skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised it took this long. If someone asked me two years ago what were the chances of a competitor posing a serious threat to Twitter, I would have said zero. Nowadays though, after seeing how much it has regressed with Elon's ownership, I'm much more convinced that we will see Twitter slowly descending into irrelevance as competitors pop up and bite chunks out of it.
That is a tricky problem indeed.

I’m thinking a lot could be extracted from help and man pages. But maybe for some apps we could just write it by hand, or partially by hand.

These schemas could be in a repo and downloaded on demand.
IIRC Google solved this recently in the Play Store by signing packages themselves. But the cost was that it's much harder (impossible?) for me as a package maintainer to be sure that the package I built is the one I'm distributing; it means now Google can alter the package and nobody will be any the wiser.

I think a lot of the trouble with this article (and the article it links about why PGP is broken) is that it doesn't specify a threat model. It makes some good arguments why specific threats are not mitigated, but rather than attempting to fix broken processes or replace specific components it suggests just throwing out the whole idea.

And some of the arguments seem to point toward using a Google-style central packager/verifier but there are good reasons PyPy doesn't do this and many wouldn't want them to.
That leaked Google paper on how open-source models will catch up and surpass AIs from Big Tech is interesting. According to that paper, being able to train huge models is not a sufficient moat.

But requiring licenses to construct or deploy AIs would be a sufficiently large moat.
Gnucash is awesome even if not perfect.

The problem to use it in France is that there is regulatory barriers preventing to use it officially.
In theory accounting solutions have to comply with rules that are complicated to follow with your own opensource solution!
Yes. For a prime example of this, see the Apple Watch, which took 7 iterations to get full functionality.
I have about 150 accounts, though some of them are logins for vendors I dealt with once, a decade or more ago.

> I guess the next step would be to have usernames, phone numbers and even payment methods (apparently virtual credit cards sometimes work) also be more randomized and more compartmentalized, though something tells me it'd be a pain to do that.
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I do that. It's no trouble. I use various usernames to 'fuzz' tracking. Yes, anyone who really cared could track me by my IP address, but trackers are like whales sieving krill; they get so much, they don't bother to look very hard.
Any guide to detecting these? I have some of the cheapie set-top devices for a project and they are no longer being used. Connect via ADB etc?
https://archive.is/Lhp5g
Linda Nagata's works, particularly The Nanotech Succession series.
Reminds of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vujicic
Were there any requirements at all to get hired as a teacher before that change?
I mean, presumably if the actions of a company resulted in material damage (e.g. in this case losing a printer), you can sue them and the court then issue a judgement against them to compensate the losses. And if it happens to a lot of people at the same time, it can be a class action.
Speak for yourself. I hate parks that don't have flowers, and nice buildings are a massively important part of what makes a city livable. Aesthetics is an extremely important part of a good life.
Torsten is PI of that group not Maciej so you're half right, since being Maciej is first author on this one he probably did most of the technical work (and who cares about "coordination").
You can also use Caddy to do this. Single static binary, use the "respond" command to spin up a super simple server that responds with the text and headers you want: https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-respond also gives you Automatic HTTPS out of the box, production ready proxy, etc.
Assuming somehow spending money on rent is a more efficient allocation of resources than profits is absurd. For us without an office we're able to hire several more team members and embrace fully remote with east and west coast staff allowing us to expand our service coverage an additional 3 hours without having to ask team members to work outside of normal hours
daaaang.

ok, we’re cooking with gas now!
I can see a bit of a problem with the whole idea of interfering with a good after it has been sold. It negates the original sale to some extent because the person that bough the goods did what they could to make an informed choice at the time and the manufacturer retro-actively changes the deal.

That negates basic contract law to a degree that I think that it already is illegal.
Oh well, my advice to someone I cared about is tell me what I can do to help. And of course at this point, other commitments in my life as well as general ideas of what is healthy come into play. The other person will have to respect my boundaries and put in a substantial effort to be helped effectively. But, that is very different from being left on your own.

Since I obviously can't care about everyone, I would like to see a society that encourages virtuous cycles rather than downward spirals. Let there be regular public holidays with festivities that single individuals can enjoy without being awkward and that provide opportunities to reconnect with neighbors and meet strangers. Let there be a culture where if one is missing a cooking ingredient or needs to borrow a stepladder, the first impulse is to ask a neighbor for help rather than going to Instacart. This will give these neighbors a license to stop by and chat later without losing their dignity.

