skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rearranging deck chairs on the titantic.

This whole scheme depends on either users being savvy enough to do vault backups or depending on service providers being functional.

Both are quite doomed.

Users have a path for passwords - they can write them down on paper and keep them with their important things. This tends to work for most folks.

The backup story for passkeys is horrible. There is no path for my elderly relatives who don't use cloud services.

Until that is fixed, passkeys will never replace passwords.

Don't forget password sharing! That is a whole screwed up story with passkeys too.
Has to be verified unrooted phones, which are mostly local Android phones + ALL iPhone 8/SE2 or later. e.g. SC-02K and SCV38 will work but SM-G960N won't. By the way, commuter passes works as regular cards outside of specified routes or valid-thru dates, so long it has seen use within last 10 years.
30 % of physics and chemistry can’t be replicated. 70 % of soft science can’t be replicated. Most of what we know about sociology may just be fake, and given that a huge foundation of progressive thought around rase, sex, and gender is based on this, this is a big problem.

at a minimum, this isn’t far off
How can a user, right now, take control + ownership of backing up their own pass keys, without iCloud or Google?

This is a privilege I currently enjoy right now, and one I am not really eager to give up.
I understand the cynicism. Academic reporting is a hard & thankless gig.

The non-cynical version: Half of a researcher's job is disseminating results -- to other researchers & the populace at large. I'd much rather have excited university announcements (even over-reaching ones) than the rage-porn news that dominates the airwaves & "mainstream news" homepages.

Besides: Any serious researcher will just revert to the actual peer-reviewed source material. It was linked in the article. Here it is: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01680-4

And here's the PDF: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.24.477527v2....

As someone who has peripheral knowledge in this space (piezeoelectric & magnetostrictive devices and neural stimulation & recording): I've never seen a magnetostrictive material capable of developing a DC bias. Further, driving the device in a non-resonant mode for neural stimulation is even more new to me -- that's quite fascinating, and I'd say that article lives up to the hype from my 1000-ft vantage. I.e. This was effective reporting.
Yup, generally I would agree. But as I commented elsewhere on this post, I like to install mods for my games which is not something I could do with just the streaming solution as far as I know.
> It's not hardware.

So now are kernel extensions also “applications”?

> VSCode is an app that needs the .NET runtime, in order to run the code you write in e.g. C#.

You could not possibly be more wrong. VSCode is written in Typescript. It is an Electron app. There have been cross platform JS frameworks that ran on iOS for a decade.

Besides that, it’s been years since you have needed the .Net runtime to run .Net applications.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/dotnet-native/

And Microsoft already has a solution to run .Net code on iOS

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/mobile

> payments system is a part of an application. They prohibit broad categories of apps that use any but their own payments system.

There is an existence proof that there are applications that exist on iOS right now that force you to pay outside of their ecosystem.

Are you really crying over pay to win games?

> We know they don't do it for a specific subset of subscription services anymore. They still do it in general, which is to say that they still do it

Can you name any none pay to win games that couldn’t be a subscription service outside of the App Store?

And your solution to supporting CUDA is a breakout box on an iPad with an nvidua card? Who the hell is going to buy that?

There is nothing stopping
Some of these hit hard but I cannot possibly imagine anyone not soaked in Irish culture getting many of them.

> Yerra, they’ll never shoot me in my own county
I thought I'd heard of all the dithering options from https://tannerhelland.com/2012/12/28/dithering-eleven-algori..., but surprised to read there's another one (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/3288) that was used in this project.
A lot of these modified ECUs’ are really for drag racers…though there are plenty of people who buy them to modify their street car…bummer
https://safety.google/authentication/passkey/

> Yes, you can continue to log in using your traditional log in [sic] method, which in most cases would be using your username and password.
For the unenlightened:

2000 A.D. is a British comic magazine; not to be mistaken with 0 A.D., the FOSS strategy game: https://play0ad.com
Thank you for the clear explanation.

I've heard that humans were at some point reduced to a very small number, like thousands of individuals.

So how did a few thousand individuals become such great genetic diversity? Does genetic diversity come from being isolated, instead of mingling with other migratory groups?
> Apple has gone out of their way to prevent you from enjoying games on their systems.

How, by having a different OS? Sorry about that I guess.

(If it had native Vulkan it wouldn't matter. The most effective strategy, the one Microsoft uses, is to buy all the game studios.)

> And who do the users blame? Game makers - not Apple...

