skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appeals court upholds right to post public laws online
We had a recent experience with one.

We had 3 or 4 bags we brought. We pressed "use our bags", pressed 4, and starting setting them up in the weight-sensitive area. By the time I finished setting up the first bag, the screen had gone back to the initial state, and when I set a bag down, it began complaining. It took a couple minutes just to get bags set up. We also didn't have room in the weight area and had to put some bags on the non-weight area.

Then we had quite a few issues with it complaining about moving or not moving things to the bagging area, several of which required waiting a minute for an employee to come over, type in their override code and clear the error.

Then we selected the wrong fruit because it wasn't accepting the 4 digit code, but it was more expensive, so we once again had to wait for an employee to come fix the issue, as you can't undo any mistakes on your own.

Overall the experience took 10-15 minutes (felt like eternity) and that compares to what would be 60-90 seconds with a cashier. Most of that time was waiting 30-60 seconds during each of the 4-5 times an error came up that we had no power to clear ourselves.

Of course one of the takeaways here is... don't use self-checkout for more than about 5 items max. One bag. Any more and just **ing go to a human. The other is... these systems are shit and they are not designed to work with your customers, but rather to use your customers, regardless of the toll it takes on them.
I owned one and returned it. The biggest flaw was the battery life just wasn’t long enough, which is coupled with a relatively slow charging speed.

I might be more fond of the form factor once phone technology advances ten years or so.
Many of the gl.inet routers can run vanilla OpenWRT out of the box—the linked router above (Beryl) included[1]. Be mindful that not every one of their routers can as some run unsupported chipsets that require a custom build, but many do. Can always check for support on the OpenWRT page for gl.inet routers[2].

Just here to second the recommendation. I'm in no way affiliated, I've just happily used several generations of their routers for this exact purpose.

EDIT: Wanted to point out that their newest and most powerful travel router with (upcoming—in the latest v23 release candidate[3]) support from mainline OpenWRT is the Beryl AX (GL-MT3000)[4].

[1]: https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt1300_v1

[2]: https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/gl.inet/start

[3]: https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.0-rc3&t...

[4]: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/
> due to open source licensing issues.

It's have nothing to do with licensing. MIT License that Godot licensed under is perfectly fine for keeping console support closed-source or source-available.

Problem is that Godot didn't have legal entity that can directly work with platform owners. This is why some of Godot maintaiers founded W4 Games and they're actively working on building console suport for all modern consoles:

https://w4games.com/2023/08/06/w4-games-unveils-w4-consoles-...

Of course console support will be commercial and closed source feature, but this is how it works for all game engines and have nothing to do with Godot specifically.
What is USB-C? Here’s why Apple’s charger switch is such a big deal
No one said Amazon is paying the minimum wage though. They're working to pay the absolute minimum while still having adequate staffing.
I was surprised it looked like it came straight from the movie ET. lol
Great to hear about the diverse tools available for game development. Whether love2D or PICO8, there's something for everyone, from beginners to seasoned developers.
Extensions Go MRR – dataset of underperforming browser extensions
"Arrogant" is a term freely thrown around by those who are uncomfortable with the shifting power dynamics. It's easier to label someone than to confront systemic inequities.

COVID made people realize exactly what companies thought about workers.

- They took you for a sucker for accepting too little for a thankless yet vital job. Then they realized they couldn't operate without you and suddenly you became a "hero."

- Remote work exposed the farce that is the 9-to-5 office grind. It was never about productivity, it was about the appearance of control without trust. Workers got their commuting time back. Companies now want that back for free? Suddenly you're "entitled"

- Companies hoarded cash and posted record profits, while laying off staff and cutting benefits. But ask for a raise, and you're the one who's "arrogant."

- The C-suite execs took home bonuses and stock options, while you took home anxiety and a depleted 401(k). But sure, you're the one who needs an "attitude adjustment."

- The pandemic revealed that many jobs can be done from anywhere, opening up global talent pools. If companies can hire globally, why can't workers demand globally competitive wages and living standards?

So, let's call it what it is: not arrogance, just indignation.
I wish PICO-8 and TIC-80 doubled resolution for the IDE part. The fonts make it hard to do serious long work and working in an external IDE isn’t as fun for kids.
So absurd.

Their target is described as games almost-finished in 4 months at most, starting from 0, so they chose mobile tycoons, idle clickers, which are indeed finishable in 4 months if you scrub the bottom of the barrel.

For that reasons there is lots of them.

Then another case study is copying one of the most successful idlers and failing at it, yeah dawg that exists already.

It takes a fuck ton of more work with a 4 months deadline in a very small or one person team and actually making something meaningful that isn't an exact clone of something. Let alone exact clone, 4 months isn't even enough to clone something more complex.

This publisher also doesn't seem to have done anything to add value in the end anyway.

