skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related (2010) on finding untaxed swimming pools on Long Island using Google Earth: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/heads-up-google-earth-...
That wouldn't be pointless, because you would have a predictable expense instead of an unpredictable expense. What you're describing is actually the ideal scenario for both individuals and companies.
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
Idk, I used to consider myself a moderate conservative but over there last few administrations I have somehow become considered liberal because the right has embraced the bad crazy to the point I find more in common with the far left now than I do any politicians that call themselves conservative.
Derek Lowe on this episode:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/als-drug-fails-aga...

"Amylyx says that they will announce their plans for the drug in the coming weeks, but what plans can those possibly be? Which landfill to take it to? Update: Amylyx has indeed pulled the drug, and good for them."
It is not an error true but it shows in the list with a yellow icon. But that means my list of "problems" is huge (because I prefer the shorter version of the expression). I would like the problems-list to be empty.

The problem is the long list often hides real errors in it. I would like to spot those more easily.

But I'll try your suggestions, maybe there's a way to make this warning disappear altogether from the list.

I still don't think, and don't understand, why it is a "problem" since the equivalent longer expression is not. It feels like WebStorm is mandating its own JavaScript-rules on me and my programming style.
I struggle to put it into words - but I think this modern notion that we exchange language structs between processes and not arbitrary messages has lost something valuable.

edit - I guess true interoperability? agency?
It'd be interesting if you basically made it illegal to both process and store user-data. If you want to process a user's information you need to go through that user's storage API and then you need to persist your data back through that API. Since everything is co-located in the cloud I don't think latency would be a huge deal. Users would get a choice of storage vendors - total visibility into who and what is doing the reading/writing and can delete/revoke access at any time.
The EU wants to mandate 5 years of security updates, which is a lot more relevant to the immense majority of consumers.
Valve…?
Whatever. It's fine as long as they don't get upset when we ignore their clearly misguided labeling and hand them a dictionary to look up "brutalism".
Formalin is just an aqueous solution of formaldehyde. Surely there has to be a more efficient way to get it.
Pillars of an Effective Readme File
It’s what I run on my home server. Most of my interaction with a command line is with macOS, which makes BSDs more familiar, and jails are nice for containment that works without external tools. First class built in ZFS is nice too.
Did you try clickhouse? What were its weak points?
I resonate with their description of it, the way I'd describe it is something like:

Close your eyes and imagine the month March (just the idea of the month). Walk forward 2 months.

That's what a ball rolling off a table is like for some of us.
Most people wouldn't really have a concept of what a "state" was.
halo 3 online?
The Assist
Ages ago I worked for a German company who developed electronic parts. They had a large Finnish client. I worked on porting an OS for use in a mobile phone. We went to Finland to integrate and make sure everything worked. We ran tests and debugged. This took 3 days and we were done .. the company wanted me to stay for a whole week because they didn't bother to change the flight. I managed to convince them that it was not in their best interest to make my angry and stay at a hotel for the remainder of the week with nothing to do.
You can have whatever opinion you'd like about insurance rates, but if insurers are sustainably incurring losses, rates have to go up, one way or the other: either insurers raise their rates, or they exit the market, decreasing competition and raising rates.

There's no way to moralize out of this!

Regarding minor claims: I think what I've learned about homeowners insurance is: don't make minor claims. That's not what the product is for. Homeowners insurance (1) protects you from total loss of your primary asset (ie, from fire) and (2) protects you from being bankrupted by lawsuits. If you use it to repair leaks, you're going to take a bath.

Have you applied for a homeowners policy recently? Literally one of the first questions insurers ask is: "have you made homeowners insurance claims?".
And (c) in the long term influence the risk. Insurance companies have long worked to improve auto safety. This benefits everyone. This needs to be applied to more significant risks, like fire flood and storm.

I think we have to get much more serious about prevention. People are doing this:

Fire safety:

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195331310/red-roof-house-fir...

Storm safety:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mexico-beach-home-survives-hurrica...

We need to mandate this kind of building in new construction and modified construction.

It may be worthwhile to subsidize this, to help with turning existing high risks into low risks.

We need to be more severe on forbidding building in danger zones, and more accepting of insurers pricing these based on risk, so they don't have to leave the state, and others can be priced to more common levels of risk.

We also need to not allow rebuilding in areas that will have these problems again, without some way of mitigating. We should not have to pay for someone's third house in a flood zone. But if you can make it flood proof after the first one, great.
If you have a mid- to upper- range phone made in the last 4 years, that's probably the best low-budget option by far. Save your money and get led panel lights instead.

