skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! I got a ton of new subscribers this morning and was wondering why. Let me know if I can answer any questions (I am the author).
My intention is not to let regulation writers off the hook, but rather to share the blame between the regulation writers and the corporations that lobby to have regulations changed in a way that they know is bad for society but good for them.

Everybody hates corrupt government officials already, but as a society (in the US) we tend to handwave away companies doing destructive self-interested things as "oh of course they do that", when it's not actually something we need to tolerate.

Oil companies in the 70s knowing that they were causing global warming but engaging in a campaign to pretend that didn't exist? Should be jail for the regulation writers, and jail for the oil company execs who signed off on it.

The Sacklers pretending that their special opioids aren't addictive and causing the opioid crisis? Should be jail for the regulators they bribed, and jail for the people at the company who knew.

Cause the 2008 financial crisis by deliberately mis-grading subprime mortgages? Should be jail for everyone who let that fly.
Once fully deployed, you'll have the same connectivity in the remotest wilderness as you do from your living room. Apple already has the Emergency SOS [1] feature for sending texts from remote locations in emergencies. This SpaceX service will start with something similar and grow to indistinguishable phone service. Coverage might be a little slow so maybe your youtube playlist will have a bit of buffering while you wait for your rescuers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426
Maybe increase the lookahead of your parser.
> If not, then there is no reason to believe room-temperature superconductivity is impossible or hard.

That does not follow. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I had one of those as well, with the 75ohms tv connector and everything, first PC build in highschool.

The tuner didn't work as well as just watching tv, but the novelty of it was pretty neat. Bear in mind, this was long before people had a TV in every room.
why arent they if they work with regular phones?
>>>Ha I'll definitely start introducing myself like that!

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But you have to do this in the stupidest situations.. not like a Valet at TFL or such - but like a Walmart Greeter.
Because there can be outliers in terms of slowness; perhaps the CPU gets a hickup, the GC runs an abnormal amount of extra times, the kernel decides to reschedule stuff, whatever, I don't know much about these things.

There can't be outliers in terms of fastness; the CPU doesn't accidentally run the program much faster.

But then again, what the hell do I know...
Show HN: Strflow – Mac Native App for Chat-Style Note-Taking
Hi HN community,

I know what you might be thinking – another note app? (I thought the same, haha). But when I couldn't find the perfect app that matched my vision, I decided to create my own. Let me introduce you to Strflow. Here are some key features:

- Chat-style interface for effortless, chronological note-taking.

- Tagging for organization.

- Global shortcuts for quick note-taking from anywhere on your Mac.

- A native Mac app look and feel.

- Encrypted iCloud backup & synchronization.(supports end-to-end encryption with advanced data protection).

Strflow is built with Swift, utilizing AppKit+SwiftUI to ensure an authentic Mac experience.

I'd really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
Sure, but:

> The data shows that factories are producing less and hiring fewer people," said Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China. "(The data) could also show a loss of confidence in government policy," she added, warning factory activity was unlikely to improve anytime soon as other economic problems dominate. [0]

> A growing number of companies are looking to move their manufacturing out of China. Companies are examining their heavy concentration in China. Boards and companies are reevaluating their risks and reviewing mitigation strategies. [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-factory-activity-...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/betsyatkins/2023/08/07/manufact...
An interesting fact: this research was paid for by crowd funding because the Ministry of Health refused to fund it. The Netherlands is also unique in Europe as the only country which does not even try to treat this condition.

If you get ME/CFS you are, quite literally, left to die here. Unless someone in your network looks after you.
Thanks for sharing. It's not immediately obvious from the site: does this offer anything more than a usual timer?
> Of course Haskell may not be the most suitable kernel implementation language for other reasons...

seL4 microkernel would like to have a word with you..
Maybe because covid 19 has been accompanied with an avalanche of commenting along with draconian measures that we haven't seen for at least an entire generation.
Yesterday's discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856412
Will it be free, though? I think we can assume for now it won't be.

Will it work with every iPhone? I don't think it will.

So, not that big of a jump.
Thanks! Right now there is a paid option ($19 / year) where users can remove the watermark and eventually have access to more templates and features.

