skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it seems like some non-trivial subset of travelers want to insist on not checking bags AND complaining about the rules. This feels a but unreasonable to me.

It's entirely reasonable to complain about rules you believe are unreasonable.

> Frequent travelers would often have credit cards that reimburse you for baggage fees. So what’s the problem? You have a choice.

The problem is I travel light, and my luggage fits easily in the overhead bin and/or under my seat. Why should I have to ensure I get to the airport early so I can make the baggage check cutoff? Why should I have to wait for an extra 20-30 minutes (or more, at the worst airports) after my flight to get that luggage? Why should I have to risk my luggage being damaged, delayed, or lost entirely?

I just had to check some luggage on a recent trip back to the US from Europe, because I'd bought a couple bottles of wine. That was the first time I'd checked luggage since 2007 (yes, 17 years ago). It was annoying and a waste of my time.

But it's not just the ban on liquids in carry-on luggage. It's that I have to finish or dump my water bottle before security, and hope there's a reasonable way to refill it airside with clean, not-foul-tasting water before I get on my flight. Some airports have dedicated bottle filling stations, but most do not. The water provided on the plane (without me constantly annoying the flight attendants for more, outside their beverage service times) is a small amount compared to what I'd drink at home in the same time period, and I drink more on planes since it's easier to get dehydrated in that environment.

This is security theater. We should always push back.

It's funny (sad funny, not ha-ha funny) that at this point it's mostly just accepted as the way things are done. After 9/11, everyone was so scared; we allowed the government to make travel (among other things in life) much worse for dubious (and often negative) benefit (and the US, being the US, infected everyone else with this nonsense). But now that we're 23 years out from it, many of the people who fly today don't remember -- or don't even know -- anything different.

IMO by far the biggest gain in airplane security we got after 9/11 was armored, locked cockpit doors, with would-be hijackers learning that now they aren't going to get access to the cockpit or pilots. Only allowing ticketed passengers through security is another good one (buying a ticket in order to get through isn't hard or expensive, but leaves a paper trail that can only be defeated with much more effort and cost). Nearly everything else seems to have made little to no impact.
Not to be confused with Surfer, SEO content optimization platform
evidence of crime removal festival?
Is visceral fat causal of those other health issues? Or coincident?
Ozempic for Longevity?
I'm trying not to assume nobody is in or out of the group. But I think it's fair to say that the group exists and to ask if the term for that set isn't cishet, what other description would they use to describe that set.

I'm not interested in asking nobody9999 to share any details about their own identity, just asking them how they'd label that section of the Venn diagram.
As far as I understand Kardinal manages Istio for you.
i.e. "Security through obscurity" - which isn't a phrase with a good reputation in these parts...

I note that if you know your way around the dark web, it's relatively straightforward to find a "financial crimes advocacy" website with suggestions on evading KYC and other compliance hurdles; obviously I won't repeat them here (and I know that probably the majority of would-be bank fraudsters probably aren't into checking the darkweb for advice) so I hope there's more to it than just information-control...
> I must strongly advise against making direct API calls from a browser, as it exposes your API key and violates best practices for API security.

Hilarious that even the LLM warned against this
TIL more about Dynamic DNS Update. Thanks!
Wow, a site about potato chips that is region-blocked so that I don't become a web serving cost without being able to buy their product, I guess. Wow.
Intermediate causal step. A bad diet (high glycemic diet) will increase insuline response, whose efficacy will be down regulated through several mechanisms, including accumulation of fat around our internal organs, which in turn further increase insuline resistance.
Win releases moisture rugged 0.1M GaAs pHEMT technology
It does not, and that fact is the #1 downside of Postgres. It is not predictable or controllable at scale, and comes with inherent risk because you cannot “lock into” a good query plan. I have been paged at 3 am a few times because Postgres decided it didn’t like a perfectly reasonable index anymore and wanted to try a full table scan instead :(
How does it compare to app.lmnt.com ? lmnt sounds quite good to me, near natural.
These are the most important, by far, as they are existential threats:

1. Pandemic evolution

2. Antibiotic resistance

A distant third is GHGs / climate change, and then the other issues that matter only if we stay alive.
As if there are not enough ways humans are wasting their time
I love making web apps where users bring their own keys. This approach combines the best of both worlds: the convenience of distributing executable files and the benefits of open source. So far, I have developed two web apps:

1. A live transcription and translation app that uses microphone input. This is useful for watching proprietary content and facilitating communication.

2. An app that translates SRT subtitles into various languages.

I opt for the "bring your own keys" model for two main reasons:

1. Low maintenance: As a professional software developer, I already maintain a lot of software, and the last thing I want is to maintain my side projects. My goal is to write and distribute these apps so they continue working without requiring constant attention from me.

