skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am hoping for wider availability of affordable cell based cultured meat which is a better alternative. It is not vegan, but I am really curious how it would taste. Ditto with dairy alternatives.
What is left to do? It's syntactic sugar for browser standard stuff. It doesn't need to change, ever. That's an advantage.
> Contrary to popular perception police have almost no powers beyond that of regular citizens. Citizens can make arrests

Go make some citizens arrests or set yourself up as a detective investigating felony crimes as a private citizen and see what happens to you from the "real" police when they learn what you're doing...
I take reasonably any action taken by border agents in USA would be fault of any carrier flying there? Applying same standards. Like getting interrogated for a long time having your devices seized and searched. And so on...
Ask HN: What can be done about the Light L16 camera fiasco?
This company Light existed. They were going to focus on computational photography. Eventually they released a camera, the L16, which was publicized in TechCrunch and some other places. Has 16 "smartphone grade" lenses, and has onboard software to create a 16MP image based on a composite of the images taken by a selection of the image captures. Every image has a .LRI format (some Light bullshit) that is around 120MB in size.

The only way (other than hacky bullshit) to extract images from the camera is via the Lumen software, or if you sideload an app like Flickr that enables uploads.

The Lumen software is an example of abandonware - the company had zero plans to assist consumers that bought these pretty amazing cameras, and now all the firmware updates have disappeared into the ether.

I am able to sideload apps, and pull the 16MP images out of the camera, so at least there is that.

I was able to briefly get root access to the device but this was an accident and the root exploit no longer works, for mysterious reasons.

I was able to get this camera that was priced at $2000 when it launched for like $300 bucks and if I process the images on the device I can extract them.

I tried to launch Lumen (which crashes on Monterey) in Ghidra to attempt to see how it works but I couldn't figure out what's going on.

I think if you look at this camera as an Android 6.1 device that has a ton of cameras on it, its a cool device and I think it would be cool if a community could find some kind of footing in rooting and breathing some life into what could have been a really amazing suite of devices.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to do something like this?

The firmware updates are gone, used to be hosted on some random site, so not sure how to like dump the device block and shit like that.

There is a thread on xda developers that I am commenting on as well with any information I manage to obtain on the subject.
Isn't NPC (non-player character) a roleplaying term? I.e. a character controlled by the game master.
You might want to do some reading about how nuclear warfare works.
I use GCP and the killer feature IMHO is the WebUI is "discoverable" but then for almost every operation it will tell you the associated CLI or JSON.

So I'm able to do things once in the WebUI and repeat it programmatically from then on, while AWS / Azure I have to figure out how to do something via the WebUI and then learn again to do it via API.
> if I upload something to the cloud it is considered the cloud provider's data

Is it? The cloud stores your data but the provider does not own your pictures or your PhD paper just because you uploaded them there. Any example of an EULA where a cloud provider assumes ownership of all data? Or you're thinking of situations like Facebook who I believe (may be wrong or misremembering) has this in their EULA - content uploaded become theirs.

On the other end of the spectrum as long as they don't know what's there (encryption?) it can't hurt them in the eyes of the law. If they can see what's there then authorities can still force them to act (identify the owner, remove the data, etc.).
We hope that GCP DevRel and product teams use the tooling and platform's facade layer, at least. The backing infrastructure could be something else. If anything, achieving this would be a sign that GCP cleaned up the abstractions of leaky implementation details.
Oh hell it took me a good 30 seconds to figure out the meaning of this comment, as I too read it as Pompeian group theory and could not see the actual text.
Not even a mention of the fact you now have an active microphone listening to you 24x7 if this feature is enabled. I guess that's already the case when Siri is enabled. Ugh, no thanks to either.
The problem is they did something else, quite frequently unrelated to their fame. They mostly have no more claim to being an informed advocate for what they’re paid to sponsor than modern influencers. It doesn’t matter if they got an Olympic medal or something, they’re not in any expert position to recommend a specific brand of toothpaste or anything unrelated to their sport. In that respect they’re no different than an influencer. Maybe they’re a little worse? They’re using the actual legitimacy of their athletic achievement to lend a veneer of legitimacy to their completely unrelated (paid) opinion. Subverting what minor trust people might place in them as an authority in their area. At least with an influencer there’s not that sort of reputational arbitrage.
I run my HMC in a VM running in libvirtd. IIRC, IBM provided the image as a VMware appliance, but it was quite simple to convert to something open source (at the cost of being an unsupported configuration, but it's not as if I could afford an IBM sorry contact to start with), and the result works great with my single POWER7 machine (8233-E8B)
Besides what others have mentioned, caches sizes and speeds help a lot, and I/O speeds in general (mostly in that some machines from 2015 might still have an hdd, not too many these days).
OK, fair 'nuff.

