skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it as addressing the “who cares about stars” that I have whenever someone mentions stars.

So it was like a developer saying “I know stars are a dumb and imperfect way to judge a project, but here’s what it is.”

If they hadn’t written this I would think they put too much weight on what’s really not a very important measure.
I thought "swipe rightward from left edge" was usually "open the hidden menu" except in browsers.
How are you finding it compared to Jira? The mention of Jira in the title puts me off as I hate everything about Jira, but I get that they may just be using it here to help casual observers understand what the software does.
I guess the lesson to take away from all this is there are a lot of people who are tired after a long day at work and are willing to waste their time on something acceptable instead of trying to choose something better.
Real API design-first development platform
The fact that we have touch screens in cars in the first place is an abomination.
That's really odd. As far as I know carplay just sends video data to the screen and the screen shows it. It's like an hdmi cable in that regard. I would say it's a problem with your car, then. My volkswagen has absolutely no issues with carplay.
I built/use something similar using S7 scheme inspired by NaughtyDog's use of PLT Scheme/Rackey.

I really like that it's easy to embed S7 into a single binary that's easy to build and distribute.

Sadly, I mostly built it for my own usage and havent documented it well.

https://github.com/ScatteredRay/s7pp
"The singularity" is science fiction. You can't just infinitely improve software on static hardware - hardware must be designed, manufactured and installed to accommodate improvements. Maybe you could have a powerful AI running as a distributed system across whole data centers, but now you're limited by transmission times etc. There's always a new bottleneck.

Actual AGI is nowhere near realism yet anyway.
But in this case, they are doing a good thing.

Or do you believe that we should not acknowledge any positive actions from someone who has done something wrong in the past?
When it became clear many major email providers were going to require OAuth for IMAP/POP/SMTP access, I was pretty frustrated that I’d have to stop using clients/scripts that didn’t support this method.

Rather than spending lots of effort on migration, or switching clients entirely, I made a local proxy so that any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client can be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether it supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy. No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1734772533373939784
> I feel like I'm misunderstanding something...

In the EU it's ok to ask companies to do things, even if it costs them money.
My new car has voice control too. It's actually not too bad at recognizing what it's said (that is, it properly displays in text what was spoken, most the time), but it usually can't handle the commands properly.

However, it also has a "hey Google" like feature, where it's always listening and triggers voice control when it hears the words, without the push of a button. And it triggers randomly when I'm talking with my wife, even when we say nothing remotely close to the keyword.

Funnily enough, we also didn't know this feature existed, and neither did the dealership. So for a while we thought it was a random bug. Eventually, my wife figured it's a feature, and it can thankfully be turned off.
_Before it was widely known what Epstein was up to_, yeah. But, like, Alex Jones is not exactly secretive about what he's up to.
At one time the wifi password was altered every day at the office, so I wrote an Android app to get it and set up wifi on my phone.

I also have a bot to verify the agenda for my local consulate, because it is very hard to get an opening and they don't send alerts: you have to login and check the calendar.
The thing to do would be to have a lot of loans running all the time. So start with $10k and loan it out eg $500 at a time, starting with 20 loans. If "default" means you get no money paid back, and each loan pays 20% (not annualized, just 20%), and assuming borrows either payback the loan with proper interest or default and pay nothing back, then breakeven would be about a 17% default rate. I would expect a much higher default rate for lending money to strangers on the internet, but who knows.

It seems the enforcement mechanism here is just reddit accounts. Accounts have to be a few months old with minimum karma. Fail to pay back a loan and your account gets banned and you have to start a new one. Not a huge barrier but not a tiny one either.
You can whitelist domains.

What I do is toggle reader mode for that site if on mobile. That always bypasses it. I can also select the overlay on uBlock origin. If that doesn’t work I’ll disable JavaScript for the site since these popular need JavaScript. If all that fails I’ll simply not use the site.
Bold Contacts is for me to help my folks who have Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease: https://boldcontacts.org
According to my friend at Apple, sometimes fairly low level employees have access to the internal system which can be used to dissociate devices from AppleIDs. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were compromised, as the pay is not great.

What's more surprising is if they have no audit logs that would let them discover the compromised employee in these cases.
Just give us like two years and we'll be there!
I made wirehub.org[1] because I needed a way to setup a WireGuard VPN without giving out my private keys to anyone. Yeah I could self host an open source solution, but where's the fun in that? :p

[1] https://wirehub.org
This feels like hearing all the talk about AI replacing developers and then actually building stuff with the best models available and seeing them fail to generate JSON function calls according to a simple JSON schema and just make shit up about what the parameters should look like.
I built my own Replit-like web app called Dock'n'Roll powered by Docker to write quick web apps in any language and quickly host them in isolated containers on a subdomain of my domain (*.varunbiniwale.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITIMrND0Z0

Using it, I can quickly build up tiny apps and have them online reliably, eg. I use https://yourip.varunbiniwale.com/ while looking for vulnerabilities.

