skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ex needed printer support. The person on the other end had her install remote access software. I forgot how she cleaned up the mess.

It's too simple. People don't know who's trustworthy. And I don't make house calls hundreds of miles away.

Business opportunity for a "Local Trustworthy Techs"? Heck, the Goon Guys will search your drive for illicit material, and if they don't find any, they'll install some (If I recall some horror stories correctly).
Does anyone know of an open-source version of PICO-8? I don't even care about any of the features, as long as there's an active community around the project.
Could the offline editor interface with the online editor? Would be handy for a hybrid approach for reliability purposes.
i fully agree. that's why i wanted 5 hours. the 2 hour limit is just to tight.

on the positive side i did notice a fair number of demos pop up on steam lately, which for those that i have tried, let you play the first few levels of a game, which depending on the game is even better because there is no time limit at all. and no need for a credit card either.
Rapidash: Efficient Constraint Discovery via Rapid Verification
What does DFT stand for here, could you disambiguate please? Because I also do DFT but it stands for Design For Test (on microprocessors).
Off topic but everyone has been looking old af to me lately. Tom Hanks is no exception. I think Covid aged everyone very quickly.
Not at all, lol. But closing Pandora's Box is a non-trivial task.
Wait… what the heck is this? This is very clearly not a deep fake. This looks like an oddly (or perhaps stylistically) rendered 3D model. Or perhaps a, still stylistic, image generation.
By "not even close" do you mean he called 48 states correctly?
Perhaps they shouldn't show ads on a weekend if they aren't going to take responsibility for egregious faults in real time?

If you're making money at time X, you can be handling serious and personally-impacting problems at time X.
You start teaching them at an early age how society may see it as no big deal, but society is wrong and it's a very big deal. Show them through your actions that life is better lived without such distractions.

And be prepared for everyone to call you a conspiracy nut. But you eventually let that roll off your back when you see how happy your kids are just being kids.
As a Canadian this is all horseshit.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be responsible. I'm saying that it's not feasible for them to be responsible. Unless they're willing to restrict who they take money from...but that's not how it works in american capitalism where numbers must always be going up because otherwise you're a dead company.
I really want one as soon I could order it. Looks like the perfect device for a quick rest. Even with decent work schedules, having a quick rest after lunch would be great.

In the meantime I am practising micro-naps while sitting upright and still somewhat moving my mouse...
Company policies are rules that are given to staff that say 'under no circumstances should you ever... give out your password to someone' for example.

Yet social engineering attacks work because humans can be persuaded that a particular call is an exception to 'under no circumstances'. Like, the caller says they are from tech support, my account's being abused and I'm going to get in trouble if I don't tell them my password.

Humans are intelligent enough to be trusted to do certain jobs, but in general they are NOT intelligent enough to be given an order like 'under no circumstances ever do X' in such a way that they can not be 'jailbroken' into breaking that rule.
> You agree to receive automated text messages from us, even if your mobile number is listed on any do-not-call registry.

From their signup page. I'm not sure that's legal in a lot of jurisdictions you can use pi.ai from.
“We”? Adverts aren’t some mutually beneficial utility that more or less everyone is interested in saving.
Not many, especially if you include car travel - very few roads are privately built, compared to what the government does.
> buying a 0day just to hack some people they could already socially-engineer their way into the pockets of anyway, would just be a waste of money.

At least back in the day when Flash was still a thing, it was a common issue for "enterprising" people to buy advertising slots, even on reputable media, and spread all kinds of malware via them.
I dunno.

Billions of not-ads get served on Facebook yet they were able to clamp down on stuff like ISIS uploading decapitations.
> (car weight + grocery weight)^2

That's ^4 actually. Friction / Normal Force / Damage to roads is to the Fourth power law.

Yeah, the 100x lighter cars might actually be better in practice. That's what makes this last-mile problem so problematic. We're already (possibly) at the local optimum.
I don’t believe that they have very much proprietary code. I know that if you spin up their document server “community edition,” it has a limit of 20 simultaneous users without a support subscription.

This, however, can easily be legally patched around. It’s more just to make a point that it’s not supported without talking to them about a proper deployment. They also might have some code that is proprietary to make that large deployment easier, but it’s not required as long as you don’t mind the AGPL.

You can actually try this yourself with their NextCloud plugin. LibreOffice also has a cloud version available but it’s… let’s just say, in my opinion, it’s very bad.
to me LLM is like having an autist kid. smart and gifted, yes. but socially retarded that still need to be taught things.
They should be 100% strictly liable for any lies at all of any form in advertising they show.

