skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the risks of 2FA is losing access to your accounts after losing the authenticating device. Backing up the 2FA seeds mitigates that risk. The backup needs to be encrypted with the password remembered and stored somewhere. Sounds like it’s a job for a password manager, preferably in an offline local password manager with a different database.
Yeah, that's the main proposition Starship has for the market. Going to analogy with laundromat, you need to include the cost of single-use laundry cart and remember that your laundromat is on another end of the same asphalted road which the truck nearby can easily drive on.

Not sure at all if costs - and hassles, of course - of buying a cart are less than some change for the costs of the fuel - the truck is autonomous, of course.
What has been built so far?

It is hard to see the "little to no effort upside" when the first request looks like it requires effort. Particularly when the pitch is for a two sided marketplace. Good luck.
Are people choosing SQL Server independently of the Microsoft ecosystem? My understating is that you typically use it because you’re forced to choose a MS product.
Actual good UX was thrown out the window when it became a focus and profession. It's all wrong now.
Correct.

While I have the ability to read some legal text despite having 0 law education, it still is confusing and hard to interpret stuff.

While I understand the need for regulation, and safety, it seems almost if not impossible to navigate. Unless you have the money to pay for lawyers and someone to handle compliance, its very easy to make a mistake that could kill your career.

So your corporations or large businesses can afford lawyers and compliance consultant people so they ensure they are fine and dandy, but if you rural person wants to build explosives to mess around and experiment and research, their is no way they can afford this unless they are super rich.

Ordinance Labs somehow does this but they are Texas based, and make money off of consulting....so they are a great example of how hard this is. They also are being accused of violating ITAR and EAR which is serious.
if i go to chatgpt.com on my phone not logged on at all it tells me very prominently at the top that i am using 4o mini
Here is my story.

I worked at a manufacturing company in for almost 15 years. I started as a shipper/receiver then worked my way up to become an equity partner (by verbal agreement, but I quit before any actual legal paperwork was provided, as I caught the owner lying and descending into a pattern of terrible behaviour...aka drugs and vices).

Over the years we went from a small player to a major player and invested in groundbreaking tech that we were very early adopters of. Our industry advances pretty rapidly and every 3-5 years there is a major shift in the way things are done, more automation, IOT functionality and consolidation among competitors. We would invest in new technology pretty much on par with the industry norm, but after we made our last investment into the latest and greatest, we had a hard time adapting to it and made many mistakes along the way. The equipment we bought didn't really do what we were told it could do by the salespeople, so we had to pivot and reinvent our offering. We decided to focus on our core products and that bet paid off, we eventually solidified our offering as a provider in our niche and things started to pick up in terms of sales and overall output. Over the course of 4 years, we had some pretty steady turnover among frontend and backend team and we opted to not replace them, instead, we put more duties on other team members, gave them raises and incentivized them to perform at a higher level. This worked for a while, but eventually, everyone got burnt out and started complaining that they're overworked.

What did the owner do when the ship was sinking?

Nothing, they let it sink and decided that by doing nothing they would be able to blame others - the CEO has been saying they are sick and dealing with serious health issues, but has never told anyone what they are and no one can get a hold of them. The president is the one who has to deal with upper management issues, but they don't have signing authority so nothing really gets done in terms of major decisions.

How did employees react when they caught wind that the company was doomed?

They're all looking for other jobs, key team members quit (I was the first), and others followed. They all asked for raises, some got them, but others didn't and they all conspired, and now they all do the absolute bare minimum required to stay employed. Most of them are hoping to be fired so they can get severance - all are long term employees - but they're also afraid that the company will become bankrupt before anyone is let go.

What did the employees do in the final days before the company closed?

The company hasn't closed yet, but all employees are asking me to open my own business and hire them. Some are also diverting work to competitors and collecting commissions on it behind the back of their employer.
And why should they if it doesn’t make sense?
Redis is slow?
The PS1 monstrous success sealed the DC's fate. It created a huge new demographic of first time gamers that equated "PlayStation" to "console".
> And a whole slew of common chemicals used in harmless synthesis

The US also regulate chemicals, and knives are free to sell everywhere, it's just forbidden to be carried in public.
hadn't realised EU was still buying gas directly from Russia as late as 2024, literally fuelling Putin's war machine. Ukraine, at war with Russia, facilitating the transit and earning transit fees for it, presumably to finance the war from the opposite side.
What Counts as a Newtonian System? The View from Norton's Dome [pdf]
It's interesting how many argue that putting 2FA codes into a password manager is wrong because you combine 2 factors into one (not don't fully agree with that reasoning), but then are happy with passkeys. How are passkeys better?
This is a whole lot of wrong information and eugenicist thinking, yikes.

