skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we have an honest conversation about whether there's any good reason for Viagra to require a prescription?

The barrier right now is that you have to waste 2 hours and $100 to tell a doctor that you have ED. What's the point? It's not stopping anyone except people too poor or busy to jump through the hoops.
> If you can add devices without entering encryption info, how can it be properly E2E?

It can’t. I don’t know about FF, but if you can add a device without explicit approval of one of your existing provisioned devices it is what I call Fake E2EE.

You see different providers go to great lengths to do device local encryption etc but due to product requirements (“what if a user loses their device or forgets their passphrase”) they keep a copy of the key, yet slaps the e2ee label on their product. So now it’s just regular encryption at rest with all the risks (subpoenas, rogue employees, company gets acquired, new CEO starts drooling over data broker dollars etc), only with much more technical complexity since data now needs to be read-writable client side by different software versions, increasing the risk of corruption, data loss and bugs.

Password managers with true e2ee actually suffer from these corruption issues from time to time. But that’s a price that must be paid for the e2ee level of security. It’s not for everyone – I wished there was more honesty around this instead of diluting meaningful and precise terms.

Edit: seems like FF has e2ee, see sibling comment.
I hire a ton of engineers in LATAM who have no interest in migrating to US. They get paid well in USD, they live in kings and queens in their respective low cost countries. In fact, looking at their live inspired me to make the decision to leave.
The Canadian tech market is particularly small by most standards.

Tech salaries there are lower than what a skilled employee can get in Israel, China, or India.
I was really sad when I heard about this. I've enjoyed the Smothers Brothers since I was a kid and found my parents' records of them. "Mom Always Liked You Best," falling into a vat of Chocolate, Streets of Laredo, My Old Man, John Henry, Crabs Walk Sidways, Pretoria, etc, etc. If you have never watched them before, look up a few of these.
I was fortunate enough to see them in person when they performed in our city about a decade ago.

Did they ever do just a straight music album? That would have been great. Streets of Laredo starts off so beautifully.

EDIT: Here, I'll help you out:

Streets of Laredo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDmdSPKR73o

My Old Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgD1o9I8hw0

Pretoria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5IIsCFTCo

Crabs Walk Sideways: (be patient through the first minute or so) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en54Im4qBOA

Chocolate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH0IZZRd0bI

Six String Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MUytzDQog

Boil that Cabbage Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfILH3JKQg
TFA's notion of entrepreneurial returns is in contrast to the innovation-free profit rate
What is staff level total compensation? In big tech you can make $1M/year with 8 years of experience.
See also the article from Ars Technica in June 2023: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/click...
You can't reproduce on the web interface, because the temperature settings are higher than what's required to compress the text. You need to use the API.

However, I had good luck reproducing poems on GPT 3.5, both copyrighted and not copyrighted, because the choice of words is a lot more "specific" so to speak, and therefore higher temperature isn't enough to prevent complete reproduction of the originals. See https://chat.openai.com/share/f6dbfb78-7c55-4d89-a92e-f4da23... (Italian; the second example is entirely hallucinated even though a poem with that title exists, while the first and third are recalled perfectly).
It shows nothing of the sorts for me. Try uBO if you are not using it.
If you open the door wide enough, salaries will drop. It’s an economic reality. It may be a very good thing for the wider economy and stock market though. Right now critical roles that enable high productivity work are behind a tall wall of a multi-100k salary. It’s possible that we are letting a small number of engineers get early retirements in exchange for a drag on the whole economy.
I haven't had the time to set-up whisper - but I don't even have a gpu. By the way Deepgram hosts Whisper too, but according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367655 their models are much better. Transcribing the video was almost instant.
It's too bad this is always one of the most upvoted comments on every FF thread when it just doesn't reflect reality.. been using Firefox for basically it's entire existence and it just works. It's always worked. Never been significantly slower than Chrome, at least to an extent that it matters, and now it's not slower at all. I don't have Chrome installed on my computer since everything works. What parallel reality do others live in?
Even tire brand/model (and wear) can have a significant effect on braking distance.
That's not the case, as they aren't trying to get a ruling on the forced reproduction by prompt as infringement, but rather to get a ruling that training is infringement.

I fully agree with the perspective that infringement in usage needs to be limited even if I strongly disagree that training is infringement.
Anyone have an idea of what's likely to happen here? Fines or something more serious such as being barred from selling whole categories of products?
The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994)
I checked a random amazon basics powerstrip and there's an ETL certification mark on them. As much as it's popular to hate on amazon for fakes/subquality products, your particular example is a poor one.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/...
> Docs should tell a story when you can

Depending on what the author means here, then please don't. I cannot work with documentation that attempt to convey technical information using a cute story. I don't care about Jim who's trying run a porn site, I just need to know how to configure mod_rewrite.

