skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many ways, source code is the ultimate documentation
It is. This is mostly a Svelte wrapper around NativeScript so it's really not equivalent
I recently bought a new SUV. I shopped entirely by email, never set foot into a dealership (except for the test drive) until signing the final papers.

I emailed every dealer within 220 miles of my location. Half never even replied and the rest tried every trick in the book to get me to the dealership before they'd give me a price.

My favorite story was an exchange with a salesman who quoted me $1,000 over MSRP. He said a year ago we were selling these at $10,000 over list price, I am saving you $9,000! I told him COVID is over and if he wanted the sale he'd have to get more competitive.

My goal had been to buy 10% under list and though I failed to achieve that I did all right. Don't think I'd buy another vehicle any other way although it took a very frustrating seven weeks.
No, this is not a Numbers Game but Human Factors. No living organism can be at their best w.r.t. a given task every day over long periods of Time. There are too many Environmental/Contextual factors at play here.
That would be a security nightmare. You don't want to give such powerful credentials to anyone, much less a 3rd party.

But a good stopgap would be a feature to spit out an API command that someone could run (or a CloudFormation or TF file) where you can put your own credentials in and run it yourself.
To streamline the experience we don't send the transcription to the LLM after the pause, since we are using the time we wait for the end of sentence trigger (pause) to generate the LLM and text-to-speech output. So ideally once we detected the pause, we already processed everything.
>Should they just hand that over to Netflix or something?

Not necessarily netflix but you should be able to watch all games of a given team and league on a single site/service. Something like a league wide streaming site isn't impossible. You shouldn't have to subscribe to 5 different providers to watch all of you teams games.

> The rights to the sports are owned by different entities, sometimes locally. Should

Sure but that doesn't mean the game can't be shown locally AND on a streaming site that carries all the leagues games.
As the others point out, this is a legitimate design choice. The Mazda 2 / Toyota Yaris also had drum brakes, and these were offered for sale in the USA.
cdransf/awesome-email: A collection of email providers
> But the central authority, a third-party, will get a heads-up every time someone - whether child or adult - logs into the social media site. That's a privacy violation.

Why would you do age verification on login? It only needs to happen once on account creation.
This is called "sticky prices". Give some, they will eventually unstick.
> If you actually cared about that bug, you would have followed it, and seen that it has been closed.

You mean that the GTK/GNOME people declare they will never fix their file chooser? I've pretty much figured that out. That in itself is more of a problem than the state of the file chooser, because fixing faulty design is one thing, fixing but dogmatic insistence on poor UI is another thing altogether.

> But you just want to shit of GTK for no reason.

I disparage the GTK file chooser because it's horrible to use. I don't know anybody who works on GTK. I don't write software which competes with GTK (I'm a GPU guy). I have better things to do with my time than bad-mouth software projects I have no personal interests for or against.

What's actually happening is that some peopl are holding your hands over your eyes and refusing to see that (some of the) GTK UI elements are utterly broken intentionally and for years or decades. And while GNOME apps have alternatives, GTK is, unfortunately, popular among apps which don't really have alternatives, so I'm stuck with it.

> It's an open source project, so they owe you nothing

Huh? It's a project of human society to serve people's needs. So they owe users and developers to do a decent job and address those needs. You seem to be suggesting that if I don't personally pay them then I should just shut up and accept their choices.

I would never ever say something like that to a user of my FOSS - and I do owe my users, a lot.

> and nothing was stopping you from contributing your own improvements.

1. _Everything_ is stopping me from contributing an improvement. The idea is rejected on principle.

2. I understand you are offering to volunteer take up maintenance of the FOSS work I'm doing while I go off and start getting into GTK, with which I have no experience. Or perhaps you want to take over my day job so I can have more spare time?
Like between 1993 and 2000, only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman.

Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now"? How many people only use it because it's necessary for iOS development?
Is there evidence that’s the reason? I assumed corporate greed.
> do you mean christianity? Cause that's not lower-class

Attend services in upper-middle and high-income churches, and then in lower-middle and low-income churches. The messaging around money is different. Same when you hear parents teaching their kids.
> government contractor at 3x+ your former pay rate

And then some. Friend of mine rode backseat in F-15s. After retirement, he spent two-three years as a contractor for Boeing training allied military in the Middle East and paid off his mortgage, and much much more (I want to say at least 1, maybe 2 investment properties owned effectively outright).
the Italian ones are not perfect either, e.g.

> in realtà ad essi sono state dette tre bugie: le cose che sono state insegnate a scuola riguardo al lavoro non sono il vero lavoro;

> actually they've been told three lies: the stuff they've been taught to regard as work in school is not real work;

the first sentence is ok, but the latter is different: the Italian version says "the things they have been told about work is not the actual work".

