skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far away from people on the ground for when the wings rip off.

(As happened on a 767 in 1991 when a thrust reverser malfunctioned and deployed in mid flight, a problem that if not addressed within seconds is irrecoverable.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYU7tjOvm0

No one survived this accident, the worst aviation disaster in Thailand's history.
It would help to first to deal with reality and stop abusing words that have specific meanings.

Law > theory > prediction / hypothesis > conjecture > crazy people shit

Entertaining crazy people shit, while entertaining to some people, is little more than word salad bullshit.
How to Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad [video]
any HN discount by chance? ;) i'm testing y'all out now for a time-sensitive scrape job that must be done by Mar 1st.
Is this for real? No Neo4j quotes on the news.
> Although when enough scripture is cited in the judgement, the ruling might become more easily overturned.

I don’t think you appreciate how right wing the Supreme Court has been stacked if you think that this will be a negative in their eyes.
I suspect that the definition of "Safe" in this context is that it has limited ability to mess with your computer. From what I have read, the application didn't violate the security of anyone's computer, it didn't need to!

So we need to be careful with how we interpret "Safe!"
It's not always that simple. In many countries, like Brazil, you need a valid ID document to buy a SIM card, and the number is then and always linked to your government ID. This is the case for quite a few relatively free countries as a means to fraud prevention (not that it's particularly effective though).
Liquid propane is definitely not an ideal gas.
Funnily enough, in his interview with Jim al-khalili, Liu Cixin describes roughly what you conjectured as how he gets inspiration for his works
Had to double check my playback speed - he talks like a 1.25x playback speaker sounds.
I'm the developer of the ExchangeRate-API.com service.

Obviously it's upsetting to have our API used by a scammer, but our service couldn't have been involved in this hack beyond fetching a JSON-formatted response of up-to-date exchange rates because that's the only functionality our service/domain provides.

My guess is that the scammer implemented a call to our API to fetch up-to-date exchange rates in order to make their fake wallet seem more plausible & real. Interestingly my API doesn't even support any exchange rates involving cryptocurrencies and so the scammer would have had to additionally integrate with a different API to get something like the up-to-date exchange rate between BTC and USD.

The API is a very simple service - it's just a few endpoints that supply JSON formatted exchange rates over HTTPS. Anyone with an email address can sign up to use the service for free and there are even some totally "open access" endpoints that don't require any authentication. One of these has been used in the GNU `units` converter software for a while.

With regard to proving it's a legitimate service, this is the point where I wish I had made more progress with the landing page update that emphasizes social proof I've been working on recently! The API is used by ICs/teams at hundreds of recognizable companies. There are tens of thousands of free users including some that have used the API consistently for free for over a decade. I guess you could check many instances of the service being archived on the wayback machine? https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.exch... I'll definitely admit the domain does look a bit odd but back in 2010 when registering it the "Exact Match Domain" bonus was a big factor for SEO. The site has been a top 3 Google result for "exchange rate api" pretty consistently - presumably also how the scammer ended up using the service.

I've used Cloudflare since approx. 2019 and their "cloudflared" tunnel infrastructure since approx. 2021 to secure servers against DDoS.

I'll contact popey to see if we can get more details on the exact path/request they saw being made to our domain and if that leads to any further information or logging from our side.
They want to index companies that sell products. I don't see a big problem here if a company that sells a product I'm searching for, who happens to also have low-quality SEO content, shows up in that search.

In fact, I would rather they not get penalized for it, since low-quality SEO content is a good way to show up in certain other search engines (Google), and every business wants to show up in Google, making that content quite common even from reputable businesses making a quality product.
Interesting I didn't know the reputation.

Berkeley has had the left leaning historical reputation from the days of the free speech movement and Vietnam protests. But these days (it-least from an outsiders view) it actually seems more grounded since it's a public school & doesn't do race based admissions (Berkeley is 35% asian & 20% white vs CMC is 16% asian and 35% white)[1][2]

[1] https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/university-of-ca...
[2] https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/claremont-mckenn...
I am not inferring or making any claims. I am merely correcting your incorrect claims.

I believe that you are not arguing in good faith. The opinion is very clear on the matter. It is also extremely clear on what they are clarifying. You are making claims that make it clear you have either not read the opinion or are intentionally misconstruing it's language.
In my experience writing software that performs financial calculations, it is easy to screw up in any language. I'm not sure that any of those languages provide a great enough advantage specific to financial calculations, considering all of the other baggage. To state the obvious, most apps that perform financial calculations are not performing financial calculations in 99% of the code.
I love how the author basically outed the company by Reddit post titles.
No use case is a “straw man”. The parent post had a hand-waving farcical “more systems will solve that”.
I’m pointing out the reality of the positives and drawbacks of private key control.

