skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so interesting how Australia went the other way and actually banned the use of any government-issued ID number as a primary identifier by any organisation other than the government department which issued that ID number.

In the 80s, the very popular Aussie prime minister, Bob Hawke wanted to introduce a National ID card, complete with a unique number, that would then be used for everything from Medicare to tax filing. The government however did not have the numbers to pass it through the Senate. Hawke called a double dissolution (dissolving both lower and upper houses of parliament) over the issue. He was returned to power after the election but still without a majority to get the bill through.

There were then attempts to use "other" government issued ID cards like the Medicare number, for this purpose. To prevent this, a few years later, a bill was passed that would prevent any such use.

In reality, this means businesses can ask for government issued numbers but it has to be optional and voluntary, and never used as a primary ID. When I go to my doctor for example, I can provide them with my medicare number, in which case they will claim the Medicare rebate on my behalf automatically, or I can refuse to provide them this number, pay the doctor's fee in full, and claim the rebate from medicare myself separately. Similarly I can provide my bank with my tax file number, in which case they will automatically tax my interests earned according to my income band. Or I can not provide them my tax file number, in which case they'll tax my interest rate at the highest income band, and I can then get the money back from the tax office when I file my tax returns at the end of the year.

In Australia we don't have a Bill of Rights. We don't even have a right to freedom of speech. The police can ask us to unlock our phones without a warrant; etc etc. Yet when it comes to privacy, our laws are very clear. For a country with such a history of protecting individual liberties, it always amazes me that the United States takes such a laissez faire approach to privacy.
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
Sounds like it is in the rider's own interest to not have a wireless bike.
Depends on the content and how it tends to be consumed. That might work for YouTube but maybe not, say, Netflix or services that stream movies.

We did a mix of human curation and random selection, noting which random selections were successful and which were not. It was effective enough. The thing about an experience like this is that it doesn't need to be perfect. Like channel surfing, if it doesn't catch you then just switch the channel.
00:30 UTC Resolved https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kz4khcgdsfdv
I think there's definitely something to the notion that there will be correlation between things you forget to (try to) guarantee in your code and things you think to test for. It's not clear to me that it's meaningfully stronger than the correlation with things you forget to prove.

Any which way, more prodding of the model (mental or more formal) is probably going to help correctness but may or may not be worth the cost, depending.
Fast Text-Guided Single-Image Editing via Semantic-Aware Diffusion Fine-Tuning
A starter motor is normally not connected to the engine. When you want to start, you apply power to the 'starter motor solenoid' a high current low resistance switch that connects the positive battery to the starter motor with a large conductor, using a metal ground as return (to which the minus power is connected). The motor turns and the motion connects a gear to the engine flywheel and begins to turn the engine as spark plug power and other power is also connected. Some times the starter solenoid gets stuck and will not close the high current switch = click, click, click. Some times a whack can release the solenoid, but if the battery is very low - click click = no hope whacking it!. If the motor starts, the driver stops turning starter power switch and the starter stops and the starter gear is spring disengaged, and the motor (hopefully) operates. If not, some actions can help if the motor has gasoline/diesel and other normal functions and a limited number of re-starts can be tried, before the stored power in the battery is gone. After that, call AAA, get a start/tow....
I’m kind of surprised that gitlab doesn’t have a larger market share given that you can run it air gapped on-prem without too much fuss.
Thanks for the feedback. I've made changes to the landing page and will continue to add better verbiage for each section.
That's promising! Congratulations with launch. Considering adding to the specialized directory for AI agents and Frameworks to build them. Let me know if you need help.

https://aiagentsdirectory.com/
Draconian policies...but not security ones? Why were USB drives not blocked?
I can't speak to Netflix. At Disney the willingness to experiment with streaming UX was thin on the ground six years ago. It was about making something that felt like a direct Netflix competitor. Other experiments have shipped since then, like co-viewing.

I actually believe TikTok is more of the spiritual inheritor of this kind of project more than any other platform.
If the AI is being judged as a winner, than by definition isn’t it superior to the typical human produced content, at least in this case? Seems like the opposite of enshittification.
Starbucks CEO Allowed to Work 1k Miles from Headquarters
I'm not sure that's true, but it would make it more difficult since it'd be easier for customers to cheat. You'd need more monitoring than most stores at the very least.
GitHub is (was?) a Rails application, so it was probably originally running behind Unicorn [0], if it isn’t still. So the unicorns are (were) real.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server)
Perhaps this will help underscore the importance of reading and understanding the terms and conditions of any product or service before clicking "ok".
It can be even more insane than that. Not knowing what I was doing, I bought a house during the sub-prime boom thing (2004). I paid $10k in fees (zero down) for a $400k house with an interest only mortgage because I was able to "finance" the %20 down payment as a home equity loan. Fun times! I remember paying about $1700/mo total in interest payments ($20k/year). I checked Zillow all the time and the house was "making" 50k a year in appreciation just sitting there so it was essentially free. I sold it after 3 years (dec 2007, good timing) and after all the fees I walked away with $130k in cash right before the housing market crash (tax free!). I didn't know what I was doing then either.

