skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian Government's national website for its citizens to interact with gov services uses SMS based 2FA, and doesn't appear to support any other type. :/
How is double descent a good counterpoint to the claim?
I also decided against yubikey and for Password manager + 2FA (TOTP), for this reason.
Passkey can also use biometrics, if supported by the OS/browser.
This is very useful for running containers in lightweight untrusted environments.

I personally use this setup for my GitLab CI runners, using a mix of podman and buildah to build containers. I can't 100% trust the container build script, so avoiding having to expose a Docker socket to that untrusted code is a critical safety layer.
An ancient site that started with that idea: https://www.csszengarden.com/
From the article:

> “Certain costs associated with corporate initiatives supporting consumer-facing activities, previously reflected in unallocated corporate costs, are now allocated to Google Services; and centrally-managed shared research and development activities, including our shared developer tools, are now allocated based on an updated measure of the relative benefit derived from the services,” Alphabet said in a filing.

> “As a result of these changes, more of the previously unallocated corporate costs are allocated to our segments, and more of certain previously allocated costs are allocated to our consumer-facing Google Services products and less to Google Cloud enterprise products.”

I guess the new tax rule on accounting of software developer salaries as amortized cost over 5 yrs is expected to positively impact profitability. Looks like they used this to also reallocate some central costs to various business units.
I asked ChatGPT to write me some code to create a running playlist in Spotify
>There's nothing unachievable about 1.5C
>It would require sacrifices and global cooperation

Is IS unachievable. You just said right here exactly why it's unachievable: "global cooperation" is pure fantasy.
Good wikipedia list, thanks.

So, moon landings where the craft suddenly and unexpectedly lost comms in the seconds or minutes immediately prior to contact with the surface:

Government: 1 of 25 (4%)
Commercial: 3 of 3 (100%)

I'm saying it's odd, weird, and deserves investigating specifically from the angle of why commercial has this happen, but not government.

I'm saying this because it is odd.

I've not once mentioned conspiracy - though others seem ready to jump to that, probably as a subtle ad hominem instead of engaging with the discussion. Thank you for engaging, it's an interesting topic.
How many times have you just deleted the build folder to fix things?

I use bash for my personal projects now. Thankfully I need none of the advanced features gradle provides/inflicts upon you.
The weakest link in security system will always be the humans expected to keep them secure
The odd number sums follow from the fact about the even numbers.
Using the Nostr social network via the iris.to web client
A simple HTTP web server to serve directory
webdir is a simple Rust program that serves directory files in a HTTP web server. It's designed to be similar to Python's built-in http.server module.

To start the server, run the following command:

webdir
Internet Culture Turning Points: What We Can Learn from the Past
1/3 of those million were paying customers tho.
The general complaint is that Git's UI requires you to understand how it works internally to be able to use it (properly).

IMHO Git is fine, and forcing the complexity on the user is not a big deal as Git is simple enough... as long as you forget that submodules ever existed. Git's approach really shows it's problems when you use submodules:

- Want to clone a repo with submodules? Gotta know beforehand to use git clone --recursive, or remember to use git submodule update --init --recursive after cloning.

- Want to pull? Now you have to use git pull --recurse-submodules instead of git pull.

- Want to checkout a branch? Now you have to remember to do git submodule update --recursive after checking it out.

Etcetera. Instead of being handled transparently by Git like they should be now every time you do something in Git you have to remember to do something else to babysit the submodules.

It's complicated to the point that a lot of people come up with their own alternative instead of using submodules (git subtree, git subrepo, etc)
They are probably going back to torrenting and similar.
When disney was slow to rollout in some countries my friends did not want to wait for Mandalorian to drop with Disney plus over there in Europe. They just downloaded it for free and did not even need to sign up for disney when it came one year later.

If the streaming companies start to provide subpar and cumbersome service and charge hundreds of dollars for it per year I can see people going back to proven and free ways that were very popular 15-20 years ago
I think that this question is being posed from the perspective of a civilian.
Not really that surprising is it? I'm waiting for the day they send me the inevitable notice to pay more, aka the day I cancel Netflix.

They could get away with this if their offering was substantially better than the competitors but thse days it's not. Pumping out complete crap like 'The Floor is Lava' and the 9 millionth cake contest isn't what built their massive customer base. These days when a new hyped show comes up its often not even worth watching until you know for sure it's not already been axed, having left the show on a cliffhanger.
> You can also approximate pi as 22/7

Except in Indiana, where the legal value of pi is 3.2 by mandate.
So they lost 300k users and also lost 700k promoters of the service. At the cost of scaled server costs?
> The move was linked to a fall in users of more than a million, two thirds of whom were using someone else’s password

> Subscription cancellations in the first quarter tripled compared to the previous period, according to Kantar’s research. Of all remaining Netflix subscribers in Spain, one-tenth said they planned to unsubscribe in the second quarter.

