skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is unequivocally "vigilante justice". Because to me, it seems more like "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

The intent of Amazon was not to disable the guy's smart home, or lock him out of his house. Amazon intended to deny him service across the board by suspending his account. Being logged out of Alexa is a side-effect of that, but we don't know if Amazon took an inventory of services he uses before they made the decision to suspend.

So, if it were a real incident of racist abuse and Amazon suspended the account, would that matter? People can be denied government benefits if they act abusively toward a case worker. They can also be denied medical treatment and ejected from a hospital if they are abusive to HCPs there. (Exception for mental hospitals, where they just get locked down and sedated instead.)

So does a company like this Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone? Or are they too deep and wide to exercise that right? If a company controls your digital life and holds most of your personal data, do they have the right to cut off your access with an AI-based decision? I'm not sure it's "vigilante justice" but it may be more like "racketeering".
I wonder what will be the next mindless thing related to AI on which programmers will be wasting their days reinventing the wheel every 3 months. Langchain and such?
Only tangentially related, but does someone know good competitors to Stripe in Japan? I need support for subscriptions in USD and EUR.

Last time I checked, there were a few choices (besides Stripe and PayPal), but many supported either only JPY, or only one time payments...
Reminds me an Hezbollah war museum in Lebanon. What a surprising history class, keeps me curious of what I ear
/read that is produce in “my” western country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Landmark_of_the_Resi...
Indeed, although undocumented, this is implemented and is a PAKE variant ([1] and [2]).

The way that it works, at a high level, is similar to how SRP works. Two random salts are generated (let's say, A and B), where A is used for authentication (and hence public) and B is used for deriving the other cryptographic keys.

When you authenticate, you retrieve A and then you prove to the server that you know what scrypt(A, password) is. At this point, the server provides you with B, and you can use this information to derive scrypt(B, password), which in turn you use to derive other cryptographic keys.

It being an oblivious password store, there are other steps taken to make the protocol stateless (from the perspective of the server) and to make parties commit to random values used so that runs of the protocol cannot be replayed.

> but the password database itself is still vulnerable to dictionary attacks once it’s stolen

This is correct, and I'm not sure there are good ways to prevent this or equivalent scenarios from occurring. Therefore, you should see this as an additional layer on top of your already secure password and not as a substitute for a secure password.

The reason for having this mechanism rather than not having it is to protect your password from brute-forcing by the public at large, in a scenario where the server operator is semi-trusted. Without this implementation, you have three alternatives: (1) Forego passwords entirely; (2) make the salted password 'public', along with the salt, which is all the information you need to brute-force it or (3) make more "normal" authentication flows without PAKE, in which case you need to trust the server even more. If you insist on using passwords, this is a compromise solution between (2) and (3), i.e., between anyone can break it and trust the server entirely.

[1] <https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income/blob/e2e-protocol/...>

[2] <https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income/blob/e2e-protocol/...>
What do you mean? Even if you know about propaganda you cant necessarily do something about it.
I agree that sampling only valid tokens is a very promising approach.

I experimented a bit with finetuning open source LLMs for JSON parsing (without guided token sampling). Depending on one's use case, 70B parameters might be an overkill. I've seen promising results with much much smaller models. Finetuning a small model combined with guided token sampling would be interesting.

Then again, finetuning is perhaps not perfect for very general applications. When you get input that you didn't anticipate in your training dataset, you're in trouble.
I'd expect a third party to implement it, and it become semi-official most likely. Like the algolia searchbox on the bottom of the page.

That gets me thinking, does hn have opengraph tags for link previews?
When you sort them they will be ordered by generation time. This is useful in UIs, and greatly improves performance in databases (how much depends on DB and use case).
The amounts of energy injected are not that large. 1TeV, the order of magnitude, is (according to google) the motion energy of a flying mosquito. You don't even feel that landing on your body.

