skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a demo for a self-managed VPN server provider that I built called White Box VPN. To sign up for the alpha release, go here: https://www.whiteboxvpn.com/.
AWS as in Amazon Web Services? And if so, can you be more specific?
I would pay for a simple, competent anything-to-markdown API. Something that could convert PDFs to high quality markdown with tables, etc. I'm using Document AI from Google right now and the ergonomics are awful.
IMHO, don't blame touch screens, blame bad UI design.

My touch screen annoyance: "oops, it detected a swipe instead of a press, because the car just went through a bump!". Or, "Oops! I accidentally pressed cancel instead of back button, now my map navigation is gone!!!".

Design the UI well, so that drivers can't screw things up easily.
Balloon Full of Mercury
Does a solid metal object thrown into the air have net downwards force by the air (a negative buoyancy force?).

A Balloon full of Helium clearly has net positive buoyancy: the air pushes up on the balloon more than the balloon’s weight pushes down. A balloon full of air at room temperature is close to neutral buoyancy.

I am asking because the internet says the answer for the following Force Concept Inventory[1] question is B.

An empty office chair is at rest on a floor. Consider the following forces:
1. A downward force of gravity.
2. An upward force exerted by the floor.
3. A net downward force exerted by the air.

Which of the forces is (are) acting on the office chair?
(A) 1 only.
(B) 1 and 2.
(C) 2 and 3.
(D) 1, 2, and 3.
(E) none of the forces. (Since the chair is at rest there are no forces acting upon it.)

Disclosure: I have no investments in mercury commodity futures and I haven’t done physics for decades and I laugh at the various pronunciation discrepancies for the word buoyancy.

[1] part of talk about lecturing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI
> And, in fact, that's what the overwhelming majority of sudo vulnerabilities are; they're not generally memory safety bugs.

Only if you count all vulnerabilities as equal. There have been lots of sudo vulnerabilities over the years, but most of them either only affected configurations that allow users to run specific commands (unlike most configurations which are all-or-nothing), or had even more unusual requirements. I think the only sudo vulnerability in a long time that affected the default configuration is CVE-2021-3156 – and that was a memory safety bug.
Train is not accurate because this word applies to learning performed by humans or animals. An AI is neither. Taking data and putting it into any form of storage, ie weights in a model, is called copying. Producing an output out of the gathered data is then a step in distribution. Copyright laws ensure authors get protection against unwanted copy and distribution.

Also you do not have to preserve the original for copyright to apply: any extract is only allowed under well defined fair use rules. A GAN's purpose is definitely not parody, commentary, ...
RAM voltage won't be affected by SoC voltage.
I use source-map-explorer to see what's inside. Lighthouse Treemap provides a similar view.

[source-map-explorer]: https://github.com/danvk/source-map-explorer

[Lighthouse Treemap]: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/270-devtools-lighthouse-treemap/
It's not about the UI. It's about the tactile feel and being able to reach and touch a knob while keeping your eyes on the road.
Touch screens are great for stuff that needs to be cleaned though so ER doctors are probably stuck with them.
I bought a halo view for $20. It was pretty okay ish, which is what I expected but all I wanted was an accurate-ish optical heart rate monitor. It was awful. The worst of any device I’ve ever had.

I got a replacement and same deal.

Not surprised.

I only bought it because it had 765 day return policy. Guess I won’t be needing to do that.
This is the opposite of how politics work. The median voter is near retirement age; their #1 issue is they hate change and their #2 issue is they hate gas prices going up. Anything which looks like either one of these will fail.

So instead of hyping up things you're going to do, you need to hype them down. Ideally, you'd just go around saying you're doing absolutely nothing. (Also, don't raise gas prices.)
Saw the Impreza’s 2024 redesign, apparently Subaru missed the memo. https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2024-Su...

