skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most people it's just consumer luxury but my grandmother's place has some neat tricks that really improve her independence. Using anything fiddly like lamps and keys is actually a serious challenge for her. 10 years ago her TV was too complicated but now she has a voice remote and it works pretty well.

Anything that makes life a little easier is good for anyone with marginal capabilities, which is like millions of people and eventually everyone if they manage to live long enough.
German energy giant tests power-generating kite at new facility in Ireland
No drama, I'm more and more prone to using the wrong word, adding a 'not', and totally screwing up comments now that I've passed 60.

I mainly intended to clarify for any readers rather than castigate you, and after the initial remark about time zone I got a little blunt.

( FWIW I made several mistakes in this comment and had to edit twice )
Imagine you're a shady streaming site running tons of shady ads. Now imagine one of your shady advertisers loads a shady iframe using this exploit. The targeted user keeps that tab open for a few hours- they're watching a show, after all. As the streaming site loading the add, you're none the wiser.
Ah yes... so give Meta a couple of years of all gas no brakes with regards to user data while the legislators play catch up.

They have gone for Apple out of pride and short sighted electoral strategy. The answer is to deal with Facebook(Meta) and Google(Alphabet) et cetera first. Pumping money into Gecko development.

This is serving up regular people who use smart phones (which in the west are essentially mandatory) to big data on a silver platter.
that ship has sailed. Minified and optionally obfuscated js is already highly annoying to decipher. The wasm spec is surprisingly high level for what should be a low level VM, and is planned to get much more high level approaching near jvm levels, and isn't any less readable than C++ compiled to asm.js.
What's considered a system application? Messages and Siri that come with the system? Well they include those too.

They basically define it as "the same entitlements that a competing Apple app gets"

> the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

So features like the iMessage app being able to send SMS may be the biggest system entitlement? I don't think a settings app may be considered a service.
Nothing says "I am speaking the literal nonpartisan truth" like a burner account.
Finally. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen to all of these giant corporations and utilities fighting for monopolies.

Incidentally I heard today how many laws against anti-competitive behavior were stripped with Carter and Reagan onward, and it's become a trend in our hyper-corporatist world now that's hurting workers and income classes below the highest.

Watch "DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=bZRjT1eeu4YBZJJJ
Are you releasing your software stack to the public?
Oh yeah, I think 90% of EU tech regulations are overall hurtful to EU citizens in the long run. But Apple acts very high and mighty in the tech industry and throws a lot of stones, so its nice to see Apple hit in their glass house.
> Downvotes welcome!

Happy to oblige!
Idk the hardware specs are pretty anemic for $150. OK I guess if you don't have any other device laying around. Zigbee USB adapters are $15 on Amazon
What happens when your wifi goes down? I mean the local wifi, as often happens for these not "pretty serious routers".

I realize wifi might be the best of several bad options though.
I think you underestimate the lack of self directed learning ability people have before going to a higher education institutions. I know I would have failed at solo learning without going to college before hand.

Structured education can definitely help a majority of students who need to get to a point where self directed learning is effective. I have my qualms with higher education but its existence itself is not one of them.
I honestly don't think HN is capable of acting as a forum for these topics. It takes a lot of moderation and abuse prevention. The article is absolutely interesting and raises good points but this thread is already too polluted by cheap disinformation techniques (namely whataboutism) to have any meaningful discussion at this point. Good luck with this one mods!
One of the cooler experiences I've had with MacPorts was seeing some people go out of their way to ensure builds still worked on PPC Tiger and PPC Leopard.

I remember seeing SBCL builds broken on Darwin/ppc for a long while, and eventually SBCL decided to drop support for Darwin/ppc altogether. Still, these ports maintainers did not give up and eventually found a way to fix SBCL builds on PPC: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65484

I recall seeing some work to bring back PPC support upstream, but I am not sure what the progress on that is. It's still cool seeing downstream users fix builds that simply didn't work (and to the point where upstream decides to remove support entirely since they couldn't build it anyway).
But not actual RADAR maps, with weather and aircraft returns.
Yeah, your car says something about you. Teslas are a goal for a techie, Mercedes/BMW are the goal for old money, big trucks are the goal for more working class guys etc
The quote is an example
of Chinese disinformation being spread in Taiwan, not a reflection of anything in reality.
Do you have a static maps api I can push some geojson to draw over?
Good news for a change. Government is supposed to protect us from business.
The volume of Chinese disinformation inside China about Ukraine from Feb 2022 thru dec 2022 was amazing. Bio weapons, assassination plots, secret missiles - pick your favourite conspiracy theory and it was out there.