That's also why I could not get through "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby", it might be the best thing ever written but I don't care for the fiction wrapper, it's distracting.
Nah, I have the same experience as the GP, and in every HN thread about email self-hosting, there are a number of comments along the lines of “I’ve been self-hosting my email for 10-20 years and never had any problems”. My SME employer also self-hosts without issues.

Experiences obviously differ, but it’s unclear where the differences stem from, apart from long-term IP reputation.
Bing AI chat wants edge, change the user agent to that and it works on firefox
How is it a win for the United States if American companies are employing less people in the country, and instead are paying remote workers who pay taxes elsewhere?
I think one of the key differences is something pointed out in the article, in that what the Open AI is doing is a substitute for reading the new york times and possibly a rival to it.

On the other hand having an archive link to a times article in order to discus it is not really a substitute for a times subscription as a news paper has to walk a line of letting some of it's articles be read while requiring payment for others (the times actually allows you to create a "gift link" to do exactly what the archive links do).
And if minimum wages were, in fact, limited to teenagers who were fully supported by their parents (as opposed to, say, teenagers whose parents were disabled, already living on a fixed income, or otherwise poor and relying on the extra income from the teenager's job), that might hold some weight.

As it stands, people just use that as an excuse for retaining sub-livable minimum wages for everyone.
They posted an article a while ago with a high level overview of how FF Sync encryption works, but the TL;DR is that the key for E2EE is derived from your account password.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
Assuredly so.
I was just going to post this. Seems quite an obvious and significant distinction, that doesn’t need to provoke all the existential hand wringing. Making money off someone else’s content is a totally different moral and legal case.
'generally safe' implies that some small number of folks still suffer from excess iodine due to contamination, manufacturing errors, etc...

It's probably reasonable for 999 999 people to benefit in exchange for 1 person being very unlucky, but that's a different argument that needs to be made.
The problem with buying by the crappy DRM version is that it provides no incentive to the publisher to change. I have thought about this long and hard, but ultimately the only way Spotify came about was because nobody bought the terrible DRM’d music the labels wanted to foist on us. We need to inflict the same pain for books.
Personally, I think it would be preferable to donate the same amount to the Books Trust or your local library.
HTML's media.canPlayType only returns "maybe", "probably" or ""
> This isn't because most international students love academia: It's because the immigration system, as described earlier, just makes the piece of paper they hand you so much more valuable that it'd be for someone that is already a US citizen.

Nonsense. I've been at a typical STEM department at a top us institution for a decade and interacted with thousands of students. I can count the number of students who were in it for a visa. You don't do a 5-6 year PhD simply for a green card. There are easier ways.
Link please? I can’t find it
A middle ground is to let a pharmacist dispense it after going over side effects, instructions, interactions and existing conditions (without a Rx).
It’s hard to compare given the intermittency, but I do agree the cost is a bit absurd. It’s painful because it doesn’t have to be this way but we’ve cornered ourselves via regulation into bad designs
Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' used in iPhone attacks
Heard a talk once by someone that managed nutrition for an NFL team. She said periodically clusters of players would pop positive for meth and inevitably it would be some new supplement that was giving them results and they told all their teammates about it. They’d just tell them to quit using it and move on. Interesting story, possibly true.
I'm no different from the many dozens of contractors we already pay who are located in other countries. The IRS does not require tax contributions from company or the contractor if the contractor's domicile is outside the US and does not meet the substantial presence test.

Don't worry I've done my research and consulted tax lawyers. It's all very much legal.
You can earn European level tech salaries in Bangalore and Beijing now. There isn't as much demand to move there and uproot your family just for $30-50k a year.
They have always responded to me when I have contacted them. I have had to contact them twice.
If you've ever been with a startup that needed a 510k, you'd know that the FDA regularly monitors everyone for compliance. At least in my narrow domain of medical imaging and treatment planning devices they do. I'd be surprised if they didn't have similar mechanisms in place in every area of their 'jurisdiction'.

It doesn't really hurt the Amazons, they're just distributors. Doesn't really even hurt me. If RTP is a part of my software product I should be under a microscope. It's going to be small people who try to market supplements who will get trounced now. Because every report will, by law, have to include the source of the product. And that source company or individual is in for a long year. Even shutting down won't end their legal obligations in a lot of cases.

