skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a device with some kind of cloth pads held opposite each other, and when you close it they brush up against an inner pad which presumably removes grease from them.

It cost £20 and I was dubious about it, but it cleans better than I've ever managed by myself with a spray. Lasted about 1.5y before it stopped being effective (just moves grease around rather than picking it up) and I went and bought another one.
Haven't the courts decided that an interface is not copyrightable?

Also, CP/M bore a remarkable resemblance to DEC operating systems, like RT-11.
I've developed such a deep-rooted, passionate, magmatic hatred for Microsoft Teams that I'm now infamous amongst my friends for my mini rants. I'm a freelance software consultant, and many of my clients have their own Microsoft Teams Teams (?), and there's no easy way to join and switch between multiple teams using the same account. Typing is slow, and literally _everything_ else is too, and video calls regularly bring my 2019 i7 MacBook Pro to its knees.

If a witch approached me and told me she could make Microsoft Teams disappear for good at the cost of severing a finger (presumably for a potion...I've got no idea; I'm a developer, not a witch), I'd offer her two for the trouble.
A tell that Teams and HN users mostly are Americans. The biggest problem with Teams is that the volume is too low. Every other service has some sort of volume normalization. Teams still expects mainly loud mouths! Every Teams meeting has this talk louder segment. Does not happen with huddle, meet, zoom and so on.
Yes. It should say: "inflation rose to 9.1% in June".
> The phone company started working on video calling when it sent a speech by Herbert Hoover — then the Secretary of Commerce — from Washington to New York in 1927. The video was only one way and with a limited frame rate.

This not a phone call. This is cable television.

> The reality is, we don’t have true picture phones. We have computers with sufficient bandwidth to carry live video and audio. Your FaceTime call is going over the data network.

So, the former is a video phone, despite being one way, but the latter is not a video phone because it was sent over a "data network."

POTS is a "data network". Hence the ability to transmit faxes, or use TCP/IP with it.
I have seen one in Davos this year, and I was not impressed. Field of view is small and rectangular, synchronization is shaky, and the (enterprise-oriented) demos were boring.
The only time stocks have been this expensive was just before the great depression and just before 2008. They are practically the most overvalued they've ever been, ignoring the last year or two of QE, which were intuitively overpriced. Thinking they are cheap now is how you get burned.
Not exactly. Lightning means they receiver gets 100% what I send. This is particularly interesting for micropayments. I can tip someone 1 cent, or less with no middle man.
I call BS on this. Mostly because:

- " a barely 3 year old phone bricking itself"

- " all networks (Bluetooth, WiFi, LTE, 5G)"

are incompatible. The oldest iPhone that supports 5G (iPhone 12) isn't 3 years old yet.

It's possible that you have some kind of crash or error (those happen), but Apple support should definitely fix it.

I would totally believe, given how cell providers lie about what 5G is and how they've been shutting down networks, that the "5G" broke because your carrier decommissioned the 3G towers they list as 5G.
There is a difference between a camera from across the street and a camera from across the driveway.

And obviously a legal threat is a last resort after good-faith questioning.

I am not really sure what your objection is to the comment above yours, because these concerns seem misplaced.
This comment and the parent's tells me that neither of you know what vite does or have used it before, if you're implying that it's not fixing "real problems." Webpack is slow due to being written in JS, so when a bundler comes along written in Go and makes builds 10x faster, that is solving a "real problem."
Common Sense Sekptic is not reliable. He regularly makes up facts or distorts information to cause a complete misunderstanding of the subject. Many people have debunked his videos many times but some people continue to post his nonsense.
The FEMA advice goes into this in detail.

Basically, it all depends upon yield and altitude, but there's often a pretty large zone with moderate to minimal damage but with significant outside radiation hazard for several hours

A lot of those hazards, too, like downed wires-- are worse when you're outside. Basically, absent fire or imminent structural collapse, you should stay in place after a nuke and await some kind of orderly, systemic assessment of what's going on.
A framework for introducing ethics to your startup [pdf]
LOL.

