skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RFID is just a bidirectional link between the reader and the card. The security depends on what you send over that link. RFID in itself doesn't imply security or insecurity.
I gotta say, if thats the stupidest reddit comment you can think kff, you must not spend much time there. Try literally any political subreddit to find people being so absurdly left wing that they end up advocating for despotism.
Facebook tried this with games and cash transfer within Messenger but it never really took off.

Personally, I don’t think Western (or at least American) consumers are all that interested in a super app. Asia has a ton of players in this space like WeChat, QQ, Line and Kaokao but those have never taken off in the West outside of diaspora communities.
> American, not well connected, graduated right after the housing market crash, so I suppose it could be the last one.

Maybe timing? Because your experience is roughly what I also remember in 2010/2011. Only applied to like 5 jobs and got one.
I managed to connect. I don't know how much I can copy, since it's quite a long thread, but here is the first message.

> Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet.

> In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines, filters, and moderation systems

> Call it Gresham's Law 2.0: bad content drives out good.

> I'm starting this thread to document it, because there is a lot happening all at once.

> #greshamslaw20
Yep, I do mention as much in the disclaimers for the site when you put in a flight. It's true that airlines fully have the right to change the aircraft, but they also reserve the right to change basically any part of your itinerary (e.g. move you from one flight to another under unexpected circumstances/IRROPS). I figure presenting info that has a high probability of being correct is better than not presenting any info at all just because of a chance of it being incorrect under IRROPS circumstances.

On the note of high probability: we do use data sources that plug into the GDS booking systems for the flights, so it's not just a historical thing for this site specifically. While that once again doesn't give us a guarantee, it's likely better than relying on previous route aircraft stats.
Since iOS 12 apps can send “provisional” notifications, meaning permission isn’t required right away. Other apps can use this, but few do.
Yes, there have been since 2007. Almost nobody used them until the jack got removed, because they don't work well. BT standard improved over the years, but not enough.
Thanks this simplifies things a lot.
>Making sense of interactions with crazy people.

"If you find yourself speaking with a person who does not make sense, in all likelyhood, that person is not real."
The Art of the Robocall: one-on-one immersive theatrical experience
Reminded me of the Arc browser and its AI 5-second link preview feature. When I saw Arc's implementation, I thought, why do you need AI when you can save compute and just show OpenGraph info. I guess this is what you are doing with Linkz.ai.
Finding this out the hard way at the moment. My pihole appears to cause my Orbi router to intermittently lose internet connectivity.
This is absolutely wild
Very cool idea - I’ve been curious about text-sound approaches that allow for more granularity rather than just producing fully-formed tracks. Would be curious to know more details about the pitfalls of using Encodec with shorter samples. As a musician and software engineer, I could see lots of applications of this sample-first approach that don’t rely on the familiar DAW timeline/track UI, too.
Except that it breaks other people in busy networks.

Fuck everyone else my WiFi feels good.
This seems to be a (IRL) cultural thing - the vast majority of people I play EVE with use k/m/b/t, but a small percent does use k/kk/kkk
I guess there’s WhatsApp etc, but it’s not a great experience. And that’s in part due to the ecosystem. I can swipe 200 photos and send them to my wife - it shares them on my iCloud behind the scenes, and sends a link. Messages makes it seem like I’ve sent 200 full quality photos in an instant.

That’s hard to do without the vertical integration.
The others who did this are also trying to fleece their users. There are loyal Samsung users too, don't ask me why.
Speaking of reddit, this is one of the most interesting comments on the site, by cofounder and ex-CEO Yishan:

> What's the best "long con" you ever pulled?

>> Here's one.

>> In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

>> Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, he would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

>> Once this was done, he and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder.

>> JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

The best part is all the responses by Steve Huffman, Sam Altman, and Ellen Pao, all related to the Reddit leadership at one time or another.
Build for Customers, Not VCs
This actually looks nice, and very useful. I'm not sure I need to see the SQL every prompt, maybe a toggle to switch it on and off? But looking forward to playing some more.
It's the World's tiniest open-source lock.
Yes, I quite like the idea of being able to run pyflakes/flake8/black/pytest/mypy over my "html templates", and benefiting from all the power that entails.
Or it turns out that Bob went to the same University as half of the team, and they pick him for a culture fit.