The special part is that this energy is put into one particle, which makes it able to achieve other interactions.

Such particles sound scary, but the only special thing about this is that we, humans, have produced that. Our earth is bombarded constantly by cosmic high-energy particles of much much higher energy [0]. I am talking about extra-galactic particles with energy levels unknown to earth.

[0] https://masterclass.icecube.wisc.edu/en/analyses/cosmic-ray-...
Well, then think of frozen TV dinners. Lots of those are blasted for more than 3 minutters.
In the git repo even
Fantastic amount of information in a single page.
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However there are two things I do not like:

1. Use of <identifier> notation for almost everything. It might be technically sound, but it brings to mind reading Backus-Naur form specs.

For cheat sheets my_int, my_iterator etc format is more pleasant for eyes.

2. Examples from various external libraries are of questionable real life utility, they are a nice showcase of what is possible, but are really too terse at times - looking at you popcorn audio example.

Official docs for libraries such as Plotly or Pandas are much more pleasant. Then again Copilot is even faster for looking up a tricky matplotlib incantation...

Thus the cheat sheet should have been split in two parts, one would cover Python and possibly standard library.

Second part would cover the popular libraries.
What about the heavy metals that are part of the cast iron and steel though? What about the heavy metals in ceramics? The list is pretty endless, but very specific types of glass (boron silicate or pyrex) and titanium can be good to switch to, as long as you are very careful about not getting lead or uranium glass.

Or you could just not buy that lead testing kit or Geiger counter and live in ignorant bliss. People lived without them for quite some time.
There are (in that era) no other geniuses 'like' Einstein or von Neumann.

Einstein was probably the most visionary scientist of the whole century at making huge steps forward in several key areas. John von Neumann made landmark achievements across pure maths, physics, engineering, computer science and economics.

To say that a basketball player is not comparable to Larry Bird or to Michael Jordan is no disparagement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
> To some people, "micro" and "milli" sound the same

To be fair, it almost is. Both units are used to talk about times of about the same size. Using both in the same sentence is like mixing meters and feet. It's much clearer to say e.g. 1500us vs 3us; or 1.5ms vs 0.003ms.

Don't mix units when making a comparison.
Or is it just not something we are searching and looking for.

Then again, maybe it goes under the known carcinogenic effects when food is cooked at high temperature.
Yes and (unfortunately) no. Terraform providers are here [1] with the official documentation at [2]. Managed databases are not available, though. I think they have some sort of database offering if you select their web hosting options, but you can't just get a managed Postgres instance yourself.

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hetznercloud/hcloud/...
[2] https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/howto-hcloud-terrafo...

EDIT: For what it's worth, I have had good experiences with app servers hosted on Hetzner Cloud and managed Postgres provided by ElephantSQL (https://www.elephantsql.com/) for Germany-based apps.
Yes, for all the great things browsers do, it sure is a shame that the only data format they can handle is JSON.
I guess that's because we don't know, yet. But the question is why let all those plastic particles into your baby if you could avoid it until we know better? A newborn today will likely live to know the result of some future research.

If in doubt shouldn't that be enough for at least a warning label?
This number seems low to me, even if there were no sanctions.
> Since it was a smart doorbell with a camera, he had a recording of exactly what happened so he was able to send that to Amazon and they reinstated his account.

If this story is true, the Amazon customer was lucky that he didn’t have a Ring doorbell. Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have been able to access the recording and would be in a Catch-22 situation. It could have taken much longer than a week to to get his home working again.
I feel like v7 is almost a strictly better v4. Assuming you can generate a v7 (you have a time source), what are the disadvantages?
For people who want to get a rough idea of what ISO 20022 is and how it looks like, I wrote a brief article about it from an end-user point of view: https://evrim.zone/blog/knowledge/iso_20022_pain_001

I think that it's a pretty handy format to be familiar with, and is quite simple to work with too.

