skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that they're not told - they're prohibited from doing so for "theft prevention"
THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT.
The fear of increasing the binary size sounds like a self-imposed constraint. How bad is it to include both versions in same crate?
Great article.

Not so sure about the usefulness of these devices without having a battery though.
I think that "accuracy" isn't as easy to define as you'd like. There are keratoses which just fall off if left untreated, and these are not considered cancer, but the cells are indistinguishable from certain skin cancers under a microscope. Since it may not be obvious whether something will just fall off if left to itself, and "wait and see" isn't an ideal approach for dealing with something that might be cancer, these often get treated, leaving whether they were 'really' cancer unknowable to modern medicine.
RIP Kurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg
All companies need to do to support home assistant in this front is:

1. Making sure their app can control the smart devices even while the internet connection is out as long as the phone and the devices is connected to the same lan (local control). Local control adds resiliency to your product, which increase user satisfaction. Don't see it as spending an effort to support home assistant, but instead, see it as making your own product more resilient to unstable internet connection.

2. If your device don't support ZigBee (or other local protocol) and only supports wifi, have the local control api secured with a key. This key will be generated during initial setup and should be retrievable from your app.

That's it. If your devices are popular enough, someone will poke around, see the device has local control api secured with a key that can be retrieved from the official app, and publish an open source integration on HACS. You spent zero effort to directly support home assistant but your users now has an option to use their devices with home assistant and will likely to be a repeat customers.
All those taxes are already being paid. It’s to ensure that the contract worker gets worse insurance and next to no benefits and therefore costs less, and also so that you can get rid of them whenever you want for someone even cheaper.
Rocks tend to be 5-10x denser than water, so assume 2 million cube meters. That is just 2 square kilometers 1 meter high, so not mountains or so. As a comparison, for a large iron mine they dig up many billions of tons of rock, and that is for very cheap iron, so you wouldn't need a very large operation to dig this up.
Show HN: Codeshare.app – open-source pastebin for developers
Because Vincent van Gogh was Dutch. In the Netherlands (and Flanders, I presume) "van" would be lowercased when placed between given name and surname (because it's not a name, "van" just means "of"), but capitalized when it stands alone with the surname:

Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh

And to pre-emptively answer the next question: we don't drop the "van" because some surnames come in varieties with and without it, so you might end up confusing a hypothetical "Jan van Gent" with "Jan Gent".

But of course, you can't tell from an article if someone is Dutch or just has Dutch ancestry but long-since switched to English spelling rules. Which in some cases means the family chose to always lowercase the "van".

Source: look at my username ;)
I have observed non-technical people struggle with phone multitasking. They usually fail to notice the apps switching, and if they do, they often use a slow path back to the original app (for example opening an app via the Home Screen) rather than through the app switcher.
"When Nikolai Leng was a child, his teacher was a cybernetic system with a holographic interface. The holo took the form of a young Shaper woman. Its "personality" was an interactive composite expert system manufactured by Shaper psychotechs. Nikolai loved it." -- Bruce Sterling, Twenty Evocations
I agree, I really enjoyed the author’s curiosity and writing style!
What parts in those columns (I'm on mobile and only have one column, do you mean paragraphs?) show this was racist? I fully accept historical injustices occurred, and the possibility that remote places might not attract "star" officers and maybe that some remote officers could feel that a remote posting is an opportunity to enact their racist desires. But even if these are true it doesn't make this interaction racist.

> What do you think the RCMP was even for?

To police their communities? Or, based on your preceeding sentences are you suggesting that the RCMP's purpose is racism?
Psst, you have to do this to normal cars too, or it eats through your clear coat.

Plenty of stupid things about the Cybertruck if you want to be a hater. This isn’t one of them.

Personally, I want one.
People don’t like littering tabs and changing the focused tab in mobile safari. And they don’t like switching back to another app instead of just closing a modal.

The safari view component solves the privacy issue when adopted.
Well if they are your friends, you would expect that they will have respect for your choices. But maybe you are trying to convert them also, in a way they don't like it. So then they call you a tech vegan. I guess because vegans can be intense sometimes too.

It's not easy to convince ignorant friends. The best way I found is to not try to change them, but do keep your own principles. They'll respect that, and might even become interested in why you have your principles. Then if they ask you can explain them.
That was the exact thing that just went through my head reading this.

“…they didn’t clearcoat it?!”

Tesla is great at batteries and wheeled computers, but man, they have some serious blind spots when it comes to building vehicles.

I wonder if you can get an aftermarket ceramic coat or similar protectant on it.
> In the memo, Shah said employees should be prepared to work longer hours and not be afraid to let work impinge on their personal lives.

