skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the inner workings of scams to be fascinating, and it's also important to remind people that everyone is vulnerable sometimes, and scammers are willing to try endless variations until an attack lands at just the right place, at just the right time, in just the right way. If you think you can't get scammed, that makes you especially vulnerable:

No doubt. I think of myself as pretty fairly savvy at avoiding scams of various sorts, but I got nailed about a year ago. And as you might expect, there was one of those "this would only happen due to the the quirks of a specific set of circumstances" things that was part of the story.

To summarize: I had been wanting a set of wrenches. Specifically a set of Capri extra-long, double-box-end, 75 degree offset wrenches. But every vendor that sold them was sold-out. Except for a set that popped up briefly somewhere, that I opted not to buy that specific day, and then they were sold out again the next time I checked. And then lo and behold, one day I find a vendor that purports to have the wrenches I want. The price is reasonable, and their site looks reputable enough, even though I'm not familiar with the vendor.

You can probably guess how this ends. I enter my credit card info, address, etc. and click "order" and am promptly greeted by an "error message". It's only then that I notice a couple of discrepancies about the site that I probably should have picked up on earlier. I pretty much knew I'd been scammed at this point, but I held out hope that maybe, just maybe this was just a new vendor and they were still working the bugs out of their site. And no bogus charges appeared on my card right away... but then about a month later I got hit charges from a Dominos Pizza in Houston, and some online sales b.s. (acne treatment or something). Ding, ding, ding.

Luckily my bank made it straightforward enough to get my money back and get my card replaced. But it's still kind of embarrassing to fall for something like that. And the crazy thing is, if that exact set of wrenches hadn't been sold out (more or less) everywhere for 2-3 months, it would never have happened. But they were, and I let myself get a little too enamored with the idea of scoring a set and I dropped my guard just a bit and bob's yer uncle. :-(
It's high for shopping at Aldi...

But as an individual I'm probably spending 500-600/mo between Publix and Food Lion...so it kind of tracks.
I like your general comment (nothing against the others of course, but your point about engineering trade-offs is always important to keep in mind), so I'll throw this note here:

As far as I understand it, asphalt is also highly recyclable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344252166_Asphalt_P... , referenced from the Wikipedia page about "Asphalt concrete" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_concrete ), includes this quote in the abstract:

"The asphalt industry remains the country’s most diligent recycler with more than 99 percent of reclaimed asphalt pavement being put back to use."
I'm a happy user of Boox Nova Air, this is news to me. Has anyone sued Boox? I'm looking at a new device, maybe an Air 3, but I do not want to get one if I'm subsidizing their legal costs.
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> To make up for the unfairness, mobilized Russian soldiers are being paid Russian/Eastern European white collar level salaries ($2,500/mo) [1]

$2500/mo is way higher than I would have thought they were paying these soldiers.
Show HN: Disorderly – Daily puzzle game where you put items in the correct order
Hi! Been working on this daily game idea for almost a month and figured it's in a state worth sharing now. You can click on "Archive" in the top right to browse the 2 weeks or so of previous games. Would love any feedback or suggestions on any part of it, or even just ideas for a type of question to ask if you have any :D

Tech stack-wise, there honestly isn't too much interesting going on. It's a static site built with Astro and React and deployed on Netlify. I use a Netlify Scheduled Function to deploy the site every day at 12:01 ET to publish the new puzzle, but that's the only "server" piece.
Defcon was always a very boozy conference. It's not a professional event. It's Burning Man for high school AV clubs.
Why? The CEO of a company this big, no matter their background, has no business building an intimate understanding of the tech. They’re there to set up an incentive system to further the goals of their choosing. Neither seems to call for deep understanding of neither. And no background absolves a CEO from building a surface understanding of all aspects of running the business.

TBF, from my experience with VPs, technical background might be a hindrance to executives. The guy who used to work on databases worries about persistence, even though nobody raised that issue. Networking background? Oh well, good that I know why we put this many bits into this field, despite it only needs a couple bytes and we can afford megabytes. Sure, they know their job enough to leave enough time for the actual question. I even understand why they first interrogate the room about some arbitrary cog in the machine. Still makes me wonder if there aren’t better ways to do this.
My Polestar purchase was essentially the same way. PS put restrictions on what the dealership could actually offer as addons (tow-hook, overhead rais for skis, and all weather door mats; all official addons), which meant that I walked in, signed the deal, and was out in about 30 minutes.

Still not as ideal as other countries, but cest la vie.
At least that SAT/ACT isn’t heavy into classic geometry proofs like the gaokao is. It’s literally something you’ll forget after you take the test because trigonometry is so much more effective (Chinese learn both).
Hah...that could easily have been MY backpack.