2. Low cost: This model allows me to distribute the apps without ads. By having users provide their own keys, I can keep operational costs down and avoid the need for monetization through advertising.

This approach enables me to create and share useful tools while keeping both my maintenance burden and user costs to a minimum.
It does ask about if you use, not have. So maybe some people have a terabyte but only use 600gb
having abused a number of firebase databases I can say that the domain restrictions that firebase has don't do anything at all.
I'm not interested in what terms you'd use to describe yourself. I'm interested in what term you would use to describe the group of people who are not transgender and not homosexual.

Your own identity is not necessary not germane to this. I had used the term cishet, without any judgement intended, and some objected to that.

A Venn diagram exists, people told me not to label one section cishet, and I'm asking "if not that, what label should I use instead?"

The set exists. How do we describe that set?
> Efficacy has vastly improved at these validation steps with the assistance of LLMs.

Is that "efficacy" as the (customer-hostile) bank defines it, or is this more holistic interpretation that also factors in false-positives?

i.e. can you assert that things are better now for everyone, including the completely innocent people who often get caught-up in Kafkaesque KYC ("KKYC?") loops?
Tourists scaling the Great Wall of China can now get takeout delivered by drone
There's some underwater footage on the Sky News website: https://news.sky.com/story/hms-hawke-discovered-wreck-believ...
Indeed.

Take a country like Singapore where obesity rates are low (11%) but type 2 diabetes rates are high (9%).

Compare that with the US with much higher obesity rates (40%+) but only slightly higher type 2 diabetes rates (11%).

Plenty of skinny fat older men in Singapore. Slightly overweight but it’s all visceral fat.
Definitely waiting for the datalog query to be exposed before I’d use this.

If it was I would never use another database again.

I think the amount of people coming from datascript/datomic who have to work in js and would prefer to use datalog instead of learning a new query language is big.
> It may additionally be promising to test Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting strategies. This entails adding a “rationale” key to the model’s output such that the additional reasoning improves the performance of the model. However, this will require the output to be a composite object with the additional "rationale" key and string-valued response. Our results suggest that this additional output structure may result in lower success rates. Similar in spirit to structured decoding methods, it may also be helpful to prefix the end of the prompt with “{“ or use the key, such as “{“paraphrased_questions”: [".

For most of my prompts I want CoT.
When I tried Cody around half a year ago it only used Ollama for tab completion while chat still used propriety APIs (or the other way around). Did that change by now so you can prevent any API calls to third parties in the Cody config?
I don't understand what the expected behaviour is here? Let's say you dual-boot two copies of Arch so we don't drag M$ into this. You update one, get the latest bootloader update that increments this security generation thingy. You reboot to go update the other one as well but its number is too low, so it's unbootable. What now?
This class of drugs has been around for 20 years. It’s a very typical overnight success story.
Yes, it’s like storing passwords.
Thank you and tbh I could do even better if I re-did it today. This one is from 2020 and since then I've gotten into doing my DVD encodes at 540p for that sweet sweet integer-scaling to 1080, 2160, etc avoiding the shitty scalers built in to most modern displays.
I'm sorry someone hurt you. And I'm sorry you think I am the same as whoever they are. I think your anger is aimed at the wrong person, but I hope you are able to introspect and examine these feelings and find peace in the future.
It's theater. There are much better and easier ways to commit mass murder than trying to take down a plane. And yet, we don't see waves of airport bombings, train/train station bombings, shopping mall bombings, stadium bombings, theater bombings, etc. Why are planes so special that we have to endure inconveniences and privacy violations in order to secure them, when we seem not to care about all these other things?

The fact that someone tried (and yet failed!) to detonate a liquid explosive on a plane is not an excuse to ban water. Water! A basic requirement for life! It's absurd.
Every day, we get closer to what Ember.js did/does.
Superbase – Open-source Firebase alt. – Build in a weekend Scale to billions
Of course, the IP is visible. It's quite obvious. Most of the third party upstream DNS supports DoH, so the only thing your ISP will get is the queries of your requests to the DNS provider
Exactly.

This might be the perfect test for ones born in 60s-mid 80s but anyone later born will have probably score much lower than their actual "hackerness" (is there such a word?) and the test would really not reflect the truth simply because the used tools and techniques and memes of the era.

(But hey the test is from 1989 so it makes perfect sense)
> ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?

Anyone know if this refers to the same xorg-xedit program which you can install for x11? I've used it but I have no idea what is either VM or CMS.
This has been updated to now work with all main chromium based browsers: brave, Vivaldi, edge and chrome.

Also the binary build process now uses Node’s built in support for single executable applications, rather than a legacy solution like pkg
Rally up, ain't no fake hanging on Beastie walls. Time to turn what ever plastic they hung up real for the actual players.
And unhealthy.
Looks really neat. Thanks.

