skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could help you figure it out, but I don't know much about these types of algorithms. Possibly, they already exist and you can plug them in. I know there's a lot of work done on maze-generation in games, maybe you can think of the tunnels as a maze, and pre-generate a path they will take, and update that model as other ants interact with it. Anyway I love the enthusiasm and wish you luck!
I have read similar recommendations about the book and read it because of those.

The problem is that if you recommend the book for it's "unique plot twist", the reader will keep looking for clues on how the resution may not be the most obvious and figure it out pretty fast. Then it is actually no surprise at all anymore. At least this happenend to me.

It would serve the book better if it was recommended as a great (but traditional) murder mystery novel and that's it.
His speed is what most impressed me. Had his ChatGPT tool out in 5 days. Seriously impressive. Being early in the hype cycle is important.
Many would blame people for constantly bragging. Bragging is generally looked down upon. He isn't really sharing any tips or tricks. He's literally just saying "Look at how well I'm doing" in any other scenario there wouldn't be so much acceptance to it.
If you are looking for the presentation, here is the YouTube link with the start timestamp:

https://youtu.be/L98v4epQmrg?t=15125
While being a King would be a lucrative profession, I have very few qualities that would be mandatory for success in that position.

I would still 100% support a more lean, highly qualified leadership versus a large pool of untalented career-driven nitwits which is what most western governments have to offer.
Reading this from an airport boarding area coming back from a conference, and I couldn't agree more. I feel like my social skills of talking to strangers have atrophied during COVID, and now I'm trying my best to exercise those social muscles again. It really requires deliberate practice.
You could be my sibling.
Users should not need to "block" ads. Imagine if the telephone worked like a "modern" web browser. Dial a number and the phone automatically calls 12 other numbers, chosen by the person at the number dialed, and the 12 other numbers are unknown to the person dialling.

Everyone agrees the early internet and web was different. The auto-load resources "feature" was intended, or even Javascript, for a web that was experimental and fun to use.

These features are now used almost invariably for commercial purposes. Most of that is surveillance.

Without auto-load resources and Javascript, the user dials one number and only connects to one number. Most advertising and tracking stops working. When visiting sites submitted to HN, I'm not using a browser that auto-load resources or runs Javascript, hence there is no need for me to "block" ads; I control what request.

People have been expending vast amounts of energy trying to counter "automatic" behaviour of the browser they choose to use. Perhaps the challenge is a new type of "fun". Otherwise, why use a browser that one cannot control. Find an open source browser. Remove the offensive "features". Re-compile. Done.

This is exactly what I did with the browser I'm using to type this comment.

Not everything that is "popular" is good. Perhaps that's an effect of advertising. Several so-called "tech" companies want the public, including government officials, to believe that advertising dollars are necessary to sustain a useful computer network.^1 Feel free to debate.

Everything that is good does not need advertising. UBlockOrigin is one example. By generally all accounts, it's great and, AFAIK, it is not supported by advertising.

1. The truth however is that advertising dollars are only necessary to sustain those companies.
I think this relates to America's NIMBYism: In the places where there is enough density to support this stuff, the sorting from insufficient housing has made too many rich residents that are not sufficiently price sensitive.

If we had abundant housing and thus poorer residents on average (in a relative sense), we would already have these labor-saving amenities.

The fact that cities are both more efficient and more expensive demonstrates just how fucked up the economics of all this stuff has gotten.
Even then, that would be a vulnerability in the browser. JavaScript in ads is loaded in its own context and doesn't have permission to access things outside of that context.
Or perhaps the advice was well-intended, because the term "hacker" has a negative connotation for most people?
Blocking ads in your browser is responsible behavior. It is the same as putting a lock on the door to your house. There are people in the world who will think nothing of taking advantage of you if it means they can put money in their pocket. That said, the OP is referencing malicious ads, which are not designed to sell a product or service. Instead, they are designed to infect your device. From which they can collect/extract data about you.

The current ad-tech model needs to change and is due for disruption. Advertising is everywhere and it’s out of control. There seem to be more ads than ever, in every medium and in every square inch of surface area. In most cases, the ads are unwanted and not even relevant.

Our attention is being stolen and massive amounts of money are being wasted by companies with a legitimate interest to make sales. The bottom-line is that consumers are being victimized by the constant bombardment of advertising. And the companies that sell products/services, who need to build awareness and grow sales, are being taken advantage of by the ad-tech giants.

A new model is needed and we are actively working on a solution called Sellff Offers. This solution allows sellers and buyers to connect directly, without the middleman. Sellff Offers inverts the current ad-tech model in three significant ways: [1] Opt-in, [2] Privacy friendly, and [3] Pays cash rewards.

