skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Ecuador the US $1 coin and US $0.50 coin are in wide circulation - as a tourist from the US I really enjoyed getting to use these coins to their full promise.

Ecuador also makes a $0.25 centavo coin which is the same size and weight as a U.S. quarter. You can’t change them practically at a bank, but they work in vending machines.
Does it make it bad or offputting?
What part of Passkeys is "centralization of passwords into corporate controlled infrastructure"?

"Big Tech" does not control Passkeys beyond the work on the underlying WebAuthn spec https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/, and that they develop implementations of that spec.
You need a web of trust, not a web of advertisement and anonymous spam.

Just as in real life, there needs to be the possibility to reliably identify yourself easily to others and establish trusted channels of communication. Not just in a P2P manner, but in the sense of a town meeting.

Your attention is worth real money, it is billable working hours. Anonymous actors with ill intent stealing it is a crime without prosecution. That should change.
> if an app displays a map, it assumes Google Maps and blindly calls it

I seem to recall that one was fixed down the road and displayed the native map.

> Blackberries didn't have one because they have permanent hardware keyboards

Not the Z10, which was fully touch. This gave a good experience for these Android apps, especially if you sideloaded the Amazon app store and picked from that.
That was already “solved” years ago: some companies train outsourcers to have specific accents.
I assume you are not familiar with modern C, but I think it's a good opportunity to explain.

A single header style allows you to customize the library with the preprocessor before `#include`. I use this ability to implement generics. Otherwise, you're stuck with void* or code generation (want my python script instead?).

However, you don't have to forgo the benefits of separate compilation units. You can include the declarations in a header, and the implementation in a separate C file. No other parts of the code base will be impacted.
Not gonna lie. I like how Mastodon does voting
I wonder if uBlock origin has overshot the mark.

It even blocks self-hosted analytics scripts from the same domain. By default.

I don't see how that is a good thing. It just makes the lives of people who run websites harder. When I visit a website, I have some sympathy towards the person who runs it.

Disabling scripts which talk to self-hosted analytics software makes it hard to figure out how users use a website. Especially when the site is using a CDN. So people enable tracking on the CDN level. Which means now CloudFlare, Amazon etc store that data again. Lose-lose for everybody.
I absolutely care if they were legacy because it means I'm not seeing a different Harvard grad who might have been less rich and more able.
As the article perhaps says, you can see his statue at the northwest corner of Lafayette Square opposite the White House. (The corners are given to foreign heroes of the Revolution: clockwise from Von Steuben are Kosciusko, Lafayette, and Rochambeau.)
Why shouldn’t they be banned too?
> I wish this article was just 3 paragraphs.

AI might have problems with single bananas, but it can do that very well:

> In an experiment with the AI program Midjourney, the author found a peculiar issue: the program rendered images of monkeys holding bananas, but it consistently depicted two or more bananas even when asked to render a single banana.

The author suggests that the AI’s predilection for rendering multiple bananas might be due to biases in its training data or the lack of precise labeling. He points out that AI systems like Midjourney don’t understand objects in the human sense but rather recognize common patterns. These systems are only as good as the data fed to them and can inadvertently contain biases or incorrect representations.

The article further delves into existential questions about the nature of human intelligence, creativity, and morality compared to AI’s pattern recognition. It questions whether human cognition and morality are just advanced pattern matching with a better understanding of the physical world. The author also touches on the distinction between programming and prompt engineering, highlighting that the latter requires a more nuanced understanding of language and how AI models interpret it.
good, legacy admissions are triangulation technique, so they can pretend the quota system doesn't discriminate against white people. "look at all those white legacy admissions getting an unfair leg-up". yeah great, a few rich white people from the right families get some set-asides. they're practically a caste.

99.9% of white people do not have a chance of getting in this way. it does not help a white kid with high test scores from a working class family with no elite connections. so the overwhelming majority of whites are competing for an even tinier sliver of places than it might appear, after the AA/legacy/athlete quotas are subtracted.

if you got rid of legacy admissions the white student population at top schools might shrink a little (or probably grow after AA is also abolished), but would become far more representative of the country as a whole. it would actually become more "diverse", which I am told is a good thing. there would be more square-headed midwesterners and appalachian scotch-irish, and fewer degenerate WASP scions.
From a certain perspective, passkeys are a lot like using "Sign in with Google/Apple/Microsoft account"

Because if this passkey stuff takes off with normal people, 98% of passkeys will be stored in cloud accounts with those providers.