When I'm at DEFCON, I bring a fun little device. It's an ESP8266 that constantly listens for WiFi probes coming from people's mobile devices. It then displays the SSID (the network name) on a scrolling LED text display. I keep it plugged into one of those Anker battery banks. 10,000 mAh will power it for ~16 hours, so it lasts the entire day.
Except it would be a complete dud, have spun bearings masked with thick oil, any number of issues. Oh and then you get to pay tax on that purchase again.
It's also generally nicer to have a check up before using anyway. Even for a new car
It also comes across as deranged value wise, a investment into juicero hyping up what any street vendor can do, as a tech investment while parts of the world starve.

The again tech, as long as platform and source are unlocked, remains the greatest equalizer in chances there ever was. Your father may sell apples from a cart and the son may sell carts in an apple, passing by all the monopoly walls and hopeless hamster wheel work of traditional caste-locked employment
> I hope India takes notice because so far they seemed to have cared little about the blood on their hands.

If there's a buyer, there's a seller [0]. EU member states need oil, so they buy it via India.

There's no alternative to Russian crude for the European market.

Anyhow, the last time Indian listened to Western oil sanctions over Iran in the 2008-10 period [1], the Indian economy ground to a halt and had a lost decade [2] while China grew with double digits in the same period, powered by Iranian crude.

Oh, and Iran still exists in 2024 and can project even more power than it ever could in 2014.

Given this context, India ain't dropping this competitive advantage.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fuels-russian-oil-ge...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/world/asia/31india.html

[2] - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/cid/...
What's your ideal B2B sales strategy that would work for you?
> It seems more likely that a bunch of companies would perfect all those kinks because there's enough economic incentive to do so.

Not every problem can be solved by throwing money at it (or at all, even). Nobody knows how far AI can go. Those who invest a ton into it just hope that it will become profitable, but really they don't have a clue. It's just a big bet.
I don't think NY grocery markets ever charged less than to maximize their profits.

"Shrinkflation" is a better concept I think, since it implies deception.
Asphalt can be recycled, though. It's more reusable than basically any other option, and I doubt it will disappear any time soon.
I've been to some excellent parties in buildings like that!
Very recently we have also opensourced BUDA, top-down software stack for running ML models on Tenstorrent Hardware: https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-buda

Metalium being the bottom-up software stack giving open access to Tenstorrent Hardware.
Did you read the article? There's way more than "one"
And I judge their coolness by what kind of drinks they prefer to put in it. It's a Möbius thing.
I broke both of my hands because I slipped while cycling on wet cobblestone.
Bill Gates- and Jeff Bezos-backed startup discovers copper deposit in Zambia
Salt doesn't work when it's 10F and you get a foot of snow.
More importantly, there's no measurement of those supposed safety gains at all.

Brick roads are known for making cars lose control and forcing sudden changes in direction.
Does Greece/southern Italy get enough snowfall to even have plows?
In the sense of getting grip when braking
> For good security, you don't leak internal IDs at all, sure. It is rare to find people doing that.

We must live in a different universe.
I'd wager to say that over 90% of all backends leak their primary key when speaking to the front-facing client.
If don't keep old code around, you are forced to either drop pending requests that started on them, or try and replay them on the updated code, which can't be known to be safe. So it's better to keep it around, but this brings in a new set of infra and security challenges, eg where will it run, what will it cost, will it have a vulnerable dependency, etc
Most online stores that do that, when you're about to checkout, they ask you if you want to add a previously viewed item, or some other kind of add-on, etc. Its a sales tactic and I can see how it works. If the FTC is to regulate this, to make it fair I'd say broaden the scope to make it more general for other stores and domains.
Why would you wash bags in a dishwasher? Put them in the clothes washing machine on cold. Don't put them in the dryer.
Yes, as a USA patriot, this is why I've always supported the USA PATRIOT Act. I don't get why anyone would bother looking into it.
Thats stupid insanely high and hilariously out of line w/ normal consumption

Choosing a very high COL area (Westchester), the expected food costs for a family of 6 is 1.7k according to the EPI
Expert here!

You can totally inspect your olive oil yourself. First a primer:
Extra virgin olive oil is the highest grade. This is unregulated and mostly nonexistent in most US grocery shelves.

Here's the criteria I recommend:

- Source. Most Italian olive oil is repackaged Tunisian, Turkish, Spanish olive oil. Which isn't a bad thing but consider why they're not consuming it themselves (Italy and Greece do not produce enough to meet domestic demand). You'll see this by abbrvs like Source: "TN SP TK" (Tunisia, Spain, Turkey).
Look for single source oils. Consider Californian oil (if in the US).
A country does not produce better olive oil than another, it's all up to individual producers. Some of the best oils I've had are from Australia, California, Chile

- Smell! Does it smell like wax/waxy crayons/Crayola? It's probably a bit rancid/old. Not necessarily bad for you but lacks the health benefits (it's not extra virgin at this point if it ever was). It should smell fruity/grassy/green.
- Taste: It should be bitter, fresh, and tickle your throat (that's the antioxidants!). It shouldn't leave your mouth feeling greasy.

