skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does a temporary loan lead to approval (not a pre-approval, subject to final approval later)?

When it’s passed off as a gift.

> What percent of kids do you estimate receive such fraudulent loans from their parents?

I dunno, but it’s pretty common. Maybe unknown in SES levels either too low (no money to loan) or too high (no fraud, because it’s actually a gift) but it’s common.
Samsung should be broken up. Don't they make up 20% of the entire economy of south korea?
> It's hard to save data in local storage because I ask users to import bank statements.

Why can't the statements stay local?
The user could easily install an extension that provides the same debugging capability. Most users don't care, so they won't need it.
I only glanced at the article, but it also reminds me of Dataflow programming, incrementally updated materialized views, etc. (all the same concept at the end of the day, and yes, very similar to observables)
Isn't that pretty much always the case? Produce and product gets recalled every month for possible contamination.
You also can't use the product without signing up / agreeing to his terms / boosting his MAU.

It's kind of a given that your growth will stagnate once everyone willing to succumb to that has signed up. I don't bother clicking links anymore because I can't see the content.
I briefly worked on Internet Explorer in ages past. They would develop APIs with the Windows team for use in IE to give IE special features that other browsers couldn't implement.
Remos is property and facilities management software
Even after you’ve already installed a custom boot laser to it? I mean, I agree with you in principle, but we already have the chicken - can’t existence of the egg be assumed?
Does Chrome do certificate pinning checking in this case?
There is potentially an innocuous and straightforward explanation for this. Imagine the browser comes with some functionality implemented as a google.com-signed web app (as opposed to compiled/linked C++ as a lot of the older Chrome UI).

It would be silly if that PWA-implemented browser code would need permission to access the system information, since it is part of the browser's functionality itself.

Another use case for a private API (that has long existed) is integration of the Chrome browser with Google-specific websites that provide core functionality, like the Chrome Web store, to allow for installation/removal of extensions from a web page.
Very cool that Google built an anticompetitive browser that offers such useful features only to themselves.

Very cool of you as a Google employee to say the quiet part out loud for us.
Why are 6 figures salaries rare in France
Same thing with more steps?
It's not something I've personally verified but I read a while back that a lot of EV batteries specifically before being recycled get upcycled in storage products for homes and power grids, where raw capacity isn't as important and better management and cooling than is possible in cars greatly mitigate further degradation.
Axolotl – LLM fine tuning made easy
but Goldman wont take your call if you are sub $100MM in revenue (probably need way more than that). So you set up your partnership early in your company life then if the relationship is working fine why would you pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and rebuild your integrations just to have a larger bank partner that none of your users will ever know you are using
A level playing field for competition? This is Google we're talking about.
Really? How much lower? I have had my own modem so long I never knew this. Not that I would switch to theirs.
I'm not saying it is for everyone, or for every project. My point was that "Literate programming only works for small scripts and narrative documentation" is far too wide-sweeping of a statement. There are plenty of non-trivial examples of its use, and it obviously "works" for some people.
The router itself has an internet connection but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the other stuff required to actually route traffic or connect other devices is configured (like DHCP).

It’d be possible to have some sane defaults in there to make it work, but I wouldn’t count on them to be 100% out in the field of who-knows-what-crazy-settings-this-consumer-has.

> sending the wifi credentials plaintext that is not secure

If the connection between the app, router, and cloud server are all HTTPS, then it’s probably more secure to do it that way than it would be to send it over an unconfigured, insecure WiFi network (which typically uses HTTP or unsigned certificates for the management interface).
This article is a real throwback. I first started on Compuserve in the late 1980'a. Then used Prodigy. I started using the internet in 1991 on a regular basis. Mainly email, Usenet and FTP. Soon after started using the early web browsers. I started my first web page in 1994.
I actually strongly disagree. My first accident occurred because I accidentally spun the wheels on a rainy night while trying to get to highways speeds. This was an SUV we used for towing. Rear wheel drive with lots of power. I wasn’t messing around or driving recklessly, I just put too much power in poor conditions and I downshift broke the tires free. Since either was rear wheel drive, we fish tailed into the ditch.

It would have been nearly impossible for me to do that in a minivan. Even if I could have gotten enough power out, the front wheels would have broken loose in a much more predictable and recoverable manner.
> That is not true for networks where link capacity can change rapidly, such as Wi-Fi and 5G.

