skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me really sad that some modern apps don't work on older Android versions. For the apps I'm currently working on, I'm making a big deal out of them being responsive and usable on 8 yr old phones.
The easiest way is to stop using Windows. Either Microsoft sees decrease in users and rolls back ads; or its keeps pushing on and makes things even worse. Either way, you no longer see the ads.
There was a decent long form piece in the economist this week about solid state batteries: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/23/...
OK, like-for-like, what's the current webRTC solution you can self host that has less memory requirements?

I'd buy this much more if there was something to compare with (with admittedly much less features or QoL; like MediaWiki vs Confluence or RT vs Jira).
I'm guessing that they're mostly targeting the richer Asian countries, including China (which is on average is poorer than the West, but in the aggregate has comparable spending power as North America).
No we don't. AMD has working GPUs with working drivers now.

I have not rebooted to Windows for over a year and I probably won't for at least another one. All my games run just fine under Steam or with the help of Lutris.
Neither can Google maps. Many countries have official maps, some are even open data, but even those don't have perfect coverage of "unofficial" features like footpaths.

Here in the Czech Republic, a combination of OSM and official data (ZABAGED) is the best bet, somewhere else it could be Google's data, if they made it available.
Nope, sorry that amazing car with 140mi range for almost $40k that was only sold in the EU and Japan was discontinued and Honda already shutdown the production line. For some reason, this car that was introduced 2 years after the Model 3 had poor sales.
> No one with a choice wants these jobs.

Disagree, because many people want to:

> collect pension and become a Netflix advisor.
Unless it's a steep grade you'll recoup a lot of that uphill energy going down hill. The energy used going up the hill is just stored potential kinetic energy.
Yes? That's a feature? I mean, nobody wants to break up companies in order to make the companies more effective or more profitable.

It's always done to end monopolies, to open up closed markets. The people benefiting are consumers and competitors, not Apple itself.
From other accounts, people back home are generally too poor to come looking.

These people have to smuggle themselves out of their own country, then maintain a presence illegally abroad, then run an amateur investigation. It just doesn't work out like that.
In France we have Didier Raoult : he was a very good scientist until he became mad. And he has also published a gigantic amount of papers (with a lot of crap...). Theses two people look very similar according to me...
I hated having to use my 'backup' Mastercard for Costco purchases.
How to be a neuroinclusive engineering team
Tips from lead dev on creating a neuroinclusive engineering team. Useful to share with your boss!
> And the SE Asia slave camps need a huge amount of compliance from the locals.

Myanmar is home to like 20 different civil wars. Some of these conflicts ended in ceasefires. The areas that got good ceasefire deals (Wa, Mongla, some "border guard forces" who the military lets do whatever they want in return for allegiance) generally have a high degree autonomy from the Burmese government. So these areas are essentially run by warlords who are accountable to no one because the Burmese government cannot enter these areas. China backs some rebel groups and occasionally puts pressure on them to stop various crimes but they quickly adapt (when China cut internet to Mongla they just started using satellite). These areas are home to the largest meth labs in the world, illegal logging, illegal mining, etc. So they are perfect for criminals as they just have to pay "taxes" to whoever is in power. I read a good book on this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62141000-stalemate

Some scams are in Cambodia and Laos. The survival of these mostly has to do with corrupt law enforcement. All of the scam victims are either Chinese or in the West so they have even less reason to care.

> For instance, the scammers would need some kind of credibility in the job market before the team-building exercise. Do they just start up new legtimate businesses with new people just for this purpose?

I think it goes something like this: You make $200 a month as a dishwasher in Cambodia. A friend of friend messages you and tells you that you can make $800 a month. Because you are hopeful and want to improve your life you do not thoroughly vet them.

> And what happens when none of the employees return from the original country?

If they are from the region there's usually no record because they are picked up by an "agent" and go through a series of illegal border crossings.

There are people who actually knowingly apply for these jobs too: https://vodenglish.news/underground-group-chat-teems-with-hu...
I don't quite get it - is the author really expecting people addicted like him to fortnight, of all things, to read self-help articles online?

The issue isn't with having a smartphone, but being addicted to apps on it. Having a smartphone and watching TikTok 12 hours/day on it is nowhere near having a smartphone and using it to listen to music, check public transport schedule, call people, use it as GPS or to pay for things, etc.
I see we've found the Meta employee.
Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
Um... "review bombing" is a thing that is often talked about. So... yes people are worried about it...

