skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legacies Both Ragged and Rich: Michelle Tea on Poverty and the American Family
1Password's Passkey support feels very aggressively growth-hacky to me. They intercept calls to `window.credentials` and if you want to use 1Password along side other verifiers like Yubikey, you need to go into your settings and disable their passkeys offering entirely. It's similar to how they also intercept (and globally disable!) Google One Tap prompts in order to show their own OAuth prompt. I only use their Chrome extension so I'm not sure if the native app experience is significantly different.
The more exposure I have to the health insurance system, the more convinced I am that nobody actually knows what they're doing. For all the insight the average action has, the corresponding actor might as well be a computer program that only compiles on Borland Turbo C++ trying to parse a policy expressed in malformed XML edited by an unpaid intern a decade later.

I once got a bill nearly a year after the actual treatment, with a line item that differed only by the description field's whitespace and punctuation from a charge I knew I'd already paid. There was a smaller line item on that bill that I probably hadn't paid, but just through the magic of calling the phone number and sitting through hold, I was told not to pay anything.
> This is not true.

What is not true?

> if you've never provided one

I started this thread off with don't provide a number.

Again, set up a alternate 2FA with them and you won't have to deal with a phone number at all.

> and treat that as the provided number for future reference

Even if they did add it in, you could remove it later.
Yes, I have not gone AMA but I have heavily pressed a doc to get me out RIGHT AWAY because I was getting worse in a hospital rather than better. Sleep was the top concern, and my biggest frustration was how nurses and doctors would all chuckle, smile a little, and say "oh, we know, everybody has a hard time with lack of sleep here" like it's some charming quirk of the system. Often these would be like "pill at midnight, vitals check at 2am, labs at 5am, vitals again at 6am." I mean at least lump vitals together with other existing wakeups! Nurses also vary greatly, and the best ones would work out ways to improve sleep a bit and the worst were just unbearable in slavish adherence to schedules in the chart, even when some of them are obviously arbitrary or flexible. (Don't wake me up to give me a scheduled pain pill! If I'm sleeping well, I'm not in pain.)
> So what was on fire in 1906?

The entire city, if you’re asking what started the fire ruptured gas mains caused quite a few.

> Has anything relevant changed since then?

The city is full of Lithium Ion batteries that can burn uncontrollably when crushed or punctured. These fires cannot be extinguished quickly unless special chemicals are used.

SFFD has 43 engines and 19 ladder trucks.

https://sf-fire.org/about-sffd-operations

SF also has the Auxillary Water Supply System (AWSS) but extinguishing many EV fires will not be practical with only water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Fire_Departmen...
When I first used copilot a few months after it came out, I thought it was wildly undervalued—I’d pay $100/m for the value and time saved.

It’s become such an integral part of my workflow, that until Zed got Copilot integration I couldn’t switch to it.

Of course I’d prefer to continue paying $10 a month.
Super affordable! /s

It kinda sucks that any kind of decent camper van is so crushingly expensive for all but the upper middle class and rich.
I mean, if we’re picking models to support our points, I’d counter with the Hummer EV which is 9,630 lbs. Road wear goes up with the 4th power of weight, so doubling the weight increases road wear 16x… it’s not something we should just ignore.
>Is there a term for the embarrassingly large cohort of folks hellbent on forcing the state into everyone's personal lives to sand down every sharp corner?

When the governement behaves this way, it's called the "nanny state". But the supporters of it usually lack self-awareness. Certain circles might call them bootlickers, but that's a more blanket term
Lots. Of. Wood.
Vickers VC10 begins to be dismantled at Newquay (historic airliner and tanker)
Budweiser is on its deathbed? I doubt that very much.
How do they ensure that prices do not include delivery cost?
If you dismiss hydrogen as fuel made from renewable electricity, and frankly you should on density and safety basis, the two most practical options are methane and ammonia.