The weakest link in the security chain is the procedure for when the user forgets their password / loses their phone / gets a rootkit / gets phished / has their e-mail compromised. You can transfer that problem from your site to a cloud provider and hope they do a good job - but the problem doesn't go away.
ssh keys for people.
Yes, it's possible. What I was trying to say, is that children get almost invariably past a certain level of goodness, whereas with adults, the results vary a lot. And I agree that motivation has a lot to do with it, as well as that children are very motivated.
Meta has been big enough for antitrust since at least 2010 when they went on an M&A kick[0]. Definitely they should have been blocked from buying Instagram back in 2012. Problem is, by that point governments had effectively hollowed out their antitrust enforcement agencies[1]. So the only option now is to break companies up.

Related note: I don't think anyone should be talking about Threads in the language of competition. Either this displaces Twitter entirely or (more likely) it dies on the vine. While there's been a lot of movement to Mastodon and Bluesky, Twitter is still around. There's no competition between the two; they're serving different markets. The people who jumped ship are the kinds of people who were already getting sick and tired of Twitter's toxicity. The people who remain are either hardcore outrage addicts or journalists and politicians feeding their addiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[1] This is often couched in the language of the free market, but practically speaking this was done because bigger platforms are easier to understand and easier to regulate.
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>Well first off, the focus shifts on identity, not productivity or merit. This "justifies" lower salaries based on equal pay. Most of DEI means equity (of outcome), not equality, which is often achieved by pushing higher-achievers down, not lifting everyone up. Needless to say how this affects compensation.

That sounds more like a scheme to standardise job levels. Been through it multiple times now and never saw anyone end up significantly worse off. If anything they might be bumped up a level.

>Third, weakens the belonging amongst coworkers since everyone is really careful in social interactions to not give the leadership a (mostly fabricated) opportunity to fire them for breaching DEI policies. Obviously, when coworkers are suspicious of each other, it's much easier to use divide-and-conquer tactics and underpay everyone.

I can understand that fear but to me it says more about the legal protections afforded to workers. In the US you might be marched right out the door by security, but in other countries there's a graduated process employers typically need to follow.
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That’s how I convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, if I have to do it in my head: Add 40, multiply by 9/5 or 5/9 depending on what direction, subtract 40. Easily remembered!
Tim Burners->Berners Lee
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Nowadays, well, on BT, bluez solved all of these problems, and blueman works once at for all.

But BT it's insecure as hell, OpenBSD and distros like Hyperbola GNU/Linux (which will be obsd based soon) ditched BT because of these reasons.
Yeah, I feel like there's this ingrained assumption people have that because SQLite can run in-memory that it's "not a real database". I've never really understood it (since I _love_ using it in my personal projects), but I've also never really had the chance to use SQLite in production.
Do you have sources for anything you said?
What is the lesson here?
What about the higher standard for Asians per this article:

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/2022/11/03...

"According to research from Princeton University, students who identify as Asian must score 140 points higher on the SAT than whites and 450 points higher than Blacks to have the same chance of admission to private colleges."
> Obviously, when coworkers are suspicious of each other, it's much easier to use divide-and-conquer tactics and underpay everyone.

OTOH because of aforementioned attitude, an employee could feel zero sense of loyalty or obligation to stay beyond the absolute minimum and just go to a different company

Personally, I’d rather feel that way. It would pay more long term
My two year old grandson is going to be fed on a steady diet of information about the virtues of becoming a plumber as his career over the next 16 years.

To me, plumbing is just low tech enough to stay automation and AI free for the long haul. Also I don’t ever foresee a time where people will not want clean water brought in to their homes and have their shit removed.

Plumbers are going to own the world in 20 years.
Google tried that too with SideWiki, but it only lasted 2yrs I think. There must be somethin to it that makes it not as easy as you think.
My opinion is that this applies to GA4 as well.

The decisions don't explicitly mention a version, they say these particular sites:
"...shall cease to use the version of the Google Analytics tool used on 14 August 2020".
They don't say if that's UA or GA4. The original complaints from NOYB refer to UA, but the issues cited in this decision would apply to GA4 as well.