You knew what the game did and did not support when you bough it. If you choose to do something outside of what it says, it's your problem not theirs.
They should remember that "every year offers unique opportunity for impact"!

https://fortune.com/2023/08/29/leaked-microsoft-memo-manager...
RFC 6598? Interfaces needing an address does not mean the business needs to own IP address space.
Git, ZFS, Raid, 3-2-1 Backup Rule[0], and LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

[0] https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backup-rule/
I’m fact restaurant franchisees and the franchiser are typically in a state of near-conflict. They have very different incentives and methods of making money. The notable exception is Denny’s, who go to great lengths to foster good relations with their franchisees and let them have an actual say in how corporate runs.
E = MC^2

In special relativity, the conservation of mass does not apply if the system is open and energy escapes.
To enforce the use of Edge, they're using URLs with the "microsoft-edge" scheme.

Some time ago Microsoft made it impossible to reassign this scheme to another app like EdgeDeflector.

PS: It was KB5007262 that "addresses an issue that might improperly redirect OS functionality when you invoke microsoft-edge: links."
At least scaling could be done server side (welln not in a E2E scenario) based on the receiver viewport to reduce bandwidth.
This reminds me of a torrent on Nyaa that implemented Bad Apple!! in ASS subtitles by retracing the frames into SVG (seems to be better quality than simply using potrace by itself), converting the SVGs into ASS Dialogue events, and muxing it into a Matroska container with a placeholder video. Therefore the "video" window can be resized without rescaling raster images (and it actually runs well on most hardware and players, unlike his other torrents putting whole anime episodes in subtitles). The subtitle attachment could also be extracted from the container and executed as a valid shell script which would run mpv or ffplay, use the respective options to create a libavfilter filter to create a blank video (to overlay the subtitles on), use its own filename for subtitles, and play the song by decoding and piping a base64 string at the bottom of the script to mpv/ffmpeg's stdin.
This is why I am a fan of build & run teams instead of having a separate ops org which is responsible for keeping things running. The incentives aren’t aligned and almost always result in silos and excessive outages. The shared responsibility means no one is actually accountable and solvable issues persist for years. Almost every client I work with who has major ops issues have separate teams handling build and run aspects of their projects.
> He's written "over 800 scientific papers". Is that... a good thing in his field?

as some others have said, that's not the flex he thinks it is
> If there was indeed a lab leak that caused the pandemic, you can justify having far more oversight, and more safety precautions even at great expense, because you have evidence that failing to do so killed millions of people.

If it's even reasonably plausible, and this is as good a chance as any to take a close look and find out, then you should spend this money to prevent such an outbreak even if COVID didn't happen this way.

Likewise in reverse, that wet markets were already seen as likely to cause the emergence of a new zoonotic disease, they should be changed or closed anyway because that risk is exactly the same now as in 2018 regardless of whether or not it was the origin of COVID.

> In addition, saying it doesn't matter rewards a coverup.

Only for people whose attention span misses that I also wrote "both cases, it's a good idea to review and possibly improve biolab safety protocols".

(I suspect this is quite a large percentage; people anchors on single points very easily, no matter how hard you try to make it clear "two things: what about both?")

> If someone breaks your leg, saying you should eat more calcium and be careful walking down the steps, and it doesn't matter if someone actually hit your let with a tire iron, isn't that helpful

In this case it's more like:

Doctors and lawyers trying to work out if your broken leg was caused by the cage fights you do every weekend, or by your recent slip down a very long and excessively polished staircase in a building that might or might not have be up to code at the time.

And the options are:

"Stop fighting in cage matches", and/or "see if that building was up to code and if it was campaign for better building codes".
I think there's a price of work element too. In my mother's area, insurance is cheaper because a plumbing job will cost 60€/hour (+ 30€ for the intervention). I'm pretty sure the costs are more like 120/150 in my area.
Limit switches for all sorts of terrible environments exist. These would probably work https://www.mcmaster.com/products/switches/environmental-rat...
Well, here's one I noticed the other day.

Go to settings / Privacy and Security / Ad Privacy.

By default, you give permission to:
a) mine your history and provide it to websites / ad services
b) mine your use within a website and provide it to ad services.
c) feed telemetry back to ad services.

So much for consent. You need to manually opt-out of settings you didn't even realize were there.
Space10 closes after almost a decade
I think this is a much harder problem than you make it seem. A tree no one is looking at, sure, you can take shortcuts, but if I'm not looking at my computer, it still has to run my programs and you cannot approximate its answers.

If I, a being in your simulation, was to hypothetically build a simulator of the kind that you use to simulate me, it is obvious that it could not work: if it could approximate the running of itself to a sufficient level of detail, it already would be doing that. So the question is: what else wouldn't work? The closer the technology I build gets to physical optimality, the more it will act as a bottleneck in the simulation. If I build a physically optimal circuit to perform any useful calculation that I can verify, for example, the simulation speed will have to drop below one second per second.

