skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Signal pitches a fit if you use a third-party app with their servers. It's a common (and unfortunate) practice.
Maybe it's inferred with the built-in Large Language Markup
The Intelligence of Orangutans (2016)
I can't speak for anybody else but this really resonates with me.

I think there's another component though. The megacorps that provide streaming video are so far removed from the actual creators, it almost feels like the right thing to do is to avoid lining their pockets with more profit. This is a stark contrast to music, where you have small groups of people you actively want to support.

Given the friction to paying for the music you want is so low and the relationship is more "personal" it just has a different feel.
no mention of "standard model" anywhere in the paper. incomplete theory
Why do US banks do that? I’ve never had a UK or EU bank call me to verify a transaction.

Do you have the IdentityCheck/SecureCode/3-D Secure stuff (2FA for online transactions and at certain terminals)? Are these calls for transactions without chip + PIN?

I’ve had some transactions declined while travelling but maybe about 1/1000, and still no call, and nothing the bank support could do to allow them if I called. I’d just have to use a different bank with a vendor. It’s very much a “computer says no” situation then. Otherwise, the payment just goes through in the 99.9% of all cases.

But the banks in central EU, the Nordics, and the UK don’t seem to monitor the transactions I make while travelling to the point that there would be an actual person involved (calling me or reaching out in some other way).

I’m mostly curious about what problem these bank calls are solving. Is it for credit card fraud? In that case, I wonder why this seems to not be a practice in Europe. Is it because we do chip & PIN in physical payments, and 2FA for online/some kiosks?
Very true.

Certainly I find that it reminds me of what I know that it doesn’t.

Thinking about it more fully it’s like it pulls the “Cunningham’s Law” trigger in me that a lazy question just can’t.
Unlikely. They need all the uploaders, and the uploaders need all the viewers, and they need both of those to be in the unholy massive numbers. Well, they want. No one actually needs to be a trillion dollar business instead of a million dollar business.

But the point is it's unlikely they want all non-premium users to go elsewhere, not even merely the non-premium ad-blocking users.

In fact, they don't even really want premium users if it means not still showing them ads somehow and still collecting data on them. They offer premium more or less begrudgingly because they sort of have to in order to excuse the user-hostile behavior everywhere else.

Like donating to Firefox. They donate to firefox only so that they can make chrome as terrible as they want, and point to the existense of firefox as the answer to any complaints. They don't actually want anyone to use firefox. But it's better to let a few escape than to have the bulk decide to make laws they don't want.

Ptemium is the same. They don't really want any premium users. Or rather, sure they'd happily collect a subscription from everyone AND still show ads and collect data.

Which is pretty much what they do actually. Premium doesn't actually remove all the bad elements of youtube. It just goes from pulling 8 of your fingernails out to only pulling 5 of your fingernails out.
It sounds like it will become common eventually. I just wish that there were a more supported pathway to running full VMs like that. These devices are powerful enough to do it pretty well now.
> AI recursing on itself progressing toward an AGI.

Inbreeding LLMs will result in an "AGI"?

In this universe, if you try to get something from nothing, you just end up with noise.
Ah, the ye olde chum bucket
Why bubble sort when a slight modification can create a still simple but much more respectable algorithm called "comb sort".

https://www.delftstack.com/tutorial/algorithm/comb-sort/
Free In-Flight WiFi Hack with Meta's AI Bot for Quick Content Summarization
Its annoying that I can't use this without greater-than-normal-user access.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc.

The CFAA says that "having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access [is a federal crime]".

The courts held that 3Taps scraping the Craigslist website was accessing a computer and exceeding authorized access because it should have been obvious to 3taps that craigslist did not authorize them to scrape their website (namely from some IP blocks and a C&D letter), so it stands to reason that talking to the iMessage API from a non-apple device is a federal crime. Apple has only authorized apple-devices to talk to their API, it should be incredibly obvious to all of us that this is not being done with apple's authorization, hence crime.

In case it's not clear, I think the CFAA is a rather poorly thought out law since "authorized access" seems like it could be as vague as a ToS violation, which means it escalates things that seem more like civil matters into federal crimes.
Scope and scale is important here, the amount of junk mail from business interests outside of my immediate region is not very high. If physical mail were free and you could send it from anywhere in the world, junk mail would be so much worse than it is. You couldn't run a lot of internet scams at the costs of physical mail and be profitable.
What is the license for this app?
Very interesting indeed:

> discovery of a new quantum algorithm that offers an exponential advantage for simulating coupled classical harmonic oscillators.

