skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iRobot and their Roomba product line is riding on their namesake only. Roborock and other competitors are miles ahead of them when it comes to technology. It took a top of the line Roomba from 2021 about 4 hours to fully map my downstairs. Meanwhile the top of the line Roborock from 2022 did it in 15 minutes with its Lidar. And this is just one example. My roborock literally mops, cleans and dries its own mop, refills itself, empties itself, I can two way video call with the damn thing, it's just insane.

iRobot has not innovated their products in any meaningful way in over a decade.
Cookies banners are malicious compliance. Companies could refrain from doing drive-by data collection of the population, and everyone would be better for it. But now every website wants to know which fonts I'm using in order to fingerprint me. If they could take a screenshot of my display or record with the mic and the webcam, they'd try to do it too. These behaviors were in the realm of rootkits and other malware and now they're common practice in the industry.
Yeah kinda funny that in the top 15 you have 5 oil and gas companies and 4 major auto manufacturers, all
directly competing with each other.

Monopolies abound! /s
> 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.

Why? i imagine this could be a "they've signed my key" situation, no requests needing to go up the tree further then necessary...
It seems like the folks on HN tend to think the world runs on AWS (I'm not trying to say they don't have a huge market share), but many huge enterprises still run their own datacenters and buy ungodly amounts of hardware.

The products that are on the market for an AWS-like experience on-prem are still fairly horrible. A lot of times the solutions are collaborations between vendors, which makes support a huge pain (finger pointing between companies).

Or, a particular vendor might only have compute and storage, but no offering for SDN and vice-versa. This sucks because then you have two bespoke things to manage and hope they work together correct.

These companies want a full AWS experience in their datacenter, and so far this looks to be the most promising without dedicating huge amounts of resources to something like Openstack.
The $10T benefits of overhauling our food system
Every time Earhart is mentioned here, someone pops up with authoritative info that she and Noonan were not well prepared / equipment was faulty / more Hollywood salesmanship than navigation skills / that island was always going to be a stretch on gas... point being that while in the collective memory they are heroes, my lay understanding is that scholarship on the subject has already determined there were major problems with their flight plan
Google brings me here - http://www.datelinetheory.com/p/time-and-celestial-navigatio...
If you work at figma this… shouldn’t be a problem?

If you work at a temporarily-not-an-unicorn, no antimonopoly institutions care about you.
One thing I only recently learned was that Stagecoaches also relied on subbing out teams of horses at stations.
I paid $24k out the door for a Subaru CrossTrek in 2014. Crazy to see the price hasn't moved much despite a decade passing.
Sure, if they want their 30 minute commute to turn into a 90 minute commute.

We need more public transit, yes. But more than that, we need _better_ public transit.

Personally, when I commuted, I turned my 30 minute driving commute in traffic into a 30 minute biking commute via trails.
They don't fade until a threshold is met. This threshold is much slower onset than rotors because of all that mass. But once it's up to temperature they do fade just like rotors and they will struggle to shed that heat quickly. That's why drums are not useful on high performance cars.
People are usually using E=mc^2 equation because it is simpler. Introducing the concept of relativistic mass and Lorenz transformation to get the rest mass (what most people think of mass) will be less intuitive for the common culture.
Depends what you mean “3D”. It is still ASCII sprites, but is considered 3D by way of multiple z-levels (each only visible one at a time).

Except last year a new UI was released for the Steam debut, which also features new graphics akin to the fan made tilesets. Those tile sets add a lot of visual interest and increase the 3D feel (even allowing you to see down to levels below your current level).

And, for many years now, there have been visualizer plugins like Stonesense that could render your fort in isometric view.
SCP-033: A sum of symbols equal to a previously unknown integer
Aren't most precision manufacturing tools made in... europe and imported in china?
I regularly go to Dark.fail[0] to get the latest .onions some sites are using, like the BBC:

https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion

Just be careful out there. All I have to do is alter one letter for the BBC .onion and I can get phished/scammed/duped. For example, this is an altered .onion for BBC:

https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7746uqd.onion

Can you spot the alteration?

[0] https://dark.fail/

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. No direct linking in order to protect against DNS leaks from accidental clicking in a clearnet browser.

How does the PGP verif work? I'm not used to it. There exists a tool here[1] but how does it all work?

[1] https://dark.fail/pgp
> take PI in binary and interprete it as utf-8 - every single book every written (or that will ever be written) is in there somewhere

It isn’t proven that pi is normal. Also, even if you were to find a book in the sequence of pi, the index of where it starts would (generally) be vastly larger than the book itself.
Geolocation to that degree not that reliable and not necessarily 1:1 with jurisdiction or parental intent.

