skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elderly/handicapped is an interesting situation, because (in the USA) companies are required by the ADA to make "reasonable accommodations" for the disabled. Which includes things like offering full-service gas fill-ups even at stations that are self-serve only.

So you could see delivery apps requiring "door delivery" for ADA purposes, and then people abusing that (because charging more for ADA compliance is usually a non-starter).
ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard
I think it's the most tolerable of the big box stores, but I've never been to a Target where electronics wasn't at the absolute far end of the (enormous, warehouse-sized) store.
Don’t judge a country from a single governement decree.
Ask HN: Recommendation for Hosted Email Service
I recently used the premium version of namecheap email service and most of my emails were rejected saying high probability of spam.

These emails were a reply to other people's email so definitely not spam. Looks like Gmail is being super aggressive in rejecting emails from competitors.

What are current recommendations for hosted email service that can deliver emails reliably?

I typically write and receive just a few emails a week.
My wife and I are both vegan and we eat all the plant meats. I'm the opposite from you: If I go to a restaurant with a veggie burger and it literally tastes like vegetables I'll probably never go there again. I tried the veggie burger at shake shack, and it's definitely not for me. I go there for the fries only now, until they get a beyond or impossible burger
I think android is - and has been - more heavy-handed than Apple here. Even when you could install and trust a new root CA, some apps can and would ignore this. Apps can use certificate pinning on both iOS and Android, but apps by default on Android just ignore user-added CAs by default on Android 7+, since 2016[1].

On iOS, the process of trusting a root CA is (rightfully) tricky, requiring you to install a profile and jump through some hoops with some scary warnings, but in my experience most apps will trust it unless they're using pinning.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...
People are afraid of Houston.

If they can't even handle Austin, I don't blame them.
There are several ways[1] for an Android app to trust a CA:

- by default, using the system installed CAs

- if specified in the app manifest, it can trust the user installed CAs

- included with the app, also in the manifest, it can trust any CA the author of the app decided to trust

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-con...
- Grilled => adjective = grillé

- Grill => noun => Grillade
Yeah but he's not saying it's OK. Just that they could do it.
> The PowerStar was the i3. This happened this year and there is no mention of it in any articles I see.

I found some articles on it [1] [2], but not any mentions in these recent articles.

Given this history, you can see why there might be some doubt about their ability to produce original products. If they were to for example steal the 5G architecture from another company, you can't be certain they would even report it in fears their stock prices would drop.

> The fear generated from this story adds a ton of power to things like the CHIPS Act.

It's difficult to say whether the fear is warranted or not. China have blatantly stolen IP for many years now without accountability, and have no plans to stop.

[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-new-powerstar-p3-desktop...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-powerstar-p3-01105...
Makes sense. Twice I bought vegan products thinking they weren't fake. They need to be clearly labeled.

To people who think otherwise, how would you like it if I sold real sausages as "vegan sausages"? If you can call plants "bacon", you should be able to call meat "vegan", right?
> The fact that you're buying a product from a big retailer, such as Amazon or Newegg, can sometimes give you a certain level of confidence.

This comment seems to belie the fact that the author knows that Amazon and Newegg are not merely retailers, but marketplaces. And it is caveat emptor when purchasing from a marketplace seller. I tend to stick to my guns and never purchase third-party. I bend this rule sometimes, if the seller is a stable and reputable brand name. Also, sometimes you get kinda surprised. I noticed this week that Wal*Mart's "Retailer" filters do not filter out third party sellers at all, so you need to check your cart every step of the way. Sleazy, isn't it.
> Moral of the story: never use "friends of friends" as a privacy setting. And don't accept friend requests.

Yes but…isn’t it the spirit of the social media?

The moral of the story maybe should be to avoid popular social medial overall. Or at least avoid to trust the profile you are not entirely sure of trustworthy.
This is the way. Over the years I’ve built up a good intuition for which cables, power ends, brackets, and fasteners might come handy later and I keep them on hand, broadly sorted into those categories. For example, those plastic kits of VESA screws that come with a new TV are nice to have around because they usually have assortment of machine screws, stand-offs and nuts, and they’re usually blister-packed.
Some mechanism to separate individual items, a conveyor belt, maybe two cameras and then train some neuronal network on classifying the images. Training data is easily generated by feeding in a couple of boxes with known identical content. Not sure if you can get the neural network to generalize to before unseen dimensions, if not it will only work for sizes in the training set. Maybe some lights for more consistent lighting. Then you still need a bunch of containers to sort things into, maybe along the conveyor belt and pistons to push things into the correct containers or reject them because identification failed.

