skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anything coming directly from a customer is probably refutable. For example, the incentives I normally see are on these little cards they include with the product encouraging reviews in exchange for a gift card or something similar. What's to stop a competitor from falsely reporting it using a fake incentive card they created?

Maybe the two of you have different definitions of "irrefutable." If I say, "They ship packages with cards in them that offer a gift card in exchange for a five-start reviews," I would personally call the presence of such a gift card offer, irrefutable proof.

True, my testimony alone is not irrefutable proof, but let's compare to a science paper. It says they have proved that light's path can be bent by gravity. Well, science papers have included outright frauds before, so the paper in and of itself is not "irrefutable proof," but the claims within it can be refuted by attempting to replicate the experiment.

And so it is with the gift-card-offers. A single report or tens of thousands of reports are not irrefutable proof, but they explain how to replicate the result, and if Amazon choose to ignore these reports rather than attempt to replicate what they describe, that is on Amazon.

Ultimately, everything a customer reports can be faked. Businesses that ignore customer complaints because they might be faked, and do so when it "happens to" make them money to ignore customer reports... Are not suffering from being unable to prove that the reports are correct.

They are suffering from making too much money to want to know whether they are complicit in fraudulent behavious on the part of their partners.

Yes it is work to find out if the customer is describing an irrefutable way of discovering whether the customer is telling the truth. It is not the Universe's responsibility to make cracking down on fraud easy: It is Amazon's responsibility to organize their business around not making easy money at the expense of their customers, and if cracking down on fraud is too expensive, it is on Amazon to change their business model.

"It's too much work to crack down on fraud" ought to be rejected as an unacceptable thing to say about any business.
The only reason we're talking about this is that 1Password wrote a blog post about it. They're not dumb, they know that this is the reaction they can expect from a blog post about how they're doing telemetry. They compete with a raft of products that not only use telemetry, but do it sneakily and with SAAS vendors that add attack surface to their products. But nobody talks about telemetry in those products, because those vendors don't want to have the conversation.
You should always use memory fences on Intel when using atomics imo
The Stop CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk
The bill is quite similar to the EARN-IT act.
This is your experience and is valid. But I would think about something. Those people left through their personal choice.

Many workplace relationships are like this. I met some great people at work. They left, or I left, and I never spoke to them again. Work brought us together, but it was just work. After one of us would leave, we chose to spend our times with other people we'd rather spend time with. I've had maybe a handful of friends actually be friends when work changed and we were no longer on that same team. It's not personal, it's just life.

My dad was a workaholic and never cultivated his life outside of work. When he finally retired he realized he didn't have any real friendships aside from a few. I make sure I do things outside of my occupation for this very reason.
Yeah but the other Kia mentioned in this article is slow AF.
it's no longer a native app
They are notorious for this and you are not the only. Not that others are far better but MS absolutely is the worst at this. Don't even get me started on their "Windows defender" flagging websites as dangerous.
They do separate the UI application from the kernel that manages access to the data. I guess the biggest risk would be that you click reveal, which has the kernel expose a password to the UI, and then the UI phones home with its entire raw contents.
Ah, my smarter friend figured it out.

Hint: what is eatable?
Those in power will be allowed to use encryption due to "state security" or something stupid like that. Only us plebeians will be forced to reveal our dirty laundry to the world.
I'd recommend obfuscating the codes in the event that you lose your wallet. You don't want a bad actor to find it and realise they can gain control of your account though they'd need to figure out your email first.
This is what saddens me. These dropship sellers don’t even buy one item that they are selling to test, try out, take pictures, etc. they just use the alibaba pics and let it rip. It’s all so tiresome at this point
You can also buy a few cheap RFID stickers that can be overwritten from your phone. The cheapest stores like a kilobyte or so, which is plenty for quite a few codes.

You can glue them in inconspicuous "boring" places in plain sight, like under a mousepad or behind a movie poster hung on the wall.

Great way to hide secrets in your home without owning a traditional safe (which just screams "steal me! I'm the valuable thing in the room!" anyway.)
I'm not a computer scientist, but I am aware Interesting doesn't mean interesting to humans.

> And I'm talking about the decider

EDIT: If by decider you mean program tested for having property P, that's a particular case and not applicable in general, ergo non-important (a program that's a NOP can be shown to leak no memory as well).

So the property P you are testing always returns true? Then it's not interesting per your definition. Leaking memory however is interesting.
Yep. For me work is work and friends are independent of that. In 30+ years I have never had a friendship at work that exended to doing stuff outside of work. There were people at work who I was friendly/sociable with, of course, but at 5:00 we went all went home to our separate lives.
Decision: https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/04/21-16...
> I tend to think that the one click flow serves users and respects their time more, even if it comes at the cost of having confusion about the difference between "Confirm my choices" and "Reject all".

