skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end of ad-supported services makes room for open protocols, open source, and regular old commercial software. All of which have suffered from lack of interest—from developers and users—in this environment where they have to compete with “free”.
> it would be nice if Android phones had a comprehensive whole-phone backup feature, though

There is, or I should say, was a way to do this: adb backup

Unfortunately, for "security" reasons, nearly every app developer (Google included) opts out of it in the app manifest, completely nerfing the feature. [1]

We live in a truly terrible timeline where the infrastructure to do what the author describes exists and has been there for years, and yet has been made functionally useless by user-hostile policy choices.

Google's incentives are also opposed to allowing users to take an offline backup of their apps and app data, because now they're able to sell more cloud storage for your data.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74387730/back-up-android...
Yes I am running iTunes on Windows and it works just fine. What issues do you have?
> same results when they have the same training

Genetics may play a huge role.
I think there is more seperatism amongst Albanians, not because Albanians are somehow more persecuted whether in Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, or anywhere else, but because of Albanian practice of cultural segragation. For example there is a recent news article of a mother organizing her daughter's kidnapping because she did not approve of her partner being a Croat, despite the fact that croats and albanians "like eachother" and her daughter having a Croatian citizenship (so technically a Croat too).

https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/obitelj-mlade-albanke-bi...
Obfuscation and randomisation can only get this far. Virtual browser would as opaque as raw binary producing animated image.
I sometimes throw a YouTube video on the TV for some background noise (or for my cat :-) and if you're not paying attention, the ads can get incredibly long -- not just a few minutes, but 20, 30+ minutes.
I don't know how people can say that JS is a great language with a straight face. Sure it has a lot of advantages mostly due to how widespread it is. But it's really obviously not a great programming language by itself...
(2021)?

Author's Show HN: from then

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448887
I'm not sure what your point is?
Good question. I think both parties are have their policies that work and don't work for me. I'm in favor of social programs to get people on their feet, instead of paying for the fallout ten times over by letting people slide into homelessness and crime. I'm all for prosecuting people who steal, including petty theft, which SF has completely gone off the rails with. We should be helping lift people up to a bare minimum so that we're all lifted up. People should also be held accountable for their actions. I'll be voting for whoever sees things the way I do.
Maybe we should say amplification attacks are a reason why the three-way handshake hasn't been removed.
> It tells you that your money is now stuck AFTER you've sent it to them.

Do you know any alternative which doesn't do this? Because I've seen the same trick in all of them.
Yeah, having to change 2nd IF statement line just because you changed the conditions on the 1st IF statement seems like a big negative.
From TFA:

>Fidelity, one of Musk's equity co-investors, marked down the value of its Twitter shares by 61.43% through the end of August. Banks are expected to take a 15% discount on debt they've thus far been unable to unload, per the WSJ.

> * Global app downloads fell by 38% between October 2022 and September 2023, and even steeper in the U.S., according to Sensor Tower estimates.

> * Monthly active users are off 14.8% globally on Android and 17.8% for mobile users in the U.S., per SimilarWeb. Average daily time spent per user and global web traffic are also down, while user churn is up.

> * Musk last month said that the company's U.S. ad business was down 60%.

Think of all of the amazing, world changing, course-of-history altering things that could be done with $44 billion.
You can find bssid and other details from around the world at https://wigle.net/map
Ooo I think I can do that. Would probably take a week or two to get the time to add, but looks pretty straightforward. great idea
Which viral respiratory ones?

I thought most of them (influenza, parainfluenza, RSV and all the other coronaviruses) were enveloped viruses like covid-19.

I guess adenoviruses would be the exception.
Parent may mean a VPN in the traditional (before wall to wall shills on YouTube) sense. Where you tunnel to your own network: home or office.
That's the translation, yeah. They're a very important tool in physics for exploring the consequences of known or hypothsized physical principles.
This was my worst fear but I had opted-in to backup Authenticator with Google. Opting in to backup your data with Google is seamless and it also restores stuff like SMS messages.

But I suppose this is one more thing the anti-trust case against Google should probably be looking into. Should Google be allowed this deep integration with their cloud services?
In the vision transformer paper they trained on cfar 10 and Imagenet which are supervised learning problems.
> unfiltered thoughts

Is a passable but bad example of authenticity.

Truth is orthogonal to effort. Alice crafted a message. She distilled years of experience into a pithy tweet. Bob crafted a message to round out his brand.

I want to hear what others truly believe.

> The entire authenticity cult is a creation of modern media and is as much manufactured…

Where can I learn more about this? (serious)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m a heretic, I’m building the disney of crypto, call A16z /s
Elon Musk Tells X,Twitter, Staff New Products Will Challenge YouTube, LinkedIn
This is wrong. You are expected to discriminate against samples from the distribution in a variety of ways, like the formatting of their resume and their work history; it only becomes unethical when you discriminate based on race, gender, etc. If you replace "voip numbers" with "x skin color", of course that would be unethical, but being able to switch phrases to make them unethical is irrelevant, because we're not discussing the unethical case.

