skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, last time I looked, social security in France gave back 81€ for every 100€ invested. Swisslife (it was either 2018 or 2019) gave back the same year 67€ for every 100€. What's funny is that only 11€ went to shareholders that year, that mean that even w/o capitalists, sometimes public services are more efficient than private companies.
I'd like if all IOT devices had an offline mode where network access is shut off.

Most companies don't have the skills to make their devices secure. We should have the option to buy devices without network access. Devices that haven't been updated for a year should shutoff their network access automatically.
I have read that the distinguishing feature is that natural diamonds have flaws. Entrapped dirt or what have you that is not found in the sterile environment of the synthetic ones.
BEVs currently are niche expensive cars. This won't really change in next few years. You are getting downvoted, because you are darting forward, leaving most of the society behind. What do you think, that will happen when you throw overboard 80% of people who can't afford BEV or don't have infrastructure to sustain it? Well they will be pissed and vote for somebody else, probably some right wing populist who will start undoing all the progress on the green regulations.
https://archive.is/rWqIw
It only takes 1 bad Karen to spoil the experience of many dads who love taking their kids to the playground.
I'm not dying on any hill, I think that's a weird comment to make, let alone to make an issue out of my original comment at all.

The way the comment was phrased read as though they didn't understand what had happened, not that they didn't understand why. Especially since no one has an answer to that, so no one can offer an explanation.
Prior experience cannot be the for setting wages. No matter how rustled an employers jimmie’s over big numbers, when enough are out of because it does not make financial sense to take a job, people will revolt.

If small businesses cannot hang due to their model (and sensibilities) being based on 1990s math, the solution is tax the mega rich and rebalance the market in the aggregate.
I used Little Snitch for a while, but found its payment model more trouble than it was worth. YMMV.
Your honor, that was a Neco Arc reference and totally not the word you thought it was :D
Anecdote: I had serious wrist/hand pain after using a mechanical keyboard for years. I changed to a low profile keyboard, and I don't have pain anymore. Who knows, maybe it was coincidence.
If you could have an accelerometer read, like from the phone running the app, mitigate vibration offsets in measurements that would be cool. This is all beyond my capabilities, but I'd pay some HNer is they can build a LIDAR scanner I can mount to bike...
sftp doesn’t make it easy to copy files from one place to another on an ad hoc basis while developing, using the shell operations you’ve got to hand.
It means you're a civil servant in your own country (eg in the national statistical office) and you're sent to work at Eurostat for a period of time.
Here's a few things that I would find useful for IoT device labeling:

1) An indication of whether it supports local control, or requires an internet connection. (I can control my Philips Hue lights from my phone even when the internet is down, as long as they're on the same network. However, my MyQ Garage Door opener can only be controlled from my phone when both the phone and the garage door have an internet connection.)

The reason this relates to security is that devices supporting local control can be completely firewalled, significantly reducing the attack surface.

2) A commitment of how long the device will receive updates.

It should probably be in the form of an end date, or a number of years from the date of purchase, because "5 years of support" currently often means "5 years from when the product was first sold, which was 4 years ago, so you really only get 1 year of support if you buy today".

Separate dates for features and security fixes would be acceptable.

There should probably be some provision for vendors to extend this, since they would generally want to for devices that sell better. They should just be prevented from shortening it without penalties (e.g. a full refund offered to all purchasers.)

3) A clear indication of what happens after the above date passes - does the device continue working? become completely inoperable? loose some features? etc.

4) Some indication of openness, ideally in a way that encourages it. Maybe an "A+" rating requires that the vendor make available everything needed to compile and install a new firmware.

Some differentiation could be made between devices that are open at the time of purchase and devices where the vendor has made a commitment to open it up after the support period ends.
What's it's use in IC fab?
You can learn Scheme in two hours. Haskell, not so much. Stick to SICM.
I think Yann LeCun is living in a fantasy world.

He seems unaware that we already saw a massive failure on his watch where a US election (2016) was tipped by algorithmic intervention far beyond anything that had come before, using his company’s personalization platform.

Yes elections are influenced all the time in different ways, but this was next level.

And it’s already eclipsed by the next stuff, which is not stopping, and he doesn’t even acknowledge it at all in anything I’ve seen.

Then there is the delusion that there is a cohesive “we” who are deciding what happens with AI, which he subscribes to. There is no such thing. Humanity is not at all unified, including on whether human extinction is desirable. He assumes we are. Dangerous assumption.
Twitter hasn't fully removed their APIs just yet.
Any industry can only have a shortage for slightly longer than it takes to recruit and train. I've heard about the nursing shortage for more than four decades. It can't take more than six years to fix. Although recently, a lot of nurse pay has finally risen dramatically.
Exactly, the whole point of buying at all is to adhere to a convention or tradition.
Nice. Thank you for making this. There is a huge benefit to using Turbo Repo. I was frustrated with adding any other extension framework to my monorepo. My extensions don't live in isolation but connect to other web, electron, and server apps. With this I can refactor types and design systems easily across the apps.
Alternative meaning - Polish city nearby me :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck,_Poland
Why didn't Houston boom like Austin?