Is this problem almost exclusively to do with the "last-mile" leg of the connection to the user? (Or the two legs, in the case of peer-to-peer video chats.) I would expect any content provider or Internet backbone connection to be much more stable (and generally over-provisioned too). In particular, there may be occasional routing changes but a given link should be a fiber line with fixed total capacity. Or is having changes in what other users are contending for that capacity effectively the same problem?
technically correct. google chrome should forever be called "Tainted Chromium" to use the same nomenclature as the Linux Kernel when you load blobs.
Fanless AMD Mini PC from Japan
Git won because GitHub turned the whole contribution model into a resume-making social media game. The first generation on GitHub pressured the second one into using it at a time when the DVCS scene was still nascent (and git's many flaws, more excusable), and the second one, now turned into a critical mass, made it acceptable for the next to just cargo cult a few commands instead of learning their VCS, because that was the bare minimum to _partake in the game_, and an acceptable trade-off to deal with a now objectively user-hostile and inferior tool.

The nice (and quite unique) thing about jj is that it takes all the good cues from systems which kept improving (and in particular, from mercurial), and slaps them onto git without requiring a storage model change, practically offering the social "perks" of GitHub (by being fully compatible with it), with no-compromise. And to be honest, at this point, there isn't much reason for a new comer to learn git rather than jj, and that's a wonderful news in my book.
That API was introduced in Android 10. That's currently supported by only around 60% of Android devices globally and that number would have been lower when they decided how to implement this project.

My phone did have that API, and I subjectively still found the experience janky. But that's just my opinion.
indeed it is, as meanwhile confirmed at the top of the document.
As far as I can tell, Jujutsu solves this problem by being compatible with Git.
That's cool and rare. (And yes, the centralization of meatpacking is a big challenge. It makes sense economically and simultaneously has some bad effects.)

I think the amount of methane produced on forage is reasonably well-quantified, though there's definitely a question of how you "bill" the methane in terms of contribution to climate change in terms of CO2e given the different breakdown times. In general, it's probably a problem -- but other ruminants burp as well, and if it's not cattle grazing, it was bison. Arguably, we'd be much better off if we reduced our beef consumption to the level we could manage pasture-raised, which would hold pasture methane constant and reduce the feedlot co2 (and nitrogen runoff).
Do you think there is a reason that some distros go through all of this additional trouble?
Mac shipments grew 6% year-on-year, outperforming the PC market
Looks like this is accessing "chrome.system.cpu" API, which any extension can access (given the "system.cpu" permissions).

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s...

You can see all the permissions requested by this extension here:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
Re: T-Mobile - On United you can just set your laptop user agent to a mobile one and sign on with your phone number. Works fine for both the short period and full flight options.
How was it dismissive? I meant it to be instructive, in case others want to make a simple ring. It’s a surprisingly accessible hobby and making a simple ring is easy. It’s the standard introductory class people with no experience do and they leave with a ring of their own making two hours later.
Hey everyone, here is a link to the demo if you'd like to try it out. Please note that this version runs without sound, and is CPU-intensive. We'll be enhancing performance and the overall quality of the experience in future updates, as well as improving load times.

Here's a link to where you can try out the demo. Feedback is much appreciated!

https://lyra.tiwsamples.com/
Even if they have graduated, why would they care? I log an objection once at work. I've covered my butt.

After that point, the outcomes are not my problem. It is less work to do it this way.
This is also noticeable in videogames.

If I open a menu and press a direction button 5 times (e.g. to move between menus) because my muscle memory has learned that the thing I want is at that position, then why tf is the game ignoring those 5 button presses just because there was some slow ass fade-in animation happening?

Looking at you, Monster Hunter World.
If Zoom makes a chrome extension, then yes.
I love it when a system has been working for hundreds of years through by far the most prosperous time in human history but people on the internet are sure it is wrong. No proof, no evidence, not even logic, just certainty.

Also, I don’t think any of the issues with Ticketmaster have anything to do with patents.
>Citation needed, especially for the "pretty strongly" part.

Are you the kind of person who also needs citations that the KGB (and modern FSB) try to influence western elections too?
The case here was just injecting a domain. There's another thread for this post pointing out you would also need to inject a malicious root cert for https traffic, which is correct, but not impossible (and given some bad/lazy practices I've seen places do when they sign their own certs for internal infrastructure, not a far stretch)
Rechargeable means they can save a bit of money on the size of the battery, among other things.
From a pure economic incentives perspective, I don't think that wealthy countries will solve their birth rate issues until parents are financially on par with or even ahead of childfree people.

It's hard to see how this could be done without heavy transfer payments/subsidies or restricting careers/promotions based on family size. These will of course generate all sorts of adverse side effects.

As a result, the general solution is to use immigration to blunt labor shortages and hope that natural selection will eventually favor natalist psychologies/cultures. This too has a lot of negative side effects.
I think articles like TFA are a big reason why so called "obstinate" people exist to begin with. Look at the incredibly harsh judgement it passes out on them. At one point it stops just short of directly calling them stupid.