Here is an example Offer [ https://sellff.com/$/ron.michel/offer/ewVkr ]. You choose whether to view the Offer. Your data and activity is not collected/shared/sold if you view the Offer. And, you are compensated for your time if you decide to participate in the Offer.

Complaining about the current broken ad-tech model does not help to fix it. You need to take action to bring about the change you want to see. If you have an interest in building a new digital marketing/promotions solution, we would like to speak with you. Regardless, we are very excited to see the growing consumer awareness of the dangers of ad-tech and the interest in alternatives ways to connect buyers and sellers.
Related. Others?

Show HN: My free course for learning Imba - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31493263 - May 2022 (14 comments)

Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662 - Aug 2021 (345 comments)

Show HN: Imba 2.0 – The JavaScript Alternative by Scrimba (YC S20) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196158 - Aug 2021 (5 comments)

Imba – Create complex web apps with ease - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487972 - July 2019 (36 comments)

Imba the new JavaScript based language having Python,Ruby inspired syntax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18487942 - Nov 2018 (3 comments)

IMBA the new programming language for web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17505816 - July 2018 (2 comments)

Imba – 10 times faster than React - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837231 - July 2017 (1 comment)

Imba: A new programming language for web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10901054 - Jan 2016 (128 comments)

Imba - create complex web apps with ease! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863827 - Jan 2016 (8 comments)

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In Australia don’t we all know exactly how much tax we’re paying? We have a flat 10% GST with the amount shown on every receipt?
That's a fair point. I've lightly edited my recommendation accordingly :)

I read it making my way down a random list of "greatest books of the 20th century" without any expectations; I should probably offer others the same courtesy.
The largest proponents of tipping have always been the service staff themselves (followed closely by restaurants). The service staff like it because they generally take home far more than minimum wage (something they're still guaranteed, btw, they only get the subminimum when tips exceed minimum wage), and the restaurant likes it because they can increase their margins since consumers pay their staff. The people who generally hate this the most are consumers because they're the ones getting the short end of the stick.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the ridiculousness of tipping in the US and how 20-25% has somehow become the norm over 10-15% a few decades ago. But I hate it as the fucked over consumer, not over some misguided notion of worker exploitation. And honestly don't even understand how people have bought into this weird, obviously incorrect, talking point.
Service is great in the south of France. Your experience seems pretty limited to Paris I guess.
This. Same in Australia.
England has no national police force. The Metropolitan Police operate only in London (hence the name.) Christie disappeared in Surrey, which had (and has) its own territorial force, the Surrey Police.

Note in particular the concern was that multiple forces had been involved in the search i.e. more than just the Surrey Police, and therefore the concern that London police resources had been spent unnecessarily in the search - hence the question to the Home Secretary.
She provides a basic description of fiat money and the process by which capitalists allocate resources, taking on risk in the hopes that their investment produces goods/services that consumers value more than the price to produce them. It should be uncontroversial to state that that arrangement has facilitated extraordinary increases in global prosperity.

The many "that's another story" caveats are important because there are many ways in which the interaction between markets and governments can cause bad outcomes; far too many to be covered in a 20 minute video.

I'd like to hear just one example of a society which does not have capitalism (as defined by the ability to risk capital in hopes of future profits) which is a nice place to live.
I’m dubious that tipping is going away, based on my experience living in Portland. Waiters in Portland make a minimum wage of $15.45/hr, tips cannot be used as “credit” to this wage (illegal in Oregon). You’ll still get stink-eye for tipping less than 25%, and that’s at a restaurant where you order at the counter, and bus your own table.
Smoking inside public buildings became illegal where I am. Sometimes learning and habit breaking needs a push.

Most smokers I know still smoke inside their houses.
Maybe so, maybe far more 'populist'. But he also has a point. How much do you get to play the tortured artist feigning disdain for popular appeal when you signed with first small, but then multiple increasingly large record labels? I mean, don't sign with RCA and Warner and act like popular appeal isn't putting food in your mouth, by your own choice.

And this is said as someone who loves much of Reed's catalog.
That's basically how it works in Europe too. Actually I'd say it's how it works in civilized countries.
The article suggests that heating certain plastics to the softening point significantly increases the amount of plastic shed into the food. Despite being only one vector, it could be a very high magnitude. So if you were to make any choice about it, this would be a good candidate, if the claim is true.
Those are just as bad, and often times have an internal package coating that also deteriorates
Most service workers I've met have hated it, as a lot of customers think they can Karen their way out of paying for good service, and then get away with it.

