skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bugs out and makes it so you'll spend 5+ minutes going through 5 or 6 rounds of matching images because it oddly fails.

That isn't just a reCaptcha thing. HCaptcha will definitely do that as well -- and if anything it's worse, because some of the "identify this AI-generated image" challenges are pretty awful. (At one point, I recall it asking me to "select the ladybugs" with nine images all containing round spotted bugs in slightly different shades of red and orange.)
Is it because you have a different UserAgent? Otherwise, how would CloudFlare even know your browser is different if you're Chromium based?
Seeing With The Heart – An AI assisted short story
Hi everyone,

So, I had this crazy idea to write a love story with the help of ChatGPT and Midjourney. Like, why not use AI to do the heavy lifting, am I right? I mean, sure, they might have taken over most of the writing, but hey, at least I get to claim the title of "Mastermind Behind the Idea"!

Anyways, it was a hilarious experiment if I do say so myself. I was driving the story, but it was the AI that was writing most of it. I mean, who needs a professional writer when you've got two sophisticated pieces of software that can spit out paragraphs and plot twists in the blink of an eye?

But all joking aside, I'd love to hear what you all think of my little AI love story experiment. Don't hold back, folks! Give me your thoughts, your ideas, your criticisms. And who knows, this could be the spark of something beautiful. Or something totally ridiculous. Either way, cheers to trying something new!
Our house has a commercial style HVAC system. The controllers for everything (relays) are very simple. The run on a protocol called BACNet that is unauthenticated and pretty straightforward.

I was able to read in all the data points and then use the weather forecast and a few other data points to make changes to my HVAC system. The comfort different has been very drastic. Our house doesn't overheat on hot days and doesn't get cold fast when the temperature drops. (I am in the Northeast where there are big swings).
I hope it isn’t the way forward - little bits of it come off when washing and drying. Micro plastic galore.
> That dinner example from the article actually shows this: I buy you all Olive garden dinner, or: I take the time to invite you to my home, spend some time clean the house think on what to by and prepare, what music to play, maybe a movie to watch after etc. in order to have a good time together. This is a much more thoughtful and mutually beneficial form of investment in friendship than just throwing money at it.

Sooo the solution is to make a party at your house but hire a cleaner and catering :D
Wireless Is Essential, but Fiber Remains the Future (For Now)
I just don't understand the need for "infotainment" in cars. I carry a screen in my pocket that I mount to my dashboard. It does a much better job of navigating me around and enabling me to talk to people than any goofy head unit with UX designed at a car manufacturer ever could.

All I need in a car is a knob for the air conditioning and a knob for the volume. I still just use a single din aftermarket stereo that plays music from an SD card. I will never have anything more. I will drive cars as old as myself if I have to for the rest of my life before I allow some car manufacturer to push me around.
We just need an up/down voting mechanism for scientific papers with voting restricted to people knowledgeable in the field. Don't know how to implement it but it should be designed with incentives to vote and guards against it being gamed.
They also have no real incentive to make it easier to combat, because that's part of their competitive advantage over self-hosting. As long as it works well enough that people realize the benefit they are providing (note that this does not mean that it's best for it to work perfectly, as that would be invisible), doing more risks worsening their position.
> Fed printed money for SVB

It created the BTFP [1], a short-term fix for the stupid way we account for Treasuries held to maturity in American banking, after SVB collapsed. Against $80bn in collateral (and for $100mm of fees), the Fed has issued $65bn of cash [2].

> Fed will print for First Republic

First Republic isn't saved by the BTFP. Their issues are broader than a HTM shortfall.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/financial-stability/bank-term...

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/13-3-repor...
FYI, I think you mean "implied," rather than "inferred." Remember the difference this way: when someone implies something, that means you may infer that they want you to believe it.
Interesting. Many releases from Stability in a few days.

