skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the value in this cause it looks like something that can be built internally using simple cron jobs and already existing tools
The more legitimate reasons for adblockers (such as "I don't want to risk falling for scams."), the worse their anti-adblocker efforts look.
Looking at that status page, unless it's completely wrong, there's outages multiple times every month. They really could just upgrade their instance and get more mileage out of it and it wouldn't require any "refactoring". Site's mostly fine as is
Performing evasive maneuvers increases satellites' collision risk down the road
No idea, but I remembered when we had to tell people to stop drinking chlorine and they get mad because it was within their "freedom of speech".
I think I understand a little bit, coming from Elixir. I don't have much spare time at the moment but when I do I'll check out Pharo!
Author here, thanks! Feel free to share it on other platforms. Let me know if you have any questions.
Interesting that in Mac with Apple chips (M1 Pro) it seems both Chrome and Firefox report them as Intel:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Edit: even Safari itself:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Scientists use brain-like tissue in advance for 'biocomputing' research
>>so what?

When it is a government agency preventing my free unrestricted travel I think we should have a higher standard and a better response than "so what"

There are 2 options here,

1. They fail open meaning "security" is compromised and thus pointless

2. They fail closed meaning they will violate the rights of citizens to freely travel or place undue hardship on them because their systems failed putting the traveler through additional "screening"

neither should be acceptable to anyone that values a free society
Yes if those features don't require using extra space, bandwidth, hardware.
Tesla has repeatedly claimed that the cars on the road today have all the necessary sensors for fully autonomous coast-to-coast self-driving, and that it will be made available via an over-the-air update before the end of the year (which year? all of them). Had Tesla delivered on FSD -- even a year or two late -- it wouldn't have been false advertising.
I don't get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything's good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.
Um, yes, citizens of $AncientState often treated their slave horribly?

> ...in what has been described as the most shocking example of slavery in the ancient Roman city... [emphasis mine]

In other words, no one who actually knows boo about history is actually shocked. But "shock" makes for a nice, clicky headline.

(For the $AncientState == 'Rome' case, the prevalence & scale of horrible mistreatment was such that they'd had to fight 3 serious wars in the two centuries before Pompeii was buried, to put down massive slave uprisings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_Wars )
But we all know that. And it is so much more characters. HN was struggling already.
You can fit 6+ self checkout stations in the same space as one or two regular checkouts with the need for only one employee to keep an eye on it. While the time to check out a single person is longer on self checkout, the overall throughput is much higher, and therefore the wait time is usually lower.

My local Aldi(US version) stores installed self checkout. Before there would be one cashier and they'd call for backup if the line got past 4 or 5 people. People usually filled their carts full, so it was very slow. Now it's a breeze with self checkout.
This article will gather all the big winners of the night, including the coveted Game of the Year award which, in the behemoth that was 2023, is even more special.
> United has some system that scans your face at the check-in counter, and uses facial recognition in lieu of scanning your boarding pass at the gate.

I don't think it's an airline thing. I've had the same at LAX boarding an Air France (codeshare with Delta) flight, and it seemed to be all over the place there.
Okay then, so you'd prefer to analyse median wages, rather than mean wages?

The US has the 3rd highest median wages, and Sweden has the 14th highest median wage.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
Anecdote here, but the only place from which you'd get "data" is from FitBit, and that's what you're trying to calibrate.

My wife's got a bunch of sleep issues, and she finds her fitbit data correlates really tightly with her sleep experience. When she's had a sucky sleep night, the fitbit reports lots of awake time, and when she wakes feeling great, that's also reflected. Since her experience is volatile, it seems it'd be hard for fitbit to correlate over years if it was making stuff up.

More, the miscues she can observe while awake are all giggle-worthy "Well that makes sense" items. There have been some times she's been entranced in some video or something, sitting perfectly still for extended periods, and Fitbit thinks she's taken a nap.
I often feel this is what's happening: Portland and a few other cities around the nation prioritize helping folks in a big way, and we wind up serving a national need not a city need.
Net income (profit) would be the correct number to compare an additional expense for figuring out how much it “hurts”. Of course, they are owned by Alphabet, so ultimately, $11M is pocket change.

Also, where do you see current Fitbit figures? Alphabet does not break them out in their annual or quarterly reports.

https://abc.xyz/assets/9a/bd/838c917c4b4ab21f94e84c3c2c65/go...

https://abc.xyz/assets/c2/3e/0d6d568e4f56a1d14ca6b70c3443/go...
> Margins are not determined by how many companies sell certain products

Rule 1: Margins are as large as a company can get away with them being

Rule 2: The primary thing that brings down prices (thereby shifting consumer demand) is another company competing offering lower prices

Rule 3: Fewer companies are able to maintain a unified front of higher-than-required margins for longer, owing to fewer individuals needing to agree to make the prsioner's-dilemma-esque status quo hold. Any one of them can take business from the others by lowering their prices, but at the cost of reduced margins for everyone (including themselves).

