skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, among other things, Thinking, Fast, and Slow cracked the implicit notion that my intuition is always right by demonstrating how easily it could go wrong.

RIP Daniel Kahneman.
Can't wait to try this on my MacBook. I'm also just amazed at how wasteful Grok appears to be!
Implicit Style-Content Separation Using B-LoRA
The legal industry has been trending toward fixed price / subscription for ages because everyone on both sides has been burnt out - exactly what Adrian experienced. The rank and file hate it, the partners hate it, the clients hate it. People who were worth hundreds of dollars an hour were pissing away their labor on account for every minute, and miserable at not being able to spend a minute that isn't billable at the office.

If you were shopping this around to firms and they loved it, you wouldn't need to be here - they'd be throwing money at you.
I run macOS/OSX Sonoma in Proxmox. It does pcie/gpu passthrough (AMD rx580 8gb). The proxmox host is running a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G cpu and has 64gb memory. The mac vm disks are on a zfs fs on a wd black nvme ssd.

It's the fastest mac I've ever owned and it's virtual, executed on a machine running a chip that apple never supported, and you'd never be able to tell it was a vm unless you were told so. kvm and vfio are amazing pieces of software.

A good place to start: https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX
Airlines have been charging extra for window seats for years.
Habits:

- Leave home: turn wifi off, turn mobile data on

- Arrive home: turn wifi on, turn mobile data off

- Bluetooth off unless paired with car / earbuds

*Need to check MAC randomisation settings
> OP asked why all planes since the 70s look about the same.

All commercial passenger airliners (and there are some exceptions there, but in different directions than blended-wing-body) look about the same, but not all airplanes do.

> It’s because there isn’t a sustained budget for experimentation.

No, its because there are various technical challenges with blended wing-body aircraft that have to be balanced against the reduced drag and resulting better fuel efficiency, such as structural challenges if you want continuous internal cabin space; access if you want to be able to evacuate them as efficiently as a tubular fuselage aircraft, etc. Some of those have had progress over the years (e.g., the structural ones) as material science has advanced.

There are blended-wing-body designs (or the related but more extreme flying wing design) that have been produced, mostly as experimental or military aircraft (several US strategic bombers have been blended-wing-body or flying wing designs: the B-1 is a blended-wing-body (also with variable sweep wings), B-2 and B-21 are flying wing designs.)
Related threads below. The 1974 video is fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39wzku9KIEM.

Peter Principle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855815 - Dec 2022 (5 comments)

The Peter Principle (1974) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32627396 - Aug 2022 (39 comments)

The Peter Principle: Are you at your level of incompetence? (1974) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32243969 - July 2022 (1 comment)

The Peter Principle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24433059 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)

The Peter Principle Tested - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797375 - May 2019 (47 comments)

The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845289 - Aug 2018 (108 comments)

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17301215 - June 2018 (50 comments)

The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16972249 - May 2018 (48 comments)

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270053 - Feb 2011 (2 comments)

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121507 - Feb 2010 (1 comment)
> Is that contract regretted by the city? If so, how much?

I haven't researched the exact terms of the contract, but it's possible the signs were pro-bono, as

1. Part of it is that advertisers can pay ~$100-$250 a month to display ads on these signs and I'm guessing soofa takes a cut
2. In Brookline, these were sponsored by Brookline Bank, so they get free advertising
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But I don't know what the comparison is. It's definitely not London and Copenhagen.

It's pretty amazing that you can take a 30+ mile ride from one end of NYC to the other for less than $3.
That's the truth. In the case of October 7 (and 9/11 for that matter) lots of useful info was coming in, and regardless of the source, it was actively ignored. Human error at it's best. AI analysis is just another tool but ultimately we need competent or empowered people involved in the chain.
Correction: what the authors of that Google Brain paper on attention did was the time disruption happened. Without them Sam produced a me-too checkin startup. It's so weird that the current frame of thinking is that CEOs are the ones who innovate.
My guess: there’s 3 stars that are brighter, and the cat is shown with 3 legs, so it could be part of a constellation of 3 satellites. The swoop of the tail could indicate a molyina orbit. Generally the orbit and where these things are in the sky can, and are, tracked even by hobbyists so that’s not particularly juicy, imo
I thought apple/google only verified payments up to a limit (ever increasing) of e.g. £500/£1000 based on the biometrics? Is that right?
I’ve never heard of Farcaster.
> Unless this is a new app backed by a bank cartel

Good news - they've already got the cartel ready to go, and it's conveniently already in bed with the regulators! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPAY & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Payments_Platform

> This all leads to my opinion of a pretty wonky situation

Yep, that's sadly accurate for all the banks' other tech, so I see no reason they'd shy away from it here either.

