skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This and the many other ways of creating one time or disposable email accounts illustrates that email verification does not and can not prevent spammers. Because similar services exist for phone numbers, SMS verification does not stop knowledgeable people either.

I recently setup a new social media instance and simply setup hcaptcha with no email or phone verification. If I really need to verify people, I can use a feature on my Nextcloud server to video verify people. When they click a link, it calls my phone for a video call and then an approval by me before they can proceed. https://nextcloud.com/blog/unique-sharing-security-video-ver...
This is great. May be buying my first car in the next couple months and being able to splurge a little and get an electric vehicle would be wonderful
So is Apple going to remove Instagram from the App Store like they did with Tumblr?
We're saving some of that for a future blog post - we tested many different configurations and scales (of both SpiceDB and CRDB)
It will need to be visual, so that people can immediately recognize compliance, in addition to machines.
All my friends who own teslas all say they wouldn't buy another one.

Tesla's goose is cooked imo once other charging networks come online.
Awaiting extradition in prison, what else?
your microwave focuses the energy into a small space. traditional radar is broadcast at broad angles. It may be capable of burning things in the close vicinity of the transmitter, but you can burn yourself on an ICE in close enough vicinity as well.
Side note unrelated to Apple Vision:

Why would anyone want text fully aligned to the left of the browser window?! At least it's distinctive, I don't think I've ever seen that on any other website in the last 15 years.
You scan your face with the headset and the other person sees an avatar that is a scan of your face. Kinda defeats the purpose of "Face"time but I have not used it yet but with the speed of development I could see it improving to the point that the distinction between the avatar and your real face will be hard to tell apart.
> Thunderbird is clunky

> I'm running it in a docker image on my file server, accessed via noVNC in a browser
You can trust some claims from a study but not other claims. Maybe a database of trustworthy claims with the studies and commentary on why they support the claim. With error bars!
> I imagine the native VIM bindings would be atrociously positioned in DVORAK

Not really. Most vim keybindings follow mnemonics (like `di"`). Dvorak still has 'jk' adjacent to each other; and `h` to the left of `l`.

There are several keyboard shortcuts which are nicer with QWERTY left-hand only: (Ctrl Z, X, C, V, S, F, W, ... T?, A).

For two-hands-on-keyboard, these are less of an issue than for keyboard+mouse workflows.
I'm not sure if this would help. It might be somewhat inexpensive, but at scale? I don't know.

Most roads aren't even properly painted ._.
Which is fine if the prices are given per 1 kg or 100 g. Here in the US they have the prices by the ounce or by the pound, by the gallon, quart, or liquid ounce ... not exactly transparent unless you can >> 4 in your head faster than / 10. I can't.
If anything I've had way more issues with dns-based ad blocking than with ublock. I think he's just shilling his blog.
It's essential to assess language models based on their performance and capabilities rather than subjective measures like "vibes."
Youtubers I follow are doing just that.
> support what the industrial revolution did to cobblers and weavers

Which made cheap shoes and clothes available to everybody.

If you want to buy a tailor made shirt, it'll cost you at least $500. And that's still with machine made cloth. What do you think it would cost if the cloth was made by hand by a weaver?
It can be the most technically impressive AR/VR device in existence (and it truly sounds like it is), but that doesn't change the fact that it feels goofy and out-of-touch and has no real long term future.

I really don't think people need to try the device to form the opinion that a future with people walking around with expensive goggles on their face (recording 3D videos of their kids during birthday parties) isn't really a good one.
Even "inexpensive" things spread over millions of miles of roadway gets pretty expensive. Let's start with the basics of reliable painting and safe road surface.
Backfills in Data and Machine Learning: A Primer
Intro text:

In the life of a data engineer, perhaps nothing inspires more difficulty or awe than the backfill. Flub a backfill, and you'll have bad data, angry stakeholders, and a fat cloud bill. Nail a backfill, and you're rewarded with months or years of pristine data (until the next backfill). Backfills are a central piece of the data engineering skillset, a fiery furnace where all the individual challenges of the profession melt together into one big challenge.