What do you use to sync your Gmail to local for notmuch to index?
How do you MITM TLS?
As I said, the better option would be a pre-Haskell era CPU so that you can flash libreboot on it and don't have to worry so much about intel-ucode, but that would also imply a more than 10 years old laptop.

I just wish there would be more free and open options.

The RISC V meme of the Hackers movie from the 90s is now so old that it's never gonna happen anyways. Those CPUs are nice and all, but you're even better off using a Pentium CPU performance wise, and that's a 20 years old CPU.
> it's the same drug as Ozempic but at a different dose.

Yea.. it's just a 5x higher dose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
I live in Britain and this katsuification phenomenon has totally passed me by. Indian curry, not so much.
Intro on X:
https://x.com/stopachka/status/1826674372175900724?s=46&t=mn...
MITM is not related to CORS
There are additional tricks that are more specialized or generalizations of the ideas here beyond their presented scope, like SWAR (SIMD Within A Register) over arbitrary packed bitfields. I realize this is not that helpful but most of the tricks not listed here won’t be interesting to most people. Many of the bit twiddling tricks that are widely known are also known to compilers, which can generate them automatically. Hell, x86 has single instructions that implement many of the well-known tricks directly.

Where these tricks become handy again is SIMD vectorization. The compiler is much less clever in these situations and the scalar bit-twiddling instructions often don’t have vectorized equivalents.
Let's not train users to do things that are generally unsafe.

"We detected fraud on your account. Click here to secure your account."

"Copy and paste your secret into this box, you can trust us not to look at it."
UK workers on the right to switch off: Uncompensated overtime should be illegal
I'm curious why a tech-first bank like Revolut is not building something like this internally if it's such an obvious cost-saving measure? I understand why traditional banks might not (no tech culture, old processes, all the usual bla).
Yes, Cody can use Ollama for both chat and autocomplete. See https://sourcegraph.com/docs/cody/clients/install-vscode#sup.... This lets you use Cody fully offline, but it doesn't /prevent/ API calls to third parties; you are still able to select online models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

I have a WIP PR right now (like literally coding on it right now) making Cody support strict offline mode better (i.e., not even showing online models if you choose to be offline): https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/pull/5221.
I don't understand this question, sorry.
> error: internal compiler error: It looks like you're trying to break rust; would you like some ICE?

Lovely, and the word game is just great.
Structured outputs in GPT-4o with JSON Schemas
I've used this, and the main ElevenLabs service. The reader has to be using a very very cheap model, it sounds worse than the Azure service (which isn't bad).

It's better than traditional text to speech, but I can't use it to listen to long form articles.
I think this falls under first sale doctrine. Specifically under disposal. So get a record, you own it (hopefully it was paid for, this might be issue). Paint it and now dispose it to artists...
One thing to note that don’t know, when “anonymously” uploading to IA, the email you use for the account will be visible in the archive manifest. Or something along those lines, it’s been a while.

So make sure to use a throwaway email for the throwaway account.
It's possible to brick some GPS units by sending them faked signals that advance the time until the next rollover. Then they're permanently stuck in the next epoch, far in the future.
Cortesy of Project Wakefield.

https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/wakefield
Which IMHO is a great thing (not getting anything from the link, but filing the blanks from your comment)

That means surprising flavours get a chance to be tested on the open, instead of the heavier gatekeeping happening until now.

We got pea based crisps, that seemed ridiculous at first, but it was incredible.
I think Ming Chi Kuo is wrong. It's not a Macbook. It's a foldable iPad.

There is no world in which a foldable, all screen, touch screen Macbook makes sense.

macOS isn't designed for touch. A full screen keyboard is not how people who want to use Macbooks like to type. If you carry a non-foldable keyboard to use with the screen, it defeats most of the purpose of a foldable Macbook.

Meanwhile, iPadOS is touch and is designed to work without a physical keyboard.
Almost certainly done to avoid the cost of regulatory compliance.
I love Manjaro Cinnamon on my gaming laptop. It just feels so nice, and it gives me great battery life.
Nobody pays for research with no meds.

Its not simple obesity. Many obese have eating disorders.

For permanent adherence, only quitting works.
This reminds me a bit of splittable random number generators [1], which are useful for monte carlo methods with fork-join parallelism. Perhaps ordinals would be the non-random version of that? But then again, it seems like ordinals couldn’t be a fixed-size datatype like a float, so why not use dotted paths as strings?

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...
We need to liberate the Postcode Address File
I don’t like pop-ups, regardless of the sort. There should be browser support for global opt-out or opt-in.
Interesting; I've build a similar application for assisting with the translation of localization files (mozilla's project fluent) and for the same reason as well.

