skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that you can send a message to a complete stranger. How do you know you didn’t send it to the wrong stranger? Suppose the user doing the lookup (by username) gets the wrong public key and sends a message to the wrong person? That’s a man-in-the-middle attack. Redirecting someone’s messages to someone else is pretty bad.

People mostly don’t use real names on Mastodon, so essentially, you are your username. Impersonating a username is like impersonating a domain name for a website.
> Leftists don’t think we entered Vietnam or Korea for resources.

Disagree, again: Back in the day, many leftists — especially the radical ones, who not infrequently were Communists or sympathizers — proclaimed loudly that Pax Americana and its small wars were facets of an allegedly-rapacious capitalist-colonialist imperialism, extracting resources from the poor and redistributing them upward to the wealthy, and suppressing popular revolutionary movements that professed to want to even things out.

(I recently re-read David Halberstam's magisterial The Best and the Brightest about the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, including backing the French efforts to stay as the colonial power after liberation from Japanese occupation. Highly recommended.)

> And when I was a mainstream young liberal in the 1990s and early oughts

It's not your fault you missed the 1960s and 70s.
Add to these complaints that many folders are actually logical overlapping folders that pull from multiple places. I haven’t been able to bring myself to use Windows for years now, and I was a Windows sysadmin for over a decade! It’s basically impossible for someone like me who needs to feel in control of their computing environment to ever feel comfortable with.
Will this one actually work?

I bought the Light Phone 2 back in 2019, and it was far from what they promised. Besides being visually disappointing compared to the renders, it lacked most of the software that was announced.

Eventually (2 or 3 years later) they added music, basic directions and notes. Yet it’s painful to use, doesn’t show images, has no support for messaging besides SMS, not even email. The cloud-only setup sucks. You can’t even copy music to it over USB. And battery life was pretty underwhelming for an e-ink device.

Maybe a ReMarkable phone would finally bring this concept to life.
Hacker News doesn't block self promotion. You are free to post your own stories linking to your own work, I've done it, people do it all the time. There's a whole section for it, 'Show HN' (although it's not required to post there). And you're free to post links to your work in comments when relevant.

Of course spam is unwelcome everywhere. Don't overdo it and don't be deceptive about it, and you'll be fine.
What you see as talking about the weather is like seeing two women looking at each other whereas it's really a picture of a vase and 4D part-subconscious dog-butt-sniffing status/value computations between you and the other person. Also there's few other opener topics.
I do design hardware for a living, it all uses quality components from trusted Western vendors and suppliers.
In the US, it could be argued that big tech, and the government through big tech, violate the 4th amendment - specifically regarding a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Can an individual reasonably know the data that every platform has on them? Is it ethical if a government obtains a warrant to an individual's data they don't know the tech company is on possession of? What's stopping the government from buying data from companies without the need for a warrant?
Planned obsolescence, Lack of innovation, High cost of consumables, Inadequate software support, Inconsistent product quality, Poor customer service.. not sure why you feel the need to defend them. They're prolly the one of the worst companies alive..
There are people like me that actually prefer the self-checkout over dealing with a cashier who has to pretend they actually give a shit about how my day is going.

I'm not really interested in fake and vapid smalltalk.
Of course there's an impact, but the question is "what is impacting us more?"

https://www.energysage.com/about-clean-energy/solar/solar-en...
6M in total UBER spend is it really a worthwhile chunk of change?

I mean I’m here for the tech of course just curious from the cost benefit part.
Sinden is no longer the way to go. Most lightgun enthusiasts have now gone the Gun4IR route [0]. It uses the IR sensor from a WiiMote plus a microcontroller in the gun (either a gutted commercial controller like the PS Guncon, a modified Nerf or similar, or something straight up 3d printed) and four IR LEDs placed around a monitor / TV at the midpoints of each each. This system is extremely accurate and there is no flashing border around the screen like with Sinden. Unfortunately, the whole shooting match (see what I did there?) is closed source code and (as of now) Window's only for the calibration-based PC software.

