skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand a mechanism of a number of online market place scams is to gain customers trading on the “security” (such as it is) of the market place, and then directing the customer out of the market place. Everyone (should) know that any eBay seller that tries to get you to complete the auction outside of eBay is likely to be a scam. Likewise I would hope anyone would be leery of placing an order on Amazon and having a seller contact you asking you to cancel that order and buy it cheaper on some other website. Reputation matters for consumers, and legitimate sellers rely on the market place’s good reputation to help smooth the sales process. Scammers do too, but their goal is to get you out of the market place ASAP where the rules and regulations are harder to get enforced. Companies like Apple and eBay have a strong incentive to have a trustable pipeline and mandate sellers to use it because even though they’re not the ones perpetuating the scam, being known as a market place where scammers hang out is damaging. Consider this, between the Apple Store, eBay and Craigslist, what order would you place those market places if ranking your level of trust for not getting scammed when providing your payment details for a recurring subscription to a random seller?

Or put another way, even though it’s free and plenty of smaller companies do, Netflix doesn’t make posts of Craigslist advertising their services. There’s obviously many reasons for that, but at least part of it I’m sure is no one should trust a random link in a Craigslist post to a Netflix sign up site.
> I guess you would need to sound the doorbell every boot

It disconnects from wifi when rebooting, doesn’t it?
I'm not sure that makes it "arbitrary." Approval is not just about effectiveness but also risks and side effects.
Standalone machines with Jenkins and TF
That would actually be pretty nice; devs would maybe not update every day but once a month or something, and have actual changelogs, AND the review queue would be way shorter.
A customer base of people with profoundly serious troubles at the edge of desperation who are looking for any glimmer of hope. An industry who's incentivized to charge astronomical amounts to an untapped market to recoup costs. A drug that seems to have failed based on multiple trials and 3 separate expert review teams. Now remove the approval requirements. What could possibly go wrong?

It's easy to yell paternalism but this doesn't look like a case of paper pushers getting in the way of a promising drug to me. Also, history is littered with examples of why "buyer beware" does NOT work, and a vast literature on information asymmetry, adverse selection, "The Market for Lemons", etc etc. Also, the FDA already has mechanisms to speed up new drugs getting to patients when the benefit is clear early on, AFAIK.
They're only showing you last mile delivery fees. Don't mistake for once that your food is grown in the city you live in.
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. There are several middlemen before you buy a Coke or Pepsi.

Usually, your soft drink is manufactured from the brand's syrup by a bottling partner, which is then distributed to a retailer, who you buy it from.

e.g: https://www.coca-colacompany.com/content/dam/company/us/en/a...
Would iPhones be less expensive if you could only get them from local dealers and not Apple?
At the very least, FDA should allow use of medications that were approved in Japan or the EU.

Requiring separate US clinical trials is an unnecessary burden for the manufacturer, and will likely result in higher prices or unavailability of some medications.

Even in programming we frown upon "reinventing the wheel". This is reinventing the wheel with a fantastic price tag.
Ask HN: Cooking book/resource, expressed in terms of (Bio)Chemistry?
Most "Learn to Cook" books are targeted at general audiences, which is good enough most times but they mostly read like a list of rules without explaining why those rules exist. In fact many books I have come across hand-wave explanations with "...without going too deep into the science of it...". As someone trained and interested in sciences, I am more than willing to go deeper into the "science of it" and look at cooking from a chemical (and biological) standpoint. Are there any resources you know what cover Cooking like this? I do have a collection of various papers, etc. but I am looking for a book that unifies them and presents in a serialized/arranged narrative.

There are a few pop-sci books out there, but again they aren't really getting into the science of it for the most part.
Exactly! And that's what I want to design my problem for. But I'm not sure where to start. How complex of a problem can ChatGPT solve? And are there particular types of problems that are good at sifting through candidates to find ones with strong problem-solving skills but which remain GPT-proof?
> The only way to use it is to recover the five parameters from it, and then stop looking at it.

...which is its intended use case since Tukey invented it as a way of visualising the "5 number summary". I think part of his criteria were that it should be easy to make by hand which is clearly no longer a consideration so there are plenty of reasons to just do something else most of the time these days.
News articles about the user behind this twitter account have gone through a few rounds on HN in the past: [1][2][3][4][5] and she has a personal blog documenting her various legal battles with Apple: [6]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28477392

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28811746

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830236

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778735

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35179170

6: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/apple-legal-battle.html
That's a hell of a purchase to make effectively "sight unseen" without the ability to test drive the vehicle first which you would do at a dealership.

