skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The hotel must be trusted to actually provide the room, so why not trust the hotel to also store the booking information?

Because the hotel then has to swap the reservation whenever it's traded. Let's say I want to book a hotel in the future for downtown Chicago Cubs making it to the World Series. As the season progresses it's a future whose value goes up and down depending on how they are playing. If the hotel is in the loop they could play shenanigans and charge you a fee every time you reschedule. The idea of the blockchain is that it's out of their hands.

The owner of the room at the time of the booking shows up with the private key, and swaps it for the room key.

If you involve the hotel enshittification will ensue to make sure they grind out every last cent.

Also, being on a blockchain allows for trades such as swapping rooms across chains, trading rooms for cars, etc. The blockchain unifies ownership and rights as tradeable like money did for barter. There is a common unifying method of exchange.
IRS launches direct-filing pilot program
Additional context from HS: https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009931214.html

The suspect is accused of stealing tens of thousands of sensitive psychotherapy patient records from a MySQL server exposed to the public internet, using what I presume to be a weak MySQL (root) password.

The suspect is then accused of ransoming first the private healthcare provider, and then the individual patients (using the stolen email addresses). The ransomer went public and started leaking the patient records in batches of 100, before prematurely leaking the entire set by accident. The records contained what I believe included full detailed records from the individual psychotherapy sessions.

The company was aware of the breach, but did not report it before the attacker went public. There was, if I recall correctly, some kind of crypto locker compromise that brought their systems down, but those were only reported as some form of technical maintenance gone wrong.

Harder to find a source for it because the older articles are paywalled, but the IT employees responsible for the systems were not charged, instead the CEO was convincted of some form of criminal negligence. Plus financial fraud for selling the business without disclosing the earlier breach.
I have had some good results processing survey data.

Having the LLM generalize responses, look for patterns and rank by frequency
>Thanks to Ethereum (and specially now that there are L2s which have cheaper tx costs) I can distribute revenue from my business between different types of collaborators, without incurring in paying 120% in taxes for having "employees".

That's not a technical feature, that's just tax fraud
It's provably not lost, I know 2 people who experienced loss of smell/taste in 2023. Hopefully though it's reduced in severity and frequency.
Your conclusion is pretty funny. In general, when reality doesn't match up with my sources of information, I assume that my sources of information are biased or wrong, not that reality itself is. I was genuinely expecting your last sentence to be something like: "The fact that it still holds is the best demonstration of how biased the tech echo chamber is."
This app itself was discussed 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812691
Why would anybody buy something that they can't sell for real money any more? Shouldn't that convince even the dumbest acolytes that there is no value to be had?
Apparently only Apple can get ecores working.
It's only cheaper if you and your friend are inside the system. The two eco-system are separated and this makes friction and cost high (if you are onboarding/offboarding liquidity).
And humans are meat-based text generators, so what?
It would be a mistake to conflate being glad not to owe $250k in medical costs with loving the system that perpetuates bills of that nature in the first place.
The moment that trolls came to shill for genocide that ship unfortunately sailed.

Moderators are ineffective at shutting down obvious malicious actors.
Ask HN: Are startups putting IP on their balance sheet?
When starting a company in tech the question eventually arises what to do with putting IP on the balance sheet as it is developed. Sometimes founders have IP they are bringing into the newly founded company. Are startups putting IP on their balance sheets and how do they practically go about doing this?
> knowing about them was his primary signal for someone's overall competence

I don't know if it's the primary signal, but I think you need a balanced team. It's a good idea to have at least one person on your team who's staying on top of what's going on in the front-end community. But you have to be careful that person isn't blindly trying to apply every trend in your product, e.g. resume driven development.
That's interesting, because gun stores in Chicago basically aren't a thing. They're all in the suburbs. "Illinois Gun Works", in the video, is in Elmwood Park.
Taxation is not a victimless crime.
If all you're buying is sandwiches, you don't need crypto. Crypto is for when you buy things that are a lot more interesting than sandwiches :)
You know those status bars in dwm and similar window managers? Those are usually generated from a pipeline outputting a line every few seconds or so.

