skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have the rule to not provide my phone number and email address to certain institutions (e.g., banks, the government, insurances).

Where do you live that this is possible? I'm genuinely curious. In most places a phone number is required to open a bank account or use most/any government services.
You can :). But you cannot do it in bulk & compress at the same time. Waiting for the preview to open up, clicking in the menu, opening the dialog, choosing from a dropdown and confirming the dialog. If you do this 10 times it's going to get tedious.

With this you can do it in the right click menu in 1 click.
That's simply false. China under-reports by a vast amount, so does India. Also completely discounting the shipping aspect, which embargos would fix.
Thank you! That seems to be the issue with many commenter here, they believe you can have a single experiment that somehow proofs causality.

The same scepticism would not be brought against many "hard science" experiments, even though they do the exact same thing, falsify alternative explanations until they have high certainty that they have causality.
Ask HN: Why my submissions aren't publicly visible
I read the guidelines but didn't find out why this is happening.
> The crisp text is unimpressive.

Not if you actually tried to achieve that in practice across all browsers and display configurations ;)

For instance Safari had for the longest time a hardwired (e.g. not fixable via CSS) linear filter applied when a WebGL canvas had to be upscaled. It's only been fixed last year or so.

Also unfiltered upscaling done breaks down when fractional scaling outside the browser happens, the result will generally look horrible and there is no good way to fix it. The only workaround is to make hide the scaling artifacts behind a filter, which then makes everything look blurry.

Browsers running on top of Wayland most likely still have all those issues.
https://www.last.fm/ has the ability to play "radio" via a Spotify Premium account.

It can either track your existing Spotify account as you listen to stuff and learn what you like, or you can just start using it and skip what you don't like and it learns pretty quickly.

It's not AI though, and hasn't changed much in the last few years, but works well, and a lot of people I know (myself included) consider it the best music recommendation system that we know of currently. Certainly leagues ahead of Spotify's recommendations!
Self-driving tech is really a bet auto manufacturers are making for the US market. Most of the developed world will move away from individual vehicles for anything besides the last mile in the next decades. Modern countries will have extensive train networks (already somewhat self-driving), but the US' faux-democracy does not allow for incumbent technologies like the automobile to be supplanted.
Hmm. You missed one thing it's that these corporations manipulate masses with cheap marketing and fake science. In it self should be a crime.

By your logic, govs should not ban any pesticides, drugs, etc
Yes, you are essentially restating my point.
It's also a good torture test for the browsers "inspect element" debugging tool.

i.e. the debugger tools are useless in figuring out what the different background and box-shadow rules do.
seems like the other people in this thread need a milkshake
QR codes are usually the fallback method, I believe, because they're clunky and they suck if you need to do it more than once per week.

Laptops and phones use Bluetooth Low Energy (among others) to communicate (CTAP 2.2) which is what your computer may be waiting on.

I can't tell you why you couldn't log in, I use Bitwarden's passkeys and they work reliably for me. If you want the added security your phone's hardware encryption provides, I believe there are a few annoyances, particularly with the way Android 13 and lower, but I haven't had to look into those yet.
free just means tax paid

its a nice idea, but i think adults should pay for their own helmets

however, children... sure. give them one.
is it not? I thought the suggestion "have you tried exercising" to depressed people had reached meme status based on its frequency
Yeah, I see this "not replacing, assisting" argument all the time, and it just doesn't work. If you can do more with fewer people, fewer people will be employed for the same task. In the past, nearly everyone was a farmer. We're not all farmers with, like, really easy jobs now because the machines do the boring bits. No, there are far fewer farmers.
> The "everything is an object" drag-and-drop was absurdly powerful. You're not limited to dragging into a directory, you can equally well "save" a file directly into another application, avoiding the middle step of dumping it onto the disk first.

So true!

For sure I was biased when I left RISC OS in favour of Windows 3.1 early 90s, but it took me years to get used to the clumsy COPY-CUT-PASTE metaphors still dominant today.
For doctors, as a sibling comment mentions, there’s way more medical demand than doctor-time available.

This isn’t even considering quality of care, only quantity.

For other professions, if there’s already a glut of supply,… well, we don’t really need more ads or reality tv shows or sensational/viral clickbait.
I tried using Apple Maps in China last year, and while it “looks” just fine, it definitely isn’t. In Guangzhou everything was off by 50-500 meters until it sometimes wasn’t. Completely unreliable compared to a Chinese solution.
it's the haha guy again
> falling into the enshitification cycle.

It started nagging me in "maybe you'll pay?" fashion 2 weeks ago. Maybe some a-b testing is up and running.
You could already be running instead of spending time in this thread.

