skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had em, powder didn’t work. Don’t remember if I was using diatomaceous earth, poison or both.
It got to the point where I didn’t know if I was itching because of the powder, the bugs or my head. Eventually I washed all my clothes in the bathtub in really hot water - and that’s the first time I saw them. I realized they were prob living in a bag of mine that I had at the hotel I was at when I got them. Threw that in a hot bathtub. Washed all my clothes - left the bag outside for 1 Wisconsin winter. Problem eventually resolved. Didn’t need to get a heat treatment - just very thoroughly “boiled” them myself.

But fast forward a few months, I had to go on another trip. When I reached my hotel and unpacked, I saw that I had a lot of slow moving bugs in the bag. Idk if they were eggs initially or what, but they survived an entire winter of very cold weather. Needless to say, I immediately gave the bag a hot bath and there were pretty heavy casualties. I think it was contained bc I think they were still coming out of some sort of dormant state and unable to scurry away.
Yes. When TOTP debuted, it was aimed at and designed by security engineers. Keeping secrets on-device was and is correct for serious uses.

Google Authenticator is a victim of its own popularity. Fortunately, the field moved on, and we now have WebAuthn and Passkeys for non-exportable private authentication keys.
Proposed California law would require bidirectional charging capability for EVs
I answered your other comment which also covers this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35696124
AI Evangelists Scare Me
What about geothermal?
Digital entertainment has already replaced the healthy lifestyle the author recommends. Things like exercise and socializing help, but they're not sufficient to completely prevent excessive use in my experience. Something else is needed; I've had some luck using commitment devices and trying to make the option less accessible to myself. But I think we need cultural solutions, not personal ones.
One company will create an ai that can do anything, from your taxes, to drone delivery, if you want to do your own taxes it can create any interface you want on the fly: QuickBooks, fresh books, etc... need a CRM, blog, or ERP? it can be all those things, need a fantasy getaway? put your vr on and it can give you that too.

ie one software with unlimited scope that's constantly reiterating new versions of itself, self improving in near real time.

The software company that creates this will be the last software company, and probably the last unicorn so to speak.

That's why there's an arms race now, because whoever gets AGI first could be good or bad and everybody thinks they can do it better and safer, but let's fire our ethics team because they slow us down...

The team who's first will reach such growth, nobody will ever be able to catch them.

Disclaimer: I'm working on my own ai platform too
Why not awk with unicode support as an APL macro system?
A 32-hour workweek is the kind of idea that sounds like it comes from someone who is extremely out of touch with the bottom 50% of Americans. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 55.8% of Americans over the age of 16 work hourly positions.[0]

These workers, which include me, work by the hour. We make our living by working more hours, not less. If suddenly every hour above 32 became payable as overtime, it would be harder and not easier for us to get by. Let me explain.

Some of us are lucky enough to get by with a ~40hr/wk full-time job. Many, many people for whom their hourly wage is not high enough to meet their financial situation even at 40hr/wk, take on a second, part-time job to take on some extra hours and make some extra money. Scheduling both these jobs simultaneously is already hard as it stands.

If, as Sanders proposes, every hour above 32/wk is counted as overtime, many of our employers would promptly cut down our hours to 32/wk. Thus, we'd have to pick up _at least 8 hours_ a week more at our second job (presuming they were available) just to break even as we used to. While 8 hours may not sound like much, for an already tedious balance between two job schedules, this would, for many, be the straw that broke the camel's back.

This measure would, in short, severely hurt the working class. I have no doubt that the white collar workers pulling in a six-figure salary would welcome the shortened work week, at the expense of the majority in whose name this damaging measure is being proposed.

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2021/pdf/home....
> And this time, I did it with the help of GTP-4

Should've had *GPT*-4 proofread this.
I've always found the discussion and community around a hobby can be as important as the hobby itself. There's lots of books I like but can't talk to anyone familiar enough to care.
Absolutely true, in the same way you can't truly prevent burglary. Yet we all have lock our cars, have door locks, have bike locks, etc.
A quick look suggests that this stuff can be flammable, may release toxic gases/vapors/fumes if burned, "very toxic to aquatic life" and "very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects", and may cause harm to breast-fed children.