Margin pricing in general is "sticky". When it goes down, its difficult for it to rise. That's why companies jump on inflation as an excuse to raise prices - usually much more than inflation. Similarly, see power prices in Europe after ukraine war - record profits despite attributing price rise to rising supply chain costs.

Yes, this doesn't follow your economics 101. This is economics 102.

As soon as there is an "excuse", companies make massive profits and margins rise. This will also cut into demand as price-sensitive consumers drop out. This is seen as fine. Sometimes, it is better to make more money from less work than grow less efficiently.
Perhaps then this is really Elon planting these ads after all, to bring advertisers back to Twitter. /s
Even if no OS used it I bet it has been used - the era of the 386 saw a decent amount of bare-metal specialized uses of the hardware. Some would nominally run on DOS, some didn’t bother with it at all.
It generates so much garbage I don't think it's going to replace good programmers anytime soon.
Love the Apple Watch. But yeah battery is huge drag to the otherwise lovely experience. It's barely enough to start with. Now after three years, at 79% of original capacity, it's become annoying. I actually cannot think of a watchOS function that can't be done in monocrhome. I miss my old Fitbit which could be charged during a shower before lasting almost a week.
> Someone solved it by disabling fingerprinting resistance

Similar issue happens also in some Google services, e.g. Google Docs. It does not work at all (or everything is in wrong resolution) if you have fingerprint resistance enabled.
It’s statistically insignificant because churn rates on subscription services are higher than you’d think.

A typical customer lifetime might be somewhere between a year and two years, unless you happen to be a giant like Netflix.

Let’s say you expect your customer to churn after 14 months, so that means you only enjoy 2 months of Apple’s reduced royalty rate. Your total average rate is 27%.

This concept is why many sunscription services are able to offer lifetime subscriptions. They have already figured out what one customer is worth based on churn rate, so the lifetime subscription is set up to be a price that matches or exceeds that number.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease, one of the which is the first CRISPR/Cas9-based treatment to win regulatory approval in the US.
YouTube is crippling Firefox everywhere.

I don't even bother trying to watch YouTube on Firefox, my main browser on Windows. I switch to Chrome for this task.
As a dev, I absolutely prefer Apple’s model of locked-down walled garden. HN has no idea about all the grandmas and people who are busy with their jobs and kids, aka majority of the population. I can’t imagine the magnitude of digital fraud and scams that would happen if Apple devices weren’t a walled garden. My only dissatisfaction is that I can’t develop for iOS without buying a Mac and a developer account, but I also understand I’m not entitled to it just because I want.
It seems like a loser argument to me. Free speech has never been a defense for false advertising; I'm not sure why Tesla thinks it will start working now.

This sounds more like PR than like a real legal argument. And maybe that's exactly what's going on. Maybe they're trying to look good in public even if they lose the case.
Of course it will pass. The government will never willingly give up power and will only seek ways to expand it.
> I wouldn't recommend sleep tracking. At least in my case, it makes me sleep worse worrying about it.

It's the only thing I find useful about these trackers, I love knowing how long / 'well' I slept since I find it very hard to understand intuitively.
I notice that when I get bad 'sleep scores' I'm more conscious about giving myself time to rest and sleep better the following days.
That is a valid use case, but IMHO the proper mental model for it would be not "SQL statement that returns a database" but rather "a synced partial mirror database instance", i.e. you have a local database server (likely in-memory SQLite or something) that gets synced with the master DB (perhaps even both ways) but only for a specific subset of rows.
We have been exposed to a 1000 touching deaths. It was novel when it was written, and deep.

Today it's one more.
So your plan is to lock them into psychiatric wards. Then let them out and they will be productive members of society because that's how it worked for someone who can back from Vietnam once you heard.

When they get out they don't have a family or job or support system to go back to. They won't seek drugs to ease those pains again?
And spying on citizens not suspected of a crime.
My ad blocker defends me from YouTube scams. :)
Hasbro to Cut 1,100 Jobs as Weak Toy Sales Persist
All true, but one addition. Studded tires can suck in rain. Where I am it can be -40C one day, and 5C plus rain the next.

It would be neat to somehow get both behaviours maxed.
Pitivi is great for most things most editors want to do and that too with the comfort of an application that looks native to the GNOME desktop environment.

Sad to see that Pitivi won't get into GSoC'24 but I completely understand the concerns as well.

