skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The privacy policy is a litany of statements about how they collect all sorts of data and may share it with pretty much anyone under the sun.

Some of the more egregious ones I found:

Regarding using a social media provider to log in.

> We may collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account.

Kind of a given if you’re logging in with a social media provider but still.

Regarding collection of your location.

> While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission: Information regarding your location. We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company's servers and/or a Service Provider's server or it may be simply stored on Your device.

Regarding sharing of your data.

> With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

> With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

How we use your data section basically says we use it for everything and share it with everyone.

https://www.eartho.io/legal/privacy-policy
Makes me think of this Ray Bradbury classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghucDvQGrg
It counts any event where the plane has an unplanned event including unscheduled maintenance, unplanned flight deviations, and of course catastrophic failures.
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It seems Boeing already offered all this, save for the defined benefit plan, which obviously won't happen, and a 5% difference in the raise, from "extremely large raise" to "ridiculously large raise".

What compromise has the union offered from their own initial demands? They could stop the strike anytime they want.
Perhaps in the US where medicine and healthcare are hugely hugely expensive with loads of vested interests and profiteering and fingers-in-pies from every side of the table, sure.

But everywhere else in the developed world that has universal and free healthcare, I can imagine a lot of traction for AI from governments looking to make their health service more efficient and therefore cheaper (plus better for the patient too in terms of shorter wait times etc).

DeepMind has been doing a load of work with the NHS, Royal Free Foundation, Moorfields for instance (although there have been some data protection issues there, but I suspect they are surmountable)
I switch between OS X and Ubuntu a few times a year, and the only difference is that I have to restart Ubuntu far more often than OS X.

All I run is a browser, text editor and terminal, so functionally it doesn't matter one bit.
If you know you're in honey then you act accordingly. If you think you aren't in honey then you're more likely to let your guard down and get into trouble.

For instance, an embassy with clear telephone and telegraph lines knows they're being listened to, and subsequently is very careful about what they transmit. An embassy who has bought Crypto AG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG ) equipment thinks they are secure and transmits information they would never dream of sending if they knew they were being listened to.
I don't think I've ever seen an interaction of this kind of as smoothly, kudos to both of you, and I'm trying to learn from it too :)
From what I gather it's exactly this in reverse: they already were a consulting company providing development environment to teams as part of their package, and Flox is an internal tool they open-sourced. (interpreted from what I read on their about page: https://flox.dev/about/)
The following is a wildly optimistic speculation here since we're talking about government bureaucrats here, but perhaps they noticed that in the Windows/IE case:

- The choice screen thing didn't make one lick of difference, and:

- MSIE died of completely self-inflicted wounds anyway only a few years after this.

Perhaps these two facts, though they don't prove the 'choice screen' was bad, also did nothing to establish that approach as a proven way to promote competition, so regulators weren't moved to emulate it.

(Personally, I would argue that choice screens at a point in time when one option has overwhelming mindshare are pretty pointless. Everyone will choose the dominant one by recognition, except geeks who knew how to change defaults anyway, and confused newbies who are probably the ones who realistically should be using the most 'mainstream' option anyway.)
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There is also a (bit wild) theory that St. Mark's relics in Venice are actually remains of Alexander the Great. The idea is that he was buried in Alexandria in Egypt and when the Christians started looting and pillaging someone swapped them for St.Mark's remains as those would be protected from them
As I started reading the definition, Forbes immediately came to mind. Just shut that shit down.
I think you're letting perfect be the enemy of good. It doesn't have to be pure 2FA to be better than 1FA. Being in separate apps does give some benefits. It's always going to be harder to compromise two apps than it is to compromise just one of them (even if the difficulty increase is marginal, it's non-zero). Often simply not being low-hanging fruit is enough to save you from an attack.

There are plenty of things for which a 2FA in PW manager is fine, but the most important things I think it's an unnecesary and regretful reduction in security. For example, email account. Email is the "forgot password" way to get access to almost everything, so it's worth a trifling inconvenience in having to load your 2FA into a different app. Same with things like AWS, Cloudflare, and other high-value targets. For the vast majority of people, keeping your Twitter seeds in your PW manager is fine, but it's foolish to do that with your email and other high-value targets, and IMHO if you're already going to have to have two apps, you might as well just standardize and keep the seeds in your authenticator app, and your passwords in your vault. YMMV
> not great ... in terms of efficiency

Is how this thread started.