> To enable the simulation of a large number of coupled harmonic oscillators, we came up with a mapping that encodes the positions and velocities of all masses and springs into the quantum wavefunction of a system of qubits. Since the number of parameters describing the wavefunction of a system of qubits grows exponentially with the number of qubits, we can encode the information of N balls into a quantum mechanical system of only about log(N) qubits.
No. Definitely not. The drivetrains swap has made them simpler in that regard. But ever changing and increasing safety standards mean that a single bodystyle costs hundredss of millions of dollars to develop. Mostly caused by SUVs and CUVs that make the physics of an impact much harsher. The widespread popularity of the Jeep Cherokee and Ford Explorer in the early 1990s have been detrimental to so many facets of the modern world...
They are surprisingly accurate, actually. It's an effect of the physical properties of the metal, which we can measure quite precisely. I couldn't immediately find an exact figure.

Repeatability is not so great, but mostly because the mechanisms are designed as cheaply as possible. But typically it's within a couple of degrees. It turns out to not be that big of an issue because you want a few degrees of hysteresis in a thermostat.
? Of course not that question doesn't even parse. Your strategy of acting like your conversational partners are idiots doesn't win you any points; it just makes you sound difficult and wrong.

Bribery is not connected to a free market per se, but bribery in a free market is still a problem to be solved in the context of that free market.
Play Protect Reactivates Itself on Android
When Play Protect recently started removing KDE Connect obtained via F-Droid from Android phones without warning (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861467), I (and presumably many others) deactivated Play Protect. Imagine my joy when I saw this notification from Google Play Store hidden away in the Silent section of my notifications a little while ago:

"Google Play Protect is turned on

This feature protects your device from harmful apps"

So I checked in the settings, and yep, it had magically turned itself back on. Apparently, refusing to turn it on the million times it harasses you all over the Android interface isn't enough to get it to stay off because to Google, no doesn't mean no. So those of you who deactivated it in the past to maintain control over your apps instead of letting Google nuke whatever they want, be on the lookout.
Here's another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ImDYrPY
Government is not the answer here. Would like to see less advocacy for government and more working code from Doctorow.
How does two way isolation work? How do you prevent the host kernel (which presumably has full control of the hardware?) from inspecting the guest VM?
I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays jumping companies is easier and more acceptable (atleast in tech) for sure, but then there's always some uncertainty with respect to interviewing and obtaining offers(and possible stress) in particular when you're past a certain age.
Bet you could do this in home assistant
So I'm most familiar with using this in cases like machine learning on private data in cloud environments where you want to make it impossible for the cloud operator to see the data you are using.

I think there are usecases like this outside the mobile _phone_ that are interesting. For example on-device learning for edge devices where the device is not under your control.
They are naturally and righteously bitter about the annoying status of secretive manipulations in our version of free-market capitalism. Their reaction to you, however, is simply because you are being an obstreperous asshole.
That's honestly a really interesting point, I never thought about it but there was something magical about the Flash era
Asbestos, lead, arsenic, lots of people died very horrible deaths due to these "unacceptable" materials.
That’s how I read it too and had the same reaction. Upon second look I can see how it might not have been meant that way.

If it was changed to something like this instead I don’t think you would’ve had an issue because it becomes clear it’s not meant as a complaint.

“Nothing about this is specific to tech. These tips would also be great for a [photograpy] meetup or a [other topic] one too.”
The algorithm is interesting - at one time I was going to use https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sigmo... to do a startup.

This is different but very similar and contemporaneous.
"While free on-street parking usually stays filled to capacity—if not over capacity—off-street paid parking underperforms."

Oh? Friends of ours used to live on T St. NW in Washington, DC, just east of 16th St. We eventually learned to take a cab there. But my recollection is that off-street paid parking just isn't there in that neighborhood. The downtown office areas of Washington have lots of off-street paid parking, but from what I see there are large swaths of town with strips of restaurants and bars surrounded by residential blocks, and with very little in the way of parking garages.

We did once pay to park to visit our friends on T. But the lot we parked at was dinky.
I don't deny that this is double dipping, but our intuitions about double dipping might not be universal.

For example, in America, it is taken for granted that you pay for both incoming and outgoing calls. Koreans, on the other hand, would find it preposterous. Why should the callee pay, when the caller is already paying for those minutes? It's the same situation, but reversed.
Spoken like someone from the universe where paid services do not still show ads and engage in countless other user-hostile behavior.
I used to do the same back when I commuted and when it DOES identify it, it tends to be some weird, weird stuff.
Cockroach supports it, but like for MySQL, PG, PlanetScale, or most DBs at scale, you shouldn't use them.

Neon isn't in the same league at all so I think what they support doesn't matter.
They are though. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38534247
And yet, people who exercise more are overwhelmingly more likely to be a healthy weight.

This is all one really needs to know. Sometimes cargo-culting works.

This article gets close to what I suspect is the truth about exercise and weight-loss, but it's so focused on the premise of dismissing metabolism, it fails to say anything truly interesting.

For ages I listened to these ideas about exercise and weight-loss, and dismissed its role, focusing instead on "simply eating less calories". And then I realised I was being kind of dumb.

