skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you’re continuing to look at everything from a perspective of an altruistic product to consumer relationship and not the reality the other commenter is trying to describe.

yes it’s an “exciting feature” if your AI fridge can know that you’re pregnant and not recommend recipes that contain certain ingredients. what the other person is alluding to is that the data it has about you specifically will not stay contained between you and your fridge. what if you’re not married and your employer is like dave ramsey and fires women for being pregnant out of wedlock? or you live in a state with much more grim conditions currently around women and miscarriages? what if the meds in your fridge are related to HRT and there are orgs actively buying data to find these people to target them for bullying online (or worse)?

all of your data will inevitably end up in the hands of people that aren’t at all interested in improving your health. they’re interested in extracting value from you and your data or they have ill will towards you.

what starts as “exciting features” leads to your fridge tracking what groceries you purchase and what you consume. then it (or a third party that gets this data) makes determinations about your religion, your lifestyle, if you’re pregnant or not, etc without you knowing.

when every device in your house is collecting and selling off your data as a business model, there’s a significant mental overhead that needs to be expelled to ensure that you are able to keep your life private if you choose to. you may say: “don’t buy the appliances with the feature, then!” once a company can integrate these features effectively and subsidize hardware costs by selling the data, they’ll have other companies competing to offer the same so they can hit those target features and prices. eventually the market is flooded with appliances with these “exciting features” that are just gathering and selling data. in the end, we’ve traded our option to _choose_ privacy for a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist. personally, i don’t believe the public is currently aware enough to understand the consequences.
Why is MS so hyped on Rust? It’s good but doesn’t it have its caveats? It seems they’ve become Rust zealots.
The article is simply wrong:

> An MIT biotech researcher has been able to run the iconic computer game Doom using actual gut bacteria. Lauren Ramlan didn’t get the game going on a digital simulation of bacteria, but turned actual bacteria into pixels to display the 30-year-old FPS, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun.

The cited Rock Paper Shotgun article doesn't support this though:

> It’s worth noting that Ramlan herself points out that “running” Doom using the cells would be an enormous undertaking due to their extremely limited ability. What she did manage to successfully do, however, is simulate using the wall of cells as a display for Doom by rendering gameplay using the illuminated E. coli.
Does anyone here have experience using Nix to build minimal Docker images? How well does it work, and how does it compare to the author's approach of manually copying shared libraries into a scratch image?
An odd takeaway. The article seems to imply that most of their issues stem from spam and low effort questions/answers. Both from users and their own AI. More gatekeeping might have been the solution here.
> What's worse, type checking was largely an afterthought in the development of Vue

I'm not sure what you mean. For Vue 3 it was a priority and extensive work went into exposing types that would make it easier for IDE tooling to integrate. Features like the `defineProps` macro are specifically designed to make TS development easier.
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
83% of the population lives in urban areas and it’s only increasing (projected to hit 90% around 2050).
Example of the author's own work: https://www.amazon.com/Transgression-Time-Travel-Suspense-No...
Bandók Ride Names: Put an end to boring-ass activity names
>The original goal of AI research was to create a "thinkin machine" with intelligence equivalent to that of a human being.

And the wright brothers sought to create a flying machine equivalent to that of a bird. They studied birds too.

That doesn't mean they wouldn't have taken, "but but it has no feathers, it doesn't flap !!. It's only pretend flying" with anything more than a laugh to your face.

People are trying to build intelligence equivalent to a human being, not a human being.
I rarely get focus stolen on Windows 10. They now make it very difficult for applications to do this (see the allowed conditions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/... ). In contrast, focus stealing is a way of life on XFCE, and I just have to put up with it. The settings they recommend to fix it don't actually help.
I really enjoyed vue for a large project back in the day. I seemed to have loved everything that everyone else here disliked... which is sometimes par for the course on HN.

