skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind when youtubers have their own in-video ads tbh. Yes, a lot of them are often advertising really stupid shit (because it prolly gives the most money), but at least on most videos it doesn't break the flow as heavy as the normal youtube ads and it ain't as annoying. So I'd give them these few seconds of brainwashing me to deliver content that I like. That's fine.

I just stopped viewing people that use too many ads. Simple as that
> Password managers are phishing resistant. The browser plugin will not offer to autocomplete passwords on an identical-looking punycode domain.

True … but the reaction to this by the vast majority of users is to go "stupid password manager autofill not working again", and copy and paste their password out of the pw manager and paste it straight into the phishing site…
It can't be anti and off topic at the same time.

I think trying to prevent disproportionate profit by big companies is plenty compatible with the ethos. The ethos of GPL is all about the end user, after all.

> would mean they are providing amazing resources

No it doesn't mean that.
Firefox, UBlock, Sponsorblock. Only way to tube
My own theory is that humans are wired to observe the world and interact with it through the senses and this action releases the anxiety. The modern life expects new levels of mental abstraction and stillness that apparently work against our internal computer prepared for simple interactions.
On Samsung phones it's Sound Assistant. On Xiaomi and Motorola it's built in.
In a public area you can not transport objects, the intention being that the Sabbath is a day of rest, and you should stay home or at least near your home and not do work.

Note: Jewish law very carefully defines "public area", and it would take several pages of text to fully explain it, so before objecting be aware you may be lacking background knowledge.
On the one hand, I agree that those people are usually wrong and generally pretty annoying.

On the other hand, who cares? This is a random internet forum, not the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, so maybe there is no such thing as a proper response?
HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input
He used retrohunt service which is part of virustotal https://virustotal.readme.io/docs/searching a service that allows developers to scan files for vulnerability. Apparently, virus total stores files and allows third parties to rescan these files later. Sounds like a vulnerability of this service and terrible practice. How can you expose your user files to any arbitrary access? Of course you should not put your secrets into file you upload to some virus scan, but how many users know that file they upload will be accessible publicly?
Why? You could just hire a non-ex-goverment employee to do that. At least they won't come with the ideological baggage that would prevent them from engaging in sabotaging their own government. Also you paint the picture of these officials as self-serving turncoats. It might be true of some but I find it hard to believe that it is an acceptable generalisation.
At the plc level? Yes, and they should and they are. They are also suspects to criminal liability laws.
Medical costs and insurance are already absurdly high

Police force is the largest expense for local governments, doubling or tripping the costs seems like an unwise and inefficient thing to do for a society
A world-first law in Europe is targeting AI. Other countries can learn from it
Ask HN: Open-Source TTS for Indian Lanaguage
Are there any good open source TTS available for indian languages that can be easily run locally or on huggingface. Tried looking around and found one promising on Indic-TTS (https://github.com/AI4Bharat/Indic-TTS) from AI4Bharat but having lot of dependency issues and not able to run locally. Any recommendation is appreciated. Also checked MeloTTS but it has only single voice support which also looks like some kid voice. Looking for some ready to available voices supporting Indian languages with Indian ascent.
At worst Disney & its lawyers get hit with a 57.105 motion under Florida Law, if the plaintiff’s counsel files the safe harbor notice first.

No one is being disbarred for filing a motion to dismiss, even if the motion is found to be frivolous - which it might not be, even if the motion is denied.
> Mr. Beauchamp, an 82-year-old retiree, saw a video late last year of Mr. Musk endorsing a radical investment opportunity that promised rapid returns. He contacted the company behind the pitch and opened an account for $248. Through a series of transactions over several weeks, Mr. Beauchamp drained his retirement account, ultimately investing more than $690,000.

I understand that the AI deepfakes are quite realistic, but this behavior doesn't make sense even if the video was actually authentic. Dumping your entire retirement savings into a random investment because a celebrity told you to in a YouTube video? What is wrong with people?
To me, even proposing the (extremely obviously) negative state in the first place is a sign of bad faith on the part of the proposer.

If they proposed kicking puppies twice a day, and after some discussion decided to not do that would we all be applauding their decision?
I have been using it since beta and it's always awesome.
The Melting Brain
Volumetric live action performance capture. Basically a video you can walk around in. Currently requires a large synchronized camera array. Plays back on most mobile devices. Several major industry efforts in this space ongoing.
If they had ultra-wideband transceivers on each vehicle, wouldn’t that let them determine direction and location down to maybe (i’m guessing) 10 cm?

If all cars could detect these kinds of beacons, i’d want a transmitter on my bicycle. Or, carry one (my iPhone?) as a pedestrian.

