skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for pointing out that food demand is inelastic, that does shift my perspective somewhat. A complication about demand for food is that American culture promotes luxury and overindulgence. Still not elastic, but more food waste than is "normal". In general, buying more food should cause more food waste.

> But generally, I don't see the relevance. Jevon's paradox is about lowered costs driving further demand; how does a non-browning banana lower the cost of bananas?

I think cost is not as relevant here, moreso that people will buy more bananas, as they will brown less quickly, but will often overshoot.
It's interesting to see the strong negative reactions to this. I people are reading this and imagining themselves on the receiving end of an AI-enhanced profile or chat.

Contrast that with the reactions any time there's an article about AI-assisted resume generation or job applications: The sentiment in HN comments (and in many places across the internet) is that using AI to write a resume and apply for jobs should be fair game because it's all a dumb process and companies can't accurately judge resumes anyway. You just need to say the right things to get past the gatekeeper so you can impress them in person (sound familiar?).

I think the primary difference is whether people think of the AI as helping them, or being used against them (with a layer of anti-corporate angst, of course).

Regardless, the premise appears to be the same: Use AI to game the system that people use to filter introductions, then hope that you can impress the other party once you're in front of them and talking naturally.

Personally, I feel like I've seen this fail more than it succeeds. Even before AI it wasn't uncommon for people to use misleading dating app photos or to exaggerate claims on resumes. Once the other party discovers you've been misleading them, they begin to wonder what else you're lying about.

The best case I can think of for these AI tools is people who struggle to write positively about themselves or who have poor self-awareness about the things they write. I've met a lot of people who are simply bad at writing, especially when it comes to themselves. Having an AI act as an impartial coach could help.

Using AI as a bot to flirt with people on dating apps through chat (mentioned in the article) just feels like a losing strategy, though, unless your goal is to play a numbers game.
That’s a good observation. For this project, I found that while the base model could “read” the image, it didn’t really understand how to use it. GRPO allowed it to effectively search the solution space.
I think the title is a bit misleading. If I'm reading correctly, the "backdoor" allows a computer to peek and poke memory and other low-level functions of its own USB Bluetooth adapter. I don't this this is usable over the air?

Undocumented debugging commands like this are common. I've worked with at least two chips, a WiFi adapter and a GPS receiver, that had similar functions. Neither was documented, but found by reverse engineering the chip firmware or vendor drivers. It's not exactly an impactful issue on its own. Anything that allows unsigned firmware is equally vulnerable.

If I'm misunderstanding and this is usable from anything other than the host, that would be a very different story.
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A retraction due to fraud already torches your career. It's a black mark that makes it harder to get funding, and it's one of the few reasons a university might revoke tenure. And you will be explaining it to every future employer in an interview.

There generally aren't penalties beyond that in the West because - outside of libel - lying is usually protected as free speech
These are super common in Chinatown (pick one) restaurants in the US and they have been for a few years. I thought they were Chinese.
What's the point in introducing Nebraska when they already
said the same thing about Denver? The point is to be a humorous comparison and it works better than most such comparisons in that regard because the tower is both actually pretty tall itself plus only 3 miles from the ocean.
I think the Cavendish is better when slightly browned too, it's much sweater. Basically, not edible to me when it's just yellow. There is just a certain point when it stops being good.
Game developers can potentially save the world right now, we can build the Artificial Static Place Intelligence – instead of creating AI/AGI agents that are like librarians who only give you quotes from books and don’t let you enter the library itself to read the whole books. Why not expose the whole library – the entire multimodal language model – to real people, for example, in a computer game?

To make this place easier to visit and explore, we could make a digital copy of our planet Earth and somehow expose the contents of the multimodal language model to everyone in a familiar, user-friendly UI of our planet.

We should not keep it hidden behind the strict librarian (AI/AGI agent) that imposes rules on us to only read little quotes from books that it spits out while it itself has the whole output of humanity stolen.

We can explore The Library without any strict guardian in the comfort of our simulated planet Earth on our devices, in VR, and eventually through some wireless brain-computer interface (it would always remain a game that no one is forced to play, unlike the agentic AI-world that is being imposed on us more and more right now and potentially forever)
Oh, yeah, I’m not saying it’s bad, but it’s… kind of what TVTropes calls Early Installment Weirdness; it feels very different to what comes later.
Um, did you consider that this tall, beautiful woman might a) already have a partner despite being tall, b) not be interested in finding a partner right now, or c) since it was lunchtime, was thinking about something she needed to do for work and resented the interruption?
> "Depending on how Bluetooth stacks handle HCI commands on the device, remote exploitation of the backdoor might be possible via malicious firmware or rogue Bluetooth connections."