Would love to see how it performs against ChatGPT though.
I think most of the apps use WAL nowadays (at least from what I remember when I looked into this a while back) but I'll have to check again! Thanks.
I have that thing when I'm absolutely fine with some friend owing me something but cannot tolerate otherwise and it bothers me to no end.
Yeah, but it's a negligible rounding error of cpu time for each client.

Distributing this work ironically makes it much easier to centralize the authentication.
Typically commissioned works are "work-for-hire" where the person paying for the work gets the copyright, no?

Same as how when you freelance, the customer (usually) owns the code you write for them.
>It's not possible for Obama's mother to have been living outside the US 5 years before his birth.

I think you misread the law, if she lived outside the country for two years then she wouldn't have spent the last five years in the US.
If there is some Firefox privacy feature that CloudFlare considers overbearing, I'd consider turning it off, but I don't even know what the problem is. CloudFlare provides zero diagnostics and didn't engage in the community post. These two latter points are what annoy me. If CloudFlare has some philosophical disagreement with Firefox, then fine, but tell me what it is so that I can consider disabling the Firefox feature.
> It requires a keyboard, though. Do the kids still use those?

I'm sure your server logs will tell you what percentage of visitors are NOT mobile.
Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
Hi,
As a 8-bit C64 game coder in eaarly 90ties and currently mostly FE-focused dev, decided to give a go to a simple retro game archive. This is purely fun project - so i decided to post it to HN, mayne it'll resonate :)
Honestly the Windows UI is kinda annoying, and it did effect my performance until I recently ditched it for linux w/ i3 as the WM... I want something straightforward and to the point. The windows UI peaked at XP, everything else has been inferior.
Same here from Norway. Though it says the cheese used is often made from reindeer's milk, so I figure it might be a Sami thing?
> gmail is fairly good at blocking it

This has been getting consistently worse over the last few years, in my experience. At least on the user end, i.e. far more false negatives getting through.
My real world use cases:

#1 Merging onto the freeway from a stop in LA, Atlanta, and other cities where you have fast drivers, traffic, and short freeway entrances or entrances with stop lights. Remember it’s your job to prevent the flow of traffic from yielding.

#2 Accelerate from danger/to safety. Misjudged your gap in a turn? Accelerate to safety. Person just ran the red? Accelerate from danger. Stuff happens and it’s nice to have the power available.
IIRC, you can get them for ~$1 on aliexpress. They're handy little devices.
Gmail might have a monopoly over consumer email but Microsoft has one over enterprise email.

B2C email is quite competitive with dozens of services.

Overall I’d say the email ecosystem is relatively healthy. It’s more competitive and interoperable that instant messaging with greater security than SMS.
Lightly discussed 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687969 (2 comments)
Friend offered me 10 billion dollars of cash in several suit cases. Felt awkward so I didn't accept.
I also made a time-of-day brightness adjuster! I had a much cruder solution, just an autohotkey script that drags sliders around in nvidia control panel, but it's such a relief on the eyes. I hope it gets baked into OSes (or monitor hardware?) at some point, matching monitor luminosity to what the sun is doing seems pretty obvious.
I had a servo motor attached to a raspberry pi which turned a small gear that connected to a plastic gear m on the analogue temperature control of my gas heater.

Then I had it switch to various temperatures while heating and also had a geofence for my phone implemented that turned on the heating when I entered a 500m radius. Even had a calibration script for the servo motor.
The median rent for 1 bedroom in NYC is $3600: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/new-york-ny

I lived there until last year, paid $1600 for rent in an unattractive area, coffee around the block cost maybe $2.50 but I mostly brewed my own, and I ate out for maybe $30-40 per meal on average, when I ate out. I did plenty with less than half of that money and saved about half of my take-home during that period.