Ammonia got an easy electrity to fuel process, easier than methane that starts with hydrogen. Ammonia is kinda nasty but used plenty (for example in cooling) without a terrible safety record. Not sure that safety is a better argument against it than the lack of distribution network.

I think ammonia will find its niche in shipping, but I just can't see it on the road.
IMO: No, do not ask them to confirm the password if they've already confirmed their email (which they can use to reset their password if they mistype it). If they haven't yet confirmed their email, then sure, ask them to confirm the password. But they could still make a mistake (e.g. if they copied from the wrong field in their password manager and then pasted it twice).

It does highlight an interesting race condition of sorts. There are two times when a user can set/change their password: (1) at signup (set it), and (2) after sign up (change it). After signup, you can simply require them to confirm their email before they change their password. But what if they mistype their password during signup, then logout from their first session before confirming their email? Will their account be stranded? If they haven't confirmed their email then you probably don't want to send a password reset request to it, right? (Or maybe you do?)

Arguably, it might make sense to allow sending password resets to unconfirmed emails. Because either the user set that email at signup, and thus there was no data for an attacker to steal, or they set it from within an authenticated session where they had already proved their identity. And then once you send the password reset email, you could even treat the successful reset as verification that they own the email.
I feel okay with Authy because I've got synced across multiple devices; one I bring out into the world and one I usually don't. I would be pretty nervous if I didn't have a second eligible device though
There was a news article about this truck completing a round trip journey across the Alps a few days ago: https://newmobility.news/2023/10/06/mercedes-eactros-600-man...

Stuttgart to Bolzano via the Brenner pass (1370m) and back. It charged just once in Bolzano. All this with a full load of 40 tonnes. I've driven that mountain pass. It's a major traffic route through the alps with some pretty steep segments.

So, based on that, it seems that it is doing quite nicely. If it can handle that, everything else is a piece of cake. About the same range as the smaller specced Tesla semi (the 300 mile one). All they'd need to do to increase the range is add more battery, I guess. I don't think that's particularly hard technically. But it does affect the cost/performance obviously.

In Europe, drivers need to stop and take breaks more frequently than in the US. So, 300 miles is plenty. And with fast charging infrastructure, the truck can be ready to go before the driver is legally allowed to get back behind the wheel.
Searchfox looks pretty cool, I'm surprised I've never heard of it.
I often wonder how many great softwares are out there, but only used in a small niche.
In what way is DBus better than something like Cap'n Proto? What does it cover and not cover? What other IPC/RPCs compete with it?

When I start seeing C++, AUTH, and Kerberos I start getting concerned.

When I don't find a Python-only module for something claimed to be "simple", I start getting very concerned:
https://pypi.org/project/dbus-python/
Whoa. So they're 5 years ahead of everyone else?
I don't think that's what they're proposing. The penalty would be to the hospital for having a high rate of AMA discharges.

Which is exactly what Medicare does to improve outcomes. They apply penalties to the payouts in bad outcomes
No mention of EVs in that article, but even if there were, it's not like car fires are a new thing.

Maybe better phrasing would be "not actually the new problem it is made out to be"?

1,400 cars burn, not an EV in sight: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-k-parking-garage-fire-destroy...

and it seems fires at airport car parks are surprisingly common...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
Casey Muratori has a decent blog post on the topic of blue noise dithering.

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0010
There are workarounds, but that doesn't mean that passkeys is a half-baked technology. The real, simple solution would be a way to write down the passkey, similar to an SSH private key.
Paddle has a special pricing for selling products under $10, just 10% - so your $1 fee will end up being $0.10 - it's upon request so you have to ask, but I was making zero sales and they still enabled it for my account.
Ask HN: What is your goto stack for prototype webapps?
I’m dreaming of my next side project. So HN, what is your goto stack for building a quick web app ”foundation” - ie including user auth, payments, server setup, easy styling?

