skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with "boring" businesses as you have described is they are also low-barrier.

Passive income businesses or businesses where an average 16 year old can put in $1 and get $1.25 out are liable to get 'disrupted' by someone who is willing to put in $1 to $1.15 out or someone savvy who can put in $0.90 to get $1.25 out. Terrible market and it's exactly why you see them on YouTube selling courses on how to do it or even just saying their entire business plan because it's that brain-dead.

They are just bad businesses because they have no defensibility or IP generated. Yes, you don't have to work to earn necessarily but you are still hitched quite heavily to being hands-on.

My opinion is a good "boring" business is something that passes unremarkably at Thanksgiving and will never be on magazine covers, also good competition to prove the market is strong enough to have another entrant

If you can tell someone what the business is and they go "So anyway"... fantastic business. You don't want any venture-backed companies whose business plan starts and ends at a snow shovel and a pile of money. You will lose unless your plan is the same and you either have a bigger pile of money or your competitor is much worse. The ideal space is likely an established market with sleepy / stagnant competitors so you can carve off a few percent by addressing what the market is not and having a few million+ a year in revenue.
> I don't want my kids doing whatever they want or being influenced by some things.

You're allowed to want or not want whatever for your children, but as soon as they become adults, their own wants for their own life override your wants for their life. In the meantime, plenty of people (all of whom are somebody's children) have chosen to try hard drugs despite the fact that they are already illegal and demonstrably dangerous. You can't store your children in a crystal sphere for their whole lives, so it's your job to teach them as best you can and let them go. You can do the best you can as a parent and they might still choose to throw their lives away, and if they do then that's on them, not on you. Their lives are their own.
> say nothing of decades more of people being maimed and killed by our cluster bomblets left all over the country.

Not to mention the millions of people devastated by Agent Orange.

The fact that the specialists warned the US military of these effects and it didn't stop them from poisoning the population for generations is mind boggling. How did these people rationalize their actions?

Anyway - there's no possible price tag for that. Your point of comparison is correct; the space race as a whole was about the best- and cheapest-case scenario for a "war"
I think the language was chosen to mirror what a similar fraction of the world, except this time including the united states, would say that the people living on the right side of Israel's internal partition should have.
What for, exactly?

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20210902/114020/HMKP...

FBI confirms there was no insurrection on Jan. 6
Correct on the last point but the first is still up for debate. Heres my take => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1373
Bluey is #1 but I haven't seen Wild Kratt's mentioned anywhere yet. It's given my son a great introduction to the animal kingdom and given him a lot of ammunition for the animal guessing game.
I find F-Droid is a good source for ad-free apps:

Solitaire: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Solitaire&lang=en
> the mitigation is the same mitigation that’s already been approved by the FAA as effective

That's basically the argument Boeing is making. However, there is a counter argument that the FAA could make (though I don't know if they are): in order to limit the risk exposure now that this issue has been discovered, the same mitigation should not be allowed on any new variants not already in service, even though it is allowed for the ones already in service, because taking variants out of service is a much bigger deal than not allowing new ones into service.
> How do we collectively tell them to knock it off

The “easiest” might be an antitrust suit. Forcing or bundling (or apparently advertising) one product with another runs afoul of anti-bundling laws, and there’s an argument to be made for windows and openAI/copilot to both be monopolies.

Now, who has a dozens of millions lying around to fund such a suit?
You feed in the PCM samples, the I2S peripheral handles the PDM in hardware. So no CPU should be used.
Even if it can't do tasks that require more dexterity, it would still be a great help.

The "rinse pan" demo did not impress - but it doesn't need to. You don't have to teach it to "scrub bowls and plates" when you can teach it to "fill and empty the dishwasher"
Thank you!!! _And_ it has the proprietary models...insanely more useful.

It's a bug, not a feature, that the stock leaderboard ends up with endless fine tunes, and as you point out and is demonstrated by the article, its more about something else than about quality
Are there any platforms specifically for claiming bounties or is this more of an opportunistic thing?
I appreciate that objective viewpoint and backing it up with data. If Consumer Reports presented it that way, I wouldn't have an issue with their reporting. A person can read that and have a much better understanding of the potential risk and what they want to do about it. But CR just goes for the attention-grabbing headline, a scary article with meaningless phrases like "while there is no level that scientists have confirmed as safe", no access to their raw data, and no reference to how whatever the found compares to the food safety standards (especially with the way they lumped all the phthalates together).

To give them a modicum more credit: I missed the link to this PDF the first time, which at least discloses the testing methodology and has a page listing the applicable safety standards. https://article.images.consumerreports.org/image/upload/v170...

