skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference between something being gamified and something being play, particularly unstructured play. Scratch is great, but it's structured and something presented by adults to children for learning. That has a whole bunch of social baggage attached as well as a 'win' condition set by adults. Also I'd say that the transition to hackerdom probably could truly take place at late elementary/middle school age and at that age anything 'kiddie' or designed for kids is lame, making it less likely that children will use it for building their own communities. This is pretty common with most of the options. It's why I wouldn't consider things like Roblox to lead to hacking because it's still a supervised playground with content 'rules'.

TensorFlow probably will lead/is leading to some hackers.
What the hell...
Can we have your childcare, your healthcare and your housing market please in exchange?

Childcare alone in Zone 4 London is £2000 per month.
Kagan and Roberts dissented. Seems like that would be an unusual duo to end up on the same side of a 7-2 ruling.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf

Since a few commenters have said this is common I'll just add... as far as I can tell this has not happened before. I could very well be wrong, but it looks like this is not a common occurrence. I would be fine with being proven wrong. "It is important to note that dissenting in a 7-2 decision is a rare occurrence. In fact, it has only happened 21 times since 1953."

I really don't know, I just found it interesting.
Haptic should not be on by default for every token of output. About as annoying as the clack of a mechanical typewriter. Counting the minutes until OpenAI make it off by default, and you can turn it on in settings. Each sentence might be enough to know that it's still typing. Currently wastes a lot of energy, and as a reminder that ChatGPT is outputting it's way too distracting.
Real fortran programmers can write fortran code in any language.
Let's just mint that 1T coin and solve the simple math.
Show HN: Willow and Willow Inference Server Technical Deep Dive
Hey HN!

At the risk of spamming HN with Willow this week I know many of you bought ESP BOX hardware. If you haven't received it yet, couldn't get one, or are just curious about Willow works under the hood I made my (first ever!) demo video showing the ESP BOX running Willow, the soon-to-be-released (next week!) Willow Inference Server, the interaction between them, and how wake word detection and speech recognition generally works in the Willow ecosystem.

It's been a long week with little sleep so excuse the rough cut but there have been a lot of great questions from HN and elsewhere so I thought this might help and be of interest.

I know it's Youtube and 8:30 long but when you're dealing with hardware in the physical world sometimes a write-up just doesn't do it justice!

Happy to hear any questions or feedback you may have!
For Gen Z, Playing an Influencer on TikTok Comes Naturally
Nintendo would be fools to abandon the Switch form factor. And with the Steam Deck and Asus Ally delivering AAA-tier gaming in a similar form factor, doubtless some executives at Nintendo are stroking their chins, pondering how to evolve the Switch concept to take back the lead -- with airtight DRM this time, of course.
It's not apocryphal if I'm the source. I wanted Self-ish prototypes and cloning but "Make It Look Like Java" orders trumped my wishes.
For those not in the nintendo ecosystem, 'Immortals Fenyx rising' is a Zelda esque game to try. It's on game pass and is the best game ubisoft has made in some time.
It’s odd that you need to use “conservative” in pointing to socially conservative then. Are conservative politicians not allowed to be socially conservative? Who represents people with those beliefs if not?
Cable style commercials are ideal for me, out of all the possible choices. I have full control over the DVR video stream, nothing is unskippable.

Streaming technology had to be temporarily superior in order to win adoption, but now that it's mature it will only evolve in the direction of taking away control and privacy from viewers.

And if I'm watching live and can't skip ads, I prefer a full 3-minute break at a predictable cadence to more random and frequent 10-30 second interruptions. I have time to get up and do something, or else mute and browse on my phone for a few minutes.
Asus, the company that makes routers with paid monthly subscriptions whose trial you cannot opt out of? Go out a buy one of their newer nightshade whatever routers and see what I’m talking about. You literally cannot stop that thing from nmap’ing your home network for the first month.

/edit I might be getting mixed up with netgear!
I saw this nice visualization of radon decay time at https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/13fw2uh/oc...
The author seems to be of the opinion that home range fans are not sufficient to keep the air clear:

>Whereas professional kitchens frequently have strong extraction over open burners and ovens, domestic kitchens often do not. And where extraction is present, it is often not used, and when it is used, it only covers burners and not ovens.

Anecdotally, our apartment came with a gas stove and and an extraction fan built into the microwave oven above (not a hood). The fans seem reasonably effective at extracting steam and smoke but only if I clean the filters every month or so. Even still, searing a steak on the cast iron with the fans on full blast can often set off the particulate fire alarms. So I don't have a lot of confidence it's extracting all the nox and nastiness produced by burning gas - we usually run the fan and open the windows and patio door when the burners or oven are running.

I'd be happy enough to ditch gas, but here in SF it seems almost every rental I've viewed comes with a terrible glass-electric cooktop, an empty void with a gas hookup, or a gas range.
Copyright is backwards, does not help artists and is holding back humanity as a whole.