1) healthy adults and children were and continue to be killed by covid, even if at lower rates.
2) this is horribly devaluing the lives of people with confounding vulnerabilities. Are you suggesting it's fine if they get decimated or worse?
3) This ignores the long term disabling effects population wide where patients survive but suffer awful quality of life for months or years

I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion for mentioning long covid and eugenics, but I'm fine with that. I've been very disappointed in the shift observed in HN commenter population lately. I used to think this was a group of intelligent & thoughtful people but am no longer suffering that illusion.
Good points thanks. Will rad about TK solver.

The question is about the use case and how much technical people are.

Excel format is bad because it’s not clear simple text in the raw text format. Also for simple local database with not that much data.

CSV with quirks could be edited with any text editor, put into LLM, shared, GIT history edits. That’s also the benefits of local notes in filesystem in MD format (oobsidian).

Problem with plain CSV is that I can’t do any formatting even the simplest or make simple formulas. I could make calculations using DuckDB or something but it have friction.
One hopes that this will eventually burst the AI bubble.
> In the case of Redis, I can only think that people perceive Redis Ltd. as unfairly profiting off others' work since the company's founders were not the system's original creators. An analysis of Redis' source code repository also shows that a sizable percentage of contributions to the DBMS comes from outside the company

He mentions this in "Andy’s Take" section btw
If the vault requires a hardware key and master password to access the encrypted password and token, would you still describe it as single-factor authentication?
Reread my comment carefully. I don’t care if they obey or not. It’s just clear they will not obey.
> without risk factors like obesity

40% of Americans are obese.
Yep. Starting things off by lying about masks set a terrible precedent. Much blood on Fauci’s hands.
We've been here many times before. Imitation learning doesn't generalise and that makes it useless in practice.

Aloha is a great example of that. It's great for demos, like the one where their robot "cooked" (not really) one shrimp, but if you wanted to deploy it to real peoples' houses you'd have to train it for every task in every house over a few hours at a time. And "a task" is still at the level of "cook (not really) one shrimp". You want to cook (not really) noodles? It's a new task and you have to train it all over again from scratch. You want it to fold your laundry? OK but you need to train it on each piece of laundry you want it to fold, separately. You want it to put away the dishes? Without exaggeration you'd have to train it to handle each dish separately. You want it to pick up the dishes from the kitchen? Train for that. You want it to pick up the dishes from the living room? Train for that. And so on.

It sucks so much with miserable disappointment that it could bring on a new AI winter on its own, if Google was dumb enough to try and make it into a product and market it to people.

Robot maids and robot butlers are a long way away. Yeah but you can cook one shrimp (not really) with a few hours of teleoperation training in your kitchen only. Oh wow. We could never cook (not really) one shrimp before. I mean we could but this uses RL and so it's just one step from AGI.

It's nonsense on stilts.
its not an either/or, it is both. regardless, my point is that you cannot simply dimensional analysis your way to special relativity or the energy-momentum relation
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, lookup videos on youtube of clearly paranoid schizophrenics that believe the fed has them under watch. I randomly fond one once and it was wild the mental gymnastics being done to justify her belief. I really felt bad for the woman.
Seems neat indeed... But

> nobody have to change any habits.

That could still be confusing though for tourists which are used to smoke at home

OTOH laws regarding which substances are ok to consume/purchase differ by country anyhow. I mean, tourists used to purchasing weed or alcohol already have to be mindful that it is not necessarily legal to purchase in countries in which they might travel to.
How has the 21st century gone so wrong?
> Andy's video (linked in the post)

Is there a "to long didnt watch" summary any one knows of? I hate videos, but am curious lol
I hate to be blunt here but if you are complaining about 3min builds and 10s start-up times for a dev environment, you are looking at the wrong areas of optimisation.
You are more hopeful than I am. The think of the children attitude is only when it’s politically advantageous. 16% of kids live in poverty. We’ll do whatever we can to protect children before they’re born then go like, “good luck” once they’re born.
That’s cool, when do I get my lost white matter and sense of smell back?
How does it compare to mitmmitmproxy2swagger?

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger
Let it never be said they didn't learn their lesson from XServe, eh?
> If you can remember it any modern computer can guess it in a short time.

That's not true. A long sentence of your choosing is easy to memorise and plenty long enough to not be able to be guessed by a computer (brute force).
Reminds me of software i have built which had some basic foundational problems.
Each bug was fixed with a data-patch that fixed the symptom but not the cause.

hence we continually played whack-a-mole with bugs. we would squash one bug, and another one would appear.

same with llms, squash one problem with a data-fix, and another one pops-up.
As a complete aside:

Scotts love of Metaculus over other prediction markets blinded him in this years Presidential race and then wrote the most copium filled article titled "Congrats To Polymarket, But I Still Think They Were Mispriced" [0] even though Metaculus has the worst calibration of any market [1] which should obviously be true because there's no money on the line (even fake money, see Manifold Markets, helps accuracy).

