skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of biometrics as a password sounds like a bad idea.

Angela Merkel and Ursula von der Leyen are examples of this, fingerprints and iris scans lifted from mere photos.

In some countries even it is mandatory to store the fingerprints and photo from citizens, or at airports, what makes biometrics almost public.

Besides having all the logins under a single pin on a device that can be lost or stolen sounds just as bad, soon the people will be aimed to store them online to avoid it (trick-or-treat).
Hehe, and again another Black Mirror episode comes to mind: The ending to White Christmas where the guy is literally "red flagged" in the eyes of everyone and a social paria for the rest of his life.
I feel like there’s some kind of analogy between jazz cats and hackers.
My main pain point with any sort of Flux-like state management is transitions [1]. The state of UI is not fully described by the state of the game [2]. If I play a card, the game state can be instantly updated to the next decison-making point, but in reality I want to show steps of the game through animations, some of which are concurrent and some of which are consecutive. That usually ends up in a mess; and I've never seen someone implement it nicely.

[1] And generally dynamic stuff like drag-n-drop, which is infinitely times simpler in any other architecture than in React.

[2] That is also true for business apps, but their animations are usually so simple you can simply use CSS.
It will not. I guarantee it. The vehicle emissions worming into the bare concrete are acidic. The water from rain and from the humid air slowly degrades it. The salt air doesn't help. At some point, sooner than you think, the corrosion will reach the rebars inside the concrete.

All this could be prevented with sacrificial applications of stucco, but brutalist architects insist on keeping the concrete bare. It takes a lot of work to keep a building like that from crumbling under these conditions, and city hall is not loved enough to get the work done.
Fun fact: oxygen is toxic in high enough concentrations.
> What did Livejournal, Xanalga, Myspace, Tumblr, all screw up

Don't forget Friendster!

Mainly bad-luck in being too early or too late, though MySpace had some self-inflicted problems with performance and overcomplicating the interface (by allowing customization).
They don't have to have a scam-proof way to contact me. They just need to give me a way to contact them.

That way, any phone call or email to me can be immediately ended with me saying "Thanks, I'll call the number on the back of my card," and hanging up.
It's not 'toxic material', it has a toxic dose. Too much water and you die. You do want some percentage of that level of water, though.
Ugh. Maybe not exactly what you're talking about, but whenever I have to use a mainstream IDE for one reason or another, or some web REPL (e.g. to share code snippets), I end up frustrated but also really curious about how other people program.

* I type, then press enter, but a suggestion appeared in between so my enter got turned into "accept suggestion" instead. Or same with pressing an arrow and instead of moving my cursor it now selects a different suggestion because I pressed the arrow 10ms too late.

* I type a character like `"` or `<` or `[` or `(` or stuff like that, and it gets paired automatically. Or I type `]` or `)` and it does nothing because it's the same as the character under my cursor and it "helpfully" moves the cursor to the right instead of inserting the character (e.g. I want `]]` or `))` but it just ignores me and it leaves `]` or `)`). Worse is when this happens inconsistently, like pressing a `"` character being a 1d3 roll on the result (if my cursor is currently on `"`, then will I get `""` or `"` or `"""`?).

* I'm going to move the mouse to select some specific part of the code, but when I'm going to click it inserts some garbage right where I was going to click (e.g. type hints, some information about how many references are there, stuff like that). I never want anything to move my code around.

* (Other similar stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting.)

I'm not saying things like those aren't useful, but those defaults are so different from what I want that they're more of an inconvenience for me and I have to spend the first hour changing them (but I can't do this when physically pair programming). Otherwise it's basically impossible for me to develop muscle memory at all, because I have to constantly guess what's going to happen and what's going to move or appear or disappear.

