skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way it was explained to me: originally, Amazon didn't want there to be any barriers to someone making a purchase on the website, not even the barrier of having to reset a forgotten password. So the choice was made to allow people to create new accounts with the same email address (such as when attempting to check out; that's when this would likely happen). Each account was distinguished at login by its email + password combination.

It was indeed called "Multiple Accounts, Same Email", though I only heard that term applied to it much later (after the phenomenon of these accounts was identified as a problem that the company needed to resolve). I don't think it was exactly what I'd call a feature, in the sense that I don't think anyone expected users to do it intentionally, so much as it was "We don't want to lose a purchase to someone getting stuck at the login screen".

The Web and its users have evolved significantly since those early days, and resetting a password by email is no longer the barrier it once was. Among other reasons: web users are savvy to the idea of having accounts, which was not true in Amazon's early days; and email is a lot faster and more reliable now.

Allowing multiple accounts to share an email address proved to be a problematic decision later on for a number of reasons. Amazon doesn't allow this any more, at least not from the primary sign-in screen; it gives an "Email address already in use" error.
I think it’s more about western vs eastern Europe.

EE countries which adopted the Euro did quite good as well. For instance growth in Poland lagged significantly behind Estonia or Lithuania in the last 10 years or so.
> I feel like it regularly gets in the way of typing

I understand that everyone's experience can be different. But wow I just noticed that my palms are so often on the touchpad while I'm typing and I have never ever had any problem with that.

Also I usually use my thumb to move cursor and click while other fingers stay on the keys and I cannot remember when it didn't behave according to my intentions. Especially considering the bigger contact area between a thumb and touchpad compared to other fingers.

I just checked edge cases and it works very reliably.
Cursor doesn't move if I use my palm.
It does move if palm is on the touchpad and I use my thumb.
It does move as expected if I move both thumb and palm over touchpad synchronously.
It follows the thumb as expected if I move both my thumb and palm in different directions.

I remember my first touchpad on macbook air 13 from 2011. It felt so much better than anything I tried before. But at that time it was physical and it had dead zone at the top of the touchpad. And it was smaller. Today's touchpad macbook pro touchpad is an engineering marvel.
Yes, it can and does.

Go to a chemicals conference these days and half the research is on managing blackouts. In the best case your plant, which is the same CAPEX in Europe as it is the US, is producing 25% less.

There's only so much sugar-coating you can do. The atmosphere's like a funeral.
Ignoring the details of this particular initiative, from a high-level view this is wonderful.

Similarly to how Tesla's future failure or success is irrelevant as they've already succeeded in the most important task of proving that EVs can work and thus driving the industry to produce them en masse, Uber and Lyft have driven a revolution.

They've shown that the old model for running a taxi service was horrendously outdated and customer-unfriendly (and also driver-unfriendly, in some cities) and now others can innovate and compete along the same lines, differentiating via areas that Uber and Lyft either can't or won't. I know it's essentially a meme on here to diminish Dropbox or Twitter to being basic services that one could easily replicate in an hour or a weekend, but it's similar for Uber and Lyft: the underlying concept and technology is relatively easily replicable - meaning their moat is pretty insecure. As time goes on, one can envisage them dying a slow death by a thousand cuts.

From a consumer's perspective, some sort of federation or interoperability would be needed between these competing apps. If it is necessary to research and download a different taxi app for every city --including going through the usual painful signup process each time-- it will drive people back to the common denominator of the big incumbents.
While I agree that not everything that uses the (sacred) blockchain is necessarily a scam, the technology has been around for more than a decade, and I think we have precious little proof, if any at all, of it being used for anything other than crypto -- and cryptocurrencies haven't been useful for much apart from shady deals and betting that one can find a greater fool than oneself.
Whoever downvoted you have never heard of heel toe
A lack of any justification for America to spend a trillion dollars a year and a pittance on healthcare and education for its citizens, for one ..
https://starship.co/ is in actual use in a few cities, but they have not exactly taken over the logistics space yet.
Sure, it can make for vivid memories if you have a sense of smell.

But if you haven't had a sense of smell for years - or have never really had one - you won't have those memories. If you've never had smells, your brain won't be trained to make those associations. You simply won't feel like you are missing anything.
> we can progressively increase the numerical values of the weights—eventually in some sense “blowing the mind” of the network (and going a bit “psychedelic” in the process)

I wonder if there's a more exact analog of the action of psychedelics on the brain that could be performed on generative models?

