skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I do that too. The tablet is my primary and tied to my stratux for ADSB/weather/GPS for navigation and awareness.

Having a list of frequencies and VOR settings on the old junk I use, a marked up map is really handy. I like doing a loop around MSP (KFCM > KLVN > KSGS > KSTP > KANE > KMIC > KFCM) so a lot of frequency jumps. You can see what the EFB is more or less going to look like - so a sharpie on paper to supplement a 7" screen helps. Especially at night when everything is harder to read.

https://skyvector.com/?ll=44.86894876350407,-93.339629167906...
Election denialism isn't new here, it's a healthy tenet of a functioning democracy. The Republicans did it in '20, the democrats did it in' 16, the democrats did it in '00. The people need the freedom to question an election's legitimacy in order to trust the results. Banning dissent will demolish trust in fair elections, not increase it.
this resonates. i will share that i'm trying out and having luck with flux.ai. it's not perfect, but for a small hobby project and someone with little experience and not getting far quickly in kicad, it works. i have a pcb in-hand from jlcpcb right now and it works. it also introduces some of the shared features discussed above. (i don't work for them, just looking for something that would let me do a fairly fast PoC)
I am occasionally out of the country for more than a month... I usually pause my phone plan because I don't want to pay for a service I am not using. Sometimes I even get a different number when I return and restart my plan. That is why I use Google Voice, because I can use it over wifi or a data only plan, and the number doesn't change. But now, some stupid companies are blocking Google Voice from being used.
Wouldn't storing wine in a giant plastic bag significantly affect the taste?
A Passkeys Implementation Case Study Based on Fido UX Guidelines (2023)
Sounds like the Igneous playbook, from what I've heard. Immediately after launch they laid off a majority of the dev team, as they'd outlived their usefulness after completing the crunch. I interviewed there but fortunately declined the offer - I felt like I dodged a bullet when my friend (who survived the layoffs, only to be conscripted as a sales grunt) told me about it. I also gather that the CEO had pulled similar shenanigans with Isilon in the past.

If it's any consolation, Igneous died and the execs didn't make out like bandits this time.
When it works.

I switched this off by choosing the wrong answer to some vague prompt and could never figure out how to re-enable it. Assuming it's like the many iOS settings that can be reverted only by resetting the phone to factory defaults.
This is what I thought about the 23andMe debacle. They may should have done better, but any attempt to "punish" them really feels like ex post facto law. Make new regulation or something and punish future incidents, but not this one.
> So yes, a government that taxes people against their will for a service they do not use, from my perspective, is theft to tax payers.

Fortunately, that ain't the case for a land value tax as alluded to above. The government provides landowners a service (enforcement of their land deeds), and any "tax" on it is a payment for that service. As it stands, landowners have successfully lobbied the government such that they only pay a tiny fraction (at most) of the rents due to society at large. And so:

> For a tax to exist, there must be a justification.

And there you have the justification. Landowners owe the full value of the land they own to the society willing to respect and enforce that ownership. Anything short of that full value is theft, and is indeed rather directly responsible for the continued prevalence of socioeconomic inequality both here in the US and worldwide.

I do agree with you that how that tax revenue gets spent is an issue. The maximally fair answer would be to disburse it equally to all citizens as a dividend, and then citizens can put that money toward the things they believe to be worthwhile.

And on that note:

> A person that violently takes territoy in some way should not be the owner. I am not sure it is practical or even possible to fix that, though.

LVT happens to be a maximally fair and practical way to fix that, especially when paired with a citizens' dividend per above; assuming, per above, that land ownership and socioeconomic inequality are causally linked, shifting the tax base away from the products of labor (i.e. abolishing taxes on income, sales, and buildings) and onto land values would satisfy the goals of things like reparations, such that those who materially benefited from such conquest are the ones compensating those who did not.
Hank Green tried cross-posting content to his Threads and Twitter accounts and found similar levels of engagement (replies and likes) on both platforms.
> CORBA has not fallen.

This article is clearly from just after the original dotcom boom/bust. Where's CORBA today?
The music of the spheres.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
YC does basically 7% for $125k + $375k. Plus mentoring, discounts, access to higher level VCs and so on. https://www.ycombinator.com/deal

The deals seem to drop substantially from the top accelerator, but the bar drops too. I like accelerators though, because going in cold to a larger VC is hard, and just the "acceleration" of a few warm intros is usually worth the 7% or so. You'd be looking to grow 7% weekly anyway, it's not a huge cut even if you get almost no money.

The bad deals are generally the ones that slow you down. These are the guys that drop bad advice, interfere in how things are operating, scare off other investors. Like you don't want to give a portion to a bad accelerator and then try to join YC.

IMO if you're learning a lot just by talking to them, they're probably a good deal. Most will open the door for you, listen to your pitch, give you all kinds of amazing advice and data, then wish you luck. Those ones are good.
Bank of America on iOS still ONLY supports text as a 2FA.