Imagine the renaissance of art, science and culture we would have if we abolished copyright tomorrow.
We have the technology.
Please get rid of it.

What redeeming quality does copyright have in light of the intellectual damage and huge amount of unnessecary bureaucracy it causes?
>VAT is only 7.25% in California but then you have to add 15-20% in tips when you're out.

I don't know about the rest of the UK because I haven't been but most non-casual places in London charge an automatic 12.5% service charge. It's the same thing.
The NSA / US govt are the ones we should be pissed at here, their data acquisition is what tanked Privacy Shield, that US companies doing business abroad depended on.

The way these systems typically work is that a US company builds its infra in the US, and gets economy of scale from shared infra, especially true for companies that run their own data centers. (Look at the map of Meta DCs).

The alternative is that you need to stand up a full copy of your infra (per what? In the limit, per country?) and that’s substantially more expensive, not to mention technically challenging. So the answer is simply that it was built the easy way, based on the assumption that the Privacy Shield treaty was sound.

Also, what does that even mean for an app like Meta? They are a graph. Where do the edges that span jurisdictions live? If a US user likes an EU user, is the “like” edge stored in the EU? There are reasonable answers to this sort of question, and the reasonable answers may overlap with how the regulators wrote the laws, or they may be mutually inconsistent with how other regulators wrote the laws.

It seems quite likely that the end state is as you describe, but I think around here of all places there should be a deep understanding of how hard it is to split your system like this.
Uh, I don't think that's true. The UK is 3rd in tech investment, only behind the US and China. The other non-US English-speaking countries are _way_ behind the UK here.

London alone gets more tech investment than Canada, Australia, and New Zealand combined.
The original was destroyed as it was pasted to the block for the carver to cut its image. Then many impressions are printed with the blocks. The blocks wear and are damaged over time so new parts of blocks or whole new blocks are swapped out. Eventually, somebody creates a whole new set of blocks, and so on.
I'd be worried downloading it because there's so many fake spyware ChatGPT apps in the store.

But I have Android anyway.. Hopefully that will come too!
It’s not that unusual at all. The justices rule all over the map, but only certain hot button political issues expose the high level partisan divide.

Most of their cases aren’t guns and abortion and corporate speech.
> All-in-all, Americans pay ~26% of their GDP in taxes.

It's more like 35%-36%.

The far more accurate picture is that the local + state + federal spending is going to be around $9.5 trillion in 2023. The IMF has the US at an estimated $26.8 trillion GDP for 2023. Beyond the federal government, the US has two other massive layers of government that spend well over $4 trillion each year.

I fully understand the difference between taxes and spending, and that spending comes out of your pocket either directly via taxes or via inevitable currency debasement (look at the enormous value loss in the dollar since the rampaging deficits & later debt monetization began after 9/11). The bill comes due, period.
While I agree NYC has problems, I'm going to guess Louis Rossmann wasn't alive in the 1970s and probably didn't remember the 80s very well either in NYC. It's nowhere near the dumpster it used to be.
I think the core of the explanation given is correct but some of the adjacent details need adjustment. The important part is:

"Clothes dryers are very effective at making statically charged surfaces. (Dryer sheets help.) So when radon and its temporary decay products are blown through the dryer, electrically-polarized molecules tend to be attracted to the charged surfaces"

What that commenter misses is that nearly all hobbyist grade detectors (Geiger tubes) are not sensitive to alpha but they are highly sensitive to beta and a little sensitivity to gamma. However, any thin solid will block beta, so they would need the Geiger tube to be very near the radiation emitting material to pick up the beta. In other words, if they're just waving the detector around they're probably just catching the gamma.

The radon in the air decays into various progeny, and by the time it reaches the dryer that will be to some extent in equilibrium, so several isotopes, including gamma emitters, will be present in the mix. Therefore I'm not surprised the detector reads a tiny bit of that.

Why it dissipates is probably not a decay thing but rather the accumulated material gradually diffusing away from the filter or whatever after the dryer is turned off and no longer actively accumulating radon.

This could be tested by putting a detector right next to the filter to see how much beta it picks up. I've basically done that with a home air filter:

https://twitter.com/BetterGeiger/status/1605639346865901570?...

