skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they far right in the sense they are for economic freedom and against soviet style resource centralisation and redistribution - or far right in the sense they're racist and burning people in gas chambers?

We really need to start using the political compass.
Dude. I told you: I'm the reasonable voice in your head. You know, not the other one. Now, bow before your master and make sandwiches for everyone in here.

Except Georgia. She the Queen of Casseroles, but she's not in charge right now.
And when they post the obscene margins as a result of doing this, other insures can come in and undercut them. That's a key ingredient to making insurance work well. Its also why "insurance" doesn't work for healthcare.
Yeah, you're right. That is a weird request then, or I don't understand it either. I didn't realize something like [1] goes inside your switch. I was expecting a switch with a faceplate combined.

1: https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-1-gen3
Yeah, that was also another big red flag for me.

I do have paid services on other Google accounts and have dealt with their support before, but the account they were trying to break into was an ancient one I made as a teenager and don't use for much of anything anymore. If Google Support were to call me about anything (unfathomably unlikely, and never about a security issue like this), it wouldn't be from a free account that has never given Google a dime.

I have received calls from Google associates before. Almost always some account manager looking to find yet another product to sell me. Never proactively to any kind of account issue.
> $200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists

No, $200,000 per year slipping his inoffensive slop into popular playlists
To be fair they forked KHTML to make WebKit. Even if they wanted, they needed to remain open source. Same with Blink (Chromium), a lot of shared history there. But that would take way too long to explain.
> At least when I cross in front of a human driver I can ensure that they're looking me in the eye while they run me over.

I don't know at what level you're joking, but this happens to humans all the time, for a variety of (compounding) reasons. Perceptual blindness.
You hit the nail on the head. It's from that era of anti-nuclear hysteria and overpopulation doomers. Collapse stories are an expression of vanity. "Après moi, le déluge."
Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with changes to open-source project
Wow... I never thought of this.
You can ask someone their zip code and you can figure out from that their chance of being in prison during their life compared to others. Crime is almost entirely an economic issue. There's no reason to bring genetics into this.

Whether anyone deserves it, vengeance has never been an effective deterrent to crime. This is why most countries focus on rehabilitation rather than just torturing people. The US will never learn this lesson.
Strengthening Security Throughout the ML/AI Lifecycle
The original Mac had the benefit of being a computer, a pre-existing product category that people were familiar with, and already purchasing in growing numbers.
Turion Space secures $32.6M military contract for in-orbit space surveillance
About a year ago I got an email from an actual Coinbase email address telling me that my account had been compromised. It included a case number.

Trying to log in with my username and password did not work. Moments later I get a phone call, the caller id says that it is Coinbase. Guy on the phone with a thick German accent tells me he's calling about my account and gives me the case number from the email. I know damn well never to trust a phone call you did not initiate, so I'm kind of just stringing the dude along on the phone.

I remember that I had set up a passkey, and try it. I get in with that and immediately run to the emergency "lock my account" button. I tell the guy on the phone that I have clicked it and after a bit of "uhmmm..."-ing and "hmmm..."-ing he just hangs up.

I call Coinbase support and they verify some recent transactions and ask me to forward them the email, and that's that. I still have no idea what the actual attack was or how they changed or invalidated my password. Best I can tell they did not manage to actually get in to my account.

I ended up changing my password to just about everything out of caution.
> Unless the damage was done in malice it’s not a crime. It’s the owners negligence for not protecting their property

Well that’s just wrong, the damage itself is not a crime but the leaving without paying part is. If I accidentally fall onto your parked car and leave a dent, do you think I can just leave because it wasn’t intentional?
Thank you for your reply. I am thinking about variable dataflows through a fixed set of nodes -- so, the latter, growing and shrinking edges. The application would be visualizing system dynamics. The stages in the Sankey would be organized by degree of distance from an "intervention" node.
Bit of a nitpick - Jupiter tends to shield the inner solar system from comets that originate far out, but not necessarily asteroids. For bodies in the asteroid belt, there's some thought that Jupiter perturbs as many to a perihelion near Earth's orbit as it diverts away. And without Jupiter, the asteroid belt itself would have accreted into a terrestrial planet instead of remaining loose. Jupiter's overall effect on shielding Earth is uncertain.
> Long term MacOS nerds are the ones who got used to all the quirks and can't see anything at fault as they molded themselves into he platform with age, so to them everything is perfect. Meanwhile, new users to the platform will see things differently.

An easier way to phrase that is "people have confirmation bias." You clearly exhibit this in your post. New users depends on if they've used other desktop environments or not. I'm confident that someone who has never used a desktop computer before would be more productive on a Mac. Had they used Windows, they may be confused.
I'd appreciate if you didn't consider Firefox Relay emails as disposable email. The Firefox folks specifically have tried to make Relay anti-abuse.

