skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to avoid this as a company is to not use SMS to implement 2FA!
Most mac apps I’ve worked on professionally have been distributed through sparkle rather than the mac app store. The 30%/15% fee is one thing but the bigger problem is slow app review, restrictions and complications around offering discounts or deals. I also personally find the user reviews to be something of a burden, they’re often abused by entitled users who will hold you hostage with one star reviews demanding certain features etc.

I hope one day we can distribute iOS apps in the same way.
Ask HN: WISE alternatives for international freelancers?
I used WISE (Transferwise) for more than 5 years now. I live in Europe and had US clients in the past. Now a simple transaction from my WISE EU account to my local bank account is paused for more than 3 weeks, and in the last year or so, my whole account was put on pause to “proof my legitimate business”.

I am too afraid for my account being shutdown, and I can’t accept pausing transactions for this long. I started paying taxes through this account and pausing transactions result in fees.

So long story short: Which options do I have to receive international payments?
Supposedly more declaritive APIs and data binding are coming eventually. But who knows how long we will have to wait for that.
Thank you for this reply. I actually created a micro saas basically on these principles, EXCEPT I made it for my father's industry.. which makes selling it and supporting it drudgery for me.

So I know it's possible and it was nice reading your writeup reminding me I wasn't just lucky. (My father's industry is very niche and basically had zero competitors for the segment of the market (20-50 employees).

My plan is to try again soon with something I am way more passionate about.
The cumulative point of this thread seems to be that they are getting to work with 75% of 90% of the audible book market (you claim books are available elsewhere = 25% commission).

You can call that whatever you want, but it sounds a lot like the descent to pre-Internet situations that weren't markers of stable quality and that many people who survived the 1980s don't want to see again.
Invite some scientists and journalists to the lab to observe it?
So having a very strong diamagnet isn't interesting or is there still reason to even doubt that part?

Only one of the four labs that completed replication has claimed to have found diamagnetism, but how could that video be explained otherwise?
this is another drop in the bucket of "stop using SMS for any form of authentication"
Post says theres a couple unofficial tools that do similar things
Your post would be a lot better without the first sentence. You’re questioning the effectiveness, not the point. The point is clear, and your suggestion of the point is an obvious straw man even to people who agree with you.
Yep they could be hiring independent hackers to test their security 24/7 and they just simpley "don't" . It's like me doing a security audit of my own software, that would be just dumb, so you have pen test dudes who poke at it.
To be fair, this release supports LSP and TreeSitter (which is super cool), but these are features that were pioneered by other editors and available elsewhere long before emacs. These ideas wouldn't be coming to emacs if it weren't for the experimentation and polishing done elsewhere.
I’d be happy if it just makes UFOs in focus.
Governments should give broadband money only for one thing….. proof of a high speed connection in a premises.

Outcome. Money for the outcome only.

Should never give a dime for anything else.
100 degrees kelvin is about 338 degrees Fahrenheit below room temperature.
> There's nothing the govt. can do to stop people from growing a plant

Do you want to reconsider that statement?
What is politics if not trust?
There's fish tank pumps that can be easily adapted and work great. You use a luer fitting to attach the vacuum tips. From there you can add extras, like pass the tubing through a pen and epoxy the luer to the end of the pen. A foot pedal operated solenoid can be added that opens the line to ambient pressure to release vacuum and drop the part.
While reading it it felt like the author of this article had an axe to grind. His bitterness towards Havel felt palpable, and some quick googling shows that he's definitely not a neutral party:

As far back as 2014, when he was _First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs_ he was criticizing Havel and his policies from a policy standpoint: https://www.praguepost.com/czech-news/czech-foreign-policy-a...

He pitches the issues between Havel and Kundera as ideological, and representative:

Their exchange reflected the fault line between democratic-socialist and liberal intellectuals: Kundera argued for a new model of society that would be free and fair, avoiding the vices of both Western capitalism and Eastern European authoritarianism; Havel defended Western capitalism as the only desirable model, needing fine tuning, but no major revision.

And his position on the ideological battle is quite clear in the book he published titled Budoucnost Levice bez Liberalismu_ (The future of the left without liberalism).

This isn't to say the article isn't accurate or interesting. (I loved both Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being; and Havel's Summer Meditations). But I think it's useful context, and I'm definitely taking its contents with a pinch of salt, and double checking the falsifiable claims therein.
Last time I looked at it they had experimental support for binary diffs (not just lines). That was quite a while ago though, they have probably gotten further now.
Some of us just need a simple webform for our project. Keeping all code in Python makes sense. Nearly all generative AI projects with a web frontend on Github use libraries like Streamlit etc.

