skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just want an IoT plug so I can switch things off and on. It should expose a tcp port and allow me to send packets to it via wifi with some level of authentication. I don't want any cloud shit with it. Just a simple (okay, it's not actually that simple) device that connects to wifi and lets me throw packets at it to control it.

Shelly devices offer a firmware that can be controlled trough a REST API locally. Unfortunately it's still proprietary and not open, but it doesn't require a cloud connection.

Otherwise you can buy a device and replace the firmware, there are number of open alternatives, such as ESP Home, Tasmota, etc.

Or... you can build it yourself. Building a smart plug is an easy task, if you have some practice on electrics. You will likely build a better product in terms of safety and capabilities that one you can buy.
> I have no faith in "yes the law has technical pathological cases but obviously nobody would do that". I used to, but I've just seen enough cases of the letter of the law being twisted with complete disregard to the spirit. E.g. practically any law to do with terrorism

I actually count this as the primary positive outcome of COVID.

So many people woke up to the reality of state power during that period. No more "this couldn't possibly happen here" or "they'd never!".

And even more after COVID, once the propaganda relented and the veil dropped even further.
You'd have to be really obtuse (or otherwise invested) to not get the memo by now.

The pool of people who got a taste of the oppressive medicine has extended from "fringe" / "criminal" to wide swathes of "normal", middle class population. A costly lesson for sure, but extremely valuable.
PostHog is a fantastic product and I really feel like they are becoming the company that is looking to broadly share their learnings/experience with others.
Thing is, you and people like you won't come in any of the acts. Of anything. And that's arguably just.
This is not at all what he said, he refuses to use (learn) it because of ideological reasons. That is not the same. I can relate to some extent.
Is there a reason to think a trusty Thinkpad from the times before would ever break down? The man clearly had chosen a worflow for life, which... Good for him. The biggest currency of the 21st century thinkers seems to be attention...
To this day I’m still confused about where questions and answers start and stop, respectively.
Rust can "just" be run; as in, the developer can create a binary and run that. Or you can compile from source without too much trouble with "cargo build".

Java is a bit more complex, and was even more complex in the past. You had to download Java (and on Windows, came with this annoying "Java updater" thing), and on Linux/BSD machines it couldn't "just" be installed via the package manager but had to manually download it from the Sun website (at some point Canonical got a special agreement with Sun to allow this though).

Later OpenJDK became mature enough to be used, which solved the entire problem, but that took quite a while.

This is why Java has traditionally not been huge in the open source world for writing applications.
FastAPI lol
Same reason Intel had to oay up, abuse of market position. The problem is not having a dominant market position, the problem is abusing it. In case of nVidia, there is enough to justify anbinvestigation, and search warrant, into potential abuse. Whether or not this is true will be decided in courts, maybe some 10 years from now.

And no, nations do not work like companies...
But that doesn’t make it a universal basis for ethics.
Most Windows PCs have Bitlocker disk encryption turned on, so locking the PC would make it much harder to capture the contents.
Label accounts are very important for verifying authenticity on Bandcamp.

It's very easy to pick up some small but niche artist that is not on Bandcamp, and upload their music pretending to be them. (It's of course very illegal, but I personally know artists this has happened to).

It's harder to fake an entire label. Before you buy anything on Bandcamp, check that their label links to them, otherwise you could well be supporting a scammer.
Article/story, not comments.
Be sure to read at least the end of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl (forget how much we covered in school, probably just excerpts).
In many EU countries it's decriminalized, hence me saying it was de facto legal.
Temporarily embarassed founder-CEO of a global tech giant, I suppose.
Quora used to be amazing...
Che shirts - yes, "1956: best year of my life" shirts - not so much.
> the enshittification has also taken over parts of the Linux desktop as well though. For example, the mobile-first, flat-everything user-hostile design. (like gnome)

My first successful experiment with Linux was in 2003 (having flopped in the late 1990s, when Linux could be found on the shelf in stores everywhere). The desktop I used then was Gnome 2. My current desktop is Gnome 2, with more or less the exact same look and functionality, though it's called Mate. It's only enshittification if you have a way to force it on people against their will.
I’ve been doing multithreaded embedded system for over 20 years, and the latest system is a custom Actor C++ framework (so yes, I’ve professionally used Actors in a shiping system).

Having said that, I find Apple’s implementation exceptionally complex. Aiming for safety and catering to inexperienced devs, they’ve created something way too complex for less experienced devs to understand. In my personal opinion, they should have overlooked Actor safety and gone with a simpler model which is easily understandable, and rely on experienced devs to understand what is happening under the covers and program accordingly.

To use a cooking analogy, We live in a bizarro world where chefs are being asked to abandon cooking knives (they’re dangerous), and to use dozens of kitchen aids for safety. And the limitations this produces…
This is super interesting. I posted this thread - could we interview you about this for our article? Just 10 mins. I'm at harry[at]embeddable.com.
You’re absolutely correct.