It's an unkind thing to do to your prospective users.

From Bleeping computer's coverage the last time someone tried to dump Relay in with a disposable email blocklist:

> Back in November 2021, Firefox Relay's team lead had requested the maintainer of a separate burner email list, "burner-email-providers" to exempt the particular domain form the blocklist:

> "We are operating Relay with a number of features that I think mitigate the risks that these aliases pose," Mozilla's privacy and security engineer Luke Crouch explained in November.

> Firstly, if a @mozmail.com alias is disabled by the user, any emails sent to the alias are not bounced back but instead discarded with a 404 error message returned by the service's HTTP webook, stated Crouch.

Secondly, he explained, the anti-abuse protections built into Relay limit free users to a total of five aliases, and further rate-limit premium customers so they cannot abuse the service by creating large-scale throw-away aliases for, say, automated signups to web services.

> With that reasoning, mozmail.com was swiftly removed from that blocklist. And it appears, the creators of "disposable-email-domains" have also honored the clause, for now.
certs are not necessary, they are a tradeoff
> As you may have heard, I’m legally compelled to provide free labor and services to WP Engine thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers

Didn’t the court order have a whole section about WP Engine covering the cost of providing the required services?
How does the scenario of a person with a gun differ when there's a human driver? Or are more Uber driver armed than I think?
Naturally, making teen rides more expensive.
The trouble is real world applications (like combining Whisper + piper + HA, etc.) differs from specific benchmarks (many of which target different parts of the Linux stack that may be more optimized for arm or x86 specific features...).

And that doesn't account for individual N100 device variation—some have different power and thermal capacity (e.g. the Radxa X4 is limited compared to a larger mini PC).
Do you mean to subscribe to the whole collection, one RSS feed for all the blogs in my list? I mean, I guess I can build that feature, but it's gonna be quite a firehose.
Why do you think that is bots? I reflexively upvote anything I think was unfairly down-voted into gray even if I otherwise wouldn't have upvoted the post, and I observe the same behaviour on my own posts.
I wish more focus was placed on this. People need to make informed decisions and understand consequences so they can prepare. It's horrifying to me how, when suggesting solutions that carry this risk to normal people, the tech-savvy will casually omit the fact that, if this poor innocent normal person loses/breaks their device (or if their 2FA fails to transfer when they buy a new phone, WHICH I HAVE HAD HAPPEN TO ME and luckily caught it), they will permanently lose whatever personal data was under that 2FA.

I feel strongly enough about this that I am comfortable calling such irresponsible communication immoral. I'm not saying normal people shouldn't use solutions that have this caveat, but they absolutely need the risk to be made crystal clear to them.
>It seems contradictory to care immensely about [school] safety but lament the idea of wearing a [bulletproof] vest to [enter] the [school].

(Or be subjected to a metal detector screening, etc.)

No, it's perfectly consistent. The argument is that the underlying problem shouldn't exist to any significant extent in the first place, and doesn't need to (and doesn't in many other parts of the world).

A lot of traffic safety issues in North America derive from road design, which has historically prioritized the needs and wants of car drivers above everyone else. It is not "contradictory" to reject a solution that entails doing even more to accommodate cars.
Meanwhile Tesla with PE ratio of 121 and declining sales.

It’s a good time to short meme stock.
That is really interesting, in that it is the opposite of my childhood understanding. I started with CP/M and DOS, and the first time I came to a Linux machine, I just couldn't understand how someone could work with drives without the letters (dedicated namespaces, right). My thought was that it was a less polished design.
WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI [pdf]
WorstFit is a vulnerability in Windows-based programs which use ANSI APIs - especially those that handle command-line arguments or environment variables. Characters such as full-width quotes and yen signs can be silently changed into quotes and backslashes, bypassing upstream filters and sanitizers. Code execution, source disclosure and local file inclusion are demonstrated in a range of environments including PHP, Python, cURL, Excel, etc. as well as actual websites affected by this bug.
Are you confused about what geniuses are? Or did you not finish reading the comment?

Because this reply doesn’t make sense in relation to the previous comment.

They are very much outliers, so they are by definition a very small fraction of society.
Funny when I send this to Ally bank they say I can opt to receive a phone call instead...

seriously? It's going to take federal regulation to remove phones as "authentication" at this point. Incredibly stupid.
But if you have a problem and you need to show that you own appleid xxxx@xxx.com, can’t you go to an Apple Store and they will help you? I believe the frustration with Google is that there is not an actual human the regular person can talk to.
All of these components are available separately or as add-ons for Home Assistant.

I currently do STT with heywillow[0] and an S3-Box-3 which uses an LLM running on a server I have to do incredibly fast, incredibly accurate STT. It uses Coqui XTTS for TTS, with very high quality LLM based voice; you can also clone a voice by supplying it with a few seconds of audio (I tested cloning my own with frightening results).

