skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can sign up to each service with a unique email address, e.g. <microsoft>@<your-domain.com>, which makes it easy to see if any services ever sold your address

You don't need your own domain for that. Gmail (and probably the other big ones) support it as well, just add a plus sign and whatever after your username: username+microsoft@gmail.com will end up in the inbox of username@gmail.com.
Being called a luddite for choosing not to use the antiquated system is a new one.
It seems to make more sense than not having them to me -- nix is all about reproducibility. If you didn't change anything, why would you get a different result? Instead of spending 15 seconds on evaluations, just tell me "you didn't change anything doofus -- cached error."
Every time I read a story like this, about MS or Google or Twitter or which-ever big corporate it is, I'm so glad that I exited these platforms and years ago.

I left LinkedIn before MS bought it, because it was clear it was being copied by all and sundry.

I left GitHub once MS bought it (and I thank God for that, ever time I see another story about MS being awful).

I never used Google - they were obviously evil and from quite early on.

I may be completely wrong, but I think large companies are completely amoral. Not in a malicious way, but in a can't-be-anything-else kind of way; that is is an emergent property.

All large organization have absolutely no moral sense, which is to say, doing things because they are ethical, regardless of costs or benefits, or possessing a capability to assess or modify their own actions on moral criteria.

Complaining MS do these things is like complaining a cat jumps on a mouse.

I'm not a fan of brutal mouse death, so I don't own a cat.

What's critical of course is knowing this, and before deciding to buy into what these companies offer, rather than discovering it after buying into what these companies offer.

And these companies will only tell you how wonderful their services are, and nothing about what they're up - nothing about how much and what data they collect, and what they do with it (give it to the State, sell it to all and sundry, with real-time updates included), or what's done with it (mandatory State mass interception).
The reflector posts are always exactly 50 meters apart, which makes this relatively easy.
What would you use for storing and querying long-term audit logs (e.g. 6 months retention), which should be searchable with subsecond latency and would serve 10k
writes per second?

AFAICT this system feels like a decent choice. Alternatives?
This could be solved with something like CFPB, but with the Chevron Deference repealed, courts are pretty much the only remedy now for anything until congress decides to write much more specific and in-depth laws.
Not quite what you meant, but close enough for a mention: The Playdate.

It's a platform specifically made for games (as opposed to a Raspberry Pi for example), has a library of great games and is ostensibly easy to develop for.
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I think the idea is that in the financial world of 2100, when on currency, 10⁶ should be read as short-hand for 10E6, not 1E6.

Thus, 99⁶ should be interpreted as 99E6, hence 99 million, as the author says.

We know already that SI isn't universally followed. As a rough comparison, if a food item contains 160 calories, we know that's 160 kilocalories - and calorie isn't an SI unit. Or, 1GB of RAM is often 1024^3 bytes, with relatively fewer people using GiB.
I don't know about power and food since I have friends in the North who still don't have access.
Wow.

This place just keeps going down hill. I feel like that meme of the little girl watching a house burn down.
> smaller players would be exempt

Yesterday we had the discussion on FCC rules, and CE marking, from which small players are not exempt. There's no reason to assume there would be de minimis exemptions, there aren't for the GDPR.
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The entire purpose of karma here and on forums like Reddit is to keep you "engaged" by pushing the most popular content to the top of the thread. And many people make HN a part of their marketing and SEO strategy, so the incentive for a lot of what gets posted here is just to get eyeballs and clicks, or increase clout for the authors and visibility to YC. And of course YC uses this forum to advertise their own startups, so they have an incentive to maximize engagement.
Nice atronym.
Not opposing or anything but how do you even measure that? Really asking to see if anyone knows / has an idea.
>The real solution here is to use Signal (or something like it).

The article discusses that they are unable to contact their family over the internet because Israel is shutting off internet. So they were using Skypes Skype to Phone service to call their family's mobile phones over normal cell service in Gaza.
Yeah sorry, it is still quite slow due to the traffic. It'd be much faster and robust to run locally via git cloning the repo and adding your own API key as shown in the README

For using other models it should be pretty straightforward to just modify the api functions to suit whatever model is being used -- would be fun to try out custom models! (Feel free to pull request the repo btw if you do modify such things)

An idea we had initially was actually to use an open-source model and fine-tune it using the DB of responses (including the hidden violation bot and refinement bot outputs) collected from people playing the game. That way the game could get better and better over time as more user data gets collected.