Backfills frequently go wrong. They accidentally target the wrong data. Or they fail, and it’s too difficult to pick up from the middle, so they get restarted from the beginning. Or they leave data in an inconsistent state: the records in related tables don’t match up. And the stakes are high: restarting a large backfill from the beginning can mean spending an extra $10k cloud compute and living with out-of-date data for days.

In this post, we'll survey backfills: what they are, why we need them, what makes them difficult, and how to deal with that difficulty.

Backfills often go hand-in-hand with partitions, an approach to data management that can help make backfills dramatically simpler and more sane. This post will also delve into how to use partitions to avoid many of backfilling’s main pitfalls.
Same, I'd love to buy them a beer (or coffee)!
Zig Bindings for Steamworks
I don't think that article is really addressing the same argument. The argument Asimov is addressing seems to be whether human scientists will always disprove the previous century's human scientists.

The argument the poster above is making is that human scientists may be cognitively limited, and our species objectively stupid. You can't really definitively argue against this in an essay, because if you are a stupid person who is a member of a stupid species, your reasoning skills can't be trusted. You might argue it pragmatically makes sense to assume your species is smart enough to understand the universe, but that's a different argument than Asimov is making.

Asimov seems to assume humans are objectively an intelligent species so his reasoning skills can be trusted, which of course may not be wrong, but is pretty hard to prove.
I only want that until someone figures it out and starts making 1/100 size sheets, or some other cheat.
I utterly dislike Zabbix (enough to login here and complain). I guess that if it fits your needs is all good and fine, but as someone that has been in charge of defining and feeding it with LLD rules and registering multi-dimension metrics with Zabbix Sender, I feel scarred by it.

I cannot find my way around the Zabbix web interface neither and most of the templates, rules and macros system confused me, deeply.

On the other hand we have a Prometheus + Grafana stack for another system and the model makes all the sense to me. I guess that there is something in time series and graph plotting that just clicks with me.
But is it actually used differently than brother in this context?

Understand that bro also has a pejorative connotation in some context, but that is not the case here.

If the quote was "we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA brother." how is the meaning different?

I can see that they have slightly different connotations like thanks versus thank you, but that doesn't mean it it's no longer an abbreviation, which is what the parent poster was claiming
I'm not a fan of Apple, but I tend to say "if Apple did X then it'd be more userfriendly"

and I'd want to see if cars+roads+whole infrastructure designed from scratch by Apple
Who said anything about a joyride?

The whistleblower clearly is implying that we are being spied on.
Direct-X 12 support, but not Vulkan?
That $1.50 bag of chips still cost the store 50 cents.

Red Bull cost pennies per gallon.

You see… the pricing of goods is arbitrary, as in mutable given human philosophical whims, not coupled to the movement of the universe otherwise, we’ve hallucinated an entire cottage industry around social sharing but only so long as everyone is socially sharing the right people are rich.

Our culture is itself something an AI might hallucinate.

Why everyone knows Martha Stewart has always been X rich so we will inflate the money supply with those immutable truths in mind and oops now thanks to her investment help she’s richer and everyone else without an investment team is poorer. Should have capitalized harder.
This is, honestly, one of the things that brought me back to Android. Content blockers on mobile Safari just didn't work as well for me.
as late as the 19th century, "accepted practices of the time" was a defense for some genocides. Source: british historians documenting acts of war by early British Kings
SIO covers this as if they are fixing software bugs. No rage against the machine. They have become part of the machine. We have such a fit for nothing intellectual class.
> For instance, on a PC the security settings are applied per machine and not per partition, so you can't mix an unsigned OS on one partition with full security on another partition.

