skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scratches Haier off list of household vendors.

I use HomeKit so this probably doesn’t directly affect me at all. But if I stop using HomeKit, I can and will do as I see fit to make the gear I already own work with whatever I’ve switched to. If adversarial companies want to stop people from doing that, then I’ll help them in that mission by not bringing their stuff into my house in the first place.
How do we break ads for Google? More generally, what do we do to make ads disappear or weakened? I guess that's the only way current Google would want to innovate more.
I like to recommend "Kill It With Fire" by Marianne Bellotti. It is full of insights far beyond managing legacy systems (as the subtitle would have you believe) and does a great job of analyzing the technology and the people/organizations who build it.
Well that’s depressing. Just kidding, an excellent write up that I’m going to save for the next time I need to explain why “getting our ass to Mars” is just part of a grift.
Main highlights of this release:

1. New `as_str` fn for Sid (To get the session id as a base64 10 chars string)

2. Http request is now cloned for the websocket transport (it was not possible before http v1). Therefore it is possible to get headers/extensions of the initial request.
Hmmm ... the CBS Evening News channel on YouTube said it was a private company, another subthread here refers to one. I wonder what he arrangement is. JAXA subcontracted it?
> Maybe it’s a standard reference for the macrumors audience?

I think it’s honestly this. Most MacRumors headlines are awkward and almost solely reference Apple products, even if there’s a better thing to compare, so their clickbait potential is usually incidental at best because everyone who reads it normally knows this is MacRumors and they’re on a strict applesauce-based diet.
Having someone with a strong vision to rally around and attract others with similar views probably works wonders in itself. This could be someone powerful at a large company attracting like minded employees, or a small company whose founder and mission mission attracts specific hires, which explains to a degree some of the performance of small companies (or lack of performance of large ones if you see it that way).

Maybe Jobs' strength was that he had strong visions in multiple areas, and was able to have a few different stacks of people really in line with each and keep them moving separately?
The partnership angle is a great one!

I really wish I could have found great partners two decades ago. (I'd probably have a lot more money in the bank now, even if it meant we'd have missed more Christmas trips or moved that travel to the airlines because a partner had the airplane.)
What part of him talking to the police worsened his situation?
Those under specified requirements and unrealistic deadlines are both the outcome of poor communications. An adept communicator is able to identify and convey the critical importance of correctly defined requirements. Likewise, such a communicator addresses unrealistic deadlines and explains the reality to those that need such explainers why their unreality is impossible, and they thank the good communicator for their honest language rather than any form of negative reaction. Such is the power of quality communications. An unrealized super power that actually exists in our social civilization.
Guy builds a CNC mill by himself,because he have no self control [video]
Kinda gives Mainframe kid vibes
Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
> It looks like git.sr.ht is hosted on OVH in France

They explain it here:

> However, we found that OVH’s anti-DDoS protections were likely suitable: they are effective, and their cost is amortized across all OVH users, and therefore of marginal cost to us. To this end the network solution we deployed involved setting up an OVH box to NAT traffic through OVH’s DDoS-resistant network and direct it to our (secret) production subnet in AMS
>> Funny, I usually associate Canada with good policymaking but this is substantially worse than the US.

Generally yes, but this is a specific law enforcement problem tied to Canada's unique police culture. Specifically, the way the RCMP hire and promote police officers has direct negative implications on "white collar" investigations in Canada.

Without explaining all the details, the RCMP is effectively Canada's national police force but is also the local police force for most communities. Imagine it as if the FBI also did speeding tickets. All new cops start out doing something like traffic enforcement, often in small/northern communities well away from their homes. Only after years of "general duty" (aka traffic) can they move up to things like "electronic crime". Many good people are lost through this process. The average compsci or finance grad isn't going to want to spend years handing out speeding tickets before doing what they are actually trained to do. And the people who rise to the top of general street policing are often not the best people for long-term white collar investigations.

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/police-officer-careers

"The RCMP is a national organization with diverse career opportunities like no other police service. Applicants may be asked to relocate anywhere within Canada where there is need of your services."

"You may choose to continue in general duty policing, or you may have the desire and opportunity to train for and transfer to more specialized areas of policing."

Want to investigate online fraud? Have a forensics or criminology degree? Ready to chase down people doing horrible things online? Well, here is your radar gun and ticket to the Yukon territory. Remember to bring a coat. Call us back in a few years and we may have something for you.
Windows kernel debugger also lets you to totally suspend Windows. You can configure it to connect over ethernet.
Raphnet adapters (designed by one guy in Canada) are the most popular option among serious speedrunners, if you want minimum latency.

