skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E-mail verification would make the service much more costly to run, maybe not sustainable.

If you’ve got someone’s email address, do you really need HIBP to figure out where it’s used? Wouldn’t Google give you a lot of results already?
https://archive.ph/ndoUh
Regicide, and even just murder in general, is highly frowned upon these days. Back then it was de rigueur when the concept of fealty required reciprocity in the keeping of one's word.
It's web dev, the best way to get adoption is to trick people into using your stack
As someone who has to defend against credential spraying in a consumer IAM system at a fintech (which leads to financial and identity fraud), I am very excited about Passkeys. Perspectives will be driven by incentives and desired outcomes. I have the Cloudflare dashboard for our properties live and keep an eye on threat actors in realtime, as well as our identity provider dashboard around realtime Passkey uptake (at which point passwords are invalidated and unable to be downgraded back to). Providing a government credential can be used to bootstrap account recovery if all passkeys are lost.

If you have concerns about Big Tech treating Passkeys in an anti competitive fashion, I would strongly encourage you to file a complaint with the FTC when that evidence is observed (as I mention in another comment here [1]). We need these primitives to deliver a better digital experience but also need to defend against fuckery using legal and regulatory mechanisms.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502886
When people talk about existential risk fears, this is without a doubt my fear. All it would take is a small group that is ethnically supremacist and technically capable. How many edge-lords joke that the problem with the world is that there are too many people? Imagine you could drastically reduce overall population while maintaining your own ethnicity. And it could be done slowly, a harsh flu now and again that affects the general population at a much higher percentage while sparing your own kin. It's terrifying to think this could be justified in the minds of some.
My eyes glazed over midway through the article. I'd like them to not try explaining the problem but just out and say what the problem is, then try to explain the details so that I can pick at the pieces I don't get well enough.

I THINK the issue is probably something along the line of:

Every new type of thing adds a new dimension / fold / layer, and operations that transfer between layers can occur in any cycle. This leads to an exponentially complex area of valid states in a high-dimensional setting, likely with upper and lower bounds as the shape exists across dimensions. This sounds possibly intractable to define the more potential actions / actors are involved. Thus it is very difficult to reach or process an equation that defines said shape and thus validates if a co-ordinate within the system space exists on or within the surface of the valid states of the system.
> I get on my jet ski and I do whatever the fuck I want

Is Troy Hunt a Mobius variant?
I worked as an adjunct about 10 years ago and ~$2k per class was the pay. With a full class load that came out to a little over $2k per month. Definitely more work than 90mins per week per class though. 4 courses per term was definitely a full-time job.

So yeah, not a lot of tuition is making it to the low rung teachers.
You're not describing a problem, you're describing an opportunity to make the world a better place.
scdoc is a great tool. It's written by Drew DeVault (sourcehut) and works great, I've used it in a couple of projects.

Here's the blog entry[1] where he talks about the rationale for writing the tool.

The page mentions that it is inspired by Markdown, but is not actually Markdown because it was designed for HTML.

I'm glad to see more projects in this space.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2018/05/13/scdoc.html
"Investors want rent-paying tenants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I miss the serendipity of radio when driving though.

Thinking of some tech where low-power transmitters around the city could packet-dump compressed audio to some kind of car receiver that would then play, at a specified time/schedule, audio content (podcasts, music, etc.).

The car receiver could indicate which channel/content you prefer and then passing a transmitter would dump you the day's-worth of compressed content for that day's schedule.
Looks pretty good to me when I use all "the tricks": https://chat.openai.com/share/18bb729c-82e9-4c7d-abc1-a977c9...
That reminds me of my early twenties being embarrassed when my wife told her parents we are trying to get pregnant.
Pulsar is similar (and I think API compatible? but I might be remembering wrong) but has effectively no limit on topics. Maybe appropriate for their usecase depending on number of users?
I like their music discovery functions e.g. generated playlists and song/playlist/artist "radio". My playlist variety expanded greatly over the past 3 years because of these features from Spotify. A centralized platform that is relatively to use (nonsensical UI changes aside) is a strong incentive for users to stay, though by no means a moat.

The end game was always about rapidly burning VC money to acquire more users, while kicking the can of profit-making down the road. Now ZIRP has ended for the time being, the chicken has finally come home to roost.
> Genuinely: What do people here think that are Booking.com supposed to be doing about this?

Not having a messaging system that lends authority to messages if they aren't able to secure it (including assuring that partners with access secure their ends) adequately for the appearance of authority that is created.
> Do podcasts that could be played on iPods but started publishing in a newer audio format cease to be podcasts?

No. You can still play play it on an iPod if you save it in an alternative format the the iPod can play or if you install custom software.