The CCP UnitedFront don't seem to realise the damage they are doing to their own political image.

And for fellow HN readers no matter what you read about China always bear in mind that politics comes first. It is more important than lives, morals, history, families, science, economics. Everything is subservient to politics, everything. Not saying is good or bad - it is just the CCP "way".
Don't most Europeans use Android whereas most Americans/Canadians/Australians/Britons use iPhone?
Would you consider an API for “style your own basemap” with your vector data?

I sometimes find myself caring about if the basemaps look good and fit my use case more than the API cost.
So target and Walmart would still be allowed to do it because they aren’t market dominating? What’s the point?
There are a lot of really good benefits to breastfeeding but it's not going to work for everybody or in every situation. I wouldn't fault a doctor for recommending it, but they shouldn't make someone feel bad if it isn't working out.

I want recommendations and best practices to change as our understanding of things improve though. The alternative would mean that either no more research is being done, or doctors are just ignoring anything they didn't learn while in school.
All modern GPUs have isolated memory contexts and full CPU-like virtual memory address space and page tables for each user context. It's not possible to (directly) read data from another context. As far as I can tell from what you're trying to say, your comment is completely incorrect about GPUs not supporting that.

From the description given, I assume this is using timing differences to tell the size of each compressed tile, which gives you info on it's contents. This is certainly not helped by the ability for an apparently untrusted iframe to apply a transform to a target that the security model would normally disallow reading pixels from, amplifying the data from this side channel. Without that it's "just" another sidechannel attack.
I can follow these goalposts. They're already in gut microbiomes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763555/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374590/
Older nurses are the best. They've seen it all.
It's no different from any other loss-leader.
Antigen tests, on their box, usually say that if you test positive (there's enough virus to turn the strip, it's most likely correct.

But if you test negative, it doesn't guarantee it's actually negative -- since there are so many factors that could have led to that negative result (insufficient virus, early in the infection, incorrect swabbing, reagent expired).

This is explicitly stated on the box, so it's not "useless". During the early days of COVID, the antigen test is also a cheaper, faster "statistical" filter since full PCR tests are more expensive and less scalable. It's actually doing what it's meant to do.
Permissions can be baked into OS. No matter how the app is installed you'll get same popups confirming them. Though it should be also applicable to Apple apps.
> It's not a matter of culture or policy as evidenced by the profiteering of European luxury goods monopolies

I'm sorry but what?
> hurts their models

unless the AI models surpass a certain critical point, with which new and original works could be generated without using original human derived works.

aka, an AGI.
Yet when refering to both space and time, you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time.
Okay, then why did Yahoo outbid Google for placement?
In India, mutton is older goat not a sheep. So word mutton means older sheep or goat depending on which country one is taking about.
I gotta admit, I like lightbulbs that are just lightbulbs.
How many galaxies are in the Universe? (2022)
Man if only there was another way to turn on lights.
As luck would have it, there is apparently new research out on SBS that you might enjoy reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
How much was the salary for principal? Because I know it can do 400k TC and not sure entry level FAANG is that level.
Apple HomePod controls mine. No apps, no cloud, no internet needed.
The customer is responsible for accepting the level of quality of said goods. And it seems overwhelmingly that they (thru their action, rather than words), prefer to have cheaper, lower quality goods as long as it passes some threshold.

Therefore, if a machine surpasses this threshold, they will win marketshare.
how do you turn them on through local network?

the typical solution using wifi connected arduino servos seems like overkill.
There is no monopoly in distribution. The vast majority of items are bought offline. Walmart, Costco, Target, Kroger and on and on and on and on.

The world wide web + google and facebook make finding eyeballs open for all. Fedex, UPS and USPS make shipping products open to all. Stripe makes accepting payments open to all. Cheap 3rd party manufacturing makes making things open to all.

We've probably never been further from a monopoly in any of the areas in question. The reason it's so damn hard to make any money selling random products is that there is just so much competition.
You don't need much of a signal.

At that level, a simple signal that "Your opponent made a mistake and there is a line greater than +3 right now! Look for it." would be a huge advantage.
Surprised I haven't seen more mentions of Z-wave here. It seems like something that would be more popular.
> Shopify does have what they call "Shop" now, which works like a marketplace, but in my experience that's still a relatively small channel for Shopify sellers.

It's getting pushed harder due to things like Shop Pay being a thing. I've actually been trying to use it more, given I do purchase an increasing number of things from Shopify-powered retailers - but their search and targeting still needs a lot of work for it to behave like a proper marketplace.
Ikea has gotten quite a bit better. Most of their devices are Zigbee 3.0 now, and work fine.
> ...is your bugbear here that these particular scripts are written in C++ instead of Python?

this isn't a bugbear - how should i, a user of yosys, that disagrees with the yosys devs about how the xilinx flow should work, proceed?