Right now, I'm working on a data parser for a backend API that fetches a JSON response, using the built-in NSURLSession stuff, turns it into a Swift Dictionary, then I sort through that Dictionary, and emit a bunch of Swift struct instances for use by the API consumer.

The reason for this, is because the API that I wrote about seven years ago, is giving us performance problems. I wrote about that in this comment[0].

The NSURL stuff has all the sockets and whatnot, as well as all the transport stuff. I've written that stuff before, but I guarantee that the deep geeks that wrote the system have done a far better job of optimizing that stuff, than I ever will.

The JSON parser (built into the OS, but I may think about maybe licensing another one, if this doesn't do what I want) has all the recursive-descent, tree-crawling stuff in it, so I don't need to worry about that. Since this is a multi-threaded system, almost every school algorithm is worthless, but I guarantee that the deep geeks that wrote the system have done a far better job of optimizing that stuff, than I ever will.

I want to get the hell out of this API, as soon as possible, and return to writing the UI stuff that will make my app sing.

The API is being developed as a standalone SPM package that will work on all the Apple systems (iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and TVOS). The one that it's replacing only worked on iOS. No excuse. I know better, now. I'll also be structuring this to be a lot "swiftier," and more "reactive" than the original API.

The app is a native Swift UIKit app. It's a big mofo. At its peak, it was over 40 screens, but I'm trying to get it down to half that. I've been working on it for a couple of years. It's had a couple of pretty massive pivots, in that time.

UIKit is a big framework. It takes years to learn. I'm looking forward to SwiftUI, but SwiftUI is not at the point, where I'm comfortable committing to a project of this scope.

I've been working with UIKit since 2012. I barely understand it, and they keep adding new stuff, as fast as I can learn it.

Swift is an excellent language. Like every language, you can get the basics down in a few weeks, but it takes years to get the advanced stuff down.

I've been working with Swift since 2014 (the day it was announced). I speak it without an accent.

The project I'm working on has been a wonderful masterclass in Apple iOS development. I also wrote a fairly massive PHP backend, but that was years ago, and it is, I guarantee, not as cool as a really good PHPista could do. That said, it works great, is maintainable, secure as hell, and fairly well-structured for scaling and extension.

The app is gonna be great. Its approaching ship (still a ways off, but we can see the harbor lights, from here). I've been releasing it on TestFlight since it was a month old. By now, I've probably made over 800 TestFlight releases to the team. That's how come we can be so confident in the UI and the Quality. It gets banged on a lot.

But maybe I'm doing it all wrong, and I should stop working on this to practice leetcode.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32921823
Oh it’s does not? What happen if the vault happen to be a git repo? I assumed that would allow to synchronize.

( nothing automatic, no concurrency management of course )
Not like udder milk: Synthetic dairy milk made without cows may be coming[..]
Are you French? I'm a non-white American. Maybe that factors info it.

If you fly in the US, how would you compare them to Air France?