Had they bought ready-to-publish games that are of this type and reskinned it with passable assets and advertised it on tiktok, they'd have better chance at turning a profit.

Not to give any ideas though.
PostGIS is awesome! I use it quite extensively for the backend of my hobby project: https://cubetrek.com

It's basically a Strava-like webapp to manage activity data for running, hiking, biking etc.

PostGIS makes it very easy to query tracks in a given bounding box, get matching activities to compare past performances on the same tracks etc. Also the GeoJSON conversion is very handy to integrate it with MapLibre GL JS on the front end.
Then it's a shame the not only US capitalism and world capitalism is incapable of investing in the long term. Though I'm fine with government support as long as the outcomes return a fair share of the benefits of the private venture back to the government.
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Hobbyists and even professionals are looking at 1000 SKUs to maybe 10,000 SKU projects.

Knowing how to code and design at the 10,000 unit level is important. At this level, paying $3 per oscillator module for 2% higher reliability is more important than paying for a $0.50 XTAL and trying to save $2.50 per SKU.

Because the bulk of the costs are development, and because you are likely building a reputation as an elite artisan selling highly custom goods for a niche audience.

The $20,000 difference of a $2.50 module with slightly better reliability is absolutely the right choice to make.
I’ve heard that the problem isn’t the lack of skilled engineers in AZ, but the union trades. At Intel they have to prepare the location for an electrical pull three days ahead of time. The pull must be between 9am and 4pm, M-F. I expect the unions are making similar demands at TSMC, and the Taiwanese, just like every other American business owner are pissed. However the Taiwanese think that bringing over people to do the trade work themselves is going to improve the pace. That’s going to result in a plant which will be continuously sabotaged by the unions. What really needs to happen is the AZ Democratic Governor (or the two Democratic senators) need to step in and negotiate with the Unions. She probably doesn’t realize this is the most important issue in the state right now, and that she can make a difference.
I've never understood that check. Anyone attempting to steal something just wouldn't put an item they didn't scan in the bagging area. It's almost certainly always a false-positive, which is confirmed by most store employees just clearing the error without checking.

And then there's the other check that if you do scan something, it needs to go in the bagging area. So if I go into a store and grab a single item, and just scan it and hold it, the machine will freak out that I didn't put it in the bagging area. If I don't put it there quick enough it'll lock up and need an employee to intervene. Ugh.

In my experience, Target is the only store that has consistently implemented a good self-checkout experience.
> What are the odds that NSO has like 20 other zero-days in their arsenal each set ready to deploy the day the current vulnerabilities are discovered and patched?

I feel it's the safe money, certainly. One exploit dev in a given year can churn out multiple weaponized 0 days, surely they have more than one dev working on such things, so you're talking about a stockpile of likely dozens of vulns. Some might collide with public vulns so they lose a few, but you knock one down and I have to assume they have others staged.

> Apple is rich enough to increase their bounties large enough to attract them to right side instead?

That's a good question. I think at NSO's price point the answer is probably "no", but I don't know. At best Apple could be competitive, but bug bounty work is far riskier - you might spend a long time without getting a payout, either due to some bad luck, collisions with already reported vulns, or a vendor just being a dick (pretty sure Apple have been dicks).

> what should anyone who even vaguely suspects state sponsored spying do?

Probably have more than one phone, for starters. Use authenticated protocols, not SMS/MMS. It's insane that anyone can just send data to your phone unprompted. I'd probably disable cell service altogether unless I'm actively making an outbound call to a known contact.
I did the math.

It’s cheaper to pay for the 2TB iCloud for 2 years than it would be to upgrade to larger storage on the phone. It’s actually even less because my whole family uses the same quota together.
The entire situation is extremely one sided -- I would be highly skeptical of any source that does not paint Russia and Putin in a terrible light.
> Surely whatever money these guys spend buying these zero-days, Apple is rich enough to increase their bounties large enough to attract them to right side instead?

TL;DR, Apple probably doesn't care enough

You're in a very exclusive club if you're targeted by NSO (ie. very few people are victims) and most of the general public probably doesn't understand or care enough to get their pitch forks out.

Personally if I was anywhere near being a possible NSO target I'd dump all my devices or at least have them fully airgapped, the only way you'll win that fight.
Are you sure the demo sound files are correct on the website? Couldn't appreciate any glaringly obvious differences between the original and denoised with studio grade headphones here. Or, the originals aren't noisy enough.
Another question: what is "misinformation" in a scientific debate? Positing alternative hypotheses and questioning assumptions is core to the scientific process.

And is it misinformation to re-publish/share dozens of studies which demonstrate the opposite of what the "official narrative" is?
Fine tuned gpt-3.5 is 8x the cost of regular gpt-3.5 for inference, other thread where this is discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494335

This may be acceptable for some use cases, bot not for others where even regular gpt-3.5 may not be economical.
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The French apparently measured the test at a closer distance than EU regulations.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492752#37495753
The Norway problem is an example of trying to fix a problem that was never there.