And a good audio recorder will do wonders. Zoom h1n is a quite good budget option. Try searching YouTube for "h1n vs" - there are tons of great options.
Is this broken? It throws a percentage up but doesn't offer any tips, like it says it would.
What was "full length" at the time, even if they got RSA implemented immediately after the paper was announced?

The RSA paper recommends 200 digit keys, which is somewhat under 700 bits. Would even that size run acceptably on an 8 kiloword 0.1MIPS machine? (I couldn't quickly find an actual opcode listing, so I can't say exactly how fast it multiplies, but it's probably not great.)
I'm not sure I see any connection with readability.
Family members are often excluded from the coverages. I know they are excluded from medpay, for example.
A big problem is that platform barriers require that the train stop within a few inches of the opening, or the doors don’t match up. That isn’t practical with manual train control. And upgrading the rails and trains for ATC is super expensive. And that’s before even installing the doors.
The [CIA] World Factbook
I’m saying PID controllers are unnecessary and don’t help solve any problems if there’s no time delay (which can happen in software). The I and D terms are based on time, i.e. integrating/differentiating with respect to time, so talking about time delay is perhaps obvious, but it wasn’t obvious to me the first time I heard about PID controllers, and even in the article we’re commenting on, the problem statement isn’t super clear. I think the time delay is the most important part to understand, the time delay is what causes the problems that PID controllers are designed to solve. And yeah, exactly, a proportional-only controller is fine for vehicle steering, for example, if you have a fictional vehicle that can make instantaneous changes in angle.
I wonder if any kind of pro-security legalisation were proposed, how many lobbying firms from big tech (Google, Amazon, etc) would fight it tooth and nail.

Kind of reminds me of PHK's criticisms of HTTP2, tho (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278 ), where he makes this point;

"The reason HTTP/2.0 does not improve privacy is that the big corporate backers have built their business model on top of the lack of privacy"
Any camera except a webcam will work. Focus on lighting and microphones, ones you have a reason to upgrade your setup, you might consider dslr cameras that are used for serious video productions
Sorry,I'm confused. Aren't podcasts audio by definition?

Unless your audience is going to be mainly on a video platform (and even then, the following advice will apply) you should focus your budget on audio equipment, and possibly build a recording booth.
If you could predict which house will burn down, there would be no point:

“All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” - Charles Munger

But we don’t actually know the future that well, so even if we know that some houses are riskier than others, it’s still worth buying.
> So, a company allegedly tasked with helping the public live safely wanted me to, at the time, ask my COVID infected host to waltz in to the doctor's office and spread around a pathogen that could kill patients. Nice.

No. That is done over the phone or video chat. Not required to physically attend a doctors appointment in order to obtain a doctors note for COVID infection. It's called telemedicine or virtual consultation.
What makes a CRT "good" by today's standards?
I suspect the only reason they don't use drones is range. Once they have a match, it'll be drones all the way.
I made a UI that allowed call center managers to search through historical transcripts by keyword. Previously they clicked through a table of chatlog popups and CTRL+F'd for hours.
The way it's been explained to me is precedent is often referring to rulings that start with the similar courts geographically to other ones.
Trademark bully': Momofuku turns up heat on others selling 'chili crunch'
I have worked in the rail industry for most of the last 10 years. The project with the most impact was a rail signalling upgrade for Norway's railways - using technologies whose foundations were layed 25-30 years
True. Also, to your point, one could argue that if that developer leaves, they'd have an easier time hiring anyone with Aurora experience as opposed to someone to learn and maintain the custom database.

But at the same time, Aurora costs could also scale with usage. It may cost $120k one year, $180k next year, $500k the year after. If the database they have now is well designed after it's already built it may not need active development every year but adding a feature here and there. Also, switching back to Aurora could also be an opportunity cost "we should have written our own thing and could have saved millions ...".
The most important rule I've learned for interfaces (UI - but also API and others) is that they should be self-consistent with no surprises. The user learns what to expect and they can rely on it, which generally makes it easier for them to navigate and get the results they want.

It seems to me that a generated UI does the opposite of that, and leads to a lot of uncertainty...

... How does support help them, or even troubleshoot problems when the user describes what they saw and did?

... How can one person instruct another in accomplishing a task when the interface is different?

... How can you document the instructions for accomplishing specific goals?

... How user-unfriendly is a UI that not only changes per user, but could change over time as more data is gathered about how the user is interacting? Especially if the user needs to do something out of the ordinary [for them], the means of doing it can get buried over time.
Yes, I thought of mentioning Nim in this category, but did not, because although I have looked at it a bit, I am not sure how C-like it is considered to be,

But thanks.
> For example instead of training an 8x7b mixture of experts then merging, just incorporate the sparsity constraint while pre-training a single 7b model (somehow).

