skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a nontrivial part of the problem here is that if you sit down to write out all the requirements, there really isn't a great solution. If you need to A: be able to use multiple spaces conveniently B: be able to drop back to one space as needed (laptop usage scenarios) C: try to remember previous locations of windows and D: generally work like a standard desktop, you've already hit some fundamental issues. I think the people complaining are probably in a situation where they've always got their particular monitor setup, but the exact same code still has to be able to handle all the situations while maintaining the standard desktop layout metaphors... which the observant will note had decades of development before multiple monitors were a serious concern, so there is a lot of promises that were made before that was a thing that have to try to be maintained. Plus you have to remember the window manager must decide where all windows go right now; it has no idea that the second monitor was just a bit slow to come up and will be around in another 2 or 3 seconds, it has no idea that you're just unplugging it to check the connection, etc.

I think there just isn't a solution to this problem. You can move the mess from that part of the carpet to the other part, but someone's going to be annoyed, possibly everyone.

On a tiling window manager I fairly seamlessly can drop multiple monitors in or out, because the paradigm drops a lot of promises the standard desktop makes, so consequently it can more fluidly move into situations that don't make sense for the standard desktop paradigm. But that's not a practical solution for an OS to deploy in 2024.
Good idea. I didn't know of that site.
The live entertainment industry had an interesting solution: the standard rider. You can put whatever nonsense you want in the contract, but the standard rider spells out what is important to the buyer (and the rider is controlling). It could be that as a condition of agreement to the sales contract, the seller agrees to the buyer’s rider that includes privacy protection and liability for the sale of data.
You're recording a podcast and want to tweak some of your own words, without the hassle of re-recording.

You're an indie game developer, and want to have vibrant NPCs with their unique voices and dialogues powered by a LLM.

You're producing a movie, and want to tweak certain lines of dialogue; with the consent of the talent.

You suffer from health conditions and are gradually losing your voice, but you still want to communicate.

There are certainly legitimate use cases of this technology. I personally believe illegitimate use cases overshadow the legitimate use cases, but I don't think it's fair to say there are no legitimate applications.

We should strictly regulate the use of this technology by criminalizing abuse; not by banning it altogether (which is pretty hard in the case of software and small models).
Here in the US "taking a piss" means to urinate.

Example:

"Where's Bob?"

"He's in the bathroom, taking a piss"
No, because they never see anything that needs to be kept secret.

Passwords are based on symmetric cryptography. When you log in to a site using a password you give the site your password in plain text, hopefully over an encrypted communication channel such as HTTPS so that no one between you and the site can see the password.

The site then takes that plain text password and decides if it matches the plain text password you gave them when you created the account or most recently changed your password. If the site is following good security practices they aren't actually storing a copy of the password in plain text. They will store a hash of it and compare a hash of the password you just send to see if the hashes match.

Passkeys are based on asymmetric cryptography, also known as public-key cryptography. When you set up an account at a site to use passkeys your device generates a public key and a matching private key. The site is given the public key and your device keeps the private key.

When you want to log in later the site sends your device some data, your device does a computation on that data that involves the private key and sends the result to the site. The site can recognize that whatever did that computation had access to the private key that corresponds to the public key the site has on file.
Cocoon: Semantic Table Profiling Using Large Language Models
>> Passkeys can’t be phished, ..., or entered on a malicious domain.
> Neither can passwords if you're using a password manager to handle them.

This is absolutely not true, it depends heavily on usage patterns of the password manager and its features. Not all are browser extensions that autofill, and even if they did, sites change their domains for auth occasionally that break this functionality (or more often, signup is on a different domain from auth) meaning you must manually copy-paste your password somewhat often if you don't meticulously, and manually, maintain your domain list for a credential. The average person is *not* going to do that, they're going to go "huh, it broke again" and copy paste their randomly generated password.

Please, do not give security advice you are not equipped to handle.
> costs have gone up in the area generally

This is valid. Local inflation varies.

> how much my insurance company is paying out for other people

Might be time to explore other insurers with stricter requirements for who they’ll accept.
Or maybe an MSU grad with a sense of humor?
Love this! One nit. The homepage says “All of our content is copyright-free. It means, you can use them anywhere you want which includes commercial projects too.” That's not how copyright works. All of these works are copyright. That copyright is what allows the owner of the copyright to place them under a CC0 license. What CC0 really means is "the copyright holder has waived the rights they have under copyright by granting you a non-exclusive license to use this work pretty much however you choose."
Okay, now do the service bays that sell your odometer reading and service history to CarFax.

I had State Farm call me up and say I was exceeding the 10,000 miles per year in my plan so the rate was going up. The car had no telemetry - the dealer sold the data and SF picked it up.

