skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how it was before 10 years ago, but in the past ~5 years my banking app has become far worse and less secure objectively. Specifically, since they moved from a hardware auth token to a digital token on a mobile app. Consumers lost Millions of dollars past year alone. The situation was so bad that this year govt passed a new law holding banks partially responsible for such scams. The attackers succeeded in emptying entire bank accounts despite multi-factor authentication (all of which depended on the mobile phone), transfer limits, etc,. "Technologists", of course, blamed the consumers for downloading untrusted apps. They also went as far as to say that Android is less secure than iOS because it's open source.
Obviously there is fraud everywhere. Still, I have a higher level of basic trust when dealing with a GmbH than someone who created their Ltd Co 3 hours ago. It's just a sign they are a more serious/stable business counter party to deal with.
Plastics in landfill also break down to make methane. The carbon source in this case is fossil fuel.

Also, if the food gains the carbon as CO2 but releases it on decomposition as CH4, that’s a big increase in GHG potential, we want to avoid that.

Moreover it shouldn’t matter the original carbon source - if we have the opportunity to capture some methane from concentrated point source like a landfill we should be jumping at it. One of the easiest marginal tons of CO2e saved
So this is pure anecdata here, but as a foreigner who married a German, it took a while, but it was relatively little work.

The biggest issue was that we needed one of my documents (the birth certificate) to have a seal of authenticity from my home country, which then all needed to be translated officially. That took longer than it needed to because we didn't realise it needed to be authenticated and so we got it returned at one point and needed to resubmit it. But apart from that, it was mostly a case of waiting for the formalities to go through - that took a couple of months in total, but it required relatively little work overall. I suspect in total, getting married in another country would have taken more work to organise and arrange, although it would probably have been quicker with the right combination of country and pre-existing documents.
> It's not unreasonable to expect a party to a contract to read all of it.

Walter, you are a very smart guy. And this is a site which attracts people with above average intelligence and education. It is easy to forget that not everyone is as smart or well-educated as we are.

I know a guy who has been diagnosed with borderline intellectual functioning (i.e. his IQ is above the cutoff for intellectual disability, but only just). He blames it on his alcoholic mother drinking when she was pregnant. He's able to live independently, he drives a truck for a living. But no way is he ever going to be able to comprehend all by himself the dense fine-print of a contract. The law has to look after people like him, not just people like you or me. There are literally millions of people like him out there – around 13% of the population has an IQ in the borderline range.

> The consumer can always say "no". An important feature of a free market is there are no forced contracts. Saying "no" is the ultimate power.

Some products, people need to buy to meet their basic human needs and to function in society. For many of those products, there are only a small number of vendors available. If all of them demand you sign an incomprehensible barrage of legalese, you can't realistically say "no" to doing so. It might not be a "forced contract" in an abstract theoretical sense, but it sure is in a practical sense.
There are actually a surprising number of academics in the Clojure for data science study groups. A lot of them ran into performance or portability issues with Python or R and found Clojure tools as a good solution.
Are they edible? We should eat them, protein powder.
Stackframe owns the repo and the LICENSE file says "Copyright 2024 Stackframe." I think the author works at Stackframe.
Video: https://pr0gramm.com/top/6132219
I'd much rather be on windows 11 than any previous iteration. The biggest issues are things like injecting ads and policies like updates that force restarts and upsells. Stability is certainly much better.
You forgot the Windows 3.x era, where up-time was often measured in hours. From my recollections, early Windows 95 was not much better. Of course, Windows 9x and earlier were single user operating systems with no security to speak of. Organizations frequently put on a layer of access control, and that layer was frequently completely ineffective.

Speaking of ineffective security, I recall sessions being identified by IP address. Have more than one computer logged in behind a NAT router, well, you were all accessing the same account. Passing the password as part of the URL? Why not! Many protocols even sent passwords as clear text, never mind encrypting the actual data being shared.

And while a lot of that stuff happened in the 1990's, some of it was happening well into the 2000's.

That being said, I think we could be doing better than we currently are if we had simpler and better understood systems. It is almost as though we insist upon making new mistakes after learning from the old ones.
Isn't it the only way to, say,understand a pun?
We all know the Baader–Meinhof / frequency illusion, which is where something becomes interesting to an observer so suddenly they notice things that were always there, but because they suddenly notice it seems there has been some massive increase in frequency.