If you want to cover a wide variety of sizes including very similar sizes, then it could maybe become hard for a neural network to get the sizes right? So maybe just let the neural network classify the items and orientation, then measure dimensions in the image, maybe using stereo images. This will however now probably require manually labeling training images. Do you also want to read the grade and specification? Do you want to deal with coated, old, rusty or dirty items?

Interesting project, but that could take some time to get working reliable enough to be useful.
the expectation to need to be able to afford a house before you can have kids is something that is very wrong with society today. (but at the same time the difficulties today to afford a house is also something that has gone wrong. and i suppose the expectation to have a house made more sense when it was still possible to afford one. either way something here needs to change.)
Agreed, there's so much interesting vegetarian cuisine out there to take inspiration from, it's kind of a shame that they fall back to either just plain veggies or imitating meat.
I'm not a vegetarian but I like to eat fake meat burgers and stuff like that, and it's really weird to me how sensitive some people get about this. I have friends who get genuinely mad that they call fake meat products "meat" because "it's not meat and they should call it something else".

Nobody seems to actually be confused into thinking these products came from an animal, though, and the labeling does not seem to be designed to fool anyone. If the taste is designed to mimic a cow burger, then calling it a burger is genuinely descriptive.

When I point this out though, people just switch gears and start making up other arguments instead. The emotional response seems to be coming from somewhere else, but I haven't figured out where.
> It's a shame that such resourceful company like Google bends over to some control-freak right wing governments like we have.

Why wouldn't they? They obviously see an opportunity to grab even more control over the Internet than they already have.
Good for you not having children.
Vegans motivated by ethical arguments think that tricking consumers is a lesser evil than eating meat, therefore the ends justify the means. This explains their apparent hypocrisy.
If you're in a small enough town (that still has delivery people) you can often strike up a conversation with whoever did the delivery, and get "service outside the app" for much cheaper and nicer, and everything goes direct to them.
Completely disagree. I don't eat meat, personally, but purely out of ethical reasons. I love the taste and the mouth feel and the dishes it's usually paired with and I'm glad that there are vegetarian and vegan options that try to replicate this.
Enough of this over-processed junk, bring back Kodachrome
It's almost as though the spectrum of politics and culture is not 1-dimensional like the American two-party system would have you believe.
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But if it wasn't stolen and you filed a false police report, you go to jail,
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Marianne Williamson has been quite active on this front, speaking with Julian's family directly and asking Biden to drop the charges.

Watching the smear machine rev up against her, the moment she got traction, has been quite the spectacle.
Not in French
The opposite is also true. BM25 prefers lexical matches and brings these candidates back that vector search often doesn’t.

I am not disagreeing vectors are useful, but I think benchmark based evidence is not the same as deploying a solution that must scale, be constantly updated, serve many use cases like filtering, search syntax, etc customers want.

And plus I think there’s a real danger Of herding to vector retrieval (even then one view of it) which cuts off exploration of diverse solutions.
Not everything can be bought. The situation delivery workers are in is not one of choice, of decision over their own conditions of living and working, regarding the number of working hours, the independence, the wages, etc...

To blindly expect those people to do whatever you want because you have the money makes you look closer to a Disney Villain than a human being who wants to build a society with these people.
Animated Neural Network Predicting Light/Dark Font
A simple neural network predicting a light or dark font, and animating the forward propagation
Politicians doing important work.
People who have been through a disaster, what do you think of this list? What other preparedness information did you find to be useful (or not useful)?

FEMA points users to www.ready.gov, which has a lot of information, including their own list for a disaster kit (https://www.ready.gov/kit). What do you think?
I have a friend who has a gun safe under his nightstand—not intended for quick use, but still easy to access.
USB is a mess. Lots of devices that claim support are actually way out of spec. As a result it is hard to say exactly what will happen when people start plugging stuff in.
So what? The said thousands of turbine blades cover 30 acres of land. Texas has an area of about 170 million acres. The blades don't decay, or pollute in any way. They just sit there. Thousands more can be added. What's the problem?
I didn’t realize that. Thought it was 5-10 minutes. Thanks. Sounds like the bicycle delivery system is fundamentally broken then.
Yeah, or even just small children who can't be kept from burning the building down.
France has democracy do they not? They voted for the government. This also isn't a new thing; France has been legislating what people are allowed to wear in what contexts for a while. Ironically, in many contexts you are required to wear less clothes, such as at the beach or in a swimming pool. It's a kind of "liberalism, or else" type policy
It's not an internet thing, "Ph" is pronounced like F almost everywhere in English, e.g. "Gopher" or "Phone". It makes little sense to transliterate a non "F" sound to Ph.

( And apparently this practice has roots from the even older transliteration of Phi )
You can learn more about this by looking up "debayering" or "demosaicing", the process by which 4 pixels with color filters are combined into 1 pixel of color information. But it still has 4 pixels worth of spatial information. Sorta. If you're willing to make some assumptions.