I protected the admin panel for `dockn` with my own nginx auth proxy (https://auth.varun.ch), which lets me control user account access and rate limiting for all my self hosted websites in a central place.
My profiling tool: github.com/lally/ppt

I needed really high quality performance telemetry ("profiling" is a mixed choice) for my PhD. You specify the payload type in an IDL and it generates types and transport code. Fill in a struct and hit save(). If the process is being observed, this'll copy the struct to a lock-free ring buffer that the observer injected in. Includes CPU performance counter support.
Good. Making car drivers finally pay is the greatest thing ever. I am sick of subsidies for them.
Exactly. Why not just use Linear instead then?
"Apps like Signal" is an exaggeration. Practically all programs do that. This has always been about metadata.
The chore wheel [1], which my wife and I used to run on an old iPad to track evening chores. It uses local storage for recurring chores and one-off reminders. We tried a bunch of other tools but they were all too full featured or slow to ooperate. It replaced a paper list.

When debugging network issues I realized I was going back and forth between my computer, router, and cables under the desk. I created an audible network check [2] so I could just listen to hear the status.

[1] https://alexsci.com/chore-wheel/

[2] https://alexsci.com/web-audible-ping/
There's also https://elonmusk.today/ but neither seem to be updated frequently
I hear you.

I'm not a doctor.

I don't know how to advise the chronically ill and medically under-served, so I can't speak to those circumstances.

What would you suggest?

:)
For me at least, streaming platforms are becoming more like where I sample content so I can download the content myself separately.

I had several experiences where I would start content and all of a sudden I can't find it anymore because it left the platform or they're playing shenanigans (ML?) , like with onepiece it wouldn't show up at all under my profile so had to create a new one. Others requring using a different IP.

The latest straw is ads. Nope, no way. I mean, I think streaming platforms are actually undercharging so I'd be happy to pay more but they just like ads.

So, "downloading" content via other means so far has resulted in better quality videos (although subtitles have been a struggle). In one case, the older video was upscaled by ML by some random person and it was much better looking than what the streaming platform offered!

Best things in life are free and all.
What I really wish apple had is the ability to have multiple passcodes with different behavior.

Something like one passcode for ordinary phone use, one that would immediately and covertly send an emergency text to your family with your current location, one that would instantly wipe the device and one that would give you access to the hidden gay dating app you don't want people to know about.
My dog would not stop scratching his face, so I made a habit tracker for me and my wife to try and measure the impact of various behavioural tweaks.

https://joshvince.site/blog/20230803_dog_days
…so? That’s just not very useful when applied to a large scale service like Signal. You and god knows how many other people are getting a generic “check me” notification at a high rate.
Ask HN: Do you accidentally flag submissions?
After a story disappeared when I tried to click it (on mobile), I checked flagged submissions under my profile.

To my dismay, there were dozens of submissions on that list, nearly all of which seemed like perfectly fine submissions.

I often downvote comments by accident, but thankfully that's easy to undo.

Does this happen to you, and what do you do to avoid it?
We all have "off" days from time to time.

Happy to hear, thanks!

Best of luck.
> It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course.

If the publication date (Nov 30) is an indication of how long you've been using it, it's not exactly lightweight :P

> It's not open source as of this comment, but the plan is to open source it

Might be really useful with some configuration around which domains to archive; I may contribute (or fork if you're not accepting contributions) if it is released under an OSS license

> It's also not minified or obfuscated, so the source is "available" in that sense.

Amazing!
extremely confident, 100%, can't speak for regulators though.
The problem isn’t that stars are imperfect, but they have become gamified. The emphasis on GitHub stars as a form of authority makes me trust this project even less. You’d expect VCs to do due diligence on the authenticity and quality of GitHub reviews, but I’m dubious about that, whether they are doing so out of willful ignorance or not is a separate question.

All of the contributors on this project are from the country that feeds to Infosys. I’ve seen enough inflated resumes from candidates who couldn’t write a loop despite having a masters degree. Ironically, the one candidate from this country I gave raving recommendations for was the one who had bad school grades. This country is also a hotbed for clickfarms and selling fake social media engagement/reviews.
Thanks to you and others who swiftly correct me!
Just some little perl scripts. One to randomize my playlists, while keeping all movements of a classical piece together.

A web page to record and graph my asthma medications and peak flow numbers. Impressed my doctor, if nobody else.

