skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is primarily FUD down by SSL cert companies.

If you have appropriate permissions on the private keys, it would require the same level of access to read the private key as it would for the attacker to create their own CA and install it on your PC.

My general rule of thumb is to use private certificates unless a) users interact with it directly, cuz they won't install my cert, or b) financial or other highly sensitive data flows through it. I'm not convinced that commercial CAs are more secure, but for the price of an SSL cert, it's worth it to have it not be my fault if something happens.
Don't forget that the parts you are trying to read are actually text embedded in images
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I lived under the London Heathrow flight path. There are so many flights that the conversation would be paused for 25% or more of the total time.

Somehow, expanding this airport is politically desirable. 3 million people live under the flight path, and they are dismissed as rich or poor people who should have known better. They are rich and poor, there is plenty of range, and there certainly aren't a million spare houses they could choose to move to.
One of the difficult things with git is it's hard to know which level of abstraction people are talking about. As I was typing my first comment I thought "well I guess a detached HEAD state is a branch too, as a branch is just a chain of commits". But that's at a completely different level of abstraction to where the OP is at. I would be at the "git as just a big ol' DAG" level but the OP is at the "git as a version control system" level.
ente.io is fully open source since 2024:

https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/
I had two surfaces die from swollen batteries. The problem was frequent enough that Microsoft Store staff (rip) would exchange it immediately, no questions asked.

This was back during the Surface Book 1 days. I’ve been a happy surface user ever since, and haven’t had any other battery or build quality issues since.
Half the city is within 5 miles of the airport. I've lived in places much closer and never experienced the noise before. The difference was being in the flight path.

I'll also add that my perception of the distance to the airport was skewed by the fact that it's a 15 mile drive to the terminal entrance, but only 5 miles as the crow flies.
Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good
Probably very quirky. There was this comic ages ago Abstruse Goose, one day, also ages ago, it stopped publishing. The page was just white empty. And the other day, after years of the limbo the domain finally expired.

To all the lost digital content :-(
The full title is 88 characters, and HN limits titles to 80 characters. I think the abbreviation submitted is probably the one that best captures the meaning of the original; the quote marks imply that it is an allegation.
I'm curious how old your kids were when they started hacking on PICO-8 code?

My son (7yo) likes block-based programming (using Scratch, Scratch Jr and Octostudio) and Minecraft, but I'm wondering what a smooth on-ramp might be for PICO-8 or similar.

I got my first computer when I was about 10yo, so I was content to read through the books that came with it to learn the basics of BASIC and a little 6502 assembly. But I don't think that will work due to age, availability of other devices etc.
You can think of an LLM as a production line - feed a series of tokens in, and they get embedded and then processed through the system one step at a time though however many transformer layers the model has (undisclosed for most recent models, but GPT-3 has 96).

Those fixed 96 (or whatever) steps of processing limit the complexity of what the model can do, so it will fail if the task is too complicated unless it it breaks it down into simpler steps that each can be done well with that depth (96 steps) of processing.

It's not just appearing to do so - with chain-of-thought prompting you are literally telling it to "think step by step" as part of the prompt, so this is what it outputs. You could also tell it to generate a step by step plan, then elaborate on each of those steps.

I don't think we can say exactly how it is deciding to break a task into steps, anymore than we can in general say exactly how these LLMs are working, but intuitively it's similar to how we think and talk (which is what the LLM is trained on) - a good speaker/writer will introduce a complex topic as a top-down decomposition.
I think the main disconnect is the state believes "incident X" will happen Y% of the time, and the insurance companies believe it will be Y+X%, and they're not willing (or can't find a reinsurance backer) to roll it.

The state, of course, can be the reinsurance issuer of last resort if they really believe their numbers are correct. Or do something like the California Earthquake Authority which everyone knows is vastly underfunded, but at least there's the hint of a promise that when the Big One™ comes, they'll get emergency funding: https://www.earthquakeauthority.com
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Cool project but doesn’t this weaken the “assessing skills” part of the hiring process? (Or maybe we can call it cheating?) The end result would be that hiring managers would just end up relying more on lame signals like which school you went to or where you worked.
Yeeeears ago (around 2011/2012) I've built a simple bookmarking app called Miitla (MInd IT LAter), you can still find references to it[1]. I was focused on providing a simple bookmarking experience with tags and such. Unfortunately, I was not motivated enough to keep updating the project and in the end, I stopped. I got a few thousand users, but at the time my day job was generating nice income and I wasn't thinking about monetizing Miitla.

To this day, I regret that I did not pursue it and transformed into something bigger.