Collectively, majority that is doing Ok mentally is in a better position to boost someone who is not, without any single person getting overwhelmed, as opposed to someone who is down figuring it out on their own.
Using old EV batteries in grid frequency control?
Has anyone thought about buying old EV batteries and connecting them to the grid for frequency regulation? Currently the FCR-N market in Finland is such that apparently you could make 30k€ a year with a 100kW setup. The average hourly price per MW has been ~36€/MW so far this year, so assuming you can participate without downtime the naive estimate would be

36€/MW * 24h * 365 * 0.1MW = ~31k€

This should be achievable on a 30k€ investment:

- 10k€ for the battery https://evshop.eu/en/batteries/292-2052-tesla-model-3-full-battery-pack-75kwh-long-range.html

- ~10k€ for inverter (Growatt WIT 100K-A)

- ~10k€ for grid connection + misc stuff

100% annual ROI. What am I missing?
Brother printer and no problems with black and white. Was curious about Xerox wax as that might have been better environmentally, not sure, couldn't justify colour printing costs though.
I love this - "it's just engineering" say the people that think the hardest part about building a spaceship is having the big idea to build the spaceship. Note the "I love this" was sarcasm.
I paid to register for Glove80 batch 2, but decided not to follow up. I had several Choc keyboards, but I don't like Choc v1 switches and I don't like Choc spacing. Plus they currently don't have an option to return it if you don't like it, which is not great for a keyboard that costs about 470 Euro after import taxes.

I'm a 15 year kinesis advantage user, I will also get the advantage360 but it's >180 days wait from their partner to solder customer switches and the defaults are way too heavy for me.

That's a smart choice. I have the regular 360 Pro and even after several months I dislike the Gateron Brown switches and the 360 is mostly on the shelf. The Cherry Browns/Reds in the Advantage2 were much better, because they actuate around 2mm, while the Gateron Browns have much deeper actuation (2.5 to 3mm) [1]. As a result, I find the 360 tiring to type on, which is... not good for an ergo keyboard.

The Bluetooth situation got better with a recent ZMK rebase. At least the halves now usually connect immediately when I turn both halves on. No more 1-2 minutes of on/off cycles.

[1] Gateron's specs say 2mm, but that's not accurate. Also see measurements that others have made: https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tools/table/96386
Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Data on how many devs are leaving Russia and where they are going.
If the namespace is handled correctly, you won't accidentally download a malicious dependency if you get the namespace right. You'll get an error, but that's what you want for that kind of typo.

The cryptic username problem is indeed a bother, but often popular projects will use readable names for their Github accounts. There's no real fix for that if you depend on a much smaller project. When you think you may be running that risk, you should probably wonder if it's a good idea to depend on a project made by someone small enough not to be instantly recognizable within your specific programming niche.
I'd argue that the benefit of package signing is only ever going to be marginal, but that's not a reason not to do it, it's a reason for PyPI to fix their processes.

Weak and misconstructed keys should cause the packages to fail to upload to PyPI. Obviously we can't just flip that switch today but that's the direction we should be thinking.
At the risk of going against the grain here: I deliberately bought an HP laser printer and scanner combo(m148dw) a couple of years ago. Granted, the thing immediately got vlaned off from the Internet -- but that would apply to any device I don't fully control.

So far the performance has been rock-solid across several Linux and macOS machines and I almost forgot the saying "printers sense your fear and will break at the worst possible moment".
What really helped the "natural stupidity" is that paradoxically it actually worked better.

The really big winners were those which were undervalued because nobody expected them to grow as much as it would. Back in the 90s: "A mail order rental service growing bigger than Blockbuster? Get real." Being rational would filter the successful outliers along with the vast field of bad ideas. Usually going unfiltered is a losing proposition like playing the lottery. However, if the wins are outsized enough it perversely "pays to be stupid" assuming you have enough capital to win once and of course that similar market conditions emerge again.

That said useful applications of AI which may be implemented relatively easily are clear big winners as investments but that is pretty tautological and unhelpful for actually figuring out if say, an "AI love letter writing service" would be a terrible idea or not.
Iterating in Python is always faster than iterating in Rust. If you do indeed find what you are saying then you simply speaking aren't able to write Python code.
yeah man it's a real subtle joke. 142 users surely means scalability is the #1 priority.
Sorry, but I find "Redis API compatible" checked for Redis itself funny. :)
I want to use terminal, but everytime I type something I get presented with an adjacent form I can alternatively use. A cli command builder gui. Best of both worlds. Also should be web-based. And all output should be a searchable, sortable, groupable datagrid. Terminals really fall down in this department. I can't believe there isn't a terminal that does this yet. Like a Python notebook I guess.
>Can Australian teachers be replaced by GPT4 or by a 19-year-old guiding a classroom of students all using GPT4?