Andrew Gallimore's online course on psychedelic neurochemistry[1] argues that psychedelics disrupt something like a constant fine-tuning cycle taking place in normal perceptual activity, causing new activations between cortical structures where connections had previously been dormant (see [2] for an in-at-the-deep-end account), causing the generative model in the higher layers of the cortex[3] to adjust in an effort to regain predictive efficacy.

I wonder if some such kind of "dynamic" generative mechanism might be needed to perturb an artificial model analogously?

1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqdD4EM-aEfmLvbWu8GQ...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45A6XlPRM0&list=PLbqdD4EM-a...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
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I'm one of the people behind OpenBenches.

When I wrote that page (6 years ago) there was no easy way to add inscriptions to benches.

I'm happy that has changed and we now have a signed agreement with OSM to allow them to reuse our data.
You're adding new reasons. That's not relevant to what I'm saying.
In certain Latin American countries if 90+ Oct of your revenue comes from a single client, the tax office determines that this client is de facto your employer and you become entitled to severance and other perks when you leave or contract is ended.
Not really. I can visit conferences, apply for new gigs, market research... There are limits, but if you are not greedy, it is perfectly fine. Bringing gf, renting cars, beach stay... would ruin it.
What is the abuse your referring to?

With your suggested approach, the attacker is free to use the account to impersonate the victim until they get a new SIM card, which could easily take days or weeks.

This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out.
Oh thanks! I will check this out, cheers.
It's actually the opposite: Chinese script is quite phonetic (with a lot of different base characters though) with some semantic hints. This is this way and not the other way around because of the historical formation of the main category of characters (形聲) in which new parts were added to do semantic disambiguation between graphemes used to write (quasi-)homonyms.
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Here's discussion on why strscpy shouldn't be included in POSIX:

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=986 (scroll to 0002897)
Microsoft had a good licensing model that sort of worked. Instead, they are going towards selling malware for free or at a very low cost to manufacturers. It is kind of sad. The UX on Windows 10 for me still feels better for an average Joe compared to Apple and Gnome or KDE. Windows 10 also had WSL2 which made it an okay development system. Then they made a UI that sort of drifted off into something unknown and put in a bunch of telemetry and spyware. Their browser is now riddled with ads. Microsoft and Google have such talent, then talent that is basically making large surveillance software at this point.
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Ask HN: Edge Computing, a Half-Solved Puzzle?
I've been thinking about the benefits of bringing compute power to the edge, but it seems like there's still something missing. Especially when you have to deal with a centralized database located far away.

The idea behind edge computing is to provide faster response times by running logic close to the end user, reducing data travel distance. However, when you involve a database, this advantage starts to fade away. In fact, things can even get worse because the amount of data moving between the edge and the database is often more than what's exchanged between the edge and the user.

To tackle this, companies have started appearing at the edge too. Companies like turso.tech, Cloudflare (D1), and Fly.io let us deploy databases at various edge locations worldwide. But even with this approach, we're only solving part of the problem (!)

Now we face new challenges: figuring out which data should be moved to the edge, finding efficient ways to transfer data from centralized data centers to the edge, and keeping everything in sync.

Are there any companies working on this? Or am I missing something? I'd love to hear your thoughts and insights.
forgive me if I am wrong. what I can see from rudimentary search on IR35 is that it is meant to make people pay the same tax whether. employed or working as a contractor.

personally I find that reasonable. the government should subsidize contractors.

so if a contractor just sets aside the same amount as they would have had to pay in a salaried job (including employers contribution) then all should be good?

obviously this should be factored into the cost of doing business, but if a person deems themselves fit for contracting, then they are also fit for this administrative overhead.
Telemetry that runs without the user explicitly requesting it is spyware. Opt-in telemetry, such as Debian's "popularity contest", is not.
> I know the ShutUp10 tools, does it work for W11 too?

Yes. I've been using it for years now - first on 10, now on 11 (couple of years).
Just make sure to check for new versions from time to time, as they keep adding new features and things to block.
I am quite surprised by how in the last 20 years libertarian has become a dirty word.
You can use arduino with any of the cheap ESP32 boards as well. That does not distinguish this particular board, with it's 3x price tag from others.
> I don't think the UK has ever had a government that actually wanted the NHS to fail.

> I also really doubt there are many in government or politics who want a US style system.