The last vehicle I purchased was certified preowned and I went through several models before landing on one - much of my decision was based on how the vehicle handled to me.
And there's a HUGE ecosystem of repair, service and resale around traditional dealer networks. I'm pretty sure Tesla would say that for their model (that doesn't have this) this is a feature - from which they benefit immensely.
It depends on the purpose.

CDF plots are great for plotting a single distributions, but contain way too much information if you want to plot 6 distributions next to each other for easy comparison.

Violin plots are interesting but also quite complicated, since you have to arbitrarily choose a kernel shape and this artificial smoothing can make it look like you have much more data than you really do.

I really don't like the author's "alternative designs" because I think they're even more open to misinterpretation than box plots. It's hard to judge though, because the central problem is that the author is trying to represent a bimodal distribution, and shouldn't be using box plots or the 2 "alternative designs" for that.
quickjs [1] has native support for Cosmopolitan, is meant to be easily embeddable, and is included as part of the standard Cosmopolitan distribution. It looks like qjs also has patches for recent-ish versions of the Typescript compiler as well. Someone has made a nodejs-style project called txiki.js [2] using vanilla qjs. Maybe it would build with Cosmopolitan with some tweaking. But if you're thinking of packaging a whole browser engine like Electron that might be a Sisyphian effort.

[1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/
[2] https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/
You can get LTSC through microsoft resellers. Last I heard, you have to buy at least 5 licenses to be in Volume Licensing, but if you only have one computer, you can buy one LTSC license ($270-$300) and then 4 low cost filler licenses (I think seats for something were $10-$30 each?)

And the LTSC license is an upgrade license, so the computer needs licensing for Windows already (maybe needs Pro and not Home, too).

But it ends up being a large amount of money to run wierd windows.
>But instead we ended up with a system where car dealerships basically own local lawmakers and got laws passed that not only prevent the manufacturer from competing with them, but make it really hard for people to start new dealerships to compete with them.

There are practical reasons for this. People buy expensive items and expect to be able to get those items maintained and serviced. If the business was cutthroat, that could be more difficult. I don't want my dealer going bankrupt, frankly.

But the idea that dealerships aren't out there competing with each other is insane. Have you ever actually bought a new car?

>And the experience shopping for cars at a dealership is absolutely terrible, which shows you that they don't feel any pressure to compete.

Just the complete opposite experience I've had in my lifetime of buying new vehicles. And the idea that they don't compete is an outright fabrication. You have an incredible amount of leverage buying a car, and you can shop quotes around.
Mine would probably be the first chapter of the novella I started writing in 1986. I finished it in... 1988, I think? (No, it's never been published, and never will be.)
Google threatened to end my access to their payments system, which at the time would have caused my Google Fi phone plan to be unpayable, because they refuse to acknowledge a fraudulent charge through some Google Wallet apparently/maybe physical card at Forever 21's Indian affiliate for like $20 or $25. I have never, ever shopped at Forever 21 and didn't ever have a physical Google Wallet card. The charge was obviously fraudulent, but Google refused to help (and I also couldn't get anything particularly useful from Forever 21 other than to confirm that they hadn't integrated Google's payment method directly, so it must have been a physical card).

So I disputed the charge with my real bank, which corrected the problem by refunding me.

Google told me that if I ever did that again, they would lock me out of not just my account, but any future account using Google payment methods that was linked to me. That would make my phone service and the Google Play Store unusable. That was the beginning of the end of my relationship with Google services. So yeah...I do not trust Google or Apple as intermediaries for every payment in my life.
Many are also not tech-savvy. Many dealerships are inherited within a family that has owned them since the 1950s if not longer. They are cash cows for the owners and there's little motivation to try new things. When they are forced to, like when internet sales and marketing became a thing they had to deal with, they just go with the same system that all their fellow dealers are using.
And if you sell your software or services on the App Store, that doesn’t mean you can’t give it away for free to your buddies or sell it somewhere else.
For https://pinggy.io/ we have specific needs. In a nutshell, we use EC2 and VMs from other clouds with a bunch of shell scripts for automation.

We run VMs (EC2) instances and not containers. The reason is that the kind of traffic we serve is a very long lasting TCP connection. We do not want to stop containers without draining all traffic, which in this case takes days to weeks. As a result, EC2 instances are fine, since there is no need of upscaling and downscaling frequently either. The deployment is handled through our shell scripts. IaC is not required for the same reason - frequency of starting and stopping VMs is very less. We start VMs manually then trigger the deployment script.
This has been my long-time takeaway too. I see the opportunities as obvious only in hindsight, it does not appear to me to invest at the time. Then again, that has probably saved me from quite many bad investments too.

3D cards, web, smartphones, search, social media, CPU advances, chip manufacturing and shortages, blockchains, AI, the list is endless I suppose. Like most here, I've read about them all from the early demos all the way to the mass adoption.

