skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't come across as authentic, that comes across as transactional and having an agenda.

"Hey, it's been forever, want to catch up over some food?"

If you end up hearing about a useful opportunity, or providing them with a useful opportunity, great. But you still got to catch up with a friend, and came across as that being the primary goal.

If you are looking for part-time work, it's fine to say that, and there's nothing wrong with reaching out to friends to find out if they know of good job opportunities. But "share what we're both working on and how we might help each other?". That comes across terribly.
> Even when people are before asked if their data could be used for further evaluation and training within such systems, it is never clear what will happen in the end with their data.

> Data should be only used occasion-related, nothing more and nothing less.

> Users should be always able to decide what happens with their data and information

I, the user, should be allowed to decide what happens with my information - but I'm not allowed to provide my data for things that aren't occasion-related.

That makes no sense to me.
HN formatting is going to do bad things here..

Here's the first 6 blocks of the card after I ran through the instructions of the post, then a ndefformat-only card (that never touched an iphone).

[=] 0 | 0 | 00 56 78 BB 95 08 04 00 02 B2 1E 24 23 27 1E 1D | .Vx........$#'..
[=] | 1 | 14 01 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 | ...�.�.�.�.�.�.�
[=] | 2 | 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 | .�.�.�.�.�.�.�.�
[=] | 3 | A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 78 77 88 C1 89 EC A9 7F 8C 2A | ......xw.......*
[=] 1 | 4 | 00 00 03 12 D1 01 0E 55 04 65 77 70 72 61 74 74 | ....�..U.ewpratt
[=] | 5 | 65 6E 2E 63 6F 6D FE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | en.com�.........

[=] 0 | 0 | 00 56 78 BB 95 08 04 00 02 B2 1E 24 23 27 1E 1D | .Vx........$#'..
[=] | 1 | 14 01 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 | ...�.�.�.�.�.�.�
[=] | 2 | 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 03 E1 | .�.�.�.�.�.�.�.�
[=] | 3 | A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 78 77 88 C1 89 EC A9 7F 8C 2A | ......xw.......*
[=] 1 | 4 | 03 00 FE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ..�.............
[=] | 5 | 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
Pretty much, for me it’s mostly VTI and BND. In about a 70/30 ratio right now, although I vary it a bit based on market conditions and interest rates.
So banning a public square has nothing to do with free speech?

"A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packingham_v._North_Carolina
Whatever is going on, I bet you can assume 50% of this is just bored people who overspent on an overpriced drone that's sat in the cupboard for a year who are happy to have and excuse to dust it off for some trolling.
A Zephyr-based camera trap for seagrass monitoring
Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with Ten Commandments to be auctioned
I found a couple of small projects on upwork, and also got scammed on upwork, so be careful.

I left a job after 12 years, and a couple of years later got re-hired on a part time retainer basis to help fix mistakes that have crept into the product, and to help support current and prospective customers. Nice gig, zero pressure.

I agree with others that networking helps land jobs, especially in the borderless internet era where people from all over the world are competing for work. It’s a race to the bottom.
The main point seems to be to cut spending on these programs. If one sees them as nothing but waste then that’s automatically a reduction.

It’s a pretty extreme view, but I think it’s serious. Destroying these programs has long been a dream of the more libertarian extremes of the Republican Party.

Fortunately for the people who depend on these programs, “DOGE” isn’t real and has no power to do anything.
> Wtf is a shadowroot?

In the Document Object Model (DOM), every document has a root node, which you can retrieve by calling `getRootNode()` on any node in the document (e.g. `document.getRootNode()` or `document.body.getRootNode()`).

Custom Elements can have their own "shadow" document that's semi-isolated from the parent document, and the root node of that shadow document is called the shadow root.

The idea is to be able to create your own HTML elements (which also have their own hidden DOM). If you enable a setting in Chrome's Devtools (Show user agent shadow DOM) [1], you can actually see the hidden shadow structure of built in HTML Elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzj3jSUbMtI&t=291s

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/settings/preferen...
It's no wonder that kids are so stressed/anxious these days, seems not even their school classes are certain.
Proxmark's "auto" command should get you most of the way to knowing.
Then check if any of the "hf mf c*" commands work on it (in which case, you have a gen1a magic card)
This is so weird. You just don't connect it to the internet. It's that simple. No need for "dumb TVs" to return. Smart TVs are just dumb TVs with extra stuff.

I'll care about this when they start embedding 5G SIMs so I can't prevent it connecting.
I agree. I have used it for just that.
WinAGI Game Development System
It's fun, you should try it some time
Me too, but it might help to find become clear on which of the accounts you have 2FA turned on for could be reset by having them send an email, and which you would be locked out of.

