skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it would be about the data breaches and them being a security weak-spot instead of a stronghold.

I had no idea that they also rob you in the process, employing the good old vendor lock-in move even my grandma knows about.

P.S. Keycloak is a pain in the ass to figure out and set up properly, also it runs on some ridiculous app server, giving it a recognisable turn of the century stench, but it is well worth it.
When you can explain it to someone else without fumbling or glossing over the details.
One of the things that struck me when I took LSD for the first time is that pop culture gets a surprising amount right about going insane. There were aspects of the experience that felt familiar from TV shows and movies. In hindsight, it makes sense: the people who create those depictions are doing their best to capture the real thing, and not just making up stories that sound cool.

Similarly, I think a lot of skeptics will be surprised when they're dying and realize that the pop culture tropes are fairly accurate. Memories being replayed in vivid detail, a light at the end of a tunnel, etc. Where do you think these ideas are coming from if not first-hand experience?
Interesting, thank you and I will look into this.

Engineer married a doctor who owns the clinic, no finance people in the family. The company is already doing great, we are just expanding. We have the past performance of the company, so we have an idea if we can afford a set monthly cost.
That is a pretty good introduction to the steps that happen when you compile C code.
Why "natural, fair chance"? Of course they see what their competitors charge. That's one of the ingredients of a free market. The quicker they react, the quicker the information is dissipated in the free market.
Woody Allen seems to be the only sus guy in that list on the surface of it. lol. His name sticks out like a sore thumb.
> Take a look at this page of actual salaries for SFUSD, and actual total pay and benefits for SFUSD teachers: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Eld%20C...

You're showing the top of a table sorted by total comp in a particularly well paid district (as property tax revenues pay teachers). This is not representative.

The top entry in the table was occupying an administrative role.

> I'm in favour of both raising the bar for teachers, and paying them more to attract people who can meet that bar.

You can't raise standards while you have a shortage. You need a surplus to be selective.

> And teaching is far from the only job that requires continuing education.

Yes, but it's rare in the cohort of jobs you are seeking to compare against.

> This is really interesting. Do you mind me asking how you look at this decision? e.g. why not take the job paying 10x what you make now, and use some of the excess money to help students in other ways? Or take a part-time job paying 5x, and volunteer the rest of the time?

I enjoy it and it feels more impactful. This is why teachers accept being underpaid and having worse working conditions.
If you're trying to understand what the federal funds rate is (what interest rates refer to here), you can read here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
FBI warns hackers are planting fake QR codes in restaurants
I think you are referring to the "Trained Observer." I feel like this was already debunked that many trained observers have been discovered to be wrong about many sightings. I'm happy to be wrong though so please cite anything to correct me.
Writing your own engine requires a far stronger knowledge of math, rendering, audio, and networking (just to start with) than the median dev has, probably by a few orders of magnitude.
If you had a high IQ you woudn't waste time with freemium games.
Advice taken from management in their 60s, 70s, and 80s should be evaluated with a critical eye, considering the time horizon of their experiences.
Unfortunately I'm someone who sometimes can't separate the art from the artist. Replit is the company where the founder sent these nasty pompous threats to their ex-employee for their innocent side project and then tried to double talk his way out of it with a bs non-apology when it got exposed in public. I won't support Replit or anything they make.
I agree that many philosophical arguments are ridiculous or nonsensical, particularly about consciousness and self-awareness. But, there is still a lot of useful discussion of the subject, concepts that are good to be aware of dating from nearly 3000 years ago. Ignoring that and starting over from scratch will just lead to errors and wasted time.

Sure, dualism is silly. But the ramifications of dualism, and what leads to dualism, have been extensively written about. For instance, modern computer scientists may not have the philosophical grounding to see how acceptance of the Chinese room argument or p-zombies leads to dualism.
I don't think anyone has cared so much about what they look like as opposed to how and what they're doing when they do see them. There's also numerous first hand accounts from extremely reputable people that sort of do away with the need for high resolution photos. Taking everything together, the case is a lot more compelling than just "UFO because zoom can't zoom any better, the end".
U.S. SEC adopts new rules around private fund disclosures, share buybacks
Basically, just sad to see that money disappear. Not to mention, our last landlord promised the moon and never even fixed their parking lot which caused at least 1 flat tire.
yeah, off the top of my head I remember gopher, hytelnet, I think there was some screwy thing built on finger, even.

There was also an amiga format that was getting picked up for documentation and gamemanuals/guides, but the name is escaping me.
But that's not what Web 2.0 is. It's commonly understood as the era of interactive web technologies, like:

- AJAX (Google Maps, Gmail)

- RSS (podcasts, blogs)

- Bittorrent

- jQuery (website interactivity)

- Flash games

- Flash video (early YouTube)

- database driven server-side CMSes (Wordpress, Drupal)

There is nothing about corporate ownership in these technologies in and of themselves.
> You can't even trivially add a script tag with an ESM module because it won't work from a file:// domain, you have to start up a simple server for your simple.html file.

