skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is far too easy to conduct a SIM swap attack, and far too easy to steal someone's identity and use that for credit.

And the burden is on us, the consumer, to show our innocence, when in reality, we're the victim. The thief defrauded the bank, and it had nothing to do with us. In fact, a huge majority of the time, the information used to defraud the bank came from another corporate security failure.

But companies have, through legislation, contracts, or simple might-is-right, set a standard where they have to do nothing and it's all on us.

I had to go through a whole host of BS with Verizon to show that even though I've lived in Washington for over a decade, and been with AT&T that entire time, that I somehow decided to head down to the outskirts of El Paso to open a Verizon account at a Walmart, and then run it up with international calls to Mexico and Eastern Europe until they cut it off three months later with $1,200 outstanding.

VZW demanded police report (fine, sure), copies of my ID, wanted utility bills to show my residence in Washington, even asked for (and I refused) copies of "several recent AT&T bills to show I had an account in good standing with them".

Their "preliminary review" said that they were "satisfied that I was the account holder and was liable for the debt". So I asked to see the account information, you know, being the owner of the account and having verified my identity to them...

for absolute hilarity, they refused, citing "account holder privacy".

So... it's my account when they want their money. And not my account when they are, all of a sudden, concerned about privacy.
Its a copy of his yt video, so its an extra 250k, if he spreads that video around on different platforms that pay, its additional money.
Accents often result in much more effort, or computation for us.

I remember reading that humans hear foreign languages louder than their native ones because their brain is desperately trying to parse sense out of it.
Indeed, this might be good methodology background for the current "crisis in cosmology" where new JWST observations "close the gap" so that it no longer includes some previous upper/lower bounds at all ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTe0xRAU1w for a scicomm explainer with more detail )
Yeah I just totally failed at reading comprehension there, sorry. I read “spinner” and assumed you were referring to one of those dial things that scrolls around a UI screen and focuses elements, I should have read literally the next words where you said “for volume.” Oops. You’re right in that we’re in complete agreement.
Oh, that one actually works. Thank you!
HN friends, What are the most popular libraries for fine-tuning? (Not from scratch)
I hope they fixed this bug they introduced in 14.2:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255340598?sortBy=best&p...

I only gotta wait until $COMPANY rolls out this update and hope for the best.
I think that something - or at least one of them - might be objectivity.

An LLM has all of the what and none of the why.
A remote API that goes through someone else’s servers at their cost is a bit different though
The people pushing for "Return-to-office" are by and large people who have substantial portions of their personal wealth invested in commercial real estate. Most wealthy individuals hold at least some real estate in their portfolios, and commercial is much easier to invest in at scale than residential, so the wealthiest folks often have a sizeable chunk of their portfolio wrapped up in commercial real estate. This whole "Return-to-office" thing is a bare-faced lie, as it has absolutely nothing to do with "Productivity," "Creativity" or whatever other BS these people are spewing, and EVERYTHING to do with shoring up the value of their commercial real estate holdings.

It's a lot less PR friendly for them to be honest and say to their employees "You need to spend 2 hours a day in a car in traffic, whilst not being compensated for that time, so the office building I own doesn't lose value" though.
Is SpaceX not a common carrier, like all of the other delivery companies?

They've got a big price advantage, but if they start pulling anti-competitive stuff like disfavoring launches by a competitor, that's going to get them a lot of attention.
Oh, I agree. At one point I did try to research how much good the various (non medical) mitigations did 100 years ago but didn't come up with a lot of good information. Admittedly I'm not sure how much better our handle is on that today around COVID. But we'd have almost certainly done what we had to do even if significantly more people died as a result.
What happens to a business post acquisition by PE?
In a nutshell, post-acquisition growth and margin falter, while debt and capex go up.

The full report is behind an e-mail wall but I wanted to share in case any one of you is interested in digging more into the data.
> You're going to get fewer, more expensive products.