I feel like you're coming at this from the wrong angle. No one is saying Apple Pay is bad, or that the banks' solutions will be better. The question is: will banks voluntarily give up a cut to a third party intermediary, when they can roll a slightly-less-convenient-but-good-enough tech stack and keep all the money for themselves?

One doesn't exactly become a top 4 bank by handing out a cut to intermediaries willy nilly. Even if the Apple cut were eliminated (unrealistic), the banks would need a very good reason to allow an intermediary between themselves and their customers at all.
Learned Optimism has a similar style of explaining the author's work over many years in an accessible manner
No need to bring magic in. Tolkien might have made a mistake in translating the original Quenya, or perhaps there were transcription errors among the Noldorin scribes. Other histories have these same problems.
There's a guy like that who's been president once and is trying again. So the grandparent post is right: this is the American way.
I think this is a bit too simple. People can get injured and objects destroyed in multiple ways. For example:

One could be torn apart. If you are glued to the ground and you are pushed away with too much force to resist, you have a problem. You can stretch or move a certain distance and withstand a certain force while doing so, and the product of those numbers is the energy you can remove from the thing hitting you. If the impactor is at a fixed speed, then you can turn that momentum into an energy, but that’s a bit silly. You really can stand still and deliver more stopping impulse to an object moving toward you when it’s moving slower because you can resist for a longer time.

One could collide with an effectively infinitely massive object. But the momentum of that object seems irrelevant — hitting a brick wall on wheels at 25 mph seems much worse than hitting the Earth at 0.1mph despite the Earth having many orders of magnitude more momentum. The impact velocity seems more relevant.

One could get hit by a fast-moving projectile. This is complicated, and neither momentum nor energy seem like sufficient measures. As an extreme example, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays surely hit people on a somewhat regular basis, and I’ve never heard of anyone noticing such an event, despite the energy involved being quite macroscopic.
https://gizmodo.com/malware-images-virus-photos-pictures-how...
Idk I've been developing with Qt for idk, 15 years now, it's stable and keeps chugging along with constant improvements. And is used in more than enough mass-adopted apps, e.g. Telegram
There is no target demographic, so I wouldn't think in those terms. Also, last I heard, there wasn't a hard requirement to spend the entire program in California, although most founders do. Your track record with previous startups should certainly help. I'm biased but I'd say go for it!
@dang @CharlesW typo. Please fix.
Given the software that banks generally produce, it’d have to be a sufficiently good reward. If I’m buying a $10 sandwich at a deli counter, I’m going to double tap my power button and tap my phone on the debit machine. A $0.03 cash back isn’t worth the hassle to fish around to find my bank’s app, enter a secure password, and then enter a 2FA code. I had another comment elsewhere in this thread: want me to use the bank app instead of Apple Pay? Make the bank app suck less.
Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly
The way the trend is going, the population is going to shrink. South Korea is already down to 0.84 (2.1 means population stays the same).
Is there a good reason to use a shadow root for this instead of just directly setting innerText
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration
Services is a very generic term for anything they offer. They can, for example, offer a free non optional AI tool that allows you to ask questions about the data in your database.

My non-lawyer understanding of the policy is that, for the purpose of providing you with this service, they have the right to use your entire database to train and test the tool. They can even make a contract with OpenAI and sell your data to them for the purposes of building the AI service.

And it’s perpetual and irrevocable, so they can keep their models trained with your data if you decide to leave.
Oh no—that's a terrible idea. YC partners are going to be far more interested in what you really want to do. Interposing an irrelevant charade will only come across as uncompelling.
The justice system works as expected if thieves get caught stealing, I'd still be pretty embarrassed if I was the thief. Science may still sort of work, a lot of scientists sure don't.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs if the best that can be said about a person with his reputation, and about the process overall, that the system managed to catch his low quality output decades down the line.
I started using Apple Reminders for a new project I’m working on. It has a new(ish) column view that allows it to work sort of like Trello, so I’m using it like that. Trello works better and has more features, but I’m trying to limit tool sprawl, so Reminders is good enough for now.

On a side peoject at the office, I mostly keep it out of Jira, and use Obsidan. I have a section for it in my daily todo list, that I use like a digital bullet journal. Then I have a file for various notes and reference information I want/need.

My other work stuff is in Jira. A team of 15, but really only about 2-4 of those I’m working with. Jira is mostly for show, no one is really looking at it and our user stories typically only have a title, if they exist at all. This is due to reasons beyond my control, as I’m no longer willing to do my scrum master’s job for him.
I'm not familiar with virtual tabletops, all tabletop games I've played with friends or family were offline, so I can't recommend anything specific. Maybe it could help:

- https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion...

- Sharing your screen to all other members within a Discord voice channel

- VoiceMeeter Banana should allow you to share browser audio into Discord with some setup
My siblings and I did unusually well at school (relative to cousins and peers) - and it’s possible this was due to having an “older” father.

