skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What most people don't realize is that revenue in Europe is down not because spending is down, but because dollar is stronger. They don't explain this here, but they did in Tesla earnings. Expect multinational companies to have a lower European business this quarter.
They grew cloud revenue some 30%+

While I'm usually nervous about Google discontinuing things, they'd be idiots to cancel something with $6B in revenue growing that fast.
There shouldn't be that level of work required to set it up. The tools are lacking if it's not just a couple of commands or toggles to get a fully encrypted disk with a secure boot chain.
The real story is how much expenses rose. As a percentage of revenue, expenses went from 70% last quarter, to 80% this quarter. Even if their revenue was flat (it wasn't), that alone would represent a third of their net income disappearing.
Spike Prime is their new education branding. This article is kind of misleading since they've been sort of phasing out the Mindstorms branding in favor of a broader education initiative for a while. Spike Prime might not be for very young children, but I'd say a precocious 2nd or 3rd grader could definitely program it.
This things is clearly not designed for residential roofs.

For one thing, it's hideous.

But mostly it's intended to be installed on the ridge of a standard commercial flat roof, tar-paper style, and take advantage of the effect which large walls have on the wind.

Houses, being lower, having (generally) pitched roofs, and therefore no structural ridge, are not the intended market.
> What you said is false. I suspect that is why you're getting downvoted.

It's not, you can confirm what I said. Look at the link in the blog post that points to public mention of it months ago, as well as the user I replied to posts about the company to his personal site with excepts from the public matrix channel.

I'm active in open source and lots of chat happens in matrix, maybe your coworker missed it?
This sort of idea ... I get it, but it runs stuck on what exactly "acceptable intelligence" is. That would be the sort of intelligence 99% or more of the population doesn't have.

Also at some level "I'd rather have" becomes pointless. Choices are usually 1 individual, or waiting 6 months to a year. I don't know if we're in a bubble but I've seen the same in biochemistry research and computer research: academics take everyone they possibly can, because master or above and they will get an unbeatable offer from a huge company very soon.
Thing is, they're relatively cheap off the shelf.
For sure. I stood in line for the original iPhone, owned every model (except the 5C) up through the 6, then an SE, X, and now an 11 Pro since it came out. I played around with Siri when it debuted, but didn't use it much. I turned it off at some point (I think it was when Apple was catching grief for keeping recordings or something like that) and haven't missed it. I'm not against it especially -- it just never really became part of my life.
I'm still using Alien Blue on iOS. Not fully compatible, but worth it for me.
The first day i asked her for the weather, songs and alarms.
The second day i turing tested her, asked it philosophical questions and insulted it the worst way.
Yes, that was pretty much it.
Legs are old news, certainly there must be other body parts that can generate revenue…?!
> I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly

This is definitely true of mainstream social media, but I don't think it's that bad on HN. Based on the list of duplicates, this has been posted 13 times in 12 years, that's really not that bad. Things don't live on the front-page that long, someone reasonably could have missed it every time. If people are engaging with the post, what's the problem?
I remember the fun, irreverent blog "Stuff White People Like", satirizing the recreational tastes of upper-middle class college-educated Americans. Then one day the author got a book deal and the blog ended abruptly.

That would have been around 2010 or so. Since then it has felt like the entire Internet, from Youtube and Twitch all the way down to Patreon and Gofundme, has turned into a big tip jar.
painting one of the blades black reduces the bird fatalities significantly from a study i read on here a few months back.
School & independent teams have spent $$$ buying lego parts and it is still sad to see things deprecated when they could have easily upgraded the "cpu" and kept things compatible.
Not them, but I honestly couldn't tell you who they were, or if they're still around. It's been a long time, there was a little hint of nepotism involved, and it would have meant staying locally so I dumped most of the details from my brain.
What a shame, I loved my set as a kid. Hopefully the software will still work or can be made to work with now-discontinued models.
I can add some context here. MEV stands for maximum extractable value, it allows you to accept a higher fee to order transactions within a block. This isn't super valuable for most people, but in some cases it can be the difference between making a profit and not.

MEV-Boost is the popular open source base most people use, it's from a company called Flashbots. Using MEV-Boost apparently gives you a good 60% bump in profit, from what I've read, so it's really popular. Some 56% of nodes are using MEV-Boost, and among them only 14% aren't censoring to be OFAC compliant.

Flashbots recently announced they're making a decentralization focused upgrade to the protocol, essentially making this problem a non-issue. In fact, the cofounder recently left due to internal disagreements about it centralization and censorship risks.
It's also (as I understand it) international law at sea that it is the duty of any ship able to help to go the aid of a distressed ship/person.
I went to their profile, and also followed the link they posted to the public donations to connect them.
a) yay
b) I'm surprised i don't see mention of racket in here.