This isn't an ESM problem. Last I checked this is still a per-browser security decision that applies to all JS, not just ESM, because browsers fear they can't trust malware or adware not to spread if file: were too open. (Thanks to such things in the IE days existing.) Too many developers are in Chrome 24/7 and forget that Firefox still exists and has good development tools and that Firefox allows file:// origin for scripts still in 2023 (with some caveats, but fewer than "doesn't run at all" as has been the Chromium default for a long time).

Also, I recall there are command line flags in Chrome to allow it if you really do want to use Chrome for development and can't just spin up a simple server on localhost.
Maybe a dictionary would be of help

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beautiful

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic

I'd rather optimize for substance than style.
I think the Discord team is underestimating how much people crave having the exact username they want. This change wants to emphasize "display names", but I don't think that will really matter to people (including myself). Discord's discriminator was clever, and I would rather see them expand it to six digits or hexadecimal to give more people access to the same names, rather than remove it altogether. The only real argument is that people don't know how to share them, but I don't think the confusion of copy and pasting a four digit number is worth removing the benefits. I hope they rethink this.
> I don’t think the (us) government is lending to the banks

Lending to banks is precisely what the Federal Reserve does.

> Shouldn’t one be able to set the price of borrowing, why we must have one party deciding for everyone else.

This is also already the case. If you want to take out a mortgage or a personal loan or a credit card, the interest rate is negotiated entirely between you and the lender (the government has no say in dictating that rate).

The reason Fed interest rates affect your interest rates is that if banks have to pay more interest to borrow from the Fed, they are willing to offer consumers more money for their deposits, and are also going to charge more for money they lend out (since they still need to make a profit on it).

This is part of the reason for recent bank failures: if you're a bank and you offer depositors 1% on their deposits to go and make long-term investments at 2%, you'll make that 1% difference as profit.

If other banks suddenly start offering depositors 3% (due to increased bank-borrowing rates), you're going to either lose depositors to the much better interest rates at other banks or you're going to have to take a loss on those 2%-investments you made, offload them, and make other investments at a higher interest rate.

In all of this, the only hand the Fed had in things is saying "We're charging banks this much interest on the money we lend them"
Firefox 102.10.0esr seems to do this here.

I type into the address bar: `http://example.com` and it corrects it to the HTTPS version. Even when I try to change the URL back to the `http://` it goes to the HTTPS version. When I try the same with curl as in `curl -v http://example.com` I can see the HTTP traffic coming through correctly i.e. the site still supports HTTP.

Note that I have configured "Don't enable HTTPS-Only Mode" in the Firefox settings. I use some addons although none to specifically redirect my requests to HTTPS...
The paragraph in the section, "What are passkeys?" tells me that they: are new, are easier, let me use biometrics, and are resistant to attacks. But, it doesn't tell me what passkeys actually are.

Compare passkeys to traditional authentication factors. What's a password? A secret word or phrase that only you know. What are biometrics? Parts of your body that can help uniquely identify you, like your fingerprint or retina. What are hardware tokens? They are physical devices that give you codes that verify that the person logging in has the device on their person.

What are passkeys?

Until they develop a way to explain what passkeys really are, I question how quickly they will be adopted.
It was an excellently timed IPO because the insiders’ lockups expired in 2021 while the stock was above $100.

I know someone who had >$5M worth of Unity stock (employee grants). He sold it all in 2021. Had the IPO happened a year later, his stock would have been worth 80% less.

I’m assuming a lot of these Unity insiders sold. Fortunately genius fund managers like ARK’s Cathie Wood were buying hand over fist.
Under no circumstances do the software estimations for major competing projects in any way affect the political decision. Even if the teams themselves sweat blood on the estimations, the politicians will get their own people to do their own opinions and argue with those.

The decisions are all a compromise between peers horse trading budgets.
Your points are taken, but I do believe that the "something you are" is better than the "something you know" and "something you have" pieces -- as the knowledge or the thing you have can be stolen.

Sure fingerprints, face scans, and iris scans can be stolen as well. But certain things are really hard to fake, including potentially, scans of faces and an iris scan at the same time -- unless you can somehow graft a new iris and grow a new face.

Put it like this: a dead victim is found naked along the side of the road. Which leg(s) of the security triad can the police use to prove the identity of the victim?
Ask HN: What printers support CUPS IPP-Everywhere mode on Linux?
IPP-Everywhere™ or "Driverless" mode is urged upon Linux in recent distros -- but fails badly with some printers.

Anyone know of printers that support it well?
Changing out passwords for passkeys does not improve security in anything but a theoretical manner.