Calling Valve a game maker is a stretch; as a company they're famously unwilling to actually make games. See gaben's allergy to the number 3.
Ah, Mastodon would be manageable. I thought you were on Twitter doing this.
The parties more directly at risk (Europe) should bear the brunt of the aid, no?
> It isn't rare in politics for a politician to be opportunistic rather than incompetent.

What's the opportunity here though? They're not making any friends in the tech industry so it's not to secure a job, it's not popular with a lot of people, I don't get what they're gaining here.
For sure - I love speed myself. (Ironic that my fastest car ever is also the quietest, but EVs are a different creature). I guess not everyone has the same ethos that our personal enjoyment doesn't entitle us to encroach on others.
I strongly prefer their technology stack to any other: Azure, Visual Studio, .NET/C#, Windows Server, SQL Server, etc.
So now that "friend" has access to your account? How is that more secure than my 32 random character password I store in an encrypted Keepass database that I back up offline?
Lovely idea of a list. But not definitive. My village song also talks of leaving in the morning. Leaving Ireland was the natural state for 150 years.
I'm begging everyone to embrace New Sincerity and Solarpunk. Doomerism, snark, and irony is extremely lame, and when corporations do it it's even lamer. Wendys social media is dystopian.

The future is going to be fucking awesome. We're gonna have cute girls on ebikes. We're going to have GMO food that eliminates hunger worldwide, and robots that harvest them and end farm worker exploitation. You're gonna have solar panels on your ADU, they'll power a little light, and you're gonna read a book and listen to the bugs and life will be good.
> Mac users are cornered into exclusively a mobile device(MacBooks)

Huh? iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, Mac Pro.
I like a lot of the concepts of FP, but once you get past the "new shiny" aspect of it and start writing applications, the warts start to show.

It's really like anything - extreme/purist FP can have terrible application performance with limited benefit. Same with extreme/purist OOP.

JS classes hit a sweet spot for me. They are minimalist, composable, easy to duck-type, and are basically just a convenient unit of code organization more than anything.

I never really jumped on the "pure fp" bandwagon. It gave birth to monstrosities like RxJs - which some people actually use, and I don't understand how or why.

Same for me with React - class based components are a lot less magical than all the useEffect and use* stuff. They're easy to reason about, and self-contained. I never really understood the drive for "pure functional components".

There's so much cruft and artifacts that arise from that, it interferes with application feature deliver and performance. You end up spending your days doing crazy Redux or RxJs like things, increase complexity by an order of magnitude, all for very limited actual benefit (like theoretical time rewinding during debugging - which I have never actually had a need for).
Definitely some strange assumptions by the FAA. Simulations by both NASA and SpaceX (as well as observations of over 300 Starlink re-entries) indicate Starlink sats burn up completely. Yet FAA assigns each Starlink satellite a ~9 square meter injury/fatality zone on the ground.
Related:

I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926683 - Feb 2023 (403 comments)

DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744136 - Nov 2022 (123 comments)

RealPage and landlords illegally created a 'cartel' to set prices, lawsuit says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633541 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software RealPage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317414 - Oct 2022 (50 comments)

Clever algorithm may be what's driving rent prices so high - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33313028 - Oct 2022 (6 comments)

Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224502 - Oct 2022 (279 comments)
Now is the time to daily drive linux with a Windows VM for the few moments it's needed.
The scripture remained quite intact despite the rise of astronomy and evolution theory. That is because only some people take old scripture literal (but those who do, tend to be quite dangerous).
The reality is you dont actually need liability insurance to do most things.

They probably just thought it would be fun to do and there is no explicit law preventing it, or requiring insurance.
Are you going to school in Langley, Virginia?
This. More so for loud motorcycles, since cops tend to also own them.
I partially agree with you after seen behaviors of some "security" software that really put the "intent of its author" in question.
If you don't have an HOA or some city ordinance that requires you to keep it green year around it might not even take much water.

Here in the Pacific Northwest many of us never water our lawns. They get plenty of water from rain except in the summer. In the summer they go dormant. That turns them brown, but doesn't harm them, and when it gets rainy again in the fall they turn back to green.
>> Any gas plant still being operational would be running all the time and be part of the base supply just like it is today.

>Not if its purpose is to supply power during periods of low generation.

The purpose is to convert intermittent energy to stable energy.
Whenever there is a surplus, it is balanced by producing gas. Whenever there is a shortage, you burn the gas.

The idea is to reach a balance, where we produce the same amount of gas that we need during a year. The storage only needs to cover a worst-case scenario of cloudy days with no wind, which is far less than many countries are already storing today.

>The real problem here is that if you did a straight free market design, the result would be that power is very cheap 95% of the time and then costs multiple dollars per kWh during extended periods of low generation.

