skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the alternatives are store forever, throw in the trash, or give to a carrier...

Nobody is getting the data off at my house. I assume nobody will go through the dump looking for old phones, but someone did go through the dump and found the ET cartridges, so there's prescedent. Also, I feel a little bad about putting phones directly in the dump.

If it goes to a carrier program, there's a good chance it goes into a repair process where the battery is replaced and maybe it works again. If it works again, I expect it to get the least intensive wipe required so that the user can get into the home screen, and then sold. That might mean the new user can get access to my data.

Story time: my spouse had an Amazon Fire phone for quite some time; when she was done with it, my dad needed a phone, but FireOS was a really poor choice, so I flashed it with a 3rd party Android build. Several years later, he ran it all the way out of battery, and when he got it charged up, somehow it booted up into FireOS instead and had my spouse's accounts and what not. Whoops. No big deal, we got him a new phone and got the Fire Phone back (and I tried to wipe it again, but better) and now it lives in a drawer and won't power on.
Awesome to see something like this in Terraria instead of the usual minecraft!
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First wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) for indoors and underground
It's definitely not unusably unstable, at least from my PoV, and in fact, I haven't really been hit by most of the instability personally; or at least, if I have, it has gone mostly unnoticed by me. I had an issue where I couldn't deploy for a while, but the services that were up seemed fine. (Disclaimer: I do not use the Redis/database features.)

That said, the point I'm trying to make is that it is in fact a lot nicer to use than simply YOLOing whatever onto servers. This model of PaaS is basically what App Engine should have been. It's difficult to want to go back once you've used it.
They didn't have to be a masterpiece factory, being a welcome change from the uniform Disney pulp was enough. Sadly the fresh wind didn't last long and we are back at the choice mostly between Japan and France for higher quality animated movie productions.
Maybe some of the Netflix stuff or what is made in Russia could count, but that's it. Everything else is assembly line produced mass product.
One far less complicated that doesn't involve zanzibar
Companies have only one stance - make more money. When squeezed from both sides they might try poking either in order to see what would hurt their bottom line less.
This is a weird coincedence - I just published a blog post on this two days ago https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/snappy-internet
Your chance to take a breath.
Most of Heroku's revenue is from Postgres. They're arguably a managed Postgres provider with some app hosting tooling (this is not fair, but an interesting way to think about Heroku).

We're not Heroku. We _like_ how amazingly easy it is to get an app up and running on Heroku. But most of us were interested in flexing the underlying infrastructure to build new types of apps. So Heroku felt very constrained.

We see ourselves as, like, a good RPG. Quick to get going, rewarding and replayable when you go deep.
That's awesome! I'm bookmarking this for later. This is something I always find myself wanting.
you can also easily hurry up subtly wrong money math with ints. (overflows, wrong rounding method, etc). So you should not in any case use the default math operators
Achim not sure if you'll see this but an idea to really make AirGradient take off in the USA nationally on your https://map.airgradient.com/

You should contact the national public WeatherSTEM program!

They have a great open-data network in all kinds of public community places like universities and firehouses and such.

But WeatherSTEM does not have air quality sensors! That is a huge oversight.

If your hardware can be paired with all their rigs nationally, you'd blow away all other services like purpleair overnight.

https://www.weatherstem.com/dashboard?public_access_token=e7...
I don't know about coding on a phone but I certainly browse hacker news on a phone
Does VC like snarky?

Snarky is passable in open source, a genius whose abrasive manner is the cost of the amazing product.

In a corpo it's sleazy
good lord man, the condescension is so thick and rich, it's like i'm reading an eclair, and the eclair is insulting me based on its own misunderstanding of the topic of conversation

powerful stuff
Uploading unseen photos may not necessarily be such a great idea.
Hi everyone!

I made this tool for helping maintaining dependency management clean in a JavaScript or TypeScript project.

It allows to render an interactive graph in the terminal for visualising how different parts of a project depend one on another.

It also allows to set specific "dependency rules" and act as a linter in the CI, so people working on the project don't introduce coupling points between parts of the project that are supposed to be decoupled.

The main goal is to enforce a correct and clean code architecture as the project scales, that way stays maintainable as it grows.

It is published as open source, so hope it can be useful for someone else.
Are you going to assume the IC Inspector General is unwell too since they referred Grusch’s claims to congress as being both urgent and credible?
Inhaled Covid booster 5X more effective than shots inducing antibodies x 28 days
for a film interpretation of this paper: playtime by jacques tati
This is not an objection to ORMs, except perhaps very simplistic ones. The ORMs I'm familiar with let you map queries to arbitrary objects. I use CTEs, joins, groups, aggregations, custom columns, etc in SQL queries (with Hibernate) all the time.
Residential solar is an imperative when heat waves become more common. I live in Queensland, Australia where we are headed into an El Niño summer. Which means sweltering heat for many months.