DSRC and cellular-V2V i think solve similar problems, but those two require the more inaccurate GPS, i think,.
> not something you can paste in a chat

this is a fundamental and un-addressable problem with passkeys as currently implemented
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent in UX Design
It does look like screen brightness involves pressing Win+b or Win+Shift+b.

Using the Fn keys should be possible. The command `xev -event keyboard' running in an xterm to see which key(s) to remap, and then Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 for -/+ brightness.

Possibly--I haven't tried it. Actually, a 17.3" 4K System76 with 96 GB RAM and 12 TB goes for almost $7k, but a general search for "system 76 openbsd" led me to the article.

It looks like X280 is my dream portable machine for the near future. Maybe extras for parts too. I've cannibalized a bunch of 11e laptops for a home lab and wanted something faster:

https://versus.com/en/intel-celeron-n4120-vs-intel-core-i5-8...

I searched for the submission's link on HN and didn't get any hits, but the article actually links to the same submission from a couple years ago:

OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33237968 - Oct 2022 (108 comments)
And what happens when I need to login to a device I don’t own, or don’t have/want my personal password manager on?

For example, I can’t (and won’t) load my personal password manager on my work computer, but there is 1 site I use my personal account for and had to login when I got a new work laptop a few months ago. Another example is I still bum TurboTax off my dad, since he gets the version where he can do a bunch of returns. To download my data from the bank I need to login on my dad’s computer, and I’m pretty sure even if it was mine the password manager isn’t going to work with TurboTax. Another example I had was needing to login to a site to download and print something on a computer in a business center at a hotel… not something I ever want to make a habit of, but I was in a bind. I could go on.

These things come up. I think the idea that a person will only ever need to login on their own computer is unrealistic. That might be the case 99.9% of the time, but not 100%. That 0.1% does need to be accounted for.
This was filed in may, was there a response already from the plaintiffs?
There can be more than one victim. In this case, the claimant suffered a loss of the person who died, which is impossible to quantify, but makes them a victim as well.
20k (10^4) photons/sec is a TINY amount.

An ordinary flashlight emits something like 10^18 photons per second. Even a star in the night sky sends around 10^8 to your eye.

That few photons is not going to have much bandwidth.
The phishing resistance isn't that straightforward in practice. It requires using browser extensions, which some people avoid for understandable reasons (poor security track record compared to everything else about password managers, and some of them just aren't very good). Many services use multiple domains (my bank has a .com, a .org, and several third-party vendor domains where you might be expected to enter your credentials), so many people who don't know how to update their password manager entries are probably in the habit of manually copying info into places where it doesn't autofill. And speaking of places where it doesn't autofill, the vast majority of mobile app developers seem to be unaware of things like autofill hints for login fields and apple-app-site-association.
The argument in the legal papers is that access to the park (and access to the restaurant website that claimed that the food that caused the lethal anafilaxis contained no allergens) was purchased through the Disney+ account. They also claim that the ticket purchase terms of use explicitly say that they are in addition to the Disney+ account terms of use.

I have no idea of this is true, but if it is, it might be more likely than it appears at first for this motion to succeed. At least there is some direct connection between the Disney+ account and the restaurant, it's not just that the husband happens to be Disney+ subscriber who wen to this restaurant.

This is quite horrible precedent though if physical injuries of this kind can be covered by a checkbox you clicked without reading on a website somewhere two years before.
Bitwarden is open source and has a free option. Granted, the app store app is a binary blob outside your control, but you have options.
Harris is the VP, not the President (yet). For the past 8 years, the US has had presidents in their 70s and 80s. There's a good chance Trump will win this year's election too, and he's almost 80 now.
Not the least because aging only goes one way!
Just wait till you learn that law isn’t really law. I once worked on an OSS project for 8 municipalities to handle employee work related driving. The Danish tax law on the area is short and the simplest law text I’ve ever read, and we implemented it as such. Only to find out that the 8 cities interpreted this short piece or law in more than 8 different ways. Yes, even within the same admin they didn’t agree on how it should be interpreted. Some of the lawyers even got in heated discussions because they felt the other were breaking the law.

Anyway it wasn’t till later in the process where one of the lawyers who didn’t seem to have a whole lot of fucks to give explained it to me at the coffee machine. Basically our tax agency decides which interpretation is correct, but you don’t actually have to be correct until they directly tell you that you’re wrong. Which often won’t ever happen as virtually every organisation in the country handles employee driving and there are only five members of the tax agency doing check ups.
'Zoom face' phenomenon has people eyeing plastic surgery
> The final step involves extracting and testing the molecule via biochemical assay, a process that is time-consuming, costly, and often requires specialized equipment.