And a similar sized car with the same LFP batteries has a similar efficiency to the Model Y. Tesla has generally been regarded as making efficient EVs.

edit: probably worth mentioning that the Teslas with LFP use BYD made batteries.

second edit: and for those unaware, the LFP batteries are safer and cheaper, but their key drawback is that they are less energy dense.

This both explains a key Chinese EV advantage (LFP is about half their market) and why comparing them with non LFP cars on efficiency is misleading.
Interesting - whats the frequency - response hypothesis? I don't think you would want to do lymphatic drainage everyday unless you had a problem with your system (?)
I’m not sure if anyone else has really tried, but I’ve tested it a few times and never hit meaningful results.

1) I tried using it for QA for my SaaS but agent failed multiple times to fill out a simple form, ending with it saying the task was successfully completed.

2) It couldn’t scrape contact information from a website where the details weren’t even that hidden.

3) I also tried sending a message on Discord, but it refused, saying it couldn’t do so on someone else's behalf.

I mean, I’m excited for what the future holds, but right now, it’s not even in beta.
I’ll wager if you got into a situation you can’t escape where you had a 30% chance of a horrific death over the next six hours you wouldn’t snuggle into your sound suppressing headphones and doze off between snacks no matter how inevitable things are.
Getting Claude Computer Use agent to spin up another agent in its VM
Definitely fair points re: the Synclavier and the Fairlight.

That said, from memory I'm pretty positive there's a few 'sidenotes' in the era which would have utilised general purpose portable computers as part of a live performance. The UK synthpop acts cobbling together gear post-Depeche Mode's 1981 'Speak and Spell' Album, with stuff like the Alpha Syntauri setup for the Apple II used by Herbie Hancock and Laurie Spiegel coming to mind.

https://www.vintagesynth.com/syntauri/alphasyntauri

You then went even more niche, for the sake of academic argument, with the Amiga demo and modscene which often focused on the use of Tracker MODs for live performance and 'DJing' on COTS consumer PC hardware.

I'd also eat my hat if there weren't Jazz and new-wave artists utilising the FM Chips in the early NEC and PC-88 style line at the time - i.e. the natural progression of the chiptune scene going full polyphony and fidelity from the MOS chip in the C64.
Is Skyvern able to scrape data from multiple websites with different structures and combine this data into structured data in one CSV or JSON file? Example: scrape interest rates offered on savings accounts from multiple bank websites and extract the name of the bank, bank logo, product name and interest rate for each account and run this saved query on a regular schedule (daily, weekly etc)?
Great. After reading that headline my subconsciousness is going to put a whole new weird spin on my nightmares.
Replying to my own post for a couple of follow on comments:

1. I wrote this comment using kakoune as the editor under w3m

2. I don’t know emacs as well as I’d like to. Anyone want to chime in on how you’d do this in emacs?
I know how to solder thru-hole. I have never done SMD, though I'd like to learn. How do I rate myself? I'm average to a little better than average, as in I'd never say to anyone "oh Yeah, I'm really good at soldering". More like, "oh, you didn't know how to solder? I can either do it for you or try and teach you the basics".
I wish there was less focus on AI replacing humans and more focus on AI helping humans do better i.e. Intelligence Augmentation. IA drove a lot of the rapid progress in the earlier days of computing that made computers usable by non-experts.

I suspect a lot of the thinking of replacing humans is driven a lot by the nerd scifi facination with the Singularity, but if a lot of the hype fails to materialize after billions of dollars have been poured into AI there could be an over-correction by the market that would take away funding from even useful AI research.

I hope we'll hear less of AI replacing X, and more of AI enhancing X, where X is radiologists, programmers, artists etc.
> Arm’s other customers lose either way.

Sure Arm has done things - eg pricing v8 to v9 that customers hate. But do you really think Mediatek for example wants to compete with Qualcomm selling Nuvia based cores with a low ALA based royalty.
Copilot was the first mover, but other tools (built on worse models!) can do just as well.

Until one product becomes clearly better, the code AI ecosystem might just churn and churn and churn.
> As always, workforce will adapt

I was never a fan of the term "Singularity" for the AI thing. When mathematical singularities pop up in physics, it's usually a sign the physics is missing something.

Instead, I like to think of the AI "event horizon", the point in the future — always ahead, yet getting ever closer — beyond which you can no longer predict what happens next.