Disclaimer we actually did implement this via postgres and now have thousands of responses from players in case anyone wants to follow through on this idea.
Another lesson here is to bookmark/ memorize the url of your bank, and don’t trust search engines to take you to your bank
It is incredibly frustrating to realize that a lot of companies are within their right to deny you service as soon as you even _appear_ to pose a risk to them.

Geico recently denied my renewal of insurance because they said their underwriters received notification that I use my vehicle for business. (I don't.) I have spent hours trying to explain to them that this is a mistake, but they have zero interest in providing me with insurance. I've heard this is common for people in CA.

I'm not sure what legal recourse the people in this story have. Hopefully they have a legal right to at least download an archive of their data so they can recover old emails, attachments, photos, etc.
It's probably no longer maintained, but a former colleague of mine did some work on this for C++: https://github.com/ainfosec/shoulder. Obviously if the docs are lying it doesn't help much, but there was another effort he had https://github.com/ainfosec/scapula that tried to automate detecting behavior differences between the docs and the hardware implementation.
The difference is that China has the complete chain, from the raw materials, processing of said materials, manufacturing, integration, maintenance. They have the IP and know-how. India may have the land and the sun, but it lacks the hard parts.
Imagine something like a credit score but for technological adeptness. A high score and you can reliably get an on prem human and even sometimes an engineer. A low score and you just get endless bots. Average and you get the current system.
AFAIR it was the localized name of the file type. File extensions would never go through i18n/l10n.
Curious, what sort of phone do you use?
I'm not familiar with what army the EU has to enforce that recourse. Ultimately, rights depend on the threat or actual application of force.
The decision might just as well have been taken place on the moon, laws such as DSA, DMA, and GDPR tend to protect the resident and rarely cares where a decision affecting that resident was taken.

Example where GDPR tries to resolve the problem, but unfortunately not strongly enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation#European_...
>> Another nice thing about having a catch-all on own domain is that you can sign up to each service with a unique email address

This is true when services support sign-up with a password and you are an advanced user. I'm not sure that this is easy for many vulnerable people that need this. The advice you may need to add is that you should use these unique email addresses to create burner accounts on login providers (Microsoft accounts, Google accounts, etc.) because that's how you have to access some services.
you are a monster.
blaming trump for all the nation’s ails while a demented conman and possible rapist is actually president seems odd
"right"
Yes, I do believe that in the general debate, too little focus is given on the fact that also adults are affected negatively by social media
Depends. Would I learn anything interesting? Would anything I do have an impact at Meta or the greater world at large? Do I already have a job?

Honestly, what gets me up in the morning is knowing that my work is meaningful to the modern world and that the quality of people's lives would be negatively impacted if I didn't do what I do. Meaningful work, no matter how small the impact, does a lot for your mental health.

Just making money? It's not fulfilling and won't sustain your soul. But if you don't have a job at all, sure, I'd take it - let's be realistic, you need money to survive.
I would have thought #8 was exactly that, right?
> if I had the option to use PostgreSQL for something I'd never ever get close to choosing SQLite over it.

I'm using both Postgres and SQLite for active projects. Postgres is great for a multi-user blog I run where the DB is hosted, backed up, etc. The same site would run fine and slightly faster with local SQLite (which it used to) but having Postgres lets me use Render.com's built in management features, which are nice.

SQLite works great for anything app-like. I have a script that OCRs certain video game screenshots and saves the OCR data in a searchable database, for example. Postgres would be complete overkill for this and would add nothing but hassle. I don't want to bother with keeping a separate database going for that in my Postgres server. I just want a folder of files, and SQLite works perfectly for that. I could use Postgres but it would offer zero useful benefits and might be a bit slower (even with a local server) due to my sloppy code.

They are just different tools for different tasks, with some overlap.
I worked for a small ISP in the mid 90's and we did the same. The only reason this worked is because back then, barely anyone was online. And many of the people who were online were technically sophisticated early adopters that needed less support. Today's world is very different.
Jetbrains also gives a 2nd year and 3rd year subscription discount if I recall correctly.
Microsoft have to choose whether to operate in the EU. There's been a long struggle between conflicting rules of US unaccountable intelligence access vs. EU privacy law ("safe harbour") that is relevant here. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/06/a-messa...
Lazarus [1] is an open source Pascal based IDE that's cross platform. I even ran it on a Raspberry Pi Zero-W!

