skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI can be used as a replacement for existing welfare programs, but you're not pursuing arts or starting a business on it. My point was, people will still prioritize earning more money when on UBI instead of pursue their passions because it won't be enough. UBI is not a safety net, if a middle class salary person fails, they would have to work hourly lower wage work, that's why they keep working their middle class job, it isn't because they fear starvation or losing their shelter.

UBI would relieve stress for the lowest earning people, but it won't result in pursuit of passion for most people. economically speaking, because most people can afford certain things (like rent) the price of those things will go up, things are priced based on what potential consumers are willing to pay. If rent costs $1000 for a specific type of unit, but suddenly everyone on UBI can afford that easily, the landlord would raise the rent, the cost of things won't remain static when wages rise for a large portion of the population. Increased demand without increased cost is loss of potential revenue. The quality of life for people on UBI would be barely surviving, and UBI would need to increase constantly to keep people from becoming homeless or starving.

This is the "Cobra effect" embodied. It provides a perverse incentive. healthcare in the US is out of control for this reason. health care providers keep increasing cost, because the patient is not the client, the insurance company is, so long as everyone is getting insurance, the cost of care is the maximum reliably predictable pay out by the insurance company. Not increasing cost is just bad business. You will have to also force all kinds of businesses from raising prices if it can work, and even when it works UBI will result in subsidizing low-wager workers for businesses, because they'll still have to work some job to afford anything outside of food,shelter and the basics.

A practical alternative to UBI is a local tax on businesses, kind of like a property tax but this tax is based on an inverse of an assessment of wages, rent, welfare pay out and other social conditions in the area. the higher wages are, lower rent is,etc.. the lower the tax is, it might even result in a credit. An inverse of a perverse incentive like UBI. Unemployment would also be partially funded through this, the unemployed would forever get a UBI like pay out so long as they are pursuing education or work of some kind based on what is in demand in their area. Businesses get a healthy talent pool to choose from and cost of living is balanced.
only america has "04/15" - in every other normal place you talk about actual REAL money, not fictitious money you ain't ever going to see... there are no "deductions" to speak of or anything like that. benefits are federal, HI is taken care of etc etc... only america is all weird about all this (but it is ingenious as you discuss your salary as if you make twice what you do - makes every feel good about - "hey I make $300k" and you actually make $150-$180 depending on state/locality you are at...).
I'm not a fan of that kind of magic in my languages but such a thing was already easily doable in PHP. You could just have a base class that implements __get and __set so that $this->foo automatically calls $this->getFoo().
That's because the person has no real answer.

None of the people pushing this concept does.
I was also curious about parent's claim so I did some searching of my own. The claim is from a report published a few days ago called 'South Africa, Hamas, Iran, and Qatar: The Hijacking of the ANC and the International Court of Justice':

https://isgap.org/follow-the-money/

Its author, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, is ostensibly American, although I can find no indication of its incorporation in the USA. The Israeli government is the largest donor to the organization according to 'The Forward', which is a newspaper incorporated as a non-profit charity in the USA.
How did you get your first 100 beta testers?
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Because they don't want Israel's prisoners to spill over into their country. Israel has controlled what can pass the border since 2007 or so.
Wiz acquires Dazz for $450M to expand its cybersecurity platform
Really curious how the Windows 10 EOL crunch is going to go next year.

It feels like there must be a ton of systems out there with pre 8th Gen Intel CPUs and with no TPM. On the one hand, PCs are cheap enough nowadays that maybe MS can force them to replace it, not to mention that cell phones and other mobile devices have taken the place of the primary personal computer for most regular people.

On the other hand, Windows 10 might end up sticking around much longer in the same way that XP did. In which case MS might be forced to support it with security updates beyond 2025, or be forced to release a version of Win 11 without the CPU and TPM requirements.
Luanti [1] (Minetest) has a fractal map generator ("mapgen"). You can test it for yourself. It's funny at first but becomes eventually boring.

Its other mapgens massively some kind of Perlin noise in various ways, so that you can have "realistic" landscapes (e.g. the Carpethian mapgen) or landscapes with impossible mountains and floating rocks sometimes (e.g. the V7 mapgen) that are good for fantasy/sci-fi worlds.

Noise is a pretty efficient way to fake complexity, and it's not a coincidence [2].

[1] https://www.luanti.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
"We're also going to discuss the iron-clad commitment-- and this is-- I'll say this 5,000 times in my career, the iron-clad commitment the United States has to Israel based on our principles, our ideas, our values. They're the same values. And I've often said, Mr. President, if there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one."

