skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competing with a big player on the market just with pricing is a lost cause in my opinion.

The few startups solving the same problems that actually win against big players (by winning understand biting a fair portion of the total pie to survive) are doing so by solving this problem fundamentally differently. Your innovative approach must be really innovative to stand a chance against the big guys. This has to be something completely different to stand a chance.

Offering lower price will not be sustainable for you in the long run I think. This will definitely hold you back on the growth side. Not to mention what the customer might think - lower price = lower quality. Besides a big player has a lot of resources! They can squeeze you out of the market easily with your lower price.

I am an unsuccessful former founder :) . But I made some similar mistakes. In my opinion, rocket-marketing and completely innovative product are the two musts for the successful groundwork of any startup.
“Inventing”!
I just want to put my vote in that I'm really glad they're making reasonable sized phones again. Pixel 6, 7 were oversized monstrosities. If pixel 10 is even smaller than the 8, that's fine by me
yes please add issues here as it's an open-source project I started and would love some contributions from the community to keep it going. I'm hungry for ideas and write about cool dev tools https://github.com/tyaga001/devtoolsacademy
I tried those too, and had the same issue. I’d find myself manually rotating them every few minutes, like focusing a pair of binoculars.

Wherever it was that they wanted to settle (assuming they were ever planning to settle) left everything out of focus.

Eventually I got tired of poking myself in the eye all the time and gave them back.
This was my first thought too.

I had no idea where to start. ChatGPT had a rather impressive looking “proof of work” that put all living humans into a 976m-diameter sphere, compared to the ~1384km-diameter sphere. Ie ~1km human sphere and 1,384km water sphere.
Couldn't this be explained by suggesting that the speed of light was faster in the past?
To be precise, you should precommit to not trading with entities who threaten punishment--e.g. taking an action that costs them, simply because it also costs you.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, given how we would misuse such an ability), strong precommitments are not available to humans. Our ability to self-modify is vague and bounded. In our organizations and other intelligent tools, we probably should make such precommitments.
> What if I don't want to pay for Bitwarden, or buy a smartphone, or tie my log-ins to my computer?

Even with passwords, you'd still need an application or a device for 2FA, unless you keep a pack of scratch cards with you everywhere. So unless you go out of the way to avoid 2FA or use scratch cards, I don't think this change anything from the status quo, only now you have one less thing to remember.
Discussion (161 points, 12 hours ago, 76 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237542
I would totally agree with you but I think this silent recession is starting to force a miniscule amount of change. Mcdonalds recently had a loss after quarter upon quarter of raking in the profits during the pandemic and treating their customers like crap. The automakers letting their dealers pull all that nonsense of "dealer adjusted" pricing has really come back to bite some automakers really hard. Now brands like Stellantis have their cars piling up and they will probably have to take massive losses to move the metal.
Disney Springs is a mall. Most malls re-publish menus and other relevant materials on behalf of their lessees on their website for the benefit and convenience of the consumer.

The idea that this act is somehow an endorsement of said materials is what is disingenuous. Nowhere does Disney claim that they have validated the menu as correct, and I personally don't think it is reasonable for someone to imply that they are doing so. If the restaurant is liable due to misrepresentations they made in their menu, they made those same misrepresentations to Disney as much as to the plaintiff.

Even if you do think they are less landlord and more "service provider", that doesn't matter much either, given Section 230 of the CDA. Service providers are indeed not liable for hate speech and "terrorism" created by 3rd parties.

On top of all that, finding Disney at fault on account of publishing a menu also requires that the restaurant is actually at fault in the first place, which has not been demonstrated.
There are also private and corporate leases. In the UK at least 20-30% of new car sales are leases (it's a tax efficient way to get a new car, particularly EVs), and these usually run for about 3 years, after which they're sold off at trade auction.
Your summary of the situation is not accurate. You can quibble about their choice of DMARC setting, but IMO it's the correct choice and best for customers. Your link says "Unable to determine STARTTLS status" -- which doesn't mean anything.

Fastmail has an excellent security track record.
(Disclosure -- I'm the founder, but I haven't worked there or had a financial relationship with Fastmail for many years.)
I'm not sure always presenting the password field avoids that.

If you type in bob@sso.com for your SSO account, the password field will clearly be a throwaway, and you'll be redirected to your IDP.

Being presented with a "wrong password" error would mean the account is local.
I like passkeys. I'm not able to be all in on them yet but I feel like they simplify my life. I have hardware keys and register all of them with sites that support them. Bitwarden for everything else.