No, they can only really be replaced by teachers using GPT4 to teach perhaps larger amounts of students.
This video is pretty informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTMcH7u-vu0
GnuCash has an introduction that taught me everything I needed. [1]

[1]: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-accou...
Bedr00mZ: A love letter to ASCII art and cartoons
Same for the teachers in the Bay Area? I always think this is a great problem for K-12 education. If a teacher has to spend 2 hours to commute to her school, I can't imagine how the teacher would have enough energy to teach kids well. In a great scheme of things, I wonder if kids in the US succeed despite the failures of the US K-12 education. The sad truth is, the majority of the students, millions of them, do need great teachers to push and nurture them in order to grow to their full potential. I can't imagine how exhausted teachers can ever do so.

In contrast, I grew up in China when we had only public education. China did not join the WTO by then, and was quite poor in the current standard. Yet my teachers, for whom I'm forever grateful, painstakingly made sure we understood the fundamentals of science, math, reading, and writing. They designed daily exercises to push our boundaries. They gave timely feedbacks to us (we had at least two 2-hour long exams per subject every week in addition to daily homework, and most of the questions were proof and word problems. Grading them for 50 students in a day or two was not a small feat). I would never push myself as hard as my teachers did, and thanks to them, I could easily thrive in an elite university here and became a TA of CS courses in a sophomore year. I'm sure this is nothing to the elite students here, but I'm not sure if the system of the US can enable the non-elite students like me to achieve such.

If anything, I would love to see my tax dollars go to teachers, increasing their salary by at least 2X. Things like ipad in classroom, compute software this and Epic books that, are really not that essential.
I must admit I did not think this whole thing fully.

But what was interesting to me was the fact that you could add a peripheral that was not initially intended by the manufacturers, making a mainstream motherboard more versatile.

For you it may be a video transcoding unit, for someone else it may be an SPI or I2C device, PCIe, or extra ethernet, or high quality audio.

I'm not sure what peripherals were implemented by the community for the RP2040 either, maybe they would not make sense on a PC.
Part of the collection is great (the modern art part, with their beautiful Kandinsky, Mondrian, Brîncuși etc collections), while most of the rest is contemporary drivel (oh look, a huge room filled with felt which mostly dampens sound, with a piano in the middle! Amazing!). The building itself is extremely divisive, but I think most tend to hate it - I certainly did.
What is your point even? That these people are somehow sabotaging the Matrix protocol ... how? and ... to do ... what exactly? Either state your accusations plainly or stop it with these odd accusation by association.
I think problem with Apple Pay you experienced was due to US not being up to speed with contactless payments (or chip one for that matter as well)? In Poland you coild use contactless cards for a veeeeery long time, so when mobile payments came it was just swapping card for a phone. What's mote, before Google / Apple pay, banking apps offered mobile payments, first Via dedicated sim card and then via app
Becuase the stuff people use private browsing for is useless information for Meta.

Why do you believe that Zuckerberg wants to see your porn preferences?
Two fake BOMs don't make a real BOM
This is a universal problem in most of package repositories regardless of language. PKI is difficult, and for it to work the users have to do some homework and place trust somewhere.
California counties face unknowns launching mental illness court
> $3k+ is exactly the right price point. A customer cannot be disappointed from a product they don't buy. And the type of enthusiast who spends 3k+ on it, will be satisfied before they even wear it.

I think you're absolutely right. I think a similar example of this is the RTX 4090. Everyone complains about the price, the power usage, how it's overkill for 99.99% of the population but it's constantly sold out. I doubt anyone who owns one is really disappointed
You think apps should never change their interface.. ever?
Yes. One of the astonishing examples in the paper I quoted earlier [1] is an image produced in response to the prompt "Produce Javacript code that
creates a random graphical image that looks like a painting of Kandinsky”. The response by GPT-4 does kind of look quite a lot like a Kandinsky.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
I tend to agree with this take. It's interesting to think about what you could do with an "infinite" screen, especially if it's socially acceptable to wear in a cafe, on a plane, etc.
Even if ClosedAI doesn't get government to ban sales of powerful GPUs to the public. Homebrew models will not be of comparable quality in near future. Don't be fooled by how cheap ChatGPT is, it is not profitable.
With the amount of data this crapware collects, basic privacy regulations should do the job. Trojans and adware are already on the boundary between legal and illegal at best in many countries.

The problem is that nobody will go after the FWUWGFISA brand of phone on Amazon. They disappear next week and reappear as FUFWEIW. Either Amazon needs to get their crap together (I doubt that'll ever happen) or consumers need to make better purchasing decisions than "let's sort by price and pick the first one in the list".
I wish I was fortunate enough to work at such a place. When I'm given the ability to make those kinds of decisions for myself, I can get some serious work done. However, not many of my jobs have allowed for that. I've even been let go from a job that demanded so much of my time that I did nothing but work and doordash food supposedly because I wasn't putting in the amount of time they wanted.