I also plan on exposing an API which will likely be paid.
Thanks! I am embarrassingly so much a 'software' kind of person that this didn't occur to me, but I get the idea a bit better now.
That doesn't justify China for going all the way across the ocean to illegally fish on Chilean/Peruvian/Ecuador waters
It has gotten a little easier over time. IMO, a month or two depending on your aptitude.
Fully agree that it should be taken into account.
My point is simply that taken into account does not mean it clear or defacto decision. Even education policy is not a issue that trumps all other considerations.
The not-quite-the-same Apple emergency contact by satellite, plus older standalone systems like inReach, are already having a huge impact on wilderness rescue, for better and for worse. It's a net-good overall for humanity, of course, but some rescue organizations are worn thin by the lack of information provided with a call combined with a perception that the availability of rescue creates a less cautious attitude towards the wilderness.
China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger losses
The IBM–ification Of FAANG [video]
"Once upon a time, FAANG companies used to be the playground for the smartest engineers, inventors, and product managers. But, as these companies reach market saturation and growth starts to slow, it seems that FAANG is entering a whole new era. An era marked by bureaucratization, degrading talent, and cutthroat corporate culture. This is precisely what happened to Gen 1 tech companies like Cisco and Intel 20-30 years ago. As these companies became more established, they no longer appealed to individuals who wanted to create the next big thing. These individuals naturally moved onto Gen 2 tech companies like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, Gen 1 tech companies were left with people who were largely there for the paycheck. It appears that this same transition is happening with FAANG as well as the smartest talent moves over to gen 3 tech companies leaving FAANG companies to become the next IBM or Cisco. This video explains the slow degradation of FAANG and the IBM-ification of modern big tech."
Along those lines, one of the most toxic places I've ever encountered for developers was at a company that sold b2b software. You would think that developers would be valued for creating the product, but they were fully treated as a cost centre. The profit centre was the sales team who went out and got companies to send money. The developers merely existed because legal said that, for compliance reasons, the firm was required to provide the costumers with software after the client paid for said software (legal accounted for 24% of the company's budget while software development was 15%). If the sales team promised something that the software couldn't do (e.g. track the position of any cell phone in the country with just a phone number in the early 90's before smart phones), then any refund owed to the client would come out of the product team's budget. The salesman (they were all men) would not be required to return his commission, since he did his job and got someone to sign a cheque.

Surprisingly enough, the company was not Oracle.
You just repeat the trope about "human shields" in response to attacks in the West Bank, on refugee camps and more, on basic water infrastructure. It has been refuted.

> leads people like you

Can you refrain from personal attacks, as totally lacking of substance as they may be?

> This is what Israel has begun to do - we cut the supply of energy, water and diesel to the Strip … But it’s not enough. In order to make the siege effective, we have to prevent others from giving assistance to Gaza … The people should be told that they have two choices; to stay and to starve, or to leave. If Egypt and other countries prefer that these people will perish in Gaza, this is their choice.

-- Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council

Just ONE of the many many many dozens of such things is enough to refute these tropes about "human shields" and "$evil group and their likes". "(...)" describes the full depth of your counter-argument.

> If you care about the problem then you'd be directing your indignation towards the root of the problem

I am just as outspoken against those who glorify Hamas as I am here. You are, right now, just repeating what I essentially replied to, while ignoring the inconvenient facts I introduced, and making it about me, and "the others". That's all that happened here, what I wrote stands, your attempt to dismiss it stands.
If you have a little bit of experience with any higher level language (eg Python, Haskell), then I'd say fairly quicky (say, a week to a week and a half for the books and rustlings course), if you want an opinionated (and good enough, I recommend the book!) intro to production code theres the zero2prod Rust book. You can read the zero2prod book while working on one or two pet project (anything more complicated than a calculator would probably do) to help inform decisions. That should be another week or two, depending on how quickly you pace through the book.

That should get you started to writing decent code, maybe not aways idiomatic or neatly structured. That might take a few more weeks or months (depending on your interest domains and their inherent complexities). But like with all skills, it's an endless journey; you'll keep getting better as you're increasingly more familiar with the tools.
You don't need to check every entry, just the top few.
I've been designing and supporting development of large scale IoT systems the last 15 years. And yes tech progress allows us to afford the use of better algorithms.

But customers are still counting every um2 chip area, gates/chip and ROM, code mem in bytes in 2024 to minimize per-device implementation cost. Automotive, a lot of consumer products and large scale SCADA systems are example of systems where these types of questions are at least evaluated during requirement development and system exploration, design. And yes, shaving of a few cents due to being able to use a MCU with 8 kByte RAM instead of 16 kByte can save a lot of money. And it is being done.

When I look and crypto algorithms (in a wide sense) I see more utility in having a primitive that provides AEAD, or can be reused n different way to do secure hashing (for integrity, kdf, random generation for example) as well as AEAD, than having lightweight block ciphers. Most lightweight block ciphers have small block sizes, short keys and a lot of rounds. Lyckily there are some nice algorithms that we can trust. And AES is very scalable.
Much of aerospace doesn’t compute without the military component.
https://www.inform-fiction.org/

https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/
This is nonsense. Those tools and mixers and vacuums from the 60s and 70s cost the equivalent of thousands of dollars today. A 1950s kirby vacuum adjusted for inflation was $1800USD in todays dollars.