Other examples of hostile architecture like spikes, razor wire, cameras or sprinklers are still annoying, but may be less likely to have environmental impacts or create hazards to nearby innocents.
Some of the first search engines I used were paid: JSTOR and LexisNexis.
martin luther king jr’s “letter from a burmingham jail”

and later, jean-luc picard.
The Most Annoying Math Problem
Well said. It can be even simpler than buying a new device. Personally, I use a $100 Android device and via some ADB commands have removed app stores, email, and even the web browser, keeping the most useful such as navigation, a camera, SMS, etc. If I really want to install an app, there's the additional barrier preventing me which is to plug my phone into my computer and sideload an APK for F-Droid, a web browser, Newpipe, or whatever. For the most part this has been working for me.
BeOS, which is the foundation for most of this work, is from the 1990s. But in the 1990s C++ didn't yet have a clearly defined Memory Model for the purposes of concurrent algorithms and BeOS doesn't try to come up with one.

In the subsequent 25+ years, C++ developed a Memory Model which distinguishes ordering for these atomic operations. Because BeOS pre-dates that, it doesn't document an ordering, let alone provide a mechanism to pick one. Unfortunately different concurrent algorithms have different ordering requirements, if what you're given is looser the algorithms may malfunction, if it's stricter the performance may be hampered.

I reckon that before trying to claim you've innovated here it might be a good sense check to compare baseline. What exactly are the Haiku atomic operations, in terms of the C++ 11 Memory Model ? If you were Linux (or to some extent Windows) you could trail blaze here, because you're innovating before 2011, you're inventing the model - but this is 2023, so Haiku is off in the jungle on its own and everybody else has a map now, figure out where you are on that map first.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even cooperatives are basically assumed to be profit-seeking entities, no?
That's pretty much what Red Pajama is: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/17/redpajama-data/
It would be great if, one lovely day, we could just slap together an electron app and run inference through webgpu hassle-free and cross-platform.
> Why make this so difficult? Just ban personally targeted advertising.

That would have a significant impact on the earnings of publishers & creators.
Right.

I had never thought about it but I wonder if this is why they’ve never tried to raise rates.

It would certainly be a PR nightmare. But would it also immediately open them up to the “iOS monopoly abuse” case so many think this case was/wanted it to be?
Everyone is replaceable in the short term. Long term if you lose a few key employees people are left wondering where it all went wrong.
Really? I've used YouTube for years and i don't think I've ever seen a "show me something different" button. Occasionally it'll have a too bar with a list of topics i can choose from but it refuses to let me enter my own desired topic and seemingly only randomly shows me the bar anyway. I find myself frustrated that it's never there when i want it, and a selection that was there last time is not there this time. Very frustrating to see the potential of a better user experience but be refuted it for seemingly no reason.
Yeah that’s what I was alluding to, gotta be careful with those switchers
You can buy anti-allergy zippered mattress enclosures that are supposedly impermeable to bedbugs. If they’re made well, they will be permeable to air and a lot more comfortable than a plastic bag.
Couldn't you just get rid of the bag at that point?
Yeah, this is one of the reason. I don't have a plan to earn a living with this app now, but it depends on how many users use the app and how much the infrastructure costs. If the app is used by many users, I'd like to think about paid option with additional features (eg. providing API, managed database, etc) and keep free plan with current features.
I'm confused why your comment starts with "no" as if you're disagreeing with me, and then you go on to give an example of my point that capitalism has fucked things up so badly that it's impossible to create legal organizations that help people without the assumption of a profit motive.
Still pretty pricy, but it’s a lower bar than most people probably think it is if the comments here are anything to go by.

Does make me wonder if there’s anyone out there playing middleman and doing a white label service at an even lower price point, they eyeball the market for design trends and OEM some generic phone designs and then sell them on to smaller shops like small MVNOs that don’t have a few million to spare doing a complete OEM phone of their own.
"We have a large river at home"
Absolutely. Primarily because a passport comes out of process mediated by multiple humans for whom that is their only responsibility. It's a matter of few hundred dollars and a couple weeks to replace it.
I actually don’t yield.

What is the point of antitrust law? Of policing anticompetitive behavior? My naive hope is that it is a service of our government to protect consumers from companies who use their considerable power and influence to otherwise abuse or extort money from them.

The way the App Store and apple’s ecosystem is structured, they are able to extort as much money out of their users as they care to.

Let’s suppose they get crazy and jack their fees up to 100%.

Will people stop buying iPhones? Not likely — many people now have a lot of their life stored on iCloud.

Will they stop buying their apps? I guess they could, but where the hell else are they going to get apps for their phone?

Will developers switch platforms or ignore iOS altogether? Probably not, since really their bottom line wouldn’t be affected. They’d just pass the fees on.

This is yet another big blow to the consumer. And I can’t understand why _populace_ isn’t the primary focus of these decisions. Companies don’t need protection. Epic is not threatening apple’s position in any way and whatever resultant requirement from the court wouldn’t have substantially hurt Apple, only made them work a bit harder. I know, boo hoo for the $3 trillion company.
If my house burns down because I did some bad wiring that is all on me.
The restriction doesn't only apply to third-party apps on Apple's store. It takes into account Apple's own apps too.