Congrats on the launch, what catches my attention is the simplicity. Keep it like this for long enough and you will get many users.

[1]http://ratemystartup.com/save-links-with-one-click-miitla-co...
The example here has HTML with a somewhat fixed format. It would indeed have been better to have samples with different format and aiming for a low error rate.

If you are scraping a limited amount of sites, you could for each site ask the LLM for parsing code from some samples, review that, and move on.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. Any payment system that is easy to use will get used for fraud. The internet has the same problem as visiting a large city, you can't trust people and you generally never see them again once they've taken your money.

Almost every chatroom I'm in has banned GoFundMe links and those that don't ban them entirely still require permission to post one.
To piggyback on this:

In the 2024 century the default LVM setup still does not offer to leave some spare space on the volume group. Without that unallocated space it's impossible to create snapshots for LVs.

Oh, and the change-tracking function is non existent for both LVM and dev mapper!
Yeah, no. Macs are nice $2000 machines but are nothing special compared to other current $2000 machines.

Windows being somewhat bad, yes, definitely. However, the hardware auch as much higher res, OLED, touch, high refresh rate, pen etc. can be very good.
I haven't read this license but I wished they had at least gone with the BASL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License

IANAL, but AFAICT the BASL is not open-source, but it is _eventually_-open-source is in the source will automatically transition to being open source (GPL v2 or compatible... not sure if either BSD or AGPL work).

But if you are going to go source available, license proliferation is still a problem, please try to maintain sanity.
True but getting less true by the day:

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
They're probably referring to the official city limits, which can be tiny, as opposed to the total Dallas metro area. The latter is what people actually tend to think of when mentioning a city.

I might be wrong though as I know nothing about Dallas, in which case it also doesn't fit into my head.
In state insurers are also responsible for bailing out the fair plan, which means they're effectively responsible for policies they didn't write unless they leave the state entirely.
> I mean are we as humans planning ahead of the new few words? I certainly am not.

For me, sometimes either way. At least, that's my subjective self-perception, which is demonstrably not always a correct model for how human brains actually work.

We also sometimes appear to start with a conclusion and then work backwards to try to justify it; we can also repeatedly loop over our solutions in the style of waterfall project management, or do partial solutions and then seek out the next critical thing to do in the style of agile project management.

Many of us also have a private inner voice, which I think LLMs currently lack by default, though they can at least simulate it regardless of what's really going on inside them and us (presumably thanks to training sets that include stories where a character has an inner monologue).
App to get Highway Milestone to tell police, wrecking- and rescue service
When using this app, one can determine his Milestone of the Autobahn or other large streets, to be able to tell police, wrecking- and rescue service. It is often dangerous to walk back or forward on such large streets to find the next milestone, and pure coordinates are not always helpful. The app takes the users coordinates, locates the nearest milestones and calculates the exact milestone. The app is free and free of ads.
Ah, I meant that putting the airport farther from the mountains means the planes can take off heading west without circling around.

I don't know if it's that far, however.
You can avoid the worst of it by taking reasonable precautions.

We recently donated to a GoFundMe run on behalf of a friend of a friend. It was a fatal accident that was reported in 5+ local news outlets, with multiple of those outlets linking to the GoFundMe. The local firefighters were one of the top donors to date.

Between the personal connection and the other bits of evidence we were very sure that the fundraiser was run by a real person for a real father who really did lose family members and have others end up in the hospital. We obviously don't have any control over where the money ends up in the end, but we knew enough to be willing to risk it.
The page for the vuln states there is a bit you can flip to disable the entire feature on the M3, but states no such feature exists on the M1 and 2. If Apple hasn't told them about a similar bit on M1 and 2 in the 100 days since it was reported, there's a pretty good chance it doesn't exist.
that's daft, wouldn't it make sense to limit it to previous N versions (either by age or version number), not all versions?!
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is paid more than the heads of Meta, Pinterest, & Snap
Googling “microplastic cardiovascular” brought up both the study itself and a dozen news articles about it. In general, if you think a comment is low-quality because readers can’t easily find the source, you can help by posting that link yourself.
Well not on hope and well wishes, more on planning and political will. As the oil, If your gas station is filled it's not only a thanks you the money you give the oil company but a large infrastructure work and political and geopolitical framework that make it happen.
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Are there any apps made for pico (other than games) that have broken through to the mainstream?
Curious - how does it violate?

The post title is the title of the actual article.

Had I changed it, then yep, wrong.

But I did not.