That last much longer.
Absolutely! Happy to share, and totally agree. Very strange times.
The whole push back to the office was primarily from commercial landlords pushing these companies back, CEO pushed middle managers, middle managers pushed the workers. It was never about productivity or anything, it’s all about money, not for the companies but for the landlords.
Sounds like even if he's not interested in cross posting to Twitter immediately for monetisation reasons, he may make some non-trivial amounts by posting videos which are past the peak on YT. If he's not lowering the total YT view, that's almost pure profit.
I've experienced overpriced parts. I've also experienced the inability to acquire parts.

I was able to completely rebuild my Dyson vacuum cleaner, with Dyson parts for a fraction of a new one. My A/C had a control board that went out, and only an authorized dealer could sell a replacement. The catch was, the dealer had to install it. So, since I have the skills, so I thought, I pulled the board, and went to repair it myself. They wanted to charge $1100, when the bad part was $7 dollars including shipping.

But guess what, they have a battery backed latching relay to detect if the boards are disconnected. Those MFr's. I replaced the entire system after this fiasco. There is an Asian company that made fighter planes that escorted bombers to Pearl Harbor, that now make HVAC systems. I would avoid them.

Making your products proprietary is one thing, but intentionally engineering them this way is criminal.
My father owns an electronic repair shop specialized in TV, cameras and Music devices.
The company has official agreements with the big brands to offer official technical support for their products, meaning that they have internal access to repair manuals and repair pieces to order from the official brand. Having a spare part more expensive than the product is a usual tactic from the manufacturer to not comply with the current EU law of producing and having stock of that piece for a minimum amount of years.

The 99% of the customers that are notified of the price of the piece, drop the idea of repairing it as is cheaper to have a new one.
The funny part is that some customers still decides to repair them, and if you try to call the manufacturer to order the repair piece, either they delay months the shipment, or they end up sending the full original product from some old stock as replacement to give to the customer (or to disassemble in the repair shop if the customer still wants his one).

If current laws are, how to say this, "creatively (but legally) avoided" by companies, I really doubt that new regulations will help at all.
Snap explicitly claims to "work to proactively escalate any content that could involve imminent threats to life" [1]. Given this, it seems almost certain that the Wi-Fi explanation is miscommunication, misunderstanding, or misdirection.

On a broader note, two days in jail, two years in courts, and possibly over $100k in fines will make a mess out of a college kid's life. All that for a common joke is downright negligence on the part of the authorities simply because of the high risk of instilling a resentment toward society in the accused. Ugh.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230606001918/https://values.sn...
A guy describing his most basic bitch lifestyle as unique and different from everybody else.
I'd have named it aNTroid
Cat Stagg's artwork.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5769a7a0b3db2b...
Right to Repair is about enabling owners of devices to get their devices repaired, instead of being stuck with the choice of throwing it away and buying a new one. If the manufacturers set the price of spare parts so unreasonably high that repairing is more expensive than buying a new one, then in practice people are still stuck with the choice of throwing it away and buying a new one.

I personally had an experience with a device that costed $300 and would often go on sale for as low as $100. It depended on a cable that broke after a few years. They did sell replacement cables on a difficult-to-navigate website that only ships to US(?), except it costed over $100. It's just a bundle of wires with a proprietary connector on one end. Was my right to repair guaranteed? Sure, I could've bought a cable allegedly worth as much as the device. Even if the cable was not sold, I just as well could've hired someone to reverse engineer the connector and assemble a new cable. I fail to see how right to repair is guaranteed in a reasonable manner though.
HoleFill: Automated Data Curation to Fill User-Centric LLM Knowledge Gaps
"Extra" is dependent on whether the views on X came from users who would have normally clicked through to YouTube or watch, or users who would not have clicked.