Playback to a decent speaker can be done in a bunch of ways; I wrote a shim that captures the TTS request to Coqui and forwards it to a Pi based speaker I built, running MPD which then requests the audio from the STT server (Coqui) and plays it back on my higher quality speaker than the crappy ones built in to the voice-input devices.

If you just want to use what's available HA, there's all of the Wyoming stuff, openWakeword (not necessary if you're using this new Voice PE because it does on-device wakeword), Piper for TTS, or MaryTTS (or others) and Whisper (faster-whisper) for STT, or hook in something else you want to use. You can additionally use the Ollama integration to hook it into an Ollama model running on higher end hardware for proper LLM based reasoning.

[0]heywillow.io
> In the 50 years since, architects worldwide have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century

I despise architecture as a field. This is widely reviled building. I work in a similar building that is extremely user hostile but beloved by architects; every single day, multiple times per day, we run into stupid limitations of the building. And it's particularly nasty for people with disabilities.

In engineering we care so much about the end user experience. In everything from building fridges, to roads, to HVAC systems, etc.

That these two people see this as a work of art, instead of a practical thing that humans need to interface with, and that the artistic nature of the building is more important than the people, is incredibly selfish.

Selfish and shameful.
Paul,
a biological catalyst for biodiesel production is all well and good, but does this process still need an exogenous alcohol- namely methanol, or ethanol?
I didn't mind it that much because the higher the number was the more powerful the computer tended to be. The 9500 was super good. The 8500 not bad. The 7500 was the best of the mediocre, and the 7200 was similar but not as great.

During that time we bought our Macs from a local computer store. Our guy, Fred, always helped advise us, but he was pretty frustrated overall with the whole situation. I mean he also didn't get why anybody would want a Mac when Windows devices were cheaper, more standard, and less buggy.

> One of the best things Steve Jobs did on his return was to trim the number of Mac models to a minimum.

Fred always said that if they ever introduced colors to computer cases he was going to quit. Jobs came along with the iMac and less than a year later he retired. It cracks me up how he stuck to his word.
most GUIs by necessity involve fairly deep hierarchies of graphical objects

First, this isn't really true. You might typically have a window, a container, a layout object and then your gui components.

Second you don't need nested calls, you just add one component to another.

or you're going to scatter the fragments across a number of files

Why would that be true?

they need to be reassembled in the reader's head in order to understand what's going on.

This is a bizarre way to make a GUI let alone thinking it's necessary. Where is this idea coming from?

FLTK, JUCE, Tk, ImGUI, Swing and Qt are not like this at all.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed reply, it's given me a list of things to think about and it's honestly really appreciated. Completely understand the open source side of things and avoiding proprietary tech, I'm exactly the same and only standing on the shoulders of other open source software. I'm utilising SQLite and FAISS, so just files on disk that technically _any_ frontend or whatever could display, it's your data to do what you want with.

Not heard of Alfred as I'm not in the Apple ecosystem, but yes, you've hit the nail on the head between the combination of both after doing a bit of digging.

I'll seriously think about making it open source (time to brush up on the different licenses again). I want to keep it accessible so even my grandma could use it. I'm not expecting her to go cloning a git repo and checking dependencies etc, so I'm packaging it into a standalone executable. Maybe making the source open is something for me to consider and people can just pay if they don't want to go through any setup hassle (do I put some soft donation paywall up with a $0 minimum or something - just thinking out loud).

In terms of pricing, you've landed where I was thinking, maybe more towards the $30 end. I mean I think it's pretty slick and fills a niche, but I'm conscious I may be ever so slightly biased. A lot of stuff to mull over. Thanks again, really useful.
Never Trust a call you didn't initiate.
Click bait article.
So the presumption is that the device is illegal because it allows communications?
> What do you mean by stealth?

I meant stealth as in: “or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)”, see grandparent comment. I edited the grandparent comment now and added a comma between “stealth” and “proprietary”, hope this is clearer.
Ray Browser raises $6.5M to boost web-based gaming
The crime isn’t the damage but the „leaving without paying for the damage“. If you damage something accidentally and replace the cost of the damage, it’s not a crime. If you just leave and refuse to pay, it is a crime.
I've discussed this many times both here on HN and elsewhere so I won't go over what I've previously except to say this story further supports my earlier arguments/points.

What's relevant here is how this information can be put into use effectively to provide some degree of early warning of earthquakes. As an idea I've suggested the Amateur Radio Service could set up a network to monitor changes in the ionosphere. Due to the many diffetent/diverse locations of Amateur stations triangulating the location of a pending earthquake would be possible.

