skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My 2FA is my face…

You have your threat model and I have mine.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254303493?sortBy=rank

Not enabling biometrics in the banking app means adding FaceID isn't enough.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> So the people who are too lazy to check their app are okay with going to an ATM?

If we're at the point we're calling people names I'm not sure further discussion will be productive. The ATM is on the way to the subway (which has poor reception), and we're talking about once a month here. It also uses a different part of my brain because I physically walk past to jog my brain (and walking does it in a way that driving past the freeway exit does not).

Again, what's a number that's on a phone, even if it's being texted to you, going to do for physically altering the size and weight and feel of a debit/credit card? That's just another text that gets recieved and disappears from my brain until it's too late.

I'm glad you've got a system that works for you, but the only thing that works about debit/credit card money is I end up spending more money than I would with cash. Changing habits to spend less money works by using cash works in a way that I couldn't get to work with a debit/credit card. (There are some places that don't take cash so I need to use debit/credit, but, for now at least, that's not the norm.)
In case you didn't check it yet, comment section is a small goldmine.
this article breathlessly and uncritically praises 4chan for the home-schooling curricula/seminars posted on /lit/ while somehow denigrating "the left" as the cause of academic decline. here's the evidence for the latter:

> The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over the past decade.

key word expand: "decolonization" efforts are about adding more diverse perspectives in academia instead of accepting commonly-held perspectives and beliefs, not an attempt to censor classic lit.

the rest of the article can be summed up as: the same people who organize on a site which platforms white supremacists are... checks notes reading classic greek and russian literature which is still taught in schools? here's the lynchpin of their "education ecosystem" - a list of books that you'll read in high school english class: https://archive.org/details/3a-3c-14cefcc-02a-2f-85256ff-821...

> When the Atlantic article was reposted on /lit/, the board’s denizens – between angry segues about mass immigration and chemsex (as is to be expected on 4chan) – seemed to agree with its claims.

wonderful. pray tell, what were these "segues about mass immigration"? is it possible that those beliefs also underlie the desire to return to "english-speaking academy"?

> I must be the only 22 year old on the planet who goes to my college library to find books by John Ruskin,” one wrote. “These are follow up indoctrination thinking schools [sic],” another said of modern universities. 4chan’s book ecosystem, with its focus on the traditional canon, seems to provide a refuge for those disillusioned by the bare-bones treatment of literature in the English-speaking academy.

i had the exact same concern when i was in school, except it was non-white authors ("the english-speaking academy" seems to be doing some heavy dog-whistling here).

if the right is so disillusioned about education, maybe stop cutting funding for public education and start allowing more diverse perspectives? you know, to bolster education?
Nice. I’m always a fan of eink calendars.

> The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display.

What prevents the Pico from fetching iCal data? And if you need an intermediate server, why not just have it render a bitmap/jpg and have the Pico fetch that? I used this method of a server that rendered the bitmap for my own experiments with ESP32 calendars.
It's that they were the party for the COVID money pump hangover / inflation. The conservatives lost power in the UK for the same reason.
I'm skeptical of anything posted on Reddit, but that seems plausible enough that I'm sure it occurs somewhere.

It sure will be interesting to see how this mass social experiment plays out
Writing toy code with LLMs is a blast
Can a calculator help you solve the word problem aspect? Stop pretending like LLMs are the same as a calculator or an abacus
Not my words. Hemingway's.
Nice. Eink calendars are always a fun IoT project.

> The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display.

What prevents the Pico from fetching iCal data? And if you need an intermediate server, why not just have it render a bitmap/jpg and have the Pico fetch that? I used this method of a server that rendered the bitmap for my own experiments with ESP32 calendars.
"Another great neal.fun joint. It made me miserable!"
Hey, I have added "Play without account". You can play it without login now.
> Do they?

Clearly they do or NBC wouldn't pay approximately eleventy quadtrillion dollars every time the contract is up to renew. NBC makes billions on the Olympics though running advertising and advertisers are willing to pay NBC's rates therefore at least enough people care for NBC to profit massively.
> No way you could run Linux binaries or MacOS classic binaries from '98

Can you give me a few examples of linux binaries from 98? I would like to give this a go, I think I have a pretty reasonable way to go about achieving this.
It's the same in the UK. Also I have been trying to get them to list my address for two years now. Google were able to update it but any requests to Apple seem to go into a black hole.
If someone's argument is solely an analogy, it has zero value
Just because someone has a consistent set of guiding principles doesn't mean that "bad" behavior is somehow more justifiable.
If you asked kids what the purpose of school is, they will overwhelmingly say that they are there to get a good grade. So for what they want from the process, it makes sense.
The NBA apparently does a pretty good job of trying to be responsible, here. They'll send letters to players at college.