If we're already trusting a parental-locked device to report minor-status, then it's trivial to also have it identify what jurisdiction/ruleset exists, or some finer-grained model of what shouldn't work.

In either case, we have the problem of how to model things like "in the Flub province of the nation of Elbonia children below 150.5 months may not see media containing exposed ankles". OK, maybe not quite that bad, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere.
This is by design iirc, as a consequence of sandboxing. However there is an easy workaround, which is redirecting your browser profile back to the host with flatpak override/flatseal. I don't need this anymore for Bitwarden but I did this for a long time with Firefox + Enpass.
> - https://substrait.io/ is a cross-language serialization for Relational Algebra

This is awesome.
Long time comin. Sounds like its only going to hit the non-china stuff though? How does that compare in terms of value? I would wager without much special insight that the bulk of their worst underwater assets are in china.
It wouldn't suprise me that newpipe is partially the target here... https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10801
Restricting social media use is tantamount to brainwashing? I don't see the connection.

As for restricting access to "opposing" (opposition to what?) viewpoints, what children can be exposed to has long been restricted.

But since there isn't a syllabus for what children will be presented on social media, I don't see the viewpoint restriction angle either.

In fact, that position is illogical to the point that it raises the question of whether or not people concerned with it have an agenda to expose kids to "viewpoints" that their parents would disapprove of. Under the radar of supervision.

Going only on my experience with social media, a valid and more plausible reason for this restriction would be that social media seeks to optimize the feed of users for engagement. In a manner that "hacks" psychology in a way that makes it difficult for even adults to disengage. Given that minors do not have fully developed brains, the ability to disengage may be even more hindered.

Television programing has long sought this goal as well and with some success. While that use isn't restricted, there is theoretically a red line. Florida may see it in social media use.
Late 80s were getting near the peak of fuel economy. They had computers and fuel injection which was the last low hanging fruit. They didn't have to deal with modern emissions which often makes economy worse (they did have 1970s emissions, but many of the downfalls of those systems were sorted out). Modern engines are more fuel efficient, but modern cars are often a lot heaver and so the gains have mostly been taken away in that.
How many lives have been destroyed by leaked personal or payment data?
You know what is more frustrating? Edge is nice browser (it would be even better if they allowed you a way to remove all the bloat they insert it), Microsoft didn't need these dark patterns.
of course i'm joking to point out that a date written as provided is a bit ambiguous when the locale is not defined. for those that read the written date 7 April 1976, the 4 July 1976 is not a significant date
Malcom McLean, the founder of Sea-Land (sold to Maersk in 1999), who commercialised container shipping, believed strongly in that concept. You cannot run an efficient operation if drivers are allowed to have personal trucks.
"probably unconstitutional under the First Amendment, to boot"

Probably not. Minors have all sorts of restrictions on rights, including first amendment restrictions such as in schools.

"(And if it is, let's start talking about gun ownership first...)"

Are you advocating for removing ID checks for this? If not, it seems that this point actually works against your argument.

Not saying that I agree with a ban, but your arguments against it don't really stand.
You didn't really acknowledge the citations or my overall point.

"E-cars almost always have charge scheduling built-in, to charge when cheapest" if everyone charges when it's cheapest, it will no longer be cheapest. Demand drives cost.
What even is Oxide Computer? It makes no sense - it was publicized with all sorts of anti-blob, freedom, and posts about management engines and a sort of alternative to RaptorCS/IBM (which now has blobs again)... Yet most of that stuff is now buried/removed and Oxide Computer is just a hardware platform with unnecessary lock-in. For the bunker of the rich to be able to run their own mini-cloud? Sure. For anything else it seems like a bad design.
Related is the infamous 1982 SAT question:

The radius of circle B is three times the radius of circle A. Starting from the position shown in the figure, circle A rolls around circle B. When circle A returns to its starting point, how many rotations will it have completed?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sat-problem-t...
Azure runs a version of Windows, see:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...
(I work at Oxide.)

Bryan is just one out of several illumos experts here. If none of those were around, sure, maybe we wouldn't have picked illumos -- but then we'd be unrecognizably different.

I came into Oxide with a Linux background and zero knowledge of illumos. Learning about DTrace especially has been great.
I'm an American tech employee but I'm a consumer too. I'd rather have the competition in the market versus more consolidation into the tech majors.
A much better better move in my local state, they banned all phones in school up to year 10.

https://www.act.gov.au/our-canberra/latest-news/2023/decembe...
If iRobot was really in a situation where it was acquisition goes through or "the CEO and a half of the employees will be laid off the day the news breaks out", then I can't imagine they were in an economically viable state to begin with, and it certainly shouldn't be the EU's job to fight said economic forces.
To whomever:

I really, really, REALLY, did I say, "Really" miss the twinkle of old school incandescent blinking Christmas lights.