Obviously that will depend on how much attention you pay to the developments in the field (and I've seen software developers surprised by Google Translate having an AR mode a decade after the tech was first demonstrated), but there is an upper limit even for people who obsessively consume all public information about a topic: if you're reading about it when you go to sleep, will you be surprised when you wake up by all the overnight developments?

When that happens, no workforce can possibly adapt.

How close is that? Dunno, but what I can say is that I cannot tell you what to expect 2 months from now, despite following developments in this field as best I can from the outside, and occasionally implementing one or other of the recent-ish AI models myself.
Safe C++ does exist today: it’s implemented in Circle. You can try it out on godbolt right now.
I honestly don't think the password manager market could bear more than $3–5/mo for an individual user or family.

I used 1Password for years until they went from one-time payment to monthly sub and removed local sync so you could only use multiple devices by paying them. I think a big decision there was that they wanted $10/mo or something. I can't remember, but at the time it seemed ludicrous.

Years later, when my new laptop couldn't run the final local-sync version of 1Password, I finally decide to look into password managers again, and lo and behold $3/mo. I signed up immediately.
Do you actually use Rider for F#, or are you just repeating old wisdom? Your comment is rude and unhelpful, because I gave my direct experience as to why I stopped using Rider, and you responded with an empty platitude. Yet you did so in the most thoughtless, dismissive way imaginable, as if I was simply lying.

Rider was first-class a few years ago but has gone badly downhill, and it does not support F# on newer versions of .NET - or at least it didn't in June 2024 when I cancelled my subscription.
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This also works perfectly in Microsoft Edge and has for a long time. Pointing this out because the post makes several references to things being exclusive to Chrome, when really it's probably just Chromium.

(I'm still puzzled why so many more people choose to use a browser distributed by the world's largest ad network over one with all the same features plus a few nice add-ons, made by a software company.)
I hope you've rotated all of these keys: https://github.com/homie-gg/homie/commit/641518a57b7e6496f24...

Simply removing them in a commit isn't enough to hide them from the internet
Isn't it the prions gradually destroying their brain that's killing them?
There is no problem. This is just a non holomorphic function of C to C. Differentiable functions are the exception not the norm (no pun intended).
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I'm all for the MVP approach and shipping quickly, though I'm really surprised they went with image recognition and tooling for injecting mouse/keyboard events for automating human tasks.

I wonder why leveraging accessibility tools for this wouldn't have been a better option. Browsers and operating systems both have pretty comprehensive tooling for accessibility tools like screen readers, and the whole point of those tools is to act as a middle man to programmatically interpret and interact with what's on screen.
I don't know why you're downvoted, you are correct. People just don't like their bubbles being popped.

I do software, have done it for about 20 years. My job has been perpetually "on the verge of becoming obsolete in the next few years", lol. Also, "yeah but as you get older people will not want to hire you" and all that.

Cool stories, *yawn*.

Meanwhile, in reality, my bank account disagrees, and more and more work has been increasingly available for me.
Why are victims of a Brazil dam disaster suing miner BHP in a London court?
In metashape, you can export the cameras in the colmap format, in RC you might have to convert first to Kapture and so on, afaik.
That’s a claim about dangling pointers and ownership. Profiles do not solve aliasing or concurrency, as two examples of things that Safe C++ does that are important for memory safety.
> the workers are loosing money since Boeing is refusing to come up with an acceptable deal

Right, I believe that is what I said: both Boeing and the machinists are losing money because both Boeing and the machinists are refusing to come up with a mutually acceptable deal.

> I'm genuinely curious what they even want, aside from the pension plan they obviously won't get.

TLDR from the initial demands

I know what the initial demands of both Boeing and the machinists were, and now that they've both announced their initial demands, we move on to both parties compromising.

Surely neither party thinks they'll get everything they want at the expense of the other party? That's no recipe for a working compromise. Like do the machinists actually think companies can afford pension plans for everybody? Have the machinists done the math on that?

Honestly, it feels weird asking 1 former employer to take on the responsibility for guaranteeing a decades-long retirement. That responsibility should fall to individuals and/or governments. I view the role of employers as paying workers to work, with both parties being able to terminate the deal by leaving, and with both parties keeping what they accrued during the deal.
Laughably, the privacy policy states in several areas that they only collect, share, or retain data consistent with the privacy policy. E.g.