What this means is that modern times are probably too expensive to simulate, so you would likely stick to simulating medieval times (we may also have to eschew simulating the brains themselves, if it turns out the biological ones are too close to optimality for what they do). At least that's what we would have to do. You can imagine that the universe that simulates us works differently, but hypothesizing a world that has different laws of physics doesn't really help us to understand ours. It's fun to think about, but nothing more than that.
I think it is a tricky measurement problem for sure. In this case, it feels like there is an obvious measurement (individual outcomes) that you have to deliberately step around to see the better measurement. That deliberate decision to ignore individual success stories feels very callous.
Not completely correct. In the past there were technical issues opening "system service sites" with any other browser, because ActiveX controls only worked in Internet Explorer
I'm on the Medtronic 780g hybrid loop and it's actually working. If I eat nothing and have no intense physical activity the CGM curve is a stable straight line.
You may find this useful: https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/watershed-boundary...
If you can rip out the old motor and tie a string to the door (drill a hole in the piece that moves?), you can get a standalone motor from chicken guard. (You’d want the pro model or cheaper; their new all-in-one would have you replace the old door)
Is it possible that you are doing too much?
The problem isn't with tools being developed, but how they are going to be exploited in the current system that the world exists in. There is outrage for AI generated art because it:

A) is trained on work from existing artists without consent or permission

B) will be used to push artists out of their ability to make money to feed themselves

In a perfect world where artists could sustain themselves while practicing thier craft, this wouldn't be such a devisive issue. If you want to think about things from a counter-culture "hacker" perspective, we should be talking not about limiting AI but how we should be elevating artists to be able to exist despite the advancement in technology removing their jobs.

Its insane to think that artists won't be upset that their entire field, one centered on years and years of practice and learning, is about to be disrupted by a program that can create a thousand works in the span of a few minutes, trained on their own hard work without permission. Especially when these people already often work lower-paying jobs in order to make ends meet so they can work on their passion.

Is it really "hacker" to expect people to have to give up their happy lives doing work they enjoy so they can be shoved into the meat-grinder of a 9 to 5 job, because a program replaced them? Since when is it counter-culture to replace the leisure aspects of life with tech just because we can?

The tools themselves aren't evil and can be very helpful with artists, but it's not insane to see why its receiving push back from the art community who stand to lose the most from it.
You need stronger arguments than misusing the term "racism".

Consider two hungry kids at lunch. Consider the difference between stealing the fruit from one kid's plate, and giving extra fruit to the other kid. Both are special treatment. Think about what you can see that's different in these two situations that you would call the same thing.
I love that you accept submissions as PRs. Bravo.
In regards to charging time, I would think physically switching batteries to a charged one (or many) would make a lot of sense. Just a new form of the current refueling process airplanes go through now.
This really sounds like a resurgence of AI based phrenology. I wish that our profession took ethics more seriously.
Eh. Jobs was disingenuous at the best of times, I had Flash Lite running fine on Symbian a year or so before the iPhone hit the market.

I'm not saying it was great, but performance/efficiency was massively better than similar code in JS at the time. (And several years later, I rewrote a Flash app for ancient Tivo boxes in HTML/JS - same functionality, half the performance even after a lot of fine tuning.)

He was on firmer ground complaining about the bugs & security issues admittedly!
> control the public discourse

The truth is that before the internet, there wasn't really any genuine public discourse. If you wanted any reach at all, you had to go through a gatekeeper of some sort.
My neighbours in Ireland had two mobile homes, 17 kids, several dogs (Akitas and German Shepherds mostly) hundreds of cousins, and they would all come out to scream at anyone who gave them trouble or asked them to perhaps keep their dogs on their land. They had an ongoing feud with the neighbour who had shot one of their dogs for killing too many sheep. They shot fireworks over my (thatched) roof and would make rude remarks any time they saw me outside.

The planning department hassled me for the heritage characteristics of my windows. They were happy to ignore the completely illegal mobile homes next door. The police do nothing but occasionally talk to them very sheepishly.

This is in a country where the police usually do not carry firearms, which I don't think makes a lot of sense, personally.

Of course, if you do something truly horrible, like smoke cannabis or not pay taxes on onion imports, you'll go to jail.
My Illinois Costco for sure doesn't take a Mastercard Credit card. They do take a Mastercard DEBIT card.
The remedy is only one part of the cost of lawsuits.

Discovery and attorney fees would be a big portion of the picture here. If there's no settlement reached, each party will have a right to collect and comb through documents related to the lawsuit. Further, they'd have the right to interview (take a deposition of) everyone involved in decisions surrounding the controversy.

