skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had no idea this existed until I saw the Seth's Bike hacks video on it. My mountain bike helmet (IXS Trigger AM w/MIPS) is not listed, but I'll be buying off this list this year. I fall of bikes a lot.
How is it based on "outdated euro-centric view of history"? The fact that Europeans curb-stomped every other civilization on the globe, including several other competing colonialist empires who were in the running long before, is a fact. Therefore, it must have an explanation. You can't just handwave it away as "because they tried", since they were not the only ones who tried. Sure, the answer can well be something like "blind luck at first, and then just a positive feedback loop" - but that is not the same as refusing to even consider the question, and if that is indeed the answer, then we should be able to find evidence for it and validate it.

(To be clear, I don't hold high opinion of Diamond's work, either.)
I agree that in a team you should not use code golf for others to review your work. But for your own explorations or because your team can read easily your code golf then use it when is appropriate.
> You might call it a scam if you lump it with other shitcoins. But that's similar to lumping NVDA with penny stocks.

With the difference being that Nvidia has a living CEO that makes administrative decisions directing the company's future, and Bitcoin does not. Besides that minor and almost negligible bullet-point they're practically the same business though, of course.

> But that's similar to lumping AAPL with Madoff or the wolf of wall street.

Well that's definitely not a very compelling metaphor.

> if you live in a stable society with a decently governed monetary policy and like the role the government plays in your life, it will be very hard for you to understand the value of Bitcoin.

You're right. I spent an overly-long period of my time with a self-custody wallet that never became useful for anything. I'm done holding cryptocurrency and I'm not recommending it to anyone else (and haven't in years).

That's not to say it doesn't have it's "uses", narrow and poorly-defensible as they may be. But it also doesn't take long to realize that your fiat-evading bedfellows are terrorists and criminals, many of whom you'd never recognize without deliberate identification. Past that point you'll have a hard time defending the altruism of Bitcoin (or any truly "good" crypto).

I get it - recognizing and refuting the flaws in government is philosophically satisfying. Bitcoin, in it's original inception, is nerd pornography. Today, it has created a vitriolic order that's magnitudes worse than the system it conspired to replace. There is no logical application of Bitcoin besides using it as an aggregate chain for L2 systems - in other words, it's dead, Jim.
I don't think it's necessarily better or worse than email

It's greatly worse than an email because it (1) primes the candidate with a false set of a (highly positive) expectations, only to simply (2) gouge very significantly into their time (as with any scheduled video call). The fact that these companies have no grasp of what should be obvious to them -- in particular as regards item (2) -- is central to what's so toxic about the current job application process.
I think the desire for "standalone" VR headsets to mean offline-capable is totally reasonable. It has its own storage, apps and games get installed on it directly, and none of its core features need to rely on an online connection.
I can see an argument that software's communication over the network must be inspectable by the owner of the hardware.
At a personal level, collecting IOUs works fine as a way to defer consumption (ie, you can save for retirement by putting money in a bank account or gold bars under your bed or whatever).

At a whole-of-society level, that doesn't really work and "saving" had to take the form of warehouses full of stuff.
I’m pessimistic that the endless jungle of affiliate links and junk blogs can be trimmed to reveal something great underneath. Google may be stuck in a dilemma where truly disrupting the current state of SEO would be painful short term but essential to the survival of the company. Most large businesses are unable to make the change. (Kodak, Sears, etc)
Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
The indirect outcome - credit card approvals will become more strict and offer egregious interest rates, effectively locking out lower-income and/or those with poorer credit history.

Then in a decade or so, we'll be having an unnuanced discussion about how racist/classist/elitist credit cards have become.

This discussion is not about the people who had a single missed payment in 5 years... this is designed to "protect" the people who serially don't make payments and ring up a huge amount of so-called "junk fees". The reality is the late fees act as an incentive to make on time payments and keep debt at a manageable level. After all, that is why you make your payments on time, right? Who actually wants to throw away money on fees?

It's not difficult to not use a credit card. I don't understand why we're so focused on removing personal responsibility as-of late, including the discussion around overdraft fees. We need to encourage more "adulting" and less careless irresponsibility. Living on a credit card and missing payments is a very bad financial sign, and it should be discouraged.
Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L
To clarify my thoughts on this, I responded here to a similar reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611122
If people aren't smart/skilled enough to get good results with Google, yet get good results with Kagi, then Kagi is clearly a better product.

People are just hyped about a new search engine dramatically improving their online search experience, we're not bots (or paid). Just check out some user histories.
They don't want their card to get shut off.
> skiing is partially a signaling game, I don’t think the signaling is a bad thing, and skiing itself is certainly a good thing.

Also, there is currently an anti-Vail thing going on. So you can do your signaling about skiing, and also do your anti-corporate signaling at the same time!