What is it when something gets into the zeitgeist narrative so every possible instance is widely reported on in a way that it wasn't before? Parts have always been flying off planes, and there have always been maintenance issues, but suddenly every single one is reported making it feel like it's some sudden outbreak. In the same way we're hearing about every boat hitting something when boats have always been hitting things, it just didn't have a context under which it was newsworthy.
That's cool but Brew seems to work just fine for my needs (and most developers on a Mac, apparently). Which is why I think the question still stands; unclear why people should care when the status quo is good enough.
seems pretty cheap tbh
There's a physical product that implements the same idea [1]. I'm not sure how it actually works (presumably there's a patent somewhere, is there an alternative solution?) but it's quite a magic feeling to hear the fire alarm go off and the doors independently close by themselves. If you're in a building that uses these, you can test yourself by playing a recorded fire alarm sound - they work on quite a few different ones (and it really doesn't have to be that loud!). They also have a surprisingly long battery life, ~10 years I think so the detection mustn't take much power at all.

[1]: https://www.fireco.uk/products/sound-activated/dorgard/
I don't know how many different ways you have tried to communicate with your bank, but in my personal experience a bank will transfer money any way you want if you send your request by fax. The fact that one platform has 2FA doesn't seems to solve a real systematic problem. And of course there's the whole ACH system on which the level of authentication is "none".
> Just allegations with no substantiality.

The article I’ve linked lists are least five reasons his actions are illegal, with the respective citations explaining why they are illegal. Just because you chose to ignore that, doesn’t make it unsubstantiated.

> He has an injunction that allows him to "censure" people and media

At least you admit Brazil is under a censorship regime. Dictatorships are always backed by the law.

By the way, any injunction that contradicts the constitution is by definition illegal.
For those not familiar with meld:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/

There is a GitHub repo of it that is now deprecated, this is apparently the official repo. I’m curious how these stack up to other, similar tooling, but for now I’m starting to wonder how much work it would take to modify GNOME Sushi [1] to call one of these utilities when two items are selected in the GNOME Nautilus file manager, and go one step beyond macOS Quick Look (though we would still be missing the Quick Look powerful editing capabilities).

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/gnome-sushi-mac-quick-for-ubuntu
This is your scheduled reminder that there were 37 million scheduled passenger flights in 2023, of which one (1), a turboprop crash in Nepal, resulted in fatalities. There were zero (0) fatalities in commercial jet aviation, not just in the US but the entire world:

https://askthepilot.com/safest-year-2023/

In computing terms, that's 99.99999%, or over 7 9s of reliability, for ginormous machines flying through the sky in all sorts of crazy weather conditions. So, yeah, we've engineered things pretty damn well.
I still use Leiningen since it covers practically all of my needs, including the needs of the teams in the past two businesses I've worked for. The Slack group has pretty vocal people pushing for deps.edn. It's a bit amusing seeing people slowly build their own Leiningen out of ad-hoc Makefile^W^W Babashka scripts and copy-pasting build.clj files across their projects. (Not to mention, nobody can remember what the -X, -A, -T, ... flags do, so that is a major reason Makefiles or Babashka scripts are commonplace in projects that don't use Leiningen)

If you're familiar with Java, then you can think of Clojure today as going through its Apache Ant phase. Some people love it, some people hate it. I personally want to spend 0% of my time building build tools; thankfully there is a pretty solid build tool that is still maintained and will continue to work for the foreseeable future.
Corners are being cut by Boeing right in the USA.
I think so, but at a glance I can't find where I can upload files to infinitemac...
My small local landfill harvests methane, and this is in a state where regulations very minimal. I'm not sure what you consider obscenely large.
> Having the function of anti-crime and urinal deterrent as well as an educational tool for citizens

The "education" being when someone pisses on it and finds out what happens?
While of course one can use whatever orthonormal basis one likes, and so in particular one can use the one shown in the article,

uh,

I’m not sure what statement that others might believe, the article is contradicting?

The Fourier transform has some nice properties that other bases don’t.

One way to view the Fourier transform, is as decomposing “the space of functions on [some domain], regarded as a representation of [the group of translations in that domain]”, into one-dimensional sub-representations.
(Or, if you want to stay over the real numbers instead of complex numbers, then two dimensional representations)

I don’t know that there’s a nice analogy of this for the basis described in the article.

Maybe there is? Like, maybe if one uses some group with 2^n elements other that Z/((2^n)Z) ,
maybe (Z/(2Z))^n,
then maybe the basis you would get would be like the one shown?

Idk.

But I don’t see this as showing frequency space as less real.
Eventually you start specializing and learning more and more about a particular topic until you know as much about it as anybody else, and then you just keep going.

There's always massive open questions because every question you answer generates more questions.
Counterpoint to that would be that no matter how interesting other people's lives may be, mine is still special because it's the only viewpoint I can actually have (before you hippies come at me I've done enough LSD and meditation and no I still only have my viewpoint). My dramas and problems are more important than everyone elses to me since I'm the one who has to deal with them. They're not more important in an objective sense, but I am not an objective creature living in the clouds.
Indeed, and the CEO was pushed out by the board (which held private meetings with aircraft customers without the CEO) and the org is at risk that the US government might nationalize them if the board and shareholders don't right the ship (as they are too big to fail). Seems like an ideal time to move through the industry chain encouraging better behavior.