So when the DPA says "Companies must stop using Google Analytics", there's no reason to think they only mean the version that was already shut off when they published that post.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!
Yes. Every time I see a cookie consent dialog, I do a quick "thumbs up" to our pals in Europe.
Hello,

1. The price for using the solution is free. Node-RED is an open-source project that you can download and run or host on your computer. They also offer a hosted solution. When it comes to Sinch Conversation API, you can read more about the pricing here: https://www.sinch.com/conversation-api/#pricing_api. It has a free tier and a few monthly payment plans. It also depends on which channels you want to use. FB Messenger is free for example, but SMS requires a paid number and has a cost associated with sending messages.

2. The Conversation API does in fact support WhatsApp as well. Messages are created in an OMNI format, meaning that there is one format you specify the messages in and the Conversation API will translate that into each different messaging channel. You can either create an OMNI template using the "Message composer" in the Sinch dashboard. These will then be available to select in the Template node. Or you can specify a "raw" JSON formated message using the Message node.

I hope this answers your questions!
You can always use a FIDO2.1 key as a passkey, they're not tied to the big tech. I don't even have a smartphone and have been using them on the couple of sites that support passkeys just fine.

We will also have at least one open software implementation when this gets merged:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825

There are braindead implementations like PayPal's:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/what-are-paypal-pas...

that force you to use Android or iOS, but it's nothing new, they manage to fuck up everything they touch (for example, U2F 2FA only supports registering one hardware key and it has been that way for years).
I'm really sad QNX has never been adopted for the desktop and it died with Blackberry for mobile.

Such a cool fast kernel / operating system.
The problem with wechat is not use, its how its embedded everywhere.

Being able to do payments without a bank through whatsapp is way beyond the risk appetitte of european regulators for example.

Plus forcing whatsapp to add e2e encryption already fixes most of the issues in terms of risk to privacy regardless of how big the userbase it.
Hi!
1. We are currently working on the Proton Pass web app. Some users prefer to have native desktop apps, which is why we're looking into developing those too.
2. Proton Pass allows you to generate email aliases (it's one of its core functions), therefore, it needs to be connected to an email account. You however don't need to use this function - you can create a separate Proton account just for Proton Pass, so your main email account wouldn't be connected to your Proton Pass account.
3. We plan to support Passkey in the future.
4. You can set up an account recovery method on your Proton account(s), of course: https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods.
Is this an actual whole-brain connectome or is it that same work based on a larval brain with several orders of magnitude less complexity than an adult fly brain?
It's a better battery bulletin, it has no legs
Good news then, Google has deliberately and bizarrely broken its API, so thousands or possibly millions of legacy sites will never correctly report their analytics again.
No, I just made it up (sarcasm). Jokes aside, these are just my observations. While writing my comment, I tried to look for online sources backing up or disproving what I said, but I haven't found much.

I think this is just an area which is not really written about.
My opinion on this whole thing is that whether legacy admissions or minorities, people who do badly academically, as evidenced by SAT/ACT/GPA should be denied regardless of legacy/minority status.

So if they can only admit 1000 students, the the list of applicants must be sorted by SAT/ACT/GPA first. Then student essays which should not identify the student's economic status or class and ethnic backgrounds or any identifiers such as their names having been removed from the essay, should be graded and sorted then. At this point, they have the top candidates without considering any individually biasing information. Now, they can use protected group status such as race and gender as well as legacy admission status, but not for additional sorting, only as a tie-breaker. So if 500 all have perfect scores, 500 have 9/10 on essay and perfect everything else and 500 have 9/10 on essay and one of SAT,ACT,GPA then the first 500 are automatically accepted , and legacy/minority status scoring would be applied for the rest without humans looking at individual identifiers or legacy/minority status. So a legacy/minority person of perfect everything except essay and 9/10 SAT score would be ahead of a non-minority/non-legacy person with perfect everything except essay.

Essentially, I am against both legacy and minority status compensating for lack of academic accomplishment but I am not against either factors being used as conditions of last resort. I am fine with harvard accepting all legacy white male students that all scored perfectly on essays,SAT,ACT and GPA.pure meritocracy is a joke but so is having anything trump someone's achievements.
If a web-based code search engine is what you need here's one: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/
I like the logo, a twisty line or thread forming an @atsign, which brings to my video game mind Rogue and Nethack :)

Not a bad name, but the “th” in Threads can be problematic to pronounce in other languages.

