skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLS is opt-in for each website. If a web server doesn't specifically listen with a TLS certificate, users don't connect with one.

Browsers will often attempt that connection, and then tell the user ~"Hey we tried to connect with HTTPS, but the server didn't respond. Do you want to try an unencrypted connection"

But there's no case where Chrome will look and see "oh look, akerl has published a cert on this other site, we're going to just send traffic encrypted to that cert when we connect to his website".
You've got it backwards. You don't hope the cartel doesn't steal your money. You call them up and offer an easy 10% cut for their services. If it's their turf and they get their cut, everything is OK.
> While money can’t be created or destroyed (unless you run a central bank…)

That's not the case. Money, of course, is just a promise to provide something of some defined value at some point in the future. Anyone can make such promises. Heck, that's why we invented accounting – to keep track of the promises outstanding and delivered!
400 you screwed up vs 500 I screwed up is always better than 200 OK not really.

You can get more specific, and for REST style APIs the correct specific HTTP status code is usually apparent for both successful and unsuccessful requests, but 2xx/4xx/5xx is simple and should be trivial to determine for anything you are using HTTP for even if it's not REST-like.
"Talking to people" is hardly an insignificant use case
Tailscale can solve this problem
An Open Reply to Thomas Mann's Report "On the Record" but Off the Track (2008) [pdf]
From an article that was on the front page a while ago:
"When asked whether Light Bio is worried about plant lovers sharing cuttings of the petunia with friends, Sarkisyan says that although the firm owns patents for the technology, it doesn’t plan to crack down aggressively on the behaviour. “The most positive way of dealing with it is to come up with new, better products,” he says."
Andrej Karpathy explaining llm.c in layman terms
Maybe to be accessory to your phone, reduce screentime etc.
The replacement will use modern parts and tools, administered by someone who knows modern systems.

There is no use in becoming an expert in an ancient system ridden with proprietary and obsolete parts, just so you can help one city maintain their ancient system. It's even worse than wanting to become a professional fax machine guru.
This is an affront to humanity. It truly shows that education has become about making students cogs so they can push forward our dying global capitalistic system.

Education should be about connections with teachers and teachers reading their work to provide feedback and human connection.

If we go ahead with this, the future will be AI teaching children and taking over teachers -- because it is cheaper. Some cheaper schools will do it, and there will be an even greater divide between the poor and the rich.

Horrible idea.
Door wide open for eugenics.

XYZ develop more disease -> don't allow reproduction
My first Afghanistan deployment, I left with an old nokia and came back to find the world had invented smart phones. My second deployment, I left with a new iPhone 4, and came back to find people walking around with tablets.

I miss my iPhone 5, that thing was so tiny. It was amazing.
Instead of industrializing rural and wild landscapes, put solar on existing urban hardscapes, lessening the need for long distance transmission. Target the grid improvements to where the demand is.
Voice is very high density as an input modality, but that's a double-edged sword.

It's fantastic for expressing complex requests that would otherwise be a lot of effort/time consuming on a less-information-dense interface.

But voice has a higher "floor" for ease of use. It's easier to tap a button to confirm than it is to speak "Yes, ok" out loud. It's also more socially appropriate in more circumstances.

The other problem is that voice is very low density as an output modality compared to the status quo, which are high-resolution screens. The amount of time it would take to express even the most basic of information (imagine speaking the HN home page out loud vs. reading it!) is pretty extreme.

Where this forms a bad combination are tasks where it's not realistic for the user to utter the full complex request at once, where the user must consult intermediate outputs to determine the next action. In that case you're in a really vicious scenario: the density of voice input is not really necessary, while the low-density of voice output slows the task down dramatically.

For example, think of a use case where you're booking a flight: "I want to see flights from San Francisco to New York".

It's not really possible for the user to fully define a booking in their initial voice input - the user would reasonably want to review choices, pick seats, etc, necessitating that the task be multi-step. Now imagine if voice was the exclusive modality - the UX would be positively painful.

> "that's the future of most/all consumer interfaces with AI, no?"

And this is why I disagree with this statement. I think the idea that voice is the dominant user interface is far from obvious, especially when it comes to AI systems.

LLM hype men tend to hand-wave around the complexities of this: "the AI will automatically pick the best possible flight for you! Why would you even want to review your choices?!" - which conveniently dismisses every area of weakness for this UX with "the AI will do it for you, trust it"... and time will tell but I suspect that will not work out that way.
I have a suspicion that the reason a lot of LLM bots can output stuff akin to word salad is because a lot of their training data is word salad in the first place. If you're a competent reader pre-LLM, you can mostly avoid/discount word salad, so its prevalence doesn't really register.
>a news article relating to look how good AI is at this stuff!

