skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why didn’t it help instapot?

it's not expensive enough to warrant buying second hand. Also i don't want to use someone else's cooking utensils for my own food. Never know what they've done with it!

A mac book, on the other hand, is fine, since the most i would touch it is with my hands. The 2nd hand condition doesn't bother me, as long as i just clean it up with nice wipes.
Modifying system certificates is uncommon for the average user, but for techies and enterprise apps I imagine it's a lot more common.

It's one thing for the OS to put dangerous things behind warnings, flags and prompts. It is another to cripple the OS.
Correct.

It requires a breakthrough in software in finding new efficient methods in training, fine-tuning, these AI models which currently there is no way around it other than training the whole thing and burning millions in the process.

Until then, unless you are a big tech company that can eat the cost, it doesn't seem wise to waste your entire VC money on expensive fine-tuning and inference costs as your AI model scales to millions.
You don’t understand how Emacs works. It is not supposed to be an IDE from the get-go. But there are extensions that together can turn it into one. For whatever language you program with.
That's incorrect. All current and recent-ish Chromebooks get at least eight years from date of release. And with the move to separate Chrome (the browser) from the OS, it will be possible to update the browser even after system upgrades are finished.

Google uses the term AUE (automatic update expiration) for the end of service. They provide a list of AUE dates here:

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en#zip...
Which ones deploy to your own cloud accounts?
What makes IoT devices special, and warrants carve outs for security / vulnerabilities?

I guess I am not surprised there are security issues with these devices, because I think of most of them as coming from small companies, and wonder what the impact would be on the IoT space if only large players can work through more regulation.

That said, I can't decide if I am more concerned about my Wyze camera sending data where I don't want it to, than my water heater leaking it's current temperature (implicating whether I am home or not).
It's definitely a weird experience when people use LLMs to generate some text and then the recipient uses LLMs to summarize that text. I also feel similarly with the office suite AI tools - if the AI can generate the presentation, do we even need the presentation at all? Do we need the people who watch the presentation and make decisions?
These rules sound like reasonable steps, upon first reading. Not sure what the downstream effects might be.

Is there any thought given to cloud based devices becoming paperweight when companies behind them just stop supporting it or turn off the API? I'd like some "assurances" in place that if the company either goes out of business or decides to sunset the service, it would be required to open source (or at least make available for download). If memory services, that happened to some Nest models a while back.
I agree. It looks tacky, cheap, unprofessional and distasteful.

Not only that half the RGB keyboards fuck out fairly quickly or have power and USB problems.

Electric truck nuts. That's all it is.
I am all for alternative free software firmware. But I don't think it adresses IoT security in any meaningful way.
Not wanting to carry an assortment of lenses with me, I have used bridge cameras for ages, and my current one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-FZ1000) is pretty well-reviewed and generally does make really good photos, but my 6-year-old Pixel 2 phone still takes better HDR pictures. Sure, you can optimize what the FZ1000 does by adjusting the exposure time, but sometimes I just don't have the time to do that.
Borderline clickbait, as the title is written to be more definitive than the actual article, especially from a site called MacRUMORS.

"... claims a new report out of Taiwan."

"This is the first rumor we have heard that Apple is actively developing a new MacBook series that the company will price below its more premium MacBook offerings, so expectations should remain guarded until we receive corroboration from other sources."
Because never in the history of humanity has a political faction used a knowingly distorted narrative about a group they oppose to justify their own actions.

Documents like that are a much better guide to the normative beliefs to which the authors wish to appeal than the factual beliefs they hold.
https://archive.is/mYVFs
If anyone from ZSA is here, please make wireless keyboards.

I’m rocking an Ergodox for the past few years. It’s worth every penny, but I cannot carry it around with all the cables.
The latest Ergodox model now has USB-C.
User certificates still work fine. Apps have to opt into the user CA store (many of them don't) but any app deployed by IT should be fine. Chrome works, Firefox can be made to work, and I believe the Gmail app also works with user CA certificates.
Ahem the emoji bar? The removal of USB and HDMI ports? It’s just 2 mistakes, but they still came back on both of them.
It really makes me think... should we all have bought into blackberry/palm/windows' smartphone efforts in the 2010s? They seemed inferior at the time but, in hindsight, it's hard to imagine anything worse than where we are now.
Theia is not a fork.
> first person

Oh my, so much better. Thanks!
>That sucks

It's insecure. If you are a bank app you doesn't want other people to be able to steal the users password by installing a new certificate.
Have you never needed to transfer money when traveling or out of houseIf US, have you ever mobile deposited a check? If rest of world, have you ever sent money?

