skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So many of these scams start the same way: when the victim is contacted by a random person.

Actually, they often start when a user gotes to a malicious webset that tells him his computer is "infected" and to call a number.

These websites purport to have found a "virus" on your computer and you should call tech support. My 90 year old mother, fortunately, panics when she sees them and calls me. As she gets more and more confused, she may someday call the number. (Another fortuante thing -- she does NO online banking!)

And these pages are very common--and on legitimate domains! If your local plumber or hair salon doesn't keep its wordpress website up to date, you can visit their site and see one of these fake warning pages.
ATmega328p is legendary but the AVR64DB32 is a far superior upgrade in almost every way that matters.

64Kb Flash, 16kB SRam, full 24Mhz speed at 1.8V minimum power, 12bit 130ksample ADC, 2x Rail to Rail OpAmps for free (3x on higher end versions), etc etc. Better timers, USART, DAC, Comparator, Zero crossing detector, 50mA per pin with full 1.8V to 5.5V range, 300mA total GPIO source/sink, multiple VRefs, 4x 3-LUTs + 2x JK Flipflops for glue logic, event routing system (peripheral-to-peripheral routing while under deep sleep).

And... AVR64DB32 is cheaper at Digikey than ATMega328pb.

So faster, cheaper, more capable, lower power (sleepwalking peripherals), more flash, better analog components, what's not to like?

I realize that Arduino Uno has made ATMega328p absurdly popular. But AVRs have had over 10 years of upgrades since then. And so has the competition (TIs MSPM0 Cortex M0+ for like 50 cents is very competitive, as is STM32C0 line or STM32U5 low power line)

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If you have a legacy design using legacy ATMega328pb parts, well... the hardware drivers have changed in AVR DB line.

But it's all AVR Assembly/machine code. Your libraries and code will otherwise work with just a recompile. I get that peripherals are harder to port but ... Legacy Peripheral driver is pretty much the only reason to stick with the 12+ year old ATMega328pb.

The embedded world moves slower than consumer chips, but it still moves! After a decade, the newer embedded chips are like night-and-day superior over decade+ old models.
> But this is not an inherent property of cars. It is only true because we invested all our transit dollars in highways. Cars are not inherently better and roads are not free. If we invest more in public transit we can reduce our need for cars.

Personal modes of transport like cars and bicycles give you more degrees of freedom compared to public/shared modes with respect to:

a) space (can go to more places point to point)

b) time (travel any time)

c) privacy
It's unfortunately a day job for none of us. I think we'd all be very elated if there was some way to turn this into a career, but matching decompilation is not really something that companies are asking for. It probably doesn't help that it's such a relatively new method of decompilation.
This path doesn’t seem to work very well.
Nightmare fuel. It's nightmare fuel.
I was a line cook in a restaurant for a year and a half.

Great experience. You learn that communicating and teaming up are important. You work fast. You learn how to prioritize quickly and move on. Sometimes you crash and burn and it sucks! These days it’s basically too far from my current experience to matter but I bring it up when I can.
While not good I equally think OK and what are they gonna do with that info? I don’t need them so if anybody brought it up I’d just shrug and say whatever. Then continue as before. I only use work resources for work though as I have zero need for them otherwise.
SAG does provide for unique names for actors, but actors aren't the only celebrities. And I'm not sure you'd really get much buy-in on a technical fix here.
Cities give tax breaks to corporations and compete over who gets to host their campuses for a reason. If wealthy tech workers abandon the city, it kills the businesses that they patronize. It also lowers the demand for real estate in the city.
Care to name a laptop with the performance, size, weight, and battery life running x86 chips like the MacBook Air - and that won’t fry my nuts when on my lap or sound like a 747 from the fans running?
I just found him on Friday and lost the weekend. I can definitely say that his passion is infectious and makes the topics far more interesting.
Isn't it more likely that it's a call centre where each operator has multiple outgoing calls on the assumption that they will be on one call (on average) at any given time, but sometimes more than one call might be answered (e.g. they're still talking to another victim when you pick up the phone)?
I don't think any other species has the set of facial muscles humans do. Cats seem inscrutable because they have very few; dogs seem more understandable because they can move their eyebrows.

I think the non-human animal with the most facial expressions is the chimpanzee, but even then it is much less expressive than a human in this regard.

Various mammals have (non-facial) macroexpression somewhat similar to humans, such as excitement, curiosity and fear. Many non-mammals such as birds, fish, and some reptiles can express fear to some extent.
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This is what I suspected. I couldn't believe for a second that our body didn't evolve to take advantage of sun.