The people who bought it from me tried to flip it but walked right into the chainsaw of 2008 and had to sell it at a loss. I could have bought it back for even less than I paid for it the first time a year later! Whoever did buy it got a great deal because now 15 years later it's worth $1.3 million and I feel like I should have just kept it. I definitely haven't managed to save $1m in the last 20 years.
I'll never understand this obsession with Hunter Biden. I'm sure he's a fuck up or was a fuck up as a drug addict. He's probably had all types of questionable dealings being who he is but his list of crimes are:

1. Failure to pay income tax
2. Illegally owning a gun and lying about it

Both are bad with the second being worse IMO.

Here are just a couple people who Trump pardoned and their crimes:

- Roger Stone (convicted of obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering)

- Steve Bannon (charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering)

- Three U.S. military officers who were accused or convicted of war crimes

- Chris Collins (Congressman convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud, and lying to the FBI)

- Duncan Hunter (Congressman convicted of one count of misusing campaign funds)

- Steve Stockman (Congressman convicted of money laundering, mail and wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to make "conduit contributions" and false statements)

- Paul Pogue (Convicted of making and subscribing a false tax return)

- Bernard Kerik (Obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue Laws; aiding in the preparation of a false income tax return; making false statements on a loan application; making false statements)

This is a small list of pardons but all of these seem for the most part like worse or similar crimes than what Hunter Biden is guilty.

Again, I don't doubt Hunter Biden is a fuck up but as far as I know he's not been pardoned by his father.
> but how to build software businesses

I would trust Parker Conrad even less on how to build a software business, especially if ethics and morals matter even slightly to you.

Zenefits Software Helped Brokers Cheat on Licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083706

ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692635

In May 2015, Conrad made the news after he revoked a job offer he made to an engineer who asked for advice on the question-and-answer website Quora about whether he should accept a job offer from Zenefits or Uber.

2016, California finds Zenefits almost entirely out of compliance on insurance regulation.

2017, Tennessee fined Zenefits for "a pattern of" failing to self-report compliance issues. Then California fined them $7M for "disobeying insurance laws".
Noted, it was pretty minimal in retrospect; just been spending 90% on the actual product. Made changes to get the message across better.
You can't blame creators for playing the game. All they have is that thumbnail to market their content.
Js13k 2024 Begins
js13k is a game jam competition. Make a game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip.

"The thirteenth, anniversary edition of the online js13kGames competition starts… NOW! Build a Web game on a given theme within the next month and fit it into a 13 kilobyte zip package to win lots of cool prizes, eternal fame, and respect!"
I wonder if you could create a national or federated ID system that takes advantage of blind signatures/ZKP to improve privacy. For example, you could create an unlimited number of identities to hand out to different buisnesses, and they could use ZKP to prove that you are above 18, a non-felon, or an organ donor etc. Dunno how something like photo ID would work.
Morse code beats all of these. Steepest learning curve, but fastest entry. At one point I remember people talking about modifying dumb phones (pre iPhone era) to have the ability to enter Morse code via a hardware button on the side of the phone.

The world would be such a different place if Morse code was taught in schools alongside other basics we learn.
>I don't think they can legitimately fall back on the "but we can't support it otherwise", since they already do. The cost of developing new iOS builds is amortized by the hardware they sell and the profit they rake in.

Those costs are amortized over the hardware sales specifically based on the current revenue model of the iOS platform. If you force a change in the model, or force them to produce new APIs and SDKs they had no intention of making and therefor no need to amortize, then I think yes they can fall back on "we can't support it otherwise".