The only downside is the documentation, which really needs an upgrade.

[1] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Tell HN: Job boards, please add sort by Remote USC
With job competition being so fierce, if you are in charge of job boards, please add a sort by US Citizen or no sponsorship option. It is almost impossible to compete with the global talent pool arbitrage and there's already enough competition with 340 million citizens.
This is almost correct.

>A society with prosperity but lacking athletic, artistic and intellectual pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

I would change this to

>A society with prosperity but lacking family and reproductive pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.
You can significantly lower risk of dying from melanoma by taking H1 antihistamines, especially desloratadine and to some extent diphenhydramine.
Of course, nobody forces author to do anything, but insecure installation method will continue to generate loud warning about insecurity.
big blind spot you got there
ICANN has rules that limit how much power a registrar has when they choose to stop doing business with someone. As a rule, registrars can't just cancel your domains.
Don't Application-Defined SQL functions fulfill the role of stored procedures?

https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
This was way, way back in the early 360 days. I don't know what you have to do now.
My Visa card definitely doesn't work for any online bank authentication in Finland. It's strictly for payments. For authentication, it's user ID + PIN with a paper two-factor, or user ID + phone authenticator. Some banks also have physical two-factor hardware.
You would use anything that passes through Israel's blockade
> People draw conclusions where none can be drawn. And people establish presumptions and definitions to fit their preferred conclusions.

In furtherance of my point. We struggle enough with interpersonal communication. Communication with intelligent animals, of which the examples are many and diverse, has to this point been unmanageable.
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> So really the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you're performing and won't accept, for example, a login token when adding a new payee.

My understanding of EU regulation is that it effectively requires this by requiring the 2FA to validate not just the identity but also the transaction (such as an amount, or destination account).

Unfortunately it means that all banks use SMS. We did have card reader 2FA that also did this but it's falling out of use because users don't like having to carry a card reader around.
Don't miss the button in the lower right to switch between desktop and mobile view, I almost did.

"If you have our desktop version enabled on your computer, then the application shown above plots the position of the Earth and planets using data from this NASA's JPL website and is accurate between 3000 BCE and 3000 CE. If you have our mobile version enabled then we'll be showing you a simpler view of the solar system showing you the current planetary positions with the option of moving up to 30 days forwards or backwards."
Also that Google, as a search engine that is also the world's biggest advertising company really should be able to manage not to sell ads to phishing scammers!
Code that has been copied widely != code that has been widely stolen.

Open source licenses allow sharing under certain conditions.
It's worse than that - they're gradually becoming a new form of governance - and one that you can't vote out.

The term "Facebook Jail" might be coined jokingly (and the consequences of being there are pretty trivial) but the mere existence of the term is a tacit acceptance of the idea of judicial oversight by a private corporation.

Yes, you can choose not to engage with meta or its products, or (less easily) Microsoft or Google - but we're close to the point where refusing to use the products of (and thus be defacto-governed by) one of the tech giants will have implications beyond self-imposed inconvenience.

Already you'll be excluded from a significant proportion of social plans if you don't have either WhatsApp or Messenger.
No idea. I just wanted the customer service rep to reverse the credit card charge (yeah I only found out from monthly review of credit card bill, pretty sure I never even got an email saying my subscription was reenabled) and cancel the subscription, and didn’t prod when that goal was achieved. After the second time I ditched the Roku altogether. IIRC I also did a sign-out-everywhere.
Thanks! Yes the traffic is making the game slow... To anyone impatient you can just git clone the game, add your ANTHROPIC API key to a .env file, and play it locally. It runs super fast if played locally.

Creating a service would be amazing but seems like too much work. And people can already create their own murder mystery with this codebase by just modifying the characters.json file.

Making this game gave me some fun ideas though for creating a world simulation engine--any developers who might be interested in collaborating on something like that please get in touch :)
In general, all AI's have similar issues. Just because data can be looked at publicly, doesn't give you any implicit rights to use it for other products. If there is no specific license agreement, one sided in a specific open license or specifically between the content owner and the AI developer, the owners of whatever type of information used will have the cause to sue them for license fees. I forsee a lot of court cases, certainly once people figure out how to better determine if an AI might have used a certain thing as training data without internal insight. Or governments will go as far as forcing AI companies to provide that way.
> I've never seen a reporting period closed without accountants making journal entries for manual adjustments. These can often be material changes.