With 30km bike commute you can scroll the web as much as before.
Postman does allow sending requests without a sign-in, https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/basics/usi...
Thanks for trying it out and leaving some feedback!

I initially released this to a small Twitter audience who are fans of electronic music and didn't expect it to be posted elsewhere. The plan is to bring in other genres and styles soon while still keeping the data quite niche. My motivation in building this was for music diggers looking for more out-of-the-way suggestions that aren't on traditional DSP catalogues (think sub-genres of dance music that only release 300 copies on vinyl, etc.).

I've updated the h2 tag and some meta descriptions to try flag up electronic only for now and will look at other ways to signpost it better.

The search isn't great, as you mentioned. At the moment, I'm using a simple text matcher from a Vector DB but will look at moving this over to something more powerful that can handle diacritics, ranking, TF-IDF, etc. I have seen a lot of people searching via "artist - track" or pasting a YouTube link for things that are already in the index, indicating they couldn't find it in the search.
Its a sad story, they were at the global pinnacle of science and arts, opened their gates to mongols without any resistance, only to be still slaughtered like cattle. Imagine how much additional positive influence on current world, how differently middle east region would look like, and islam itself.

Lesson to be learned which is still very relevant today - don't trust primitive barbarians to uphold any moral expectations just because it would be logical or nice, rather 'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum'.
Not as ridiculous amount as average (and mine) screen time.
Consider this quote:

"Every time we send 5 fire trucks to a fire, the damage is 10x than when we only send one fire truck. We've observed this 1000 times. And still you don't believe that the fire trucks are causing the damage."

In this case it should be absolutely clear that A (lots of trucks) aren't causing B (lots of damage), but rather a third aspect, C (size of fire) is causing both A and B. Insisting that A causes B will result in completely counterproductive interventions, like "send only one truck to all fires".

The same thing could be true for cardiovascular fitness. If people are sick, they're much less likely to running or hiking up a mountain. So rather than poor cardio fitness (A) causing high mortality (B), it could be that a third thing, sickness (C) is causing both A and B. If that is the case, then shaming people who are sick into trying to exercise, instead of making them healthy enough so that they feel like running, is likely to make things worse rather than better.

How do you tell the difference? Well the "gold standard" is randomized controlled trials. Pick 3,000 random people. Tell 1000 of them to exercise more, and 1000 of them to exercise less, and 1000 leave alone, and compare. If the "exercise more" group is healthier at the end of 10 years, that's decent evidence that "exercise more" is a useful intervention.

Failing that, you can think of other possible confounding factors and control for them. Don't just ask how much they exercise; ask how old they are, and how well they are, how stressed they are, and loads of other factors which might both cause both A and B, and use statistical methods to detect whether one of those factors is actually a better explanation than "A -> B".
If you like this video, you will probably also like Peter Pringle's The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs
they incorrectly (malicious?) claim "available on fdroid" and point to a way to add their custom repository.

that's not cool. i would much prefer, since they are not two kids in a college dorm, they worked with fdroid to get properly vetted and included.
just drop the tank when the weight/thrust ratio is too low. Thanks for the book suggestion! (have not read it yet)
Just so that I can fill in my Bayesian formula. Do you have any idea how many whistle blowers didn't die?
Well luckily I didn't consult either China's or India's own figures, but EU's, which addresses these concerns.

> Bottom-up national emission inventories are therefore an essential component of reporting and tracking progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, national inventory reports are not yet available for all countries and years. In addition, they are dependent on individual national reporting processes and methodological choices, they can present data gaps for specific sectors and currently, except for Annex I parties, there is no obligation to include long-term series of emissions up to the most recent year.

> The European Commission’s in-house Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR)7 offers an alternative to overcome these limitations and to complement national inventories and has the advantage of producing timely emission estimates that are comparable across countries.

> EDGAR relies on several sources of international statistics for the underpinning data. Foremost among these is the International Energy Agency (IEA). To harmonise global GHG emission estimates, this booklet incorporates IEA CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion sources named IEA-EDGAR CO2 emission dataset (v2), which are complemented with in-house EDGAR estimates for CH4, N2O and F-gas emissions.

PDF: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/booklet/GHG_emissions_of_all_...
I don't get the problem, if you can enter your password you can also enter your Windows/macOS/Android/iOS password/PIN to authenticate with your passkeys. Windows Hello will accept a TPM PIN if facial recognition and fingerprint scanners aren't available, for example. Android will unlock the passkey storage just fine if the fingerprint scanner dies by using the PIN instead.