My understanding is that their implementation of MIT scheme + the VERY beginner friendly aspects of Racket's Dr. Racket editor make it the best place for folks to work on this course's code. Especially since so few of them will have had scheme experience.

I certainly found it nice.
Are you using proprietary garage door software? Would live to have any better kind of integration there so any setup details that aren't crazy specific to some manufacturer would be interesting
Try out SaaS apps without giving away your email
Hi, I'm Yuval, the founder of 1Trial - a service that lets you try out SaaS apps giving away your email.

You can think about it like a smarter disposable email service that also generates a password for you (and with a better UI).

The cool thing is that unlike disposable email services, it also saves the login info for you for later use.

I made it as a fun side project to scratch my own itch - I like checking out new products, and I was ticked off that to even begin to try something out, you need to register for an account.

The problem I had with disposable email services was that you lost access to your account, and you couldn't keep track of all the different services you signed up for (without polluting your password manager).

Happy to answer questions, and looking forward to engaging with the HN community - I love this place!
Start with assembly, C and systems to better understand the “why”. As a freshman in college my first stab was learning Django and trying to make apps. I really missed understanding things early on that make things work
Line of Business, Mobile Device Management.
Me too. My last laptop was a dell outlet refurbished precision laptop that was 2 years old when I bought it, I then used it for 5 years and it still works today, in just replaced it with a smaller/faster precision that has also been great. I need high performance and reliability to run Solidworks all day and count on our to deliver, they haven't let me down yet (knock on wood)
Yes for sure. Email me at ben@villagersapp.com and I’ll add you to an internal list of founders
Man, playing with Mindstorms is some of the most fun I’ve had as an adult. This announcement is a shame.

I spent some time going through all of their basic examples in Rust, which was just delightfully silly.
VexIQ is one big competitor
Probably a better experience for everyone. You just have to distribute the image (rather than running vms) and the user gets instantaneous responses.
Pybrick/python runs well on both Mindstorms EV3 and the new thing (Spike Prime).
Meta announces tails!
The closest is

$25,000. App access to a small amount of sensitive data normally protected by a TCC prompt.

In this case you get a misleading prompt, the access requires additional interactions. It's a serious bug and I'm all for reporters of serious bugs getting bigger bounties from companies that have more cash than they know what to do with. But simply dropping a random number in every single one of these threads is just noise, not even advocacy or technical discussion.
> So if you're saying they're more affordable to the rich, sure.

No, cash buyers are in an even worse position right now. A traditional 60/40 portfolio is down substantially more right now than the average home price. Cash buyers don't sit on actual cash, they sell something in their portfolio prior to closing.
Or maybe there is no purpose, which is why, through natural selection, they ended up with tiny arms.
> You used to legit need that CS degree in order to code in your day-to-day

And when people today look back with disdain at ugly VB applications and wonder what simpleton, non-programmer, drag-and-dropper built this piece of excrement (that has somehow been running for 17 years without an update and the replacement project that we hired those consultants for ended up 3x over costs and nobody uses it) as opposed to a Real Software Program, there's the reason.
Bypassing container security is easier than bypassing VM security.
I don't understand why Elon claiming that the cars will be able to drive themselves in the future could be considered any kind of crime? I don't think Tesla has ever said "hey you can get in the car today and it is fully autonomous". They've just said that's what they will do in the future. They've also shown and talked about products in-development.

You might think they are full of shit about whether it will ever be delivered, which is a fair argument, but that's much different than lying about the actual product in people's hands.
> In the end the goal of a company (whether you agree with it our not) is not to get as big as possible but to generate as much cash for its shareholders as possible.

Facebook's goal is to do whatever Zuckerberg wants, since he still controls a majority of the votes. It's a fascinating test of the value of corporate governance rights.
I'm choosing to believe this is satire... The alternative makes me depressed
AGPL has a bad reputation because it has been weaponized against the community from companies like Elastic.
There are... might make the board room a bit awkward though.
I'm sure it will be good, it's just so JavaScript for there to be another one of these.
> Unfortunately, I think this is the future.

Not just the future, more like the status quo. There is a centuries long history of business tycoons buying media outlets for their own purposes. Social media platforms and influencers are just a new flavor.
Ditching 1Password for bitwarden and self-hosting it with vaultwarden might also be an option depending on your needs and experience.
>I think they burried the lede here. Conversations with Siri are probably pretty generic but being able to evesdrop on keyboard dictation is pretty severe. I know people that use dictation for the majority of their text messages and email.

I agree with your take!!

