skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless it's for communication and collaboration, I don't care much about online services. I moved away from gmail mostly because google is trying to bundle everything there and the fact that trigger-happy bans. I use a couple of other service for backup, while I kept Google for easy collaboration with others (rarely happens, and I usually kept a backup of the documents), Youtube on the TV, and temp accounts. Almost everything else is local, shared via SMB or SFTP. I have a VPS for git repos (via ssh).
Yes you dont tell them upfront thats how much it saves. You sell your services as "they dont pay unless you save them money" then you get a percentage
Arguably the feature that makes kidnappings for ransom unattractive isn't necessarily traditional banks being trusted, but rather that traditional bank transfers are usually reversible (e.g. due to a court order).
I believe Ledger already leaked customers' addresses.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/hacker...

Probably the most dangerous and costly data leak ever. Can't believe Ledger was able to stay in business after that.
I think this is overblown. At the end of the day, ChatGPT only works if it has something to scrape. Those website still need to exist for all this to work.
A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source
That’s one of the things I never understood about proponents of the open internet.

The most gullible decile of society has to spend their free time somewhere… and there will always be millions of scammers, scoundrels, lunatics, etc., looking for places to set up shop.

So it seems inevitable that the open part of the internet will eventually consist mostly of the worst parts of human society preying on the bottom decile.

And even the best parts of the open internet will get drowned out by 800 million voices…
Throughout the 90's it was said that during tours they would send someone in each city to various pawn shops and bought up Yamaha DX7's- you could easily find a DX7 in thrift stores for $100 or less in those days, the FM sound was out of fashion and Yamaha built so many of them you could find them cheap. They just used them as MIDI keyboards, with all the actual sounds coming from rack gear off stage.

And then nearly every night, Trent would destroy one on stage by the end of the night.

Which is actually pretty hard to do if you know anything about Yamaha DX7's.
They are using less electricity than expected. The article neglects to specify whether this is due to higher than expected efficiency, or higher than expected downtime. Not that there is necessarily a problem with the technology, but energy efficiency estimates should be expected to already be quite accurate, all the technology is super old. If the efficiency is not in fact higher, I think the article is written a little disingenuously, they should really be more specific.
Btw, I wasn't saying to just add one of Cantor's numbers. His mechanism for picking diagonals, whatever it is, is a countable list. He picks a first digit to disagree with the first digit of my first number: That gives him 9 choices. He picks a second digit, another 9 choices. It grows exponentially, but I can make a one-to-one mapping for all (any) of his choices, so ALL of his numbers come from a countable set.
There are multiples alternatives to Ledger, they are the laughing stock of hardware crypto wallets since they've started their online seed backup solution... at least among power users.

Coldcard if you aren't into shitcoins, and Keepkey if you partake in them would be my choices. I would have recommended Trezor at some point but their customer data leak tainted their image for me, they've made a lot of their customers targets just because they chose to use a third party to handle customer data for marketing purpose, if you run a business this sensitive, do this in-house and apply banking standards for this data handling, seems like a no-brainer.
(2015 or before, don't you just love "evergreen" blog posts?)

There's Cooler Screens, where stores would replace the glass doors of their coolers, and the displays would show a simulated view of the products inside, alternating with ads. Walgreens only stopped that madness when the screens malfunctioned. I heard Kroger was about to do something like this, but I think they (wisely) decided not to.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walgreens-replaced-refrigerat...
Your apparent "need" for food and shelter is a social construct! Get out there! And by "out there", I mean out in the cold!
> I could have used a dedicated SSID for that infra

Just move the phones and laptops onto a fresh 5ghz ssid

Then the old 2.4ghz becomes the iot one
At some point, spammers are going to be using LLMs, if they're not already. So it'll just be LLMs trying to talk to each other.
I used to think inventing new things was the hard part. Now I'm finding that realizing solutions are novel and noteworthy is a lot harder.
I think it's an interesting sign of the times when people are asking for stock images. To me the AI art is a marginal improvement over stock photos since they're plausibly unique and can be tailored somewhat more specifically to the article's content. Neither option is great, but we are talking about the digital equivalent of hotel art so the bar is pretty low.

At least the author themselves had some input on the splash image compared to a stock photo.
One of the bottlenecks of NodeJS is the json encoding and decoding time. And the way isolates work don’t allow you to offload the parsing, and provide a bottleneck for sending data to other threads.

Anything that reduces that provides a good deal more headroom for Amdahl’s law.
> the ledger app on my phone requires precise location access to functio

Are you sure that's not just for Bluetooth access (which shows the same message, since it can indeed be used to derive somebody's location)? What business reason do they have to send users' location to their servers?

> graphene os with location disabled and always on VPN etc.

