skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forms are boring. I can get behind a movement toward replacing them with a dating sim.

Weighing my health insurance options is particularly onerous. I'd rather have waifu awkwardly blushing her way through the relevant questions. That would be more narratively satisfying than the usual "it costs more and covers less".
Dragons and Demons: making your own blog website
Could someone explain me how plug-ins are different from the API they already expose?
It's a ritual at my prev workplace. They didn't do anything even after i warned about it. Of course they got hacked..
Democracy suffers from tyranny of the masses. Wear a slight majority can vote to take everything from the minority.

That’s why the US founders loathed democracy. A Republic was the answer they came up with.
Syscall numbers are different on a per-architecture basis and some architectures allow using the calling conventions of multiple architectures - something that a library will presumably abstract away.
Any GUI file manager worth its salt can hide invisible and/or dotfiles, it’s table stakes — and just a GUI representation of that same terminal output.
Has AWS heard this?
Certificate pinning check built in when?

We should have a blockchain for certificates btw. That would be such an amazing solution to this problem. You could advertise ahead of the time that you are changing certificates and we could verify that it was in fact you.
> This is really just an attack on non-wealthy people.

It is not an an attack. Neither is it an "attack".

Nobody got hurt, nobody needs stitches, nobody was in fear for their life, autonomy, or well-being. Nobody brandished weapons, nobody damaged physical objects. That is why it is not an attack.

In modern parlance people started calling it an "attack" when someone was ever slo slightly mean to them. I think this usage is contemptible and should be called out. It devalues the meaning of the word. If a market participant publishing research is now an attack then what will you call when someone throws a punch and breaks a nose, or douses someone with gasoline and lights them on fire, or fires an intercontinental ballistic missile at a city?
Sex is abnormal now?
FWIW I don't see any need to push descriptions of sexual activity into kid's faces, most of them are unlikely to find it terribly interesting anyway and there's something to be said for the fact that we can enjoy a short period of our life without being unduly influenced by sexual desire. But the idea that we need to ban books from school libraries just because they hint of a more complex adult world where sexual impulses are part of life (even in ways that inevitably affect the children who live with and around them) seems very hard to justify.
Nobody even knows the saying.
I have a MH-Z19C and have been running it with auto-calibration disabled for over a year and it didn't drift much.

Is is possible that you have auto-cal on and the sensor is never exposed to true outside air? It uses some sort of minimum tracking to calibrate the ~400ppm point.

This is anecdata though.
I’m not sure about knees question either, tbh.

Also, what’s wrong with a stick-holding answer?
Mass timber “definitely not the right way to go” says Benjamin Kromoser
> If I were a LAPD official I would see this as a sign that the public doesn't trust my numbers and I would try my best to figure out a way to change this

I 100% believe you, and if I was an LAPD official I would feel the same way. However police themselves probably won’t react like this. I don’t think the existence of this tool in and of itself will scare them into behaving better - they’ll probably just try their best to work around it (take a more lenient position of hidden/obscured badge numbers, slow roll FOIA requests, idk), try to shut it down legally or harass the people behind it.

Don’t get me wrong it’s a good tool to have at your disposal and I think it’ll probably still help some LA residents with cases against the LAPD somehow.

disclaimer: I don't live in LA, have never interacted with the LAPD, have never even been there. This comment is purely based on the impression I get that some police in the USA are quite hostile towards their population and that the LAPD are one of the more notorious departments.
Prior Knowledge for Pattern Recognition
https://xkcd.com/1162/ Representation of different power densities.
As an acquirer of startups, maybe.

As a viable language-learning app (on the freemium tier), it's mixed and getting worse. I'm a 3.5-year Duolingo user.

See the 2/2023 HN post "How Duolingo reignited user growth" [0] describing how they/ the former CPO aggressively traded off reducing the utility for actually acquiring language vs too much gamification (not all users want 'Candy Crush' levels of gamification), user growth, leaderboards, challenges, cutesy animations, inventing silly revenue streams like 'streak protect' (all prior to the 7/2021 IPO, ticker 'DUOL').

Duolingo locked the Chinese course mid-2022 [1], that means no more fixes ever, no corrections, the broken or missing audio (and answers, and hints) stay broken or missing, all discussions (users helping users, handy links to third-party sites) are frozen. For no good reason. They don't give a hoot for gamifying valuable user contributions which add/improve course content/fix mistakes. If any of you were contemplating paying for DL Chinese before they locked it on the charitable basis that they'd fix the broken bits someday after they'd banked the IPO loot, well obviously not now. (Here's e.g. Langoly's list of "The 11 Best Apps to Learn Chinese (Mandarin) Fluently" [2])

By comparison the Spanish course is alive and being improved; they added Stories.

TL;DR: optimizing the product to juice up metrics like DAU prior to the IPO is good for valuations, but is not a great long-term approach to a language learning app and its community.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977435

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/zjnwmh/why_is_chi...