> I have never heard someone propose a long trip to an especially nice go-kart facility. (Maybe this happens in Germany).

Even better, the Nürburgring allows you to drive your own car around the track at whatever speed you are capable of driving (some people exceed this speed). It makes sense, right? It was too dangerous to continue holding Formula 1 races, why not allow the general public a go? What could possibly go wrong?
This is a horrible bill, those software locks have made stealing iPhones a unappealing incentive.

Considering so many exceptions carved out for other devices, it seems like a bill was made for thieves to steal attractive high end gadgets to sell them for parts in the after market.

It certainly doesnt make sense either from consumer standpoint or environmental standpoint considering the amount of exceptions it has added to the list.

Now it’ll be appealing to steal phones again… Great !
the fact that credit cards are offered with interest at all is usury
Keep a checking account with a little amount of money for handling all payments and a savings account at a different bank that you never give anyone the details to. Initiate money transfers into and out of checking account from the savings account website.

And don’t save your savings account login credentials wherever it can sync onto your phone (such as Keychain) and don’t use a phone app.

Transfers should be infrequent enough that you are not inconvenienced by having to log into the website.
«> BYD car sales are substantially subsidized as part of China's own push for energy independence.

Are they really? The established narrative does not add up.

I keep hearing ‘China subsidised Steel, energy, batteries, solar’. At this point it’s easier to list things they don’t subsidise?

How is it possible that they subsidise everything and have a budget surplus, and we subsidise nothing and are in deficit?

I am not sure if this is a misunderstanding of economics or just anti-china PR campaign, but all of the above cannot be true.
You have to resign the binary when you modify anyway which achieves the same thing.

On non-jailbroken platforms you generally do this with a developer certificate.
I doubt that the number of dimensions is the parameter that grows. It’s going to be constant for 99.99% of cases.
> People don’t need people. It’s rather personality related

You are on a social networking site right now. People always need people, even if they don't think they do.
In bigger deployments it’s a cluster of intermediaries with similar traffic patterns to any type of proxy. The only extra overhead is the “routing table” which in message land means subject subscription maps. Yes, in theory we probably shouldn’t be copying so much bits, but for practical systems that ship has sailed long ago.
You can live in a cesspool if you want. The rest of us will be over here with public sewers taking our poop away.
What a waste. Build a 4090 desktop for that price, sheesh. Or spend the money renting spot 4090 instances whenever you need to via a MB air or whatever other laptop. And you'd probably still not end up spending the full amount.
https://archive.ph/07zHH
It's unnecessary since you are already paying interest. Why are you paying interest? Because you are late on paying your entire balance.

If they want to collect late fees they should stop accumulating the interest. Of course they won't since that's the entire point.
I suspect that in addition to to the housing prices going up and being a major contributor to the rise and cost of insurable damage is also that people are less likely to have the knowledge or willingness to do the repairs.

I'm not sure if people just don't have memories or maybe haven't been alive that long but lots of things that are getting classified as extreme weather events I have memory of the exact same weather events throughout my lifetime. In addition there's roughly 150 million more people in the United States since the eighties as well. This means that weather that could have impacted nowhere or a minority of rural people is a lot more likely to affect population centers because there's more of them to account for the more people.

There is also a very big trend of people don't know or are unwilling to do basic repairs on their home themselves. I have seen storms come through trees fall down shingles get blown off houses etc people call their insurance company. Which is fine this is kind of what insurance is for you pay for it to use it but 40 years ago people were more likely to get the chainsaw and the hammer and nails out and just fix it themselves rather than reporting a claim. You reserved calling your insurance company for when something big happened like your entire roof blew off.

I think there's clearly more to this story than simply extreme weather driving up prices. That's a good mantra to make people scared but it cannot be the complete picture. Without an accurate picture it's just fear mongering and when fear mongering happens you have to ask who's profiting from it.
I don't know which users integrity checking the executable would be hostile against. But, I see your point that perhaps their reason for cert pinning is to defend against compromised CAs. It does fit the narrative better with their lack of obfuscation and other layers of defense on their app.
That’s literally why I pay my taxes. To avoid chaos.
Old Outlook, as 'w3ll_w3ll_w3ll said.

Here's the thing though: Microsoft is rather heavy-handed about pushing "New Outlook" and "New Teams". New Outlook is mostly just a wrapped webapp - so slightly cleaner than the old one, but otherwise much slower and less functional. Now, guess which Outlook has had support for Copilot for the past couple months? :).