That's a fair tradeoff. "Reject all" should be one-click imho.
> it's too hard for the average consumer

oh yeah, hard agree with this
Heaven forbid they have even one flat growth year.
If there’s a way to ensure I get paid, I’m willing to wager a lot of money that US unemployment will be less than 40% in Dec 2030.
Nice list. Did you actually look at those sites?

Your first example implies "The New York Times" uses Tailwind. Besides that being hilarious, you click the link and immediately see there is a big subheading "Events"

I have never heard of NYT "Events", so I checked out their page:

https://www.nytimes.com/events

> Do you believe that [The New York Times Events doesn't] have teams with "design chops"?

Yes, yes I do.

Not really going to bother with the rest, you're joking if you think these top corps meaningfully rely on this 2-year-old CSS framework. I exactly believe that you're linking me to things thrown together quickly by a resource-strapped team, the "Events" example merely affirmed it

Edit: I sort of bothered

* GitHub Next - splash page

* Shopify - marketing page

* Google IO - marketing page

* Microsoft .NET - marketing page

* Netflix Global Top 10 - marketing page

* New York Times Events - extremely basic

* OpenAI - Attention grabber, but... the homepage didn't even use full width of nor center content in my 1440p display. Not exactly a UI-driven success

* Mashable, The Verge - Pretty bad websites.

This is my point. People use Tailwind to slap together something good looking and simple. They don't use it to build applications because you make your own design system for applications.
I like to build a cross matrix. A row of new problems to solve and/or new applications, and a column of things I enjoy and/or skills I already have. Then, I find intersections that make sense to try.
It is hard to modify photos without ruining them. If someone’s data accidentally gets added to your site, why not just delete it?
Windows should clone one particular release of OS X: Snow Leopard.

It was marketed as a "Zero New Features" update [0]. Only performance, reliability and back-end upgrades (and it was a packed release for sure that completed the 64 bit transition).

EDIT: Anyone who agrees, upvote this comment! Who knows maybe someone in Redmond will see it! You never know!

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/26/apple-work-looking-back-at-wh...
Seriously.

The Supercharging network is the most under-appreciated, under-advertised feature of a Tesla.

3rd party charging stations are usually only 2-4 stalls. Tesla stations are usually 8-16, with a couple monster stations on I-5 having 50+.

> All the stalls always work.

I wouldn't go quite that far. I have been to a station that had a dead charger. But that's been once. And Tesla from what I've heard, Tesla is usually pretty quick about getting repairs done.
The same cheap tactics are used over and over in media. When are people gonna see this type of cheap pandering for what is?
Auto-hide with no animation is the only way to not waste screen space, the rest just move the waste around.
Doesn't that depend on the owners? It could be zero years, could be infinity.
The brand and the value are interlinked for these luxury retailers. Like part of the value of having a Louis Vuitton bag is the fact that people see me with a Louis Vuitton bag.

(The same is actually true of an iPhone as well but there are more stats and specs around it)
And he surely knows what he is talking about.
That is not the default behavior for the AI. It's pinned at the top of your chats. Nothing moves it down, and at least on my phone, you can't get rid of it.
Apple wins appeal in App Store legal battle with Epic Games
> The simplest route is to just stop mowing and let whatever comes up after a few years stay there.

Don't do this. It's not clever - it's just lazy. If you don't want a lawn that's fine. But just neglecting it will result in something awful and everyone will hate it. Just letting everything grow to seed so that it spreads everywhere is also kind of rude. Be a good neighbor. Don't attract mosquitoes or ticks, etc.

Be thoughtful about it and think about how you want your yard to look. If your idea results in no maintenance then it's not a good idea. Even a meadow look or something more natural will require time and energy to maintain. Probably more than cutting a lawn.

> it's dramatically less work as you only need touch the thing a maximum of once a year

No, it's not. What you have is something that looks awful. I'm glad my town will come and chop your lawn down once it hits 10".

If you live in a rural area then do as you please. But if you have neighbors, this is a really bad thing to do.
Immersion in English is easy because there's so much quality content on the internet. It's often THE motivation to learn the language.

I'm learning German and there's a surprising lack of quality media. I don't want to throw shade on contemporary German culture, but it's just a very different level from the English-speaking world. My native language is Czech - which has a small cultural sphere - yet somehow the German-speaking cultural sphere does seem more similar in size to the Czech-speaking one than to the English-speaking one.
You can't just point backward on an S-curve and say "this time, there won't be diminishing returns"
There was no installation. Please stop repeating IRI's propaganda line. Iranian society was divided between nationalists, fundamentalists, and communists.

The "Ayatollah's" in fact started the mess by assassinating the previous prime minister (who is never discussed) who was also "democratically elected". This was not the first Islamist terror in Iran. Again this is before the counter-coup of '53. (Yes, the first coup detat was by the famous "democratically elected PM", Mr. Mossadeqh.)