I recently test drove a Mazda, and while I’ve seen people online complain about their “commander knob” and lack of touch screen, I liked it pretty well. Screen up further on the dashboard is nice for glancing at maps.
> punishment [...] shouldn’t be used as an excuse to terrorize people who are serving out their sentence

Indeed, the three aims of punishment are retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence. None of these entail malice, which itself is evil and degrades the malicious person.
I think one of the most frustrating aspects of this whole kerfluffle is the automakers' longstanding willingness to ignore customers and double down at any pushback. It's downright stupid that it has taken this level of screaming from customers to roll back a design choice that should never have been made.
A little bit of piracy is good though. It’s better honestly than them not watching. They are talking to their friends about shows. Having Watch parties. Whatever. If it’s the choice of don’t pay don’t watch or don’t pay watch there is a benefit to them pirating.
> I would say no-one should be getting raped

Obviously.

> or subject to slave labor in prison...

Why not? We're not talking chattel slavery, but penal labor. The notion that it is somehow categorically wrong to sentence someone to labor as a penalty is absurd.

> theoretically the aim even for those in "worse" prisons should be to have them come out the other side able to function in society better than before, not worse.

Life imprisonment does not have that as a goal for obvious reasons which shows that rehabilitation is for the sake of the offender as such. And are you claiming that punishment makes people worse? It doesn't. It facilitates rehabilitation. Proportionate penalties enable the guilty to acknowledge the gravity of their offense; without acknowledgement, there is no rehabilitation. It allows people to suffer for their guilt. When people cannot suffer for their crimes, you actually deprive them of means to pay for their evil deeds. One has an objective moral duty toward justice; an injustice left unpaid will derange the psyche of the offender. Repressed guilt is at the root of many strange disorders and behaviors. Like projection and scapegoating.

Besides, rehabilitation is only one component of punishment. The other two are retribution and deterrence.
9.6 vs 6.6 is like 2/3 for Amazon. Those numbers were for past year. Now there's a new one launching. The market is very fragmented and the fiber is here very strong, with the sports being a big part.
Also, a demonstration isn't worth that much, though better than nothing. There's only so much you can learn in an interview 'demonstration', and I can't afford to give everyone six months or a year to demonstrate what they really can do.

What the YouTube videos demonstrate to me is a lack of effort and committment to find the very best sources and learn the best material; obviously to me, computer science theory and a real professor would be better (skill training is good after you have that, though I'm greatly simplifying here). If that's how they approach their skill-aquisition project, that's evidence of how they'll approach projects at my business. If they follow the herd on that, it's evidence that they will follow the herd otherwise.

I know which way the herd is running. It's not only the wrong way (there's no correlation between herd direction and the 'right' direction - in fact, I'd say there's an inverse correlation because the herd is driven by other things), it's to my competitive advantage to go another way. I want people whose standard is the very best and who think for themselves. And in addition, the social media culture from which the YouTube training trend arises, is highly reactionary, which is crushing to creative, enthusiastic, independent thought.
This is really fundamental

The job of the cockpit designer is to 1) minimize the workload on the pilot/driver while providing 2) maximum practical ability to control the vehicle. Period.

Ergonomic design to control the vehicle. Period. End of story. Style shouldn't even be in the top 10 considerations.

ALL of this touchscreen, flattening and making the buttons the same, making unique configurations may be wonderful for the mental masturbation of the designers, but it is not even in the same profession as vehicle design.

The pilot/driver should be able to make maximal use of prior knowledge (i.e., ways of doing things that are standard, either by law or by previous consensus), and make maximal use tactile and auditory feedback (e.g., buttons and dials with a familiar and distinct feeling and positive feedback) to minimize the need to direct vision anywhere other than out the windshield and mirrors.