And, while Phyton would not be my preferred choice for robotics, I did write kernels for small 'autonomous' mobile robotics a long time ago in C. The systems ran at 20 hz. I'm pretty confident modern embedded computers running Phyton can achieve 20 hz sense/think/act cycles.
Sounds like they're good enough. Enemy of Microsoft is my friend
ZMQ of course!

In all seriousness, I’ve always found the author’s odd rant on the contemporary wireless communication system quite interesting. In my mind, the issues with the current system are not so much technical as they are regulatory. There are many industries where artificial scarcity is captured by bribing… errr buying the right to that control from the Gov (while competition is held off using their monopoly on violence). Sending an SMS, especially these days, costs on the order of sending a single TCP packet over the Internet.

Together with the payment industry, we’ve been duped out of trillions in usage fees for tech that was invented and put into use by hobbyists for decades before the rent seekers showed up.

https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter8/
would love to be able to watch the whole car chase from Street view
Predicting a negative effect is extremely common in science effecting humans. No reason to abandon a field.

>but he still promulgated theories which wreaked the badness he felt bad about

No. His prediction was that increasing the minimum wage leads to increased unemployment. He predicted a negative effect and a negative effect happened.

None of this has to do with article, which makes a very simple point about statistics.
Hardware attestation chips like TPM. Which, coincidentally, Microsoft just made mandatory.
Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
Smaller parts are so much easier with a vacuum pen. You just need expensive tips for 0402 and smaller.
Glorious to watch
Century of profit
a reply I made to a sibling comment to yours would seem to apply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981778

I don't think knowing what something is requires a deep understanding of the technical workings of that thing, in normal usage of English do you know something relates to do you have some familiarity with the existence of the thing.

IF someone said Bryan doesn't even know what a car is you would wonder "how could he not know what a car?" is as opposed to thinking yes well lots of people have a limited, superficial, or extremely incorrect understanding of the workings of the modern automobile.
Most countries have a required ID, there is no way around it other than living illegally.
As GP said, there is zero evidence that deterrent works. On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that being rich and a good social support system have a preventive effect. Two things that are well represented in Singapore.
If you're looking for an app that's similar you could try this one I'm using https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/langs-ai-language-learning/id1...
Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix
Could we say it is becoming evident that the US government are fine with ad-blocking? (For at least some ads)

I expect this news to be heavily criticized by all highly paid engineers at ad-tech companies like Google and Meta?
This simile is extensible -theyre planning on trashing the bathroom and kitchen when they leave and are discussing if raw prawns in the curtains will work
Unfortunately you don't get to choose the database that the very expensive canned software the company bought years ago runs on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ariely#Accusations_of_data...
>But that might just be a really low resolution model of reality which fails to capture the full nuances of the situation.

in general women have less stigmas against not working (even 50 years after women entered the work force en masse and the modern western workforce is basically 50/50) and perform better in school than men. So I imagine it's a mix of less women falling through the cracks to begin with and them more support options if they do.

Other factors on the male side include being more likely to abuse alcohol/drugs and less likely to get treated for mental health issues. it's part of why homeless population are overwhelmingly male (not to mention there are some female-exclusive shelters for homeless women).

Males may have higher career ceilings, but much lower floors as well, with not as many people trying to reach out.
It is amazing to me how you could say this. That's how socialized alcohol is to people. It isn't even deaths as a metric... it is everything around it too. Sure there are a lot of news articles about people bent over on fenty right now and that is terrible, but that pales in contrast to all of alcohol abuse related issues.

Let's also remember that a lot of people (watch the interviews of people on YT) start using fenty because they want something stronger/cheaper than what they were previously using, like alcohol.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...
An Open Source Demonstration Using LLMs to Explain Health Records
Hi ! Neat little app!

I was commenting elsewhere that I was super happy that Bard t had opened up foreign languages recently. That way I could get my kids to practice their foreign languages. But bard was not great, and prompt was not as intuitive as yours!

Click to talk. Click to stop. Great!

I'll be using your app. Great idea! Keep UX simple that even a 5 yr old can figure it out!
GP is likely referring not to the implementation, not the product itself.

The phone system was not built with basic modern necessities like authentication. You don't know that the number on your caller ID is actually owned by the person calling you, for example.