No, since the energy in this scenario is stable 24/7 and for as many days as we are able to store gas, the price will be stable as well. And it is this kind of solution (including the cost of building the storage) that has recently been estimated to be cheaper than any other source of stable energy, even fossil fuels. Certainly Nuclear, which is estimated to be more expensive than any previous estimates have indicated.

The important thing to keep in mind is that once this storage infrastructure has been built, it will be a gift for future generations comparable to hydropower. the cost of the dam was paid by our ancestors and we've enjoyed cheap energy for most of our lives from some of them. Gas production and storage has the same property. It is an investment that will pay dividends for centuries.

Nuclear has the opposite property - we are today paying for plants that are no longer producing any energy, and we still have no end in sight for that cost. I can't see that as anything but a very poor gift to our children and a very bad investment at this point in time.
My understanding is it's much more about demand than patents.

LED panels got cheap because we built factories that pump out a lot of them.
“Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive” is the tamest way of phrasing it, given that the “handicap”’s only effect is to cost the first-place bidder more money.

It never helps the second-place bidder. I’d argue “handicap” is deceitful.
You can check my post history to see how unpopular this point of view is, but the big "reveal" that will come up is as follows:

The way that LLMs and humans "think" is inherently different. Giving an LLM a test designed for humans is akin to giving a camera a 'drawing test.'

A camera can make a better narrow final output than a human, but it cannot do the subordinate tasks that a human illustrator could, like changing shadings, line width, etc.

An LLM can answer really well on tests, but it often fails at subordinate tasks like 'applying symbolic reasoning to unfamiliar situations.'

Eventually the thinking styles may converge in a way that makes the LLMs practically more capable than humans on those subordinate tasks, but we are not there yet.
Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity
>"Now reduce down the solution"

I love this part. This is the validation after proof that you indeed, solved the correct problem. Because if you can't shave away the complexity to the underlying problem and "get to the heart of it" then you didn't solve the problem yet. You merely handled its edge-cases.
I was contradicting your first sentence. Your second is a non-sequitur.
Laguna beach is pretty strict on out of towners with loud pipes
This claim is denied by Israel at this point.
"I'd rather have ED than EDR."
Replika. Anyone here use it? As bad as this story is, I bet they'll get a bump in usage.
I think its use probably has a loose correlation to younger, east coast, Big Lebowski fans.

Which as we know puts you down an irreversible ideological path of... something?
One of the best, unexpected, wordplay jokes I've seen on hackernews. Bravo.
Google Workspace is different than a private account, which is what we are talking about here.

With Google Workspace an admin can reset / disable your 2FA, so that part is out of your hands anyway.

Finally, I don't see anything in Google Workspace that requires a phone number. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong there.
in consulting all we hear is sell sell sell AI so i'm sure my industry isn't helping at all. I'm not on board yet, I just don't see a use case in enterprise beyond learning a knowledge base to make a more conversational self-help search and things like that. It's great that it can help right a function in javascript but that's not a watershed moment... yet. Curious to see AI project sales at end of 2024 (everything in my biz is measured in units of $$).
It's not my responsibility to support your arguments.
Obviously nobody is going to run workloads that need to exploit these kinds of things on ECS instances. But these workloads are niche, not normal. Most code that's written and deployed to some notion of "production" is not CPU bound, it is I/O bound.
With some of the nicknames for one of their buildings in Burbank, I could definitely think of some possible reasons. Hopefully, the reasons for the GP are different than my ideas, and they are much less depressing.
Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie?
The whole language is a footgun..
But how do you know that the gyroscope is or isn't spinning when that code is written? You don't. You might as well do a regular check for if the gyroscope is spinning, and if not return an error.

You do not need to have the entire world's software rewritten in Idris (which I don't even like that much). This is purely local reasoning that can be accomplished by minor changes to existing languages if we want to. The compiler doesn't need access to the world. It is you who are unnecessarily raising the bar for what you expect compilers to do and then throwing in the towel just because the compiler can't actually do it.

Any argument that invokes the halting problem has a standard response: you don't need to handle every case; perfect is the enemy of good. Furthermore it is often better to have the programmer rewrite the code to help the compiler deduce these facts, because helping the compiler also helps future readers of the code.
You don’t have to go nuclear big to be successful. Decide your own goals, don’t let someone decide it for you.
To be fair, none of the responses did this.
100ms is 6 frames of input latency at 60hz! Absolutely noticable.
In my country you need a gun permit for a crossbow - that's how effective they are.
ServiceNow, for me.
PostgreSQL isn't that special as a codebase. Every codebase has its quirks, every project has its own processes and there's a learning curve. When you switch to a new job as a software engineer, you pick it up. PostgreSQL is no different: you can hire an engineer to work on PostgreSQL.