Good passwords (stored on the backend with a password-optimized hash) are pretty close to bulletproof, and all browsers that I've used in the last few years prompt you with very good passwords.

Again, the key is that people who would use passkeys are the same ones who will be using good, non-reused passwords in the first case. We've taught non-technical users too well that they should not pay attention to out-of-browser prompts, so they're not going to be able to use passkeys without significant and broad re-training.
> Similarly, one should never state that something is "obvious".

Agreed.

Logically speaking, if something is obvious, why are you wasting time stating it?

Either you've wasted everyone's time or it wasn't obvious.
Can you explain what you mean by dollar volatility?
Reading the linked article: above ground waste containers.

Reading https://dsny.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/reports/fut..., a combination of individual waste bins for some houses and large shared containers above ground. A reason for making that choice is that underground containers require “substantial space to build underground and a comprehensive underground map that does not exist in New York City”

That makes me wonder how they build anything there.
Probably not as lucrative but I could envision people pranking others by replacing QR codes that take them to a "shock" site with obscene loud sounds but I do not know what would be considered shocking or obscene by today's standards. Perhaps this is already a thing.
Emmy: Moldable Physics and Lispy Microworlds
> > Then they should have presented the case that way

> That's exactly what they did.

You have read the article, right? It starts with showing how it looks like in C++ and then goes on with the revelation "In Rust on the other hand ...". Literally. This strongly suggests
that what they are getting at is a language feature that sets Rust apart from C++.
That's only a spoiler if you don't really know how big space is, how far away other stuff is, etc.

For fun, you could try to do some calculations on what kind of lens / focal length / field of vision you'd need to get an image of something 12,000 light years away, eg using the calculator at https://www.kowa-lenses.com/en/lens-calculator.
Mac OS it's the new NeXT since OSX and Rhapsody.
What banking sector? I think until the AT1 bond lawsuit gets resolved with a win for the bond holders, all but the biggest banks have serious liquidity issues. There is not going to be a sector but a few chosen survivor banks and some lucky ones.

Private banks are the ones that "print" the money -- common misconception on who does. Fed is saying "well someone needs to lose the money or I will keep increasing rates (until I break the game)" while FDIC and executive branch are saying "nobody will lose any money."

Who do you think is going to win this game of chicken?

We need actions at the speed of "light" compared to Congress speed. That is the reason Congress does not directly handle these issues but a third party, the Federal Reserve, does.

We are practically waiting for the real estate sector to collapse, commercial first, and that money to disappear right now.
If the rich and famous guys who knew Epstein abused girls as he and Ghislaine Maxwell did, I would expect civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution. The lack of such suits suggests to me that Epstein's acquaintances did not offend as he did.
>while /r/actuallesbians is filled with men pretending to be women

Accurate: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/actualles...
There are better FPGA options, they're just more expensive. The DE-10 Nano was strategically chosen as "powerful enough to meet most wants while still being within a reasonable budget".

No one's going to plunk down $10k for a 19 EV Zynq UltraScale+ with 1.1M LEs, but they will spend $200 on a Cylcone V with 210k LEs.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35802730.
> "...the Federal Reserve will keep pushing those interest rates higher and higher..."

They really can't raise interest rates much above 5%, this follows straightforwardly from observing how much of the national budget is consumed by debt service as a function of the interest rate. (Higher rate = larger fraction of budget allocated to debt service, obviously.)

If they go above five-ish percent, this implies that they'll need to either A) raise taxes to a level that would likely inspire mutiny, B) greatly reduce borderline-impossible-to-cut parts of the budget such as the military industrial complex + welfare spending broadly construed, C) increase productivity by a lot, D) monetize the debt or E) default on the debt.

Probably they will attempt to pick F) all of these, in varying degrees, though obviously some are easier to implement than others. Anyway it is very unlikely that we will see rates much above 5% in the foreseeable future.
Do a search for Apple & Khronos and you'll find a lot more examples of spats between them over the last decade than anything else. Including an ongoing legal dispute.

You also won't find any hint of involvement from Apple in anything Vulkan-related. Or really anything else Khronos-related. They've even pulled out of OpenCL - the thing that only Apple ever cared about in the first place.

No idea why they are still a member of the group. Possibly they just haven't been kicked out yet, possibly they still want to retain voting input for something (like webgl).
I've been enjoying Jeffrey Kaplan's YouTube videos on philosophy. He has one on this subject[0], and I recall getting a lot out of it. Might be time to re-watch it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4
Why limit this to crypto companies? I personally approve with the specificity of the targeting (I don't see the value added by crypto to society writ large, and there's other power-hungry industries that are more essential who'd likely be crippled by such a tax), but it seems fishy to me to target legislation so specifically, from an engineering standpoint: it won't be flexible w.r.t other situations, and there could be unpredictable outcomes.