Are you really claiming that an $1800 vacuum today is worse than an $200 vacuum from 1956, or that a $200 vacuum today is worse than a $200 vacuum from 1956? Because the latter is dishonest and untrue.

Similarly, the first kitchenaid mixer H-5 was introduced in 1919 and cost $189, which is about $3,500 today.

Do you really think that the original kitchenaid H5 is better than a $3500 mixer today? For reference, here's some ideas of what you can get in that price range. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/14255/commercial-mixers.htm...

The reality is that people want to spend a tiny fraction of what their grandparents did and think they can still receive the same quality.

Try spending 10% of your yearly income on a vacuum or a mixer and see how long it lasts. The only difference is that your grandparents didn't have the option to spend 20X less on a cheap version.
I don't know anything about this particular issue, but generally from what I recall, Chinese companies are effectively the CCP by their own admission. They have full control.
I've been watching his videos on a 1970s pinball machine. It goes horribly in-depth (in a good way). Fascinating how much complexity could be managed with the simplest of interfaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo
Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line
> this incredibly fun activity called linker scripting

Indeed. :-)

> I chose to hack together an ELF patching tool in order to get Linux to automatically load arbitrary ELF file segments onto memory.

Interesting. It's clever. I think a slightly more conventional design would be to have just a LOAD segment for your embedded module (for the loader) with some self-describing application-specific header describing the length of the embedded script (for your interpreter), rather than using the ELF Segments table (LOOS+0xc6f6e65) for that.

A dumber hack with less cool learning about ELF might be to just have a magic number variable in your interpreter that is initialized bogus and then patched to point at an offset by the patching tool.
The bandwidth is so slow for this direct-to-cell service that it won't replace mobile providers. The bandwidth for a whole cell is 20Mbps, except that is shared with the thousands of people in the cell. I have been thinking of it as 2G phone service. You get text, voice, and little bit of data.

It probably isn't physically possible to do phone with Starlink high speed service. The dedicated antenna would be better than existing 4G/5G but small size would be a problem. Also, the Starlink antennas depend on having good view of the size.

Finally, the market is tiny of people wandering in the wilderness who want high-speed data. Starlink competes with itself since its service can be used for remote camps; there are rumors of a smaller antenna. Starlink even makes it easier to setup wilderness cell towers and microcells at house.
I remember writing my own smooth scrolling file viewer on DOS. You could use the character registers for the display controller (think it was VGA, 80x25 mode).

Not novel, but fun way to get more resolution than you have but for narrow use cases.
What is immutable Linux? Here's why you'd run an immutable Linux distro
This isn't true at all. I worked for a long time on the first implementation of the Navy's Maritime Domain Awareness System and my wife currently works for the NRO's Enterprise Collection Orchestration system that auto-tasks orbital surveillance platforms in response to automatically detected global events. Many of the capabilities are classified, but I can assure the US Navy both knows about and has some means to respond quickly (not necessarily by dispatching a manned vessel) to anything bigger than a driftwood log that appears on an Earth ocean.

The reason they don't is the Navy is not a law enforcement agency and this is not their mission.
Tempo: Open-source, lightweight Subsonic music client, with Android Auto support
> CapEx expenses become Assets, which are tracked and taxed,

> Real estate, vehicles, large equipment, etc. is generally all done this way - a CapEx gets you an asset or property, which is then taxed and depreciated.

What tax(es) are you referring to? Property taxes?
To be clear, I'm absolutely not promoting increased sulphur emissions as a solution to our climate problems. Moreso pointing out that all those emissions are potentially masking the true severity of our current predicament.
Trump would still have received the money even if the businesses were in a blind trust though?
Exactly this. This is how a lot of industry still operates. In 2024.
> A 5g macrocell (The big ones on huge masts) cost about $150k and lasts about 20 years

So the days of my carrier forcing me to buy a new phone every few years are over? Sweet. About time they knocked it off with this constant infrastructure churn.

(FYI Falcon Heavy is operational, I think you mean Starship.)
There are little kernels of truth sprinkled throughout your comment, but much of it is FUD. EVs aren't chinese scooters primed to burst into flame at a moment's notice. They're as safe as gas cars (though i would like to see data on injuries per 100,000 mi instead of safety ratings as those can be gamed)
Why five years?
Modules (precisely speaking about Linux) shall be open-source upon sale!

Nothing new for AMD and Intel. But we have likely a new field below, firmware. Nvidia (and both from above) push a lot of stuff there now. Firmware often contains security and bugfixes nowadays.