I'm not sure how well that path works in growing new contributors, though. In a usual company setting, the goals are better defined, and the company is in control. Once you reach the goals, mission accomplished. With an open source project it's more nebulous. Others might have different criteria and different priorities. You are not in control. Choosing the right problems to work on is important.

Other storage or database projects would be a good source of new contributors. If you have worked on another DBMS, you're already familiar with the domain, and the usual techniques and tradeoffs. But to stick around, you need some internal desire to contribute, not just achieve some specific goals.
I think about LLM prompt engineering
Asyncpg isn't pure Python, if that's what you mean by native. It's a heavy user of Python's C API, which is why PyPy can't run it. But yes, Asyncpg does tend to be quite a bit faster than Psycopg2 in most cases.
maybe. but at 300 devs you are talking 360k a year for example. but then i don't live in a country where devs make 300k a year ;)
Learn the basics of error handling in Python
It's super useful because on some very large collections with many files, the .torrent doesn't contain all the files (apparently a long standing bug?), and downloading a file that's dozens of gigabytes big through a web browser requires a lot of prayer and faith that the download doesn't interrupt/can be resumed.

So this tool is super handy for that. Heck, it's useful even for small collections just because of how convenient it is.
it's a win-win-win. Win for the seniors to ask the harder questions and make sure there's alignment. Win for the juniors who learn and re-evaluate assumptions and bias. Win for the business because they get the best design (at the time, with the resources on hand) for the ask.

It's important to make sure that folks who are doing the work, agree upon the work. Building a bridge only works if the engineers are building a bridge, not a suspended walkway of dubious quality because they didn't like the design so some wood and rope is what you got.
But unfortunately it is the type of thing that, although obviously a superior solution, is unlikely to be adopted in the rest of the world. Where I live, as, I think, in most places, people would think you were very strange if you put those kinds of metal shutters on your windows, and I can even imagine neighbours being displeased with you as it makes it look like it is a bad neighbourhood.
Interview with Singapore's ex-PM Lee Kuan Yew (2005)
If you seriously want to take action here, then do this;

1) Look up your city ordinances on sound, there should be copies of this is the reference section of your city's public library. Identify the ordinance and paragraph that the people nearby are violating. Record/video one or more violations on your phone.

2) Call the police, don't "complain about the noise", tell them you want to "swear out a complaint" for violating ordinance x, paragraph y. They are obligated to take your complaint and forward it to the District Attorney[1].

3) You will probably be called as a witness if the folks with the noisy cars choose a trial.

[1] When a police officer hears a complaint, they can "investigate", and then "cite" the offender. It is up to the officer's discretion. That citation is the sworn complaint from the officer of the offending behavior. When the police refuse to do their job, everyone has the right to "step in" to that role and swear out a complaint. The downside is that retaliating against an officer is 'scary' but retaliating against a neighbor isn't. This can result in a variety of negative externalities that may be criminal but hard to prove (car getting 'keyed', tires slashed, rocks thrown through windows, feces on your porch, Etc.)

Because taking on the job of enforcement when the cops let you down incurs significant personal risk, I usually suggest people make an appointment with their representative on the city's governing body, city manager, or district attorney and encourage them to actually do their job. Editorials in the local paper are good to, but projecting soft power as a voter in that way is less likely to blow back directly on you. I can also take longer and be less successful but sending emails to the DA with repeat infractions over and over can often convince them of the need for enforcement.
Last week I was at a project meeting cum conference, where most people attending were scientists, but not computer people. They have showed what they did with computers and programming languages, and it amazed me with no end.

These people wired tons of plugins on their browsers, VSCode and Obsidian installations, created web sites and tools which broke new ground and their tools were running on distributed systems at very good speeds. Some of these tools requires human years to develop even by “computer people”, yet these people sat with their partners during the pandemic and developed these amazing things while wearing trainers and drinking coffee casually.

These people would make this plugin draw circles up in the air while most of us “not average users” are reading the docs.

So, what is an average user? By your definition I’m an average user, because I use containers, but I didn’t use this extension, but found it in five minutes, because you wanted a solution.

Now I’ll install and use it fully tomorrow morning, before my coffee gets warm. Because it’s worth it.
That is not without risk either:

Many more people have a copy of my passport than have access to my Yubikey or recovery phone number.
They’ll just keep repeating thus trope whenever an e-ink project comes up. (They don’t think that LCD screens have patents too?)