Good to have competition in this space.
mpv isn't particularly old or crufty, and especially this thing doesn't really apply to it

> And perhaps most oddly of all, none of the problems WvDial originally set out to solve are problems today.

mpv still addresses the same problems and needs that sparked it's inception
You often need the indices for other operations (indexing into other arrays). CSC it's transpose CSR, and the doubly compressed forms DCSC/DCSR, are optimized for linear algebra for the most part.
What some LLM spits out is not my post anymore. My post is still correct and as intended. Someone could read my post and retell their own version at the pub, that fine, it's their version.
Mainly that they go stale too quickly… and one only needs so many monitor stands.
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Aristotle had lots of bad points on biology and human nature. I won't have it as a main source.
Archimedes, OTOH, had a good set on foundations. Ditto with Euclid in Math, which the statements worked well until the 17th century. Being a 90% right it's not bad for an Ancient Greek dude with just reasoning over Geometry.
A Yorkshireman using a ferret to clean a particle accelerator sounds like something from a comedy sketch, to be honest.
Salts provide resistance against bulk bruteforce by making it so that you can't identify which hashes are the same plaintext without actually computing all of them. The issue is still that there are not that many IPv4 addresses and so even with very heavy algorithms it would be trivial to break.
Visual processing requires an astounding amount of brain power. Over 50% of a fruit flies brain cells are dedicated to their rudimentary visual system.

Comparatively, the human visual processing system is truly astonishing and I am grateful for it.
For Playwright, it'd do pretty well. For xpath, I will need to build a few examples. I will update documentation to include a few of these examples.
I haven’t had any problem using Twitter recently (hardly “barely usable”). They had a technical hiccup that affected some users, but meh, Reddit serves 5XXs for up to an hour a couple of times a month and people don’t hyperventilate about its impending doom. The thing about social networks is that it doesn’t matter much if Twitter isn’t as great as it was in the early 10s, it still has the users and it’s obscenely difficult to pull users away en masse. Threads can probably carve out a big enough swatch to justify its own existence, but whether those users come from Twitter or other Meta properties (cannibalism) remains TBD and in any case I don’t think it will take enough users from Twitter to sink the latter. All of the doomsday prophesy about Twitter feels a lot like motivated reasoning, much like the smug certainty of the media running up to the 2016 election (and I say this as a someone with a “Trump for Prison 2024” yard sign). I’ve been hearing the same people saying (mostly on Twitter) for many months that it’s a sinking ship and they’re leaving and I’m still waiting for the big exodus.
So it seems like nobody was using the OSS version, and they didn’t want to maintain two versions if nobody was using it.

It also says they offer a free self hosted version for individuals, but I couldn’t find that on their site.
… and of course it all started with a Tweet that I can’t read now.
True. Regards media peeps, if AI can do your job, you need to try harder.
Personally, I think the video could be improved by having a transcript or text version. (This applies to almost all videos.)
Based on the articles I've read about this product, it might be the most advanced consumer tech we've ever seen. It would be a surprise if the production was a smooth sailing.
Yes but that's text, and there's plenty of text that will tell you that steel is rigid, and rigid is uncomfortable. Also you gave it an A/B choice, random chance is 50%. Does it insist it's right if you prompt it the other way?

Does it make pictures of people who are comfortable in one but not the other?

Most of the time when I see something funny in LLMs it's in the images. People with 8 fingers, elbows bent backwards, that kind of thing. Spatial models.
Drupal was the only accessible door to me to this entire industry in 2010, with no CS knowledge or available mentors. I was one of those people and I barely fed my family, and I eventually learned PHP, JS, the hosting stack, automating the hosting stack, Varnish and HAProxy, Linux sysadmin, how the internet works, and a decade of topics since.

We all need a door into this stuff, a place to be dropped in to start putting it together. Maybe the OP’s sister in law is totally out of luck, or maybe she’s now got a few of the hundreds of tools she’s going to need to build out a career. Luckily she has a brother in law in the industry, hopefully he’s the helpful type.
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Pretty sure the CFPB says this is not an OK practice. Maybe it's a scam in itself? Stir up hype, acquire your 80% of subs in the first 45 days. Pull the plug. No refund.
They are marketing.

There’s not much telephone involved.
That isn't modern C. It's the cool kids backporting a misfeature from C++ because that's what all the game devs do. Header only serves no purpose in C other than to demonstrate that you can't drive your tooling. Plus you've created a new burden to keep track of the magic define that activates the definitions in the code and the one file where it's invoked.