> The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

And the privacy policy essentially provides for every purpose they would want to use your data. Sharing, for example:

> With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

> With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

Pretty egregious.

https://www.eartho.io/legal/privacy-policy
Not a bad piece. I quite liked how they manage to find the likely middle ground between the doomers on both sides while still twisting the knife in the typical “workforce will adapt” chuds who think they’re above the fracas.

It’s not about whether the present AI bubble is a giant sham that’ll implode like a black hole, or if it’s the real deal and AGI is days away. It’s always been about framing the consequences of either outcome in a society where 99.9% of humans must work to survive, and the implications of a giant economic collapse on those least-able to weather its impact in a time of record wealth and income inequality. It doesn’t matter which side is right, because millions of people will lose their jobs as a result and thousands will die. That is what some of us are trying to raise the alarm about, and in a post-2008 collapse world, young people are absolutely going to do what it takes to survive rather than what’s best for society - which is going to have knock-on effects like the author described (labor shortages in critical fields) for decades to come.

In essence, if one paper from one guy managed to depress enrollment in a critical specialty for medicine, and he was flat-out wrong, then imagine the effects the Boosters and Doomers are having on other fields in the present cycle. If I were a betting dinosaur, I suspect there will be a similar lack of highly-skilled programmers and knowledge workers due to the “copilot tools will replace programmers” hype of present tools, and then we’ll have these same divorced-from-society hypesters making the same predictions again, ignorant of the consequences of their prior actions.

Which is all a lot of flowery language just to say, “maybe we need to stop evaluating these things solely as ways to remove humans from labor or increase profit margins, and instead consider the broader effects of our decisions before acting on them.”
In my country the dad would be locked up no question right away for this and be facing a criminal trial, not free to be out there starting vexatious lawsuits to distract from the fact that they did a bad thing
It's so fucking salty that it is near unpalatable! And I consume too much salt! How do you eat spam in earnest?
There are dozens of RPA businesses. UIPath etc.

We had one that was a simple download from here and login and upload there. Having the accounting team be able to automate that versus devops is huge.
Not if you choose to have separate URL and search bars. In that case, Ctrl-L goes to the URL bar, and Ctrl-K goes to the search bar.
What do we know about apples other backend services? I’ve worked in compute infra in big tech for 8 years and I don’t know anything about apple’s backend.
Is there any code assistant that can parse entire big codebases and help me implement a “story”?
Indeed, when that's the case I think the PW manager is fine.

Though, if you already have to have an app for the important stuff like your email, then IMHO it's actually simpler to just keep them all in one place even if you don't care too much about some of the tokens. Just one less thing you have to remember (i.e. where did I put service X's token again? was that in bitwarden or Aegis? etc).
Or maybe over-confident arrogant CS majors aren't experts on every other irrelevant subdomain and it's not some absurd absence of meritocracy/bad gatekeepers from preventing them from ruining other fields by letting them rely on everything?
Really shows the slow slow slow glacial pace of science and how fragmented the information distribution mechanisms are…
> Very clearly a packaging issue that got blown out of proportion.

CTO:
> There are no plans to adjust the SDK license at this time. We will continue to publish to our own F-Droid repo at https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/repo/

https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issues/898

Doesn't seem like a mistake or unintentional action.
I always suggest people buy the low sodium spam. It's easy to add salt to a recipe if you need it but spam by default includes so much that kind of limits the flexibility of what you do with it.
US gets $100M settlement for Baltimore bridge collapse
Have you seen UiPath? The enterprise automation business is massive.
Ask HN: Looking for recommendations on clustering similar LLM questions
Looking for recommendations on clustering similar LLM questions for trend analysis. I'm considering two approaches:

1. Vector space embedding + n clusters -> sample 10 questions per cluster for LLM summarization. Works well when themes/intents aren't predefined.

2. Using LLM to predict question intent/labels. More expensive but better when we have defined themes.

Which approach would you recommend?
“Real” in the sense it exists within your mind, which exists (somehow) within your brain, which is itself likely real. So your imagination must have some physical basis, but it would exist entirely within your brain (or body, to the extent the rest of your body influences the brain itself).

Your brain imagining a specter in a doorway does not mean there is any anomaly within the physical space of the doorway at all that anyone else could perceive or measure - they would need to measure your brain to (theoretically) detect the physical basis of it.

What you see, feel, hear, taste is an interpretation of your physical environment, and may not accurately reflect it at all times.