Your fingerprints and your passkeys aren't connected at all. You can choose to only connect them to biometrics if you opt to disable all alternative authentication methods on your computers/phones/etc, but as you explained yourself, that would cause quite a few problems.
Not sure what your point is. I probably couldn't write a correct cubic interpolation function in 3 hours if you stuck me in an empty room and kept giving me the same instruction with a small change every time. But I've definitely written software as complex as this project basically from memory with only the occasional glance at some framework docs.

Leetcode is a meaningless metric when evaluating application developers.
This was a good read, albeit pretty long. The major and final point, which certainly does not follow from the premises cited in this piece and which feels like a rush conclusion, is this:
"""
It’s time we began conceptualizing, and perhaps prototyping, computation and information in a workers’ world. It’s time to start conceiving of a new left-wing science.
"""

In other words, sadly, so many valid points along the way gets us only to a restatement of the "class-struggle". The current technocratic (intellectual elites) are bad, but if we replace them with "working-class" elites (in whatever new (uni)form they will be dressed in) the world will be a paradise.

I must reject the conclusion in the strongest terms while giving 100% truth to the statements for the core issues highlighted in this piece.
The problem is that, if you're in a position where you are having serious depression, for example, it doesn't really matter how objectively or subjectively helpful it is, you can't even bother getting motivated to do things you are certain you enjoy, let alone something unknown.

This is the same problem with CPAP machines - they nominally have a huge efficacy rate, and a rock-bottom rate of people sticking to them, because for a lot of people, they're deeply invasive and uncomfortable, and insurance (in the US) in many cases has stopped paying for them if their obsessive babysitting doesn't swear you've used it 95% of the time, so people just say "hell with it" and stop stressing about, say, not being able to take a hike for a few days of camping because their insurance will stop paying for it.

It all goes back to the fundamental premise of "if your solution requires changing people, you will not succeed."
The Transcontinental Railroad was absolutely built on Chinese and Irish blood.

But Coulee was a New Deal project. One of Roosevelt’s public works to help with recovery from the Great Depression.
You probably triggered some anti-spam mechanism, since most brand new accounts submitting youtube videos are just trying to promote something
Why do people write comments like this? What does "grow up, people" add to anyone's understanding of the topic? It's so annoying. Is it supposed to make you look better? It doesn't.
Just yesterday I pointed out a yellow flame to someone as evidence of incomplete combustion on the gas stove. Laughing I showed them your timely comment.

Out of context of the thread, your second point was amusingly interpreted to be about LSD.
Are you from Austria by any chance? So this is why I can't provision my yubikey for government authentication?
wake us up when you're doing a better job with less fear mongering. meanwhile he will do
Ventoy is great[0], but with laptops easily having 2TB for cheap nowadays, leaving room for a sub-1GB ISO on the boot partition is not really space that would be missed. I also feel that any time one really needed an ISO, no flash drive near me ever had the right one.

[0]: ... when installed, but the installation process is awful. For GPT, it's just a FAT partition with the ESP flag and a few Ventoy files on it, and yet you need to run "installers" as root to "prepare" the drive. It should just have been a tarball and a few trivial commands - not a thousand lines of bash shelling out to a custom C partitioning tool...
> RISC OS gives applications access to much of the memory map, and so if a program accidentally scribbles over the wrong parts of that address space, the whole computer can freeze up – which in testing our Pi 400 did several times.

Enough said.
FWIW Apple explicitly doesn't support attestation for consumer apple-IDs. Only for managed apple IDs. Exactly because they didn't like the implications of forcing authentication to pre-approved implementations.
Meat production takes like 15%. This would just reverse global warming.
I saw the same in remote regions of eastern India (day dreaming about visiting them). Streets where river flows, interest point in the middle of wide river bed. Not far from china per se, but definitely a different country.
Slackware 15.0, my computer is very old (intel q8300 + 4gb + nvidia gt218). I like slackware for its simplicity (KISS) and it also has a more limited out of the box number of packages compared to debian, ubuntu, arch and gentoo. I consider this an advantage, because a lot of people are distro hopping and when I gave up on distro hopping, and used debian for a while, I just started trying different progams that had the same/similar functionality. With slackware I try to make due with what is provided and that gives me peace of mind :-)
Firefox Webserial Addon
Ubuntu 20.04. Yes, I know, but I am not interested in the OS much. Thinking of upgrading to 22.04. Call me conservative (with a small c).
This bit maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=4655s
Do you have some links to that?
I think India is too heading in this direction
And anyway, video-only submissions will rarely get upvotes here because people don’t watch them because it’s too time-consuming, and incompatible with working or social environments
You mean the Archimedes GUI on top of the BSD kernel?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX

I have memories of drooling over those R series machines or anything MIPS/Sparc/Alpha based in the early 90s for that matter. I think ARM systems at the time were never competitive in terms of speed (compared to SUN, SGI, HP), but they were Archimedes' sexy sisters.
I generally agree, but I also very often need to quickly do something basic to a PDF from my phone (like split a 2-column layout to single-column so it's actually readable) or when doing something on someone else's computer and little web tools like this are great for that.