My project pre-dated the composition API and some other bells and whistles that I've never looked into since leaving FE projects... but IMO, a really good framework with a good community and lots of resources to learn.
The Fossil SCM (https://fossil-scm.org), self-hosted (https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/). Though i have a github account, i don't actively use it except to clone third-party repos now and then.

Full disclosure: i'm a long-time Fossil SCM contributor.
I get a lot of spam calls that sound like they were intended for a fax but yesterday the phone transcribed the message as “Siri…”.

I wound up deleting that one but I have another one I want to put through some kind of transcriber, curious what if any data is being transmitted.
If your core business product is content contributed by users... I'm turning to the opinion that you need a C-level ombudsman- / dean of contributors-type role.

Whose sole job it is to (1) figure out what contributors are thinking and want & (2) advocate for them inside the company.

Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way.

Management begins to take contributions for granted. Stops caring about attracting contributors. Then focuses on revenue. Then makes changes to the platform that kill contributions, in pursuit of revenue.

And they miss so many obvious ways to placate and delight their contributors. "It'd be nice to have a mod tool that does X" shouldn't be a 3-year back burner ask.

Maybe make it harder for your company to footgun your golden goose?
The UI isn't really mentioned directly in the article, and is another major problem.

It's optimised to keep you reading. But you don't want to keep reading, you just want your original question answered.

Unfortunately, they style all the page components the same, and you are forced to read to see if it's an answer to your question, a 'related question', or something irrelevant (like the ChatGPT example given).

On top of that, it cuts off most of the answer(s) anyway 'below the fold' of the fragment it's contained in.

Example where I googled 'quora van dimensions': https://www.quora.com/Is-there-much-of-a-height-difference-b...

1. AI component

2. Relevant answer, but arguably a lazy one that assumes that it's a post 2020 model (instead of 2013-9). Also does not address the person's question for 'in the UK' (people answering should advise if model differs between the UK & US). Also assumes that the asker has not already looked at that spec sheet.

3. Fairly related / useful context, I suppose.

4. A 'related' question's answer, for "What is the height of a standard 53ft. semi trailer?". (Seriously?!)

5. A 'related' question's answer, for "How tall can your load be above the cab on a flatbed 2016 Ford F550?" (Seriously?!)

6. 'Related questions'

7. Answers to completely different questions.

The UI is hostile to the readers' needs.

So that, along with the poor quality responses mentioned (usually some business consultant giving vague pointless lists or pointing to some SaaS offering) means that "Site:old.reddit.com" or niche related websites is usually a more direct path to an answer to me.
I'd be interested in this, too, so I'd be grateful if you could notify us here, wherever you end up posting your comment!
Don't blame LLMs, blame the registration requirement.

This is one of the kinds of product that people will skip if they can't evaluate it frictionless.
It probably also doesn't help that the following seem to be true as well:

1. Everyone is expected to make any remotely successful hobby into a business or 'side hustle'. So regardless of the activity or type of art, everyone will pressre you into trying to make it your full time job, as if the only reason to do anything is become rich and famous from it.

2. For many people, I suspect 'become a celebrity' is probably their best bet at making enough money to afford a decent living in this economy. If you're not interested in software engineering, medicine or law, then practical job options for affording a house and decent life are fairly few and far between.

3. The competition in most fields is super high due to said competition being 'everyone on the planet interested in that topic'. So if you want to stand out, you'd better be good at marketing, that's for sure.

And that last point is really the issue all media and creators have to deal with now. When the level of competition is this high, and there are so many people trying to succeed in every field, then supply is going to outrace demand. Hence why conditions are often bad when it comes to publishing and platforms, and why marketing is so ridiculously important now; there are tens or hundreds of thousands of others doing the same thing that are willing to do more poorly paid work to get their name out there.
I think GP is talking about concurrency issues that arise even in single-threaded code when simultaneous mutation from multiple sources is permitted.
The vast vast majority of tradespeople in Texas are what’s called “cash under the table”. They don’t report their income and so never pay taxes. All take cash only or something like a check made out to “cash” instead of a name. It’s how many “poor” families qualify for assistance yet drive $100k pickups and all their kids have the latest iPhones and gaming systems.
Sounds like a giant waste of dev time. Team up and change the system before the system eats you.
Everyone increasingly needed email at the time, people weren't especially wedded to their current email providers, and Gmail was arguably better than whatever they were using and free.