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/congrats-to-polymarket-but-...

[1] https://calibration.city/
>But if your data model isn't anything like relational DBs, non-SQL makes a ton of sense. OP seems to miss exactly this, that the Redis query language is shaped on the Redis data model, that is basically alien to the relational model.

Sure...but all roads lead back to SQL eventually. Another recent example also mentioned in the OP is BigTable adopting SQL.
I was thinking that Blue Origin was a more likely target.
I had one project that used Next. It was one of the most painful things I’ve used in my 25 year career. And if you’re on Linux, it’s dog slow when developing. Never again.
It doesn’t matter if you have five visitors or 5 million you presumably want your website to stay online so you need something that restarts the processes when they die, etc. Honestly building and publishing a docker image is super simple. There are numerous hosted kubernetes solutions to deploy it to as well. I don’t think that using next JS or using Kubernetes means you are inherently over complicating anything, and this is coming from someone who prefers minimal technology (I personally don’t use next JS, but I see the value in it for others)
Wow his database startup that raised 12M died this year after only three years.

If anything this shows how insanely difficult it must be to succeed as a database startup (when was the most recent startup success in this space?), as the founding team is stellar.

On the other hand I am surprised it died this quick and interested to know if they did a proper postmortem. Not only did they raise way more than is needed to survive for three years but the idea is about utilising AI to improve DB performance and I find it hard to imagine they couldn't find more investors to lend them a lifeline with all the AI hype.
Anyone know what company he may be talking about?
These remarks are hilarious.

Nanite was never supposed to be a silver bullet but a way to enable high density mesh streaming and high fidelity shadows and lighting when used with Lumen. Both techniques work incredibly well.

The only valid criticism is games getting too expensive (to make) and frame generation can work against gameplay. But both are really up to game designers to use appropriately, not engine providers to dictate.
My mistake there, I misinterpreted your point of view.
The Rivers Run Dry and the Lights Go Out: Ecuador's Doom Loop
I am happy in this moment because as I lay here with my ear on the ground, I can hear many many people hearing about Ruby
Given how much front end has evolved over the last 15 years, is it really the case still these days that you should do SSR for SEO? That would be a strong indictment of Google and other search engines if they still so many years later are not properly crawling JS based websites wouldn't it?
Regarding Teller's trick, I'm waiting for the revelation that a letter from long ago from the late, great Amazing Kreskin had given the exact date and time of his demise.
Quarantine, voluntary or otherwise, the elderly and at-risk then. In the Bay Area, anyone who had children in daycare had already gotten Covid and recovered from it before the lockdowns began. A rational policy needed to recognize natural immunity.
Nice deflection. Except that Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned after the war and his personal experience comes from 1945-1953, well after Barbarossa had anything to do with it. It wasn't much better in the 1970s and 1980s either. I knew a person who was sentenced to 6 years of hard labor for human rights activism in 1975. Upon his arrival in Perm-36 camp, he was greeted with "we run a humane establishment and don't kill people; we torture you long enough that you die on your own". According to him, the turnaround was very high indeed, up to 20% of prisoners his section died each year.

In 1996, he returned with other fellow inmates and established a private museum. The museum's staff were labeled "foreign agents" and the museum was forcibly taken over by Russian government when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. All mention of Stalin was erased, exhibitions about crimes against humanity and the fight for human rights were revamped in favor of a more "balanced" approach:

"We don't want to take sides," the museum's new head of exhibitions, Yelena Mamayeva, said shortly after being appointed. "We're trying to talk more about the architectural complex [of the camp], and not to get involved in assessing specific people who served sentences there, and assessing Stalin, and so on. Because right now this is not quite politically correct."

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-perm-gulag-museum-takeover-co...

Instead of warning future generations about the dangers of totalitarianism, the museum now celebrates timber output of the camp and tries to present forced singing of songs praising the government that brutalized them as a rich cultural program offered to the inmates.
https://archive.ph/irFKi
Nice post. Would the larger amount of code result in different performance in a scenario where other code is being run as well, or would the instruction cache be large enough to make this a non-issue?
guess you're not planning on getting old huh?
Maybe there’s a language issue here… but would any saved 2FA code be expired the next time you retrieved it from your password manager? They’re generated for one-time use and have an expiration, right?