A better system would have an authentication scheme and encryption for sure. As we've seen from RCS and iMessage, it doesn't need to sacrifice backward compatibility, either.
You can't just drop that without sharing the link!
I used to work on a related problem (call traffic pumping) for a large VOIP provider, for domestic & international calls. It was a very interesting problem which has two distinct patterns of abuse.

First is just basic account takeover/hijacking, where a criminal will login to your account and receive a cut for calling expensive numbers (or in this case, sending SMS's to them). This is basically the web version of the pre-existing PBX hijacking issue.

The second, more interesting version, is people abusing free quotas to send calls (or SMS), such as in the verification case. This is novel (relative to the pre-web era) because historically it would have been hard to make free calls/texts.
If the buyer wants the property, they will do anything to get it, even overlooking many red flags.
A US bank account will give US customers the easiest way to pay. Real banks have to comply with regulations so they seem less prone to random holds and delays and hassles.

By extension a local account in countries you do business in will give customers the easiest way to pay.

I use Wise and PayPal sometimes for sending money, but I don’t trust those companies enough to hold lots of money in those accounts, or to receive important payments from customers. They seem to make up their own opaque rules as they go and users don’t have much recourse. My banks have to comply with US regulations.
go big or go home they should sell the Twitter name and domain.
System languages with unsafe code blocks exist for decades, with ESPOL in 1961 being one of the first ones.

In fact, had languages like Modula-2 and Ada not lost to UNIX/C/C++ hegemony, this would already be quite common.

It is kind of tragic that we still need to keep discussing the value of this.
The most innocuous explanation is someone in management asking "if someone tells us (via API request) to send an SMS to a certain number, and we don't send that message because we're 99% sure they're being defrauded, how do we communicate that to the customer, and what about that 1% chance we're wrong?"

Although the most likely explanation is someone in management going "hold on, we have to spend money to build these safeguards, and we're going to make less money after we deploy them?"
I tried it in Spanish, to get an idea of how it works. Pretty cool! Definitely worth polishing the interface and making it a native app. How hard would it be to add more languages? My current target languages aren't supported: Hungarian and Bulgarian.
> Friedman wrote, “implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man’s belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny.” (Of course, Kennedy had said that Americans should not ask what their country could do for them. But never mind. It’s that kind of book.)

It's hard to take this article seriously when it makes a glaring mistake analyzing the first two paragraphs of Friedman's book. Friedman was critiquing both statements in Kennedy's famous line ("Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society.")
I would call them rewards rather than reasons
ESG is about how sustainable the COMPANY (stock price) is when looking from those three aspects i.e is it a safe investment to not lose your pension in it.

The survivability of everything around it is not to say irrelevant but at least a few steps removed.

So it tries to assess whether your money is still there, not the planet.

Obviously the marketing tries to make you believe that it’s about the planet.
(1) Uh, just to mention, while sometimes some norms of math writing are not always made fully clear, in writing with math expressions it is important at least to define the symbols and also good to define the terms, motivate the discussion, give intuitive views, and give examples. In particular, (a) in physics it is standard to have some globally defined, understood, and accepted symbols, e.g., in F = ma, F for force, m for mass, and a for acceleration. (b) Uh, essentially that is not done in math and, instead, in each paper, discussion, text chapter, etc. really should start even from, say,

R -- the set of real numbers

n -- a positive whole number

e -- the base of the natural logarithm

etc. The paper that is the subject of this thread had some math notation without such definitions.

(2) My standard, quite clear, go-to source on Kalman filters is the section in (with TeX syntax)

David G.\ Luenberger,
{\it Optimization by Vector Space Methods,\/}
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1969.\ \

That's a really good example of some really good math and writing of math.
If Microsoft used decent security practices they could just revoke a key and the leaked version would stop working on all updated systems. But it's Microsoft, so I would be surprised
too much effort, not enough profit
> Now, every time we read `offsetHeight`, the browser sees that it has a scheduled DOM modification to apply, so it has to apply that first, before it can return a correct value.

That makes perfect sense, except that I don't understand how using a shadow DOM helps in this specific case (A DOM write followed immediately by a DOM read).

Won't the shadow DOM have to perform the same calculations if you modify it and then immediately use a calculated value for the next modification?

I'm trying to understand how exactly a shadow DOM can perform the calculations after modifications faster than the real DOM can.
Observability architectures are hitting a wall
>So you believe we should kill all the brewers, bartenders, liquor store clerks etc?