Added emphasis to clarify the context of the quote.
What do they call the law that says they can’t increase the major version?
It's nice to see that Rationalists have reinvented Maimonidean virtue ethics. The idea that humans personality is maximally pliable, and this is metaethical grounding for the concept of moral responsibility is an extreme on a spectrum. It has some inspirational value, but I've never found it especially compelling.

Also, the fact that this article does not mention the Big Five once really makes me feel like the author is trying to reinvent the wheel but has never looked at a wheel before. Despite its flaws (and the broader methodological critiques you could level at personality science as a whole), it is the most scientifically grounded model of human temperament that we have right now. But why start with the latest science? That would involve leaving your bubble, which is a major no no.

Sorry for the snark, but this is scientific reasoning as cargo cult at its worst.
Boy it almost seems like we should look at what factors (apartheid state, oppression, etc.) led to the formation of Hamas
slam the keys hard enough and you get all caps?
PHP has had the ability to dynamically handle properties for decades so this doesn't hurt readability -- in fact, it makes it better.
Think about the life long trauma of the daughter. Not only did she witness the multiple shooting that ended her father's life firsthand, she will have to live with the fact that she indirectly caused her father's death even if she can reason that it is no fault of hers.
Azumanga Daioh mentioned :)

I like the pun on “hot girl stuff” https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/hot.html
stockholm syndrome is real
How Modern Treasury Invented Event Locking
China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
I mean if anyone is yo blame for the Israel situation it's the UK.
Daily scrums, code reviews, and close collaboration should lessen or keep mistakes at bay. I think working closely with the team and having someone to check your work, anticipate missteps early, and provide guidance helps. We can't expect to sit alone and release something great. It's a team sport.
Well, at least you are aware and considering oldster eyes. Apple regularly makes incredibly bad UI choices that would be easy to avoid.

Serious cyclists tend to be on the older side…
Ha, several days after hearing about CVE-2024-10914 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10914)

> Description
>
> A vulnerability was found in D-Link DNS-320, DNS-320LW, DNS-325 and DNS-340L up to 20241028. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function cgi_user_add of the file /cgi-bin/account_mgr.cgi?cmd=cgi_user_add. The manipulation of the argument name leads to os command injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

The "The exploitation appears to be difficult" bit, AFAICT, is solely based on the presumption that most users won't put their NAS on the internet.

First heard about it was from the "Low Level" channel on YouTube -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vpGswuYVg8 -- the bug/vulnerability is pretty embarrassing. And D-Link's approach of "scrap your old purchase, buy a replacement model" is pretty insulting.

Probably going to avoid D-Link products where I can.
IT IS a mess, but I never saw json inside a cookie. For json I use local storage or indexeddb.
Minutes a day lowers risk of heart disease by 20% [video]
> have declared the "rules-based world order" dead

I have hunker are confusing two things here - there is international law, which the US and other delinquents break regularly.

And there is Rules based world order, which is what US talks about and attempts to impose.

For example imposing sanctions on Russia does not have basis in international law, but is part of ‘rules based order’
Weird how every pro-consumer measure is always met with THIS WILL SPELL DOOM FOR CONSUMERS. That's generally a sign you're on the right track.
Well, prefixes are opt-in. You don't have to keep-up with them.

The only recent large problem with cookies were to changes to avoid CSRF, those were opt-out, but they were also extremely overdue.

All of the web standards are always gaining new random features. You don't have to keep-up with most of them. They do look like bad abstractions, but maybe it's just the problem that is hard.
at first glance, the 2pc ddl seems very similar in architecture to citus[1]. does pg_karnak provide advantages over citus here?

[1] https://docs.citusdata.com/en/stable/develop/reference_ddl.h...
Elon Musk to 'summon MPs to US to explain threats to American citizens'
Honestly, the video feels like just any low/nocode tutorial video in a sense “that we’re going to automate something” and a minute later we are copying urls into some complex forms and following the voiceover of something you cannot grasp the meaning of. A little intro of what exactly we are doing would help.

I cold-watched only half of it, without reading any info on the project, but that’s how everyone does it, I guess.

But I get the idea. Automate by example with automatic scenario builder and fuzzy matching ui via ai.

As someone who works in automation, I (again, blindly) suggest looking into anti-detection and human behavior like mouse movements, typing errors and pauses, because that’s what your (and all ours) main enemy will be in the next decade.

All in all, this is in high demand, afaiu. I tend to use a classic ML approach for that (avoiding browser automation cause it obviously only works in a browser and limits/divides the area of application), but would love to try something that self-heals on site changes. Although I think I’d better use something that can detect changes and reconfigure my ML params rather than using it directly, cause I don’t really trust modern AI to free-float in runtime, and also costs.
> My best guess is it's because they finally have a real competitor in ChatGPT.