Iran had a constitution that precisely defined the roles of the Majlis (parliament) and the monarch. This monarch was sworn in as king in the Majlis way before '53. Kindly explain how he was "installed" in '53 by the CIA.

The "Islamic Republic" is a blight in the history of Iran and Islam. Their little project of creating the Islamist Vatican is an abomination in Islam. Their ridiculous "Supreme Leader" is another abomination, both for Iran and again for Islam. Islam is the religion of deliberation of assemblies and no man is "supreme" amongst the Muslims.
Who needs exit() when you have kill().
2023 Goldman environmental prize winners include Texas Gulf coast defender
This is a common misunderstanding but just because you use cmpxchgs and other similar instructions has nothing to do with being lockfree. Lockfree really means *dead*lock free since it guarantees that some thread always makes progress. This is far more difficult than it sounds since you can't assume that some particular thread (like the one holding a lock) is ever scheduled. Some models relax this a bit though and do assume a thread requesting to execute will eventually execute in which case systems with mutexes can be lockfree.
The Iranian regime is absolutely brutal at repressing revolt, the revolts are also violent but of course nothing can match a state apparatus that has to shut the country to the outside world to hide the massacre; the country has been in a state of civil unrest for the better part of the past 6 years and I count the Wikipedia estimates at some 4000 dead from the response of state actors.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing, and it can be pretty annoying when people use ChatGPT to generate those long-winded replies that don't actually add much value. But on the flip side, I've seen cases where AI-generated content can actually be super helpful.

I guess it's all about how people choose to use it. It's up to us to encourage responsible use and make sure we don't let AI-generated content overshadow genuine, thoughtful discussion. Who knows, maybe as the tech gets better, we'll see AI tools that can generate more concise and meaningful responses. Fingers crossed!

(this comment was generated by chatGPT)
Ah, you were segueing further from the 3.5mm jack than I thought.

If there was a wired digital standard as ubiquitous or at least as nearly as, perhaps people would be wanting that instead.

The 3.5mm jack debate on phones is not about digital/analogue, it is about what people know, understand, _already have_ or can easily afford/access. They don't specifically want analogue, like people buying vinyl, they want the port that common head gear plugs into, for the reasons I and others have mentioned, and that port being analogue is just a coincidence of its history.
Ah, I see, sorry for missing your point. In the paper they injected particles of size "9.55 µm, 1.14 µm, 0.293 µm", and it looks like a red blood cell is 8um. So a purely mechanical filter that got red blood cells would retain the largest of those particles but potentially not the rest. But plasmapheresis uses a combination of centrifugal separation and filters so may be more or less effective than that depending on the properties of the cells and plastics.
How does hybrid fix anything? Seniors at home and juniors in the office? 1 day/week everyone at the office (so “no-hire” to anyone who doesn’t live in the city)?
Google's preference of their weird, bespoke authenticator over TOTP is also very annoying to anyone who would rather not. (it is required to add any additional authenticators, and the default authenticator)
I think AI will cause mass unemployment -- for whichever companies lay off staff after their AI pivot fails to materialise significant new revenue.

Which is not to say AI is going away, rather, every Silicon Valley tech company that is chasing this holy grail of miraculous untapped revenue are going to burn whatever cash/stock price they have left in the process...

(Dropbox and Meta feel particluarly at risk.)
It should be straightforward to make a little LD_PRELOAD shim to implement the new operator new on top of old overloads and thus restore proper functioning.

It would be a gross kludge, though.
Learning about both sides of the transaction is valuable info, thanks! I remember this article from way back. I didn't remember that he recommended selling through a broker. I would like to look into his recommend broker some more.

Cashflow, but since most websites have such a high profit I assumed that's pretty close to their net income. Will have to dig in to find out more. I am just getting started so I wasn't sure what to look for.
Only one word needed: Electron
I would say server side logging is one of the many downsides to SaaS based products and makes a great argument for running things locally. Any additional tracking of users exacerbates the problem.
“Because I’m a high profile journalist who will always be able to find work writing about AI”
Watch your one-off video with mpv+yt-dlp.
The main purpose of a home "safe" is fire protection. If my house burns down, the contents of my safe should be fine. Obviously a sufficiently motivated adversary can get in. But that (usually) isn't something I am worried about. Most internet hackers do not physically break into houses and open safes.
Ask HN: Is there an open-source HN forum clone?
Hey HN!

I am looking for an exact HN clone to spin up a community site. Is there such a thing? If not, what's the best alternative?

Thanks!
First of all, I believe this should be called a canal, since rivers are naturally formed and canals built.

> Spanning a length of 114 kilometers,

Even the Mittelland Canal in Germany is 326km[0], so how it it the largest 'manmade river' in the world?