The current open source competitor to Gun4IR is the Samco light gun [1]. It uses four LEDs as well, but with two on the top edge and two on the bottom edge of the screen. A couple Wii LED bars will do the job here as well. I don't think it is quite as accurate as the Gun4IR as I don't think it accounts for perspective correction if you move from the position it was originally calibrated at. But...

Sam & a few others are readying a new design called OpenFire [2] that will be at least on par accuracy-wise as Gun4IR and will be fully open source and cross platform. It should be available relatively soon. Pair this with the PiCon [3] and you have a lightgun with a pretty crazy feature set. All the guns mentioned support some kind of solenoid & rumble support, but the PiCon kicks it up a notch with exclusive OpenFire features like an OLED display, NeoPixel LED, accelerometer, and analog joystick.

[0] https://www.gun4ir.com/

[1] http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160517.0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE9a-fsnMwU

[3] https://diylightgun.com/lightgun-details/?lgid=506

edit: make more specific reference to OpenFire
Interesting. South, central, north Florida or the coasts? Any chance you’re looking at coral rock?
Use openSMTPd with any imap client. Use clamav. Make sure you properly setup SPF, DKIM, DMARC. Make sure the static IP is not in one of the public lists.
They should have named it “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. ;)
HN doesn't block self promotion in stories either. There's a whole section for it, "Show HN".
That's why you always have people to either copy-paste error messages or send screenshots. Because people are terrible at reading and even worse at reproducing what they read.
It's important to begin violently opposing, not just disagreeing with, the theory of engagement and revenue creation. It must become dangerous indeed for those who decide to pursue those goals.
Not a surprise. As it turns out, extracurriculars and 'holistic admissions' has a stronger selection effect for SES-status compared to standardized tests. Yes, even if tests can be coached, the student still has to take it under supervised conditions.
What a shit job, I'm amazed we (well they) were unified enough to do it, even with Pearl Harbor.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazi...

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate
There were alternatives to Android. Without Android, we'd be running Windows CE, Windows 11, or WebOS. I suspect many of us here will have been running smartphones before they were called smartphones. When I was in high-school, my phones ran Windows. HTC Typhoon, HTC Magician (with UK operator "Orange" SPV branding). Then when I left for a job, I was on the HTC TyTN 2. They were Windows CE based "Windows Mobile".
The publisher is And Other Stories, UK based.

Not a pitch. Just my experience.
Yeah, a day job. I'm not in the US and there are no such quant positions that would accept me remotely and/or pay more than the remote-only US corporate job I have. But I'd probably avoid it even if I was in the US, I don't like long hours and stress.
We have both the best and the worst examples of bureaucracy.

We were even the first country to have "registered email", in 2005. It's a set of server side protocols based on SMTP and MIME, that provide a legally-binding confirmation that the email was received by the recipient's server and delivered to the recipient. The cool part is that there are even RFCs describing the protocol. Since then it's been extended and has become a European standard.
"Old" is a bit of a stretch here ;)

But I'm glad to hear they've committed to making changes. Given the misrepresentations they made regarding the initial rollout plan (the target of most criticism, mine included), Microsoft has to prove themselves here and I'll wait until qualified security folks get their hands on this before coming to any conclusions.

What we know is that the initial version was a non-starter, and this new info validates the concerns we've all been expressing.

I truly hope Microsoft does an acceptable job of addressing this. It remains baffling and worrisome that it took a public outcry for them to implement what sounds like a baseline level of acceptable protection.
The original message is enough information to deduce what’s probably going on as an expert and not feel alien to the customer base.

What’s the point of conveying root causes to the user? In this case the error tells you what you need to know: copy the message. Send it again if you want.