Jane works hard but puts in long hours because she's just not very good and has to hustle to keep up even on basic tasks. She's helpful and kind to others because she understands their struggles, but can't hack new tech as well and will ultimately pause to help. Her well documented, working code takes 3+ weeks longer, and no one cares about Documentation.
I remember the reports in r/apollo but I never experienced those issues myself. I don't know the guy personally so I can't make a judgement on if he was lying about that being a bug or not, but whatever the case it certainly wasn't something every user experienced.
> I am curious if there's been any work on _semantic_ diff tools as well (for when eg the syntax changes but the meaning is the same)

We are working on https://semanticdiff.com/ which detects basic semantic changes like converting a literal from decimal to hex or reordering keys within JSON objects. It is not a command line utility but a VS Code extension and GitHub App. You can check out https://semanticdiff.com/blog/semanticdiff-vs-difftastic/ if you want to learn more about how it works and how it differs from difftastic.
Does't this "the market is right" logic also apply to Apple itself and its walled garden? E.g.: "Do users really want a walled garden where they can't install 'everything apps'? The answer is clearly yes in a lot of markets..."
Even the overhauled UI has gone ignored by many users, thanks to the old UI remaining available as an option, but I imagine it's only a matter of time before they pull the plug on that so they can "enhance the sponsored post viewing experience".
I still want augmented Chess to be a sport. You get a computer not weighing more than X pounds.
>Arguing with people

If your goal is convincing your debating opponent it seldom work but what about the audience?
Helix tools: transform any API as tools for LLMs automatically
It didn’t make the news, but Israel is using US satellite data for their strikes against the civilian Palestinian population.
If you want to generate patches rather than look at local differences, there's a specific command for that - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch
Why the creator of Node.js created a new JavaScript runtime – Stack Overflow
Just like they supported jabber. Until they didn’t.
Quite a lot of polish and bragging about stars and tweets for an open source project. Is there hidden monetization of some sort? Perhaps VC funding?
> Getting closure with your parents for how you were treated as a child.

Go see a therapist? (A good one, not all of them are actually useful.)
Honestly, define key terms and make anki flashcards. Not gonna give you deep understanding BUT will make the roadmap lf terminology and probably thw structure of the company and the product very concrete very quick and so the nuance will come much faster.
Built an automatic video captioning tool?
Hey Hacker News community!

I'm currently working on building an automatic video captioning tool using Flask, OpenAI, ffmpeg, and other technologies. The concept is simple: users can drag a video onto the website, and the site will automatically add subtitles directly into the video itself, rather than providing a separate text file.

I believe this could be a valuable tool, not just for personal use but potentially for integration with platforms like SORA in the future. However, I'm curious to hear from others in the community:

Have you ever used or attempted to build a similar tool? If so, what technologies did you use, and what challenges did you encounter? Do you have any suggestions or ideas for improving such a tool?

I'm particularly interested in hearing about any intelligent approaches or techniques that could enhance the functionality or efficiency of the video captioning process.

Looking forward to your insights and experiences!
The onetime chess phenom walked away from the game years ago
CNN is such a propaganda rag, which is sad, but in no way unique.

America doesn't say Apple is a monopoly, a collection of politicians pandering in desperation for voter attention is saying Apple is a monopoly.
> Reddit IPO'd today and the purpose of this piece is to add whatever hype can be added to that IPO

To PG's credit, he has an uncanny ability to pluck out relentlessly resourceful founders (self-fulfilling prophecy and all that, notwithstanding) who have greater chances of outsized success. And he's been more right about startups than almost anyone else. When he praises those founders, it often comes off as an exaggeration, but I am convinced he is being thoroughly honest.

"As someone who went through YC and met PG while he was still actively running it, I can tell you that at least in our batch he was 100% spot on about who was going to do well. He had a tendency to spend his free time with the same individuals who ended up doing phenomenally well. It would be easy to be dismissive about this and say something about doubling down on his best investments, etc. But during our batch many of those companies had not yet become the clear cut winners that they are today, and instead only turned into them a year or so down the road."