I use bank web site most of the time. But if not at home, it is really useful to use phone. It isn’t like banking is complicated that need computer and browser. Bank web sites tend to be awful on smaller screens, I don’t use it on iPad. Also, there are a lot of people that only have phone.
Because of price discrimination. By offering a cheaper product, a producer can capture more producer surplus by capturing users who would never have bought at the previous price point. This also allows the company to sell their higher end product at a greater price because the efficient price moves upwards when the lower demand folks get factored out.
Promotions and demotions are not the result of an interview process. To make general you need decades of military experience and decisions are highly political. Because war is highly political. Generals can't win if the politicians demand the impossible i.e. use guns to turn Afghanistan into a feminist non-tribal nationalist democracy without settling large numbers of Westerners there. Any educated and ethical general would resign before committing to take on such a mission for the president.
> M2 Air here that I use as my dev machine. All I do is backend dev running on Docker, and it's works as well as the M1 Pro 32gb and M2 Max 64gb I've used before. (the challenge in running multiple monitors is the main issue, not performance)

I'm doing similar stuff, and I think the big thing I'm worried about is SSD write exhaustion. The 8 GB of ram is just not enough to prevent the system using a lot of swap. Especially if I ever need to use Rosetta.

And the way Apple's pricing around ram works, if you're going to upgrade to 16 GB, you might as well just get a pro, which comes base with 16 GB. At least with the Mac Mini/Studio. I'll admit that I'm less familiar with the laptop pricing.
Even if you knew you only wanted to produce black and white images, a product like this introduces non-obvious tradeoffs. A colour sensor captures more information, and you can use a near infinite number of different functions to map to greyscale. Typically you don’t want to merely pick the BW filter, you want to be able to do manipulations to different wavelengths independently.
FWIW, seeing a security compliance label on an IoT product wouldn't mean anything to me as a consumer. There is no such thing as computer security in 2023, and there are no hints that security will exist at any point on the horizon. Even the biggest names in the field cannot put out secure products. Products from well-meaning manufacturers are going to be absolutely riddled with security problems, and putting a sticker on the box won't change that. It is literally impossible to put out a software product with anything resembling security today. It'd be like putting a "secure against bricks" sticker on a window. Our industry is a joke. Building secure software products can't be done without completely rearchitecting how our industry operates, which isn't going to happen.
It's not about crossing a line. For it to be poisoning the well it would need to have a characteristic that it simply doesn't have. At no point does the comment attempt to present its detractor's opinions as inherently invalid or worthy of less consideration.
>If there ever becomes real issues then tech corps will actually spend money on education.

are the systems so mission critical and complex that it's cheaper to spend money training devs on the system than it is to have the existing ones start to migrate the codebase to anything else?
Hi @jjcm and @seanwilson

First of all thank you for these comments, I do proactively seek out comments like these as there are too few at the official APCA discussion forum https://github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA/discussions
That said:

A px is not a device pixel, it is referenced to the canvas abstraction layer as the canonical CSS reference px. It represents 1.278 arc minutes of visual angle as subtended onto the retina. Or 0.0213° 𝑽𝜽

This is the case with a 96ppi monitor at 28" away.

Visual Angle in arc minutes is what is used in research, and in fact what the Snellen eye chart is based around, 20/20 is based on a capital E that is 5 arc minutes high, where each line is 1 arcmin, and each space between the three horizontal lines is 1 arcmin, where we then find a spatial frequency of 30 cycles per degree.

But that is for minimum acuity .

Minimum acuity is NOT best readability, which needs to be ~2.5 or times larger than the acuity size (critical size). For a standard display a reference distance away, that means an x-height of 9.4px, which is 12 minutes of arc 𝑽𝜽.

Critical size and critical contrast are recited and empirically tested for decades by eminent readability researchers Whittacker, Lovi-Kitchin, Ian Bailey, Legge, et alia.

The font sizes for APCA are based on this, and assuming a reference font like Helvetica with a 0.52 x-height ratio.

ALSO, if you want a "catch all" contrast value,Lc 75 is more appropriate IMO.

NOT SET IN STONE YET

This kind of discussion is good at the forum, so that it can be tracked and considered in the conversations about guidelines.

ALSO

If you want an easy way to use APCA and be fully backwards compatible with the old WCAG 2.x, then try BridgePCA at https://bridgepca.com
Even if it would have been accepted, maybe part of his point is that at least some scientists (for example, himself) are self-censoring out of fear.
VFS on MacOS is a minefield. You either need to use a kext (bad option, for many reasons), a network file system (NFS or SMB) and pretend your VFS is a remote server, or create a FileProvider system extension (which cannot actually function as a VFS).