There's something I find very interesting in there: they added phthalates and phthalate replacements together and reported it as phthalates. Phthalate replacements are also known as "non-phthalate plasticizers", which as the name implies, are not phthalates, and are used in products that want to be "BPA and phthalate free". To what extent are those reported numbers actually coming from DEHA in pthalate-free polyethylene wrappers? To me, this crosses the line from simple clickbait to dishonesty.

I don't have a horse in this race apart from being the kind of person who just wants to know what is actually true. Industry will absolutely lie and poison us to make a buck, but at the same time, everything is chemicals, and many "natural" substances are incredibly toxic. Ultimately it is farcical to think that any of us are in a position to do or even properly evaluate research and we rely on experts and reputation to try to make sense of these technical fields. CR publishing it doesn't make it untrue, but unfortunately I think it's a mistake to rely on them either. At best it's a pointer that there may be something interesting and worth seeing if anyone else has done a better job.
Nice! I guess I'm just bad at judging what's PDM and what's not. :-)
Oh, you’re all right! Can’r edit my comment now :/
Great way to star in a cartel video.
Given that Zeiss proposes this technology for vehicles, windows, etc., I'm curious about the effects of water droplets in direct contact with the surface changing the index of refraction locally (vs air).
Heh, a mistake, maybe a Freudian slip, but I'll leave it uncorrected for the lols.
Can't that just be solved with this?

alias foo="flatpak run org.blub.foo"

I would bet flatpak doesn't do this by default since it doesn't hijack a native package's namespace in the way Canonical is forcing people with snap hijacking apt install, and gives you a choice.

This lets me run multiple different Chromium flatpaks alongside the native package (stock Debian apt Chromium, official Chromium flatpak, Ungoogled Chromium flatpak) without issue, for example.
On a PC it is different, because you need to render the polygons in software. On an Amiga you basically draw lines into each bitplane, and then do a single area fill at the end, all with the blitter. The area fill won't have to be stored, as this is done for each frame. Which means you only need to store the lines, and those can be stored directly as preprocessed register values for the blitter.
So you can basically just stream the data directly from floppy and fire it off into the blitter.

But as I say, on early PCs you couldn't draw ANYTHING quickly into video memory.
Which is also why for the 8088 MPH demo I developed a polygon renderer that calculated the differences with the previous frame, and then only drew that. This allowed a much higher framerate than clearing the stream and redrawing all polys.
Similar to how the XDC encoder here encodes the differences.

On the Amiga the CPU isn't fast enough to draw entire screens either, but it has the chipset with the blitter, DMA transfers and whatnot to help it.
Oh youuuuuu
I did have a phone number, however, when someone is about to click "buy" on a website but they have one hesitation, they aren't as likely to dial a phone to get an answer. When they can click a button and have instant response right there on the page.

I was a really powerful sales and support tool.
So let me see if I'm understanding this: Facebook pays a company called Netcraft for brand reputation management, and they scan the internet for misuse of the Facebook brand, assume it's "phishing", and send reports to cloud hosts to take them down. Sounds like the mafia.
Logan Paul offers partial refund for failed CryptoZoo game
Yeah, I suppose so. I still always try to convert friends and family members to Firefox with uBlock Origin. The experience is just so much better.
Do you think that all of these countries are so committed to Israel as to give it a get out of its own mess free card?

I think Israel is a wonderful country but at the same time its government does completely untenable thing.

I believe all these countries may be sincere. What's the worst that can happen after the vote, for them?
"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
Worth noting that it's still a struggle because of competing interests. For instance in Germany the auto industry and its lobby is strong enough to succeed in keeping freeways toll free, whereas the German Railways infrastructure part was split out into a company called DB Netz. So when you buy a ticket the cost of using the railway infrastructure is included in the price. Also other things, but not relevant for this discussion.

So yes the railway is a lot better in Europe and the rest of the world than the US, but it's almost always a question of politics and interests of different groups. I also think it's poor framing to say people do it because of climate change - I do it because it's the best way to travel. During early corona time I went with a car on a typical 2-3 hour trip I usually take and it was just horrible in comparison. In the one case you can sit in comfortable seats, walk around, get something to drink an eat, and in the other you are usually stuck in a cramped seat, can't get out and can only take a break on a gas station or a similar place.
This doesn't seem unfair to me at all.
Repo has a great readme.md. well written
I did a lot of design-to-developer handoff with InVision back in the day. It was great, perhaps you missed it.

