skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
scp/rsync are great tools, but they require pre-coordination of keys. One side is the client, the other is the server. The client needs an account on the server machine (so the human on the client machine must provide an ssh pubkey to the human on the server machine, who must be root, and create a new account with `adduser`, and populate the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file). And the client needs to know the server's correct hostkey to avoid server-impersonation attacks (so the human on the server machine must provide an ssh host pubkey to the human on the client machine, who puts it in their ~/.ssh/known_hosts file).

Once that's established, and assuming that the two machines can reach each other (the server isn't behind a NAT box), then the client can `scp` and `rsync` all they want.

Magic-wormhole doesn't require that coordination phase. The human sending the file runs `wormhole send FILENAME` and the tool prints a code. The human receiving the file runs `wormhole rx CODE`. The two programs handle the rest. You don't need a new account on the receiving machine. The CODE is much much shorter than the two pubkeys that an SSH client/server pair require, short enough that you can yell it across the room, just a number and two words, like "4-purple-sausages". And you only need to send the code in one direction, not both.

Currently, the wormhole programs don't remember anything about the connection they just established: it's one-shot, ephemeral. So if you want to send a second file later, you have to repeat the tell-your-friend-a-code dance (with a new code). We have plans to leverage the first connection into making subsequent ones easier to establish, but no code yet.

Incidentally, `wormhole ssh` is a subcommand to set up the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file from a wormhole code, which might help get the best of both worlds, at least for repeated transfers.
> [...] where we make more $$$ than 95% of the population [...]

That doesn't make a difference. Suppressed wages are suppressed wages.

But, since you care about the comparison, people doing the suppressing are making even more.
We are going circles. My comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270161 fully answers this.

> it's more like teamviewer and who knows now many bugs it has

My point is that it's nore like teamviewer's installer since it's deactivated, which is pretty equivalent to "not installed" in Android's world.

I feel like you are assuming I'm wrong: I find your "you are almost there" and "ask yourself" phrasings quite annoying. You are just assuming you are right and I'm wrong. We will not convince each others, our respective views seem fully made up here, this discussion will probably not progress anymore and I feel like I already wrote down every interesting point I could make on the topic, so I will stop there.

> It just should not be there period

It's not like I even disagree here. It should not be there for sure. Like all the more concerning crap that has been there since the beginning which is my core point. If you are pissed off by this Jew discovery, please do complain loudly about all that crap in our phones, we do absolutely need more people doing this. There's definitely not enough awareness around this stuff.

To me, complaining about this new thing is like complaining about some dust particle yoi just noticed in a house where housework was never made. But it's good people are beginning to see the dust, I guess...

I'm quite pissed off by the Sony phone I inherited with its impressive amount of crap you can't even all deactivate, and the lack of working lineage rom for it. Some deactivated shit in it would be the least of my concerns compared to this.
They are both entitled to their decision. And I certainly wouldn't blame either X or Google for leaving in that situation. Even though I disagree with you it's the same circumstances.

What I'm saying is that everyone loses when that happens.
No we don’t need to pay billions. There are moves afoot in the UK to do direct bank to bank payments with Open Banking. HMRC (the UK tax authority) has been doing this for years. When I pay my tax bill, I select my bank, scan a QR code with my phone, that launches my banking app, I authorise the payment and off it goes in just a few seconds. Instant and a few pence, even for thousands of pounds. This particular implementation is provided by Ecospend but there are a few other companies offering this same service now in the UK.

I agree with the OP, Visa and MC charging so much is just insane when you think about it. It’s more expensive AND settlement times are days, not seconds. The only barrier is consumer awareness and detrimental UK legislation forbidding card fees to be added to bills which while well intentioned completely ruins any competition on payment methods.
You think ads are the only way for power and influence to be achieved?
> And you do need the skills you gain by [engaging].

The slogan I've heard is: "Mathematics is not a spectator sport."
Sure, but to be fair it's not like UPS trucks are silent.
A lot of the fraud hinges on the fact that all you need to drain an account is a static card number. A lot of hacks are subsequently piled on top of that to try and make it harder (SCA/3D Secure, captchas, etc), and a lot of busywork is spent tidying up the consequences of that (chargeback handling, etc).

You could eliminate a lot of the fraud by moving off a mostly-static identifier to merchant, amount and time-limited tokens the user generates with their bank (or the merchant redirects them there). This would address a lot of the issues - the tokens are useless when leaked (as they only work against the merchant's own account) and can't be misused even by the merchant to go beyond the agreed amount or time limit.

This means with such a system you’d immediately eliminate a whole category of fraud, with the only thing remaining being merchant-level disputes like goods not as described/etc, which can easily be made optional and the user can choose to opt-in for the extra fee. Then you would actually have a good case for lower/no mandatory fees at all.