I'm a student currently working with my college's robotics automation department to explore how to automate bioengineering research. I'm still new to the bioengineering sphere, so I'm curious what the primary challenges are for automating assays and what is involved in the process. If any HN biologist have insight on this, I would love to hear their thoughts!
What media format are the onion rings?
It's funny filtering by crypto and seeing the (sometimes hazy) division between cryptography (we love this) and cryptocurrency (we hate it) terms.
Inside The "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
> Fair enough, but the fact that GitLab was better 6 years ago doesn't do much to help the company right now.

I don't think you got the point.

The whole point is that a couple of years ago GitLab was unquestionably the market leader and hands down the best service.

And since then it didn't got worse.

Best case scenario, alternatives like GitHub managed to put together similar offerings. That does not mean GitHub suddenly was the best. Far from it. Again, others in this thread used the term "mediocre" to describe GitHub, and this happens years after GitHub started to try to catch up.

To me, GitLab's CICD is by far the absolute best CICD system around. It has been like this for maybe a decade now. The container-centric approach to build jobs, a domain model for pipelines that is extremely simple and yet misses no usecase at all, UX that's unparalleled to the point that, unlike other CICD systems, doesn't even require a tutorial to get the basics to work... Things are so far apart that it boggles the mind how anyone who has any experience in CICD would even mention GitHub on the same sentence.

GitLab was the absolute best 6 years ago and, in spite of Microsoft's takeover of GitHub and rushing to bridge the gap, it still is. That's the whole point.
Ask HN: Startup Pricing Models when competing with Giants
We are building a startup that solves an existing problem but with an innovating approach and some extra features / benefits that existing competitors do not have.
My question is about pricing.

If the competitors have say $18/month subscription charge, would it be better for me to give similar features at $ 9/month or $18/month or $ 25/month?

Also similarly for the Free plan, would it be better to twice as much free stuff or equal?

Any ideas, experience from existing founders along this line would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I’m pretty sure in the EU this would be dismissed because nobody can be expected to really read the ToS when subscribing to a streaming service.
Is this solution to every issue in the US? Like if something is shit then instead of fixing just run from the problem? I guess that’s why you are stuck choosing between republicans and democrats every 4 years lol.
are you suggesting that people with allergies should always cook every one of their meals?

That's quite unreasonable.
I disagree. Once it's thrown out as an invalid argument, we'll have documented case law indicating that this argument won't be valid and it will reshape the future actions. It's an important step in the process.
While Disney is indeed trying to get this dismissed as described, I think it is also worth noting that the restaurant in question is not actually owned by Disney. Disney is the landlord.

However the plaintiff is suing Disney on the grounds that the menu of the restaurant was published on Disney's website, and that within this menu was a claim that the restaurant is "allergen-free". But given that it does not seem like Disney produced this menu (only re-published it on behalf of the lessee), that seems like very tenuous grounds on which to sue Disney.

By filing this motion to dismiss, Disney is saying "if that connection is enough basis to sue us, then the pre-existing contract we have with the plaintiff should be enough to dismiss".

I agree with other commenters in this thread that we do not want to set the precedent that a dismissal on these grounds would create, but at the same time I think the plaintiff suing Disney in the first place is overly litigious.
And here you are doing the exact thing you later said would be arrogant to do, you mentioned your kids as a bare noun without providing the age bracket as an adjective.

I however, agree that as the context of your children isn't relevant to the topic, it makes sense not to provide that context, however it does perfectly demonstrate that you either can't comprehend my point, inconsistent, or you are just plain arrogant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240943
> What if I don't want to pay for Bitwarden, or buy a smartphone, or tie my log-ins to my computer?

Then you and the people you influence can continue to enjoy getting phished.

> What happens when the WebAuthn standard evolves and only the big-tech companies have solutions for storing passkeys because little software vendors or open-source vendors don't support the standard as well?

For a bunch of companies/gov entities syncable passkeys aren’t secure enough. So they still need to use hardware-bound passkeys on e.g. yubikeys.

Try to read up about a subject next time before you let your imagination go wild and scare equally ignorant people away from more secure alternatives.

Your conspiracy theories even seem to push you to be against using password managers in general. I guess googling around for an offline one like KeePass that’s heavily recommended all around the internet was too hard?
KeePassXC even supports passkeys.
As announced by their CEO in the previous decade...
Great point—except it’s palatable to big tech and large investors.
They didn't actually dismantle it though, and it seems unlikely that the bill that actually passed was an unmodified publication of the Heritage Foundation.

This seems more like the Motte and Bailey disease in an election cycle. Both parties pass a bill that they both like 75% of, but then they need something to campaign on. So one party says "we're going to repeal the dastardly bill" and cites the parts of it they don't like. The other party says "they say they're going to repeal the vital bill, we have to stop them" and cites the parts of it that everybody likes. Then if the complaining party gets in they keep the parts everybody likes and maybe change some of the other parts.