And yes, Master PDF Editor is an amazing piece of software! It makes creating PDF forms so easy that every time I get a PDF to fill out, I make it a form and send back an empty copy too so whoever sent it to me can use that instead. I've gotten a few smaller organisations to start using mine instead.
> The NC is one of those things that feels like it was simply to far ahead of where the technology and the mind set of users was.

They were just like X dumb terminals that predated them by about a decade: far behind what the technology was offering with storage and computing power becoming cheaper every year.
I'm glad they never caught up, and hope the same happens to Chromeboxes/books; I don't want prices of common hardware I use go up because of market shrinkage due to lots of people ditching real computers in favor of dumb terminals where even the simplest service is something that they must access and run remotely with no or reduced local storage/computing power.
Sorry for having an unpopular opinion, but to me SaaS is like going back 40-50 years to the mainframes era, and essentially is a way to put everything behind a counter so that users can be charged tomorrow for what today is still free.
Whilst I'm sure that this is happening to an extent, what are your thoughts on well known figures within the scene saying they are having issues?
To me, a "modern multi-user paradigm" is Nix with Home Manager. Where most of my software is installed in my user's environment and not on the system level. Thus, if there were another user on the same machine, we could each manage our own software and updates without affecting the other.
I have been following the discussions closely in https://github.com/w3c/webauthn and I haven't seen anything about exportability there in the past year. The only reference I can find is that post on Hachyderm from a year ago.

We're a year later and the needle didn't move on this. Which is a bit worrying
I've been streak running (so running at least a mile per day with no exceptions, mostly 5ks during the week, 10-20k on weekends) for almost 8 years (2817 days). The single best tip I give to everyone is "slow down! run slow!"

Of course, almost no-one adheres to it unless they are already well practiced. It's just deeply ingrained in peoples heads that "only if it's hard or painful it must work". Then people check out of running because it feels like crap, which it does if you always push too hard.

In my opinion, three of the most important rules are:

- slow down! does it feel "too slow"? Great, that's the right speed for most runs

- small steps! feels awkward at first, but is sooo much more efficient and soo much better for your joints

- land on mid- or forefoot (that happens mostly automatically with small steps)
Google probably make a lot of money from Chinese advertisers, so it's unlikely that they'd antagonise the Chinese government and risk losing that cash.
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1. There is a meaningful difference between replacing and assisting. Replacing implies being able to take over the entire function. Technology that assists doctors with one part of their function, or process, can improve their output but is not capable of producing like-for-like output on its own. So the question of whether AI can replace or only assist doctors is very relevant to determining its impact on the role. Power tools didn't replace tradesmen, for example. If AI was able to replace doctors, then your clinic would be able to scale down to 0 rather than 10.

2. If a clinic can use an AI tool to make doctors 10% more productive, doctors become worth more rather than less. Firms are incentivized to hire more rather than less in this scenario. What you're invoking here is the "lump of labor" fallacy. There are market conditions where increasing efficiency really does reduce quantity demanded, but it's not clear that medicine really is one. As far as I can tell, far from there being a fixed lump of medical work, the general population in most of the West is under-serviced and struggles to get reliable, timely, cost-effective access to medical expertise.
Show HN: I built a tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services
Hi,

I built this tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services and send notifications, primarily meant for techops/SRE folks. I built this based on my past work experience where I felt a need for such a tool and had to be satisfied with patched together scripts.

E.g. Getting alerted when my public cloud has incidents, my monitoring SaaS is unable to send alerts, GitHub has intermittent issues, Slack has trouble delivering messages, Stripe has payment failures for an edge case, and so on.

It was important to catch these issues before they impacted my apps. For paging services, I wanted to avoid potential disasters because my on-call teams were not receiving alerts (true story - AWS had an outage and PagerDuty was not sending alerts). For non-infra services like Slack, I wanted to know if there were message drops or delays.

There are RSS feeds for these services but I wanted a single place to monitor the ones I am using and be notified, rather than manually check 10-15 or more RSS feeds.

I'm the solo dev on this project. I've been in backend development/ops most of my career, so my frontend skills are not great yet, which is evident in the UI :)
All feedback is highly appreciated.

Thank you.
steps = 3//Yes this is right

So, this comment ought to explain their reasoning and it doesn't, which is a shame - but isn't it concerning that this person was warning us that there was a reason this value was 3 and not 2, and that no one in the PR seems to know what that reason is and whether it's still relevant?

Who were you, mport2004? What did you see?