If the Fed or participating banks decide to open up the system like European banks have done so, it can be handy to get familiar with it for us financial hackers out there!
and what does your experience tell you about applications which are not written in PHP, and which need to handle more than 1000 concurrent users?
I'm pretty sure we're at the point that if someone feels the need to define themselves as "good guys," it's a sure sign that they are going to murder someone.
That's a great analogy! I'd been wondering for a while whether that's a problem with this approach; to be honest I still don't know whether it is, so it would be good to see someone test it empirically.
Would a Snowflake ID work for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID
But then you have 2 identifiers which complicates everything.
Not actually. I've been using the Mac since 1985, but not exclusively. The same year I got more into the Amiga as it could do so much more...but Commodore didn't know what to do with the machine and now it's just a footnote.

I've also switched between PC/DOS to Mac to DOS to OS/2 to Mac to Linux to Windows back to Mac to Linux and now back to Mac. My media server here is run on Linux. I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to computers, it just so happens that at this point in time I'm using a Mac as my daily driver.
I've only glanced at slug but it looks far too heavyweight for the 'just render this bitmap of a glyph but with sharp edges' use case that SDF attempts to fulfil; especially since browsers are already excellent text rendering engines.
But wouldn't most of the particles end up in the water and not stick to the dishes? It seems fine to me but.... yeah I don't know.
>. I just could not make him understand that 5 milliseconds of additional latency in the era where microseconds are an eternity

Context matters, not everywhere 5ms more makes difference.
A notable difference between spaghetti and ramen is the addition of an alkali to ramen which has a profound effect on the texture. Ramen fit into the group of Alkaline Noodles[0].

So more different than just the shape.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_noodles
You can be opposed to mass migration from under developed countries without being a xenophobe(fascist or otherwise) , with vastly different cultural norms.

The last 2-3 decades of migration to Sweden has been disastrous and was done against the majority’s will, with gang violence extreme segregation and a diminished social cohesion.

Sweden will never be the same
I don't think these are competitive jobs ($$ wise) .. if I was advising a student, software and AI are the future.
In the era of Electron, most things take minutes anyway, so milliseconds is an upgrade.
Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits
EXGBoost: Gradient Boosting in Elixir
The 2008 quench happened at the other side of the ring. (Sector 3-4 then, sector 7-8 now.) The physics run was going very smoothly up to now [0]. Last year part of the machine (RF) had to be brought to room temperature as well, after a cooling tower fault, and there was no beam for four weeks. I get the impression that this will take longer, but I hope not by much.

[0]https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/DATAPREPARATION/Publi...
A factor of 1000 actually
I'm saying that people and animals have been acting that way for a very long time. Tolerance for strangers is more in need of sociological explanation than the opposite. Certainly, the trend towards tolerance exists and is rising over the course of history, which I very much like. It's about asking what the default state is from which society makes "progress".

You're asking what the default state is? I assume you mean instincts right?

Why does it matter, what's the relevance?
You might consider adopting smart products which allow disabling the cloud connection. Or which have no cloud connection to begin with.

At Bond Home, we tell users how to disable or redirect the device’s MQTT connections, at which point our cloud no longer can monitor or control your home. Less convenient for the user, but makes this kind of shutdown technically impossible (without more advanced shenanigans).
Think frozen TV dinners. Plastic containers with plastic cover. Yikes, a lot of those are sold.
This is beautiful, thank you

Edit: aww, ninja edit takes away all the fun :/
This is how the email system works. We invited everyone from our waitlist ahead of the beta. But we can’t control email deliverability. We know that several % of our letters never reach recipients, but have no influence how to change that. Very annoying. And sorry you didn’t get your invitation
So calling someone a nazi can land you in jail.

Example
Well, the difference is the whole point in fields like, e.g., high frequency trading
A nanoscale sample of platinum (possibly in a vacuum).
>It is rarely spoken how much our sense of self and what we allow ourselves to achieve is a reflection of everyone's biases towards our appearance.