If you scroll to the "Full TCC Bypass on macOS" portion, you can see that this bug allows folks to turn on an Airpod and direct that audio to a macOS device. This could enable what is known as a Tempest Attack[0,1]

>BTLEServerAgent did not have any entitlement checks or TCC prompts in place for its com.apple.BTLEAudioController.xpc service, so any process on the system could connect to it, send requests, and receive audio frames from AirPods. This exploit would only work on macOS, because the more restricted sandbox of iOS prevents apps from accessing most global mach services directly.

Stuff like that are why I hate Bluetooth in general, and I'm on the fence if either my laptop OR phone will be Apple products when I replace them.

(They seem to cater to people who replace their devices every year and camp out outside the Apple store for new Apple stuff like nerds rather than the folks who didn't want to spend every weekend messing with kernel drivers and thus adopted what I will continue to refer to as "shiny BSD" even though they long since changed the name from OSX to macOS.)

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)#Public_rese...
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> just that when Americans mention "just do a chargeback" it doesn't really work this way for people outside of US.

It's this way in the US...for major credit cards and banks.

If your bank is a community credit union or you have a usurious credit card, the chargeback experience [can be] as onerous as yours. It starts with you needing to fax all of the required forms and evidence.
> It would be a real shame if we lose any chance of full self driving over a misunderstanding about the system being "not perfected yet"

We can still have self driving cars, but they should be developed within a culture that values safety. Tesla is not such a culture. We know this because after the first accident that resulted in decapitation, Tesla collectively shrugged and made the problem worse by removing sensors, which predictably resulted in a second decapitation. They collectively shrugged after that one as well, and again made the problem worse by removing more sensors.

Tesla does not value safety, and their YOLO attitude toward driverless cars, in which the general public is forced to participate in their beta test whether we like it or not, is holding the driverless car industry back. They are not friends of the cause, and the sooner they are prevented from running beta tests on the general public (which have caused deaths), the sooner the industry as a whole can move forward. Reckless engineering by Tesla will not result in a net gain in safety for everyone. Safety is hard even when done intentionally, it won't be achieved as a second order effect of Tesla's "move fast and break things" ethos.
Spaving: What it is and how to avoid it
Similar story here. I remember getting my first exposure to embedded development at a relatively young age through brickOS (https://brickos.sourceforge.net/), which was a complete replacement operating system for the original Mindstorms RCX (predating the NXT).

That version of the hardware was so old that it didn't even have non-volatile storage. Every time you changed the batteries, it would boot into a minimal ROM bootloader which was just powerful enough to download the rest of the firmware into RAM, via an infrared connection to your PC. That had the nice side effect of making the RCX very hacker-friendly, because it was almost impossible to permanently "brick" it (ha!).
I think in practice there is no 'they' where some sort of single bean-counter trade-off decision is made to compute an abstract utility function that weighs troop morale against expenditure.

More realistically, it's a human decision making process where everyone quickly aligns to do whatever it takes to rescue the downed pilot. I've seen first hand how US military members think in real life situations like this. Everyone acts without a hint of self-interest around the clock until they have exhausted all options.

In fairness, it helps that it's the US military and money is typically of no concern in operational settings. :-)
Burning wood from B.C. forests for electricity deceptively billed as green
Argo.ai, driverless startup backed by Ford and VW, is shutting down
Presumably that’s a 9kWp system, with peak potential on a good day to generate 9kW at the optimal time of the day

Is there any way to work out how many kWh such a system would tend to generate for a given latitude throughout the year? If I wanted to charge a 10kWh battery once a day for 12 months what kWp system would I need. What would it produce in June vs December etc.
Yah, she even mentioned working during appropriate times; the video just showed the morning, lunch, and evening highlights.

I can't help but conclude that the problem is that it's presented by a young woman.
In their defense the level of fidelity increases costs, and the franchise ownership doesn't seem as committed as to other brands.
Front end, back end analytics?

front end : seller analytics, https://influencermarketinghub.com/amazon-analytics-tracking...

back end : ebpf, https://github.com/zoidbergwill/awesome-ebpf
What dependencies does WASM necessitate? A Javascript VM, for instance, or is that only for DOM connectivity reasons?
This happened with that whole GM ignition switch thing

Edited to add this link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/busi...
I want ‘em.
After reading that I now have a sudden craving for 4DOS and 4OS2.

I was young at the time and had “access” to a lot of amazing software packages that I’m still learning how amazing they were. Gotta wonder how things would be different if I didn’t give up on DESQView/X and decided to download Slackware one 1.44mb floppy at a time from a local BBS.
Look at ToolJet too.
Man, I used to love using Siri, until I had a daughter and named her "Sarah"

big mistake. Turns out I say "Hey Sarah" a hundred times a day, and all my iDevices pipe up and simultaneously say "Yeah?" "WHAT'S UP" "HEY OVER HERE" "Hi it's me Siri what do you need?"
Your target audience apparently entertains zero guests and has an emotional life that is magically disconnected from long-held human habits.