To make it display something as trivial as the frequency of your CPU, the network speed, etc, you have to randomly parse some ad-hoc, program-dependent format that may be locale-dependent! If these could speak a proper language, one could just take the value of this field/object/element and be done with it.
Just like in a microfrontend or microservice architecture
I don't blame conferences for that. Conferences should (often) be a good place for more out there ideas, more experiments, experience sharing with new ideas, etc. It's the fault of viewers for thinking "I'm gonna do this thing without really evaluating it for my use case", which is a generally large problem in tech.
And the time to load!!!
> If you think that's a crime you are delusional about the uses of money

Tax evasion is against the law and therefore is objectively a crime. Whether or not the law is good is a different discussion entirely.
Oh man, I couldn't disagree more. Learning is learning. My education was broad in a few ways, and so many of the thing I learned that were seemingly unrelated to technical skills have made me a better engineer in many ways.
More details directly from IRS: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-direct-file-update-free-sec...
Ahhh yes, the flavored ones. The bank was the only place I ever ate the flavored ones, added an air of mystery to the experience.
The issue is that legit, licensed businesses -- calling each other to conduct lawful business (not spam, calling to discuss pricing on existing deals) and T-Mobile blocking the calls. So, for example, a Verizon client is calling a State enforcement officer who's device is T-Mobile -- now the licensee call cannot go through to communicate with their enforcement officer -- which can lead to bad things -- such as LEO at your door with dogs and guns.
inscribed with 'for the 10x dev'
In the old studio days when they were cranking out a lot of films--many of which were probably fairly similar in style (e.g. Westerns)--it probably made more sense. I assume Netflix is mostly just writing checks to independent production companies. There's an overhead to storing and cataloging a bunch of props and I'm guessing there isn't a lot of return for Netflix to do so.
Node taught me something useful: when you see a ecosystem surrounded by things that are 'blazingly fast', you can be sure those things are at the very best just normal speed and it's a sign the whole ecosystem basis is just awfully slow.

See also: 'blazingly fast' rust builds.
I’ve got 4 keyboards in front of me and not a single one of them have the word shift. All English QWERTY keyboards too.

These are British keyboards though. So maybe this is a European vs US keyboard difference?
To starve the government financially, through mechanisms of tax evasion.

As a very last resource, because again, I do not condone crimes, but: When tyrants rule, it's our human right to disobey.

Would you accept to be subservient to a power structure that doesn't work for you? For the "We The People"? Vote them away yes, given voting is not a deceptive theatrical show like it is in Venezuela. So, what are the other alternatives? Ruling out violence of course.
A minimal probabilistic Prolog meta-interpreter
Psh it's an electron app, it takes a few minutes to adjust the config and hit the right command to build the app for Linux.
So I will admit my comment isn't really substantial or that relevant to this particular situation. I also didn't read either article, and probably won't.

My opinion is that anything that appears on any blog of any organization that is touting some change or improvement will always describe said change/improvement in the most charitable way possible, because it was written by the org's PR team. Because of this, I do not trust them by default, and will wait to see what actually happens when they make the change.

So through that lens, your comment saying "actually nothing will change because youtube said so" just doesn't hold up for me. Unless they are legally forced to do so, I assume that there is always something they aren't telling us, and frankly I think it's naive to take their word for it as you are suggesting.
You're right, this is much harder to find reputable numbers for :/

https://www.guru3d.com/review/intel-core-i7-13700k-review/pa... is the closest I can find, and it's whole PC power draw - and it has them all fairly even. I suspect it's dominated by other components like GPU, though?
Is OpenAI really a startup at this point? When did Facebook stop becoming a startup...?
I've been using python for the past 10+ years, and I've got to say that the new Syntactic formalization of f-strings (PEP 701) has got to be one of the most "huh?" changes I've seen in a while.

Was this such a big problem?

In my experience, the GIL, faster start-up times are so much higher on the totem pole, why this now?
Personally, I wouldn't call it a "last resort", but I definitely agree that keeping a functioning monolith is preferred.

Nevertheless, one thing to keep in mind (and I do consulting on MF for the last 5 years) is that most projects / teams are not well prepared and actually not at all suited for MF. MF solutions are usually just done from a technology POV, which is already a problem. Next thing is that the used technologies are often also not well suited. People tend to use strongly coupled things that just create hidden monoliths. In the end projects fail often because either the organization is not ready to have truly independent teams or / and because the software has just become too complex and unmaintainable.

To end with something positive: We also know many success stories in that area where people spent the right amount of research on what technologies to use and where everyone in the organization was prepared to accept the new teams setup.
If crypto crashes when leaders of countries with worthless currency ban it, then maybe crypto isn't really that great at solving any of the problems it purports to solve (independence from central authority etc).
But why would any company want this? You’re giving away control of your projects for… what exactly?
A mock Shopify store API for easy prototyping
Because to hand over the money I'd need to travel 1000 KMs [1].

And if you want to know "why you don't simply transfer through a bank?" I encourage you to read the Corralito wiki.

Just before the Corralito ended, there was an asymmetric pesification of bank deposits. This meant that if you had 100k USD in your account on Monday, by Friday it would be converted to 100k ARS at a rate of 4 ARS = 1 USD, effectively leaving you with just 25k USD.