The point of communication isn’t always education. This isn’t a razor. It doesn’t do anything to help you consider audience. It will lead you to bad conclusions.
You should be able to do it with snap to grid features, but like you said, not easy and not straightforward
The agricultural lobby sold us things like the food pyramid which said eat more grain, for example. I think people have become more conscious of such manipulation and so things have turned around. Unfortunately, capital, as always, has figured out how to co-opt the change in attitudes as well as weird Internet fad diets (e.g., gluten free) to keep people buying from the middle of the store.
Now the popular portrayal of WWII seems kind of idealistic, but there's plenty of historical evidence to suggest many Allied troops really did not want to be there, and the scale of desertion [1] was quite high - In addition to corruption, mismanagement, and racketeering [2].

I only really considered this after encountering "Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War" by Charles Glass in a used bookstore, which is appropriately referenced etc.

[1] But what is desertion, really? A legal matter the facts of which are decided through process...

[1] like, Catch-22 was actually toned down from reality so to speak, yes it's technically written by a Korean war vet but
There's also a good sketch of a "time travel dietitian": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua-WVg1SsA
> Is texlive 2024 producing tagged PDF out of the box?

Not yet. There is Tagged PDF project [1] which aims to do something like that. there is tagpdf [2] package that try to do some of these things. If you need good instructions I would suggest overleaf tagging tutorial [3].

[1] https://www.latex-project.org/publications/indexbytopic/pdf/

[2] https://ctan.org/pkg/tagpdf

[3] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/An_introduction_to_tagg...
As mentioned repeatedly, HN doesn't block self-promotion.

But reddit something else entirely. It so clear that all of the major subs are constantly being manipulated by firms working PR for large companies, but the second someone posts "I made this!" people get up-in-arms.

Of course who really knows how much of reddit is even real people anymore.
Nah. The files and folders still exist on all of these systems. So hiding them away is actually more abstraction, not “different” abstraction.

UX prognosticators have been preaching for decades that anything that computer users find confusing should simply be hidden. Not made more clear, or easier to use, but just papered over so users can no longer identify a specific thing to complain about. It’s just like the weirdos who try to get rid of the address bar on web browsers every few years, but the filesystem haters have been a lot more successful, and computers are more confusing as a result. You don’t solve confusion by hiding it behind a thin layer of paint. All the same problems still exist, but there’s no longer a way for experts to even try to help. There are so many better ways to simplify computing than pretending it’s magic.
can somebody explain?

I already can create PDF from latex, what does this repo add to it?
To be fair, people recording their full terminal and browsing history forever is a topic that has come up regularly in HN submissions. It’s certainly something people find a worthwhile idea.
How Chrome achieved the highest score ever on Speedometer 3
The tank commander, (edit2) David Render, in this podcast has a pretty amazing description of joining at age 18, landing on the beaches and not long afterwards finding himself commanding a squadron of tanks in Normandy. Absolute humility and incredibly sanguine about what happened to him. No bullshit about glory and bravery. Just a straightforward but very engaging description.
https://www.historyhit.com/what-it-was-like-to-be-a-young-ta...

Edit: think I found a link to the podcast that doesn’t require you to login https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i...
Has anyone tried Kosmos [0] ? I came across it the other day and it looked shiny and interesting, but I haven't had a chance to put it to the test much yet.

[0] - https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/kosmos-2.5
> Could it be instead that people did do the subgroup analysis, but didn't find a success predictor that was useful for the purposes of establishing medical standards of care or public health policy?

If we are all being generous with assumptions, this could very well be the reason.

I haven't seen much research on efforts of trying to predict what dietary interventions will most effective an individualized treatment basis, but I also haven't kept up a literature for five or six years.

Then again the same promises for ADHD medicine where now they are some early genetic studies showing perhaps how we could guide treatments, but the current standard of care remain throw different pills at the patient and see what they works best with the fewest side effects.

Of course dietary stuff is complicated due to epigenetics, environmental factors, and gut microbiomes.

