skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in summary, SMS-2FA is a great channel for people/use cases that don't actually need that much security/protection? I agree!

Actually, I don't. Even completely trivial things like coffee chain apps require SMS-based logins these days, and I hate it. One particularly idiotic one initially accepted my Google Vocie number, only to lock it out for a subsequent login on a new device.

Phone numbers are a horrible user identifier. SMS is a horrible authentication mechanism. The entire industry has regressed from the bad combo of email + password to something almost universally worse in a matter of years, and it's incredibly frustrating.

The only saving grace is that SMS are quite expensive in some countries, so companies there have an incentive to not actually send them out if they can at all avoid it. Unfortunately they're effectively free in the US.
Indeed, I suspect one could get much more than a 50% boost from fusion, so maybe they're not getting much heating from fusion. It's a nice idea though, a Fansworth-style fusor to heat propellant.
Discussed at the time:

Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32629669 - Aug 2022 (227 comments)
Also, IIRC, constables in England were not paid in money, they were paid in opportunities to dispense violence (which many men find rewarding for its own sake) without incurring legal liability and in opportunities to stick it to their enemies as long as the enemies were sufficiently low in rank.

"legal liability": if you beat someone up in Medieval Europe, the big danger is not the authorities' sentencing you to jail, it was getting sued by your victim.

England before 1780 or so was organized for the benefit of the artistocracy (barons and higher ranks). You can see just from the fact that constables were not paid a salary that they probably were a net harm (more of a menace than a help) to the common person, but they were a net benefit to the aristocracy because they generally kept commerce humming along at an faster rate than it would have without the constables and because any constable that messed with an aristocrat would be harshly punished. (The aristocrats specialized in military violence, but it was tedious for them to moderate disputes between commoners, so they farmed some of that work out the the constables, who of course were commoners.) When historians say the world's first police force started in England in 1810 or whatever year it was, they mean the first force with a monopoly on violence that was a net benefit to the every class of society including the commoners.
I'll confess that I do have a sweet spot for Pascal. And I was hoping to see some of that sweet TUI action a la v5.5. Now that gives me a reason to add that to my pet project list.

I do think that the Turbo Pascal style TUIs did hit a sweet spot between more complex GUI technology and simplicity. Oberon from Niklas Wirth (RIP) is another interesting one.
I mean, maybe. But both CIA and NSA no doubt are very aware of this possibility and I'm sure keeps very close tabs on anything like this.

But if you are an state actor, I'm sure there are plenty of ways to identify the personnel who work for these agencies. Usually just hanging around at the local lunch places is a good place to start.
That's not quite the quote we'd like to see.
I used to write technical manuals for aircraft and this really takes me back. At one point in time there was an endless debate about whether or not the company I was working for would adopt STE100, S1000D, or both. At the time software support for both standards was poor. I haven't kept up on software for this niche since then so I can't say if it is any better.

From my perspective STE100 is intended for things like the aviation industry, where everything is in English, but non-native English speakers are involved in critical process like repairing and flying aircraft. I'm not sure it is really necessary anywhere else, but the fundamental concepts are reasonable. Keep your sentences short, avoid ambiguous terminology, and keep your vocabulary minimal.
> In the US, our nurses buy half million dollar homes.

I sure hope they do!

Do you even know what a half-million dollar home looks like in any major city? Hell, my house is only 3 bedroom and 1800 sq feet, and it's worth $550K. If this house was in the SF Bay area, it'd probably be $1.0-1.5M.
Believe it or not they used to charge for a copy of the standard as well.
Yeah, like that’s a preferable system. Basically, the powers of a police officer on steroids.
here you go! https://gist.github.com/jarbro/ca7c9d3eebba1396d53b4a7228575...
Can you really not imagine any scenario other than crypto where compromising an employee's account could have financial consequences? Thinking about that somewhat large industry other than crypto dealing with people's money...
I don't think such a thing exists right now. I've been looking for it.

