skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It might be a scam website - but that's no different to seeing an poster and manually typing in the address.

Disagree, because:

* QR codes are opaque to humans. You can't visually tell if one is legit or not.

* QR codes often use URL shorteners, so that the URL contained is just https://exam.ple/4pTF6x4M9 is not unusual.

Someone can replace a QR code with a sticker overlay and link to a phishing site. Replacing a URL on a poster is also possible, of course, but harder to make look convincing in the first place and significantly simpler to detect.
In some cases, an alternate option is to put the code into escrow.

At one of the bootstrapped startups I was a principal at, a very large enterprise customer stipulated that we had to work with a much larger entity (with which they already had an MSA) and technically, the software was licensed and delivered through the entity (who ended up getting the support contract in exchange). The code was put into escrow with this larger entity in case our startup failed.

(For all intents and purposes, this entity was absolute trash and ultimately ended up actively sabotaging us in some later deals because they wanted a bigger piece of the pie).

OS core is one way; maybe more prevalent in very large orgs that require MSAs is licensing through another entity that already has an MSA and putting the code into escrow with the third party.
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Indeed. Conversely, Apple are the ones now forcing you to buy into their walled garden if you want to support users on their devices.

We are a mostly Windows+Linux shop, but we need Macs to build and test iPhone apps, investigate issues with Safari on iOS, do certain iPhone support tasks, etc.
Hence the saying 'it's the volts that jolt and the mills that kill'.
Don’t forget

4) No one at the org wants to onboard a new vendor, because procurement can take 6-12 months.
Well the ones I've worked with couldn't care less.

Of course they love to show off how good they are to the poor disabled people, but that doesn't mean anything until some government reminds us that we are in breach of contract unless we make our GUI accessible.
Great answer, exactly! Client-side validation isn't meant to remove the need for the server-side checks
? Why are you replying to me? My position was pretty clear:

"Pipefail is useful and very hard to emulate on pure POSIX; you need to create named fifos, break the pipeline into individual redirections and check for error on each line.

And that is fine; but sometimes you want to treat a pipeline as a "single command" and then you can use pipefail to abort the pipeline on error. Then you can handle the error at the granularity of the entire pipeline without caring which part failed."

By the way, I never script in Bash; I only script in POSIX primitives using dash as my executable.
If her iCloud backup is 95gb then it only costs $3/mo. for the 200 GB plan [1].

If you're paying $30/mo. for the 6 TB storage plan then that's because you're choosing to store a ton of stuff there. It's certainly not because of your wife's messages. And you're making my point for me -- I do the same! $10/mo for 2 TB. It's great.

Cloud pricing is pretty decently competitive when you compare it to building your own storage with the same reliability, which is going to involve redundant on-site hard drives in a NAS, and an extra off-site backup.

You can also just delete the largest iMessage media files directly from the phone, there's literally a feature for that. Since most people don't really care about saving any of the videos or images after they've been seen, or you can save them individually to your Photos at the time if you do care. I do a mass-delete every year or two.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108047
I take it you meant form habits?
Isn't tutorial-level code exactly the best practices that everyone recommends these days? You know, don't write clever code, make things obvious to juniors, don't be a primadonna but instead make sure you can be replaced by any recently hired fresh undergrad, etc.? :)
Ask HN: How to tell legitimate consulting interview opportuities from scams?
I've been getting a ton of interview requests from "expert insight" companies asking to pay me anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for an hour long interview, as I have "expertise" that make me a good fit for it.

While this sounds like something I would love to do, it feels a bit fishy, especially when they start saying things like I could get paid $5000 for an hour of work.

Are these types of arrangements legitimate? If they can go both ways, how do you tell a legit one from a scam?
GTK doesn't much care about integrating into a Qt environment and doesn't really implement anything to make that work besides in some cases implementing the same Freedesktop standards. Even for basic things like the look of widgets you need a style that has implementations for GTK - there is no compatibility layer to use Qt styles. Gnomies in general don't care about anything outside their world.