That means, nVidia would (likely) have the right to start talking to people in HP, Intel, AMD, Oracle, broadcom, On semiconductor, etc. Practically anyone involved with kernel development and decision making around kernel development.

The US civil legal system is designed to try and force parties into settlement. However, when you have a major corporation with cash to burn, they can win simply by dragging everything out.
> Sadly, many women have adopted the modern feminist lifestyle and have chosen to sleep around, abort their baby if they unexpectedly get pregnant, and swear off marriage

Bro what the fuck
It could be that I am conflating Clang with LLVM.
> Because Linus is more pragmatic than RMS.

he probably is, but that is not the reason here. even RMS fully agrees that using it in the normal USING fashion does not trigger copyleft. This is why you can compile proprietary software with gcc, and similarly, when gcc had a java class library project, it was GPL+classpath exception
I'll add "for desktop users" as that's my only experience with it. I haven't used it for compute.
Right now their reputation is that their machines don't work. Worrying about the health of their customers is pointless if they don't have any customers.
It sounds like you don't want them to...

Going by your overly cynical tone, it sounds like you're claiming to be the expert who can, and should, think for us. No, thank you. People can read the original post and watch the video and form their own opinion.
If your car doesn't have a standalone navigation system built in, or it only supports Android Auto/CarPlay which require a phone, they still make automotive GPS units - and they're pretty great now, with built-in traffic, dashcam, and backup cameras:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/818681/pn/010-02729-00

The trick is knowing where you want to go - Google's search capacity to "find me a highly-rated Mexican restaurant with on the way from Work to Home", not turn-by-turn, routing, or even traffic, is the killer feature. Standalone GPS units have passable search, not just addresses, but nothing compared to that.
> Ruby's poor performance hobbles it even in places it's supposed to be good (twitter was rewritten to Scala over rails).

All performances are relative. Ruby or Python is very performant for 99% of websites, generally the bottleneck is the database.

Rails has enabled Twitter to develop and iterate faster. But now that the social network has to manage several tens of millions of users, the 200 req/s of Rails are no longer sufficient.

And Ruby in 2013 didn't have the same performance as in 2023. Hardware no longer had the same performance, too.

(https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/new-tweets...)
Right.

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Somehow there are so many blogpost about these things, all trying to ask for your emails. Is it becoming easier to put more words together nowadays? I guess so.

I really wish there is a way to fact check all, instead of depending on good samaritans in a comment on HN to point these obvious misconceptions out.
Yes, food is more important for survival, but food is also much more abundant and much cheaper than housing, making it less of a concern. (in the west)
It actually does have a competitor, R. R has a superior ecosystem for quite a few data tasks. Mainly in the analysis/statistics space.

However aside from that R is vastly inferior.
Yeah between this and Toyota's similar talk about amazing tech just around the corner (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833836) it feels like this could be a concerted effort by Japanese car manufacturers to create some FUD to keep people out of EVs while they get their act together.
Book Review: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb [video]
I'm curious.

Way into the future, once all armies are equipped with such killer robots: who are they going to kill? Other robots in a fight?

I'm genuinely not sure how I feel about this, except that it makes war even more pointless than it is today.

Thoughts?
The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern
Be aware, the project has turned off soft updates while they take a turn through filesystem land unlocking it. I have to admit given their reasoning I am not sure if it will come back. I always thought it was cool but I don't think it ever did all that much for performance or reliability.

Some context for them unfamiliar with soft-updates. it is an interesting system where writes are delayed and rearranged so they tend happen in-order, it was supposed to improve speed a bit(more writes in order) and resiliency(fewer states where the file system will corrupt on power outage) but it may have been too clever for it's own good. Nobody in the openbsd project wants to deal with it's complexity while they removes locks from the vfs layer.
> There's a big difference between prisoners (who at least in theory are locked up as punishment for committing a crime) and people who've been trafficked into slavery.

Considering what can probably get you in jail in a country like China, I’m not so sure about that.
The difference is the pancreas reacts immediately to changes and has no practical delay for its effects, same concept as PID controllers in engineering.
Optimizing Access to Parquet Data with Fsspec
If you take a photo of something copyrighted, that copyright may be enforced on the photo. If Dall-e is trained on loads of copyrighted material (which it is) then the argument is that it's output is owned by the people who's art it was trained on rather than the photographer who just took a picture.
I mean this one I actually get. The price under the hood must be immeasurable. They run street cars, buy satellite data, have developers, qa, support. All for a product used by most for free.

I mean the charging a price for it yes, but expecting everyone to be able to pay it is a fantasy.