TL;DR: Mainstream IDEs defaults are frustrating for me when I try to go keyboard-only, and also when I use mouse for some actions.
So it was true :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41885705

Really looking forward to your review of this.
I find Andrew McFadden's Symmetric Multi-Processor Primer for Android (https://developer.android.com/training/articles/smp) a good warm-up to the book.
Are these spammers just lucky or is there something that lets them sniff blood in the water and specifically target people holding large amounts of crypto?
A friend worked there for years, she said different offices would either be far too hot or else freezing on the same day. There was never a comfortable room.

If the interior offices were kept clean and tidy, I can see how it could be kind of interesting in a retro-futuristic way. But given that these are government offices, they're often full of stacked cardboard boxes of files and other mess that ruins the look. At least the building doesn't have drop ceilings (at least as far as I recall.)
If it's not clear, the Home Assistant business plan is different from the Amazon one for Alexa... and the Home Assistant open source project is even more different.
The one nice thing about the plaza is that when protesters show up there is no questioning their sincerity. You know they're not there for the fun of it.
It would really help if your parents know someone who can and will take the other side in this game.
An easy to remember / share link: santababy.ai
You said it best: sounds like he surrounds himself with people (and lawyers) that tell him what he wants to hear.

Have worked for someone like that before - it is not fun.
The stores already hav3 cameras to provide evidence required for an investigation. Why would Walmart require additional evidence?
AI-Powered Tools Take on Tuberculosis in India
While `uv` works amazingly well I think a lot of people don't realize that installing packages through conda (or let's say the conda-forge ecosystem) has technical advantages compared to wheels/pypi.

When you install the numpy wheel through `uv` you are likely installing a pre-compiled binary that bundles openblas inside of it. When you install numpy through conda-forge, it dynamically links against a dummy blas package that can be substituted for mkl, openblas, accelerate, whatever you prefer on your system. It's a much better solution to be able to rely on a separate package rather than having to bundle every dependency.

Then lets say you install scipy. Scipy also has to bundle openblas in their wheel, and now you have two copies of openblas sitting around. They don't conflict, but this quickly becomes an odd thing to have to do.
What do you mean by stealth? I looked at the website and nothing about it makes it look like it would necessarily be free or open source.
"All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is."

Hum, I've often pondered what probability actually means for quantum mechanics—that is in respect of its actual underlying mechanics. The more I think about it the more I agree with Sir Roger Penrose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm505TFMbU (40:36 - 46:36. One should however view the whole video for proper context.)

This story on probability just further firms up my view.
History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing Essays
delightful mental pain, like a cold plunge
I disagree - there is value in single file versus multiple file, even if the LoC are exactly the same.

It’s one reason Mac Apps get bundled as a single “file” from the user perspective. You don’t have to “install”, you just copy one file with everything. It’s a simpler dev experience.

Sure there are tradeoffs, but that’s great! We should accept that tradeoffs mean people can chose what works best for their specific context, rather than “best practices” which are silly.
I love the idea of a simple, digest-style, mode. Might make some version of this for Instagram. There's nothing so important on Instagram that it can't wait for the next day.
>technology that would not be needed if... developed proper public transit infrastructure

NYC and London have had 'proper' public transit for over a century. It's handy but not that great. I was on a 52 year old Bakerloo line tube train the other day and they are much like modern tube trains, if grubbier. It's not going to suddenly turn wonderful and solve everything. (typed on a London bus)

Also while I'm not sure any technology is really needed, as in we could get by without it, there are about 1 million road deaths a year globally. A 90% reduction would save 900,000 lives which is a nice to have. And more meaningful than a space pen.
> enterprise customers

Even small customers, too. Think of an early startup or small company trying to decide what their stack will be.

The hassle of a $1 / month donation is "more work" than spending $250 / seat for a 1-year contract with some amount of support.
GPS was originally NAVSTAR or Navstar-GPS (names helped, going back to when LORAN was state of the art and other competing dod navigation systems were being developed, like the Navy's TRANSIT sats).