Well-designed display controls can be fantastic - - - - IF AND ONLY IF - the work is put into the design to minimize pilot/driver workload. Anything requiring a menu structure as we use on desktop machines is potentially deadly. Just because we are familiar with menu structures does not mean that they can be operated while negotiating traffic in the rain hurtling down the road at 30 meters per second. Any designer or manager who thinks that is reasonable or acceptable is incompetent. (obvious exception here is extensive setup operations to be done whilst parked)

And, if you are going to put in a touchscreen that does have these characteristics, then at least allow the passenger to use it whilst in motion - you have the damn seat sensor data on the CAN bus for the airbag, so use it for the UI. I understand not wanting to be liable for crashing someone with your incompetent UI, but impairing use of the car & navigation just makes it worse

Which brings us back to: just do the hard and expensive work of properly designing the cockpit UI. And spend the extra few bucks for good knobs and buttons. I'll happily pay $1000 more for something that works, is a pleasure to use, and isn't trying to make me fight it and risk my life every time I use it for the designer's ego and/or the manager's budget.
I am a mod on an instance there. Liked at the beginning of the trend, but it has some real problems, so many little irks that makes the real replacement for Twitter horrible.

1. Proper search. I want to search everything that is on the fediverse. Or at least for content that is federated.... Obviously not possible, but this is a big issue already.

2. You can't see followers outside of your instance! Really, try to see who is your friend following/followed and it will show just your instance folks.

3. Do people realize each instance will show different likes/share and comments, as each one is federated with different instances? This is totally nutz in practice.

4. You open a profile and can't see the posts.... because no one from the instance followed that person before and no relay with it... Again, nutz!

And in practice... The problem lies on the lack of quotes, and lack of important companies/news sites/person. I use Twitter to follow some news, see journalists' posts, and that's just impossible with Mastodon.
Reducing emissions means inventing new technology; once you've invented it, you can export it to those other countries emitting more than you are.

(This is not how most people sell it, but it's true.)
Palantir AIP: military use of LLMs
The iTunes Store turns 20 in two days.
IIRC Kimball worked on the bigtable team and was working on spanner in the very early days.
Definitely. They typically score very highly for academics (like most private schools).
The same thing happened in a past job for me — we discovered we were included every single icon in FontAwesome. I wrote a codemod script to refactor how we were importing icons so it was treeshakeable. Cut load times from 10s to 2s — was glorious.
> Email and SMS are inherently insecure

But nevertheless widely used as de-facto identity, I assume because account recovery in case of lost credentials is paramount. At least 90% of my accounts would be stolen or lost, today, should I lose access to my email.

I don’t particularly like email, for many reasons. Especially that most people’s email can be blocked by a faceless corporation that suddenly bans you. That said, I think there are far worse options, such as endless iterations on proprietary and ad-hoc auth “standards”. At least to me, the technical challenges of hardening email seem far less intimidating than educating the public on a new system.

> apps and smartcode verification are starting to be almost as secure and usable as the HTTPS client certificate support

I agree that client certs are greatly under-utilized and poorly supported by eg reverse proxies, but how would they help here? What’s the user flow for non-technical Joe to acquire a client cert to pay his bills?
I'm a CA native myself, and I don't talk the same way I write. In person, I probably would have said something like "but you're assuming away the key legal test, which is 'what is the "relevant market?"'". I tend to not go back and edit my comments for style, just for clarity. Could it be more polite? I guess, but it also seems pretty consistent with the logical/syllogistic style that is common on HN.

I thought the question was not entirely in good faith, since it would be pretty obvious that there's no such thing as "monopoly on X" — otherwise it would make Sony a monopolist on Playstation, Microsoft a monopolist on XBox, etc.
> In my experience with OAuth, one of the principle issues is that it's less a protocol and more a skeleton of a protocol

OAuth supports lots of different scenarios. Many people when they say “OAuth” they are only thinking of one or two of those scenarios, and ignoring all the others which aren’t relevant to them personally-but may be relevant to someone else

I worked on a system where we had a micro-service which had a token from OAuth server 1, and it needed to exchange it for a token from OAuth server 2, and we needed some policies to decide whether that token exchange was allowed or not. And that’s totally a use case the OAuth RFCs support (there is even an RFC specifically on token exchange), but a person wanting to add a “login with Google” button to their website isn’t interested in anything remotely like that.

