skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> enought of a brain to understand what they are voting for

You know what smart people do? Ask questions. Use their resources.

In a day an elected might see a bill on restaurant staffing, closing a tax loophole only applicable to skyscrapers, an infrastructure project in Alaska, a military concern in Southeast Asia and a humanitarian plea from the Middle East. There is no moral fibre in pretending you can work each of those out from first principles; that’s simply hubris.

Banning lobbying effectively says that member must refuse to meet with—while weighing those measures—the head of a restaurant union, the representative of the Alaskan community proximate to the project, anyone who has written a book or done research on the foreign areas of question, perhaps, by some peoples’ definitions, even the DoD. They must decide in a vacuum. That’s not only unreasonable, it’s a one-way road to groupthink.
Wowwwwww. (This comment made my day, thank you)

I remember my elementary school gym had these! (in blues and whites)
There is also a Go version inspired by PeachPy https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo (see https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo#credits)
Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
This is a culture difference. The U.S. seems peculiarly against this compared to most of the rest of the world. It seems especially acceptable for kids most places. We may have to accept that we're the weird ones on this. It's just pee.
> I've been wondering for a long time why we don't have whole-house heat recovery systems.

Every house in the Nordics built after 1985 or so has this.
This is correct. Kids generally don't like watching shows for or starring "babies" (really kids their own age) unless they're very small.
Yes, they do; I won't name names because it's from personal experience, but I've seen all maintenance of the core banking system outsourced (e.g. to IBM), I've seen the development/maintenance of the core banking system (which many banks buy from outside vendors, most banks do some customization but many have a commercial system as the base, not some unique fully home-grown solution) go to heck because the vendor moved most of their maintenance from the existing (presumably expensive) teams to cheap overseas engineers which weren't very effective for various reasons; I've also seen banks doing offshoring without outsourcing (i.e. make up an IT department in a 'cheap' country where they don't really do banking) and outsourcing without offshoring.

It's definitely not the case where it's all in-house. Some organizations do, some don't, and there are so many banks (and so many different types&sizes of banks) in the world that every option is represented.
What "vision" of the world is it that you're talking about?
A news aggregator potentially could have been a public good. But it's impossible to have adult discussions about the nuanced, difficult topics of the day in 140/280 character sound bites. This caused the loudest, most obnoxious, immature, and simplistic takes to rise to the top.

Like a drunken argument at a house party between undergrads, Twitter promoted discourse that was literally sophomoric, and it was a direct cause of the toxic culture war environment in the US today.
They are 100% flying DJI drones on 1-way missions. Even a relatively expensive DJI drone costs less than an artillery shell. War is hell in many ways, not least of which is the sheer expense and resource consumption it demands.
Seems a little premature and locked to a specific use case that isn't yet really established.
Random keys are added to keyboards all the time. In this case Microsoft is requiring it from all their PC vendors.
This is not for incremental backups but for all data tied to your Apple ID — Apple provides a data download option to get your contacts, photos, videos and a whole lot of other data. You can visit this KB [1] for details and instructions. There are some exclusions, like data that’s end-to-end encrypted.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208
Interesting! On STM32 etc, the DAC is considered a hacky way of doing audio compared to the SAI peripheral; here without even a DAC, they are making it work.
>Twitter is the only one that became embedded in corridors of power around the world. Even if it has less misinformation and ragebait than the others (which I doubt), it does more damage because of the people engaging with it.

Can you elaborate? Isn't that a good thing to have those in the corridors of power directly communicating with the global public? I'm not a big fan of the Ayatollah of Iran, or Putin, but I want to know their perspective on current events, even if that perspective is 'regebait' and full of 'misinformation' ... and we had that, for a little bit of time, and we're losing that.

What is the alternative? That news is filtered through some cabal of the 'chosen ones'?
Introduction to htmx
> And once you know it's there, what are you testing?