I'm thinking it would help reduce the network demands for gradient updates if merge from time to time. That could unlock distributed training, like SETI@Home.
I want the Cliff Notes version..
Good question, and one I'd like to see discussed more too. From my point of you, your point "a)" is the one I never choose. In my opinion, one could rarely write something for that audience which might be novel to them. Perhaps I'm just not that smart, but to me, when I picture the true masters in my field, I rarely need to communicate anything to them that they haven't figured out for themselves already, and in the rare case that I might, those types of people don't mind a bit of revisiting of the fundamentals anyway.

My favourite type of writing is one that also comes in handy to myself a couple of years down the line, which inevitably involves a modicum of handholding and starting from some fundamentals. So I'd say most of the articles should be b) or c).
Chisel is a handy red-team tool. I learned about it training for the OSCP (Offsec Certified Professional). It comes in handy under certain situations.

Another tool I recommend is Ligolo-ng [1]. You set up a network interface and use "ip route" to send traffic through it. In a way, it "feels like a VPN".

[1] https://github.com/nicocha30/ligolo-ng
Real question: is something like aerial photography of your roof really subject to privacy laws?
> is on a flood plane.

You mean like this one? https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-flight-diverted-t...

…I’ll see myself out.
A used Sony a6000 + kit lens + cheap HDMI to USB dongle.

The nice thing about this sort of setup is that you can upgrade the lens as needed without having to redo the whole system.

As for lighting, DIY some diffusers for and stick them on some lamps.
They're calling them "vodcasts", it's the hot new format.
The insurance scam is, classically, someone getting a policy on an asset they know is worthless, going to catch fire, suddenly die, etc. -- and you do pay higher rates as a result.
Anyone got a recommendation for a router with Wireguard support baked in? I've been running PiVPN on a separate box but since I need a new router anyways and it's not going to be supported, that might be a viable replacement.
Yes, but what I'm describing is the problem of not even listening to the idea of a new attempt.
> Let's face it, everything has become more expensive. The Five Guys meal of a little cheeseburger, little fries, and regular drink which cost me $12 4 years ago in March, 2020 (I keep records), would cost me $17-18 today (I checked the prices today at noon and walked away). That's a 40-50% increase.

Couldn't this just be combated using shrinkflation? I'm sure that rice, beans, ramen, and other grad student fare is still cheap yet provides enough nutrients to study.

After all, these are supposed to be institutions of the mind, not institutions of the stomach.
I think this is the wrong way to think about personal data. You're better off just living your life like everything is hacked and out there and take precautions to deal with that.

Otherwise you place your destiny in the hands of others. And your also expecting a 100% success rate against data being stolen. We're only human, eventually someone will screw up no matter how much punishment there is.
Joe Rogan for example is a “podcast” but also films all their episodes so you can watch the host and guests reactions and body language during the segment. “Podcast” doesn’t just mean audio anymore, the definition has evolved.
Asynchronous Planning Poker
Planning poker is a common game used in agile software development to estimate the difficulty of a task. For well oiled teams, this extra meaning can sometimes feel like a time sink. That is where asynchronous planning poker comes in. Teams can estimate tickets in their own time, while also leaving comments if more context is needed.
Reminds me of a satire video I can no longer find, pointing out that Star Trek (Voyager in particular) frequently explains its fake science with bad metaphors — "Like choking to death on an over-ripe banana", says one of the characters before the ship explodes.
Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39949555
On this page:

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/community/details/P20-Pro-Boo...

there's someone from Huawei who acknowledges the policy change, with a date. Maybe check archive.org for the mentioned time and url? HTH.
Deterrence could heighten risk of nuclear warfare, study suggests
Maybe the name is not so fitting as Loki is a name in Norse Mythology. Known for deceiving and lying which is basically the opposite you're trying to do :)
Your smartphone with external wireless mic
The host can book a virtual appointment and get a doctors certificate online. It is easy and done in a few minutes. The insurer should have told you that.
> That copyrighted content is licensed to them for a fixed number of years.

Too bad, maybe they should've thought of that before signing those contracts.

> they're no longer allowed to sell the game

The subdiscussion isn't even about sales, but about not breaking existing copies.
Congrats! 3k a month is a already a nice side hustle. Are you personally using the app a lot?

I'm asking because I've also had the idea of a language learning chatbot, put together a quick POC but found it super boring super fast. Also, I've found it difficult to learn new words, because when you are speaking, you are only using the words you already know.