Google Plus was a social network that never got widely used outside of certain circles and Wave was this new weird thing that never took off.
US “urban” areas are much less dense than many other countries. Imagine servicing a building with 100 apartments vs 100 detached homes spread out over a square mile.
One of the first casualties caused by ChatGPT which explains the massive down-round from being valued from $1.8BN to $500M.

Would need more than just Poe to justify than billion dollar valuation.
If I understand your point correctly (I'm trying to solve the "crime rate is constant but these are not the same people" conundrum), we assume there is a fixed pool of criminal potential, with some of these people inclined more to violent crime and others for soft crime, and today we have more favorable conditions toward the latter. If so, I'd arrive to the opposite conclusion: if, instead of removing the opportunity for cyber crime, we also relaxed laws related to violent crime, cyber crime wouldn't magically dwindle trying to stick to some magical constant, because even though the pool might be more or less stable, the types of people for both are mostly different.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240202154853/https://www.teleg...

This story is strangely written. Volvo is Swedish in name only and has been owned by the Chinese firm Geely for many years. Polestar is Geely, too. This sounds like more of a relabeling than anything else. Let's face it, Volvo lost its caché in the US decades ago, and Polestar is a non-starter among consumer brands.
It’s not as bad as you might think because the CPU should speculate through it pretty easily.
Facebook and Microsoft Windows come to mind.

Also, companies making opt-in features silently into opt-out ones.
Not necessarily are producers involved in any budgeting. My First Wife and I were producers on a film that was made from a stage script of her. Our role as producers gave us vetoes on screenplay changes and gave us a hand in the production, plus royalties, but we had no hand in securing the budget or spending it.
The experience with LSPs is quite underwhelming compared to what a native language plugin in IntelliJ can do. That isn’t to say the approach is bad, but it’s definitely a trade off.
No idea when NASA put this up [1] but it's awesome. It's the basic data on the system as well as some pretty nicely done visualizations including the ability overlay our solar system for scale. Quite interesting actually seeing what a dramatic difference the star type makes on habitable distances. This planet is way closer to its star than Mercury is the Sun, for instance. They could do with a lot more advertising for stuff like this, and not quite so much for dronecopters.

[1] - https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/8921/toi-715-b...
Governments should be running their own digital counterparts to cash, but they need to add the anonymity of this cash into the constitution. Otherwise the security apparatus is going to ruin it for everyone.
> you can't simply delete it yourself

It still sounds as if you're thinking of an article about yourself. You aren't supposed to edit an article about yourself, that's true. The proper course is to post to the article's talk page, specifying the change you want made, and asking for some other editor to make the change.

If the "misinformation" was from a RS, then you're right: to reverse it, you need your own RS that contradicts the misinformation, and is better than the original. But if the information/misinformation is in an article about a living person, and the sourcing is contested, then it should be removed. Everything in a BLP article is supposed to be reliably sourced.

FWIW, I think this rule has unfortunate consequences; articles about living people tend to be insipid, and fail to mention well-known controversies about their subject. That is, I think Wikipedia is a poor resource for information about living people.
I get what you’re saying. But, it depends.

Someone who has been learning for 20 or 30 years probably can pick up a new ecosystem easier. “I can learn it in a day because I’ve been learning for 30 years”, etc.
Show HN: A programmatic partition editor in Perl
First, I wanted to check how bootable media was made, so I started by writing something to read the MBR and check for El Torito records: that's mbr-read.pl

Then I wanted to look at the GPT, so I did the same for the GPT: that's gpt-read.pl

I merged them both in hdisk-read.pl and I started looking at ISOs to see why they were booting and how.