Before Figma multiplayer, it was a great way to formalize the handoff, starting from Sketch, structuring everything, selecting some boards, and then using Craft (I believe it was called) to upload things to InVision, and then have more discussion there.

The devs never saw design files, just these cleanly structured handoffs. We could have conversations over details, etc. Worked well for the teams I was on.

Now the constant sync'ing was a hassle, not as fluid as Figma but it was a lot more formalized then Figma where devs are always asking "is this ready to review". I didn't explore prototyping very much, which IMO is still a big unsolved problem for the industry.

So, from me, cheers to InVision, yes times changed, sad they couldn't be a part of it, but their product was very awesome for me back in the day. PLUS, they had such a beautiful beautiful UI for their design exploration tool, everything was lightweight and contextual, it continues to inspire me to this day.
"It's very literally not hurting you, your business, or the economy"

Weirdly, I'm way less likely to spend my time or money in a neighborhood overrun by people selling or using hard drugs, so I think this statement is "literally" not accurate.
did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of duds though and it's caveat emptor, do at least a little research if you can find anything.
You can't do much lookup with sigma-delta modulation but

> has two cores running at 240MHz

Yeah ok that is manageable.
People go camping carrying stuff on their backs after all, or by strapping stuff to bicycles.

I'm assuming that because "impromptu camping" is an option we're not talking about someone who has kids in the first place, but even if they did I can't imagine needing a whole truck for that, especially when smaller-but-still-giant vehicles like SUVs exist.
Depending on which thing we're discussing, the easy replacements are Ubuntu->Debian and Snap->Flatpak
I mean if someone has a particular style that others disagree on, the repo ends up with inconsistently styled code. There are benefits to consistently styled code especially when there are a lot of hands in the repo. I think teams should strive to have a mostly homogeneous code style for consistency sake. It makes reading code easier and ultimately maintaining code easier. Having a linter enforce style rules is really helpful so code reviews don't need to be consumed with tedious style discussions.

I like rubocop because it can be configured to be as flexible or strict as the team wants. Let the team establish what the level of consistency they want is.
Or developers compile a static linux binary for the specific architectures (usual amd64) and just compile all of the dependencies into the app. You download the binary and run it. That used to be how Steam worked, for example, and I assume still does.

I think that what snaps and flatpaks want to do that is "better" than this, is to isolate your system from such applications if they are malicious.
I'd assume that the parent post compared walking outside your door to a well in your own yard, as used to be the common practice in the countryside, which indeed takes much less time than gassing up a vehicle but obviously not something you'd want to do if you can have indoor plumbing instead.
Using a place of refuge as the US' too-dirty-for-the-CIA instrument of deniable espionage, for going on 50 years now, has created a lot of ties the public is totally ignorant of and the rest of the world blames Israel for.

If there is one thing to take away from the existence of the "Israeli foreign lobby" conspiracy theory it is that public ignorance of international relationships leads to impactful confusions as people seek to explain what is advertised by the mainstream in terms of ideas advertised by extremists rather than facts that have not been advertised at all.
I have feeling it will be the menu key with a different keycap.
It was good that it's a string literal, so it did not make the file incompatible with parsers that didn't support strict mode. You'd have to make sure your code behaved correctly both in sloppy mode and in strict mode.

Probably irrelevant today.
>I really hope Big Tech, including but not limited to Apple, gets broken up, they've gotten too big and have expanded far beyond tech, and I'm not sure we're all the better for it.

Many of our retirement and wealth portfolios would beg to differ. S&P minus FAANG is virtually flat for the past few years (and depending upon which estimate you observe, likely negative if you factor inflation); almost all of the growth in the S&P 500 is from tech growth.
This is an odd, almost reverse nitpick. The word "shutter" is general-purpose. It's literally a thing that shuts the opening. There's one inside an SLR camera, as you point out. There's often one on a webcam. They are common on windows on houses.
That's a tiny team, a short timescale, and a trivial cost.

Seriously, when you're a bit older you'll see more wasted on the most useless ideas.
Every example of contract work at Google I've been given has shown clear separation between contract work and FTEs. At google maps, contractors are driving around taking street photos or identifying roads on satellite imagery. FTEs are writing software for Google Maps that uses this data. Even media outlets that are negative towards Google's use of contractors highlight that these contractors are used for specific needs outside of what FTEs do [1]:

> Google does not directly employ the workers who collect or create the data required for much of its technology, be they the drivers who capture photos for Google Maps’ Street View, the content moderators training YouTube’s filters to catch prohibited material, or the scanners flipping pages to upload the contents of libraries into Google Books.

