skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because the whole industry [and by extension the whole world] is built on a throne of lies, shit, pain, and weapons-grade idiocy.

there's absolutely no safety mindset for anything behind the cover.

if it's industrial, just put a big sticker on it, write something about it in the mandatory occupational hazards training kit, maaaaaaaybe consider adding a fence, but it's fine anyway.

if it's consumer stuff? well, as long as kids won't choke on it, it's A-OK. especially if it comes to electronics. just write in the user's guide that always disconnect it from the mains when not in use, if used improperly that's on you, and don't ever think about opening it. that only for professionals who are trained in the dark arts of handling this exact piece of immanetized hell-forged eschaton housed in a convenient beige plastic.

adding a voltage limiter between the LCD panel and the input would cost money. designing it would cost money. adding an analog limiter on the regulator would cost money (plus setting it mechanically is very expensive compared to flashing on some firmware), compartmentalizing the software - by having a segment that's set at assembly that contains the physical properties of connected parts, which communicates the operational limits, and the other segment which can be set via software - would also cost a lot of money.
We have no problem blaming anyone, rightly or wrongly. Twitter is a fountain of blame, there's enough for everyone.

You can blame me, I think. I haven't done it yet, but I can see the day coming where one of the sites I maintain will move behind Cloudflare. That site gets too much shit. The other day Little Bobby Tables browsed the site, and it wasn't the first time. I have to choose: Deal with the low-level shit or require javascript from a bunch of users who mostly have that enabled anyway. So blame me, and all the site operators who face the same choice.
In many cases it already has.
Optimism and Pessimism are viewed very differently in different Countries (Germany vs USA) and even Regions (Silicon Valley vs idk Utah).

Apart from that I think the article is mostly wrong. To make progress you need agency and self-confidence. The effects of Optimism and Pessimism are very context-dependent.

Just one example: A very driven and confident pessimist might be much more motivated to find a solution for Climate Change, because he knows for sure otherwise Earth is Doomed.

While a very driven and confident optimist in Politics might reduce Carbon Tax, because he knows for sure that Technology Companies will find solutions for Climate Change and they'll find it faster if they have more money.
If fog or rain is so intense that objects within a few feet of your car are obscured from vision, I'd suggest that maybe you shouldn't be operating the car at all, regardless of any assistance technologies it might possess.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine, who is a teacher.

He said something like: "Back when there were no computers [...]."

A student raised his hand, and asked:

"But if there were no computers... How did people access the internet?"
You could overdrive the CRT on the Commodore PET with a poke to a particular register.
On some models it would cause damage, on other models it would cause faster screen draws.
I cannot over emphasize how much I don’t want a computer teaching me to talk. The only reason this is a problem is that we’re relying on computers for communication too much in the first place.
> The parking sensors on the Tesla are really good and very useful. They show a rough outline of what is around you and are displayed very nicely compared to some other cars. It is a real shame to remove this, and downright dishonest to characterize it as some kind of leap forward.

My 4 year old Ford Focus doesn't show an outline of obstacles around the car, but still provides Park Assist and Autopark. Especially Park Assist is something that everyone expects from every reasonably equipped car nowadays. So yeah, maybe understandable if it's due to supply difficulties, but still a bad move...
EU wants to install car-recharging stations every 60km, and hydrogen every 100km
While I find it very interesting that boron nitride can outperform all other white pigments in the combination between total solar reflectance and layer thickness, I believe that an another approach for making a white paint is even more promising.

That method is described in the reference #17 from the bibliography of this paper.

There are 2 methods that can be used to make a white paint.

The first is to use a polymer as a binder and incorporate in it very small particles with high refractive index, i.e. a white pigment powder.

The second method is to make a polymer that solidifies as a foam. In this case, the polymer contains voids filled with air having low refractive index, instead of pigment particles, but the effect of the optical non-homogeneity is the same, so both foams and powders are white, when they do not absorb light.

The reference #17 describes such a method of making a polymeric foam, which can be used as a paint.

According to the table from this paper about boron nitride, the previous best combination of total solar reflectance and layer thickness and layer density was for that polymeric foam, which had a 96% total solar reflectance and a 300 micron thickness, outperforming all the previous paints based on white pigments.

While that foam had a slightly lower total solar reflectance, it had a better far infrared emittance, so the cooling performance was similar, i.e. of about 6 Celsius degrees below the air temperature.

Because the methods that use foams do not need pigments, they have the potential to be cheaper than the methods with pigments, which need both a polymer as binder and a mineral pigment.

