skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without labor to run their circus, 99% of business would disappear overnight.

Without business, spam would disappear.

So if you remove the labor you remove the spam.

So the best spam filter is UBI.
Tangential. Here's the CCC talk [0] about RFC 9420 Messaging Layer Security, mentioned in the article, and More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) [1] at the IETF, mentioned in the video.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12064-rfc_9420_or_how_to_scale_e...

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/about/
Have you tried the new pipelines built into PowerApps?
Reflecting on my 2023
Oh really?

As someone that once faced serious jail time for plants, I think that would have been a nice option, but I wasted two years of my life in court/etc.
It‘s called UPS and is an external battery box that you connect to your server via USB or Ethernet.
Most consumer & enterprise web services are international, and making an implementation for every jurisdiction is burdensome.

There are also some ugly edge cases - what happens if somebody is too young to get a SSN equivalent (e.g NI numbers in the UK), or somebody expatriates, or if some government allows people to request a change to their SSN-equivalent, or if a customer is a refugee without an SSN equivalent?

I do think SSN-equivalent identifiers may be useful for services which are inherently for tax paying adults like some accounting/banking services or marketplaces.
Niksen: The Dutch solution to busyness that captivated the world
Interoperability does not benefit incumbents, but it does benefit entrants.

The cross-protocol clients back in the day used reverse engineering to work. That would not fly today because today's tech culture is less hacker friendly, more litigious. Such a company would not receive venture funding due to its risky nature.

I think there is room for improvement in messaging, but interoperability makes it more difficult. I think it is in everyone's best interest to first ask for better features, let its inventors make a profit, then worry about interoperability once competitors catch up. If the market is competitive, interoperability can be achieved through coalitions. IBM's MCA vs Compaq et al's EISA is an instructive example.
Identity is fiat. There is no such thing as a permanent identifier for an account. There is no good way to reliably map any identifier to a human.

There is only social attestation.

Any identity system that fails to recognize this will fail to model societal constructs.

http://www.blankenship.io/essays/2023-09-24/
EAC has a proton build now so for new games it should work at least.
> In reality, the sales numbers for iPhone minis were disappointing.

Disappointing by whos metric? It outsold most Android phones and massively outsold first few iPhone models released. Were iPhones 3G, 3GS, 4, etc. also disappointing?

Just because the PERCENT was low, it doesn't mean the SHIPPED UNITS were low.

In reality, any company you create will sell their product in VASTLY LOWER number than any iPhone Mini. Should you be fired and go bankrupt because your sales will be disappointing by Apple standards too? Should we just liquidate all companies that cater to less than 20 millions of unit sold? Should all other companies catering to small (< 20 million, the number of small iPhones shipped) audiences not exist and be replaced by average products for average people? No more Mac Studios, no more XDR displays, no more 15" 4000$ MacBooks?
> One should ask economists what a recession is, not how to predict one.

Most economists would agree. It's everyone else that says "well if you know so much about how shocks and policy changes cause recessions, why can't you tell me if there will be a recession in $country in Q2 2025?". And in economics, "skin in the game" means policy responses to avoid dire forecast outcomes (or lack of them when nobody expect oil prices to change or a major bank to collapse).

There's no shortage of opportunity to make money by beating everyone else at the prediction game, but the funds that have consistently profited from spotting the recessions ahead of everyone else don't exist any more than the always-right public expert forecasters.
Probably due to selecting for bigger peanuts, they've lost the flavor they used to have. I hope I can try these someday.
Or you have financial troubles and no credit card just as you need to renew...

A more permanent way to buy - not rent - domain names would solve many of these issues. And changing ownership of domains should be just as difficult as changing ownership of real estate, the only people benefiting from the current ease of changing domain ownership are speculators.
Perhaps identity should be a form of graph including accounts you had over period of time instead of single input.
DRM is not welcoming by default... sounds like you have double standards
So what was the money wasted on (if you detect sarcasm, please let me know...)?

* $10 million for shared wallets

Hm, why would you want to share a wallet if there are (at least in some countries) apps available that enable the quick and free transfer of money (like Vipps in Norway or Swish in Sweden)?

* $1 billion for a digital freight broker

Wait, was all this done with pencil and paper so far? Logistics is one of the most digitized applications already, so one would need a radical new approach to make inroads here. Seems that this startup didn't have the ideas...

* $20 million for a LGBTQ+ banking platform

Supporting LGBTQ+ is certainly great, especially in the current political climate, but why does a person's sexual orientation or gender identity matter for banking?

* $80 million for pet care telehealth

This will certainly work as soon as my dog is able to tell me where it hurts...

* $200 million for an event organizing social app

People are doing this using regular social networks right now, why would you use yet another, separate social app for this use case?

