skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like they used an apple airtag, but couldn't specifically call it that for some reason....

>One shoe of each pair was implanted with a thin, round Bluetooth tracking device.

> a small location tracker was beeping from the back of a crumbling second-hand shoe store. A Reuters reporter followed the high-pitched ping to a mound of old sneakers and began digging through the pile.
The journalists went out of their way to not call them AirTags
>Full HOL reform would be a good way to start the move towards a proportional representation electoral system in the UK. Make the reformed second chamber a PR elected house and give them a slightly longer/fixed period between elections to shield them from the chaos of a general election and party politics.

This is the best suggestion I've seen on HoL reform, ever. I mean, it'll never happen, but that really is a great idea, and would mean that the chamber would be clearly different from the Commons, which I've not seen another proposal making sense on this area.
Except that nearly everything that makes the usual years-out-of-date Wayland gripe lists here are ALL specified protocols now, it's just a matter of time until they're implemented widely enough to put this to rest.

Fractional scaling, hotkeys, gamma control, screen capture, etc, all have protocols.
What is the end goal of this project? Mapping runways and taxiways isn't ... useful? At least in the United States if it's a field big enough for a K-designation, then there is an Airport Diagram published by the FAA. And therefor public domain.

Ex: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2302/00568ad.pdf

Something like OpenStreetMap makes sense because there is no public domain published map of everything. I'm sure there is something obvious here I'm missing. Maybe it's just anything that isn't US might be the problem.
Did that site just completely highjack my back button to the point that I had to kill the browser tab to get out of it?
What's the point of Mastodon if people just mirror most of their posts to Twitter?
Apple seen backing up an all-new Brinks truck to Stephen Elop's WindowsCE-themed garage...
Yes, same thing happened to me.
Community solar is about to become much more common
No, you miss the point. Because of those who were paying their own hosting the rest was able to have free and awesome stuff. The paying out of pocket to show your own stuff to other people was the act of funding a venture. Some ended up turning these into profitable businesses.
It appears to be a problem for anyone who is poor and desparate for money.
I could be wrong and I really hope I am ... I really think it's the best stack out there, at least until you need the sort of extreme performance that dictates Rust (and even there Rustler looks good ... particularly as Rust extensions shouldn't jeopardise the extreme stability of the BEAM).

But right now it looks on course to go the way of Clojure or Scala ... hanging in there for sure, but never becoming a major player. This inevitably affects the range of 3rd party APIs and libs, meaning many companies will consider it too risky. It's not about what will impress an engineer (Elixir does that) it's now about what will reassure an accountant.

I also notice that in the majority of job postings mentioning Elixir (i.e. just at the keyword search level) it is not actually the core language for the job, but rather a filter/attractor to try and hook top Ruby devs (who seem to be in short supply).
> Also, don’t you run into scenarios in Django where the automatic migration is not enough and you need to provide custom commands? In such cases, how do you provide them?

Data migrations are the obvious case where you need to write migration code manually. It comes up in schema migrations too on big projects. It’s easy to modify the auto-generated migration; it’s just Python that gets run by the migration tool:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/migrations/#dat...
I used to have a super-automatic but the deep cleaning was non-trivial and tedious.

Even at once/month it was not worth it in comparison to my chemex pour-over or Indian filter coffee (for an even faster brew).
that's at least 3 years each using a phone with absolutely no security updates to network, wifi, cryptolibs, html/js engine etc.

not that iphone are any better. you have zero idea what you get on a new ios for old devices since the binaries are not the same. only thing you can be certain is the extra slow down loop
Making Beliefs Pay Rent (In Anticipated Experiences)
So your issues are basically exclusively with X, X clients and most of all, proprietary X clients that are using major-revs-old versions of Electron. Yeah, that sounds like a real drag, glad I use Wayland and only have Ledger Live that I'm forced to use twice a year.

> But the fact that years in they still haven't found a proper solution on passing down hidpi for xwayland? That's incomprehensible for me.

It's crazy how this is incomprehensible despite it being explained quite clearly every time it comes up. There might be patches, but they are incomplete and they are kludgy and the experts that could push it through ARE WORKING ON IMPROVING WAYLAND. If it remains incomprehensible, go read through the fractional scaling protocol merge and see how much discussion there was for designing that protocol, not even considering the X interop scenario you want.

You can: (1) try really hard to convince volunteers to spend huge amounts of time supporting something they deemed dead years ago, or (2) try to get shitty proprietary companies to, you know, fund a single developer part time to do basic maintenance, (3) use less crappy tools and/or demand that you aren't forced to use shitty tools.