One problem you need to keep in mind is that fraud mitigation is a big industry in an of itself (some of it is real, some complete snake oil but relies on the underlying problem being real to sell itself) and wouldn't be in favor of a system that is inherently immune to (at least some types of) fraud.
It's inspiring for sure, and I think this post will have some impact on my life. Giving me a stronger/better attitude basically.

But I'd like to take a moment for people who live lives like Philip Glass but don't have that famous composer label attached to them. There are so many anonymous people going through such a crazy amount of work that they do and we never hear of them.

I suppose that at least I think of them now.
My toilet paper routine, which started even before covid, is to buy about 400 rolls of toilet paper from Costco, and then I never even think about buying toilet paper ever again for a couple of years. And then one day it runs out and I realise the infinite toilet paper stash was in fact finite after all. As if that isn't bad enough on its own, I then discover that while inflation has been running at 9% a year for everything else, it was more like 100% a year for toilet roll.

A different class of problem with this technique is when I bought 150 old-style lightbulbs just before they got banned in the UK. At the time, I really hated LED lights because they flickered, and so I could use them in areas I just passed through, but nowhere I sat and spent any time. I still have about 120 of them left because, of course, LED bulb tech has got better and I now only have 2 lights in the house that still use the old bulbs. They don't get much use, one is in the loft and one is in a cupboard.
"Connectivity" here needs to be taken at large: syncthing needs to have a folder already shared between two machines. There's some setup involved that is not automatic.

The entire setup phase of magic wormhole is "copy those 3 words" and boom you're done.
I switched from VLC to mpv. Mpv loads quicker and is more (CPU) efficient. Besides that, I like the minimalist UI.

I think it's worth it, but to get the most out of it, you'll need to customize it to your liking (tweaking the OSC, the keyboard shortcuts... you can do many things, but it requires some reading/searching).
Liquid Time-Constant Networks
They don't care about you, the quality of the experience, the quality of the delivery. They just want to save money on labor. Everything else seems to be a secondary consideration to them.
Spring is for large scale industrial systems that run critical business applications. Its for hundreds of developers building complicated software
super cool, I have been looking for a tool like this.
Bare metal love
lots of other scandals, not just food

1.) recent 2024 huge scandal regarding oil container trucks swapping out cooking oil with cancerous industry oil without cleaning the tank. the trucks ended up covering up their tank with tarp so people can't see what kind of oil these trucks are carrying.

2.) videos of Chinese EVs just simultaneously combusting in the streets while driven or parked

3.) toxic chemicals found on Temu/Shien clothes, found by South Korea and US
not give out your SSN unecessarily. freeze your credit. pay for monitoring service. pay for a service to delete you from other public data sets eg fastpeoplesearch.com.

there's not nothing you can do.
While it’s true that dark patterns—design tactics that subtly guide users into making certain choices—are a concern in the tech industry, Apple has generally been seen as more transparent compared to some other companies. For instance, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency (ATT) was a significant move toward giving users more control over their data. If Apple were primarily motivated to trick users into giving away data, initiatives like ATT would be counterproductive to that aim.

The assertion that “you have no clue how Apple uses your data” oversimplifies the situation. While it’s true that understanding the full scope of data use by any large tech company can be difficult, Apple’s privacy policies and terms of service are publicly available and outline their data practices. Apple’s approach to privacy is built around minimizing data collection where possible, using on-device processing, and keeping data anonymous where feasible. For example, Apple’s advertising platform does not follow users across the web; it uses on-device data and does not share data with third parties.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a broad category, and it’s true that not all SaaS models are created equal in terms of privacy. However, Apple’s version of SaaS is integrated within an ecosystem that they tightly control, which reduces the reliance on third-party data brokers and limits the potential for data abuse. While it’s always wise to be cautious about data privacy, Apple’s track record—despite some valid criticisms—shows a commitment to privacy that sets it apart from companies whose core business is data monetization.
Ask HN: What's a Good Webcam in 2024?
Ideally one that ships to the UK, and doesn't cost thousands of pounds or dollars?

Because this computer doesn't have one, but it seems like many job interviews and videos seem to expect some sort of camera now, and it's become more of a norm for YouTube videos too.
The code formatting on lines 14-20 is a great example of how autoformatters can get it very wrong.

That has to be the least readable way to write that code.

https://github.com/PatrickJS/everyone-ssn-usa/blob/main/scri...
The full text of the email sent to users was posted here: https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/closing-account-due-th...

I'm especially curious what this is intended to mean: "Please note that this notification was not delayed as a result of a law enforcement investigation."

The notification was not delayed? Or was? o_O
This is the first I'm reading that UAC has a performance impact and I'd like to know more.