This is an actually different meaning of the sentence.

And the first Hungarian example is weird too, e.g.

> Kivágnak az iskolából, vagy új utakon jársz?

has some greek translation where "τολμηρά" appears and the english translation gets "boldly carving a new path".

The literal translation would be "you walk new paths", I do not believe there is any boldness or carving involved. These are just different meanings.
> $3500 headset?

Nobody is buying the Pro version of the headset just for watching movies other than the early adopters, YouTubers etc we have today.

The idea is that when a normal version launches for $999 it will be a far more compelling proposition.
> effectively regulating and destroying the anonymous nature of the internet.

Not at all. Just the social media sites, which are objectively bad for kids. As an adult, you do what you want on the internet.
As someone not very familiar with Linux, which desktop environment would you recommend with most “polish”? I’m thinking of switching from windows 10 on my new laptop but I do appreciate all the animations in windows. (I could also consider a hackintosh or BSD if they are prettier, especially in movement/animations.)
It's absolutely wild to me that there is a law on the books that says you can get imprisoned for up to 10 years for watching a stream of a sporting event or TV show on your laptop. Even with the strictest interpretation of the legal framework how is it not just a civil matter between the viewer and the rights holder? Trick question because I know the answer is "large corporations lobbied for it", but still sad..
If you could only turn things off then perhaps that is less than a nightmare in some settings.
Some fancier models use cameras for obstacle detection and avoidance. They try to identify stuff than chokes and clogs the robovacs so they can avoid them, like socks, USB cables or Lego on the floor, or my personal favorite, pet poop.

There was a funny video on social media, of a home surveillance camera capturing the pet taking a dump in the middle of the living room, and then the Roomba smearing it everywhere as it did its rounds. If you're a pet owner who's companion can do their business in your house, having the robovac smear it everywhere is a nightmare you'd want to avoid at all cost, and that can only be solved using cameras.
I know they’re ex-Sun, but is there any real technical benefit for choosing not-Linux (for their business value prop)?

I know of the technical benefits of illumos over linux, but does that actually matter to the customers who are buying these? Aren’t they opening a whole can of worms for ideology/tradition that won’t sell any more computers?

As someone who runs Linux container workloads, the fact that this is fundamentally not-Linux (yes I know it runs Linux binaries unmodified) would be a reason against buying it, not for.
I have air purifiers and humidifiers in every room (I'm in horribly dry CO) and I still just live life sniffling and with a dripping scratchy throat no matter what I do. I take antihistamines, NAC (n-acetyl-..... cystine?) helps a lot, mucinex/gauff.

I was hoping my big air purifiers would catch a lot more dog hair than they do.

Have purifiers/humidifiers been a huge change for some of you? I can't prove that I wouldn't be worse right now without them. I love my huge humidifer it lasts about a week keeping a 10-20% humidity townhouse at 65%. But I think I'm expecting too much out of purifiers. Or have other respitory/sinus problems.
One of the greatest successes in US urban planning in my lifetime is that they extended the DC metro intro areas that were not developed so when they did develop they became transit friendly neighborhoods.

One time when we were going to a family party in Maryland we stayed at a hotel right near the end of the metro line (Shady Grove) and then rode into DC to see the National Mall and get lunch around Dupont Circle. Shady Grove had some major apartment developments as well as great shopping and dining and riding in on the metro I could see many other developments around stations that seemed to be equally successful.

This is being built in Kansas City

https://cpkcstadium.com/

and people are saying "there is nothing there" but there is transit so quite possibly this could become a nucleus for further development. It would be great to see more of this in California
My guess would be the latter. Ingenuity was primarily a technology demonstration whose failure wouldn't impact Perseverance's main objectives, so the risk was probably acceptable.

As for launching several cheap, redundant probes - I think the biggest issue would be the cost of the scientific instruments. I don't have the background to know how much money could be saved you by using commercially available equipment. The basic scientific requirements might be too specialized for cheap commercial equivalents to exist, though maybe not; I really don't know.
The "Save to PDF" feature in Firefox's print settings uses the Skia-to-PDF renderer on various platforms, I believe.
Something else that has happened since the initial talks of this merger is that Roomba machines have fallen far behind the competition who are both more driven and taking bigger risks offering better products for the same price or less.
Aside from the practicality of the two, the Earheart wreck seems much more like something our society would want to honor. An explorer and adventurer who's legacy and life pushed equality forward for women across the west vs a failed engineering project which was mostly a status symbol for rich people.
I agree that buyers should have the option to purchase simpler cars. But I think backup cameras are too valuable of a safety improvement to leave out. About a year ago I saw a toddler very likely saved by the backup camera and proximity sensor. This is of course just anecdotal, but it sold me.
> Privacy though, is another matter that never gets benchmarked