No need for the "what about this terrible org/business practice also?" There are resources to go around.
Explain yourself more please. It sounds like you may have something
interesting to say but need to elaborate. What do you think is the
relation between fear and hate in this instance?
US lawmakers strike deal on data privacy legislation
The entire field of Information Technology exists because the world disagrees that the thing in your skull has an acceptable level of intellectual and recall performance. And here we are on a social site dedicated to the pursuit of making it better. And so are you!

One of us, apparently.
If the table is in silicon, you can avoid this. Not sure if that is done in practice though.
As far as I see, the only one directly talking about Ozempic is you.
Side question: why don't i hear horror stories about identity theft from those areas that have those evil bureaucratic notaries authenticating everything?
I'm not quoting anyone. You can independently check all facts on the links I provided. They're not opinion pieces. They're just facts. There was an attempt to bomb an airport to create chaos. There were people blocking roads and camping on military bases asking for a coup. There was an invasion to the congress and to the SJ building by people asking for a military coup. There are confessions from military generals that Bolsonaro approached them to back his coup attempt. These are all facts available in plain sight for anyone to see.
Is this site abandoned and do people sneak into it? (And get cancer later in their life mysteriously, but that's neither here nor there.)

Quick edit: yes they do https://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-cold-war-relics-three-phot...
websites used it too.
Why Highway 1 near Big Sur is always collapsing into the ocean
> there's absolutely no point discussing Vegemite with those from overseas, especially Americans, let alone trying to get them to taste it

Not so fast my friend! Ich bin ein sheiz Ami who is no stranger to sesos, lengua, offal, Asian ingenuity and piping hot street food spanning four continents.

Describe the Vegemite. On biscuits or toast? If with beer, a pilsner or stout? Please.
The best vegemite I ever had was from a 6 foor 4 muscular man in Brussels
Even some PC floppies can't be read by the cheap USB-floppy drives on Amazon. They typically expect exactly 1.44 megabyte floppies. Format it slightly differently, and those USB drives can't see it, even if the floppy would have worked just fine in any "real" floppy drive connected to the floppy interface on the motherboard.
Too much where? Let's ignore AI "startups" with no business idea beyond reselling system prompts for GPT-4 to end users. Does your bank have AI like last summer? A clinic? Any utility service? It is unlikely for most established businesses, cause they cannot move that fast. I just did a quick search on "{bank,hospital,...} integrated gpt-4 for client support" and similar queries and there's various "will be", "may use", but nothing specific. I believe ggp is mixing regular chat bots with integration of SotA in their statement.
> That this simple idea seems a stretch for you might be a signal to you that your reality is distorted in this area and could use a re-examining.

That seems pretty unwarranted. :(
That doesn't clarify it for me. The same parameters are being used for every layer for every token. Yes, there is this differentiable lookup in attention like in MoE - but routing is about more than just differentiable lookup, it is about selecting on parameters not state.
You don't need paper or ink to start working with math. You don't need symbols. You can just do it in your head. That's the beauty of math. The physical instantiation of it doesn't matter.
That’s great, but given that 99.99999999% of the rest of won’t go to those lengths, you might find you’re a bit lonely when we all get assimilated into the borg.
Ubiquiti also has a battery powered alarm-sound sensor in their Unifi Protect lineup[1]

> "Based on UL217 and UL2034 alarm patterns."

UL217 is apparently for smoke alarms, UL2034 is apparently for CO alarms.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-camera-security...
As someone who is burdened with several thousands in filing costs every year (not tax, I mean the cost of paying an accountant to deal with the filing, which is required for all US citizens), because I have a non-US business, please fill me in on the benefits.

Also more and more non-US banks won't take US citizens as customers because they don't want to deal with the US's FATCA requirements.

No other developed country has these sorts of requirements for non-resident citizens.
Isn’t sustainable regeneration of farmland primarily concerned with the… nitrogen cycle?

Carbon is of course a factor in the case of stubble burning, but short of that biomass is being pulled from the atmosphere?
The attack on Martin Fowler is unfair and unnecessary. Fowler became well known because he did a good job at writing and summarizing topics that were interesting for people working with enterprise software a while ago (UML, Refactoring, Enterprise Architecture Patterns). If you read those books without critical thinking and follow them as a recipe, then the problem is not the book's author.

