skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rich ppl finally discovered that it's time to change all of this plastic consumtion, since it's everywhere now. Can't have clean food because it's in the water, and even the best filters can't filter it out. Microplastics is in the rain, the soil, the food. The contamination is smaller in Meat than in Plants.

I'd be interested to hear if there's companies out there, who try to do something with the micro/nano-plastics. So little is known about the issue.
Does the USB-C specification allow that? Can such devices get USB-C certification?

OTOH, I haven't seen any USB certifications on Apple USB cables or devices, so most likely Apple doesn't care.
But they cannot last 20h on a battery, win some, lose some
Probably dry, but had short. Definitely good to detect and throw out. Message could definitely be improved.
thank you very much for your insight, i appreciate it!

but i think you misunderstood my premise. we don't promise you customers or have anything to do with customers.

we are building a social network that would make startups "more visible" (in your words - 'more eyeballs'). today every startup launches on every social media in the hope of getting noticed, but gets lost as there are contents from other grown brands and content creators. whereas at our platform only startups can create contents and, in a way, show how have they grown and how their product has evolved. and all the data that we generate from user-content interaction would be processed and presented to startups to help them understand their customers (they can use this to their advantage - we DO NOT intervene)

just that's it! i say it again WE DO NOT PROMISE CUSTOMERS!!
I routinely wash my iPhone 13 mini in water, putting it under a running tap and washing all over. I've been doing it for more than two years now, no issues. I've fully submerged it a few times too without issue.
Cookie clicker does something similar for importing and exporting saves, and it is an absolute joy to not have to fiddle with accounts and be able to backup your own data. I’d love to see more applications move to this model, it’s very user-friendly.
Darn. Use it on the regular for daily desktop ops.

What I don't understand is the need for a mobile device handy to access stuff on desktop. I mean I understand how that increases security but why isn't access to the app, which is basically locked behind the OS login/authentication a pretty good setup. Because a hacker already having access to the laptop invalidates it? In a stolen/compromised desktop scenario I can still access my 2fa synced on mobile and lock them out no?
I have a heterodox opinion about this. We are a handful of tweaks to intellectual property law away from onshoring manufacturing
Good to know. Thankfully the laptop market has broadened and I now know to avoid both vendors.
Any plans for one time purchase, all I see is subscription plans?
They do it for VOTES in the short term, not realizing or not caring in the long term it's actually destabilizing the country.

and it's not one party or another either. it's both parties.
If they decide to go down this path, someone in Australia will report them to the ACCC. If they are using it as an excuse to avoid their warranty obligations, then they will be sorry.
Quickwit is FTS too though. I think the difference comes from the fact they stored stuff on EBS while Quickwit stores its index on S3.
Presumably to make it difficult for any prospective customers to find. Anyone already in the know can rest assured “things have changed” because they’ve been following the news cycle and will readily find the relevant tweets and medium posts. That in theory cause this all to fall out if the spotlight.

Any future unwitting potential customer who didn’t think to search for the current CEOs personal medium account to find a damming scandal about the company will be none the wiser.
>Nobody thinks they're going to get the same quality team by body shopping their hiring funnel.

Management does.
I had my S22 upside down in my pocket and happened to splash water directly into the USB port and nowhere else. The precision was honestly kind of impressive. I only knew about it because my phone freaked out. I let it dry overnight rather than charge it, and everything has been good since then.
You haven't explained it since it doesn't follow. The fact that a single company uses many technologies has no effect in itself on the pool of people using those technologies.

Besides, that's another misapplied requirement of yours: experience can be gained, it will take longer, but it's just another "takes more resources" issue, not something that narrows the field since for some reason you added that requirement before hiring, not before writing docs.

I don't think it's a trivial (that's your straw man), I just disagree that it requires rare man of mythical set of skills to accomplish to make it justifiably hard for poor Apple
Show HN: Greenwich Time Signal, web edition
Hi HN!

I want to share with you this tiny tool that I recently hacked together.

It's trivial in nature - a web version of the Greenwich Time Signal that's often played when a news broadcast starts.

Though you can reset the seconds on your digital watch by visual means (like another synced clock), I think that a sound indicator helps with the timing. With that in mind, this tool fills a very small niche.

The original time signal is slowly being phased out from linear broadcasts, and other official sources are being discontinued [1]. I want to help preserve this part of analogue history in a digital format and provide a fallback.

https://matiasklemola.com/time-signal

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/canada-officia...
Read the first paragraph:

>> Apple’s limited warranty doesn’t cover damage caused by liquids, even for water-resistant products like the iPhone, Apple Watch, and some AirPods models.
The article is a marketing promotion for Citus. They ignore Neon, a major innovation in distributed cloud storage solutions. They reduce Distributed SQL to key-value stores, when it is actually the only distributed architecture that preserves all SQL features (ACID, consistent reads, referential integrity, global indexes).