This wasn't true for a low-end Acer I bought a while ago, and it's not true on an Asus motherboard I use. You can add keys to the bios, and then it'll let you run with either key. That lets you use the grub shim key. On the Acer, you can even tell it to screw PKI, and just check that the hash of the bootloader hasn't changed.
The most interesting part of this paper to me is that they let the agent guess how efficient it’s own solutions were and only had the model experimentally verify it’s guesses in 0.002% of cases. This allowed the model to search much faster than another program that didn’t guess and had to run every program.
Everyone knows that 85% of statistics are made up.

-Homer Simpson
Crazy that a tool like this doesn't already exist. Interested to see how this tool matures and also if it will change the way they write tests and generate test artifacts.
I once wrote an ECS for a game and it was literally a database without WHERE clauses (write your own if statements, indexes are too expensive). Each component was a table and your systems used left joins or inner joins to query the tables. The join algorithm was quite simple as well. Just a binary search to find the next element by its ID.
Your comment is such a great bait :D
As much as things could be really cool in VR, the simplest argument here is that as a human you can do much more than just look at things and listen to things...
Giuliano Cecchinelli, Barre's last Italian stone carver
This is extremely gross 'Dang, and I'm wondering how you can possibly defend doing this. Seriously, why are you going to these lengths to evade a soft-block on links to specific sites that very clearly and explicitly are communicating that they don't want HN's traffic?
> It is quite ironic, that people flagged your post.

Flagged or downvoted? Downvoting stuff is fine; it's actually a bit more nuanced as I mentioned in my previous post because if you spend all your life in a "circlejerk" then that's perhaps a bit of an issue. That's been a concern with e.g. "The filter bubble" and things like "FOX News media bubble" and stuff. But none of that applies to e.g. Lobsters, so I didn't bother mentioning it.

Flagging would be a horrible abuse of the flag feature though.
Y’all have a very naive view of the US justice system.

> Snowden would have at least been able to argue his whistleblowing case in court if he stayed in the US and limited his leaks to illegal or quasi-illegal behavior

Snowden would not even be allowed to have a public trial, let alone “argue his case in court”? Are you kidding me? He is not even legally allowed to make a case for why the things he leaked were illegal.
New superconducting diode could improve performance of quantum computers and AI
There is only one universe
> VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor?

My big crime is that I live in Romania, I think.
False equivalency. OP is an indiehacker with (relatively speaking) $0 marketing budget versus a large company.

OP - keep validating and showing your early, "ugly" products. Marketing and market validation matter the most.
Realy? I saw "Spring", suddenly acquired a skin rash, and swore I'd never look at this again...
"The reality is that we painted ourselves into a corner with free-as-in-beer, "information wants to be free," etc."

Personally I kind of view it the other way around. We weren't the painters here, just observers. "Information wants to be free" is phrased that way because, whether we want it to be or not, it is just a fundamental fact that it is very easy to copy bits. And - while you can make it damn annoying to be sure - if you want a user to be able to see the bits on their screen, there is going to be a way to break DRM. So - we can either acknowledge this, embrace reality, and figure it out from there, or we can shove our heads in the sand and wave our arms about yelling "intellectual property!!" and ask the local monopoly on violence to help us do so.

I agree that SaaS is often used to skirt the piracy stuff. I also agree that SaaS encouraging you to give up ownership of your data is bad. But also I think SaaS being on the other side of a network forces a function that's actually useful - they're assuming the risk, the ops burden, and so on. You get to just shoot IP packets at them, which I find is typically a comfortable position to be in. And frequently I find that that is actually why SaaS is so valuable. Part of the reason that enterprises pay for SaaS is because it lets them offload business complexity, operational burden, etc. So i think SaaS isn't just a categorical moral hazard.

"It's hard to make money in software by doing things to make peoples' lives better or increase their freedom. It's easy to make money with rent extraction schemes, addictionware, dark patterns, and outright scams. It's like this market is full of people who want to be screwed and refuse to pay for anything that doesn't screw them."

