skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was in consulting, I used to think of it as a perk (as did many of my peers). Once the travel started to wear on my personal life, I ran the numbers and discovered the miles and points I was earning equated to only around $200-300 per month in cash equivalent value.

It's really surprising to me how intensely some people will pursue relatively worthless airline miles. I suppose if you're going to be traveling anyway, you might as well pick them up. But if you have the choice, it's not really worth the trade-off.
For me, it wasn’t even a modified phone. It was just a bog standard iPhone 14 Pro.
Came for this, was not disappointed.
I feel the same way about corporate sales forecasts where they then come back and say they've "lost" money because they didn't hit some arbitrary goal
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Less of an issue for area shutoff valves (e.g. under-sink) , since most of the time they are used before doing maintenance and there is little flow at the time.

We did have a plumber (!!) damage our pressure regulator by turning the whole-house shutoff valve (inches away from the regulator) too quickly; that was a bit annoying.
That is not what revenge porn is. This is de novo artwork.
Yeah. I still think that the Matrix.org Foundation should have a branded client, simply called “Matrix”, available in all the major app stores.

Lock it to the matrix.org server and offer membership in the foundation as an in-app purchase. Could help with some of their recent funding issues.
Here's a study showing various levels of lead leaching into drinks from ceramic mugs found in the US:

https://foodsafetyandrisk.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

Important quote: "The estimated daily dose of lead exceeded the California Maximum Allowable Dose Level of 0.5 μg per day for one of the five mugs tested."

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29606600
It's important to the USPS because the reason they want to know a person's identity is for the purpose of physically delivering mail to the correct address for that person.

> what about states that don't reissue IDs when someone moves

Do these exist? I'm not aware of any state that doesn't require you to update your address when you move.
I'm sure he's getting something out of it. Perhaps it's really more lobbying for Bloomberg. Perhaps it's tax related. Perhaps it's just a "pledge," which is non-binding.
Thanks for the feedback; gotten some of the same here.

I've tried to be really thoughtful about using space and getting value out of every pixel. There are some features in Harlequin that make it nice on small screens, even with the padding:

1. Scrolling is supported in every widget
2. You can show or hide the left side bar with ctrl+b or F9
3. You can enter "full screen mode" in the query editor or results viewer with F10

Beyond the main screen, the interface could be more compact. Especially the export and help modals. I'm considering tweaks to the design.
Think the super unsatisfying answer is:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think a lawyer would advise that that trade would come with a ton of risk. But the law isn’t clear. Generally, the SEC’s goal is to make sure markets are “fair.” What makes a market fair is hard to define.

If you do a ton of work to launch satellites to fly over Walmart parking lots and then model the correlation of how full they are to what the company’s next earnings will be: that seems like you worked hard and earned an edge you can trade on without getting in trouble. Feels like anyone has a theoretically equal opportunity to do the same work you did and get the same trading edge. That feels fair.

Your hypothetical feels less fair. Is it unfair? Maybe? So unfair that it’d be prosecuted? Probably depends on a number of things, including how much you made on the trade. At a minimum it’s an area of unsettled law. And you would almost certainly be in for serious scrutiny and a legal fight.

Supposedly one idea for Google’s business model early on was that they should use search query data to trade equities. After they researched it they concluded it would be considered insider trading. Though it’s hard to distinguish from overhearing something on the train, which (not legal advice) generally has not been. Think the difference at some level is scale and intention. And, I’d guess, if you made it your business to ride the Acela every day between Greenwich and NYC, bought special hearing aides that let you better eavesdrop on conversations, and made significant profits trading on the information then you’d be more likely to be successfully prosecuted.

But… how is that different from flying satellites over Walmart parking lots?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sometimes the law is intentionally a bit unclear. Usually in areas like this where you care about a general concept of fairness and want some caution and buffer at the margins.
I'm surprised the summary of the article only talked about over-reliance on fuzzing and then suggested 1) more thorough code reviews and 2) sandboxing as solutions?! To me, the solution lies in using memory-safe languages.
Except the guy knows where you live and has already shown a willingness to break the law in ways where he thinks he won't be caught. If the top receiver suddenly finds himself dead there is nothing pointing back towards the original inside trader.

This is the stuff of tawdry crime thrillers, but it's certainly not so far out of the realm of possibility that the SEC can just ignore it.
It’s for buying political capital, which is as important as the underlying tech. Look at how the US gave away its solar industry to China from of lack of political will.
The USPS piloted a postal-banking program last year, in four post offices: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2022/04/usps...

It would be awesome if that could be expanded!

Mail scanning is a service already provided by private companies. For example, a random search returned this result for a store in Los Altos (near Mountain View): https://www.villagemailcenter.com/Products-Services/Digital-...