I don't feel like that makes me dependant on any of the big tech cos, but I do recognize everyone won't be able to pull off such a setup.
Yep, diesal-electric.

DETAILS: The used Caltrain EMD F40PH-2 Locomotives will be available for sale around October 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F40PH

https://caltrain.fandom.com/wiki/Caltrain_900-919

> Might qualify for some EV bonus offset...

<chuckle> Sadly, unlikely, aside from the obvious burning of diesal to generate electricity ain't saving the planet there's this:

Locomotive engine must be disabled per a state grant funding agreement.

So there goes your Mad Max dream of having a shanty town using a train burning guzzulene to power the christmas lights.

They're suggesting to use it for a Big Train themed AirBnB or "something else".
I'm quite sure that if any non-vanishingly-small percentage of people had issues with their contacts like that, they would not be ubiquitous like they are.

edit: also wtf why do you know "many" people who've been to the ER with eye damage? I've only ever known that to happen to one person and it was due to a stick going into their eye..
it would be a larger security issue if they didn’t redirect to the SSO provider and instead threw up a page asking for a password.

In many cases SSO means once you’re logged in then you don’t enter a password again for the session anyway- that only works with a redirect.

and your login might not even be a password anyway, or require more information than just a password (like MFA)- our solution for example takes into consideration what you’re logging in to, what device you have and where you are to determine the secrecy level of the thing you’re authenticating into.

Can’t do that without control.
What happens is that you can’t do it. Maybe that’s a feature? Passkeys prevent you from logging in using a dodgy hotel computer. It’s protecting you from yourself. I’m not sure that’s appropriate for every account, but there are probably some accounts where it makes sense.

But I expect that businesses will probably like it better than consumers. They probably don’t want their employees logging in using dodgy hotel computers.
The "problem" with software is that the margins are "too high", so companies _usually_ don't care. The general attitude I've encountered is that the engineering salary dominates the cost, so it's usually not worth spending time optimizing runtime costs.

This is eventually taken to the extreme and you occasionally see posts here titled something like "how we saved millions by doing X", where the thing they were originally doing was extremely wasteful.

For the last decade, we've also been in a "free money" mode. Where companies were happy to spend money as long as it led to growth. Optimizing for cost wasn't a priority.

That has leaked into electrical engineering as well. There were a few products that shipped full Raspberry pis in an enclosure in the name of velocity. The savings possible there were probably in the dollars, not cents, not to mention the supply chain issues. And yet companies did it in the name of velocity.
thanks! so the rest of the thread here is sort of beside the point
Fastmail user here: you get a reminder a week or so ahead of time, and even if the payment doesn't go through, they don't shut down your account instantly. You get a few reminders. I even emailed support to ask for some time to settle my credit card and were okay with extending it.
What are you talking about? These things are all available in Europe, without having to build up some credit score. If I want to get a loan for my business, I go to my bank and get one. If I want to buy property, I get a mortgage. If I want to buy a consumer good without having money on hand, I can use a credit card or use a BNPL provider. Credit here is granted based on not currently having debts, rather than being perpetually in "the right amount of debt".
This News day article is disingenuous. If you look at the filing (someone else in the thread has posted the documents), Disney is saying that the husband bought the tickets to Disneyland (where the restaurant is, and without which they couldn't have accessed it) using his Disney+ account, and that the ticket purchase includes terms that he explicitly agreed to which re-iterate that the Disney+ terms of use apply as well. So there is some plausible argument that the terms apply to services they received at Disneyland, it's not "yes, but he has also subscribed to our streaming service".

I still hope that this doesn't pass muster - your right to seek a lawsuit for grievous injury or death shouldn't be covered by some checkbox you clicked on a site.
I think parent meant that you cannot hack the law because judge will see it and tell you to go away.

But I do agree judges are hackable too. It is more hassle to do it right and I hope stupid attempts from Disney will be met with some kind of repercussions.
Yeah, I used to consider that a PITA for the same reason. Now, 1password at least can autofill those most of the time. Sure, it takes a bit longer, but it's only annoying at this point since I don't have to click several times anymore.
> If a country that we are likely to be at war with has significant influencer over our population, that is indeed a big deal.

So, how will the war begin? Who will begin it? How long has the US or its allies been planning to start this war?
My argument was never that tech-savvy individuals won't find a way not to be dependent on big tech. There will always be a few people from the previous era who find a way to be more independent. My argument was only about the majority, about the future of society, and how eventually people won't have much of a choice, because there will be future steps by big tech to integrate more and more people.
Thus whole thing reeks of boomer Chinese and U.S. spies believing in magical social media mind control powers and fighting a war over something that doesn't exist in any such meaningful form.