* $400 million for an unspecified "once-promising cybersecurity startup"

Founded by former NSA director Keith Alexander but insufficiently nasty for the NSA, I assume?

* $17 million for a concert livestreaming platform

Competing with the large established video platforms on the Internet is certainly a great idea...

* $597 million for a real estate developer turned tech-enabled prefab homebuilder

Lowering the cost of constructing housing is a good idea, but the current situation (at least what I observe here in Germany) is that there are no affordable plots, too much bureaucracy, and a significant lack of qualified craftsmen. Prefab houses themselves are a pretty old idea, so it's not clear what benefits "digital" may offer here (the article is extremely low on details...).

* $121 million for an Indian fintech underwriting small ticket loans to first-time internet customers

Small loans for people who want to open a shop, restaurant, etc., sounds like a good idea - especially in developing countries. However, it didn't really work out the last time it was tried around 2010: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12035909

and, amazingly, CloudNordic, founded in 2007(!), in included in the list. They succumbed to a ransomware attack, but where's the relation to startups?
Not every gamer wants an esport experience to have fun
Might as well be
This [1]. There were a few HN readers there, so, yeah.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/gallery/15skh75
You could just connect the bulbs with WiFi!
From elsewhere in this thread:

> Also worth checking out for more general use of LLMs in emacs: https://github.com/karthink/gptel
Ask HN: Is there any good Linux-based mining pool software?
Everything I've looked at hasn't been touched in a decade on github. Looking to run my own mining pool for Bitcoin (and shitcoins if possible)
You can thank Intel for artificially segregating the market by limiting ECC to their more expensive W680 chipset. I went with AMD and ECC RAM at the cost of power efficiency. However, CPU and Motherboard alone would have cost double compared to my AMD config.
Git history is as strong as evidence as a copyright string. One can forge a repo with dates they need and upload it to github. With a well-versed arbiter you’ll probably end up looking at internet archives.
> Email addresses ARE a great natural ID for an e-mail mailbox.

Not even then (at least not great). Companies change domains, primaries become aliases etc..
The abstract seems to make the concept more profound than it actually is... and I daresay is prone to confuse the uninitiated.

For one I don't think there's understood to be an implicit physical principle in Church-Turing thesis. The core idea of the thesis is that human thought can be modeled by a Turing-complete machine.

It is silly to say that the thesis implies an assertion that the classical(non-quantum) physical system popular at the time, now known to be flawed (and possibly inconsistent), could be simulated by a Turing-complete machine. What I'm trying to say is, if the best known physical system known by science could be wrong or flawed or inconsistent (and it always has been, we haven't cracked all the secrets of the physical universe yet), it seems silly to assert that some computing system could perfectly simulate it.

IMHO those ideas would be relevant only if there is evidence that human thought is capable of performing computation that cannot be simulated by a classical Turing machine because the human mind uses some features of the physical universe that the machine did not use. But on that front, AFAIK, classical computers can simulate quantum computers albeit with an exponential slowdown.
What do you do with the excess power?
ternary is not the important part here, could write it with if and early return too.
oh good heavens, would you look at the time, it's time for the monthly thinkpad circletrek.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38257284#38262457

I feel that any laptop that doesn't have at least a thunderbolt port is obsolete in this day and age.

It's not the port itself, it's just a handy way for me to determine a cut-off for when a laptop is too old, green m&m style. If it doesn't have a thunderbolt port, it's probably missing other necessary features I might require too.

my current laptop (X230T) doesn't have one and it works fine, I love the little thing, but my next laptop will definitely have one. I feel you need to have at least one foot in the current world.
And on Mac OS you'll get a popup dialog that lets you select programs you want to force quit to free memory. Which is a nice idea as everything else stays responsive, unfortunately it doesn't list any system processes so it's useless if one of them has a bug - which is the reason I even learned of the existence of this oom dialog.
You don’t really lose anything by losing your Amazon account. It’s not like precious data is stored there. It might make returns more difficult, but in some sense that’s a feature from their perspective, and in any case it’s just another entry in their master support call center flow chart
> It's the closest we can easily get to the 'average user experience'.

Maybe it's the closest we can get (though I doubt it), but it definitely isn't close enough to tell us anything about the "average user experience".

The average user has been using google for years, without taking any steps to avoid personalization. An incognito session (on a browser / machine / network that is probably fingerprinted...) is pretty much the opposite of that typical usage pattern.

I recognize that just writing a blog post or comment on HN is not a research project so needs to do something quick, but I think it mostly invalidates the experiment. What would get closer would be to devise a few user personas and attempt to search and browse for awhile within those personas before trying the experiment. Or much better yet, put together a focus group comprised of real people within the personas you're interested in, and run the experiment using their real accounts.