I recently flew a route that was half Delta and half Air France, and Delta was a lot better.
At the least the senior FBI and US Attorney’s should be liable to be held in contempt of court. Yes they might need some protection in carrying out their lawful duty but lying and misleading the judiciary isn’t lawfully carrying out those duties.
American law enforcement is a state-sponsored criminal gang. Here, they robbed a bank.
exactly. This will allow us to properly guard the current thing.
Yeah, contradicting the question/statement in the click-bait is the first thing you do afterwards in a modern article.
The 286 was a curious little beast. It did have a sort of an MMU, and, according to Wikipedia, The CPU was designed for multi-user systems with multitasking applications…
The world would be a better place if we abandon the standard US diet
I would not consider something you can't sell separately (ADU) a "unit", which would make me disagree with your second sentence.

The light rail doesn't go to Phinney or Greenwood, but I meant Lynnwood, Shoreline, etc stops.

It's not just "not cheap", it's ruinously more costly than cars. Housing just isn't dense enough to bake it affordable.
Just use Terraform (or your preferred alternative)
I think the article makes a valid point in kind of a silly way, which is to hold up five or six of the absolute worst outliers of the industry to make a point about inequality. Are they a useful reference point to represent the problem? Yes, but that should have segued the article deeper into the weeds of why this is happening and how it can be fixed. There's an implication that some massive sea change might have been expected following #metoo, but I suspect the reality is that what we're going to get instead is slow, forward-moving progress towards diversity - so let's talk about it in realistic terms and figure out how to make it go faster instead of focusing on the outliers, expecting a miracle, and then acting like no progress has been made just because there was no Thanos Snap-level equalization event.
Lots of on-line privacy related information (including search engines) here...
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
When the police see a car and run the plate and it comes back stolen, how should they “confirm the car is really stolen”?
>The US following China's lead.

Quality of life in China is constantly improving. In US it isn’t. So no, US isn’t following China’s lead.
I slapped Arch Linux on a new HP 2 in 1 and everything except for the fingerprint reader worked out of the box, including the stylus. Not even a single controller of my weird Chinese 10-port USB-C dongle refused to work.
I'm not finding anything call "Joker's plant". Is that a reference to something that went over my head?
The reason I never bought a smart watch: no software freedom.

Also, ever since a phone failed and warranty claimed it broke because of my LineageOS installation, I don't buy new phones either.
I was fired from a Fortune 100 company for failing to provide proof of vaccination, despite being 100% remote and residing in a state where it's illegal for employers to do that.

They did it anyway.
2) Pretty much. I never got into the serverless hype vs keeping some well-managed VMs running, but YMMV depending on your needs. Cloud SQL works quite well for us too.

3) Also yes. We tried to get on Scaleway’s Startup Program but were rejected. OVH took us in, but I had so, so many problems with different tools… Their customer support wasn’t helpful, so I felt this permanent anxiety about the next thing failing with our infra. GCP was the ‘least bad’ choice given our constraints are complexity and cost, while still keeping investors confident in the tech.

I loathed my time on the other large providers, even if GCP feels like a 5/10 choice for a small company. I’d love to use Digital Ocean or Scaleway, as they seemed better suited to smaller companies; but sadly we couldn’t make the relationship work.

If you don’t have to deal with compliance or record-keeping, why not pick one of the 2 providers I mention above? They’re much better for ‘hobbyists’, super usable.

I just realized you were asking about larger companies, but I’ll still post the reply in case it helps.
gauß doesn't care, the changes are minimal.
I'm old enough to have seen this suggestion refloated for going on five decades. It keeps on not happening, and the older I get, the more I understand why. There are simply massive constraints on large-scale airship development, construction, and operation. Niche applications: maybe. Widespread adoption in the face of extant or potential viable alterantives? No.