Yeah this does not sound like a RCE.
office hours is something i consider a positive, when looking at a job. i get that i could/should solve those things on my own, but it requires executive function and i'd much rather outsource some of it

with both the social and the walking thing, i find it easy to get stuck in a negative feedback loop, where not doing it makes it harder to do it. having a work-mandated minimum walk and social time prevents stalling, making it easier to maintain the habits outside of work as well

this perspective might be flavoured by being neurospicy, though. presumably, if i wasn't prone to stalling my habits that way, it'd be less appealing to tie them to a job or shcool or whatever else

(i currently work remote, though. office is positive, but not positive enough to outweigh the salary difference of working for a local company)
>Where? I've been most places and never encountered this

See my answer above. Did you ask for one of the styles with cream, or specifically for cream?
FWIW almost nobody uses ESP32 for Bluetooth alone. This is primarily a Wi-Fi SoC. "Billion devices" is a ridiculous claim if most of them don't use BT features anyway.
Sounds like you are taking MegaLags’ video without a grain of salt.

Honey does not touch Amazon affiliate links (you can test this) and yet many enraged influencers just use Amazon affiliate links.

Did you ever test for yourself to see that Honey was not finding you the best coupon? You can test this too. There’s a reason the second video is taking so long.

Yes, some codes are requested to be removed by merchants. You’ll find that these typically are of the friends and family variety with steep discounts. In my experience, if the coupon is public, Honey will try to use it.
I understand the argument in favor of - I suffer from severe social anxiety when it comes to meeting women. But, even as much as I might desire (or even need) a "wimgman", this is not the answer. People need to meet the real you, online or otherwise, else they're going to face major disappointment later on.

This app isn't helping.
Could you explain? I don't see much similarity between them.
Yes, and I provisioned them. You could shotgun them. Fun times
Look up the earth material with the closest density. It's a type of cheese,and yes, the sound will propigate through Christmas. Wtf? Firefox I said Cheese. . (Myth) Actually the closest rock is silicate basalt. Sharp and dusty.

What if we had sticky landing pads? And literally glued the probe to the surface? ( No. You would either have to find a rock or you would simply collect dust. )

There are many brilliant ideas here.
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> This war was provoked and escalated by the US State Department.

The State Department provoked the war by:

* Stating that the US would not put boots on the ground if Russia invaded Ukraine.

* Opposing troop deployments from other NATO countries to Ukraine.

* Withdrawing US soldiers from joint exercises in Ukraine.

* Reducing embassy staffing to a minimum.

* Refusing to provide heavy weapons like artillery, tanks, and fighter jets to Ukraine.

* Offering to evacuate Ukraine's leaders.

> Pulling back and giving the Russians some space is the only way that doesn't look like it'll escalate further into the disaster.

This is a superb idea, because it has worked so well so far. Russia has matched every Western retreat by pulling back on its side as well. That's why the war ended three years ago.
Nor can a single file.

If you're keeping records as files, I think you should just use a million files instead.

1. Easy to version control

2. You can sync on the cloud with less conflicts if each record is isolated from the rest

3. Sounds unique and cool
It's unclear to me what a practical vulnerability/attack scenario would look like here.
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Totally agreed, you can push the envelope pretty far if you are careful and knowledgeable. It just gets a lot easier and less error prone if you use a DB like PostgreSQL though.
The last decade of TSR produced an incredible flowering of creativity: Birthright, Time of the Dragon (Taladas), Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Hollow Word, Planescape, Spelljammer. Too bad they were losing money hand over fist while doing it.
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Nice! When I reported an error and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_ the address was printed and glued on, not hand-written, which somewhat detracts from the display of the check/envelope.

Need to find another error so I can get an account....
Are there others think Sutro Tower is an eyesore or is it just me?

(Very cool app BTW)
Thanks for writing this up!

> Filtering with vector search may be harder than you expect.

I've only ever used it for a small proof of concept, but Qdrant is great at categorical filtering with HNSW.

https://qdrant.tech/articles/filtrable-hnsw/
> They are also full of stuff you didn’t know would matter at the time but now does.

I can't seem to find it, but there was a Hacker News post a few months ago about how to take photos you'll actually want to look at in a decade. Unstaged, ad-hoc, slice-of-life photos are the sort to take and keep.
> Complicated formats can't be meaningfully version controlled.