My current 10 kW solar setup plus Tesla Powerwall is already sufficient to cover 85% of my electricity needs. That includes charging an EV, running pool pumps, a heat pump warm water system and everything else. Shifting these loads into the day means no loss of comfort at all. Exception being the aircon, which we didn’t run as often during the past 3 (cooler) La Niña years. I will add another 10 kW solar panels to my roof this year to also be able to run the aircon on hot days. Without taking electricity from the grid. Which (sadly) is still mostly based on burning coal in this country.
In Germany, they introduced a system called "Grüner Punkt" (~green dot) in the 90s which was supposed to teach consumers how to separate different kinds of trash to be able to recycle the packaging plastic.

Now about 30 years later, the Germans are eager to sort their trash but the recycling quote is still laughably low. Less than 20% of sorted trash gets recycled for usage in plastic (and instead just burned, reusing the thermal energy) and people still have ridiculous habits (e.g. wrapping Bananas with plastic bags).

What we see is: It's all damn industry lies, one part of politicians susceptible for industry lobbying, the other part of politicians antagonized for "limiting consumer freedom", a lot of green-/whitewashing campaigns and consumers who refuse to change their habits.

Do you see a pattern?
It would be really nice if there were more handsets on which one could install Graphene OS than Google Pixel handsets.
> everyone is equal under the law

Apparently not. If that was the case, you would have equal punishment for equal crimes.
I always think of modern medicine and how much plastic is involved there.
In case it's helpful: you can display multiple timezones side-by-side in Google Calendar. It lets you visualize what time it is for everyone when you're scheduling something.

It's a setting you have to configure: https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/how-to-show-mor...
Unbypassable paywall so far as I can determine.
I'm not doubting this at all. But let me be more specific what I don't like about their communication.

"$70MM led by EQT Ventures." That's awesome, but what are you giving away for this? Are founders selling their shares? Where is the beef? $70M can be everything and nothing at the same time.

"There are customers who are comfortable engaging with tiny Fly.io, and others who are comfortable engaging with the Fly.io that raised an additional $70M led by EQT ventures." I'm pretty sure that your enterprise customers are already wowed by a 25M infusion by AtoZ. So again, where is the beef, especially after stating: "Why do startups write announcements like these? We went back and forth on it. There are lots of reasons, most of them dumb."

I can keep going with more examples. But the headlines says it all. The 70M clickbait 'we raised a bunch of money" - wow, so chill, bruv.
To make this a fair questions, please include, "how many cheap Teslas are there to date?"

(It somewhat boils down to, US firms have something which may be called "anticipatory marketing", which is deemed rather off-limits for European organisations. To the least, you'd paint quite a big bull's eye onto yourself.)
I'd love some honest mattress advice.
I don't think all this should be relevant - once it was launched at least one time, the OS should be able to tell that the binary hasn't changed, and thus signature verification is not necessary.

The comparison is using OS X 10.6 - I used to daily drive it and it was pretty snappy on my machine - which is corroborated by this guy's Twitter video capture.

As for Windows performance - Notepad/File Explorer might be slower than strictly necessary, but one of the advantages of Windows' backwards compatibility, is that I keep using the same stuff - Total Commander and Notepad++, that I used from the dawn of time, and those things haven't gotten slow (or haven't changed lol).
Another issue in Finland is that the average soil temperature (like, a few meters down) is only five or six degrees. But that leave a lot of room for a heating upgrade...

IMHO if you can capture the massive surplus of sunlight in summer and use it in the winter, it would be a major win. Some way to set up a big underground heat reservoir ?
As George Carlin once said: "The planet is fine, the people are fucked"
I assume their writers can expand it beyond “We’re going to fuck you over, but thanks for all the fish!” Make it sound all smart and snarky and stuff.
I've been to most of the world's great art museums, but I haven't been there. (Or the Hermitage, but that's off the table at the moment /s) What are some lesser-known museums I need to add to the list?

I have one for you: https://folkartmuseum.org/. You can see the whole thing in an hour. If you think Van Gogh lacked formal training: these people had none whatsoever.

This is really a great thread, HN'ers. Very literate, educated, and well-composed.
Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
We already have some of the most progressive euthanasia programs in the world. No need to get more creative than that.
Somehow VS Code manages to run Electron and loads in roughly the same amount of time as Sublime Text needs that's compiled into a native binary.

Maybe Tauri will make things better in the long run, but so far I haven't heard of any adoption at all.
I wish my company had an official unofficial chat app other than Teams. Many people will find what other apps people are already on, and then use those apps to avoid using Teams. Some are on Slack, others Discord, some Signal, and we have various other chats going on in those apps because attachments, code snippets, and other functionality is so inconvenient on Teams.