Their equivalent product is currently out of stock:
https://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/snes2usb_1player_adapt...
Ask HN: File System Design in 2024?
I have been cooped up for this long winter and probably need to get out, but I have been having a lot of thoughts about file systems and the future of storing data.

This leads me to ask (since I haven't experimented with file system design since 2006?) where are there file system design resources in 2024?

(I am aware of the classic "Practical File System Design with the Be File System by Dominic Giampaolo)

Edit: I also feel like some of my thoughts have been coming after the recent update from Hans Reiser.)
Slightly tangential question but why is credit card security so weak in the first place? I mean all we need is 16 digits of card number, 4 digits of expiry date and 3 digits of CVV. The 23 digits can leak from so many places.

In this day why don't the credit card payment systems require multi-factor authentication for online payments? Why don't payment machines challenge you for PIN for payments?
I find it baffling that so few hardware makers get it. This not only is a killer feature. It also is so lightweight. It would power the system requirements dramatically.
The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague de Camp (1963), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158385
He is your dad?
Can't rule out racism here. On the part of the woman and the RCMP.
gpt-o-tron 3000…
Even if that math is correct, it's a bit naive to consider that $2k 'profit', contribution margin might be a better definition.
No, because the order would still have gone on Walmart.com with his real name and address
Happy STFU Friday! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kEeId0EG-XE
Tenets?
Lewis Mumford's Books;

- Technics & Civilization

- The Culture of Cities

- The Story of Utopias

Lewis Mumford talks about technology, but from an anthropological pint of view.

Another book I would recommend is The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur

The other I would recommend is James Burk's Connections he's has some books but I but the documentary is highly recommended.
You don't understand what "subsidized" means, do you?

Their flood insurance costs less than it otherwise would because those of us without flood insurance are helping to pay for their flood insurance.

It's fine if you think that's the way things should work, but there's no value in pretending it's not happening.
512KB Club – A showcase of lightweight websites
Yes, the most famous thinker who is associated with this idea of architecture being also a social architecture is Foucault (which he discusses heavily in his book Discipline & Punish), but it really goes back to Immanuel Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, where he describes the total system of Reason[0] that is required to make any judgement whatsoever as architectonic, and described these structures architecture.

[0]I say Reason, and not cognition, because for Kant cognition is empirical, and the purpose of the Critique of Pure Reason is to find the conditions of possibility for empirical reality to appear to us, so the total system that, in its reflection, can make those conditions appear to us (that is, the Critique itself), cannot, although it appears to the senses, actually itself be from within them--it must be purely intelligible. If you're curious how Kant solves this dilemma, well, so was everyone else, and the whole of the German, and then later anglo-american and French philosophical traditions have been remarkably pre-occupied with this question.
I agree. Maybe one idea would be to also make 7900 XTX's for rent (cheaply) too.
This seems ... fine? I have a 12.9" iPad, and it doesn't feel crazy heavy to me. The weight is in line with other VR headsets I've used, and they feel fine on my face. So long as the strap is good and balances the weight evenly, it'll be good for most people.
Yeah, I could never figure that out. The tree spend a lot of energy extracting nutrients from the soil, and then I'm just supposed to take the result and throw it away? Seems like it would stretch a lot longer if I didn't.
No it’s not, you’re just seizing on a particular word to warp the social perception of what I said.
There is no (multiple choice) standardized testing in the Finnish school system and I cannot imagine passing the math tests based on rote learning. I have to assume she took the test somewhere else.

EDIT: The exams at the end of high school can be considered standardized tests, but they are taken at your own school, graded by your own teacher and only verified by the national test organisation. They are not multiple-choice tests.
> As unfortunate as these events were, we welcome opportunities to stress-test our emergency procedures;

This right here is invaluable and something you only get from experience. Planning and theory only get you so far.

I extend this thinking to deploying large infrastructure changes you've never done before - you can only plan so much before pulling the trigger and just doing it and seeing what happens.
Most UI toolkits I've used have a notion of an "indefinite" progress bar. In the past these have sometimes done like a horizontal barber pole animation. In fact, I have memories of the one in Thunderbird doing this; it would be a normal progress bar while the email's data was sent, and transition to an indefinite bar while it awaited the server's response. After all … there's no "max" or "value" to the progress … we're just waiting for a singular response.

Windows, in the glassy Vista era, had a green one that would shimmer & slide a small faded green blob (for lack of a better word) across the bar.