Houston has always had a bad reputation for hot, humid weather. We're talking oppressive heat. Add hurricanes to the mix. Harvey wasn't that long ago and we remember the massive flooding. No thanks.

Austin doesn't have that problematic weather. Their temperature is a few degrees cooler than Houston, and their humidity is a few percentage points lower. It may not be much, but every bit helps. Though Austin also got hit by Harvey, they didn't get hit as bad.

Austin also has a great music scene that's nationally recognized. Austin is a major league music city for producing well-known artists.

Austin is cool, Houston is not. It's really that simple.

What Austin lacks though, as you mention, is infrastructure. I know of many cities across the U.S. that are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of Austin and has more infrastructure. Not just highways and roadways - they lack conference space, they lack terminals at their airport, they have very little public transit - it's pretty bad considering the size of the population.

Between Houston and Austin, Austin wins it hands-down. It's a great place to visit, though I wouldn't live in either city.
I continue to watch Deno with excitement. I haven't had a good use case to play with it yet (all my free programming time has gone into my side business and I'm not ready to chance it on Deno yet) but I'll keep looking.

I find the way they handle secondary indexes very interesting. I mean under the hood I think DynamoDB does pretty much the same thing (stores the data multiple times) but instead of explicitly writing the data multiple times you define fields on the data that the secondary indexes use so the data is written there at the same time it's written to the primary (I could be a little mistaken, I'm working at a higher abstraction layer so I don't think about that). I can't decide which approach I like more. I will say that I don't think I'd need anything but my own abstraction layer to work with Deno KV vs DynamoDB. That said I still think DynamoDB is way more powerful overall.

As always I'm rooting for Deno to succeed.
The rich already pay more taxes annually than most people will earn all year. 70% of the tax burden is carried by individuals earning > $120k/year, which is 30% of the population of the United States. This does not include the income that high-wealth individuals create through salaries and expense spending, both business and personal; all of which is taxed, and none of it exists without them. If it is decreed that wealthy people are 'guilty' of being successful, (that somehow, the rich got rich by taking something the poor doesn't have) then the wealthy will roll back spending and investment, which only means less opportunity, less jobs, and less income (and thus less taxable income.)

Half the country does not pay any significant income, property, or payroll tax.

To the same end, everyone is lifted up when prosperity is high. Tax revenues grow, opportunity is spurred, and people pull themselves out of poverty as a result. You cannot make someone rich by making someone else poor. The net effect will always be zero if you do not let people find their own way.

The myth that the rich don't pay taxes is nothing but class warfare propaganda.
I use deta.space these days. I have a much better fit with it because I often create small, experimental apps for my own pleasure and use. Heroku limits me and screams for payments. That blocks my creative process and makes me worry about unimportant stuff.
Nest thermostat being one example, but myself I'm very happy I have IR remotes to the A/C at home, because I wouldn't want to be unable to turn on the cooling during one of the recent heatwaves over in Europe, just because Internet is down and the control app can't connect to the damn cloud.

(Not that I mind networking in general. Operating those A/C units via Home Assistant app is a glorious and pleasant experience - entirely unlike the vendor's official app.)
If you buy a certified diamond they will come with a laser engraving that indicates it was lab grown. They can tell if it was lab grown with special equipment and/or the chain of purchase. So, I guess you'd have to believe the certification company if they say it is NOT lab grown and that's what you want.
Nowadays in languages like C/C++/Go/etc we typically enforce the use of an autoformatter to convert source code to a canonical style. It's also great for removing all discussion of such formatting from code reviews.
United Airlines grounded flights for an hour after a bad software update
Yes definitely. Though in this case it's kinda awesome that he mayor insisted on some accomodations for his constituents?

He could have just been bribed by the superhighway folks and ignored his constituents, and maybe they would have sucked it up ...
I love the pico.sh ecosystem. I'm using lists most, but will probably using this a lot!
See also school bus drivers, and teachers.
Getting a loan to attend a 4-year university is obscenely easy. Getting a loan or grant to visit a foreign country is difficult. However, if you want to visit a foreign country as an English teacher, having a 4 year degree in the native language of that country makes it MUCH easier.
So funny.As I understand it, $1000 was the highest price tier Apple provided for the App Store.

There must be a lesson (or perhaps even a metaphor?) in that half a dozen or so copies sold. At least one or two of the "marks" claimed they bought it on accident. Maybe. Or maybe some people have a lot more disposable income than I do.