That you've fixed it.
I believe that's a valid case. Especially since NYT is suing OpenAI on similar grounds.

i.e. if you want automated tools for "protection" than they need to "correct" 99.99999% of the time otherwise it's not worth it.
Pretty cool and hella alarming lol.

Next someone will tell me they have a way to “ssh” into the universe and get process details on every entity in it including every human and what’s happening.

Kind of like in the matrix with The architect.
It seems to be their "multifunctional smart glass"? https://www.zeiss.com/oem-solutions/products-solutions/multi...
I would like to take a moment to thank you for introducing me to a new youtube series which has already wasted an hour of my day. I love-hate you.
Just for fun, I tried turning a CP2102 USB UART adapter into a PDM DAC, using the raw output of the serial bitstream. It sounds "not good", but honestly not that bad either. Here's a sample from it: https://retr0.id/media/5c4c16ac-bc6d-4bf0-9159-73bbe4fcfb02/...

The only external components were a simple passive RC filter.
A purist, I see.
If you don't have internet access at home, then you have limited options. You could save them to disk and hope they display OK at home. But this forces you to sit at the computer to read them, and assumes you actually have a computer at home.

Alternatively, you could print them out.
I remember when I was working on Facebook games, every product manager wanted their new feature to have one-click access from the main game screen. So each new feature created a new wart on the UI.

This is that, but for hardware.

Let's call it a Thirsty Feature
Another danger of doing it yourself I have found is that if you give a dev a Proxmox, they are going to play around making toy Kubernetes setups instead of implementing the backup system they intended to make.
I'm not totally sure why you'd think that's a bad thing
Shame on Ars for this. Would have thought they would be better. ESPECIALLY since the "since 1994" is not important for the headline at all, but they just wanted to pull something out of their ass to embellish the headline, but actually ended up making it wrong by doing so.

I miss terse but descriptive headlines. Everything now has to be 11/10 wild or clickbait that doesn't actually give a full piece of information.
Is there any demand for this?
holy shit, the glass camera in action.. Scary
I Defeated NES Tetris
Ah yes, here we go again with tech taking jobs away from poor people.
LIGO?
I’m on Twitter and I have not seen any of my news sources or research sources being diminished after must took over.

And the fact that I can actually talk about zinc as being an immuno stimulant now without it being shadow banned is refreshing.
True, but I was wondering more about having your own business rather than working for someone on their platform.
DHH imposes this kind of cognitive dissonance on the Ruby community at a pretty regular interval.

it's generally worth it, but it's still a kind of brain tax.
Rough translation of video transcript (YT transcript translated by deepl.com):

Lenses.
This year's theme is now holograms
and it's pretty funny that this is
is called a holocam, and it's pretty funny.
If you look at it right now, if you look at the spring right here.
you can see a little bit of blue
you can see a little bit of blue, which is actually
what is it?
it's actually acting as a camera, so
Now, if you listen to the explanation
what we call holography.
is that it's now reflecting light, so we can gather that light
and you can collect that light and act like a camera
like a camera, so for example, you can now
what?
the meat.
it can recognize the blue color
and only recognize the blue part.
Jace's
holocam. It's quite
interesting.
Plus, driving Twitter into the ground is better than driving it into pedestrians.
It's the same for me. It's a much different experience now. Especially since I hang out on the "Following" tab instead of the "For you" tab. It's a whole different ball game. Everything on AI, space, and programming up-to-date.
Jamming can avoid "friendly fire" through a variety of means. Directional antennas can emit RF in the direction of the enemy, but not your own assets. You can also jam on different frequencies than you're using to operate your own drones.
Part of my Icelandic search and rescue qualification program involved staying in a mountain cabin over a weekend with a few others, where we spent our days "throwing" ourselves down the icy steeps of the mountain and training ice axe self-arrests.

Of course there was no danger, but I get the sense other cultures would perhaps not go straight to that kind of hands on training.
Squeezing money out of effectively unsupported software is not sustainable.

