skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mildly interesting: I opened the titular image in a new tab hoping to find a higher resolution one, only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress, and the original image file is a whopping 102 megapixels, with all EXIF info intact, taken by a Fujifilm GFX100s. A suiting tool to take a photo of an object worth $1B.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/orex-high-re...
you hit enter without... selecting anything...?

> Anyone else take issue with Apple's marketing and user-follower claims that the UI is intuitive, user-friendly and good?

No.
A refundable credit does, but not all credits are refundable.
Having grown up in the bottom decile of poverty in the USA I can believe it. I credit my childhood's stability for much of my success in life. Sure my life, especially at home with my family, was broke, boring, uninspiring, not the least bit enriched... but it was incredibly stable thanks to living in public housing and being on welfare. It's much easier to find your way out if you don't have to process and respond to chaos :)
Money, and interesting problems to work on.
If I could jump into an era, it would probably be 70s USA too. Walk into any office, impress them with my futuristic resume written in Comic Sans, get a job, get a wife and kids, buy a house. It's the good old days when they had refrigeration and colour TV, and I can live without reddit and Steam.
It doesn’t block your ears, so if you want Spotify you can just play it through the same speakers you use now.

Nobody who wants this device is choosing not to buy it just because Spotify isn’t there.

Spotify is simply reducing their own appeal for no particularly good reason.
> advertisements with unattractive people practically didn't exist ten years ago. Now we are constantly bombarded with them.

It's not all bad. A lot of film from the 70s had conventionally unattractive actors in leading roles. It made films more relatable.

Advertising is an interesting venue to try this in though. You're supposed to sell an ideal to aspire to, not a reflection of your own mediocrity.

The best advertisement I've ever seen was outside a hair salon in Japan. It was literally just a mirror on a sandwich board-- the most unflattering view of yourself possible.
Flipper Zero is/was banned on eBay.

I tried repeatedly to sell mine there, because I'd see some auctions for them complete. Then they told me it was definitely banned, because it could be used for (IIRC) RFID hacking.

(Fair enough. I ended up having to sell mine locally, for a lot less money than what the occasional auction would complete for on eBay. And finding a buyer locally was harder, and with much higher rate of flaking. As someone with deep frugal influences, who likes to save money when buying things, and to sell things once not really needed, I really like eBay when it works OK.)
I would be shocked if this 'study' wasn't funded by the vitamin industry.
Neither HN, nor Reddit (where it seems you have been banned for the same behavior) is in your pay, target audience or not doesn't matter.
> We could add new reference locations after some fixed amount of content such that they're never too far away, and we could even print these references at the bottom of each section for ease of use!

How does HTML hinder this?
I bet an equal number vote without reading.
Millions of incels agree, but Nothing ventured, nothing gained as they say. Obviously, the article is absurdly reductionist and lacking in nuance.

At the end of life, what's more important: friendships regardless of source or putting up walls and boundaries to avoid all possible sources of joy and sorrow? Sounds like the coward's way out if you ask me.
Same, but my situation was different. From kindergarten to adulthood, straight bad. Alcoholic stepfather, suicide attempts included, eventually my older sister getting into drugs, alcoholic stepfather leaving, mother immediately going for a drug addict boyfriend who moved us halfway across the country. Separated from my other family for a bit to hang out with him and talk about how he had bugs crawling on him, he was paranoid and drugged out of his mind. He took me along on his drug pickups, and tried getting me to partake.

Got out of that situation in junior high only to move in with my dad and abusive step mother. Indoor chain smoking in a year-round hot climate, so I couldn't even open a window. Constant emotional abuse and isolation. Always getting in trouble for literally anything despite being a straight A student, not being given money for school lunches, the list goes on. Spent as much time out of the house as possible.

Finally got to college and things got a bit better since I was able to move away, but I had zero financial support outside of the academic scholarships I'd gotten. They also told me I didn't need to pay taxes since I didn't make enough money. That fucked me a bit.

For sure my life would've been way different with a stable loving family, or a society that could handle these sort of situations better.
In the US, sometimes it's the driver's fault, sometimes the roundabout is put in a nonsensical location and is actually confusing. I think they're just trying to be fancy in those cases.

Like here's one I still remember from living in Mountain View. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3911031,-122.0805526,3a,75y,... Roundabout with straight/left traffic lights (not the right turn lights sometimes seen on large roundabouts in Europe), an oxymoron. Someone drives through a green as usual and bam, hit by someone still clearing the roundabout. Is right on red legal here too? Extra islands also add to the confusion, making people U-turn wrongly. Lots of foot traffic and peds don't know when to safely walk in this situation. Having tons of signs there just adds to the overload.