This is absolutely an accurate take on the current B2C software ecosystem. If it's not B2B software, it's probably predatory in at least some way. And if it's not "productivity" software, it's probably a literal horror of bad actors. Humans just weren't ready to have nightmare rectangles in their pockets 24/7 and our monkey brains are far too easy to game into exchanging money for dopamine microdoses at far too egregious of an exchange rate.
Show HN: I built an AI language teacher to get you speaking
Hello Hacker News,

When learning foreign languages, I made the most progress by speaking them throughout the day, every day. So I made a site where you can *speak* to an AI language teacher to practice both listening and speaking.

# The product

*What I have now:*

* Multilingual speech recognition: You can ask a question in English and get an answer in your target language.
* Feedback on your grammar.
* Suggestions: See examples of what to say next to keep the conversation flowing.
* Speed: Choose a lower speed for beginners or a faster one for advanced levels.
* Translations: Click to see a translation into English (or another language).
* Role-playing: Practice real-life situations.
* Available to learn American English, British English, Australian English, French, Spanish from Spain, Spanish from Mexico, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, and more.

*What I'd like to add:*

* More Situations/Characters/Customizations: A "Creator mode".
* Feedback on your pronunciation.
* Text-based responses (Type or click – would feel like a "Create Your Own Adventure" book!)
* A dictionary.
* Phonetics: Zoom in and repeat a sound to help you hear phonemes and words more clearly.
* …and so much more!…

# The startup

Been working on this for 6-7 months now.

I love this project and got lots of laudatory comments about it, but still find it hard to make it take off. 31% of people come back to it, traffic is growing through word of mouth with language teachers in schools or Telegram or private intranets sharing it with others. So that's nice. But nice words alone don't pay the bills.

My goal is to achieve enough growth to cover costs, which would then allow me to focus 100% on the product (currently it's more like 50% of my time). But I'm not there yet.

A challenge I see is that most places forbid self-promotion. So I'm just not sure how on Earth I'm supposed to have a product take off. I could pay for ads, but I use AdBlock everywhere so this feels out of character. I'm a big fan of Pieter Levels (@levelsio on Twitter) because he's doing things solo, so I'm trying to emulate the same kind of success. But it seems that something is missing.

What features would you find most useful? How can I better market this without resorting to ads?

Thanks for reading! If you've got thoughts or ideas, I would love to hear them.

Cheers,
Fabien
I would encourage you to actually look into the sort of anomalous cases we're talking about here.

https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20
It's not just public social media info, it's private info as well. It's discouraging to see people openly state that they don't care about that.
We also often prefer not to disturb animals because they are interesting and we think they have value.

Of course there are motives that intefere with that; but you can't make a blanket assumption about an alien racing traveling vast distances through space to visit. Maybe they would just want to observe out of interest.
I don't know enough about Starlink's mitigation of IP issues for their architecture, or the status of transitioning from a "bent pipe" to an orbiting "backbone" but: I wonder if it is an intentional cap, or just a performance characteristic.
> Since he started working on Jai he hardly shipped any game.

why do you perceive this as a problem?

Braid: 2008

The Witness: 2016

Braid Anniversary Edition (Jai): late 2023

Untitled Sokoban Game (Jai): TBA

also, Jai, even in its incomplete state, is a fantastic product.
It’s a very cool project but totally different from taking only one real photo, edit it with an AI and sell the created AI photo variants to other clients.
This is how some commentary on anything new starts, shallow opinionated "bullshit" to use the author's language. Time will tell if the audience trends to be rich people, even when the presumably non-Pro version launches. But I think there might be use cases the author isn't aware of, like people with disabilities who might flock to a device that let's them experience computing in a different way. The fact that you can insert prescription lenses, detect nearby objects & people, and possibly improve your vision is compelling to some people who might think of this in a different way. There might be other use cases that help people, like maybe a doctor in one country getting realtime feedback in an operating room from a doctor who remotely can advise during an operation by seeing what local doctor sees (hopefully that's under dire circumstances).