The best normie backup tool is probably Neo Backup on F-Droid, and it's buggy and lacks some important features. Titanium is dead. I've not been satisfied with any of the various closed-source paid apps on the Play Store.

Any true backup is going to require rooting your phone. It's not in google's interest to allow you, the user, to access core operating system files and configuration on their device.

If you don't 0wn it, you don't own it.

Here's what I do.

I install Magisk and the MagiskSSH module. This gives me a root ssh shell and I can rsync any file on the device, selinux context and all.

The system requires some excludes for remounted/mirrored directories, and then there's other things like cache directories that I don't need to backup, so I use a rsync filter file. rsync's --link-dest makes backups very very fast and reduces disk usage. I should really do this on a filesystem that does block-level de-duplication, but I don't really need to because it's efficient enough already. Each app has to be paused/frozen during the backup to ensure data integrity.

Restoring requires a bunch of hacky scripts. It's not pretty, but it works.

I have to send over the apk file and use Android's native "pm install" to install it from /data/local/tmp. There's some cases where this doesn't work and I have to install the app manually from the store or wherever (APEX and other mutli-apk crap).

Then my script freezes/disables the app, wipes the local data, copies the backup data, fixes the ownership, unfreezes the app, and it mostly usually sometimes works.

Figuring out all the commands to do this, like getting the AIDs of apps, is some dark art shit. I've been doing this since the very beginning on a G1.

Maybe some day I'll put my scripts out there and it will inspire someone to pick it up and make them easier to use, but it's never going to be a real solution.

Someone just needs to make a real backup app for Android.
> I’d be more curious as to how anti-vaccine agendas ever became a thing.

I think the cause might have been the polar opposite of a conspiracy: isolated, but similar, examples of opportunistic fraud. Soon after COVID-19 vaccines were developed, I saw lots of advertisements for pseudo-scientific remedies for COVID-19 - these were clearly intended to make some profit out of the public's justified concerns about mRNA technology.

However, once mRNA vaccines proved themselves to be not especially different in efficacy or danger from traditional vaccines, it makes sense that the vendors of pseudo-scientific remedies would seek to maintain the anxiety about vaccines somehow. Hundreds of self-serving quacks trying to keep their customers (and compensate for the shrinking size of their market!) would naturally result in self-sustaining movements of anti-vaxers. The persistent conflation of COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with civil liberties campaigners in some parts of the media would have benefited the quacks further, by making anti-vaxing seem more of a legitimate social movement than it actually was.
Feedback: it would be great if on the example site interactive demo, the waveform offset could be increased by scrolling / swiping left and right, and the scale should also change by zooming in and out.
I challenge your statements about happening every day and great deal of video documentation.
Indeed: thanks, that actually has good examples and counter-examples.
Humans are evolved to preserve energy when they don't need it.

GPT was trained to use fewer tokens.

Same thing. Both things are lazy.
Why the aggressive tone? You responded in my earlier comment so I assumed you were having fun.

Fucking internets...
It seems all it would take is a custom dictionary with your spell checker.
Appreciate it. It was apparently flagged, despite my efforts to present a historical accounting and narrow, factual framing that was relatively judgement free until the end where I suggested we should be allowed to be critical towards police.
not really, mini-itx has a low-profile form, which means, really thin
Cash usually.

Ps the center of Venice is a terrible theme park. But if you walk towards the edges you can still find some great more original areas.

Around St Mark's square though it's an endless row of tourist shops all selling the same souvenirs, handbags and masks all operated by Chinese. I hardly saw any original stores there.

Nothing against the Chinese but obviously you go there to see Italian culture. Not to buy cheap imported knick-knacks. It seems like they're all the same franchise or something. The same bags all displayed in exactly the same way in copy pasted shops. IMO there's nothing genuine left in that area. It's just another Disneyland. The McDonald's of tourism.