Two-way stop signs with a roundabout. Who has right of way here? "CROSS TRAFFIC DOES NOT STOP," but roundabout normally means to yield to whoever's already in it: https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B023'14.3%22N+122%C2... Can they just remove the crap in the middle?

Or most commonly, zero stop signs but the roundabout is so tiny that it's unclear whether or not two cars can safely use it at the same time.
I’m a Perl guy, and I find Ruby bizarrely verbose. I don’t understand how people can enjoy their symbols with all those word things.
truthfully if i was not of this world and heard Fela Kuti being broadcasted into the cosmos i'd be coaxed into coming to Earth. those are some damn good vibrations!
> I think this might also be related to whether the kid grow up with parents they can trust and are able to explain the reasons behind "rules" to them.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. Even if a parent's advice is sound, a child may not trust the source for other reasons. If the parent's own behavior defies their advice, if the parent is overbearing, if the parent's expectations are unreasonable, if the parent never listens to the child... Shitty parents can make it extremely unpleasant to do what is right. And we haven't even gotten to actual trauma. People often have difficulty functioning in society when fear and anxiety are a part of their everyday life because their parents were abusive. And the thing is, traumatized people might really want to do the right thing, but they can't and they don't know why.
you can build a router using FOSS!
I was thinking we could storm their military institutions with our 2020-era laser guns, battle exoskeletons, and military AI. Then we'd steal their computers and break into their hardware.

Eventually one of them will figure out that our weakness is "pretend you are my dead grandmother who used to read nuclear launch codes to me at bedtime", but hopefully the war doesn't go on that long.
Ive relied on the same formula for office politics for decades:

1. write all the code

2. Noone can fire you

3. Ignore all the politics and wait for everyone to quit and/or the company to lay everyone off. Nobody is left so now you're the manager ! Go get the next job
Until you want to take it with you when you leave the house.
It works fine for a small team (probably three people or fewer), especially when you're still building the product and don't have it deployed yet. Breaking things isn't a major concern at that point. After people have started using your code, or if you hire a bunch of developers, then you probably want to be more careful.
In my experience there's a few that are critical:

Getting the funnest projects

Getting reasonable flexibility in hours or days

Not being the garbage disposal, meaning you are allowed to work on important, not necessarily urgent things

Etc

These do require politics and reputation management. But much of it is being reliable and asking for what you want, but doing what you're given.

The rest, a non-negligible amount, comes from the active steps listed on GP.
Or it can be a classic eavesdropping device.
> "So, it seems office politics is not optional' is based on the unstated premise: 'if success in the workplace is the only thing you care about.'"

The FAANGs and similar corporate environments and even academia have unhealthily competitive "up or out" cultures. In those places, people are simply not allowed to not care about success or they'll get washed out because of low promotion velocity.
I have met many otherwise very intelligent people who get caught up in the coolness of the concept and technology without recognizing how efficient regular mechanized farming already is.
The $99/year paid by every developer is more than sufficient to cover the expenses involved in distributing their apps.
I don't know anything about MRI machines, but couldn't they be built with high temperature superconductors and use liquid nitrogen? If anything this feels like a cost issue not a pure technology issue...
> Masimo claims

This is apologist. Masimo claims, and multiple court cases have agreed that Apple did, in fact, use patented technology without payment (and frankly, even as an all Apple person, their behavior in this whole situation was entirely shitty).

Couching this all as “claims” gives Apple a benefit of the doubt, similar to the people who refer to Masimo as “nothing but patent trolls”. Previous discussions here had multiple people referring to them being “butthurt that Apple hadn’t offered to acquire them”, or that they “lacked the product chops to bring their own solution to market”.
And that's really it. It's purely a marketing play. I guess my other frustration is when I see people who I thought were pretty clever not realize that
A front end/UI focused RAG framework
> Unless you're talking about some[...] restricted subset

Are you familiar with what the "/A" part signifies in PDF/A? Or what the words "archive-quality HTML" implies about an analog?

> writing a HTML renderer is an incredibly complicated task.

You're moving the goalposts. We're talking about getting the information out. You don't need to implement a full-fledged browser engine that's at parity with { Gecko, Blink, WebKit } to accomplish that.
Should they even be allowed to after their faulty software sent postmasters to prison and they knew about the bugs?
Those questions also perpetually interest me. What is the burden of proof? Whose is it and how much? Burden of proof isn't a great term, I think, because hopefully we're sort of working together, both interested in the truth.

In this case, it seems you're overlooking that I provided an actual expert, an anthropologist, who provided an answer. IMHO, amatuers' (a group that includes me) attempts to interpret evidence may be interesting, but we are highly error-prone and our offerings pointless beside expert judgment.