I've since formulated some ideas about the connection between exercise and weight-loss, and in particular, running and weight-loss.

So far, my subjective experience of starting running have born these out and I plan to write about them at length.

But for now, be careful taking such research and applying it to your actual life. As someone with a graduate level education, and a natural born academic, I've realised these researchers are far too clever for your own good.
Modern cold-climate heat pumps can definitely handle 20F. Yes they're more efficient at higher ambient temperature, but you can get at least 2.5 COP at 20F. (And good ones can continue to outperform resistive heating at much lower temperatures than that.)
Customers of the Amazon AWS service AWS IVS will not be affected.

Customers of Twitch will be affected.
I doubt it. They lobby (i.e. bribe) to have the tax code shaped to where they have a access to a bazillion loop holes. Between holding money in a tax haven to holding large amounts in company stock or whatever...there are lots of tricks. Sure he may pay more absolute dollars, but percent wise it's surely far less than those of us paying 40%. They then form their own charities to control exactly where their money goes instead of it going to taxes like all of us.
Nice job! I look forward to trying it out.
Websites have a lot of control over referrer headers these days.

Often, news aggregators add to urls so the site knows where it came from, or it’s using a feed that already has that.

Now, that said, in an email, you can send links that encode that it’s coming from email, but you would get caught by the non-gmail using people suddenly seeing fake gmail.
> You can't use YOUR OWN work

Bad rule, I'd just use an alt or not my own name.
We got a Mitsubishi Kaiteki[1], which is a mini-split from what I can gather. We just call them "air to air heat pumps" here in Norway.

Anyway, the install itself was about $400, took one guy a few hours like you said. Another $200 for the electrician which had to hook up a dedicated circuit for it as per regulations, though he did it as part of a larger job so would have been $300 as a stand-alone deal.

Total it was $2200. This is considered a premium unit over here, we could have gotten something cheaper but alas looks matter.

Thing is supposedly guaranteed to provide COP of 2 down to -25C. We've had such low temps here a several times (in fact past week has been around -15 to -17C with a harsh 85% humidity, biting!) and we've never had to turn on the backup floor heating so far. Though you can definitely hear it working harder when it's that cold.

[1]: https://mee.no/privat/produktkategori/luft-luft-varmepumper/...
https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

Very cool. A question: will you be revenue sharing with JJTech0130? Their work made this possible, correct?
As far as I know they still don't sell a wiring harness or battery for it, though. So you either have to yoink parts from a dead Mach-E or F-150 Lightning or adapt existing parts to poorly suit the conversion. They've been selling very few of them because of this, and Ford's legal department's too scared to actually sell battery cells that would fit in place of gas tanks or whatever.
They're not aiding an adversary, they are the adversary.
They do PDO for food, how hard would it be to do something similar for clothing? This that and the other brand qualify and get some random inspections, this other MFG doesn't meet criteria and gets banned, there you have it.
> The pessimist will have to deal with it anyway but paying the price for a much longer time trying to avoid or “prepare for ” it.

That's the nature of investment without perfect information. It's identical to insurance.

Also, the abstract covered "unrealistic optimism" but didn't scrape "unrealistic pessimism." Which, clearly can be a factor, the same way you can easily be convinced to overpay for insurance in some situations.
As I said in my other response, I make heavy use of trusted (confidential) VMs for machine learning in cloud environments.

There are also vendors that are doing smart contract execution in trusted computing devices so you can get the benefits of trusted execution without the overhead of everyone executing the same code.
Russ Cox has fully imbibed his $DAYJOB into his life to the extent it feels unhealthy. Golang Shirt; multiple golang wall paintings; countless golang soft toys in the background and on his side.
I am sure he has a few golang tattoos as well!
Many years ago I got called an idiot for suggesting an extremely specific and extremely irrelevant article get deleted. I haven't bothered to contribute since. Clearly Wikipedia is full of very stable geniuses and don't need contributions from the common folk.
Thieves rob DC Uber Eats driver, reject Android phone for not being iPhone
Yes, distinct elements. Fixed. That's the only way what I said makes sense, like how one error-corrects listening to a talk.

They were concerned with the case where n could be absurdly large, and wanted no time or space dependence on n. They improved my idea to cut the multiple of k needed for space.
With respect to Chan Zuckerberg Science:

As an engineer who had worked for a number of years in biotech and med-tech, I find fault with the underlying assumption that one can build an organization out of bio-PI types and get anything out of it beyond a bunch of papers.

My hard-earned experience is tha the biology PI track selects against the technocratic leadership style necessary for the coordination of a large-scale effort.

My own stint in the field found most value with a small subset of fresh PhDs who were still mentally flexible enough to figure out how to do their research in a stackable and incremental way.