We did find some quiet original areas farther from the tourist zones (which is basically the strip through the middle from the station through the Rialto to St Mark's). We found some original shops owned by old Italian people and a really quiet square where we spoke to a priest closing up his church (who was super nice). We sat there watching the night set in and it was quiet and beautiful. That night was really the only time where I felt any of that Venice magic. The rest was just exhausting and obligatory industrial tourism.

The tourist areas made me deeply sad. I live in Barcelona so I know what mass tourism looks like. But even the most touristy spot here (the ramblas) is not nearly as thoroughly destroyed as Venice is.

Oh and of course don't eat anywhere they have pictures of the food posted outside and these guys trying to convince you to come in.
No, this would be heating the propellant to higher temperatures than chemical reactions can get -- in principle one could get much more than 50% extra ISP for the same propellant mass. In rocketry/satellites/deep space propellant mass is a big deal -- anything you can do to reduce the amount you need without having to gain even more mass in other ways is a big win.
Just say it while you are on hold. They don't make any effort to ensure you hear their notification, so why should you make any effort to ensure that they hear yours?
The all caps, imperative examples remove me of old school text adventure commands. In fact, that’s how I try to write my own to-do lists or project milestones: VERB [ADJECTIVE] OBJECT (e.g. GET LAMP). If I can’t reduce a task or milestone name to that level of abstraction, then it can probably be broken down into smaller steps. Plus it’s a fun mental challenge. :)
Just enter a page number; it works fine. Or if you wish, here are the direct links:

http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/01/01.pdf

http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/02/02.pdf

http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/03/03.pdf

http://ramanujan.sirinudi.org/Volumes/04/04.pdf

Ramanujan's total known/preserved output today is 37 published papers and these four notebooks; all of it is available on the site. The notebooks have been transcribed and published in several volumes with explanation (as mentioned above); those are the only thing not included on this site (and arguably, not "by" Ramanujan).
Yes, these RED cards basically just contain SSDs inside. However the title clearly says "SD"
I would say intrusive (to the ability to sleep), rather than invasive.

I tried CPAP. I am a frequent tosser-turner and the pull from the hose was enough to awaken me dozens of times per night, which obviously defeats (part of) the purpose.

My mouthpiece (custom fitted and gradually adjusted with progressively tighter bands by the doctor) doesn't have that problem. It isn't quite as effective as CPAP per the sleep studies, but together with side sleeping it's close.
As the article says, nothing can replace loss of habitat but everything we can do to help is worth trying and assessing for impact.

There are lots of these at a larger scale across Australia.
"You say our project is a buggy ill-defined mess of slapdash features and spaghetti code interdependencies... but I prefer to think of as almost human!"

I get the joke-association, but if "annoying and complicated" was enough to make something human, then AI happened a long time ago. :P
But once you manage it, you've got a lot of compromised accounts at the same time.

Everything based on username + password alone today should be replaced by passkeys. The problems they don't solve are 2FA and account recovery.
> The first, iirc, police force was in Glasgow in 1800

They were a thing in Imperial Rome [1]. I believe they got the idea from the Egyptians, who seem to have invented civil policing (or the Chinese, depending on how you categorise police).