The term "podcast" should be discontinued only if it stops meaning anything because e.g. people insist it means something that's the exact opposite of what it should mean. The word "algorithm" is approaching this level. We're going to have to come up with a new word because journalists ruined it.
Deno can use the fluvio crate directly https://crates.io/crates/fluvio.
Every estimate/prediction/forecast/interpolation/extrapolation should have a confidence/prediction/ or tolerance interval (application dependent) that incorporates the assumptions that the team is putting into the problem.
Mine gets munged with my first name and middle initial happening to form a different name anywhere where names get smashed together -- like plane tickets. Think 'ADRIAN A' vs 'ADRIANA'.
So anyone who works in universities sees and experiences bureaucracy.

Let’s strike a committee to study it until it’s forgotten.
The Tesla official one is $230.

All you need then is a breaker, dryer outlet, and some thick gauge wire between the two.
Most popular forms of two-factor are still phishable. WebAuthn/passkeys are a better solution.
It is a very common misconception and one of my technical crusades. I keep fighting, but I think I have lost. Not knowing what the "uncertainty interval" represents (is it, loosely speaking, an expectation about a mean/true value or about the distribution of unobserved values?) could be even more dangerous, in theory, than using no uncertainty interval at all.

I say in theory because, in my experience in the tech industry, with the usual exceptions, uncertainty intervals, for example on a graph, are interpreted by those making decisions as aesthetic components of the graph ("the gray bands look good here") and not as anything even marginally related to a prediction.
What about http://google.com/ncr for No Country Redirect?
It really depends what it is for. If the assessment is that the data is solid enough for certain decisions you might indeed only show a narrow result in order not to waste time and attention. If it is for a scientific discussion then it is different, of course.
Absolutely. 15 years ago I could reasonably trust forecasts regarding whether it’s going to rain in a given location 2 days in advance. Today I can’t trust forecasts about whether it’s raining currently.
I'm not saying businesses shouldn't make bets or innovate, but in my experience hiring more people to do those things has a point of diminishing returns, and that point is much lower than most people think. From what I've experienced, more people tend to slow innovation, not accelerate it.

And while Spotify may not have hired for the sake of hiring, my comment was more targeted to the general behavior of tech startups during the ZIRP years, where I've personally experienced companies just hiring to show they they're growing, even when they have very little work for those extra personnel to do. It's not often intentional, but is rather the result of poor discipline or lack of forethought.
> I've worked at places where staff engineers seem to have been rated on number of comments left on PRs

> Oh, and you had to address every one of them before getting approval.

This just sounds horrible.
> What do people here think that are Booking.com supposed to be doing about this?

Not pretending it's not their problem, as a start

Because it absolutely is

Then, work with hotels so that communications from them are authenticated in some way
Statistically speaking, you're in the minority. ;)
Yes, you enter an email and you get a list of the hacks it's been found in, along with the type of data that's in the data breach.

At that point you just go grab the data breach from some other location and pull the data. Including passwords, which will often be reused across other services and give you access to other accounts. The breach data (or subsequent accounts accessed from the passwords) may have a lot of additional data, like location, personal preferences, message contents, etc..

It's _much_ more impactful than simply Googling someone's email address.
The best part is how they have to keep repeating "HTML, the programming language" or "HTML, the markup language" everywhere in an attempt to keep things clear :)

It would be awesome if they were using some sort of macro system / templating engine to consistently expand {{html_prog}} and {{html_markup}} just to keep it straight while they're writing it.

Thank you for posting this, it made my day a bunch brighter!
Sometimes they do this because the data doesn't entirely support their conclusions. Error bars, noting data outliers etc often make this glaringly apparent.
At least in my Cambridge neighborhood, all of the properties that have been touched by investors and developers are being turned into very, very expensive condos. Or biotech labs. You'd think we had enough of those already, but no.
I’ve made this trip by train in the past (changing at Brussels). It is a little slower but you need to consider the time getting to and from the airports.

Unless you’re flying from London City Airport you’re only really saving an hour. The train is far more pleasant.

This was pre-Brexit though when passport control was much faster and I only had to show up half an hour early for the train.
> One thing I like to point out for people is that milkweed has the second-most advanced flowers on the planet, following only orchids.

What does "advanced" mean, of flowers?
My point is that electricians work in live panels all the time. (And the voltage of the circuit being installed does t matter. No matter what you install, the panel has 240V with approximately zero output impedance.