> Which ones are supported by the provider? You guessed it, it's all implementation-dependent.

Security needs vary widely from system to system. So they defined a protocol which supports many different scenarios. But if your application only needs two of them, why implement the other N? OTOH, for someone who actually needs one of those other scenarios, having it standardised makes their life easier. You can’t expect the protocol to tell you which scenario you have, that’s inherently “implementation-dependent”, to the point that calling it that is getting tautologous
> To this day some commenters think the performance is somehow hobbled by this

There will always be a sizeable subset of people who are utterly convinced that there is an evil cabal of developers who refuse to press the "go faster" button(s) out of personal malice.
For some reason that I take no credit for, my voice works perfectly with most voice recognition systems I've tried. I still hate encountering it on an 800 number.

My favorite story, though, was when someone left a voice message for me in Vietnamese, and Google's VR system tried to interpret it as English. "How about goddamn lunch?" is the thing I remember.
I was looking this up yesterday and apparently there's evidence against it.

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/lack-fungi-did-not-lea...
> Minimize saturated fat (by replacing it with unsaturated fat).

No.

> * On HN and other social media, "carbs" is a euphemism for sugar and cake rather than beans and vegetables, so people will talk about how carbs made them fat when you know they're not talking about slamming back-to-back cans of garbanzos.

Maybe that's because nobody wants to slam down cans of garbanzo beans. Garbanzo beans suck unless they're made into something like hummus, and eating too much of that results in gas and gastrointestinal upset. That doesn't mean it's good for you or optimal in any way.

> And don't take any nutrition advice seriously that doesn't break fat apart into saturated and unsaturated.

Don't take any nutrition advice from somebody saying there are "healthy" carbs. There is no such thing, except degrees of contraindication. Only endogenous carbs can be considered healthy in a human being, so long as the body is properly regulating it.
I used to go cruising with a bunch of knobs.
Yep I think that's right. People don't understand what a 10 year chunk of your life in hell can actually mean. Communicating that is also very difficult.
Touch screens are also pretty terrible for older people. Vision and fine motor skills both degenerate. Without tactile feedback, it is hard for older people to determine if they've successfully clicked on something. Gestures can be tough to teach and successfully implement without error.
Yeah and it is largely ignored. It's developmental problems in high c02 atmosphere that really scares me. Adults handle temporary or even extended exposure well, but we don't have studies about extended c02 for kids, and there are no ways to ethically get them.
You may have to do some bindings yourself, I remember once looking to try out a libadwaita widget and it wasn't fully supported in the available bindings, don't know about the full library of gtk4-specific widgets.

As for feature complete, depends on your definition. It's on 0.6 and major changes do arrive and updates do break user code, but you certainly can write apps with it.
Buoyant force is always up and equal to the weight of the displaced fluid (air here).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy
He uses Apple CarPlay.
I hope someone implements BM25 and combines it with Pgvector to bring hybrid search to Postgres. I feel like that is the jsonb of the next couple of years.
a topic I had no idea I was casually interested in & wanted to read books about despite the fact that I have no plans to work in this sector, my favorite (not sarcastic at all)
<picture of Leo Dicaprio pointing energetically>

The ridiculous thing is we should just be about at the point of programmable buttons and instead we have an embedded webapp running our car.
> What research do you think is so convincing that it supersedes this balance of evidence?

You seriously need to ask yourself that question before asking it of others.
This user appears to be generating comments with GPT.
Someone should do something like this smart knob[0]. It looks incredible.

[0] https://youtu.be/ip641WmY4pA?t=58
minus 3. A net upward force exerted by the air.

The answer B includes forces 1 and 2, but not force 3.

The extended answer is 1, 2 and minus 3 (that is a fake item I just added here).