- Harvest date: Oil degrades quickly. If there isn't a harvest date, it's probably not great. Should be harvested within the last 2 years, ideally within 1 year.

Extra virgin has the maximum taste and health benefits. Most grocery store oils are simply olive oil - not the highest grade but still significantly better than seed/nut oils.

Source: I'm an olive oil somm
it's not about trust, they will always be indirectly controlled by the US government who could force them to leak/release your data. OpenAI is already working with the US military and removed their restrictions on allowing their AI to be used for military purposes

https://time.com/6556827/openai-us-military-cybersecurity/
You're right. But there are many other sources.

The larger point is that, since you can study for tests (and GPA), that I think conscientiousness dominates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/20/heres...
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> the vast majority are not highly motivated learners

The honest truth is they shouldn't be going to college. Because they went to school and didn't come out cultured or creative.

(I went to a state school. It was easy to structure your schedule with zero liberal arts. I almost did. To the extent I have regrets about my time in college, it's in not taking more liberal arts classes.)
I really wanted to like the Light Phone. It's exactly what I want...except one of my biggest use-cases depends on a proprietary and almost assuredly ephemeral web service.

I want to do basically three things on a phone:

1. Calls and texts
2. Maps
3. Music and podcasts

But the only way to get audio files onto a Light Phone is via uploading them to the web dashboard[0]. I contacted support. There exists no other way, or at least not one they are willing to officially acknowledge. Sorry, I don't trust that a hipster minimalist cell phone startup is going to maintain that service for as long as I plan on using the phone.

Light Phone people, if you're reading this: don't be weird about it! The device has USB connectivity! Just let me plug in a damn cable and transfer files over! There is absolutely no reason to have this whole thing hinge on a web service that I assume you are paying good money to keep online and working. Transferring audio files via USB was a solved problem in the year 2000. [1]

Side note, I'm aware that maps likely also depends on a similar web service, but it doesn't irk me quite as much.

[0] https://support.thelightphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004824...

[1] And this isn't even mentioning that the only supported audio seems to be 256kbs CBR mp3s
The massacre was in Israel, when Hamas mass raped and murdered Israelis.

What happens in Gaza is a justified war to prevent such attacks from occuring again.
Exactly. I physically felt the image to the right in sections 4 and 5 in my wrists.

2, 6, and 7 share many of the same benefits and some of them are used for cycle paths in some places I've lived in.
Yeah I don't know how anyone could seriously criticise asphalt because ripping it up makes it less smooth, but then suggest cobbles as an alternative!

Clearly they have only ever walked on cobbles or seen them in photos.

It definitely is ugly though.
I'm sorry to hear you had that problem, you're not alone. I hope you found some alternative treatment that works for you! It's possible to succeed with CPAP even if it's hard at first, too, with various adjustments. I hope you've found a way to get a good night's sleep.
Yep. Signs was the movie that revealed to me my irrational fear of aliens walking in the distance for uncertain purpose.

Not joking, I am a big strong man but I was holding onto my girlfriend and shaking like a leaf during that movie.

Then the water scene happens and ruined the whole movie for me.

But I still get hairs standing up on the back of my neck if I think too long and hard about 7' tall aliens walking sideways in the distance. (Actually getting creeped out just typing this out).

I love it that there is a thought that can disturb me. I don't know where it comes from and I can't exactly control it.

Anyway, same thing with the Village. Great mood. Great cinematography. Great acting. Supernatural horror ominous period piece. So much well crafted build up that ended with an unfunny rehash of the ending of Monty Python's Holy Grail. Total cop out to the rest of the story. Unforgivable.
I love that this is human-readable plain text. Plain text is almost always the best format for anything.
"Copyleft compliance". Some argue the GPL and other copyleft licences help ensure the right to repair by helping to enforce the availability of source code.

> We recently launched Use The Source (alluded to above), which helps device owners and companies see whether source code candidates (the most important part of copyleft compliance) are giving users their software right to repair, i.e. whether they comply with the copyleft licenses they use.
thanks :) yeah, ava is my pet project, but there was very little activity lately because I was tight on deadline with another project. I hope to get back to it around next week.
Does anyone know whether he's still writing anywhere these days?