Well, at the risk of simply saying "why not" - why not? Preferably with an example.
These thoughts are a bit too scattered imo, maybe collect your thoughts a bit.
Maybe at least in some cases these checkers will help them actually find and fix their mistakes and they will end up publishing something useful.
Timing Object
Agreed. This is pretty common and no worse than a firmware update. The potential catch is in-band debugging may not require the same privileges on the host you'd expect from a firmware update. So conceivably your userspace (or worse WebBLE, not sure) program could add some malicious payload that's persistent in the adapter. Tracking beacon that persists through a drive replacement is scary, but not an RCE
everyone needs a friend
The force is money.
I was told I have astigmatism by multiple optometrist, but I'm convinced they aren't right.
I have clear double image (not blurring) in one eye shifted by ~1% or so down and to the left, no prescription has ever corrected it in the slightest (some have made it worse). These days I just live with it and don't wear glasses. I've contemplated getting eye surgery if I was confident that the issue would be corrected.
You can, of course, do the equivalent with explicit callbacks and a bit of additional boilerplate. However, I have never felt the need to do that (as opposed to, say, having a numRetries parameter), so I always wonder how people who advocate for such a mechanism design and modularize their code. It feels like it leads to dependencies on implementation details, as opposed to only relying on a procedure’s interface.
I agree with the recommendations to prevent and mitigate decay, however:

> The greatest systems I’ve touched — the ones processing billions in transactions, the apps supporting life-saving medical devices — all shared one trait: They were messy as hell.
Why? Because they evolved. Because real-world problems don’t fit into clean architectures. Because the teams prioritized solving over preening.

I disagree that those are the reasons why codebases are messy.Software is incredibly powerful and malleable. It can be shaped into almost anything and have any number of meta-features as needed. The problem is that these meta-features are not desired or even in the purview of the engineering team, because overall the direction and focus of engineering is managed by people who do not understand or see this potential of software.

Let me stress that, engineers often do not prioritize system correctness or reliability, etc, because orgs are structured in a way that they instead incentivize engineers to focus on short term fixes, worrying about the customer, and spending valuable time scheduling meetings and planning (when 90% you cannot estimate accurately). This means they don't have time to make their systems as robust and reusable as possible.

For example, there is no reason why a web app cannot be bug free, and have 10x development. We're talking about buttons, sliders, images, and on the backend some simple queries, yet I have seen talented teams of engineers produce really bad code because of how the org is structured, and how software companies are blind to how much the business side of things have influenced the entire org's culture. The engineering culture has to be centered around computer engineering and technical solutioning.
The researchers found undocumented hardware functionality which allows someone who already has code execution a greater-than-expected degree of low-level access to the ESP32 wifi stack.

Calling this a "backdoor" is just pure clickbait.
help() should not have to re-teach you the syntax of the language every time you look up an individual help topic, though. Even though this "/" stuff is uncommonly used, it seems like it should have its own help topic. Otherwise, this means that help() has to re-explain every piece of syntax that might be considered "uncommonly used", which is kind of hard to draw a line for.
I'm lucky to be kinda early and book our {family}.com/.net/.org (and a few other TLDs). I kinda get regular emails to surrender that because it is also the name of a local community from an old kingdom/royal or something of that sort from my home town. I also own my {FirstName}.com as it is not a common name.

Own the domain, but outsource the manage of the mail to services that many others have mentioned here in this thread. No affiliation but I like migadu.com too (happy customer). I use it for many of my not-so used domains. I still use Google Workspace for all the primary mail domains, work domains, etc. It is much easier working with others/customers.
Yep. I'm currently using my old Samsung Galaxy smartphone as a "house phone" simply because the battery life is beyond any other new cell phone. It gets charged once every 2-4 weeks depending on usage, and it's an ancient battery, which is even more surprising!

The issue isn't the size of the battery, it's that 4G and 5G devices drain batteries on standby at a much higher rate, whether data is on or off. This is why I turn 5G off on my new smartphone. The increased speed doesn't justify the increased energy consumption for me.
I used to host weekly virtual co-working for founders who needed some accountability. We got a lot done during those sessions and ultimately met my co-founder through it. Later today we'll be body doubling virtually to get our taxes done together.
everything is trying to reinvent ms access these days, with a bit of RBAC on top. It was the original low code environment.
> Just because your switch has a GbE port and you have a GbE NIC does not mean there's a full Gbit available for you at the remote end or even in your immediate network.

I was comparing the cellular tech only. i.e not limited by the backbone. Most people compare it with the best iteration of LTE, full spectrum available while on the other than 5G is still on NSA, less spectrum, and RAN not even optimised.
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I realise that it is a lot more difficult. What if it landed on a sea of smooth pool balls? I bet there is going to be a good long laugh when we find it.
> it's really, really a bad idea to bring up the paradox of tolerance because they might just adopt it and decide you're the intolerant ones that don't have to be tolerated.

If the use of a meta-position like this is contingent on a particular set of people being in charge and using it, that means that it wasn't a good meta-position to begin with.