Otherwise, what we today consider police work would have been handled by an army.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigiles#Police_force
You could run a propellant-cooled fission reactor to power the fusor to get the extra ISP. When you get to your destination and finish decelerating you toss the fission reactor overboard so you don't have to deal with its remaining heat.
It's easy on a Mac since Safari has a CSV export feature. No such thing on an iPhone.
Sigmoid Academy: Leetcode for Data Science and Machine Learning
That's really cool! How does it do the idea summarization?
Because he’s a fascinating and mysterious character on top of being the most brilliant mathematician since Euler.
Meanwhile my internet speed has increased from 50Mbit/s to 8Gbit/s..
Used to be a desire to help people. Today, in countries like Brazil, mostly money - a doctor makes on average 20x the minimum salary, easily 40x.
I wonder how effective some laser focused AI would be for fixing really bad CGI.
Nothing 1984 about it. It is for situations where English is the standard, but a non-native speaker might be involved or it is otherwise important to avoid ambiguity. As an example, when this standard was written it was common for small business jets to have the complete printed maintenance manual stowed in a drawer somewhere on the aircraft. The manuals explain step by step how to do every major repair or replacement. They were also essential to things like Time Limits and Maintenance checks, which might have to be done at your destination rather than home base.
I feel like this comment and comments by western atheists make me think that the west has this idea of judeo-christian god that they just bring into any conversation without thinking deeply. For ramanujan god is more like an emotion.
I don't believe I said the historical systems were better or preferable.

Please double check the post I made, I highlighted the existence of alternative systems not to say "return to tradition", but rather to say "police forces as we know them today are not axiomatic. We can invent other systems."

Police may be an improvement on those past systems, while at the same time be outmoded (if one believes they are outmoded.)
I would not put all my eggs in one basket like that. You're one inadvertent terms-of-service violation from losing a huge chunk of your digital identity with no recourse.
Bloomberg seems to be talking about capacity (does not take into account capacity factor, only max output when it's sunny), maybe the article is talking of average actual production? (which is between three and four times lower as far as I know)
If you’re spending a lot of time updating architecture diagrams, you likely have either way too detailed diagrams, or your software architecture is changing way too frequently. Those might be worth looking into first, before automating a lot of changes into these diagrams.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, so nothing useful to contribute, Alanis Morissette is not a philosopher, she finally recognized that rain on your wedding day is not ironic, you were not "canceled", there is nothing ironic about your situation, and you are not the victim, as much as you try to play it in the "about" section of your hn user page: https://web.archive.org/web/20240415235814/https://news.ycom...

Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2016/05/alanis-m...

>Pour one out for Alanis Morissette.

>For more than 20 years now, since the release of her hit “Ironic,” she’s had to hear every pedant, every SNOOT, and every 10th-grade English teacher crow that none of the situations in her song are actually ironic. The eternal question of rain-on-your-wedding-day has spawned two decades of thinkpieces (here’s the Times in 2008, Salon in 2014). “Ironic” even has a section on its Wikipedia page entitled “Linguistic usage disputes.” It’s hard to even talk about the literary device now without hearing someone lament the song. Irony, apparently, was described by Socrates, animated by Shakespeare and O. Henry, and killed by a 1995 radio hit. RIP.

>Thankfully now Morissette may be free. Last night November*, she went on James Corden’s Late Late Show to reveal a new version of “Ironic” updated for modern situations. (“It’s a traffic jam… when you tried to use Waze.”) And, most importantly, it included this admission:

It’s singing “Ironic”
When there are no ironies

I liked Alanis Morissette better on You Can't Do That on Television, when even then (unlike you) she had the integrity to admit she didn't know:

https://youtu.be/B1Q55CLrTkg?t=184
I think the only proven use cases for ZUIs have been Maps, Calendars, and Photo apps (Apple Photos and Google Photos). The last two to switch between different time period views: Day->Month->Year for photos and Day>Week>Month for calendars.
> “As soon as I grabbed his arms to put him under arrest, to put them behind his back, that’s when I catch an elbow to my face, to my lower right jaw,” said Glaze, the deputy who arrested Waite.

I would love to know how the deputy is grabbing arms. I mean try this at home, get a friend to face away from you and once you touch their arms they can try to elbow you in the face. Like the guys 63 and somehow he can extend half his arm length (it's elbows) to hit you in the face?
It also often violates a company's insider trading policy to hold company stock in a margin account.