This is a weirdly hard number to know.
Spend 2 days fixing a 2 line production problem? Just schedule a meeting with last years self and fix it in development phase
I’ve been playing MHWorld on my steam deck OLED (low settings) at a consistently smooth 60fps. The only hiccup is the new map introduced in the Iceborne DLC (hoarfrost reach, the area covered in snow) hovers around 55-57.

Side note, I’m afraid they’re going to bork MHWorld in an update too. Which would be hugely disappointing as I’ve easily put 100 hours into the game on deck alone.
It works fine now, many sites i visit have a "Deny All" button which was how it was supposed to work. Initially, (inevitably) private corporations found a way to subvert the spirit of the law to their benefit.

Getting the legalise of legislation right first time is almost impossible when there is an army of lawyers, paid by corporations, whose job it is to unpick it.
Yeah, I don't expect a really nuanced blog post from a marketing department...

For your open source repos, how much effort is put into inviting contributions and making it easy to contribute? Growing an open source community is a lot of work, and is a skillset apart from (but not always exclusive of) software development and business development. Many projects don't try, or don't do a good job of it. Some projects (may e most famously SQLite) openly state that they have no interest in outside contributions. (Its a legitimate choice, but the consequences are obvious).
Some infrastructure decisions need to be made by app developers.

For example, anybody with hard security environments (finance, healthcare, defence) needs to make sure that some services aren’t available on the public internet but are capable of communicating with internal services.

This kind of networking requirement is essentially tied to the application layer - only application development organisations can know whether e.g the service to check why a user is banned should be on the public internet.

Such a decision could be expressed by app developers using infrastructure as code, UI toggles or physical buttons in a DC - but it has to be their decision.

Similar logic applies to DNS, data isolation, backup policies, caching strategies and much more.
Good. It absolutely is sexual abuse.
They can make whatever changes they want to the new version as long as I can keep playing the old version. (I'd be okay only being able to play multiplayer with other people also on the old version, but not with being unable to play multiplayer at all.)
It should be tied to market share or revenue. Apple and Bosch and others are not small sweatshops barely scraping by.
Account spoofing is a very double edged sword. I recommend building very careful audit controls and very clear user feedback indicating that you are logged in "as" someone else. I loathe working with products where privilege escalation is officially implemented via account spoofing. icky!
Why would you even compare the two?
Doesn't this assume that no one who watched the video on Twitter would have otherwise watched it on YouTube where the payment per view is higher?
Not everything is an application.

A bunch of scripts in a repo which done something usefull for someone when called in the right order can be very much open source.

Just because a commit accidentally broke the cmake file in a project it doesn’t suddenly become “non open source”. Prevents you from building it for sure, but doesn’t make it non open source.
You make an excellent point but as it turns out the CMB would still appear uniform even the speed of light was not the same in all directions. The reason is that if the speed of light is different in one direction, then the effect of time dilation will also be different depending on direction as well and these two factors cancel one another out resulting in what will still appear as a uniform CMB.

The below paper goes into complete technical details giving an example of the speed of light being c / 2 in one direction and instantaneous in another direction (so that it averages out to c), and how the differing time dilations result an isotropic view of the universe.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12037.pdf
Why car insurance in America is too cheap
All ¥500 coins that glitter are not gold
Yes. Prior to 1995/1996 WFH would have been effectively impossible for 99% of office workers. From around then to around 2007 it would have still been fairly difficult for probably the majority of people. Since then, however, it became more and more feasible for more and more people every year. By the time Covid hit, the real question was why most office workers WEREN'T working remotely.
> Just how "cloud-native" are we talking here?

So we're entirely serverless, using distributed cloud storage and DBs. Basically Diversion is up as long as you don't have a major AWS outage (happens, but rarely).

> Not needing external servers for VCS is one of the things git gets right.