I don’t know what advice an electrician would give, but the advice I give is that if you don’t feel like you can safely install a new circuit on a live panel, you probably just shouldn’t install new circuits.
No, that's not possible. 23andMe doesn't do full sequencing, that would be too expensive for their average customer. The main reason people take the test, which they heavily advertise, is that it tells you your supposed ancestry. It's basically a modern, more sophisticated version of race science. Instead of only comparing skin color, skull shapes, noses and such, they now look at specific sequences in specific genes and compare them among many people from around the world. The claim is this can tell you what your "ethnicity" is and where your ancestors came from. Ignoring of course that humans (and the genes they carry) don't necessarily have fixed physical locations and the interpretation, while maybe true, may also be complete bunk. But Americans love it for maybe obvious reasons.
Thanks! Yeah, worst case I get to change careers and keep doing it as a hobby.
Surely this means it is perfectly fine to train on people's voices without their permission and then claim the generated songs (with their voices) as your own and use the 'fair use' excuse just because paying for a license means it will make the grift too expensive for large tech companies and extremely costly for smaller ones?

I don't think so.

Given that Runway partnered with Getty Images with a licensing deal [0], and the same with Meta partnering with musicians to clone their voices (with permission and compensation) [1] it only tells us that is where it is going and how the Stability AI v Getty lawsuit will settle with such a deal rather than attempting to violate the copyright of the author and then nonsensically claim 'fair use' with their commercial offering.

[0] https://www.axios.com/2023/12/04/runway-getty-images-ai-vide...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-just-entered-the-ai-chatb...
So about 31 barrel worth of olive oil.
> I guess being American I have a fuzzy picture of that side of the world, and what it looked like in ancient times.

Whoa, whoa, whoa...that's a "you" problem, not a "we" problem.

Lots of people in America know about history and geography.

We're glad that you took interest and keep at it, but let's not perpetuate false stereotypes.
Assuming people are educated and aware enough to begin with to recognize and then deal with it.

The right to read was literally only locked up a few hundred years ago.
More context: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ministerial-decl...
Paywall: https://archive.is/FSZNJ
I suppose one could argue whether Walmart's primary value-add is sales or whether it's logistics, but certainly either of those is a higher priority than making things for consumers to sell. House brand items are still produced and packaged by some other company.

The "logistics" of Spotify's business are mostly commoditized (storage, computer, app development), but certainly they have label relationships that would be hard for a new competitor to replicate. But the key part is that for whatever reason 226 million people have given Spotify their credit card number (or local analog) which makes them pretty important to record labels.
Fast, small, robust: Introducing a novel branchless partition implementation
Not anymore!

angrily writes a letter to his congressman who won't understand a word of it
> Another is a standard deviation (i.e. you are pretty much predicting the squared difference between your own point forecast and the outcome).

What you probably want is the standard error, because you are not interested in how much your data differ from each other but in how much your data differ from the true population.
Apple logistical hubs for shipping and rando 3rd party acquisitions are one thing, but if you're working on a main-effort product you're either in Austin or SV.

You're doing RTO, and you're signing NDAs out the wazoo.

Helluva opportunity if you're young, but I'm in agreement with the parent posters that it's not the end-all, be-all. I'm far enough along in my career that I don't need the prestige line on my resume, and 100% remote somewhere I want to live is worth far, far more to me.
Everyone's heard about the "duck curve". Part of that shape is due to demand. The demand associated with people leaving for work and coming back home. [0]

> Running laundry or charging an AV at a different time of day doesn't materially impact energy usage and emissions, it just increases the bottom line of the utility company.

This is objectively false. The non-uniform nature of the energy demand necessitates, currently, natural gas peaking plants. Time of use pricing, and demand side management allows us to spread/shift those peak to times where the peaking plants would not come online.

And those peaking plants are very expensive, since their contract with the utility company includes getting paid for idling those plants waiting for the peaks to occur. Getting rid of these plants, lower the price to the consumer AND lowers emissions generated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Mostly not. Very few data "scientists" working in industry actually follow the scientific method. Instead they just mess around with various statistical techniques (including AI/ML) until they get a result that management likes.
Let me be the one to tell you not to look up tubgirl or meatspin. The turn-of-the millennium internet was a dirty place.
I agree. If you asked someone at Bell Labs whether the creation of a computer would cause gaming or digital addiction, the thought or idea wouldn't make sense because they didn't know what we know today.
Sounds amazing for a population of stoic monks (own nothing = have no responsibilities, ties, etc), and absolutely terrible for community building (minimum requirement for a community is space to have it in).
Vitest 1.0
Every time I come across a "disinformation expert" they seem to be the ones spreading disinformation.
Well, currently, you can export your passwords between your new password managers. You may be able to do that with passkeys.