I didn't mean to label you specifically as a "trust fund kid", but I truly cannot believe that anyone who doesn't come from money (and thus hasn't developed a sense of financial responsibility as a child) would be capable of wasting that much money, even in NYC. In what world is it normal to spend hundreds of dollars a week eating out every single day?
Because American's have chosen to have immigration opportunities spread among different countries and specifically written that into our system? Because I don't want a system that promotes elites that 'have the funds to pay tuition'? None of my grandparents could have afforded that high bar. If you have the funds, you don't NEED to immigrate as much as others do.
Is spam also killing every social media platform, messaging app and even Google itself? Is spam not an indicator that people still use it if it's still lucrative spamming people, thus proving it isn't dying and is actually a sign it is still used?

Consider that email accounts are the go-to account recovery method for most services, and it's ubiquitous in biz. Also consider that you can prioritize specific domains or filter x domains to never go to spam, e.g., your own company's domain.

Any "death" is that people struggle with their own mailserver as a general rule of thumb. Does that thus mean email is dying? No. As the article says, perhaps independent email is, but it hasn't been in a good place for over a decade at this point.
You have reminded me about old jeans and those that collect them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cache-of-19th-century...
Large software vendors usually have clauses in their contracts that allow them to audit your installation - and in some cases tie this audit to revenue reporting. If you're a public company this is all easily auditable, but even a private company can produce an accounting report. There's usually some level of trust involved unless there's reason to suspect you're "cooking the books" for your report.
Microsoft ban itself (azure) to spam, they use ml and while they cand add exceptions in general the systems are so complex and have so much hardening that is not posible our "messages are not spam "
Does anyone know if re-purposing large office buildings for farming is feasible? I've been thinking about this because of the possible down turn in commercial real-estate values.
Why is it trained on GPT generated content? Won't it reduced the content quality instead of improving it? GPT generates lots of fluff which will only pollute the new models further.
Someone ordered the use of AI and someone gave it the prompts. Those someones have names that can be written on a subpoena or warrant.
Makes me want to found a vigilante spam elimination society. Legal methods don't seem to work /mutter
I don’t donate to charities.

It’s not that I don’t want children to not starve, it’s that I have a very high confidence that the vast majority of donations one way or another just end up in a sociopath’s bank account

I’m never surprised when I hear good will turned into theft. I am surprised how many people are willing to give so much of their money to scams

(granted, the SF money wasn’t an optional donation)
Was referring to the app yeah, I don't use the website.
I have noticed my CPU spike during these checks; however, I have factory settings for Firefox and haven't disabled scripts/WASM/etc. Is there some setting that Firefox might default to that could cause this?
There's a very predictable cycle.

1. "Small government people" demanding that the government stop providing services, because the private sector is better at everything.

2. Government services get outsourced to vendors, NGOs, non-profits, etc.

3. These vendors need to justify that they are effective at their job, producing mountains of paperwork.

4. Government offices fill with beurocrats to review all that paperwork.

5. Some of those vendors turn out to be doing a bad job.

6. People complain about how the private sector is incapable of providing these services. <--- We are here.

7. Government pulls funding, starts providing these services itself.

8. Go to step 1.

At least, that's what happens when everyone's operating in good faith. When people are criticizing in bad faith, step 7 is 'Pull all funding for services with no replacement' and step 8 is 'Complain about tent cities and people sleeping on benches.'
Too many people make it a dichotomy between staying here and colonizing. Why not both?
As someone in the UK this is kinda strange to read someone wanting to try quorn like I've been wanting to try the impossible burger.

Honestly Quorn is not a great meat replacement for anything other than mince, or maybe foods that are so processed all you can taste are the additives.
I had a pair of in-ear headphones with metal casing, that when combined with my work chair and having my shoes on, would regularly cause one of my monitors to turn off and back on if I moved wrong or stood up. Shocked myself on the headphones a few times too.
It’s the cheese that is called kaffeost, not the combination of the cheese with coffee.
Proof of work spam filter when?
Former congressional intern and WH intern (and later WH staff) here - it's possible to get those internships without a recommendation from someone worth listening to. I would go so far as to say it's mildly common.
It may be understandable if it's on a checkout page.