On my desktop I can do username, password and YubiKey.

But iOS is username, password and text, or Face ID and text.

Disabling text means disabling disabling 2FA.

Ridiculous.
Or: "Robocalls with fraudulent caller-IDs make perfect sense for the companies doing them..."
Fun fact: if you got 250 MPG in a space car loaded up with as much gasoline as there is water in the ocean, you could could drive to the edge of the observable universe.
I made this mistake, hoping that our new product would save the (software) company, and it ended up bankrupt. Sometimes firings are needed!
It's all about incentives. $1 million is a lot of money. The vast majority of hard problems don't have much brainpower dedicated to them, because the bang/buck ratio doesn't work out. Machine learning, math, and adjacent fields already have many careers that pay very well, so getting top-notch experts to dedicate their attention to what might be a futile endeavor is difficult.

And this isn't only about the monetary value itself, but also the fact that a large cash prize attached to a challenge boosts the prestige of finding a solution. Nobel Prizes come with about a million bucks on top of them, after all.

I'm quite confident that if someone offered $100 million for deciphering the Voynich manuscript or Linear A, we'd have a solution within 3 years.
ELI5: could you have your full DNA? I thought that a device retrieving your full DNA is in the USD 100k range.
The main goal is to remove for profit insurances. There is a perverse incentive created when anyone can get in an accident and the insurance will pay for it, same thing with medical care (why in the US it is super expensive -- because insurance will pay up). Car ownership is manadatory in most US cities yet car ownership is very expensive, for many who finance it is ever more than the cost of rent.

The bureaucratic government will also pay up but to a lesser extent but the car owner/patient will not want that, since they have to pay it back. If a fender bender costs $2k to fix it's not a big deal to let insurance pay for it but if you have to pay it back you will try to find cheaper options and force mechanics to compete. Everything costs what people are willing to pay for it, but the cancerous thing about manadatory insurance is people are no longer paying, insurance will just raise your premium instead (most people don't calculate that in), they won't force you to seek cheaper options.
I've taken a more subtle approach:

- In my daily commutes, I dedicate my smartphone screen time to creating art and short animations.

- If I ever do feel the urge to read news, I'll pull up HN via the Harmonic app. If I stumble upon an interesting post with healthy comments threads, I'll bookmark it to read on a properly sized screen when I return home.

- My monthly data plan is purposefully capped at 4GB. I use an app firewall to whitelist the most essential apps while everything else is blocked by default from accessing cellular data.

- I don't use streaming services at all but I do occasionally pre-fetch longform podcasts for later consumption. I also disable all phone notifications and wear a "smartwatch" to tell time, track my step counter and monitor barometric pressure in that order.
It worked for every single card-issuing bank in Europe.

SMS are fortunately both expensive enough there to make them uneconomical for banks to use them as an OTP factor, and have been found too insecure for payment authentication by themselves, requiring a second factor.

This has practically lead to banks offering something more secure and/or ergonomic, e.g. bank-specific authenticator apps (which often work without internet, and always work without cell signal, e.g. when traveling internationally), hardware authenticators, WebAuthN etc.

> Let’s get cellular carriers to make SIM swapping harder.

No, let's get financial companies to step up their game and offer something not liable to both security breaches and locking out users (when traveling, losing access to their number etc.)
The CEO's refusal to lay off staff happened in 2013.
Will it take into account temperature ranges and other parameters as well?
Saffir–Simpson is based on sustained, not peak.
Sure, and we would probably be able to tell when they were from based on the approaching crafts. It’s going to be amazing to be able to step 50,000 years into the future to see how humanity has turned out. I’d give up anything to have a chance at that.
And then on the other side of prions, you get things like asking whether self-catalyzing crystal formations are alive.
Same. I’m not buying the Vision Pro because that’s a crazy price. But I wouldn’t even use a free Oculus because I do NOT trust Meta at all.
There is some research regarding an increase in Saharan dust storms that retards hurricane development in the Eastern Atlantic. Apparently this is still trending upwards and has resulted in fewer hurricanes forming over the last few decades.
Or perhaps they know it's bad long-term, but they're delaying tomorrow to feed themselves today. Sure, they know it'll put more wear on their vehicle, but as long as the breakdown happens in another month or two, well, maybe something else will come along before then.

Some might call this just getting by, some might say this is what climbing the ladder looks like, and some might call this a poverty trap -- the longer you just scrape by, the harder it is to escape.

The debate is about do you call these opportunities or exploitations. It's realistically both, and so you gotta ask yourself how much exploitation are you willing to tolerate before the pizza starts to taste a bit icky? And when it does, how much are you willing to pay to make that pizza conflict-free?
In fairness though, they didn't just make up their bias assertion; it's in other published works[1] and there is real evidence that old measurements were incorrect (biased towards the high side) when compared to other available contemporary measurements.

