skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quite often just forget my smartphone when I leave home. Last weekend I became the first time nervous about it because I thought i brought it and became nervous but only about that I might have lost it after I found is was not in my pocket.
Even the stingy insurances in two European countries I checked tend to pay for a service it if you're taking 3+ medicines, suggesting that it's cheaper in the long term for them, either by reducing cost from waste, cost from classic pharmacies, or by improving outcomes in ways that result in less treatment (or the company running it managed to convince the regulator to make it covered by mandatory insurance because it's beneficial for patients).

When I was taking several different medications, I started seeing why this service would be useful, even as a relatively organized, non-impaired person.
Wait until you try the `fzf` style Ctrl+R ;) total game changer for me.
The Eurobarometer did an insane "survey" on this,

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/strong-support-citize...

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2656

> Europeans indicate clear support for the detection of online child sexual abuse in messages such as e-mails and chat (87%) and in end-to-end encrypted messages (83%).

The questions in the survey were worded in a way where you couldn't possibly say "no", but they're still shaping it to focus specifically on E2E. I didn't see this picked up.
I.e. wet bulb temperature
> What does being white or well off have to do with the ability to write books people wanna read?

For actual ability, nothing, though the knock-on affects of being white and thus having a higher chance of greater economic standing from birth onwards, higher chance of good education opportunities, greater likelihood of good nutrition, and all the other aspects of existent systemic racism means that ability to have time to write is greater for white people (in the USA).

Pointing out the reality of systemic racism is not racism. Institutionalized white supremacy is very real in the USA and is so inherent it can have weird effects like how children prefer to play with white dolls: https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-doll... (it turns out this still happens today). So it follows that white women, for the same reason, might have an advantage on social media accessed by people living in a white supremacist system, or a system that still holds echos of white supremacy.
I was not as aware of all the drama that happened before I got there (August 1999) except for reading Stormy Weather* and hearing the weird twice-daily all-office pages for Todd Porter that made me wonder if he was holed up somewhere.

From what I learned about it since that time, the details John shares in the book are definitely much more significant factors in why things happened why they did. And if anyone needed to learn what the words “vertical slice” meant, it was the DK production team. Programming the sidekicks, a definitional feature, was left until close to the end of the project, with disappointing results.

So the complaints about how hard staffing was and how people didn’t want to come to Dallas were straight from John’s mouth, but I think it had a lot to do with the state of the project and Ion. Steve Ash (RIP), our fourth lead programmer, was just about ready to return to California where he would end up helping to start Double Fine, so that situation was on his mind (speaking to me as a California fly-in AI programmer).

But as the 1300x960 arrow story typified, experienced developers were hard to find as team sizes were doubling from 20 to 40 throughout the industry. At the same time, Daikatana was being roasted constantly on Old Man Murray, Something Awful and various messageboards, and Half-Life made Daikatana’s story and cinematic ambitions seem less impressive. So by 1999, it’s fair to say Ion Storm was a hard sell as a place to work for a lot more reasons than the Dallas area...

* - https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/stormy-weather-6427649
There are serious physical issues about Dyson spheres. Things like constellations of satellites orbiting a star are much more practical solutions than a solid sphere.
Any game that offers a virtual currency purchaseable with real currency (be it coins, diamonds or energy rays) should be avoided. Especially if you have children.
I do not think mixing up 'f(x)' and 'f' is harmless, given mathematics is all about clarity. In any quality text, 'f(x)' denotes the value of 'f' at 'x', and 'f' denotes the function 'f' itself. Also, speaking of notation, I wonder why you used ':=' instead of '=' to define 'f'. There is no computation going on, right?
I was working in mobile gamedev and igaming. Coming from Europe, I was not that familiar with the real gambling, the one we can see in movies. But I was familiar with mobile games.

Let me tell you, mobile games are much more addictive than casino games. There's more mechanisms to make you addicted, to squeeze the money out of you and everything is sugar coated.

I felt terrible when starting a job in igaming, as I always considered it to be a "dirty" sector. I was surprised to see how many things are regulated. Examples: ID age verification, sometime you need to ping the government API to let them now, there are casino level limits, country/global level limits (can't be exceeded), daily/weekly loss limits, num of tabs opened in the browser limited to 1, max spin time etc.

It's surreal that kids play on an unregulated casino without any winning ods.
Veni vidi vicipedia

(In Classic pronunciation)
I love fixed angle sprites in 3d environments like the original Total War games. https://spicyburn.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/7/126751672/35724...