If your workflow relies on a VFS that isn't NFS/SMB then don't use MacOS. fuse-t is kind of clever in that it spins up a TCP server that transpiles NFS requests into FUSE requests, but it comes with a bit of a cost and eats a TCP port. The one benefit is that you can actually mount and use a file system entirely in userspace this way, which you can't do on Linux without sandboxing (fusermount3 is SUID to get around this).
Nothing has done SQL's job better than SQL (or its Postgres/Oracle/MySQL variants) so far. The closest would be the map-reduce idiom.
If that library code doesn’t use the smaller types then it probably isn’t designed for those platforms, which means it won’t be tested with the smaller int types and they will likely cause lots of bugs. The one advantage I do see is that it might avoid extra sign extension instructions on some architectures when working with less than the native size, but there’s int_fast16_t for that
Pretty cool (or at least interesting) to see a government agency engage on HN like this. Never seen that before.
Oh I have absolutely looked for an older tractor. Finding a model with parts still somewhat easy to find limits the market, finding one that hasn't rusted out in a field for 20+ years is even harder. The only ones I found within 300 miles of us over the last 12 months were either rusted to hell, clearly lazy paint jobs covering rust, or collectors items that were restored and priced out of the market.

In addition to that, old tractors aren't as capable as modern tractors and are heavy as hell. If the health of the soil is a concern it lsso not ideal to run a 3,000-7,000 pound tractor across the field regularly.

Dont get me wrong, more days than not I wish we had a tractor to make certain jobs easier. I've yet to find one that fits in our budget, is clean enough to be reliable, has parts available when it breaks, and can meaningfully improve the tasks we regularly deal with.

I the meantime we have a Kai truck (Japanese minitruck) that weighs next to nothing and does some serious work around here.
But there's pretty recent precedent about how the US treats leakers.

I can't choose an excerpt - but it's a quick read: https://theintercept.com/2020/01/02/chelsea-manning-torture-...
Yes, there are a lot of PaaS and Developer Platforms out there to choose from. In my past roles leading development teams, I always found it hard to make existing solutions fit because they were too black box and I couldn't customize or add the things I needed support for. I also had security and compliance considerations that were difficult to navigate because I wasn't in control.

The things unique to Nullstone are:
1. Nullstone launches everything to your cloud account. You keep full ownership of your data.
2. 100% of the infrastructure is launched using modules. You can add your own or customize the out-of-the-box modules to support whatever your use case.
3. Many other solutions just handle your apps (no databases or other infrastructure). Nullstone supports launching apps, datastores, any cloud managed service, and integrations with tools like Datadog, Twilio, Sendgrid, and more.

Hope that gives you an idea of how we differ from other solutions.
>>And don't even think about trying to open Photoshop

You believe everyone uses Photoshop? or even uses a Graphics editor at all.

>> They cannot be upgraded.

I would say over 60% of all laptops sold today can not be upgraded.. even more if you only look at RAM, a majority of laptops from Dell, Lenovo, etc have non-upgradable memory. and very limited upgrade options for storage.
Is anyone here who has shifted exclusively to visual react builders ?

I have been writing react since version 0.11 and am considering shifting to a visual for day to day development.
umm no, im saying your argument that the reason people dont have kids is because they cant afford them is exactly wrong. The number of children people have is perfectly inversely correlated by how wealthy they are, and many of the countries with the best socialized child care and other government programs to help poor people (northern europe) have some of the lowest birth rates in the world.
We let the user decide how they want to store the data via the `onSave` and `onChange` callback props you provide to the `<Puck>` component. So you would likely save to your own database in the callback.

The data shape is detailed here: https://github.com/measuredco/puck#data
Anecdotal, but one source of scooters laying down is scooter protestors themselves, exacerbating the situation.

And if it is the users, this is more of a societal problem, in a collectivist society, like Japan, a user would be ashamed of parking in a way that might block others.
Sorry, but it is insane that people that live in areas with no parking can request doorstep delivery in the United States. People that live on the 10th story of a luxury high rise in the downtown of a major city with a 5 minute security process will request doorstep delivery, forcing drivers to occupy driving lanes for minutes with their hazards thrown as they navigate the byzantine favela that the villager has requested their $8 Mcdonalds order be brought to.

And it is your responsiblity, it is clownlike to fall on your back and flail your hands in the air and shout about how there is nothing you can do about this and your hands are tied etc. Put on your flip flops, and squeak your way down to meet the man downstairs who doesn't speak english and has your McCheesy with McCrusty sauce. Delivery apps prey and set at odds with one another customers who are gouged and drivers who are miserably underpaid all for the sake of... burning VC capital. Both parties, drivers and customers, as long as they continue to participate in the carnival act, should treat one another with good faith and respect as much as is possible, instead of retreating into their castles and pointing at Arial carved into glowing stones that indicate the beginning and end of what they owe one another
Higher end use cases (which virtualizing windows is) requires higher end hardware. I'm not surprised the base machines don't work for that case. Of course, chromebooks don't really either.