So far I play it by ear: I wear sunscreen when I go out any time before 330pm. I don't get sunburn this way, but it's really hard to tell if I'm damaging myself. I also migrated from center Italy to Canada, so my skin is a bit more resistant (Sicilian heritage), but it makes it way harder to figure out the balance, since the sun is still strong in the summer.
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> If you redefine “monarchy” to refer to concentration of power and not the proprietary, hereditary, personal character of paramount leadership, strong Presidential systems are more “monarchical” within their scope of power than most parliamentary systems.

Historically, elective monarchies have been a real thing. The Holy Roman Empire is the most famous example, even though for a significant period of its history it became de facto hereditary.

Several Roman Emperors chose their own successors from non-relatives, and retained the hereditary fiction by legally adopting them.

In Saudi Arabia, there has never been formal rules about who will be the successor to the throne – instead, each King chooses his own successor. King Salman has broken with the tradition of passing the Kingship among the sons of King Saud (albeit discretionally, since some sons were skipped due to being politically out of favour, or too elderly by the time it was their turn), by appointing as his successor his sixth son. If a King of Saudi Arabia wanted to appoint someone completely unrelated to him as his successor, he could, assuming his family let him get away with it.

> OTOH, the US federal government has a narrow scope of authority than most national governments, which makes the overall concentration of power less even though the concentration of that power actually held by the feds is greater.

That's nothing to do with the parliamentary versus presidential issue, that's due to the US being a federation – so are federal parliamentary republics such as Germany and Switzerland, and federal parliamentary constitutional monarchies such as Australia and Canada. Presidential-versus-parliamentary and unitary-vs-federal are orthogonal dimensions and neither has much to do with the other.
Please, regale us with your own judgement of his ethics.
Is this just a UK thing? I pay $160/mo to insure my Model 3 and I didn't even really shop around for a good deal.
Well simh was listed a couple days ago on HN.
That and virtualization will get you just about all the old software experiences that you could want.

As for hardware . Visit a regional vintage computing festival.

There will be people very enthusiastic about what they have got working from that era.
I think it is marginally reduced, definitely not solved. It also depends on the tires a consumer puts on their EV once it leaves the factory, and anything about 50kmph is still very noisy.

I think that is good in one aspect though, road noise is the only warning you get that an EV is approaching, which in a PED/Cylcing friendly city is important.
The article gave me Snow Crash vibes.
> I like this line of thinking, but I think education is the key.

My 90 year old mother gets less and less able to think clearly each passing month. She always is calling me telling me that "her computer is completely dead" and it takes my 10 minutes to realize it's just her mouse that's not working becasue she forgot to charge it.

No amount of education will save her. Fortunately, she has no on-line bank or credit card accounts.
Heh, adorable.
If you know what to listen for in the high frequencies, you can pick out mp3's pretty easily, provided said mp3's have that sort of content.

The question really isn't 'can you tell', it's 'does it matter', and, well, most of the time, no, it does not, even for lower bitrate mp3's.

There are many people, of course, that don't like the idea of lower quality audio, and they can tell at least sometimes, so they 'dislike' mp3 in general. That's all well and good until they start saying silly things like 'mp3's sound bad', which is not true in any sense.
Why are Chinese parents anxious about premade meals served in schools?
Buggy drag and drop is fixed now in v0.16.6
It goes against mainstream advice that no sun exposure is good exposure, and that getting a tan is not healthy. However I never "tan" my hands and they don't look any darker, but I've never burned them, even though they're the place that will get the most sunscreen rubbed off. Ditto for feet.
I don’t think so. Those tend to look photorealistic but wrong. This looks clearly “rendered”. Like it had material properties on the skin.

Edit: well it could be a face replacement over a video but not a deep fake one
Unless they use MDM to push a profile that authorizes a specific application/developer to access system resources without prompting the user. This is a common practice for deploying security applications - e.g. crowdstrike requires full-disc access and there’s a policy thats deployable via MDM to enable it automatically during the next beacon from a host.

Edit: as an example https://pickorchard.com/deploy-crowdstrike-with-jamf/
I've been experimenting with kagi.com search, which is a paid service. So far I am very happy with the search results. They also have responsive support on their discord.

Is anyone else using this?
Hey Paul,

I'd love to chat! I'll make my way onto the forums. Hopefully there's a relevant spot to post about this :)

PS. Not sure if you're aware your email is not currently in your profile.
Try it out, see what kind of answers you get. The first question I imagine you’d get an answer and a laugh.

It’s if you keep going and keep asking details - then people will start to wonder if you’re serious.

Especially if you actually mean it. Most people are reasonably good at reading people.

The premise here is that someone intent on actual murder could get real info from most people and I suspect they couldn’t without a close bond. It’s not a small talk question.
Having the tools handy means sometimes you'll still get the opportunity to use them.