But lots of old school pros like surveyors will still refer to it as 'Navstar', which has resurged with the introduction of competing GNSS systems from other countries. Especially if you want to avoid the GPS/GNSS confusion.

There's debate about whether NAVSTAR itself was ever an acronym/backroom, or just a name.

"NAVigation System using Timing And Ranging"
And new threat vectors open up:

- Car can be hacked and remote controlled.

- Car has a backdoor for LE that is discovered and exploited.

- Car has a software error and drives off a bridge.

- Third person manages to enter with the legitimate guest last minute or perhaps at gunpoint.
Optimizing isn't either SIMD or large scale multi-threading. You need both, which is why CPUs and GPUs both use both techniques.
Put the compilation in another terminal, not need to wait for it to complete.
Arch Linux Based CachyOS Takes the Lead on Intel Arrow Lake
> 80% of maximum fire retardants entering food or 8% of maximum fire retardants entering food are both "too much fire retardants entering food".

OK, but that's not what this study was about, right? The original claim by the authors was that these utensils brushed up against safe limits. When that turned out to be false, the claim has shifted to the safe limits are too high. But that's a different study. You need to do a safety analysis of exposures to the substance. That's not what their study did.
Install the Node-RED add on. I use that to do the tricky stuff.

Install the whole thing on top of stock Debian "supervised" then you get a full OS to use.

You get a fully integrated MQTT broker with full provisioning - you don't need a webby API - you have an IoT one instead!

This is a madly fast moving project with a lot of different audiences. You still have loads of choice all tied up in the web interface.
What evidence do you have that this is the situation? It sounds like a broad generalization.

It feels wrong to say “this approach won’t work anywhere”, maybe you are saying this approach won’t work everywhere. That’s fine, it doesn’t need to. And I’d defer to the person who did this work, it sounds like successfully, versus someone whose opinion is very broad and I’m not sure what evidence or experience they are basing their commentary on.
>That is at best 4 miles of New York subway [2]. It's a third of a train between Bakersfield and Merced [3].

Bakersfield to Merced is 171 miles of intercity high-speed rail. It's unclear to me why Californians need to make such trips with any significant frequency, and it's certainly not what I'd normally think of as "public transit".

22 years ago in Toronto, the Sheppard line (3.4 mi, underground) was built for less than $1b CAD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_4_Sheppard). From what I can tell, costs in NYC are mainly a NYC problem.
> It’s possible to synchronise secrets without sharing them with a third party

Sadly the problem Google is actually trying to solve is providing security for the dumbest people you've ever met. Dumbasses are entitled to security too!

I'm talking people who've lost access to their e-mail, and their phone number, and their 2FA all at once. Then they've also forgotten their password.

No password manager, no backup phone, no yubikeys, no printed codes, no recovery contacts, nothing.
this was very inspiring to read. i am at 40. i tried a startup and failed about 4 years ago. not sure if i am up for another as its extremely difficult.

i felt i might be too old to try again and felt a little alienated from everyone i speak. everyone speaks about lot of things but feel everything is quote shallow and nobody understands what it takes. i keep having thoughts about what i could have fixed, what business i can try now. am little burnt out from tech and wanted to have a smaller non tech business but felt would i be able to or not. but reading about this gave me a sense of belonging or thought that there are some of us who are always not satisfied.
Quickly skip past videos you're not interested in, and like or comment on those you like. Your "For You" page should noticeably change.
Hey sorry if this is not the place for it but I play heat a lot too and I was looking for a group like this on bgm since the random matches have a lot of people rage quiting etc. can I ask to join this group?
PIN stands for "Personal Identification Number."

It can't have letters / symbols in it. If they're calling a password a PIN, that's the wrong word and will confuse the ^%$^#% out of people who expect PIN to mean numbers only.
S3 Tables are not as open as they may appear
> Now, you might naively think that it's the easiest thing in the world to send a spacecraft to the Sun. After all, it's this big and massive object in the sky, and it's got a huge gravitational field. Things should want to go there because of this attraction, and you ought to be able to toss any old thing into the sky, and it will go toward the Sun.

