skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know how those scanners work, but I’ve always presumed they’re looking for individual chemicals. There’s not many you’d need to detect to find explosives (probably just high concentrations of carbon, nitrogen and metals?)
Pixel 7 stock OS root passes CTS Basic with Magisk/Zygisk and Play Integrity Fix (usually)

I'd also check out xda developers forums and see which phones are popular on there.
Is there a big enough "Internet access" fund by the UN yet? I feel like AI is a fun word but how can AI be accessed without the original building blocks needed?
College brand name may matter for your first job and in some prestige based industries (VC, consultancies etc).

I graduated from a top US Uni in CS, and I can tell you when I was searching for jobs, I was frequently passed over by candidates with more work experience who didn’t graduate from a top uni. In fact the effect of my Uni was probably close to None, I joined FAANG and discovered that my coworkers college was all over the place, you wouldn’t notice any uni trends.

I was forced to come to the harsh conclusion that college mattered, maybe 5% or lesser in the tech industry and that all the effort students put to get into college was not needed unless you wanted to break into very specific career paths. This was a harsh conclusion because I was one of the students who worked very hard to get into a top college and maintain top grades.
Because, surprisingly, terrorists are also people who live around others who aren’t terrorists.

A kid died in these attacks and hundreds of other random civilians have had life altering injuries because of it.
A lot of the hypotheses about Long <insert virus here> are about how well your body cleared the remnants. You can have a persistent reservoir of something for quite a long time until your body finally decides to clear it out.

One of the canonical examples of this are warts from HPV. There are documented cases of people having persistent infections until they "injured" a wart somehow, their body finally took notice, and then their body proceeded to completely clear all of them.

Modern medicine really does not deal with active viruses or their aftermath very well.
> Maybe also include a local PG like https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm for being able to play around with PG educationally with no required remote server?

I did not know about wasm-postgres, thanks!

> Having documentation around network model - do you relay queries through your own backend - and the security model for data and credentials. Do you support any secure connection methods, like SSH tunnel, or does the PG need to be facing the public internet?

There's no backend, the app opens a connection directly to the database. Credentials are stored on-device. No data will ever be shipped to a third-party without user consent, and I will never change this. (This is a large part of why I haven't put in any "AI" features yet.)

The app currently does not support SSH tunneling. This is something I will be working on soon.

Also fair point on the documentation. There's currently 0 docs around the app, and I'm not proud of that.
I got a Proxmark 3 clone from Ali for $35 or so, it's been fantastic. I'm not entirely sure how to crack Mifare tags with the Proxmark (how to efficiently brute-force the key), though. AFAIK the way to do it on the Flipper is to read the tag and then listen to what the reader sends (which I haven't gotten around to trying), does the Proxmark do things differently?
Also: Up to 30% of app pricing is due to price-fixing.

We (including the companies cannibalizing their own ecosystems for profit) would all be better off with a refresh of competition enhancing laws that (a) decrease barriers to entry & (b) apply increasing competitive restrictions as market share and absolute company size grow.
Yea they added flight deck doors that you can’t get through and a policy that the doors stay closed through a flight. The TSA did nothing to help, the planes are a hard target now.
Okay. You're right about what I wrote. Let me rephrase what I meant. I was missing the words "the widespread adoption of"

Athens had a democracy over 2500 years ago. A few Native American tribes had long-lasting democracies. Ukrainian cities were democratically self-governing 500 years ago, and Poland had elected kings.

Those were isolated examples. This was not a revolution. We also haven't regressed; isolated examples continued throughout history. If you point to a year, you can probably find some democracy somewhere. The only major regression I know in history was around 1000BC. Regressions are rare.

What changed was a revolution. From just before 1800 to just a little after 1900, virtually every country had a revolution which led to either being some form of democracy, or pretending to be one. Democracy was no longer isolated. We had the creation of a free world covering much of the world's population, and the creation of what was pretending to be a democracy (today, even the Democratic People's Republic of Korea pretends to be a democracy).

The number of countries which claim to not be a democracy, you can count on your fingers. Iran. Vatican City. Saudi Arabia. UAE. Oman. Eswanti. Did I miss any?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of...
Pre ACA was absolutely insane. Literally any change would have been better. The artificially limited and abusive process of training doctors is still completely broken. The training pipeline is pure protectionism. The rise of nurse practitioners and the creep of doctor like responsibilities for nurses is a sign of the complete failure of our doctor training pipeline.

Approximately each year we have 1 doctor finishing residency for every 120 births, compare that to Portugal which has 1 new doctor for every 57 births.

Horrible individual, family and economy destroying things from pre-ACA:

1. Because I wasn't born with a perfect body I was literally forced to work for a company until ACA because I was uninsurable. I started my first successful startup immediately after ACA became law with an idea I had fully fleshed out a decade prior. It's a horrid drag on the economy to introduce infinite health (and bankruptcy) risk to any attempt to be an entrepreneur.