I’ve dabbled a bit in the past with Slim PHP - what would you recommend for an embedded c engineer like me?
I think neurolink is a good example of why we don't need Elon disrupting health care
During COVID I reported a bajillion eBay sellers for selling masks above MSRP, they did nothing.
> What is not true?

The claim that google will never insist you set up 2FA by providing them a phone number if their ML algorithms decide your log in is suspicious.

Based on my own experiences with a little used google account and finding the messages of other users who have encountered the same error.

What is your basis for claiming that my position is untrue?
Bought by Facebook years ago.
I would like to remind everyone that Google invented HTTP/2.

Now they are telling us a yarn about how they are heroically saving us from the problem they created, but without mentioning the part that they created it.

The nerve of these tech companies! Microsoft has been doing this for decades, too.
>Password and regular 2fa/totp are fine

This might feel true, but it's factually not true.

Both passwords and TOTP can be phished. In addition, passwords can be weak, reused, and password hashes can (and are frequently) stolen and cracked in server breaches.

Passkeys are guaranteed to be strong, unique (can't be reused), strongly phishing-resistant, and there's nothing worth stealing from servers (just public keys).

Passwords and TOTP are not fine, they're both fundamentally broken when you look at them in the context of the modern internet attack landscape.
Starting at 600k for an off-road campervan. Who on earth buys these things?
One thing I don’t understand - why are the iPhone screens that can run in display mode run at 1hz a feature - what’s hard about driving a display typically driven at 120hz(?) at 1hz to save on power difficult? Or it’s not and the it’s a differentiating feature price.
Sounds like Google should countersue and take Sonos down.
I wonder how that works in territory that isn't flat, to what degree can energy that is put in during climbs be recovered during descent?
I think you’re very fortunate to not have known anyone who has had to make that calculation.
> The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

HN is a rare gem and must be protected
How much do you think they ought to cost on top of the vehicle cost?
There has been lots of discussions as to why the US doesn't already ban the listed chemicals in food, there is minimal impact to the food chain and increasing evidence of harm.

The potential upside far outweighs any downsides.
> These models have no capacity to plan ahead, which is a requirement for many "reasoning" problems. If it's not in the context, the model is unlikely to use it for predicting the next token. That's why techniques like chain-of-thought are popular; they cause the model to parrot a list of facts before making a decision. This increases the likelihood that the context might contain parts of the answer.

Is it not possible that this is essentially how our brains do it too? Attempt to plan by branching out to related ideas until they contain an answer. Any of these statements that AI can't be on track to reason like a human because of X seem to come with an implication that we have such a good model of the human brain that we know it doesn't X. But I'm not an expert on neuroscience so in many of these cases maybe that implication is true.
*technologists
He trained in Canada http://www.camp-x.com/camp-x.html
Coils. It's always coils.
Why Dizziness Is Still a Medical Mystery
It was a deliberate choice on his part. Specifically:

> ‘One of the reasons why I chose the pseudonym of James Bond for my hero rather than, say, Peregrine Maltravers was that I wished him to be unobtrusive. Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department.

> ‘But to create an illusion of depth I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props and, while I kept his wardrobe as discreet as his personality, I did equip him with a distinctive gun and, though they are a security hazard, with distinctive cigarettes. This latter touch of display unfortunately went to my head. I proceeded to invent a cocktail for Bond (which I sampled several months later and found unpalatable), and a rather precious though basically simple meal ordered by Bond proved so popular with my readers, still suffering from war-time restrictions, that expensive, though I think not ostentatious, meals have been eaten in subsequent books.

This article goes into a lot of detail:
https://midcenturybond.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/an-appraisal...
It was literally only working due to an improper implementation of standard deviations, IIRC. When I fixed the implementation, it didn't make any money, so I kept the bug. I've used this 'buggy' implementation on a couple of other projects as well, because it does a fantastic job -- a "secret sauce" of sorts.
Groups pushing to call child pornography CSAM push to ban fictional media also. But people were prosecuted for virtual child pornography before. The groups justify the new term saying all child pornography depicts child sexual abuse. And people talk about virtual CSAM.
Besides RISC-V being the open standard ISA, it is the simplest and cleanest officially supported architecture.