Moreover, methods to make foams can be adapted to many different kinds of polymers, so there are chances that other polymers with even better performances or even lower cost can be found, perhaps a silicone polymer in foam form (silicones can have perfect resistance to solar light in outdoor conditions).
This is easy: up to and including high school, the education is tailored for the many, with the intention that almost everyone has to make it. It means the standards are lowered to almost the lowest denominator. College has raised standards, the people that get there are above average and move faster and higher.

For example you can teach half of the Computer Science courses to half of the high school students directly in high school, but you completely lose the other half. So you move it to college and have everyone happy to have 12 years of mediocre education. It is called equality.
I'm not sure what your sarcasm is about.

They did managed to restore access after some struggling. Just like Chinese struggle to develop and deploy Shadowsocks to reach Wikipedia.
This approach always seems so easy at first glance, but I find it gets rather unwieldy as soon as I need to update some deeply nested value- like updating a innerText in cell in a table in a card in a layout of a thousand cards without re-rendering the entire collection. I started using lit-html and it solves this problem (and only costs me 3KB or so to ship).
I don't quite understand the deployment issue. I mean, I understand people might not be tracking what's deployed, but I don't understand what is missing for it to be happening today, other than will.

For example: I build some software into a Docker image, version tag it, sign it, and generate an SBOM for it. That image goes into production with signature validation. Even if I've included 100 jar files in there, I should know exactly which ones I have. I can upload the SBOM to my DependencyTrack[1] instance to so over time no dependencies have vulnerabilities I'm not aware of.

What doesn't work in that scenario? What scenarios can't conform to that one?

[1] https://dependencytrack.org
Do you not have enough progress? We need like five centuries of stagnation just to consolidate the runaway train of progress in the last ~200 years alone.
ASRock's response to a Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/xrdvnk/infuriating_...
Me: Furiously typing uname -a into terminal.

Me: "Crap, I got 5.19 running"

Also me: "Calm down, it's only 5.19.13"

Rollercoaster of emotions :)
The value of your RSS feed comes from the websites you have the feeds from. The value of twitter comes from the tweets on twitter. The more terrible tweets and tweeters, either terrible in their quality or terrible in their offensiveness to the reader, the lower the value. The more terrible tweeters, the more they will inject themselves in to the dialogues that were previously considered non terrible by the reader. At a low enough value, when people are wading through the racist crackpot right wing sludge, they will stop using it.
> Yes but when you see "display:none;" isn't it obvious that the purpose is to make it visible sometime later?

Yes, but it's not obvious that it would be made visible in a different place while keeping the original invisible.
> It’s not a democracy if the elected bodies all answer to unelected ones.

Like the supreme court?
This doesn't negate the value of optimism though, which is what this article is about.

Yes, there's a price to pay for optimism, but the alternative is much more costlier - I think this is the premise of this article.

> Reality is way more nuanced than single perspectives.

That's a truism, I believe.
Yeah, (un)fortunately compared with cameras, eyes have really high resolution and (most relevant) a truly excellent dynamic range.
Russia’s strategy failed, not the tank
What do these slow 6/12 month reductions look like? I have a feeling this is happening where I work due to morale destroying team reshuffles every 5 or 6 months.
Modern laptops don't have PCMCIA slots ;-)

I'd like a business-card sized display that could show simple things like my calendar and contacts while being as thin as possible - a small BTLE and WiFi board attached to a .4 mm LiPo battery and an touch e-ink display on top of the whole thing would probably work.
I think it felt that way because of bad design + slow hardware. You see the exact same thing by installing a modern windows version or some desktop like GNOME to low-end computers.
> I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money.

This is the truth that hurts. I get to work closely with some extremely good marketing colleagues in my day job; I'm still waiting for some of their knowledge/insights/drive to rub off on me, which I can then apply to marketing my own hobbyist endeavours. Fortunately I'm not expecting to make money from my JS library (or my poetry) so I'm not too disappointed.

However ...

> Instead we get articles like these asking for some sort of fund for OSS (which do exist, but again, need to be competed for)

I did apply for a small grant from something called the Chrome UI fund[1] last December. I thought it would be nice to have some cash to cover hosting costs, incidentals, etc - peanut funding, if you like. Sadly, I've never received any communication about the application or even an acknowledgment that the people running the fund had received it. A polite "Thanks, but no" would have been nice.

[1] - https://web.dev/ui-fund/
> Buy a 4 million mansion in a fancy place and take me there in your private jet.

That's not "rich", that's just showy.
Why do we want that? We're well past the point of diminishing returns on that particular obsession.
I’ve personally had to deal with far more and worse messes in Python, Java and Javascript than I ever did in Clojure. (Started using Clojure ~13 years ago, but have been in jobs that use the other languages I’ve mentioned in that time too, not always exclusively using Clojure, although there were periods where I was).