I wonder what executives should prepare for. Presumably continuing to contribute nothing of discernible value. Probably what comes when you treat humans like fungible work units to their face without even the pretense of viewing them as human.
Yes in 2024 it is a perfect static site generator but nobody uses it because it was a mess in the past
Do you still think so today?
> While we're at it, it's probably not the best idea to represent derivatives as fractions either (for the sake of notational consistency).

Do you mean dy/dx? Why isn't that a good idea? Isn't fractional form useful, for example solving differential equation y = dy/dx => dy/y = dx? What are the alternative you'd prefer: prime notation, D-notation, or else?
Yeah, there are several classified materials that are nonetheless believed to exist and even function as advertised, like FOGBANK [1]. Starlite might be a similar case, given current knowledges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
A Heketi man! I had the same experience around the same years, what a blast. Everything was so new..and broken!
This is the weirdest mix of repping for lobster's rights but still shitting on them at the same time. Has real "we should euthanize all the pugs" energy but honestly I'm here for it
> NASA became involved in Starlite in 1994, and NASA engineer Rosendo 'Rudy' Naranjo[17] talked about its potential in a Dateline NBC report. The Dateline reporter stated that Starlite could perhaps help with the fragile Space Shuttle heat shield.[13] Naranjo said of their discussions with Ward, "We have done a lot of evaluation and … we know all the tremendous possibilities that this material has."

Presumably NASA and the inventor couldn't reach a deal over the decades? Or it wasn't as useful as claimed? But then why would a company have paid to acquire the tech in 2013?
can't you?
Not resiliant, because in the 10-20 year lifespan of a home electrical panel, at least one critical vulnerability is going to allow complete remote pwnage of that device. It's stupid IOT garbage that belongs in ewaste, especially with a trivial remote code execution mechanism.
I think you miss the point. This page was linked to you from somewhere. “Home” in that context is back where you came from, I.e. the back button. Finding this page could have come from anywhere and sites don’t have to have pages keep you in their domain. That’s not how the web used to work. Nowadays everyone has their own “site” and it’s a much different eco system from decades ago.
This is classic price discrimination, and makes the services cheaper for people who are more price sensitive
The management at that level are also going to be regular people who probably live in the same community as the people they are managing and have zero incentive to prevent employees from warming themselves in their vehicles.

The story simply fails to compute. You're not talking about weird kingly bosses who live on Elysium and think that the poors should eat bugs, you're talking about light-blue collar management.

Also the source is dogshit. Not really a fan of Amazon but perfectly capable of recognising a hitpiece.
And somehow it's always cross tenant issues for easy lateral movement, because Azure ASNs are always allowlisted specifically to bypass all kinds of filters.

Microsoft is pretty learning resistant lately. Always prioritize the spamming customers, I guess?
> The difference is simply a function of smarter leadership and experience.

Look, the difference is glaringly obvious: Microsoft brought front-end development to a standstill for five long years. Apple has not. Apple has continued to add features, standards support, and interoperability bug fixes year after year like clockwork.

This isn’t a matter of nuance. This isn’t Apple being “smarter”. Apple fundamentally has not done what Microsoft did in any way, shape, or form. The two situations are extremely dissimilar.
> When you're young, ... But when you're a bit older, ...

I remember when I was really young I thought batman (the original series) was an adventure show, but watching years later as an adult... lol, it was a comedy!!
The landlord had no idea what this is.

Golgafrincham B Ark candidate detected.
I've always thought of Java programming as being kind of perverse with the patterns and verbosity, now I see where the perversion is coming from.
They were gatekeeping who gets to be "an actual HNer" as only people that know who is being mourned every single time.

You seem to be responding to something like "mourning people not everyone knows is gatekeeping", but I don't see anybody saying that.
Modern X-ray machines use software to receive the image and view it.

If the models already work, why would it even require a cloud component? That's just risky, complex, and costly. Let the device do its thing, doc writes down the findings, data gets deleted, and device ready for next patient.
From addition to quantum physics [video]
I like how the author is surprised by the technological aberration that form Linux powered home appliances. A node server to power and publish over wifi a web site, an API, a web socket, while the site is being displayed by a outdated webview engine within an heavily constrained terminal which cant be reused for anything else. That's... the norm.

All this is very common. And yet displaying a couple of digits and a bar graph could be done with a pair of microcontrollers communicating onto some wired bus.

With the power supplies of this era, this pair of devices probably pumps 16w idle. Running 24/24 7/7, they probably consume as much as a small fridge as a whole. The LCA of the solution must be consterning as well, especially compared with few one dollard microcontrollers.