I very much enjoyed reading his blog back in the day, as well as his book. I would be interested in reading his takes on more current matters.
It's an old word, but not a common word. Most of us (native English speakers) would never use it.
Ohh got it, love it, thanks. Reminds me of a meme of a powerboard cable going into itself claiming infinite energy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 I would be careful
Yeah anyone who retires with non-trivial investments or savings will probably be a "dissaver" for the rest of their life.
That is an amazing empirical fact. As a physicist, my mind goes to something like the acceleration of the acceleration (jounce), but I can't find a model for what is being observed.
I don't know why other car manufacturers don't make D2C a bigger focus for their business

Because in most cases it's literally illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealerships_in_the_United_...
Missing link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D81y-kh11oI
Perhaps more people are living in piles of misery - it seems that anxiety and depression levels only increase. I see many people try to write this off as some artifact of data/survey or other, and yet, fertility also seems to trend inexorably down. Maybe your beautiful experience of life is more the exception than the rule; certainly that is not how I would describe my life experience.
Tell ya what I want (and actually built a prototype of, but gave up on in favor of alcoholism mid-pandemic): a Bluetooth A2DP-enabled, Wi-Fi capable podcast playing device. I don't want to have to go power on a computer to sync my player with the latest episodes, and I also don't want to be stuck with wired headphones like it's 2007 again. Give me that and I will walk away from the smartphone with little to no negative impact on my life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 please exercise caution
"We created the programs, and once they were completed and tested we handed them off. Others were responsible for maintaining them, we just wrote new ones!"

She'd be right at home in the modern job-hopping work environments.
I agree with 90% of this but I would say it's not entirely "retarded". It USED to be a very valid disadvantage across the board to have a minority race or skin color, but now as racism becomes less pervasive and "affirmative action" has had time to take effect it is becoming less of an effect. To dismiss it entirely ignores how much it seems to have accomplished.

I do hate to see poor and working class white male children pretty much hung out to dry in the eyes of progressives these days.
I'm still surprised how many freeways are asphalt, when it leads to road construction and lane closures every few years.
Can confirm this behavior on iPhone 15 pro max safari ios 17.3
That is the Youtube start page I want but I use history regularly to find videos between devices.
Weird code smell alright https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493
It's not the JavaScript runtime that's faster but the built-in APIs. Supposedly (I haven't tested this myself), Deno has faster implementations of many Node.js APIs, which I have seen reflected in benchmarks for things like throughput in an HTTP server.
I did live in the bay area for a few years. It is expensive but 10k is too much. The generous explanation is you got rich and just gradually went out of touch.

Now I grew up not that long ago. I am still in my twenties and I did grow up in a major city.
But I might be able to provide some perspective.

I grew up without a computer except for old donated beaters. Free. For fun we ran around outside, and hit ant piles with sticks. We ate beans and hotdogs, and old clothes from yard sales. There were injuries. Scrapes and bruises.

There was not a single moment me or my siblings were concerned about wealth or costs or feeling poor. We just had an amazing time playing. Balls, sticks, junk, broken bikes, old hammers, string, nails, grocery bags, old books, half used art supplies. Children do not care about quality. They dont care about nice clothes. They dont care about formal education. They just crave stimulation.

Quality stimulation does not come from money. I dont even know that it can be bought.

When I look back and think about what I would change, I wouldnt add daycare. I wouldnt add nice food or clothes or technology, or tennis teams or memberships. I wish I could have seen my dad everyday. I wish my step dad became better friends with me and showed me coding years before he got cancer and died.

Money is just not what kids need.
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I have been curious about using computer vision to bulk scan and identify valuable coins. Have systems like this been put into use already? If not do you think they might dilute the value of "rare" coins by creating many more "finds" then were typically possible without the technology?
I don't know if the results are replicable, but the idea of using algae as a binder for a bioasphalt seems super neat

https://imt-atlantique.hal.science/hal-01204741/file/Audo201...
Hell, as a motorist, motor cyclist or pedestrian, cobblestones are also terrible!
Based on the discussion in this arbitrary internet forum, it sounds like if cobblestones do get plowed, it's by a specialized plow blade, operated by someone experienced, and they don't plow all the way down to the ground:

https://www.plowsite.com/threads/downtown-cobblestone-street...
I'm so lost in this article. How can the bottom 80% be subsisting off capital gains? And is that table saying they're netting 300+% YoY in capital gains? That number is pretty squarely in the "that can't be right" territory for me?¹

Even if I reinterpret "bottom 80%" as "top 80%" and assume we've somehow inverted everybody because it's the rich that would be spending more than their income, as they'd have significant gains … I'm still lost? Do 80% of Americans have investments? The feeling I get talking to people is that most people don't, outside of a 401k, but they wouldn't be spending from the 401k (unless they were in retirement … but that brings us back to 80%).

¹… except 2018, where they got only 7%? … and yeah, that was a bad year…
The big problem is that the Villa of the Papyri is underneath modern buildings. That doesn't mean that excavation without demolition is impossible (see the Scavi underneath the Basilica of Saint Peter), but it makes things far more difficult.
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