There’s a 2017 study that older parents produce kids with a higher Geek Index —

https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2017125

Seems “truthy” to me.
What specifically? That's a long essay that was only published last week.
The vast majority of Ukrainian civilian deaths were in Donetsk (source: Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukra...)

If there is a genocide going on, it's not the side you are thinking of that is perpetuating it.

But you'll just say that Wikipedia is wrong, and the UN sources they are citing are Russian propaganda. Also, you still didn't respond to the substance of my argument.
https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=CliffStoll
> Cool, can you show me what numbers you’re looking at that even hint that these blended wing bodies are better than contemporary commercial designs?

Department of the Air Force Climate Action Plan, October 2022 [0] (p17)
“For example, development of blended wing body aircraft could drive transformative changes, as this aircraft design increases aerodynamic efficiency by at least 30 percent over current Air Force tanker and mobility aircraft” [Note that Air Force tanker and mobility aircraft are similar to, and in some cases simply militarized versions of, commercial airliner or air transport designs.]

The same report (p19) identifies development and testing of a full-scale blended wing prototype by FY27 as a Key Result of the Action Plan.

[0] https://www.safie.hq.af.mil/Portals/78/documents/Climate/DAF... [PDF]
Yes. It is a military maxim you will lose if you want to fight the next war with the tactics and equipment from the last war. Your future opponents have been studying the last war and have invented all kinds of ways to destroy you if you use the same tactics again.

Modern military doctrine can be attributed to the Prussian General staff that defeated Napoleon III in the Franco Prussian war. Moltke the Elder was in charge of the Prussian army at the time. Moltke the Elder was a student of Clausewitz who literally wrote the book on modern strategy. But Clausewitz when he was in active service was not some world beating general. Clausewitz fought for the Prussians during the Napoleon’s time and was actually at one point a prisoner of Napoleon. Clausewitz and his boss Scharnhorst spent the rest of their careers developing a scheme to defeat Napoleons’ tactics of massive concentration at a single point. They developed modern combined arms with a logistical backbone of railroads.
You’re looking for people to help you develop this idea and you’ve asked on a forum full of people with such potential, yet you haven’t even explained the idea in the slightest.
You will arouse nobody with this post.

If you’re so sure you only need to do a full month of work to come up with a demo that will convince investors, why aren’t you starting with that? I’m really not sure what you’re expecting to achieve with this post.
Girardian philosophy was one of the most profound theories i'd come across when i first heard it. I really need to dig into Girard's actual books - i've only heard of him through third parties.
Income tax is often divided into where you live AND where you work (ie unemployment is typically work-state dependent).

However the where you live part is over-emphasized IMHO.
Nothing wrong with old links on HN! as long as they have been discussed in a while.
I like how Rene Girard spoke about Jesus. The good Samaritan for example. Jesus literally talks about how a person from a completely different ethnicity which hates Jews is taking care of a Jewish man. His message was absolute love and radical forgiveness. If we really take Jesus' message it would mean no borders, no wars, just pure love for each other. Anybody who doesn't understand that is not a real Christian.
Could you provide us your definition of "authoritarianism"?
Did you have any success in trying automate the whole development/debug loop similar what the auto coder tools are trying to achieve?
Yes this exactly. If I'm not allowed to talk about the health effects of car infrastructure (because apparently that's "feelings") then let's just talk about money.

Cars are horrendously over-subsidized and are FAR more expensive to maintain infrastructure for in exchange for moving way fewer people. Trains might not cover their costs with fare but they move a hell of a lot more people while simultaneously being underinvested in, in the US.
No, as described at least, you'd always get the product you paid for. Just not necessarily the one you wanted.
Not the poster: but I want the price of food to represent its true cost and not be artificially cheap (or expensive) because of externalities.

In the United States, we don't have a real market in water; hence, the cost of water in food isn't really represented.

Worse, we "export" a whole lot of water for artificially cheap. Countries with insufficient water to grow crops they would like buy water-intensive crops from the US where water is artifically cheap; hence the massive exports of alfalfa to China. In turn, US aquifiers are ending up depleted and catastrophe looms.

Fixing this, though, will have other effects like perhaps doubling the price of steak. We'll still eat more of it and at a lower cost than we did 75 years ago, but not as much or as cheaply as today. Quality will also probably rise, too, as the measures that produce higher quality beef will be a smaller proportion of the price.
> It’s the context menu key spot.

I’m not denying its a spot that exists; I’m saying lots of existing keyboards already replace the context menu key with something else viewed as more important, so that, whatever the preferred spot was previously called, what the actual tradeoff for the the AI certification is often won’t be the context menu key.
> Can anyone ELI5 how Apple & Google Pay work in detail?

Oh, in case this was not really answered in other responses ...