But Cloudflare often enough blocks users from reading content pages. Cloudflare could just serve their cached static content instead of showing Captchas.
Very true, but the resistance should be even more - for safety it should be at least 1 megaohm.
Bithub is actually offering for Individuals

> $1.9/mo | $17.0/yr | $299.9/lifetime

(Not sure if they are A/B testing prices since the OP says $24/lifetime)

It is a no-brainer. I'll go with the monthly pay-as-you-go.

If after 6 months, I am still satisfied, I would upgrade to the yearly.
If after 6 months, I am not satisfied, I would cancel.

The entire experiment would have cost me $12 worst case (and hopefully there were some leads generated and the cost paid for itself). That is just me though.
This kind of problem is solved by onboard vehicle mechanical arm with tele-control from metaverse AR/VR headset and surgical finger-tip manipulator on bare metal Linux without the burdensome pointless extra cost of Microsoft WSL2. The LISA probe unfolding the solar panels got stuck.
Agreed. I self-host for my and my friends' personal and project domains, and delivery to gmail works. Granted, nothing is commercial and the volume is so low that rate limiting is not an issue, but if you set things up properly, they'll take your mail, and if you don't, they're pretty good about telling you what's wrong.

On the other hand, it's simply impossible to satisfy Microsoft. We're irrevocably tainted by being in a netblock of a well-known provider, despite having held the same IPv4 address clean for over a decade.
Yeah these call boxes are simply awful. That's why I was excited about Doorport, to have something better.
It's that rare thing, a Telegraph article that does not appear to be paywalled.

They also have another, surprisingly well balanced and well researched article about Wikipedia today here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/28/wikipedia-...

That one is paywalled, but an archive copy is available here:

https://archive.is/CRzSB
Agreed. Even my daily driver from the 80's would get along just fine in today's traffic. Acceleration hasn't been a problem since 1980 unless you were driving something by Wartburg or so.
Netherlands uses gas heating often, to heat and increase co2 levels.
No, because anencephalic.
Tighter integration between browsers, phones, and email could help with this quite a bit, I think. Default-allow every domain you give an email to, default-allow every specific address in your contact book (and maybe everyone you know on social networks?), default-deny everything else.

A decent first-pass solution to part of this might be to just have email allow every domain in my password manager.

I think the data's there to make this work a lot better, it's just that all the parts aren't talking to one another.
It's not a matter of "why" it's a matter of "how". Cloudflare could have done way less intrusive and nerve-wrecking DDoS protection. But no, they had to make people suffer.

Also, I'm using Falkon browser every day - ever heard of that? I have to switch user agent to be allowed in some places which is ridiculous.
Yep. Skipped this part (not at "he desktop RN) but honestly this is more in 'check what you accept' and input data validation|sanitation. Still a valid target for an exploit but you really need a bunch of things ('web performance monitoring system') to happen before you can have a meaningful usage (if at all) from these exploits.
I was surprised to learn the revenue per employee figure for big tech (2022):

* Microsoft: $897,300

* Google: $1,470,000

* Amazon: $333,500

* Facebook: $1,348,000

* Apple: $2,404,000
I mean I guess I did build an overbed table to put the TV on. I don't know whether it counts as tech though.
And much tastier.
Again, the only feature i’ve seen mentioned as a positive is controlling a clock/alarm

You’re even acknowledging how cumbersome iot is

Is that really the pinnacle of virtual assistants - billion dollar alarm handlers?
True in my experience. Doubly so when dealing with foreign languages. I run a pretty international business with a lot of different email distributions. It's actually the spam filter in Google Groups that seems to constantly get tripped up with non-English, and in particular non-Latin, characters in emails. It puts far more of them into spam than it should.
You can still regulate domestic vendors to prevent them from reselling products without disclosing they are noncompliant with safety standards or environmental rules (which you personally would face liability for the pollution caused by your usage of a noncompliant product) or other means of having the same effect as current regulations. Currently, we have people dying due to being unable to afford life saving medicine in the US due to its artificially high domestic cost.
Based on Llama, so not open source (non-commercial only license)...
>But more importantly, the biggest issue is that the trapped methane in landfills is no longer bioavailable, and participating in the ecologies in the carbon cycle.