RV32I has 47 instructions and is enough to run Linux.

Practically an automatic choice for this kind of project.
DDOS protection is a billion dollar a year industry.
Cart Swapping the Game Processor RAM Cassette with a RP2040 [video]
Do you mean virtue signaling is filtered? It is not.
I think due to the nature of most streaming services, they require player vendors to support DRM, so there doesn't seem to be any open source or privacy-focused players that simultaneously support Netflix. My solution for now is just sticking a Roku or Apple TV on my Pi Hole
* red dye No. 3

* potassium bromate

* brominated vegetable oil

* propylparaben
It's a good way to teach it what areas need to be mowed. That doesn't mean it has to repeat the path you took every time.
To steal fireship's joke "we're pre-revenue, pre-idea, pre-everything...1B val"
This provides significantly weaker account security than using a passkey. 2FA codes delivered over SMS can be phished.
> You don't just accidentally grab one of these out of your Box Of Cables.

Yes you do. You set up the studio and wire it all up, with all of the devices, and with the right $100 wires and $30 wires and $2 wires. (Along with $50k in equipment.) But then you need to move out for some reason, so you tear it all down and it all gets boxed up and loaded into a truck and then you have nowhere to set that studio back up so then you end up with a box of cables in your living room that then gets shoved into your closet. Now you have a box of cables, some more expensive than others and you are just gonna randomly grab one until you find one with the right ends on but now also the right innards as well which means you'll have to test it.

I am not looking forwards to looking at a tangle of usb-c cables and extracting the one that actually meets my needs. Still better than trying to pull a DB9 through, but still.
I assume that on Linux you ship with all dependencies included, because if you rely on whatever is supplied by the user’s distro’s package manager provided things will be breaking all the time.

Long-reaching backwards compatibility has never been an Apple thing due to how it encumbers OS development. The longest period old apps were supported was probably in the classic Mac OS era stretching from System 7.5 or so up through OS 9, but that was mainly due to how little the OS changed in that timespan (relative to contemporary OSes and OS X in the the same length of time). With OS X the bits under the hood have always been in a state of flux even if the user facing bits barely changed at all, which makes backwards compatibility extremely challenging short of shipping virtualized old OS versions (which brings its own challenges, such as having to patch 0-days those old versions for however long you plan to keep compatibility for each version around).

Windows’ backwards compatibility is good but has meant that many parts of the OS are effectively frozen in time which has complicated modernization efforts. I suspect that soon MS will bail and start telling people to virtualize software targeting anything older than Windows 8.1 or 10.
Sorry for being unclear, by "what they are going for" I meant why TorrentFreak chose to post about this study, not why the study was made in the first place.
> They made us sign a waiver as we left.

Could you have refused?
Good thing Cessna citations are only used to travel as far as an F-250 travels /s
A main idea of passkeys is that the private keys are bound to hardware and cannot be copied. Using the private key is subject to biometric authentication. This eliminates a whole category of issues where the private key could get stolen.

So no, writing down the SSH private key is not the solution. The solution is to trust multiple private keys, each stored within tamperproof hardware.

This is also why, as a service provider, I'd like to see some device attestation. I want to know that the keys being used here are not written on a fucking piece of paper.
The other answer to this is correct, but a little more detail in case you're interested:

^W is a control code. This specific one represents the keys ctrl+w, a keyboard command in Vi and Bash among other things. It deletes the previous word. You often see something similar with ^H as well, which is a single-character backspace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^W_and_^U has some more information about these.