Sounds like someone is trying to get their investment back before dumping the whole thing.
I think you are assuming that there won't be any heat loss wbtween the home and the plant
I get so tilted at the idea of a specific OS vendor having a dedicated keyboard button on all non-apple computers.

And now they are doing it again, wild.
> who am I to judge what people choose to signal with.

If they are signaling, they are literally asking to be judged. I see absolutely nothing wrong with giving them what they wish for
The "Office Key" which I have never seen just did CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+WIN together.

It would be nice if this key somehow was actually usable.
Does it really, though? How much time do you actually lose to having to sometimes read "reduce" and sometimes read "inject"?

I've heard these arguments a hundred times, and not once did I feel like the underlying sentiment was more than "I like/dislike X, therefor I want to limit how much other people can use X".
It’s pretty easy to guess what features (either manually made or AI based) the phishing detector saw:

1. “Facebook” and “login” in the URL

2. URL redirect

3. “Facebook login”, “password login, “forget password” etc in text body

4. The quoted email from Spotify sounding close (in vector space) to phishing text.

5. A link to Facebook settings, followed by a series of steps; these instructions say to log in to a non-Facebook url using your Facebook email

All of these together was probably enough to hit some threshold.
From there the issue was just misaligned personal incentives, all along the chain from engineers at Facebook to Netcraft and Digital Ocean, that leads to false positives being an acceptable outcome.
You can sell the physical book on secondary market and keep the ebook.
Wirecutter. They were acquired by the NY Times not too long ago. I also like America's Test Kitchen, but they only review kitchen products.
By Canonical, yes. By software publishers, maybe. By users... I mean, probably somebody somewhere?
Wait I’m curious. What are you referencing here? I see a very niche video for scream (2022) aka Scream V called Scream New Blood but it doesn’t seem to have been an associated title ever with the film. And it was of course released. And I think in universe they went through Stab 9.
I guess you think that bodybuilders, models, and actors (film and especially Theatre) are all misandric/misogynistic as well? They fit all the items above as well.

I guess I see why the comment upstream was flagged.
In Search of a New Tab
Most canned foods are heated as part of the canning process, aren't they? There are a handful of things that intentionally contain live cultures -- yogurts, some sauerkrauts & similar -- but otherwise I'd expect almost any canned food to have been packed hot or heated in the container during canning in order to kill food-spoiling organisms.
I think Apple just hasn't realized yet what a great sales opportunity a UI for quota management is. There's no better place to sell more storage. That's what Google does. See https://one.google.com/storage and https://photos.google.com/quotamanagement which work well for finding stuff to delete, in the hopes that eventually you'll tire of deleting things and go ahead and buy more storage.
The blindside being the unique tone of the episode, compared to what came before it. It still has silliness and is a fun watch.

Some things that I think make it hit differently:

* The house and most scenes are dimly lit

* You see the family in various stages of sleep

* The musical score has some intense crescendo

* The vulnerability it shows

It's a small glimpse of night time in a house with a child that is still transitioning to sleeping on their own. Having had kids, that weight being lifted as they finally "get it" is a unique feeling of bittersweet relief. It also shows the lengths the parents go through to make it a graceful and comforting transition.
So... more mass surveillance tech coming from every window in every building?
> In no sane world is >$150k bad pay in any city in the USA

It's not bad on average, but it skews hiring towards the wealthy, as those without wealth (self made or generational) cannot build the wealth needed to afford a high CoL city like DC.

Working 10-15 years on $30k as a staffer to end up making $150k at most as a lobbyist or maybe $174k as a House Rep while still having to pay off undergraduate and graduate school debt (and that too from private or private adjacent programs as where you studied does matter on the hill) means you have barely any savings to afford buying property or renting in most of the DMV.

> Maybe Congress should build some dormitories and allow members to board with each other if they choose so

They used to but stopped by the 90s for liability reasons.

> Congress barely passes any meaningful legislation

How do you define "meaningful"? It's the politics and PM equivalent of "Lines of Code"

The rate of enacted and passed legislation has largely remained constant since the 1970s [0].