Plus, if they're getting their power from clean sources, I don't much care about taxing excessive use, but at that point we're just talking about a carbon tax, which is... questionable at best.
Maxima existed far before iPython.
Seems to be a thing on Android/Chrome:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vlovich123#35802511
I see “Securities Fraud” in the title, I know it’s a Matt Levine article before I even click

(Matt famously likes to show that everything is securities fraud in his newsletter)
Your fingerprints change over time (mine are different from just five years ago -- as I learned when recently renewing a visa a few weeks ago).
And ended up with something like Flash?
For the longest time I thought being a game dev was a cool job where you made lots of money and got to do what you loved.

The more I read about it the more sweatshop-ish it sounded.
A weather “picture” using the Soldered Inkplate 10 and Pirate Weather API
It's not as rare as people think for fingerprints to be messed up either permanently or temporarily. Which amazes me, actually, because I'll be willing to be pretty near 100% of adults have, at least once in their lives, burned or otherwise injured their fingers in a way that alters their prints.

Relying on fingerprints to gain access to things on a regular basis never seemed like a great idea to me.
A prescriptive sentiment masquerading as a descriptive evaluation.
Not just the navy pilots. USAF has files going back to 1946. My uncles were on the staff of the blue book project. General Joseph D Moore.

They are indeed real, UFOs, but that’s where it ends. We know of several different kinds, but we know not of their origin or how they work. Or at least that information is still sealed. The pentagon knows. Maybe not their communications department but the top brass knows, or at least has access to, the blue book files.
What Does the WGA Strike Mean for Podcasts?
They have a mandate to do sensible things. And a massive 2nd round of additional fiscal stimulus was not sensible.

Additionally, fiscal policy is little slower or more crude than monetary levers. They could be part of the solution.

But putting on the breaks is not going to get them elected.

So we have the Fed who get to be the bad guys.
Hacker News? More like "Hacker" "News" amirite guys?! XD

This quip is so trite and boring. We have to come up with something more scathing than this. I'm begging us.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13998867 - March 2017 (95 comments)
Ok sir, I called 988 and was told not to kill myself and was told that if I am feeling suicidal they can send out a crisis worker. This will lead to me being possibly institutionalized in a shitty situation worse than the one I am in now.

Do you have any other advice?
That sounds like something your admin enabled. I’ve never seen that.
PBS Eons has a few related videos iirc
Ask HN: Is Google Storage for GApps broken for you the past few hours?
I have a legacy personal Google Apps account, where one user account has 15GB of base storage plus 9GB of add-on storage (via various old promotions I think), so in total 24GB of storage.

That account has ~16 GB of stored data, so around 8GB free.

As of around an hour ago, when trying to edit documents in GDrive or GSheets, the account gets a "your storage is full" message making it impossible to do anything, and on Android clicking for more details shows 16GB used out of 15GB total (a wrong number).

Clicking on the message leads directly to a page showing indeed there's 8GB free.

Anyone else seeing something similar?
The Summers connection described in the article is a little more than a chance meeting at an event. In addition to their earlier ties, the article says that he and Epstein met more than a dozen times after Epstein's conviction and prison stint. Summers reached out to Epstein to raise money for his wife's $1M online poetry nonprofit (LOL) and Epstein donated $110k. The nonprofit eventually donated a large amount to an anti-sex-trafficking organization to make up for taking the Epstein money, but the fact that they solicited the money after Epstein's conviction suggests that their backtracking was more for PR than for actual concern about his history.
Show HN: Promptfoo – CLI for testing & improving LLM prompt quality
> The least painful option is raising interest rates. Alternatives are hyperinflation

Why is this taken as a fact everywhere. Surely, interest rates is a zero sum game?

I honestly don't understand.
Sure but learning a framework like unity or godot is it's own massive investment (which can be taken away from you ala this article), and doing game dev isn't a part time job you do so if you're gonna spend your life on it better just learn that stuff anyway.
Hi HN,

I built this because I'm tuning a bunch of prompts and don't have a great way to do this systematically.

This CLI tool helps you pick the best prompt and model by allowing you to configure multiple prompts and variables. It outputs "before" and "after" so you can easily compare LLM outputs side-by-side and determine if the prompt has improved the quality of each example.

Example use cases:

- Deciding whether it's worth using GPT-4 over GPT-3.5

- Evaluating quality improvements to your prompt across a large range of examples

- Catching regressions in edge cases as you iterate on your prompt

It supports a handful of useful output formats: console, HTML table view, csv, json, yaml, so you can integrate into your workflow as needed. It also can be used as a library, not a CLI.

I'm interested in hearing your thoughts and suggestions on how to improve this tool further. Thanks!