[2]: https://www.langoly.com/learn-chinese/
"Finally!", I wanted to say, but it's not actually out yet. No prices known. No specs given.

I've signed up for the newsletter. My personal laptop is getting pretty old now. Really hoping it's not going to be a Fairphone price–performance+usability ratio, but I'm most definitely going to consider this as my first option!
Yeah like how HTTPS CAs exist. There are some very nice three letter ones who can issue any certificate and your browser / OS happily accepts it.
Overuse of useEffect is my number one pet peeve for juniors. I can't tell you how many times I have seen a total mess of manual data passing between 3 components with so many if..else cases to handle all the weird stuff.

I catch it in code review and show them that when you delete all of it without useEffects and useStates that it just works. Its an antipattern that turns the code into a giant ticking time bomb if you don't manage all of it out.
Seems unnecessarily complicated, you can just `ssh-keygen -R` then `ssh git@github.com`, it should ask if you want to add the new key to the known hosts.

Also you should first check:

1. If you’re using GitHub’s rsa key at all

2. That you don’t have the other keys

In which case nuking all the keys is completely unnecessary, just remove the RSA one.
they're waiting for the overton window to shift wrt acceptance of imperfect LLM responses...

...it's shifting...
I've worked at breweries in the past and they used all sorts of computer generated imagery for products. They had me fooled too. Don't feel bad for being mistaken.
> Why don't you set your XDG vars to where you want to put them then?

I hear that argument often. When a program uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tool/ for its config files, to what value should I set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to get the old behavior where it puts its config in $HOME/.tool/?
> Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention (DLP) secures sensitive data in transit.
MSCHF have a history of ridiculous ideas that actually get released, so I'm not sure that I'd discount this as vaporware so fast
To be fair, ThinkPad quality from Lenovo doesn't come close to what it was when IBM was making them. I've had everything from screen backlight bleed, to coil whine, to recently, key caps popping off and switches breaking. This is on top-of-the-line models. At the end of the day, it's just plastic. Nice plastic, but plastic, nonetheless.

After decades of sticking exclusively to ThinkPads, these new Frameworks look very appealing. I'm not expecting Apple-like build quality, but the customization and repairability is unparalleled in the market. I'm willing to give up the TrackPoint and nice keyboard for that (pretty much the only reasons I stuck with ThinkPads for so long), and I'm almost certain there will be a TrackPoint module somewhere down the line.
> Politically neutral AI systems that provide balanced sources and a diverse set of legitimate viewpoints

Deus ex machina, then?

If humans can't decide truth for each other, why would machines be better at it?
I know here on HN I shouldn't, but I quite enjoyed this comment ...
Yes, I got my Windows license refunded years ago. AFAIK it was not simply getting a refund for something unused, but rather the fact that the hardware and the software were two distinct products that were bundled together without the consumer having a say.
The "respectable" resellers do keep paperwork where given license comes from. Just because it is legal to sell them, doesn't mean you cannot be audited what exactly are you selling (once you attract the attention of powerful people).

So while some might come from MSDN subscribers, they often come from unused enterprise ones. The MSDN sellers are creating a big risk to themselves.
awk is amazing. One pattern I often use is:

$ query_something | awk 'generate commands' | sh

For larger programs, I wrote and use ngetopt.awk: https://github.com/joepvd/ngetopt.awk. This is a loadable library for gawk that lets you add option parsing for programs.
We are talking about pens here. 99.999% of pens are disposable.
Ugh. After over a decade of work, everything was finally adapted to or made for 16:9, now they're going after hipster ratios? Not a deal breaker but a bummer. Interesting that phones are going the other way, so now we can enjoy letterboxes on both platforms and not be able to reach the notification drawer. What was so wrong with 16:9 that we needed another competing standard that's just slightly off...
We should use a separate system that could reliably verify which certs belong to which entity.

Blockchain is a perfect solution to this. I wonder why it is not considered yet.
Wow, this is some serious Streisand effect.
Thanks, the Ohio cops suing him, because you're going to make this story blow up even more now.
Thanks and any advice on not landing on such a list.
I was part of giving my advice for the list last December, but now new cuts will come and I could be on it.
How to be that favorite person? Is beeing more or less expensive really a criteria?
LOL, this is another brilliant idea from the same company that previously sold thousands of keys for a single car, which could be shared by everyone. These guys are marketing geniuses.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l30V426-_S4
Well if it walks kind of like a duck, and quacks almost like a duck.. it may be a prototype robotic duck but it's still a duck.

It's pretty intelligent and rather general too, so at least by the definition that doesn't include mandatory consciousness it would mostly fit. And consciousness is pointless for a robotic system because it doesn't add anything practically useful. Just because agency has to be provided by the user doesn't make it any less of an AGI I'd say.
> VCs, and capitalists in general, put money at risk in the hope of generating wealth above their initial capital. They produce goods or services that benefit society, absent the internet-controlled juice-squeezers.