Most legislation and work done on the Hill doesn't come up on CNN/Fox/MSNBC/NewsNation/Twitter/TikTok/FB because it's topics that are mind numbing to most people who aren't nerds.

[0] - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
webOS in general was amazing. I still prefer it over iOS, especially on tablets.
> You first identify "most likely to be contaminated foods" whether that is a type, or sales method, or handling, etc.

You can't fit a model without data. Consumer Reports did some random spot tests and found phtalates where we didn't expect them. That means we need more broad-based data to be able to predict what is and isn't likely to be contaminated.
Ask the South Koreans
Netcraft confirms it: Netcraft is dying!
I believe the key (maahahaha) is the requirement.

Microsoft famously required the Windows key for branded OEM computers/laptops, and now they're trying to require a Copilot key. We'll see if it flies.
> And fine for small kids I think, who wouldn't understand things like Bluey

You are vastly underestimating what small children can understand.
Because they give out free credits, and they suck at handling abuse, both of those attract bad actors
Fake jobs are non-obviously fake, but the bigger issue is the "real" jobs that are non-obviously fake.
You know... I understand people "want" to drink coffee and all. (Not me)

But the older I get, the more I realize this habit isn't necessary. It's not beneficial to society, and if someone feels the need for coffee, they should really reconsider their lifestyle and find something more productive to do.

If there was a way to completely eliminate the culture of coffee consumption, I'd support it. Might even take action myself if I could. I don't want my kids to grow up in a world obsessed with coffee.

There are so many better and healthier alternatives available. And yes, I understand not everyone has it easy. I certainly didn't, coming from a 3rd world country, but I still chose other options. That's no excuse, though. It's honestly quite demeaning and foolish when well-off people treat coffee drinking as something essential.
A principled person can eat the free steak dinner, listen to their pitch and tell them no all the same.

> You know what smart people do? Ask questions. Use their resources.

I would love to see more of this - as far as I can tell there is almost none of it going on. I am pro listening to all the voices, anti selecting based on the biggest donation. Between "vested interests" and voting along party lines I doubt many legislators could tell you what the subject of the bill they voted on 5 minutes ago was.
It's a reverse light guide. We've been beam forming for a long time, it's unsurprising that the reverse is possible (imaging through a light pipe).

The principal issue will be gathering enough energy. A well lit source like a bathroom mirror (mirror behind the light guide) could work pretty well I'd wager. If the light guide is too efficient then it will appear opaque, so there is a trade-off.

I find "turns any window" pretty misleading. Unless I'm missing something this needs very special glass or at the very least a special coating/laminate.

For folks worried about privacy, it will almost always be more convenient and cost-effective to install a tiny spy camera somewhere.

Zeiss isn't going to aspire to sell cheap glass on razor thin margins.
>nd light guiding elements to redirect incident light to a concealed sensor,

So you can't just stick on any existing window or pane of glass? That's good.
And yet I introduced my partner to magic mushrooms on xmas day and we both had a great time. I only use drugs very occasionally and this one is decriminalized where we live. We both have stable employment that is not jeopardized by our substance use. We’re happy and productive members of society.

I like drugs and I wish we’d end their condemnation.
PCode2C: Steps Towards Translation Validation with Ghidra and CBMC
For what it's worth, we're trying to do a lot of our server upgrades with the Elevate scripting to Almalinux, but man can it be a pain. We have a 30% success rate in testing, and even when it goes right it tends to be 2-3 hours of downtime. The alternative though is to rebuild every server on spare hardware and manually migrate data and configurations over. So it's still a better option once we can figure it out. I'm hoping to get downtime <1hr and >90% success rate before we start really pushing through these by April.
Over here at https://mnx.io we fit that description, and we do our best to keep our IP space clean.
This feels like disabling unit tests in order to get tests to pass. I've yet to see this strategy not blow up later.
> Robots will run on batteries or some other form of power - there is no way anyone is close to building robots that can eat break down food and use it for energy and repair.