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelland_Canal
Where is it missing support?

edit: I want to reiterate that these are still TOTP codes and not WebAuth/FIDO2.
Okay? I mean, I have the discipline to admit I need to do that and the discipline to actually do it.

I'm okay with cheating if it reduces bugs.
Whoever makes an economical prediction more than 6 months into the future is BSing.

I can build for you an analysis that forecasts <1% unemployment due to the huge growth of new companies that will need sales reps.
I'm somewhere around 30~50* wpm with maybe 80% accuracy and I max out around 700 words per hour (12 wpm) when writing fiction.

I've never had an issue participating online, including IRC.

*: Not for lack of trying. My brain has trouble doing language operations in real time. I'm just grateful I can touch type!
Even if AI has huge impacts on the world, and does a lot of great things, that in no way negates my point.

Right now, almost nobody have an interest in AI chat bots. Even fewer want to have it in SnapChat. And honestly I really don't want an AI bot for customer service, especially at the current stage of tech dev, because the AI bots are completely unreliable and hallucinate and lie regularly. (Which is to say that I heartily doubt your assertion that current AI tech would enable customer service bots that are useful. They produce wonderful prose, but semantics and action are not there, and we don't have training datasets yet to enforce accuracy in prose or action)

So let's say they become useful, great. But today they are still a VR headset, something that's fun to experience for a bit, but which I don't want to be part of my daily experience. It's a novelty, not a useful tool, for nearly everyone out there today.

Make it useful, attractive to most people, and we are in a different regime, and forcing features like this on all your users might be seen as a positive rather than a negative.
Check out the gossip client [0]. They take a unique stab at dealing with relay discovery. NIP-65 [1] also attempts to deal with this. Hopefully clients will start implementing this shortly.

[0] https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md
I'm not sure using a dated synonym that was only popular in British English is better.
The legal offices employ humans, Bighand provides tools to enable said work. If there was no transcription happening, dictation tools would not be selling for tens of millions per year
Does that mean one can use adb to backup Google Authenticator's data as well? Last time I tried, the app data was explicitly marked as excluded in backups. I started saving the secrets somewhere else because otherwise, I wouldn't be able to have _any_ backup.
I think you nailed it. These products are about feeling good and honestly I think they do more for humanity than people who sell guns or ads or coal.

There are of course good points above in that the iPhone has significantly more functional utility over replacement than a luxury handbag or luxury spirits (I would argue that some of LVMH's cosmetics products such as those from Sephora or Fenty actually do provide differentiated utility).

Another side of this is that these luxury retail companies are not run by a bunch of silly, unsophisticated people. They have absolutely savage businesspeople at the helm, and they run very sophisticated logistics in addition to the fluffier branding (which I'd argue isn't even fluffy, they are literally the best in the world).
Hey, our grandparents wrote FORTRAN 66 code without any dynamic memory management (not even the stack) and landed on the Moon.
Just getting started and looking to hear from other people's experiences. I would like to have this finalized by a lawyer, maybe that's not the right person. It seems that going through a broker might be a good first step.
It’s harder because you (the one asking for help) first need to articulate your problem in a way that is understandable via text. So, I would say that’s an advantage for everyone: think first, then ask.

Usually, in the office is: poke first, then ask, then realize you actually didn’t even read the error message in the display.
I don’t think the problem with GDPR is that it is lacking rules.
is 8k revenue or profit ? If profit, 250K is not a stretch considering it is just over 2.5x the profits. Some may argue that 2.5 of revenue is also not a bad thing but usually for revenue under 500K, I don't consider multiples of revenue as it is too small and need to focus on profit.

It is par for the course if everything else checks out. If anything, it is at the higher end of multiples for a business of this size.

THe question you should be asking is if this is a business you can take over and run and more importantly, grow further. How solid are the existing customers ? What is the churn rate ? What is the current growth rate ? What do you know about Social Media Management ?

Also, forget about "Passively Managed business". There is no such thing especially in early days. Even if you are buying an existing business, you have to run it actively no matter how passively managed it was because for you, it is a new thing and like a job the first 2-3 years. Don't fall in that trap thinking it will run itself. It won't.

Source: Bootstrapped business owner for 8+ years and counting. If it matters in this context, I did buy it as a side project but built into a proper company.
I genuinely feel that chatGPT has been neutered. It used to be much better at writing like a human given the right prompt.

Now I can't get it to write like one at all.

Which makes me wonder what they're using the non-neutered chatGPT for...
yeah that seems normal. seems buggy, like you said! thanks for testing what we could test this way.
If you were to watch battlefield footage from Ukrainian POV, you would often hear Ukrainian soldiers speaking in Russian with each other. Yeah, good luck with shedding 'language of the oppressor'.