This event left a general feeling of discomfort regarding leaving real money (in terms of store of value) in the bank.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Viedma,+R%C3%ADo+Negro+Provi...
I apologise, but I have no interest in any tech religion.
The quality of full screen takeover pages seems to have dramatically risen recently. My family members, who don’t know the Escape key exists, accidentally click one from a banner ad every week now taking them to a page like examplefoobar38561.cloudfront.net and the use of elements that imitate browser or OS chrome (generally imitating Windows Defender or similar) has reached near perfection. All browsers should have a setting to permanently block full screen mode for all sites (not “ask”).
Twilio is kindof trivial, they have a GUI-builder thing that might let you do "something like that". There was another discussion w.r.t. "90-y/o parents are getting scammer calls 24x7" and they implemented a "most-recent-number blacklist" along with the usual "allowlist". It's genius!

Basically: if ( in_allowlist() || called_twice_in_a_row() ) { allow_call() } else { respond_with_beep_beep_problem_please_retry_your_call() && hangup() }

...all humans (eg: doctors offices, appointment schedulers/verifiers, etc) are like: "huh, phone system must be f'd up right now" and call right back. All mechanically dialed spammers just $PHONE += 1 and continue dialing. Son kept an eye on the "called twice" and added them to the allowlist (or maybe you could just auto-add if they ever call twice, and then validate / name / prune new entries once a week or so?)
> Crypto allows for the evasion of laws.

Uber allowed anyone to drive without a taxi medallion.

AirBnB allowed anyone to turn a home into a hotel.

Amazon allowed anyone to buy a book online, without having to go to a book store.

Not everything is about evasion of laws.
State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level
> thinks HOAs are a good idea
> I've only encountered relatively few other users.

When my employer was acquired by Facebook, I joined the FB employee Joe user group, and it became the Joe users group. When I left, it went back to the Joe user group :/

I gather joe was fairly popular at some point, but as long as it keeps working, I'm going to keep using it.
> it’s a nice way to avoid saying “we’re funding schools in poorer areas using fewer resources” while saying absolutely that.

This is not true in California. Property taxes are collected by the county in CA, and then distributed to the cities most in need. Beverly Hills doesn't get more school funding than East LA just because their property tax revenue is 10x higher.
Amazing work. If there's ever a government institution or consulting firm looking into the safety of these Ai products. I hope your input is requested. A for profit corporation wont get to self regulate as that is not their main objective. As for vulnerabilities and consequences in human behavior all they would do/can do is respond. In this context it seems to me you have vision which not everyone has.
Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree
Ask HN: Is Similarweb.com Down?
I am trying to access the Website since last three days, the Website is not opening.
The AI Bill of Materials
These feel like the last generation P4s back in the day. Intel had better have another Conroe in the wings for the next generation.
That's a good example of a "hit and run" demo.

None of the community Diffusers pipelines I know of have successfully integrated this. VoltaML made a valiant effort and gave up in favor of Facebooks AITemplate (for now).
Novel framework improves resilience to extreme weather
My wife sustained a minor head injury when the weight of her new work-issued MacBook Pro caused her wheelchair to flip over backwards when she stood up momentarily. (It was hanging from the backrest.) MacBook Air is not an option currently on the menu.
I lost taste/smell for about two weeks in the late summer 2022 from covid infection. Very wild to lose taste/smell. Not just diminished ... gone. You could have put a turd under my lose and I wouldn't have known the difference. Not only that, I stopped drinking coffee during that time because again ... what was the point if I couldn't taste it?

Took a few weeks to completely recover from all of the side effects of a covid infection.
Congress doesn't work that many days a year. Around 100 I think, lots of half days. They don't get to say anything is too hard until they work as much as a fast food cashier.
What about meat religion?
Certainly not a bad thing.
Despite Lower Decks' jokes and loose adherence to any "hardness" of its sci-fi, I've found it to be one of the most casually optimistic of any star trek in a long time. The first few episodes are a bit rough, but I actually really enjoy it now.
Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud
> although I've never used it

I'm seriously considering going to the bank drive-through just to experience the pneumatic tubes again. I rarely ever get cash from the bank, I've only ever actually used an ATM a couple times in my entire life, but I feel a strong desire to relive this childhood experience.
Most of the implementations of MFEs I've seen are reliant on webpack or Single-SPA (which by default uses webpack under the hood).

vite, esbuild, parcel etc. have not adopted anything around this.

To me, that says that those putting out the nuts and bolts work that having been leading this space for several years either haven't spent alot of time evaluating them, or have found them overly complex for what they are, or perhaps think there is a better way to accomplish their goals.