It's a bit like saying the Ford F150 pickup can't tow 20,000 pounds. It's true, and if you need to tow that much you need the more expensive pickup. But the F150 does just fine with lighter loads, and people love it.
Are you really arguing that they didn't believe the position they presented in their declarations of succession?

> immediate abolition without compensation

Whoa there. Please do not shift your argument.

Earlier you wrote "indeterminate point" not "immediate abolition" and you wrote "outright abolition", not a specific type of abolition.

My reading of the declarations was they thought would be during the Lincoln administration, not "immediate" upon his inauguration, but also not "indeterminate".

> So I certainly doubt most reasonable people in the South

Do you have supporting evidence for your belief? I mean, these people elected the leaders of the state, so why do you think "most" people disagreed?
What's stopping hobby/micro-developers from saying 'Not FCC approved, use at own risk'? I hack on ESP32 devices, I certainly have different expectations as a hobbyist and as a consumer or consultant.
H: "Honey, I bought a new $370 keyboard."

W: "Another one?! You already have one for the house and one for the office... Where is this one going to go?"

Doesn't have to be budget micromanagement.
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Yeah, I guess he's not a US citizen, but an Australian citizen based in the UK. That said, Australia and the UK have clear obligations to their allies. I think maybe sending him to a neutral territory might result in a fairer trial. That might be a better way of dealing with whistleblowers. The Hague? [edit] Possibly ECJ?
I'm not saying it doesn't solve real problems, I'm saying its swapping problems into others.

Sure you can find some problems that have been solved but for each of those, there's a brand new problem created and not necessarily any better than the previous one.
Not ordering delivery is an alternative
There are too many IoT devices that want my email/phone just to perform what normal devices have been able to do for decades. No, I don’t want to download an app just so I can use my apartment stationary bike. I get enough spam already, and I don’t want to agree to a long terms and conditions just for that. In that case I couldn’t even use the bike at all without creating an account.

I think a lot of places got duped into thinking their internet connected stuff was an upgrade but in my opinion it’s a major downgrade. A device should do what other non-IoT devices do without being online, and internet capabilities should only be a value-add. A toaster should make toast without being online.
https://archive.is/JcXTC
Yeah, similar!
Interesting.. do you think it's a good use case for a drag an drop editor compared to other DND out there?
Seems sensible... except who gets to decide what's a secret and for how long? And by "defend your actions in a court", you likely mean a court of the country who's secret you leaked? Or no?

So would you for example agree to be extradited to Russia for saying there's a war with Ukraine? Or to China for mentioning the Uyghur genocide? It's a secret after all.

Also, just being able to threaten journalists with court in general would have a chilling effect - especially in a place like the US where it costs so much money.

By the way, the first and sealed indictment of Assange was not for leaking secrets. Make of that what you will.
Which brings us to the point of the article; should we be supporting that? Not everyone wants to exercise either, but should we be supportive of that by calling them "motivationally challenged individuals"?
Just to point out the absurdity of this:

If one day everyone sends an AI to attend a meeting, will all these AI's (which are all instances of the SAME platform!) still have to act out a human meeting...?

Reminds me of the "Electric Monk" from Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels, which is an appliance whose job it is to believe in things on the behalf of its owner...
Why? The person you are replying to outlined one major example where IoT security was improved: wireless routers. Not allowing users to update the software on the hardware they own is just a botnet waiting to happen.
Why are there no nonexponential nonlinear loans?
1. Keep in mind this rumor is weak. It's from someone without a track record.

2. I don't believe this a market for Apple. To compete in the Chromebook market, largely education, it's about all about volume and cost (How many Chromebooks can I get per $1,000 I spend?). And the current per-unit cost is about $250.

3. Education institutions could get M1 MacBook Airs for $699, but they don't for two main reasons: 1. they're over twice as much as a $250 Chromebook, and 2. they're far less durable than a $250 Chromebook. And replacement rates are very high in the education markets.

4. One possible way Apple might be able to compete is to make durable, cheap ($499 or less) MacBooks and then commit to ~7 year OS updates. A little more upfront cost, but customers would probably save on long-term hardware and staffing costs.

Right now, we're throwing away perfectly usable Chromebooks because they are on something like a 4 year OS lifecycle.
If a device does not violate (e.g.) RF emissions regulations, what authority does the FCC have to regulate its internals?

Thanks!
That's why I said vegan food should be clearly labeled. Everyone benefits. Vegans love the labels and people that don't read what they are buying can avoid being mislead by their own negligence.