The ones you speak of that have that problem need to get help, and the system should be structured in a way that prevents whats effectively Stockholm syndrome with extra steps.
DC recently eliminated the tipped minimum wage and tipping culture is definitely in flux. Mostly because many restaurants have started adding a 10-20% service charge (called various things, like a “restaurant recovery fee”) to make up for the higher wages, which they claim is not a tip. But many diners interpret this as a mandatory tip and do not tip additionally, or if they do, they tip a lower amount than they previously would.
Why care about terminal emulators speed? I never cared about anything (let alone terminals) to go above 30 fps. I've heard extra FPS can help in professional gaming but I can't even imagine a case when speed of any existing terminal emulator would be not enough (for what?). Surely its nice to make any app as efficient and responsive as physically possible (as long as this doesn't harm anything) but I still feel curious about what, besides pure perfectionism and competition, actually motivates people in this case.
It is important to take these things into account when deciding who to buy things from because we need to put pressure on them to do good things
An Algorithm to Detect Hosting Providers and Their IP Ranges
Right, but I wasn't sure of the number, or even the range, so didn't say that.
And then for the attacker to do anything damaging to the computer they need to trick you into revealing your sudo/admin password, right?

On a default Unix-like desktop shell you can’t really do much permanent harm without elevating your permissions.
What do you plan to build ? Based on that can suggest relevant
Don’t you think given the context of the article, they were clearly talking about blue coloration in animals, or plants and animals?
I wonder about glue present in the paper/cardboard.
> If they try, prices just go up.

It depends on the unit prices are measured in. They may go up, or tread sideways in AUD, but that doesn't mean they're actually appreciating
Seems like it is related to this: Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers (unl.edu) = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36809565
George Lucas (half a century ago): “Faster, more intense!”
We travel internationally a few times per year and have come very soundly down that the American tipping culture is more or less a cancer in our culture. It sort of hides the true cost of service, and doesn't really motivate service workers (after all you can tip in no-tipping countries if you want) but now three things have happened:

1) Tipping is regularly hitting north of 20% -- even for self-service or fast-food type venues. When 1/4-1/5 of your bill isn't figured into the food price, people take mental notice and restaurant patronage is significantly down. Payment processors at POS are also somewhat responsible for this trend, as much of the Tip request process happened by the store, who usually put it as a blank line on a paper bill, but now it's offloaded to the processor's systems and all kinds of nonsense shows up on the Tipping screens.

2) Due to recent rapid inflation, services are trying to "fake it" to keep prices down, but adding in other fees before the tip, which makes consumer costs go up anyways. It's becoming a significant legal problem in many areas when an additional 10-15% "fee" shows up on the bill.

3) Even with tips, workers can't make ends meet as housing and other basic living costs have gone through the roof. There's a nationally recognized worker shortage, and it's because even taking extra shifts and providing exceptional service isn't bringing in enough TIPs to make ends meet, so workers are leaving or switching to other industries. Which makes the service worse when you do eat out.

This means consumers can't figure out how much it costs to eat out anymore. That $10 sandwich and drink combo from 2020 is now $16 + tax + fee + tip = >$20 and now you're getting the same thing for more than twice the price, all a change in the last 2-3 years. So fewer people are eating out.

The food industry is tipping over into a death spiral and it's become time to properly professionalize the service industry and return Tips to a "not expected but welcome" option.
That's the expected in pretty much all of the world. In the few circumstances where some tourist joints diverge from that, it's because they preyed on some American tourists who accepted that status quo.
Deep learning enabled fast 3D brain MRI at 0.055 Tesla
>I mean, that's your preference, sure. But companies are measured by their finances, and it's difficult to talk about growth towards financial independence without mentioning numbers. If they were discussing their fitness journey, they would need to mention their weight and exercise statistics, so I don't see how this is any different

This is exactly what I'm trying to highlight. While this kind of behavior seems normal or common in this community its not really in the greater world.

My plumber has done real well for himself, has dozens of people working for him, successful. He does not have articles on his website about how much he makes in a month, and how many hours he works when. He does have articles about the big name job he just landed, local building code committees he's on, and the little league baseball team he sponsors. Oh, and some plumbing tips and tricks.

My proctologist is similar. His website talks mostly about proctology. I bet he makes a lot, but he doesn't really talk publicly about it. That would be tacky.

In this community for some reason it's popular to say "look at how much money I make, look at all the bridges I've burned along the way, look at how I was way out of balance one way then the other, etc.". I get it, this was their journey. I'm not trying to say anything about them or there journey.

I think for every successful person like this there is another who did it a more "in balance" way. Those voices don't seem to come through so clearly, that's all I'm saying. I think it would benefit those in that second bucket to hear more stories about people like them being successful.
Show HN: Visual vulnerability scan with ESP32-CAM and on-device model
Hi HN!