I attribute software quality decline to increasing complexity and pressure to deliver faster, confirmation bias (what is the software that we are talking about? Looking back at the time of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, I cannot say that software at that time had more quality), and finally a lost of interest of going “deep” in many areas (I agree with the author on this). Countless times, I talked with engineers in software architecture positions who base their decisions on the latest blog/article that they have read, without too much analysis. But, it doesn't matter if it's Fowler or another author.
Ah, for the Good Old Days, when the USN operated plenty of its very own shipyards, and was actually capable of Get Sh*t Done...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Yard

But you can't stand in the way of Progress. Especially not if you're a Congressman, and need some fat donations to help finance your next reelection campaign. Just another way in which Capitalism is superior a way of doing everything, I guess...
Not sure what you are thinking of, but if the case have big enough mesh/holes on the side of the case, there won't be much air suction through the floppy port.
They happen all the time and forums dedicated to them are among the OG specialty nerd forums, still going strong. Probably one of the reasons not to turn HN into one of them, outside of special occasions.
They asked a rhetorical question to frame an apparently misinformed opinion as if it were fact. It's interesting for discussion, but also likely to attract some ire, particularly since it's unpopular, flies in the face of what we think we know, and unsubstantiated.
They are still copyright protected right?

The whole premise is that you distribute a clean emulation platform and have the users torrent the roms from somewhere else. Trying to distribute them non-anonymously is a recipe for some trouble.
My friend runs an activity pub instance, but the software he uses is called snac2. One of it's stated features is that is does not report follower counts. It also only reports likes or boosts on the home instance (not on federated feeds). The atmosphere on this instance is markedly different than elsewhere in the fediverse.
Amazing lol: for what it's worth, it's hugely, hugely, shocking to me how little anyone outside sentence-transformers bothers noting whether their embedding model is for asymmetric vs. symmetric search. i.e. in all seriousness, afaik, 90% of people are using the "wrong" embeddings, and either handwave about it, don't care, or think it's being picky.

So of course I want to reach to blame that here.

I'm doing a cross-platform app pipeline that basically search API => get pages => embed => run against prompt, so unfortunately I don't have much more insight.

MiniLM V3 is good enough, the nearest constraint at this point is more "will I download all 10 search results in time?" than "am I grabbing the absolutely best passages?" -- good on you for legitimately testing those things.

edit: actually, I do have one more thought: sometimes I end up with embeddings for the last part of a web page that match ~anything. i.e. imagine i have a 1005 word web page and split it into 250 word chunks to embed. Then I'll have 4 "full" vectors, and one that represents just 5 words. That 5 word tends to match almost ~anything, i.e. I'll see ones from previous search queries match the current search query. Maybe you're seeing noise because its just 3-5 words? But then again, you were probably just illustrating without splatting in huge chunks of texts.
Scientists who work in government (DOE, EPA, etc) keep telling me that but I don't believe them. I worked alongside them and I wasn't impressed by most of them.

Result? I dodged a mini-Flint that occurred in my tiny corner of the Midwest. Two if you include the aftermath of Bethlehem, OH.

Anyway "rest of the world" is a spurious comparison. Im interested in comparing with Switzerland's water quality, not Eritrea's .
That's really impressive! I don't know enough French yet to really be able to use it, but the 'quiz without words' should still be relevant :)

Maybe consider posting your site as a 'Show HN' at some point?
Thank you for your website. It has helped me immensely.
Thos one is the kind of thing that would stay forgotten on the third page if everybody wasn't looking for it.
> shipping broken games is a business decision

Obviously, but just as obviously buying games on day 1 is a frustrating waste of time. We’ve reached a point where it’s just not worth the hassle.

I’m not cherry picking just looking at categories. ET wasn’t even close to a AAA game, but look at the top 10 games from each year (total sales or preorders) and you’ll see a significant increase in day 1 bugs. Start looking at AA games and some of those never get the patches they need to be playable.

People may have complained about the balance etc of each game, but Diablo III didn’t have anything like the massive number of bugs Diablo IV dropped with.
they arent miss-use resistant when it comes to mitm attacks
Do you have some reason to think the actual rate of incidents hasn’t increased?
We work in the sleep space, and I was having a discussion about insomnia with relative stranger.

He also has insomnia and we were discussing how it is often spoken of as an issue with anxiety, but we both concluded that, even though we are aware of the negative impacts, we liked the thinking time alone, it is not stress induced. It is a time we get our best thinking done. Or more thinking is perhaps a better description.

I didn't have a great take-away from this post, but to suggest that post activity could also have a correlation with sleepless thoughts.

I'm positive a Balmer Peak exists for the quality of these posts.
My life is special to me too, but I don't feel like the main character anymore. My family appreciates my move out of self-absorption towards giving them the attention they deserve from me.