[1]: Landsea, C. W. Mon. Weath. Rev. 121, 1703–1714 (1993) - https://journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/content/journals$0...
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Same here. I have my own domain set as the main email address of my personal Google account (I have in fact deleted the Gmail one altogether, as I noticed that otherwise some websites would still pick the Gmail address over the custom domain one when using SSO). Not many people seem to know you can do this without Google Workspace, or that you can have a Google account without a Gmail address.

If I ever lose access to my Google account I can just set a password through the "forgot my password" feature (I've noticed this is often also the only way to set a password if you create an account through SSO with some websites, but it does work). The convenience of SSO with an escape hatch as you say.
Yeah I had a smartphone before the iPhone (HTC Wizard) and it was clear it had gone from geeky toy to mainstream tool.
Hi,
EE here, but started my career as unskilled labor in a test lab. This is in contrast to my colleagues who are often physicists.

I love the graphical nature of Schematic design. It helps me visualise problems that my colleagues would admittedly rather code. I take a lot of care in my schematic layout, and it can help me make a good guess as to wether my circuit is planar or not. - usefull when you dont want to incurr the parasitics on a via somewhere.

I would also remark that there is no reason why design reuse would necessitate a text based caprure. We already have reuse though subsheet heirachy, ctrl c/ctrl c and to some degree reference designs.

The only other thing I would add is that a lot of people come from a hobbyist background, which means small volumes. For commercial contract manufacturing, drawing out the same old schematic features for voltage regulators doesnt add up to much NRE as a fraction of the project cost.
At no point did polls of people following the 00 or 16 elections show the absurdly large level of denialism that the GOP has currently. Implying that there is some near equivalence is ignorant and misleading. No major party in US history has the level of lies spread by the current right wing machine.

Read some history.
Is this Microsoft Bob?
dbt is not elaborately modeled at all, it eschews all the up front work of data modeling with ... well basically a lot of code and poorly maintained balls of mud.

Don't forget the models other's create for you - often hilariously slow code to present a set of facets that often barely align with your business delivery needs; and don't forget to sync it even more slowly with Fivetran, the DE platform of the future!
Yep, I never understood that either.... you have to confirm your old number before you can transfer it to a new telco, so sim swaps are not really a thing.

But it's primarily a US problem, and they have a lot of ID problems, like using their SSN as "passwords", and other stuff that would be impossible anywhere else (like illegal immigrants getting jobs at large companies and enrolling their kids in schools without anyone verifying who they are).
how is it nonsensical?
HN is a breeding ground for virulent misinformation. Why are you still here?
Mine doesn't!

And though the one I used before did, I usually have a cheaper local SIM in my phone for data use when I'm traveling, and I'm not swapping SIMs just to authenticate to some company that hates its customers.
> If we’re talking about the known universe, the odds of your near-light navigation accidentally clipping a not-mapped-yet planet are certainly not zero.

If we're still talking about Star Trek, then on a solar scale those ships can stop on a dime. They're not going to hit an unmapped planet while putting around.
Online spaces cost a lot of money and manpower to run. Half the people on this site could put one up in a day, but who would pay to scale it if it wasn't monetized? And as soon as it is, you have an opaque corporate hierarchy directly MITMiddling discourse.

Wikipedia and Archive.org provide clues to other ways this could be addressed, through nonprofit donations, but then you have a somewhat opaque and unelected priesthood moderating things.

HN gets around it by basically being niche enough to rely on one overworked person to moderate. Scaling up the HN model would mean many individual small sites acting independently as a patchwork of public commons.

And all the other workarounds to this problem - and I agree it's a huge social problem and a drain on society - turn out to involve some technical hack to tie patchworks together, like Mastodon.

One thing that hasn't really been tried (by a democracy), at least that I know of, is a social network for citizens run by elected committees. And this may be the worst idea of all, since it would become a natural competitor for power with all other branches of government, and would run the risk of directly corrupting national politics in any number of ways...

Basically all this is to say that running any kind of mediation at scale between random members of society is dangerous, and not just because of the profit motive, but more basically because power corrupts.
The only people who don't use smartphones and don't have an iPad or similar tablet and don't have a recent computer... probably don't benefit enough from 2FA to justify the risk of account lockout.

In my social circle, the people who don't have smart phones are:

- People with disabilities that make reading from a small screen or texting a lot impractical.

- People who work in harsh environments who want something more rugged than a device made out of glass.

- People wary of the distraction of carrying around an entertainment device.

