skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I read about the tale of Shackleton all I think about is how he risked it he lives and limbs of his crew for personal vanity. I'm sure he was charismatic but I can't help but think he was an complete asshole in absolute terms.
I have the same problem and wished there was a service to aggregate this
I have been getting phishing texts pretending to be USPS for a few months. I actually almost fell for one because I was expecting a package but the text said they couldnt deliver w/o info, and when I looked at the URL i realized it was fake (I assume just a coincidence, that is the scam, send enough, people that are really expecting packages bite?).

Not surprised people are falling for these.
I agree it surprises me how much people keep trusting SMS in general and how companies keep using SMS for two-factor auth, although it shouldn't at this point, but you're saying networks did a good job protecting against SMS spam and this is the reason why people trust it?
Fun fact: if you have vsync enabled, latency depends on where you position the sensor.
If you have been poor for 5 years, that is ingrained in your behaviour.
As far as I remember from when I last read that article, it was a police-requested MiTM by the hosting provider. LetsEncrypt did a standard challenge (requesting http://webroot/.well-known/something) and the MiTM responded appropriately. This isn't really a problem with LE - if you can control the http response to all outside servers, it's fair to say that you control the domain and should have the cert. Bad on the hosting provider for doing so? Maybe, but there is no way for LE to know.
No for windows?
To be sure - God and creation being indistinguishable isn't something that Spinoza would agree with either. Two relevant items here.

One is that God has an infinite number of attributes, only two of which are extension and thought (the only ones we can know). All physical things are modes of the attribute of extension, and all "mental" things are modes of the attribute of thought. So if creation just means the set of all physical things (or even "mental" things), these are just the set of all modes of extension, an attribute of God, (along with the set of all modes of thought, another attribute of God, if you include mental things). But these are but extension and thought are but two of the infinitely many attributes of God.

Two is that Spinoza draws a distinction between the set of all of the modes of the attributes of God (Natura naturata) and God himself (Natura naturans). (See the Note of Proposition 29 of Part 1 of Ethics.)

So if by pantheism we mean that God is nothing but the set of all things, Spinoza does not seem to be a pantheist.

That isn't to say that Spinoza is just a perfectly orthodox theologian, of course, but just that reducing the radical nature of his theology to the word "pantheism" (construed as creation and God being the same) appears to be an oversimplification.

(Also, minor note, in the last comment I said Leibniz thinks God actualizes the best possible worlds, that's a typo, I meant the best possible world, singular.)
I can't even register more than 1 yubikey in almost any service that I use. We are faaar away from easy, secure and also robust authentication in the web. On top of that, I don't like big central services to control my authentication and collect data about me.

Thank you, but until we arrive there, I'm happy to stick to my password manager. This post just comfirms my impressions.
The article does not mention it (or I did not find it skimming), but I'd consider it safe to assume that there's also a bit of a conservation angle: once a piece of alpine engineering is established as part of the landscape, people seem to like it a lot. Even the very same people who would pick up torch and pitchfork against anything new I think. Imagine the outrage a proposal to return the slopes of the 48 Stelvio hairpins back to their natural state, or the Landwasser viaduct, or any of the Kaprun dams. As much outrage as a proposal to install new heliostats on yet untouched rocks would get, or perhaps even more.

Those dishes are monuments to what in hindsight is called the Space Age and while they'd probably fail to qualify for conservation for conservation's sake alone, giving them a second career as heliostats seems like a very pragmatic way too keep them, and keep them serviced even.
Itemized payments and fees for thousands of claims were made public in a lawsuit against Cigna after The Times petitioned the court. The insurer and MultiPlan opposed the release, calling the data “highly confidential.”

"For providing outpatient substance abuse treatment,
the facility received $134.13.

(Fee for Cigna)
For processing the claim, Cigna received $658.75, nearly five times as much as the treatment center.

(Fee for MultiPlan)
For recommending a payment amount, MultiPlan received $167.48, slightly more than the treatment center."
I heard about this scam a couple months ago, but finally got a text myself last week. I didn't click the link for obvious reasons, but looking only at the text itself, it was hard to tell if they were mimicking USPS or UPS. The domain they were using was just some random string like "USPUSU" or something like that.
> Even more interestingly, there was negative karma. I don’t even know how this came to be.

Brand new account commenting with very low value but not worth flagging. For example "I read the article yesterday" or "Why is this article even on HN?". I've seen a couple that had negative karma on the first days. Often though it's simply spam and the account soon gets shadow-banned though I don't understand the process that does that. Example user: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gabriella4151
This is some amazing yak shavings. Noted for future reference. I guess a github link is too much to ask? :-)
Speaking of WAP, I actually found Palm.net very interesting.