At the end, I've abandoned the chatbot project idea and just switched fully to basically AI powered anki - https://vokabeln.io
If you don't mind, what are some other examples of games eschewing Xbox for performance reasons?
I often use this site: https://brutalist.report to get a brutalist hacker news filter.
Well considering the cost is lower than Aurora isn’t the opportunity cost in favor of the home built situation.
I worked on a bunch of COVID testing and vaccine related projects for a US state government. Testing result aggregators and the system of record for COVID vaccines, hardest thing I ever done but also the most rewarding, I’ve been terribly bored ever since.
If somebody had asked me what design movement this was inspired by, my first answer would have been that it's an interpretation of Frutiger Aero [1] through the lens of Windows 3.1.

But if you change the theme to grayscale I can kind of see the connection to brutalism. The visible div borders around every comment are bare structural elements, and the huge skeuomorphic buttons are certainly closer to brutalism than HN's UI. HN is about the UI being minimalistic and muted, out of the way to the point of being nearly invisible. Brutalism on the other hand is about a kind of in-your-face minimalism, which this version does capture in a way.

1 https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero
> But they’re all actually very, very boring.

In fact they're actuarially very, very boring!
Perhaps it works as "brutalism" (from french: 'beton brut', Concrete) if the fundamental Concrete of the web is imagined to be different. I do not think it fits the bill as it is.
Legalized, yes, although I might say "so long as all parties are consenting adults."

Normalized? Depends on exactly what you mean, but let me say that I'm not advocating the idea that consuming recreational drugs, or dealing in same, is a Good Idea or something that's desirable in any way. But I make a distinction between my personal subjective feelings about moral issues, and my standing to impose my views on others. That is, I hold that none of us have any standing to compel others to behave in the way that we believe is "proper" or "good" or "just"... so long as they aren't violating anyone else's rights in the process of doing whatever they're doing.
> “If your roof is 20 years old and one hailstorm is going to take it off, you should pay more than somebody with a brand new roof,”

If you've been paying for insurance for 20 years with one company, then I'd say that is certainly a dick move to drop you right before it might pay out. What even is the point then?
No, you absolutely get it, the author is using the term exactly wrong. They’ve created something with form over function.
I can visualize the ball without color, so while having aphantasia implies no color, the converse is not true. It's sort of like an autostereogram, but with only the depth effect and no color at all.
I’ve thought about doing this myself and I wish there was a service that made it easier.

The one thing in the back of my mind is also that there’s a risk of this backfiring over time. When you are unknown to potential creditors, employers, etc in whatever platforms they choose to use to look you up, that’s the ultimate sign of risk.
Fixing cybersecurity with laws is the same as fixing drug trafficking with laws
is it possible to turn this into an executable that can run cross-platform ?
Why did this get downvoted so much? Seems accurate enough.
Ask HN: Good book for Android OS internals
Hi all, could you provide any suggestions for books about above topic?

To be more specific, suppose you unlock the bootloader. Where can I find resources on what this is actually doing at the OS level?
I made the calendar in redmine actually useful.
he’s just another outrageously out of touch rich guy

his hobby is driving supercars and he was praising garbage men on his blog because they can’t take time off for their mental health
The draft amendment to the Code itself is just 10 pages long (pp. 123-133), pp. 1-123 are the analysis, a total of 133 pages [1].

§ 226.2 Applicability (12) on p. 125 covers most IT/SaaS companies (any SW that has an OAuth2 client lib dependency seems to hit sub-clauses (ii)(C) and (ii)(D)) (emphasis mine):

(12) Information technology entities.
The entity meets one or more of the
following criteria:
(i) Knowingly provides or supports
information technology hardware,
software, systems, or services to the
Federal government;
(ii) Has developed and continues to
sell, license, or maintain any software
that has, or has direct software
dependencies upon, one or more
components with at least one of these
attributes:
(A) Is designed to run with elevated
privilege or manage privileges;
(B) Has direct or privileged access to
networking or computing resources;
(C) Is designed to control access to
data or operational technology;
(D) Performs a function critical to
trust; or
(E) Operates outside of normal trust
boundaries with privileged access;
(iii) Is an original equipment
manufacturer, vendor, or integrator of
operational technology hardware or
software components;
(iv) Performs functions related to
domain name operations;

Also, would not hurt if the draft was written in the BLUF fashion [2], with the 10 pages of the proposed law followed by 123 pages of the analysis.

[1]: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-04/pdf/2024-0...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
What I've seen is that it might be easier to promote a podcast if it has video because the web is a visual space and audio-only can be hard to make visual, unless one creates audiograms with text subtitles, but still not as compelling visually.

Plus, YouTube and other visual platforms seem to have better discoverability.

But I'm open to being proved wrong, as I'd love to record audio only lol.