More in this 9-month old comment of mine: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611076>

And from others in a thread from just over a year ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119943>

What I'm thinking instead:

Ground transportation should see a revolution in rail, particularly in flexibly coupled-and-decoupled trainsets which would eliminate marshalling issues for present freight rail systems. "High speed" transcontinental freight presently tends to take 10--30 days by rail. This could be significantly improved on. Worse, the lack of flexibility makes short haul rail freight, < 500 mi / 1,000 km, highly impractical, and prefers tucks. For all the talk of EV-based trucking, rail is still vastly more efficient in terms of mass moved distance per unit energy, it's the organisation that's utterly lacking, and there seems to be vanishingly little research into this area as I've mentioned in some previous comments.

Electrified air transport seems to me a fairly unlikely option for anything other than small-passenger count short-haul (~100 mile or so) commute hops at speeds low enough that high-speed rail is almost certainly a viable contender.

The interesting question is transoceanic transport, and here I've been thinking that submerged floating tunnels, as proposed for Norway's fjord-spanning highway projects, might be an option. Shorter links (Bearing Strait) could be achieved by conventional tunnels, and much of the Indonesian archipelago might be joined similarly or with bridges. The notion of a transatlantic link, perhaps from Newfoundland to Scotland, or from Brazil to Western Africa, would require traversing about 3,000 mi / 5,000 km of open water. The notion of a tunnel floating at 20--50m depths is provocative and not entirely implausible. I'd suspect such projects might best be piloted as automated freight conduits first, with live human passenger travel coming afterward. It's possible to link at least five or six continents within reason, and possibly even Antarctica.

Trans-Atlantic transit times might range from 15 hours at conventional speeds (240 kph / 150 mph) to as little as 2.5 hours in a hyperloop-like evacuated tube at 1,600 kph / 1,000 mph. Even at a more modest 300 kph / 186 mph an overnight journey could be made (16 hours).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel>

I've ... floated this concept a few times on HN without any nibbles so far.

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
Yes, remembering things is a form of privilege.
I'm sorry you're being downvoted just for stating your experiences. There are many more people like you who are willing to face facts than might be obvious at first look. Thanks for your courage.
What do you do when you are using a traditional laptop trackpad, you're dragging an item downward but your finger is already at the bottom of the trackpad?

(Hint: the amount the cursor moves does not only depend on the dragged distance on the trackpad.)

Now do the same thing for the on-screen virtual trackpad.
Perspective Up Close
Please don't post like this here, regardless of where you are or what you don't use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>People are slowly realizing that one of the actual roles of police in US society is to protect the interests of large corporations

I'd say protect the interests of capital, which just so happens to be something corporations have a lot of.

Think of it this way: grand larceny isn't dependent on the victim's net worth, so even if stealing $100 from a poor person has 1,000x impact on their life vs. stealing $100,000 from a wealthy person's private business, you can guarantee that the $100,000 will be what the police focus on.
The same thing happened when Facebook acquired Oculus and consumer protection agencies as well as users everywhere started throwing a fit.

I think Facebook backed off pretty quickly?
Our thesis is that GCP's UI is not discoverable. Could you elaborate if by "discoverable" you mean these have been non-issues for you?

1) billing is aggregated at too high of a level. Teams have to decompose services into projects, which proliferates the other "discoverability" problems.

2) Search misses a lot

3) Byzantine directory structure and navigation

4) Docs are just broken

5) Parts of GCP UI hint at the equivalent REST payload for API payloads, but this is hit or miss.

Or did you intend that the UI->CLI is relatively more discoverable than AWS/Azure. We've found Azure's search and UI to be surprisingly decent. AWS' console is fragmented but their docs are great.
If Guix uses Nix under the hood, is it "just" Nix with an S-expression syntax (admittedly much better than Nix syntax) and fewer packages? If so, is there a really compelling reason to prefer Guix over NixOS? The only substantive difference I'm aware of is the use of GNU Shepherd instead of systemd.
Strictly speaking, you as a private litigant generally cannot make criminal charges - only the state does that. A civil suit is "these guys harmed me specifically and I want to be repaid", a criminal charge is "these guys are threats to society and should be thrown in jail". And the latter has a very high bar to meet for corporations, because corporations rarely have the capacity or mental state to actually meet that bar[0]. They are machines, after all.