On the other hand, that was, in part, the original point of the FDA. To stamp out the snake oil salesmen. So, yeah. I guess they're just carrying out that mandate in new and updated ways.
Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management
Anytype is built on the open-source AnySync protocol: a local-first protocol based on CRDTs. Users of Anytype can create spaces - graph-based databases with modular UI. Each space has unique access rights. Today, Anytype's beta is in single-player mode. Multiplayer mode, which will support local-first collaboration between multiple users, will be launched in the first half of 2024.

Anytype fulfils the seven ideals of local first software from here - https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ , our team felt these things are important to all of us:

• No spinners: your work at your fingertips. Anytype keeps the primary copy of each space on the local device. Data synchronization with other devices happens quietly in the background - allowing you to operate with your data at your fingertips.

• Your work is not trapped on one device. Users can easily work on different devices. Each device keeps data in local storage, synchronisation between devices happens in the background using CRDTs to resolve conflicts.

• The network is optional. Everything works offline. Data synchronization need not necessarily go via the Internet: AnySync allows users to sync data via local WiFi networks. Still, there is a role for the network - it works as additional backup, helps with peer discovery and especially solves the closed-laptop problem (you made changes on laptop, when your phone was offline, the changes can either sync when both devices are online or via backup node).

• Seamless collaboration with your colleagues. Achieving this goal is one of the biggest challenges in realizing local-first software, but we believe with CRDTs it's possible. AnySync supports it & we will release multiplayer version soon.

• The Long Now. Because you have a local-first application, you can use it on your computer even if the software author disappears. This is also strengthened by open data standards and open code.

• Security and privacy by default. AnySync uses end-to-end encryption so that backup nodes store encrypted data that they cannot read. Conflict resolution happens on-device. The keys are controlled by users.

• You retain ultimate ownership and control. Users control encryption keys; there is no central registry of users (we don’t ask even your email). We added an option to self-host your backup to support full autonomy of users from the network.
replicability is unenforceable
Apple straight-up disallows MacOS updates on plenty of Macs that could easily update, too. I'd even argue they're worse than Microsoft about it; I heard about Opencore Legacy Patcher looooong before I knew people were modifying Windows 11 images to get a working install.

> you can argue that it's "easy" to install Linux on it

In my experience, the average Linux install wizard is less technically involved than the MacOS one. So yeah, maybe I would argue that.
What are you talking about lol. Plenty of people work remotely for American companies and get paid over wire transfer.
MDN

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...
> instead maintain a list of previously viewed items for each user, and to exclude them from the results

For something like XKCD this is a very good idea. It mitigates two possible perception problems amongst users:

1. Regular long-term readers who see true random as less so because it seems to show them things they already remember more than novel examples.

2. People who are regular and been around a while, but not for the half the length of the site's long history, because again they'll see less of what they've already seen than they would with true random.

The issue for a site like XKCD is the fact that many won't want to be tracked so for them any such effort is wasted. You can store the data in localstorage (it is a feature that can live without needing to track the same user between different devices and UAs) to mitigate the concern, but that is usually blocked by blocking cookies due to it having similar potential for more nefarious activity tracking.

To be honest, I'd just not bother. People will still complain anyway!
This just happened to me too. Checked my linux machine and they were there. Backed em up.

What the heck
Have been searching for a Bluetooth solution to switch my keyboard+mouse between multiple devices. Only found Logitech MX keys - pricey.

Maybe it could be implemented using Raspberry Pico? I think I found me a new side project!
I don’t have time to go down a YouTube rabbit hole but in my experience it’s quite simple - you just have to do near-far-near focusing while outdoors. I read this on HN years ago right after getting my first indication that one eye was just barely no longer 20/20. I was always proud of my perfect vision and was quite worried. Since then I have tried to do several of those near-far-near transitions outdoors every morning and my vision is back to perfect in both eyes and has stayed there. Look at a finger, look at a tree far away, back to my finger. I would highly encourage anyone to start doing this regardless of current vision.
Huh? There's plenty of ready clients and servers.

It's limited to those that are primarily interested in text (and the occasional image). Which probably prevents it from ever going mainstream (and thus an eternal september). What it's generally sacrificing is interactivity.

That seems like it's shooting more for the early internet. Which, yeah, has quite a bit of overlap with people who can code, but not as much as you're implying. And I do remember quite a few echo chambers on the early internet, but I remember a lot less of them without algorithmic feeds. Just by chance, you'd end up running across a bunch of people who disagree with you on a lot of things.
>We admire the Victorian era bridge still in use but forget all the bridges that long ago collapsed,

Engineers tend to put care into building bridges that don't collapse, and have been doing so for millenia so collapses can happen, but are rare. "All the bridges that long ago collapsed" is in my opinion not all that many bridges, really [1], and lots of people remember the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. I still remember the bridge collapse from the Northridge quake too.