If we kept strings double quoted as they were forever it wouldn't have been a problem.

That's the easiest way.

* TRUE / True / true & FALSE / False / false = parse as boolean

* "something quoted" = parse as string

* ...

Same stuff happened with the first version of Angular. For some reason they parsed "no" as false, even though JavaScript coerces it to true.
PlayCanvas: Free and Open Source JavaScript Game Engine
>"All of mythen’s components, from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) to the chassis and the battery, were developed by the students themselves and optimised for their function. Thanks to the use of lightweight carbon and aluminium honeycomb, the race car weighs in at only around 140 kilos (309 pounds)."

Never knew about Aluminum Honeycomb -- before reading this article...

Let's do some quick Google searches for it:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=aluminum+honeycomb&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=aluminum+honeycomb

Yup, apparently "it's a thing"... :-)

>"People also ask

What is Aluminum Honeycomb used for?

Aluminium Honeycomb - CEL Components - As core material, aluminium honeycomb is used in sandwich panels and it is utilised in: floors, roofs, doors, partitions, facades, working surfaces for automatic machines, laser jet cutting and for all products which require an optimal stiffness-to-weight-ratio."

>"Aluminium honeycomb is highly desirable due to its incredibly high strength-to-weight ratio and is applicable wherever lightness and strength are required."

So, very interesting!

Another material of the future, no doubt!

(I bet it works great as an electrical ground and/or antenna, too!)
the new airpods do have usb-c no?
This article is from 2021.

They indeed use an SQL database and SQL queries to implement a key-value store. The data is stored in a regular table (CREATE TABLE example (key BLOB PRIMARY KEY, value BLOB NOT NULL). It's very unlikely that this really achieves high-performance, given that the SQLite backend is actually a key-value store and the SQL interpreter runs on top of it as an intermediate layer. To avoid some performance-drawbacks caused by this architecture they added caching.

They have even considered RocksDB and LMDB, but have rejected them with reasons that I can not relate.

I have implemented a transactional key-value store myself for my project and information management tools fifteen years ago (before the other mentioned stores became available) based on the aforementioned SQLite backend (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Udb and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Sdb) which supports both robust integrity and high performance. Doing the same with the full SQLite just adds complexity and lowers performance with no added value.
The author is handwavingly wondering aloud if shoplifting is responsible for the cost of living crisis, spurred on by new shittier checkout procedures.

No, it's demonstrably not. I shop from a few small local grocery stores within walking distance that haven't changed their checkout systems in years, in a nice neighborhood in downtown. The prices had skyrocketed regardless.
If they are something unusual that you need to read yourself, find somebody with an Applesauce:
https://applesaucefdc.com/

I would expect that for any released software, you could probably find it on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple

And particularly Total Replay for games:
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay2
> It's always /var/www/$url.

Or in a shared hosting environment /home/<user>/public_html/ or /home/<user>/www/
I love the "what keeps you up at night" question as well: it's easy enough to qualify it or in context make it clear that it applies to the business.
> "Wait wasn't capitalism supposed to bring us less work hours and less overall working years?"

It did. For the few who are willing to accept the lower standard of living of the past, this era is quite comfortable. A lot of things that people think too basic to give up today were special treats or luxuries in the past, like eating out at restaurants or going out to the movies.

But, no, the majority wanted to keep up with the Joneses and are happy to spend away all their income even if it dooms them to toil away at a unloved job forever.
I just used one of these things in singapore. Slowest phone ever. If this is only 2 year old tech then I am a shoe. None of this technology to build it was sanctioned. Everything about the title of this article is a lie.
I assume by artificial they mean software, as in the iphone 15 and 14 Pro use the same SoC so they should have the same coding capabilities. Although it's possible prores is handled by a separate controller chip on the Pros (AFAIK only the M-series have hardware prores).
Not 100% free, but a pretty low cost. If you were planning on switching carriers anyway for lower "new customer" rates and don't have a use for your old phone it is free.
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy AI
Airbyte made progress on Postgres replication performance
That's not how BiaB works at all. It has all kinds of patterns built into it. So, it knows, how to generate, say, a bluegrass bassline in a given key. There are plenty of ways to play back MIDI with high sound quality, including feeding it into an AI-driven VST like NotePerformer.
1) That’s just outright theft, so, great job posting that publicly.

2) Buying organic is an economic statement, not a health one (an organic zucchini isn’t vastly more healthy than a non-organic one), so all you’re doing there is screwing over the organic farmers who are trying to run their business a better way.
To be honest, If you read the whole thing it becomes more clear. But I get what you mean.

You rarely read a text where someone tries to honestly (I feel that the author is) analyse their own failure.
If you think further it’s also interesting where that doesn’t completely work.