So they lost 300,000 paying users whom they think will come back, but 10% of existing users plan on leaving despite Netflix investing in Spanish content.

I think the issue is that people who are paying for an account they are sharing are likely to keep the account active so their family members can continue watching, even if they are also using a competitor. When the family are cut off, they cancel.
>I'm not saying it's not an unprecedented disaster. It certainly is. The country I'm from (the Netherlands) might mostly disappear. But it's not an apocalypse. There will still be places where people can live.

The Netherlands will be fine if they just dam up the North Sea. The main problems with this are 1) the English Channel is a huge trade route and damming it (without a way of passing ships through) would destroy the EU economy, and 2) Russia would be very hostile to anything that restricts their access to the ocean from the Baltic.
F1TV in Germany was great, too. Until they shafted Germany because someone put money on the table. That’s what I mean.
“Enlightenment” Explained and Demystified
A fresh point of view on how humans precieve reality.
Mailvelope a browser add-on to securely encrypt emails using webmail providers
It's because we live inside a spiral galaxy that's transitioning into a new galaxy type so we see through a spiral
On my last visit to the States I bought some Ikea furniture (Galant desk, a chair, a bed etc) and after 1.5 months tried to sell all that. Used furniture store turned me down. Craiglist banned my account for reasons unknown. Goodwill refused to send a truck to collect items for free. As a last resort, I arranged the items nicely in the garbage room in hope someone picks them up, but the garbage room manager sternly requested I break them up and put into garbage bins. Americans are too rich and wasteful.
In communities that have a gate, my guess is that those requirements would mostly be re-instated within the year. In communities that have a sign with a community name on it [but no gate], I'd guess that around half of them would come back within a year.
You can get an ipad and hang the display up as a wall clock app, for cheaper
> If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball ... It wasn’t until I joined Mux that I found out how much people love soccer…

This is a pretty terrible, sheltered introduction. He didn't realise that American sports aren't the most popular sports outside of America? He feels the need to tell us that in the intro? Did he not do any research before starting his job? Did no one interviewing him pick up on this?

Also note that the detection labels mention "field" but not "pitch" even though a football playing area is by definition called a football pitch. More American-centricity that will ultimately harm them (not that I consider that to be a bad thing in this case).
> imperceptible

isn't that sort of cheating, when it comes to math?

It's "almost" the thing just not the thing
It's sort of clicked for me.

I've managed to make something that's actually makes Gradle seem pretty impressive, I think mostly by accident. I recently refactored Marginalia's code base to a modular arrangement, and to my surprise Gradle actually does an extremely good job at dealing with this. It actually looks like a competent tool for the job. This is a great surprise for anyone who has worked with Gradle before.

Once I got it all set up, each sub module has a fairly clean gradle file that is low in boiler plate and mostly just specifies dependencies and build artifacts. I can specify versions for the entire codebase in a single file, dependency management is very straight forward and it's stupidly fast do incremental re-builds. There are cases where I can not only re-compile but it will also in some circumstances run the pertinent tests all in less than a second.

That said, to be honest it's still very confusing and I still don't understand how the hell Groovy works with it's looks-declarative-but-really-isn't code style.

Although this is the first time I think I've begun to glimpse why Gradle exists other than to torment developers with API incompatibilities upon each (mandatory) upgrade to keep it working with the newest JVM. It's the first time I've felt the tool brought some sort of value to the code base.

e.g.

https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...

https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
You have probably one of the best landing pages I have seen in a long time for a new product. There's no BS, in 10 seconds I can understand what the idea is about. Well done!
They are just statistical algorithms. Making good use of them requires demistyfying them, making them more transparent, validating them, having confidence tests and other indicators of how reliable any given result, and finally, human intelligence double and triple checking what the hell is going on.

But that level of caution goes against the strategies people currently employ to draw attention, obtain funding or sell. So we have to sit back and endure the spectacle until logic reasserts itself.

You can always fit a line to a cloud of points but using the result for anything important is a science in itself. This is very much the future of good ML/AI work.
But note that it correlates to a loss of paying users too. "Only" 2/3 of those users were sharing a password.

There's another danger here for them, and that is cultural. Currently e.g. my girlfriend users my password. It means we both watch the same things, and talk about things that are on Netflix, and that serves as a reason for me to keep watching Netflix too. A whole lot of my Netflix watching is down to her. If she were to, say, spend her time on Disney Plus instead and talk to me about series there, I might end up spending more of my time on Disney Plus, and value my Netflix subscription accordingly lower. Do that to enough users and you'll start losing them.

As long as people keep watching Netflix they have a chance to convert them to paying users, but even if that fails, at the very least they have a chance to prevent those people from converting their paying customers to users of other services.