That said progress is being made and the knowledge we have now is world's different than the knowledge we had 20 years ago, but sadly it seems outcomes for weight loss are not improving.
LastPass says 12-hour outage caused by bad Chrome extension update
The decline of search can largely be attributed to Adwords and propping up the SEO industry, which happened under Page. Gmail was indeed revolutionary - and mostly the vision of Paul Buchheit. I'm not sure what your beef is with Maps and Android; both seem to work fine, certainly when compared with their peers - certainly monetizing reviews has hurt Maps and it doesn't always perform as well as I'd like but the only alternative I'd consider is Waze, a Google product and one that addresses a single use case.

It's been intimated that Gates has remained a fairly important advisor in the years since he passed the baton on. This would suggest that he has a hand in Ballmer and Nadella's legacies, however they're coloured. Particularly wrt the pivot to AI in the past five years this is becoming hard to dispute. And considering how rapidly the polish is wearing off of that particular apple, it may yet turn out to be a mistake on the order of his dismissal of the internet and choosing to save Apple from bankruptcy. But I mean, companies of such gigantic market caps have survived worse.

Quite honestly, your being right on this would be some nice schadenfreude, but I don't think it'd be because of Pichai. That's not because I'm fond of him but because it's just Whig history applied to big tech.
I agree that we may be having a problem of definitions, and we may be like the blind men discussing different parts of the elephant.

I am definitely discussing in good faith, as I'm seeing situations where relatively ordinary people have second homes, are in transition, or indeed are trying to add value to a property to resell, and are entirely unfairly losing the right to enjoy their property, and being saddled with the costs of evicting a squatter and repairing their damage.

In particular, at what point is a building "vacant" and at what point is it "unused"? More specifically, at what point do these get to the level where they should be subject to what is effectively confiscation by squatting?

Would you consider that the house I moved out of, but didn't sell during a market downturn and before making upgrades, which was vacant for more than a half year, be "unused" enough that I should have been subject to the whims of squatters? What about if that caused my wife and I to also lose our newer primary residence?

What about seasonal vacation homes? I know people who have them, purchased long ago, with kit houses, and are closed and inaccessible during the winter, but are used extensively other seasons, when extended families and friends travel from across the continent to use the places. Are those sufficiently vacant and unused?

I'll agree that a case may be made for places that are truly abandoned and unused. I might even agree that a 'no-harm-no-foul' rule could work, as in if the squatters may enjoy it and must leave when asked and leave no trace of their presence, it'd be OK/legal.

But I certainly disagree that granting squatters rights to either of the owners-in-transition or seasonal-homes examples is reasonable.

So, please provide more clarity on exactly what you think should be the boundaries.
There are two types of teaching. One is teaching things to a complete beginner. The other is teaching things to someone who has already mastered the mechanics of a subject.

Feynman was a world class second type teacher. If you already know how to work with physics equations and solve problems, then Feynman's lectures will improve your understanding considerably. The simplification process he does, gives you a grand understanding of the theory.

Due to this, much of Feynman's pedagogy is not suitable for the first type of teaching. And should not be used as such.
So basically, next time there's a heatwave and everyone cranks up their aircon, the system will still collapse.
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If there is distinct "negative mass" out there, does that mean that we can built FTL devices after all? Or do we also need negative energy?
It wasn't clear to me you can place colors/groups arbitrarily -- maybe add "Each group can be assigned different colors based on location." to instructions. Maybe color each group background instead of individual letters. Perhaps when you type a letter that comes from multiple possible groups, open a dialogue for choosing the group. Bhaji is a bit of an unexpected word (or, I learned a new word :) ).

Nice game :)
Probably is worth a check; I usually default to assuming that a good brand capacitor without any evident signs of corrosion, leakage or swelling is probably fine, but this is very old and also a higher voltage circuit than what I'm used to.
I played a Time Crisis on the ps3 using a gun handle attachment for the ps move [1].