I'm not sure MFEs are the best tech, to be honest. I've seen demos where it seems to be an addition (bootstrapping speed, neat tricks with routing etc.) but I've never seen them demonstrated in practice. I'm on a team now that is adopting MFEs and our payload is somehow considered acceptable at 8 MB. Given this is a behind-the-login app, I think somewhere between 300-500KB bootstrapping and getting to interactive with the rest lazy loaded is fine, but 8 MB to boot the app seems like we aren't doing even basic optimizations (I unfortunately do not have the control I wish I had on this)

I'm really unsure about MFEs, they seem like something looking for a problem in practice. They certainly appear hard to get right
You're evading taxes and worker protection laws. Congrats I guess? If your business model is dependent on flouting the law, then maybe it's time to rethink the business model.
Mind sharing the name if you remember it? I imagine it had fixed-size pie menus. (size as in number of options)
I've shown many of the more recent demos, built for modern systems with GPUs, to lots of regular people. Many of the best are still viewed as impossibly cool music videos even if the technical magic is lost on "normies". There's still plenty of people who ask me "are there any new demos out there you can send me on youtube?" Some of the artwork, music, and overall representation is first-class at levels top commercial studios develop for advertisements or movie intros etc. But it's all done by hobbyists and I think lots of people can appreciate the pure art aspect of it.

The rest of the scene is very much appreciation for doing things within various technical constraints, and any appreciation of that requires more technical understanding. Even these days, many younger software engineers have trouble understanding what it takes to make and compete one of these constrained demos because the constraints themselves are virtually impossible to fathom for people who grew up smoking GB of RAM with poorly written Python code.

The idea of writing a 4kb demo for an ancient 8-bit computer that was dead in the market more than a decade before they were even born doesn't compute until you really start walking them through the fundamental CS concepts implied.
Honestly, this is more of a problem for blockchain than it is for the old system. Let's say that an 80's movie villain gets his goons to beat you until you sign over the deed to your house (he wants to open another dojo). Today, you could go to court, present your evidence that you made the transaction under duress, and you get your house back. Even if he won't sign the deed back to you, the court can just print a new one on a laser printer, give it a fancy stamp, and the house is yours again.

In the blockchain world, there's two options. The first is the "code is law" option. Since you sent him the house, it's his and there's nothing you can do about it. The court might arrest him, but there's no way of ever recovering your house. If he's particularly spiteful, the villain might kill himself. With proper security, his private key is lost forever and that property becomes inaccessibly for eternity.

The other option is the "reasonable" option. Here, you go to court and have his token for your house officially invalidated. Additionally, a new token is minted for the property is minted and sent to your account, making you whole again. However, this only works with a modified blockchain that allows a centralised authority to invalidate and mint new tokens. Since we're already trusting this centralised authority, then we're back to the old laser printer and stamp, just with extra steps.
> If you have some kind of way, on the blockchain, to solve this problem, and reassign the property without Joe’s private key, then what you have is a situation where human decisions take priority over cryptographic guarantees.

I have thought about this and it's solveable. Physical goods have to have some sort of "sanctioned violence" to enforce, so there is always a government. They have a public key that is known and publish updates. So if something gets legally confiscated, there is a message published by the government that amends the chain. "The owner of X is now Y".

> I don’t see what advantage blockchain has here.

Because it unifies ownership under a central mechanism and you don't need to wait in line at a government office. You have an API and a log. It doesn't really need to be distributed just public I guess, but having the ability to have a private copy for reference would be a benefit.
I made the switch from a Pixel 2XL to a 7 last year, and dang, the 2XL was better in most every respect. Fingerprint access with the 2 worked 99% of the time on the first try vs. about 10% (probably being generous) on the 7.

And voice-to-text is just as broken. I did side-by-side tests, and if you’re in perfect conditions, facing the phone directly, with no background noise (i.e., never), then the 7 performed okay, but it would fail horrible in any other case. The 2XL performed quite well, relatively. I even replaced the 7 thinking there was an issue, but the new one did the same thing.

Unfortunately, lack of updates means the 2 is no longer usable for many purposes.
Except for the Chinese clone primers (is that a spoiler?), which are acted by text-to-speech.
I just had it last week, and I almost completely lost my sense of taste and smell.

I'm feeling better and no longer testing positive this week, but I still have basically no sense of smell.
It's a bit weird that they can't even avoid this when it comes to images; GPT shouldn't really be obeying instructions from images at all! I wonder if it's just OCRing images and concatenating that into the prompt...
Are you claiming the investment world believes that about bitcoin today? Maybe dig a little deeper. Not everyone gets their info from mad money.

https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/sites/default/files/do...
The callerid would be moot for this scheme. The real trace is the AMI information that the telco has for billing and peering, but is not part of the Caller ID data.

The Telco knows exactly which line that call originated from, and knows who is responsible for paying for that connection.
I'd ignore it, they probably blast those notes out to a ton of businesses but dont act on it.