The simple fact is people want to be good. People are afraid of being wrong. They are afraid of failure. They look for the one deep truth that will guide them and protect them from wrong. Once they believe they have found that truth, is anyone surprised that they cling to it?

TFA would have you believe these fears are irrational. Just keep at it, right? Just power through the judgement of your fellow humans. But it is not irrational. Nor is it stupid as TFA seems to imply. The simple fact is if you put yourself out there, there will be consequences. You will be judged.

I sent some code for an idea I had to a mailing list. At some point someone called it "schizophrenic". Maybe to you this is literally nothing, just an innocuous comment that promptly slides off. However, for a long time I actually thought I was insane for thinking and imagining the things that I did. I have to make an effort to suppress thoughts like that to even so much as write this comment on this website. So for me that was a particularly harsh judgement. I don't think I'll forget the moment I read that word until the day that I die. I will certainly never show my face there again.

It takes a certain audacity to put yourself out there. It takes a certain sociopathy, a certain arrogance. Succeed, and it actually leads to the judgement of your naysayers instead of you. They are quite literally judged by history as wrong. Such judgement is even observed in TFA, look at how the so called "obstinate" are singled out for being stupid failures. Such is the nature of humanity.
For all of the various challenges, structural and political, that Ariane 6 has dealt with, I truly hope this is a flawless launch. Any kind of additional competition is worthwhile.
so just like unify circa 2017?

it was over ssl, but still.
There haven't been any updates in the press that I can find since then, and it's an interesting scenario: if MongoDB deletes the data, there's really no way to reliably figure out who the accounts belong to.
> As if, suddenly, running a nearly 10y-old code was no longer stupid, because you paid for it.

I love this
Search for the compilation flag "CHROME_WIDE_ECHO_CANCELLATION" in the Chromium sources, and you will find your answer.

Can't tell you anything else due to NDAs.
This is awesome, I love using 3D engines for visualisation and I’m already writing my own GPU shaders to visualise electron density grids for example - having a high performance runtime I can hook into would be such a big help. Especially if it had a high performance (60fps+) particle system that can handle 10s millions particles
Also a market for putting a more doc-focused UI on git, integrating that too[1]. Pull Requests are basically gold for doc review, but the process of getting to the PR is something that always seems to need a bit of training. Nothing like the training that's needed to grok the basic graph-based change model, and how it's going to work for natural language (ish) documents, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.

[1] GitLens comes pretty close to this, however.
Yeah I think Wise new about this long before it became public. We had our USD receiving account details shut down with like 2 weeks notice which caused massive cashflow problems as we had to get all customers to redo payments.

And I know some people had it at like 1-2 days notice. I blamed wise at the time but I guess their hands were tied if they knew about this but weren't allowed to talk about it.
The Future Quantum Data Center
Clojure's 'and' and 'or' are weird (but not really) (2020)
My personal lack of confidence and higher education has nothing to do with identity politics, dei, or whatever else is in Vogue for wedge issue politics.

My issue is the financialization,vast increase in cost compared to inflation, drop in value of the of higher education degrees, appalling amounts of money for degrees from high wealth individuals, it's role in ossification of class mobility, hoarding of endowments, the adjunct professor, undermining research, sports corruption, grade inflation, I can keep going
A "built-in extension" is still part of the browser unless it can be disabled.
Yet, you (gently) smash it with a hammer and it breaks to pieces. By adding a block that is a bit thicker than the finger bone, you prevent smashing your finger in the process
> As the July 7 deadline approaches, McWilliams said she is working to secure and migrate the data critical to Synapse’s operations and the interests of its creditors and consumers.

Or, you could just pay the bill.
Follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907155

Honestly, the first page defines obstinacy in a way that really supplements Graham's article.
That's pretty cool, gonna steal the idea.

I can implement that specific case with a couple of lines in zsh. Something like:

autoload -Uz zed
icommit() {
() {
zed $1
git commit -F $1 # -a too, if you must ;)
} =(:) # Or maybe even =(< commit_template.txt)
}

Then icommit, via zed¹, will initiate an inline editor with all the power of ZLE available. Hit C-x C-w to write and commit, or C-c to abort. Obviously, you'd want some error checking and the like².

Beauty of this basic implementation is that the keymap is fully controllable in zed as it is simply a new ZLE widget. It works with emacs or vi mode out of the box, and is fully customisable beyond that.

You could make the interface generic by writing your own ZLE widget, so that it can be called directly from within the line editor and remove the need for wrapping commands like I did above.

¹ https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Functions/Misc/...