Have always advocated for Pitivi's development in my peer groups, and will continue to do so :)
People started using crypto like a security (or gambling token) first, then regulators followed. It was never used widely as a currency. It’s not a good one due to its slow transaction times and extreme volatility.
With all the custom faces it can be as little watch or as much watch as you want it to be, plus 4-6 other points of information(depending on the face you choose). Weather, temperature, air quality, wind speed/direction, messages, compass, exercise tracker, calendar, etc… it’s a mini display for many data points at a glance.
FrankenPHP v1.0 Is Here
Only Americans can fight a secret war with massive publicity. Wikipedia confirms what I thought was the case, that the AVG's first encounters with the enemy occurred a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor, which had removed the uses of secrecy.
FrankenPHP just hit a significant milestone this week, reaching a v1.0 release.
Same experience for me, reported several clear scam ads and just get a reply from G that they don't violate any policies... :/
Wait...a Corporation, who's entire revenue stream is generated from ads, doesn't care who their ads harm, as long as they make money.

Shocking.. truly shocking.
Saying things are all relative and a matter of taste is as strong as a statement that the sky is blue.
One of the benefits of doing something as a hobby is that it doesn’t need to scale.
American Exceptionalism means the power is derived from being able to make exceptions to the rules.
Wear two watches and your problems are largely solved. You can even take off the Apple one for fancy events where you want to look like less of a… two watch wearer.
Welcome to Thefacebook (2004)
I went in with an expectation of it being completely different. And there is much more manual labor in 1939. It's dirtier, and grittier, but mostly for the steps we don't see in the Toyota video, as for example the motor comes in one block, and we don't see how it's built.

But on a high level, both videos look like the same process. You can find many steps, like the stamping, the welding, the final assembly, that look nearly unchanged in 85 years, save for some automation with robots, and some quality-of-life improvements in the assembly, where people don't have to lug around heavy parts.
EDA software will become the next battle front in US-China chip war
* Risk of popular support for ad-blocking, because of all the scams.

* Risk of regulators taking an interest, because it shows the ad industry can't self-regulate.

* Risk of regulators taking an interest, because their voters are getting scammed.

* Risk of regulators taking an interest, because celebrities complain.

* Risk of regulators taking an interest, because deepfakes.
You have just a few big advertisers, but millons of scammers. Scammers can outspend big advertisers.
This doesn't say what you're claiming. It just says that webasm stack frames are next to each other like C. A C program that crashes will crash in webasm.
A common typo. The keys are like right next to each other.

Which I suppose is a reference to another website that is down. Bash.org still hasn't resurfaced :(
Does all content have to be played back through your app or can it play a 3D video on YouTube or the Plex/Emby apps?
Mass surveillance is antithetical to liberty, but direct, concrete harm is hard to identify.

The surveillance complex has been pretty good at using secrecy, and perhaps even good internal controls, to limit everyday impact.

How can we find real harms to win this fight? Or how can we get people to care?
An Analysis of Amazon's Bookstore Algorithms Within the DSA Framework
"The Amazing Library: An Analysis of Amazon's Bookstore Algorithms within the DSA Framework" exposes critical issues with Amazon's algorithms. These algorithms, as the research indicates, are not only promoting misleading content in areas such as Health, Immigration, Climate Change, and Gender Issues but are also trapping users in echo chambers of misinformation. Additionally, the findings highlight Amazon's failure to comply with its own policies on sexually explicit content, a concern that gains gravity considering Amazon's vast user base in the European Union.
That's the truth Google doesn't want you to say because it hurts their business, less than half of the ads I see on YouTube are legal. They know about this and just keep the money.

And that's just the straight up illegal ones, if we also count the questionable ones, the share is higher.
It’s kinda neat how you can win any argument by just putting your conclusions into the questions ain’t it? ;)
Definite asymmetry in any actual deployment. htmx seems to be popular for the opposite direction.

And fwiw http/2 mandates https but there is a workaround involving configuring a custom http.Transport .
I just had to enter a complain to the Cisco security umbrella that my work uses - "I am getting tired of the high quality security checks that uses scary words in the url as a metric..."
Technically, Republicans are not necessarily "half the votes", more like "a third of the votes" which are then joined by another 10-15% of "unfaithful" swing voters - whose opinions don't necessarily overlap 100% with core conservative principles.

Participation rates can also be very low, particularly at local/state level, making that core of strongly-conservative votes actually pretty small in absolute terms.

You can quickly judge the actual opinion of the overwhelming majority of voters on completely abolishing welfare provisions, when you mention a few magic words that happen to extend those provisions to "normies" (medicare etc).
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a lazy development team.
Good luck with this!
Since I don't denigrate greeks but say the opposite, that you can find in it profound things than what flaubert has to say, I will assume you just answered in anger and not as a person intérested in the debate.
Looks useful Locale
And if e.g. those extra costs are 15 cents then the only reasonable extra charge is 15 cents?