The example of networking you give has even more potential for unethical behavior than filtering voip numbers.
Basically you are getting a mole infiltrated into your company. There was even an US govt warning about North Korean IT workers, heuristics included.

> The hiring or supporting of DPRK IT workers continues to pose many risks, ranging from theft of intellectual property, data, and funds, to reputational harm and legal consequences, including sanctions under U.S., ROK, and United Nations (UN) authorities.

This is the funniest part:

> Repeated requests for prepayment; anger or aggression when the request is denied.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2023/PSA231018
I just checked Beej's Guide and there's no mention of amplification. I wouldn't be surprised if TCP/IP Illustrated doesn't teach it either. This means most people won't know about it and they won't know that they don't know.

The mitigation of requiring a "SYN" style packet to be MTU-sized sounds pretty good to me. It obviously uses a little more bandwidth but the network may be underutilized on the upstream path anyway.
Can we like just ask questions here? I feel like HN is mostly Articles
Any speaker is also a microphone, so the ANC mic is probably not required.
Digital Nomad Forum
It wasn't mentioned in the comment itself. And of course 100-year timeframe behavior can hint at much shorter timeframe behavior, which is quite relevant.
I don’t have any education or training in these things so take whatever I’m saying with a huge grain of salt but I thought the point of washing hands was not to get rid of bacteria themselves but the oils naturally occurring in our hands so that bacteria has a harder time sticking to the skin on our hands?
I don't know how the numbers break down, but plenty of people that buy credit card numbers are happy to orchestrate a scheme to ship packages to the US and have someone forward them to the scammer. Or steal them off your porch.

It is probably exceptionally rare for a fraud protection algorithm to be in place to inconvenience and spite you. Rather, some ne'er-do-well has cooked up a bafflingly complicated scheme that looks like your legitimate business. Such is the tragedy of operating at scale.
https://archive.ph/LKpWP
Devices like this, before they became all screen, remind me of grand old buildings, before they became glass boxes.
Using an old personal phone is probably a bad idea. The chance of relevant parties having a list of phone-identifier/owner seems high, and it’s hard to guarantee that the phone won’t leak its identifiers. The suggestion of buying one with cash on eBay or so sounds reasonable, but you’d have to be careful the device is not broken or has malware on it. And that the email you use to make contact is not easily traceable to you.
It'd be useful for the one in Leeds, AL. The walk is huge and the temps are usually terrible.
Why do companies more or less openly discriminate against older people?? It's nice to be able to have a more experienced professional give advice and help you out.
I've heard multiple times when interviewing for jobs, that their company has a "young" culture and it always made me uneasy.
I still maintain KitKat 4.4.4 was the best version of android and it's all been downhill from there.
This will get him into an Ivy league or equivalent university pretty easily.
They are generally not a consistent intensity during the event. Yes, it can be moderate for a bit and then more intense shortly later. There are several different waves that move at different speeds from the earthquakes epicenter and which decay at different rates relative to distance from the epicenter. One categorization is P, S, and surface wave. The time of arrival of each wave and their intensities depend on many variables. I think it is possible for the later arrival to be much larger and more destructive than the first, but I'm a bit hazy on the details.

https://science8sc.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132773018/publ...

Anecdote, I was in a small earthquake in Tokyo, the initial thump woke me up and I rolled over under the dining table (sleeping on the floor as a guest) then the bigger vibrations arrived a few seconds later. The building was well designed for earthquakes, but in the moment I figured that, not knowing how big the rest of the earthquake will be, it was probably best to get cover anyway. I think cover is just about increasing the probability by some small amount that you could end up alive under the rubble if the building were to collapse.
So you move around a lot between 2 locations. Is it possible to set up two completely isolated systems (e.g. bank accounts, online accounts & devices), including a cheap second phone. The only interface between your two isolated systems would be the proven international money transfer services? Global money transfer between individuals (or yourself) I believe is the focus of all these remittance services of which I see all these ads lately. Of course they will charge a fee. I believe your use case is super common and many services target this use case.

TLDR: Global money transfer is probably not something you can do casually and frequently. There are specific services, and fees, and headaches. Probably you want to minimize the amount of individual transactions as much as possible to minimize the headaches (of course there are cashflow limitations).
The excess can’t be used for ‘anything’, just for the types of flexible demand that can quickly migrate across space and/or time.
Yes I think that would work.
I remember moving house before withing the same city and moving our wifi router with us. For a while my phone kept placing me at my old house, when it didn't have a GPS signal.
Quarkus 3.5.0 released supporting Java 21
You're not missing anything. I was going to mention this but decided not to get into it. (One detail: you can't verify the kernel exactly because of Gödel incompleteness issues.)
> There have been multiple studies linking proximity to freeways with asthma

Which also drives the call to reduce car use, wherein someone is also likely to point out that driving is not a right but a privilege.