If I was Netflix I'd think long and hard about less invasive means of doing this, such as e.g. putting restrictions on additional household that might nudge them towards paying (e.g. limiting number of profiles so people need to share profiles; putting ads for Netflix in front of shows on "secondary" locations etc.) without outright pushing people off the service.
They will not believe you until actual issues happen. People in general are very good at dismissing problems that are right now biting someone else. You can see it all the time, even here in hacker news. And if anything, management is especially good at being confident that things will work out.

My senior experience is that if I see trouble that requires management intervention ahead, I communicate about it and then bail out. Trying to save it will just burn me out and as long as I am trying to fix issues, management thinks everything is ok and I am just stupid worrier. The issues must get real bad for them to be noticed and fairly often, it is best to let them go there fast.
> I see plastic bags over pump handles way more than 0.01% of the time.

Yes, I do see those often enough. Maybe once a week, so way more than 0.01%

But of course, even the tiniest of gas stations has multiple pumps, four is the smallest I recall seeing and the smallest one around here is 8 pumps.

One or two may be out of service regularly, but in more than 35 years of driving I have never pulled into a gas station where all 4/8+ pumps were out of service simultaneously.

And then, even if that happened, given the way gas stations congregate, there is another one across the street which will be working.
>If God exists, his benevolence is not necessarily something we can reason about, nor his omniscience, nor his omnipotence.

When we talk about God though we're talking about a Christian/Jewish/Muslim/pick your religion God. That brings its own baggage.

Sure a Christian will say God works in strange and mysterious ways but ultimately they rely on being able to reason about his benevolence and then use that as proof they are 'good' and you aren't.

So I feel this entire essay is mistargetted at atheists who may already take this pov, where it should be aimed at other religions who definitionally don't take this point of view.
They are, as you can have up to 4 different sub-accounts sharing the main account. It’s literally correct.
> I think the issue is that people who are paying for an account they are sharing are likely to keep the account active so their family members can continue watching. When the family are cut off, they cancel.

That's the case for me indeed. I myself basically stopped watching Netflix, somehow the content doesn't do anything for me anymore.

But I shared my account with family and they watch it. If this gets to us, and I'm the only one who can watch it, I'm for sure cancelling. The family members with whom I'm sharing the account are very unlikely to get their own account either.

(Sharing accounts is a great form of stealth giving to family members who would otherwise not be able to afford such "luxuries". It's much easier to say "hey, I got one free account on my Spotify plan, would you like to use it? Otherwise, it will go to waste" as opposed to awkwardly offering money directly)
The phind.com thing is an improvement. The same goes for perplexity.ai.

However, for the few queries I made, there are still all sorts of issues involved, such as how the reliability of the sources are determined. For instance, I asked phind.com to give some information with references to arXiv, and it concluded that arxiv-vanity.com was the proper source ("rigorous about the sources" indeed...). Then I tried a few queries about jurisprudence and without hesitation it went to reference questionable commercial sites instead of the primary sources. Furthermore, it seems that phind.com is quilty of 1:1 plagiarism in many cases.
So is the 6k±1 rule: 6k and 6k±2 are all even, 6k±3 is divisible by 3. You can extend this further: all primes greater than 5 must take one of the forms 30k±1, 30k±7, 30k±11, 30k±13. This is much less exciting, but ... suggestive. (No, not that suggestion, that one isn't actually true.)

For a certain point of view, most of math is trivial corollaries.

(Proof: check.)
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Shepherding ChatGPT
Q: Should these systems be regulated?

A: Yeah, absolutely. These systems should be regulated. At OpenAI, we’re constantly talking with governments and regulators and other organizations that are developing these systems to, at least at the company level, agree on some level of standards. We’ve done some work on that in the past couple of years with large language model developers in aligning on some basic safety standards for deployment of these models. But I think a lot more needs to happen. Government regulators should certainly be very involved.
Ask HN: How to effectively search for latest books?
I'm curious as to what is your way of finding out about the latest books worth reading, either updated editions of already well-known ones, or brand new?
SvelteKit is a very complete and well designed solution. Routing, data loading, forms, SSR, caching, dealing with environment variables - all very nice. The only "drawback" is Svelte - I just don't like the data binding thing and prefer working with React components and hooks. Maybe that's just because I've spent so much time in React/Next. Well written React code is actually quite easy to debug, reason about and debug. I find it super annoying to refactor Svelte code because every time I want to extract some code into a component it can't be a function in the same file before it becomes a whole new file. It has to be a file. Also haven't found anything nearly as nice as Framer Motion and Radix in Svelte land.
This was my main problem with Netflix and why I cancelled it a year or so ago. When I realised we often couldn’t find anything we were bothered about watching, it just became a waste of money.
Bluetooth LE is developing a broadcast solution like this. Eventually, commodity headphones will be able to subscribe to such broadcasts.