Bridges are a special case of civic architecture where long durability and long reliability are taken into account that are kind of a special class, so they're probably not a great thing to generalize from.

[1] You can judge for yourself from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
> most people realize that their Outlook/Hotmail email service is defective

This is exactly what I've begun telling people and warning friends and family members about. I run my own email... well I run my own ISP at this point and we have our own dedicated block of IPv6 addresses but still rely on IPv4 addresses from our cloud providers and I've started to grow frustrated by the lack of movement by the incumbent email providers that I've started just straight up telling people don't expect any email delivery from me if you're using any provider that still lacks proper IPv6 on their SMTP servers.

It's no longer my problem and I will happily tell people that their email provider is defective and that they need to find a new host. If that is too much for them, to bad so sad not my problem. I did everything I could do. At some point you have to stop trying to work around "Big Cloud" and their nonsense.
> Unfortunately these are restricted for use by governmental agencies for important official notifications (e.g. you're being conscripted, your marital status changed, something has changed in regard to a property you own).

When your marital status changes, isn't that a notification that goes from you to the government, and not the other way around?
It's not. It's just a WIN WIN for the company and the individual.

But this is what the US is encouraging with its immigration policy so you reap what you sow.
Come on Justin, you used to write spicier articles when I worked at stackbuilders. What happened?
Again I'm not a dev but :

- for ansible on reasonably large projects (a dozen of roles) it was never a problem ; you have to understand how the project has been structured and be able to use grep and find though

- when I was playing around with os161 I don't remember it being an issue. Although for this particular case I did use the cscope vim plugin which is helpful to navigate through the codebase (there are equivalents for various languages). Not sure if os161 would qualify as "large codebase" but it's a bunch of files in a bunch of folders.
Is Doom Emacs really 500 MB? How did the author determine that?

I use vanilla Emacs and I believe it was closer to 100 MB when I installed it.

Related: I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find a development setup that runs on low-end hardware (as a reaction to modern bloat, and also as a way to minimize distractions). It has many flaws, but Emacs with Common Lisp is my current sweet spot of “price” (resource requirements) to “performance” (features+speed).
I've updated it. Realized that I would need to revisit the idea after a few months to see if the initial idea was correct. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.
Would you make the same argument for a sporting, theatrical or music event? That you should be refunded if you didn't enjoy it?
The problem with most of these discussions is they assume Gemini is a substitute for the web, when it is actually a substitute for Gopher.

Gopher never really went away. A few enthusiasts were keeping it alive. Those enthusiasts realized that Gopher had a number of shortcomings, so Gemini was created to address those shortcomings. It was not created to address the shortcomings of the web. (At least not directly. Indirectly one could argue those enthusiasts kept Gopher alive due to the shortcomings of the web.)

As for styling and inline images: in a sense, Gemini offers styles to a limited degree. Those styles are tied to the structure of the document, while the appearance is left to the software rendering the document. Even though inline images are considered a faux pas, I seem to recall Lagrange offering that feature. Again, we are dealing with the rendering software making the decision rather than the author. Since the end user chooses and configures the rendering software, it is the end user who has control (rather than the author).
"Let's ban something capable of diagnosing medical conditions and letting coma patients to communicate with an EEG because it learned the relationships between words from a giant data set of scraped data and is owned by a company" is a pretty callous take IMO.

The opportunity cost of holding this technology back is going to literally be millions of people's lives given current trends in its emerging applications.

Police usage, not training.
Something that's frustrating to me wrt Safari is my, admittedly edge case, in which the company I work for won't allow using personal Apple IDs on company supplied macs. Apple only allow Safari sync to work between computers with the same Apple ID, which I sort of get, but still that makes it useless to me.

This same-Apple-ID restriction causes other issues too, like not being able to use my iPhone as a webcam on my work mac even though I can use my AirPods on that same mac because reasons.

Luckily for me, I'm super happy with Firefox.
So, what allows accessing content under IP illegally is not liking the marketing strategy of the content owner?
Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Attention GCN
That would definitely violate his strict license:

/* Copyright 2023. All unauthorized distribution of this source code
will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law*/

And with such elegant code, who can blame him?
> It seems to be an argument that we should

That's just you changing the topic and flamebaiting into arguing about grammar.

The matter is that OP hasn't made any great mistake (or any mistake, I believe) by saying 'learnings'. It was unnecessary and off topic to correct them. This should have ended there.
This Joe Armstrong quote sums up NPM:

"You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."

(originally on object oriented programming)