The original whitepaper didn’t describe use cases, you’re right. It’s a technical document explaining a solution to the double-spend problem and defines core rules of the network.

The use cases were always something that developed over time. Andreas Antonopoulos was highlighting the key need as those without financial services in 2011-2012.

It sounds like you were convinced this was going to be of direct use to most people in the near future? If so, what resources have you been reading?

It’s worth noting here also that Bitcoin was co-opted by a censorious minority - Theymos and Blockstream - who have maintained an artificially low block size, ostensibly in order to keep a high number of non-mining but full-history nodes.
Bitcoin’s competitors such as Ethereum and Monero did not allow a software or discussion forum monoculture and instead have scaling block sizes, and still hard fork to add new scaling features (https://ethresear.ch). This does make them much more useful for small transfers.
As an Australian (and for most directly part of the four lions in the UK) the "Head of State" part is viewed as highly symbolic and there's no love at all for having an actual active King or Queen that meddles beyond the purely ceremonial (swearing in new Heads of Government, etc).

Australia barely accepted keeping the former Queen as head of state the last time this went to a referendum, and that was a member of the Royal family who served in WWII driving ambulances in London and stayed a steady constant since.

It's questionable whether there'd be any love for King (formerly known as Prince) Big Ears should it come to a vote again.

The part that is strongly liked is the notion of something constant and greater than day to day government, a sense of continuity of country.

Day to day meddling in details is strictly for the people we elect and hire to debate policy and pass that on to others that enact it.
Alternative facts. No sale. There's no fucking aliens but there are a bunch of liars and bullshit artists who get a kick out of manipulating kids and other people.
Thanks for following up below to update some these points. Just want to touch on a few, if I may:

2. An iOS client is planned going forward. The first few iterations of Swift Mail were actually deployed to both iOS & macOS, so there's quite a bit of shared platform code in place already when the time is right. I have a visionOS build up and running already as well, which I think bodes well for that effort.

3. (Trials do exist, as you mentioned below)

4. Swift Mail does provide support for mailto link handling, and it can be set as the default macOS mail client as well. I'm not familiar with linking from Reminders or Notes directly to the Mail app, however, so can't speak to that workflow at the moment.

Any and all feedback is appreciated & encouraged though so please don't hesitate to reach out as needed.

Note - that roadmap is not valid and was meant to be deactivated long ago after I cancelled my subscription during the beta (great experience but couldn't automate release notes with Xcode Cloud). A replacement roadmap and feedback portal should be back online very soon at that same link, however.
I wrote this 13-14 years ago. Time flies I guess.

Keep in mind, it's frozen temporally at that point in time, and a ton of stuff has changed in computer ecosystems since then, and so has some of my viewpoints.
I could not be more confused. Does EC2 quietly call their hosting machines "droplets"? I knew "droplets" to be a DigitalOcean team, but DigitalOcean doesn't have Nitro cards.
I don't want to be too dismissive of Matrix, but I also see these types of comments as understanding what problem Signal is actually addressing: security for the masses. There's no way I'm getting my grandma on Matrix and you're delusional if you think she can setup a server. But it isn't hard to get my grandma on Signal and that's a much better security feature than federation or even not having phone numbers. If I want extreme security, you're right that there are better tools. But my threat model isn't trying to avoid nation state actors, it's mostly about avoiding mass surveillance, surveillance capitalism, and probably most importantly: sending a message to the gov to fuck off with all this spying. At the end of the day, there's no other app that's even close to fulfilling those needs.

I didn't realize my comment rose to the top. When I had written this I had also written this comment[0] which was the grandchild of the top comment at the time. It has a bit more details on my thoughts/reservations of federation. tldr is mostly about avoiding centralization. This remains an open problem and I think it is far too easily dismissed. But federation isn't solving the problems people want it to if it's federated like email and web browsers. That's just mostly centralization with all the headaches of federation.

And to anyone complaining about lack of federation, what's stopping you from running your own Signal server? Sure, it won't connect to the official channel, but is that a roadblock? Even Matrix started with one server. This is a serious question, is there something preventing this? Because if the major problem with Signal is lack of federation, I don't see why this is not solvable building off of Signal and not needing to create a completely different program. Who knows, if it becomes successful why wouldn't Signal allow a bridge or why can't apps like Molly allow access to both the official and federated networks?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446183
They need to be maintained also; five or ten years in with "minimal maintenance" and the redwoods have weeds growing through them.

Maintenance is hard.
Since last week, it will trigger whenever your search query ends with a ? or starts with How or Why or other interrogative words
https://kagi.com/changelog#3179
Ah yes, "The 16 Companies" - except it's actually five hundred...