Either you believe that we shouldn't tolerate "intolerant" people (and accept that being turned against you when you're not in power), or you don't.

Only believing in it (or supporting it) when you have the power to enforce it on your political opponents is hypocritical and deeply evil.
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OTOH

Excel guy: Boom got it done in 5 minutes sips coffee what's next?

10x engineer: I have devised a new programming paradigm to tell me I need to spend less on coffee, wrote a blog post about it and missed a call from a client and a recruiter.
>>But to move to 5G, we need spectrum...

BS reason? Nicaragua keeps 2g and will "soon" implement 5g.

Edit: Nicaragua
And to think this could all have been solved in LibreOffice Calc if they spent similar amounts of time learning it...
In theory you probably should have low-level access to your attached BT radio itself, so this is just kind of expected, isn't it?

I prefer when devices have these low-level interfaces. Perhaps the problem is the lack of documentation rather than existence?

I used to use the memory read/write commands via USB on Qualcomm radios to unlock and otherwise take ownership of otherwise locked-down devices. Given that was a full OOB read/write I'd consider that maybe not great, but if this is only accessible from flashed code all the better.
Black mirror episode about exactly this
> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You broke the rules, of course you were banned. If you so choose, you can make some accounts that you reuse, but making throwaway accounts routinely is not conducive to good discussion as the practice normalizes driveby commenter's who'll make a new account, spam a thread, then leave.
It was in 1995. We briefly flirted with 18%, but it's 20% now. At least for restaurants, taxis, and barbers. I've been prompted for tips at self checkout kiosks and tip a generous 0%.
Don’t you feel like you don’t belong there with people half your age?
Anyone want to start a Faraday cage laptop case company
I don't feel I should pay for such a thing.
> DST/Standard time changes were an effort to solve the problem for 1 group of people, Midwestern farmers, and imposed it on everyone else.

This is not true, DST has a long history and was first implemented in the US during WWI to conserve energy.
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What I took away from this was that malicious actors using ESP32 chips in their products could potentially leverage these commands to deliver essentially a Trojan horse.

“Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.
One of the best conspiracy theories I have heard recently is that the CCP can use one of their reconnaissance balloons to instantly switch every device that has a Chinese radio chip into DDOS mode. If that were to happen it could plausibly generate enough congestion to seriously degrade a significant portion of the public Internet. This would of course be coordinated with multiple underwater cable cuts.

It seems all too plausible, based on my admittedly limited understanding of how these devices work.
Sonic lubricant!
We sent up the best and brightest pilots. One of them went around a crater. We do not know how to replace a trained pilot with a remote computer.

We can do hard things,and we do them because they are hard. Listen to JFKs Rrice U speech.
Indeed. It's in the name: libraries are there to be browsed, while services wait for customers to call on them (and do management and other things in the meantime). This should be understood among the developers of applications, libraries, and services, that libaries are functional add-ons while services are separate agents. A library has its expertise and should isolate bubble up application errors (to be fixed by the application) and environmental errors (can't really be fixed by anyone, but the application should decide how to proceed). If a library has internal errors, how is the library itself or the application supposed to fix it? It's like position-independent code: if its basic assumptions are met, it should be plug-in-play anywhere without complaint or knowledge.
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I’ve noticed this quite a few times before when working with my systems administrator: He calls me in for a debugging session of a problem he‘s been stuck on for some time and within a few minutes (or less than a minute) he finds the solution.
I’ve always seen it as him having to reorganize his thoughts to give me a somewhat structured introduction into the problem. And somewhere along the path he finds the missing piece.
I am using Jetbrain's AI to do code analysis (find errors).

While it sometimes spot something I missed it also gives a lot of confident 'advise' that is just wrong or not useful.

Current AI tools are still sophisticated search engines. They cannot reason or think.

So while I think it could spot some errors in research papers I am still very sceptical that it is useful as trusted source.
They did continue to fund Firefox. $555 million in 2023!
With ESP32, always regard the vendor firmware only as proof-of-electrical-functioning. The first thing you should do with any ESP32 device after basic function test, is install ESPHome on it. If that's not possible, buy something different, where you can replace vendor fw.
I did, but my Gitea instance stopped working. I am trying to replace it.
Fantastic writeup — thank you for taking the time to do this!
See also http://focusmate.com, http://focus101.com, http://caveday.com, and many more!
But then, who'd invent excel?
Maybe we need the compromise and let some people be the 10xcel engineer...
Apollo 12 landed near surveyor, but it took a pilot to avoid a crater that surveyor was in.
Already seeing this happen in salesforce implementation at work.

It's pretty crazy how many problems we have are people trying to solve already solved problems
Automation vs. Jevons paradox: a web app to model AI impact on employment