skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Owners of the SO sites are control freaks. Mods have started ruining the site around 10 years ago. Now, when I do a fresh registration I can't do basic things like upvote an answer or write a helpful comment, because I need X reputation.

So I can't add relevant info/feedback to a topic I landed on via google, because I don't have reputation, so in essence the site strangles itself. Because in 2023 I'm not going to farm(!) 50 points just to share my info. All this because a few bad apples tried to game a system and someone came up with this lame idiocy of you must have X reputation...

But you can ask questions.

But if noone upvotes your answer because it's a hard one, and/or noone knows the reply to your problem, then you are stuck. So should you ask some blatant question, like, is the sky blue and why? But it will be a duplicate. No reps for you. So it's a totally braindead system, they deserve to die.

Why don't they introduce a system where you can say, I need this answer for 5 bucks. But that will not be implemented, because it would make a dangerous precedent where you could harness other's valuable knowledge in almost an instant.
The hlt instruction has been around for a while.
The US decided that’s racist.
The article admits that this technique is likely quite easy to negate with simple tools.

"The technique isn't foolproof, malicious actors could work to reverse engineer the protected image potentially by adding digital noise, cropping or flipping the picture."

This seems like a step in the right direction, but ultimately it won't make a difference. Then again, that doesn't mean that some companies won't purchase it, at least for talking points. "Our system makes it impossible to copy these images!"
>Since 'verification' is now just a paid service, it's also much harder to separate bad actors from good actors.

Doesn't the fact that a payment method has been setup _help_ and not _hinder_ the process of separating bad actors from good? I'm not a huge Twitter user by any means but I would think that verification step would cut down on automated spam.
I was... Tesla was small but fairly well known for their first vehicle.
Can't trackers change to using a credit-card-scheme-style "dynamic" tracking ID system (you know, the same way you can tell if a credit card is Visa or MasterCard)? For example, if instead of looking for "gclid", a site looks for "f(query-key) == 39", where "f(query-key) = char1 + char2 + ... + charN % 64". Under this system, each advertising provider simply needs to own a mod number instead of a query-key (Google would look for 39, Microsoft for 23, etc.). You can then have infinitely many tracking keys, that don't even need to be consistent within the same session. At this point, you would probably feel a lot less confident about arbitrarily removing these from the URL, since it becomes increasingly difficult to know for sure that you aren't breaking a legitimate use-case query parameter.
Why are some people so competitive? The psychology of competitiveness
Alcohol sellers to start biometric scanning your face or palm to verify age
Are they better academically? Or do we assume they are because they went to a better school?

A lot of Ivy League school entries are "legacy" which means a parent went there.

Remember if you let in a minimum number of something that means you wouldn't have without a limit.

Legacy students aren't more gifted academically or they could get in as part of the academic pipeline, right?
Luck is a term used by incompetent people to explain things that they don't understand.
The browser with a built-in crypto wallet? No thanks.

I stick to Safari and Firefox. They're not perfect but they're the only modern browsers that don't use Blink, which is what gives Google the power to make moves like this.
Hmm. That makes sense. Probably also why the Qing underestimated naval cannons at around the time of the Opium Wars.

I was thinking though, about how long the Chinese had gunpowder, and even bombs before the gunpowder formulas proliferated through the Silk Road, pre-Ming.

The Qing also fielded firearm units. The Manchu bows and arrows evolved to taking the role of short-range weapon, ceding the long-range to firearms. Maybe it was a case of not going all in with firearms.
I add "no preamble, no summary" to a lot of my prompts to avoid that wordiness.
In other news I heard that the traffic in downtown Seattle is horrible after Amazon's return-to-office mandate.

(Learned this second hand, please correct me if wrong)
That revenue chart always has to go up and to the right! /s

I work in SEO so I work with advertisers quite a bit, and they absolutely do not care about privacy. I had one who thought that when a user clicks on our site from Google that we can grab their email since "they're logged into their Google account anyway, why not just get their email so we can do some email marketing?"

When I said we can't do that, he thought it was a bug, not a privacy feature.

If they could install cameras in your home, they would, and they have.
> Cool! I didn't know threaded conversations were a concept from usenet.