The other way around is a bit better, e.g. there is QGtkStyle but AFAIK it is stuck at GTK2 and does not support using GTK3 styles. Still, behavior between GTK and Qt applications is very noticeably different.

It would be great if there was a shared ABI applications could use but GUI toolkits are too complicated for this to be feasible.
This is why it would be tough to be an AI startup in 2024… totally unrealistic customer expectations
Because it's a top-down decision from a multibillionaire. Doesn't scream "independent"
It's been years since I used Powershell, but IIRC there are shortcuts for the common commands, e.g. cat, ls, mv, rm, and such DTRT.
Tram derails and crashes into shop in central Oslo
Two High School Students Provide New Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
I am interested in hearing the rationale for downvotes explicitly. I am describing a reality that exists and must be taken into account. Why are you downvoting?
I don't know what the hell you're saying, man, but I swear on my mother that I would kill your whole
family. I'll tear them all apart, and right after that, I'll sell them on the black market, while you watch
the whole scene, you son of a bitch.
I think it's a bit dismissive to claim that "they didn't do anything about it", just because you're not living in a perfect world right now.

As one prominent example, the EFF has been actively campaigning all this time: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 in response to a basic threat to speech and privacy.". A couple of decades later, the Pirate Party movement probably reached its peak. These organizations are political activism, for digital rights and privacy, precisely by the kind of people who are here accused of "doing nothing".

In a few decades, people will probably look back on this era and ask why we didn't do anything about it either.
That reputation is more or less fabricated in order to shield the right from genuine critic. WP is not very left-leaning, I would consider them center. It's just that in the past 8 or so years the right has gotten much more radical, so it doesn't always seem that way.
For myself, my imagination and view of reality merged. My senses were fine but all of the processing and my imagination started writing to the same memory spaces.

I was aware that my senses didn’t match what I was processing. It didn’t matter.
Hotwire and Htmx – Same Principles, Different Approaches
maybe... Google doesn't support smaller languages for STT.

My other gripe with these tools is if there is background noise, they are pretty useless. You can't use them in a crowded room.
It's a perfectly valid point of view IMHO. The game is called The Invincible and marketed as being based on the Lem book, which builds up certain expectations which the game doesn't deliver.

It's a decent game / visual novel on its own, but it has absolutely nothing in common with Lem's Invincible except the name and that one core idea (which by now has become a common science fiction trope anyway - like most of Lem's ideas).

It also pulls a future Cold War scenario out of thin air which (as far as I remember) isn't even remotely mentioned in the book (which is more like a whodunit scifi crime novel which then becomes a tech thriller).

Also the decision to use a retro-future lollipop art style similar to The Jetsons is 'controversial' to say the least.

All in all, interesting and decent game (or rather "interactive graphics novel"), but marketing it as being based on Lem's book when in reality it's something entirely different (not just a book adaption with 'artistic freedom', but something entirely different) is a bit too much IMHO.
> Personally find it extremely easy to detect scams. You also don't need a degree or much more than a HS degree to check sources, this was taught to most of us in high school.

For every medical claim someone makes, you can find at least 3 papers published in reputable journals that claim the opposite. Knowing which papers are lacking and which aren't goes beyond what most of us were taught in high school.
I guess nominal, because not having kept up with inflation would be the main source of it sucking badly. I think of it like this:

You lose to inflation badly with uninvested cash. You get close to keeping up with inflation with near zero risk vehicles (CD or high yield savings account). You hope to at least keep up with inflation with medium-low risk vehicles (S&P500 or similar funds). You roll the decide after that (leverage, timing, stock picking, etc.).
Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Organize
As the previous comment says, you're the one with reading comprehension problems. The topic of discussion is the replacement of Chinese characters with a phonetic writing. I said that pinyin already exists and it has not replaced characters, so this cannot be easy as you imagine (just writing down the phonetics of the language).
Yeah, and they define good faith in that document as:

A party is "acting in good faith" for so long as such party and its related or affiliated companies have not:

asserted, helped others assert or had a financial stake in any assertion of

(i) any patent or other intellectual property right against Tesla or

(ii) any patent right against a third party for its use of technologies relating to electric vehicles or related equipment;

So, if another company rips off your IP but Tesla doesn't think it is a "knock-off product", you sue that other company, you're now in violation of Tesla's "patent pledge". Its an attempt to use a carrot of Tesla's patents to make all the other rightsholders essentially give up all their IP. If you sue anyone protecting your EV IP, you're in violation of this agreement and will be open to litigation by Tesla.
Re:trust. It just works using Sonnet 3.5. It's gained my trust. I do read it after (again, I'm more a code reviewer role). People make mistakes too, and I think it's error rate for repeititve tasks is below most people's. I also learned how to prompt it. I'd tell it to just add formatting without changing content in the first pass. Then in a separate pass ask it to fix spelling/grammar issues. The diffs are easy to read.

Re:Pandoc. Sure, if that's the only task I used it for. But I used it for 10 different ones per day (write a JSON schema for this json file, write a Pydantic validator that does X, write a GitHub workflow doing Y, add syntax highlighting to this JSON, etc). Re:this specific case - I prefer real HTML using my preferred tools (DaisyUI+tailwind) so I can edit it after. I find myself using a lot less boilerplate-saving libraries, and knowing a few tools more deeply.
> instead we have AC which is more dangerous

That's false. If you assume the same (effective) voltage, ac is considerably less dangerous.
Can you share a couple examples of non-skilled labor?
For me, that falls under one of the handful of reasons under (1).

But yes, enterprise rollouts are just a different beast for any number of reasons (contracting, legal, compliance, industry certifications, security audits, etc.)
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You say AI, but even more precisely: I believe that his ideas form the core basis of modern LLMs actually (their probabilistic word sequence modeling underpinning), which is indeed extremely impressive and deep.
I can see some potential for people with hearing loss. I've seen apartments and houses of such folks, with some small dedicated bulbs or even normal ceiling lights flashing furiously on all over the house upon someone ringing the doorbell.
A doorbell signaling smartphones, making smart wrist watches vibrate etc, could be reasonable in such cases. But it could be still a plain uncomplicated button next to the door.
> The magic of animal electrostatics is all about size. Large animals don’t meaningfully experience nature’s static—we’re too big to feel it. “As humans, we are living mostly in a gravitational or fluid-dynamics world,” Ortega-Jiménez said. But for tiny beings, gravity is an afterthought. Insects can feel air’s viscosity. While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size.

Very cool article. For example: butterflies accumulate a positive charge when beating their wings, which causes pollen to jump through the air toward them when they land on flowers.
I wouldn't call it bullshit, it's just unlikely to work for everyone.
I certainly have my complaints about Powershell, but it's got pretty good coverage, decent documentation, and cross platform support.
Flutter is weak in North America but extremely strong in LatAm / Europe / India / Africa
Here's a tip: aim for the nerve stem!
Encoding Agent Trajectories as Representations with Sequence Transformers
Researchers Just Figured Out How People Cheat in Online Games
I'm trying to find a legal copy of the original Russian book, but still could not find. Where did you get yours?