It's idiocy borne from octogenarian hysteria.
fun fact - this blog is also powered by neon

Here’s a quick rundown of the tech stack:

Framework: nextjs
Styling: tailwindcss
Database: prisma paired with neondatabase
MDX Support: I love writing with Markdown
Auth: ClerkDev—an absolute game-changer.
Animations & Icons: Framer Motion and Heroicons.
UI Components: Radix UI

github - https://github.com/tyaga001/devtoolsacademy
The bug in the legal system is that by filing this motion/claim, Disney can only win.

In the unlikely best case, they get the case dismissed, but even in the most likely case that the motion is denied, they win by wearing down their opponent who has much more limited resources and is personally affected by the case dragging out, i.e. more likely to accept a (lower) settlement than without this tactic. The only downside is a tiny bit of legal costs.

Courts should be able to issue sanctions/extra damages for the use of such tactics. If using such a tactic turned the claim from "you killed this person negligently" to "you killed this person negligently, then willfully tried sleazy tricks to create additional suffering for the husband", and had the potential to double the award, companies would be much less eager to play this game.
Thanks for this comment. I’ve had this book sitting on my To Be Read stack for about 10 months but kept bumping it down because I don’t use Rust, but the title and ToC was compelling enough for me to buy it and hope for non-Rust specific content. Even if your 80% estimate is 20% to large a guess, I’m definitely going to pull it up to the top of the stack and read it instead of passing it over.
Nobody would really use a compiled language for this, the compile-run-edit-cycle just takes too long. Prior to Python people really just used MATLAB and Mathematica for that sort of work in the physics/engineering side, and R and Stata/SPSS on the bio + maths side. MATLAB, Mathematica, Stata and SPSS are all commercial and R has exactly the same problems to Python in environment management and compiled binaries, if you use it today you end up doing a lot of manual compilation of dependencies and putting them in the PATH on Linux at least.

Python became popular because the key scientific ecosystem libraries copied the libraries from MATLAB closely which made it easy to pick up, and because it was free. Anaconda made a distribution that was easy to install with all the dependencies compiled for you, which worked on Linux/Mac/Windows which made it much easier to use than R. The other interactive languages around at the time were Ruby which was heavily web dev focused, and Perl. Node didn’t yet exist.

Once you have an ecosystem in a language it’s very hard to supplant. You need big resources to go against the grain. That no big company has decided to pour lots of money into alternatives even despite the problems probably tells us that it’s not viewed as being worth it.
An alternative to the sibling comments:

In this context, the notation 0.999... does not represent a process. It represents a fixed number.

Which number? Well, if you reason through it you'll find that it has to be the same number as that represented by the notation 1.

An insight that is crucial (and pretty obvious in hindsight, though many people seem not to be exposed to it) is to distinguish between a number and its representations. "1" is not a number, it is merely the representation of a number. And numbers have many different representations. As a member of this forum, you can probably appreciate that "12" and "0xC" are two different representations of the same number. In the same way, 0.999... and 1 are different representations of the same number.
I'd like to see a best-practices range-compatible depth-first preorder push iterator for a tree. Any tree implementation would do for purposes of exposition; for example package ast, where node order is important, unlike package filepath. FWIW there is current discussion in issue 64341 (and also 61405).
So far, non-tech-savvyy I know in real life who have interacted with passkeys have been more confused than helped by how they were implemented. Most likely as a result of blindly clicking yes/ok/accept/etc when asked to migrate to passkeys (e.g. on Google).
The article is just misunderstanding a bit. It's not about Disney+ Streaming, the tickets to the park were bought through the Disney+ account, that's where the relation is (according to Disney, at least).
While I don't necessarily think at lot of alternative ideas proposed are correct, I always love seeing alternative concepts being considered. Very cool to see ideas that could solve standing issues even if they themselves could have issues.
Try that with computer technology. You are now not just scary, but really really scary.

"That is like saying computers run because they want to, and only make us perfect the CPU, and secret processes inside it, to fool us into thinking we have a say in whether a computer will run."

I am going to quietly turn off my computer.

I am just thinking about Steven Wolfram's causal networks.
You can't just say "I don't believe PFAS is a pollutant", you have to convince a judge of that, and the EPA gets to make the opposite case. Then the judge hears everyone's arguments and makes a decision, because that's what judges do.
why not? both offer database as a service and under the hood using Postgres.
My only question is why was this going unlicensed with the FCC? I don't think that's the impression most users had of this.
> They only mildly upvote technology that helps their extremely privileged life.