Also, passwords don't have rejecting [optionally, for now] non FIDO certified devices as a part of the spec. You'll have to use a Trusted(tm) passkey manager.
Meme languages are getting out of hand.
They did change the link from https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan-...
>After exchanging messages with who she thought was the hotel in Cairo via the Booking.com app, she was sent a payment request. It had in fact come from scammers.
"I clicked on it not suspecting it was a scam, given it was in the same ongoing chat in the app," she told the BBC.

Are you sure? This makes it sound like whatever account hackers gained control of was able to send messages directly to the app. If they log into a booking.com portal to do that, and booking.com hasn't set up multifactor authentication, they aren't blameless.
the average US wage hasn't kept up with inflation since, like, the 1970s.
LIFO sounds like it’s based on hitting order, not worker’s age.
The messaging system is full of disclaimers ("The content of the message from Malmaison was not generated by Booking.com") and, looking at a message I've received, it doesn't even support links. Anyone getting phished would have to manually type in a URL in their address bar if this was the vector used.
Investing in a home and leasing it out is not actually 'economic rent-seeking' (which is what your linked article is about). Look at the first example given there:

>"Successful capture of regulatory agencies (if any) to gain a coercive monopoly can result in advantages for rent-seekers in a market while imposing disadvantages on their uncorrupt competitors. This is one of many possible forms of rent-seeking behavior."
It's my birthday today so I might just not buy myself a little something.
Why is the iterator implemented as a GOTO instead of something like the following? Genuine question, I don't use stack based langs.

<loop>
<loop-statement></loop-statement>
</loop>
A humble request: someone please write the problem out in its entirety. Thank you!!
I think the biggest draw of booking.com is the blanket cancellation policy up to a few days ahead
The fact that your comment is currently at the top of the thread tells me that a lot of people go through this, yet this is interesting to me because past HN discussions have suggested said experience to be an exception. In my own experience, blocking (or simply not approving) PRs over nits, out-of-scope improvements, and mere personal preferences is the norm. What's worse is when PRs get blocked because a person doesn't like the pattern the author is using even though it's already one of many existing patterns and there's no explicit guideline anywhere. I find this happens a lot when lead and staff engineers make decisions on what's "considered harmful" but don't actually broadcast that decision in an effective way.

What I try to do with my code reviews is prefix my comments with "Non-blocking suggestion:" or "Minor question:" so that the other person is more likely to know that a particular piece of feedback doesn't come with the expectation of needing to be addressed.

Otherwise, if the code works, has tests, and isn't objectively incorrect, I try to give an approval. If you don't like something about it, there should be room in the process to make improvements. The idea that "mistakes won't actually get fixed later" is a cop out. If your team can't fix mistakes, then you should turn in your "engineer" titles.

Also, when programmers do things that others on their team disagree with, it almost always comes down to a breakdown in communication. Junior developers are a bit of a different story, but senior developers not knowing how to write code that the rest of the team approves of means that people aren't communicating, and it probably means that your system is so complex that it's unreasonably difficult to determine the proper approach in the first place.
Why does it need to be paid?
Why is not freezing better?
FWIW I've also had the same experience; the last version of Django where upgrading took a non-trivial amount of time was 1.8, because it changed how isolation is enforced within test cases. Since then it's rarely taken more than an hour or two, regardless of how big the codebase is.
> I think it's only fair to pay for using someone else's work to your own benefit.

How many artists do you know that pay out a portion of the proceeds of any of their works to the artists that have influenced and inspired them?

Why should we have a separate set of laws for men and machines?

Why would we assume that any algorithms used to determine 'inspirational ancestry' will only ever be used against machines?

This is a power grab, pure and simple, an attempt to add style to the list of copyrightable immaterials -- Disney 2.0, but on a much more massive and debilitating scale.
That is baldly justifying a feeling of superiority and authority over others. It's not your job to trick other people "for their own good". Present honest information, as accurately as possible, and let the chips fall where they may. Anything else is a road to disaster.
I think the very wealthy buying houses they don't need to make yet more money is bad and should be discouraged. Buying a duplex and living in half of it is one thing, but people (that are not the very wealthy) should be able to afford a house that they own personally if they play by the rules.
Yep.

See also: Complaints about poll results in the last few rounds of elections in the US. "The polls said Hillary would win!!!" (no, they didn't).

It's not just error margins, it's an absence of statistics of any sort in secondary school (for a large number of students).
El Salvador's Bitcoin investments are in the black
Who says that social media disinformation didn't exist four years ago?

And even if one were to grant that, how long should a field exist before there can be an expert?
"Licking the boot tastes very good, actually"
Yeah, the septic tanks surprised me. I grew up in a rural community in the Midwest and we had septic tanks, but I can't imagine people living in a city, let alone NYC, not having access to basic infrastructure like sewers.
The term "rent-seeking" as used by economists has nothing to do with being a landlord.