When stuff like this comes up I always have to think of two people, Machiavelli and our last chancellor, Angela Merkel. She was by no means attractive, a woman, an East-German physicist and yet managed to become arguably our most significant post-war leader and governed over 16 years.

Machiavelli tells us why. In social hierarchies it's not looks, wealth or even intellect that matter, it's Virtù, that is martial spirit, or ambition. All other traits are just up to luck. People who accept the notion that their role in hierarchies comes down to how they look or how others perceive them have already given in to passivity. People who climb hierarchies literally do ignore why they're not supposed to be there.
I'm really looking forward to something that I can use to control Home Assistant. I'm just really nervous about using any cloud-based API for this, so I would like to get something running on a server in my own house. But I would also want the voice recognition and response times to be extremely fast so I don't feel like I'm ever waiting for anything. I've seen a few DIY attempts at a personal assistant but there's always a significant delay that would become very annoying if I used it regularly.
It may well be, that's what's wrong with maximizing GDP.
You concentrated on Jeff Bezos' taxes. I should have been more specific.

What each individual billionaire pays (or not) in taxes, depends on his nationality, current residence and the specifics of his income. But avoinding taxes happens at every level: avoid company profit taxes, avoid company VAT (or even do VAT returns fraud), avoid import taxes, avoid individual income taxes, avoid VAT on goods that the billionaire buys, avoid property taxes (both individual and company property), avoid luxury taxes, get income from non-taxed sources, etc. There are probably hundreds more ways to avoid taxes than an ordinary person like me can imagine.

> If you want Jeff Bezos to pay taxes on the value of Amazon (which is the measure by which he is a billionaire) you basically force him to sell Amazon. How else can he pay the taxes?

So? Don't we all sell our work to pay taxes? I live in east-Eurpean country. Currently, aprox. half of my work value (as eval'd by my employer) goes to taxes and mandatory services provided by the state (health, pension fund, etc.). How much did he pay?

Taxes vs declared income don't make much sense for a billionaire. I wish we could know the value of the goods and services he got (paid or free, as in "this is the company's car, not mine") in a year, vs. his taxes.

> pay taxes on the value of Amazon

AFAIK, there are no taxes on the value of a company, except maybe property taxes in some places.

> This has to be solved from the bottom up, not from the top down.

Mostly true, but not enough. Creating extremely wealthy individuals should be avoided, because money brings power and power influences politics/policy, including (or especially) bottom-up reforms. To take Amazon as an example: I suspect the management would do anything to avoid a minimum wage increase or improving working conditions.
Regarding how slow academia is adopting open science and other practices that would help fixing the disastrous state of scientific publishing, I am starting to think that forming societies competing with academia has a strong potential to make things change. You can't play with new rules inside a system governed with old rules. I have some skepticism with the approach described in this article, but I applaud the initiative, we need to form strongly cohesive groups that do science with their own term and see what comes up in the end.
>freedumb cars for everyone at the expense of public transport, efficiency and equitable urban planning

While America is the poster child for car culture, Europe isn't a panacea either: lots of cities built up post-WWII are car-bound hellscapes too. Lots of other places have bowed to worshiping at the altar of the automobiles too, it's not just the US.

As for equitable urban planning, Europe is going through a huge housing crisis now too.
Imperial College launches app-based Long Covid research
Username is Starcraft2 reference, loosely inspired by some uThermal build that was mis-referenced by Harstem and maybe misremembered by me as "the repairman build".

Thankfully I never had any safety incidents. But nothing I was doing was safe work while under the effects of sleep deprivation. We had a dozen different ways to kill people directly and hundreds of things could go wrong to kill people in more Rube Goldberg fashions. I was unhappy with the work environment so I left.