I was able to fix a 3rd party binary that was broken on our platform via dis-assembly and binary patching. Having the tools in the toolbox to do so allowed us to solve it rapidly when normally it'd take months to work with the vendor.
If we wait for the Boomers to die off to start making change, things might gain traction by the time GenZ runs things. We really have to start now because the gears of change grind slowly and reluctantly.
Yes, and the word "comprehend" has the root "prehendere" which means "grasp". You can even see the word "hend" in there I think! :)
I'll admit I'm not too prepared to explicitly state what I meant by the line, but I'd personally take a more nuanced approach than "Those tools, and how you use them, are exactly the same whether you are a materialist, an idealist, a dualist, or none of the above".

I'll say that under standard laboratory conditions they should probably be the same most of the time. I hope you'll agree with me that *assuming* there are divergent predictions made by the "mind-first" approaches, they should be studied together with physics. Otherwise physics would become a study of idealized systems, much like insisting on Newtonian maths when the principles of relativity and quantum mechanics were discovered.
I think we share a very similar disgust response to other primates primarily and some other mammals as well including dogs.
My blood pressure is rising just reading this...
I don't think impulsive is the right word, but it is concerning that someone who is fervently anti-democractic is a key stakeholder in these sorts of public private partnerships globally.
>It goes against mainstream advice that no sun exposure is good exposure, and that getting a tan is not healthy

Yeah it does. But we are also here at this article.
Well, I have a mind's eye. I've gotten quite deep into it before for dissociative reasons. But it just doesn't seem to work very well for me at any other time. Whenever I try to imagine something like that I get frustrated that I can't really "see" it well.

Yes, I can imagine everything about what it would be like to see it. But I cannot actually see it.
> the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die

everyone starts and ends the exact same way (a vague 'clicking in', and a bright light/tunnel), and some of us through ritual even experience momentous occasions similarly (confirmation, communion, holidays), but the only way we differentiate ourselves amongst other people is through the choices we make in the moments between the two bookends

ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and all that good stuff in between https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ
Seems there's net gain in DAU considering X significantly purged bots that represented ~5% prior to acquisition. Also X doesn’t primarily use DAU metric anymore as it's easily manipulated. They look at other engagement metrics that are hard for bots to game.
And how slow was the evolution of both Windows and the entire ecosystem compared to Apple that could release an OS, the hardware and the drivers simultaneously? When Apple releases new hardware it can upgrade everything in tandem. It’s especially apparent now that everything Apple sells runs some variant of the same processor from the AirPods, Watches, tablets, TV set top boxes, phones and even monitors?
> If they want "and/or" to just mean inclusive or why not just use "or". Its shorter, simpler, easier to understand.

The english language being ambigious or not making sense is not a new issue. All i know, is i almost always see "and/or" used to mean inclusive or.

Also the dictionary seems to agree it means inclusive or: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/and/or
I really appreciate the iterative way it goes through the process. It's been a few years but this would have been a godsend at a previous company when we were trying to move to self-hosted email sending with all the proper security measures.
Tips to grow your waitlist – unexpected wins
Hey hey,
I hope you're all having a fantastic week!

I want to share an amazing experience that helped me collect over 60 people on the waitlist for my latest product, Launch Copilot, in just 3-4 days! (before diving into this, you can check it out for yourself right here
https://www.producthunt.com/products/launch-copilot )

Let's get started:

For those who might not be aware, Product Hunt has a feature called "Coming Soon" where creators can set up a waitlist page for their products. This page allows people to easily join the waitlist, and Product Hunt automatically sends notifications to these people on the launch day. It's incredibly helpful and eliminates the need for additional tools like email marketing or forms to create a waitlist for your product.

So, how do you set up a waitlist on there? :

First, you'll need to submit your product and schedule your launch for an upcoming date. After going through Product Hunt's approval process, you'll gain the ability to create a teaser page, a.k.a "Coming Soon" page. Then, you'll find the "Create a Teaser" button under the "My Products" section. Click it, create a page for your product, and you're all set to start collecting potential customers on your waitlist while you continue developing your product.

Now, here's the secret tip :

Product Hunt allows us to schedule our launch up to one month in advance. The sooner you schedule your launch, the higher your product will appear on the list. So, if you trust yourself not to forget to reschedule your launch, consider moving it every day by one or two days. By doing this, you'll notice that your product consistently ranks near the top of the list

How I generally put this into action :

I typically reschedule my launch for 5-6 days ahead and then repeat the process for another 5-6 days. So, ideally, you should aim to reschedule it at least a week later to consistently stay more visible on the list.

The results :

Well, using this strategy, I managed to collect over 60 people on the Launch Copilot waitlist in just 3-4 days. It's been an awesome success!

Speaking of product launches, if you're gearing up for one, consider exploring Launch Copilot. It's a guide that includes AI prompts designed to simplify the process of preparing launch content for Product Hunt.
Check it out here:
https://copilotpack.com/launch-copilot

It might be helpful for your upcoming launches.

We all know that building a waitlist before a product launch can greatly increase your chances of converting those leads into potential customers.