The kicker is that I hadn't even gone 10,000 miles yet. They extrapolated the number from an early oil change.
It almost certainly limited the blast radius. Tattooing is a similar procedure, and is cleaner and safer than ever.

No regulation prevents 100%, but they do help.
This is so insane that it’s hard to believe.
Yes, my Geico insurance has gone up and down over the last few years in SF to end at $120/mo.

I imagine that in the worst case, drivers can form an insurance co-op.
Spread is occurring. However you have given no reason to think factory farms are in any way at fault.
Since the "vet" maybe didnt give it away, 95% of the cncf landscape is a trashfire joke of hodge podgey vc funded golang crap.

This site is so damn funny. I reply to a burner account in a day old thread, and then my comment is downmodded less than 60 seconds later. Points to some shockingly pathetic behavior, dang maybe you could check the IP on that alt account, might be interesting.
Very nice. Would like for the element names to be a bit bigger.
I would.
I don't know what you're referring to as "absolute minimum", but when I book a flight I'm typically taken through a flow of about 10 pages, each trying to convince me to buy another set of extras. I would love an agent whom I could tell to not buy any extras and just get the basic plane tickets for me in one click, or if it fails to do so, to try again with another partner.
With a $10 18650 rechargeable battery you could probably get a couple months on a single charge. Esphome can deep sleep between readouts: https://esphome.io/components/deep_sleep.html
Deep sleep pulls the power draw down to 50uA.

Of course if you also wire a solar charger next to the battery… maybe it will never run out.
Can you think of any people involved or any more internal jargon for this? There may be something compelling about it lost in the many emails.
What happens if you lose one and buy another?
Really? HN has been a mini-Reddit for quite some time now. Frequently just a bunch of low quality, unfunny and recycled one-liners hoping to grab a few precious internet points.
Security chip inside macbook is a separate device for authentication purposes if it needs to be unlocked and cannot be bypassed by the OS.
It's worthwhile to note the big impact a small set of driven volunteers can have in archival and preservation work! This was not inevitable!
> operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

Can you be a money-transmitting business if you never have access to any of the funds being transmitted? Samourai only helps aggregate self-spending transactions from each user back to themselves.
Indeed - Space is a key for being able to collect and restore this kind of stuff. I have most of my working machine lined up along a wall in one of my garage/lab areas (https://youtu.be/XHvdqB6LSg0). My wife has pretty much no idea what those computers are for, and my daughter just wants to play Oregon Trail on them.

They are fun to collect and restore. It is also helpful to be good at replacing capacitors. ;). Those surface mount ones on the Mac mainboards are almost always bad!
You should only pay more if you cause actual damages. Even people who drive carefully can cause accidents. This is punishing people before they have caused a problem, and it is wrong.
I used to think: "Man why did they turn tech off? There's so much undone, so much opportunity for technology and market disruption!"

But the answer is bubbles. Any time sudden money is made in anything it attracts everyone from everywhere and it immediately becomes corrupted and full of scams and old money institutions. Suddenly people aren't becoming developers to innovate but to become personally financially stable. What started out as mostly uneducated hipsters and hacktivists disrupting and improving is now academia, major corporations, wealthy heirs with their WeWork NFT companies, etc. soaking up what's left of the funds, stagnating the industry, gatekeeping it, and playing a totally different (and highly political) game than we were playing in ~2008-2016.

When the tech world came crashing down in ~2016, at that time there was still a lot to disrupt: Pre-Tik Tok, largely still pre- crypto and AI. SaaS and mobile had reached a peak, and we were ready for something new, but I had no idea what was coming lol - Trump and Hilary and politics, then Covid, and now nobody has jobs like under Bush all over again, it's all politics and it's never been worse for a person's image to identify as a software engineer. This is how it was before it was cool though, nobody wanted to be a developer in ~2003.

But it's a necessary cycle, you can't just keep pumping money endlessly, it gets ridiculous quickly. There has to be periods of on and off and extreme hype cycles to see if something might be, and like a kite or firework some of those take off and impress us, but make no mistake they're all - necessarily - bubbles! Get in while it's hot, get out before it bursts :)
Eh, I don’t really care either way. The ones I really care about are in my shell history. I meant that more as an example of where the BSD way would be different. Since they manage all of the software together, it’s much easier for them to do wholesale migrations like that.
Yeah, that's how uncommon it is; I don't even know the right form. Pissed to mean drunk is like depends on your friend group? There's people who might say "i got pissed last night" and I'd be like what were you mad about? But other people I'd accept it as an indication of drinking...
Honestly, although VPNs get a bad rep, there's (in my opinion) a good argument for using one here on privacy grounds. Use two or three-hop routing to frustrate correlation attacks, route your entire internet traffic to one or two other places chosen at random, use DNScrypt / DOH and have the freedom to choose who gets to slurp your data -- and the ability to change them easily. Mullvad's move towards open firmware, diskless servers, and proving verifiability to end users is something I can get towards. [C.f. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future]

I'm sure nothing wrong will happen with delaying security updates if they ever actually use that clause...
> If you take the meat out there's a whole world of nutritious and delicious foods out there.