Are there first-party apps that are allowed the JIT entitlement? If the answer is yes, they're done.
I've always enjoyed the content of HighScalability.com so it would be nice if they can support HTTPS and have a mobile-friendly view.
I had always thought that the lack of cloud synchronization was a deliberate security feature. If my TOTP secrets sync to the cloud, doesn't that defeat the entire point of 2FA? Now, instead of my physical device being the sole second factor for authentication, anyone who is able to breach/intercept/coerce someone at Google into divulging/etc the TOTP secrets from Google's cloud storage, my accounts are toast...
I’m very for your loss and for how terrible it must be to see that account used by someone else.

When you say that Facebook hasn’t been helpful, does it mean someone from her family contacted Facebook through the memorialization or removal process and that didn’t work? This process and request are documented here: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/228813257197480

If Facebook hasn’t helped after this request, then here’s an upvote to find someone in Facebook who can help.
Define the market as mobile OS and it would be pretty hard to argue that Google and Apple aren't a duopoly. And they both are definitely abusing that market power, often in very similar ways, including using that duopoly to favor their app store products, which includes a large commission for them.
Sorry if this isn’t directly relevant to the article. It’s paywalled, so I can’t read it, but perhaps this is a good place to vent anyway.

My issue with Apple Pay is that it’s more tedious than just using a credit card. Especially with tap to pay, I can pull a credit card out of my wallet and tap it on the reader in a second or two. Apple Pay requires me to tap my phone to the terminal, hold it aligned to my face for a few seconds, maybe it will succeed or maybe I’ll have to redo it or type in my alphanumeric password, and I need to select the card I want which is a swipe and then another tap or two (it always assumes I want the default card, which is not always the case), and then I need to re-tap it on the terminal again. I also sometimes need to double tap the power button, but not always. And sometimes I accidentally turn it off when I am pressing the power button, and then I have to start over. I’ve tried it many times (at one point I had a business debit card that was shared among multiple people so we all just used digital copies of it), and it always feels awkward and time-consuming and like I’m holding up the line behind me. I really don’t understand the appeal.

Digital transit cards like the new digital wallet clipper card in the bay area are cool though. I definitely see the appeal of that. I happily used one for a few months, and then I upgraded to a new iPhone and it didn’t transfer over during the transfer process. Still haven’t figured out if it’s possible to transfer it over or not. So I tried signing up for a new digital clipper card, but I lost cell signal during the process, and now it’s stuck in some weird half signed up state where I paid $20 but the Apple wallet app won’t actually activate the card or let me start over. It’s been like this for a couple months now. So back to physical clipper cards for me.

Sometimes new technology is really just overcomplicating things.
>benefits should not depend on how many hours your work

Ideally, yes. However, there are many small businesses and franchises who cannot afford to offer benefits to all their part-time workers. This would result in a marked decrease/elimination of part-time employment opportunities -- opportunities often essential to the livelihood of the working class, who work part-time to supplement their full-time income. For many of these people, who are among the hardest workers in our society, that part-time job is the only thing holding preventing them from sinking under. They don't want, or need, benefits from their part-time job when they already receive benefits from their full-time job, receive federal/state sponsored health insurance OR pay for their own especially when said benefits come at the cost of their ability to financially support themselves. Most people would rather be able to provide for themselves than exist in an inescapable state of welfare-dependency brought on by well-intentioned but damaging initiatives.
The author claims to be “flabbergasted” that people would want to stop work on world-changing AI projects.

The gulf between otherwise smart people on this very important issue should depress us all. Personally I feel as if a mutant species has been released into the wild, yet as in Rick and Morty, some people think the wisest course is to release a lot more mutants.

People are fools. Hackers more than most— though we are productive and useful fools much of the time— but it hasn’t been a threat to humanity until recently.
I got good enough to read Harry Potter from Duolingo, so Duolingo seems pretty helpful to those who stick with it. I've watched plenty of friends over my time in Mexico do nothing but Duolingo until they were good enough to be entertained by Youtube videos.

Just like any other prong of a language learning strategy, only a fraction of people are going to stick with it. Else language learning would be easy. I doubt people who couldn't stick to Duolingo would have stuck to the boring advice HNers have like reading grammar books and watching in-depth Youtube videos that require much more attention.

> "You need better friends, man".

Well, it depends on the friendship. Some if not most people want to be your friend and communicate with you, not be your error-correcting language teacher. You have to be pretty good at the language to be fun to talk to.