> So it’s as if that study on those plastics happened 30 years ago, and we’re just now getting around to it. Which essentially is what has happened with cars and the various pollution.

Yes. And lead wasn't banned for interior paint until decades after some other countries. The US regulatory system is strongly weighted in favor of business over health and environment.

> raking anyone over the coals

As if! This is finding. The EPA must then "propose and promulgate emission standards", which the FAA must then turn into regulations.

It sets no deadlines, it makes no policy changes other than for the EPA and FAA.

I suspect it will take years before the first regulations appear, and with years to allow a changeover.
Yeah, I got caught in one the other day because my gym uses YouTube for their music system.

Have also woken up to an ad that was hours long.

Not quite sure what the incentive is but maybe it works for some cases, sometimes I wonder if they're scam setups - sitting through a super long ad is a pre filter. Weirder things have been known for Internet scale.
For simple audio devices, maybe with a hardware revision, but it's unlikely the driver circuitry would be routed back to an analog sensing pin unless you were doing some closed loop feedback stuff
My skepticism has turned to wonder.

here are the technical details:
https://cmbe.engr.uga.edu/bche4520/Other/Ch9/Bauer%202001.pd...
I’m close to putting all my money in crypto and using prepaid cards to avoid the utter hell I have to deal with to pay for something using a normal bank.
This article is remarkably sparse on details. Here's an article that explains what the soap is[0]. The TL;DR is that it uses a chemical called Imidazoquinoline, which is not yet approved for skin cancer treatment at all but is currently being investigated. The soap has not been tested on cancer patients and does not have FDA approval. I don't want to sound like I'm dunking on the kid, since he's obviously very intelligent and has a bright future ahead of him, but this isn't nearly as good as the media is making it out to be.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/27/1209048...
That used to be called Flash.
Part of what made the transformer so powerful when compared to RNNs and CNNs in NLP was the fact that they are highly parallelizable. That means you can optimize more parameters in the same amount of training time, which means you can model a more complex function.
To clarify the bit about coercion: "SQLite attempts to coerce the data into the appropriate type using the usual affinity rules, as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle all do."
escape the underscore. this is the only sane one, I think.
Oh, I'm in firefox mobile and the scrolling lags. Maybe there's some heavy JS there in the background?
They say it only impacts you if your registered address is in the US, cards with non-US addresses will continue to work even in the US.

Reading between the lines they were told to stop serving US customers by some regulatory agency. Clearly not a technical or upstream bank issue.
Also not a pro, but I’m pretty sure the point is for the soap to rupture/destroy bacteria and viruses.

See: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/why-soap-works/
There's quite a few takeaways that can be had without fully understanding the ah.. esoteria.

1. Gradient descent is path-dependent and doesn't forget the initial conditions. Intuitively reasonable - the method can only make local decisions, and figures out 'correct' by looking at the size of its steps. There's no 'right answer' to discover, and each initial condition follows a subtly different path to 'slow enough'...

because...

2. With enough simplification the path taken by each optimization process can be modeled using a matrix (their covariance matrix, K) with defined properties. This acts as a curvature of the mathematical space, and has some side-effects like being able to use eigen-magic to justify why the optimization process locks some parameters in place quickly, but others take a long time to settle.

which is fine, but doesn't help explain why wild over-fitting doesn't plague high-dimensional models (would you even notice if it did?). Enter implicit regularization, stage left. And mostly passing me by on the way in, but:

3. Because they decided to use random noise to generate the functions they combined to solve their optimization problem there is an additional layer of interpretation that they put on the properties of the aforementioned matrix that imply the result will only use each constituent function 'as necessary' (i.e. regularized, rather than wildly amplifying pairs of coefficients)

And then something something baysian, which I'm happy to admit I'm not across
Yup. Having been on this side of the fraud business, I empathize with the OP but will definitely defend overly-aggressive fraud systems. As you make more money, it's less of an impact on your business, and you can tone them down. But at day 1, if people are only signing up for your service to see if their stolen credit card numbers work, there might not be day 2 unless you're aggressive about blocking this. So, sometimes innocent civilians will get caught up in the safety net.
Absolutely nuts. The fact some common drug or chemical could just change out from right underneith us one day is a weird feeling.
I'm not sure what your point is but I'll respond to this:

> advertising at its core does _NOT_ have to be evil

Advertising has inherent and irreconciliable conflicts of interest that make it worthless to any rational person. They're trying to sell you stuff, it's literally guaranteed that they will be overstating the pros and downplaying the cons. When you want to make an informed decision, the last person you want to listen to is the advertiser. You want to listen to people you personally trust or independent third parties, not the seller who has every incentive in the world to lie to you.

