm sure there are more examples.

And thats what distro packages are for, I guess.
Propeller advance paves way for quiet, efficient electric aviation
I wouldn’t say the race is won or lost at this point, just that we are on the edge of a bubble that is revealing decent, more affordable technology like in the dot com era. But for me at least the GitHub copilot and cpt-3 have been entirely underwhelming except for things I use fiverr for. I don’t understand what is causing all the hype. Would someone please show me something technically impressive or explain the steps to make it useable like the input engineering? It is just too deep a rabbit hole to go in to casually get a good answer from it for me. It requires a setup that I must be overlooking. Also, I am unimpressed mostly by hugging face. Skimming the article and it didn’t stand out. It takes a lot of inputs to get one good output, which requires a lot of expensive equipment and electricity.
T-Mobile better keep sending me Christmas cards with Ryan Reynolds temp tattoos
news.ycombinator.com with 150% zoom
What a weird article. Given that there are yet to be devices like siri that use these new language models, it's fairly nonsensical to compare a "chatbot" like chatgpt to a device like Siri/Alexa/Google that actually takes commands verbally and performs real actions on them.

NYT quality is really awful these days.
> It seems to me (being uneducated in the matter) that if a bank is holding US government debt (treasuries) as "hold to maturity" that the US Government should have some ability to offer a line of credit against those assets for cases like this one was.

Yes, the Fed basically did this.

See the recently (Sunday) announced "Bank Term Funding Program", which basically says if banks hold securities from the Federal government, the Federal Reserve will accept it as collateral for a loan, the collateral valued at par.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Olive.c is a simple graphics library
Sorry about that. Regardless of the amount, the feeling of being scammed must suck.
This article is a week old. Based on the latest observations the chance of impact has reduced to 1:1000.

You can check the latest probabilities here: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2023%20D...
"I know _exactly_ where the statue is"
Exactly.

A lot of Linux users grouse about people not wanting to use their favorite OS but they don't do it because a bunch of perfectly well built software may or may not run depending on some under-the-hood voodoo magic they don't understand and can't fix.

Flatpaks fix that. If the pack is well built, it'll work. If it's from a reputable source, it's probably well built.
Looks like he's shadowbanned.
The Dasharo FidelisGuard Z690 is the first Qubes-certified desktop computer
Hey HN -- Conor here, aka the guy from the demo. Happy to answer any questions you have!
You sure about that?

If you have an account with noname for $3,000k and noname has 12 accounts with localcorp1-localcorp12 each of $250k -- and noname goes poof, what happens?

I think, according to the preSVB rules, you get $250k from FDIC and then get a very strong claim to $2,750k from the rest of noname's assets (if no BigBank steps in to buy the part of noname you're connected to).

https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/banking/facts/priority.html

You'll (probably) get your money back, but after how much time?
you're right - I use android for firefox and either the autocorrect doesn't work at all on HN or it corrects everything the wrong way. Too late to edit now. I wrote "cant" and it autocorrected to "can" instead of inserting an apostrophe. Firefox for android hates this site.

anyways - previous he had a throwaway line like "we need to be thinking about this!" and a link to the pdf. It looked just like spam.
I think most batteries are $49 + labor + tax. I had mine fixed under AppleCare and it took about 90 minutes so I can see $90 being about right.
> To say this applies to Android only is simply untrue.

To be fair, this particular issue — the creative abuse of Android APIs by "stalkerware" apps — applies to Android only.

Also, MDMs on iPhones can't do the kinds of covert monitoring that this paper discusses. They can't access texts, emails, photos or other personal messages or data within apps on a device.
It's a lot easier to split $1M between four banks than to split $300M between 1200.

Side note: what HOA needs more than $250K in reserves? I'm all for a rainy day fund but I'd be asking for a reduction in dues...
Yep - 100% agree. I opened a new business back in Nov/Dec 2022, and no less than two weeks did I get multiple, official-looking payment requests for labor law posters. They looked very real with some verbiage about "failure to comply with the law", etc. After I opened the first one, I was very motivated to pay the $89 fee (thinking I missed something when starting the business). However, after reading the letter a few times, I realized it was a scam.

The others went in the trash as soon as they came in...
What if you're building a web app, and your goal is to emulate the system font appearance (whatever it may be) of the client?
I meant among many of my friends, so it's all anecdotal.
Fundamental misunderstanding of what chatgpt does versus virtual assistants, coupled with a bizarre declaration that ChatGPT has “won” even though it has yet to establish itself in any actual daily-use scenarios.
How much did Americans lose on crypto and banking, and inflation? Anybody has any of those numbers?
LOL, that's great!
Because Elon Musk doesn't run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does.
What about claw backs and garnishment?
How can you not notice that you are in the wrong car? Different people have different stuff lying around in their cars. Stickers, scratches, dents, dirt. Cars smell differently.
Eh. Sort of. I disagree with that statement. So far the devops of managing my cloud stuff on heroku has been a few days a year. And we have a better pull-request environment setup than most places I worked with that did or didn't use cloud.

Point is, devops as a service is great for small scale. I've done the math of what it would cost to switch away from heroku, and at this point it is quadruple our current costs, because of the time investment, and that's over a few years. And then moving to our own servers? even worse.
The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem
My old Toyotas (early 2000s models) had the chip in the key. A third spare didn’t have it so I taped it under my bumper.

One of my keys because so dull it wouldn’t unlock the door anymore. We got a key off eBay and programmed it. The sequence to start the programming was pretty cool. It was something like turn the ignition key to specific places, press the brake a set number of times, and some other combos.

Here’s an example.

https://youtu.be/0Mbu_YDHGqc
Lower case numbers fit in the best with body text. They're used in the same way small caps are used for acronyms -- so you don't get ugly blocks of characters larger than their neighbors that call attention to themselves. It's a feature, not a bug.

In contrast, you use standard numerals for mathematics, spreadsheets, next to uppercase letters, etc. Anywhere where the context is numerical or technical or calling attention.

There's nothing "blatantly wrong" about it. Ultimately it's a stylistic choice (most people don't bother, same as most people don't bother with small caps), but it's a really nice one. I think it's cool to see it in neo-grotesque personally.

There's nothing inherent to the aesthetic principles of sans-serif that precludes them. From my understanding, the historical reason why they weren't used in the mid 1900's was for technical reasons with phototypesetting, needing to limit the character set. Now that it's all digital and Unicode we're able to repopularize them.
Hourly Billing Is Nuts by Jonathan Stark

From all the "business" books I've read this one is just packed with actionable advice instead of motivational gibberrish. I've built my productivized consulting offer based on these tips, and it helped me quit full-time job over 3 years ago. So far no plans to go back.
Is OSS, https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas

This looks like it could be a neat tool. I really got a kick out of Canvas Mage from the before times.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/cakejs/