I have a PC that I literally use for single player games and nothing else (I do not have a web browser installed, or even Steam, games are installed from a network share). I have no use for UAC and I'd like to squeeze everything out of my CPU.
>The article mentions an Amazon policy to always call an ambulance when they find a medical issue.

True...there's a difference between having a policy and it being enforced, though. The article also contains a quote from a union organiser who seemed to cast doubt on that "We know from our members in Amazon warehouses that first-aiders are actively discouraged from ringing ambulances – instead told to take taxis"

I know I'm not coming from a neutral place here...I detest Amazon utterly, but I have been around too many large companies for too long to know that the "policy we quote" vs the "behaviour we enforce" are two entirely different things.
The UPS truck engine doesn't need to come up to nearly full power to park in my driveway. The driver doesn't ever need to "floor it."
Extreme renters who own nothing
Also, tesco employees would mostly handle foods and maybe some mild consumer cleaning supplies. Even their non-food stores have not much but clothes and some notebooks.

Meanwhile Amazon sells almost everything, including chemicals and batteries. Often sold by foreign (e.g. Chinese) vendors but fulfilled by Amazon, where correct packaging and quality can't be guaranteed. Which has probably been exacerbated since the UK left EU and their safety standards. After all they think they can do better on their own and follow a less-regulated American-style model. This is the flip side of that.

But I still think it's comparing apples to oranges. But yeah it could be that there's really a problem. I don't think this article is really Guardian-level quality. They should have investigated more deeply.
i used to be able to go frame by frame with quicktime.. is there any modern video player that can actually do this?
Change ur first sentence from voters to Donors and i would agree with u.

Govt funded medical care? That doesn't have public support?
> developers building complicated software

That's why I left Java and joined other large orgs with hundreds of developers that build simple software.
This is not a critique of the (nice) study, but what seems to me the overall context that should be kept in mind, especially once we are talking about "optimizing".

Optimizing "study, retention phase, test" for greatest knowledge retention at a delayed test time, is very different from optimizing for greatest value of knowledge learned.

To optimize learning value, learn things that are immediately useful, you can immediately incorporate into learning something else, and ideally both.

The sooner and more you use something, the greater its value AND the greater your retention will be.

If you have to learn something valuable but with no short term use (how to handle a rare brain surgery complication), find a way to use it. Create an ongoing useful project that will revisit that knowledge during the "retention interval" (e.g. a concise summary of rare situations you need to handle, for you and others, that you can revisit and improve with additional and updated knowledge).

So optimize "topic choice", "topic progression", and "study, (optionally) test, use, use, use", for total value of learning.

"Use" is motivation, test, study review, and value realization put together.
I started to use it on linux a few years ago.

Now its on every device, even on my android tablet. Its perfect. Minimalistic, sane defaults, fast and just works.

It can even play natively over ssh. Its awesome

> mpv sftp://mit@nyx/home/mit/Work/merged.mp4

Recently I needed a hotkey to rotate a video (which seems not like any player can easily do this; for mpv it was a 'r cycle_values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"' in the in input.conf)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/renting-lifestyle-econo...
When I worked in retail the till roll (i.e. for the cash register to print receipts) had a red streak on the last metre or so.
If you're on a Mac and have an iPhone, buy a clamp and use Continuity Camera.
MPV has versatile scripts. For example you can cut and crop a video you are watching[1].

You can also introduce hotkeys for functionalities I have never seen in another player.

I use this (input.conf) sometimes to normalize the brightness and colors of a scene I'm watching (may not work when using hardware decoding):

n vf toggle normalize=smoothing=100

Or rotate a video:

Ctrl+r no-osd cycle-values video-rotate "90" "180" "270" "0"

[1] <https://github.com/occivink/mpv-scripts>
Stripe had a live dashboard over Black Friday that showed the dollar value of all transactions across their network, including those blocked for fraud. The fraud rate was nearly 12% of the total dollar amount of transactions.
> There have files I’ve encountered that for example VLC will play with quirks (color reproduction is not quite right, etc) that mpv plays perfectly.

Given how VLC is basically bulletproof and will play absolutely anything thrown at it - it's great to hear that mpv is up there ...
The best media player in existence: superb minimalist UI, makes use of hardware accelaration, and just plays videos.

Its continued excellence is one of the reasons why I will probably remain a pirate for life. Streaming services spend millions on their players and don't come close.
Make your own slime with Borax (practical preparation)
They're in Canada and Mexico too.
But on top of that, it is documented that Google does exactly that kind of things. Organic Maps being an example here.
> Ordering on-demand in an app was seen by regulators as much more taxi-like than scheduling a black car for a particular date, time, and place.