Each light has a metal spring that heats as the light glows. Eventually, the spring warms enough to move and break the circuit, thus turning the lamp off.

As the spring cools, eventually the circuit is made again, turning the lamp back on, and the cycle continues.

And there is more!

At first, the whole tree is illuminated. Then, one by one, the lights begin to blink.

Soon many are blinking.

Then all of them do it.

Because those springs are coarse and made as quickly as possible, there is considerable range in the cycle times of all the lamps.

Finally, the sustained, faster cycle time happens 5 to 10 minutes in. The lamp reaches a steady state, on, off, on, off, that is very regular.

Please, someone model this, drop it in a little MCU and sell us lights that twinkle, not just blink in some pattern.

If I were to guess, there is about 10 bits of variation needed to really capture what the old bulbs do. 8 bits may be enough, if one ignore outliers, those bulbs with either very short or very long cycle times. Those are rare, but do add to the magic of it all.

Thanks, I am waiting.
Jo's toot says "Tencent/Alibaba/the CCP/whatever" because it's difficult, maybe impossible, to know for sure. I just simplified it to "someone in China." Same thing basically.

From an opsec perspective, it's probably safest to assume it's the government and act accordingly. Governments and societies can turn quick on marginalized populations.
That stuff ultimately drives people away. Who thinks "I need my daily fix of genAI memes, let me head to Facebook!"?
Saudi Arabia had to crank up the execution rate quite a bit to keep opposition in check recently. That only can work so long.

"Owning the wrong books, posting a critical tweet, speaking to a journalist or disagreeing with the Crown Prince can earn you a death sentence." (https://reprieve.org/uk/2024/01/02/saudi-arabia-executed-at-...)
I think there's a misunderstanding there, Horizon EDA is available as a standard distro package; there's no "Linux package download" because there's no need for one (and creating packages as a 3rd party is a minefield.)
https://archive.is/lrr0Z
>including much more of the system within their scope: they are not merely kernels, but also system libraries and commands.

giving limited resources of the dev team it may lead to limited support of the system outside of the narrow set of officially supported/certified hardware with that support falling behind on modern hardware, as it happened with Sun, and vendor lock-in as a result into overpriced and low performing hardware.

There is a reason that back then at Solaris dev there was a joke about embedding Linux kernel as a universal driver for Solaris kernel in order to get reasonable support for the hardware around.
There is still the technology, the people.

While you're not wrong, just because the model doesn't work doesn't mean there isn't still value there.

If you are presented with the choice to shutdown a company or have it live on in another company saving some jobs. I would think the second is the better option.

It is possible that the only reason the business model doesn't make sense is not having a diverse enough of a catalog so research in a specific thing can be justified by multiple products.
> There are plenty of <$50k programmers making 6 figures

Doesn't that make them not "<$50k programmers" by definition?
Also the old Cordova equivalent and Kivy. Take mobile development and try to shoehorn a browser-based solution (they don't want) into it. Now you've got two problems and not enough expertise available to help.
Can we do the same with MH370? I've got a classmate inside that plane. His family has been deprived of any form of closure or peace regarding his fate.
I'm ok with them, this way I can see what an a**oles are those sites. Some could not show banner at all, some could do it minimally intrusive but most choose to make our lifes worse. The only downside of the regulation is that it wasn't strict enough to penalize those that create this banners with dark patterns
I don't about EC2 but Lambda and Fargate are presumably Firecracker, which is Linux KVM.
> Within a fortnight, the police had trashed the amenities

This sounds like a convenient anti-police narrative to me.

I've never worked with homeless directly but I have several friends who have and one who still does.

There's probably no broad demographic in society that is more efficient at destroying their own amenities.

Granted, that's usually addicts.

And I know not all homeless are addicts, not all addicts are homeless, but it is undeniable that there is large overlap between the two groups

Anyways, my point is that blaming the police for destroying the amenities feels very fishy to me.
Curiosity is great but that doesn't mean it should always take priority. Would it be nice to know how that plane crashed? Sure, but we also figured out how the Titanic sank without lifting it out of the water.

> Do we leave car wrecks on the side of the road?