The worst of all is that this whole mess turned into bricks probably 3 years after it was installed, maybe less.
Thank you for the write up, this is some amazing stuff! It all sounds like magic to me, and that just makes me want to understand it more :)

So the use case is, if I‘ve understood, to simplify serving content in “responsive” environments. What environments do you see this benefiting? I assume web development, particularly e-commerce where images are crucial. However, what’s the overhead for this? How well does this “encode once, read many” style scale compare to the typical “encode many, read many” in terms of server resources?
I'm surprised by the strength of your comment. The article doesn't argue for lowercasing everything, and cites several cases (ah!) where it shouldn't hurt. Including case insensitive languages where case doesn't carry any information by definition and where it's already common practice and uncontroversial to lowercase everything, and English title case. With this in mind, my next question is:

> they greatly enhance readability

Do you have any evidence for this? My native language is not English and we use the Latin alphabet. The case for titles is the same as for regular sentences. We are doing fine. I would even say that the English title case feels somewhat odd and confusing. Titles are also virtually always set apart / rendered differently as normal text so I fail to see how normal case for titles loses information and how title case helps in any way. Actually, I even believe that title case sometimes loses information. Capital letters mark (Mark, btw :-)) proper names, this marking is lost with title case and this may sometimes bring ambiguity.
Swear I read an article recently about cuts to a lithium project in Australia due to dwindling demand.

Here's an article about it:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-18/kemerton-lithium-proj...

Including: "Demand for lithium has dropped by more than 80 per cent in the past year and nearly 11 per cent in the past month alone."
Vennells deserves to spend the rest or her life in prison. An evil piece of work that one.
I can fully appreciate what you are saying. I'm not denying racism, (structural, systemic, or otherwise, conscious, unconscious) exists. Or that you fictional example might play out in reality. What I'm saying is that we can speculate until we are blue in the face, but based on the information in that article you can't simply conclude racism.
A new book looks at the past and future of copyright
Except that you could say the same thing about the watch.

I feel like people are just grasping at straws.

The iPhone changed how people communicate, how they buy things, how they access information.

AirPods got people to stop complaining that Apple took away the headphone jack. I suspect that might have even been the main reason Apple made them.
That is the sales pitch, the reality is that 10 years later it is still catching up with features offered by other bytecode formats explored since UNCOL came to be in 1958.
That's not why disposables were adopted. A "simple bottle of sanitizer" is less likely to get rid of biofilm and spores, especially given the laziness and error of end-users.

Disposables are inherently safer. Lots of trash, and more expensive, but the best option for wealthy nations that can afford the best care.
Right what's the problem you can simply stay at home your whole life
Why would random individual people put in work, a scientist's life, into "getting people to pay new taxes without blowback"? Why would someone do that... just for fun?

And if there is a wealthy elite conspiracy behind it - why are they so bad at collusion? Taxes have only gone down over time.
What does it do differently that makes it more valuable than github, et al?
Have we established a pattern of behaviour for this particular officer in this regard?
Same here, but on PI 4b's. 6 node cluster with a 2tb hdd and 512 Tb ssd per node. CEPH made a huge impression on me, as in I didn't recognize how extensive the package was. I went up to 122mb/s and thought it's too little for my hack-NAS replacement :)

The functionality: mixing various pool types on the same set of SSD's, different redundancy types (erasure coded, replicated) was very impressive. Now I can't help but look down at a RAID NAS in comparision. Still, some extra packages like the NFS exporter were not ready for the arm architecture
It's not really clear what you mean by the brain accumulating noise. An analog computer can suffer from compounding imprecision, because error bars carry forward. We are analog computers in a vague sense, but as humans we aren't imprecisely crunching numbers all day such that our results are out of whack by nightfall...
You could say sleep is like a reset for the brain, but that doesn't say much. Sleep is complex and relates to most everything else about an organism in complex ways.
Partly because Elon is advocating for it, and people have been conditioned to vociferously oppose anything espoused by someone who differs from your core political beliefs.
Billionaire Owner Hides as Legal Review Sparks over Danish Waste Landslide
Maybe dial back the snark. You seem to have forgotten to make any sort of coherent reply to what I actually said.
ah yeah, I just relied on the auto title. I wonder if HN could automatically work this into the auto-titling logic for things like YouTube?
> Is Safari really that hard to develop for?

It’s not. We’re now in the same situation we were in 20 years ago with Internet Explorer, where other browsers are measured by “does it act like Chrome?”

Yes, it does have bugs and shortcomings – but all browsers do. When a predominantly Chrome developer finds something that doesn’t work in Chrome, the perception is that the functionality is not ready for primetime; when they find something that doesn’t work in Safari, the perception is that Safari is bad; when they find something that doesn’t work in Firefox… ha, just kidding, they don’t test in Firefox. Firefox is the new Opera.
May be it has a simple reason for not using a cmos-like battery in addition to the actual battery. One might be the consideration that having additional things will cost additional money and is an additional point of failure. You'll need to multiply the costs for a small battery and additionals with your production figures and figures of possibly needed spare parts in the future. All in all, we're talking >1000000 for sure. That's a Lot of money. There also has been a situation with VW 10-20 years earlier. They also decided to change the keys shell shape and shell material going form quality to plastic just to safe a 1-figure cent amounts per key. In the end the decision was an success, because they saved 100k Euro /y. So, a cmos-like battery will cost them..