> By just using C++ for these scripts which usually only developers need to modify, Yosys does not need to depend on either.

you really don't understand how sequence of parameterized steps and compiled binary don't go together at all? see my first question.

> (more or less; it can't model control flow like a proper language can), and then that can be edited into what I need it to do.

again you're being disingenuous - the help message is right there in that file plain as day for everyone to see and the actual steps in the flows are also plain as day and there is an enormous gap in what can be adjusted and exists.

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills here - there's a reason why scripting interfaces are exposed at all right? i.e., tcl. because users need to be able to disagree/decompose/parameterize etc. and these example flows in yosys are frozen in stone (binary) instead of written as scripts that can be adjusted by users.
Is this wishful thinking or did they actually price hike enough to lose money?
Thanks for sharing, really interesting
Because advertising and advertisers corrupt the media they support.
There are other interpretations of some of these experiments (e.g. regarding the action potential). In his book on free will, Mark Balaguer elaborates a little bit. I don't remember the details well, but I'll try to sketch what I think he says.

First, in my recollection, Balaguer points out the form of the argument as follows.

Given that: (1) a particular study shows that one's (perception of when they decided to act) _lags_ the (experimental measurement of the person's action potential spiking), what can we validly conclude?

Some people then claim that (2) claims of making a decision are merely post-hoc rationalizations. I get the sense that such a view is widely held among those who have heard of the experiments -- or at least the popular characterizations of them.

Balaguer says e.g. "not so fast". He points out that we need to talk about the logically necessary steps to reason from (1) to (2). He has a section on this; he claims it isn't as watertight as some think.

As I recall, part of the discussion has to do with motor planning.

Another part is this: there could be a volitional choice that precedes and causes both the action potential spike _and_ the perception/recognition. That volitional choice is unavailable to conscious awareness until some time later, presumably. If true, a person could have made the choice, noticed it later, and still be consistent with the experimental findings.

Apologies for the hazy recollection. I recall not being strongly convinced, partly because I wasn't impressed by the book overall, but I also haven't dug into these topics as much as I would like.

Lucky for us, the issue of latency between action and perception is squarely in the wheelhouse of distributed systems engineers!
> The alternative could be investors investing their capital responsibly, in companies with competent C-suites

That definitely exists and happens all the time
> career drivers leading car manufacturers

?? Driving around a lot doesn’t mean you know anything about manufacturing cars. You may have good inputs on what the interior design should be, but getting a team to build a million mile engine requires a different skill set.
I'm not bashing it, I just want to understand it better
To back this up: I have met at least a few people who admitted to doing exactly this when they were younger. They weren't paid agents of the state. They just found it to be fun and morally righteous.
It assumes a lot of things:

- Submitting a form results in an immediate network request (offline-first apps, hello?)

- The network event is HTTP-based

- The network event is REST

- The payload is contained within the... markup (like why?)

- What about network requests that are not CRUD? If your API is designed propperly, that should be most of the endpoints. Do you make dummy forms for them? How?
Hey, don't laugh! Literally last week I dug out my old X10 kit and set up my new office with it and a 25 year old remote that only needed new batteries. Still got the serial port dongle somewhere too in case I need to strap it to a Pi :)
>An ex-convict has very few options for employment after they've served their time, so it's unsurprising that many need to steal for their survival

This trope has little to do with the recent spate of property crimes that spiked right after criminal penalties were removed. These are not desperate people, but rather people who willfully and repeatedly exploit an opportunity to harm others without punishment.
You can be, quite easily - see Title 8, 3321b2 (a PA law that lets PA municipalities punish building ordinance violations via criminal process) - most states have some version of this.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?...
The opposite is true in the US. I'd guess that 95%+ of iOS users in the US text primarily on iMessage (excluding those who are primarily texting international contacts).

I'm fact, that's probably the biggest reason I think Apple has been able to abuse their iMessage stance for so long: the EU has been far stronger at regulating compatibility and interoperability (we can thank the EU for the fact that we can finally get rid of tons of dongles), but I think they've been less vigilant about iMessage solely because it's much less of a factor in Europe.
As opposed to the group think around popular programming languages or web development stacks? How about the controversy around COVID origins circa 2020-21? Humans are going to human. HN isn't immune to knee jerk reactions, politics or tribalism.
I made no reference to burner accounts, but thanks for tying that into your not-so-subtle accusation against me. I've been here since 2011. Want proof of my identity, check my bio on Github[1]

This is exactly what I'm talking about. McCarthy like paranoia. Downvoting people because of how old their accounts are[2], not because of what they wrote. Accusations of burner accounts. It's ridiculous.

