skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not about being capable enough to do the work, it is about having enough reputation and liability insurance to be liable for damages resulting from faulty work.

The city government most certainly does not want to shoulder most of it via their inspectors, so they share it with “licensed” electricians who have to put their assets, or the insurance company’s assets, on the line.
Strategies for Data Quality with Apache Spark
Lawsuits in disguise.
The QR code encodes the actual secret data for the TOTP, so backing up the QR code is sufficient.

Screenshot -> Print is one backup method.

Screenshot -> Encrypt -> Save to secure location is another method.
Downvotes are expressly allowed to express disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Not OP, but I probably fall at least somewhat into that category. Most people that feel strongly about their non-theism seem to do so in response to their direct or indirect experience with the religious. I grew up in a very Christian environment, and painfully coming to the realization that my methods for dealing with existential anxiety were based on lies made me extremely bitter.

Even now, after many years of becoming better adjusted and working on myself I'm still a bit salty about it, and I don't think it can be good for children to experience. I also get grossed out, for lack of a better term, at all the self congratulatory nonsense that goes on in religious communities. I have no problem with religious people, and have a number of lovely ones in my life, but if people start even lightly evangelizing at me my hackles go up quick.
> You think the question just accidentally picked tricky numbers? Or you think the reason that it picked them was just malice towards children?

I think it's probably just abysmal pedagogy. This should be pretty clear given that almost the entire class and even the teacher fell for the trick, which shows that it's a terrible way to teach something and even a terrible way to test if they know how to do the thing you're wanting them to learn. The teacher and many of the children probably did in fact know how how to do the calculation and solve the problem, and would have done so if the numbers weren't very deliberately chosen to invoke a hasty pattern-matching reaction.
Strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors
From my perspective, trying multiple things, testing them, and picking the ones which had the best predictive values seems exactly like the scientific process working as intended. ¾ of the models did not have this problem, after all. Remember, science isn’t the process of assuming you’re right but rather testing your ideas harshly and learning from the faults you discover. Given half a century of reliable predictions, I again argue that they have sufficient predictive value even if it makes science deniers uncomfortable to acknowledge their personal contributions have only been towards making the world worst.

Global cooling was never a mainstream position and the people hyping it since the mid-1970s have intentionally been lying to you.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...

Similarly, there was not a reversal of warming. Weather data and sources are noisy, and changing sensor artifacts introduce sampling biases, but the trend is clear and numerous follow up papers found that claim to be wishful thinking:

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/01/there...
They have unions. Unions are doing a terrible job of negotiating and/or keeping the prices low.
Thanks, I should have checked context and figured it was PHP. I met Rasmus in 2015 while in Taipei. We got on fine, two old C/Unix hackers. PHP has evolved a lot but I have to say some of its quirks make me slightly less ashamed of JS's quirks ;-).
Security, comfort, etc. there’s a reason many businesses habitually underpay - many don’t leave regardless of pay.
Start with your NIC driver. Most I've seen don't support frame sizes over 9000ish, which I assume reflects a hardware limitation.
PARC and SRI in the news? what is this, 1993? am I going to see a DECWRL announcement next?
Thanks, that's a kind offer! I think we don't have another move in us for a temporary display, but once Jon's kids are grown it'd be great to find someplace to donate it to permanently.

We actually did haul the rocket hundreds of miles to Maker Faire years ago:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ESRsJChacRbvpqZU7

Here it is taking on hydrazine:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1tcRasHpkVJUHq9s7

We had a line of kids waiting for "rides":

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gV9p6a8cVjWqeWgg9
#1 is Apple, #2 Microsoft, #4 Amazon (most of their profits are from AWS), #5 Berkshire, #6 Nvidia, #8 Tesla, #9 Johnson & Johnson, #10 Visa.

Of the top 10, only #3 Google and #7 Meta could be called "advertising agencies", and even then they do a lot more.
I like this approach a lot. I'll give it a try.
The iOS sandbox prevents stuff like that anyway.
The OpenSSH client has been part of the default install of the Pro version since the April 2018 Windows 10 update.
Reply:

1. Thank you.
2. Thanks for the information I will handle that.
3. Thank you for testing. I will handle that character. I currently store the actual headers as it is, and create a psudo name for the column. Will replace the `/` with a - when generating the pusdo column name.
Coming from Ruby: it is fast, and compiled, but still very easy to use.

Lacking fancy features and having types and structs is a bonus when it comes to reading other people's code.

When you come back to a program that is 5 years old there's very little bit-rot and it recompiles easily. In this regard, the tendency to have everything built in Go (avoiding external OS dependencies) is a plus.
Oh great, now I wonder what the mushrooms would suggest for getting rid of Google
That's a weak argument, as we (the West) sponsor many terrorist or oppressive regimes as long as it is in our economic or political interest. The US sponsored brutal and even genocidal regimes from Guatemala to Timor.