> If we posit that every user eventually trains Google to avoid SEO spam

I don't think it's that, I think it's that every user trains it to return results more likely to improve the metric of "more likely to click one of the links", and I think that makes it more, not less, likely that they see what most of us here consider to be spam.

But I don't know! Maybe that's not what this experimental setup would show. But it would be a lot more enlightening than a setup using a fresh incognito window, which reflects the usage pattern of a proportion of search queries that is a tiny rounding error above zero.
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It would be or a chaos or very limiting expect that companies would interact with a lot of govs to get authentication. It's way cheaper leave as is.
Having worked in PowerApps the last year and integrating a rest API in Azure that then updates Dataverse, low code is just short for abstraction layers. As a developer, this irritates the hell out of me.

Sure, you can view your Dataverse database in SSMS, but it's read only and you get no autocomplete.

And don't even get me started on XRM Toolbox.
Tiddlywiki's markup language makes portability a bit more difficult, so it's likely a good thing that you shifted to fully using Markdown. (You can use markdown in Tiddlywiki, but I think that adds an extra step to the authoring process (selecting the language for each tiddler).)

I moved away from using TW for personal stuff because its authoring interface was too disconnected from where I primarily take and consume notes (mobile). I use mostly Obsidian now + SSG for website generation.

If you use the Tiddlywiki NodeJS version, each tiddler is stored as a separate file, allowing them to be easily version controlled for a documentation project.
Bottles is the end game for wine style containers and windows games.
I can't believe such satirical gold is getting downvoted.
You're the third person in the last 40 minutes to post a comment in this thread sharing a link to promote that project. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... It must be a good project.
In a previous embedded job, I built a daemon watching a couple of “at risk of eating too much memory” processes that were not critical for the actual function of the machine, and killed them proactively when memory started getting low. This prevented the system from going into starvation and spending 10 seconds doing whatever each time an Ethernet packet came in.

As for my pragmatic solution at home: max out the physical RAM…
You can get a USB-C to classic laptop adapter for a few dollars on AliExpress.
Steve Jobs also thought the phones don't need apps despite customers telling him otherwise. The customers were right.
He also thought they don't need 3G despite what customers told him. The customers were also right. He also thought that they don't need copy/paste. The customers were, again, right.

Cherry picking data is great, isn't it?
My thought is in a complex system the cause of the regression is not usually near the point of failure, so debugging can become unmanageable without the upfront effort of identifying a small set of changes that might be responsible, so you have some more places to set your breakpoints.
Duolingo's Layoff: AI Takeover, Impacting Human Translators
Still don’t get it
If you want a counter example, go and investigate algo trading hedge funds - you'll find they do a pretty solid job of predicting the future. Sure, some of them predict only a few ms into the future, some a few minutes (the one I worked for was in that category) and others will do interday strategies.

I'm pretty sure there are examples which have a track record of decent returns above the markets they trade in with longer term strategies.

So, i'd say there are examples of forecasting working, but generally the people who are good at it don't write about it, and instead use their knowledge and ideas to quietly make money from their insights :)
Or they could just not trust the clients, instead of throwing the problem over the wall. A lot of these games with fancy anti cheat protection the cheat tools basically just tell the server "spawn me a vehicle right here" and the server just does it. Garbage.
America doesn't care about the war in Yemen.

The US props up the Saudi regime with economic and military aid. Of course, it does this for its own foreign policy reasons. But basically the Saudi regime cannot survive without US support. The US protects the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. That's why the US could've ended the war with Yemen with a phone call.

All it takes is the threat of ending sanctions on Iran (which should end anyway). Same with Venezuela.

This isn't the 1970s. The US is now a net oil exporter [1] and the largest single oil-producing country by far [2].

[1]: https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/artic...

[2]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709
You can complain but if the inefficient sites work fine on 95% of modern computers it doesn't make business sense to optimize them.

You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either.
There are several countries with the same format and country code.
What is the best approach to dealing with this problem as an individual?

Gmail? You might randomly get locked by some AI algorithm (or you might get banned!), or something else goes wrong, and there's no recourse.

Yahoo? I recently lost access to mine because they decided to start demanding verification with a deactivated email I haven't had access to for 15 years in order to login. Luckily, I had access in an email client, so I was able to migrate all the important accounts off of it.

Yahoo/AOL/Tutanota/Protonmail/Many others? These ones will auto-delete your account if you don't login frequently enough (not protonmail yet, but they allow it in their TOS)

Self-host? All self-hosting infrastructure requires an email in the first place. Lose access to that email, lose access to payment reminders, potentially your hosting account. I nearly lost my domain since the payment reminders went to an email that I rarely check because it doesn't support IMAP. And there is a greater increase of hacking unless you're a professional sysadmin and have plenty of time for maintenance.