That and the original Russian copies of the Metro series..
DC was preferred by Edison, not Tesla, which is not more dangerous at all. That was propaganda by Edison to disparage *EDIT:AC current. DC is just as dangerous as AC.
Why is it "messed up"? It's a genuine question
Ask HN: Are the Node.js downloads broken?
We are using Node18 images in our CI/CD pipelines, and all of the sudden they are breaking with timeout during the image download.
As someone who works with causal inference most days, I expected to find much fault with this article. I was pleasantly surprised to find how rigorous the article is, despite some other comments here. For more information on the role of randomization in causal inference (experimental and observational), I recommend the books by Paul Rosenbaum, especially, "Observation and Experiment".
I just said that, scroll up.
How do you guarantee ACID with Kafka being responsible for actually INSERT'ing into ClickHouse? Wouldn't it be less error prone to just use ClickHouse directly and their async inserts?

https://clickhouse.com/blog/asynchronous-data-inserts-in-cli...
What is a hard science then? Not all of physics is in the "can control causes" bucket, same for chemistry, biology, medicine, ...
I'm not sure i understand your answer, to be honest, especially the cat fable.

> as needed by the economy

Even if that is the purpose of education, a mathematician, engineer or physicist who has a deep understanding is worth more to the economy, than one who can remember and perform algorithms and computations, isn't he?
> If I had a situation where it was impossible to run wires through the wall ...

Wireless doorbells can be found for tens of dollars. You can get them with multiple receivers you can place around your house.
“Salesforce will still appeal to big businesses with annual sales of $300 million or more since it has more sophisticated tools”

I question how much Salesforce cares about these smaller businesses. They might have let Shopify take this segment of the market to focus on bigger companies.
Yes. You write a function ApplyFooToBar(), and then unit tests that check that, when supplied with right Foos, the function indeed applies those Foos to the Bar. It's not a very intellectually challenging work.

If anything, the challenge is with all the boilerplate surrounding the test, because you can't just write down what the test checks themselves - you need to assemble data, assemble expected result, which you end up DRY-ing into support modules once you have 20 tests needing similar pre-work, and then there's lots of other bullshit to deal with at the intersection between your programming language, your test framework, and your modularization strategy.
I always wonder about this too. Half the ROS projects I've seen are just single-board applications with topics.

ROS bags are a useful facility for data capture and testing, and there are some ROS packages that are useful (against the backdrop of an awful packaging/build system). But even all that is just because the community decided this particular pub-sub system was the robotics one and started building packages on it.

So why ROS, robotics community, why?
https://archive.ph/Wzf3c
I read Permutation City with great anticipation and really disliked it. My favorite parts were when big ideas met the tedium of execution (like the avatars having to deal with the cost of spot instances, and running in lower-res slower-than-realtime environments.)

I liked Book of the New Sun in a pulpy way. I'm a huge sucker for dying earth settings, and it was great to read one of the originals.

I greatly enjoyed Zelazny's Amber series and have tried to get into some of his sci-fi, but failed. Perhaps it's time to give Lord of Light a third try.
I don't really agree. Google is great at AI development, they're just not so good at marketing.

And I think they're right not to push it too hard like MS is doing. Because the tech still needs work.

Personally I use neither, but I use llama locally which is amazingly good considering the limited resources it has to work with here.
Film production studios will have to adapt
QR solution needs the visitor to (a) have a smartphone with charged battery and (b) Internet connectivity. Quite common, but wont work for everybody.
What does Microsoft do now? Most every major tech company I’ve seen uses stack ranking - even if they don’t use that name. Hell, a lot of startups I’ve been at even use that. The founders and executives love it as far as I can tell - why else would they do it?
If your landing page doesn't look like this, you've launched too late: https://integuru.ai
Very cool, congratulations! Would this work for graphql APIs with introspection disabled?
> SourceSafe was originally created by a North Carolina company called One Tree Software.
I noticed the SNCF Connect app for France's rail was using it in their showcase which explains why the scroll views are so weird and busted feeling. They still stutter on a new iPhone. As a native iOS developer I'm somewhat biased and a lot of people likely don't care but it still feels off to me even for apps that use a complete custom design. I hope they can optmise away those kind of issues more as it's IMO always better to have alternatives.

Side note: Is anyone using Flutter just for Android? I'm kind of tempted to try this as dealing with the Android build system and packaging is bit of a pain, despite Kotlin and Compose being quite nice.
>Although real-time would be great, a max 5-second delay is manageable.