It would be awesome if a community-services provider could set up something similar, but it's worth noting the USPS does have two services which might work:

• https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Is-there-mail-service-for-the...

• https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery
Fascinating. That reminds me that Sheryl Sandberg was one of the strongest proponents of FOSTA/SESTA in the US. Awful setback for safety and rights of actual sex-worker as well as trafficking victims, but excellent for creating a compliance-moat that would protect Facebook/Instagram against challenger apps.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230921144112/https://www.semafo...

https://archive.ph/DKqRu
Not all, IKEA Trådfri works fully hub-less by default.
I think Linus Tech Tips tried
How Scientists Fell for 'Aunt Edna': Dangers of Superintelligent AI Is Fiction
1. All the more reason to be on the lookout for kids in the road etc.

2. All the more reason to slow down, you can't drive if you can't see.

3. All the more reason to slow down. Especially if you have to spend time looking at the map.

Yes, it was a more difficult driving experience than a familiar road on a sunny day. So you slow down. That's what being a responsible driver means. If you just gun it with no idea what's up ahead you're going to end up in a river or worse, hurt someone else.
Call it whatever makes you feel better, it doesn't change the law, which doesn't make this a tech/privacy issue.
Corrosion: Gossip-based service discovery for large distributed systems
The best way to get P2P Matrix back on track is to find someone to fund it, and point them at funding@matrix.org. Unfortunately it's as simple as that.
Makes me sad that billions got poured into cryptocurrency-sphere projects but classic p2p barely scrapes by.

(I mean by society not new vector)
Always going to be a race to the bottom unless the consumer has rights to repair and modify their own devices. Otherwise products that lean on either ad-based or subscription recurring revenue can always undercut products that don't at retail. Make this shit impractical because anyone can install 3rd party firmware that disables the subscription DRM and the problem will go away.
I fill my water distiller with hot tap water. Guaranteed to be safe. Yes, I'm talking about a machine that boils the water, collects the steam, and condenses it back to water. It removes absolutely everything.
I know, I was being facetious. I'm surrounded by women and familiar with the complaint.

The gaslighting works both ways-- they frequently lie or have no idea what they're talking about. Women are the majority of Munchausen cases, and Munchausen-by-proxy perpetrators are overwhelmingly female.

Any amateur self-diagnosis can be validated with enough doctor-shopping. It requires only time and some social engineering skill.
it's also the renewables that get turned off first when demand is lower
Uh, could you please provide some background for your statement?
If I'm reading the GP correctly, by replacing kitchen items containing lead with alternatives that don't contain lead.

That should be much easier and less expensive to do than eg, replacing lead pipes in the house or town/city that may be delivering poisoned drinking water.
Thank you. I am shocked everyone blindly trusts the "$22,000" amount without actually reading the screenshots.
> When they banned lead paint and asbestos, I don't think anyone immediately repainted their walls or replaced their asbestos drywall. It slowly phases out over a number of decades.

Kinda. Or, rich people got it replaced right away. Poor people are still living it with it today.

Go test a $500k and a $100k (this is midwest price not SF price) house for Lead and Asbestos. I bet you find very different results on the average.
Hue light switches (well, the ones I have) simply stick on the wall with no wiring.

The _real_ light switch is permanently on, and the _hue_ light switch sends a beacon to the hub to turn the configured lights on/off (the light bulb socket is always-on)
http://web.archive.org/web/20230921191028/https://www.theatl...

https://archive.ph/A8cxk
DuckDB provides some really nice python APIs that other databases don't have, so it was a very easy way for me to get started. I'm considering/planning extending to other DBs using plugins. More info here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230
Philips used to make products I wanted to own. I now make sure I don't allow them them in my life. (Not just Philips, btw.) I wonder why large corporations/brands do not care anymore? Have they become too big to remove them from our lives and do not need to listen to us?
There is little incentive for the major players to invest in such a hugely expensive effort. Furthermore, a lot of software is running on non-Linux systems.
But.... if you're trading options you're not stealing from the shareholders, right? The person on the other side is also trading options, not a shareholder.
Absolutely. Element is already quite close to that, and once Element Call and native Matrix group VoIP matures more, hopefully it'll be even easier to converge on Discord's featureset.
So far this mysterious evidence is not shared with ANYONE. Whether it is leader of opposition, five eyes allies whom he seeked support from, with the government he is asking to cooperate.