Unfortunately, the Palm VII was only available in the US, and having to dial up via serial cable or infrared using a mobile phone kind of ruined the spontaneous information lookup aspect of it.
This is awesome! I can't wait to try it out, really nice work.
I don't think they banned users based on citizenship. Maybe by accident, or some people forgot to update their addresses and perhaps payment methods.
> This additional mass of water can put extra stress on fault systems located along the edges of continents,

Is the difference so big compared with an "almost" eclipse were the shadow miss the Earth but the Moon and Sun aque quite aligned?

Does the extra mass of watter add more weight on the sea floor? I'd expect the pull from the Moon and Sun to (almost?) cancel the additional material.
My wife is a professor in a field where they regularly publish books. "Zero royalties for the first N copies sold" appears to be common in the academic publishing contract world. It's a mess.
Revoking a building's insurance against fire, flood or storm for the presence of an unauthorized trampoline is nuts. The trampoline in the garden has zero effect on the likelihood of a fire occurring.
Yup, I've gotten a couple of the USPS texts per month for the last few months now.

The USPS will never text you, I asked. They only do things by mail :]
It'd to add to the comparison:

## manyverse/sbb
https://www.manyver.se/ (SBB)

## farcaster
https://www.farcaster.xyz/ (Ethereum)

## a social app based on peers (formerly known as hypercore)
https://twitter.com/Pears_p2p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373960
In Hungarian courts a contract that you cannot read is invalid, or at least, highly contestable in court. So translations are needed. I guess it must be the same in many other jurisdictions.
All of these things (healthcare, buying products...) require money transfer. So by making payments frictionless, you're diminishing friction in these things too.
Why are you pitting this against education funding?

The US spends more on defense than both put together. A lot more.
That's solving a different problem. If you have a track that is not on any service, Apple Music will still accept the song file being added to your library and sync it for you. Spotify will not as it does not do cloud file sync.
How is this different from say India where twitter seemed to have been happy to censor? Is there just no significant revenue to lose in Brazil? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...
> You’re either rent controlled or bullshit.

Neither. Shitty apartment and a lot of hunting lol. And it was under $1k until COVID started. Going to be $1300 at my next renewal in July.

> 10x12x1200=$144k just gone

Yes. I'll admit I'm not familiar with the logistics but I assume the government refunds the homeowner's property taxes and reimburses for costs like appliances, repairs, landscaping, etc. when the time comes for them to sell?

> Meanwhile my father-in-law bought a house around that same time for $350k and is sitting on about $1.2mil in equity now.

Good for him! I both can't buy a house in my neighborhood due to the cost and have no interest in owning a single family home.

> You clearly are too young to know what you’re talking about

Like I said, just stupid. I'm over 40.
The headline sounds like it means some places charge more to people paying with their phone. This is not what the article is about. The article is about how people are apparently buying more stuff because payment is easier.
I'm continually astounded how many people will be asked for a credit card through no direct action of their own (e.g. an unsolicited text not part of a conversation they initiated) and will just do it. And multiple times!

Edit to be clear: I don't think these people are dumb, and I'm sure there is some scenario in which I could fall victim to a similar claim. This is more a comment on people generally as opposed to "those people."
I made https://gpupricecompare.com to compare GPU prices from eBay over the weekend and it was an interesting project because it seemed relatively simple upfront, but dealing with titles was a bit tricky. The only solution (I found at least) was to pull in some NLP packages to filter out and match GPUs, get the relevant models, etc. Was a great exercise for some non-LLM NLP.
>Turns out that in 1998, SFMTA had the latest cutting edge technology when they installed their automatic train control system.

> "We were the first agency in the U.S. to adopt this particular technology but it was from an era that computers didn't have a hard drive so you have to load the software from floppy disks on to the computer,"

In 1998, most personal computers already had hard drives [0]. From Wikipedia "The IBM PC/XT in 1983 included an internal 10 MB HDD, and soon thereafter, internal HDDs proliferated on personal computers."

The 3.5" floppy is from the mid 80's, again from Wiki [1] "In the early 1980s, many manufacturers introduced smaller floppy drives and media in various formats. A consortium of 21 companies eventually settled on a 3½-inch design..."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Why do I have to do this research instead of the "journalist"?
It’s astonishing how ideological authoritarianism can be smuggled in by just saying “conspiracy theory”. So agreed with the article.

> The paper does mention that these capabilities could also be used for nefarious purposes, such as convincing people to believe in conspiracies. However, it continues to finish the thought with the idea that we simply need to ensure that such AI is only used "responsibly."

> Thus, we have arrived at the same fallacy of all authoritarian power beloved by those morally superior to the rest of us. They make all the rules. They will define what is responsible. They will define what is a conspiracy theory. They will define who is targeted by such methods.

See also the mythological “benevolent dictator”. Dictatorship is good because it would be efficient under the hypothetical benevolent dictator. Never mind how you would find one and avoid the malevolent or incompetent ones though.
I mean, athletes don't even look like other athletes, usually.