You might want to read "Britania Unchained" which very much says that they want to dismantle the NHS. There's a bunch of current Conservative politicians who want to effectively dismantle the NHS and implement a US style system. They're very clear about this.
There is a grain of truth in your post. But the "economic incentive to operate" is often misconstrued by crypto projects. I won't pay for what I already have for free, period. Economic incentives, you see. Doubly so if it's a service inferior to alternatives in every respect I care about. The final nail in the coffin is the necessity to buy your rainbow coins which I have no use of otherwise, a huge inconvenience and insurmountable hurdle even when that's just a few cents.
I only use Windows for games.
Same here. It has been educational to see the various viewpoints in the comments and how complex this can get.
Not really a remake, though -- both were based on the 18th century German book.
> but emperically it has held true to the limits of our knowledge of physics

Considering that our entire knowledge of physics is encoded as computational rules, because that's all we really know how to do, this statement is basically a tautology.
I think just seeing double the balance (or much more for high income disparity households) on bank statements due to being assigned to the joint-account cohort seems likely to make a lot of people feel more psychologically secure by itself, regardless of how their relationship is going.

But that does count as happier.
Ah well… tried to install the CLI client from source (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/doc...), installed the Haskell compiler GHC v9, the Haskell package manager Cabal, `cabal update` went fine, no problem until `cabal install`:

cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
[__0] next goal: aeson (user goal)
[__0] rejecting: aeson-2.2.0.0, aeson-2.1.2.1, aeson-2.1.2.0, aeson-2.1.1.0,
aeson-2.1.0.0 (constraint from user target requires ==2.0.3.0)
[__0] trying: aeson-2.0.3.0
[__1] trying: base-4.15.1.0/installed-4.15.1.0 (dependency of aeson)
[__2] next goal: android-support (user goal)
[__2] rejecting: android-support-0.1.0.0 (conflict:
base==4.15.1.0/installed-4.15.1.0, android-support => base^>=4.14.3.0)
[__2] fail (backjumping, conflict set: android-support, base)
After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these were the
goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: base, aeson, android-support

“android-support”???

Dependency hell again. I have no idea what those things are.
>Unless I'm blind, the article doesn't contain any actual evidence of telemetry being sent – just a list of domains contacted, and speculation on what their purpose might be.

>

>I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits telemetry data (hell, text editors do that nowadays), but if an analysis of that exists, it is not in this article.

Crikey mate; second paragraph, first sentence.
At least Firefox now allows for CSS scrollbar styling, so you have that going for you which is nice.
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This is my favorite part of open source. A bunch of curious nerds scratching and itch and benefiting many. I love it.
https://webllm.mlc.ai/

Already done.
I'd hesitate to recommend this. Why? Because these inserts are both inexpensive and ineffective. ;)

I'd rather pick proper cookware (eventhough the initial investment will be much higher, the "running costs" will be lower).
I live in the UK with a high use of cameras for everything. For speed it clearly works where there is an actual camera (it works less well between cameras).

For crime there’s some evidence it might have a deterrent effect on property crime and drug crime.

There is very little evidence to show that it has had any effect on violent crime, public disorder offences, and the like.

There’s also an argument that over-reliance on cctv has reduced the kind of policing people most favour – community policing.

The government has recently banned Hikvision cameras (one of the most ubiquitous brands) from its buildings over concerns about the Chinese company’s use of data and their role in the oppression of Uyghur Muslims in Chinese state run “re-education camps”.

Cameras can be useful in certain circumstances, but their efficacy is often overstated, and there are many downsides.
Why downvote something emotionally? It is that, and it is also for journalists and others to share censored info, and maybe censored software. There are many unsolvable problems in technology, in which the only solution is no abandon the technology altogether, abandoning also the benefits in the process.
>just a list of domains contacted, and speculation on what their purpose might be

Yeah, they might be playing some patty cake protocol /s
Do not focus so much on the world alien.
This is from October 2022... So a bit out dated given how quickly AI has moved. Incumbents have stepped up offerings in the meantime
My father lost his sense of smell due to Covid and it never really came back entirely, he always complains that his food tastes nothing these days.
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Weather is often presented as one legitimate case of location data necessarily being uploaded to an online service, but I think you could fit compressed county-resolution basic weather data for entire countries into a few kilobytes. Windows could easily download the current weather for the entire US and choose the user-local data out of that set.
>I suspect this still only works if you can utilize the capacity and have simultaneous deliveries

You can still eliminate inefficient stop-and-go driving for some fraction of stops (ie not U-turns), and (most important) the time-wasting "last 100 feet" walk. Sure it's not as superior in rural areas vs suburban, but with low enough overhead you could still beat a traditional truck.

Naturally if the drone gear cost millions of dollars and took up half the truck, then I'd agree it wouldn't be worth it. In reality I don't think that's the trade.