That's with the detector I make and sell which is primarily sensitive to gamma, which is why I could register a reading through the plastic container, even a couple days after preparing the test. When I used a pancake style detector sensitive to alpha and beta, directly against the exposed filter, the detector reacted much more strongly... But the Better Geiger S-1 gives an accurate dose reading, the Geiger tube or pancake probe will dramatically overestimate dose in that scenario, which can cause undue concern... In reality it's pretty harmless levels of radiation. :)
Visiting from New Orleans and would love to check it out tomorrow or Tuesday, or even next Saturday!
Every time I read about AI I am reminded of the mouse running a maze. Any AI algorithm can learn to complete a maze in record time. It can memorize every corner. It can run a search pattern perfectly and improve that pattern iteratively, to the point that it may create new search patterns, applying what appear to be novel ideas. But the mouse actually understands the concept of a maze. It knows that the cheese exists regardless of the maze. The mouse can see when the researcher has left the lid open, jump outside the maze and run to the cheese directly. The mouse is aware. The AI is not.
> but the choice was selling $200 iPods or $500 iPhones

I don't think we are in disagreement. But the fact is very few companies do this regardless. When it comes to the product that's their bread and butter they tend to put it on a pedestal never to be touched until it falls into irrelevance.

Apple didn't launch an improved iPod and retire the old. They didn't try to sell a phone and a music player by artificially differentiating them, or by sabotaging one of them. They didn't try to make $250 off the iPod and another $250 from a phone that "shouldn't compete too well". They launched 2 product lines made by different parts of the company, knowing that the iPhone may undermine the iPod userbase and then still fail, possibly souring those customers.

They wouldn't necessarily do this today. iDevices now are clearly (and artificially) differentiated from the Macs: different OS, no options to use them in a way they truly compete despite having such similar hardware theoretical capabilities.

Again to give the Google example, when they tried to have competing lines (Google/Nest) they managed to fail at both and lose the customers completely.
Superior, sure. I’m not saying that better graphics aren’t, well, better.

But I am saying that it’s unnecessary for a deep immersive experience. I was equally immersed 20 years ago playing Gothic and Oblivion as I am playing recent games, graphically speaking. IMHO the differences only become apparent if you play the same game with different visuals, as you did playing RDR2 on PS4 and again on PC.

It’s also worth remembering that the vast majority of players also don’t have access to a maxed out PC.
I'm not sure if employee surveillance is the answer. Deception is rampant in the workplace and especially in hiring. This blog by one of the nation's leading deception detection experts has some surprising facts: https://pamelameyer.com/earn-pdcs-shrm-human-resources/
Not only are the NOx levels much higher like the article states, PM2.5 particulates also go through the roof (>100-200, or way higher without ventilation, observed with a PM2.5 sensor) from the flame as well as the oil/nonstick pans heating up.

A lot of people don't even turn on their vent hood when cooking, or the hood doesn't have enough flow rate. After showing my parents the particulates that were emitted during cooking from the flame and oil heating, they turn on the hood at max speed every day and open the window when possible, and it makes a big difference.
because their real job is to preserve the knowledge, not innovate or invent new stuff.

but if academia is not the institution in charge of innovating, then which is it?

I'm still a bit confused about this. I saw it like a contradiction but do not know what to do about it.

PhD degree programs telling "come innovate" into the institutions whose real job is to preserve knowledge?
Just note, if you take a look at the actual materials covered and single final assignment required for classes at WGU you will find they are a joke compared to what you find at standard universities (e.g. university of utah, Virginia tech,…)
That's already been reverted. https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-is-available-agai...

Edit: Oh ok you mean the app, I thought you meant ChatGPT in general because Italy banned it for a bit.

I think it will come soon, when I had an app in the store and I added a country it also didn't appear straight away.
The Irishman was just okay. I think the problem with stepping aside is that there isn't another Scorsese. Nobody really compares in quality or cultural impact.
WebKit Features in Safari 16.5
Actually, what I think I was looking for was "observations", oppositions is for other parties with standing (eg other traders, other trade mark owners) I think. Whilst observations, also part of the adversarial processing, https://guidelines.euipo.europa.eu/1803468/1786255/trade-mar..., are for third parties.

Opposition has a fee, and it's probably not appropriate for me personally to be involved (I work in IP, not in TMs). Maybe I'll look at anonymous submissions under Art.5 EUTMR.

(That link says it is obsolete, I'm assuming that the procedure has just been updated.)
As someone that has been cleaning their range hood recently, I'm convinced there are more particulates from the food you cook than from just the range. So much grease in my range hood that it is kind of impressive/scary.

The crazy thing to me, is this is our first house that vents out of the house. Most just recirculated and our last was not good at that. I never realized that the grime we were cleaning out of our bathroom was mostly from the kitchen. Mind blowing to realize how much grease gets throughout the house if you are cooking with frying pans a lot. And really drives home why that used to be so heavily reserved for outdoor grilling.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for iOS, Android coming soon
This article is specifically limited to people with employer-sponsored healthcare plans. $20k is a reasonable estimate for a family trying to get decent health insurance independently.
I think parts of the ruling has a lot to do with generative AI.

The big problem for Warhol is that people paid for the image he produced instead of paying for the original photograph for use as a reference to Prince's likeness. So the works were for the same purpose.