Time to short the companies that make lecture hall assisted audio devices and museum audio guides.
There is a lot of security theatre software on Windows. I have frequently seen malware scanner push CPU to max when devices were idling. So depending on the setup of the device...
automatic score transcription is already there. pretty sure Ableton Live even has that out of the box
Have you written a gradle plugin? It’s like a dark art. The gradle internals are a poorly documented, complicated magical mess. I wrote several gradle plugins used by 1000+ devs and I’m about the only one who understood how gradle worked in my whole org - and that was after spilling some serious blood. One of the most poorly overdesigned OSS tools I’ve ever worked on.

I also did a lot of maven dev and it was way easier to work with.

(TBF this was about 5 years ago so maybe it has improved.)
Yes, I think the author meant to say the Web, which is often used to refer to what is built on top of HTTP, HTML etc.
The Test of Prometheus
Maybe, but aws lambda doesn't work on value based pricing. The question is whether they get big enough to be a utility.
If they were smart they'd realise they could launder their overall viewer figures in the stockmarket and (ponzi-style) have the latest shareholders pay them* for inflated 'low rent' users instead of scaring away those users and trying to turn a profit on a shrinking viewer population tolerating higher fees.

* via SBC with SP maintained by higher viewer figures.
Very cool! Could definitely see myself using this. Out of curiosity, what's the visualization library you're using to generate the boxes/lines/zoom in-out canvas? Or is that all native to your app? Building something unrelated and looking for something like this
Everybody loves Microsoft's open switch software, SONiC
Because the majority of your customers and you yourself sit in the working groups which created that "non-secure version" of the standard.

Either your customer would disagree with the premise of the standard implementation being "insufficiently secure" or your contribution to security should be reviewed as an evolution to the standard.

Result: Security is not being questioned in this realm of commercial discussion.
Are you talking about drivers or riders using multiple platforms? Or both?
1 to 4 hour
I said "react style" because they are not using React in a conventional way: https://github.com/kevzettler/react-regl
I really wish that screenshoting was easier. Not hitting print screen but like… when I take screenshots, I want to automatically make a little journal entry, easily annotate with arrows that “look good”, and have subsequent screenshots also get bundled in. Bonus points for a pdf export that applies nice defaults to look good. Same as how a Word 201x document default just looks way better than Google docs.

“Help me bundle a bunch of pictures in a low friction way that looks nice” is still an untapped market IMO. Google is theoretically some UI skins and nicer defaults away from doing this through Google Docs. A shock to me that Evernote could never figure out how to get Skitch working as a part of this
I always thought these types of services didn't go after account sharing as a form of flexible pricing. The users who are OK paying $10/mo pay that. The users who wouldn't pay $10 share an account and get a slightly less convenient service.

Are their profit margins so tight that a 1:2 paying non-paying user loss ratio is a net win?
Why would you want to hide a tarantula? Hide it where? From who? I always figured tarantulas and other spiders were just something banana boat workers had to watch out for while they did their jobs which makes sense for the song.
heh. not sure if that's a internal joke from them... but they did wait until nobody is getting signal from airwaves to put in place rules limited to airwaves distribution. bloody marvelous.
Exactly. And futexes of course only require coherent caches, ot a strongly ordered memory model. In fact x86(i.e. TSO) is weaker than some
SvelteKit is awesome - I wished there were a nice Docusaurus alternative in it. I checked out KitDocs and Sveltepress but both seem like small personal projects that can at anytime stop being maintained.
Maybe they just need service discovery and load balancing (as in replacement for kubernetes service). I may be wrong and would like to here more too.
Thanks for the great comment. I agree and many of the points you're making here were touched on by John or in the QA section at the end, with the exception I think of the insight about the identity of the questioner. I think that can be solved pretty easily though just by asking people to add their age and country when signing up for a ChatGPT account. They'll probably have to add age anyway for legal reasons.

For the rest, it rapidly turns into the same set of problems you face when evaluating the truthfulness of any human authored answer. This is going to turn into a fight between people who want a Star Trek style truth machine that is far better than humans at generating true claims, people who think they want such a machine but don't (plenty of unpleasant truths out there), and people who are satisfied with "decent human" level honesty and integrity. Or maybe AI can achieve slightly better than human, I think even just the current set of improvements and ideas is likely enough to get there and OpenAI have already made a lot of progress in training opinions out of their LLM. A lot of why people get riled up about truth is the common practice of stating opinions as facts. GPT-4 is extremely reluctant to take positions on anything, which may yield unsatisfying prose but is an obvious and good move for turning down the heat on truthfulness fights.