First the S&P 500 captures 80% of the entire US market, 80%! [0]

Second, 6B is well within the middle of the Mid-cap range for at least one common definition: "Mid-cap (or mid-capitalization) is the term that is used to designate companies with a market cap (capitalization)—or market value—between $2 and $10 billion. " [1]

Now some people might define mid-cap differently(and S&P tries to), but that doesn't change the math. If 80% of the US market is the S&P 500, then by definition some mid-cap has to be in there, or one has a very distorted view of what the middle means.

US public companies are giant these days. Of course there are mid-cap only indexes(and funds), that has nothing to do with the S&P 500 though.

As for all US stocks, it definitely depends on how one defines a US stock. S&P obviously has their definition, and it may or may not agree with your personal definition, but I generally agree that the S&P 500 is basically US companies.

0: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500/#ove...
1: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/midcapstock.asp
The most basic physics (e.g. the actual reactions involved) is solved but how plasmas actually behave in practice is not well modeled. A lot of improvements in fusion efficiency come from tinkering with settings and seeing what works. A caveat that I am not an expert in fusion, and am getting this from the book "The Future of Fusion Energy".
What about the satellites mimicking God watching over everyone?
I started boycotting food delivery services because the quality & service was just god awful. I found that if I drive, I actually don't spend that much time, and I get wayyyy better service.
Just for sending plain old spam because they know these notifications bypass a lot of the filtering. Removed the names in case they've come from hacked accounts.

Google Drive

> Random Name (randomcharactershere@gmail.com) has invited you to view the following document:
Private__file-Nyela-(random characters)

> If you don't want to receive files from this person, block the sender from Drive

The painful part is the last bit, you can only block that single sender, you can't turn off all notifications.

Google Docs

> Random Name (randomcharactershere@gmail.com) mentioned you in a comment in the following document
Direct_message_with_Salma

> 1 comment

> Random Name • 4:58 PM, Jul 11
Contact Helen and rate her request to date here
https://morerandomcharacters.example/evenmoremorerandomchara...

Google Docs has the same problem, you follow the link to turn it off and you end up at:

> Notification settings of myemailaddress@gmail.com for Direct_message_with_Salma

So you can only ever disable notifications from that single document.
Biofuel Oasis, yes! They still sell biodiesel.
Show HN: The Misinformation Game – A social media research tool
That is conceivable, if it works as intended. Small enough to fit in a shipping container is small enough to put on a ship or on a campus. Of course, that's a big "if", and I don't have much to go on besides material that Helion itself puts out.
“the most irrational” irrational:)
This is my biggest issue with it. I log in at 10AM and keep working until 1230 or so. Then I click on Teams tray icon. I get all the messages flooding in. My team who needs me think I am an asshole who has been online for at least 2 hours and not responded to them. I have to remember to click on the tray icon the moment it appears in the tray to fix this.
Unfortunately, I can't comment on the price of the coin - it's determined by the market, and we/the Filecoin community is just focused on delivering useful stuff. If you want market speculation, there's tons of sites out there that will do that for you.

As far as the people actually using it, you can check it out here[1] We have about 18 Exabytes of space on the network, adding nearly 2+ PiB a day of new deals (people storing things). You can see a bunch of the important datasets being added here[2], replicated, universally available and uncensorable. If you see value in that, that's great! If you don't and have more feedback, we're here to help! If you hate us or want another solution, that's cool too!