Regulators tried to reinterpret existing laws to placate an interest group. Most cities has explicit laws around this: responding to someone hailing on the street required a medallion. Scheduling a ride via the internet did not.

This is why they had to pass new laws to try and stamp out taxi's competition.
And you can import gpx files into it also.
A Definition of Magic in Programming Languages
Obviously they shouldn't use community resources that frivolously. Calling an ambulance for a paper cut is ridiculous. This is why there are first aid teams. I was one of those in Ireland and the number of times we called an ambulance was probably 1 in 10 incidents or so.
With some brief experimentation ChatGPT also fails this test.
Nice project. Is there iptables connection tracking module that can handle the protocol?
Ah, the second one is sadly so familiar to me. So many great scientists end up becoming cranks in fields they're not familiar with due to the misconception that they just know everything/can figure out everything easily.

Looks at the non biologists pushing Intelligent Design or what not
On the flip side, I've played games which ignored the "fire" input for N milliseconds after triggering. Works well to prevent the issues mentioned, but was highly annoying as I would frequently click just a millisecond or so too early, and miss the shot.
“Socialists at The Guardian” - what does it even mean in this context? Even if ALL 1400 were Amazon being cautious and taking care of it’s employees (lol), how does it make sense to waste a precious resource like Ambulance for cases that can be fixed with a band aid?

left’s capitalist whipping boys - this is not without reason. How many times do you hear negative stories about Costco (as an example) mistreating their employees vs Amazon? Amazon is beaten up in the press because of their actions - just their union busting practices alone is worth the bad press they’re getting
Imagine having 92.23GW and nuclear together, free energy for AI. Instead, let's pay 1 euro per 1kWh soon.
> it's not really fair to criticise a technology that's potentially cool on the grounds that it doesn't have enough adoption

But that's not at all why the person you're responding to criticized it!
Benchmarking OpenAI's Structured Outputs
Moral can only be singular too if it exists, so what choice can there be?

> That's not right, it's talking about morality.

Not quite right then - 2 out of 3 aint bad

>I'm not sure what you mean here.

it is something of a hunch that categorically noone is going to have a porsche or everyone. I will rephrase that maybe.

>Every moral decision is unique in at least some detail,

Which detail? how does it matter what kind of food you give a hungry person?

>rules-based morality is a losing battle

Now were talking - you want something that will work with real humans while I am admiring the concept.

>he asserted that lying, or deception of any kind, would be forbidden under any interpretation and in any circumstance. Absurd.

exactly - the absurd is the essential concept and the first truth
mpv does it! Period key (.) for next frame, comma (,) for previous. Super handy.
No one is saying the court shouldnt defend democracy. We're saying that censorship is not the way to do that.
> No, it means they're legally obligated not to conditionally agree with Apple that neither of them will steal each other's employees.

This is the bit I didn’t understand, that makes a lot more sense, thank you!
Unless you've worked for a payment processing company, or for a major retailer that does a lot of payment processing, you have no idea how much fraud or attempted fraud happens in transactions (you can even see it as a small retailer if you are getting sales online and say you'll ship international).
We have memes, which are eye worms, who have adapted like cats to co-exist with us, informationally, and like cats, they wish for our demise.

Methinks that sand boxing is more like cat boxing, vs say an carrier.
I have a list of now 22 browser based p2p sharing tools that i shared here a few times in similar threads https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...
You are missing the opposite side of the fraud picture: Where it's not the business scamming you, but someone taking your credentials and spending up to the limit in a store that deals with no chargebacks. This is, if anything, the larger size of the fraud losses for the Stripes of the world. Fake businesses that use the cards either for testing if the creds are good, or where the owners charge cards that they obtained from some other malicious actor.

So it's not that I get 3% off by not supporting chargebacks, but whether I want to have a dollar under a payment system that supports someone emptying me out without recourse.... and the answer is often no.
I've used https://file.pizza a bunch before, only because of the memorable name
> spring-job(integrated with tokio-cron-scheduler)

Does this work well with cpu-bound tasks?
This is a build in feature that mplayer had and mpv has aswell

. and , on keyboard go frame-to-frame, you can also up and downspeed with [ and ]
Tesco Direct has a pretty large non-food section including things like white goods, various appliances, etc. You're right that they're not fulfilling orders from foreign vendors, but as you suggest, this may be part of the problem.
Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant deteriorating, IAEA warns
I have a patio and a balcony in my apartment. I would love if they could use them.
Why isn't Apple attacking the enterprise market?
There are few markets Apple can enter to continue its growth trajectory, given its size. Enterprise computing is such a market. With Apple silicon, supply chain, support infrastructure, and Mac laptops increasingly used on the client side, why isn’t Apple more aggressively attacking the enterprise market? Seems like a lost opportunity to me. Curious to hear thoughts on this.