Privacy is why I would never own a vacuum (or most any other device) that requires an internet connection. For me, the only benchmark required is "does it have to connect to a server somewhere to work?"
I see articles pop up like this all the time on HN like it's some kind of revelation. All you need to remove particulate matter from your air is a fan that pushes air through an HEPA filter. You dont need wifi, bluetooth, lcd screens, or a phone app. All those things plus some fancy instagram marketing is tricking people to spend $700+ on an air filter.
Perhaps but if I had a family to feed the bulk size packages are so much cheaper per pound than the smaller qty it almost is a negligble difference sometimes.
> One price point for the software on each platform then perhaps like a bundled price point. Say, $5 for the mac version and $5 for the phone version. But $8 for both platforms.

Apple doesn't support this: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/12/4.html
"Why are you booing him, he's right?" https://youtu.be/75GaqVWqEXU

Multinational companies exist insofar as we can agree politically. When we prioritize the economy, we create insane double-standards that encourage corrupt lawmaking and endless lobbying. If we don't take these problems seriously at-home, nobody does, and then we get Foxconn suicide nets and nightmarish international dependencies.
If the shop is doing DMARC[0] & DKIM[1] this is a non-issue

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
Ha, I clearly didn't scroll far enough. Thanks :)
Every big company has one of these anyway, and usually more involved (internal DNS, VPN, etc). A link shortener is like an interview question.
What are you doing to your cars to make them malfunction?

I don't recall my 80's cars having any significant issues outside of standard stuff and "has driven more than 250k miles" issues.
Public housing.

That allows:

drinking, smoking, guests, and dogs.

Good luck.
Unpopular opinion, but the truth: We have to drive and it's a right. I agree about the infrastructure issues. Still the modern "safe driving" mentality that people want is at odds with that REALITY.

This could change with public transit, however we don't do this. Even the best countries fall short, and most don't get close. It's actively discouraged in the USA.

Actually, you could argue that people already have to deal with too much BS to drive. The paperwork, rules, and so forth clearly are challenging for people to adhere to. So we throw the majority of people into a situation they aren't equipped for on a daily basis. Then this becomes a major cause of legal efforts, that alienate perfectly good citizens from society and cause us to forfeit our civil rights.

You can claim that people just need to be responsible, or we need to pass some safety law but it's delusional. The truth is we don't have a replacement for this. The average person can't afford to be carted around, and we would need to get to a place where driving was purely recreation.

So we are going to need very good public mass transit options, and IMO some kind of vast network of professional drivers that are more affordable than Uber, for the occasional "cargo trips" or to go "the last mile" (more like 10-50).
>That's why we actually need to be decreasing meat production - it's incredibly wasteful.

I realize there are many people who want to reduce meat production.

I absolutely am optimistic about a tiny footprint synthetic meat production that competes with top quality steaks.

But until that exists, we should be increasing meat production of all kinds.

Oh and farmers pass on your new high taxes in shape of food inflation. Pretty big protests going on across europe right now.
GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support for New Intel CPU Extensions
Did Amazon ever explain why they even wanted this acquisition? I don't think iRobot has tech they need for wear house automation.

Is it about owning every home device? Maybe they'll turn the vacuum into a security robot to integrate with Ring /s
You know how films and TV show different, fake UIs when a character works on a computer? GUIs and their elements are copyrighted.
> Once you have a screen say goodbye to your barebones radio.

This is not necessarily the case. When backup cameras were first mandated some manufacturers put the screens in the rear view mirror. The reason everyone has a screen on the dash these days is because new car buyers are often demanding smartphone integrations.
I'm very curious if any analysis on this can be done and published, though I imagine it's difficult without access to the actual equipment.
He's not in the gaming space. You can find his apps here: https://underpassapp.com
I tried to buy one last spring and gave up. I put down a deposit in March, was told I might get one around June. June came around and they couldn't do more than say "Maybe by Sept." Ended up buying a used car.
At least that’s how you get tooltips on Android. Of course, tooltips were designed to be discovered by a user hesitating with their mouse over an UI element (sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t), while tap-and-hold on buttons you have to know about, and it’s still scary when the button looks like it could do something potentially destructive and you want to find out.
The impact of this is not worth considering.
As an adult, finding children's books to be engaging is... well, a tad difficult.
Apple hasn't made it exactly clear AFAICT, but I suspect that foveated rendering might only work in the managed RealityKit environment where Apple controls the entire rendering pipeline, and not inside applications which implement their own rendering from the ground up using Metal, for exactly that reason. There's nothing in the documentation about foveated rendering in Metal apps, and it is something that engines would have to be explicitly aware of if they do any kind of off-screen rendering.
This video is worth watching for the soundtrack alone. I came across Eugene’s channel before but somehow I missed this gem!
Yeah, I've been learning German for about a year and a half now through a combination of traditional classes and duolingo. I'm roughly high A2, low B1. I've tried multiple times to start reading children's books (e.g. Die Kleine Hexe, Emil und die Detektiv, Das doppelte Lottchen, Der Räuber Horzenplotz) which are all, supposedly, for readers under 10. They have a surprisingly large required vocabulary and grasp on the grammar.