Couldn't we sidestep the complexity of digestion and just get energy from the Sun? With improvements in solar cells and battery technology, we wouldn't need to engineer something as complex as extracting nutrients from food.

I don't think we'd want to replicate biological systems in robots. Digestion and procreation happen at the cellular level, and achieving that with technology is indeed hard sci-fi. Autonomous humanoid robots can exist and be useful for us without this level of sophistication. Though once this happens AI itself will be capable of self-improvement, so we can leave it up to them how they want to improve. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. :)
shadow DOM doesn't play well with assistive technology, so you shouldn't really be using it in production right now anyways
Eh, well, I dunno. I’ve got kids and I don’t personally let them give me as much crap as Bluey and Bingo do. Like, if they’re running up to the screen at a kids movie I’m taking them home. There’s other people in the theatre to consider. Kids need boundaries along with compassion, and yes, I know that there are the odd Bluey episodes that deal with boundaries, not getting what you want, etc…

…but there’s a lot of what seems like the kids just steamrolling their parents. That’s not sustainable for me. Being a parent is like having two full time jobs. It’s hard enough as it is to just get through the day. The bar is set a little too high.

But hey, my wife and I agree with this, so y’all do you! I’m sure most of our kids will probably turn out just fine no matter how much we model ourselves after Bandit and Chili.

I think it is a wonderful show regardless.

Edit: Knowing the average age in this industry, I have the distinct feeling that quite a few people who are not parents are involving themselves in these discussions and moderations. Just wait. I'm offering a realistic viewpoint positioned against a cartoon. And I'm not being a jerk about it.
"I Have Never Seen a Bad Backtest": Modeling Reality in Quantitative Investing
How did they mishandle Rabin?
Depends on the circle. Tech industry in California, know 2 NBs, and 2 trans people (and then 2 more I knew transitioned after I left work and contact with them). I guess that does fit all the liberal stereotypes that people like to throw at my State.
Okay, well... then it is broken in THREE ways. First, the link no longer leads to the search, as the redirect seems to strip the parameters. Second, searching the github for "no-one-left-behind" gives no results. Third, this _is_ a vulnerability of the NPM ecosystem, as shown by the fact that this happened _AGAIN_ this week.
Interesting, I always thought their strategy back then was basically to switch Windows to an "evergreen app" like Chrome where the "real" versions are service pack revisions but the "branding" version would always stay the same. Then at some point, the strategy was abandoned and the traditional "a new Windows every few years" model was re-established.
I have not investigated it, to be honest. If it's as easy as switching the compiler to Swift, and everything remains working as is, but I also get to use all the Swift stuff in addition to Objective-C, then I am clearly missing out!
I love the term "Thirsty Feature". I've seen this happen many a-time and it's always a sign of poor product management :/

Metrics looking dire? Did you ship the wrong product? Do users express little interest in what you have made?

No worries - juice your metrics and secure that promo by forcibly throwing your feature at users' faces in an existentially inescapable way, like an out of control t-shirt cannon!
> The more processed a food is the more opportunities it had to potentially be contaminated

Huh. You know, I've heard for a long time "avoid processed foods", but this is the first time I've seen a "why" for that. Makes sense! Thank you
Does biology trump free will? Robert Sapolsky argues we have little choice
This is a copyright law issue, not a publishing industry issue. First sale doctrine applies to the physical book, you only have a license to the ebook. Even if you were to "disrupt" publishing, they could change their benevolence at any time and no longer transfer ownership of the ebook.

This is why the Internet Archive is fighting the Controlled Digital Lending issue in court; if all books are ebooks, libraries can no longer be libraries due to onerous publisher control, and culture is locked up in perpetuity (life+whatever in your country of copyright dystopia). You have to fix the delta between how the physical book and the ebook are treated legally.

TLDR Without physical media, there is no first sale doctrine. Everything is licensed, and locked up under license terms.