And also, there is no necessity, like it is with computers. With computers, electrical cords are disconnected each time necessary to without a problem or caution (only it mustn't be running lol). With a car, disconnecting the battery should ideally never be done. So, actually no CMOS battery needed. Once in a few years setting the clock is not that big issue.

The other thing is, it's not only the clock that is resetted :)

Have you noticed, a clock in the car is mostly within the entertainment system? And that's the point why.

If a car battery is disconnected, that happens typically for just a few seconds until a new one is connected. Here, nothing should happen. The clock will be kept typically. If the change takes longer than a certain time, the electrical buffer within the entertainment system will be emptied. THIS is actually on purpose.

It's a countermeasure, it should make stealing & selling of the entertainment systems not so easy anymore.

Because, with longer power loss it loses it's entanglement with car's hardware, too, and needs a code to be entered after new power is connected. That's a good thing.

The clock is A. within that system and will be powerless, too, and B. It's a visual signal, that there has been a power loss recently. One should check.. may be the wires, iduno.

So and that's the reasons for not having a cmos-like battery in your car.

A. Money saving,

B. Visual info on "electrical status" and

C. countermeasure against thiefs.
They got Kerberoasted and don't want to admit it publicly.
Ask HN: How to add some custom Android kernel code to my phone?
I currently use a Google Pixel 4a and I've got a few photos, videos, apps, contacts, etc; that I want to keep on it.

I've made a few little apps and things as various little experiments, and one of my latest ideas that I want to try out, actually involve some changes to the AOSP core; (specifically, the surface flinger)

My experiment is that I want to allow for a "desaturated but not fully grayscale" experience on my phone -- looking around in the settings, I can find grayscale, colourblind settings, or "Extra dim" - but not what I want. (and programatically toggling grayscale on-and-off causes hiccups in the display)

I think I've found where the code would go, and what sort of changes I would make, but how can i add those changes to the core/kernel and run it on my phone? would replacing the kernel mean I lose all my current app / settings (as this is my only phone and I want to continue using it with my settings)?

Any help or assistance on the above?
I wouldn't pay for a 25% faster bootup unless it was an emergency life-saving device. You'd have to sell me something significantly better and worth my money, like any other seller in the world has to do with their product, from computers, to cars, to fast food.

I'm not sure that a software upgrade would require FDA approval, but product testing is a cost incurred by anyone in any industry. Even a new burger recipe would be tested at the restaurant's own expense. That doesn't seem to justify a subscription model (after paying the initial cost of the device, etc).
big oof because human nature and lack of education / clickbait.
Please disregard all the naysayers in the comments.

I'm a technical product marketer, this is delightful and saves me so much time.

Wrong audience for the tool, since they focus on things like accessibility and browser support and what you promise to bring to the table in comparison to what you actually bring.

None of these matter - this is a TERRIFIC piece of tooling and I will use it starting literally next week for my work.
That YouTube clip is from 1990 broadcast TV in a major northern coastal city market (Portland, OR).

Around that time was also the Disney Channel, which many parents of young children would get for their cable TV package, for presumed kid-safe shows, and which showed many old Disney movies, including this one.

Of course not everyone has seen it, but a lot have, maybe especially in households that prioritized exposure to "family-friendly" TV/movies.
We Owe It All to the Hippies [pdf]
Oxford researchers use hedgehog crash test dummies to limit lawnmower injuries
Instead of focusing in the browser, Mozzilla's management was focusing who knows what, now that Firefox is being dropped off across many browser matrixes regarding acceptance testing, is that when they finally start to worry?
Fyi, asus's 'aimesh' forces your APs all onto the same channel. That doesn't make sense for me, so while I have multiple Asus routers in AP mode, I run them independently.

Might make sense to get a different brand or model that is more economical.
This is a fascinating read. We run a Ceph storage cluster for persisting Docker layer cache [0]. We went from using EBS to Ceph and saw a massive difference in throughput. Went from a write throughput of 146 MB/s and 3,000 IOPS to 900 MB/s and 30,000 IOPS.

The best part is that it pretty much just works. Very little babysitting with the exception of the occasional fs trim or something.

It’s been a massive improvement for our caching system.

[0] https://depot.dev/blog/cache-v2-faster-builds
Every one I tried returned a disclaimer something like, "While technically this is not [whatever] ASCII art because it uses Unicode characters ..."

This suggests some folks are expecting ASCII art.

Perhaps this website should be "unicodeart.sh" instead "textart.sh"
I associate it with google, and I have associated google with bad and untrustworthy. Also google's hostility towards jpeg xl makes me even more apprehensive of their format and the way they tried to push it so hard.

Also jpeg XL is just much better than webp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc2DvJpXh-A