2. If you WERE ever eligible for private insurance and every stopped paying for it (because you had insurance through your company) you were unable to quit that job and go back to private coverage, if you tried you would be denied if you weren't in perfect health. Fully contiguous coverage would still get you fully denied for "pre-existing conditions". Coverage was not guaranteed to transfer between states.

3. My family was bankrupted and financially destroyed because my mother was diagnosed with cancer during a short interstitial period where the company my father was working for suddenly went out of business and keeping cobra would have cost 15k a month so they didn't. It was so messed up she qualified for state medicare but that meant that my families income couldn't be above ~15k, my parents only option for my dad to get a normal paying job was to divorce (which they refused to do on religious grounds), this meant that I had to enter the workforce full-time to pay for my family to have a roof and food over their heads at 15.

Even though so much of the brunt of this was put on my childhood shoulders I was able to make it out ok all things considered because I am a complete bastard of a person, my siblings who were less resilient were absolutely destroyed, we were all in the top 10% of intelligence based on standardized testing.

The pre ACA system was a kafkaesque nightmare that was completely different state to state so many people found themselves unable to move states for work because coverage and eligibility was effectively unparsable between states for the laymen.
So what if it is a thin wrapper on OpenAI?
http://www.datatau.com/ gets mentioned occasionally for data science, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot going on in terms of comments

https://www.bogleheads.org/ for finance and investing

https://lobste.rs/ for tech, slower than HN

Also, here’s a starting point for your search from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214788
It's like there's a shortage of housing or something.
Not at the moment. SSH tunneling is on the roadmap
Have used caprover. Good that more tools enter this space.
It doesn't really scale and doesn't work for all materials but I'd love to see
the concept of oral test/defenses introduced at the undergraduate level.

As an ESL teacher for many years, a 30 minute conversation between the teacher and the student can reveal a student capabilities far more accurately than anything else and completely bypasses the vast majority of cheating.
I think you're underestimating how many people can clean their own drain (well).

Which is its own solvable problem, but is a problem.
I've answered that question here below the picture:
https://louwrentius.com/71-tib-diy-nas-based-on-zfs-on-linux...
"So what if it is a thin wrapper on GoDaddy?"

- Writ on the gravestone of approx. 500,000 dotcom-era businesses
Are the models of walkies talkies and pagers known?

Did they use batteries or rechargeable batteries?

I guess one of those might get banned as well.
I don't understand. Your professor said the paper wasn't due, then bumped up the date, told you about it last minute, said you didn't have to turn the paper in, but you did anyway?

I'm lost.
Defensibility in Digital Platforms
Nothing beats the experience of looking at code you wrote a year ago and thinking “who the hell wrote this nonsense”
Thuraya handsets don't work without reporting their GNSS position to the network in cleartext, they only work outdoors (ie they don't work inside tunnels and "hospitals"), and because of their cost they tend to be carried by senior leaders.

If I were the IDF, this is the communications system that I would prefer the enemy to use.
> Imagine all of them dying tomorrow, what happens?

The majority of landlords in the US (at least in the small scale - not sure about big complexes) do not own the property outright. They have a loan (e.g. mortgage) just like anyone else.

So what will happen? The banks will become the new owners. And they'll sell it at a discount to someone else (with a loan, of course).

I know it's easy to complain about landlords, but if you suddenly kill all landlords and ban landlording, you'll get a lot more homeless people.
Looks really nice and will give it a try on our codebase as an alternative to Winston.

Funny thing : one of the colleagues was unhappy when we proposed to define the logger as an interface, allowing us to switch implementation in one line. "We will never change the logger" he said...

export interface Logger {
debug(message: LoggerMessage, ...meta: unknown[]): void;
error(err: Error): void;
info(message: LoggerMessage, ...meta: unknown[]): void;
trace(message: LoggerMessage, ...meta: unknown[]): void;
warn(message: LoggerMessage, ...meta: unknown[]): void;
}

Great job ! Emojis can actually be useful while working locally, especially to detect errors quickly.
>Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militia whose sole purpose is the destruction of Israel.

This is the official position of Israel, yes, but the international community, including the US acknowledges that they are a political entity as well. You actually don't need to be on side with their positions to accept this fact.
Maybe there is no need for a centralized database of contact information, but there could be one for found pets.

Single resource. Any vet/shelter/guy with a RFID scanner can report found pet with this barcode at approximately this location. If you know this pet, contact us here. Presumably only vets and shelters would be adding to the database, so all of the contact information is already public. People who have lost their pets can then monitor this location/sign up for alerts after you lose Fluffy.