In all likelyhood the evidence does not exist.
"For example, the relationship between lead in blood and heart disease is based on a survey"

What, just a survey? What is the mechanism that causes this? Heart disease is a major killer, but I assume most of it is due to lack of exercise and terrible diet.
That sounds a lot like moving in circles:)
Most (almost all?) Philips Hue devices are standard Zigbee devices. Chuck out your Philips gateway and replace it with a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant and a Zigbee stick. Yeah, it's a bit more work, but if you're reading Hacker News you probably already know how to do this anyways, and honestly, Home Assistant is pretty damn good at staying hands-off. (I only update it every few months, it's on a battery backup in my house so it's basically always on, sometimes I forget it's even there.)
Thanks! Hopefully coming to v2 ... https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230
Not to be a pedant, but just for your info, Ham is not an acronym :)
You'll never get NPM apologists to acknowledge this. One of their only skills is making non-specific appeals to the necessity of it all (as essential infrastructure) and vague arguments that boil down to "you need to trust the wisdom of the crowds" (and e.g. the fact that it exists and everyone else is using it means that anyone who disputes its value just doesn't understand it—bonus points for them if they manage to work in a slight that's designed to paint you, implicitly or explicitly, as a junior), despite not being able to attest to any firsthand knowledge of the real why of anything they're defending.

> The new dependencies were all polyfills for JavaScript functions that have long been supported everywhere. The Object.defineProperties method for example was shipped as part of the very first public Node 0.10.0 release dating back to 2013. Heck, even Internet Explorer 9 supported that. And yet there were numerous packages in that dependend on a polyfill for it.
You're suggesting that it's better to serve 10 people at double the price instead of 100 people at half the price. Never mind the enormous environmental cost of this inefficiency.

> they are just doing everything they can to deliver the least to the public while charging the most they can extract from the public

If you are sure they are gouging and making excessive profits, buy stock in the airlines and get your share.

> it isn't as if the changes airlines made to fill up seats couldn't have happened under regulation, or even that they never would have

They had 40 years to fix it and never did. The airlines fixed it overnight.
No, that's why it will take open source AI longer to win than it should.
EU moves to cut dependency on China for battery and solar panel materials
Pgvector and lanterndb/usearch are nearly as fast and accurate as a SVD (Qdrant)
...and hope we don't cross too many climate tipping points on the way.
I have a few questions I'm not able to find clear answers to:

1. Are other Chrome-based browsers (e.g. Brave) affected by this?

2. Is desktop Chrome affected, or is this purely a mobile thing?

3. Why haven't I heard of WebP before? Am I living under a rock, or is this a mobile-first technology?
Sequels are particularly tough to pull off.

Aliens and Terminator 2 are beloved by fans, but most sequels seem to be either overt cash grabs, or a director trying and failing to recapture what made the first movie special.

> Again, no movie would have satisfied me. I think the very concept of a Blade Runner sequel is wrong and a mistake; but Hollywood must march on, I guess.

I hope out hope that a very special directory/writer team could pull off something wonderful, but in practice you're probably right.
Missing from the title: leaving InfluxDB and Prometheus for VictoriaMetrics.
And this is where the performance starts converging again, because BLAS is also available from C. So if you can express your computation in terms of BLAS primitives, it does not matter much from what language you're calling them.
if you are renting (in most / all? of the US), no way the next person would know.
GitHub Isn't About Code: only 3 of top repos on GitHub contain code (2022)
It's not allowed in any water lines used for drinking or cooking. I would read that as not allowed on hot water lines serving the kitchen for sure (and I suspect most plumbers would agree).

The warning on items from my plumbing supply house for lead containing items is prominent, pops up on each "add to cart", and says "This product does not comply with the “Safe Drinking Water Act,” which requires that products meet low-lead standards in order to be used in systems providing water for human consumption (drinking or cooking). This item is for non-potable (non-human consumption) water applications only."

It is allowed in hydronic heating, HVAC/R, and irrigation fittings (which of course don't have a human consumption element to them).
A bit of a plug but

https://auxhealth.io/try

Does it’s generations with RAG with a mix of structured attributes + semantic retrieval.
Lol. And in an interesting symmetry, prisons are the largest employers in many areas of the United States. The prison industry, or "corrections" more broadly, probably breaks the top five in most US states.
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Venezuela crisis: 7.1M leave country since 2015 (2022)
> the will of the people

is not at all the same thing as having a choice.
> The view seems to be that only state agencies are capable of verifying you actually live at the address on your ID

Cue state system "fun" for military folks who have a home of record they're legally-entitled to keep, despite not being resident.
New study looks again at how alcohol influences attraction
Textual provides a utility for screenshotting apps. I loop over a list of themes and take the screenshots. You can see the code for that here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/blob/e666319b7a964f026...
Sure, but the bridge is an important part of the system.
It’s definitely a concern of mine, thanks for the heads up about that company.