Why is it ALWAYS that people reach for (1)? I swear to god I hope it's folks that don't do OSS development themselves. The entitlement and ignorance makes me head spin. But hey, random OSS devs are much easier to rage at than your CTO, or some random "chat startup" that doesn't give a fuck. So rock on with your ire against OSS devs not working on your explicitly deprecated scenario.
I wasn’t arguing it. I was saying that the response failed to actually address the GP in the way you have.
Can’t carriers lock OS versions? I remember a long time ago circa Android 4 I had to replace a bunch of deployed devices because Verizon wouldn’t allow upgrades.
Well, I guess it depends on your goals as Figma employee. So yes, but probably a net negative but the situation for the Figman employees and company is muddier than it is for the VCs.
"it is interesting that all the heavy elements in the earth we are told come from a super novae"

The origin of heavy elements is actually more complex than that.

All of the hydrogen and most of the helium in the universe emerged 13.8 billion years ago from the Big Bang. The remainder of the chemical elements, except for a tiny amount of lithium, were forged in stellar interiors, supernova explosions, and neutron-star mergers. Elements up to and including iron are made in the hot cores of short-lived massive stars. There, nuclear fusion creates ever-heavier elements as it powers the star and causes it to shine. Elements heavier than iron—the majority of the periodic table—are primarily made in environments with free-neutron densities in excess of a million particles per cubic centimeter. The free neutrons, if captured onto a seed nucleus, result in a heavier, radioactive nucleus that subsequently decays into a stable heavy species. The so-called slow neutron-capture process, or s-process, mostly occurs during the late stages in the evolution of stars of 1–10 solar masses (M⊙). But the s-process accounts for the formation of only about half of the isotopes beyond iron. Creating the other half requires a rapid capture sequence, the r-process, and a density of greater than 1020 neutrons/cm3 that can bombard seed nuclei. The requisite neutron fluxes can be provided by supernova explosions (see the article by John Cowan and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, Physics Today, October 2004, page 47) or by the mergers of binary neutron-star systems.
It's also the same arguments that are made prior to things falling by the wayside.

Not that I think Elixir will ever fall away, just that it won't go fully mainstream.
That's litterally true for everything. Even something that's happening right in front of you has technically happened a few nanoseconds in the past.

I do appreciate the HN joke though.
The HTML/JS engine does get updated, it's contained in a component called "Android System WebView" on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
You may be surprised then to learn hustle exists around the world and has existed in one name or another since we started writing words in books and likely before then. Every pyramid scheme that's existed has been some form of this. Same with fraudulent bonds/stocks back in past.

We are just subjected to it more on an individual basis because we have speed of light global communications and mediums that allow hucksters to spread their grift to millions of people at once.
If it’s that easy won’t the wantrepreneurs just do it themselves and cut you out of the loop?
Of course the only time CEOs could be held responsible is over the stupidest law imaginable.
> You see the devil don't mean to be evil, He just regrettably forgets to set expectations
Without Asian electronics components, alloys, etc. we couldn't build an electric combat pickle domestically here in the US.
What's your address and phone number? We can help you understand.
I always figured that a major source of complexity in drivers was papering over imperfections in the underlying hardware.

I imagine things like video and chipset drivers are full of "if we're on stepping A0 or A1 hardware, we have to do this magic wiggle dance to get feature XYZ to actually work" hacks, most of which are only documented within the manufacturer's own propriatery-driver team.

There's probably also a lot of compromise for external confounding variables-- "Our part works to spec 98% of the time, but if you install it in specific systems, they're at a specific corner of the compatibility envelope, and you have to do ABC to get it actually stable."

I'd suspect as a result, something like "Driver for VirtualBox SVGA" is going to be a lot simpler than a comparable level of functionality targeting real hardware. OTOH, we do have stuff like 86box which seems to be trying to be a closer simulation of real hardware.
> I mean you can using proxy models but that's not really a thing with django.

I think this is over-opinionated. You can use Proxy models, and this is a thing in Django. It’s not “Django 101” sure, but it’s not discouraged.

One reason you might want proxy models is if you want to only fetch certain columns for a specific type of usage. Another common use for proxy models is as a hack to get multiple Django Admin pages for the same model (again, perhaps pulling different fields or offering different views).
"Prices are too high" is the problem people care about.

"Inflation is still high" means the 1st derivative is still too high, and that prices will continue to go higher.

"Inflation has cooled" means the 2nd derivative is negative. The 2nd derivative being low is a necessity to lower inflation (1st derivative).
I agree too on the peak being 3.3 or so - I'm still using 3.3.2 on my Intel Linux machines - unfortunately on my main new AMD machine I had to move to newer versions due to core plugin crashes in older versions in order to get it to run, and the Build Kit infrastructure is just a mess there IMO (I know it was added to allow flexibility, but I never needed that functionality, I wanted one debug build for use in an IDE, and I'd build release / deploy stuff outside of the IDE).