Some of that is also related to how bad people have been allowed to be and get away with writing it anyway
Good idea, is this something you do/have seen somewhere before? Feels like such a common problem I have a hard time believing there aren't any standard practices for it
Why is sales tax being applied now? Is there some new tax law or is Kagi offering a new benefit that requires taxation?
The unwritten rules of tech reviews is your review must fall between 4 and 9.5
You missed the part where I filed the patent first, so I am now the one in charge of USB charged cars.

Yes, it is even more complicated than that; I'm just trying to toss out a joke while also pointing out the system is even worse than implied.
One thing I've realized more and more over the years: it's the operational roles (infra, SRE, Devops) that are actually most stressful. Sure, if you're building product, you get deadlines, but they are predictable and they come and go.

But being oncall for a shakey infra stack? That shit is hell. No deadlines, just the threat of incidents or downtime at any time of day.
> While money can’t be created or destroyed (unless you run a central bank…), value can be.

Money is created and destroyed by extending and resolving credit. central banks do it, but so do regular banks and non-bank institutions.
Looking at humans compared to mice/rats, it's obvious that they follow an r-selection strategy but we a K-selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
Love this, and may be helpful for incoming interns who are fuzzy on Git. Up until now my strategy has been to let them figure it out and point them to https://ohshitgit.com/ if they screw up.
And yet ... because their infra is good enough for everyone, it is FAR more than good enough for me :)
Soylent Green is people, indeed.
I'm a big fan of looking at usual problems through unusual lenses - while something normally easy is contrived, the different perspective might make a hard problem much more easily grokked.

I wish OP included a working project that lets one ingest a ledger, producing a graph. Perhaps this graph view might be used for "forensic" purposes, where a one-line entry buried deep would stand out as an odd node?

Still a hard sell with only one very basic example provided -- especially in a domain that's been around forever and where any advantage is critical. The DE ledger seems like a basic, simple tool, iterated into perfection over millennia. You'd think you could improve it, but good luck if you try.
First one, then the other.

I wouldn't go for the subscription until you're near a covert international police station though. You're really just not getting the totalitarianism for your money.
Show HN: Python Package Extractor
I've created a simple, user friendly CLI tool to visualize used, unused, and untracked python packages of a project + the disk usage.
Goldstine also wrote a very interesting book called "The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann" that chronicles some of his experiences and also shows the depth of his research trying to draw inspiration from earlier calculating machines.
sure, just write a homeassistant integration. you have only 4 cases to handle:

- toaster oven on

- rice cooker on

- both on

- both off

I would be extremely surprised if the sense was able to detect a rice cooker accurately.
Oof yeah, I’ve only seen a couple Lethwei bouts and I’m guessing legal headbutts and KO-only rules aren’t caring much about concussions!
I've bought a dictionary from Pons when that was still available many years ago, I dimly remember there was a script to convert it to StarDict. Nowadays it's a bit difficult because everything has moved to online services, you often cannot buy these anymore as offline versions. I'd suggest to go search mobileread.com and Reddit, there are usually good suggestions there...
While I applaud you for thinking of unique ways to solve this issue, there are already similar automated gun detection systems on the market. One of which, called ShotSpotter, has been highly criticized for inaccuracy & privacy invasiveness.

While it primarily uses acoustic detection, a recent analysis demonstrated it caused 40,000 false police responses over the period of 21 months.

https://www.macarthurjustice.org/shotspotter-generated-over-...

The EFF is highly critical of them over the fact they're constantly recording audio & video and that could be potentially problematic for a host of other reasons, however in a school, I'm sure there are constant recordings regardless.

https://sls.eff.org/technologies/gunshot-detection

Don't let that dissuade you though. Problems like this require a variety of innovative solutions and with GenAI now being able to identify things visually, perhaps it can do a better job than the acoustic systems in the past. It would definitely need to have loads of training data on all different gun models & types and need to differentiate other common objects students might be holding in their hands like a pen or a phone, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator
Got it. So you don't use things like WhatsApp. I find WhatsApp and Signal incredibly useful and are probably the biggest reason I use a smart phone.
I'm still happy with Apple Notes for its integration with all of Apple Apps, easy sharing with family members, etc. I have tamed it more as an ephemeral and quick Notes App. The notes that starts there are usually transferred to a more permanent and organized Plain-Text setup[1] (currently guardian-ed by Obsidian).

If I had to replace Apple Notes, I'd look at either one of these;

- https://simplenote.com

- https://bear.app

- https://www.craft.do

- https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/
One of the strangest aspects of patents is that it is much easier to get a patent than it is to defend that patent in court.