I have mentioned a few times in the past, on HN and Reddit and elsewhere, that my biggest personal dream language wishlist item is “Clojure but with static types”, however, while that’s something I dream of having, it hasn’t held me or the language back in any meaningful way. The thing that makes Clojure less mess-inducing in my opinion is largely the fact that it’s data is immutable by default. An immutable-Python would be something I’d be interested in trying.
But muh perfectly predictable catastrophe a moderately intelligent twelve year old could see coming and that we could avoid by just not doing that, that we're blundering into because our short-term and long-term incentives are not well aligned, that will destroy the world without a shadow of a doubt!
> The parking sensors on the Tesla are really good and very useful. They show a rough outline of what is around you and are displayed very nicely compared to some other cars. It is a real shame to remove this,

Perhaps the occupancy network is a good replacement? You're characterizing this as if Tesla Vision won't ever be able to replace it: "impossible to detect obstructions occluded from view by the hood".

What if the neural net persists where everything in the world is, and can extrapolate where objects are as the car moves? Then it's better than cameras, blind spots would actually be reduced.

I agree it's a dick move to remove it on cars that were already ordered though. Very Tesla.
What's the point of 10k bitcoins if you can't buy you and your family a life free of the pain of being tortured by the government. Whose family is going to forgive them if they let their sons or daughters be mutilated and traumatised for the low, low price of 10k bitcoins?

Idk you're suggesting the existence of a human that, while not impossible, must be vanishingly rare. Perhaps you don't really understand what torture means?
I still do, but I think the only contact that hasn't changed since it was last updated is my mom's home landline ;-)
SvelteUI – All inclusive Svelte library
Singer Post Malone is expressing his love to his new daughter in a unique way — it seems Malone has tattooed his daughter's initials directly on his face.
This makes no sense. How would netlink improve the UI? (my guess is if you're not doing anything exotic, the UI is what you're complaining about)
I love how press releases frequently not only overblow the results of a study but give the public an entirely incorrect view on mechanism, impact, and confidence
If we are talking about the 1979 version, most likely.

If we are talking about products like PC-lint, Sonar qube, Coverity, the experience is much more than that.
UBS credit default swaps hit decade high after Credit Suisse blow out
Please can we ship HTML Modules soon?

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4854408103854080
Wow, this post really highlights things I did not know about Matter, but which sounds great!

In all honesty, as a Home Assistant user I sort of feel that Matter/Thread is not important to me, but multi-fabric and bridges sound super nice.
You'll have to expand on that. I am not sure exactly what you think we don't want.
Mine came with a serial-based desktop unit. The laptop tended to scratch the paint.
Apache 2.0 also says that if you fork it, or use any bit of it, it is classified as a derivative works, and must retain the Apache license in the fork. So the answer is quite clearly no.

You could possibly modify the source and not accept the EULA but you still cannot remove the Apache license.
It’s funny. I tend to take a practical, skeptical approach to Making Things Happen.

My work is always colored with thoughts like “What happens when the user does this…” or “The last time I tried that, my toenails fell off,” etc.

People call that “pessimism,” and I’m often attacked as a “negative naysayer.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. I have a long, long record of Getting Things Done.

I ship; regularly and consistently. I do that, by anticipating problems, and architecting designs that are high Quality, secure, localizable, accessible, well-documented, performant, flexible, robust, long-lasting, maintainable, and complete (in a pretty short, predictable, timeframe).

I’m also a good problem-solver. Roadblocks don’t tend to last long, when I roll up my sleeves.

If you want pie-in-the-sky, shoot-for-the-moon dreams, I may not be the correct person to talk to; mostly because I’m admittedly fairly well-grounded, and less likely to come up with these ideas.

But if you’d like to actually make your dream into a reality, then someone like me is a good bet.
As stated by Tesla just a few days ago, the occupancy network is not currently shown in the customer-facing visualisation. (Some unrecognised objects are represented by generic placeholders. This is derived from, but not the output of, the occupancy network.)

This video links to the relevant citation, and if you continue watching for around ten seconds you can see examples of the occupancy network visualised:

https://youtu.be/ODSJsviD_SU?t=4337
It's simpler to think "technology will save us" than "we as a species screwed up and have already destroyed 2/3 of wild life (not talking about the consequences of global warming, that's yet to come), maybe we should change drastically".
Who says you have to work a 9-5 indefinitely? Take some time to find a position that aligns with what you want to work on and do that for a while. Save up, live frugally and you will have more runway to do your own thing. Plus you will make people connections and perhaps even learn some new things about running and maintaining a business. You could even go work in academia or for a non-profit.
It's called a manual! Print it and read it!
TBH, i thoght about an experiment when 1.1.1.1 is redirected to 127.0.0.1 to check how much of the internet still works.
Human mind hardware has not changed though!
I had this error. 13 fixed it.
They released CLIP (both model and code[1]), which is very broadly used in Dall-E alternatives. For example Stable Diffusion uses it.