VCs hoarding even more capital doesn't contribute anything to society, they are all 100% rent-seeking juice-squeezers. They are a huge example of why capitalism is so broken.

> Society has benefited greatly from capitalism. I wouldn't leave it up to the likes Molly White to produce anything meaningful.

Society and the world has been - and continues to be - tremendously damaged by capitalism. But of more interest is the ad hominem against Molly White.

I know Molly's work and I'm quite confident that she did a lot more for the world - especially in the crypto space and wikipedia space - than you ever did. See how I can play your game too?

The behaviour of Facebook and Google, or Microsoft (in the past) of people like Bill Gates and his contemporaries like Elon Musk only show why people should never be allowed to own billions, especially while 60% of just people in the USA live paycheck to paycheck.

To me it's not Venture Captitalism but Vulture Capitalism.
So how would you feel if there was a database of tech employees? Tech companies have absolute power over people’s lives and a huge amount of private information used for malicious purposes.

Would you be happy if it said “Here are tim and james, here is where they live, make them accountable!”?
If anything it’s going to accelerate as companies realize that remote works and that they can hire people in LCOL countries for a fraction of the cost.
This would just offload the problem to a separate entity. CAs can be (and have been) compromised.
Yes, I agree. Complexity theory is probably one of the least practical fields for software _engineers_, it can even work to a detriment, because you can discouraged to find solutions to problems.

On the other hand, I have had great benefit from studying PL and semantics for software engineering. It taught me to write more readable and reliable code.

(From a person who studied both as a part of his master)
Dedicated servers are 1/4 or less of price of on-demand (don't forget the bandwidth!!!).
What would that help? Counter mad-men with too powerful weapons is difficult and often lead to war. Classic wars or software/DDoS/virus wars or robot wars or whatever.
It does work with 2 x 4K TB3 docks, and you only need a single cable with USB-C charging and monitors you can daisy chain.
For adults, the best way to learn to play piano and understand music theory is just to do it with a children’s piano book. I have a few friends that do this, and you learn everything at once, the way you’re supposed to learn it. Read music, train your finger muscles, understand basic theory introduced gradually, and for an adult you can get through the children’s books pretty quickly because you can learn a lot of these concepts more easily.
> And it just so happens that the current system we came up with - a mixed market with a strong, democratically elected public authority, yet freedom for individuals to pursue taxable profits

This is naive to the point of absurdity, when the rich and powerful quite often are gifted loopholes for the profits to not be taxable, with a wink and a nudge from the "democratically elected public authority".

I would certainly love to live in your illusion that "we are privileged to live in a society where the powerful are so limited in what they can do with their power" when they are constantly bailed out from their mistakes and get literal "get out of jail free cards" from their misdeeds. Things that would get you in prison get them a slap on the wrist at most.
One step at a time towards the "family AI's" of Neuromancer.
Like QuickBooks Online?
> VCs, and capitalists in general, put money at risk in the hope of generating wealth above their initial capital. , absent the internet-controlled juice-squeezers.

You're so close to getting the point, yet so far. The whole point of the article is that there is nothing in the VC handbook that has anything to do with the "benefits society" part of your "They produce goods or services that benefit society" statement.

In fact, if slavery is magically made legal today, I will bet that the Anderssen Horowitzs of this world will fund the Adam Newmanns of this world to start a slave trading startup before the weekend is over. And we need people like Molly White to keep them accountable, to build consensus on what's legal but not moral, and push for a better society where we can live with human dignity.
Related to some of the high-stakes
scenarios discussed in the post. If you advance in large organizations you’re likely going to encounter a strategy cell or unit. Get into a mutually beneficial relationship with these people.

If they’re effective, they’re expert communicators and are the primary filter through which information from the operating units passes to senior corporate leadership. They can help you prepare for these kinds of situations and interpret the needs/political landscapes of meetings accurately.

A friendly strategy leader is also a 99th percentile slide wizard and can offer vast optimization.

edit, numeracy
I've never heard about them before, and my initial impression of art collectives releasing things like this without actually be able to try it is to assume it's just to gather reactions out of people, rather than actually releasing finished products.

But of course, you might be right, I hope no one put any weight on my initial impression which is based on very little.
Gamification we deserve.
It's simply exploiting the desire that people have to protect the vulnerable; extremely social people are competing to be the "underdog." People who say they are being victimized by other people's claims of victimhood are a subset of that same group.
"use cases that benefit society".