I think part of the problem is that adult learners learn things in a sequence. They learn one part of grammar, then the next, then the next, so that there are grammar rules and structures that you are almost completely unaware of until pretty far into your learning. Whereas a native child is exposed to the entire language all at once. They don't fully understand everything, but they are aware of all of the different structures. Children's books know this and are written with it in mind, as opposed to things like readers, which restrict their grammar to a particular level. I have a much easier time reading an A2 reader than any actual childrens book.
Steve Ells' robot-run fast-food startup Kernel sets launch date
I really wish the Hilux Champ was available in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux_Champ
Sorry, but cars are not companies. This doesn't apply even if it was correct.
Finally. Bookmark search is in massive need of fixing
Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
In one podcast, the reason given was staff familiarity and owning the full stack, not just the kernel I believe.
I'll gladly take cookie banners to have the ability to expect a company to nuke any data they've collected about me.
Spurious Correlations in Econometrics (1974) [pdf]
From introspection, one thing that makes someone look poorer is stress lines around the mouth and eyes. Kind of sad that should be so.
How to make your programmers (look like they) work harder
Uber became more expensive, meaning its reduction in DUIs had ended?

It is much more likely we hit a plateau in improvement and now we are just fluctuating around an equilibrium.
Thank you. I love TUIs, I hope my project and rothgar's repository can help to inspire more people to code more programs like these.
Her disappearance is emphasized. Her death is not. There is a difference.
When Optimisations Work, but for the Wrong Reasons [video]
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175801
And what makes a site a social media site? Anywhere you can post interactive content?

You do realize that laws like this would apply to sites like HN, Reddit, the comment section of every blog, and every phpBB forum you ever used? It's not just Instagram and Tiktok.
Agree to disagree, but you're entitled to your (incorrect) opinion. I'm done here.
The gist of this post is that ‘better’ isn’t necessary; any will suffice. So long as there’s airflow traveling through the filter pleats, your air will get cleaned.

If you’re in a wildfire scenario, you should — if you can afford to and can still find and purchase the parts — absolutely go the extra mile, because you need to maintain a filtration level sufficient to overcome the particulates brought in with outdoor air.

Regardless, any time you have a box fan, just tying a filter to it will clean your air as effectively — but not as rapidly — as a commercial filter, under typical home scenarios.
Even if we assume your truck is now worthless, that's only $1,300 per year. More realistically, assuming you have kept it in reasonable condition, it is probably worth around $8k now, or $900 per year. That's nothing in the grand scheme of things. In your case, that's only $17 per load of hay. Approximately one small bale per load pays for it. That still leaves a lot of meat for the truck to haul – especially a 2500. It is not surprising that the price of new trucks has skyrocketed.

I too bought a truck for my farm in the same era for around the same price and I'm glad I did, because in hindsight it was an absolute steal. The ROI it has provided has been off the charts. Again, it is not surprising that new trucks have gone up in price to close the gap. Fantastic investment opportunities never last.
This is a very complex problem. Its not just social media, but porn and other content that is not intended for young eyes.

One issue I have is with the age verification system. This will either be totally ineffective or overly effective and invasive. I feel legislation is drifting towards the latter with the requirement of ID.

One idea I had is a managed dns blacklist of inappropriate content. The government can have a requirement that a website register their site in this list to operate, otherwise they are subject to litigation for their content. At the same time have isps and network gear support this list in a 1 click type fashion. I have multiple dns blacklists I use at home. I know this may be a little more technical for the parents and guardians, but that is the world we are living in.

Limitations being:

Section 230 - user posts explicit content and the site isn't in the blacklist.

Network scope - This blacklist will have to be added to all networks accessed by children. What about public wifi? coffee shops?

IDK, I love being able to be anonymous online, but I do see the negative effects of social media, porn, and explicit content on our youth. I don't really trust the government to solve this effectively.
How about this: I don't want every little thing I do on the internet tracked and tied to my real identity?

Is the CCP conducting a psyops on HN right now or something? Since when were we all for every tiny interaction you have on the internet requiring you to look in the scanner and say "My name is X and I love my government and McDonalds"?
So the only options are spreadsheets and gaming.

Even though it's obvious to everyone that content consumption will be the killer app.
China's lead over the US in chip startup funding is bigger than