The media companies can then solve the risk like everybody else by requiring their ad providers to indemnify the media companies for any liability that arises from any lies in the provided ads. If the media companies do not trust the ad providers to have adequate funds to fully indemnify them then they can demand the ad providers to post bonds or insurance demonstrating adequate funds. Alternatively, the media companies can police their ads they display or demand adequate proof for high value ad placements to minimize their risk.

They have plenty of bog standard options to mitigate any strict liability risk. And assigning strict liability to the media companies for any lies guarantees any damaged parties full access to relief for any harms enacted on them.
> like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications

It really feels like apps should be required by App Store policy to separate out their notifications into "delivery channels": at least, one channel for urgent/timely notifications, and a separate channel for "something has changed, no need to check right now" notifications. Where users should then be able to configure the notification policies on each of an app's delivery channels separately.

Then, every type of notification an app can send (i.e. every string-template for a notification message) could be required to be pre-classified with the delivery channel it will use at app version release time — with the App Store review team rejecting app updates if the update, in their opinion, misclassifies the "proper" delivery channel for a given message-template.
Man that video of AI talking was boring. It needs to learn how to answer questions without lecturing. The tedium in its replies causes me to tune out pretty quickly.
I saw an ad yesterday with AI generated Musk, Gates, Branson, Bezos, and a couple others.
How many of these universals are shared with other mammals (especially apes)?
The CRTC page linked (but clearly not read) by Greenwald literally says this only three paragraphs down,

> Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023. Registration collects basic information, is only required once and can be completed in just a few steps.

You make 10M$ in annual revenues in Canada^1, you probably can afford to register with the CRTC. Seems pretty reasonable to me anyway.

^1: The CRTC page confirms that only revenues in Canada count, https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/industr/modern/registr.htm
The sag aftra thing is about demanding that permission as a pre req to do any work.
I wonder if heavy EVs cause more tire and brake dust.
TIC-80 is a (somewhat similar) fantasy console that is open-source. https://tic80.com/
The current SAG strike is in relation to strictly defining what studios can do with AI.

The original proposal from the studios was to allow scanning likenesses of background actors in perpetuity, for a day’s wages, and then being able to use it at will without royalties. Which is a pretty good reason why they voted to strike.
An alternative open source fantasy console is TIC 80: https://tic80.com
By SSL, I assume you mean x.509 certificates? The question is always identity; is google.com.example.org Google? no, but nothing is stopping you from getting a cert for that, it you control that host or domain. (Well, some CAs run requests through a keyword search and will be more careful about issuance to well know names, but that's not required by anything)

Without a registry of people with unique names, what's to stop some other person named Tom Hanks from signing media?
Apple software quality has absolutely tanked. Every year they tack on so many new "features" I cannot possibly imagine they actually intend to keep the OS secure with how rapidly they add surface area.
It doesn't because cars stick to the road. The difference is a little hand wavy and path dependent on history, but pilots are required to file flight plans; nobody requires a drive plan.

(Of course, every car has a license plate and if somebody were to establish an infrastructure for tracking all of those plates and correlating it to motion of vehicles... I'm actually not against that. I'm of the personal opinion that we are far too deferential to drivers and do not demand nearly enough responsibility from them, and the fatality rates on roads are demonstrative of this).
Rather than heating food more or less, I care about equally. Couldn’t combination of thermal camera and ultrasonic transducer achieve the goal?

If they indeed need a contact with the object, then obviously that wouldn’t work. But I am not sure why the air molecules couldn’t carry it.
For Uber and UberEats, turns out you actually can disable marketing notifications, under the communication settings, it's just hidden away.
Yes, but those are separate groups with separate capabilities and motives. Scammers are not hackers, though both can and will steal your money.
An experimentalists would tell you its still an open possibility because we haven't seen enough Higgs particles to claim we know how they all decay. An anomaly in decay rates, lets say particles disappearing, or taking too long/short to decay might hint at some new physics.
Horses are far more inefficient at carrying than cars. That's why we switched to cars so quickly.

This caused a cascading set of improvement. Horses needed *literally* tons of horse-bread to function well. And those *literal* tons of horse-bread turned into *literal* tons of horse-poop.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-horse-bread

> According to some estimates, medieval horses consumed about 20 pounds of food per day.

Note: a "day" of travel was ~30 miles back then.

It gets worse: you need horse-bread (and the waste / horse-poop) to _move_ horse bread into the cities, where all the horses were.

Alternatively, consider that one-gallon of gasoline (~6 lbs) would also travel 30 miles today, but also carry far more load. What, our typical car is like 200 horsepower today? So one gallon of gasoline is roughly the strength of a 200-horse carriage?.

Its an absurd comparison point. We're realistically looking at 1-gallon of gasoline (and its associated waste product) vs something like 4000-lbs (ie: 2 tons) of horse bread (and its associated waste product/2-tons of horse poop).