No, but we also don't need 80 years to find car wrecks on the side of the road, and there are various reasons to remove them. This comparison is ridiculous.
IDK if that's true, I have one that I paid about $100 for and has sensing. It's quite nice and I basically never know when it's on it's so quiet. It also came with a reusable/washable filter, so I've never had to replace it after about 3 years of use now. Any ways, I DIY a lot of stuff, but there's not enough interest in this one unless you're just a glutton for frugality or find some interest in this particular project. My point was that for most people this would be a negative time value of money for inferior outcome; which I think are why most people DIY things... so they can afford better or learn something. (There is no learning when all you're doing is strapping a filter to a box fan.)
That hardly constitutes an argument in favor of monopolies.
Its should be categorized in the same way as gambling. Its addictive and useless in any form. The whole world would be better off without any social media. Including the most anti social people.
Many of the academic frauds in question predate Gay's deanship by over a decade.
It was suspected that a lot of USDT is backed by Evergrande notes, though they have denied it. Evergrande liquidation may cause a USDT liquidation and cause USDT to lose peg. There are often idiots that will drag the rest of crypto including bitcoin with it, though.
Do you have a solution for running containers (Kubernetes, etc)? Are you spinning up a Linux VM to run the containers in there, doing VM per container, or something else?
I'm honestly more interested in anecdotes and I'm just seeking anything that can be a drop-in copilot replacement (that's subjectively better). Perhaps one major thing I'd look for is improved understanding of the code in my own workspace.

I honestly don't know what benchmarks to look at or even what questions to be asking.
Again, I wrote that I don't understand what you mean by "performance", so you can't claim a circular definition yet. In the context of intelligence or IQ the word "performance" means to me either demonstration of something (and I don't understand what you expect CEOs to be demonstrating other than attaining a particular social position), or the "performance score" of the Wechler IQ test.

> you need an independent theory of intelligence

Sure. We have some of these. Despite it's flaws and limitations I'm partial to portions of Guilford's Structure of Intellect.

> and a variety of indepenent objective measures

The various sub-tests in an IQ test are nominally independent, yes? Going back to your "CEOs", I don't see how a social position can be assumed to be objective when it is subjectively contingent on external social processes.
Porn is a significant share of device/internet usage though (not sure how big gambling is).
I was curious, but the link doesn't elaborate on how much is known about the "ran out of fuel and ditched after having slightly overshot the island" -- whether that's all fact, or partially fact, or all speculation.
I would think that considering everything going on in the region that they probably have many drones in constant operation, simply making a coincidence more likely.

Edit: But I don't think they've released nearly enough information for us to make a good guess; for example, knowing the flight trajectories is important, did this drone shadow the US one, or were they just in the same area?
... used to donate to these schools
It's a mainframe. If you can't get excited for mainframes it'll be hard to be excited about this.

IllumOS is the OS/360 to Oxide's System/360. (It won't get that popular but it's a fair enough comparison for illustrative purposes)
The point is the most are available since 2002 with Linux. Only recently on Windows. And here is argued that the special thumbnail feature was missing on Linux since around 2002.

I’m glad about the thumbnails (it was overdue by a decade) but there are many features and every new feature available is missing somewhere else[1]. Next year we will discuss either missing Flatpak support on Windows (cgroups, namespaces) or missing Vulkan on MacOS or missing built-in Android support on Linux.

[1] or not - because it doesn’t fit well. For example the weird database/library kind stuff in Explorer which teases users on Windows. I think EXPLORER.EXE has become awful hard to use. It was usable back in NT4 and NT5.
I used to work in social housing
The biggest innovation in homeless is the "housing first" policy in Finland. No clever tricks or anything but homeless people are given social housing regardless of engagement with services, addition problems etc. (This is the exact opposite of how things normally work where someone has to engage well with services before being elligible for state housing).

The outcomes are basically as close to ending homelessness as you can get.

Link if people want to find out more: https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/eradicating...
Apple is probably right.

Nest… is that still a thing?

Ring-Alexa integration is good but not great.

Amazon Music the app integration with Alexa is… non-existent? I can’t play music on my phone and move it to an echo device. I’m now resorting to posting on HN and hoping that a product dev or PM notices.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-robot-vacuum...
She has a long history of defending and covering up on behalf of people who do forge data though:

https://www.karlstack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudine-gay
Phase is hugely important and is part of how we perceive a sound in space. Making sure the phase is correct when using multiple mics to mic a drum kit, for example, is critically important.
You are underselling the original iPhone, it entered a very different cell phone market, where the same quality tech existed but was hard to find, and the UX on all smartphones was, to be generous, poor, especially for the mass market. Even beloved Blackberry was in need of improvements that RIM didn't even have on their roadmap until the iPhone showed up.

Despite all its initial shortcomings, the iPhone still raised the bar for the entire market, set a new standard that every other manufacturer/developer would be chasing for years.

The Vision Pro is being watched by the mass market and it will be competing against Meta for better or worse. Apple has put in zero effort into removing that appearance. They are not selling a devkit, they are advertising a mass market device at an absurdly high price.
Perfect, will take a look. Thanks!