The email providers I use all require 2FA, but as long as I had paper backups of recovery codes for those I could probably use those to get back into most other accounts. No comment on whether I do have aforementioned paper backups, or whether I'm just relying on having a couple of devices with access to the codes, and then hopes, prayers and obsolete e-waste in drawers...

Of course, travelling makes the puzzle even harder, and that's when it's often even more important to not get locked out of accounts. I had intended to offer a suggestion to worry less, but instead I'm going to go away and think about this more myself.
There are in fact multiple cloud services for ClickHouse. Aiven and Altinity also offer them, among others.

Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.
User created content in games presumably? E.g. custom sprays in FPS games or clan flags in mmos.

Or adding assets in an editor built with bevy.
Hah, if only...
> That's a terrific idea

I think you meant 'terrific' in the old original meaning.
Which project is this?
Show HN: Free Agentic RAG (no account needed)
Here's mine:

https://www.pastery.net/tckuyc+dausye/
There are all sizes of models from a few GB to hundreds of GB. Small presumably means small enough to run on end-user hardware.
A Dark Room is great! I started playing it a lot mid way through developing this. That and Universal Paperclips are the gold standards of minimalist web-based games.
You just submitted this an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427108
So many decisions are being made during the transition that could have been made before the election. Is this normal / good for the countries in general?

Regarding TikTok I agree that it's a national security problem for USA in its current form, so actually it is not even the decision that I oppose.
Nice, I didn't know about auto, thanks! It turns out I have some Gen 1a "magic" cards (as in, actually in a card form factor), and some tags that seem to be Gen 3, but not magic?
Accessing the attributes of a struct in C++ as array elements?
Back in the day, we called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
1. If you want the functionality of a smart TV without all of the bloat, I've found Apple TV to be fast and functional. Little to no ads.

2. Running a PiHole (or something similar at a DNS level), you can prevent a lot of the "phoning home" these TVs do. That still does not solve the bloatware/speed issue, but point 1 addresses that.
> Most web applications that use components of any sort are largely SPAs of some variety and don't care one bit about server-side rendering

That's just not that true when TTI and TTVC matters. SSR is only one piece of the puzzle, for sure, but it is useful still.

That said I still agree with your overall point!
I'm not sure what you mean by predicting prime numbers?

It's very, very easy to find big prime numbers: you generate a random number in the range that you are interested in, and then check whether it's prime. Repeat until you find a prime; they are fairly dense (a random number `n` has about a 1/log(n) chance of being prime) so you don't have to try too often.

In fact, that's how we find big primes for creating things like RSA key-pairs.

Testing a number for primality can also be done fairly quick. In general, much, much faster than finding the factors of a composite number. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test

> Has anyone ever considered a plan B for such a scenario?

Yes, quantum resistance cryptography is a thing. See the other comments.
Let's say I'm a huckster that plays a game with you where if I roll a single six sided die and it lands on 1 you lose but you win otherwise.

Let's say you have some guarantee that I'm using the same die each time and that each of the rolls are independent. We play the game ten times and 1 is rolled the first 9 out of 10 times, with a 5 being rolled on the 10th throw. Now, you know that there's a common loaded die that can be purchased that has a weight to skew the probabilities and you further know that the loaded die rolls a 1 80% of the time and the remaining 20% spread evenly to the other values (so 4% for every other value).

Given a choice between the loaded die and the fair die, which is more likely?

The first model, call it $\theta_0$ is the fair die. The second model, with the unfair die, call it $\theta_1$.

The probability of the first model ($\theta_0$) is:

$p( 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, 5 ; \theta_0) = \frac{1}{6}^9 \cdot \frac{1}{6}$

(approximately .00000008269085843959)

The probability of the second model ($\theta_1$) is:

$p( 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, 5 ; \theta_1) = (0.8)^9 \cdot 0.2 \cdot \frac{1}{5}$

(or .00536870912000000000)

So we write a computer program to iterate through all the "models" to see which is the more likely. In this case, the iteration goes through two models.

The models can be Gaussians, with model parameters the mean and variance, say, or some other distribution with other parameters to choose from.

For some conditions on models and their parameterization, we might even be able to use more intricate methods that use calculus, gradient descent, etc. to find the MLE.

The MLE formalism is trying to say "given the observation, which parameters fit the best". It gets more complicated because we have to talk about which distributions we're allowing (which "model") and how we parameterize them. In the above, the models are simple, just assigning different probabilities to each of the outcomes of the die rolls and we only have a choice of two parameterizations.
I tend to agree with this, but I went in the reverse direction. I started out with kickstart.nvim and moved to LazyVim when I saw what Folke was doing with it. It's an excellent config and rarely chokes on large files or breaks, even though the development is very rapid.
Check in when you care to. No less frequently.