Some of those include:

- A 3 mile long cable under +/- 10,000 lbs of tension

- A powerful neutron generator that can be started with two button clicks on a windows desktop

- Little radioactive source materials like the one that was lost in Brazil[0]

- High voltage & current electricity

- Shaped charges[1] (these are really only used in military and oil wells AFAIK)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVVGk2OfQQ&t=0m10s
Hard to argue that Einstein is not overrated when he is literally the archetype of 'genius scientist' for most people in the world. But in his annus mirabilis Einstein literally made world-tier steps forward in 3 huge areas of physics simultaneously. Any of these in isolation would have ensured his immortality. This is either the single most important short productive period of scientific work of anyone, ever, or holds that accolade in tie with Newton's plague year.

Of course, his later years did not live up to this stellar record - he both made mistakes and was less productive. But how could they?

Joseph Heller was challenged by a journalist in later years that "he hadn't written anything as good as Catch-22 recently". He replied "No. But who has?"
The Vorlons: "Who are you?" https://youtu.be/buaVRE4pExM

The Shadows: "What do you want?" https://youtu.be/_JjeymjKZjc
If heat releases particles then what happens when hot water is traveling through plastic pipes, hoses, and other items - say like in a dishwasher?
Iirc you dont want to spend entropy that you don't need. The advantage of using the time means you need to spend less bits on expensive randomness and thus generation is cheaper.
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I intentionally didn’t mention the Sweden Democrats.
You were branded a fascist, racist, etc. if you spoke up, no matter your political allegiance.
You’re just making my point for me.

A majority of Swedes have been opposed to this insanity, not just the Sweden Democrats.

Sadly voting for them is the only option for anyone who understands what a disaster this is(unless you do like me, decide to move out).
that grid mode has huge binary search vibes, and is an absolutely amazing concept i've never seen before, that is awesome
The most recent episode of JS Party (284) is on Lit.

I highly endorse this podcast, but I have not listened to this one yet.

https://changelog.com/jsparty/284
Unforeseen consequences

Don't forget your crowbar
You're right, of course the market did have something to do with the internet exploding into what we know and love/hate today. It's also true that ARPA/DARPA (depending on when you'd have asked) was responsible for its invention. That is a US government institution, however this thread places the origin of the internet in the context of American competition, so in my opinion it does make sense to deny that the internet came from that.

I do disagree that a government couldn't or wouldn't do that; the internet is infrastructure and governments do that kind of thing all the time.
I would like to push back a little on the IoT haters here. I assist in the management of a number of short-term rental homes. The short-term rental industry is enabled in large part because of IoT. For example, we use Wi-Fi enabled digital door locks to provide custom door codes for guests and cleaners. These codes can be managed and monitored remotely.

More specifically, in one trial we implemented the (keyless) Google Nest x Yale Lock [1] - great when it was working, but locksmiths were called on more than one occasion when it was not. Then we had the epiphany to implement the (keyed) Yale Assure Lock Touchscreen with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth [2], which solved that problem giving us the fail normal desired outcome. It was only in talking with Yale tech support that we realized these are virtually the same locks (one keyed / one not), and despite a near absence of technical supporting information, they both worked just as well on Google Home.

I cannot emphasize the fail normal requirement enough with IoT devices, as discussed elsewhere here. We similarly provision a large number of other IoT devices to improve guest experience including Nest thermostats, Nest Protect smoke and CO alarms, Chromecast Google TV, and (outside) Google Nest security cameras/floodlights. Most guests now require these features at a minimum.

I apologize that this reads somewhat as a Google advertisement, and that is one of my problems with IoT and IMHO one of the main reasons for its lack of wider adoption - product lines are proprietary and there are no well-implemented standards for cross-vendor compatibility. For example, Amazon eero wifi nodes cannot be substituted with Google Nest Wifi nodes - they use incompatible proprietary mesh networking technology.

[1] https://store.google.com/product/nest_x_yale_lock

[2] https://shopyalehome.com/products/yale-assure-lock-touchscre...