-u/aerosimle, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381893
Not on a garmin sadly.
I mean I don't know that celebrities have to deal with pis entering the home and dropping bugs

A pi that is going to enter someone's home and drop a bug is the same kind of "PI" that can enter a home and simulate a suicide

So the level of stress of such a person would be higher than we expect for the level of stress of a celebrity. Also keep in mind that celebrities have advocates and support networks that can help them cope with paparazzi, while very few civilians have the kind of support networks that can help them cope with potential assassins.

So we're dealing with a higher likelihood of the kind of stress that can lead to suicide, and also a higher likelihood of the kind of adversary that could lead to murder.
While others are pointing out your specific case is supported, I do know for experience you need a Mac to be able to smoothly move to a different password manager. Otherwise, it requires you to unlock your passwords at least twice (really like three or four times to do it properly) to copy and paste passwords to a different app.
Yeah but browser ≠ rendering engine. I know they get conflated a lot in tech, but when I’m using e.g. Arc on my Macintosh, I’m not using Chrome despite using the same rendering engine.
Assuming that someone is capable of producing high quality results

then this would make quality necessary but insufficient, which he did not specify, nor can this be inferred. He clearly presented a dichotomy of choosing between quantity or quality.
I used to get dodgy calls. Still do on my UK number. Back when I was still in the habit of actually picking up, if I got such a call I would advise the other party to join a trade union, which generally resulted in them hanging up instantly.
Its the right amount of solution IMO.
Definitely didn't want to come across as belittling or anything. Just stumbled on that tool a few weeks ago when I tried to backup my iPhone photos and was surprised how well it worked and how painless it was. Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but I had no bad intentions, just wanted to tell what worked for me.
> Never had a $2000+ laptop that couldn't connect with more than 2 monitors without an expensive DisplayLink dock and drivers

Hardware limitations that were told at launch.

> Rendering on non-Apple external monitors sucks;

It works fine with my old Dell FHD and my current 4k LG.

> Terrible with system font scaling

Apple does not do system font scaling, it applies scaling to the whole UI, not separate elements.

> Can't tab cycle through minimized windows

Different windows management model. You tab cycle through applications, and you backquote cycle through open windows. Minimized windows go to the dock.

> Windowing system sucks compared to Windows

Again above. Windows sizing is a specific concept in Mac OS interface model and there's rules that you can apply to it. I understand the OS not wanting to interfere much with that.

> I ship a PWA for one of my apps and by far Safari is the one that has the most issues with updating

I've not seen your code so I can't say much. But most people who complain about Safari really want Chrome's non-standard API to exists in Safari too.
> Green was not invented to "punish the poors"

No, but blue was only given to the first class citizens.
Cmd-learn, a tool to micro-learn while waiting for long commands in terminal
> wget big stuff
> oh takes more than 5sec, let’s open X
> wget finishes 2min later
> 20min later: wait, is my download complete ?
Can relate ? Check out this simple command line tool https://github.com/aamorel/cmd-learn.
It monitors long commands in your terminal, opens a browser window with a little language micro-learning app running in local (or a custom URL) and closes it or notifies you when the long command is over. Available on MacOS for now.
"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0]

[0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...
Ah, gotta love a good old "cAlOrIc rEsTrIcTiOn dOeS NoT WoRk".

Yeah, thermodynamics do not apply to you.

Also, this "article" is full of opinion.
The AI DJ wasn't even saying interesting things about the song or artist. It was just interrupting to say, things like "let's switch it up and play something a little different."

If it was actually giving me some backstory or saying something interesting, I'd get it as a feature. Like VH1's pop up videos. That wasn't what was going on.
Yeah the feature exists on paper at least, but not in principle from my experience.

I switched to iPhone 15 Pro recently from Android and after trying to import my data from Android couple of times and iOS failing to import WhatsApp specifically, I had to resort to buying third party software to perform the message transfer via a Windows laptop.

Bear in mind the import process took like 3 hours each time and I had to keep both phones close to each other, couldn't use them while importing and had to keep power supplied to them.

After about 10 hours of trying, I gave in and put 100$ towards proper third party software to transfer my messages. This is ridiculous, as I have Google Drive on my iPhone with my WhatsApp backups from my old phone, however for one reason or another these backups cannot be utilised by WhatsApp on iOS.