Seems like the problem in [2] is a few entities controlling the majority of spaces other than search, to me. Shame we don't have any real laws against anti-competitive behavior (just the way YC likes it).

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> It's an impressive electronics project, but is it an earring anyone would want to wear?

Are you kidding me? Just about every STEM gal would pay a pretty penny for a set of those!

The industrial[0] is a bit too obscure, the led-ring variant[1] is a little underwhelming, but a full LED matrix? Absolutely breathtaking.

[0]: https://mitxela.com/projects/scaffold

[1]: https://mitxela.com/projects/charliestar
LEDs are actually sensitive to light themselves so with some wizardy you might not even need separate sensor
He would just give access for his brokerage or bank account to the lady, like it happens in many other scam cases.
A sound type system has strong limits on expressiveness, and even stronger if you want type inference to work. It's very easy to start tripping over those limits as you add features, as users of some Haskell extensions can attest.
See my other comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39448909

The point is that rustc does not even implicitly have the "where 'b: 'a { v }" clause. The programmer knows "where 'b: 'a { v }" is true because otherwise &'a &'b would be self-contradictory, and in most cases that's more than enough. But in certain edge cases this runs into problems with the contravariance requirement since we can substitute either one of the 'bs with a type that outlives 'b (i.e. 'static), and the design of contravariance lets us do this pretty arbitrarily.
Do you not see the difference between a Venmo transaction and Bitcoin transaction?

With Bitcoin, a small mistake or oversight and you money is gone, and unrecoverable. So you can point and laugh at people getting scammed on Venmo, but you need "normies" to adopt BTC.
I buy that if you look at today's housing issues and trace it back, it would make sense that we never ramped housing construction back up, but this article glosses over many systematic issues that existed back then and today. For example, the author notes:

>To me, the strongest piece of evidence in favor of the recession causing the housing crisis rather than the housing crisis causing the recession is the fact that prices snapped back up, in similar geographic configuration, after the economy has recovered

This is unsurprising, its where all the good paying jobs still are. The centers of employment as it were, are in the areas with the most housing demand, and spillover from that will drive adjacent markets up as people at the top and wanting to move sell and move to LCOL areas. Fundamentally this is the issue with housing that I think is readily apparent to anyone who has looked at the market with any seriousness.

Now with w/r/t 2008 it was faulty mortgages and mortgage backed securities that caused the recession, not housing construction. That is accurate to say, if you want to paint in broad strokes, but the defaults on NINJA loans and variable mortgages leads to a depression in home buying as credit tightens up and losses mount. I don't see how you don't end up with some depression in the housing market as a result of this, even if its uneven in whom it affects. Alot of collateral is tied up in real estate and that assumes "up and to the right" value of real estate holds constant. You have to square that too.

In the US, real estate is in a tug of war between being two views: One is as an investment vehicle / asset. The other is as a commodity to which we all need to live because its required for housing. Those two don't square very well.

One thing is for sure, homeowners want the value of their home to appreciate, and they fight tooth and nail to make sure it does. I think in context, we as a society over-invested in "real estate is an asset and can be your nest egg cause they ain't making more!" type narratives, and would do well if we shifted toward "real estate is only as valuable as it is used productively for society"[0]

[0]: In reference to Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Pretty much all work loads, work loads that are not affected would be the exception
In other words, they're saving money. This is a fundamental problem with cloud providers. Value created from technological innovation is captured by the cloud provider and bare minimum is shared to reduce prices. The margins are ridiculous.
Now that you made that connection:

Concerts with audience-worn LED bracelets regularly shoot out LED floodlights to the IR sensors on each wrist. Being able to do something similar on people’s ears could be cool.
There is a bike trail near our house, and the plowing and mowing and tree clearing along it takes way more man-hours than the once-a-decade resurfacing.

Not sure what the comparative costs are, and a road would have similar maintenance if it was that close to trees (a bike path is just a narrow road).
Not saying it is, but it's very volatile. It really doesn't want to be a liquid at room temperature. I can't tell if it's empty or full when a tap on it, but definitely can with with water. It's an impedance thing.
No it was a saturation dive that took years of preparation
Counterpoint:

I don't want backups for IM. I don't want my counter-parties to have backups for e2e encrypted IM. I don't want IM to last. Why record every conversation on your permanent record? It's nuts.

For me, having a searchable record of everything said defeats the whole purpose if IM and e2e encryption. I'm sure the NSA like it.

Reasonable people may differ on it.
They wish. More like a few things in Luarocks but mostly github.
Congrats on the launch!

Just today, I started exploring the current web development ecosystem in Python. As a long-time Python developer, it is amazing to see all the recent work that has gone into making the web accessible to more than just JavaScript developers.