In a civil suit, you are expected to be paid in money damages or maybe injunctions. Those damages are construed to be the same as, say, owing money to a bondholder. Going bankrupt lets you wipe out those obligations; so presumably those pending cases might also get wiped out. But that's also judge-dependent and fact-dependent, which is why they get wrapped up into the bankruptcy proceeding.

[0] This is also why civil torts are almost always strict-liability. If everything required intent, corporations would be above the law.
I take photos of everything too. It's super easy,and cannot possibly hurt!

(That being said, at least in my rental agreements, "day" starts 24 hrs after pickup time. I.e. If I picked car up at 09:23am, I'll get charged for 2nd day at 09:24am tomorrow...)
I’m talking about real world energy usage. It takes far more energy to heat Minneapolis, Boston, New York, etc than it does to air condition Southern California cities, Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, etc. The only reason the grid doesn’t struggle in the winter is because many of those heat sources are not electric (wood pellets, gas furnaces, boilers, heating oil, etc).

People don’t live in perfectly insulated boxes and even the best insulation that is actually livable (doesn’t suffocate you) will let through more than the 10MJ a person gives off through the course of the day. For context, a plug-in space heater is 1500 watts and that struggles to maintain the heat in a well-insulated 300 sq ft shop when it’s under 40F.

Humans shouldn’t be living in the cold if you care about energy consumption. It’s just so normalized and we figured out how to burn wood so long ago that nobody thinks twice about it.
> Can't say the N word in Guix

nVidia? Nix? Or Nonguix?
It’s for fueling fighters tanks etc during a war, not scoring points pre-midterm. Pretty important considering Russia and China’s brinksmanship these days.
No, it's exponential all around. For any infinitesimal small delta V you can assume it to be almost linear. This works for amplifying really small signals.
> But does it actually get in the way of office work, like the author references? Absolutely not, since those machines will be booting daily and get hiccups, not slogs.

It absolutely does get in the way. Less than a month ago the Windows machine at work once again decided that updating itself was more important than allowing me to do my job. I timed it. Windows wasted over 20 minutes of my time. Do I get to send Microsoft a bill?
If a company do business legally in France and hire worker there, they will pay taxes in regards to labors laws

Those represent roughly the amount the employee gets ( net )
The title of the paper at your link is "Acute toxic effects of polyethylene microplastic on adult zebrafish".

Polyethylene[1] is not the same thing as Polyurethane[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene, [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane
The electric car industry would likely not exist without
Lots of wisdom. Thank you!

> customers in Europe who are extremely Amazon-averse

Are European customers Azure-averse? It seems Azure is really leaning into the compliance angle.
This was thankfully fixed in iOS 16. The “hide” option is now in the triple-dot menu in the top right corner.
I still always turn on the bottom 3 button on Android phones. Just easier than remembering gestures.
Permission Structure – Obama's Model to Change Deeply Held Beliefs
Org mode has a lot of rabbit holes, but to use org roam (which builds on org mode and Lets you manage a knowledge graph) effectively is surprisingly easy. You need to know how to link to something, how to view backlinks, how to format the tree of text using asterisks to indicate depth in the tree, how to define aliases in a note's Properties drawer, and that's pretty much it.
It has always been a Frat, more was spent on marketing tech as a diverse environment than actually hiring people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures.
Well I must say that's remarkably clever
You have to be careful using the UI vs CLI/Terraform as you will get inconsistent results.

For example, enabling any API via the UI will also create any "glue" service accounts in your project that are expected for that API to operate (for example, Compute API and the default compute service account).

If you were to enable the Compute API via Terraform, it will NOT create the default compute service account -- you will need to do that with a separate terraform resource.

There are tons of quirks related to operating GCP but not significantly moreso than other cloud providers.