skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why hasn't anyone done email search better than Google?
I'm a lay person in this world, but with all the AI search tech going on, it feels like there should be an email provider that has better search than Google. But as far as I can tell (from trying a bunch of them) nothing can.

Am I completely missing something? Is there something out there?
That's the same kind of protection Apple is praised for.

Not perfect but better than open EU citizens to global data mining.
There are now states in the US which voted laws to regulate social media censorship. The US supreme court has declined ruling on them or taking them down based on companies' first amendment rights.

So it seems there are states where a europeans social medium should abide by rules that would most likely contradict european laws, right?
> Academia is its own kind of hell

Reminds me of Sayre's Law:

"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Exactly-Once Payments at Airbnb
He makes amazing videos by placing the cameras in all wierd angels and adds so much stuff to explain a concept, that makes you think it's simple, yet you finish his videos admiring him even more...
YouTube has started cancelling premium subscription made in a different country.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-cracking-down-on-cheap-pr...
I am short-sighted for 40 years and think from time to time to switch to contact lenses (mostly for the comfort in winter).

I am however getting older and have near-vison decreasing (you know, thise people who hand stuff at arm length to read). I find myself getting off my glasses often to see from a close distance (I hate the hybrid glasses).

I guess that contact lenses are not possible for me in that context.
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My take on NordVPN is that it's surely some kind of honeypot, to catch extremely illegal uses (pedos, drugs), or high value targets (journalists, politics ?). Not sure who's running it.

But if you're using it for mildly illegal things like having the Netflix catalogue from another place it's probably good enough.

Just don't install their app, configure it yourself, don't use it full time, and don't expect protection from anything other than low level law enforcement from your country. Expect your connection to be monitored when you're using it, as much as can be (so not breaking encryption, but all the rest for sure).

I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever other than the fact that it's been a high visibility service for very long, which makes me think it would have already been taken down a while ago if it was actually effective at protecting high value targets
Using the American way to count medals!
Alarm, backlight, stopwatch, 8-10 years battery life. 20-30USD price tag. What is not to love?
The same goes for French and Romanian, I call it Starwars name problem. You have to make some sort of strange variation like the name in Starwars so that the device recognises it.
well, they make tons of different videos. to be clear, i'm a subscriber to their online streaming platform and like their casual videos a lot, so probably a bit biased.

they do make some videos which are very edgy, i guess. the bowling animation videos come to mind, where they try to be as edgy as possible. imagine a bowling ball with plane wings slamming into two towers, as an example.

but i never got the impression that they're actually disrespectful or problematic.
I've never been to a university that didn't run tutorials or practicals alongside lectures. Given a flipped classroom doesn't have lectures it can only be cheaper than the standard method, since the tutorials exist in either model.

> I believe the fallout from lectures and university in general are just a part of the design.

Just no. There are so many factors that go into students dropping out, many of which are outside their control (e.g. needing to support parents). There is a lot of research on this.
I'm curious – if open standards such as 2FA (TOTP) and Passkeys are considered locked-in, what would be a solution in your mind for an authentication scheme that doesn't subject to the inherent problems of passwords (phishing, weak passwords, password reuse, database exposure, etc.) that fits your requirement?
I am starting to think that these companies aim for saturation of mindshare. Like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and such. This bombarding is there for you to remember the name of the company. And then when you are ready to purchase either go for it or try to find some sponsored segment again for that discount. Individual conversions are less important than the long term mindshare.
No. The parent means that software and media should not only be available in French in France, for example. French produced things can be in French in France but GGP is talking about American services like google which used to always default to French for me and be resistant to changing.

But also yes a creator should be able to ban translations.
EU is not just brussels. Can you point to some particular point at which brussels has shown competence in the past 20 years?
>Cookie popups on every website, its completely idiotic.

That's not because of the EU, that's because the website owner try to annoy you to blame the EU.

If they stop tracking no pop up is needed.

>Its more important for me to have access to cool tech

It's hardly possible to only give your own data without exposing third parties who may be not to keen of sharing their data.

FB already showed that. I bet WhatsApp already has my phone number without my consent because some relative of mine uploaded his contacts.
> The killer-app (that isn't porn) is going to be asking your phone to order food and it guesses correctly what you want while cross-checking availability, pricing, and discounts. Then a Waymo or Wing Drone delivers it.

