skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're making the mistake of assuming the ad is for the best offer you'd be interested in instead of the one that makes the most money from you (i.e. the worst one for you)

You are making the mistake of thinking that this is a zero-sum game. The product that makes the most money is not necessarily the worst one, it might actually just be one with higher margins or even an actually superior product that just lacks mindshare; in the end, buying it might still add value to your live.
It is, because that's what it is. It's not a luxury item, it's like the dull butter knife you use first.
they needn't be mutually exclusive
I am curious how people are using Phind.

I actually had a discussion with Phind itself recently, in which I said that in order to help me, it seems like it would need to ingest my codebase so that it understands what I am talking about. Without knowing my various models, etc, I don't see how it could write anything but the most trivial functions.

It responded that, yes, it would need to ingest my codebase, but it couldn't.

It was fairly articulate and seemed to understand what I was saying.

So, how do people get value out of Phind? I just don't see how it can help with any case where your function takes or returns a non-trivial class as a parameter. And if can't do that, what is the point?
Happens to me sometimes in the UK
people do watch movies / show in 1.5x now.. it's common.
I made a wire transfer to the escrow agent.
Have you found a way to block ads while preserving the voice recognition feature? I have a C1 and a C2 on which I have successfully blocked all ads, but I can no longer use voice recognition for things like searching. It's a fair trade, but I wish I could have both.
I have a tampermonkey script that downloads any files that the prompt returns... a python script locally to watch for file changes and extract the contents to the projects working directory and it can work both ways, if I edit my prompts.txt local file, it passes that data to openai’s currently opened chat and renames the file and creates a new empty prompt.txt
Require trig.
Only if you look the part.
Nice of them to put their money where their mouth is. We’ll see if it pays off.
Not sure why the link is to this page specifically, but the CIA world factbook is an extremely good resource for dry geopolitical facts if you want to cite a more authoritative source than Wikipedia. There's also some occasional random nuggets of interesting trivia like this line from the page on The United States: "three food crops are generally acknowledged to be native to areas of what is now the United States: cranberries, pecans, and sunflowers"
I can't read the article but going on what you said... that's interesting.

Then I really don't understand why did the EU just not stick with SMS (and iMessage). Like what was the value of going with a new app.

I was just using this same number with SMS on dumb phones... why would I switch?
Without the raw data from “Kayrros” to compare whether or not the methane emissions they found via satellite imagery is from active sites or abandoned wells. This is just pure speculation.

The photos depicted in The Guardian article show some site in Midland County, TX that appear active to me, but the images do not bear any road markings or distinct physical landmarks to logically place an address and cross reference with local and state data to determine if it’s an active site or not.
It was, but was long charged per message, so things like WhatsApp were quickly appealing, also for group chat, that SMS never did
Chinese lunar lander's cotton seeds spring to life on far side of the moon
Do you think the next step may be that it actually replaces you as a programmer?
"Targeted" ads are not targeted though, they're just trying to sell you the same thing you just bought. It's the most annoying, stupidest, and least effective form of targeting they could possibly use.
This is great! Have you guys considered integrating with one of the existing systems?
Not all these dialogs are permissions. There's a 'this app is corrupted', and an app it self asking for where it's custom plugins are. One of the big windows in the background is an app splashscreen.

I'd say this is a bit disingenuous.

It's frustrating to see people complaining, but not offering any ideas for improvement, just 'this sucks, fix it'.
Lol yeah right
I posted a comment here on HN not 60 days ago voicing concerns about Chamberlain MyQ's monetization push and received quite a bit of blowback from others explaining about how I was wrong. HN is quite a fickle place isn't it? Anyway as should be evident I was completely on the money.

Sounds to me like it's about time to publish some 3rd party firmware for the hubs/embedded controllers in the openers. Software developers who tolerate implementing consumer-hostile antipatterns all day long tend to be absolute shit at embedded systems security. At the end of the day it's just a garage door opener. The hardware is based on an FN-Link WiFi IOT module with fairly minimal customization. The door sensor is BLE. This shouldn't be too hard to root.
Thank you for demonstrating your willingness to engage with opposing viewpoints even when supporting evidence is presented (;
So the solution is to make the other platforms open like email?

I think I can guess where this is going.
Maybe you just perceive women that wear dark clothing to be better engineers because either you perceive them as less feminine, or because you are less distracted by their anatomical features (when they wear dark clothing).
I hope so!

I'm still surprised by the problems with it. Last month it lied about some facts then claimed to have sent an email when asked for more details.[1]

Then apologized for claiming to send an email since it definitely did not and "knew" it could not.

It's like a friend who can't say 'I don't know' and just lies instead.