Unsurprisingly, most of these people stood very little chance of being hired as PIs, because their focus on efficiency made for worse short-term splashing.
Do we get to apply Betteridge's law of headlines to this one or not?
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> If everyone else paid taxes like Zuckerberg, we’d have a lot less money in our pockets.

People whose income comes mainly in the form of capital gains pay much lower taxes on income than everyone else.
Kind of. There is a mitigation in the spec https://github.com/WICG/close-watcher#abuse-analysis

Briefly, the user may need to press back a couple times in order to escape, but the maximum number of presses needed is bounded and is dependent on how much the user interacts with the page. Of note, closing the tab bypasses this API entirely, at least according to that page.
This project is licensed under the terms of the SSPL. Portions of this project are based on macholibre by Aaron Stephens under the Apache 2.0 license.

This project has been purchased by Beeper, please contact them with any questions about licensing.

They seemed to comply with the SSPL as well.
Almost every company is a tech company in some way! The Cleveland Metroparks gave one of my all time favorite talks.

The group I run is agnostic to specific tech or languages which makes it a bit easier to go broad in my hunt for the right stories.
Nope. The really good heatpumps (air conditioners) have a COP of 4 at -7 degrees celcius and a room temperatur of 20 degrees celcius.

In other words, with one part of electrical energy, they manage pull 3 parts of of heat energy from the outside air into the room. Hence, they use just 25% of the electrical energy that a electrical resistance heater would require.
Well I guess that depends on how long you stay in the bathroom.

Joking aside, though, that's a tough problem. It's just an awful lot of current.
For a mini-split system, or central heat pump? Do you have existing ducts? What's the square footage?

We recently upgraded our central heat pump as the old one died after 15 years or so. IIRC the total was $13k CAD, so around 9-10k USD, which included indoor and outdoor units for a roughly 3000sqft house, with installation. But all the ducting was there already, so it was just a matter of swapping out old unit for new. (Got some nice government grants too, so it was only a few k out of pocket.)
Unclear if they mean inline styles as in "the HTML attribute" or a React prop. Tamagui doesn't solve the former.
"They are not civilian protestors. They are terrorists."
presto! problem solved!
Honestly if I were a founding engineer of a project like golang that's used all over the world, I'd be proud as shit about that too

Also helps that he's probably getting stacks on stacks from GSUs
There are a few zero pipe mini-splits. They hang across the window frame and use 1 inch of height with an inside bidirectional radiator and an external one, SCrewed down to the window jamb and connected to 120/240 volts internally. They resemble a window A/C, but the rads are below the window level and are wider and less deep. I am getting a few next year. This is one of many.
https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/startup-promise...
Fearmongering?

No, run. This is a warning. People (the ones who support AI) are after devs like they serve CAPTCHAs to bots now. It's psychological warfare.
Yeah, I remember that. Specifically what I remember is a discussion on reddit about how a lot of youtube videos have useless stuff in the first ~30% and someone who joined the comments -- wadsworth -- also happened to work at youtube. Apparently with enough freedom to have an extra parameter check deployed to production. Probably around 2012. The parameter I remember was wadsworth=1.

Edit: Got the story wrong. Wadsworth was just a commenter with an opinion and someone who worked at youtube had a sense of humor.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...
I have a package that makes it easier to do the “use a glob of files as golden test cases” thing mentioned in the middle of the talk: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/carlmjohnson/be@v0.23.2/testfi...
At least in our case the inside unit was massive. It was definitely a two person job to get it into its location in our crawlspace.
A complete U-turn in jurisprudence: HADOPI and the future of the CJEU
This case is weird and serious indeed; already the allegation of politicization at the highest level is serious enough.
Yeah, if I could figure out the calculations to use and source all the data...
does anyone know of any services that do this?
Entertainment and the infrastructure that delivers it is an important pillar of soft power.
Yes, this was possible before but doesn't seem like it works now.

Post on reddit by person who added this feature: https://old.reddit.com/r/wadsworth/comments/l461y/today_i_ma...
Gerbil Scheme v0.18.1 NimzoLarsen released
New in std library: an S3 client, an SMTP client, SSL for Postgres (enables Heroku support), better CLI support (including multicall binaries), and plenty of module updates. Plus a few minor bug fixes.

See Gerbil Scheme homepage https://cons.io
Well to be fair, there’s no objective measure of “best” which makes this debate pretty pointless.

But also, why would I want to hire the best? Wouldn’t that mean that I can’t make a decision until I’ve seen all the candidates? Why don’t I simply look for the first that meets the requirements of the job?

> If you get a job offer it means that you were the best candidate that was available to the company

Again, I’ll disagree here. If you get an offer from the company it means that you got an offer from the company. You can tell yourself it was because you were the best available, but probably not true.
It must be relying on a TPM somehow, right? That isn't possible with any normal software VM