Never confuse what politicians say they're going to do with what they're actually going to do.
Sure, given an unlimited amount of time and resources, it’s possible that Gaussian splats could be performant. But that’s just too vague a discussion point to be meaningful.

It’s definitely not in the cards in the near term without a dramatic breakthrough. Splats have been a thing for decades so I’m not holding my breath.
Wenn ist das nun Stück gitt und Schlottermeyer.
They don’t need to even show up - they can just block your journalism from ever being seen, all from the comfort of their plush offices, and so it doesn’t matter if you keep your computer. That’s what makes the algorithmic/censorship powers of social media platforms (TikTok, X, Meta, YouTube, whatever) far scarier.
You might be surprised how broad their reach is. Checking 538 for the upcoming US election? Disney. Popular YouTubers like Epic Rap Battles of history. Disney again. ESPN. Also Disney.

They also have significant investments in most of the other big media companies. There's a high chance something you've watched recently led to compensation for Disney.
> Only two years after the introduction of the original PlayStation, the DVD Forum had introduced the DVD-RAM standard: 2.58 GB per side of a disc in a protective caddy. The killer feature? Essentially unlimited re-writeability.

Everybody always neglects to mention the predecessor format PD! The original DVD-RAM is “just” PD scaled up. 650MB× 4 = 2600MB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual
General Motors accused of selling data to insurers on 'bad' habits of drivers
Microsoft fixes 6 zero-days under active attack
Sure, though in the past when I've had problems with phones they've either manifested within the first few months, or it's been 4-5 years down the line when I'm fine with replacing it. I'm not being complacent: it's true I've not had a major OS upgrade yet, and this is of course anecdotal. My main point is that I'm really happy with my first 10 months with the phone, and would recommend it so far.
It might, it would be pretty reasonable if the company that sells a self-driving car is the one liable when it crashes into something.

Tesla will be shielded by their brilliant strategy of never releasing the feature.
> Computer programmers have ruined plenty of lives from the post office scandal to the gambling industry.

That's like saying the cleaning crew at the local police station have ruined plenty of lives due to police brutality.
Er, Google uses Passkeys and yes is an OAuth2/OIDC IdP for federated sign-in. I think you're missing the point though. I can still login to Google and Tailscale without ever typing a single password, trusting my url bar/eyes, sharing any secret material, etc.
True, SCOTUS hasn't been using ridiculous loopholes in a few decisions recently. What legal professionals are saying is that they have simply ignored the explicit text and spirit of several laws or the constitution in a few recent decisions, particularly their presidential immunity case.
I'm out of the loop, anyone knows if performance improved aince 2020?
Legally airtight. A genius stratagem basically.
I really hate sentences that say
“Everyone <statement>”

It’s not the case, you’re just generalising hard.

I’ve built and sold without marketing, in fact that was my first software sale. I did it with 0 actual marketing, I just made a single reddit post.

I’m about to get users for an innovative project, with 0 marketing (outside of a reddit post) and in a medium with almost no competition.

Never ever say everyone. If you think that’s the case, you’re missing a lot of opportunities, because you’re just thinking like the average.
Totally agree on Meshtastic being an superset of this product's features.

Although LoRA radios come in 2.4 Ghz variants which makes sense for a global product launch vs. needing to have multiple SKUs for each region, I'm leaning towards Totem Lab optimizing BOM cost and taking a simpler route with just an ESP32.

ESP-NOW mesh protocol [1] seems to be around the 1000m range statements that are mention in their mesh blog post [2].

> The Unity Mesh Network™ is layered on top of a peer-to-peer connectionless communication protocol. This peer-to-peer protocol allows any two Totem Compasses to track each other at a range of up to 1000 meters.

[1] https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/...
[2] https://www.totemlabs.com/post/unity-mesh-network
It's the other way

Discussions about software are (and in most cases) what works best here. But anything else the quality of discussion goes down a lot

The funny exception is that sometimes you see a very insightful and relevant comment about a niche subject in a tangential discussion
Google search is getting disrupted by ChatGPT. High school kids don’t even bother using Google to look things up. They just ask the LLM. To them, it’s a personal tutor that can explain any topic. They love it!

Google on the other hand is just more work for them: a chore they need to go through to get links and citations to make their teachers happy.

Google never built ChatGPT because they knew it would cannibalize search. So they let OpenAI build it instead. It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.
Define infinitely
I think they must mean the second sentence will happen in the next decade. Tesla releasing a self driving car… probably not so likely.
Personally it's more converting scans of old music sheets to proper ones I am looking for, I haven't seen anything working properly.
Conveniently sandwiched between War on Terror and CSAM.
PINTO - the last o is online.
They're almost surely stored in the TPM, as they should be.