"We don't hold NVIDIA securities in a margin account or pledge NVIDIA securities."

https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/en-zz/Solutions/about-us/N...
So basically like open-core OSS where you hook in people in on the open source part and then start adding bit by bit proprietary extensions until the OSS offering is noticeably subpar to the closed one.
Neither could any of the technical writers I worked with when this was proposed.
> Just say it while you are on hold. They don't make any effort to ensure you hear their notification, so why should you make any effort to ensure that they hear yours?

This is possibly worse than staying silent, given you're betraying bad intent.
So strange. Was firing him really the best decision for you? Given the challenges of finding and onboarding top-tier talent (this guy was brilliant, the best you ever worked with), couldn't your company have worked something out? There are a million arrangements possible -- agreeing to him working one (but not two) additional jobs (going from 33 to 50% of his time is a 50% increase for you), giving him a raise or some equity component, switching to some sort of contracting/1099 arrangement, allow him to be a "thought leader" on architecture and big-picture but not a day-to-day coder, whatever.

The decision to just fire this brilliant guy without considering other options seems so short-sighted and sub-optimal (for the company).
The article says they are hoping to promote tourism in the area. Why not use the 300 mile corridor for passenger rail, and construct hiking trails from the stops?

Also, realistically, how many people are going to actually travel the 300 mile trail on foot/bike?
Have you tried exporting a passkey that way?

Last time I did, I only got passwords out, not passkeys (not that there is an interoperable standard for them anyway).
I think you may have missed the point.

Even so, retail sales jobs are often heavily commission adjusted which makes this not so cut and dry.

Sell sell sell, or you are well below the poverty line and quickly replaced by someone more willing to cut corners on the activities that are not profitable like carefully checking ID.
The value of taking notes isn’t in the text content that is produced. It’s in the actual act of taking the notes, that’s what actually creates meaningful connections in your brain and leads to greater insight and on demand memory later.

Would you rather have someone who when asked a question can answer it on demand or someone who has to go searching for a needle in their haystack of voice / text / LLM summarized notes?

That’s why people take notes. Not to produce text. It seems like every few years a new crop of dictation as a service companies crop up and learn this lesson all over again. Users who can’t be bothered to take their own notes never go back searching through them.
What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"?

Claiming something that AI does is intuition? Intuition is literally black box of neural nets that people later use reasoning to justify.

Intuition is trained for people based on past experience and thousands of reward signals. It's quick, but you won't be able to immediately articulate why intuition reached a conclusion.

I'm wondering why should intelligent behavior that for example intuition produces be restricted to human usage only?

I do not think it's anthropomorphizing at all.
Yeah and instead of shaming peepz, provide useful guides. At the same time if a thing is overly complex, then it's a smell, that's best avoided.
This sounds like a case of "the citizen review board was created by fed-up voters at the municipal level, and then the state stepped into neuter it". Because DeSantis etc. are about local control except when the locals make a decision they don't like.
The Vigiles come up a lot in this conversation, however, they were a military unit.

In most cases when people think of police in the contemporary setting, they think of a non military force. But you are correct that I should probably say "uniformed civilian police force" rather than "uniformed police force", as there have been a couple historic examples of the military being used to police people in uniform.
I never got diagnosed with COVID, but I was almost certainly exposed. Mine developed suddenly during one of the early peaks in 2020. Unfortunately I was also producing music at the time with headphones, which I've considered the likely cause. But who knows -- maybe it was a combo of things. My stress was through the roof, I wasn't sleeping much, I put on a lot of weight, and I was exposing my ears to moderately loud sounds. Suddenly my brain just decided to keep looping a tone indefinitely.

At least treatments are starting to come out. It's nice to know that there is relief if I ever need it.
Small note -- the codes are named after Robert Gold, so being a proper noun, they should be capitalized, just like Gray, Hadamard, or Golay codes.
Ha, I just mentioned Oberon in another HN thread. I was actually reading the Oberon book last week. Wirth goes from OS to programming language to hardware to compiler in one manual. I didn't actually realize it was a zooming interface though.