Another web page that started as a tracker for all the new beers that kept coming on the market here in Denmark. That evolved to tracking all my drinking and restaurant visits. Been using it since 2016, and improving it along the way. Now some 3k lines of more or less readable perl.

(edit: typos)
It’s “wide open data” if app developers choose to build that way.

It’s not rocket science to obscure push notification data. Your beef should be with the app devs who don’t go the extra mile, not Apple.
At least nobody is stupid enough to add a touch screen infotainment system to a motorcycle.
What I would find really interesting: If someone drove the same route with every version of FSD and counted the interventions.

That would give a nice chart over time from which one could see the progress.

Is there anything online similar to this?

Another way to look at it would be to look at the revenue that is generated via FSD. Buyers probably do some due dilligence what FSD offers. If the number of buyers goes up, that could be an indicator that FSD is getting better. But a quick Google search did not bring up much data about this published by Tesla. In their earnings report, there is a chart showing the cumulative miles driven with FSD. Not sure if one can draw conclusions from that. It seems very smoothed out and only goes back to 2021.
> In fact it’s a good idea to simply black hole and ban the first couple hours of traffic on a new setup.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely consider that trick with my upcoming setups.
I really love full text tabs forever, but as another commenter noted, it’d be good if it was open sourced to make sure it’s not sending the data to the devil.

Thanks for sharing!
I needed code generation for C# and looked at T4, decided it was less capable than M4 (and obviously less portable, a big plus for Microsoft in tying you into their environment) and went with python instead. That was a while back, maybe T4 has improved but I still wouldn't use it.
But isn't the comparison you're making that the second (and following) sets of astronomers only study the books of the first ones, and not the night sky itself?
Although GDPR doesn't restrict the activities of law enforcement, it does restrict what other companies have and therefore what LE can request of them. The biggest issue is not that LE can investigate specific things, it's that they have easy access to such a massive self-perpetuating dragnet of everything.
Tell HN: Apple can lock your account irrevocably without telling you why
I've been in support with Apple three times now about my Apple ID being deactivated. All my Apple devices prompt me with an error like "This Apple ID is not active" now and again.

Any Apple service I try to log in to will show this error, including password reset or any other support function that requires you to be logged in.

Can I simply log out from iCloud and carry on without an Apple ID? No, I need to log in to the account in order to remove it from my devices, but I can't since it's not active...

My account has been active for over 6 months. This started happening two days after I bought my first iPhone from the Apple store in SF.

My first contact with their support was good. It seemed like they recognized the issue and they were able to reactivate the account the next day. However, the day after that the account got deactivated again. I got in contact with them again, and at that point they could do nothing.

Apple Support seems to only be able to reactivate an account once. They can't even tell me why the account has been deactivated.

When I asked them to escalate this to engineers, they said that the "Senior Apple Support" is the highest level of escalation I can get and that there's nothing else that I or they can do.

They recommended resetting all my devices to factory settings.

I'm just dumbstruck by how absurd this situation is.
Thousands of dollars invested in their ecosystem and they can't even tell me why my account has been locked? And their recommendation is to wipe all my devices??
Spent 10 minutes trying to get it running locally, couldn't.

They suddenly mention nginx in the self hosting docs - why?!

I don't understand open source projects that required you to fiddle around with scripts, environment files, reverse proxies etc to try the platform out! docker compose up should "just work" ™.
It's a typical overblown marketing statement, agreed. But I have to say, I've been exclusively using Arc since it released and I'm a huge fan.

Vertical tabs for sure aren't revolutionary - but the way they treat tabs that are kind of a mix of a bookmark & pinned tab really clicks with the way my brain wants to use a browser. It really has fundamentally changed how I work on the Internet for the better
I'm the same, something as simple as `$year` at the bottom of the screen when switching about would have helped me immensely. It was disorienting enough that it put me off watching any of the further seasons.
https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting Is the library. It was the first thing I found and it seemed to do the job. I’m not a .NET guy so it’s implemented as a CLI tool that takes a wave file as input and spits out a list of timestamps.

Sharing the code would mean getting into the business of publishing an ad blocker which is not something I personally have the bandwidth for. It’s also far from my finest work, being something that I banged out in a weekend. Happy to answer other questions about it, though!
https://www.tesla.com/m3/order/5YJ3230_16e34bd40942c6b7e76b6...

Here you go, this one is 35090.

Ciao
I came to Tokyo more than 10 years ago when there were still feature phones. The email app was fast and easy to use, looking up train connections through the pre-smartphone WAP browser was slow and a pain.