I hope this trick proves as helpful to you on your indie-making journey as it has been for me. Best of luck
His shorts are hilarious too, he has some great mini-debunks of conspiracies.
It’s a day job (or was, lost touch) for a couple people I have known. But it is a small niche.
This comment has to be rage bait right? Who takes speeding or any traffic ticket this seriously; convicted criminal, really?
Stick figure cave paintings are paleolithic graffiti. If you think artists find it hard to scratch a living these days, you're not going to find much support for following your passion when there is hunting, gathering and defending against predators to do.

But if a sharman (assuming it is a statue for their deity) has the time, then there's no reason it couldn't be perfectly proportioned. It's not like hand-eye coordination has suddenly evolved; it would more be access to better tools than a piece of flint to bang on some softer rock.
> Can you hear the difference between 320kbps MP3 or the equivalent, and CD-quality lossless?

I find it hard to believe an entire industry exists with high-end audio equipment ($100k+ on speakers/receivers/room treatment) just to play 320kbps MP3s?
What about traditional credit/electronic banking?
It has been my experience that dang doesn’t respond to feedback emails of the kind Hector claims to have sent (and I’ve sent a few of them); and I kinda see why: because any disagreement on said feedback leads to more arguments, which is terribly draining for the recipient.

That being said, if the feedback provided had the same quality as the post linked above, one can justifiably see why not engaging with it at all is the best option.
I’ve read a fair few comments on a UK EV forum where insurers were declining to offer renewal quotes for people that claimed to have no claims and no points on their license.

As to your point about RRP.. £45k isn’t cheap but it doesn’t mean the owners (who often lease) will have expected such a huge increase in premiums.

I suspect a lot of the issue is due to issues getting parts post-covid which meant costs to insurers went up (since many offer hire cars while repairs are being carried out).
Palantir works great in as much as it is primarily meant to keep Peter Thiel in the same room as government officials. The software side of the project is by all accounts a pretty generic contracting business and works about as well as any other contractor.
Perhaps morally impulsive if that isn’t a thing yet. Thiel seems to be a calculated and definitely not stupid at all but not trustworthy by any means.
What makes Peter Thiel unethical and impulsive specifically? I can read tittle tattle and tribalistic nonsense on almost any website that allows comments, let's try to get above that here by at least providing the substance behind such assertions.
When did we decide to start calling online multiplayer games “Games as a Service”? This feels some weird branding tactic to get investment funds to apply tech industry growth expectations to gaming
After Doug Lenat passed away recently I also got the impression that Cycorp has been sustained for the past four decades with that exact business model.

At the end of the day customers have a working solution, but it’s all developed and operated in a completely bespoke way each time.
The issue is identity not phone numbers.

Most (all?) protocols conflate the two. But the real world doesn’t speak in phone numbers, ip addresses, and private keys.
Those statues clearly show some development, but I wouldn't say the Egyptians had mastered realistic sculpture. There is clearly still some kouros-like stylized anatomy here, especially visible in the standing figures. Compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polykleitos#/media/File:Doryph...
So how would I sign up for a service like Spotify? I have to first login to my email and enter what, exactly? I go to Spotify and get their outbound email and copy it, then switch tabs, then switch back, then switch back, then switch back again?
This article is true garbage. I invite you to look the author up:

Starting in 2015:

* Intern - 7 months

* Full stack dev - 13 months

* CTO - 7 years

* CTO - 2 years

* Co-founder - 2 years

The irony of a "CTO" with not even 2 years as a developer complaining about the bar for senior developers is incredible.

You know what bar needs raising? The bar for publishing opinions. Why does a software developer feel qualified to publish their thoughts on something which is far more in the domain of psychology and social science? We barely trust those guys to get it right. Staggering amount of hubris to think that after 2 years of cutting code and starting their own side hustle, they can make blanket statements like this article does.
Yeah. All the productivity gains in the last 40 years have been going towards the side of capital while workers are left in the side of the road. The absurdly rich become richer while the middle-class shrinks.

But yeah, the problem is that some people want to live in their houses with a backyard, those evil villains that don't see the advantage of living in a pigeon home for further capitalistic enhancement of the lives of fat-cat developers.

Everything that exists deserves to perish. The capitalistic leviathan can never be stopped, neither questioned. What do those small folks in the path of progress think they are?
Yeah public transit isn’t great for large groups. Fortunately, 90% of all trips that transit could replace are single occupancy vehicles.

There’s no reason that bus has to take 3x as long as driving. Reducing the number of stops to a strategic few could make it very comparable to driving, especially if busses are given their own traffic lane.
This could easily be solved if everyone called the police when they found a lost child and let them sort it out. Also any doctor could have "break through" access along with the hospital they are at has it as well.
And the overall point has been that is literally in the noise.