Yes, yes, speak orbital dynamics to me!

> The problem is that you don't actually want your spacecraft to fly into the Sun or be going so fast that it passes the Sun and keeps moving. So you've got to have a pretty powerful rocket to get your spacecraft in just the right orbit.

What?! No! I mean, yes, you don't want your spacecraft going right into the sun itself, but that's not the major reason why it's difficult! It's that at launch, the spacecraft is already in orbit around the sun - since it came from the Earth. And left to its own devices, it won't want to "fall" into the sun any more than it already is, any more than the Earth is falling into it. Changing orbital parameters that much is expensive in terms of delta-V!

As I recall, the "cheap" way of getting into a low-enough orbit to get that close to the sun is to counterintuitively first expand your orbit massively, and then do a retrograde burn at the highest point. (But I'm guessing the Parker Solar Probe used gravity assists.)

I wonder if some editor cut a large part of this paragraph.
Yeah, and then lose access if you lose your device..
Sure, was just commenting that i find it valuable. Not a commentary on the validity of the paper.
"We're not 'fixing' prices, we're 'repairing' prices."
If you let someone or something take over your everyday decision making, it won't be long before you lose the ability to make everyday decisions.
I don't love Brutalism in general but it also just ages pretty poorly. Some of it is about the updating of really crappy interior decor but the renovation of the Boston Public Library brutalist addition really helped a lot--though still, nothing like the original structure.
I have very fond memories of that software. I believe it came bundled with the iMac G3 my parents bought.

That version of Kid Pix had animations and sounds and whatnot, it was really fun to just play with it for hours.
Architecturally, the city of Boston has changed many times. You can more or less pinpoint when a building was built by its appearance. City Hall's architecture is mirrored in most of the transit stops from the 1970s-era expansion. Some of them (e.g. Wollaston, Harvard) have since been rebuilt; others (e.g. Quincy Adams, Malden Center) are still concrete behemoths like City Hall.

Anything built within the last ten years is, of course, LEED-chic - the building is a glass box.
An Uber driver told me about this. A lot of parents violate the TOS and have their kids take Uber. The drivers can usually tell because they are asked to pick up near a school. He stopped taking kids and the app would normally penalize him for refusing too many rides.

But, he was the one of the few drivers in that region during the daytime so the app warns, but does nothing.

Not sure of penalties, but I know one of the food delivery apps promotes you in tiers based on how many good delivers you do within a time frame.
> subjecting utensils to rather implausible scenarios (when was the last time you microwaved your sushi tray?)

That's not implausible. Sushi actually tastes better a little warm than chilled.

Also I think it would make sense to test all food trays the same way, as some of those do get heated quite a bit (e.g. I've microwaved take-out noodles in plastic trays very similar to a take-out sushi trays). It's not like it's plausible that there's some special sushi-tray supply chain where they've carefully determined they can safely get away with using e-waste plastic. It's almost certain that industry consists of many takeout tray companies that each make a whole line of takeout trays for different uses using the same raw materials (e.g. the sushi cart at my employer sold sushi and hot noodle soup in black plastic trays, which plausibly could come form the same manufacturer).
>OP argued we should devote self-driving resources to public transit.

Yes, because it would allow moving people more cost-effectively (among other things) - which is measured per person per unit distance traveled. (I'm not OP, but nothing in this discussion is even remotely new for transit advocates like myself.)
> The era of 4-digit Mac names was such a mess, trying to figure out which one was the best option available at your price point

Yeah. I really liked my 9600 but the Performa lines were way too confusing.
> There's a Vim mode in every single mainstream code editor out there

Not Jupyter notebooks though (by default)
TLDraw relicensed about a year ago. It is under a permissive license, but no longer strictly open source ('watermark-ware").

https://tldraw.dev/ FAQ:
Is the tldraw SDK open source?
Our license is not exactly Open Source but you can view the source code on GitHub. We accept contributions from the community and work in public.
> You can't revert, they keys are sent, they have them. They can't un have them. You'll need to rotate your MFA.