Until you're good enough to not be a burden, I think it's far better to pay for immersion than expect it from friends.

Fwiw, I am fluent in Spanish these days.
I'm a former IBEW (Union Electrician) member and I have TONS to say about this:

I absolutely agree that unions are not negotiating rates to keep up with inflation.

Worse, many jurisdictions are creating new positions that are assistant helpers, with compensation typically a quarter of journeyman rate, NO BENEFITS, and really isn't intended to lead into apprenticeships. This is NOT the CW/CE program, which was already controversially rolled out early 2000's... it is basically a burn-through-help and then don't even give them healthcare.

I just cannot imagine how skilled trades are going to be affected when most LUs negotiate 3-year contracts, and the past three years won't be anything like the next three years (i.e. it's only going to get exponentially worse)!

Also, I am not yet forty and am looking for another career as a partially disabled dude.
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> Not sure why, but cars don't generally support that.

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting it as something that cars support right now, but it's something that 100% could be supported easily and would "just work" with basically every modern computing device.

> Maybe because "digital keyboard" is too generic compared to "play/pause/next/previous/volume"? Then there's also the phone call controls.

The HID class covers keyboards, mice, trackballs, gamepads, touch devices, spinners, media controls, telephony, etc. All the media and phone controls you could ever want have been defined for decades, so there's definitely no technical reason it wouldn't be usable.

> Wired CarPlay is pretty nice, though.

Likewise to Android Auto, I certainly wouldn't trade it for the controls and audio only system I'm describing, but those who don't want a screen or whatever else could be better supported.
By browsing the web probably.
Ironically, here in Australia that brand has really destroyed its image.

They're now stocked in most of the big chain supermarkets, but it's a "reformulated" version of Bar Keepers Friend using Citric acid instead.

It's completely and utterly useless at cleaning the things the old Oxalic acid version worked on. :(

With careful perusal and emailing via Ebay though, the original formula stuff can be found.

This is the seller I get it from: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/231989692018.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
Space Probe Captures Detailed Images of Mars’ Moon Deimos
Many--and I mean many--trades do not provide stable work whatsoever.

If we remove the fiction and get to the truth, it is this: most jobs in the trades suck, and that's why people don't want them. It is the simplest answer, and it's staring everyone in the face, but they tenaciously deny it because they have romanticized the trades in their head, usually based on a few weekend experiences where they got out of the office and got their hands dirty for a few hours and loved it. They do not understand the physical toll that years of repetitive motion takes, or the financial risk involved.

The trades often have a low barrier to entry, which means they are competitive, which means for a lot of tradespeople out there, jobs are done at razor-thin margins or at a loss. To improve revenue, deadlines are sped up, safety regs are ignored, the cheapest labor is hired, and it becomes a grueling shitshow. There is nothing romantic about it. It sucks. I used to do it, and I'm way better off physically and financially now that I've left.
While I agree and wouldn't use this personally, I do have argument in favor of it.

1) Attack vector reduced to one account which you maintain with healthy hygiene, and hopefully don't use with public systems, etc.

2) You can keep backup 2FA for single account instead of keeping for N accounts.
I'm a mid-year electrician (IBEW; ran my own shop; seeking alternative career) and HVAC is what I wished I'd done over the past decade.
Serious question.

Did you ask these black artists? Because if you didn't, you REALLY need to shut it and keep your ideas out of their mouths.
As a human, I would like to note that this technique, as much as it will eventually works, is not the most effective.

See the boiling water brother comment.
You don't get into that state, it's the default result of being tracked as surreptitiously as companies can get away with.
More to the point, can we remember that things can be "online" without being freely reproducible by the surveillance industry? That's kind of the entire realization of privacy protections!

Trying to control the information by saying it's freely redistributable but you have to go down to the courthouse doesn't work - the surveillance industry just pays someone to go to the courthouse and retrieve the records however often is necessary. In fact putting up such a barrier actually helps them, as now other people looking for that data are inclined to just pay a surveillance company.

What's needed are regulations preventing companies from amassing and trading in personal information, regardless of how and where it is available. There still may be lone individuals who create their own repositories of records (ala free speech), but stomping out the commercial motive for surveillance would eliminate the sheer majority of the activity and preclude it from being a cornerstone of societal control.
>morons in court systems start using it to convict people

Those "morons" are also biased.

>businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing decisions

If businesses realize the AI is doing a bad job with hiring unqualified people they will not use it for hiring.
Why go through this trouble and risk forgetting and getting locked out when you can simply switch to a better app?