> Having these two tiers of workers – highly paid full-time Googlers and often low-wage and precarious workers contracted through staffing firms – is “corrosive”, “highly problematic”, and “permissive of exploitation”, the employees said.

While some may be disgusted with the segregation between the two "tiers" of FTEs doing software development and contractors doing manual labor, the fact that the workforce is starkly separated into two different tiers goes to show just how separate these two segments of the workforce really are. Most of the coverage of Google's contracting emphasizes these points: how separate and unequal the contract and full-time workers are.

Now there's an anonymous internet commenter claiming to work at Google insisting that this is not the case - but unwilling to actually specify what team or organization is actually using contract workers for the same functions at FTEs. Is it really "frightening" and "aggressive" that I don't find these anonymous, non-specific allegations more compelling than the writings by people with their real names attached to their claims?

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/28/a-white-c...
It’s very handy for me when say I only have one finger available to operate the laptop (eg holding something/having dinner).
Diffusion Model from Scratch
Drug use in my area does not affect most(all?) businesses. I use commercial bathrooms all over where I live, too, and they're not even so much as locked. There's your counter-anecdata.
Same experience, with also a strange non-standard folder for binaries in the user's home.
In my perfect world the bad practices Apple's resistance of which are a core thing that makes their products attractive—would be outlawed. Totally destroyed, eliminated from the market. Then they'd go after Apple (yes! Please! Do! ... but maybe remove the bad shit they use their vertical integration and market power to shield me from, first? That'd be nice.)
Even if generative AI does see huge uptake, that does not guarantee that Microsoft's implementation is the one that everyone uses. And, even if Microsoft's is the one that everyone uses, that does not guarantee that they make money of of it.

For further examples of money-losing products that changed the world, see the entire history of our crazy industry.
"Volcanic soil" is good for growing plants, it's full of useful minerals

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/why-is-volcanic-soil-so-fe...
My loose thought is that since the US will vote against and veto any anti Israel resolutions, other countries don't have to take the heat from voting No.
Ones that are all colder than Iceland
Once a while we get a post where everyone has an excuse to gush about Delphi/Lazarus/Free Pascal etc. in the comments, but no one's quite sure about the iOS story and no one really has the time to check up on it...
At that point anything can happen if we're including general forgetfulness or accidental acts. But in general gas drivers rarely completely forget to get gas, they simply delay getting it out of not wanting to experience the 5+ minute delay at that point in their day.

Which is understandable in a gas car. You either spend the 5 minutes today, or you spend it tomorrow morning. Same 5 minutes technically.

But to forget plugging in your car which takes 15 seconds, with the alternative being having to find a charger away from home, is something that I don't think will happen often since it's so easy to avoid such a bigger pain point.
>My opinion is a good "boring" business is something that passes unremarkably at Thanksgiving and will never be on magazine covers, also good competition to prove the market is strong enough to have another entrant

That is exactly like what I was talking about.
Other than ads, search or mobile OS, I'm not sure where else Google is beating MS. I don't mean to diminish those things, they are important. But ChromeOS is clearly nowhere near displacing Windows (for instance).
OpenRL: A Unified Reinforcement Learning Framework
http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html
As a person who uses almost all of Apple's hardware, and almost all of Google's services, and none of Apple's services, the behavior that always strikes me as the most harmful to consumers is the constant nagging of users about the intended behavior of their chosen third-party apps, while their operating systems remain silent about the exact same behaviors of first-party apps. For example iOS has several silent default-opt-in location data features that I do not want or need, and at the same time it regularly tries to trick me into disabling location features of Google Maps, that I've used daily since 2005.

The other issue is the constant nagging, that can't be disabled, about iCloud backups being full, when in fact I never wanted them in the first place and as far as I can tell or recall they stole that data from me.
The reason for avoiding ultra-processed foods is that they are pretty bad for your health. This report [1] by the UN food agency is a good resource. A short paragraph from the conclusion:

> the results from the studies on health outcomes show plausible, significant and graded associations between the dietary share of ultra-processed foods and the occurrence or incidence of several non-communicable diseases, including obesity and obesity-related outcomes, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, breast and all cancers, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, frailty in the elderly, and also premature mortality.

[1] https://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/CA5644EN.pdf
The tech-crowd uses Firefox quite a bit. Four of my tech oriented sites show FF between 15% and 20% of traffic. But that uses goatcounter (not self hosted), which I know can get blocked by ad-ons.

The other challenge is that most bots use Chrome as their UA string, so any bots you fail to filter out will inflate Chrome's numbers.

I actually see more traffic from Pale Moon than from Edge. Edge looks dead.