In the absence of a more formal monitoring system using the Amateur service would seem the quickest way of starting a worldwide monitoring network. If nothing else it'd be a cheap way of doing a feasibility study.
One tip: Every Substack has a feed, which is a nice alternative to having everything dropped in your email in-box. You just append "/feed" to the end of a newsletter URL, e.g. https://simonw.substack.com/feed.
Rust still has panics which is more or less the same mess. It is not as bad though but still annoying especially when writing libraries. When writing a binary, it is possible to just set panic to abort at least
Last time I called boss money transfer, i called them and their real agents told me they must call me to verify. I was like, how would I know if it is boss money transfer or scammer. At the end I had to trust because voice was same.
Reminds me of Geoff Darrow’s artwork on Frank Miller’s HardBoiled, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled_(comics)
Maybe it's just too early or there are other posts, but I find it an interesting insight into human behavior - supposedly intelligent human behavior - that there were hundreds of comments on the posting of the original study here at HN, the vast majority of which accepted the study's conclusion, yet there are much fewer comments on the "adjustment" to the study's conclusion.

I shouldn't be too cynical, but it's a reminder to be skeptical, always.
In the US, it’s been established by the Supreme Court that the police have no duty to protect anyone. They can it they want to, and individual departments can make it a policy and fire officers who fail at it, but it’s not a fundamental requirement.
Logic: A Captcha Conundrum
I met this today

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10234543870848885&set=a.10200156280740624

I can solve it, but how many people can? Is CAPTCHA limiting audiences? Does one have to be smart enough to access a site?
Ideally, people would mostly be free to make their own choices as long as the externalities of those choices are priced in.
When the ruling class captures all the non violent methods of resistance, then perhaps a little bit of lynching may convince them otherwise.
“In Soundcloud’s instance, part of declaring your innocence is you have to give them your home address and everything else, and it says right on there, ‘this will be provided to the person making the copyright claim.'”

Good job helping the scammers, SoundCloud. WTF
I see absolutely no problem with this. Look, I love music, listening to an album through, learning about artists, etc.

But sometimes, I want to put something on in the background that doesn't call attention to itself, but just sets a mood. I don't want Brian Eno or Miles Davis because then I'd be paying attention -- I just want "filler".

And I have absolutely no problem with Spotify partnering with companies to produce that music, at a lower cost to Spotify, and seeding that in their own playlists. If the musicians are getting paid by the hour rather than by the stream, that's still a good gig when you consider that they don't have to do 99% of the rest of the work usually involved in producing and marketing an album only to have nobody listen to it.

The article argues that this is "stealing" from "normal" artists, but that's absurd. Artists don't have some kind of right to be featured on Spotify's playlists. This is more like a supermarket featuring their store-brand corn flakes next to Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The supermarket isn't stealing from Kellogg's. Consumers can still choose what they want to listen to. And if they want to listen to some background ambient music that is lower cost for Spotify, that's just the market working.
What do you mean, what is sondehub?
Sovereign tech funds are the dumbest of the dumb money.
Couldn't they just put a passenger in that seat?
And yet it sits unsold on store shelves. A "gamechanger" in Apple-ese means tens of millions of units shifted. Apple is in the business of selling Big Macs, not wagyu steaks.

Apple is not Sony, who were happy to keep investing in their ecosystem even if people didn't buy it (Betamax, MiniDisc, GPS addon for the PSP).
A mighty girl: collection of books for smart, confident, courageous girls
Waymo, take note: instead of displaying a human walking, display googly eyes glancing at pedestrians.
I used an early version of the PV roof tool in 2020 for my own PV roof design. The front of my rectangle shaped home faces exactly North and therefore all sides are respective to exactly E/W/S. Given my professional experiences and knowledge awareness of photons I therefore opted to cover my entire roof in PV collecting technology and not just what faces direct sunlight, if one can see outside during daylight hours then the PV is functioning. Case in point, right now it is currently very cloudy and rainy here in the NE,USA and the roof is still generating 700 watts while my home's base load demand of 400 watts has the overage of 300 watts going to batteries. I have had this system for 3 years now and my choice to have such a system proved itself in our first outage when everyone else was panicking in the dark for hours. I sat relaxed and watched others in great stress and anxiety planning on how to preserve their refrig/freezers while visually panicking over their sump pumps not running in their basements. PV with a battery is a quality of life choice that directly impacts one's health and what price do you put on your health? I will also share with such sites that the energy and cost saving estimates are very much often wrong since the energy data is generalized for everyone and energy use per person significantly varies, some estimates are laughable to only me since I have my families own real world data for the last decade. I have also tracked our entire resource consumption at home for nearly a decade now, yes I am a data nerd to the extremes, and not only does such a solution save one GREAT stress and anxiety when it matters most but it also greatly reduces variable financial expenses and can also make one revenue.

Proactive versus reactive : The data doesn't lie, people do.

Stay Healthy!
>When I make an account, if I have at least two authenticators around me

If you do, you're in a tiny minority of users. Well, even if you have one you're in a tiny minority, but having two laying around is extremely unusual.