Not true. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42471459
I've been using the HA cloud voice assistant on my phone for the past few weeks, and it's such a great change from Alexa, because integrating new services and adding sentences is actually possible.

Alexa, on the other hand, won't even allow a third party app to read its shopping list. It's no longer clear to me why Alexa even exists any more except as a kitchen timer.
I have a coworker that set up an Alexa an year or so ago, I don't know what was the issue, but it would jump into Teams meetings after every noise in his house.
I can't believe this is not more mainstream. I really appreciate CISA putting it in writing so I can start citing. But seriously, isn't this OBVIOUS?

I was today facing an issue with my BANK because they're locking me out of my account. The reason? I travel around the world and sometimes SMSs won't make it. Also, it's extremely easy to exploit. You can steal someone's phone number with just a bit of social engineering (at least in Europe's carriers). Also, you can steal a phone, remove the sim card, and it'll work anywhere (yes, you can password protect SIM cards, but not everybody does it).
Mamba is indeed a lot better. I personally just don't bother with conda and stick to pip + venv.
There's no reason to think any of this gobbledygook is necessary. Sure put up a warning sign and explain, in English, what's going on here. What's more interesting to me is that in 100 years, our descendants will still remember us, and have to maintain this thing, that they had no hand in making.
In my experience, the way to solve [1] and [2] is to design a game state that can also _fully_ describe the state of the UI, including animation cues.
I understand and respect your opinion there. In the spectrum of copyright violation, I might be willing to let my kid install a copy of a game I bought on their own computer, but I would definitely not sell copies of it.

But it’s a massive bummer to me that copyright is preventing someone from publishing their research on a 40 year old game that hasn’t been available for sale in decades. I don’t know exactly where that lands on my moral spectrum, but I put it far closer to the left than to the right, legalities aside.
It also ignores the particular size of the figs that should be consumed. And it ignores the season that they should be consumed. And it ignores the weather conditions that you should consume them in. And it ignores the hour at which they're consumed. And it ignores the gender of the person that should consume them. And it ignores the eye color of the person that should consume them. And it ignores the hair length of the person that should consume them. And it ignores the precise composition of nitrogen in the soil with which the fig tree has been grown in. And phosphorous. And potassium. And it ignores the day of the week in which the fig should be consumed. And it ignores the material of the utensils used to consume the fig. And it ignores the age of the person that consumes them.

Just enjoy your figs, Paul.
If one were genuinely paranoid about privacy they could use this document as a list of services NOT to use.

I’m not sure I’d have a good rebuttal for “Why would I use anything the Feds recommend?”
I'm not a radio geek. Maybe @dang can edit the title?

Fully a third of the comments here are folks showing off their knowledge of non-acronyms.
Seconded. In my entire North Carolina + Georgia upbringing, with frequent visits to Tennessee and back to NC, and some visits to South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama...never once have I heard y'all referring to a single person.

It's literally a contraction for "you all". That doesn't make sense for talking to one person.
It's really cool that it has a MCTS bot built-in!
If you have two 1000 mAh cells connected in series, they will provide 1 amp for 1 hour. The battery is still 1000 mAh even though it is made of two cells with 2000 mAh total.

You are equating amp-hours with watt-hours, which is not reasonable. Q is charge, and is only proportional to a number of electrons. E is the energy, or a number of electrons at a voltage.

> When having 13 batteries of 29000mAh, or 29Ah, you have 13 x 29 = 377Ah or 377000mAh

By this logic, with those cells in series the whole battery would be at 48 volts and 337 amp-hours, giving it a storage of 18.1 kWh. That's despite being made of 13 cells with only 107 watt-hours each.