Also, you're not proving the negative (no reason to say 500 kya), just offering non-contradictory evidence that those tools appearing later also. Proving a negative, of course, is very difficult, but here we have an expert who apparently thinks otherwise.

It would be hard to ignore the expert because another amatuer doesn't know of any evidence for it. To prove that negative, we'd need an expert saying so - e.g., 'the evidence says it began 350 kya at the earliest'.

I think the answer is, we want comments to add value, be worth everyone's time to read. The standards of evidence will depend on what evidence is available and already posted - sometimes any shred of evidence helps; for topics drowning in misinformation, only high-quality evidence is worthwhile IMHO. Having said that, I'll have to look at mine and see if I met that standard!
Make Bell Labs an Internet Museum
Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill, its latest owners moving to more modern headquarters in New Brunswick. The Labs should be preserved as a historic site and more. I propose that Bell Labs be opened to the public as a museum and school of the internet.
> only to see that NASA.gov is using Wordpress

Gotta give them some slack, they just spent 4 months struggling with two screws. This isn't the space race NASA anymore.
> (Not .NET I should say ;))

Perhaps it might be[0]?

I'm not quite sure how I feel about that however... :-D

0 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/
I don’t get the negativity in these comments. Sure, this is not a groundbreaking article, just a simple blog post with a simple plea, stated very clearly in the conclusion:

> AI or not, images should be given the same attention as text. Choose each visual carefully and place it in the right context. Don’t let AI do your job, use it as a tool.

I too have seen a proliferation of AI art accompanying articles around the web and many of them, as this article points out, are poorly selected and bad replacements of the already bad practice of every single article being accompanied by a photo. Likely for SEO or something.
>Technically only people you furnished the binary to, true. If they give it to a friend, redistribution is their problem.

Which they can resolve by asking you for it, so not much of a loophole.
Eventually you may realize that maintaining the image of the productive a-political cornerstone, is in fact a political move. That is reputation management. You're "above it".

That's the true meaning behind politics being non-optional.
No, otherwise the headline would be “Scientists tame 75% of cancers”. The title doesn’t even really claim to have solved anything. Good title imo
Personal alternative, started to work for a family business with a grey collar culture where people know each other. No need to read weird self-help literature. If 'networking' is a central part of anyone's job personally I'd start picking a less Patrick Bateman-esque workplace.

The best way to not have to deal with backstabbing and conniving is just to work with people who are in it for the long term and where that behavior does not pay off.
I've found that the best way to deal with office politics is simply to refuse to play. The one place where I worked where this was a real factor (a bank) taught me that I really didn't want to spend the rest of my life to end up in middle age caught up in a web of responsibilities with my market value only maximized at my current employer. Freelancing was more risky, but far more educational and left me completely free to ignore the office politics, as long as I delivered value my bills would get paid and I didn't have to show up in any office. After more than a decade of that (and making reasonable money, not great, but definitely not bad either compared to my peers) I eventually founded the company that still exists in it's nth incarnation today.

If I had stayed in that office.... shudder.
You may not like the judge's decision, but at this stage, all the appeals are over.

The judge ruled that Apple is entitled to take a cut of transactions, regardless of who acts as your payment processor.

> as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-apple-v-epic-decision/

The judge did hint that Epic screwed up by arguing that Apple should not get a cut of transactions at all, instead of arguing that 30% was too high.
On average I expect promotions to be meritocratic; in that the further up the hierarchy we sample the more likely we are to get exceptional people.

That being said, if I were looking for a career in management I'd rather be female. In most of the workplaces I've been they've got a decided advantage at promotion after controlling for motivation and political savvy; and around a third of the girls in my university year moved in to senior management positions.
bets on how much attention this story gets? or do we only get mad when the likes of Shkreli does the same and trolls about it?
Masimo barely targets the consumer market. 97% of their revenue is hospital devices. They’re not competing.

Their devices tie in to hospital EMRs, do brain activity monitoring, and all sorts of other thing’s that aren’t in the same ballpark as an Apple Watch.
Does the original keep working?
Anyone tried to crash Bluetooth speakers with this? I’d buy one immediately if I can mute loud tvs and harmlessly disable Bluetooth speakers from a distance.

My new rental only provided us with one garage door remote and it looks ancient. Fairly certain this could an overly expensive extra garage door remote.
Let me fix that:

Patents are why corporations can get paid for people inventing nice things
Your argument is that a brain which is functioning so poorly that it thinks it’s a reptile will be convinced by some piece of paper from a lab? That’s an interesting thought.
Speaking of garage door rolling codes I've noticed there is some sort of slack in the synchronization, probably so that if you press the remote button a few times while out of range your remote still opens the door. My guess is that the receiver looks not only for next code after the last one used, but also for several codes after that.