The main annoyance I had with older QtCreator versions was that you couldn't actually text edit CMakeLists.txt files in the editor, it would treat them as Project files regardless of how you tried to open them, so had to use an external editor for those files, which seems a bit silly.

It's been my main C++ dev IDE since 2010, but I'm starting to think about moving to VSCode, but not really happy with that either for editing (in either C/C++ or Rust with RustAnalyzer, but I find it good for Python and JS): auto-indent is very primitive and rarely does the right thing, and tooltip popups for hints and errors just seem random and inconsistent to me. It's functional though, but I wouldn't say great compared to my QtCreator experience of just very fluently typing out large amounts of code the way I want it.
Games are the main reason for me. I want max performance on my high end gaming pc and I want all the things to just work, including 7.1 surround sound (and atmos later) and HDR and gsync and all my accessories and all the anticheat etc.

I know valve have done great stuff but is it good enough yet to run everything on a AAA game on 4k ultra with hdr, gsync and 144hz?
I love Psycho-Pass, it's the best police sci-fi anime since Patlabor.
I've dealt with colon cancer in 2016 and again now in the present. I don't what the hell is driving it, but the gut biome is fascinating. It's definitely made me look at my diet and food variety much more seriously. I've started taking probiotics, drinking kombucha from time to time and adopting a more whole food / plant based diet. Does it have an affect? who the heck knows.
> The legislation contains what critics have called “a spy clause.” It requires companies to remove child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) material or terrorist content from online platforms “whether communicated publicly or privately.” As applied to encrypted messaging, that means either encryption must be removed to allow content scanning or scanning must occur prior to encryption.

This is not accurate. The “spy clause” (section 110) allows Ofcom to issue notices, if it is “necessary and proportionate” to do so, which could have that effect. In deciding what is “necessary and proportionate” Ofcom is specifically required to consider things like “the kind of service it is,” “the extent to which the use of the specified technology would or might result in interference with users' right to freedom of expression” and “whether the use of any less intrusive measures than the specified technology would be likely to achieve a significant reduction in the amount of relevant content” (section 112). This decision can be legally challenged.

The difference is important. Every country has a system that allows police to legally break into your home and search it – if a legal authority decides that it is necessary and appropriate. Whether such powers are abused depends not only on the text of the law, which is often as vague and open to interpretation as the Fourth Amendment, but also on the prevailing culture of the government and its judicial and law enforcement bodies. That’s why Signal’s president acknowledges that they are responding to a hypothetical.

While she won’t speculate on the probabilities, there are precedents which inform us about the probability that a democratic government would use these powers to break a popular secure messaging system over the reasoned objection of its users and developers. This law could achieve its goal of increasing public control over Big Tech’s content moderation policies without being used in that perverse way. Such perverse outcomes have not yet arisen under the controversial Australian laws which generated similar comments from Signal [1] and HN users [2] in 2018.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/setback-in-the-outback/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18636076
> A torrent of cheap, unregulated second-hand clothing flowing into Indonesia also adds to the country’s mounting garbage problem, said Dharmesh Shah, a policy advisor to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, a nonprofit working on waste pollution. He said much of that merchandise is in such poor condition that vendors can’t resell it.

> “They sort through it and a very small percentage is actually reusable,” Shah told Reuters. “It just gets burned in open dumps or goes into rivers or in landfills.”
date is at the bottom of the article: NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Idk if they hire. My resume is quite ok but got rejected last Monday by Zapier.
Fundementally, we’re no longer doers in aggregate. We’re a theater act, pretending to be dynamic and capable, when in actually we’re two broad groups: people who want some form of change and a combination of the very wealthy, NIMBYs, and landowners, who skew older and are comfortable with the status quo, who you can only apply pressure through policy and action until they age out (California overriding local zoning and various counties ignoring nimbys wanting to ban solar and wind projects).

With my apologies to Max Planck, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Similar situation. Upzoning will happen, renewables will happen, overall change will happen, you’ll just have to deal with the wail of the opposition for the duration. 1.8 million citizens over the age of 55 die every year; progress is a function of the death rate. Onward!
Can you install your own OS on this device?
A lot of "philosophical" questions boil down to semantic debates, see the sleeping beauty problem for another one [1]. So we can get into a philosophical (or semantic?) debate about that, for a funny instance of recursion :-)

But I agree with that those debates are quite uninteresting, so let's not do that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem
Do we really not know, or have those that do know been hoarding the knowledge in the form of trade secrets?