And the only fact about performance is a benchmark comparing elastic and resilient distributed SQL to non-HA Citus running on larger machines.
True, but it can also require massive deletes/updates.

I suppose their are ways to structure things to minimize this, though.
Didn't know nitter. It looks like it allows to search twitter without having an account which is cool since I deleted mine a few months ago because I could not find relevant information anymore (the browsing experience was such a PITA).
The only disease here is you and yours.

https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident
This reminds me of a class in college where one project was to make a waveguide WiFi antenna. You know the ones; often built out of a Pringles can.

On the day the project was due, we each demo'd our antennas and the instructor recorded their range, SNR, etc. Most in the class followed the Pringles can tutorials, but I was always kinda extra. So I used some kind of roof flashing coiled into a cylinder to get the length and radius tuned just right, and I fashioned a comfy handle to aim it using some scrap aluminum flat, and round wood stock.

Mine did really well, but it also had the widest variance in performance. We figured out that my wood handle could be held in a way in which you didn't actually touch any metal, but if you put your thumb up on the aluminum part of the handle, it instantly got way better SNR!

The instructor told us that touching the housing improved the quality of the ground because the capacitance of our meat acts like a short at those high frequencies.
That's a reading comprehension issue
Sure there is. Know the answers to questions already. Being trained on a noninsignificant proportion of all questions ever asked on the Internet means you have to wonder how smart LLMs really are. Seeing the ways they fail, confirms not so much. They are able to abstract a bit of knowledge an statically match it to questions and answers already seen. Confident hallucinations help you see this.

The best hallucinations I saw was asking chatgpt for a list of references for a topic I was researching. They all looked entirely believable, titles, authors, institutions, summaries… IIRC there were about twenty of them. Only one actually existed.
But you would need to make sure that the pins still contact though.
KaiOS is owned by Google. Not a reason to go for dumbphone.
I have no experience of imgui but I found a comparison article here: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/imgui-tk.html
> Penrose claims that human intelligence relies on quantum effects and demonstrates certain structures in neurons that makes it at least a plausible argument.

Except that Penrose's argument is biologically nonsense, which probably means that he has an incorrect definition of intelligence, since I'm pretty confident in his ability to reason from axioms.
[Dupe]

More discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38918643
Exponent, Inc. is already taken...
Baidu to donate quantum computing lab, equipment to Beijing institute
I think its a combination of A: they don't know which credentials are being used; B: While figuring it out would be somewhat trivial, it still requires effort to set up tracking for it; and C: We're not doing anything nefarious with it, challenging Nintendo's intellectual property, committing piracy, or using it to upload illegal content. As a reminder, Nintendo does not own the copyright on the courses uploaded to its servers. The creators do. By using SMM2, they grant Nintendo a non-exclusive license to use their courses in the game. Non-exclusive
If somebody of Yihui Xie's calibre got laid off, there's no hope for 99% of R programmers at Rstudio.
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing.

SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, allows e-mailing since 1982. This easily makes it one of the oldest technologies amongst the Internet. However, even though it seems to have stood the test of time, there was still a trivial but novel exploitation technique just waiting to be discovered – SMTP smuggling!
In this talk, we’ll explore how SMTP smuggling breaks the interpretation of the SMTP protocol in vulnerable server constellations worldwide, allowing some more than unwanted behavior. Sending e-mails as admin@microsoft.com to fortune 500 companies – while still passing SPF checks – will be the least of our problems!
From identifying this novel technique to exploiting it in one of the most used e-mail services on the Internet, we’ll dive into all the little details this attack has to offer. Therefore, in this talk, we’ll embark on an expedition beyond the known limits of SMTP, and venture into the uncharted territories of SMTP smuggling!
When I was stuck artistically a few years ago, I made a challenge to draw every day for 30 days. On my off days, I made it devilishly simple, or even a drawing of a character saying, "I'm too tired to make something good today". This project which had a heavy emphasis on imperfection and just getting things on paper turned into a comic book character that is more popular than my more "serious" art works. It was a bit of a shock and a slap to the face to realise that I wasn't necessarily helping myself by being careful with my work.
OpenReview: open peer review, open publishing, open access
With Linux growing ever more bloated and ever less Unixy, OpenBSD is more important to many people these days.
I was responsible for safe for flight inspections on military aircraft and the photo included in that post is completely insane to me.

Those bolts being loose (and they are BIG bolts) would mean multiple people in the installation process didn’t do their jobs, and signed their life on the line saying they did.

When I did maintenance, there was someone (QA) there to witness every torqued bolt, inspect every safety wire and installed part.