I'm very happy to invest in index funds and observe tech only from the tech point of view, without stressing about picking the winners.
Elm is a frontend language. I know there are efforts to make it runnable on node, but to my knowledge, officially the language is only meant for web applications. The website still seems to confirm that. Can you explain a bit better what you mean??
Wouldn’t that vary from person to person? I have several medications that I objectively need in order to remain healthy. The cost of those would be prohibitively expensive without a good job and/or health insurance.
I've built library systems before - "simple CRUD" is just being naive at the complexity of not just some workflows, but the politics of library staff not wanting to change how they've done things for 20 years.
The legal system is incompatible with this very concept. The legal system works on precedent. Once something is established by the court, it is treated as fact, forever, with an EXTREMELY high bar to get changed. US courts still impose polygraph testing (at significant cost to those forced to take them) on people on probation even though polygraphs are no longer allowed to convict and just plain don't work.
Could you link something showing that "almost all" journalists claimed the laptop wasn't real? Some articles from notable publications making such claims, etc.
Everyone I know IRL never gets their car serviced at the actual dealership, always going to a third party repair shop.

Tesla has service issues, I'm not sure that they're related to their lack of dealerships though.
What if there were a standard <BlogEntry> object that everybody rendered to their taste? To some, these are nice features, to others it's just bloat that causes a 5mb download for 1kb of text.
Ask HN: Best E-Reader in the Market?
I was wondering what the consensus best e-reader on the market is?
Could have stopped with "running Windows 11" and had a true comment.

Not looking forward to being forced to upgrade to Win11 with my next CPU upgrade.
> UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Atlantic Recording, Atlantic Records Group, Rhino Entertainment, the All Blacks, Warner Music International Services and Warner Records.

Another Napster moment.
Yeah calling this self-hosted is confusing. Everything about it is built on non-portable, proprietary products exclusively available from and hosted by Cloudflare.
Well now they get to use Excel, so we know change is possible.
This wasn't done yet for FedRAMP High, but it passed the audit for earlier customers demanding FIPS-140-2 compliance.

Not that I am not saying it wasn't a clusterfuck of epic proportions in general.
> CDK Global has massive market share 90% when measured by number of vehicles sold

I suspect we're missing some nuance in that 90%. US dealerships are dominated by UCS(Reynolds&Reynolds) and CDK. ADP and DealerTrack have a fair amount. I used to provide support for three of those.
I was involved in the building of the 911 system for my country. When doing that, we had to design it with this in mind.

If the system ever fell down, the operators had standard templated papers they would fill, and once the system would be back up they would add the case data back in.
Young devs do not trust solid tried and tested feature rich tools such as Jenkins because it looks old school. This is actually sad to see.
Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi
Where are you getting 10%. It is close to 25% for fy23.
I don't know enough to compare to musl, but I suspect being ISC licensed (similar to musl's MIT license) allows for static linking without upstream impact such as GPL.

Would be curious regarding features and performance comparisons with musl, which seems to come up a little short compared to say gnu libc.
cfg.linebreaks: LLM-plain-tex

/s
Dali departs Baltimore for first time since bridge collapse
"It is very difficult to make judges understand, for example, how science works"

Isn't that true about white collar crime in general? Some frauds or tax evasion schemes are very elaborate. We still (try to) prosecute them.
I said most. The complex ones could be replaced by a small team and a month or two. It’s not a hard app.

Public funds should never be used to support such brittle and idiotic institutions, regardless of how noble their mission may be.

Running windows at scale off a read/write drive by untrained staff is negligent and has been for at least 5-10 years now. Putting windows in the hands of people who aren’t expert-level at data security without your own medium-sized IT security team to file off all of the rough edges and foot guns is like handing a pistol to a toddler. It’s your fault, not theirs. Of course they got ransomwared.

Give them a webapp and some iPads or Chromebooks. Stop pretending Windows endpoints for non-engineer staff is sane or reasonable. It’s absolutely not unless you have a dozen+ full-time dudes layered on top whose only job is to make it so. What works for Google doesn’t work for you, and what works for JPMChase and Boeing doesn’t work for you.
The consumption of apps happens inside Apple devices.

The only meaningful difference is the subscription model vs. purchasing.
One reason they hold their value well is because they have low mileage. They’re not practical cars to use on a daily basis, not to mention maintenance costs which are quite high if you use the car often.
The font is 60MB.

> Usage: Just download llama.ttf (60 MB download, since it's based on the 15M parameter TinyStories-based model demoed above) and use it like you would any other font.
Are they still recognized as part of the self or are they attacked by immune cells ?
> with all their supposed green credentials

And their oft lionised 60B$ cash reserves.
Cunningham's law baiting - I love it!