One of my favorite aesthetics next to isometric RTS with smooth animations like the old Stronghold games.
I was thinking the same thing so I dived in the example. And now I understand why there wasn't a code snippet in the README: even a minimal app seems to requires multiple files in many subdirectories. I guess java stays Java, even when using a "minimal" framework.
>There's one particular storyline that is never mentioned at all... to me it's very clear the person involved likely asked not to be mentioned because they've moved on.

who's that then, and what's the storyline?
This is disgusting and should be illegal. There's no morally sound justification for this.
Far too many companies these days are willing to burn down their brand for some quick bucks. It's so common that I'm sure it's part of the MBA curriculum.
An alternative explanation is that recent interest rate increases are at least partially responsible for the decline in condo construction.

Comparing Colorado to other states might shed some light on this?
I doubt this was a sensible business perspective at all. They would have different audiences to consider and they didn't. This fallout is pretty much the invoice for that strategy.

It may come up as one of the worst decision in the modern industry. Granted, time will tell and nothing is certain.
They don't need to ask for any backdoor, there are existing solutions already like Pegasus. It was recently used by Polish government ruling party to spy on opposition under the pretense of looking for 'Russian spies'. Considering our not-very-smart government managed to get it, I can bet people who are actually qualified can do much more already.
In my understanding Dyson spheres harvests energy but won’t stop stars expansion. Though peer commenter xlance propose to use that energy to changes earth orbit, which address the goal.

But as far as I know building a Dyson sphere would also require a quantity of material resources that we don’t have on earth. Some options to get those:

A. energy to mass, but we don’t know if that’s even theoretically achievable. Also it probably would require a Dyson sphere itself to have enough energy.

B. convert other abundant elements (O, Si, Fe…) into required elements using known atomic reactions. But harvesting that much elements from earth could transform it in a state that does not worth the pain to try “saving” it.
Medicine tends to put outcomes before virtue signalling environmentalism, for now, luckily.
Butane/ignition is the configuration to set up CoreOS (similar to configuration.nix in NixOS) it has nothing to do with Quadlets.
Isn't that how it works today? Same way swapping touchid modules will disable fingerprint unlock
i never thought of blister packs that way but they seem key!
> General relativity does show that what one observer would consider the future can exists as the present of another observer, and vice versa.

Not in any way that is inconsistent with an evolving universe, actually. Sure, an observer may exist at some coordinates in 4D spacetime where they are detecting light from Sagittarius A that in our frame is 1000 years old, but also light from the Sun that in our frame is 1000 years from now. But that observer cannot be meaningfully said to be either in our present nor in our past. And if we ever "meet" to discuss our observarions, it is guaranteed that it will be no less than 1000 years from now, after we also see the sun evolving. We'll essentially only disagree about how old the light from Sagittarius A was.

Most importantly, SR is not consistent with any ordering of events that breaks causality. If I drop a mug and it shatters, no observer can see the mug shatter and then see me dropping it. So, there is no reason to believe that the shattered mug already existed somewhere in space time when I dropped it, though there is also no reason to believe that it didn't.
$220 to fill prescription is wild.
I'm wondering why there are no tech solutions that solve it for a fraction of what you pay
i have a symantec token thingy sent to me by my brokerage, it generates 6 digit key that I need to login. the author could easily get a similar thing from the bank, i used to have one from WellsFargo too
Space is big and interstellar travel is slow, but 7.6bn years is a long time, during which we should have become adept at hopping between desirable stars as they come and go.
Where would we get the energy from to do that? The orders of magnitude don’t check by quite a few orders of magnitude.
I think the US made it very clear what will happen to you if you provide proof. Better prepare for a Snowden life in the best case. If you are less lucky you might end up Assange.
It is "secure". It secures the corporation against the end user. That's what makes it attractive as a developer platform.
I have noticed the SR-71 is a jerkfest everyone on HR can get behind/participate in.
Soldiers typically use tablets, to have larger screens. With Google Meet or Discord for real time streaming to battalion/brigade command.
> Saving a few hundred kilos of mass on a truck that pulls 80 tonne is just not that valuable.

From my understanding of the trucking industry, in many sectors, this isn't true at all. For example, in tipper trucks where you are carrying literal dirt and rocks from one place to another every kg counts and tare weight of the truck is very much a consideration, even in the relatively minor variations between diesel trucks.

In the US weight restrictions are even lower than in Europe in many states.
But except for some dinosaurs insisting on SMS (which you can receive on a dumb-as-bricks phone), you can absolutely have 2FA without a smartphone. Most password managers handle it, with the bonus points of checking the domain when entering the TOTP. If you want separate baskets for your eggs, you can use dedicated TOTP apps (Authy works fine for my needs). You can even roll your own. You can use an external token like a YubiKey.

I may be missing something, but I have a really hard time understanding the "corporate backdoor / overwatch / control" argument when it comes to MFA.
This.