"Congratulations on becoming a Div 1 College Basketball player. You need to keep focusing on your studies, because [they break down stats that show that ~1% of even Division 1 players will make it to the NBA]."
We are past that point. People will accept anything without resistance.
No, I got that part. That's true in any first-past-the-post system, and especially true in ones with more than two major parties. (The solution to that would be proportional representation rather than first-past-the-post.)

But the complaint seemed to be, not that it kept happening, but that it kept favoring the Conservatives. So, on the one hand, the fact that it keeps favoring one party is an issue. On the other hand, the way the complaint was made makes it sound like it's not coming from a position of objectivity.
To play the devils advocate, on some calculators 9+3x2=24
> She asks him to make it shorter and even when chatgpt makes the answer litterally 1 SENTENCE she still asks him to make it shorter making it a 1st grade 7 word sentence and copies it without understanding it or understanding the poem or even reading it.

Even children are figuring out that iterative prompt engineering is super effective. For maybe not the right reasons, but still.
>...When there is only one buyer or seller in any other case, we call it price gouging or price fixing.

Having one buyer or seller of a product or service is neither called "price gouging" or "price fixing".

>...Additionally, the "extra profits" or savings (in some cases) actually do contribute to maximum satisfaction of consumers.

There is really no evidence of that. (The basic concept of rent seeking is covered in any econ101 micro textbook.)

>...For example, if the only dealers were run by manufacturers then they could unilaterally decide that cars over 5 years old will never be repurchased, dooming those deals to private transactions with zero warranty, or else second-tier used-only retailers.

What a strange idea.

>...Again, appeals to authority do nothing for me.

No, that wasn't an appeal to authority.
Back in high school we used to just copy and paste stuff from a Microsoft encarta cdrom into word, print it out and hand it in. Somehow I managed to go on to have a successful career in software making vastly more money than my parents or those around me.

The only real thing that would bug me is LLM’s are professional bullshitters. They are a super compressed store of knowledge that doesn’t know its own boundaries and will happily spout out perfectly written nonsense. At least encarta has effort put into making sure it is factually correct… it wasn’t compressed knowledge.

Granted it wasn’t when I was 11, but still. Not sure my point proves anything but it’s a point, damn it.
Overlooked but Critical Security Gaps Caused by 3rd Party APIs and Services
Greenland actually makes a lot of sense. I think if every citizen there was offered $5million they’d vote yes. And it’s entirely reasonable from the USA perspective as it’s not that much overall for the US.

Probably wouldn’t make a state but treat like Puerto Rico where they continue to self govern and citizens can freely move to the USA as they’d have USA passports.

For USA very strategic naval passages and mineral extraction.

It’s not that crazy really and I think there’s a deal that’s mutually beneficial where everyone wins and is better off long term.
I have too many family stories of the things police used to do to believe that it was better back then. My gut tells me things are better now but maybe I am just not in the know.
Unfortunately, the liberal party rules say they require a minimum of four months to elect a new leader. They may be able to fast track it in three months, but it’s entirely up to the liberal party so I suspect Trudeau will still be leader when Parliament resumes.
That webpage has a misconfigured rel=canonical. HN replaces the URL with its canonical URL by fetching and extracting this link from the page.

<link rel="canonical" href="www.zoraster.org/">

This value which when combined with the base URL results in the URL.

HN only does this when a new link is submitted. The item may be edited to restore its title or its URL if they have been mangled after posting.
In fairness, the US paid for the Panama Canal and have continued to sustain it despite no "ownership".

Panama is only relevant because of the US investment in the Canal and they claim ownership when it suits them and then cry poverty every time investments need to be made.

Panama is currently playing with fire by courting foreign interest that doesn't align with the US, who are effectively their paymasters.

It's not a sudden "empire-building" move by the US. The fact that the canal exists at all has always been because of the US Empire. Panama is playing a dangerous game of FA&FO.
If someone tried this protest in the US someone would have been shot night one.
To me, the canal thing is the only thing he's mentioned that is possible. There's a stipulation that does allow for that, just like there's a stipulation that the crown can do away with parliament in the UK. Doesn't mean it's an unlikely provision to be invoked without a lot of negative baggage to the point they are not likely to happen.
I'm not saying that presented scenario in that post is not real, but since it is popular post on Reddit, there is huge chance, that it is just rage-bait.
> Merchants are prevented by their contract from charging the transaction fee to the customer using the card. Therefore all customers pay the fees though increased merchant prices, even those using cash.

This hasn’t been true for over a decade

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/surcharging...

> Can I add a surcharge to card transactions?