Despite seeing all these amazing new approaches (e.g., Reflex, Streamlit, and now this), I can't help but think there is still a need to rely on "more mature tech" (though this gap is closing) to make non-trivial websites in Python (and in general). After surveying the Python (and JavaScript) ecosystem, I personally decided that a simple stack consisting of FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, Tailwind CSS, and HTMX would be the fastest approach to build a non-trivial app using Python.

With that being said, I will definitely circle back around in a month or so to see how things have progressed. I wish you all the best in making Python a contender for the next generation of web development.
> Allowing market forces to do what they will seems fine

Sure. But I draw the line when people try to force their anti-American agenda on people.

> Look at Anduril, which is far more impressive a defense achievement than anything that's come out of Caltech since before you were a student.

Caltech is a very small university.

> Education is inherently ideological

My education at Caltech was nearly entirely math, science, engineering, etc. I don't see that as ideological. I did get a palpable sense from the profs that these subjects were exciting.

I never heard any defense propaganda from the Caltech faculty, none at all. JPL was there, but not a single soul pushed me to apply for a job there.

The only propaganda I recall was my economics professor pushing Marxism, and if you didn't regurgitate his Marxist views on the exams, you received a bad grade. I learned my lesson, and instead satisfied the social studies requirement by taking business accounting - something useful.
I would prefer if people would not submit sites to HN that are using anti-scraping tactics such as DataDome that block ordinary web users making a single HTTP request using a non-popular, smaller, simpler client.

One example is www.reuters.com. It makes no sense because the site works fine without Javascript but Javascript is required as a result of the use of DataDome. See below for example demonstration.

For anyone who is doing the scraping that causes these websites to use hacks like DataDome: Does your scraping solution get blocked by DataDome. I suspect many will answer no, indicating to me that DataDome is not effective at anything more than blocking non-popular clients. To be more specific, there seems to be a blurring of the line between blocking non-popular clients and preventing "scraping". If scraping can be accomplished with the gigantic, complex popular clients, then why block the smaller, simpler non-popular clients that make a single HTTP request.

To browse www.reuters.com text-only in a gigantic, complex, popular browser

1. Clear all cookies

2. Allow Javascript in Settings for the site

ct.captcha-delivery.com

3. Block Javascript for the site

www.reuters.com

4. Block images for the site

www.reuters.com

First try browsing www.reuters.com with these settings. Two cookies will be stored. One from reuters.com. This one is the DataDome cookie. And another one from www.reuters.com. This second cookie can be deleted with no effect on browsing.

NB. No ad blocker is needed.

Then clear the cookies, remove the above settings and try browsing www.reuters.com with Javascript enabled for all sites and again without an ad blocker. This is what DataDome and Reuters ask web users to do:

"Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker."

Following this instruction from some anonymous web developer totally locks up the computer I am using. The user experience is unbearable.

Whereas with the above settings I used for the demonstration, browsing and reading is fast.
Depends on the industry and client doesn't it. I've heard of "Hollywood accounting" where movies were intentionally made unprofitable so that percentage-of-profit based payouts are low. You'd want to adjust how you do it based on the risk that expenses could be padded to make profitability look worse.

Even if the client is completely legit, the incentive is there. It becomes like spending pre-tax money, so why not incur some more expenses.
Optimus Robot testing in home? Where to sign up?
I heard a discussion of the Optimus robot. One point made is that the
robot is likely being designed to be general purpose. Thus it is likely
to be tested in many environments ... INCLUDING THE HOME!

I have a deep robot background (e.g. 1 of 2 Unimation Researchers, IBM
Research robot work, CMU robot research for Human/Robot cooperation to
change a car tire, etc.), an AI background (e.g. Masters level
machine vision work, research in Design-To-Build systems, commercial
software product from IBM to do Expert Systems, etc.), and current work
in electronics (microprocessors and FPGAs).

Who do I have to marry to get on the alpha-prototype selection list?
(email axiomcas@gmail.com)

Is anyone aware of this being contemplated at Tesla?
Does such a list exist?
Or is it just random speculation?

I have thousands of books that need to be cataloged, categorized, and
sorted. It seems like the perfect task for a robot as they are all
different sizes, different colors, different weights, different ages
(and thus hard to read the covers), and different subjects. It is a
"simple recognition and manipulation task" but requires a LOT of work
skills such as bending for low shelves, real-world physics to align
the books without falling, vision to read covers and find books,
limited space motions as the bookshelves are close together, grip
location selection, etc. The classification task would require network
lookup (e.g. amazon search). It is a limited domain with a rich set
of separable issues.

Library work is a better domain than the kitchen since it is hard
but focused. You don't break dishes, deal with water or fire, or
represent a hazard to people or pets.