Problem still persists with mandatory phone number verifications every couple months. It's likely most services have a cronjob running for that.
AI and Leviathan: Part I
So many data is in the cloud that it is even not important if NSA has access to your phone.
Didn't the FBI ask Apple to do that already and Apple refused?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
I'm very curious how this relates
As someone who helps administer several kafka clusters which carry millions of messages per second, and works with both DBs and DBAs, the shallowness of the author's complaints seemed to belie a lack of experience and understanding of either technology. If they gave even a small amount of detail, it might have been useful:

"We couldn’t create a Kafka source connector from the database holding the messages" – Why couldn't they?

"we had extreme difficulty troubleshooting when their system refused our best understanding of said custom headers" – What made this so extremely difficult for them?

"Authentication with Kafka, and authentication to encrypt confidential data in Kafka, and getting the Avro schema from the schema registry were all separate and painful steps" – These are 3 totally unrelated features, so of course they each have settings. What made the steps so painful for them?

"We would never tolerate this level of complexity with a database" the author says of configuring kafka features, apparently missing that a database setup with all those features (external authentication, encryption, custom serialization) also requires "separate" configuration for each one.
I was confused by this article in the beginning, it does a pretty bad job at drawing a distinction between the pure quadlet example at the start and the example of using CoreOS to build and launch a VM that starts containers.

The basic usage of podman quadlets is putting an `app.container` in `/etc/containers/systemd/` containing something like the first snippet and then starting the unit. For someone familiar with systemd, this seems very very nice to work with.
> I can also understand parts pairing for Face ID for security

Can someone elaborate on why parts pairing is needed for biometrics?

In my understanding the biometrics module can simply send raw "image" data to the CPU which then performs validation/authentication. Hardware authentication seems to be only necessary if one plans to send some precomputed data.

But I don't understand the very reason behind that. To save power you don't want to run biometrics recognition all the time anyway. If the recognition task is so computationally taxing that even the very powerful CPU present in smartphone cannot provide required hard real time guarantees and therefore an ASIC/FPGA/DSP is needed, well... Apple makes custom hardware anyway, so there is no apparent penalty in embedding biometrics accelerator right into the CPU anyway.
...What part of Secret Compartmentalized Information don't you understand?
> They just don't care at all about the impact on biodiversity around the launch site.

Why would you single out SpaceX for this? Not only is that argument applicable to every single other launch provider on the planet, it is also applicable to almost every single factory and even city on the planet. How is the biodiversity in Los Angeles? How big are the areas affected by SpaceX launch facilities compared to the area affected by Los Angeles?

Furthermore, SpaceX's newest rocket burns methane. That means that it is creating a market for a potent greenhouse gas, that is often otherwise just vented to atmosphere as a byproduct of oil extraction. Burning methane creates carbon dioxide, which has 1/20 the climate impact of methane. That rocket, therefore, actually is a net benefit to reduce greenhouse warming.
Taking on debt you don't need is a fundamental failure of personal responsibility
What does a credit rating even mean for a country that prints reserve currency? Who gives a shit what Moodys rates America. We’re the only game in town and you’ll all have to like it.
Data center CPUs are already optimized for power and have huge die areas and cost a lot, just like apple silicon.
This article will introduce the method to implement USBNET mode using the Forlinx Embedded OK3568-C development board.
I used to have one from BNP Paribas in France. But they've phased that out to improve my security by using their app. Which was fine, since I didn't need to cart that fob around. But then they went and improved it even further for my company account by switching from the app to SMS.
The idea is a prescription requires human judgment to decide this is a wise move. If you take out the credentialed human, you might as well just sell it OTC without a prescription.
> Interactions with humans - real ones, not mediated via a screen - will teach you a million times more useful things about emotion and love and fear than a thousand years of InstaTikTokFaceplant bullshit.

My experience completely laughs in the face of this, probably because I've never used Instagram or TikTok, and deleted my Facebook account a decade ago. But the friendships I've had online have been far closer and more engaging than anything that I could have ever had with a "Real Human".
It is true by literal definition - you are confined to that space.
Some time ago Ballmer called Linus a cancer, but it seems DRM and corporate walled gardens are becoming one.
It’s amazing how one person can make a relatively unknown place a hub in an academic field.

Makes me really think that sometimes the great man theory has merit.
Blacklisting is much less secure because there is a lag between theft and protection and more intrusive because it requires online activation.

Parts pairing seems like a good solution if theft for components is a major issue.
No, Lego does not say it won't use recycled plastic, it won't use this specific recycled plastic, i.e. recycled PET from water bottles, as it was investigating. It is still committed to research alternative recycled plastics options.
threaten back to sue
> "But they lost in the court of public opinion."