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Gasoline, for all of its faults, largely turns into CO2. Which escapes into the atmosphere and floats away. But imagine that for every gallon of gasoline you used today you created 20lbs of horse-poop somewhere instead.

Horse poop is something you'd need to scrub out of the streets every night, and it would infect the local rivers each time it rained.

The idea of horses being more environmentally friendly is a laughable myth. They're incredibly dirty creatures, and the poop problem alone would cause a significant rise in infections above-and-beyond anything this microplastics problem has caused, I promise.
Omg, the boulder thing is something that happened to me a lot when I was a kid. Then it stopped for many years and then at some point I could do it again. I don't know you can make it happen. It scares me a little bit to tell you the truth. If it happens now days I try to shake it off.

But yes, wth is that thing?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728505?
The topic of human vision and perception is complex enough that I very much doubt it's scientists who are making the claim that we can't perceive anything higher than 30-60fps. There's various other effects like fluidity of motion, the flicker fusion threshold, persistence of vision, and strobing effects (think phantom array/wagon wheel effects), etc, which all have different answers. For example, the flicker fusion threshold can be as high as 500hz[0], similarly strobing effects like dragging your mouse across the screen are still perceivable on 144hz+ and supposedly 480hz monitors.

As far as perceiving images goes, there's a study at [1] which shows people can reliably identify images shown on screen for 13ms (75hz, the refresh rate of the monitor they were using). That is, subjects were shown a sequence of 6-12 distinct images 13ms apart and were still able to reliably able to identify a particular image in that sequence. What's noteworthy is this study is commonly cited for the claims that humans can only perceive 30-60fps, despite the study addressing a completely separate issue to perception of framerates, and is a massive improvement over previous studies which show figures as high as 80-100ms, which seems like a believable figure if they were using a similar or worse methodology. I can easily see this and similar studies being the source of the claims that people can only process 10-13 images a second, or perceive 30-60 fps, if science 'journalists' are lazily plugging something like 1000/80 into a calculator without having read the study.

There's also the old claim [2] from at least 2001 that the USAF studied fighter pilots and found that they can identify planes shown on screen for 4.5ms, 1/220th of a second, 1/225th of a second, or various other figures, but I can't find the source for this and I'm sure it's more of an urban legend that circulated gaming forums in the early 2000s than anything. If it was an actual study I'm almost certain perception of vision played a role in this, something the study at [1] avoids entirely.

[0] 'Humans perceive flicker artifacts at 500 Hz' https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25644611/

[1] 'Detecting meaning in RSVP at 13 ms per picture' https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107157/13414_...

[2] http://amo.net/nt/02-21-01fps.html
Could you source those claims please? I don't mean to come off as critical, I'm just curious to read the stated rationale.
Obligatory Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad [1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614
I think that was Google Adsense defaults. Really great point, I have reduced the limit to a more reasonable amount.
‘Quotes were £5000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance cost
> Most of Europe, the UK in particular started in 1066 and by WWI (say) had a monarchy that was almost entire symbolic in power and fully deferred to the elected Government to make decisions.

Even by the time of the American Revolution, the British monarch was largely a figurehead, and Parliament held the majority of the real power

The American rebels blamed all the policies they hated on King George III – that made good propaganda, but if they'd directed their anger at Lord North (the PM) instead, it would have been more accurate

The historian David Cannadine [0] even argues "the founding fathers gave to the American presidency just those powers they erroneously believed King George III still possessed" – possibly suggesting that it wasn't just propaganda, but rather that on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean they'd failed to understand how the British system actually worked

> The US "breaking away" from the King's taxes was a good example of UK investors protecting their investments and further weakening the ability of UK monarchy from raising taxes for petty family disputes (ie. wars much larger than the American Revolutionary War)

While the Seven Years War did involve some "petty family disputes", they weren't what it was really all about, any more than the First World War was really about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The Seven Years War arguably started in North America, as a war between France and Britain (that sub-theatre is generally known as the "French and Indian War")–a war which the Americans wholeheartedly supported, on the British side–and one of the complaints of the Declaration of Independence was that the British had conceded too much to France in the peace negotiations (e.g. agreeing to allow newly conquered Quebec to keep the French legal system)

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32741802 – same source as I linked in my other comment
Agreed on the 44.1k 16-bit is all you need as a delivery medium for a final audio product.

However higher bit rates and sample rates are needed for multi track recordings so that during the mixing stage and mastering, the fidelity is preserved when _math_ causes rounding errors and what not. Unless, you are using nondestructive editing.