It’s not free to do pretty much anything, even sending a single HTTP request, so curious how you calibrate.
This discussion is as old as PC vs console gaming. Point being this horrible walled garden also provides ease of use, makes some features even possible in the first place, and I don't need to worry that my mother is installing keylogger or malware.
There's a reason wrist watches largely displaced pocket watches, and as far as telling the time goes, a phone is basically a pocket watch. I would like a fitness monitoring watch, and used a PineTime for it for a while. But having a completely bulletproof timepiece is more important, and a retro Casio fulfills that need in spades.
Taylor Swift, QAnon, and the Political Weaponization of Fandom
also by the milder climate.
You should rethink that. HN is slow and/or down all the time.

May I suggest https://lite.cnn.com/
Ironically Twitter/X, for all its recent criticism, comes out ahead on this stuff: at least there they get community notes saying it’s a scam fairly quickly
The old source-maps-approach never worked all too well.

Emscripten can generate DWARF debug info for a while now, and there are extensions for Chrome and VSCode which make use of this DWARF debug information and allow for a much better debugging experience.

E.g. see here:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasm-debugging-2020

...and here...:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
Openai did exist without Microsoft and there's no need for cloud when all you really need is compute.
simping for google in order to "own" apple fanboys is just an embarassing position for an adult.
> It's pretty arrogant to assume Google is intentionally targetting them specifically.

The Asahi Linux developers have a history of taking everything personally. If Apple adds a new way to start an ELF in macOS 12.3, it's because of them. If someone criticizes them publicly on Hacker News and isn't immediately shamed, it's because the actual leadership at Hacker News hates them (not an exaggeration considering their public stunt here where they blamed @dang for everything). If someone doesn't quite agree with their politics in perfect lockstep, they will publicly try to force you to resign (look at what happened with Dlang). And, more recently, threatening to keep changes downstream and out of the mainline Linux kernel as retaliation for what they call inappropriate conduct (which, well, if the COC of Linux hasn't been violated, I'm guessing it's probably them). And of course, if it's found out that the M2 has a technical bug with audio processing that literally nobody noticed until now, it's proof that Apple is full of incompetent idiots, unlike them.

It's also why, if I were running a corporation, I would almost require that anyone using Asahi on their Mac use a corporate fork for their own protection. I wouldn't rule out retaliation.
Plus the robot vacuum in the article forces you to clean up your floors instead of letting all the Lego bricks and objects build up.

The smart devices really help us improve our lives.
You got this wrong: drug use generates homelessness. Most homeless in the US are drug addicts - many of them with serious health conditions partly induced by drug use - and that’s why they can’t hold a job or get a home.

In San Francisco when we give homes to drug addicts, the first thing they do is ripping the sink out to sell it and buy more drugs.

There is a serious drug epidemic that needs to be addressed simultaneously as we try to help the super-minority of legitimate homeless that are bad on their luck and need 2-3 months to find a new job and get back on their feet.
It's not up to a company to "provide power" to its employees.

It's up to the company to fulfil its mutually-agreed terms of contract to those employees. Which in most cases means giving them the dignity and security of a monthly paycheque.

In a free market economy (that isn't overly constrained by government and unions), employees can gain all the "power" they like by starting a company of their own, and setting whatever rules they like.

If you're seeking "power" without taking responsbility (i.e. running your own compnany), sounds like you want to indulge in politics, as opposed to a good-faith employee-employer relationship.
> Probably you are just not kicked out because staff is not noticing or apathetic.

Or you know, they don't care as long you're a paid customer.

BTW, I didn't say anything about restaurants. Coffee shop in general have much more of a lax atmosphere, so they generally don't care too much.
Lanzmann did, espacially with the white whale. I specifically chose those authors because they each bring something different.

Pennac brings a fresh point of view on morality, hapiness, character motivations, etc. Flaubert characters are monodimensional while pretending they are complex.

And nothomb has a different take on madness, absurd and finding life in it. Flaubert states what now we know is obvious, because we have read it ten times.

Flaubert tries to sell you something in the disguise of a story. I find it unsatisfying now that we have all those new flavors and textures in abundance.

We are drowning in talent and creativity, beauty and emotion. Our generation is blessed with so much good fresh cake I don't see the point of the dry one.

But to be honest, the only argument I need is that if you take a 100 kids and make them read all of them, 98 will not finish Flaubert if they have a choice, but they might finish one if the other books. That's not because Flaubert is too hard to get into.
The self checkout tsa is the opposite.
A History of Art Basel
My economics 101? Your comment is a random rant that doesn't engage with my comment or with the broader discussion.
Things don't become securities just because people speculate on them.
Self-copying RNA vaccine wins first full approval
Reputable companies generally don't want to advertise in an environment that could be damaging to their brands. This is why Google/YouTube created the "advertiser-friendly content guidelines". For the same reason a number of big brands pulled their X.com/Twitter ad campaigns.