I build this stuff for fun; and because I needed something like it. I don't expect to be making money of it so I want to minimize operational overhead and hassle. So it suits me to not have to build and run an application server for this; even though I'm well capable of building such a thing.

It's available here: fluent-ai.jillesvangurp.com if people want to play with this. It uses openai in the browser and probably can work pretty easily with claude as well. Bring your own key. It's all open source if people want to play with this.
Could ads even support such AI heavy use cases?

I'm kind of out of touch with current AI API pricing and ad revenues, so i'm curious how the economics work out.
I believe security checks on Eurostar only happen when crossing the Channel Tunnel (leaving from St. Pancras or Gare du Nord).
We listed aerc here on Terminal Trove with a gif / recording on what it looks like and how to install it.

https://terminaltrove.com/aerc/

Below is also a list of TUIs for email here:

https://terminaltrove.com/categories/email/
thats pretty unfair to the devs. You need a Developer ID through Apple, a mac, and you need to pay. Thats kind of a ridiculous expectation to begin with. Two of those things can be solved with money (a significant amount of money mind you, for the purpose of releasing a single application) and Apple can arbitrarily make the Dev ID process arduous and painful.
> If Android is giving untrusted web apps full access to your device’s hardware without adequately warning you, that’s a security vulnerability.

No it is not. It is a _feature_. Since a long time. A security vulnerability would be when Google does not get your data. /s
Switzerland is the first official open-source software country [video]
I don't think we are disagreeing here. They need that consent, and rightly so, in order to do those things with your data. Removing the popups is just not consenting.

You implicitly consent for some basic things - if you order a widget then you don't need to sign a disclaimer saying they can use your address for posting it to you.

You need explicit consent to go outside of that, just like regular social interactions. I don't ask permission to remember your name and address if you've asked me to pick you up, I should ask permission before signing you up for a mailing list using that info.

The popups are because they're trying to step hugely outside of normal interactions.
so simple!
Asking as a commoner without medical background. What is a effective method to measure visceral fat?
83% pure -- but then again, it took me 12 years after this was published to become a human.
Definitely not the first such scraper. DogSheep has been around for a while: https://dogsheep.github.io/

It is based around SQLite rather than Supabase (Postgres) which I think is a better choice for preservation/archival purposes.
Octane 0.703 g/cm^2

Acetone 0.7845

Water 0.99834

Hydrogen peroxide 1.1 (30%) - 1.450 (pure)

There is basically no way to synthesize PETN or TATP in-flight on a plane. It's only the cargo culting security theater of "liquids bad" because dumb, failed terrorists tried to use liquids in their explosives incorrectly in ways that don't make sense from a chemistry perspective. There are few liquids that would be a problem. I'd be worried most about mercury and aluminum alloy fuselages and binary explosives in improvised pressure vessels.
It’s running flawlessly on my iPad mini. Perhaps the site isn’t the issue.
The support is already there, via BrowserEngineKit. The problem is that no browser company wants to put the effort into maintaining an entirely different version of their browser that works only in the EU.

This is, presumably, exactly as Apple intended. So sneaky.
After 30 years of using and developing for Windows, the last straw was the repeated full screen ads pushing Windows 11. A couple months ago, I took the plunge and built an AMD desktop w/ NixOS. Goodbye forever Microsoft.

Now I get to look at the continued enshittification from a distance. It's still sad but at least it's no longer my problem.
WebAssembly programming is simply easier than GPU programming.

My game here [0] 6 years ago uses WebAssembly with a Finite Difference approach for the fluid part.
Nowadays, fixed-width SIMD [1] is standardized and supported in the browser. But I don't now any website using it.

I have tried porting it to WebGPU. It is much more complicated and only Chrome supports it right now. To get fluid simulation working via the older standard WebGL is more like a hack.

[0| https://github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/simd/blob/master/proposals/si...
I'm going to point out the obvious problem here: 42% RC identification is shit.

That means the first person on the call doing the triage has a 58% chance of being fed misinformation and bias which they have to distinguish from reality.

Of course you can't say anything about an ML model being bad that you are promoting for your business.
or the liability for the fault with the software maker. Like a defective car that kills ppl reners the manufacturer of the car responsible.
I think the comparisons to images are a bit misleading, where the author implies that generating images are somehow more energy-efficient than taking the photos yourself.

It basically ignores the fact that the very data these large models use came from real photos taken from real cameras etc. and that used real energy, which in the end should be included in the total training cost, i.e., in addition to the electricity consumed by the GPUs. This would have an impact in how the total cost can be amortised with usage. Of course the impact might be just to slow down a little the amortisation with use, but it still should be included for a fair comparison.

Same applies to some of the other examples they give.
Divulgational articles:

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044726