Please explain so I do not do this again?
Ah it is coding then. I was trying to work out what Demonic Nondeterminism might be and got increasingly excited about the possibilities. At the least - it would have included all the demon psych/religious backstory that we know about. I'd finally get some answers.
I think this doc is pretty concise:

https://github.com/veeam/blksnap/blob/master/doc/blksnap.md
No. Why do you think so?
What do you think those have to do with SMS/MMS?
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Planes can be automated because their routes are segregated and scheduled (for commercial flights). There is no chance of a pedestrian walking through an air corridor and very little chance of a bicycle being left on a runway. While not perfect, their activities are surveilled by third parties which greatly contributes to system safety.

Monorails, which operate on the ground but not at grade level, can also be automated for the same reasons and have an even better safety profile than airplanes. I'm not suggesting monorails vs cars, but rather pointing out that the environment in which the transit operates is paramount.

Self-driving is trying to automate around the chaos created by human-driven cars on unpredictable routes, while planes and trains have neither of these issues. And that's why it's currently an unsolved problem.
Related:

Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39696419
> But it would be quite a take to say their tolling & gate keeping was a significant contributor.

Do you remember the first iPhone? Or for that matter what "mobile development" looked like before the iPhone? The first iPhone was more "tolled" and "gate kept" than any iPhone we have today. There was NO app store. To get an app on the iPhone, Apple had to make it, which meant you had to be big enough for Apple to care. Google got a Youtube app because they were that big. At some point Facebook had a built in integration (though I don't remember if it was a full fledged app). That was it. Development for the phone was going to be "web apps" only, without the biggest "web app" framework at the time, Flash. Compared to the first iPhones, a modern iPhone is wide open to all sorts of developers.

But perhaps more than that, even that first iPhone was leaps and bounds for most people over what prior devices were (save perhaps Palm Treos) in terms of "openness". Before the iPhone, the carriers decided what your phone could and couldn't do. A Razr phone from AT&T could send and receive data over bluetooth (like contacts and ring tones). That same exact phone from Verizon could only use bluetooth for headsets. Data transfer was locked down to vVrizon's own service (with a fee of course). Mobile app development was a crap shoot of different sdks and licensing costs per device, and then a hope that each carrier would allow your bejeweled clone, and served up through their services, of which they took HUGE cuts of the revenue. The 30/70 split of the iPhone app store was quite literally "revolutionary" in the cell phone space.

Which leads one to wonder if the tolling and gate keeping is such a hinderance, why is it that the iPhone remains so successful despite their largest competitor having none of those restrictions, pretty much from the get go. It's not like Apple was open and suddenly slammed the gates down on apps and iPhone development. And it's not like Android's openness is brand new. So the question that has to be asked is why does Apple continue to sell so well despite the restrictions? Why hasn't Android eaten all of Apple's market share as a massive open platform where anyone can do anything?
I don’t know about helmets, seeing one clip like this [1] instantly makes them look cool and makes anyone not wearing them look like a complete idiot.

Cigarettes get to bypass our monkey brain “you’re an idiot for doing that” because a singular cigarette won’t do severe harm, and the harm from smoking is non-imminent at some nondescript moment in the future.

I think part of the aesthetic appeal of cigarettes is they take situations that are passive and make them seem active.
Two people having a conversation? No, two people going for a smoke and coincidentally talking. A girl modeling? She’s not posing, she’s just smoking and someone took a candid picture of her. Beth Harmon reading a book in bed? No, she’s smoking and happens to read a book.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b9yL5usLFgY&pp=ygUOSSBsb3ZlIGh...
> People opposing airport construction still want to fly.

Maybe they do in America. But in Europe there's not much need/want of frequent flying for the average citizen.
I'll use "modern" and "CMake" in the same sentence once I can have true functions and not just procedures; give me a `set -u` equivalent, while at it.
Antithesis are doing a great job at marketing their product and building hype. Their platform looks really interesting.
I think the relevant part here is that remote hosts have public IPs. I'm assuming you're doing HTTP-01 verification on Lets Encrypt, which does basically require a public IP.

FYI, you can get Lets Encrypt certs easily on non-public hosts by using the DNS-01 challenges. They rely on setting particular DNS records rather than HTTP responses, so they don't rely on public IPs
No way to search, filter, categorize ... very limited utility
Good point. The Livermore airport is pretty hemmed in already; it looks like it would be pretty difficult to do much expansion and you have all those houses that are already under the runway approaches. I'm guessing that when you say "Bay Area jets", you are talking private jets, not 737s, right?

In the case of the South Suburban Chicago Airport, noise is less of an issue. People don't want traffic and they don't want farms turned into warehouses and light industrial. And then the housing built for the thousands of jobs created.