Right now it's mostly an annoyance - I have to switch back and forth couple times a day, depending on whether I need "snooze e-mail" or S/MIME at any given moment. But the latter is really a dealbreaker. Strange for a product sold to corporations, which makes me think that MS is planning to get people off e-mails entirely.
Damn, what kind of apartment doesn't come with laundry? Only time I didn't have an in-unit washer was student accomodation. If I viewed a place without one now I'd laugh the estate agent out country.
Professional writer who uses different writing apps for different occasions is me exactly. I’m also the (or at least a) guy who messaged you about inline comments. As soon as all the details of that feature are implemented, I’m buying it.
Thanks to our current Tory Government we are now currently experiencing great stink all around our coasts due to the sewage that the Tories voted to permit without treatment. This makes me very angry and generally known as a bad move. I'm really looking forward to the General Election soon and make my views known at the ballot box.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of HDCP? It is separate from HDMI, and DisplayPort does HDCP too.
Honestly, I don’t think I really notice the difference, but I’m just happy to pay for anything not google.
If you like these kind of pictures, you can also find very nice pictures showing the density of the eigenvalues values of integer matrices in the Bohemian matrices gallery [1].

[1]: http://www.bohemianmatrices.com/gallery/
There are a few drawbacks with transmitting QAM with two signals

- one needs 2 signals instead of one (2x total bandwidth)
- requires each channel bandwidth to extend to to DC, which had many other challenges

If one modulates the signal to shift it away from DC, the “negative/mirror” frequencies also shift, which means now bandwidth has doubled.

A QAM signal still has double the bandwidth of an equivalent PAM one but pays for it by encoding two PAM signals.

Of course, Discrete Multitone Modulation puts QAM to shame for non-flat channels as it can adapt near-perfectly to such. Not likely to happen for high speed interconnects in our lifetime. I suspect photonics will happen first.
Must be selection bias or something. I think I might have heard people talk about going skiing once or twice in my whole life.
Maybe n=4 if you have a timestamp as another dimension.
Chinese cars aside, if you want to go electric, do it now. My father has been telling me that he wants an electric car, but is waiting for the next gen. He’s been telling me that for the past 10 years. My mother was like, this is stupid, bought an old BMW i3 and she couldn’t be happier. There is no time like the present.
While I like the idea of a DIY pen-plotter as being very interesting, as a programmer I look at the goal which is a written design on paper.

As such, my view would be to calculate those thousands of plot-points and 'print' them with postscript or as a .pdf.

But kudos all the same!
Cooperative Software Development
Why Crypto Just Won't Die
> To work with supported versions of Windows, third-party drivers must first be digitally signed by Microsoft to certify that they are trustworthy and meet security requirements.

That’s a very bold statement when you can replicate a signature, so now the malware is “trustworthy” https://github.com/secretsquirrel/SigThief
Figure AI threatens lawsuit to suppress reporting
Had several fillings but never had an anaesthetic for any of them, only for a tooth removal. It wasn't even suggested, though I could have asked for it I guess.

Seems to me that the pain of the anaesthetic needle and the numbness would be worse than the drill.
Is there any precedent of that actually happening, in say the UK?
Yes you are correct, which is why credit card companies should simply not allow for large balances to be accumulated. You are forgetting that prying on the irresponsible is the entire point.
They just want to get a grip back on the platform they built. They let the cat out of the bag too long and Fire devices were too much of a loss leader from people pirating and running third party software and services on them that Amazon decided to take their fenced garden and hike it up to a full-on wall.
You are right; climate scientists have it worse. Economists do not have an established cabal of special interests working to undermine them at every turn. An entire political party opposed to anything they say.

Public reception is a top concern for climate scientists.
Perhaps that's the loophole. Although my anecdotal observation at the generally major airports I fly in and out of in the US is that people are pretty much universally taking off shoes if they're not in the pre-check line.
Stopping users from modifying the software they run is user hostile.
No (another Betteridge success)

The FDA said there was some evidence - but not a consensus - that eating two cups of yogurt per week is linked to lower rates of the disease.
PHP provided an answer to the "::"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322/php-expects-t-paa...

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM which of course is Hebrew for "Double Colon"
> And if you can make money printing opinions, you don't need fact checkers anyways.

That's what I said next, in other words. It's not even about their old business model, it's that the new one nets them more money which is what their shareholders want. Shareholders always trump principles in strict neoliberal states.

> that is the problem which Australia's laws are trying to fix....no doubt there is a better way, but I can't think of any.....can you?

More state media in my opinion. But I'm more socialist than the US or Australia so mentioning this option is like cursing there. But here in West Europe we've always had those and even multiple for different ideological directions.

The problem isn't really the news agencies themselves either. It's that they compete with social media that incite users to 'engage' them and they've come to actually like that. Which is why it worked in the first place.