Talking about morality and "fighting terrorism and oppression" is laughable.
> and you cannot easily measure conversion

Easily, no. But you can, at least in theory. With enough data, you can essentially tell if a customer has seen your ads, plus when and where (and not just your online ads - billboards and dealerships could be identified by using the customer's car to track their location). If they buy your car, and you see that they viewed your ads, maybe they even clicked one or otherwise browsed your site at some point, you can get some data from that. With enough aggregate data, you can begin to see correlations between certain ad viewing behavior and certain purchases.

Do they actually do this? Probably not, due to incompetence. But they could and eventually will if they aren't already.
Just wanted to add my voice that I really like the newer 1Password stuff. I haven't had any issues I've seen people complaining about, and don't have any of the philosophical issues that a lot of others seem to have. If you're one of those people, you should be definitely just move to Bitwarden.
I wonder why a US appeals court is needed for that decision.

This should be obvious to any laymen who has heard that antitrust legislation exists.
This article gives a bit of context about Siri's history with SRI International: https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...
Urban sprawl and deforestation destroy natural carbon absorption reservoirs while removing natural sound buffers... Conversely, certain climate mitigation strategies such as creating green spaces in concrete jungles offer opportunities to muffle noise.

Yeah, we need to up our game on making better places and it needs to be a holistic approach.

Re the stuff about heart health and noise sensitivity:

Magnesium deficiency can cause noise sensitivity. Magnesium is also critical to heart function, specifically the ability to keep the beat.

Furthermore, noise causes physical vibrations much like the beat of the heart, which is something you can listen for in a patient.

Armies historically marched to the beat of a drum because you can feel the vibrations even if you can't really hear it over the din of war.

You can put a baby to sleep by calming yourself and then holding them in your arms. The beat of your heart will not only set the pace for theirs, it will lend their heart some of your energy, making it easier for them and helping them to relax.

Given the constructive ways vibrations can impact us, it should be no surprise that vibrations from noise can also negatively impact the heart.
You can store anything you want in it, as long as you are ok with seeing just the first 15 or so characters of the name you give it. Because the column that contains the contents of the vault is thin and non-resizable. Probably because they didn’t have telemetry so they didn’t know.
I’ve rarely seen Teams used as a group chat like Slack. Rather:

- Calls, online meetings, DMs

- An easy way to set up and manage shared folders in SharePoint - this makes my life so much easier because everyone in my company knows how not to rely on attachments any longer.

While I get Slack’s perspective, they and Teams serve different needs in my opinion.
> Unfortunately, in my country something like this is impossible for most people, simply because they don't have space and money to do anything.

Why is the country so unproductive?
The big problem is that, as far as I can tell, the status quo is too pervasive. I can't find statistics, but I strongly suspect it's far fewer than 30% of of houses listed for sale which are in places that do not require lawns.

What I was able to find:

> Most zoning codes require lawns, and many don’t allow much deviation from grass.

Are you against people changing laws? Why is moving from where you live the default option, rather than changing the rules?
The clear best option would be to get rid of the apprenticeship system - test for what they actually care about, greatly shorten the working experience period (engineers have to do 3-6mo on an education). If it was possible to get a sparky license in 3-6 months I’d probably do it!
I'm on iOS and I'm able to screenshot the QR code with version 3.4.0 of the app. Maybe the screenshot lockdown is limited to Android?

In any case, if you're trying to create a backup there are other avenues of capturing the QR code - offline digital camera is probably the most secure way of doing so.
At one of my first jobs I negotiated two raises into less hours (i.e. taking less hours instead of more money), so going from 40 hours/week to 36 hours/week and then 32 hours/week for the same salary.

For me the change from 40 to 36 was more significant, in that that was enough to schedule all my errands on the one afternoon per week I was off, ensuring that my weekend was always a real weekend with time to relax and hang out with friends.

Even stuff where your employer should just give you time off for (e.g. going to the dentist and stuff like that), is just less hassle if you can just schedule that in your errand day/afternoon.
It’s really sad that money always wins and the future of computing is a 30% tax from Silicon Valley behemoths. Congrats everyone we did it.
I don't think that this is a "well known term of art" - IMHO in all the articles of last year and earlier (so before the trademark application and chatGPT proliferation) when I've seen "GPT" used it was always in reference to one of the specific OpenAI models, not to something else.
I broadly think you are right, but there's an added layer of complexity here: UK company naming law. You can't even use words like "British" or "Royal" in your company name without meeting various conditions, so using anyone else's trademark is definitely out (and it's very easy for said holder to object without being subject to having their use of the trademark interrogated).
> If $240k were enough to sway him to do something he thought was wrong, Bitcoin would've been destroyed already.