Usenet and e-mail. Both message formats supported referencing the message being replied to since the early days:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-4.6

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc850#section-2.2.6

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading
Unicode chars don't display correctly in the PDF, unfortunately. Hope this can be added.
I was more talking about this kind of reaction.
Urgency to act against AI threats to democracy, society and national security
i mean, he tried pretty hard not to pay that amount
Possibly, it depends on the distribution of the vales. It would also make my examples far less straightforward :)

Either way you would still only have 256 discrete values.
Proud Boys would be a good example. Not sure why they have to single out the right though. I guess every periodical has to take a stance on politics. The original source just said:

"""
Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world.
“The world needs products like Signal — but they also need Signal to be thoughtful,” said Gregg Bernstein, a former user researcher who left the organization this month over his concerns. “It’s not only that Signal doesn’t have these policies in place. But they’ve been resistant to even considering what a policy might look like.”
"""
What are you expecting to happen, exactly?
How many electric cars did Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning sell in 2001?
That's not a good rebuttal. The context is $250 laptops that afford students technology literacy for cheap. Not, I can't afford a yacht and I'm ok with it, ergo everyone else can be ok with things they can't afford.
I would love to see something like Monodraw, that could generate centered text boxes and simple diagrams for use in READMEs. Monodraw is great, but I don’t think it’s in development anymore.
So:

- We own machines once we purchase them, and Google must get their hands off of them.

- Google must continue to support the device with free software updates for 50 years after it is sold.

Why not just legislate that Google must deposit $1000 in my bank account every month while we are at it?
> You don’t necessarily need to give it up, just eat less. It’s much cheaper, too!

This is honestly what turns me off about not eating meat the most. Dude literally said he would freeze in winter and sweat in the summer and give up his firstborn and you're like "it's cheaper yay !".

It feels like a telemarketer on my phone trying to sell me something after I told them a resounding no.
If I recall correctly, the drive light stayed on, the drive was spinning, but the whine came from the speakers, and moved to a higher pitch partway through. It also smoothly ramped down in "RPM" (frequency) at the end, which is not a thing that the floppies could do.
> More annoying to keep clean?

Looks shitty if it's even slightly dirty, gets dirty if you so much as look at it, requires very thorough cleaning to make it look good (no smudges or streaks).

Means you don't do your own cleaning—like, at all. Once-a-week housekeepers can't keep a mirrored coffee table looking tidy. Probably also helps if you have whole rooms you barely use, but even dust'll have it looking shabby faster than, say, wood. If you buy such a piece and do your own cleaning—and especially if you actually use it—you'll probably regret it in a matter of days.

It's the kind of thing someone without that can only own (without it looking way worse than almost any alternative material) if they're so dedicated to it that it'll be the thing people remember about them. "Aunt Gertrude and that damn table. You remember that? Wouldn't let anyone touch it, and damned if every time you came to visit, she wasn't cleaning it. She had a whole process. Drawer of different towels, three or four cleaning bottles she had to put on in order. One time my kid touched it with a cookie-greased hand and she saw me getting the Windex, nearly bit my head off."
What it means to “want it badly enough”
You can use str.slice or str.extract to clean the data:

https://pola-rs.github.io/polars/py-polars/html/reference/ex...
Which commenters are you referring to? You piqued my interest but nobody said stuff like “a problem for science” as far as I can tell. EDIT: this wasnt meant as a jab. I’m not well read in this topic so it’s hard for me to detect the “crypto creationists”.
Connecticut Troopers Tried to Bury Biased Stop Data by Falsifying 26k Tickets
Did you do it entirely in LaTeX or some hybrid?

I use Python scripts to generate LaTeX invoices/offers/payslips from yaml files. It works very smoothly.

Of course it is more effort than using the built-in templates from the bookkeeping software, but it looks much nicer and I only do a few per month so it is not many minutes wasted.

The effort spent building up these scripts to their current level is perhaps impossible to motivate with any rational arguments... But I had fun doing it!
If anyone is looking for a comprehensive accounting tool for personal finance or small business, GnuCash also has the ability to generate invoices.

In my opinion, the PDF generator made by OP makes way more beautiful invoices than GnuCash. However, generating is only part of the story; tracking invoice balances and knowing who still owes you is another. GnuCash does both in one place, which is why I am plugging it here. It's worked well for my small business. It even gives you a nice pop-up reminder when you open the program that reminds you about unpaid Accounts Receivable.
For those that do not know the reference:

> Eternal September or the September that never ended[1] is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993[2] when Internet service providers[2] began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet gateway service in March 1994,[3] leading to a constant stream of new users. Hence, from the early Usenet point of view, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
>Note: time works against chemical processes since the organic chemical compounds decay, keep that in mind when creating a hypothesis.