I've made a habit of just cold calling my friends because I thought of them. I'll usually end up talking to them for an hour or more, even if I had nothing I specifically wanted to talk to them about. Just "hey I was just thinking about you and thought it would be good to catch up, how've you been?" Something like that.
As long as I can still open them up to remove/destroy all the wireless radios and networking chips and they keep working as a basic display device afterwards, subsidize them with as much crap as you want.
I guess this varies largely with project, stakeholder, etc. The kinds of projects I have been involved, showing a PR would’ve been either useless to communicate anything, or have to explain why it’s “throw away” and why we can’t ship the prototype.

That’s why I stressed it’s an opinion piece but no data. Unfortunately in this industry we have a lot of experience reports, but lack actual data on what is or isn’t more effective way to work.
XBR75X900F, which is a 2018 model and made before they added basic TV mode in 2021.
You can produce such a PDF at home these days fairly easily.
Thanks for doing that work. I had actually looked at this and spotted the two subdomains, which I erroneously took as evidence in support of the comment, as I'm largely unfamiliar with what crt.sh is actually showing.
How many parameters did ChatGPT have in Dec 2022 when it first broke into mainstream news?
There's approx 4 generations of "Magic".

Gen 1, 1a, 3 and 4 all use special commands to unlock and edit block 0.

Gen 2 treats block 0 as always being r/w. This allows Android phones to directly write to it (but also makes it possible to lock the card).

In terms of pm3 commands, "auto" tries everything. You might also want to use "lf search" or "hf search" to only try one of your antennas and not the other.

The actual Magic part isn't really important here, since my phone doesn't even care about block 0. It just makes it easier to read and wipe the card when you have the extra command set at your disposal.
Deep Learning Processors Data Flow and Domain Specific Architecture [pdf]
I do with Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351796#42355665
A Modern Clock App Website
Ya, looks like the iPhone is tinkering with the NDEF message itself.

If my Android phone wasn't dead, I'd love to compare an iPhone's write against the Android NFC Tools app's write.

If anyone else has an iPhone, an Android phone, and a Proxmark, I'd be interested in seeing a three-way diff between them all.

EDIT: I'm going to try to cross-post to the DT forum to see if anyone has ideas.
A burst of commenting without upvoting is a good way to quickly bury a post on HN.
Ask HN: How to decide if a house is the right fit?
Is there such a thing as a "perfect" house? My wife and I are in the market to buy a house and we found a house we like however it isn't close to any shops/stores (need to drive 4 min), it's on a fairly busy road, and there isn't a sidewalk. Homeowners, how did ya'll decide if a house was "perfect"?
A fun minigame is trying to find a particular project using the map only, without the search feature :-)
Is this the one that Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry were created with?
Well I imagine we can all agree on that (too). I meant that it's incomplete; I suppose the original is ambiguous as to whether it means a rough 'sufficient and necessary' way, or merely a rough 'sufficient' way.

It's definitely rough regardless (I spend non-'flow' time in the editor) but people are largely objecting to the perceived idea that it's necessary to be in the editor.
In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if multiplication was first invented to calculate areas (e.g. of agricultural fields).
Motto of the powerful. Can't beat them? Ban them. Same thing they did with Huawei they can't steal the patents it owns to use on their 5G network so ban them.
How Peugeot became Kings of the Desert (2017)
I'm just curious if the illegal attempt to coerce Palm would have been a factor in the case.
They might not. That’s why they’d describe it as “an extrovert’s world”.
What is the criteria for inclusion in the list? I ask because of interesting omissions, such as Ottawa, capital of Canada, population over 1M; Fredericton, capital of NB (NB's most populous city is included, but not the capital)....

Just curious.
The analogy breaks down because there’s really only one language when it comes to interpreting nucleotide sequences.
As a passionate retail investor, I have always been fascinated by the power big fund houses have, and I want to cover the gap by providing the same power in the hands of all retail investors. I am a solo entrepreneur and build these models from scratch in-house and the goal is to keep this website free for all users while providing the best in-class tools to give that edge through technology and data to retail investors that will help them stay above the curve and will help them make confident investing decisions.
Behind this platform are several AI models trained on US stock market public information of the last 10 years, 100+ popular investing books, SEC filings and 300+ key financial metrics.

You can ask queries in plain simple english and the models will convert that into SQL queries and fetch companies - along with detailed company analysis of each stock along with charts and tables. You can even edit the SQL to adjust conditions. Also provided are Sources that models use and detailed thinking behind each answer - so that investors can see for themselves before making any financial decisions. You can get a detailed company analysis for any company and valuation model to analyze fair value of any stocks. One of the key features is unlimited chat for humans. There is also a library on 'Discover' page to get you started.

Please checkout my website and critical feedbacks are most welcome.

I am open to add features that investors feel will add value to their research and stock finding. Happy Investing!