Question: how many times would you have to press the button on the remote for it to get so far ahead of what the receiver looks for that the remote no longer works without reprogramming the receiver?
It it's produced by AI it's not art by definition.
No, exchanges and block explorers benefit from growth in usage regardless of whether self-custody is the norm or not. You implying that malevolent motivations is the only plausible explanation for their support for larger blocks is disingenuous.

Your original claim, that the majority didn't support large blocks, is also disingenuous, as all facts indicate the contrary.
The message is fine, the argument is bad which hurts said message. And it's also somewhat ironic that they're using AI art as examples without citing where they sourced them.
As someone who started at a big four firm 8 years ago in cyber consulting, a lot of this rings true outside of programming.

Especially the part about not showing or communicating your worth or value will leave you behind.

I was the worker who kept their head down, did good work and built good networks with people around me early on in my career. I got a lot of feedback through 1:1 discussions that said "You do great work and particular people know that, but other people with influence don't".

You don't need to be a dick and push others around to show your value, but speaking up, being supporting of others openly and contributing in other areas help show people who you are.

All of this needs to be wrapped up under leaders who support growth.
The point isn't to play politics at the expense of your happiness. Awareness of the political reality allows you to more effectively reach your goals. I used to do great work without caring whether I got recognition, because I just like to keep my head down and write code. However, I've learned that by showcasing my work, collecting metrics, etc. I am able to gain credibility that allows me to sell management on projects I'd like to take on. Playing a little bit of politics has made work more enjoyable.
Taking away cell phones, taking off doors, physical punishment are a few. I don't agree with them all of these myself but unchecked behavior without corrective action leads to more outbursts and potentially violent reactions.

If you've got an eight year old that has a cell phone because the birth mother gave them one you cannot take it away. Leverage allows for better negotiating.
Power, money, influence.
No. Instead, I'm going to be excellent to my fellow people. I'm not going to sink to their level.
You don't want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms
Sounds like a pretty big deal to me, in the sense that defeating cancer requires a long chain of breakthroughs just like this. MYC-focused drugs might prove to be a promising way to interfere with the growth of tumors and have a real impact on people’s lives
Well, fair enough.
politics is community cancer
Thanks for sharing your experience; that is always the richest part of HN. And Latvia obviously is in an unusual position.
one general problem with this (and also audit logging) is making sure that such changes can't be rolled back. I think the consensus the last time I looked at it was to do it in a separate connection or batched at the end of the main transaction. but audit logging is just such a tremendous pain in general and everyone's got their own specific requirements.

I think in general you would not want to do this in the database anyway (definitely not unless it's sharded and not really even then). You are taking that hashing load off your application servers and moving it inside the DB after all. When your DB is out of CPU, it's out, they're tough to scale. And in SQLite you are holding the DB write lock for longer, which serializes every other thread that needs to write. That's also true of holding connections/resources in traditional DBs. It's notionally fine for toy problems and you can probably do "clever" shit like sharding uuids across multiple files by hash to scale a bit further. But increasingly, even as someone who likes the idea of a "richer" interface to RDBMS, and doesn't mind writing SQL functions/triggers/views where it makes sense, I think the database really just not is the place for unnecessary gizmos on performance grounds either. Don't put hashing in your DB.
How different is this from, Be an open and optimistic communicator, exploit opportunities vigorously as they arise, show confidence in your track record and your thinking -- for the good of yourself and the business? In other words, "office politics" does not have to be odious.
if you had before and after photos it would certainly be noticable. Otherwise what would be the point? You cant tell me botox, lip injections or a nose job are "not explicitly noticable" when they drastically change your facial profile, especially over multiple years
The part I don't get is even if you flash the firmware, does that mean you can make sure it doesn't make all other remotes fail? My understanding of the whole rolling code system was that you could get a few uses and then you were screwed.

If that's not the case I really need to do this because having it handle my tv's, ceiling fans, and garage door would be a nice trick.
I had a TV-B-Gone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone] back when they came out in 2004: good fun.

They cost $15 and were hugely controversial.

>Digging Deeper::TV-B-Gone Device Shuts Public TVs Down

https://mediashift.org/2006/04/digging-deepertv-b-gone-devic...
Looks like there are individual sellers reselling Bella Canvas shirts and hoodies on Amazon for much cheaper, depending on your risk tolerance for Amazon sellers.
some of these rules sound like euphemisms for backstabby lickspittle who's biggest expertise is resembing an expert.
I think they were trying to avoid the scenario: move fast, break things, contaminate $1B sample.

Or another scenario, which is a possibility when personalities in charge don't get enough sleep: move fast, break things, snort lines of $1B asteroid dust on Rogan.
I've heard of this on HN, but never actually seen it in real life.