The question is how quickly do they decay in a sterile environment. A virus which has no active mechanism for preventing decay can last for days. RNA can have half lives measured in days. That's a lot of time and I'm sure there's more stable variants but in modern times stability is not a prime concern for organic molecules.
That is not what most of us complain about I think.

I and I think many other are sad that S.O. removes many serious work related questions (have lost count of how many times I saw the perfect question with the perfect answer, with a note that this isn't what Stack Overflow is made for and these questions only exist for historical reasons).
The Amiga's hardware was designed with television output in mind -- not just the clock speed but the genlock. A "Toaster for PC" would've required additional hardware. Such systems did exist -- Matrox Studio being one -- but it was somewhat more expensive (and way less sexy) than the Toaster.

NewTek did make a Video Toaster for Macintosh. It came in a box that connected to the Mac's SCSI port and was largely controlled via a Switcher interface on the Mac. You may have figured out that the box was a complete Amiga 2000 system with the Video Toaster add-in cards installed.

As the Amiga declined, NewTek saw the writing on the wall and released a Video Toaster for Windows NT PCs. Today, a turnkey version of this system is available under the name TriCaster.

But again, the sexiness just isn't there now.
> A1 [100+] [+50 bounty] [auto-accepted]

I don't think SO "auto accepts" answers. The only one who can do that is the original asker, manually. See: https://stackoverflow.com/help/accepted-answer

On meta.so this has been asked repeatedly and the consensus is that no, it cannot be done and furthermore, "accepted" doesn't mean "the best", it just means whatever the original asker marked as helpful for their situation, so "auto-accepting" would be meaningless. Also see: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/262915/147346

As for upvotes: if a question is upvoted that means the community upvoted it. The "community" in SO is just regular people, programmers both knowledgeable and newbie. I don't know that any "open access" platform can solve the problem of people upvoting the "wrong" answers; it's not a tech problem. It happens here on HN, too!
> Yeah, and now people are deriding him for that

People have been mocking him for the price, the no-due-diligence clause, and other aspects of the contract since they became public. While later movement of the stock market may have made it even worse for him, it was a ridiculous deal, on its face, at the time negotiated (and even worse for Musk as a buyer given his public comments about Twitter.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

My god. If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
How is this question pertinent? Are you saying they're making it up?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230724200726/https://www.busin...
Problem is, I could only install Debian to old Chromebook, because it only had 10 GB internal disk space. It is enough disk space to install Debian, XFCE, Chrome and LibreOffice, using Debian network install. It is not enough to install full distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint, installers check that there is not enough disk space to install them.

https://github.com/xet7/chromebook
It was instantly and undoubtedly clear to me.
I read it as good-humoured incredulity, something like: "This comment is so intriguingly bizarre, I don't where to begin making sense of it – can anyone explain?"

Sounds like you read it as something like: "I am angry that I don't understand this comment and I demand others stop what they are doing and explain it to me immediately."

Either of us could be right, but it doesn't matter, and I'm happier!
That 8 months seems like a long time to you is indicative of just how fast tech has been moving lately. I expect at least another year before we have a good sense for where we actually are, probably more.

However, I'll hazard a guess: I think we haven't seen many real new apps since then because too many people are focused on packaging ChatGPT for X. A chatbot is a perfectly decent use case for some things, but I think the real progress will come when people stop trying to copy what OpenAI already did and start integrating LLMs in a more hands-off way that's more natural to their domains.

A great example that's changed my life is News Minimalist [0]. They feed all the news from a ton of sources into one of the GPT models and have it rate the story for significance and credibility. Only the highest rated stories make it into the newsletter. It's still rough around the edges, but being able to delegate most of my news consumption has already made a huge difference in my quality of life!

I expect successful and useful applications to fall in a similar vein to News Minimalist. They're not going to turn the world upside down like the hype artists claim, but there is real value to be made if people can start with a real problem instead of just adding a chatbot to everything.