There is something rotten in Boeing.
I’ve been using this trick for many years. Things like when in a car park and trying to confirm I’ve locked my car at some distance, this has worked. It’s been pretty reliable for me.
"Hey, wanna hang out with a beer this evening?"

"Nah, I don't need to slouch anymore in this moral crumple zone!"

"We need this new feature in our program!"

"If we implement this it means the management fell in a moral crumple zone"

"What seat would you have to have for your flight?"

"Anywhere, but not in the moral crumple zone, please"
And insiders found ways to enrich themselves even while working with the onerous process. Remember the SPAC craze?

Another example of where the honest people get penalized with a heavy process in the name of zero fraud.
Discovery of loose bolts threatens wider 737 Max crisis for Boeing
https://archive.is/8zGEo
Show HN: GPT4 extension for detecting and fixing bad code
I don’t think there’s anything morally wrong with it, but I’d still say men shouldn’t do it because it’s annoying.

We’ve been mixing up “morally wrong” with “come on, don’t be a dick” constantly when addressing feminist issues. The first relates to feminist issues, the latter is general advice for human beings. This is the latter: Don’t hit on people without any personal context. It’s weird, annoying, and a bit sad. Do we have to say these things out loud?
iPads have always lasted a long time. I have one I use in the gym for over a decade.
There's Idris, designed to encourage "Type-Driven Development".
When you buy an ICE car today you are buying a very mature product. YoY the performance characteristics stay mostly the same, and for commuting you don’t need all that powerful of an engine. The differences I see between model years is mostly style, gadgets and infotainment.

I would love to buy an EV. But buying an EV today is like buying a Palm Treo in 2004.

There are alternative battery chemistries on the horizon: Sodium, Potassium and Aluminium. And new designs for electrical motors and discussion for transmission systems.

AFAIK the only auto maker that has demonstrated a consumer reusable battery and thus a gateway to upgrade to new battery chemistries as they become available is NIO. And NIO is not for sale in the U.S. nor would I trust the brand.
Love this book
You’d prefer the sweet, sweet pain of authenticity?
Yes, holding at same height. I did not know about ground interference! Thanks.
I have seen a case of Software QA taking a very different shape, so I'd like to argue that the outcome you describe is not intrinsic to software QA, but rather to company culture.

The case I'm talking about does not have a separate QA department, but QA people as part of every software team. If a product fails, that team is responsible, so software devs are in the same boat as QA. They focus on learning from these failures, so no scapegoat is needed. Process does get followed, but not as a defense mechanism, but because not doing so introduces noise that is an obstacle to improvement. In case of bad outcomes, people do point out that they followed process because then it is clear that the process is involved in the failure and should be improved.

Unfortunately, companies with that kind of culture are rare.
The management imported from McDonnel-Douglas?

The same management that drove it to ground?

The fish rots from the head. And these constant problems sure do sound like a new company culture of cutting corners instead engineering first.
Could you generate one for internet archive's Openlibrary.org GitHub repo?
They don't; they DON'T still have them. I pestered my department to get me a Lenovo instead of a Dell because I had bought into the reliability hype; one minor water-spill later, my laptop freaked out and since then has permanently degraded performance. See if I get another Lenovo ever again.

But anyway, if you are like me with arm mobility issues and in danger of spilling stuff on your laptop, get some custom made rugged laptop because no manufacturer cares anymore; if anything, they seem to care the other way round.
I am very curious what your opinions are in this regard. I have strong opinions about IP restrictions, which is that I think we need a managed scale down of said restrictions. Still even if your view is different I would like to hear it.
Yes the only reason people use devices you don’t must to be fashionable, of course, that must be it.
> Good software teams are led by competent, technical management.

...or perhaps with no managers at all. I'm less and less convinced of the importance of management in engineering except to give investors an illusion of control.
Competition strategy. The more people you can convince that they shouldn't hit on women means fewer people hitting on women, which improves the chances for those who hit on women.

Same reason 'slut shaming' is a thing, which is the same thing, just from the other point of view. The more people you can convince to not accept the advances of others means more opportunity for those who do.
I wish HN had secondary taglines we could use to talk about the actual content or relevance of an article apart from its headline.
I like to looks at problems that I am stuck on before sleep. Although I do not feel that I am thinking about them before falling asleep or while sleeping, it seems that I can solve them much easier the next time I look at them.
I never heard of it before.
For the uninitiated CHERI should be

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
There is no evidence it will save lives, you're just exhibiting signs of poor social development by not understanding why this is an issue and being to stubborn to realize. Most people are not engineers, capable of sitting silently for several hours.
Just a random estimation but I'd say LLMs make me at least 5x more productive.
Yet the digital computer is based on quantum effects in transistors. We engineer the weirdness away to give the illusion of a digital computer. Eventually we will go back and see what can be done without that. Boolean algebra is nice a clean but there are other ways.
Today we will focus on how to dockerize Ruby on Rails applications for establishing a consistent development environment and allowing seamless portability across various environments without worrying about configuring your Rails app for different environments. Let’s get started on this Ruby on Rails Dockerization guide!
The US gets paid by the "exorbitant privilege" of having the global reserve currency.