> As a result of a legal settlement to resolve claims brought by a group of U.S. merchants,
merchants in the U.S. and U.S. territories may add a surcharge to certain credit card
transactions, starting January 27, 2013. Merchants who choose to surcharge must follow

> I resent paying for peoples credit card "benefits" - actually they're payoffs - every time I use cash.

You really think retailers would reduce their prices by the amount of credit card fees if they didn’t pay them?
If only life was as simple as calling .isAnomaly() on anything
Long Context: Everything is loaded into the prompt at once.

RAG: Dynamically fetches only the most relevant pieces of information using semantic search.
Microwaving ruins the skin for me, but does work much faster at least. A small toaster oven / convection oven might be a good trade off, and pressure cooker can do a good job too.
What's interesting is how I opened Safari's reader mode to digest this 5000+ word polemic, and then noticed for the first time a new option to summarize its contents. A few seconds later I had a clear idea of what the author's thesis is, without being under the false impression that it had conveyed its finer points.
> Nursing might not be the highest paying job but they earn a median wage of $86k which is pretty good in most areas.

Oh darn that's good that nursing school is free then!/s
I think the only reason the Vision Pro exists is for the OS. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple internally considers it the final OS, since it's the one that exists in the physical world. Their task for the next two decades will be to bring that OS to invisible devices like glasses.
I mean, it's still a valid argument, isn't it? If an 11 year old kid can't answer the question "how many hours are there in 1 day and 7 hours" without a calculator, that's a bad thing. But even adapting the plain english question into something that they can enter into a calculator might soon become too difficult for the ChatGPT generation.
If no one was selling, all that engineering wouldn't be "of value".
Yes, but nobody was buying those for personal or student use, and the really cheap ones came later.
Chetty uses Facebook data to analyze social mobility in the United States
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04996-4
I don’t think things would be different if the LLM gave answers that were 100% reliable and correct, it would still be sad that the kid is having someone else do their homework for them with no effort on their part. What you say is true but irrelevant.

The real difference is that calculation isn’t the important part of math above a certain level.
It makes me think this whole article is maybe just rage bait.
I assume she was just an NPC so it does not matter
Most of software engineering (differentiating from programming) is just iterating on a model of a problem space in enough detail that computers can be applied to automate a lot of the drudgery.

Software is nowhere close to done "eating the world". I see endless opportunities to apply software to remove drudgery; anything that helps me do that faster is a win.
Isn't that what we all are?
And for those who missed the big blue button, you can sip the wine in your browser, no download needed.

Worked very well with Firefox for Android.
For many classes of vending machines, dollar bill support is going away without government intervention. For a while it's been very common in the US to see vending machines that have bill, maybe coin, and card options. It's increasingly common to find machines that only have card options, no cash. Products are more expensive and people use less cash generally...how many customers actually carry enough $1 bills to buy themselves a $3.75 bottle of soda?

They're already switching because it allows them to charge higher prices with less friction. You'll likely grumble a bit while you're feeding the 4th dollar bill into the machine but a card swipe or tap is the same level of customer effort regardless of cost.

Vending machines will continue to move towards electronic payment as the preferred and eventually only widely available option, and will no longer have relevance to what a physical dollar looks like.
> In a “free market” you can choose what firms you work for and with, except the government.

Eh? Nobody ever leaves one country for another?

> The government would be more efficient in an autocratic leadership. But government efficiency is not the societies efficiency and well being

I think the free market proponents would say otherwise - one key problem is the myth of perfect information - you are imagining it's possible to concentrate all the required information to make any correct decision into a very small group of people at the top ( and assuming these people are competent and not corrupt). One of the ideas behind why distributed markets work is the information about what is needed is communicated by the mechanisms of the market itself.

And to bring it back to the original post - does the CEO have all the information required to direct others to meet the customers need across all areas - or is it better to use the collective intelligence of the entire organisation?
> Yeah, this one sucks a lot. But, email is dead, so...

Really? These days, can't even login to some services (like Steam) without them sending you an email to confirm the login (some services even do this even if you already have other 2FA...)
Recursive Expansions
Neither is a US company. TikTok is on their last appeal to the Supreme Court to avoid being banned in the US. Huawei is banned by the US government for many uses, e.g 5G infrastructure. Neither is a good example.
I don't think there's any need to arrest anyone as a show of strength. I don't feel the threat of an actual American invasion and I like living in a free society that doesn't go around arresting people for political show. Most of us are offended by Kevin being a self appointed negotiator on behalf of Canada but it's not like government is bound by anything he says so if he wants to talk in private with Trump as a private citizen so be it.
trying this with dietary restrictions and an aversion to glyphosate has been very difficult.
Solving a problem, is still work and involves learning.
99 Mental Models
I was reading about Charlie Munger's use of mental models to guide his thinking, and wanted to learn more. So, with the help of o1, I created a list of 99 models with definitions and examples and styled it with tailwind. Let me know if there are any important models I've missed.