If this were a "killer-app", then Amazon would still be selling those quick-buy Amazon Dash[1] buttons, and Alexa would be making a profit[2]

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47416440

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/alexa-had-no-profit-...
> let's make sure we all benefit through less work and not only the rich with more profits

It's fairly clear by now that that is not what happens and that the real AI risk is not the "grey goo" one of everything being converted to nanomush, but the age-old one of landlordism soaking up all the returns to economic activity.
:D IdeaCapturePro gonna make me rich
i really enjoyed the 4 videos made by 'The Movie Rabbit Hole' which explores the "No CGI was used in this movie"-lie/exaggeration/misdirection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo
Infosec suffers from a huge cargo cult and mindless sticky meme problem because so few people actually understand it.

There are still admins who block all ICMP because of the “ping of death,” a Windows bug from either the late 1990s or 2000s. They don’t know this though. They just heard that ICMP is “dangerous.”

People also don’t use IPv6 because they think NAT is a security feature.

I guess it’s similar to baseless health fears and happens whenever people don’t really understand a domain. You get a proliferation of lore that is just repeated.
I bought a temporary esim in Japan that I couldn't get working. Buying a physical sim to replace it was a mentally cheaper option than continuing to troubleshoot it.
It's the McNamara fallacy all over again.

There are some practices workers know will help to deliver better/faster, those are really hard to quantify and get approval from the management chain, so they are disregarded because are hard to quantify, if it can be quantified it's deemed unnecessary.
Title contains a repeated word. It should presumably be "Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn't Solve Food Deserts"
I've been wondering if Reddit has always been this cesspool or if I just got older. When I'm logged in it's not too bad because I curated the subreddits, but the default subs it shows me when I'm logged out feel like half the content is angry people complaining about politics and immigrants.
But does it really work? I would expect click fraud detection to catch this pretty easily given how big the click fraud arms race is, especially since AdNauseam said their implementation is quite naive.
AI integration in Pixel phones is bland, and all in areas where it can be day to day useful.
Exactly this. If the Cheof Executive and Commander in Cheof wanted the Air Force to clean up the PFAS, an Executive Order, or in other words, a command from the Commander, would be more than sufficient.
> America is an advanced economy and the advanced work is where the money and comfy life is.

The only advance is the downward spiral of the American economy. The money is in the financial industry and third sector only, which only profits from the dollar control.
Basically you train a model per each set of images. The model is a neural network able to render the final image. Different images will require different trained models. Initial gaussian splatting models took hours to train, last year models took minutes to train. I am not sure how much this one takes, but it should be between minutes and hours (and probably more close to minutes than hours).
There was a mini-uproar when GPT-4o-mini (an obviously "dumber" model) outscored claude-3.5-sonnet on Chatbot Arena, so much so that LMSYS released a subset of the battles: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/gpt-4o-mini_battles

You can review for yourself and decide if it was justified (you can compare based on W/L/T responses and matchups). Generally, Claude still has more refusals (easy wins for the model that actually answers the request), often has worse formatting (arguable if this is better, but people like it more), and is less verbose (personally, I'd prefer the right answer with less words, but ChatArena users generally disagree).

If you look at the questions (and Chat Arena and Wildchat analyses), most people aren't using LLMs for math, reasoning, or even coding - if anything the arena usage is probably overly skewed to reasoning/trick questions due to the subset of people poking at the models.

Of course, different people value different things. I've almost exclusively been using 3.5 Sonnet since it came out because it's been the best code assistant and Artifacts are great, only falling back to GPT-4o for occasional Code Interpreter work (for tricky problems, Mistral's Codestral actually seems to be a good fallback, often being able to debug issues that neither of those models can, despite being a tiny model in comparison).
I worked at FB when GearVR came out, and I was the only person on the floor who had an Android device to test it with (so I'm not sure the whole dogfooding thing worked very well there either).
You can always 'enter element picker mode'. With a little practice/knowledge you can block that element/frame/etc. forever. And/or add a layer with Privacy Badger and block altogether most of the sus domains.

Another 'trick' I employ (always with Firefox) is that I open links not to a "New Tab", but instead I use "Open in Reader View" add-on, so I "Open in Reader View" (it does exactly what it says on the tin), so I only get the clean text and the relevant images. That works for almost every website.
the argument isn't that all googlers should have to dogfood all google products. But people in charge of a product line should have to dogfood it.

If you aren't willing to dogfood the the product line you have ownership of and prefer to use other products, you shouldn't have ownership in it as you have no vested interest in really making it better.
Oceanus's ocean tosses with slow, tall waves, beneath a pale blue sky. The colonists live in tall cities of steel and concrete with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs.
Many people would consider food to be the greatest joy in life, and eating out at a restaurant to be a treat.

There is also the social aspect, it's one of the best opportunities to enjoy a good moment and bond over, be it with family, lovers, friends or colleagues.

Even outside of all that, the new generation of city dwellers rarely cooks at all because of their active lifestyle.
Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition [video]
> Or moving everything to tailwinds.