I think your intuition is right, but you are misinterpreting what B means.
The BMW X-Drive controller is somewhat similar with additional up/down/left/right buttons
Neither are fish; whales are more related to salmon than sharks are. (So are we.)

And yet everyone complains when you say whales are fish.
I had a good experience when I went in to a project with the attitude that "Ok, I'm going to wire up auth0 in perfect accordance with how they want me to, absolutely from scratch with the most perfect clean official documentation/library (in my case the react auth0 sdk) conforming approach possible.

I spent a lot of time making sure I did everything as by the book as possible and , in the end, I had a good experience and felt confident in my implementation, and like I understood all the moving parts. I even got help in a SO thread from an auth0 employee.

Auth0 could have been anything, here... On the same project, I kind of did the same thing with vite/react/tailwind client and fast api backend where I touched every piece of it, made every decision, and made sure I was really confident.
This was in my own little vacuum where a big part of the app was just creating my perfect little sandbox. Stuff gets way more complicated when you have to hustle to get stuff over the line or you're trying to cram so new auth implementation in to an 8 yr old app that's been walked around on by dozens of engineers slamming out slop to close a ticket.

(Note: I know auth0 is a little more on-rails than implementing auth0 without it. They tend to have pretty good guides if you're using current hotness like react or fastapi)
I agree it should be better but you’re talking roughly half of Google’s total traffic now, and it’s really common for people to be using it without even realizing that so I’m not sure I’d call it abysmal in the context of a large distributed system operated by millions of independent organizations around the world.
That's the opposite of what made ChatGPT popular.
I disagree, if cracking down on friends and different households sharing passwords means I get it cheaper than I’m ok with that.

Their implementation allows people to use their tablet / phone / setup box/ streaming device in multiple locations. Since the technology isn’t available to cater for people living and paying for multiple house holds the options are everyone pays extra or the very very few people that can afford it or an anomaly pay extra

To be frank for the case of someone living 6 months here 6 months there
They can sign-up and cancel cause it’s a month by month subscription
If you can pause for reflection to go check your past history of purchases to determine if you should make another purchase, then you could probably just remember if you’ve been on a recent spending spree.
Ironically, in my field I'd argue this isn't necessarily true - so long as the ML PhD sees value in that field.

Part of this is because public health as an undergraduate discipline is extremely new, so the field is used to having to teach Folks From Elsewhere about our field, rather than the fields built on the assumption of a large foundation of undergraduate coursework.
A 3-word response for when someone is rude to you
I think "innovate" is a very strong word for what Microsoft is doing with Slack and Notion. The absolute most charitable I could be is that these applications are just functional enough to fit into the same niche, but more realistically they are minimum effort bundled me-toos to entice penny wise and pound foolish managers with control over the IT budget.

Comments about the quality of the offerings aside, what do these applications objectively bring to the table that merits calling them innovative?
Because it's a security liability not to have it enabled, so if he's going to complain about others security problems, the least he could do is put his metaphorical pants on first. He could be forgiven for not having it locked down to an few specialist cyphers he personally believes are resilient to attack, but to not even have it enabled is on the level of not putting your pants on before leaving the house.
Even my friends group thinks that Alibaba is a valid source of parts for large scale manufacturing. I've just given up on having this argument. Good luck.

Part of having a working relationship with a vendor is that you can ask nicely that they don't sell your designs to competitors or market their own knockoffs. Not to mention you can call them up and say, "I need 10k extra of those next month" and they don't just laugh in your face or let it go to voicemail and pretend they never got it.
The solidness of saturated fats has nothing to do with whether it is healthy or harmful to humans. Fatty acids are not transported by having them enter the bloodstream unchanged.
yes, it excites me as well

the psp fees for ideal payments are the lowest, and the apis are convenient (e.g. Mollie)

the problem for me was that it's only used in my country, but if it's used throughout the eu that would be slick