For those that aren’t aware, the primer in cartridges typically have lead styphnate, barium nitrate, and tetrazene, among other things. So even if your bullets have a complete copper jacket, you still get significant lead particulate exposure, especially indoors or with a suppressor with high back pressure. No idea if whatever smokeless powders are used are doped with something fun or not. Bullets with exposed lead have additional concerns, as the surface gets flash melted/vaporized in addition to particles generated from barrel friction. This all adds up.

Never clean guns/suppressors with vinegar (acetic acid), because that just creates lead acetate, a highly bioavailabile form of lead that makes elemental lead look safe by comparison, and legally and morally requires proper hazardous waste disposal.

Fortunately there are alternatives showing up now, including some with lead free primers, but damn if it isn’t expensive, and as expected copper/zinc/mild steel bullets have trouble competing with lead for performance because it comes down to mass.
If I might make some counter-arguments to some of these

A lot of the points of differentiation in terms of plumbing layers are slowly eroding away, systemd helped a lot by standardizing things around service files as opposed to the patchwork of init scripts (and OpenRC and everyone else scripts)

I don't know about BSD's being lighter weight than a Linux system, but I don't really know what your baesline of light weight is (Ubuntu? Debian? Arch? Gentoo?)

For more consistent and deterministic systems there's offerings such as Nix and others

As for rebuilding the whole OS and kernel trivially? Gentoo stands out as probably the easiest one in that regard, your entire system can be rebuilt with "emerge -e world"
Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams
Marvin is doing wonderful work in the JS ecosystem around performance. It has been largely focused on tools and node, however, he did have an interesting set of things to say about how they optimized performance in Preact as well on his website that was really interesting too.

One thing I've noticed is the rampant duplication of polyfills and babel helpers. To the point that I now have overrides setup via pnpm and I re-write many imports of polyfills to point at my own shims, which simply re-export existing functionality native to the language, most of the time.

For smaller utility packages, I often simply clone the repo and copy things over that we need, or copy the src right out of the node_modules folder if possible, then I strip away all the superfluous imports (and often convert from commonjs to ESM if needed)

Saves so much headache, its better for users, smaller builds etc.
UI was pretty much solved in the 90's including the problem of instant feedback. Then abandoned for shiny stuff.

Personally I set up i3 to open most windows asynchronously, so my flow isn't interrupted. It's great, but takes a bit getting used to windows not randomly stealing focus. It's not for everyone though.
https://www.id.me/
This is an amazing step in the right direction. I host a small conduit server for a friend group and I can't wait for the improvements this will bring as a whole!

Good work.
YAML is the Perl of config formats. I just don't understand how it ended up being so popular!

I remember my oss editor at some being had a little problem highlighting a yaml configuration. No problem, - I thought. - how hard can that be?

Well, turns out it's almost cpp level hard to properly parse the language.
Most of those disclaimers don't hold in court in many jurisdictions.

Also outside computing industry everyone is liable on the eyes of the law, even if doing charity.
> When I go on reddit the kids seem to think they'll all die within a decade.

Here's the thing: they're kids. They're not capable of having the same measured responses that adults have.

If they were, they're be much more reasonable about the growing uncertainties of food and water security in the richest empire in human history. They'd be calmer about the real-time collapse of natural and social systems that every other generation has depended upon for every need. They would know what the upper limits of their future problems would be by rationally predicting the effects of impossible-to-predict catastrophic changes on earth, like you and I do.
Thanks for the feedback. I do use Paramiko for some things. I tried to use it for everything in the project but ran into some weird stuff that wouldn't work reliably for me, which is why I switched some of it over to using SSH directly via subprocess (it was a few months ago so I don't even remember now what it was; I believe it was also performance related, since I'm trying to SSH to tons of machines at the same time concurrently).

I guess I did forget to use the execute_network_commands_func. I'm using the ruff linter extension in VSCode now which would have flagged that to me, but back when I made this I wasn't.

I don't think globals are so awful for certain things. I prefer a more functional approach where you have simple composable standalone functions instead of classes. Obviously classes have a role, but I find they sometimes overly complicate things and make the logic harder to follow and debug.

Anyway, I do appreciate that someone took the time to actually read through the code!
Could you share a link to the marketplace?
Intel Shows Work on Next-Gen Glass Core Substrates, Deployment Later in Decade
Ah, the hubris of the single developer who believes they can replace a battle-tested product from a company with innumerable decades of combined human effort.

Glad it works for you!
Weird that the title talks about the petabyte a day, while the article is actually about their monitoring tooling, not the thing ingesting the data from experiments, iiuc.
I'm not following. Are you saying that a colony by definition has to be self-sustaining? Why?
At this stage of globalization, what part of Earth is self-sustaining? How certain are you that if the US was suddenly blocked from importing any goods that it would not descend into chaos?