² This at least uses, and cleans up, a temp file to handle the commit message so it isn't completely useless.
I don't think recognition for researchers is the big win for named vulnerabilities. In the places that matter, they can just describe their findings in a short sentence and get all the recognition that matters. The names are mostly for the benefit of users.
> Basically every application that uses microphone input will want to do this

The OS doesn't have more information about this than applications and it's not that obvious whether an application wants the OS to fuck around with the audio input it sees. Even in the applications where this might be the obvious default behavior, you're wrong - since most listeners don't use loudspeakers at all, and this is not a problem when they wear headphones. And detecting that (also, is the input a microphone at all?) is not straightforward.

Not all audio applications are phone calls.
No wind for a week is the volatility of renewable. And that's a common occurence. You can easily have 3 weeks without wind.
Here is the email I received on June 28:

There’s been a data breach at Evolve Bank & Trust.

Evolve Bank & Trust is a regulated bank that we worked with from 2020 until 2023 to provide your old USD account details. They’ve recently been affected by a data breach and some of your personal information may have been involved.

This personal information does not include copies of any of the identification documents you’ve shared with us — these have not been shared with Evolve Bank & Trust at any point.

Your Wise account is safe
We no longer work with Evolve Bank & Trust, and have already strengthened our security measures. We’ve also started a thorough investigation into this data breach and can confirm that it has not impacted our systems. This means:

• your Wise account credentials, including your password, are safe, and you can use your account as normal

• you can continue to use your USD account details — these are no longer connected to Evolve Bank & Trust

• you can continue to use any Wise cards you may have as they were not impacted by this issue – your card number and PIN are safe
Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia
I am the author of wasm-console. happy to answer any questions you may have.
I would love them to develop reusable (sustainable) fuel too.
What this really explains is why you should use Python. I use ThreadPoolExecutor + as_completed on every I/O-bound or async workflow reflexively and have literally never encountered a deadlock. (With this method, I mean. I have encountered, and caused, many deadlocks in less pristine environments.)
Attention is fuel to/the source of action :)
Is there any way to apply this outside the browser? Like, is there a version of this that can be used with Pulseaudio?
Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington launching AI health coach
Interesting story, but I'm left wondering what happened to the Toyota Corolla.
Because if they offered unlimited trial periods then lots of people would just use those rather than ever paying.

Just like with WinZip and WinRAR - do you remember how that used to count up the days when you opened it? It wasn't uncommon too see people who were thousands of days into their "30 day" trial.
While I'm not sure exactly what to make of Chevron ruling, I have to say from Ops side, I would be happy to see decrease in the number of cybersecurity regulations/certifications. I think it's causing more harm than good. Why? Because InfoSec is spending more time on making check marks instead of actually improving our security posture.

Also, almost every regulation allows business needs to override security by just writing up something. Last 3 companies I've been hacked despite being SOC2/ISO27000 certified because there was that out of date, internet facing system due to be replaced in 2020, we promise.
This is very high on my bucket list.

As a European what is the political situation to visit Baikonur? Is it just leased ground as a military base but Kazakhstan is sovereign? Or is it similar to an embassy ground and you are technically stepping into Russian Federation territory by visiting the launch site?
Except that Windows and macOS aren't $0 free, they just get included with hardware so people don't see the cost.
Henry owner here.. they're good and tough, but man, do they get heavy to carry up and down stairs when the bag gets full!
Recycling; if this bus lasts the 23 years the last one did, then the local bus recycler (to sheds) is most likely going to be retired.

- It's likely to last longer; brushless electric motors, single speed transmission, no torque converter / clutch, no oil changes, regenerative braking, no rpm range.

- The components of a modern EV are typically more valuable that the comparable gas engine; If the local recycler is saving parts, it's likely to rebuild other similar engines; meaning, the same argument would apply to any more efficient engine.

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Noise. The bus driver doesn't like honking, but if the parents/kids need to hear the sound of a diesel, a subwoofer that can make the dbs of diesel engine isn't very expensive to add, neither is an mp3 player and recording a diesel engine.

Cold; they're afraid of something with no data, for a use case that generally doesn't apply.
Wow, that's an amazing achievement.

At one point, UE had an option to build for HTML5, which was later deprecated and offloaded to a community fork [1] which was abandoned. So I thought it'd never happen. Well done!

[1] https://github.com/UnrealEngineHTML5
It is pure genius though, people are conditioned to ignore a tow truck taking a car away, assuming it’s somehow legit in all cases. It is ridiculously easy to steal a car with a tow truck.
Actually, Arianespace famously chided spacex for trying to do reusability. So A6 was not intended to be a predecessor at all. Almost no real new major tech.

China is doing a much more aggressive fast follow of SpaceX and ESA just recommitted to this Ariane 6 as the future backbone of EU space launch (they have a lot of vested interests on this rocket so chance of going hard on something else were pretty limited to begin with).

This rocket will probably need at least a billion in subsidies every 2-3 years in addition to forcing EU sats to go on it (for 2x the price of alternatives).