It’s just irrelevant since you don’t need anything even approaching hyperinflation to have real world impact on people, and the real wage loss over the past several years is clearly in that category.
Hyper-V is enough for most of us, no need for other virtualization technologies.

I also don't mind that type 1 hypervisors have won, and if one is doing any kind of local Docker or Kubernetes development, the tiny impact of running Windows as a guest hardly matters in the grand scheme of things.

Even though WSL hardly brings anything new over VMWare, much more feature rich than Virtual Box, it saves me the headache of being yet another thing I would care to install, or pay for.
For additional context, it seems the post in the "Background" link was published sometime in 2021 or 2020 and the first release of Cardinal seems to have been in February 2022: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/22.02

So that is presumably why it wasn't mentioned in the post itself.

There are also a couple of other more recent projects I'm aware of that relate to the issues discussed in the "No Perfect Alternative" section[0]:

* CLAP Audio Plugin ABI standard[1] as alternative to single company controlled VST.

* Bespoke software modular synthesizer[2] which includes a Python live-coding feature.

In case anyone else is also interested in exploring this space. :)

[0] https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-v...

[1] https://cleveraudio.org

[2] https://www.bespokesynth.com
Thanks for sharing. That reminded me of another experience: around 2012, the front left wheel of my car ended up in a ditch by the side of the road. I was considering calling a tow truck, when a crowd gathered and told me to get in the car and hit reverse when they gave the signal. Then they proceeded to literally lift the car out of the ditch. I had barely enough time to mumble thanks before the crowd dispersed as quickly as it had assembled.

On the other hand, once in the New York subway, I was running toward the closing doors of a train, and some of the folks inside tried to keep the door open (which was not really possible) and clapped when I made it in by a hair's breadth. But then again it was a Friday night and many passengers at that time were a bit sloshed and quite friendly.
Well, I am open to changing my mind. What do you think, what's the reason then? From an outsider perspective, 10 years ago I've seen all those beautiful, perfectly usable UIs, and they have almost all disappeared by today. What happened? Why do you think GNOME does that?
Then why isn't at least one of those jacks a TRS so you can use normal headphones?
They contain less pesticides on average and pesticides are directly linked to cancers but you do you

Also several studies mention they have higher level of nutrients, vitamin &co

Eating bio veggies won't make you cancer proof, but the again smoking a cigarette a day won't guarantee you a cancer either. It's a game of luck but some things help while other things are detrimental, I personally see no reason to buy pesticides riddled veggies when I have access to cleaner ones

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20359265/
Discord Is Down (But not reporting)
I think you mean "finding someone who will pay you for your gold". WROL means people will just be looting your corpse.
welp, u can get zenfone then
> Amtrak is a nightmare.

It depends on the route. Long haul trains like the ones you describe are a dubious choice. I've done that twice, and that was enough.

I've also used Amtrak to commute on the Northeast corridor literally hundreds (if not thousands) of times. In that scenario, I'd be hard pressed to choose anything else. It's vastly more convenient and flexible than the alternatives.
When I get that angst I look at age demographics charts for my country. Much of current days politics are from old people who want nothing to progress and would prefer to go back a century or two. But the younger generations are strongly opposed to that and of course own the future. 20 is far too young to step back and depoliticize yourself. Use that shock for progress where you can make it. And do set out on a career in whatever pays and you like.

Maybe interact with some older people and be friendly while being as out of their comfort zone as you want. It bridges gaps.

Edit-also, I know many viewpoints say what’s already happened is baked in and it’s impossible to clean up the situation. This is fundamentally opposed to human nature and power of human will. Yes there are large problems, but it’s precisely existential crises that bring out the strongest response from an organism and, collectively, our humanity. If we want carbon out of the air bad enough there will be a technological way to do it. Many other such things. Plus this period might cure humanity of its apathy towards the commons-if humanity is scared, harmed, and pissed off enough to force it.
I think this is a rather peculiar comment — category theory is interesting precisely _because_ it's closely connected to other branches of mathematics, and can be used as a lingua franca to translate concepts and discoveries between them.
Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
It works until it doesn't.
Costco only takes cash and debit, not credit.
This is vandalism and you will go to jail (and the tree will be removed.)
Gold is a scam. It’s an awful inflation hedge.

Success in the market as far as selling it to retail is more a demonstration at how successful certain elements in society have been peddling fear.
In case of companies, it is easy: get a court order and every corporate counsel not completey on crazy train will turn over whatever authorities ask for.
Existing thread with 52+ comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698864
It is universal, but not absolute.
You need to plug in the headphones/speakers anyway, so it is just a little piece in between :)
Agree, there's no need to editorialize here. There's going to be a lot of action against the big companies, please just copy-paste the original titles. I think in the majority of instances the content will already be damning enough.