How could fiatjaf destroy Bitcoin if he wanted to? He is not even a contributor in Bitcoin Core.
Now imagine trying to explain this to anyone outside of the tech industry. I imagine only a small percentage of software engineers and IT folks in general would be able to accomplish what you did. How easy it is to accidentally fuck yourself over with app-based 2FA is one reason I've been hesitant to recommend it to my non tech savvy friends and family. While SMS 2FA is a lot less secure, it's at least pretty much idiot-proof.
Content-based ads are relevant by definition.

Alternatively, imagine this: you could opt-in to targeted ads if you really like them. (I find it hard to wrap my head around this as a person who avoids almost all ads, but you do you.)
a gift from human for machines to communicate while hunting us
I'm just reflecting on what I've heard here so far.

I didn't made up my mind, as for that I would need to study the primary sources myself. Talk is cheap. Even here on HN.

But I start to get a kind of picture. And it doesn't look pretty to be honest. That's kind of discouraging and sad.

That's not my fault. I'm just trying to understand what people here are saying.
Form my experience with Logitech mouses, dongle has always been way better that bluetooth. I noticed my phone was the most responsible device of all the mess. If I put it far away from my devices, it's better.
IP addresses are used for that all the time...
Steam on Linux already uses LD_PRELOAD under-the-hood to load the overlay. Valve signs the overlay SO files, so they could be making an exception for Valve-signed-preloads in VAC, but it's also possible that VAC does something else to check for suspicious libraries loaded in.
> Even if they do, it’ll take many years to manufacture enough humanoid robots to have a major impact on the labor market. And in the short-to-medium term, we’d get a lot of new jobs in the robotics sector.

I'm sorry, this is in response to the concept of us being able to make machines that can act physically like humans right? That would rather suggest that they could take on the manual robotics tasks of constructing large numbers of robots.

Manufacturing processes can already be significantly automated, and we are talking here about quite possibly the most valuable thing to have ever been created - the economic machine should be focusing an absurd amount of capital to get them out as quickly as possible.
Well, hopefully you created a backup by storing a copy of the QR code somewhere :)
Option A only exists for a select few STEM degrees. Otherwise, that solid paycheck doesn't really exist for a 4 year degree.

Option B means you're getting paid while learning instead of shelling out $50k+ for a 4 year degree.

"Shitty condtions" is subjective. A lot of people would call staring at a screen in a cube, under harsh fluorescent lights while breathing in your coworkers farts and getting obese from zero movement shitty.

Also, you're severely underestimating what kinda money a tradesman can bring in. It's on par/better than a lot of 4 year degree holders without the debt part.
Ask HN: Would a personalized marketplace powered by AI work?
For example,

If you're looking for specific pants but you can't find any online, you can prompt the AI to generate the pants that you want. You could give it the specifications, how you want it to look, etc., and it'll generate a visual of it.

Once generated, it matches the generated idea with someone that can actually create your idea (fashion designer). You receive the exact thing you're looking for, and the person gets compensated.

Is this viable?
In some ways I feel like the trust between tech workers and companies started to break down when engineers for the past few years have been jumping ship every year or so to maximize TC.
nope, no kexts
Ask HN: My friend died, FB account hacked being used to scam, help?
My friend went missing last week, and we found out that she died this weekend.

Someone hacked her facebook account a few months ago and she lost control of it. Now they are using it to post scam videos (deepfakes?) trying to extort money.

Saying she was alive, sending her $$$, etc. Facebook has been unhelpful.

It's really a bummer for the family right now to also deal with this, so we are trying to help.

Can someone help?
They succeeded in reminding people like me that Snapchat exists. I'd call that a massive success that an option like that would have prevented.
A union would not be necessary if they already had any sort of corporate democracy. If such a thing does not exist the workers there will find other means to make their voices heard.
Speaking as one who used to identify in that way: I was raised adjacent to militant Christians -- they were in my family, in my neighborhood, in the non-religious third-place communities I belonged to. I felt the need to fight in the war that they brought to my doorstep.
It would not work. Not enough people would use it, for myriad reasons.

The real answer is privacy by default. Opt-in for invasive harvesting. The science of design is well enough known that we could even legislate against dark patterns if we wanted to.
Wax has fun uses.
> thin and non-resizable

I just checked and this works fine on macOS
Yes. I dealt with them a lot in my aerospace days.

Boyer and Moore used to work there. I used their theorem prover for early proof of correctness work.
The University of California is using graduating high school as a proxy for race
They're focusing of the enterprise market. Those users are now what matters, because that's where the money is. Individual and family customers will still get their tier of product, but ain't no company-wide business decisions gonna be catered to their whims.

And particularly with standalone perpetual licences, which I'm still clinging on to. Sync via DropBox, share a vault with family, and another one with my small team at work. It's perfect, for me. But it just doesn't work for 1Password, financially. No amount of getting upset or whiny will change that. Time to get over it.
Thanks for the Joanna Stern story, didn't know that.