Would you expect a champion shot putter, a champion marathon runner, a champion cycle sprinter, a champion gymnast, a champion table tennis player, a champion boxer and a champion jockey to look the same?

Of course you wouldn't. Oh, they'll all look athletic - but the shot putter will be a tower of strength, the marathon runner lean and weather-beaten, the cycle sprinter will be about 50% thighs by volume, and so on.

For some reason, fitness influencers and Hollywood superhero actors all seem to go for the same look, though. And both jobs have absolutely no steroid testing. What a coincidence!
It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it
This is still a sophists tactic, though? As you point out, it is not a valid rebuttal.

Can be fun discussion. And, again, I largely agree. I would be interested in the actual topic, as well.

Some metrics that could be indicative? QA team sizes. QA cycles. Features added versus features improved. Lines of code added. Size of features added.

It is frustrating, as lines of code is an easily gamed metric, it still correlates very well with number of bugs.
Yeah, most artists let you listen to the whole album before you buy it. Sometimes there are songs that don't have previews, and I think there are sometimes hidden songs included with the album but not even listed, but in general you can stream a few times before buying, and then stream as much as you want afterwards.
Oh and to expand on that. I like to be able to setup my own authentication without having having to rely on 3rd party software, just in case. Relying on cryptographic hashes (for password hashing) is already kind of bad, but at least there are open source libraries who are hopefully checked by professionals on regular basis.
You can prepare the exact amount in cash while you're in line. Then it's 0.
Isn't there a point where its more economical for a large organization to run its own cloud servers?
A subset of Northern Europe is in Eastern Europe. They’re not disjoint. In particular all Baltic countries are in Eastern Europe (as is visible on the map in the article you linked to (CIA World Factbook)) Eastern Europe has been historically defined by the Iron Curtain. Other definitions are fairly arbitrarily just trying to put a line somewhere on the map without regard for history and its effects on culture and politics.
You know you can fill out one form and 90% of it will stop?
You clearly haven't seen my legislators.
Ask HN: How about a SaaS to make everyone "Stick to the script"?
HN Community, I need your suggestions

I used to run a marketing agency, where I struggled with delegating any kind of client/sub-contractor handling to newcomers.

I am now trying to solve this problem by creating an AI-based SaaS product http://cheatsheet.to

"The core idea is to help people respond and communicate in the way it has been done in other conversations, easily."

The SaaS is easy to install on Slack and Gmail.

> I want validation, of whether this is an important problem for people here.

Thanks a lot
> But in practice - is this important? The hyperscaler clouds are similarly priced

Similar prices as advertised maybe, but big companies and governments do enough volume that they can negotiate discounts. If they're locked in they lose leverage though
Your tests, or at least your unit tests, should run extremely quickly (on the order of a maximum of a few seconds). If you have a minute+ long test suite, you have already failed IMHO. The utility of a test suite goes down quite steadily IMHO as the run-time goes up.

The road to a slow test suite is reached in very small increments over time, so you have to be fastidious about all of it in order to stave that off as long as possible. A simple optimization that I've seen double some test suite speeds is to swap out slow password hash algorithms on login with a no-op, but just for the test environment.

If running your DB slower significantly slows down your test suite then it's arguable that you are touching the DB too much already and repeatedly testing the same things over and over again (like creating users in the database for each test instead of using something in-memory)
Cool project and thanks for sharing the isotope library, I'll be using that in my next project :)
Makes sense. He has a huge ego and the Websummit is one big ego trip for him. I volunteered there once and was surprised by the worshiping of some of his 'followers'. There was one guy who's entire job description seemed to be going around and comparing Paddy to Steve Jobs...
Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
Bodybuilders are going to be freaking strong compared to the vast majority of the bell curve of people. And speaking from experience, that weight training can really increase cardio health too (I can't do much lower-body cardio because of disability, but get a lot out of upper-body workouts). It's just that they're doing what they do primarily for aesthetic reasons; the strength is more of a side-effect (and the drugs can be problematic as the article alludes to). There's also no correlation with martial arts skill really; that's an entirely other thing.
Taking your example of visiting a park: due to technology (having a device like a smartphone), I can arrive in a town and immediately see visually in which direction to walk so that I get to a park, having never set foot in the place before (I literally did this yesterday). Without that technology, this would only be possible after finding a shop which sells maps of the locality. Which is the more consumerist situation?
Particularly if your medical experience also leaves you predisposed to have further medical complications in your life.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39969938
For our corp environment we initially embraced software-backed FIDO authenticators (aka passkeys), but now I am almost ready to start enforcing only hardware authenticators via attestation.