[1] https://filfox.info/en
[2] https://slingshot.filecoin.io/explore
Mostly local since I have rather slow internet. Total amount is not all that large. I have a small Nextcloud on a low end VM, but you can get very large Nextcloud instances from Hetzner quite inexpensively (Storage Share). I use Borg for backups to Hetzner Storage Box and a few other places. I don't have any serious "workflow" for photos or videos. It's all just files. I would have to figure something out if I was generating a lot more, but for now it's no big deal. Most of my photos these days are taken with my phone, so I can easily share them to my Nextcloud. Sometimes if I want to upload a bigger bunch of files, I'll use an scp client that I got from f-droid.
None of these things really bother/worry me. This is mainly a threshold argument- a thing that was hard got easier, but didn't fundamentally change what is possible for a dedicated adversary.
Delta chartered it's own jet to bring back lost bags from Heathrow
just a heads up Re this comment of mine directed to you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076788

TY/BR
Once I used Microsoft Office lens on iPhone for scanning some documents. It was absolutely confusing to use for a multipage document. It took me ages to figure out. After finishing that 10-12 page document, I had to upload on a HR website. However , it failed as total scan size was like ~100MB so above size limit. So I had to rescan whole thing with notes app in iPhone which finished in few min with only ~10MB of scanned document.

Sure, there would be a detailed 100 pages of document on how to properly use it. But as a normal user I found it stunningly crappy, confusing and inefficient for my usage.
I saw this list of founding engineer positions, at companies currently with 2-3 people, and it looks like the offers are all 2% in equity or less. Is this now the standard for the 3rd of 4th hire? It seems low to me, but haven't looked in this space recently.
Because there is no clear distinction between the two. You're certainly entitled to listen with your ears and write things down aren't you? Can you use a hearing aid to help you listen? What about binoculars to help you see?

Clearly it's impolite to peer into your neighbours windows with binoculars, and gossip about all the conversations you overhear with your hearing aids, but you've got the right to do so, don't you?

What about observing your neighbours through a peep hole in your door (or wall)? What about setting up a camera instead of a peep hole? And what if you want to see the camera feed from your phone? Reference it for later? Where is the line? All of these, including pens and paper, are technological augmentations to our innate capabilities. I'm not against banning them per se, I'd just like a clear idea of why we ban some and not others.
Don't build your own lock mechnism, SQL databases do it for you
It's in some county jails too.
How do you judge how suspicious someone is through a video feed?
People do not communicate with video (except the deaf). We communicate with voice and text. Try muting your computer and disconnecting your keyboard
everyone starts somewhere :) I started with 1 as well.
You mean the "app" that's just a Chrome instance that wraps the webpage, and sucks up GBs of RAM while doing so? No thanks.
There has never been long term studies on the effects of low gravity.

On the radiation aspect, the radiation is not significant and simply increases your long term risk of cancer. It's not a show stopper by any means. It's also mostly mitigated with minimal shielding.
What i read: "Fuck someone found the video of the officers in the school before we could hide it. I have an idea: lets blame the media for publishing the video. Has anyone else possible evidence we have to hide?"
"We're from the government and here to help!"
Indeed.
Who has this kind of time? I've been wearing glasses since I was a kid too and my approach is: don't worry about it, clean them if things look bad.

Unless this is maybe parody and I failed to pick up on that?
For a contract based language and a "really dynamically typed language", I'm working on https://letlang.dev

And it's because I haven't thought yet about how to do static type checking with such a feature.

I haven't got any time to work on it in the past few weeks, and I'm the only dev (would really love some help). So, it will be ready when it will be ready :P
My experience with reactive systems is they work well for small projects but once the data gets large the overhead of being reactive kills perf.
Exactly. The high cost of human eyeballs trained on a specific target for long periods of time introduces a negative feedback loop which tames the overreach. Cheap, ubiquitous cameras with virtually unlimited storage eliminates that self-regulating mechanism and degrades the trust between members of a society.
Oh interesting. I swear it was cp/m; cat I’m more hazy on (though I feel like I didn’t use dir until ibm dos).

I had to really hammer on the command, and it would actually be trying to read either the hardware. I wonder if it was actually a physical issue that triggered it.
Is this a common number of vacation days in the US? In Germany the minimum _by law_ is 20 days on a 5 day week and I wouldn't even consider a position offering only that.
Looks intuitive. Would definitely like to test this.
More people need to be as angry as you are about this kind of shit. If people keep viewing these issues as one-offs, we'll soon find ourselves "owning nothing, and being miserable."
Lol, if only there were an open office like suite available with a libre license which could generate files in some sort of open documented format which could be shared by all through a clickable interface within a browser...