I agree in general. But the way most devs are using git today isn't really decentralized, everything is going into and out of GitHub/Lab. And the more often the better, because CI and merge conflicts. So I wonder if having a VCS that is decentralized in theory really important - taking into account the upsides of building in the cloud (scalability, distribution speed, collaboration etc).
I may be the only one who has never seen any of MrBeast's video. I looked at some of his videos on youtube, and interestingly, they are overdubbed in my native language (French). Quality is so so though.
That's got nothing to do with the story. Maybe people can have different perspectives than you.
> I sometimes like to ask provocatively "What would have happened had COVID happened 25 years ago?"

This is not nearly, to my mind, as interesting as the question "Was COVID the direct beneficiary of 21st-century technology?"

That is, would COVID have had the chance to spread intercontinentally without the benefit of affordable air travel which itself is the byproduct of workers enabled by cell phones, computers, and global economic trade?

Furthermore, had mRNA vaccines been available 25 years ago, many more millions of people exposed to the first virulent strains of COVID would have died.

The idea that workers would have been forced to RTO because WFH would not even be an option does not even rise to the level of fantasy, much less meaningful speculation.
I've never used VyOS but I was wondering what the problem would be. This is what I did to build a .iso (I have no idea if it works or not, I don't have the hardware to test it on), courtesy of their manual https://docs.vyos.io/en/latest/contributing/build-vyos.html:

$ git clone -b sagitta --single-branch https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build
$ cd vyos-build
$ docker run --rm -it --privileged -v $(pwd):/vyos -w /vyos vyos/vyos-build:sagitta bash
[docker] $ sudo make clean
[docker] $ sudo ./build-vyos-image iso --architecture amd64 --build-by "j.randomhacker@vyos.io"

This caused an error message, which I solved using the first result on Google:

[docker] $ sudo mount -i -o remount,exec,dev /vyos
[docker] $ sudo ./build-vyos-image iso --architecture amd64 --build-by "j.randomhacker@vyos.io"
[docker] $ exit
$ ls -l build/*.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 502267904 jan 22 23:55 build/live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 502267904 jan 23 00:04 build/vyos-1.4-rolling-202401222255-amd64.iso

I picked 1.4 because that seems to be the latest LTS branch. Now, I'm not sure why it apt updated twenty times during the process, but after waiting a few minutes, I was left with what seems like a perfectly fine .ISO.

Is this harder than downloading an .ISO from a website? Yes, of course. Do I expect everyone to be able to follow the manual? Probably not. But that's why there are ways to pay VyOS, this is a company doing open source after all.

If you can spare some server capacity and are willing to put in effort, you could set up a script to run the build process automatically and host the ISO files for everyone to download, as long as you remove all the trademarked branding of course.
> people buy products before sufficiently informing themselves

I think you are implying that we should socialise losses - informing ourselves is not free. We don't want to become specialists in understanding paperwork. Expecting individuals to invest time to learn how to make the perfect consumer decision is just unworkable. Making complex tradeoffs between conflicting requirements is an expensive and time-consuming process.

A11y: informing ourselves is not accessible. Not everyone is an engineer/economist type that is good at making complex tradeoffs.

I know that I use some gross heuristics and simplifications when making significant purchases (even though I have some training and natural bent towards product analysis).
This is blockchain all over again isn't it.
It was far better going into an office with no traffic, being able to drive there rather than a crowded train and tube, having an office with maybe 90% of the normal occupants missing, and plenty of room for those of us who were in.

WFH is great for those who commute to an office, it’s quieter than working on a Sunday.
I’ve used both Sapling cli & Graphite with github repos without having to pay anything.

They both have extensions for vscode as well that makes it easier to manage stacks.
> You might ask how they did that, and SpaceX says “here are some examples”.

Right, but why would you believe what they say? I believe they know how to launch rockets, but that doesn't mean they are telling you the reason. They may not want it public, they may want to kiss someone's a-.
I've added an exercise to practice implementing the LoRA forward pass from scratch: https://tensorgym.com/exercises/17
The idea behind LoRA is beautiful, and the implementation is pretty straightforward.
"And it's example of how painful it can be to set that up as NAT broke the original FTP for a while."