The worst offender is (of course!) Google. In Chrome they bend the interface as much as they could to lure people into using Android as a key holder (and to sync it later on) even when platform authentication is available. Apple was very unfriendly by making their WebAuthn API private, so Safari used Keychain, Chrome did not have access to it (and forced Android) and Firefox only could use Yubikeys.

And now password managers are jumping into this, so when a user tries to enroll the device in a browser with password manager extension (looking at you, Bitwarden) on a platform with software authenticators good luck finding the right combination of clicks to choose Yubikey.

Enshittification of FIDO auth happened unbelievably fast.
These sorts of articles reaffirms to me that there is a dire need to switch to capability based security models. Managing the security with the set of tools we have available in the legacy model leaves lots of room for error.
Anecdotally this makes sense. Everyone I know with medical debt has no intention of paying it, and would live their lives the same if it were payed off.
Warp?

https://www.warp.dev/

Might not be 1:1 what you ask for, but it can do scrollbacks for sure and has very advanced command history features.
The Evolution of the User (2017)
I recently demonitized Spotify and am very happy with Bandcamp and Newpipe.
The last guy certainly is brazilian trump. I wouldn't call him worse than this literal world touring champagne socialist though. Brazilian trump said a lot of profoundly stupid things but I think he did alright managing the economy despite the pandemic and russian war. Current guy is spending money like there's no tomorrow and basically undid any and all progress last guy made out of spite.
Unfortunately not, although it appears to be possible on jailbroken devices. https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/8/5/knowledge-is-power-usin... (found via this gist: https://gist.github.com/0xdevalias/38cfc92278f85ae89a46f0c15...)
Spam delivered over SMS and the security (perceived or real) of SMS-based 2FA are entirely different subjects, though.

But to kibitz on the second: a validated phone account remains by far the easiest 2FA mechanism to deploy and rely on, and 2FA remains by far more secure than simple password authentication. Advocate for apps and hardware keys all you want, don't dump on an extemely valuable technology, please. The worst possible situation would be for someone to "take your advice" and refuse to use any 2FA at all.
Healthcare does not require money transfer for the consumer. (Well in a non third world country).
You may have some points but McArthur wanted to turn Korea into a sea of irradiated isotopes. I think it's fair he was turned down.
> 10. Many people (correctly) worry they’re being personally evaluated by their updates, so they sanitize every sentence to death. Don’t do this. Make it all about the work, not about you, and leave the evaluating to others. (I visualize myself in a third-person view physically separate from the work, and pretend my character is writing the update.)

Underrated advice!
I get at least 5 of these a day between SMSes, iMessages from compromised iCloud accounts, and emails. And it does suck, because I do a lot of shipping and receiving for my business, and I DO get emails from the USPS for owing various amounts of overage on my outgoing shipments. When my scale weighed something as 4oz, but theirs as 5oz, that is the next level up in shipping cost (at least for Ground Advantage and Priority Large Envelope).
I wrote something similar, but ranging from L1 to L5:

https://prompt.16x.engineer/blog/ai-coding-l1-l5
FWIW in Germany in order to apply as a notary you have to be a lawyer and the number of notaries is very limited and they're lifetime positions. As with all public officials, there are severe penalties for professional misconduct and losing your lifetime position and benefits is usually enough of an incentive to keep these people honest and careful.
I think that the increasing role of physician assistants could could make health care more affordable and thus reduce friction. There's a lot of common ailments that people seek treatment for that have a prescribed treatment protocol that doesn't require a specialist MD. In theory it should make healthcare more affordable to people since PA's don't make as much as doctors and don't require as much schooling. What I'm not sure about is whether the consumer is seeing any of the cost savings, or is it all getting captured by hospitals/intermediaries?
So, platform default implementations are too platform specific, and a cross-platform third-party option is cross-platform? Shocking.

1Password also does this well, but without the moral judgement.
I can answer both questions with a sprinkle of template magic:

#include <iostream>
#include <functional>

template <typename Ret, typename First, typename ...Rest>
class Curry {
std::function<Ret(First, Rest...)> fn;
public:
Curry(std::function<Ret(First, Rest...)> fn): fn(fn) {};
Curry<Ret, Rest...> operator()(First arg) {
return Curry<Ret, Rest...>{[this, arg](Rest... args) {
return this->fn(arg, args...);
}};
}
};

template <typename Ret, typename Arg>
class Curry<Ret, Arg> {
std::function<Ret(Arg)> fn;
public:
Curry(std::function<Ret(Arg)> fn): fn(fn) {};
Ret operator()(Arg arg) {
return this->fn(arg);
}
};

int uncurried(int a, int b, int c) {
return a + 2*b + 3*c;
}

int main() {
auto curried = Curry<int, int, int, int>{uncurried};

std::cout << curried(1)(2)(3) << std::endl;
}
We need more calm companies
You should put an epilepsy warning before that large gif on your readme.