It still feels to me like developer performance art.
Until other countries also revise their GDP estimate, according to the article.
Re: Did AT&T leak their email list publicly?
I'm apparently on this list: DONOTUSEPOD1NON@list.att.com

Here are some screenshots of the debacle [edit: properly redacted now]

https://imgur.com/a/MWV2wmk

https://imgur.com/a/yRJCKUn

It started out when someone wrote to that mailing list with

>
This is a test to see if external users can email AT&T's internal email list with the most recent email mishap.

followed by other responses like

> I guess so…

> So far, based on the number of unique domains coming back directly to me (and replying all), it appears to be mostly business customers. I am assuming business because I also used my gmail for my business when I set up an AT&T account. Time will tell of course but there's definitely not an insignificant number of people on this list as far as I can tell.

> We’re just lucky there aren’t multiple people with vacation responses on eh?
Can you cite anything about UAW asking for a 45% pay increase / 32 hour work week? It sounds like either hyperbole or not the entire story.
Maintenance is more important than sharpening - and maintenance should be done almost every time you use the knife and should just take a minute.
My big concern is with devices being obsolete due to the cloud servers going down.

I am all for high security IoT, but only if the requirements don't make it harder to use local-first APIs, and don't add too much cost to these devices, or stop small companies from making open source devices.

In fact, I think I would even prefer that requirements do not apply at all unless the device communicates directly over the public internet, or over proprietary wireless networking, or where the device's failure could cause a safety hazard.

I would not want to see anything get in the way of, say, making a cheap motion sensor that connects to WiFi and allows open access via the already-private WiFi network, or a BLE sensor tag that broadcasts open data.

Not all devices need updates, or encrypted protocols.
I bought a yellow lab grown diamond for my wife's wedding ring and with a jewelers loupe you can see the flaws in it. It looks like dirt.
Can't those towers implement goods hand-off points in the longer term? I.e. bulletproof glass with a tray through which you can pass goods back and forth?
Why ask? Personally I just nerded out over the specs a bit, filtered for colourless and unflawed as far as the naked eye can see (i.e. you can get better but requires a specialist with specialist equipment to tell, so who cares, she's wearing it not collecting or selling it) and then went with the largest I didn't think would look silly (or alternatively that's within budget, whichever limit's tighter).

I don't really think there's an unbiased way to ask. 'Lab-grown or natural' makes the latter sound more 'real' and better. 'Ethical or blood sweat and tears' is obviously out. 'Lab-grown and technically superior for the same money, or natural and more flawed' is about the best I can come up with, but the former is just objectively the correct answer isn't it? I don't see how anyone could understand the question and answer the latter. There just isn't a reason to prefer natural, all else being equal, for an item of personal jewellery that you're going to wear?
Sunsetting 'Shadowbanning'
With logic like that, why buy a diamond at all? Sounds like your wife gets it!
EU citizen here, but FCC regulations also apply to me indirectly :) Not sure if I am allowed to comment there.

I echo the many voices here that do not connect their devices to the Internet. Of course, I am in the minority that attaches a great deal of importance to these questions, so my devices either run free software (Tasmota and Esphome are two main ones), or have no Internet access (currently with ZigBee, though I have also used Vlans and separate Wi-Fi access points). The only service accessible from the outside (not firewalled) is HomeAssistant.

I can see manufacturers doing the same, with a direct line to their servers for controlling smart devices, but that's only as good as the manufacturer's cyber security practices, what if they are hacked?

Reducing internet exposure to "gateways" (HomeAssistant) in my case distributes a bit the problem, but also reduces the number of devices that have to be maintained up-to-date, so this may be an interesting avenue, especially if manufacturers are pushed to include a dedicated "IoT VLAN" and SSID in every (Wi-Fi) router that makes it easy for every consumer to adopt a separate network.

To summarize, here are the main elements that could help, in my opinion:

* Ensure that every IoT device (often sensors and actuators) has basic functionality available even when completely offline (including during initial setup).

* Ideally these bits of interaction should take place over a standardized interface (the Matter standard seems to fit this perfectly).

* Maybe consider strongly incentivizing gateways instead of directly connecting IoT devices to the Internet, and hold these to higher security standards?
Hm. Your link to the Apollo meanwhile points to something else, I guess?

Try this one? http://www.apollo-computer.com/

Err... this? http://www.apollo-computer.com/v2legacy.php
For some absurd reason fax is often seen by bureaucracies in some countries as “more secure” than email.
Well, you're right that most people don't care about fonts. But people do appreciate good design, and fonts are a big part of that. Similarly, most people don't know, or care about, anything related to music theory, yet people do appreciate good music. People don't care about color theory, but they appreciate good art. You get the drift.

Someone liking or disliking Comic Sans is just a matter of taste. Fonts are not design, they are just fonts. You can make a good design with Comic Sans, and you can make a bad design with the best font in the world.
How many unique addresses on the list approximately?
Most status pages seem to be hosted on the same infra they're monitoring, so they tend to go down with the ship, while visitors are greeted by a conveniently cached "all green" version of the page.