If you don't trust Ledger – how much do you trust your VPN provider? They know both your original IP and what you're doing on the Internet (or at least to which services you're connecting).
When someone writes or says that they use ChatGPT for a search engine, that just tells me they aren’t serious about facts or education. Anyone who invests two minutes in crosschecking will easily find disturbing misinformation in its “search results.”

Meanwhile, Duck Duck Go provides reasonable sources.

After rather extensive testing, my heuristic is never to ask ChatGPT for facts about anything that can’t be readily verified— and even then don’t trust it until it is verified. The act of verification makes ChatGPT too time consuming to be worth using for education.

It’s useful when I’m trying to solve certain programming problems, though.
I just pay for YouTube premium now.
A Safer (X)
Wait, BART director is an elected position? Why don't I get to vote on it?

(Also, while I am biased towards Caltrain, the new trains beat traffic on 101/280 San Francisco↔San Jose during rush hour).
What I Miss and Don't from Working as a Programmer
How does the government of France decide whether your kidnapping is worth sending military tactical teams to rescue you?
Ya I was just kind of ruminating on future prospects and should have specified to buy, but no part was hyperbole. Translated to rent (which is apparently decreasing slightly as of late) it works out to about $3-5/sq ft per month, or like $1700-2200 for a studio and $2.7k-3500 for a 2 bed, probably looking at upwards of $4k for anything with land, all depending on factors much like buying. In smaller isolated cities, and far flung suburbs, it's less but not by as much as you'd think, they're all catching up.

It feels insane that in our next place, we'll likely be spending around $24k a year for a space with no bedroom, probably in someone's basement again, which is around what my dad currently earns after taxes, but it's a bit up to luck. I almost don't want to think about it, so much anxiety.

Sad state of things really, along with the economy. Unless you already make great money, inherented it, locked something in ages ago, or just prefer to live in the deep boonies, you're kind of screwed.
I mean they (Google) do provide a service. One could possibly argue that the content creators should pay Google to distribute their material, kind of like an equivalent to a AWS bill, but is anyone arguing that?

It would actually be a kind of reasonable argument, or at least more reasonable than the currently popular "Google is rich so they should provide services for absolutely free".
seems your issues started from the beginning. you bought a HA voice believing it was a home assistant server.

it says right on their sales page it is a "voice assistant" and that it is "built for home assistant". [1]

then you didnt want to buy the HA green that is a home assistant appliance with HAOS already setup for people who don't want to diy it (like you didnt).

next you downloaded a .vdi and didnt research what it is or how to install it.

then you complain about docker images, although it is
absolutely possible to run in docker as long as you understand the limitations [2]. did you even read this?

> hmm. new macs dont have apt-get anymore.

they never did. why dont you read whats in all of your screenshots? it says right above "if your OS don't have that, look for alternatives".

> Installing Virtualbox and double clicking the .vdi file i downloaded from earlier gives.... nothing

well, what do you expect? it's a disk image, not a executable. again, the installation instructions for macOS can help you here, you should read it [3]

> anyway, it looks like the default vdi ships with some well known bugs but ALSO its now just straight up missing the \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.efi file it expects to load. I found one you can download here and learned that you can import them into the vm via shared folders.

you found a post from 2021, it is not relevant today.
then you started replacing files... oh man!

your actual issue is that you didn't configure the vm like the installation guide showed you.

next you got it running in docker. advice to you: don't. you will not be able to use addons and thus no hacs.

> of course it just expects the networking to work when of course it wont fucking work

> i tried ngrok to setup a tunnel but it just resulted in a bunch of bad 400 bad request errors

you must learn how docker networks work to progress here. docker only listen locally by default and you need to instruct it otherwise if that's what you want.

TLDR:
you should have just started by reading the installation instructions, it explains to you:

> Home Assistant offers four different installation methods. We recommend using Home Assistant Operating System.

then you should follow the recommendation and be done long ago.

you seem frustrated and not keen on reading or learning.

not sure who you expect to take action based on that rant.

1: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

2: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/#advanced-install...

3: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/macos
spoken like a true american good boy born into corporate slavery who was taught (good job learning though) that your life is defined by slaving away in “multinational engineering firm” and the more money you have the more penis-measuring contests you will win… :)
Pretending that crime doesn't exist won't make it go away, and getting the information out there may help someone protect themself.