What if your FlipperZero could scan the scene visually to match payloads to target devices?

In this example project, we trained a tiny image classifier to differentiate between iPhones and RFID card readers from an ESP32-CAM feed. We show how to create custom model optimized to run in real-time on your MCU.

We're planning to integrate this example with the Mayhem project: https://github.com/eried/flipperzero-mayhem

What kind of devices would you want to identify? Feedback/thoughts are welcomed!
> Pegasus relies on vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS, the iPhone operating system, to infiltrate a phone undetected. Apple issued a security update for the latest vulnerability on Sept. 7, 2023.

so. many. IOS. vulns.

what is going on over there at Apple?
0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816 - Sept 2023 (231 comments)
How do Australian wages and prices compare?
Seems like banks really should have some kind of extra security mode that requires app verification for anything not whitelisted.

Especially when a lot of scams go through crypto. I should be able to say "I do not ever buy any cryptocurrency, nor do I do any hand picked random investments, don't let me do anything but pay for stuff at retail stores or online sites in the top 100 largest without app verification".
Unfortunately, differentiating good behavior from malicious behavior is a central pillar of security, and the existence of this feature undermines that pillar.

* The fact that it's in a popular signed binary means it bypasses app allow-lists.

* The fact that it flows through Microsoft's servers bypasses firewall allow-lists.

* The fact that no stage2 is required bypasses antivirus scanning.

I say "unfortunately" because I personally think attempting to differentiate good behavior from malicious behavior is losing battle. Design-based or resilience-based security controls are the way to go IMO: https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/control-vs-resilience...
Matrix, please!
> There's negligible "overhead" to paint a famous work of art

...no? Duplicating a painting has a huge overhead. Either paying an expert to laboriously reproduce tiny intricacies of the original, or building and programming a robot to do it.

And of course you'd have to research all the paints, strokes, etc, involved.

> You can't just flood the market with fresh Ethereum block space any more than you can flood the market with fresh Banksies.

And that's the overhead, yeah. Even after PoS, it's still a network that doesn't scale. Thousands of computers are doing the same thing, repeating the same calculations and therefore not improving capacity in any way.
You can’t compare Tokyo and Bay Area mortgages this way as interests rates in Japan are still remarkably low and citizens of Japan are able to obtain favorable term, zero money down mortgages fairly easily (assuming they’re salaried workers). Nothing like this is available in the US. Likewise, rental costs in Tokyo are far cheaper than the Bay Area and Tokyo has stronger renter protections. From the perspective of housing (and myriad other things, like public transit), it’s much better to be a median income worker in Tokyo than the Bay.

Australia, however, is it’s own special variety of fucked.
Because it is the scalpers charging that price and not the artist so people get angry at the scalpers and not the artist.
What specifically did you disagree with?
We want to see the path before we walk on it. Sometimes it gives a new perspective we wouldn't come to on our own, other times it's a big distraction that feels like progress. I am an advocate of doing it yourself as far as you can and learn learn learn from your mistakes. The same bit of advice can be disastrous for one person and a game-changer for someone else, so you might as well try your intuition for problem-solving first and then see where you get stuck.
The lids on my knock-off brand glass food containers have lasted several years now...
> Photography optics are not even close to approaching the limits of physics.

The relationship between aperture sizes, pixel sizes, and diffraction sizes certainly do effect the quality of images:

* https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-phot...

* https://fstoppers.com/science/closer-look-lens-diffraction-5...

* https://www.edmundoptics.ca/knowledge-center/application-not...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
That was my final straw. Her video about rabid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) was bad. While she correctly (sorta) dismissed the theory of ROGD she was appallingly sympathetic to many of the ROGD talking points. Her worst offend was being skeptical of gender affirming care because of some vague and unproven long term-effects and because “the mental health of the treated kids didn’t improve, so much as the mental health of the kids that didn’t get treated declined”.

This kind of misunderstanding of the science is suspect when coming from a scientist famous for her skeptical take in her own field. Her sorta dismissal of ROGD is also suspect, because she seems to sorta believe the anecdotal “evidence” for it why also noting the lacking of actual evidence. This is the opposite of the kind of skeptical take she is known for. I call it suspect because here we have a social issue surrounding a minority where she flips her philosophy. I wonder why she did that.
He built several projects that made recurring revenue. I can't build shit that makes $1 for me before I get bored out of my mind or "life happens" and it's abandoned. People underestimate how difficult it is to see anything through to completion and make any miniscule revenue. Not to mention scaling it out to some huge MRR. And he did that several times. This isn't just luck.