[0] https://www.newsminimalist.com/
He was forced to buy it due to its own inflated ego and stupidity. He tried everything he could to exit the agreement, but failed and had to buy the company at an inflated price.
Does Google run other indexers for the purposes of catching cloaking? Are there other strategies that can be used? One of the problems of SO is that most of the valid content is out there and easily available without having to scrape the site which may mean penalizing for bad content is harder.
I think it has shown the limitations of the Society of Mind hypothesis. Aggregating individuals equates to aggregating knowledge/experience, not intelligence. This is why hives and anthills do not really surpass their individuals intelligence. Ditto for human societies. In other words: composing LLMs using tools like langchain yield minor improvements over a single LLM instance.
We had some Apollo Domain machines at school which could also run similar programs - I remember 'Crumble' and 'Melt' being two of them. And you could run them on other peoples' display. So we used to melt/crumble the screens of the engineering students in the next lab over. 'We' in this case had admin privileges, though, and only did it a couple of times.
The best schools for training are still in the US, but you can’t replace experience.
yep, moderation is pretty horrible.
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
As an oddly adjacent topic, here’s a documentary about the founder of Newtek (the creators of Video Toaster) as he tries to figure out whether Vermeer used optical devices to aid his painting.

https://youtu.be/WPL7D0Ha1kQ
https://www.amazon.com/Bebop-Bytes-Back-Unconventional-Compu...

https://archive.org/details/bebop_201810

https://www.clivemaxfield.com/

http://www.clivemaxfield.com/diycalculator/docs/demo-workben...
If you're talking about RSA tokens as in the tokens sold by RSA Security the company, my company uses them and my team is in charge of their issuance. We've estimated the total including man-hours cost of issuing a single token at about 250€. Sure in the grand scheme of things it isn't much but I can't imagine it'd be better for PayPal, and that gets expensive fast if you send them to clients and not just employees.

Part of this is of course genuine security verifications but a lot of it is due to RSA Security's obtuse design decisions. We tend to avoid them entirely and instead rely on modern SAML providers with app-based 2FA whenever we can now.
A cyber-attack with Covid-like characteristics?
Show HN: OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Support Using PGPainless
OK fine, i knew it was around that number, but it's still 40% which is billions of people. you get my point.
I can't see the article, but based on other articles, isn't this effectively constructive dismissal disguised as "accepting your resignation"?
While true, it's often two distinct processes. I work with implementing ERP systems, focusing on accounting and financials. Most systems I see use the ERP system to generate the invoice data and for tracking the invoice status with a separate service to create the PDF (and electronic) invoices through an integration with the ERP system. The ERP system is usually pretty good at invoice tracking but customising the invoices can be both time consuming and expensive. Among larger enterprises there's definitely a market for software that can produce PDF invoices, even without tracking, although they would probably have to support creating PEPPOL BIS compliant XML documents as well.
I might have been unclear. I meant that google ship devicess e-fuses enabled but with the unlocked bootloader option (using, I believe, the mechanism I tried describing above). They do make this, a lot of other vendors don't. Good for them!
It might just feel that way because it is a boring answer, but boring answers are usually a good sign. We all want the emergence of life to be special, but there’s every reason to believe it was just random. You can fit some pretty unlikely events in (billions of years)*(however many planets). It is really more space, than time, I think, though. I’m actually not sure how many planets there are in the whole universe (not just the observable universe; if we happened to have sprouted up on another planet we’d just be asking this question from inside a different light cone, nothing special about ours).
Show HN: Meeting Cost Calculator shows teams the cost of their meeting time
It all started with a LinkedIn post that said, "These days it's harder to expense a Twix from a hotel mini bar than it is to call a meeting that costs $20,000 of other people's time."

With that in mind, our team came up with Meeting Cost Calculator, an application designed to help teams understand the cost implications of their meeting culture. Since we began building, Shopify has created quite a stir in the news (twice over now) first by canceling nearly all of their meetings, and more recently by releasing an internal-only tool (aptly called "meeting cost calculator") that shows their employees how much meetings cost.

Our Meeting Cost Calculator tool is designed to give team leaders data-driven insights into how their team spends meeting time, who's booking the most outrageously expensive meetings, and when those meetings occur. So yes, that meeting could have been an email!
I found this video to be quite informative and addresses a relationship between the information incorporated into a chemical process and its function.

Nobel laureate Jack Szostak from University of Chicago delivered the Eyring General Lecture on March 17, 2023 at Arizona State University.

"The Origin of Life: Not as Hard as it Looks?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzyco3Q_Rg
Fantastic project! Would have loved this on DOS back in the days.
This is cool. It's like Nand2Tetris but interactive...!
No, it is not an arbitrary politics dig.

At this current moment in history, in the United States at least, there aren't a lot of armed left wing groups. But right wing paramilitary groups have been on the rise for years, and recently they tried to overturn an election by force.

At a different time in history people would have fretted that the Weather Underground or Black Panthers would be using the app. But we're in 2023 and not 1970, and people are concerned about Proud Boys and Boogaloos.