UPS showed off an interesting "roof mounted" hardware approach (ignoring how they depict of the rest of the ops model). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBu2glKHTA
That doesn't sound like split finances. You're just using multiple bank accounts.
That is possible and reason why I said "usually". Still, it's an unfortunate complication because you need to manage the pool of your (static) objects now. Also, it's not possible to use stack with this scheme.
Not really. Europeans aren't some superior noble ascetics. People want to consume, and their demand exceeds their ability in practically all situations. So USians are getting more of what they want while most Europeans would jump at the ability to do the same. For the record, I am European myself
> The Elastic license is an attempt to maintain feature parity between the cloud and self-hosted tool while still being protected

I don’t know enough about the elastic license but I very much prefer this approach. I’ve seen a lot of source available projects deliberately refuse to implement features, and just generally let the product managers spend time on dark pattern bait-and-switch to drive sales. It misaligns the incentives, and complicates the product offering. It’s infuriating for developers. This is much clearer for everyone.
What matters far more is that Eurozone adopted tight money policy, while the US didn't. People love to focus on Fiscal policy and even many economist got drawn into that. But the reality is that monetary policy actually sets aggregate demand.

Doing fiscal austerity isn't bad if your monetary policy keeps AD stable. Doing the opposite and spending more is also not really bad as long as monetary policy is correct.

The US had bad monetary policy that was partly responsible for the recession of 2008/2009 but corrected it eventually. The Eurozone never corrected in and held to an extreme tight monetary policy for years and at the same time doing austerity.

And that simply can't work, if your AD is collapsing, trying to save enough to pay back huge nominal debt is simply impossible.

Yanis Varoufakis who was Finance Minister in Greek proposed debt payments indexed to NGDP, so that if AD was going down they would have to have less debt payment. But this was rejected by

Countries with their own currency, like Sweden, Switzerland and so on did better despite having many of the same pressures and not going on fiscal spending spree.

I think it does make some sense for the government to invest in infrastructure during a recession. But not because of the Keynesian thinking of pushing up AD, but rather because it just make sense invest in infrastructure and its slightly cheaper during a recession.
C had the opportunity to include this but they did not. It is my understanding that they wanted to design everything in C as inherent to the language, rather than magic types, especially a struct. There is an elegance in the notion that a string is just an array of characters. If I’m working with a significant amount of strings in C, I can keep track of lengths, not a huge deal.
A hospital bed isn't a bed - any idiot can buy beds in bulk from any hospital supplier.

A hospital bed is a package that consists of the bed and the long list of stuff needed to support that bed, which includes all the staff (doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, allied health professionals, admin staff, cleaners, porters, food preparation, etc etc) -- and all of these staff are in short supply in England.
This appears to largely be an artefact of the USD/EUR exchange rate.

In 2008, a euro was worth ~$1.60, now it's around 1:1
I think transparent memory encryption effectively defeats RowHammer attacks.

The CPU has a key it uses to decrypt memory on access - and that key is never known by the operating system or any software running within it. If you use RowHammer to access the "wrong" memory location, the decrypted values would be random garbage.

Pure hardware protection, no changes to memory chips, almost no runtime performance cost, effective security.
If the govt built and owns the roads, where did it get its money from? Did it steal the money using force and called their criminal activities Taxation?

If the govt cant exert psychological coercion on the populace, ie the useful lazy idiots who want a quiet life, then it just resorts to a variety of forms of violence, some stealth some not so stealth.

I dont own any property but I'm sure you would like to demonstrate that violence always win.
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It does look like they develop a sort of "rust" through exposure to sea air [0], though what effect that has on low-observability remains to be seen.

0: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44067/the-f-35cs-radar...
People don't like to be confronted with the reality of their own lives' utter fallacy. We all participate in these fallacies, it is very hard to extract our own personal identity from them once we have spent decades supporting the fallacy.

It only takes a few days in the bush, out back, to realize just how futile it is to consider any one culture superior to another...
A small disagreement with the article. Statistical arbitrage is a more general principle than "reliance on mean reversion" (though that is certainly a common example of statarb). It really encompasses any useful statistical prediction that can be used to trade with.
I think you forget that many of the southern countries that did say no to immigrants (recognizing that most of those did not intend to stay in their countries but they ended up stuck with them when faced with more closed borders) pushed for a redistribution scheme.
In fact when italy didn't have french backing for this they did what a few balkan countries had been doing and simply bussed migrants to the border which caused a quick reversal of stance.

Additionally many blame the likes of Merkel for the self righteous stance unaware of the fact that she (and her Dutch partners and such) had the greatest effect on building down inflow with an agreement she started brokering with turkey well before her famous comment. On the other hand fences and hard rhetoric in Hungary or the like did not visibly affect the numbers of incoming refugees.