Microsoft has grown to a $2.3T company today. Nothing more needs be said.
Apple could still use keys to validate the module is genuine. Then you just need to trust Apple to not release compromised modules. They need to just stop pairing the individual modules to the phone.
The bigger problem is not techy owners, it's locking out repair shops from doing a quick and cost-effective job.

Everyone knows how to use a repair shop.
I'd be at the Apple Store the following day buying a new iPhone. I don't understand all the romanticizing over having a break - F that. I got stuff to do and people to call.
Yeah of course, but there's also the people that got sick of the subway and bought a car, right? Hopefully they could buy a bicycle instead but with theft being what it is and how dangerous the streets are there's even less people willing to do that...
Didn't there use to be a version of whatsapp for "feature phones"? Sure, it's not completely "dumb", but I'd expect those to have minimal to no tracking.
There are more irrational numbers, almost guaranteeing any number come across in nature is irrational

There is nothing that says that the distribution between rational and irrational numbers that show up in nature is the same as the distribution in our construction of the real numbers.
I read that Israel has 4 non-profit healthcare providers, and it’s considered one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world.

I was in Tel-Aviv last year. What a nice city.
Where I live the banks all require that you install their own smartphone app in order to confirm transactions. Literally not possible to confirm online transactions with a dumb phone (or a laptop for that matter, unless you can run the mobile app in an emulator).
KeePassXC even has Steam-compatible 2FA. But Steam currently still requires some sort of stupid unbypassable mobile prompt in certain circumstances, so you can't ever truly rid yourself of the app.
At some point speculating about what happened 10000 years ago was “a tiny step above fortune telling”. There are several factors to consider:

- some people are interested in different things than you are;

- you only need so much time to write such an article, it’s not like someone set millions of dollars on fire;

- this is fundamentally just extrapolation of the movement of tectonic plates, which is a perfectly legitimate question to ask.

- things that are considered futile now might not be in the future, and we have no way of knowing that right now.

In the end, complaining about what gets published in the literature is about as productive as complaining about what ends up on HN’s front page: things are here because someone wrote it and others found it interesting.
in uk, good thing is, if you do get to see the doctor, you don't have to pay anything but the tricky thing is "getting some one to see you".

on average, system is good for bottom half but system is pathetic in terms of services after paying such high taxes.
i run under the assumption most of them are a honeypot anyway so i block the sender in my mail client and never even try unsubscribing
The author is apparently CEO of “a socially conscious public housing authority, owner, operator and developer of multifamily affordable housing based in Adams County, Colorado”. I feel like your “mega-developers trying to exploit keen home buyers” take is probably too simplistic.
I think that’s already how it works, ideally there would be a way to re-pair the new sensor if you’re the original owner though
Biometrics need to be evaluated on a separate computer for security reasons. Sending them to the main CPU is a non-starter.

When you do this, the parts must be securely linked otherwise you can swap the biometric system with one that is already unlocked.

And, they want to ensure the Face ID dot projection and image captures come from a real camera and projector system, not some device that spoofs them. And in reverse, to prevent intercepting and capturing biometric data.
So basically you're using PID as a metaheuristic to guide an optimization process? (like particle swarm, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, etc)

Or it's more like, it's being used to fine tune the parameters of another search procedure? And in principle you could use a neural net rather than PID (that would encode a surface that matches the latency vs search depth profile that you want)

edit: just figured out those two are the same thing; the PID is optimizing the search depth for a given target latency
Can you, uh, provide evidence and a name? That's some inflammatory stuff there!
There is a distance-free notion of time which predates, and necessarily predates, all experimental theories of time. This is (loosely after Kant):

* Every thing that happens, happens at a time. Let's call those things "events" from now on. It's nonsense to claim that a thing happened, but never (at any point in time) happened.

* Every event happens in a place. It's nonsense to say that a thing happened, but nowhere happened.

* Every event MAY be related to one or more events, called its causes.

* There is an ordering on points in time, so that an event's time-point comes after the time-point of all its causes.

Without these assumptions, how are you going to do experiments, or draw any conclusions about the world? In fact you pretty much need one more, which is that every event has at least one cause (otherwise there's not much point in scientifically investigating it). These basic categories are certainly no replacement for physics. They're just the bare minimum to start an investigation into physics. But if the way you describe your physics contradicts it, then at best there's a communication problem.
> darling business unit

It's HTC. Google poached thousands of employees from HTC and it shows in the subpar build and component quality.
I also live in Switzerland, and it is perfectly possible to survive 48 hours or so here without needing one, unless of course every single transaction you engage in requires 2FA, which.. here, you generally do not.

I mean, I feel for the guy moving to a new country - been there, done that - but, with respect he's hyperventilating just a little bit.