Nah that's stupid...
I don't understand this part, is this US-specific? (Genuinly curious... I'm from EU) If I send my banking details to some company here they can deposit funds (as in, pay) to it. No way can they withdraw anything without my authorization. So how does this scam even work? Or am I missing something?
Where, oh where are the new hires?
the ai bureaucracy is here.
> I understand some folks have different privacy standards than me. I'm not asking you to follow my privacy rules, as they are a bit more open about public spaces than many people enjoy.

Private spaces that are publicly visible do not automatically become public spaces, though.
This seems to be a magnetohydrodynamic generator. Shoot a charged plasma through a coil and get electricity out. Experimental MHD plants have been built for fossil fuels.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator
Graphs are really common data structures but there hasn’t yet been an “everything’s a graph” language

Nearly all common languages like Python, JS, Java, OCaml, etc. let you express graphs with records / objects. Everything is a graph!

If you want a homogeneous graph, you just declare a single node type, like

class Node:
edges: List[Node] # or maybe Dict[str, Node] if you want them to be named
payload: int

- Or you can have a heterogeneous graph with many different node types.

- If you want to label the edges, you can reify them as their own type

The whole heap is graph-shaped!

It's true that many programs in these languages are more tree-like than graph-like. And sometimes imperative code to manipulate graphs is hard to visualize.

But I think there doesn’t need to be a separate language of graphs for this reason.

---

If you want to see graphs done in plain C, look at this DFA code by Russ Cox:

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

e.g. Implementation: Compiling to NFA

(copy of lobste.rs comment)
You could get a CP/M-86 license for the PC. Also Turbo Pascal. But MS-DOS was the cheapest so it prevailed.

One of the most impressive things about this is that Bill Gates and MSFT actually had a deal with IBM and came out ahead. Very few companies did this.
> Where, pray tell, does the fulfillment center receive them from? Shipping happens regardless (I know my local hardware store doesn't make vacuum cleaners),

Yes, the steps before are very similar to fulfillment centers vs. to distribution centers servicing retail and to individual retail stores (not quite the same-- you need somewhat more fulfillment centers). It's just the last step from the fulfillment center to your house that are different.
This is sick!!!
If it is economical, the benefits must be passed on to the consumers. Maybe luxury cars have become commoditised and BMW can’t think of any new innovative thing to charge for so this is what they do.
Hot dog menu -> More tools -> Create Shortcut -> check the "Open as Window" checkbox

For PWAs (web apps that do additional things to make them work more like apps) there may also be a simpler install button in the url bar itself
Living where the legal minimum is 24 days in addition to bank holidays and where 28 days the practical minimum with the consus being 30 days, I'll call that exploitation.
It’s a tough spot because:

1) I picked up low voltage electrical engineering along the way, just never did a degree. As in: PCB design, tons of robotics and very small run (<100) bespoke devices.

2) I’m oldish (mid 30s) and have a family and am semi retired. So it would be burdensome to do a college degree, especially with the additional liberal arts requirements.

My point is: if I had the degree, I would “come out of retirement” and apply for jobs like this one, but I don’t, and it would take several years to get it even at an accelerated pace.

So I guess regret is meant literally. I wish I had just done the degree in my 20s, because I actually don’t want to do it now, and even if I do just decide to do it online or something, it will be more annoying at this point in my life than it would have been when I was 20.
Way i understand lightning is that you need a hot wallet that is connected most of the time to the internet. So you have to move money from your hardware wallet to your software based wallet and you're still constrained by the blockchain limitations between these transfers.
The scale of difference between $25/hr for a human and less than $0.01/day (amortized over the lifespan of the camera/service) changes the economics entirely. The circumstances before and after are paradigmatically different.
Perl6 is now Rakulang.

https://raku.org/
When I tried to do the same, it complained about lack of features on browsers other than edge, without specifying anything.
I mean that is literally what Google has been doing.
The bar exam is nothing like a whiteboard. It tests knowledge (law is a knowledge-based profession), and skill (the writing portions test an applicant's ability to write legal documents).