Many patents are granted by the patent office then revoked by judges.
Yeah, to me this is the inevitable holy grail. I think you have to iterate and optimize your way there, and the current clunky methods of using text to generate an entire song is just the first step, but I can’t imagine this product won’t exist sometime within the next 1-3 years.
Show HN: SaaS Name Generator for Indie Hackers
You won't be able to tell is the point.
Securely manage your dot files
Here's a hot take: most people (hell, me included) don't want to stop using their smartphone.
Adopt a convention like commitizen: https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli

'typeofchange(scopeofchange): reason for change'

It sort helps force devs to type out more meaningful commit messages.
You can dial in several things if you know how well you slept:

I can judge how performant I'll be in the gym and fitness competitions - ie, how well I can push myself and recover. I can work out whether what I ate before I slept had an impact (high cards vs low, or if certain foods are a trigger for poor sleep). I can understand if things like meditation, light sources, and noises outside, among others, actually impact me or not. I'm constantly learning something new from it month by month.
Can Information Escape a Black Hole?
> So I go back to him and he accused me of lying and went and told the CEO. The CEO, a pretty chill guy with a doctorate, I was expecting to have a rational discussion about with but not he screamed at me too.

That's terrible, I'm so glad you got out of that situation.

Hands down the best part about working in a field like tech and building up a cushion of savings has been that I haven't had to put up with coworkers who yell, accuse each other of lying, or any other immature, boundary-pushing behavior.

In the past I worked for the military, academia, theater, etc and there were times when I felt a strong esprit de corps and others when I felt stuck because I was a cog in a large machine and had granted jerks immense power over my life -- working on a contract in a war zone, needing approval from certain professors to further my career, needing a job to pay the rent, etc.

Whereas in tech it's easier to fix situations like this. In one case I went home early to send out resumes and left a few months later. In the other I just sent a record of the conversation to my boss and she dealt with the issue appropriately.

A major career regret is having put up with jerks. No matter how much the customer/company pays or how interesting the work is you can find other work that pays just as well and is just as interesting except you get to spend more of your exceedingly short lifespan with kind, smart, well-adjusted people.
And what's your take on it?
fMRI technique promised to transform brain research–why can no one replicate it?
This isn't reddit.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Circular Buffer Performance Trick
Morality isn’t a game of brinkmanship. It’s incumbent upon each country to improve itself, without resorting to their peers’ moral failures as a cheap response to observations of their own failures.
JumpBackHash: Say Goodbye to the Modulo Operation to Distribute Keys Uniformly
Show HN: In memory Rust database to query your data like a Venn diagram
Another company that raised hundreds of millions pre-PMF (indeed, pre-product) and then releasing a dud.

I still remember wondering how Clinkle raised so much money. Look how far we've come since then!
All your interpretation and from some of jurists that you cite is that the attacks that Brazilian institutions suffered, like the attacks caused by digital militias during the Bolsonaro government were not serious coordinated attacks against the rule of law and against the tribunal. If so, involving the supreme tribunal in the case was overkill and should not have been done. This is just this: an interpretation which lost the discussion in the relevant judgements. Several jurists will also have divergent interpretations: it does not matter, there are instances that deal with divergent interpretations and choose the right one, and STF is the maximum instance. The tribunal is chosen by different elected presidents from the past and they vote making the majority decide. Saying that "Brazil is dictatorship" just because you have a divergent interpretation is ridiculous.

You criticize that the STF was not the organization that should have opened the inquiry, saying that using article 43 of internal regiment of STF was wrong. You replicate the arguments in far right groups. According with your interpretation, build a missile to attack the tribunal is not a "crime in the dependencies of the tribunal". You are free to have this interpretation, but this is not the vigent interpretation. Moreover, what you also are conveniently ignoring is that organizations that otherwise should have opened the case if the attack were not considered in the dependencies of tribunal, nonetheless agreed with the inquiry: https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/06/10/agu-e-pgr-d... [source in pt-BR]

Several of your arguments, taken from far right groups, are weak:

> First of all, there is no "fake news" crime in the Brazilian criminal code.

This is just a term used in media. Show me an instance of someone jailed by "fake news". It does not exist. People are charged by crimes of threatening other people, unbased defamation, trying to abolish the rule of law, all of them are crimes and should be punished.

> Third, you cannot have the same person performing the roles of victim, prosecutor and judge.

If I threaten to kill all judges in Brazil, and create a plan to do so, according with you, I cannot be judged because any judge would also be victim in my crime? The fact is that there are cases where the STF has power to act, and that ridiculous argument do not overwrite this. Moreover, nobody is being at the same time judge and prosecutor. Inquiries are not criminal processes, they are administrative procedures. The criminal process comes later. And the prosecutor is not the STF, but the Prosecutor General of the Republic. Unless you have proofs that judges instruct and help prosecutors, like was proven in the carwash operation. But if this operation were carried like the carwash, Bolsonaro would already have been jailed. But fortunately that the due process in being respected in his case.
Nope. Not at all. The phone is an invasive technology that creeps new features even if its on Do Not Disturb. It has a default set of icons of "Apps" that I don't want to see. I don't want to see a "Podcast" icon or a "Messaging" icon. Nor do I want to go through the trouble of turning it off. New updates may add new distractions that I don't want to see, and in some places, there are "Emergency Alerts" that make an annoying sound even in DND mode.