So yeah, turns out it's nothing to do with the 8266's board, and everything to do with the chosen relay module. Since it has nothing to do with driving the relay, it doesn't need to be connected. But if it were connected, whenever it is high, the relay board connects it to the reset, so the chip gets reset.

So you are bending it simply to ensure that pin can't be plugged in to the relay
I think progress bars are a logical consequence of the user-hostile shrinking of the scrollbar. Unusable, narrow things which are often hidden by default, and rarely have a visible elevator (or thumb) anymore. Of course, scrollbars are often entirely useless in pages which insist on loading content piecemeal -- another user hostile pattern.
It's a strange choice of words.

Lot of folks walked on cloudflare after they tried to shake down $120k from one of its customers that was publicized on the internet

There is stream of unhappy (rightfully so) cloudflare enterprise users that CF seems oblivious about.

But the damage is done. We are moving to Fastly. Sucks because we built so much around Cloudflare.
And this is how executives escape responsibility when they are being paid specifically to be responsible. The case against the test pilot goes through court, and the test pilot is convicted and goes to prison, and now fewer people are willing to be test pilots. Meanwhile, the CEO ends up settling with the justice department, maybe has to sell a mansion, maybe wears an ankle monitor for a while.
It depends upon if Apple tried to set price controls and how successful they were at pursuing businesses that violated them.

For example, Games Workshop doesn't like when 3rd party retailers charge less, but it's easy to find 3rd party retailers that charge less than Games Workshop on their website.

In response they've increasingly made certain models online only and its always at full markup.
I bought a new car this weekend and some of the symptoms of this were:

* dealer didn't have a good handle on what was available in stock on the lot
* anything related to a title for a tradein was massively hampered.
* appears USAA's auto insurance online add/replace vehicle on your policy is broken
* everything was literally hand written, down to the sales contract

I would imagine the impact of this is in the tens of millions of dollars
Nuclear fusion is similarly easy, you just have to apply enough pressure and heat to easily acquired hydrogen isotopes.
The Tesla showroom near me is much smaller than a dealership.

That said, still need somewhere to buy/sell used cars.
Imagine if all research had to go through an HR style cover your ass system before any of it could be shared. You would basically shut down all multi-institution research.
Drinking alcohol is almost certainly more dangerous than dropping hats.

This is not even close.

Heck, pick any one negative impact of drinking alcohol at parties (impaired driving, or long term health effects, or impaired judgment, etc) and that individual impact would probably be orders of magnitude worse than the total negative impact of dropping hats.
Yes, super easy to use. And if you don't want to use a bankcard or phone you can buy a dedicated 'oyster' card and top it up as required. They all use the same card reader.
Major record labels sue AI company behind 'BBL Drizzy'
> you can shop quotes around

And use them openly against each other to get a better subsequent quote.
It's easy to say criminally negligent, but near as I can tell - good luck pinning any of that on Boeing or a subsidiaries executive somewhere.

Because yes, that would make sense. However, even if everything is perfect it’s expensive (and not just because you broke x percent of the product).

If the products have flaws they aren’t supposed to, it’s also even more expensive. At least in the short term. And often embarrassing.

So depending on the incentives and short term nature of the person deciding, there are a lot of incentives to not look too hard.
One of the reports of this I heard was on Marketplace the other day... and the part that made me chuckle was on cursive.

Pen and paper, but please no cursive: Widespread cyberattack sends car dealers back to 20th century - https://www.marketplace.org/2024/06/21/cdk-global-hack-softw...

> Car dealers are a pretty big part of this economy, doing some $1.2 trillion in sales last year, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. In the wake of the CDK hack, there’s a new policy among the salespeople and mechanics at the Willis Automotive dealership in Des Moines, Iowa: no cursive.

> “We have a lot of staff members that are younger than 30 that I’m not sure have seen cursive in their life. So we try not to go the cursive route just to make sure everybody understands what’s going on,” said Jason Willis, CEO of the dealership.
We buy so many things "sight unseen" because of the quality and reliability.

As an average car consumer, I have done many test drives and gotten nothing out of it except the car salesman looking like he did something.

I will buy a reliable car sight unseen like I bought my big screen t.v.
Dealerships are a special case. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealership

> They have considerable political influence and have lobbied for regulations that guarantee their survival and profitability. By 2010, all US states had laws that prohibited manufacturers from side-stepping independent car dealerships and selling cars directly to consumers. By 2009, most states imposed restrictions on the creation of new dealerships to compete with incumbent dealerships.
Did something new happen to prompt this article? His autobiography was published last year.
Thanks for this. It's amazing how useless twitter links have become to signed out viewers.
Seattle’s light rail also works this way: no ticket barriers and occasional ticket checks.