But most people will not find, enjoy or choose food with both of those qualities, not to mention that they are a minority over what's commonly available -- and even if they are available, they'd probably become too expensive if consumption increased significantly.

Most of the time they'd have to choose between "delicious foods" or "nutritious foods", but not both, and you know they'd choose the former.

If you take out meat, you'll simply reduce the pool of available (good) choices. You'll have a strictly worse outcome than what you had before (except for the animals, admittedly).
How manageable is HIV these days?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
> Maybe someone with a lot of hard braking should drive differently, but if they haven't had any collisions and have a long history, it smells of 'pre-crime' to charge them more for something they didn't do.

I agree that it smells terrible.

But insurance is full of this kind of thing -- it's about predicting possible outcomes, identifying the random component that goes into it, and charging based on likelihood.

Consider the example of life insurance companies charging smokers more, even if they don't have emphysema or lung cancer yet. Maybe they should quit smoking but we understand the connection between risk factors and outcomes well enough that it's not unreasonable to charge more.

(Not exactly comparable, of course: it's hard to argue "well, I've smoked for 30 years and so far so good!" in the same way as "I brake hard a lot but I've been doing it for 30 years without an accident so clearly it's not a problem".)
Alpine is a solid distro for servers from my experience.

The only bad experiences I've had with it, come from the lack of parity between the x86_64 and aarch64 virt images. So our x86_64 setup doesn't work without building our own image with kernel params and addons. Even ZFS I don't think is built into the virt-aarch64 image.

All in all, I would recommend more devs/sysadmins to try alpine outside the container world, and run it in test VMs, host servers, etc.
Not everyone has to access everything.
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I've actually used snapshots to roll back an upgrade that got messed up. Of course, Alpine is stable enough that it doesn't exactly come up a lot:)
Oh. Do please enlighten me a put the deep wisdom that lies just beneath the surface a pleb like me doesn’t understand.
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Zoho has a fantastic progrma for startups. You can explore that as well. Its straight forward with wallet credits.
Not the only reason why insurance rates are skyrocketing. Cars are expensive and getting more so. Car repair is expensive. Insurers could exert pressure on manufacturers to make cars cheaper, but they are too busy enjoying the profits.
Thanks for the repost!
yes. that depndency is why it's even in the ten commandments: don't give false testimony / don't slander, don't lie.

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

but instead they discuss who I've married. sigh.

anyhow: I share your optimism.
How did he do it? I read half and gave up.
HN's audience is often pretty petty and biting towards out groups, and tends towards a certain political axis ime (often a sort of progressive individualism) that can be pretty snarky towards people who, in their eyes, "should have known better".
I published this post a few hours ago — still plenty of time :-)
This actually calls to mind this great talk by Grand Sanderson (the YouTuber behind 3blue1brown): https://youtu.be/z7GVHB2wiyg?si=jcUtUo-TT3ycpTpD

That talk is about something superficially different—ego in math—but on reflection, I think the desire to look smart actually really does set one up for success in math in the particular way that the OP article describes.

When you just want to look smart, you don’t care whether you know something because you thought of it or because you read it in a book. You just care that you can show off what you know and solve problems easily. So you voraciously read and memorize and try to accumulate a massive mental database of facts to show off. Then at the end you find you’re actually good at the thing.
I know you said object rotation isn't a proxy for mathematical ability. But I just want to add that not all intuition is geometric intuition. And not all math is even geometric.

Of course, there isn't a switch that gets flipped which suddenly makes you "good at math". But still, I think most people with an interest can study it, learn something, and make some progress. I'm happy playing a sport, but I know what separates me from an athlete and I know I won't ever be a professional athlete.
True. But the average kid, whether in Iran or the US, might not have the skills to edit the JAR or whatever is needed to disable the licence check.
It's hard for me to imagine needing a new car. There will be suitable older used cars available for a long time still. When there isn't anymore, I'll work out a different plan.

I agree with you that the law is the right way to address these issues, but until then I'm on my own.
Use HTMX.
Simple counterexample: I've use crypto to pay out bounties to anonymous coders for doubling the performance of my open source software.
Why do you think it's doing so well?
Myself (Ethan) and Ruairidh started Dirac, an export business looking to fix global misallocations of consumer goods, slightly over two years ago.