As a lawyer, I've found that anyone who could not pass the bar was simply unsuited to providing legal advice, and are generally even unsuited to doing any legal-related task for pay.

The bar exam sets a minimum threshold for a person's ability to research, and remember, large quantities of rules, applications, and theories, and be able to apply or regurgitate all of that within a short time frame. This is similar to real world demands, such as a trial, or contract negotiations, where the lawyer will not have time to go back-and-forth researching every new thing that pops up during the event and must go into it fully prepared ahead of time.
What should be abolished is those crappy proctoring applications. Either implement remote-friendly tests or do as TOEFL has done since decades and apply tests at controlled locations.
> It's like if Western Digital decided to update the disk firmware to just ship your data to them for scrutiny.

Not exactly what your scenario is, but damn close: https://boingboing.net/2007/12/06/western-digital-netw.html

I can't believe it's been 15 years. I remember this like it was yesterday, and it's still the reason I won't buy anything from WD.
Memory is so cheap nowadays. 64GB laptop memory on NewEgg are $149.99. Surely a very easy investment for anyone working in a company that uses Teams. Just refuse to buy laptops with non-upgradable memory.

Having 64GB will solve all performance problems with Teams and other Electron apps.
Of course, I had to test it with this photo:

https://imgur.com/a/ypyIhB3

Not too bad! Can definitely tell it's been edited, but for a quick removal it was painless.
Isn't the legal minimum in Germany 24 days, two days per month?
looking forward to playing with this!
In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer
We use adobe Lightroom with extra cloud storage. My wife has a nice ui to search and browse the photo's on every device (just login on the same account).

I have a extra copy of the photo's and videos in a dropbox folder for safe keeping. The less accessed the less space that uses.

It works (tm) it does mean I have two subscriptions to pay.
I believe they are just backported critical security updates. Although iOS 13 also got the COVID-tracker backported (which required the new GUI and possibly more sophisticated anonymizing code).
This is our regular reminder from Google that "the Cloud" means "someone else's computer". Whatever you store in the cloud is not under your control.

The cloud can be convenient, but it's not under your control, so always also keep a copy that's under your control. Of course your local copy isn't secure either, so having a copy in the cloud is still a good idea, but it shouldn't be your only copy.
Thanks, falconwizard. What do you like about it?
> sqlite ... 19x slower

But is this a failing of wasm or the system glue layer, that for something like sqlite/web has to go through js/browser/etc?

Yes, I understand the importance of real-life tests like this, but how one is expected to go about testing wasm performance as such other than using benchmarks that are mostly arithmetic/logic and not syscall-type code?
> You're right that it's just as nice in cities, if not nicer. But that doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it not a maladaptation within our economic system.

Also, please note... a frequent mistake in economics is to conflate positive statements ("Ordering online causes additional emissions and use of cardboard and packaging products") with normative statements ("it is wrong to waste cardboard and emit carbon for the convenience of online shopping"). Every agent in the economic system has their own normative beliefs and utility function. Hume showed us you can't get to the normative statement through positive observations.
All the more reason to keep the video footage within your own network. A Unifi system or similar.
Heh Heh Heh

On a related note, back in 2007 Western Digital did indeed decide to do some pro-active policing with users files:

https://www.theregister.com/2007/12/07/western_digital_drm_c...

And yeah, that was about as popular as you'd expect. ;)
I have one in my kitchen. Google decided it needs to use Allo, or Duo, or who knows what for it to work so it never gets used. We have a Facebook thing in the living room that I keep unplugged 24x7 for christmas and big events that family use for video chats. Every phone made has facetime or a selfie cam. The problem is there isn't one catch all protocol which frustrates me.