Hope it can be helpful to you!
I enjoy Lisp and Lisp-alike languages specifically because with the right editor support you can do a lot of this kind of structural editing stuff without giving up the niceties of source code as text.
Pretty much this. I’ll go up to about 16 chars, personally. 20 is too much.

There should be one and only one obvious way to spell it, and preferably one obvious way to pronounce it. (If reasonable people could disagree about pronunciation, the different options should at least be easily recognizable as variants on one another.) There shouldn’t be any alternative pronunciations that resemble anything negative, or any component of the name that can be confused with something prurient or scatalogical (unless the site is porn-related, of course).

The .com should be available, and preferably the .net and .org tho I usually won’t buy those unless I already have funding or significant income from the project.

For names, I like to mine non-English vocabulary for terms that are metaphorically or mythologically connected to the problem or solution the project is about. I have a soft spot for Greek vocab/etymology, and it’s usually the first place I turn; but I’ve also used German, Hindi, Hebrew, and others.

If I’ve got a fantastic name but the domain is taken, I’ll still use the name but with a `-app`or whatever suffix only if the site at the desired domain without that suffix is very clearly not software related (for instance a pest control service or an industrial parts manufacturer or a self-published fantasy novel).
The thing they were found not guilty of? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/anthony-olienick-chri...
All 20?

Also, is this like when the FBI discovers a plot to kidnap a Governor and half of the conspirators are paid FBI informants?
Show HN: Idea Overflow – 1M Unique Naive Concepts/Ideas
What did apple invent? Is it really more than a couple of things? (Applying existing ideas to new systems isn't inventing)
Read Bernays' "Propaganda" and everything will make sense.
I was there, when it was still in creation.

jms is such a treasure. Listening to his autobiography, narrated by Peter Jurasik, is wholeheartedly recommended.
I've faced this as well. One of the big sources of "mess" for me in a years-long ledger is inconsistencies in account naming. I get around this with a big block of alias that rename accounts to use my newer, preferred conventions (without having to comb through possibly hundreds of postings to update by hand).

I also went through a couple file organization schemes and have (tentatively) settled on file-per-month since that leads to a nice cadence where setting up the new monthly file coincides with paying bills and is a good time to do any necessary account reconciliation.
No, I'm aware of the irony. I also wrote it down when I woke up, and you can see on stream that I copy it from a Discord message when I'm looking for it (https://youtu.be/N_KNpVujAL8?t=14677).

I figured you'd rather read something my brain made up (albeit unconsciously) than something a machine made up using linear algebra without understanding any of the words that it's using.
>Then they casually dropped the holy grail of trusted compute...

By which I think he means the AI stuff runs on your machine rather than the cloud. For me that's not a holy grail at all or even something I'm terribly interested in. I downloaded Apple AI on the macbook, found it quite meh and am now seeing if there is a way to remove it as it uses quite a lot of GB or memory. I can see for someone wanting to use LLMs on confidential corporate data that would be important but that's a specialist use case that I don't think Apple Intelligence is particually good for.
Did you not experience the golden age of ICQ, irc, msn chat? It is absolutely possible to form strong friendships entirely online - it just takes the same amount of time and effort to nourish them. I still have fond memories of friendships with the people I used to chat with a couple hours almost daily, and we still know what's going on in each other's lives 20 years later!

Consider the collections of letters from snail mail friendships some classic authors used to maintain. Also purely done in writing.
People have such a fascination with anything "rare". It's such a meme on ebay how often the word "RARE" is used.
I have no idea what you're alluding to. Perhaps you need to increase the scope of your analysis?
> "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

It's that sentiment all over again. Specifically, a naive belief that the specs/tech of something are just as important than the execution. Maybe they are if you are very tech online, but for most people, tech/specs don't matter as much.

Ultimately, this is another distortion of reality by the comment section.
Huh? The human not understanding anything is kinda the point of the Chinese Room argument...
That was the savings estimates at the time from sources in the government iirc so I think they would have included the relative durability of the cotton bank note in the calculations. [0] Of course that's just the savings not the costs but a lot of those are one time as different coin op mechanisms get updated to accept dollar coins.

[0] The $1 notes also go through a lot more use in their life so they degrade much quicker iirc and a bit over 40% of the bills in circulation are $1 bills too so switching over to a coin that lasts decades instead of 6-7 years (https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/how-long-is-the-life-spa...) would really cut down on printing costs.