1. I was asking if the 'Christ the King' statue in Lisbon ever had a market in it, a rumor told to me by a local. It did not, contrary to Bard's belief.
>Something so basic as moving a file between two directories. Can you Command-X, Command-V it? No.

Hehe. Skill issue.

Cmd+C puts it on the pasteboard, (doesn't matter whether you want to move it or copy it)

Cmd+Option+V moves to destination

Cmd+V copies to destination
I don’t quite like the new chatgpt4 experience. A lot of times I’m asking it to write a chunk of code for me, but instead it goes into code interpreter mode and gets stuck or fails the analysis.

So I’ve switched back to 3.5 often :)
Worse is when the request fails but the JS written doesn't know how to handle that and now I can't try again.
AlmaLinux 9.3 Beta
Sceptre was the go-to brand for dumb TVs for a while. I bought a 60" 4K from them for like $500 4-5 years ago.

For anyone looking for a dumb TV, Sceptre does not appear to sell TVs on Amazon anymore, but they do exist as a company, and they still sell TVs (just search for their brand name and you'll find their website). I don't know the backstory.
I just felt like 6 is where the writing became very amateurish. Iirc, 5 was where source material ran out. It has been a long time so I can't pick out details but I recall the change in quality between 5 and 6 was pretty Stark to me. One thing I remember is that instead of "smart" characters really being smart, everyone else got dumb as hell. Then the smart character would 'win' and another would make a comment basically explaining how smart they were.

I know a lot of people think it was good right until the finale and only dislike it because a certain fan favorite has a "change of character". Except it wasn't a change & was obviously telegraphed since season 3 or 4.
My vote is to tax/regulate corporate and out-of-state owners. I think landlording should still be an option for everyday middle or lower class people to start a business. But you get cut off after your 2nd or 3rd property, or if you don't reside in the state. Most importantly, though, Blackstone capital should not be able to buy $4bn-worth of single-family homes. If they want to build new urban housing that costs that much, fine. but not allow them to compete at scale with everyday people because they have a tremendous advantage. I think many places would also benefit from a hefty vacancy tax as well.
You're missing an important nuance. The best advertisement is for a product that, in expectation, makes the most money from me. My relative interest is still important, and you can't just jump from the fact that somebody is making money to the unfounded claim that the "expected utility is negative."

When I buy an item I'm making a decision that the marginal value of that item to me is worth more than the marginal cost. If the ad is targeted, a transaction is more likely to happen. Transactions happen when both parties derive utility from them.

If you advertise only high profit items without concern for the probability of transaction, your audience will not buy anything or end up buying the same item from somebody else.
I've come to the conclusion affinity fraud is a very wide spectrum. You got guys like Madoff on one end. And people carefully picking out clothes and watching their accent on the other. I think of the latter as low grade affinity fraud.

An example a friend. Branches of her family are very wealthy almost old money. She could take something out of her closet and go to a party thrown by old money, fit right in and no one would suspect she's broke.
I've never used WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal but I have used iMessage/SMS. I really don't consider iMessage anything separate from being able to send SMSs; I just know that sometimes my messages are green and most are blue.

I'd be surprised if iMessage users think as much about this as much as Android users and/or Google execs do.
Since the point of a title and abstract of a paper is to be a useful summary of the whole paper, the existence of this tool is an indictment of researchers to do this effectively.

One thing I could imagine being useful is to summarize it for a lay audience (rather than the intended audience of the paper).
Finder does not support Cmd-X. Only Cmd-C and Cmd-V (and Cmd-Option-V).
It’s there and it takes zero setup. I’ve never seen anything in the alternatives other than that appeals to me.

With Messages.app, I can communicate with 100% of my contacts without switching apps. The question isn’t why I haven’t moved to something else, but why I would ever want to.
BioRxiv: Broadening Audience, Increasing Understanding
Yeah it’ll take a lot of money for sure. Needs new propulsion like nuclear thermal or something to get to target distance in our lifetimes.

Would be very expensive but I think cheaper per mission, if you start off with a plan to send a lot of them.

Might take in full some tens or hundreds of billions. YC I am aware will not fund on that level haha, but maybe they would have an eye for wanting to start it off.
Honestly, a bigger worry imo is cars that have something like homelink. You can copy a garage door opener, and basically give yourself a garage door opener access whenever you want. I did this accidentally to an old rental house I lived in. When I moved out later I drove by one time and … turns out the homelink still worked. For a criminal, it’d be a very easy way to get back in without any trace.
It helps that Stephen Colebourne, creator of Joda-Time, revisited his own work and designed the new official API.
regulation for buyers. Prove that you are going to live here and not just use it for financial speculation and gain.
If you put $10000000 in a company and it’s not making money and it’s not growing, you’re losing money because you could be investing that money in something that does make money, if only a bank account with interest.

That’s why people care if it grows.
I don't know why, but when I first saw this headline I thought it was going to be something like a "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich".