ChatGPT doesn't even fulfill the same function, to say nothing about the poor reliability inherent to the way it works. In no sense is it a real competitor to Google.
Demis Hassabis:'We will need a handful of breakthroughs before we reach AGI'
The problem with Postel's law is exactly that the sender is never conservative, and will tend to use any detail that most receivers accept.
I think one important use case we have for cookies is "Secure; HttpOnly" cookies. Making a token totally inaccessible from JS, but still letting the client handle the session is a use case that localStorage can't help with. (Even if there's a lot of JWTs in localStorage out there.)
Show HN: I made an affordable SEO tool for Startup Founders
I launched my second product last month (October).

Ranqio was born to be an easy and affordable SEO tool for startup solofounders like me.

Here is the background:

I'm not an SEO expert, and I don't have +$100 to use a robust tool like SEMRush or Ahrefs, which, BTW, are incredible tools.

Following online communities, I saw a lot of new entrepreneurs struggling to generate leads.

Another point is the rising of the ads cost and the decrease in outbound conversion.

That's why I chose this market—to address my own needs, and I think there is still space for a small solutions (yes, I'm seeing a lot of SEO tools).

I built this entire product using ChatGPT in the last 2-3 months (working 1 hour/day after my job).

Regarding the go-to-market strategy, I decided to start globally.

Some people that I spoke asked me if it's not better to build an audience in Brazil (I'm Brazilian) first and expand later. It's an excellent question.

My takeaways about this:

As someone with a full-time job and a few free hours/week, my strategy is to build an audience in English to expand my available market. Of course, by doing this, I'll increase my competition as well.

But, I aim to build solo a MicroSaaS portfolio in the next few years.

I'll be patient and create high-quality content about entrepreneurship to, in the long run, generate organic leads for my entire portfolio.

I can have a very small conversion in a competitive global market, no problem for me.

I don't need to be the best SEO tool in the market. I want to build an excellent product that my audience will love.

With a very small structure and a portfolio of solutions, I can afford to have a small conversion rate and still have good revenue on my own.

What do you think about that? I'd love to hear your thoughts about this GTM approach and about my solution too.

I hope with your feedback guys I can improve my product.
> It's entirely possible to build up skills allowing you to avoid using PPE

Yes, but you only need to mess up once and your skill doesn't save you from other people mistakes.
We'll see. As of the latest testing, mechanicals still show the best single-key latency performance.

I got an ROG Azoth awhile back for that reason.

Would be nice to see how far they can push the technology though!

Given that the time to physically press the key down is a part of the latency, Hall Effect could easily beat out Mechanical in the long run. After all, you can make it almost arbitrarily sensitive.

EDIT: Looks like wired mechanicals at the top end are tied (0.8ms) with the best Halls (0.8ms) and a bit better than the best wireless 2.4Ghz (1.7ms). Mea culpa. We still need more test data on Halls in general though. Removed my comment about Wireless being better - though generally wireless 2.4 GHz beats out all but the top-end wired keyboards.
With all due respect and while wishing you best of luck, it's always a bit worrisome when generative AI is used in the real world with real consequences...

In my experience, what LLMs, even some of the most advanced ones (o1, Gemini 1.5) are really good at is rationalization after the fact: explaining why they were right, even when presented with direct evidence to the contrary.

I just ran an experiment trying to get various models put footnote references in the OCR of a text, based on the content of the footnotes. I tested 120+ different models via OpenRouter; they all failed, but the "best" ones failed in a very bizarre and I think, dangerous way: they made up some text to better fit the footnote references! And then they lied about it, saying in a "summary" paragraph that no text had been changed, and/or that they had indeed been able to place all references.

So I guess my question is: how do you detect and flag hallucinations?
This is a great question.

At this point, all transactions go through a single transaction coordinator that uses 2PC to coordinate all transactions. This makes many aspects of coordination fast, reliable and simple. It works well because OLTP systems typically have few DDLs an hour, if that (although we tested with hundreds of DDLs per second, just to be sure).

When we look at other types of transactions, OLTP systems need to handle many orders of magnitude more. Even small apps typically have hundreds of transactions an hour, while large systems require millions of TPS.

Getting from the current architecture to something that handles all transactional load of an OLTP system will be a journey. And arguably one better served with a different architecture, one not based on 2PC.
We have an update to our web and mobile route planners coming out in the next month that adds more specific bike profiles, including paved/unpaved preferences and cycling infrastructure preferences. Maybe an MTB profile as well.