Monthly revenue has just passed £250,000 (5x year-on-year), and we've just raised our first seed round. On the back of that we're looking to hire our first full-time software hire, someone who would be excited to:

-ship code solving problems ranging from label printers to billing integrations to supplier acquisition
-learn to drive a forklift with our warehouse manager David
-try to beat our warehouse staff at chess (top rated player is nearly 2200-rated)
-set up an automatic labelling machine for the 50,000 units which arrived yesterday morning...

It's a high impact role where you would have a lot of autonomy building out new business operations, working with a small team (5 - 2 cofounders, 2 warehouse, 1 stock purchaser) and the second person shipping code full-time in the organisation
With Llama 7 8B, Groq still has high API limits, so you cannot use it at scale for a project.
Somewhat personal ancedote, but I've had pretty good experiences with Yubikeys. I've had one on my daily keychain for over a decade now. Its been run through clothes washing machines too many times to count, I've left it out in rainstorms, its been baked in the sun on hot summer days multiple times, its been dropped in pools, its been run over by a car, I've dropped it some pretty significant heights while hiking. It is still working just fine. That and a PNY 16GB metal keychain flash drive have taken a ton of abuse and are still working just fine. Other than a higher melting point or ability to take high energy RF I don't imagine there is much more abuse a traditional metal key would have compared to what I've done to my Yubikey.
You have a sample size issue for your counter.
I wonder if anyone's working on an entirely anonymous, decentralised version of Github where people can develop and publish software without facing persecution if their users do something the US government doesn't like?
When was the last time... Or rather, when have you ever seen a framework-based page with accessibility done correctly?
For sure. It's decades of legacy, many different versions, footguns and caveats everywhere. I personally like to tinker with it, but I also have to look up basic things like "how to write a for loop" or "how to compare numbers" constantly.
Hilariously so. But really what it means is that javascript eats the whole world (FE&BE) which, personally, I do not enjoy myself.
Around that time, maybe a little bit earlier, I was a Sun nerd surrounded by other Sun nerds, but this worked for Linux too: We'd FTP into each other's machines and upload things like .au files of lonely whale cries into /dev/audio for an endless supply of WTF Moments.
What are people's thoughts around vpns for select devices at home for nafarious activity?

So most traffic goes through open net, and tv (for example) goes through a privacy first vpn provider with an exit in, say, Switzerland. And Proton mail for a small amount of email with the rest via apple.

Essentially - would it be less of a flag.

And would they even care about a bit of streaming
Oh man, does this bring back memories. I loved BackOrfice. I installed it on the network at the University where I was a student. I had a friend call me on a payphone from a vantage point where he could view the layout of the computer terminals being used by students doing research. At first, I would open the cd trays of a couple of the computers and he described the students confusion as they kept closing the trays that would open again moments later. After sharing a good laugh, I popped up a dialog on one of the computers with a message similar to:

> Hey, I am the guy at station #7. I think you are really hot. Want to go out tonight?

Then, I sent similar messages to other stations until we were nearly in tears laughing at the chaos we caused. Ahh, those were good memories.
> What you are describing are vestiges of the physical world being forced upon the unphysical - it makes no sense.

Cyberspace does not exist without the physical substrate of compute resources.
I had to check if it was April 1.

Any of the creators of the "Silicon Valley" TV show want a pitch for a new season?
Great in theory, but in practice there are still a frustrating amount of websites and services that put a low upper limit (usually just one or two) of the number of keys you can enroll.

This effectively makes it impossible to do what you’re saying. It sucks.
“Balaji is a friend of mine and is neither a dumbshit nor a clown,” tweeted economics blogger Noah Smith last June, defending Balaji from critics.
Arguably the original one, too.
But aren't you then teaching philosophy and history instead of mathematics?

I mean it can be a great story hook to start off with a subject, but in the end isn't math about the calculations, formulas and proofs?
It's either this or face another Nika riot of 532.
Maybe your true love is history, not accounting or math.
what does it tell?

the only thing it tells me is that time moves forward and a 70+ year old Vietnam veteran can't fit the role.

if you're saying that it indicates that the conflicts had a large impact, I would argue that actually it's because the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts lasted a long time and had an impact on Americans specifically, and Americans specifically have a large impact on television/movies/media.

Go ask Albanians and Serbs about their 'tiny intervention'.

The Americans lost 4500 in Iraq and 2400 in Afghanistan.

10000ish were killed in the Kosovo War, and 200,000 people ( at least ) were displaced.
> it sounds a bit like some of the tech bros want to get into politics as a hobby and they picked this issue because it's especially salient to them

It's pretty much this.

SF has issues, but a lot of that is visible only because the Financial District directly neighbors the poorest part of the city (Tenderloin, 6th street, civic center)