Moving between two Android phones "it just works".
The health insurance industry makes more money than the oil industry. It isn't a coincidence that most of our taxes go to healthcare and the top grossing industries are all built around it.
Half the people on hacker news are more informed and insightful than ftc/doj in this domain. They are clueless. And they don't pay well. Half the people here would be taking a pay cut to get involved with them.
> You cannot dismiss something as "propaganda" or with a reason "Putin said so".

If provided without evidence? Yes, you can. What's presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

> Everybody knows you should not corner a wild beast.

Nobody cornered Russia, Russia decided that it wants its old colonies back. Most of them were wise enough to long before ask NATO to protect them this time, Ukraine unfortunately had trusted Russia when it said it will honor Ukraines independence and now pays a heavy price for it.
I’ve got an iPhone and an Apple Watch. Wife has an iPhone and a Garmin.

The Garmin sadly misses out on notification filtering, focus modes, replies, solid Bluetooth (it drops out from time to time and the app needs reopening).
"Google is taking action against algorithmically generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes, including a revamped spam policy, designed in part to keep AI clickbait out of its search results."

Even before the AI floodgates were opened, there was a huge problem with ads and SEO-optimized junk written by humans clogging up Google, and pushing the good stuff into the SERP netherworld. People complained for years (including here) with no discernible improvement.

It's one of the reasons HN turned into one of my go-to places for finding the good stuff - obscure blog posts and social media threads and websites that share facts, recollections, opinions, and expert insights that can't be found anywhere else. However, HN and a few other high-quality discovery sites can only go so far in surfacing such content.

Now it looks like Google, Amazon, and other Lords of the Internet are going to cause further damage with inevitable false positives as "AI spam detection" is unleashed on the Internet. Of course, there will be no recourse other than victims pleading for human intervention on a forum like this or hoping it goes viral on social media.
Their comp is largely stock, not cash. Eliminating them won't move the needle much on net loss.
Works fine for me, 10 minutes after this was posted. I'm not sure if this thread unrolled caches responses or not, but if it does maybe those who can't get through can read it here.

https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.lawprofs....

or

https://unroller.zachmanson.com/tree/https://mastodon.lawpro...
iPhone is not a monopoly since z lot of companies sell phones, and with significant market share.

iOS is not a monopoly since at least one other major operating system exists, with significant market share. (Whether Linux is or isn't a competitor is irrelevant.)

A monopoly by itself is not a problem. Only behavior ancillary to that monopoly is. But to get there you have you have a monopoly. I don't see how you make the case. Clearly consumers have choice.

Now, there's a case to be made for bad behavior, but its weak. Apple will argue that consumers have choices.

But I am not a lawyer, so I'll leave it up to the lawyers on both sides to earn some fees discussing it.
Thank you so much! The biggest issue with Encodec (especially the 48kHz version) is that it is very dependent on normalization. This wasn't an issue for their use case (music) since music generally doesn't contain silent portions, but not so for samples. Many oneshots and loops have a great deal of silence or very quiet portions of the waveform, which when normalized become essentially pure noise. Training our custom autoencoder to handle this issue was one of the key factors which enabled us to get such good audio quality.
Useful comparison: https://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/exfat-extended-file-alloc...
> they should just let people jail break the phone and offer zero support for it.

Just let people wipe the phone completely - no drivers, no kernel, nothing, and bring their own. That's the proper solution to people wanting to own their hardware and do whatever they want with it. Want to install a different app store/browser/etc? Go for it, start by installing the new kernel and drivers.
Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé
Show HN: AskVideos-VideoCLIP: Open-source video-text embedding model
Book eight may have been about when I gave up and sold the set. The dull bit in the middle of each book is when I would practice my speed reading.

About once a season I contemplate the idea of approaching either Sanderson or the Jordan estate and ask that they consider an abridged edition edited by Sanderson. You could easily knock 1500 pages out of this series and not change a single thing.

Meanwhile Rosamund Pike is doing new audio books for the series and the samples sound much better than the old one. But the first one is about forty hours. As much as I might like to claim that I would listen to her read a phone book, I don’t think I can listen to 600 hours of audiobooks for one series.
I think you are massively underestimating how quickly AI generated content is going to dominate the web. This is something new.