This fundamentally misunderstands what the carbon cycle is. The amount of carbon in the carbon cycle has dramatically increased since the Industrial Revolution, and the quantity of carbon locked into landfills is not significant compared to the absorption of carbon by rock weathering. The carbon cycle per se is certainly not under threat from present human activities, although the Earth will slowly absorb carbon dioxide over the next billion years until it becomes uninhabitable, according to current projections.

Furthermore, methane, an inert gas with low solubility, is not trapped in landfills. The capture scheme I described would eventually convert it to carbon dioxide and possibly store that carbon dioxide, but regardless, it's a very small amount of carbon compared to other emissions sources.

>and atmospheric methane isn’t as big of a deal as say, soil depletion, soil temperature, oceanic acidification

None of these problems are seriously related to food waste management. You might as well insist that methane emissions are not as important as nuclear war.
Not sure exactly which model you mean, but those might have been electroluminescent and the S3000 is gas plasma, so different display technology.

In answer to the page author, yes, the S3000 had a matching case. Even places to store the cables and the optical mouse pad. A very stylish black nylon job.
LLM seems like a good tech to solve the spam problem
Killing a chicken is hard, I have done that many times and I it never get easier. After all it is a living thing and you feel it is distressed, angry and in fear. I know people that are impervious to that but I am not and understand why you would feel bad about eating animals.
> He then failed to stop crypto payments

lol..err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_(token) -- the government has not tried to "stop" anything.

If any of these systems had any actual utility many states would spend the relatively trivial amounts of money to 51% attack them: https://www.crypto51.app/. Or force take over their miners. Or monpolise half the stake. Or control the (local) mining networks. Or one of a number of trivial actions.

These systems do not work. Their alleged properties are lies. They are not immutable, they are not decentralised, and they are not capable of supporting non-trivial economic transactions.

This is a scam. These stories are lies. They are told by people who are in on the scam. This is a manipulated market, these are manipulated ideas, this entire system is comprised of about 100,000 people around the world, 5% of whom benefit from it.

It is incapable of supporting millions of users, let alone how severely impoverished they'd be at the expensive of the present holders -- thank god such systems cannot scale.

Present holders, no doubt like you, desperate to bring cash into the system, more people in, so your present holdings can increase in value.

I find this reprehensible
Creating My Personal Website with AI
There's also the possibility that their emails are full of links, which is a decent indicator of a low quality spammy email.

There are exceptions, e.g., I sent an email full of research with sources to a family member I've been emailing with for fifteen years and it went to spam, despite it being @gmail.com to @gmail.com. In retrospect, I was misusing email versus sending a document or a link to one with it in.
I love that Sony keeps the optical formats alive. They "recently"(in 2018) released the one and only quad layer BDXL writable disc, with 128GB capacity. It's japan-only but the fact that it exists at all is a miracle. Even though the BDXL 128GB spec was written all the way back in 2010, no one bothered to invest in the chemistry and the production line for these, but Sony finally did, and they are still making them. I got a bunch imported from Japan, I just find it so cool.
yep. It's a war between anti-spam and spam, and email standards themselves protect the spammers so ... yeah, this is not surprising.
The other thing that bugs me about these articles is the brazen two-faced argument where email is at once an open, distributed protocol between independent peer operators, and also there's exactly one way to do it, the way German privacy zealots insists on doing everything, and there's not another way!

If Google wants to receive your traffic at a later date thats their business and not yours. It's an open system where sites set their own policies. Access to a site's eyeballs is not the right of an outside sender!