Therefore the existence of advertising is incompatible with a rational society. There is no such thing as "non-evil" advertising. It doesn't inform anyone. On the contrary: it is disinformation, inherently untrustworthy.
Americans falling behind on auto loan payments at record pace
> clicking

Snapping?

Or is this a new fad I don't know about?
IIRC some Realtek cards did have the hardware to route it that way.
You're filtering for people using vpns to access your site from a country other than the one they are claiming. They likely aren't criminal operations just users operating outside the bounds of your service. They aren't going to have the ability to do anything but sign up for a vpn service so it works quite well for stopping them.
Make sure you’re not visiting with a bookmark that includes the specific language code.

I had a similar issue with some history item that would annoyingly point me to the previous version of a page. Only to realize that I was opening a permalink to it.
Yes, just add the prefix "Ask HN" to your question. Helps with discovery and searching.
It's built in the cloud every day, and your machine just fetches the changes. So same thing as image-based, basically, but more eye catching for a cloud professional or something.
I’m glad he’s out of things to say, he’s quite tiresome.

It’s very clearly a mental health and existing-law enforcement crisis, and not one that the political parties are interested in actually solving, because it’s useful to them.
Very cool project, AI is definitely going to transform religion and make it far more relatable and understandable. If anyone is interested, we released Noah's Bible that has full ChatGPT integration. You can click on any verse and get a full summary and chat about any verse.

One thing we also added is imagery, generated by AI, which gives the Bible imagery that most text based bibles do not have.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noahs-bible-ai-powered-bible/i...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ai.noah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
Maybe could use this to get halfway there, then feed an image to DALLE for enhancement?
I would have thought they could manage the workload with 50 percent of the staff assisted by chatgpt.
> Temporarily slowing down down 99 scammers is not worth stranding one normal person in a foreign country with no means to access their money and no means to recover their account.

To that one person it obviously isn't worth it. To the company it absolutely is.
Some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30103401
SEC.gov – Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY
> Wise as a store of money

They're not a bank, even in the UK.
Unfortunately it’s not always as easy. Last year I tried to do a remittance of 3500€ and it failed on both a debit and credit card of my bank, blocking them. The bank called me to confirm the transactions, which I did. I tried again and they blocked the card again.

So I did an instant transfer to another bank account and used its debit card without a hitch, as usual.

Some banks just won’t let you use your money as you please. Your luck is in finding a bank that does.
So uh. Well, I'm from the american south and I've heard plenty of people say idear instead of idea. Mostly older people or people with very strong rural accents/dialect.

Apparently also a british thing I just found out: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/32630
Why do you say coal is the least flexible way to produce energy? As compared to what, hydro, nuclear, solar,…?

The article mentions all the incentives US states have been using to attract Bitcoin mining (after China banned it), so maybe this was a ‘clever’ trick from the fossil fuel industry to keep itself alive. And what is the most flexible load to quickly make use of such incentives? Bitcoin mining it turns out, but it could have been something else. Start pricing the [lb][g]CO2Eq/kWh and then see what will happen.
Hasn't the supposed weirdness of the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment been debunked? Can someone in the field please confirm? I find contradictory videos on YouTube.
Can someone 0lease explain whatnis this and why do i need this?
Some real competition for Youtube would be nice, but pulling that off won't be easy.
never have I ever been in a relaxed environment sitting for 15 minutes when I've had my bp taken in a medical situation. oh hey sir follow me. go over here, sit down. cool you just stood in the waiting room for 30 minutes and walked 50 yards and took off your hoodie / long sleeve shirt. now lets immediately take your bp. it's fine if it reads high we'll just spend 30 minutes talking to you about it and ignoring that you stepped on a nail 40 minutes ago.
You have no idea how much justification it takes to reject orders. It is not done lightly.
Which "easy" western european country are you in? Credit cards are extremely uncommon in many western european countries. They really only exist here so we can make international payments, primarily to US-based companies. Everything is debit card based.
France: PayPal, Carte Bancaire. Most closely resembles the US credit card system. But it seems the french use their local debit accounts to make payments.
Belgium: PayPal, BanContact (any local bank debit accounts)
Netherlands: iDeal (any local bank debit account)
Germany: PayPal, SOFORT (local bank debit accounts)

TLDR: In EU for online purchases, you want to have an PayPal + local debit account to cover most purchases. For interrnational payments, you can have a credit card for those extremely rare cases where vendors only accept credit cards.
Hydro not so much as gas, but your point stands. Both have an opportunity window — economically speaking — though.