Anything official that needs to be shared and recorded for the company or requires widespread notification is through Teams, but then individuals are all using their own apps and management thinks Teams satisfaction is above 90% according to some surveys that no one I've talked to has filled out.
> In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy.

Which is precisely why they have such a large following. Most people are mentally drained after 40+ hour long work weeks.
You say that but in the last 2 years not one of our 4000 kids felt that way :) In fact, kids love the Litnerd lapels. I'm bullish on the name. But hey, there's always a kid that might not like the name. I get that.
Certificate Transparency Logs don't exist?
Thanks for the confirmation. I’ll fix the text.

What I had in mind when I wrote this sentence though is how the modern apps that people seem to like /are/ C#, such as Windows Terminal and PowerToys, and these feel quite slow to me. But, yeah, calling those the shell is a stretch.
Yeah, our experience is something like:

unmedicated << generic <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< name brand

in terms of perceived effect. They're sure as hell not close enough to be considered equivalent under any reasonable classification scheme (but I assume insurers really, really, really want the generic to count as equivalent and work to ensure it is so-regarded—and, anyway, availability's so spotty that we just have to take what we can get regardless).
Have you had a crack at making VoIP call quality better globally? It’s one of those things you can’t cache but I bet there are still some fancy things you can do to speed it up.
This is stupid. Who on earth would want to pay a subscription for a PC when they still need to buy one to stream the OS?

I see the value proposition, but it’s only as fast (and expensive) as your internet speed.

- Businesses and consumers could buy less expensive hardware, and simply pay $x/month for access.

- IT could remotely troubleshoot
- Fewer hardware issues

- A $10/month subscription would last longer than a $1200 laptop for most consumers.

- MS handles all software updates, stores all your personal data, has complete control of hardware and software.

- Some sort of device is still required, how does it respond to input from a keyboard, mouse, controller, etc? How do USBs, Raspberry Pi’s, External storage devices work?

- You still need a screen. I could see this being an app on smart TVs and mobile devices. (The form-factor of a powerful PC is smaller because of the streaming aspect)

- Internet is still relatively slow, every input would feel laggy and unresponsive.

- Anyone can guess your username/pwd and gain access to your PC.

- Hackers now have a single target.

- If Microsoft’s servers ever go down, you can’t use your PC at all.

- You are subject to any future government regulations with no choice to opt out.

- You lose access to everything if your subscription expires.

- MS has an unprecedented level of access to data that will inevitably be used for advertising.

- MS becomes your ISP and can filter traffic however they want.
Why do you want to restrict cardboard production? It is one of the best alternatives to plastic for many purposes.
Real life
Gotta keep the wages down.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy here.

Art can be made by people who wish to make it, and it doesn't have to be some "do art or make money" choice. Plenty of people who aren't filthy rich have leisure time and artistic desires.
>You are missing the third option: no scanning anywhere.

What a take. Thankfully the vast majority of Americans don't agree with you in the slightest. Also private companies can do whatever they please.
> I mean, an immutable website for consumption is exactly what most people want.

Do they? Then export your documents to an immutable website. That's why those options exist. Personally I don't want that. I want to edit my content fast and the hybrid-solution doesn't bother me. So we are talking here about a conflict of interest, not an anti-pattern. And solutions for this already exist, maybe they should just advertised more prominently?

> I want to differentiate content editing and content viewing much the same way in software development you edit source code which is then built into an immutable read-only artifact.

I don't read the compiled artifact, I use it, which is very different from what we are talking here. A more equal example would be reading code on github or reading in a code editor.
I really like their acknowledgement that they expected to be used for game/edge caching/etc, but in reality everyone is using them as a new Heroku to deploy Rails+PG crud apps.

Afaiu they're asserting their next goal is to make edge-ify-ing Rails+PG apps trivial / a "two hour problem".

That's pretty bold...historically that's required very app/framework/domain-specific concerns/coupling around "what's the best way (if possible) to shard this domain model", and solving it as PaaS/IaaS basically means writing/running a distributed CloudSQL / Aurora.

Which I guess if it's "just" running an Aurora clone/neon seamlessly in their stack, that seems doable/achievable + very worthwhile as a value-add/product.
I don't understand why this is so high when it's just using awk to naively split on commas. Any programming language could do that! I was expecting an actual command line tip that can handle CSV files in general, looks like it's still basically impossible without resorting to a full blown CSV parser (none of which come installed by default).
Of course - but Apple isn't going to produce a custom iOS build to find pictures of dissidents for a dictator(at least I find that unlikely), but if it's a system that everyone knows exists but verifies your pictures against some closed, uninspectable and constantly updated database of hashes......what's the harm of sneaking few more hashes in, right?
I know nothing at all about Gary Nolan of Stanford except what you wrote above, so don’t take the following as disparaging him.