(IMO better than what Explorer did for years, which was to show a definite progress bar, i.e., one with a shaded portion indicating some % completion … and then just lie about it. It would just fill the bar up with an exponential decay towards 100%, but never actually get there … and was really just an animation.)
This is not me blaming the victim. He totally shouldn't have to worry about what I am about to say. If he was ordering for himself, my advice wouldn't apply.

If you are ordering something for your work, use a work credit card and have it delivered to your work address. I never put myself (or my finances) out there for my work. I've had people ask me to pick up snacks for meetings and say I can just expense it later. Sorry...not happening. Someone decides they don't want to approve the expense and I'm holding the bill. Either give me a work credit card or figure out another way to order your stuff.
I'm not speaking the language I learned when I was born. I'm pretty sure that was not uncommon in the far past too.
I'm in the process of reverse engineering an appliance myself to allow it to be integrated with Home Assistant, one which requires an mobile app to operate remotely and is connected to the net all of the time, when it doesn't need to be.

I was gifted this particular appliance, but the solution is really to just not give companies like this your money. Unfortunately it's easier said than done, but looking for things with a local API or based on an open and configurable standard are a good start.

I'll add Haier and related companies to my ever growing blacklist because fuck them for this.

I vehemently support people doing what they want with the things they own so long as it's not "interfacing" with other people or their stuff; don't connect to or "abuse" their cloud systems, they can rightfully be upset about that, but removing their crappy smarts (and data collection) and replacing it with local-only is your own business and companies like this can get lost.
How is this different to Google copying Oracle's Java API? Is it because it's hardware?
I'd guess they've earmarked a bunch of additional 'venture' capital so Summa can eat other Ohio hospital systems. Big market opening up around New Albany, maybe build some facilities down there.
There is an entire college of communications devoted to the power of persuasion via language, professional communications, and media. Software developers culturally ignore that entire school of thought, to our determent.
>> The founder & lead developer is Russian and does not accept donations, perhaps noble, perhaps to avoid a financial trail.

In modern Russia, if one receives money transfer from any other country, they may receive "Foreign Agent" (иностранный агент) status

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_agent

"prohibited from receiving state funding, teaching at state universities, or working with children"
The best things about being there were things I'd probably never be able to do anywhere else:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-part-o...

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-part-t...

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-more-a...

Oh yeah. I did do some work, too.
So much of this is because developers work on high-end systems with a ridiculously fast internet connection (whether at home or work).

It isn't super-hard to fix this, but does take effort/time/money. For example, test on slow devices on slow connections. There are proxies that can throttle and introduce latency, or even let random connections timeout.

There's a catch-22 here though: doing this early in a product's life probably doesn't make sense as it's almost certainly better to focus your efforts on creating the product. But the longer you wait, the harder (== more time-consuming == more expensive) it is -- there's more architecture to change, there's complex page logic that eg didn't account for potential timeouts while doing a callback to validate something entered in a text box is unique, etc.
Simple: because it adds friction, and the optional amount of fraud is not zero.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
It also sounds like the RCMP will never take the case to trial (based on the article, they may know that this is actually triangulation fraud) and as such, he'll never have a chance to either defend himself or expunge his record.
Before entering a post-verdict deal for a reduced charge to give up the location of his victim’s body, Reiser was convicted by the jury of first-degree (specifically premeditated, even though there alternative ways to get that charge in California) murder, meaning that the trial jury found that the evidence presented at trial eatablished that beyond a reasonable doubt. The facts supporting that conclusion are public. It may be possible to reasonably disagree with the jury’s conclusion, but it is beyond silly to describe it as opinion supported by no known facts.
> I'd rather they just enforce existing antitrust laws and enjoy market forces working in their favor.

Amen. This has worked out over and over again best for the consumer. Literally every problem we have is caused by monopolies.
You remind me a little of Stendhal and the mayflies towards the end of The Red and the Black:

“In the same way, death, life and eternity, are very simple things for anyone who has organs sufficiently vast to conceive them. An ephemeral fly is born at nine o’clock in the morning in the long summer days, to die at five o’clock in the evening. How is it to understand the word ‘night’?”

It is quite the contrast, though, to the cicada-epiphany you were imagining.
Wow, that would be incredible! Did you document the project at all? I'd love to know more and maybe attempt something similar.
A lot of large VC funds are beginning to boost LP returns using the PE playbook.

Battery Ventures is another well known firm that has been buying up and consolidating companies in various verticals within SaaS and other markets.