Not as great as being able to immediately lookup the owner, but eliminates some privacy concerns.
It has always felt to me that Wirecutter focuses on only one end of the Pareto curve ("what is the very best XXXX that money can buy, within reason") and ignores the middle of the curve where most people are actually shopping ("what is the best XXXX that I can get for $XXX"). It also seems to reliably ignore brands from Mainland China (Hisense, Midea, etc). I guess It makes obvious sense to court rich (or at least price-insensitive) readers.
Heh, I think I need to add something to the README. I've been pronouncing it as "zeeb" in my head as in the first syllable Zebesian Space Pirate from Metroid, but TIL that that's canonically "Zay-bay-zee-uhn" so idk.

Naming is hard.
Say tomorrow we outlawed being a landlord. Every multi-family and apartment unit would be demolished and turned into SFH, or sold off as condos.

And everyone would have to live with parents or friends until they could afford a down payment. That sounds like a worse world than the one we live in.
We need to start scaling this. Pay the money fund teachers to sit with students
not sure exactly what we're talking about but why must tiger parents have smart kids? I thought its just really pushy parents?

As a kid, to light the spark of a topic, i would say its more important that the other kids are genuinely passionate about something. Otherwise its just more homework.

Also you forget that the mean usually doesn't tell you a lot if you, like the poster mentioned, are mainly influenced by the immediate surroundings. If your kid is academically interested and already has good, smart friends, the gain of switching a better on average school might be negative.
Reminds me of when I spent some time learning functional programming. I did a Scala course and I still remember solving some of the programming challenges. The slightest lapse in concentration - I would immediately lose understanding of what I was writing. It would turn from something amazingly simple and elegant into a thing that was incomprehensible.
Do Epics Tell the Story?
It's almost never done with the full understanding of the person providing the proxy, doesn't matter if they get promised some change, their browser addons betray them or they install bundleware/adware.

I'd say it has about the same moral standing as a payday loan.
Who bears the consequences of their home being robbed? Or mugged on the street? Or a contractor taking payment for services and then disappearing?

Why are we subsidizing lenders’ by putting this ridiculous burden on people who have nothing to do with the lender’s business?

The lender can pay to appropriately verify their borrower’s identity, or go to court and sue for damages like everyone else has to.
Although I agree with the sentiment, is there a quantifiable way to demonstrate this? For instance, do people who declare their occupation as landlord have some demonstrable income distribution x std deviations above some control group?

I'd imagine they do but I try hard to not just imagine data matches my priors. (Yes, this almost always makes me unpopular)
ArcaneChat is now available in official F-Droid store
Vulkan is based on Mantle, which predates the release of DX12 by about 2 years.
Oh and as for Starlark, I went into more detail over in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41596426
Thanks for the treatise. Love the research and I agree with your very close reasoning.

In my defense, I attributed it to the dealer instead of stating it as undisputed fact because it has always sounded a little funky to me. On the other hand, the seat is so small there isn’t any obvious reason for its existence.

The subject was interesting to me but not interesting enough to pursue it much further because I was going to get the car anyway.
Maybe GitHub had already deleted it as malicious, but the email was already delivered.
Too bad AWS didn’t get that memo, 200GB would cost $18 there, and somehow the company in the original post is paying $500 for that bandwidth with whoever their proxy host is.
would they be demolished? or would their prices drop to the point that the people paying the mortgage might be able to afford to actually own the equity?
There's a good reason that "rent-seeking" is one of the biggest insults you can hurl at a business model.
That seems like an easy, reflexive way to ride current wave of discontent over housing prices. I am not suggesting that landlords are not entirely blameless in the equation, but suggesting they add no value at all is shortsighted.

Not to mention the obvious, the new owner would become the new landlord and the process would start all over.

I have to tell you though. This weird attitude makes me hesitate on my next move. My family unit was discussing keeping current house ( and likely rent ) and moving into something further away. I will admit that this anti-landlord sentiment makes consider just straight sale to the highest bidder.

Like.. I have a married friend, whose dad is an actual landlord asshole ( and he was confronted over that ), but not everyone is an asshole despite what some recent actions by humans may suggest.
This doesn't convince me.

For starters, FM broadcasting is hardly more complex than AM broadcasting and any vehicle built in the last 50 years with an AM radio also has an FM radio.

I can't imagine a scenario where FM broadcasting is somehow unavailable, but AM is. But further, if AM is the last line of communication, we are in a VERY bad situation indeed, like apocalyptic. One in which I doubt any survivors are listening to the radio in their cars.

But even further, in an emergency, it's highly likely that car drivers aren't even listening to the radio. Like, unless it's something that everyone is made aware of with communications other than through AM radio. But if those lines are open, then why wouldn't communication be broadcast through those lines?