1. https://github.com/amoffat
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37668908
Sure, but then why care about Apple at all?

Opening up mobile browsers _would_ be good if not for the fact the consequence will be bugs that won't be fixed by devs for everyone not using Chrome.

Just use Chrome is advice that will be given by the corps when these bugs arise.

Our legislators are about to sleep walk into Google determining web standards fairly much unilaterally. Manifest V3 is what they do when they don't quite have that power. And that is a problem for Firefox users.
I’d question whether our techie peers can be bothered to care about these principles. IME most are too complacent.
I don't know why this is flagged. I thought it was fairly well established that covid does something to the blood.

Good that people are still researching it and trying to improve our understanding, but not exactly earth shattering news here.
Because they have in the past declared "Java is not a functional language" and were hostile to the use of monads in the standard library. They are adding nice features, but the language will never be as clean and unified as Scala.
While I don't doubt those general numbers, it seems likely that the 27% of "control failures and errors" are relatively consistent among stores while "external theft" could be magnitudes higher in some locations in others.

I live in Brooklyn and things like toothpaste and detergent are in lock and key in Target. I just end up ordering them on Amazon.
The whole Amazon Basics thing, cannibalizing sellers, should be illegal. It just victimizes people trying to make a living in a crap job market where online sales are closing street shops.
Why? Should we demand that Ford shuts down its assembly lines and instead hires tens of thousands of people to manually machine and assemble all of the parts of the car? If not, why is that labor unimportant, but other labor is vital and supremely valuable?

There’s this weird place some of you have ended up, wherein all prior automation is good and fine, but future automation must cease immediately, solely to preserve people’s current work exactly as is.

I don’t get it.
TFA covered more than just C programs.
> Those bring insane value

but those value is not privately captureable by them, but is instead captured by the students, or the patients etc.
This is a great idea.
I want to make a 'pet' for my kid.
I can't get them a real dog, so why not a tinyLLM?

Training on guttenberg data is a great idea. What I would do is train it on all the e-books I have that are suitable for kids (I managed to find quite a lot online).

The dad jokes idea is great, please keep doing things along this line.
Yeah two American companies with HQ next to each other.
In the US, it can definitely reach the point where they will tear it down and send you the bill for the demolition. And if you don’t pay that bill, they’ll then auction off your land to get paid.
I really hope you get to write the forward for the next published 3GPP specification.
nix comes with a tool called nix-collect-garbage which takes care of this for you
This is a really good argument. One that I haven't heard before. Is there a name for it? It seems to cover some of the backward steps we take when meandering (hopefully) forwards that I for one hadn't considered.

I suspect it's not worth pausing anything over due to the inevitable if we won't they will excuse and also because its part of the re-invention of business that goes with new technology. The things you want that have gone are now an opportunity for someone else to figure out. If I was an entrepreneur keeping my ear to the ground I'd weigh up starting a boutique produce delivery services, a human agency dedicated to dealing with companies on your behalf, a wix plugin market, a book review site etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica

And many others. For example, Luxottica is an eyewear monopoly that owns 80% of brands selling $5 worth of plastic for hundreds.
We recently had a thread on HN about how bad iCloud Drive is. Well it struck again... I upgraded to Sonoma and then it promptly started re-syncing all few hundred thousand of my files. It's just not dependable. If I could do it all over again I would have invested in DropBox years ago... but I am so deeply in the Apple ecosystem including needing their Premier bundle for various family services it seems silly not to use this built-in service.
> The alternative could be investors investing their capital responsibly, in companies with competent C-suites

That will never happen, the influence of money is always corrupting. There is no free market solution, these are things that have to be enforced by law.
> Instead, I have a simpler workaround, assuming you just have lights and "smart outlets" in your life. Get a hold of an Ikea Dirigera hub. Then delete the units from the Hue Hub and add them to the Ikea side of things. It'll run them just fine, and will also export them to HomeKit so that much will keep working as well.

I have a simpler solution. Take all this home automation stuff and throw it out. Replace it with non tech equivalents. Observe your stress and care melt away. Spend your energy on endeavors that matter, like family, friends, and Nintendo Switch emulators.
isn't an even number of judges ripe for uselessness?
They also make appliances, so it is as simple as buying a home assistant yellow and pairing it to the lights.
Yes, I know that. Where did I say differently? I said the threats are being normalized. If a world power is telling their citizens that it's happening, whether its actually happening or not, then that is the process of normalization.