It's essentially opposition to sprawl, which I think is a pretty legitimate concern. I think the state could try to do things to help prevent it from being as bad as it could be (forest preserves, open space, minimum zoning, etc). Though I don't think they want to, because the alternative to this airport is that the one just across the border in Indiana would get enlarged, leading to all that economic development going to a different state.
Chocolate covered crickets are great. Mealworm flower is a fine ingredient, in fact I would eat mealworms on a bet any day. A lot of bugs though are really disgusting the same way most plants aren’t palatable (I’ve gotten a Japanese Beetle in my mouth more than once.)
OpenDrop: An open source implementation of the Apple AirDrop protocol
I'm not about to comb through threads on Hacker News and synthesize a theory from comments by people who may or may not know what they're talking about. But thanks.
From 3 years ago https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/05/tile-to-launch-to-launch-a...

> Tile is preparing to introduce a new product this year that will serve as a rival to Apple’s long-awaited AirTags and other lost-item trackers coming to the market, including those from Samsung, TechCrunch has learned. While previous Tile trackers have leveraged Bluetooth to help users locate lost items — like a misplaced set of keys, for example — Tile’s new product will take advantage of UWB (ultra-wideband) technology to find the missing items. It will also use augmented reality to help guide users to the lost item’s location via the Tile mobile app.

> ...

> Apple last year began to give third-party developers access to its U1 chip, which uses UWB technology to make the iPhone spatially aware, via its “NearbyInteraction” framework. Some Android devices also ship with the technology. It’s unclear to what extent Tile is using the new frameworks with its forthcoming product, and the company is likely under NDA with regard to its work with Apple specifically, per earlier reports.

> ...

> Meanwhile, according to a new research note from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will reveal its own Tile competitor, AirTags this year. Apple has already all but confirmed AirTag’s existence, as it even accidentally published references to its lost-item tracker in an official support video at one point. Leaked images of the AirTags also began to circulate this week, adding fuel to these reports of a “soon-ish” AirTags launch.

> A UWB-powered tracker could help allow Tile to maintain its position in the market. Tile, as of last year, had sold 26 million Tile devices, and was locating around six million items per day across 195 countries. Tile’s website now says its devices reach over 230 countries and territories. With this scale, Tile today leads the market. But Apple’s AirTags could have a first-party advantage with deep integrations into its “Find My” app — a concern that was brought up by Tile in last year’s antitrust hearings in reference to how Apple wields its platform and market power to overrun competitive businesses.

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I would like to see an integration similar to how mail and homekit work for the Find My : Devices. Enter in the server and account info and be able to get the location of a device registered to that service. Note that that has all sorts of privacy issues if not properly designed.

However, such integration would also eliminate the moat that tile perceives that it has for its product and the differentiation for it.
I think the two modes of LLM discourse: “they’re conscious!/they’re just next token predictors with impressive datasets” comes largely from two different groups of people: those who learned about LLMs before learning about ML fundamentals, and those who learned ML fundamentals before encountering LLMs of today. While I fall in the second group, there is a real risk that my prior concepts about the fundamentals is limiting my view of the bigger picture, so I at least welcome the debate.

Re: chain of thought, I at least know that in practice a lot of the results from the original paper has not been quite reproducible at later attempts. Whether that is a quirk of models changing everyday or something deeper, I do not know.
> make it very inconvenient for passengers and staff to approach the airport by other means

Absolutely not! High-speed train have many advantages, but serving stations with large, long-term parking lots is not one of them.

After all, you don't need to disincentivize the approach: you just need to make it clear that the airport is there to stay, and maybe to grow three-fold, and that noise complaints will never be receivable.
Yes, I was with a company for one year. They just forwarded me to another company where they think I have a higher chance.
I've spent a lot of time looking into this for non-profits I am involved in. Currently, I use Mailgun's Mailing List feature which is pretty good, but has a few warts and doesn't really seem to be in active development.

But I have half a mind to develop a Django-based system specifically for non-profit member management, build a postgres view on top of the Django tables and and have a postfix mail server reference that postgres view for mailing list delivery. I would use Mailgun or another SMTP relay to minimize deliverability issues.
Good.

My insurance premiums (and to a huge degree now, taxes) shouldn't go to pay for people who keep rebuilding in a swamp that is routinely leveled by hurricanes. Especially not when those people not only don't believe in climate science but support elected officials who attempt to ban climate science from policy, education, etc.

Just because there's land somewhere doesn't mean society has to support you building there. I'd say the same to people who put houses on seashores, or cliff faces where there is landslide risk.