Humans can't even do this in immediate real-time, what makes you think a computer can? Some of the best real-time translators that work at the UN or for governments still have a short delay to be able to correctly interpret and translate for accuracy and context. Doing so in real-time actually impedes the translator from working correctly - especially in languages that have different grammatical structures. Even in langauges that are effectively congruent (think Latin derivatives), this is hard, if not outright impossible to do in real time.

I worked in the field of language education and computer science. The tech you're hoping would be free and able to run on older devices is easily a decade away at the very best. As for it being offline, yeah, no. Not going to happen, because accurate real-time translation of even a database of the 20 most common languages on earth is probably a few terrabytes at the very least.
'Doing a binary tree'? You mean visiting every node?

define walk-tree (tree fn &optional remaining-branches)
match tree
(Leaf l) ->
funcall fn l
if remaining-branches
walk-tree (first remaining-branches) fn (rest remaining-branches)
(Tree t r l) ->
funcall fn t
walk-tree r fn (push l remaining-branches)
I've had the same gripe about having to keep up with a second language just for the build tool for a while. Try taking a look at JeKa https://jeka.dev/
I'd say the killer "app" for the iPhone was the touch-screen. There were plenty of other phones that could be used to make calls, at the same quality for a lower price. Frankly, I still find the iPhone to be way too expensive for what you get in return.

For LLMs, the "killer app", for me, is already here. And there's two of them right now.

The first is the chatbot (like chatGPT or Pi or Claude). Having someone who you can just ask for any kind of information, from book recommendations to hypothetical space travel situations to advice about birthday gifts, and to get answers that are better than what I'd get from 90% of real humans, is huge to me.

The second one is the coding assistant, in my code copilot. It has made me at least twice, if not thrice as productive as I was before.
Ask HN: Home Assistant that uses my LLM of choice
Hi. Is there a device similar to Amazon Echo or Google Home Mini/Nest, that works on a "Bring your own LLM API" basis? I mean it gets an API key/endpoint from me and uses that for speech to text and conversation. I couldn't find much by searching :/
Not to mention a QR code excludes many people such as children and the elderly who might not have phones
I learned mathematics the regular way. So you're wrong - and not just about this.

> I see that you are desperately trying to distinguish "foundational" and "analysis" contexts from each other

They literally are different. The proof is all the people here saying that distributions aren't functions, while displaying a clear understanding of what a distribution is. Maybe no one's "wrong" as such, if they're defining the same word differently.

I think you're the naive one here. Terminology is used inconsistently, and I tried to simplify the dividing line between different uses of it. I agree it's inaccurate to say it's decided primarily by Foundations vs Analysis, but I'm not sure how else to slice the pie. It's like how the same word can mean slightly different things in French and English. I agree it's quibbling, but it's harder to teach maths to people if these False Friends exist but don't get pointed out.

I never expected some obsessive user to make 6 different replies to one of my comments. Wow. This whole thing thread was a bit silly, and someone's probably going to laugh at it. I need to take another break from this site.
How to use Kamal 2 and 1Password
Thales and Max Planck Institute Set World Record in Nuclear Fusion
Excellent article, and some fascinating discoveries. The idea of passive pollen spread via static buildup on pollinators make sense, but is kind of mind blowing to me at the same time.

For a much more enjoyable reading experience (at least on mobile):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-world-of-electrost...
Yeah, there are so so many B2B products that don’t seem to realize being 10% to 20% better than the existing X in a large company is close to meaningless.

In practice it has to be more like 200% better, at least, to be a viable competitor that has realistic prospects of being adopted.
Honestly, for serious use - yes, but there is a fun aspect to the app.
Have a friend or remote partner print the code, and ring a doorbell when they want to get in touch, or just as a reminder they'rethinking of you? Like a message, but without the 'baggage'