That was the deal since the second world war.
Although Apple is a board member of USB-IF, at least their cables are indeed not USB-IF certified.
If only peace was ever lasting...
Why not both? Am I missing something? You can have feedback loops and CI and all that, "good craftsmanship" or "good practices" (not "best" practices because those often suck hah), where of course opinions vary on the details of that -- and then someone who is also good at the craft who spends more or most time on helping the rest work together, i.e. manage/lead them.
Why would that not be allowed? In isolation, not running power through a short seems like a great safety feature for the hardware.
Not to say I am game with it but at least the newer ones don't trip anymore when it's damp...
> What does exist is a set of weights and biases that are a representation of that data (a model)

This is a distinction without a difference if the text can be reliably reproduced. For example, a trivial neural network that always outputs the text is just a fancy encoding of that text.
It’s inappropriate if it’s inappropriate. Not that hitting on a woman is inappropriate in itself.

Think of it the other way around: You send an email trying to quickly schedule an appointment with someone, and they reply with a time, and flirt with you. It’s weird because there’s no context for that.
You don't need multimodals to access tools such as calculator. Check out PandasAI or Langchain Agent workflow. Rather than workout 451 * 995 for example the llm constructs the pandas query, runs it, returns result to user. Works pretty well.
The comments ITT are a great example of why it’s often a good idea to ignore complaints and do whatever you want anyway. The behaviour that conventionally would be used to build trust, like admitting when you’re wrong and changing what you’re doing (in this case, shutting down an entire division of your company) is simple met with “no not good enough, you were wrong and should be punished more”.
My android pixel 7 reported water ingress in the usb port during a hike to kinder scout in the peak district (UK). It was raining lightly, but mostly there was a very thick fog / mist / drizzle that didn't really fall from the sky or land on you, rather it enveloped and coated you such that you were soaked.

I'd only removed my phone from my waterproof jacket pocket on two occasions to verify GPS location as I was still using a laminated map and compass.

This weather descended on me in about 10 minutes, I did not choose to be soaked.

Sounds like taking an iPhone camping in parts of the UK where the weather can do this is now an absolute no.

The pixel was fine btw, didn't stop working, and as soon as the air was less like soup it told me the water had cleared. Wouldn't want that to have been a warranty voiding event on a newer device though (I'm probably already out of warranty).
> Well if you cut everyone's salaries, you also don't retain the good people.

what good people? the upper management of this company fucked up so badly that they're sacking 50% of the company!
Yeah, the point was, if you're totally stuck, then throw stuff at the wall and maybe you'll notice a pattern, or it'll jog your memory, anything is better than nothing.

Your comment triggered long buried memories of organic chemistry, which ultimately made me change my major from biology to math. Thanks!
>Unity have never been serious competition outside of being easier to pickup for indie developers. Trying to compete with Unreal was their mistake.

Okay. Any suggestion for how unity could have avoided losing hundreds of millions of dollars?

They're a game engine they naturally compete with unreal.
I am very curious to know how you feel about PRQL (prql-lang.org) ? IMHO it gives you the ergonomics and DX of Polars or Pandas with the power and universality of SQL because you can still execute your queries on any SQL compatible query execution engine of your choice, including Polars and Pandas but also DuckDB, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Redshift, Postgres, Trino/Presto, SQLite, ... to name just a few popular ones.

The join syntax and semantics is one of the trickiest parts and is under discussion again recently. It's actually one of the key parts of any data transformation platform and is foundational to Relational Algebra, being right there in the "Relational" part and also the R in PRQL. Most of the PRQL built-in primitive transforms are just simple list manipulations like map, filter or reduce but joins require care to preserve monadic composition (see for example the design of SelectMany in LINQ or flatmap in the List Monad). See this comment for some of my thoughts on this: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/issues/3782#issuecomment-181131...
That issue is closed but I would love to hear any comments and you are welcome to open a new issue referencing that comment or simply tagging me (@snth).

Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.
Even then, it sounds like a speed issue. Quantum computers can be simulated on traditional computers. And quantum is coming, so those that repeat this theory to comfort themselves are at best buying time.
Even simpler, tune in an FM radio and move your hand near the antenna. It will sound better or worse depending on your hand position and how close it is to the antenna.
Yeah, be SUPER careful, the Wifi snooper vans are always out… looking for violations. You could be sent to Siberia for this. /s
The suppprt chips would add a few more chips; the most basic z80 setup is 5 or 6 chips, but they are not as easy to find.