PS: Hoping right now that the newest firmware for RDNA2 fixes issues with PSR (backlight turns off).
Has the Geneva convention ever stopped anyone? They can only arrest you if you lose the war, and people don't tend to plan for that.
Today's bread got too big to fit in that toaster.
Yeah I have that long standing impression too. Heard a lot of bad stories over the years on all the German manufacturers except maybe VW. It was something I considered sacrificing on as it seems the be a luxury tax of sorts. They do make more luxurious vehicles than Lexus, but it’s pretty marginal IMO after consideration even on their ICE vehicles. I’d probably have gone with a loaded GM/Ford over a German vehicle. Domestic manufactures also have a dealership problem though. They are the sleeziest of them all and I just really get turned off by it. Also, I didn’t need a tank in the Yukon but also didn’t like their smaller SUVs as much.
This is definitely something the OSS community deserves most of the praise for, but, AIUI, the overall quality of the radeon drivers is only possible because AMD has a pretty good history around giving the community the specs to work with, so they definitely deserve credit there.
Java is probably the language I use the most but I hate how much boilerplate it has. Something I’ve found to help with that is using Java Records instead of classes, a record is kind of like a struct, but I don’t think it’s exactly the same, there’s no boilerplate and something I quite like about them is that their fields are immutable (more specifically “private final”) which works well with more functional programming, something that can be quite clunky with classes in java

Anyway I’m not a software engineer so take what I say about software with a grain of salt. Also I feel like other java programmers will hate you if they need to read or use your code. For example lets say you had a 2D point data type that is a record. instead of things being like “pos.add(5)” if pos is a record you need to reassign it like “pos = pos.add(5)” where add returns the pos as an object. Similar to how BigInteger works in java.

Anyway I love records because there’s zero boilerplate, it feels very similar to me to how structs are written in rust and go, or how classes are done in scala. I just never see anyone talk about it. I guess that might be because most people programming new projects on JVM are probably not programming in java?
> the main benefit is how cheap they are to run

This is a pretty weak main benefit as ICE cars are already cheap to run. At 12k miles/year, 30 MPG, and $3.20/gallon you are only talking $1300/year in fuel.

According to AAA, taking fuel, maintenance, repair, and tires into account someone driving 15k miles a year would only save $330. Given the cost premium on an EV over a comparable ICE car, I’m not sure you would ever come out ahead, although the cost gap is admittedly shrinking.
New study ties hearing aid use to longer life. But only if worn regularly
That's not at all my recollection! Have you got an example? As far as I know, VGA text modes were character-ROM based with a 16 bits per text buffer cell (8 bits each character/attribute) and so there's literally no way for this to work.
Since OP seems to be the website author... You should remove or alter the ::selection style in your CSS. In dark mode, selecting text makes it illegible (white on white).
ASML blocked from exporting some critical chipmaking tools to China
LLM are fundamentally stateless. The exoskeleton of agents is essentially a work around to enable a state that resides externally to a LLM. This is required in some manner for creating an agent. Task oriented agents require reasoning and planning but the nature of its wildly different compared to the kind of behaviour that is observed in the interactive simulacra paper. Your ideas have merits but I feel it needs to have some further qualifications
With AI it's only going to get worse. Fake companies with fake interviewers to get samples of your voice so they can fake you as a remote employee somewhere. I feel job boards and social media and the like aren't ready for the onslaught of fakes coming like a tsunami from scammers. I could be wrong. I'm wary of even talking on the phone anymore to numbers I don't know.
The Biogen whistleblower got $266 million (roughly 30%).

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/largest-ever-266-4-...
I find this subject interesting because it isn't as cut and dry as it looks. The problem is attackers took data and leaked passwords from previous breaches and then were able to access an account. The question becomes what should 23andme have done in the first place?

You provided a valid password and username so why wouldn't they grant access?

Now being able to harvest a bunch of other people's data after is more problematic but I find it an interesting edge case as 23andme performed the function they were supposed to of allowing access to an account to people that had credentials. Should they have forced MFA? Where does the users responsibility for choosing appropriate passwords and an organizations responsibility for deciding of their own volition not to let someone in, end and begin?
Yeah I read the whole article waiting for the eventual gotcha but it never came. The toaster cost $260 (inflation adjusted). You can't control how much you want to toast the bread. It only works for specific bread types. There is no indicator for when the bread is ready. It only works "most of the time". It is much more likely to burn down your house.

What exactly makes it smarter and better than my modern $25 one other than the standard "everything was better back in the day" nostalgia?
I'm sure Volvos are safe (definitely far behind Tesla though, I've owned multiple of both) but now knowing that Volvo is a China owned company, I would never buy one for that reason, nothing to do with safety.
> so you just point `sys.path` at the executable and voila, self-contained Python in a single binary.

You probably know this, but for context for others, the reason this works well for zip in particular is that zip's top level header is at the end of the file with pointers to headers earlier in the file. It doesn't expect the top-level header to be at offset zero.
This company makes nice ones:

https://shop.hak5.org/blogs/payloads/duckylogger