Note: I'm about as pro-break-them-up as they come and truly think ruling against Google/Amazon/FB will be great for both the tech space as well as society as a whole
Contrary to seemingly everyone here I'm not exposed to state level threats so I couldn't care less, as long as Google maps give me my direction and Spotify plays my song I'm ok
I’ve had my own startups and worked with tens of others. I don’t know anybody who has had good experience or ROI with paid ads.

There is something “emperors new clothes” about the whole industry where we all play the game but nobody admits they just aren’t very good. Yet we all keep paying the Google bills thinking it’s something you have to do.
I think it's naive to even talk about payment, that's not how the podcast world works. The way it works is you have an assortment of bros who have no background in journalism and no second thoughts about ethics and their method for getting on high value guests is just to be incredibly soft interviewers and incredibly sycophantic to their guests. The result is rich tech CEOs get to go around getting licked up and down by these podcasters without ever having to worry about facing real scrutiny. And you don't even need a quid pro quo, Lex knows he won't book guests if he starts grilling them like a real journalist, and Zuck knows he's not going to accidentally endorse Nazi's if he sticks to safe interviews like Lex. And there really is no limit, Lex will literally try to serve up soft ball questions to Nazis given half a chance.

Of course anyone in the real world realizes how little credibility these "interviews" have.
Ask HN: Why No HTTPS on Paulgraham.com?
I wonder. Do you happen to know how Swifts new Concurrency Model compares to C# and Java 21?
so you say there are no scam apps on appstore? Asking bc I've read a lot of articles abt scammy aps there and apple is doing nothing to kill these
All filler, no killer.
(As in, no killer details or interesting news.)
Source Code for the EU’s Digital Services Act Transparency Database
You could do `y = x.__setitem__(0, 10)`, but you cannot assign `x[0] = 10` to a new variable. If `__setitem__` was overridden, you would not be able to distinguish between these cases and raise an error in the second one.
>The real problem are mobile operating system

There's SailfishOS. It still uses Android kernel+drivers, but above that it's a "real" GNU/Linux system (glibc, systemd, bash, Qt, connman+ofono, zypp/packagekit, Gecko). It's not completely FOSS, but it is usable as a daily driver, and has been for at least 10 years (based on personal experience).
you know it’s true. this makes it sound like the company implanted cancer in people.

hardly! it just enabled and concealed exposure to carcinogenic compounds, through breathing, nightly. for thousands of patients.

these are not the same.
this shouldnt be titled "Ask HN:"
I believe the point of the original comment is that if you’d really like your business logic to be written in rust, you can already do so by building a backend service with a mature rust library & access it via web.
No. The easier explanation is that Costco whose customers are regularly middle class and above, love to buy whatever Costco shoves in front of them. There are other observations to be made based on cultural demographics that could also explain why these get sold so quick. I don’t think any of it has to do with your conspiracy theories though.
Archive.org was quietly hacked in 2012
It's true in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, Texas, Florida, California. Rail is still mostly shit over medium distances there, although finally there are concrete efforts being made in California, Texas and Florida to fix that.
I was quite convinced that Quora only consists of SEO spam nowadays - kind of a surprise reading that there are real people using it.
What is 'not really good'? We had spectacular ROI on adwords ads. BUT, and the article mentions this somewhat, not for tech/freemium saas products. Developers avoid ads like the plague. For consumer stuff that are just immediately paid (there is no free; you pay or you leave the landing page) it works incredibly well in our experience.
Getting results from a LLM with no guarantee of correctness is like computational photography. It looks nice, but that thing is not real.

Instead, I'm using Kagi, and feeding it old school search queries. Which provides me results I want in the first three slots, all the time.

Why fix something ain't broken?
> Norman Finkelstein (blacklisted from Academia for his work relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict)

He wasn't "cancelled" for being "woke", that's straight up political fallout for going up against Israeli interests.

> Richard Stallman (made to resign from his positions at MIT and FSF due to comments relating to Marvin Minsky and Jeffrey Epstein)

He's back at FSF. Clearly not "cancelled" as evidenced by this entire thread. He received relatively mild repercussions for supporting a known sexual predator combined with his own list of accusations of sexual predation.

> James Watson

This is the only one that is possibly a "cancelation" and that's a stretch. Being repeatedly and openly racist and then getting kicked out of your cushy chancellor emeritus position because of it, again, doesn't feel like "cancellation".