NAT broke FTP for about the 5 seconds it took for one to realise they needed to type in the PASV command - which existed right from the start.

It was in RFC 542 (1973) - pre TCP, and RFC 765 (1980) - first post TCP.

NAT dates from around 1994.
Oh, I agree. WFH would have been a blip that mostly didn't work very well for the relative handful of people not already able to do it. Everyone else would have been back in their offices pretty quickly.
>There are no externalities

Well, there are but they are small and better targeted upstream/downstream as either a carbon tax or a waste disposal tax (both things that can, to at least some degree, affect other people). But I agree that appropriately sized taxes relative to the actual externalities seem unlikely to change behavior in this case.
It's not often brought up, but there's several cancers caused by HPV that also affect men, like oral and penile cancer. I've long thought that the vaccine shouldn't just be marketed towards women.
Why not? Both are things that are traditionally done in-person, but went remote during the pandemic.
I certainly regret not reporting a burst tyre while taxiing to depart as we ended up diverted to an emergency landing with all the passengers in brace position. No real harm done but stressful for everyone.
I don't think choice is involved here, public and capital-financed companies that aren't maximally greedy get eaten by those that are. When your competitors raise enough capital to undercut you in the short term, you don't survive to the long term unless you raise more capital as well, and you can't both offer the highest returns, one of you is going to end up buying the other, and only after all the corners have been cut and every customer that can be screwed has been screwed. It's a race to the bottom that doesn't necessarily have a solution. Isn't this essentially how Maytag went tits up? To compete with the cheap foreign appliances they took on a bunch of debt, and then cut costs to service the debt, resulting in the "amanatags" that destroyed the reputation for quality they'd built over 3-4 generations?
> We face regular discussions about why he shouldn't spend $30 on Robux or some other digital currency. I try and explain that these digital currencies don't have real value like, say, a tennis racket or a pair of shoes.

I’m not sure I agree. Value is a deep and multi-faceted concept. It’s very likely that your child would value the games they can purchase with Robux(it’s my understanding that Roblox has a bunch of games that can be purchased?).
Yes, but in an early stage software where engineers already have read/write to prod, account spoofing is so much better.

At a certain scale it needs to go away though, or be very tightly controlled/audited like you say.
Airbus made some design decisions that, in hindsight, weren't great but the side sticks aren't one of them. The captain should have locked out the other controls but didn't. As Air France proved a couple years ago, even force feedback in the controls won't fix the problem of two pilots providing separate inputs and not communicating.
How did it get so popular if disliked by the majority of dev?
I'd better? Or else what?

That's not persuasive. People make things up all the time, especially stories that show how smart <powerful person> is.
I'm the same as you, having the option is necessary for those like me who prefer remote
No. MOS, formed by ex-Motorola employees, developed the 6502. Commodore bought MOS in 1976.
The price of all the spare parts to build an assembly will always be higher than the finished product, absent some crazy imbalance of very high labor and very low parts costs. (Arguably, a block of wood that you can whittle a product out of would sell for less than the finished product, but anything mass-produced will have spare parts priced at some small multiple of the finished good price.)

Why? It's incredibly labor-intensive and logistics-intensive to track and offer one M10x1.25x12mm bolt or one main PCB for a $30 product. When I'm mass producing 5K units, I need 5K PCBs, 15K bolts, 5K upper case halves, 5K lower case halves, 5K displays, 5K buttons, etc. and I can arrange to have them delivered lineside in kits or whatever form I need and I'm pretty much going to use up everything I order in a very predictable way.

When you need 1 display and 2 bolts, I have no guarantee that I can sell all the spare parts I made and stocked, and each little fiddly item I have to have someone inventory, put away, fetch, box, pack, and ship to you. It's going to cost more or you're not going to get it. (Today, you mostly can't get it.)