Also, they either a) don't own a piano, or b) don't care about taking care of the piano they own.
This. 1970s programming was like 2020s quantum computing. It was an elite's task. That's my message here.
Does doomscrolling count as a hobby?

More seriously, I'd like to think you're in a bubble. Hustle culture is strong in tech, and especially here on HN. On the other hand, my mom and mom-in-law are both artists who have been variously pushed towards selling their work, increasing volume, yada yada. Even my kid, at 5 years old, is all about the money -- any time he learns about something new (how is pepper made), he wants to scale it up and sell it at volume (it's just a plant? let's start a pepper farm and sell pepper for a million dollars!). None of his parents think like that, so we're left wondering where that's coming from.
Happening more and more with me. Food prices are legitimately too high. I could justify it earlier in my head because I'd been saving for two years. But now...I'm tapped out.
I recall a time when people pointing out that "other deviants" were also persecuted beside Jews were accused of revisionism, denial-ism, and so on. Any discussion of details is fraught with the peril of having passionate people argue without being prepared to listen. With this as well as other subjects.

Makes it hard to ask, specifically re: the Holocaust, how "normal" people stood silent while they knew there was something wrong. At what point were the consequences of silence worse than the consequences of resistance, civil or otherwise? For the common citizen? That'd be a real good discussion to be refreshing about now i think.
Which Neighborhoods Are Offered the Worst Internet Deals
> The absolute percentage went down by 8, but who cares?

I do and that's why I wrote it

The only remaining mystery is which semantical variation of that would you and others accept. Fewer? No. Lower? No. Absolutely percentage? Well its not even clear if others would accept that, or find a different way to say you’re ironically dumb.

The purpose of language is to convey a shared concept. Whatever this conversation is has nothing to do with that.
New challenge: Fix SadServers’ sad servers
I agree that it seems unintuitive, but compressibility of water is up to four orders of magnitude lower than a very plastic clay, and even worse than gravel[1]. Generally the speeds at which we impact water are slow enough that this effect is not noticable (i.e. we have time to sufficiently displace, not compress, the water without suffering a catastrophic deceleration).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressibility#Earth_science
Also, sorry for sounding like a prick, I know I do, it’s not my intention. It certainly seems like you know more about the field than I do and your opinions are probably grounded in more relevant information than mine.
Use scripts as rule actions in Mail on Mac
Damn, so many stocks recently on discount!

Semicos, Google, Facebook, MSFT
It's not really a question, hardware switches work and companies refuse to put them in so they can... shrink the profile of devices in ways that rely on rare earth minerals to an unsustainable degree when combined with the typical replacement rate.
Regular exercise may improve the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines
Do you have an example where an engineer was wrongly held to account for the actions of execs?
Yeah a "farmer" is not a literal farmer. It's slang for uneducated people aka peasants.
> 3D print these suckers?

Famously, LEGO has an extremely tight manufacturing tolerance that's around 10um [1]. Your 3d printer is much better than mine. :)

1. Page 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego#cite_ref-Companyprofile_3...
They allowed you to buy the "car can drive itself" capability and never fully delivered. It's not like this was just a promise, it was something you could pay for years ago.
Sure. You can either run a 2D WM inside Simula or use it with something like Virtual Desktop
It’s a shame but I can see how it’s a harder sell than the nth iteration of a scene from say Harry Potter.

IMhO, they could do well by combining programmable elements with thematic sets, say add programmable motion to a haunted house. They have already tip-toed down this path, eg. the roller coaster has an optional motor function. However the pure approach of Mindstorm clearly has too narrow a
market.
> that it's presented by a young woman

With a hint of ignorance and jealousy.
Their marketing has lots of videos where they tout self-driving (calling it full self-driving or Autopilot) without any clarification it is a future promise. And then there is a feature on your Tesla called Autopilot you can click one

I know if you are in the weeds you know the capabilities - but I think most people get the impression it can drive itself and its safe. And that impression is a direct result from marketing materials. Given the severity of car accidents it seems reasonable to be strict on these marketing claims, even if they call it a "beta" in the fine-print.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlThdr3O5Qo
My brain was too busy trying to remember a movie released in 2017 titled "Meatballs" to crap itself.
Does autism arise because the brain is continually surprised? (2018)
You are potentially being hired to solve a different problem than the founder at a significantly lower personal and professional risk to do so. There's nothing to be resentful of.

But I say potentially because if they find this you will probably be rejected as an applicant. This is a major red flag to any hiring manager.
Thanks for your reply. I hope I can better handle my ADD in the future.