What’s wrong with Tailwind CSS?
It's a horror show: https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...
Old AvE did great breakdowns and explainers of electronic tools and manufacturing and stuff while mixed with colloquialisms, stories and jokes, but it seems he went off the anti-vaxer deep end during the 'rona and got violent with his wife (or the police) while drunk, got tazed, and spent three months studying scripture.
Can you share what was the problem, just in case we have it too?
I would use a slightly different classification:

- general purpose - OLTP
- general purpose - OLAP
- specialized:
- Internet analytics / clickstream data / adtech
- financial timeseries
- monitoring/observability
- IoT/sensors
- IIoT/manufacturing/process
The county’s insurance is on the hook. I’m sure premiums go up but are taxpayers really on the hook if insurance is paying the damages?
The solution is to avoid using Symantec.

Perhaps report this issue to your malware provider rather than the site owner?
> Many of the most effective NGOs have a "we agree with you, but this 10% needs to change,"

Isn't that exactly what the linked page suggests in this case? Most of the recommendations are things like "Limit Articles 23(2)(c) and 35(1)(c) to Articles 7 to 11 and delete Article 23(2)(b)", not "burn the thing down and start over".
> software and media should not only be available in French in France

Seems reasonable. However, given French media quotas e.g. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/... , companies may be providing stuff only in French to ensure that it meets a legal requirement.

> But also yes a creator should be able to ban translations.

We've been round and round this for at least twenty years; creators like being able to ban accessibility measures like "read aloud this document" or "display it in a more readable format" or "fix the audio mix so the dialogue is audible" or "buy the DVD from a different country", but that's not exactly welfare-maximising. Are translations an accessibility measure? What about a translation into ASL?

(on the other hand, the reputational risk of a poor translation is real, and in the extreme can result in someone being cancelled for something they never even wrote)
Dismantle first past the post system everywhere. There, super simple and effective.
Gaussian splatting transform images to a cloud points. GPUs can render these points but it is a very slow process. You need to transform the cloud points to meshes. So basically is the initial process to capture environments before converting them to 3D meshes that the GPUs can use for anything you want. It is much cheaper to use pictures to have a 3D representantion of an object or environment than buying professional stuff.
I discovered about the Unihertz Jelly Star the other day which is allegedly the smallest android phone with a 3 inch display. People over /r/dumbphone seem to like it as a mean to make doom scrolling less appealing to them while the phone can still be used to do all you need like use Uber (although android auto on this must be horrible).

At 309 CAD on Amazon, I'm tempted to give it a try.
Blender Conference Keynote he gave a couple if years ago.
I'm pretty sure he's fully aware it's BS. He's also the guy who censored journlists and acrivits Twitter account on day 1 when he bought the company, and also the guy who canceled a command for a Tesla by a customer after a bad review.

Musk gives no shit to free speech, it's just a rhetorical argument, which isn't unheard of: https://i.redd.it/3b470c0htra61.jpg (note that I'm obviously not comparing Musk to Hitler here…)
Sometimes, very rare, the dub is actually better (yes, subjective, but still) than the original. E.g. I do find Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in German absolutely hilarious, start to finish. Then I watched the english version - was I surprised how serious this is in original voice. It's an entirely different movie in its original tone.
That's really great you've got a good place to teach. I think I would really enjoy such a place.

What age range/subjects are you teaching? Is it a mandatory system or elective?

I have thought a lot recently about going back to teach at a community college or equivalent.

I do teach now a few times a year at a local firefighting academy which helps scratch the itch. The students are only there as volunteers, so they are a lot more engaged. It helps that we can punish them with extra duties and labor if they do anything dangerous or disrespectful.

I sometimes feel like public school would be a lot smoother if we could force students to carry around a 20kg container of foam all day when they misbehave! I think a physical labor punishment like that helps curb behavior with some people in a way that nothing else can.
> Ok, so you know it’s obviously wrong, but there’s no obligation to then go and stifle their curiosity or imagination.

Dismissing uninformed ideas does everyone a service. If you're a complete outsider to a field and have no training it it, decide to come up with random ideas about difficult unsolved problems, and then feel stifled when an expert dismisses your ideas... well, that's a level of arrogance and hubris that I think is more than a little infuriating.

> The original commenter I’m replying to, taken at their word, is ready to dismiss anything somebody says, regardless of merit with no further discussion, just because they think there’s “no way” that person could be right. Which is hilariously close-minded way to conduct oneself.

That is a hilariously uncharitable interpretation of what they said.
Central banks can only inject so much money into the money supply. After that tool, the next most powerful tool for keeping ththe head of an ailing economy above water is the price of energy.

The added (sociopolitical) benefit is that voters like cheaper energy. They don't like inflation (driven by Central banks).