The real simple question that has been never been answered in this entire discussion over and over again is what is the fair market value of Apple's SDKs, access to their platform and the support that provide for that platform if its not amortized over hardware sales and current revenue split agreements? Forget even trying to answer that for the entire iOS platform. If Apple puts NFC chips in their phones, and then:

1) Has to write an entire public SDK they weren't intending to write

2) That allows access to those chips outside their specific sanctioned and envisions use case

3) That requires providing ongoing support for that SDK and the uses of it outside their specific sanctioned use case

4) Expands their security threat surface for the underlying secure hardware that SDK will interact with and requires more development to secure it

How much money is that worth in cold hard cash up front per developer per update per hardware revision?
I suppose what you're doing is insulating the metal and also obscuring the reflective surface, right? Or does it not reflect microwaves? Curious.
I read it. At this point Techcrunch is paid advertising and as pg said, I could sense PR all over it. Also Rippling is like ok. It's not some amazing business either. Gusto I think did a better job with their software. Rippling's sales team is known to be aggressive and slimy.
I'm not adverse to the rhetorical device of "rules for thee but not for me" but really, it's always been a hierarchy, and the idea that companies implement flat policies equitably is demonstrably false. A very small number of smaller enterprises manage to stay the course, it demands "mondragon" levels of commitment to the principles.

Almost everything else has a pretty clear barrier. Above the glass ceiling you do what you want within the limits of the law as you interpret it, and below the glass ceiling, plebs do as they are told.

If somebody wants to make something of this, probably it lies in mistaken belief about Starbucks corporate culture and Seattle. Time passes. Remember, google left "don't be evil" behind over a decade ago, and Starbucks has not really been about Seattle for quite a long time. The CEO could be in India for all I care. It's a behemoth chain, with transfer pricing of the intellectual property behind the logo and the pump bottles of flavour. If you actually LIKE coffee, go somewhere else. If you wanted "wework" with a 1litre cup of something sweet it's got your back and free wifi to go with it.
Oh, there was supposed to be an "it" after "doing". As in, VW is causing life shortening in this situation, even if we use the word "contributing". In the string example many of the "contributors" are not doing string shortening themselves.
We should be doing both, for different reasons. Ban data brokers because they allow anyone with a credit card to stalk people, more or less legally. Fix the SSN identity system because even if you ban data broker businesses, dark web brokers don't abide by the laws anyways.
I love Rails, but the magic is often too much for me.

My many complaint is convention is soft. It has edge cases, divergent thinking, it has unplanned detours. This is especially true in a fast moving environment. I would much prefer that the magic wasn’t so opaque.

For me, 99% Rails is by far my fastest productivity tool. However, that 1% of the time it just sucks.
That turned out to be the case with the 2022 epidemic. This is a novel virus variant which is spreading with enhanced efficacy and to several areas where the disease has hitherto not been reported, by means which have not yet been adequately characterized.

And I'd say healthcare capacity in the afflicted areas is already saturated by default, in the senses I meant, which is that they have no remaining means to improve the outcomes for new disease cases.
Severe deficit of vaccine and relevant immunoglobulins, no meaningful access to antivirals (admittedly I'm guessing about this one) and little to nothing to offer in symptomatic treatment over self care.
My question to you then (and given your PhD background I guess you may actually have seen some data on it) is how many cases does it take before most "first-world" countries are in that situation as well? The USA may be better off than most due to strategic stockpiles of anti-smallpox measures, but let's say for the typical rest of them.
It’s possible Claude is using the same model tuning that they used to create Golden Gate Claude to dynamically tune the 3.5 model to be better at whatever task it’s doing.
> Ethereum has become synonymous with fraud. It’s finance minus all RULES and deprived of all MORALITY. In Ethereum right now you are literally seeing what Wall Street was like in 1929, rug pulls and all.

The irony of the newly minted ETF's from Wall Street in what appears to be a last ditch effort to give it legitimacy.
Can you talk more about the second order effects of watching your classmates die or feeling terrified that the same will happen to your own children?
For the majority of the population, their phone is their main computing platform. It makes sense beyond "vanity" that people want the display on their main computing platform to be large.

My wife inherits my phones, and when I first switched to the iPhone "Max" size, she thought they were ridiculously, impractically large and was reluctant to switch. But after she had used it for a month or two, she couldn't go back, having that big screen is just too nice. For watching video, looking at photos, reading text, etc.
"What if there were a sauna...for your trousers?"
"Those volumes equate to about 50 days of current global production", so not the disaster the headline sounds like.
Agent Q: Research Breakthrough for the Next Generation of AI Age
were you born this rude or was it a conscious choice?
Bloody hell, mate. This is ridiculously smart. Crazy clever hack.
Unrestricted access doesn't mean unmonitored access. Narcs are counted at every single access and records of who pulled what are kept and audited.
For me, it matches (DOB, last 2 of SSN) and seems fresh (has newest address, as well as older ones).
What if they used their resources and expertise to push RISC-V into a position that it could compete in the mobile and datacenter markets?
> Look, I'm not arguing that Apple isn't and doesn't make moves that are short sighted and seem purposefully designed to piss off the regulators. But I also don't actually see any option that isn't "free, unlimited, unrestricted access to all of Apple's SDKs and libraries indefinitely" that will ultimately satisfy. No one seems to have an answer for what model Apple can use

I do, hardware sales should be more than enough. They already cover the device's (and iOS's) R&D costs with more money to spare. This whole brouhaha is due to them simply wanting more, not because they wouldn't survive/profit at all without their current measures.
I think they took the video off because of the repercussions about some things he said:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-wo...