I was looking up train connections so often that this became too painful and built an app that would accept from/to train station pairs via email and send you back the best connection.
My hypothesis: Google wants to lose, so that they can use that to force the government to allow them to put a Google Play Store on an iPhone.
vim plugins: file browser, comment toggle, paren / brackets pairing, status line, buffer line, plugin manager, etc

https://github.com/slmjkdbtl/rc/tree/master/vim/autoload
> extremely confident

There's also "this is quite deep" - it's usually not.
> is evaluated forgoing their ability to be optimised ahead of time.

...not sure what you mean with that, but WASM isn't actually AOT compiled in browsers anymore, instead there are several tiers of JIT-ting on a per function level. E.g. when a WASM function is only called once it is compiled quickly but without optimization, and then when called more frequently, higher compilation tiers will kick in which compile the WASM function in the background with more optimizations.

This is pretty much the same strategy as used with Javascript code.

You can also split your WASM code into several dynamically loaded modules (and if neeeded, loaded and instantiated in parallel), but (AFAIK) unlike with Javascript bundlers this can't be done automatically. You'll have to design your code that's compiled to WASM from the ground up for being split into several modules (similar to how DLLs are used in native code).

> The reliance on JavaScript for WASM modules inherently relies on the wild world of JavaScript tooling.

I write all my WASM code with C/C++ tooling only, no npm or similar involved. There's only a minimal .html file which defines how a WebGL/WebGPU canvas integrates with the browser environment.

> I'd also like to see us eliminate the need for the `Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-site` and `Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp` headers as they make multi threading in the browser largely impractical.

This I fully agree with. There is a "legal" client-side workaround using service workers btw: https://dev.to/stefnotch/enabling-coop-coep-without-touching....
The route I've gone down is to build the quiet spaces on the web myself. Works decently well.
I think it's completely ridiculous how you people just casually imply that a current computer can somehow achieve "damn-near godhood".

Hardware is a bottleneck. Better hardware can't be designed, manufactured and installed in minutes.

You can't just infinitely improve software sitting on the same hardware. At some point the software is as efficient as it can possibly be. And realistically a complex piece of software won't be close to optimal.

You people love dreaming up possibilities but you never stop to actually think about the limitations. You just assume everything will work out magically and satisfy your fantasy.
Are they still all-in on “pure vision” self-driving? I thought they had pivoted back to lidar but can’t seem to find any sources for that.
i mean, they are making progress towards that goal so i would just discount what Elon Musk says and focus on the progress.
DES Encryption on Gameboy
> Akin to having a Scrum standup with the kids each morning before school

Why should I be the only one to suffer through these ceremonies, might as well indoctrinate the family.
Let's not forget that Google isn't any better in that regard:

> Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

> 15 privacy violation settlements amounting to roughly $1 billion between 2011 and 2023 with government regulators in various countries and private litigants

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_priv...
It’s easy to be snarky about the BS promises, but the important thing is that progress is being made, however incrementally it comes.
A font-viewer for a specific phrase, with my own chosen list of fonts. Mostly for seeing how hebrew looks in different fonts for family name signs.

https://avimar.github.io/fonts-hebrew/demo.html?text=%D7%97%...
I wrote an app for bowling so we can track our scores. It got out of hand and now we have a RPi that connects via BLE to the app to configure a game so all throws are filmed, segmented and stored.

Our bowling scores haven't improved much but it's fun.
> Would you have no objection if Tesla had just called it DrivePilot or BlueCruise instead?

As long as they don’t do stuff like this to market it:

“The beginning of the video shows a disclaimer which says the person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons.”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-finds-evidence-that-tesl...

Or this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789022017311735808

“When you want your car to return, tap Summon on your phone. It will eventually find you even if you are on the other side of the country”
Looking at https://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/ProgRef.html I've just added a partially working grammar/parser for tablegen in https://mingodad.github.io/parsertl-playground/playground/ an Yacc/Lex compatible online editor/tester (select "Tablegen-LLVM parser (partially working)" from "Examples" then click "Parse" to see a parser tree for the content in "Input source").

Any feedback is welcome !
turns out it's a hard problem - but there has been a lot of progress irrespective of Elon's optimistic timelines
https://archive.is/w61Yy
Or maybe they are the youngest cohort now in the workforce and so get the least interesting jobs and the least slack. Soul of a New Machine quotes Tom West saying (roughly), The problem with brain-dead jobs is that you go home too tired to do anything.
Zinger! Not the same.
* Closed source

* Requires an account to use

An absolute shame in this day and age. But I have a feeling it's a requirement considering they raised $20M before even having a product ready.

Which leads to another point - what are they going to do to make sure they make a return for their investors?
Funniest thing is he said at one point that it is 12 months away, including automatic charging? Does such a thing work anywhere or is even attempted? I haven't seen a car that does not need a physical plug and someone getting out to do it.