That said: it is not difficult to imagine a certain bias towards making an interesting finding, when given such an assignment by the government.

The lack of a control group and blinding makes every result of such a scanning study very vulnerable to such biases.

Hence, I would advise placing very little weight behind its findings.
This is a nit but is there a better way to say “RDBMS databases?” It feels like saying “ATM Machine”. Could we just say “relational database” or “state of the art database management system?”
digital calendar for nearly everything
If the battery bloats up, it often helps undo the glue. Win-win
>Slack is straight up painful compared to their chat system.

As someone who vastly prefers Slack over all its competitors, I'm very interested in hearing how Meta's compares. What makes it better than Slack for you?
We couldn't raise prices for VMs even if we wanted to. You can buy 'em from a million different places.

It's pretty easy to move off, though. `fly launch` generates a Dockerfile you can run pretty much anywhere.
That math works for any old blog post.

Advertising a raise specifically is to get attention from customers and the industry as a legitimized successful operation.
amazing library! I've been using pixian.ai but this is a game changer
Man, we’ve got to chill with the condescension on here (often guilty of it myself because I too am a stinker). Every time I’ve stepped on glass, it was a tiny sliver I couldn’t see which is why I stepped on it.
This is neither here nor there, but every time I read a comment like this, all I can think about is that scene in The Office where Dwight Schrute is screaming into his cell phone "Are you saying you invented paper?!"
In general, you have a very valid point, but how many lines of code do we need to build the normal sudo if you are generously adding stuff we don't compile into the binary? Compiler, tools, some machine with some userspace and kernel for those to run on and so on?
We lowered our impact on Android app startup time by 75% thanks to Emerge Tools
Fly.io might be an underdog now, but they will come out on top in 5~6 years when most of the small to medium size businesses will be running on it.
In addition to the other replies, there are even whole new operating systems that are built around 90s aesthetic and idioms. One such is SerenityOS. I am watching their Ladybird web browser closely. Not so much the OS itself since I personally do not miss the old interfaces. But CDE and Windowmaker did have a weird charm that I can't deny.
Maybe also related to the recent news of a small town in Delaware allowing corporations to vote in municipal elections (not a new thing for Delaware apparently).
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> The tipoffs you are detecting are those game engine default settings.

I thought you were going to say that Unreal games max out their settings at "Epic" :)
That each of the versions dannymi listed had at least one potentially exploitable issue that a natively memory safe language would have mitigated, versions actively used in production as recently as this year even by people who keep bang up-to-date?

I'm sceptical that the chance of introducing new and interesting bugs of other varieties with a rewrite is worth the protection offered by the new environment¹, but either your dismissal of dannymi's point is rather disingenuous or you genuinely were missing something that had been stated quite obviously…

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[1] except where existing problems are so systemic that fixing them in the original stack would effectively be a partial rewrite anyway, so susceptible to the same risk
You know it will be chatgpt heavy scripting.
> That said, there are a number of (very large) companies where it is absolutely normal to work 6 days a week 10 to 12 hours a day. This is not a secret, it’s been very common for a very long time. Personally, I wouldn’t work for a company like that.

Says the former manager of a VHX house who now negotiates with studios… he’d literally be one of the people responsible for this situation.

It’s a shortage of employers willing to pay workers. Thats why they cant get enough artists
I'm thinking super high-end 3D printers in 10 years will solve this problem.
You can insurrect or revolt from either of those two conditions. My experience (not with country-scale insurrection, of course...) is that the results will be drastically different. These aren't things you do instead of acting, but attitudes and habits you develop through all action.
> No thank you. A lot of professionals perfectly understood the idea.

Fucking thank you.

I have spent a lot of time in security. I spend a lot of effort on privacy. I keep abreast of the state of the art, I donate to the EFF. I spent a year auditing security at one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the Western world. I’ve read the texts, I’ve taken the classes.

I’m not saying I can just do bitwise AES over plaintext in my head. But I had no issue understanding the white papers Apple released that described the feature.

That didn’t convince me one iota that it was either a good nor necessary idea. It simply served to highlight the things Apple was being fairly arrogant about. And I say that as someone who daily-drives multiple Apple devices and am highly bought into the ecosystem.

They built a large part of their trust model with that effort upon the idea that two governments either wouldn’t or couldn’t collude to inject non-CSAM hashes into their database. It’s like they’ve never heard the term “Five Eyes” despite harboring serious credentials and contracts in _all_ the right spaces to know exactly how possible that would be.

It was a technologically clever idea, and if we lived in a “it’s this or that” world where we had to choose which technologies would be used to surveil our devices, it would be one of the best options developed to date.

However I don’t accept that premise because it’s not true.

Edit: typographical cleanup.
Wishbone! I watched that for the first time when someone brought it up in our original YC launch.