One wonders if the attackers were paid anonymously in crypto-currency.
Your bank is your home
The quality of "ad user experience" (and the inevitable end state for the new platform) was well known back when you've come up with your original logic

(and the challenge with sponsors/patreons of not having micro-transactions and having more friction from users is also still there)
All the references are on the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_tree
Which works really well until it just doesn't.
From the headline here on HN i thought they severed his finger to get around MFA or use it to unlock some crypto store - turns out they just cut it off to show they mean business and they actually kidnapped him
Oh right! Gotcha, I had it backwards.
Is this something new? This doesn’t seem to be an article with a date on it but a general help page for X?
CTA doesn’t have its own police. That’s just normal CPD.
I think they are running into issues with that because they don't own the rail lines, so they will probably go with batteries rather than overhead lines.
But how can we show him ads if he is just listening to CDs?
What do you mean? Subway in 4th and King is fire
I've been thinking for a while that the current security methodology for wallets is not great. YES, that statement is extremely obvious on the face of it. But, I mean, think of some of the basic measures people take. This hardware wallet crap, okay great, your keys are kept somewhere safe and there's offline signing, but so what? Boop the users head until they give up the wallet. H4xt funds. We should be able to designed a robust threat model for cryptoassets using smart contracts that resists many kinds of attacks (including kidnapping.) This is hacker news so I guess people will want details on how this might work.

I would probably start with how people use their money. If people have t funds, they usually aren't going to move it each day. So start with a fixed, daily spend limit. That's simple, to start with. Then past the spend limit, you might have extremely large, outlier transactions. This is an interesting phase because with actual non-shit-tier security you could have a secondary layer of confirmation. This could be based on different panic codes. Some could indicate that the transfer is being made under coercion and to notify law enforcement, some could indicate to accept the transfer and notify, and so on. You could outsource this to a third-party. Do you see what I mean? All this shit is easy to do with cryptography and actual good design. But no ones done it. I thought of this in the time it took to write this shitty post.

Provable deniability schemes can be done to make it look like a wallet only contains a certain amount, too, using various private transaction schemes. This is nothing new. These attacks of being forced to do reveal keys and so on are things cryptographers have thought of for a long time. It's why you had Truecrypt have the fake volume. There is other stuff you can add to the security scheme. Giving different persons a key and making them sign their portion. Co-signing by third-parties (already a thing -- the scheme I like best is keys.casa). Many different ideas to allow for funds to seem like they've been "sent" then allow for revocation later on. You could have all different enhancements to high value, anomalous transfers like forcing the incumbent of transfers to take longer and have a clearing phase and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to improve it even further. Just some ideas for how to stop attacks like this.

Whenever I see headlines about hacked exchanges, hacked wallets, lots keys, broken transfers, etc... I just think that we're still at the stage where there's a fractal of shit and we have to do better. Make everything work flawlessly and without even thinking about it.
To be fair it could happen to any rich person, it’s just crypto makes the transfer quick/easy and hard to trace if you know how to do it
Hacker Infects 18000 Script Kiddies with Fake Malware Builder: A Detailed Report
Do you have reason to suspect that it's less than all?
There is an artist on the other side. The fact that they can connect with you is the real experience, mediated by commerce and technology and all the other stuff that gets in the way.
Just remember - if you reply and engage in a conversation with a spammer, to the carrier’s anti spam systems it looks like the sender is legitimate since the recipient is talking to them. You may think you’re wasting the spammer’s time but in reality you may be giving them the power to scam someone else who isn’t as clever in recognizing a spammer. It’s best to report the spam text message and sender to 7726 (SPAM), or if you want to go the extra mile, report the spam through the FTC and FCC’s online complaint forms.
I'm replacing my Roku TV with a Google TV next month so I can take advantage of these as well, it's been a pain having them only on my phones/computers.
HA isn't (usually) the problem, the smart devices are. Our LIFX bulbs work almost flawlessly, and the Ikea bulbs using zigbee (not the ikea hub) are yet to fail, but the small number of Tapo bulbs require an API authentication that expires eventually or whenever there is a blackout so they require me to re-enter the password.

So the tapo bulbs are getting replaced with more Ikea bulbs and I won't be buying Tapo again.
Interesting to me that they just found and replaced the word "Twitter" for "X" without changing the videos that refer to Twitter, Tweets, and most egregiously removed safety features.
San Jose unfortunately has the Gilroy commuter trains idling in the station :(
I recently had a client who used an LLM to summarize a series of video lectures I did, and then comment on them. The summaries were about 50% on the ball, 25% silent on important points, and 25% wrong and weird.

Their commentary was a waste of their time and mine, as they got a partial and distorted notion of my work— but I couldn’t easily repair the damage. All I could really do is warn them that nothing they had read should be trusted.
You need location access to scan for Bluetooth devices in app. Pretty sure you don’t need it to use already paired devices.

It’s because companies were using Bluetooth scanning in apps combined with known location beacons to work out users locations.
I'm honestly pretty aware of it. When I open the door, I try to use my sleeve. If I'm unable to do that (say I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt), then I'll consider washing my hands if I'm eating in.
YouTube music is basically just YouTube with a slightly different UI. I'd call it more of a marketing ploy than an actual bundle.
Those appear to be sarcastic quotes, not scare quotes.
And the answer to that question "obviously no".