Tbh I don't remember if it had a cover option or not.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/PlayStation-Move-Shooting-Attachment-S...
You said
"... how aweful does someone's life have to be to consider fast food "luxury"..."

It's very distasteful to hit down
The literal whole point of the game (as described by the opening text) is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor and offer it to your chosen "god" (called ascension).

If score is not tied to progress in the game, I'd say the agent's scoring system is, by definition, incorrect.
Windows 11 and its hardware requirements arguably is a big misstep already.
The US has been socially destroyed in the unrelenting pursuit of diversity, and as you've observed, our life expectancy has been dropping for years. Nobody cares about anything, the game is already over. This isn't our country anymore.
I was intrigued by one of the other ways—"high-performance wires"—which they don't explain at all. I found one article[0] (podcast, I guess, but with a transcript) that goes into it: old wires are aluminum supported by steel. By using aluminum supported with carbon fiber, you get less weight and less thermal expansion, allowing for more aluminum and without it sagging as much.

High conductivity, less transmission loss. Potentially fewer towers (because you can space them out a little further), offsetting the cost of the wires. Neat!

[0] https://www.volts.wtf/p/one-easy-way-to-boost-the-grid-upgra...
Adobe just doesn't get it when it comes to privacy/data security. I cancelled Adobe Acrobat/Creative Cloud subscriptions at my health care agency because by default all content was being saved to the cloud whether user opted in or not (major HIPAA risk!) and the only way to defeat was with Windows registry hacks...WTF?!
Spotify Spreadbeats [video]
Repairing an Unreleased Prototype Mac Tablet [video]
Having seen the results of everyone being able to spin up a VM (or an EMR cluster, or an EKS cluster) I can say a little more bureaucracy is probably a good thing.

You end up wasting huge amounts of money on resources that are just sitting around idle (no your fancy automation to shut them down won't work because maybe that dev cluster is actually needed at 2am on Sunday. It's an org problem, not a technical problem).

But more importantly you give the cloud providers an excuse to destroy another square mile of pristine forest and build a giant 4 story grey box that wastes enormous amounts of already limited water and energy.
My thoughts as well. If the native Americans had the technological ability to extinct the Buffalo they would have done it. Just as they killed off many more fragile species and other tribes. Life in pre Colombian America was just as nasty as it was in post Colombian America.
I work on optimizing our inference code, "productizing" our trained models and currently I'm working on local training and inference since I work in an industry where cloud services just aren't very commonly used yet. It's super interesting too since it's not LLMs, meaning that there aren't as many pre made tools and we have to make tons of stuff by ourselves. That means touching anything from assessing data quality (again, the local part is the challenge) to using CUDA directly as we already have signal processing libs that are built around it and that we can leverage.

Sometimes it also involves building internal tooling for our team (we are a mixed team of researchers/MLEs), to visualize the data and the inferences as again, it's a pretty niche sector and that means having to build that ourselves. That allowed me to have a lot of impact in my org as we basically have complete freedom w.r.t tooling and internal software design, and one of the tools that I built basically on a whim is now on the way to be shipped in our main products too.
Sure, it increases anxiety overall particularly when going through withdrawals or hangovers. But I have never heard of its usage directly triggering fully-fledged panic attacks as weed so commonly does.
Off topic, but what do you use for your reading list?
Maybe someone who knows the GDPR better could say whether there are exceptions for essential services. When looking up a public key by username, securing that mapping by username is clearly essential. Without it, you don’t have a secure service.

It would be like setting up certificate transparency without logging domain names - no point.
It's a poison. Of course it isn't good for you. Jfc.
Mammoth, Inland, Down The Rabbit Hole, Open Door, Zbinden's Progress, The Luminous Novel, I Don't Expect Anyone To Believe Me. Actually that is 7. All very different, but arresting.

Purity, All Dogs Are Blue, and Lightning Rods are next up for me, not sure which one will grab me, probably Purity.