I've also written extensively on HN on how the only use cases for crypto right now is money laundering, easily creating scams, ponzis, rug pulls, and unregistered securities. These use cases do not benefit society.
Code quality and potential security issues aside, I don't think the creators would mind any member of the public having a full copy.
I’d bet that’s why it said “briefly” — someone got the alert, realized what it meant and called their boss.
Imagine committing yourself to an education institution. In tyol 2023. Lol. Lmao even.
25 years, no issues.
Maybe with sensitivity way down you do start pressing too much on it.
Wifi calling can be totally free if you simply bypass the wireless carriers.

I make free video calls all the time. The gotcha here is that the person on the other end has to run the same software as you. Part of what you pay the wireless carriers for is the universal compatability.

Personally, I like this: https://twin.me/en/
Calling something "anime" when it's unrelated to Japan annoys me greatly.
why did they butcher the Entry key instead of making the tab key narrower?
A git post receive hook. You can set up a bare git repo which lets you push code to it. Then when you push to it, the post receive hook runs which can be any script you want. In this case you can run the commands to restart your containers or whatever else you need to do.
If they want to break these out they should be optional.

I get broadcast TV with an antenna and would have no need to get it with a television service although somebody who has worse reception or doesn’t want to set up an antenna reasonably could.

Sports are the most popular thing on TV but still a bit more than 50% of people don’t watch sports. Sports fans are often complaining that the offerings don’t meet their needs, whereas people who don’t watch sports are paying for expensive channels they don’t watch. We could have something better but the current system of non-competitive competition (no real differentiation between linear and TV offerings) gives people no real choice except walking away, which in the long term they are.
This is a super interesting strategy. Also going to classes can lead one into a false sense of mastery. It almost makes more sense to do homework before class, and attend lecture as a review. It would just become pre-work then and would essentially be considered mandatory. This would also really fix the problem of lectures not being useful, since the lecturer could assume you did the work and then spend more time on things that are a better use of their expertise.
> Framework Laptop Mainboards

_Main_board? I know you're not supposed to call trunk "master" anymore because of (incorrect) associations with slavery, but what's wrong with "mother"?
That’s funny. Maybe they should enter the race first.
I don't think it is illegal on the part of the buyer, who would be a victim in this situation.

But just like buying counterfeit goods, it is not clear to me, I mean if you buy your key from AliExpress, isn't it like importing counterfeits from China? That's something one should ask a lawyer. Anyways, these keys can be revoked any moment (and it has happened to me, with an Office key). If I had a business, I would avoid them for that reason alone.
What specifically can you verify that cannot also be spoofed? If I go do this now I (and I’m sure millions of others) have no idea what to look for. I’d be blindly accepting like a sheep if it weren’t for this thread.

edit: I found this helpful and honestly had no idea I should be doing this (I’m a hobbiest not a professional) https://bitlaunch.io/blog/how-to-check-your-ssh-key-fingerpr...
A Deep Dive into DNS Debugging
Isn't the point of these that you can modularly customise everything? Or does that not include the screen?
I guess because package managers (apt, nix, ..) build around the idea of shared libraries, while bazel assume statically built.

TBH it’s hard to say which operate model is better anyway. They are simply incompatible :)

Related topic: https://youtu.be/Pzl1B7nB9Kc
The plugins make ChatGPT consume 3rd party APIs. Not the other way round.
These phrases often get ripped out of context. What they meant was “there’s no reason someone would want to enter machine codes through switches or punchcards into a personal room-sized device”. That is still true. Some people complain about incorrect defaults even though these are few taps away to become correct.
I second this, thats exactly how I was taught after my 30s. I play some intermediate tunes quite ok today
I was wondering this. Thanks for the info!
Linear Constraints: The Problem with O(1) Freeze
You might like Scaler 2 https://www.scalerplugin.com/

It isn't really for learning theory but more for wielding it to write chords.

I use it as a VST in Ableton but you can use it standalone.

I also started learning piano as an adult around 6 years ago and have mostly been trying to use it to understand the theory to compose and improvise rather than perform. The more theory I learnt the more bits of Scaler made sense and I think half recognising concepts from Scaler as my piano teacher was explaining them at the piano was a help.

Also one other thing that I want to stress as I see it - some of theory is based on fundamental truths to do with clashing frequencies but also some of it is just trying to put a framework around what we already know sounds good, and the ultimate rule for music I think is, if it sounds good, it is good. Good luck!
Double-check with what source? The one mentionned in docs.github.com?

I assume it's safe because the SSL cert for docs.github.com is probably not compromised, so it's giving us the right key, and compromising docs.github.com would be extra effort and is unlikely to happen.

However, I wonder what kind of steps an MITM attack would have to perform, I assume one of the easiest would be compromising my local DNS server, since regular DNS does not offer a high level of security, then github.com resolves to the attacker's IP and the attack works. Do you have examples of such attacks that don't involve a virus already active on the end user's PC? Maybe if someone owns an IP previously owned by Github that is still somehow advertised as being Github by some DNS lagging behing?