Not surprising when one realizes that status pages, by necessity, become marketing tools.
The MiG-31 largely stopped that approach from being viable. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16377/could-a-s...
> Allegedly Assange agreed to crack password-hashes for Manning, supplying the resulting fresh passwords to Manning to use.

Read the chat logs. This allegation is actually false. First, it's not totally clear that Assange agrees to crack the password, though he does remark that he had the capability to do so. He definitely doesn't supply the cracked password.

> Just imagine a newspaper editor saying: "Wow, these documents you found while burgling the mansion are awesome, hey, how about I give you fresh lockpicks and a grappling-hook so you go back and check the upper floors that you couldn't reach before?"

And then imagine the newspaper editor not actually supplying the lockpicks or grappling-hook and never speaking of it again.
I suppose it's a variation on the "freemium" model.
Dates that NPI codes are issued, deactivated and reactivated now on Snowflake
Bespoke. Allocate the savings from lab diamonds to design and you can get a more meaningful ring with higher quality materials for similar cost.

Customization has been on the uptrend for several years.
A lot of indie games also use open source game engines, which allow (relatively) easy DIY native ports.
Why does everyone compare things to houses? If you want to be more consistent with your building analogy, IoT sold to the public or enterprises are more like bars, except that each user has their own privately owned bar that may or may not be stocked by a central liquor company. If a user wants to check it's not possible for someone to break into his bar, or slip poison into his booze shipments, or redirect the shipments altogether, that's legitimate in my mind. Even if someone buys a bar intending to hijack booze shipments, the liability is still partially on the liquor company if they have not taken reasonable precautions against known risks. Imagine buying a bar and the liquor company who you're forced to use says "if you rattle any of the doorknobs or test the alarm works, we'll sue your pants off and throw you in jail" - does that seem fair?
Even with similar standards of living, culture can play a HUGE role in how these things are talked about. Look at Japan for example, which has a shockingly high rate of people who just... walk out of their own lives forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouhatsu

The discussion around depression and anxiety is also relatively new in Japan, but at the same time the evidence of those issues is not, look at NEETs and Hikikomori, a high suicide rate, and the aforementioned Jōhatsu! The thing is that in Japan there's a very strong tendency to keep that sort of thing in the family, keep it away from prying eyes. Your point about how shame works in different cultures is right on the mark IMO.
> Do you really have a "looks problem" that wouldn't be resolved in 12 months by actively working out, eating well, a good haircut and a great wardrobe?

A gym only takes you so far. There are things out of one's control - height, hair pattern, face shape, etc.

Although I do believe that you're right in the sense that not being overweight and having a stable job already places you in the top 10-15% of men. It's just that sometimes it's not enough and looks are pretty important for women (even though it's not often said out loud)
"If you build modern software, you’re well-versed in composition: grab a handful of existing projects—a database here, a UI framework there, an HTTP library to round it all out—and arrange them together. You write your custom logic—the stuff unique to your project—and let other people’s code do work that’s common across all projects."

This approach certainly gets tried enough. I'd say it has some issues, though.
Hey HN,

Over the past 12 months, we analyzed the passkey readiness / adoption of real life devices and users with a Free Passkey Analyzer tool. Now, we want to share with you the results we gathered to bring some facts to the table, as there have been many heated discussions about passkeys here on HN.

- ~99% of devices support WebAuthn and the majority is also passkey-ready (platform authenticator support)

- Almost all mobile devices use synced passkeys, while most desktop devices (especially Windows) still rely on non-synced passkeys

- Compared to 2022, strong adoption of platform auth and condititional UI

- Passkey-support depends a lot operating system and browser combination (see details in the blog post

This data also backs PayPal's recent global passkey rollout (start with mobile devices + only use synced passkeys for best UX and highest passkey readiness).

What do you think: how this data is going to change in the next 12 months?
> Shiny carbon is shiny carbon to me

You're only considering intrinsic value. That's helpful for raw commodities.

For nearly everything else, value is tied to perception, history, etc.

If I have two identical baseballs, they're both "just" baseballs. But one of them could have much more value due to its history: maybe it was a homerun ball by a famous player, or a ball that I or a family member hit/caught. Same function. Could be otherwise identical, but could also be worth very different amounts.

The stories we tell is where the primary value is.

In this case, your wife values the story of a natural diamond that was formed through long, natural processes and required the effort of finding, excavating, cutting and so on.

Now you could disagree with that story, or you could dislike the tellers and amplifiers of that story, but the fact remains that your wife and many others value that story, making it more precious than merely "shiny carbon."

This is branding and marketing 101. Humans are storytelling machines and they understand value largely via stories and relationships. Misunderstanding that is a failure to understand essential human characteristics.