But if an attacker has your iPhone with passcode they surely get access to your Google Authenticator or Auth app. How "not storing TOTP keys in iCloud" way is better in this case?
Right, but it's hard to care to the same level when you're doing the work for your own use vs caring enough to do a job for someone else you may or may not know or like. Caring to do a good job for the sake of doing a good job is so not a common thing any more. Also, having the time to care and do everything to that precision for a single one-off type of job vs doing it every day is a whole other level of discipline.
What I Learned Building Whist
How dare they, the arrogant fools, talk to each other

/s
If you weren't sentient, you couldn't believe or disbelieve anything. Or perform any other mental action. Read Descartes.
Thousands of price tags at my local grocery stores use color eink screens like this. Not sure how colourful they are but they at least have red.

It’s a neat idea. To be able to remotely set all tags once they’ve been properly localized.
Aka a canal? Or is there some distinction being made?
While intertwined, History and Religion are two different concepts. Of course one can differentiate between them.
Projects like this make life magic for little kids.

I don't have the time/skill/patience for something of this scale, but I love doing little projects that make life magic for other people.

So far I have created multiple kids gaming tables.

I made a lego play table that had storage drawers underneath and stuck big baseboards on the top.

I made quite a few kids playtables using model railroad stuff like grass mats, trees, houses, roads and given them to my boy or to the kids of friends.

I've converted old radios into custom music players for friends birthdays including birthday greetings on various "radio channels".

I converted an old rotary phone into a present for mu mum where you dial a number and hear people tell you their birthday greeting.

I made an alien adventure game in the park for my 8 year old boys birthday party with a story and sound effects and treasures to find.

I created a beach adventure for my boy when he was 6 years old in which he dug up a model sailing ship in the sand which contained a treasure map and a key leading to a little wooden chest wrapped in chains and padlocked and full of costume jewellery and trinkets.

My boy is now 14 years old and the current project is to utilise his interest in robotics to convert toys to robots with the objective of raising his self esteem and making him believe he can do amazing things, give him something to show his friends because he did most of the work.

The older I get, the more I find that this is in fact all I really want to do - be a modern day Gepetto.

It doesn't take much to create magic for other people.
My first job out of undergrad was doing CAD stuff making like $12/hour and I had an office. I don't remember if it had a door that shut, but it definitely had 4 real walls. I didn't know it then, but that was the best work environment I've ever had. That was about 20 years ago.
>I tried earplugs but somehow my sleep is less restful with them in.

Earplugs also tend to cause noise when you move your jaw, or even just slightly move your head.

I use Peltor X4A noise reduction earmuffs, with only the top of the head on the cushion when I'm on the side, that's the best I could find (its very dense foam makes it much better than a lot of earmuffs, also it's passive so no need for batteries).

You can also combine earmuffs with earplugs, it improves the reduction a little bit (can't do magic with some of the sound going through the body anyway), but you shouldn't need it unless your place is very noisy.

Peltor X5A is a bit better but much larger, so with it it's best to lay on the back.

With such good protection you might not ear your alarm clock, so instead you might want to use vibrate phone alarm with the phone in your pocket.
No one wants to say the unions but the answer is the unions. Unions reward seniority and not much else. You have to pay your dues!
On the other hand, technical capabilities are highly likely to be used against elites and former elites; there often are situations where a country's police or intelligence communities are opposed to some political parties, so if there are backdoors in everyone's (including politicians) communications, they should rightly fear that their phones will be abused by their political opponents.
“If only there was a way to somehow detect all this spam and garbage on out platform” - Amazon’s tenured principal engineers with 500k salaries, probably.

“Try banning items where every review is 5 stars and every reviewer has a middle name for some reason.” - me to the rescue.
The reason it is called the Islamic golden age is because of the Islamic empire that connected the innovations of the east to the west. Muslims themselves didn't directly have any contributions other than their philosophy and attitude unleashed from a reformed Arabian expansionism. The places they touched and the bridges they made changed everyone and all of history.

The Renaissance of Europe is directly a result of the Islamic golden age. The vikings who conquered Italy sought to learn both Sicilian Arabic, and Italian causing a bridge between Europe and the middle east of North Africa.
I found the post well written and informative. Though I am clueless about OCaml it feels as this would be useful for anybody working on a new server implementation in any language ecosystem as it highlights what needs to be done and potential bottlenecks.

As for the activitypub spec and the currently popular implementations it doesnt take long exposure to the fediverse to realise there are some rough edges and historical accidents (e.g mastodon being actually the defacto interpretation of the standard). Imho now that there is substantial more mindshare devoted to decentralized social it would be opportune to revisit these things and if needed revise before they get backed in.