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-google-ceo-losing-ai-race...
I believe in this case, it also has to be labeled "no equipment ground". IANAE
Apologies if that sounded too cynical. I didn't mean that the general argument sounded "sales-ey", just that a CTO writing about how their company's implementation is better is not taking a thousand-foot objective view of the upsides and downsides.

In this case, I do think 1.0 and 2.0 are flawed names that imply one supercedes the other, when really it's a choice between scalability to levels most companies don't need at the cost of complexity most companies don't want.
You only need to share those changes with anyone that has access to your modified version.

If you modify an AGPL'd piece of software, but never distribute it outside your org, then your changes don't need to be released outside your org.
The navy used to throw the boards in the cleaner and repairs the failures. Now we have better cleansing solutions, but damn if that isn’t nightmare fuel. I would have pumped and dehumidified the room until parts could be pulled/repaired. These days they just scrap everything. It’s terrible.
They don’t exactly have a captive audience. Besides the corvette, their competitors pretty much universally have a drop in replacement.

Changing cars is a heck of a lot easier than a corporation ripping out software that they likely have a 3-year contract on, and would require millions in services on top of just eating the cost of the contract itself.
You can kinda do that with Pixels and Sony Xperias only, because last I recall, they implement Android Verified Boot correctly (or non-draconianly), specifically avb_custom_key.

From a security and freedom perspective, I actually like the restrictions of the Android platform if implemented as Google intended, which means allowing you to roll your own ROM and relock the bootloader with your own keys. Android itself has among the strongest security models for a consumer platform, again if implemented as Google intended (which is why GrapheneOS only supports Pixels). You're actually not supposed to root your phone because that opens up a large attack surface.

It's inconvenient for customization, sure, but you can still wipe the phone and roll your own system. It's a matter of the workflow to do it.
> Perversely, the reason we don't have this issue in IPv4 space is because the address space is of the same order of magnitude as the number of potential users.

Do we not? And is it really?

There are some /32 IPv4 addresses hosting many users, e.g. with CG-NAT, and it's already an issue with regards to blocking/rate-limiting.

Just like there are single-user /48s and multi-user /64s, there can be single-user /32s and /32s hosting tons of users behind a CG-NAT.
Oak focuses on running workloads on server-side TEEs
be it, reeeely? nope, dope. *

* #sorrycudnresistderhyme

repeat afta me:

we doan need no spellucation!
Why are data aggregators legal? In California can we create a proposition to shut them down in the state?
A lot of my posts are mildly cryptic and meant to be humorous, but I’ll just put this out here seriously. I think anyone who originates an identifier like DEADBABE is a sick pup.
So the Department of Energy emailed me
That's super complicated lol. Why not use the browser extension or accessibility feature?
And in turn libeled the person who they thought had borrowed from them.
Discussed yesterday:

Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242400 (339 comments)
How do routeability and BGP matter for the purpose of traffic source identification and rate limiting?
There's going to be a lot more of this, as people in gov work out how tenuous their links to supply chain logistics behind software systems are. When shit hits the fan and you trace it back to libcurl, as a government employee you want to be able to show you at least tried to acknowledge the risk existed, no?

I love open source, I love free software. I do actually want my government to front up and acknowledge the risks in building systems to depend on it, and not understanding its precarious nature.

An example from nearly 20 years ago is the CMU SNMP library which was embedded in Cisco routers. Maaaaasive worldwide CVE risk which had to be ameliorated, all because of a rational free s/w inclusion. The code was already 10 years old at that point. I doubt anyone from CMU was in the loop.

I've also seen the other side: I wrote a 2 line patch to some free s/w and I had to invoke lawyers for a sign-off requested by the s/w org. We were happy, but it's not exactly zero-risk to accept inputs now, if you're in the business of giving code away.
Good, that's crazy and unreasonable to email a company demands (legal and otherwise) when you don't have any contract and have never paid them a dime.
Because there are worse things than being down; if the front page got hacked and is spewing gore or CSAM or PII or creds, for example.
> You can securely use your own GitHub API Key. It's never sent to our server and is kept securely in your own browser.

Okay, what is the URL where I can get the exact key I need?

There are lots of kinds of GitHub API keys.