Yes of course. Why do you even ask, I thought this much was totally clear from my original post.
This is super cool. I just hope people don't train models to give out incorrect information, cause that's terrifying.

Imagine connecting your health records and they tell you that you don't need the measles vaccine cause it causes autism.
How to get more comfortable with death
You need to be more specific. Chromebooks are common in parts of Europe.
I'm sorry but you are completely delusional. Singapore is a tiny island that sells peace, safety and cleanliness to top investors at the expense of everything else. Executing drug traffickers is just part of their investor pitch.

If investors decided tomorrow that they like pot, Singapore will go ahead and legalize it.
I love it ! It's very cool. I was thinking of doing the same kind of thing too. I'll throw here some ideas that I thought would be cool also:
- adaptative level: just gradually starts to add more vocabulary in the conversations. I would assume an LLM already knows by design the most common and the most rare worsts
- remembers past vocabulary, and uses more the vocabulary you struggle with
- remembers grammar concepts, ideally makes a brief summary of a new concept, and refreshes your memory if it's a concept you've already seen, but forgot.

I currently struggle learning Korean because so much of the language uses particles, and they all look the same to me. I think I would greatly benefit a tool that tells me "hey ! you've seen this concept before, look: ___" and by repetition give reinforce my grammar knowledge

This is how I would see the ideal language learning companion
Its manufactured in mexico or central America but the precursors are believed to come from the world’s chemical industry capitals in china and india.

However, after fentanyl became a thing and china was implicated, they were quicker than the us to ban the precursors than the usa
I find it really hard to maintain a mental model of all the settings now - I wish there was a “save as text” (that had better structure than the direct output of “defaults read”) that would show all the Boolean switches. Maybe have a comment for “or one of these” for something that had an enumerated value (like scaling). Hmm. (Starting to sound like a “I should just damn well go write that and quit complaining”)
I've seen this attack first hand, causing a company thousands of dollars of damage (not including dev hours to resolve).

The exploit was on a mobile app that required phone verification upon initial onboarding, way before any other authentication can be performed. That made it relatively hard to reinforce the onboarding API call that triggers SMS.

It's a nasty problem, and effectively an arms race.
I disagree, I'm not an x fan just nitpicking. A CEO doesn't need impeccable anything, however they should have the ability to farm it out to somebody who does and if they can't they should be fired. She obviously can't figure pr out at all, which says something about someone being CEO of a social media company.
Novel Molecules Fight Viruses by Bursting Their Bubble-Like Membranes
And when you buy illegal drugs, no oversight (a la the FDA) nor legal recourse.
Looks amazing! But will you be adding other languages like Marathi(15th most spoken) and Telugu(16th) if possible?
The problem is getting people to use that modern tooling, even static analysis is hardly used and lint was created in 1979.

This is what memory safe systems languages offer, there is no way around avoiding such tooling, it is part of the language and needs to be explicitly disabled.
I'd start with slightly better numbers... unless you count the savings accounts of 3 year olds too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+in+the+unite...
Well, from the customer standpoint, it's one trip from the server versus two.
Sometimes it is quite handy living in one of the most centralised states in the developed world
So it looks at how well the company is prepared to do when the climate changes (mostly by having written some plans).

It does not care much about what the company actions do to the world.
The explainer means jack shit. It is corporate marketing mumbling, intended for techy audiences.

It does not matter what the explainer says. We know what this system CAN be used for and pinky promises by a monopoly entity not to use WEI for nefarious purposes are an indication that WEI will be used for nefarious purposes.

Discussing the explainer can only lead to slippery slope examinations of how bad WEI actually is and how much integrity of WEI hangs on good will of Google. WEI is very bad, extremely bad when coupled with secureboot and similar hardware restrictions, Google has a solid track history to throw anyone and anything under the bus if it means profits. What reasonable discussion would you expect?
It is trivial yet there are plenty of CVE exploiting the failure to do so, as people being people, always take shortcuts in the name of performace, without bothering to use a profiler.
Used to work in an office overlooking this bridge. When a crash happened all work ceased and we’d gather around a window to gawk at the accident. Sometimes it felt like they came in clusters.

I felt extra bad when it was a rental.
Also small compared to what the British got. But what matters more is how critical they were : the Nazis culminated in view of the Kremlin (also, notably, a couple of days before Pearl Harbor and the US officially joined the war).
I think it won't move. As the segment is extracted by current time, it's somehow similar to record a video from day to night. Tell me if I'm wrong.
Ah, thanks!

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapons_pro...
Saw it on Fox News!