The actual topic is much more interesting :D
Eh, it could be worse. For a while Hulu thought I was Hispanic and living in Texas.

Got a lot of ads for the Texas Lottery with Spanish audio.
It's just a gui to (most of) what you get through the API. Read the API docs for details of each option: https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction

The most useful aspect is you can provide the system prompt, and inject ChatGPT responses.
Ultimately, while it is certainly a problem that housing is this expensive, the deeper, more structural problem is that incomes are still this low. It's been 40 years now since incomes started stagnating compared to productivity; anyone who thinks this wasn't going to have serious negative effects on society and the economy had really better wake up, because we're already seeing those effects.
People vote for:

- more spending

- lower taxes

- COVID bailouts

- social insurance

- constantly rising home prices

Many of these are very worthy things. But to not expect inflation and even to blame inflation on others is just nuts.
That's true. But you can look at specific trophies to narrow down the users who actually engage but then still "walk out of your story" (a ratio which of course varies largely from game to game).

Spiderman, one of the high-profile games of PlayStation, has a trophy for each of its 3 Acts of the story.

While 67% of the players finished Act#1, only 49% actually finished Act#3.

So setting completion of Act#1 as a minimum to measure engagement, 27% of those who "sat down" still walked out before the end.

And that is not a sign of failure but a landmark success of that industry. That's quite unique for a product of creativity.

And even more odd: it doesn't even mean that those 27% disliked your product. They might even buy your next creation...
Oh, by the way in a $450 laptop you can upgrade memory and SSD.
I dealt with a repo that admitted only one version of each library, probably following Google's lead, so we were stuck with an old version of Guava because it was used all over the place, and upgrading it would have required a lot of refactoring which was not worth anyone's time. One reason to prefer smaller libraries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods_game
Most MacBooks feel like Pareto-optimal machines. There exist other laptops with better displays, faster CPUs, better speakers, or just cheaper, but I'm pretty sure there are no alternatives with better or equal everything.
It can... fortunately I’m a principle @ my firm... the engineers I would have needed to hire might have been preemptively replaced.

My use case is a bunch of adhoc data analysis.
There's a very obvious anti-wiretap argument that also happens to be very anti-pedophile: Children don't like to be watched. A panopticon would be the perfect device for a pedophile to abuse.
High-end brothels serviced elected officials, tech, pharma execs, military brass
That's so racist.
> Of course, you might find that your perfectly clean code isn't as helpful as you expected, depending on what you see as "clean."

Yes, readable code is the winner. Not "ultra compact" or "so elegant you can't understand it". I once refactored an elegantly written but heavily opinionated codebase for a large feature - and my goal was to hand it off without any downstream complaints - so I doubled the LoC and the team that received it was very happy with all the non-terse logic and detailed comments (good code is self-explanatory on how it works, but not often on why it's there)
That was just a spate of authoritarianism envy.
To some extent, serving ads is like owning a money printer. I can't really get upset that everyone wants to own a money printer. I just hope that there is a backlash against ads someday, where they start having a negative effect. "Oh, Toyota is constantly advertising in my garage door app? I'm going to buy a Ford instead." People say that the US government defaulting on its debt would be the end of the world, but the real end of the world is one where advertisements stop working!
i know it's separate from the thread, but i thought i'd share another nice macos utility app. i have some bots and personal CLI tools running somewhat around the clock. amphetamine helps keep your mac alive through sessions, so you can run jobs or even just play music while 'sleeping'.
Kagi sorting results better and without all the Google bullshit = better results
Right. I use the TV app to manage everything I’m watching. There are ads for Apple content (and extras like the football pass) but it’s rather innocuous.

I’m not getting ads from the lowest rung trash TV someone is pushing, random consumer electronics, things I’ve googled, etc.

As far as I can tell it’s basically the best experience on a modern smart TV without going full HTPC custom.

(LG was pretty good they’re getting worse with promoting things to you, it seems)
Even better is getting Gradle/Maven to correctly pull "plain" vs "Android" versions of the package instead of them just publishing the diverging code base as two repository packages.

https://github.com/google/guava/issues/2914
If you read the article:

> Do you want to require vehicle manufacturers to standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to owners and independent repair facilities?

It would be clear that this is about on-board diagnostics/computer systems
Indian Journalists Targeted with State Intimidation and Spyware
Hmm in German you could also say "Betriebssicherheit" (safety) vs. "Angriffssicherheit" (security), or at least that always was the translation that made most sense to me personally.