But Vision Pro probably won't give you an open mind or a good imagination.
Wouldn't that then require communication with those satellites to receive the shift/drift info? Doesn't that eradicate the point of a navigational system without reliance on GPS/satellites?

Or is the drift is so minor that this quantum navigation system can operate for up to 6 months without sufficient core drift alignment calculation?
Given the context, I would assume they were already talking about Ublock Origin.
In a clean room OS you can avoid unsafe languages
Which he is prolonging with every legal avenue possible to avoid scrutiny in a court room.
> the ancient Greek thing whose name I forget with alternating directions on each line

I believe the word you're looking for is "boustrophedon"
> Since he started working on Jai he hardly shipped any game.

That's an opinion. Maybe if you looked closer, you'd see: if it weren't intellectually interesting, he wouldn't ship any games, as opposed to a bunch of really cool and fun ones.

I can only speak personally. As a game designer, I have never regretted "not" "shipping." Spending the time on design instead, I feel my opinions are far more valued by my design and directing customers, who have bigger budgets and thus will have automatically greater success marketing, polishing, "shipping," etc. anyway.

If you think you need to ship in order to find out if something is fun... well, there's your problem. What do you think game design is, an A/B test?

In contrast, my former colleagues who emphasized shipping, in the last decade, they have spent 100-10,000x the budgets on putting kind of dull stuff into the App Store. And it was only marginally more stuff.

Anyway, I wouldn't ever ask them for an opinion about game design, or whether a prototype is going to be fun, but I would ask Jonathan Blow, so there's that.
Ah, yeah with the company names, I think it is simply an abbreviation for "brothers". A bit of miscommunication.
re: Zn Se and Na - You're gonna need other grains, nuts, seeds, fish, meat, or table salt to get those.
Yes! The Kill Sticky extensions/bookmarklets are good for this, too.
It does seem to me there are strong parallels with the iPhone/Blackberry keyboard conversation. Some people will hang on bitterly until the end.

I can thumb touch-type on a cap touch screen with the help of autocorrect. With continued improvement of predictive text and new input methods I think all kinds of things are possible.

Maybe with another technology iteration of haptics you would get positional feedback?
couldn't agree more.

I put together an explainer about how to use it to _rapidly_ (and usually permanently) delete nearly any part of public websites.

When I see friends on many websites now, it makes my heart ache.

https://josh.works/take-back-your-attention
Smalltalk images are somewhat similar: the whole machine state is persisted.
> Pricing is a useful signal for that.

I disagree. Pricing is a very poor signal for that, depending on the sort of good.

Pricing tells you what the target demographic of the store is. It doesn't reliably tell you much about quality.

> but you almost never see high-end products sold at mid-range prices.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "high end", but in my experience, there isn't usually a great deal of difference in quality between high priced and mid priced goods.

The large and consistent difference between the two is in presentation and aesthetic design. If those are important to you, fair enough. But I don't consider either of those to be quality issues.
Learn to use the <picture> element and you can stop caring about what petty squabbles browser vendors have around which image formats they choose to support. It's in all the browsers (except IE..), it handles image fallbacks really nicely, and every site should use it where they have an <img> right now.
Sometimes, but I have been avoiding Starbucks unless I am 'renting' office space there. For a quick coffee the bodega, deli, or Dunkin. Some retailers have made it hard to pay cash by installing card only systems. Others have long lines for cashiers and self-checkouts sometimes only take card. It's painful to see young kids struggle with making change, because they are so used to the phone/computer figuring it all out for them.
My favorite term like that was “scientific consensus”. I used to point out that up until the 17th century the scientific consensus was that the Sun revolved around the Earth. I would get nothing but blank stares in response. It turns out that people who talk about “scientific consensus” typically don’t know whether the Earth revolves around the Sun, or vice-versa.
One reason to assume that the current amount of information presented on a roadway is sufficient is that humans can learn to drive in a matter of hours with only two vision sensors mounted on their heads.