Currently website is optimized only for desktop+ screens.
This is cool, but on a second thought it's sad that someone had to jump through so many hoops -- not just to get his idea implemented because of lacking APIs etc., but that the school provides such a crappy service in the first place.

But then you realize that we're talking about Germany here, and before you downvote, trust me, anyone who has lived there for a while and especially if they had to deal with public administration will attest that it's a country that's literally 10 to 20 years behind in everything digital. You wouldn't expect it given Germany's engineering reputation, but improving citizen's lives through IT has never been their forte.

When we lived there for some years, the school my kids went to had four(!) different parallel channels of communication in the class that one of my kids attended at the time. That is, you could potentially receive a message, say, from the teacher through one of four different means, and so you were expected to monitor these channels every day. Some of them were apps, some of them were paper. It was a mess. Simply doing nothing digitally and only using paper slips would have been an improvement already.
Only in the most poorly designed puzzles. Typically in a jigsaw puzzle, all pieces are uniquely shaped, meaning no two pieces have exactly the same shape, ensuring that each piece only fits in one specific spot to complete the picture
None of those were laws?
Classic Reddit. Comments such as this one provide an alternative take:

> Car Thing was introduced in April 2021 and discontinued 5 months later. In May of this year, they announced support would end. Yes, it sucks to have your device bricked, but they gave 3 years of support for a failed product, gave several months of warning, and are still offering full refunds. That's already much better than most other companies would give, but they also released the code for modders which is damn near unheard of. Spotify is shitty for a lot of reasons, but this isn't one.
I've got both phones next to me, what do you want me to do exactly?
Design docs are critical to your promotion. The boss and the committee do read your design docs, sometimes very carefully. Only your peers and at most your TL read your code.
The decision was made a year ago when the bill was passed.
Wipe the card.

Make a dump after doing "hf mf ndefformat".

Then make a dump after writing a payload from an iPhone. (since iPhone seems to want ndefformat anyways)

Then wipe again and make a dump after writing from Android.
Ask HN: Do you carry an old phone when travelling as a 2FA backup?
After reading another HN comment, I'm wondering what people have as a back-up for 2FA when going on holiday.

Now that it's often allowed, I usually have an old phone stashed in my check-in bag. Is that common practice? Is there something simpler I'm not thinking of?
Yubikey or Google Titan key
Yes, it is very abundantly clear that those who prefer the meat high in protein and fat could take over any population which had more of a vegetarian diet.

The most glaring example of this is the Muslim conquest of India which happened primarily because the Muslims had a diet rich in meat and the vegetarian Hindu Indians lacked the necessary protein and fat and so were defeated.
They certainly come at issues from a novel angle.

Had one interviewee that was entirely focused on the DEI committee. No real interest in the role. Also, tiny company so there is no freakin DEI committee. Didn’t get hired.
I have a Samsung oled from 2022, I think S95B. It’s technically connected to the local network (I still want it to be usable with home assistant), but denied all connections at the firewall level. I don’t recall it bothering me about anything, and I pretty much always turn it on directly into Apple TV.
Dumb cars, dumb blenders as well
Why does this not work with VSCodium as well?
It all depends on what its goal is. As a caretaker that serves as something that aids with their memory then I say yes. But as a companion type that helps the emotional side then I say not yet or no. LLMs are too prone to hallucinate randomly and there's really no there there. It's an empty bunch of words. It has no memory or feelings yet the person who has dementia is a full human being who falls in love and has feelings for other beings. Helping someone fall in love with or have feelings for words is not ethical in my opinion.
In my experience, it's a coin toss on whether having the last bit increases or decreases a chance of the appointment being made. Some people require it.

Ultimately the only thing that matters is: you have a phrase that you can say comfortably and expresses genuine curiosity about the other person.
“an explanation for MLE”

I used to get by on, “it’s the parameters that make the data most likely”, like it says on the name. I think that’s what you are after.

Then I took a stats class, and I know to say, “the MLE is minimum variance within the class of asymptotically unbiased estimators” … that is, “efficient” and “asymptotically consistent“ in the jargon. (Subject to caveats.)

Then I took a Bayesian stats class and learned to say, “it’s minimum risk under a (improper) uniform prior.”

I also recall there is a general result showing that any estimator which makes the score function zero has good properties with respect to average loss. So zero’ing the score by maximizing likelihood is a good strategy. (If someone could remind me of specifics, that would be great.)

But perhaps Gauss had it right when he exploited the (known, but yet un-named) central limit theorem and used how easy it is to maximize the quadratic that sits atop its “e”. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.2996, page 3, top). It’s so easy we had to find a justification for using it?
"The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States,” said the court’s opinion, which was written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg. “Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok_v._Garland
I don't think that's ever been shared, but it's predecessor GPT-3 Da Vinci was 175B.

One of the most exciting trends of the past year has been models getting dramatically smaller while maintaining similar levels of capability.