I'd say native speakers of German distinguish it but it depends on the context ... talking about computers, it's typically more about security, while when talking about construction sites, it's typically more about safety.
Where else is this approach being used?
Guaranteed mechanism to get no outcome.
Could you have instead changed your code? It's generally best to assume that it's not possible to delete secrets once they are shared (after all, in worst case, the driver could have just remembered the code from the previous visit)
I have YT Premium so I use/enjoy the native app.
Carbon dating is just fine in non-human contexts. It's commonly used to date non-anthropogenic extinctions, for example. You do need to have a theory about the formation processes that led to the sample and how they relate the sample to the topic under study though.

The dating is this paper is definitely questionable. For one, the extent of their analysis seems to have been taking samples, sending them to the lab (which could have widely varying error checking, I haven't worked with this one specifically), and using stock date calibration software. Unfortunately, they're sampling an area known to be volcanic (which tends to produce older than true dates), with lots of water (matter transports through soil), across a difficult boundary (the Holocene), and a lot of vegetative intrusion (another common error source). They attempt to dismiss the latter by saying it can only make dates younger, which isn't even true, only typical.

The headline would be a tough argument to make even if their evidence was good given the prior history here, but they don't seem to have put even basic effort into it.
> swing across the monkey bars, but your grip strength and arm reach isn't good enough, you fall, you cry, repeat. 4 months later you're the fastest

replacing the asphalt i fell on with rubber or something soft would probably make it take 6 months, but would also remove the 'cry'

managing risk through minimizing losses _when_ they happen
U.S. spied on Merkel and other Europeans through Danish cables (2021)
Realistically what would you recycle them into? Art pieces and using old components for your legacy or simple electronics for reuse and then what? Besides maybe melting it for the trace amounts of metal, I don't see any use for recycled electronics.
Focus on the business - sure thing (thanks also philomath_mn).

Interestingly, the most common thing I have heard from folks who run (successful and failed) breweries is "no one can tell the difference between beers, build a place people want to drink beer".

I am doing that by starting with an awesome location - acquiring the building is the main reason I am doing this and it's pretty cool.

While the 'hacker' and 'privacy aware' crowds are pretty small, I would like to help be an inviting place for folks that share these interests. I am not sure how much I need to cater to that, but I'd like to be as good an actor as reasonable time tradeoffs will allow.

I am totally willing to put up with a learning curve, if that overhead can get me to a stable place that's better for data management than just saying 'I give up', in the face of a large ecosystem.

Re: Nextcloud - heard of it many times but never used it. Can a normal person (think bartender) log in and edit a document or respond to a calendar invite on a phone? What output does it generate (.odts, .caldav)?

Never heard of Odoo but thanks, I'll go down that rabbit hole.
You can move a file with shortcut keys but (very counter-intuitively) it's more paste while cutting rather than cut and paste. Hit Command+c like a copy but instead of Command+v hit Command+Option+v.

Add it to the long list on macOS and iOS of things Apple provides but are unintuitive and difficult/impossible to discover on your own.
Wikipedia Admin Drama
The article also links to another article that states New Mexico hasn’t funded additional inspectors needed to enforce their rule. A simple analysis would be to tally up granted permits in each state and compare with satellite data to quantify impact and unlawful emissions. If that was done, the data isn’t shared in this article. I don’t think a press release from before a law went into effect is strong enough evidence for the conclusions presented here.
Headline disease. Czar nabs top vetting job, slams snub.
No I'm not. I'm telling someone they are ignoring all the bad things our government allows and benefits from. I'm not really sure what competing interests has to do with anything I said. Are "competing interests" the reason our own government is spying on us and tracking our lives in the secret? I'd love to understand what "competing interests" means in the context of what I said and what it has to do with the rights our government violates and answers to nobody over.
I spent my entire childhood reading, my teen years hacking, and my adulthood as a software engineer and gamer. I've spent my life doing all the things mom warned you about. I'm in my 50s and still have 20/20 vision.
Yep, device attestation doesn't prevent the "bad actors aren't detectable until they've delivered their first bad message" problem.
I have written about this before, particularly as it pertains to Vizio.

My conclusion is simple: Government intervention is now required.

I hate to take that path. I just don't see anything at all limiting what TV manufacturers are doing. They are completely out of control.

The way I put it is that you buy a TV and they deliver a data-gathering, privacy-abusing digital advertising device into your family room, bedroom, etc.

The level of surveillance and abuse on consumers is truly unbelievable. And nobody is even talking about putting a stop to it. HN often focuses on solutions to such problems that only techies would generally be able to or consider implementing. The vast majority of consumers are unsuspecting victims. They don't really understand that the home page is a bunch cost-per-click ads and that every single action they take is being logged and sold. Most people just don't know.

And this is why legislation is required, not a techie solution or work-around. This needs to stop.

So...I did something about it. I wrote to my congressional representative, explaining the problem and asking for action. The response, a few weeks later, was a form letter thanking me for contacting the office. So much for taxation with representation.