All of these people except one also have an iPad (especially the first group, as the larger screens help a lot). The one who doesn't does have a Dell XPS 13.
Is that a real problem to be solved? Do you switch languages in an existing project that often? When you do, do you just copy/paste your config files or do we have to rebuild them in whatever config language the new language uses?
My understanding is that the IRS internal systems are still some derivative of the 1965 Cobol / IBM mainframe. This is not easy to change, and it is unlikely that anyone actually knows how it all works together.
A few years ago I clocked like a 110 hour week. I was the director but also hands on so I was doing a ton of work but also responsible for delivery. Work was at a job site away from home. Worked straight through two weekends. I felt like I was doing this because I owned it. It culminated in a big demo for the client executive team that went flawlessly. At the end nobody said a word to me. I thought I did something really valuable for the company with direct visibility to leadership and they still didn't seem to care. I poured so much energy into that job and it just went nowhere. I wasn't fired on the spot but I ended up being laid off less than year later.
Well that's because US exceptionalism itself. More or less the rest of the world uses exactly the same tech for mobile so cellular roaming works in every country. It's the US carriers that try carrier proprietary tech to trap their customers into their networks.

I never had problems with getting SMS around the world with roaming. It just works.
I wonder how fast the interstellar medium of gas etc. drifts and flows... could sacrificial sweeper-ships drill out a less-dense-holes for other traffic on a reasonable timescale?
a truly techie comment
Stamping production binaries with build info
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Whipple shields [1] don't weigh much, and don't involve negative acceleration of any kind.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield
Not exactly that way, that I know but the Top Links should do enough justice for that https://news.ycombinator.com/best
If the pilot disagrees with the computer, surely the pilot must be wrong, there is no way the engineers made fatal mistakes writing software. Software does not have bugs. Look how safe MCAS was.
Fair enough - something like rock strength and rupture length. Good paper. Thank you
"Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information."
Have you compared it with poetry or pip-tools? I'm thinking of trying pixi but still can't muster up energy to do it. Especially since for my use case poetry and pip-tools cover most of it.
Wait.. what? Shouldnt we be blaming tel co companies for being insanely stupidly easy to hack instead? I mean I have seen teenagers talking about how easy it is. When its so easy even a minor can do it, you have a major problem.
I love that era of Unix workstation computing. As a teen I'd buy copies of UnixWorld at the bookstore mainly just to gawk at the screenshots and photos of the workstations.

Looking back, isn't it kind of crazy that a) such a magazine existed b) it was on the magazine rack at random bookstores in the middle of nowhere?

And when I finally got a 486/50 that could run Linux, I spent hours tweaking my desktop env to try to make it more workstation-y (OpenLook or Motif-ish), purely on aesthetic grounds not for practical purposes :-)
Lots of money.
Google Workers Urge CEO to Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project (2018)
I'm not sure this is true. Meta seems to be doing pretty well with everyone hacking on LLaMA. Same with Stability and Stable Diffusion. Plus there's the whole set of jobs that are not software based, where they are naturally "open source".
Which jobs have you worked?
Scud running? No thanks.
A capitalist would argue that, but they would probably be wrong, given massive long-running "market failures" in improving the planet and average quality of life on global and local scales despite reasonably free markets. Markets being efficient doesn't imply positive outcomes/externalities.

I could definitely see there being trade-offs, like non-market solutions resulting in negatives but still overall improving on those particular axes, but I find it unlikely that markets are the best possible strategy.
10.0 is firmly in "if it happens nobody's gonna be around to care what it's designated" territory I think. There's a practical point at which the death tolls are going to be sufficiently high that the number probably shouldn't matter.

Though in tornadoes there definitely are EF-4 designated twisters that are hotly contested online as being truly EF-5; often that's down to where damage occurs in the lifetime of a tornado though and it being difficult to prove windspeeds when a system is moving through, e.g.: trailer park vs an industrial park.
Many of these are misleading and overengineered.

The basic idea is talk to it like you would talk to a human. It's trained on human language. Act like a kindergarten teacher. Be iterative.

Give it plenty of context. If your prompt would be downvoted on Stack Overflow, it might be low quality. It is lots of effort and most of the high level stuff around GPT (e.g. langchain, Voiceflow) are just ways to feed it better context.

It reads tokens, not words. It's pretty bad with numbers because of this. "10000" might be read as "one tenthousand" or "onehundred hundred" or "onethousand ten" to the LLM. It does badly with some other things as well for similar reasons. Like you can't ask it to write an essay under 2000 words.

Because of this, it often has trouble with markdown even after being trained on plenty. Try to simplify in a way that a human could grasp it; break down tables into nested bullet points, etc.

Give it examples. Garbage in, garbage out. If you have none, it will pull something from its memory, probably some crappy poetry from Wattpad or code written by some bloated consulting company. If you want it to write like Rumi, give examples of Rumi poetry you like and then ask it to work on that.

An example of a bad prompt is "Write a poem about a cat." A human won't do this well. Of course it sounds soulless. What is it about cats you want to say? What is this poem for?