The dirty little downside is these same governments are often subsidizing green energy as well. Imagine that. They want to increase the adoption of green energy by... making them less cost justifiable.

It's madness.
I saw a couple of VPN promos recently where the sponsored YouTube presenter talked about geoblocking circumvention as an important VPN use case. I don't know whether the sponsor thought that was desirable or not (and also don't know whether the sponsor requested it or not).
And mobile phones, and the multimedia touchscreen in your car, and on your smart fridge, etc.
A small health PSA from a previous poster [0]:

The real risk isn't really to the toaster (who cares, it's just a toaster, and even if it starts on fire when you plug it in, you're probably watching it pretty closely).

No, it's that you leach lead or other such nasties (sealing rubbers, PCB epoxies, what-have-you) into your dishwasher and start eating them when they get redeposited onto your dishes. Lead isn't that harmful... except when you eat it. Don't eat lead.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242348
Show HN: We made a tool to help developers improve OpenAPI specs
Hey, I'm Martyn and I recently joined Zuplo. OpenAPI is a huge part of what we do, but getting a document up to scratch out of the gate, especially if you're not super well versed in the actual specification and what you should use and when.

So we built a suite of tools to help with this called Rate My OpenAPI. It will score your OpenAPI document out of 100, as well as giving you individual scores in 4 key areas; completeness, SDK generation, security and documentation.

Along with the score, you also get details of what the issues, or errors are, as well as guidance on what they actually mean and why they're important.

We exposed the API for it using Zuplo, and then built a CLI, and a GitHub Action on top of that so that you can add Rate My OpenAPI into your workflow however you like.

You can check it out and use all of this right now, for free. I've already found it extremely useful and I hope you do to.

Feedback is absolutely welcome!
That rings with what Uber said, that they'd been scammed $100 million.

https://veracitytrustnetwork.com/blog/digital-marketing/uber...
If I can find a free and open products on Docker hub then so be it. You won’t get support though.

Open source is interesting. Most developers, the creative ones, are bored and supremely unmotivated at work so they do their best work on hobby projects that become open source. That’s actually not the interesting part.

What about the rest of developers that aren’t creative? It turns out they are frequently addicted to free open software products at work and cannot function without, complete reliance. Both startups and large corporate employers are super reliant on this.

> What trends or examples have you noticed in your field?

I do enterprise proxies and API management. We use a low code solution that is both a retail software product and SAAS. In under a month I wrote a solution, that I think is far superior, to solve for optimizing my home network. It’s only superior because the build time is 5 seconds versus 8 minutes, allows for superior concurrency, executes faster, and is configured from a single tiny JSON file. It doesn’t have as many features though.
It might be a noncentral example of sponsorship, but it's been a traditional usage since the early days of television: "and now, a word from our sponsor".

Edit: actually, I think that phrasing arose in the early days of radio!
Safest countries in the world: Check.

Countries with the highest average standard of living: Check.

Countris consistently socring among, or as, highest in citizen happiness indices: Check.

Stable Economy: Check.

Successfully implemented measures to combat a global pandemic: Check.

Slowly but surely fading out dependency on russian fossile fuels: Check.

Best privacy protection laws in the world: Check.

Shall I go on?
I have pretty average man hands (although my fingers might be a bit long) and I use a Note 8 one handed without really any problem. Honestly, I like it even if just for the fact I tended to drop smaller phones a lot more.

Based on that, I would expect half the men to be able to use even the biggest non-fold phones one handed without any problem.
It's not possible to filter lactose out of the milk. The only possibility to get lactose free milk is to split lactose into glucose and galactose with the enzyme lactase. And that's actually is done: just dump lactase into cow milk. I never drank not sweet lactose free milk.

But, if one is about to make a milk powder, then it is possible to remove the split lactose sugar crystals. But it's not milk anymore..
> you can most likely do more with Apache than you can with Nginx

Apache having more features than Nginx is debatable. Apache has probably more unofficial modules, but that's irrelevant to the core developpers. With the official modules, I suppose Apache and Nginx more or less on par, but it's hard to compare. Apache has many useless modules in its distribution, e.g. "cern_meta" or "dialup" (for 56K modems!). And some modern features are lacking in Apache: e.g. HTTP3 was an experimental feature of Nginx 4 years ago, it's stable for more than one year, and AFAIK it's not even planned in Apache.

> due to its dynamic nature and module system,

Nginx has a module system, like Apache. E.g. "ngx_echo" is an unofficial module.

> but at the same time that comes with dangers like this.

As you noted, the post explains that the problem was not the features surface, it was the legacy code and the technical debt. Nginx is better on these aspects, and Caddy probably even more so.