When you add a card to an Apple or Google wallet, the wallet softwares goes off to your card issuer and asks for permission to include it in the wallet. Your card issuer may then ask you directly if it's OK and please confirm. When you have confirmed, they provide some details to your phone including some private keys (likely derived from a master) and other bits and pieces like the PAN to use, supported transaction types etc.

OK, now it's set up in your phone. What happens when you tap?

The terminal first goes through a sort of rapid handshake - hey, I'm a terminal, please select your default card application, let's go!

Then it asks for a bunch of data - can I have your PAN, expiry, velocity data, hard and soft limits etc, please?

Then it sends a bunch of data to your card - transaction type (payment, cash, refund(?)), amount, date and time, terminal type, some other bits.

Your phone or card will then check these fit in with its internal rules (do I allow cash? etc), add some information (user unlocked biometrically/with PIN) arrange the data in a canonical order, hash and sign it and send back the resulting signature as a cryptogram. Part of this cryptogram will tell the terminal Yes/No to proceed and whether it needs to ask for a PIN or go online to the acquiring bank for approval. The terminal applies its own rules to the transaction as well, and can optionally downgrade the transaction from approved to online or denied, or from online to denied.

If it needs to go online, it will transmit the transaction details to the acquiring (merchant's) bank, which may approve the transaction immediately or itself refer the transaction to the issuing (your) bank. It's at this point, for Apple Pay, that Apple steps into the picture - as the PAN is not the 'real' PAN, the acquiring bank refers to apple, and they then refer to the issuer.

Then the approved message pops up :)

Apart from the issuer-proxying, the process is basically identical if you use a phone or your physical card.

I've probably glossed over quite a lot and got a couple of details wrong, but hey, that's the nature of ELI5.
That 30k includes over 10k militants.
> Otherwise, what infrastructure do you think I'm getting subsidized?

The city you drive into is subsidizing your ability to drive into the city, the space to park in the city (which could be used for more housing), paying the cost of your emissions and noise, so that you can live a cheaper life in an area that's generally more expensive to sustain per-capita.

> I don't have muni water or sewer, and the power and telco utilities certainly pass along their costs to me.

The power and telcos generally do not pass these costs onto you. The costs are spread across the entire user-base, and it's more expensive to support you because it's more infrastructure for less people. Streets/roads/highways are also generally subsidized.

Suburbs and extreme white-flight areas are heavily subsidized by cities, especially if you're commuting into them for work. If the costs of sustaining your living situation were truly passed onto you, you wouldn't be able to afford to live there.
That's the "Dilbert Principal:" Promote incompetent employees to management to minimize their ability to harm productivity.
Having a blog as part of your website is like opening a window into the heart of your business or passion project. Especially when it’s located right on your site, under the easy-to-remember /blog URL. This isn't just good for your audience; it's great for search engines too.
Where are you seeing 24GB 3090s for $600?
> like deduct that amount from an offline transaction balance, replenishing that balance the next time it gets to talk to the issuer during a chip-dipped payment (assuming the card is still in good standing)

That deserves its own article. Where/why in the world would you need that!?
I just took a look at https://repo1.dso.mil/dsop/redhat/ubi/9.x/ubi9 and https://repo1.dso.mil/dsop/opensource/apache/apache2, and it seems that the "hardening" these do is almost entirely stupid. It's stuff like adding an obnoxiously long banner at the beginning of every session, disabling ChaCha20/Poly1305, adding a bunch of password policies to PAM even for containers where there are no accounts that can be logged into with passwords, disabling Ctrl+Alt+Del even though that always gets handled by the host and not containers, forcing SSH to only allow "aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr" as ciphers, and installing usbguard and sudo even though these make no sense inside of containers. The only time I think these would be helpful is if you had a legal requirement to be DISA STIG compliant.
I submitted the article title and can’t change this amended one, but you can reach @dang at hn@ycombinator.com.
Look out a^2 + b^2 = c^2, blitzar is coming for ya!
The CBA Android app supports contactless, or you can add your card to the Google wallet. It seems to work equivalently well (although the enrolling bit has less friction in CBAs own app).
Larry Fink's 2024 Annual Chairman's Letter to Investors
"Young people have lost trust in older generations. The burden is on us to get it back. And maybe investing for their long-term goals, including retirement, isn’t such a bad place to begin."
>NFT reader

NFC reader
Nobody is a strong statement unless you mean just within tech. During residency I would pretty regularly work 10 hour days with 3 24+ call shifts that week on the ward. Like Monday 7am till Tuesday noon, sleep, regular Wed Thu, Friday Sunday call. Next week similar but Saturday call. Was brutal.
Have Onelook create a fully functional accessible responsive website with a transcript of the chat followed by a big shiny buy button underneath.

then come back as Rockstars