We use graphhopper for everything, with customized profiles. We add data to the weekly planet PBF files from the OSM project for additional routing data not present in OSM.
Great questions! There are several LLM calls behind a single prompt that you submit and we do dynamically assemble the prompt to the AI based on what you're asking for. But we do generate most files at once.
This doesn't serve as evidence that the PA would be willing to arrest Hamas members.
They are, but China regularly dispossesses them and sometimes executes them, so the communist party, with huge popular membership, is in control.
It's funny that you mention NewCookie, there is actually a deprecated Set-Cookie2 header already: https://stackoverflow.com/q/9462180/3474615
It's rational to choose your vehicle based on worst-case rather than average-case needs. Buying, insuring, and garaging multiple vehicles for multiple purposes is ludicrously expensive. Renting only a little less so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3vMJOADlE
I definitely want to get the mobile version up and running soon but it’s a lot of work to set everything up for this project especially since Im working solo. For a fully functional route planner, it would probably make more sense to build a React Native app instead of just a website.
FBI and CISA warn of continued cyberattacks on US telecoms
Greenplum Goes Closed-Source, Cloudberry Joins Apache Incubator
I was answering your question about when they went into browsers with a link, and summarizing it in a parenthetical. So much for “replies explaining that welcome”, I guess.
I just watched Gary Gulman's comedy special Depresh Mode. He's a guy built like a football player and yet he's a depressive comedian. Only someone whose perception of their body matches their perception of their personality would come to the conclusion that everybody else on Earth must be a walking stereotype. It's like the Talking Heads song Seen and Not Seen but it's not a joke.
> any country looking to arrest either man should tread carefully.

I'd imagine that if they were detained the IDF would put out quite a bit of effort to get them sprung from prison ... at any cost.

(Imagine if a former US leader was put in prison anywhere but the US).
Gitlab 17.6 Released
There’s a loud category of people that are obsessed with looks and symmetry (over function) that a numpad breaks.

I doubt these folks do any meaningful numerical work, so they do not understand the convenience of the numpad.
Sy Hersh's wild fantasy has already been debunked. He might have a few pieces of the story right but many of his claims are contradicted by reliable open source intelligence. This is what always happens when a journalist works without an editor and rushes to publish before doing through fact checking.
iPhone Base Models Remain Best-Sellers Despite Pro Max Appeal
14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned a Blade in at Least 3 Years
That is well put.

Know that the key to human existence is the fact that, by changing one's attitudes, behaviors, and thought processes, one has also changed one's subjective viewpoint, by expanding both one's field of view and one's depth of comprehension, so long as those changes are harmonious with compassion.

Our most important capability is being able to self-evolve (with the help of the universe) ourselves beyond our more primal impulses and towards our more abstract endeavors such as selfless service to mankind.
Good point on the phone thing. The Windows 11 restrictions could cause a marked decline in PC usage completely, as people give up and see how far they can get with just a phone. I’m sure many will realize they don’t need a PC anymore.
I think some people feel strongly about this issue because it seems like giving up on societal change, which IS necessary for many reasons besides just weight. Even if GLP-1 drugs are safe and long term effective for body fat, they are still a band-aid for a deeper problem. The deeper problem is that people feel and express less and less agency and control over their personal lives. This manifests in many forms, such as depression, anger, cynicism, addiction, loneliness, and personal stagnation. Weight loss will do little to improve these measures while the average American watches 4 hours of TV and is devoid of community.

Im hopeful that these drugs can give people a toehold to tackle these deeper issues, and try to emphasize that they are not a panacea.

People are a product of society, and society is a product of people. If we want to live better people will have to change too.
I enjoy how people are dunking on this by saying “omg this is what happens when engineers dare to have thoughts on other topics” when this is very similar to the theory for CBT in psychology
Traditional telephone is currently at risk of being so full of scams that it isn't sensible to keep a number.
I really don't think this belongs on the front page.
It is a highly divisive political issue with strong radicalisation
at the edges of any discourse on it.

I have my own strong opinions on it, but arguing it does
not in my opinon belong on the front page here.

There are plenty of places you can go and have this discussion
in as heated of a version as you prefer.
Handmade Seattle (Live Now)
No it isn’t. Over an 80,000 hour career in construction/other dangerous field, you will eventually have an incident that will make you thankful for PPE.
Capital expenditure, hardware, storage, operations and management.
I was given a 75% keyboard and I just can't get used to the spacing. Plus I miss my numberpad.
Same man. Reduced size keyboards are absolutely awful to use and I have no idea how anyone can stand them. 100% or nothing.
Except that if you're a serious cyclist, spending $10/month on a really good road mapping service is worth more to you than spending $10/month on a music streaming service (or 2 coffees at Starbucks).
Show HN: Free Email Signature Generator
RAZR is the worst offender here