> Justin Roiland (forced out of Rick and Morty due to alleged crimes)

Ah yes, the "guilty until proven innocent" version of "cancellation" ... not associating with people with multiple credible accusations of crimes is not "cancelling" them.
Apple iOS Update to Fix iPhone 12 Radiation Levels Approved by French Regulators
We really need a GNU Free Medical Products Licence.
Ask HN: Mobile Device for Casual Coding
Hi HN. Since my daughter was born, my free time is very fragmented. An hour here, half an hour there but no longer periods of time, especially none that can be planned in advance. However, that's fine because my energy levels also don't allow fore more endurance.

I have pretty beefy gaming laptop with Windows, an Android smartphone and an Android mobile phone. The laptop would be fine for coding but I really don't like setting it up. It's very heavy, it does not run very long on battery, the power supply is chunky and heavy and the device and power supply get pretty hot. So what I mostly use are the smartphone and tablet but they suck for coding.

That's why I'm looking for a device that fulfills the following requirements (I'm also very open for other suggestions):

- Price <= 500 Euro (limited budget unfortunately)
- Long battery life
- (ideally) USB C as power supply
- Relatively slim and lightweight
- Keyboard
- Decent development environment [Linux would be fine]
- Web browser
- WiFi

The idea is that it's a device that I can just pick up wherever (on the couch, in bed) and whenever I feel like coding something.

What I would like to code on it:

- C/CPP (possibly SDL)
- Python scripts
- Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

I kind of like the idea of Chromebooks but I'm a little afraid of Googles walled garden and completely depending on their web services.
The tree is likely not dead, the stump should send new shoots.
The racism suits many of them fine. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/02/us/black-cubans-apart-in-...
Somewhere out there is video footage of Hillis and some MIT bods
wiring up the CM-1. Pretty sure it appears in Adam Curtis' "All
watched over" doco. Looks like they're using wirewrap tools and
literally doing point-to-point.
nope, it was unlimited compressed for a specified timeframe*(for other phones) and free unlimited compressed forever for pixel 2 to pixel 5(and unlimited uncompressed for og pixel). Google didn't break their promises
* Actually it wasn't about timeframe, google afaik didn't say that other smartphones will get unlimited compressed forever, just that it's free for that time
It is not. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23063002
The Twitter 'thick skin' part made me laugh.

A past startup had the same experience with Reddit ads. The initial replies were so negative ("I could do this 3x cheaper myself" etc), and often negative for the sake of negativity. It took a little time, but we replied to most of them with gentle words along the lines of "thank you for your thoughts and comments; we're a small business trying to do things ethically; getting it from us saves you the time/cost of leaving the house and we know how valuable your time is" - and it actually ended up quite a decent ad.

People just love to hate, especially when there's no human face to something. Or, I think in the case of places/networks where the community is tight and niche, if you're going to interject your product you'd better have enough of an understanding to answer as if you belong/have been a silent part of it all along.

Complete aside - I'm glad I've never had to market to devs, haha.
I was surprised youtube channel sponsorships didn't make this list, at least for consideration. I have multiple specialized adblockers installed (as I'm sure many here do) and so the only ads I encounter are baked into content I'm otherwise interested in. Currently vpn products and tutorial sites dominate these channels and so I'd almost welcome something else.
"under chemo" though, isn't some single shared experience. Everyone in that infusion room with you is getting some different sort of poison cocktail in a different strength. And most of the drugs are, quite literally, poison. There's at least 7 broad, very different types of chemo drugs, and subcategories under that. Also, very different total duration and frequencies of infusion. And they all may have other things going on in terms of cancer progression, other unpleasant treatments (radiation, surgical procedures, etc) going on at the same time, and so on.

Doxorubicin might be a good example. It has nicknames like "red death" and "red devil", and many unpleasant secondary side effects. Side effects that are different from other chemo drugs, including an unusually high rate of congestive heart failure.
“From through” should be “from Vanuatu” or “through Vanuatu”, sorry about that.
"Anti-trust" is not "anti-monopoly". Monopolys aren't illegal. Maintaining a monopoly by preventing others from competing is the thing that tends to be illegal.
Perspective. Consider how our parents felt, how our grandparents felt, how our great grandparents felt.

They had similar levels of anxiety about the future. They all felt peril.

For example, some were in a world war and maybe their friends and family were being killed. Objectively a world war is worse peril than meta building AI glasses!
Thinking about others can give perspective on our own feelings.

I would also say that it's a flaw of psychology that we always think right now is the most important time but looking at history and changing perspective can help your view.

Escape the bubble. Tech doomism is as much side effect as tech utopianism of the bay area.
I think it’s a mistake to underestimate the amount of tech people on social media. A lot of people who have privacy awareness and say that Meta and ByteDance are evil surveillance capitalism companies still use their services. I might even go as far as arguing that it’s hard not to without feeling left out of the cultural zeitgeist.

My social feeds are filled with ads for enterprise software products.

If a product can be shown in a lighting fast video demo, I think Reels and TikTok have great potential.