It's a messy process

That's why shooting with raw files is so popular; these grab the data from the sensor before the debayering, since some post-processing operations work better if they're earlier in the processing pipeline.
You don’t even have to put on real shoes to go downstairs. You can put on slippers. Even in the most dense city, food delivery to the street level is more convenient than walking to the restaurant.
Wrong perspective. When enough customers are fed up there will be an opportunity ripe for entrepreneurship. Labour is always in greater supply than customers.
GPU memory bandwidth is a limiting factor for how fast training can happen, so it’s much more efficient to train models on locally connected high memory GPUs.

Also gradient updates from all nodes would need to get combined at least every few training steps, and it would take a while to sync all gradient updates across the network.
Marketing and the food industry: Do we know what we’re buying?
This sounds nice for security, hell for some developers but:

What happens in 2-3 years when this version of Android is abandoned? You pray the hardcoded certificates will last you a couple more years?
Trading OC for Austin seems funny to me. I’m strongly considering moving there from my cold state if things fall into place. OC is one of the nicer areas of SoCal that’s also relatively affordable.
Imagine "day 2" search tasks like the user wanting to filter results for a specific time range

You could force the data team to go through hoops like multimodal embeddings, multiple indexes, post-filtering... or figure it out

Near-term, it makes sense to do one thing well, so many new vector DBs are really mutable vector indexes with lackluster search. But eventually, if you are not a narrowly-scoped kernel (faiss) but the main search platform needing $$$-level marketshare for growing payrolls, you're incentivized to figure search out beyond ANN, and your competitors are advertising that they are doing the same. So you add post-filtering, and then eventually, maybe even push-down/dynamic.

Source: We have been happily using on-the-fly GPU knn embeddings for years in pygraphistry, but when we added billion-scale vector indexing to power louie.ai RAG search for real-time news & database querying, we outgrow pure ann on our first user, and I'm thankful we did diligence on our DB selection
You can pick up second hand ( good condition ) iPhone's for not much more. I would also then argue iPhone's last longer and tend to get more updates for longer than their android counterparts.

They can support multiple ESim's now which I've had fantastic experience with when travelling abroad. Apps like Ubigi make it super easy to switch to a local sim.
> These rules won't be a problem for anybody except those trying to trick consumers.

But companies selling "vegan sausages" or "vegetable steak" aren’t trying to trick anyone, they just sell an alternative to a common meat-based product and so call it that way. It would be like forbidding e-cigarettes to be called "cigarettes" just because they’re not the same thing.

Edit: according to this comment they do try to trick consumers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392099
To find many of the threads on the subject, Search;

'"cloudflare" vs "archive.is"' site:news.ycombinator.com

One of the more current threads; Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is?

HN Discussion - (210-comments - 2023-08-02) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970702

However, All our comments regarding DNS have really derailed this thread. (sorry mods)
I can't speak for the US, but in my country that was sometimes the case, but not always.

I was an engineer and had 'non-camo' uniform, and only wore camo in the field or on exercise.

People who's job was primarily 'in the field' though (e.g. the Army) didn't have that, and would wear camo as their uniform 90% of the time (the exception was formal dress uniform for parades etc.)
> But I would say this result is probably a byproduct of whatever namespacing/containerisation Google is doing, rather than an intentional effort to prevent users from changing the root CAs even as root.

Yes, I think in practice that's true. The end result is still a big problem though!

> Isn't this just how mounts work? If you have a something mounted to /apex/whatever and each app has a separate mount namespace, then mounting over /apex/whatever in your namespace wouldn't change anything in any other mount namespace.

The latter 'separate mount namespace' here is the surprising bit. Previously, you could open a shell, mount things into the filesystem (or just modify it directly) and apps would happily read files from those mounts.

Now, for these cacert files, that's not the case, and additionally with the new approach direct modification is impossible.

Before this change, I wasn't even aware that Android apps were using their own mount namespaces! There's very little documentation on exactly how that works and I'm not sure if there's been a case where its been clearly visible until now.
My lid is being detected as a keyboard button
That's the point of the experiment actually…
Why are they dickheads?
Are you saying people like Shepard, Fukuoka and Götsch are amateurs? Do you even know who these people are?
I thought carbon in the ocean is causing acidification? And the letter [1] says so too. "the ocean is big, lets put more stuff in it"

[1] https://www.oceancdrscience.org/
I agree. The poor, poor consumers are confused and we need to help them. We should ban all euphemisms and metaphors in food. Sausage? No, leftover-meat-and-cartilage-stuffed-pork-intestines.