If you use generative AI to produce a 3d State of Liberty for your video game I doubt you'll end up losing a case by a photographer of the Statue of Liberty because the purposes are actually different. But if you are using generative AI of stock imagery to produce stock imagery I think you're going to run into the same problem as Andy Warhol's foundation did.
I believe that it was going to get a chip refresh like a year and a half ago but they had to scrap it because of the chip shortage, so they just released the refreshed hardware as the OLED switch with the same chip.

No firm proof for this, just some rumors.
I would gladly buy a PC built into decent keyboard. Considering performance of ultra portable laptops and their size, it should be a perfect fit. I would even go for an option without battery, powered by USB-C by connecting this computer to external monitor. Monitor could act as a hub, thus reducing the need for ports, although there should be ample space for all the ports on the back of the keyboard.
What looks mediocre about it? They're making BIG claims about density and power usage at scale
What watching my daughter play ‘The Legend of Zelda’ taught me
Securitization and surveillance compel repayment and thus allow for the existence of credit.

Interest rates and the ability to issue credit are mostly orthogonal concepts (interest rates do affect the real and perceived abilities of a debtor to pay back a loan, which does affect creditworthiness).

The sheer majority of "money" in our economy is actually credit/debt. Your bank account balance doesn't indicate a physical pile of money somewhere, rather it's debt the bank owes you. They in turn do things like buy US treasuries which are debt the government owes them, or loan it out as credit card balances which are debt that other consumers owe them. A dollar in your bank account contributes to your own sense of purchasing power AND (for example) the credit card user's purchasing power. Increasing interest rates makes debt less desirable to have, thus decreasing the money supply.

I don't know what you're saying about rates tending towards infinity?
>while these two do contribute a lot to power usage, they don't really contribute that much to heating

Those are the same thing. Or at least close enough as makes no practical difference. Only an extremely tiny fraction of the power used but a CPU is becoming anything other than heat.
> We're selling into a highly regulated sector looking at ITAR

> Developers love this because they don't have "mother may I" IT for every tool and library.

And herein lies the friction. Someone is going to walk away from this unhappy. It's either going to be the developers or the compliance teams (and then the customers).

We are a ~10 person company selling software to US financial institutions. Really important software that is responsible for things like filling out legal documents that are not feasible for humans to review every time. For us, compliance/security is basically the #1 product feature. Clearly, with 10 people we don't have a lot of bandwidth for running audits or getting into disputes with our customers' compliance teams over whether or not a QA server's disk is encrypted and using the appropriate key rotation schedules.

What we did is decide to get all the way into the rabbit hole with Microsoft. Like 100% of the way. I know - many things they do really really suck - but the compliance offerings and industry perception they provide are nearly unbeatable (at least for our fintech customers). If you compose your product/service exclusively from components that are compliant [0], you will not necessarily be compliant-by-default but this is a hell of a lot better than any other starting point I've seen. AWS and GCP have similar offerings, but there are other considerations with these vendors for our business.

At the end of the day, making an audit easier is about proving you have less control and trust fewer parties than you would otherwise desire to. In our case, subjecting ourselves to actually having less control and fewer vendors was the best way to achieve this. When you can't touch or see things, compliance usually can't hold you accountable for them anymore. It really is a "game" and you can certainly play it to win.

To be clear - our day to day operations are wonderful. We don't have to screw with janky Citrix-style remote desktops and other security theatrics precisely because we are so aggressively using cloud native resources to prove that we are playing by the rules. Now, if you are a 100 or 1000+ person company, I think there are a lot of different things you could consider. Getting into bed with Microsoft at 10 employees was the only rational thing we could come up with.

Strategically, if you intend to do business with customers encumbered by ITAR, et. al., then you had better be prepared to radically shift your product technology to align with those compliance requirements. Following these rules really sucks but your ability to easily comply with them can become a serious competitive edge. Imagine your competitors willingness to sacrifice technological principles (i.e. "fuck Microsoft") in order to beat you to market. This helped cure me of my cargo cult tendencies pretty quickly.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offe...
Because the rock formations in some areas are more prone to production of Radon gas which slowly diffuses through the soil. Basements in those areas tend to have Radon infiltration. It is obviously very slow but the basement is a low point and often not well ventilated which can allow the Radon to accumulate.

Poured slabs are less permeable, not a low point, and tend to have better ventilation either intentionally or unintentionally.
Nonetheless Bash is very frequently omitted in my experience.
So if Bash is like Obi Wan surviving where other didn't....

Is Bash just surviving because no one knows about it or has remembers it while its been hiding in your system for 20 years?
Powell May Hang the Market Out to Dry Come Friday
What's the why behind the proposed change? Is it to meet a compliance requirement? Is it based on learning from a recent incident? Something else?
The phone number editing is the bane of my existence. I also want the option to automatically set the country code of a new number to either the current country I'm in or the country my SIM card is from.