I feel this a hard text to write on more than one level, so people should at least read it before criticising too harshly.
>In the same way, many successful musicians can't read sheet music or know music theory, they just know how to produce something that sounds good.

Right, because they can operate the instruments that make the sound with natural talent, but they don't have to draw the waveforms. Audio generation is much different than image generation. It's just very odd to me.
Partnering on America’s Toughest Challenges
People with crazy ass multi-hundred (or thousand) dollar headphones complaining about a fucking $8 dongle will never cease to amuse me.

I actually wonder if they wanted to get rid of the headphone jack not because of the space it took up (which is significant for the number of connections) but for help with 'water-proofing'.

I also feel like one of the main reasons for at least the design of the lightning connector was multi-faceted. At the time their obvious other choice would have been micro usb B, which is a terrible connector that fails often, especially in cases where it is heavily used. It would have been a support nightmare for them. The design of lightning being a thicker 'core' type connector rather than the flimsy core of a micro usb B or even usb C probably made it easier to make water resistant and cut down on hardware support concerning the connector. I know that on the few occasions when I was having problems with cable connections to an ipad or iphone i'd grab a pair of tweezers and find some lint in the female side of the connetor.
> The fact that the non-cash recipients "caught up" suggests the exact opposite, seems a bit problematic.

The control recipients still received benefits designed to help the homeless so it isn't surprising that they also improved. What is exciting is that the cash:

1) gave much more immediate results, therefore reducing suffering

2) generated net savings via reduced social service use

So we have a method that is better and cheaper for a screen-able subset of the homeless population, it might not be a "game changer" but its an improvement over the status quo worth exploring further.
Stem training for the next generation of Latinas in tech
The larger an EV is the less efficient it is because it has to carry the unloaded battery with it, and it needs more battery for the same function. I don't have the number but I would bet that the energy need is a square of the vehicle weight. It's the same problem rockets have where they have to expend fuel just to carry fuel.
US amends hypersonic weapons strategy: If you can't zoom with 'em, boom 'em
the problem is it's not just one feature, it's USB3 and ProRes and the PHYs for handling external displays, and a bunch of other stuff besides. in aggregate the cost adds up, it's a larger and more expensive SOC and a higher-end phone with more expensive hardware.

If a large portion of the market will never use those features, why not exclude them and make the phone $200 cheaper? and thus, we arrive at the reason why "base" and "pro" model product tiering exists (not just for apple either).

would it be nice if you got the 7800X3D for 7600 prices? sure, free stuff would always be nice.

is there an argument that if you're spending $1000 you shouldn't be compromising on features? yes, that's why I buy NVIDIA products and not just "we have a bit more VRAM" or "we're 5% faster in raster perf/$".
How is it not true? Do you have evidence refuting the premise that people with bad credit are more likely to skim cash from the till?
It's advantageous to use different brands to protect e.g. against firmware bugs.

You also might want to check https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...
> you’ll be cursing out Apple for how slow it is.

Is it though? Really? 480 Mb/s is quite fast for most applications, especially those involving a smartphone.

Any user with files large enough that this transfer is ostensibly slow is a videographer of some sort and has likely bought the pro model or at least planned for this event.

What sort of file is a "random 1-off thing" that a casual user might need to transfer, unexpectedly, over the wire, which is so large that a speed of 0.48 gigabits/sec is extremely slow?

The non-pro model can transfer a 5GB file over the wire in around a minute. Again, what is the real-world use case or scenario where a non-pro, casual user would find some random 1-off file, that is so large that the 0.48 Gbps speed is lacking?
>>While a silicon-based camera is as cheap as dirt these days, an one-dimensional InGaAs pixel array already costs upper few thousand dollars. Any full-blown IR spectrometer system goes way over $10k, with their fancy thermoelectric cooling and precision gratings (we actually have one in our lab). The reason why they are so expensive is that the target user group are scientific researchers, not consumers. <<

the expense is a product of intended use.
performance guarantee, is responsibility for design failure.
scientific instrumentation must be very consistent for the purpose.
> Western states were aiding and abetting Putin's regime up until last years.

> until last years.

Very strange phrasing, that's not idiomatic English. How many years? That should say something like "until last year" or "until X years ago" or "until the last X years".

What is the value of X?

I might presume that you mean the last year, e.g. 2022, but there are some problems with that. You've claims that western states were assisting Russia, and cited the supposed actions of two American companies. But the American state itself is not those companies, and has been arming and training Ukraine to fight Russia since at least 2014.
And then two years later they take and rule on a case that was completely fabricated.

Awesome. Glad to know it's rules for thee and not for me
The Pixel 7a costs $444 for similar specs. If iOS, the Apple ecosystem, and other creature comforts aren't worth $355 to you, why complain and just buy the Pixel? Seems like less fuss and muss.