From an outsider perspective, they might be indistinguishable, but I would be shocked if the biggest brands have not done their own research.
You can put a tracking device in anything and give it to a goodwill right now. This feels like a very strange angle to take. Especially when these shoes traveled accross countries.
Well, I guess there's always https://xkcd.com/1053/
>dated from a gender perspective

Oops! I think I clicked on the wrong web site. Page closed.
All subjects have non-dumbed down versions in research papers, university level books or industry reference manuals. The existence of more dumbed down content doesn't make those disappear.
Firearms related injuries are the leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the USA.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Could Ai learn from 3D mapping daytime soap operas and trace character development along the narrative arc? Then it has to function in the real world.
What books are illegal in Florida which are not also illegal in all of the USA?
I am quite the opposite, many projects now just have a wall of text about the technology they use, but completely utred to explain in simple terms what it does. It seems some devs assume that everyone can guess from the tech stack. By all means have a page explaining the technology, but the front page should tell me what I can do with it.
If someone makes a copyright claim Steam may be obligated to remove it until the developer makes a counter claim.

It doesn't matter what the TOS says. For example, if I post the Lord of the Rings novels on the Steam forum even if the steam forum TOS says Valve owns the post, they don't really own the post because I never had the legal ownship of Lord of the Rings and could never legally agree to that on behalf of the Tolkien estate.

So basically no TOS is going to resolve the factual question of who owns copyright in a post to the steam forum since the poster may not have had the legal authority to agree to the TOS.

Also Valve only has a business interest in the rights to display the posts to the steam forum, they have no business interest in owning the posts, so it would be unreasonable and greedy for them to go further than a license to display the posts. I have not read the TOS but I wouldn't be surprised if Valve's TOS terms were reasonable since they have a good reputation with the gaming community.
Does it really matter nowadays with Windows Terminal and WSL? With WSL2 you can even run GUI apps!
It will likely be running LineageOS (formerly Cyanogenmod) for a decade to come.
This is especially the case with lower end phones. My mother (an immigrant whose family communicates via WhatsApp, and other free services) buys a new phone every year or so because her BoA, or transit app can’t be used without the version of Android that was never released for her phone.

It’s some real “serpent eating its own tail” sh*t if I ever saw it.
Samsung supports 4 years of updates as of last February. The S10E is in that window, too.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-android-updates-114...
Their Retirement Plan Did Not Include Being Forced to Sell Their Condo
How's that make sense?
Nobody. Did you even read the comment you replied to? The one that says there are reasons to buy each OS? Pointing out a clear advantage is not worshipping, it’s just pointing out a clear advantage.

Price is a clear advantage for Android phones. Does that make me an Android worshipper now?
> but the fact is that sufficient caloric restriction will cause weight loss.

Yes, but at the cost of your immune system severely degrading so you suddenly get colds all the time. At the cost of extreme fatigue and brain fog. At least that's what's made weight loss difficult for me at times.

Because for some people (like me), your body drops its metabolism to well below what's healthy before it even thinks about burning fat. It's not any question at all of willpower or psychology, it's purely physiological.
I think for the web platform, there is already Subresource Integrity [1] which follows the same idea. Unfortunately, it works at the level of script tags, so can't be used inside a script. But maybe this could be a starting ground for making a proposal.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subresource_Integrity
can someone explain what is going on here? i know what wine is, it's a thing that lets you play windows games on linux or macos, but what is wayland?
Millennials aren’t having kids because they have too much student debt
iOS has blurs almost everywhere, not just control center.
Well they lost track of 3 pair, which could mean they were indeed shredded and recycled. 0
If I had to make a guess, I would think that text based LLMs will run into that wall sooner than later. But the rapid increase in compute availability wouldn't limit us to text either. Also imagine the models working on image input, sound data, video, temperature, touch, and whatever other inputs you could encode and present to them. This brings it more in line with the human experience of inputs.
Also, there's a prior related thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858285
Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools
I've had people that they like the ontological orientation of Mandarin, not so much the fact that the "words" are pictoral but the way they are combined systematically.
Really liked that frontpage
the article does a poor job of selling the problem here, but the outrage is that companies encourage overconsumption in rich western countries by telling us things are recycled, and that it's okay to buy more stuff we don't need because it's recyclable. it's just greenwashing.

most of the shoes people put in donation bins aren't going to last long for their second owners, and people in indonesia don't have the same compunctions about throwing things in the trash as people in richer countries do. so all this is doing is shipping waste overseas so an indonesian can throw it in the garbage and it goes in an indonesian landfill instead of a singaporean landfill. they're laundering the waste so rich people can pretend they aren't throwing things in the trash.