They also release Whisper model and code[2]

[1] https://github.com/openai/CLIP

[2] https://github.com/openai/whisper
No one is questioning his reputation as a skilled player. They are questioning him for potentially calling someone out for cheating on flimsy (or no) evidence.
Technically this is just breaking the web, not the internet - none of the other protocols are being interfered with.

Even Cloudflare's DNS product is just standard DNS protocol, sitting behind network-level DDoS protections. It's only HTTP where they tamper with the application layer.
Matter is higher level than both wifi and Bluetooth, so yeah you will need "something" to communicate over, which will be IP. Thread for example which is sort of zigbee.
Oh nice effort. I certainly have some stuff to contribute.
I have tmux anchored to ~ because I hated new shells inheriting random cwd states. Instead I have a function to cd to "bookmarks" with an easy way to add to it and completion.
True! that would be less elegant with the string, as you would need to make it effectively into a <template> or hidden div to do such a thing.
I don't see that phenomena about cop boot-lickers on HN in particular more than anywhere else, but I'm sure it happens here sometimes too.

I also didn't think it was a well-written article, though. The fellow's injuries do not seem accidental if the article reported them accurately, but the connection to the rape case was pretty tenuous. It could be that, or something else that got him killed, or the article just got some facts wrong. The article didn't really give me confidence.
Shine Interview has helped unicorns find not just the best talent, but talent that fits into the culture of the company through innovative video-screening software.
> if I can sell a digital item and lose access in the process

Which is exactly the problem with digital media – how do you prove that to the satisfaction of everybody involved, i.e. especially the rightsholders?

On the one hand, the fact that almost all of the music market and parts of the e-book market for example operate without DRM shows that in those cases the publishers/labels have somewhat resigned themselves to trusting the users to remain relatively honest in that regard, but I suspect that a platform explicitly designed for reselling digital content would still draw some additional scrutiny of the unwanted kind.

Somewhat ironically, DRM would solve that particular problem – at the price of introducing additional restrictions during day-to-day usage that I wouldn't be happy about, though, either.

E.g. looking at my personal music library, it would likely restrict the choice of software players and good luck implementing that kind of personalised DRM with hardware media players which might not even have any kind of internet connection. I've also invasively (albeit losslessly reversible) applied replay gain adjustment to my whole media library because some media players and e.g. my car radio don't support the tagging-based adjustment, and in some rare cases I even had to edit some files [1], neither of which would be possible with DRM-protected files.

And of course it would introduce a continuing dependence on the existence of whoever is providing the DRM in order to access those media files you've supposedly "bought".

[1] The version of 3:47 EST on iTunes turned out to be missing the mouse squeak at the end – because of no DRM, I was able to find a complete, but otherwise slightly worse-sounding version (more surface hiss) on Youtube, lift the squeak off of it, de-noise it, and tack it onto my purchased version without having to lossily transcode that the main bulk of that song again.
I vouched your comment (was dead...), to see what you think the buggy mess is. I have not seen any bugs but I have only scratched the surface of it.
Those of us who've calculated our own modelines are familiar with that caution. It was part of the documentation of standard tools at the time, though I've never personally encountered a damaged display or knew of anyone else who had. Though one turns up in this thread: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33093385>

A typical modeline calculator warning:

It is also important to say that some seemingly reasonable modelines can damage monitors, so this method of hand-crafting monitor descriptions includes a certain amount of risk.

<https://arachnoid.com/modelines/>

My understanding is that monitors and/or graphics cards/drivers would reject potentially harmful configurations.
I'm not sure this is true. Their metaverse stuff could easily actually be a drag on their share price right now. There's 2 ways to view Meta: The bull case is that Facebook/Insta absolutely churn out money and that's great, but for future growth their going into the metaverse and they're going to win there and unlock more explosive growth. But there's the bear case: Facebook/Insta absolutely churn out money but they're not growing because the CEO has lost focus on the core business, and share holders aren't going to get to enjoy that money because the CEO who has absolute total control of the company is going to plough all that money into a nebulous new business that's incredibly unlikely to pay off.

It could very well be that right now Meta's stock is trading at a discount, because investors are discounting the revenue streams because they don't think it's going to go to share holders. So instead of strangling the golden goose by cutting across the core facebook business, you could massive bring down spend on VR, refocus on your core business and the stock price would shoot through the roof.