Europe is becoming a lot stricter on social media filtering algorithms and I think this is really hitting the root cause too. Though not directly (or timely) saving the news industry.
Its easy to save a shortcut homescreen widget with Firefox Android. But, that's just a link to kagi.com, not a type to search widget.
Note the difference between (a) the user making changes to Firefox and compiling her own customised version and (b) hoping that someone else compiles a custom version and makes all the user's preferred changes to the source and removes all the defaults that the user wants removed. Option (a) offers the computer user some control. Option (b) is completely outside the control of the computer user.
The best one can do with option (b) is hope that someone managing a "fork" has addressed all their concerns.

Is having control useful for "real privacy". Is it useful for data collection and surveillance. Who should have control.

Firefox has over 37 million lines of code. The compiled program requires hundreds of megabytes of storage space. Based on LOC and binary size it is larger than the Linux kernel. Compiling Firefox on "average" computers will take hours and will require a powerful computer. It is not an easy process and can easily fail due to its numerous dependencies.

I use a text-only browser that compiles in less than a minute on an older, underpowered computer to a 1.2 MiB static binary. There are no mandatory dependencies. It is from this browser that I type and submit this reply.
you have option to turn it off from settings
Show HN: Chrome extension turning webpage into impromptu brick-breaking game
This works on my system76 lemur pro 10 with pop!_os:
- click and hold on the touchpad with thumb
- swipe with another finger to drag around. Multiple, disjoint strokes work, so there's nothing special about switching fingers

It would be a bit uncomfortable to do for long periods, since my thumb has to hold down with clicking force.
They generally do not. If you are low-income and/or have poor credit history, your approved credit will be relatively small. Even with a $500 credit line, people miss payments.

Often it's the folks with huge credit lines and carry balances that never miss payments...

> You are forgetting that prying on the irresponsible is the entire point.

The credit card market is not inherently bad. Many (most?) people use it responsibly, even if they carry a balance. We don't need to make it harder on responsible people just because some people are irresponsible and don't care to become responsible.
I’ve learned to play customer service roulette.

Don’t get the answer I’m looking for?

Hang up and call back.

I suspect I’m just looking for the reps who aren’t entirely jaded yet, because they haven’t yet learned you get punished for doing the “right thing by the customer.”
I mean, ok... I guess... but just seems like this a bit of regulatory overreach. There's a lot of alternatives to credit cards available, just seems like a very random hill to die on.
From a quick scan, this reads like a very pure example of crank nonsense. Unified theory of everything with sparse and incoherent math. Lots of describing how revolutionary the theory is, very little actual theory
With the 8GB RAM 2024 T___T are you kidding me, even student to get it need to run VM to run windows specific windows app that not available for Mac.

Macbook Air M3 + 24GB Ram + 1TB SSD = $2099
Asus UX3405 Ultra Core 7 + 32GB Ram + 1TB SSD = $1299

$800 difference that a lot.
No, it's because they charged a $10 fee to move money from a checking account(at the same bank) to credit card account. That is just ridiculous! There should be no fees to move money between your accounts at the same bank.
I couldn't read the article because it was behind a paywall. I did catch that it discussed reducing type 2 diabetes. Yogurt is widely eaten in South Asian cultures, which have a super high prevalence of the disease. Something about the claim doesn't sound right...
!gm is one of my most frequently used bangs on kagi
How to Share a PDF
Tax returns shouldn't be private at all. Nordic countries make them public and this keeps people honest.
Citi offering $300k salaries for new Generative AI team in New York
No one ever said credit cards are inherently bad so I'm not sure what you're responding to.

Anyway, credit cards are already harder to get without good credit. And yes it should be harder for people to get credit cards, but that's not in the incentive of the companies which is why they issue them anyways.
Over 2 years since the 120hz iPhone, Safari still doesn't support 120hz
It wouldn’t matter if you had the option to install whatever browser you want, but Apple prevents you from doing so.

Edit: “fully support” might be more accurate, scrolling and such will be at 120hz, but it even something as simple as this test animation can’t run at full speed.
Super cool! btw I love the name "Greptile" :)
Assign everyone a random offset, that doesn't change, that is large enough to obscure the address with some reasonable radius but small enough to not drastically skew the heat map at a lower zoom level
The success of premium economy class: How airlines are gentrifying the sky
> The issue is that moving from synchronous API calls to asynchronous message passing introduces new complexity. It's not suitable for every problem.

Well yes but request-response is simply a pattern that can be implemented on top of pub-sub extremely easily. Nats implements it with a temporary generated inbox subject for responses, so dead simple. This keeps application logic conceptually identical to traditional rpcs.

The gain though doesn’t come from the messaging patterns themselves though, but the addressing. Going from “I wanna talk to X” to “I wanna talk about Y” is an extremely powerful shift of mindset.