Or, when the author says “save the 2FA code” does he really mean “use the password manager to generate the 2FA codes”?
I think an honest conversation about porn access and how much and what we want available as a society (especially to teenagers) is overdue. The internet completely firebombed the obscenity regulations for better or worse and we've just been ignoring the consequences, due to various reasons.
I did read the article. I'm skeptical of the claim though. The author was careful to publish specific UAs for the bots, but then provided no extra information of the non-bot UAs.

>If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.

I'm also skeptical of the need for _anyone_ to access the edit history at 10 qps. You could put an nginx rule on those routes that just limits the edit history page to 0.5 qps per IP and 2 qps across all IPs, which would protect your site from both bad AI bots and dumb MediaWiki script kiddies at little impact.

>Oh, and of course, they don’t just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not.

And caching would fix this too, especially for pages that are guaranteed not to change (e.g. an edit history diff page).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not unsympathetic to the author's plight, but I do think that the internet is an unsafe place full of bad actors, and a single bad actor can easily cause a lot of harm. I don't think throwing up your arms and complaining is that helpful. Instead, just apply the mitigations that have existed for this for at least 15 years, and move on with your life. Your visitors will be happier and the bots will get boned.
I think that is really what it comes down to: courts can't do anything if they can't interpret the law.

The scope and extent of that interpretation should be fairly limited -- the tendency of the common law system to accumulate "judge made law" can lead to inconsistencies (and certainly has, with regards to the 2nd Amendment) -- but how could law ever be so thorough and systematic as to obviate the need for such interpretation entirely?
I'd also like the tinnitus to go away.
Or you can protect the database with a keyfile and/or a hardware key meaning you need 2 or 3 factors for the database.

This is what I do for my keepass database. It means I can store my database in a cloud service of my choice for sync purposes too.
Ruby is my go to language for short "fun" programs, as there are many places where it optimized for development experience (such as the new "it" feature). One of the committers, Yusuke Endoh, clearly understood the joy of coding in itself as opposed to being means to an end, and has authored a book on esoteric programming:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4774176435

Before Ruby, my preferred fun language was Perl. Ruby is like Perl but without having to type $ all the time. I have never used Rails.
? These are complete unacceptable, developer feedback loops should be measured in milliseconds not minutes.
> The language is pretty explicit

The literal text is ambiguous to a degree that commas change its meaning:

>> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Relying on contemporaneous ancillary (and unratified with consensus) documents should be an obvious sign that textual clarity is lacking.

Furthermore, the ability of an 18th century individual to craft weapons of mass destruction was vastly inferior to our modern access.

> My take on unstable people is that if you’re not stable enough to own guns you’re not stable enough to participate in society. If the person in this case made credible threats, they should charge him with a crime other than possession of a firearm accessory.

Not only stability! Just normal common sense.

~20% of English-proficient Americans can't do basic numerical tasks in English [0].

I wouldn't trust anyone that dumb around a loaded 6-lb trigger pull.

As the aphorism goes, some people ain't got the sense God saw fit to give a squirrel.

And while they and unstable people are fully entitled to live their lives however they want, it would behoove society at large to say 'Maybe we're not going to hand you things that require the highest amount of safety and carefulness.'

But I'm from the generation where you started out firearms ownership with a hunter safety course at the local firehouse, followed by supervised use with your family, eventually progressing to independent use by high school.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/2020025.pdf
I had recovered from it in about January 2020, so it was not one bit uncertain to me.
I didn't see this mentioned in the article (or maybe I missed it), but what are the chances that it's already been circulating in the population (h2h) but causing very mild symptoms? It doesn't seem like we're testing for it unless a patient becomes hospitalized (and apparently even then it might take several ER trips before they decide to test). Are we relying on waste-water testing to determine community transmission then?

I have a friend here in Oregon that came down with conjunctivitis for several days and then progressed to flu symptoms. It didn't hit him hard though and he recovered on his own just fine. I'm sure many pathogens can produce this same symptom progression, but it elevated my curiosity for sure.

I see that Canadian teen who acquired H5N1 had a similar symptom progression and initially tested positive for flu strain A, but it wasn't until they did further testing specifically for H5N1 that it was discovered. I suspect these "last-resort" testing scenarios are quite common since most hospitals (particularly in the US) don't give enough of a damn to test further for cases that don't require over-night+ admission into the hospital or ICU.
Is the implication developer experience does not matter and user experience is the only thing that matters?

I can improve the user experience faster and more reliably if i can iterate faster.

While I wouldn’t agree with the sibling comment that says it needs to be measured in milliseconds, I will say that the faster it is, the more motivated I am to work on it as well.
performance on a held-out set (like frontiermath) compared to putnam (which is not held out) is obviously relevant to a model's potential overfitting.

i'm not going to keep replying, others can judge whether they think what i'm saying is "relevant at all."