Your bias is heavily US centric. HN is not SF or SV. Plenty of users in Serbia, Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, Vietnam, in war thorn Ukraine.

Arguably the average user is above average for their area's COL but to claim everyone is swimming in VC money is as dilusion as the people you want to portrait in your comment.
>And Tesla's record of innovation has not been particularly stellar in recent years.

What makes you say that? The teardown of the CyberTruck is showing an unbelievable amount of innovation and risk taking. The final product might suck but thats not the employees fault, its the guy at the top. That organization continues to perform excellent R&D.
I've owned the same machine for five years. I haven't inspected the bit where the water comes out. Maybe I should. Though neither of my two kids seem to have been harmed!
The archive.org link does not yield a hit for me
The judge can and likely will strike this down, but the damage has been done by that point (delay the procedure and wear the very human opponent down) and I doubt there will be meaningful consequences or compensation for trying.
>in hindsight I think the coworkers I had there were smarter than anywhere else I've worked since (including Google)

Why do you think that is?
Well, 2FA was the first step in making devices more entrenched. Passkeys are just the next step. So, it's not exactly passkeys in isolation that is the problem, but the lock-in to technology (and big tech for most people), and passkeys being another discrete but significant step in the process.
The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled the Valley
Bdouble0100's are as entertaining as the rest of the video. Still screws with the flow, but worth skipping then going back to watch after
Historically, the a-versions came a year after initial release.
Well, IME this tends to happen on "let's be super secure and disable or otherwise break the login fields" sites, so I'm not sure these people will bother implementing actually useful security measures.
Wow, the dedication is incredible! I also love how much about emulation and jit and testing I learned and I’m not even halfway.
Sit Fredrick Hoyles wimper theory and Joe Halddmens sawtooth theory.
That goes for every business. Their purpose is to increase shareholder value, not employee wages. The last part only happens due to market dynamics forcing them to, but they'd gladly pay engineers minimum wage if they could.
GitHub offers a this OR that option which seems to work. Granted their userbase might be a bit more technical on average.

Why not remember how a user logs in with localstorage?
If a bunch of lawyers wanted to complain about the general usability of software and how it impacts their lives, or complained about the fact that the engineers seem to be maliciously breaking previous conventions, that’d make sense. Sure, they don’t know much about file systems, but they would rightly be annoyed if we suddenly decided to break precedent and take the floppy-disk icon to mean “I’ve backed up the file to a floppy disk so it is ok to delete the local copy and close the program.”
Can confirm. For really good fractional scaling and other modern display tech to really shine on GNU/Linux you need to use KDE Plasma desktop. Others are still catching up.
The point is that food you're preparing yourself is only marginally safer than food at a restaurant. You still have no way of knowing if the ingredients you're using haven't been accidentally contaminated with the allergen.
> This is the 2nd HN legal discussion I'm facepalming at in 24 hours. I can't help wondering if the flippant way HN generally discusses law would hold if there was a legal site that tried opining on software engineering. It seems to me an irrational approach that doesn't hold for other subjects[1], and is just unconsidered.

Hey there. I very much am not fond of citing the site guidelines normally; I understand people get worked up about stuff they feel is completely off-base. But given that I was one of the participants in the previous discussion that apparently made you similarly facepalm yesterday, and that I was similarly left clueless as to what flaws you saw in the actual merits of the arguments you were expressing your disdain at, I would suggest taking at least this one guideline to heart:

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

If you feel people are misinformed on some topic, please try to enlighten them with thoughtful explanations, instead of just expressing scorn and facepalming. It's not that people can't handle the scorn; it's just that it's unhelpful and unconstructive -- it certainly won't help anyone who is Wrong On The Internet become more correct.
Samsung Lawyer Fails to Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab in Court (2014)
Some attacks did not rely on mod_rewrite. For instance, the splitting of response headers.

The Apache vulnerabilities list provides a short summary of each: https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
The fixes are in versions 2.4.59 and 2.4.60. Then a fix of the fix of CVE-2024-39884 in 2.4.61. Then a better fix of CVE-2024-39884 in 2.4.62.
Basically when you don't want to spend time to pre-process e.g. through traditional photogrammetry. So near-real-time events, or where there's huge amounts of pointcloud capture and comparatively little visualisation

Edit: others are mentioning real estate I'd think that will prefer some pre processing but ymmv