The line between PE and VC has become a lot blurrier over the past couple of years.
It's hard to follow who to blame in such circumstances. If the voices are other, than 'they' themselves would be victims rather than culpable. ...Perhaps I should stop engaging with the voices of green account comments.
I don't really see how this has anything to do with major geopolitical events, other than the fact that the developer of the library is Russian. The author's complaints could have happened with any open source library and don't seem to relate to the war in Ukraine in any way.
Sure, but why borrow extra unrealism in your interpretation when the traditional non-dong interpretation is closer?
Citadel joins hedge fund peers cutting back trading on index changes
And if you do have an HOA, consider not having one. :)
I think the US is doing the right thing here. Lobster populations are going down so regulations are being enacted to limit harvesting.

Lobster isn't exactly a staple food anyways. I have it maybe twice a year in a sushi roll or sandwich, which is probably more often than your average North American.
When the retail prices of essential commodities increase, sellers increase their own prices in order to afford higher direct and indirect costs like gas and groceries and rent.

In commodity exchange licensed markets, shorts and other market pressures are expected to bring prices back down to equilibria or stabilities around such; but can or do retail consumer buying patterns bring retail prices back down?
Nope, it takes about an hour for one layer.

FTA: “Then a high-frequency current is run through a copper coil around the quartz tube, which heats the graphite crucible through induction. The process takes about an hour.”
We already have that in Europe, it's called "strong government regulation" and it's great at certain tasks
Well, that is why I totally prefer debit card. Credit card basically you just borrowing money from bank for your (usually daily and small) purchases.
> Stoicism was a mentality created by an emperor

No it wasn't. Stoicism was centuries old by the time of Aurelius.

"Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C.E. It was influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, "

https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/
> Except that wouldn't be a first-gen product

And that's... a downside?
Isn't that what the report addresses?
Competition never hurts :). Quite the opposite, I spend a lot of time training others in the field, and passing work in their direction.

I can't go into detail here though, as that would dox me, and I'd prefer my HN person not to mix with my IRL person.

The thing about niches is that you don't really "look for them" - you stumble over them as your skills develop. You -could- learn my job, of course, but it would take a lot of time and effort.

Part of what I'm saying I guess is that I am where i am because of a long career, amd I've accumulated a lot of experience, which is hard to pass on.
Removing Taylor series was a tough call. It's one of my favorite calculus topics topics. Something had to give. However, those topics will still serve as prerequisite material for courses that explicitly need them.
it's one of those things that would prob look normal after a day or so
I thought the same. Till I bought a surface (first version)... BOY that thing was unstable. Was the last chance I gave to Microsoft. After that switched to Mac. Not coming back anytime soon.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044932
The density of managed forests would not allow for that much growth across all the trees. Some would get larger, others would stagnate. Better to chop them all and replace with a fresh batch that will all be scrubbing.

The folks managing these forests are in the business of selling as much solidified CO2 as possible every single year, if there was a better way to do it I'm sure they would.
The strategy of continuing with the 737 into the 2020s has causes numerous avoidable fatalities. The original point stands, it was a strategical failure. As OP comment said, they should have scrapped that platform. Rivals with more modern jets have superior products. You try to make a point it is the right strategy but execution was lacking. I respectfully disagree. The strategy of milking the obsolete platform was a bad choice.
Certainly on the part of RCMP, you can tell when you are reading a case where the cops are dealing with a community they do not expect to advocate for themselves.
Simon Winchester's "The Perfectionists" is worth reading
I read the article and got the same impression. It had no conclusion on global event affecting dependencies. More speculations rather than facts.
> Barker says the stay has left him in legal limbo — denying him the ability to clear his name, while giving the RCMP a free pass for a botched investigation. He says he has considered suing the investigating officer for defamation, but has been told by his attorney that the bar for success in such cases against the government is extremely high.
I enjoyed Engineering and the Mind's Eye by Eugene Ferguson https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262560788/engineering-and-the-m...
Posted a few times, biggest discussion: "Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice" [0] (149 points, 90 comments, 23 hours ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044932
Another detail to consider is that your 24" monitor is probably benefiting from subpixel font rendering effectively tripling the horizontal resolution of text, but that can only work on a pixel-perfect display, not on a virtual display which is scaled and transformed before being displayed on a real panel.

I agree low DPI monitors are still acceptable, I'm using one now, but that's really contingent on subpixel fonts.
I don't really care if Google innovates. The good thing that is coming out of these layoffs and recent departures is that talent locked up in Google will scatter out into other places, instead of being locked up inside. In the long run it will be good for the tech industry.
That reminds me a lot of the game TUNIC, where, similarly, a big part of the game is figuring out the language.
But that is not what the law says. :/