Stronger apart, economy of small scale. These aren't the phrases.
Of all the billions of dollars in the world wasted on disturbing excess, aren't you thankful that some of it goes towards something worth more than what money can buy?
I guess people have different experiences as I don’t see the React changes as improving the mobile experience: just the opposite. I often interact with GitHub by browsing through the file tree and various links. But the new react renderer breaks the back button. So often when I’m browsing and hit back, I leave GitHub entirely instead of going back to the parent directory.
Low power sensors are only being polled every few minutes anyway. I have a dozen temp/humidity sensors and several dozen lights etc and my HA on a Pi 4 has no lag issues from it.
Im reading this from a train going from SFO to Milbrae! Y’all can thank me for the electricity later!!
That could be true. Normies don't often get kidnapped.
My son and I visited San Francisco carless last year. Awesome trip!

BART and Muni were great. My only complaint was that BART from downtown to SFO was almost painfully loud.
> As an example, with a goroutine you have to be careful to handle all errors, because a panic would take down the whole service.

Unless you're the default `net/http` library and simply recover from the panic: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/server...
https://www.peninsulacleanenergy.com/news-releases/quick-cle...
Yes, it's even easier in this market with no regulations and less risk so browser and software automation via AI will happen far faster.
It’s kind of sad that BART’s first mover advantage means it’ll forever be a second-class railway. They’ll never do the “correct” thing and shut it down long enough to replace everything with standard equipment and gauge.
You more or less just made the case for targeting crypto-rich people.
That shouldn't be put forth as a goal. It's how Germany got rid of all its nuclear plants and has to keep burning coal and buying fuel from Russia.
Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment
The idea that creators are being impacted negatively is purposefully dishonest.

- It suggests that what youtube cares about is creators and not their own profit margin, which is false

- It suggests that adblock users should be the ones to change their behavior, where Google could immediately simply pay the creators more for a much larger impact

- It ignores the plain facts of youtubes consistently increasing revenue.(1)

Companies should be held to a basic level of honest communication that this fails to meet.

(1) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/you...
I mean sure, drivers need support, but getting rid of drivers increases the support requirements. Drivers perform the legally-required pre-trip every time they leave the yard. This finds things that must be fixed. The coach will then spend 12-28 hours on the road (across multiple drivers), with a driver making sure anything that feels off gets reported.

I've dealt with self-reporting systems in this area, and I do not have the words to tell you how much less I trust self-reporting than an 8 hour test-drive by someone that knows the bus.

This skips over all the local police's missing person reports that show up for every driver that can help. Completely unrelated to the job of driving - but when it's my kid that doesn't come home, arguably more important to me.

Drivers are sticking around, and I think a lot of people are confused about how much they do to keep things running
This isn't true at all. Ledger has not been a laughingstock of the cryptocurrency community. Their hardware wallet has survived multiple attacks that Trezor has not. It has the strongest security model and easiest to use interface of any cryptocurrency wallet intended for regular use.
Yep - I love ChatGPT for “conversation starter” analysis and ideas. I think it works well to help me figure out what my question is (a program isn’t working and the error message is generic), or to refine something I’ve written or test me with questions.

I cannot imagine using it as a primary source for literally anything, ever.
I almost got taken in by a fake parking ticket scam, perfect ticket/envelope, the url printed on the ticket led to a 404 on the legitimate city website, the QR code led to a very convincing website/url, especially on mobile.

The only reason I caught it was that I had gotten a legitimate ticket a month prior for parking too close to the fire hydrant and had marked the curb with chalk at the correct distance. So I tried to dispute the fine and discover that the ticket didn’t actually exist. And the city had no interest in the fake ticket whatsoever. They were just like “yeah, it happens all the time”.
Right. Also, literally every incremental progression in this arms race is good for maybe a few weeks or months for the people that bother engaging while the rest of us have to trudge through deepening layers of bullshit and counter-bullshit to use our basic services. It’s like the entire tech world knows we’re ruining everything the same way we ruined the job finding/hiring process but target fixation won’t let us correct our course to avoid certain misery. Progress!
How does it compare to OpenWebUI?
No, there are a lot of jurisdictional issues and motivational issues.

An example of how it goes wrong is NYC. NYPD absorbed the transit police years ago and the role basically degraded to an overtime sink.

Also, with normal railways rails generate property taxes and towns often make deals where slivers of tracks get annexed to nearby towns or cities.
The US has been pressing its palm against the grill for a while now.
I'm with you, but does this really require AI ... ?

A Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Warren Buffett And The S&P 500

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/25/1040683057/crypto-trading-ham...