Some people use them more to make visual jokes in written text, more or less the same way you'd use strikethrough formatting in text.
They tried to solve problems that weren't existant.
> Then rents will start rising even more. Landlords will be willing to do price discovery the old fashioned way, offering it with a high rent and letting the unit stay vacant until someone pays it.

And you fix this with a vacancy tax--which we should have whether this kind of collusion is true or not.

Quite often, commercial entities holding apartment complexes are willing to let a property sit vacant because they can tack that onto the end of the financing while accepting lower rent would reset the basis of the financing agreement and force them to cough up cash.

A vacancy tax puts the kibosh on this kind of behavior.
Getting electricity out of hydrogen works the same way as getting electricity out of all the sources you mentioned, except your generator now produces zero emissions.
> a reskinned bejeweled with banner ads

I'm not sure this is a fair portrayal of gaming on iOS.

Now, a reskinned Bejeweled with in-game currency IAPs – that's more like it!
My understanding is that Irish orthography is different, but highly consistent. So once you overcome the initial hurdle of understanding how different phonemes are pronounced, you're mostly good to go.

I tend to think of the Irish alphabet as similar to but subtly distinct from the English alphabet: the two languages use the same Latin characters, but have different sounds associated with them.
I was part of the pipeline at Disney that looked into operationalizing some of the ideas coming out of Research. I agree that I can't think of any place quite like it. It should also be worth noting that Disney Research is not the same as Imagineering. Research works across all kinds of problems and not just those in the parks.

I was at Disney for close to a decade, and I don't think I could've gotten a better education in how engineering acts in service of the experience the user is having. Disney is really a master of this. Maybe Apple comes close, but I wouldn't know.
Why didn’t they just leave? They’re not prisoners.
> I hope germany turns around its dwindling car making industry

Yes, they only make what, 3.4 million cars every year there vs the 1.8 in the United States.
He says, in the twitverse...
Polymathic AI
Recent transactions don't help if the entire sector is overvalued. Just tells you that you're aligned with the overval.
E-Ink is a classic example of an artificially constrained supply chain designed to compete with far more advanced technologies.
it's still not clear what IQ measures, in the grand scheme of things. and i think this is the bulk of its problem. what sort of intelligence? relevant for what? unfortunately, the laziest among us who see these standardize tests are easy way to do their job embraced it wholeheartedly and have deployed it wickedly. at what point should an IQ test be taken? and what's its expiry date? mr. cipolla wrote his seminal basic laws of human stupidity[0] some 70 years after IQ tests were introduced. perhaps not important in the grand scheme of things but one wonders why there's not even as much as a mere allusion.

[0]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...
That might be useful if iPhones and iPads weren't gimped platforms.

There is no Steam (let alone any other game store) on iDevices. Just Apple's store.

As a consumer, I don't wanna pay for a game on Apple's store just so I can have a shitty iPhone experience. Especially when nearly every other game I have is on Steam and I can play on whatever device of mine I want.
It's also a massive PITA trying to debug or profiling performance on it - no native tools work right.

While "ok" for porting an existing game as a secondary platform, you don't want to be using it for primary development. And that will be why it will remain (at best) a second class citizen.
I'm surprised titanium dioxide isn't on the list. It's an additive that, to my knowledge, pretty much just makes colors more vibrant by increasing reflectivity.
But that's not the only benefit of eink.

EInk doesn't have a backlight. So it's easy to see in glaring light. It's also not disruptive if so, you want to use it as a digital picture frame and you don't want light from the display bothering your eyes day and night.

EInk is a more peaceful display technology, and some people put a lot of value on that.
As a Canadian, I'm always so surprised how little regard the U.S. has for the safety and health of its own citizens.

Another big surprise is that U.S. manufacturers are allowed to say their products contain "zero trans fat" when in fact the amount can be as high as 0.5g / serving! (Which is an incredibly high amount!)

In Canada the law for trans fats is < 0.1g for example. I guess this is what happens when politicians are influenced by corporations who pay them instead of citizens they are supposed to represent!