You may as well argue that we should make sure all homes have land lines or telegraph lines. After all, that's also a line of communication that could be used in an emergency.
I guess in this hypothetical, imagine all ownership of the rental units suddenly transferred to the tenant. Would the net effect to the economy be positive or negative?
I feel like Klippers approach is fairly reasonable, let an non-RT system (that generally has better performance than your micro controller) calculate the movement but leave the actual commanding of the stepper motors to the micro controller.
Why wouldn't they just convert to owner-occupied apartments?

There's an argument to be made about affordability, but there are a lot of arguments against paying someone else, for which you receive no equity, and they get to keep any price appreciation of the property.

It'd be interesting to see a rental market that banned anything but rent-to-own contracts, where some portion of your monthly rent had to buy equity in the property you occupy. (With standardized terms for disposal, sale, etc)
I guess you can ride a bike blindly on a large empty lot with some assistance from friends to keep you within.
> IPv6 is undeniably simpler.

Perhaps to someone who's never been exposed to IPv4.

But for those who know IPv4 from before, it means almost a complete rewrite of all the knowledge. Just about every detail of setting up an IPv6 network is different from an IPv4 network, with just the superficial bits staying similar.

It also has bits that are undeniably more complex than IPv4, like dynamic address allocation. You got SLAAC, RA, stateful and stateless DHCPv6, with the latter being required in certain cases. And with that you now got two different ways to provide DNS servers to clients, and which one takes precedence is undeniably non-trivial[1] and even implementation dependent!

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8106#section-5.3.1
Why would you need to collude for higher rents with RealPage if a shortage of housing was the primary driver of rent increases?

If someone's being that greedy, they can't really use supply and demand to say their hands were tied in terms of controlling rent.
They can be parasites even without being richer.

Merely the fact that a typical landlord works far fewer hours than most other careers. Even a property portfolio of 100 properties probably isn't a full time job if you have managing agents.
And disc blows.
Because most people can't afford to buy the apartment they are renting. Some huge percentage of US citizens can't scrape together enough money to pay for a car repair. How are they going to afford an apartment?
That's true in some markets, but the DOJ complaint highlights some places, like Atlanta, where vacancy rates have gone up, but rents have still climbed higher.
Who manages repairing an upkeep on the property if not the landlord?
You can say similar things about shareholders or anyone else who allocates capital.

Calling landlords parasites is like blaming tech employees for gentrification. You're missing the bigger picture.
Haha unfortunately we use residential proxies under the hood to simulate real users (as you'd expect from AI agents), where bandwidth is significantly more expensive!
Not knowing what they are doing is the basic premise of disrupting a market. It fails most of the times, but when it succeeds, big chances it was made by someone that didn't really understood the problem
There’s other ways for example through mislabeled “residential” blocks, or “residential” proxies that are sold by ISPs to vendors.
My VPS provider just lets me take image snapshots of the whole machine so I can roll back to a point in time. It's a little slower and less flexible than application or component level but overall I don't even think about backup and restore now because I know it's handled there.
Is it really fair to call word of mouth "marketing" in this context, where it's implied to be intentionally pushed by the developer?
Which has absolutely nothing to do with Lebanon.
It's not normal, that's why its interesting.

A few things on that article, though:

1: If non-native english speakers were training ChatGPT, then of course non-native English essays would be flagged as AI generated! It's not their fault, its ours for thinking that exploited labor with a slick facade was magical machine intelligence.

2: These tools are widely used in the developing world since fluent english is a sign of education and class and opens doors for you socially and economically; why would Nigerians use such ornate english if it didn't come from a competition to show who can speak the language of the colonizer best?

3: It's undeniable that the ones responding to Paul Graham completely missed the point. Regardless of who uses what words when, the vast majority of papers, until ChatGPT was released, did not use the word "delve," and the incidence of that word in papers increased 10-fold after. Yes, its possible that the author used "delve" intentionally, but its statistically unlikely (especially since ChatGPT used "delve" in most of its responses). A small group of English speakers, who don't predominantly interact with VCs in Silicon Valley, do not make a difference in this judgement--even if there are a lot of Englishes, the only English that most people in the business world deal with is American, European, and South Asian. Compared to the English speakers of those regions, Nigeria is a small fraction.

If Paul Graham was dealing predominantly with Nigerians in his work, he probably would not have made that tweet in the first place.
The person living there, obviously.
> For instance, do people who declare their occupation as landlord have some demonstrable income distribution x std deviations above some control group?

Not really. Being a landlord takes a bunch of money to sink into the real estate assets. If you don't put it in there you'd just leave it in a mutual fund or whatever and be making passive income of about the same order. Real Estate is a solid investment choice but it's not *that* much better.

Basically this argument is for the form "being a landlord looks like a working class job but pays better and that's not fair".

But the actual truth on the ground is "being a landlord is just a different way of being wealthy, and you have to fix plumbing on the side instead of working a day job in an office".