Duo push? Your phone breaks.

SMS verification? Phone breaks, lose access to your plan, compromised employee gives your codes away, etc.

I've settled on using my university gmail address since (1) they promise alumni can keep it and (2) if something goes wrong with it (likely losing 2-factor by losing my phone), there is a good alumni support center. There really needs to be a human I can talk to somewhere. Still not sure if this is the best approach; am I still at risk from Google here?
A wiki about file formats:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/
You could use the +whatever trick. Or if in Gmail, the dot . Trick.
OMG, thank you!
I go between different switches but the Kailh Box series is a really solid choice and they make some great tactile switches that are IMO much nicer than MX Browns.
How is Flowpilot compared to OpenPilot? Is it better in some ways?
Yeah, it's amazing how much this whole thread explains why modern software and tech products are such garbage which doesn't do anything that users want.

If I reuse the crappy car analogy from above: modern software engineers and product managers will look at your broken alternator and tell you that you need a new LCD screen on dashboard while gaslighting you that alternator isn't actually something that needs to work in a car. Despite you really needing it for the damn thing to run.
EAC has had a wine build for a long time (over a decade?). That doesn't mean games enable it.
How safe are your Linux distribution's repositories?
Show HN: Guess the secret movie with the help of AI
The objective of the game is to discover the secret movie of the day. To do this, you must guess movies that you think might be similar to the secret movie. You can guess as many times as you want.

A machine learning algorithm trained on user-assigned tags to movies evaluates the similarity between the movie you guessed and the secret movie and shows you what they have in common. You can also ask for 3 hints.

There's also a Portuguese version you can play on https://www.filme-secreto.com.br/
That is a strange statement given the significant us participation in the war.

Let me guess - You also don’t consider the current government “Yemen” but rather a rebel group fighting the true government of Yemen that just happens to control only uninhabitable mountains.
Implementation of Mamba with Rust
Back in the day I did some reverse engineering on the files inside Microsoft Windows CHM documentation files, after some other folks did the container format.

http://chmspec.nongnu.org/latest/
Yeah, this is what you do when you disagree with the policy and are doing the bare minimum to say you’re in compliance.
In the evolutionary sense, the intelligence emerged as, and has always been used as a weapon. Not sure what this can say about its “safety.”
I checked for a specific default value (server-generated), so having no-value or a random value both wouldn't work.

It is pretty effective in most cases at evading most bots and dumb attempts, but it's also trivial to defeat if you're being targeted.
I was thinking of this as I was reading the comments on another thread here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816135

Like if you have logic apps and azure Data pipelines, how do you create and more importantly keep current the local development equivalents for those?

I'm not saying if you are YouTube that all the videos on YouTube must fit on a developer's local machine but would be nice if you could run the whole instance locally or if not, at least be able to reproduce the whole set up on a different environment without six months worth of back and forth emails.
> Dan at least started to provide actual evidence and criteria by which he would score results, but even he only looked at 5 examples. Which really is a small sample size to make any general claims.

US NIST, in their annual TREC evaluation of search systems
in the scientific/academic world, use sets of 25 or 50 queries
(confusingly called "topics" in the jargon).

For each, a mandated data collection is searched by retired
intelligence analysts to find (almost) all relevant result,
which are represented by document ID in general search and by a regular expression that matches the relevant answer for question answering (when that was evaluated, 1998-2006).

Such an approach is expensive but has the advantage of being reusable.
Vendors are tuning their implementation (e.g. the schema, indexing, and queries used to implement the benchmark) and also their database system, but they cannot tune the benchmark workload itself. Apologies if this was ambiguous in my comment.

It is quite typical that vendors find performance issues in their systems when they first adopt the benchmark. This then leads to improvements in their operators, optimizer, storage, etc. These improvements will be included in a new release of the system – which is great, as a main point of the benchmark is to drive innovation and raise the general level of performance in the technology space.

It's important that the audits can only be conducted on systems that are generally available. We don't allow audits on some one-off version of a system that has special features just to perform well on the benchmark (these are known as "benchmark specials" and are also illegal in TPC benchmarks).
TIL about RAUC (https://rauc.io/) I had been wondering how valve implemented the A/B update scheme.
Sure, I'm not arguing for everyone to use JSX (I personally use Reagent/Hiccup in ClojureScript most of the time, which are just built-in vectors (arrays) basically).

I'm just explaining to someone why people chose JSX in favor of X, when they come from a HTML/CSS/JS background.