On a serious note, an obvious solution to prevent consumers from being confused in their tiny little precious heads is a EU-wide standard vegan/vegetarian label and make it mandatory in any vegetarian analogues. But of course this isn't about consumers at all, no one ever bought a vegan patty thinking they were buying beef.
in a lathe, the stock is constantly rotating.
RFK also makes the promise on his website: https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_ken...
And you likely had "downtime" when waiting at the shop for an order to deliver; these delivery people are often servicing an almost infinite number of orders and shops, and the next order is just an app click away.
Often the root cause ia cognitive dissonance. A large portion of the populace doesn't want to be reminded where their meat actually comes from, and prefers to not think about it. Confronting them with the notion of non-animal "meat" forces them to face that dissonance.
> Do you trust your next door neighbors to become ag scientists to be good stewards of their land?

As someone who lives in a rural/agricultural area, yes.
A Foveon sensor would've been nice, though.
This banking apps requirement is laughable if you can manage you bank accounts through the internet browser. I mean there are some banks that only work with an app, but majority of banks in my country work through the browser just fine.

That being said, I have a separate phone just for bank apps and turn it on only when I need to use it for banking.
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I like both, but on different days. Sometimes I feel like lentil /mushroom burgers (I am good at making them nicely, but they just don’t have the same texture or taste as meat which is fine; I often like them better than the meat ones) and sometimes I want beyond or impossible or vegetarische slager.
This doesn't feel like legislation meant to protect the consumer, at all.
Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-dependency static site hosting service for hackers
Hey all

I wanted to show a sneak peak of something I've been working on the for the past few months.

I build a lot of projects that involve static hosting and became frustrated by how complicated it is in 2023. All I need to do is move files from my CI onto a server that can serve the files. It shouldn't be as complicated as it is on GCP, AWS, etc. And the ones that are marketed as easy (e.g. Cloudflare Pages, surge.sh) still require the end-user to install a tool first.

With pgs.sh the user doesn't need to install anything. Signup is as simple as SSHing into pgs.sh and creating an account. Creating new static sites is as easy as copying files to pgs.sh.

To go even further, we have added features like instant promotion and rollback to make it easier to manage deployments safely.

The entire service can be managed via SSH commands. Pasted below is our help SSH command: https://erock.pastes.sh/pgs-cmds.md

This service is in closed beta, but if you join our irc channel #pico.sh @ libera.chat we will invite you to test it out.

I'd love to read some feedback on this service, thanks!
Hah, I have exactly the opposite reaction as you: I think Android is a complete mess in terms of usability.

The big differentiator, though, is your social network. Having iMessages and FaceTime is about 95% of the value of the phone/tablet for me because my friends heavily, heavily use them.
Firstly, disclosure: I work on XTDB, where we are in the process of building out a new columnar SQL engine that also (still) supports edn-flavoured Datalog, see https://xtdb.com/v2

Perhaps the most fundamental aspect here is the inherent tension between (A) typical columnar relational schemas which primarily target efficient OLAP across very wide & sparse tables, and (B) the nature of 'graph' systems (whether OLAP or OLTP) which tend towards handling a huge number of tables and/or recursive self-joins + incremental view maintenance. I believe Michael Stonebraker's conjecture continues to be that a "one size fits all" database engine is essentially unachievable, and therefore you can't expect a single database system to be competitive across both domains simultaneously. However some databases (SQL Server springs to mind) are apparently pretty good at running multiple engines in parallel.

With the v2 XTDB engine design we are sacrificing some of our graph capabilities in the short term (WCOJ and self-join optimisations) for what we feel are more pressing advantages of the columnar model (low-cost retention of history and vectorized processing). We are also aiming to retain reasonable OLTP performance as well, in a similar vein to SingleStore etc., since the target audience is still application developers rather than data analysts.

If you are looking for a way of using Datalog on existing columnar storage engines today, you should definitely look at https://logica.dev/

Also, this Stonebraker talk on "Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems" is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcecxdGxvQ

EDIT: regarding "I attempted to import a file of several hundred megabytes and execute queries on triple store Datalog systems" - if you have that benchmark available somewhere I would love to take a look. You can see some information on XTDB's approach to triple store benchmarking with 'WatDiv' here: https://docs.xtdb.com/resources/performance/#watdiv
Interesting take because to me this seems like typical consumer protection law, which is usually associated with the left.

I think this particular implementation is going too far but I can definitely empathize...

I'm ashamed to admit it but I was fooled more than once into buying plant-based burgers. My grocery store puts them next to real meat, the packaging has the words "beef" and "burger" on it and they're larger font than "plant", so in a hurry I got confused.
My favorite statistics quote by John Tukey seems relevant -

"The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."
> Risographs are hard to find (in working order).

I see that the company has a website that sells brand-new machines. Are they not suitable for this kind of printing?

Or do you mean that it is hard to find a "service" with a working machine?