Phones can be used as a tracking device, and are much more likely to be used as such since everyone carries them around.

Buying a phone also supports the phone industry, that I do not want to support. It supports more mining and the disposable electronics industry. (Computers are more useful and if you install Linux on them, you can make them last for much longer than a phone.)
> Part of Porto's charm is its signature roughness ;)

If the people you are talking to isn't using swear words as punctuation, you are being gentrified.
And since cars increase economic productivity, car insurance should be subsidized.
Dreaming of open Wi-Fi (2012)
Of course not, because it's an addiction. Drug users say the same.
Unfortunately I saw a very small slice of that pie.
Been beating this drum for years. Wrote this 9 years ago! https://max.io/articles/the-state-of-state-in-the-browser/
There are a lot of assumptions that have to hold, for basic functionality of this product. For example: an always-on connection.

By the looks of it, this device uses 4g, and doesn't support 5g, so over time we might expect service to get worse as telecoms build out their 5+g networks and leave the 4g ones behind.
It might be an age thing (late 20s), but I can assure I would have absolutely zero social life if I didn’t have my phone — all planning, catch ups, bar hangouts, exchanging numbers while travelling and many more things initiate through one or another app. It sucks in some levels, but also not really possible to function without it, at least for me.
There is no use for so many things…
For example there is no use in assuming you know what other people want to do with their time, because you just don’t know.
Some people like knowing unique things, or just enjoy learning, or want to be a small hero for a small group of people, or are just curious.
There's a reason it's important ethics and humanities are mandatory parts of education. Without them people end up blindly following whatever rules the powers that be have set.
It's too triggering to do any more than skim the article, but having got the general gist of at least some of it, I shall write my top tip here in case it helps anyone (who manages to do it):

Negotiate prohibitively high overtime rates.
DNSSEC is doing a fine job of representing itself here.
I've noticed that the output tends to suffer when you pass in longer lyrics, too. Lots of my experiments start off fairly strong but then it's like it starts to forget, and the lyrics lose any rhythmic structure or just becomes incoherent.

At some point it's just not efficient to try and get the desired output purely through a prompt, and it would be helpful to download the output in a format you can plug into your DAW to tweak.
A Million Random Digits with 100k Normal Deviates (2001)
BMW CE 02 Is an Oddball Electric Bike That Made Me Love Riding Again
> delta_p_delta_x

> I'll be frank: I have a deep mistrust of any culture present in the Arabian peninsula since about 632 CE.

Enough said. This isn’t an informed opinion
Sounds like the author initially had a diverse strength routine, but then learnt the opposite:

> It can be hard to believe a true strength coach the first time he tells you that by pressing and dead-lifting on even days, squatting and doing chin-ups on odd days, avoiding all other exercises, and adding a little to the bar each time, you'll be stronger than you've ever been in only a month's time. Thanks to the fitness industry, we're so conditioned to equate sophistication with complexity – and to think we've got to "work each body part" – that our gut just says, No way; that can't work. But it works like magic, and the entire body hardens up in unison.

Oh, and then he learnt the opposite of the opposite too?

> "Somewhere inside every man's body," Brown told me, lying in a La-Z-Boy, "there's a weak link, a weak muscle waiting to fail. My job is to find that muscle and make it strong." Every big joint in your body, Brown explained, has what are called prime movers, meaning big muscles that govern the main action, like the biceps and triceps. But every joint also has a bunch of little stabilizer muscles. Sedentary lives, camped out in office chairs, allow those stabilizers to atrophy, raising two problems: First, if you have powerful prime movers from doing muscle-isolation machines at the gym but weak stabilizers because you rarely get to play a sport, you can't access all your strength when you, say, bang off a mogul on a ski hill.
> Humans are carnivores.

That doesn't tell the whole story. Felines become ill on vegetarian diet, humans can definitely thrive on vegetarian diets.

Also there is such a wide spectrum between modern animal factories insanity and sustainable meat eating, you can't throw them both in the same box and rationalize everything by saying "OOMAN EAT MEAT! OOMAN NEED MEAT!"
How come my email bounced and what do I do about it?
Not investors: venture capital investors in tech. It's a particular kind of investment in a particular industry.

Tech VC's are in the business of selling business futures, not building mature businesses. The buyer they sell to can install a practical CEO and worry about actual operations when that time comes.

In the meantime, enthusiastic kids provide a relatively cheap, manipulable, supply of powerpoints and pizazz -- whereas sober, mature professionals often need more personal income and tend to focus more on executing the business that they have experience in (mostly irrelevant to the VC's own business) instead of matching the investment pitch for upcoming rounds (all that matters).