As for listening to the final product, i.e. store bought CDs and their equivalent MP3 and AAC rips... I can often hear the difference in specific recordings, no matter the bit rate, because the perceptual encoding schemes often butcher certain recordings.

For example, on RUSH's Red Barchetta from Moving Pictures, there is a synth intro that slowly vamps in volume. Every MP3 encoder (that is normally worth it's salt) I've ever tried encoding that with outputs a garbled, distorted, electronic sounding distortion. It clears up immediately once it reaches full volume, but during the crescendo it falls on it's face.
Could it be used on aeroplane tray table?
> So, I asked for random numbers in the format of XXX-XX-XXXX along with fake names and addresses, and it happily obliged.

Most social security numbers aren't random- for most of the programs history certain digits encode information.
Web 4 will fix all these problems (I have no idea what that means)
I often look back at how fortunate I was to be a kid during those times. It was truly wondrous for me.

Edit: Just caught your username.
In nearly all my jobs, I was lied to and betrayed. Now I require that most critical things which were agreed on during the job interview to be added to the contract, that, in order to not be used against me (which did happen nearly in all my jobs because I did trust HR & the "manager").
But you are right, only one time the hiring process was stopped explicitely upon adding what we agreed on in the contract (basically, everything coming out of their mouth were lies).
And nowadays, I have some health conditions which make things even harder, not to mention that I am fighting big tech (lawyers, looking for hard technical regulation, etc).
Leptos v0.5.0
I read this right after another thread here on HN about people being scammed out of a lot of money by being tricked into installing software by fake tech support. Human jailbreak.
By default when you receive any calls involving money you need to hang up and call the bank directly to re-initiate the issue.
I think they didn't explain the purpose very well.

I'm not sure who I'm informing here because I would expect anyone here to be fully familiar with how old captive portals worked. But whatever...

It's not that a "wifi network is misbehaving".

It's that some public wifi access points captive portal logon process relies on something that doesn't happen any more. The captive portal logon process relies on your browser making any plain http request to any address at all, which the access point then intercepts and responds with it's own logon page instead of actually routing that tcp session to the requested site, exactly the definition of a man-in-the-middle, except it's not an attack.

But today your browser never makes any plain http request anywhere, even if you manually type one in or have a specifcally edited bookmark, and the access point can't provide a fake response to any https request. The whole point of https is to make man-in-the-middle impossible, and it blocks both man-in-the-middle-attack and man-in-the-middle-anything-else-like-captive-portal-logon-pages.

And if you can't get get to the access point's captive portal page, then you can't use the internet.

And so to get to the logon page of any such access point, you just need any plain http address that you can remember or bookmark, whose site config not only allows http, but pointedly does not support https even if you tried, and advertizes this fact via reponse headers, so that your browser can't ever automatically decide that it's ok to replace your http request with an equivalent https request, and so the plain http request actually goes out on the "wire" where the access point can respond to it with it's own content instead of the requested site's.

Apologies for for telling grandpa how to suck eggs.
Is that a bad thing or what ?
The kind of thing that makes the Amish the fastest-growing Christian denomination in the U.S., some years, although they don't really make converts.
If you seek the truth, you will find it. In fact, a majority of people in this world are on the side of the Russians, despite what you were led to believe. A good starting point is to listen to Professor John Mearsheimer.
This is the key point to keep in mind;

“The ‘Slip, Slap, Slop’ guidance is appropriate for the descendants of white-skinned north Europeans living in high-UV environments such as Australia, where they have a lot of skin cancer. But it is not appropriate for white-skinned Brits here in Scotland, and it is absolutely inappropriate for dark-skinned Brits, who have made the reverse migration from Africa or India,” says Weller.

Just be aware of latitude differences and the rest is commonsense.
R Rewritten in Rust
They're using the typical symbols for denoting those sets, which are fancier than the symbols used for mere variables. One only resorts to using basic letters if the usual symbols aren't available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number
Great way of pushing the critical email services we all need to reduce spam. While I have always wanted SPF, DKIM and DMARC to be enough of an incentive for the businesses i work with, reputation is often not enough of a driver to prioritise the investment.

But fret not! For when you are dealing with companies which want to communicate with customers in a trusted way, there is a marketer's dream standard - Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) - now security isnt the only outcome, you get a pretty logo too! https://www.litmus.com/blog/what-is-bimi-and-why-should-emai...

I have used BIMI at multiple companies now which talk about Customer Experience to drive the proper (P=Reject) implementation of DMARC.
Most people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem.

This is ironic in a comment otherwise concerned with death rates.

The risk of disablement is much higher, as is the risk of sequelae.
This is a great example of why I prefer lossless source material. I can tell an MP3 from a CD nearly every time (on recordings of good original quality) once it's sent through Bluetooth.