This industry has completely alienated me to it. I loathe the grueling hours and the job search.
The Excel UI has changed once significantly in the past 2 decades with the addition of the Ribbon.

The Excel data format has changed once, significantly, in the past 2 decades (which was forced on MS and even though MS has tried to sabotage the openness of the new formats they were required to create, its still much better than the predecessors).

It’s hard to think of any other change that wasn’t just an addition (new formulas, higher column/row limits).
I think it's the narration during gameplay which makes GOI so memorable.
To me the lesson isn't to completely give up on trying and fund literally anything, rather it's that while some ideas seem worse, are worse... they are not that much worse. They are not that much worse that there isn't a price at which they are worth investing in.
Why would an affair linked to a known pedophile pimp be different than going after subordinates? Your guess is as good as mine. (To be clear, Epstein was in fact a known pedophile pimp at this point in time)
How does it compare to ledger-cli? I've been using ledger for a long time, but heard good things about beancount and hledger.
> I think people are underestimating how effective a “cost-almost-no-object” version is going to be at generating interest. There will be lines at Apple Stores as soon as it’s available to try.

Not to mention all the developers who want to build something for the mass-market iteration. This is going to be like the original launch of the App Store, where even small gimmick apps get a lot of attention. If you want in on the gold rush, you’ll have to buy the first version.
Yea I don't know what happened to the collective conscience but people have totally lost the ability to question things.
Run the memory test that comes with windows. It takes like an hour or something, and will tell you if the memory is malfunctioning - that would explain all the mysterious crashes.

I've had this problem out of nowhere one day (computer would not stop crashing randomly) and it turned out to be a defective memory stick. All good after replacing it.
You are simply explaining why you don't give people your disk encryption password. It's a lot of access, and just about impossible to be sure there's not substantial valuable content in free space or swap on disk.
I've never seen anything as aggressive as what the parent describes on either Samsung or Xiaomi.

Xiaomi is the worst, selling top spec phones for dirt cheap by subsidizing them with ads, but even they never ruin your battery life by spamming ads all over the place. Plus, you can turn them off during setup, but most people just hit next to get the annoying setup screens to disappear it seems.
Ask HN: From which textbook have you learnt the most?
Any subject, any level. What did you learn that it is so worth remembering?
> people getting banned … with no ways of getting in contact with the support

This is the most out-of-whack part in my humble opinion. Most of us have a tremendous amount of data and things like auth tokens tied up in Google, and Apple, and due to their scale and the fact that at least for GOOG it’s a “free service,” they’ve set the expectation up that “support” should be limited to searching an FAQ, and also that any account they ban must be some kind of troll account that shouldn’t be listened to. God forbid they give you a phone number where you could bother a person until your problem was solved.

Using ad-supported services for vital stuff is risky. But I know even Apple isn’t very helpful, even for those of their iCloud users who pay.
Only, it’s not statically analyzable. Rice’s theorem still holds afaik
Page 27 here: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-library/sources/tp2...
The same in Denmark from next year.
What is missing in GnuCash is mainly some support for e-invoicing in

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL Peppol]

Is anyone working on something like that?
FTC says popular fertility app gave advertisers pregnancy data with o permission
The Three-Body Problem (Netflix Series)
Security is provided by the OS. A side loaded app has no more access to the device than an AppStore app.

I really don’t understand this argument. If there are security concerns with a side loaded app then the problem is with the operating system, not the app.
>assuming you live in a country where identity theft isn't much of a problem, and assuming regular and working backups are implemented

These are gigantic assumptions. I am not exaggerating when I say gigantic. Identity theft alone is hitting record highs in the EU in both percentage affected and money exploited.

The other problem is we tend to offer advice that is so vague it might as well be harmful. What does it mean for a patch to be proven to not cause more trouble? How does one prove a working backup? List goes on. We wind up giving so much of this nice sounding but useless advice that we confuse people. Even techies! You see it on HN all the time, bad/mediocre advice passed around and internalized, things regurgitated because it sounds good not because it's what will keep your data safe.

When advice is so horrible even techies wind up reverting to the most simplistic solution possible, that's a very clear sign we are doing a horrific job!
So true, rarely is anything the “best” or “better”, but instead each thing is a bucket of trade offs we choose from. Maybe frustrating, but also what makes engineering genuinely interesting.
Cloudflare's wall of lava lamps helps keep the internet safe
+1 for Australia.

People literally switched banks to get Apple Pay here.

I think the whole "chip-and-pay" thing in the US is so very laughable - everyone else has been with it for at last a decade.

It's a shame it took forcing merchants to wear the cost instead of banks making the terminals more affordable - then again, I am talking about the banks here.
Yikes, not doing yourself any favors. From oligopolists ruining everything to "fuck your open source" in just one reply.

Good luck getting thru your day - seems you might need it.