The fiscal view is just one of the layers your accounting system takes into considerations.

You typically perform fiscal reconciliation when the fiscal year ends, your bookings are often reconciliated end of day, your settlements usually between 1 or 2 days (depending on the currency), your FX hedge often quarterly to enter IMM interest rate swaps, your front office is often optimistic realtime accounting (i.e. you consider what has been promised just now to already be out of the stock), etc.

> This is correct, but for internal reporting you might need to.

Right but this is more some form of Bi on top of the accounting system than part of it. For the accounting system itself, you will often want to know precisely the cash per currency so that you can actually hedge it. e.g. if you're ultimately getting paid in dollar and have exposure to some salaries you pay in euro.
> when you start with the core concept that the _only_ purpose of a company is to earn capital.

...Yes? That's literally what a corporation is for. That some might have good customer service is simply a marketing method to get people to continue using that company to, in the end, earn capital. If you want to run a service whose primary motive is not earning capital, create a non profit.
Yeah, it's due to something in my config.
Yes! It's insane how hard it can be to match an automated withdrawal to the service you're subscribed to. This is a bit better within PayPal, but the number of times I had to research what subscription belongs to the parent company/payment provider that just charged my credit card is incredible.
Yeah, doing some preferred cloud Data Warehouse with an indexing layer seems fine for this sort of thing. That has an advantage over something specialized like this of still being able to easily do stream processing / Spark / etc, plus probably saves some money.

Maybe Quickwit is that indexing layer in this case? I haven't dug too much into the general state of cloud dw indexing.
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aside from this liveportraitdotorg site being a complete joke in so many ways, their playground page[0] is simply iframe-ing the official LivePortrait gradio demo page[1]!

i hope this is the author's[2] site but it smells like a hastily put-together shoddy moneygrab.

[0] https://liveportrait.org/playground

[1] https://kwaivgi-liveportrait.hf.space/

[2] https://twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan
To be mildly belligerent, wouldn't you mean Chinese efforts? In terns of actual change, I'd argue China is outpacing the west right now.

They produce more renewable energy as a percentage of their energy economy than the US, they produce about 3x more in aggregate, and they're building capacity faster than the rest of the world combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...
Pretty sure that neither my Visa Credit/Debit or my passport works for any kind of digital authentication. I think you can specifically get an ID that works as a smart card, but since you don't need just the specific ID card, but also a reader + faffing about, adaptation is super low.
Did prices increase dramatically? I had ATT Gigabit when I lived in Texas about 7 years ago and it was somewhere around $100.
It's funny how predictable all these comments are. It doesn't seem to matter how many studies say the same thing.

"It's probably not the smartphone; they're probably not considering [age, parental competence, socioeconomic variables, literally-anything-that-lets-me-pretend-my-beloved-smartphone-doesnt-hurt-my-mental-health]"

Y'all can't help but upvote the skeptical comments.

I wish I'd been saving all the articles I've read about this over the last several years. These studies are not rare and they don't disagree. Seriously. Go look right now and find a single study that says folks' mental health is improved by smartphones.

Here's a post on HN I saved a while back, check out its top comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31268222

top two comments:

> Social media definitely amplifies it, but consider the economic and social environment[...]

> Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source of the problem[...]

The first one I read was one back in 2017 by Jean Twenge that documented a cliff-face-leap of depression, loneliness, and anxiety and correlated it to the release of the first smartphone.

Ask yourselves - why are you all so desperate to deny this research?
I kind of feel the same about collaboration features, I never use them in any editor, just git and video calls/screen sharing. Ironically though the collaboration features are their monetization plan with the base editor as FOSS, so hopefully for them we’re in the minority on that opinion…
Why is the advice "Try to maintain a healthy weight?" Just maintain it. Sure, some people are genetically predisposed to obesity, but we should stop coddling the rest. Obesity puts you at 300% risk for cancer and several other lethal diseases. A great place to start is by not spending money on drinks that contain sugar and carbs - drink water. The recipe for healthy weight is 85% diet (less carbs) and 15% exercise (elevated heart rate).

Check out the books: Cancer Code, Obesity Code, Diabetes Code
We have it: FIDO U2F.
you could even treat it like the new password less manager, with a computer/phone specific store.

My gut? It actually works, and people didn't like that. Users and orgs like authentication slightly broken so they can work around systems.