Then I decided I wanted to programmatically write hybrid MBR in a way that's easier than gdisk and that offers more control that xorriso - that's hdisk-tweak.

The goal is to use IFFT logic based on existing GPT or MBR partitions to write an hybrid matching your exact specifications: instead of a protective 0xEE MBR partition, you have actual MBR partitions matching the GPT partitions
Samsung fridge, oven, microwave, and washer-dryer user here.

Only the washer dryer was able to get online, and it's the only appliance that had to be replaced after 4 years, but not because of that. The build quality was so-so, it had problems drying and repair was considered unreasonable (leaky hot air ducts, fast wear on the bearing).

The microwave spontaneously loses screws in the door though
I'm not sure that there was an inrush of programmers because "it could make a lot of money". I can't see, "Chad" (yes, I am being kind of offensive — but to make a point) having no knowledge or interest in math, programming — pursuing software development just to make a lot of money.

I don't doubt that a number of students who could have chosen among a number of STEM fields did in fact go the software route because it was lucrative. But these are going to be smart people - not Javascript-only code monkeys that the speaker is implying.

There's a spectrum of engineers that I have worked with.

Some are very, very technical, more like the civil engineers the speaker talks about. They care very deeply about optimizing for performance, care about clean API. And, sure, there are engineers on the other end of the spectrum that are more focused on completing a task with perhaps a more pragmatic (?) focus.

Perhaps it's a good thing the industry has both kinds.

(Myself, I was closer to the latter example above — while I could intuit the efficiency of an algorithm, I never did take the college course that covered n^2, etc.)
> It’s good but doesn’t it have its caveats?

Compared to C#, it's a low level language, where you have to be concerned with a lot of details.

But then, I'd bet this is for replacing bad C# that does low level tasks, that nobody sane would write but MS pushed for anyway because they were hyping C#.
> Guess the obvious question is why don’t you want types in your config language?

The disadvantage of typed configuration languages is they make assumptions about the format of the data. For you a "date" type might mean ISO 8601, but for me it might mean RFC 3339. Config languages that make assumptions are coupling the language and schema validation together. The alternative is to decouple them: offer a flexible configuration language with a separate schema language. The latter would let you define the schema specifically for your data for validation.
I think they’re basically extinct on the high end. Your best option will be to get a smart TV and never set it up with a network connection.

You’ll maybe want to do firmware updates now and then, but you can plug it in temporarily for those. It’ll still do more than you strictly want it to, but the most invasive behaviors will be off the table.

Alternatively you can get a huge computer monitor and use that as your TV. But there’s some issues with that approach. Monitors are designed for sitting closer up and may not have as good viewing angles.
It can be disabled now, it couldn't before. Instead it continually nagged about needing to be updated. Something I never wanted or used (that's effectively an Ad for a paid service) shouldn't be interrupting my dev workflow in a commercial tool.
The domain-specific notation in this paper is inscrutable to me. I assume that this means a possible "Minshara class" planet (as Gene would say) around a star much different than our own, in that the distance from its sun and insolation received don't rule it out?

EDIT: R⊕ appears to be something related to Earth. Perhaps a planetary radius?
I use Goland. The article says the plugin is not "enabled by default", but that's only because its functionality is locked behind a subscription. The plugin is enabled by default, I have to manually go into the settings to disable it so that I stop receiving notifications about having to update the plugin (which I'm not even using since I don't have a subscription). Jetbrains has documentation showing how to disable it [1]. It was enabled by default.

Frankly I didn't expect this kind of scummy behaviour from Jetbrains (installing unremovable, subscription-only plugins that are enabled by default). It's 100% a push to forcibly increase the usage of their AI assistant.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240203162822/https://www.jetbr...
I always thought it to be funny if we would get faster than light travel in the future and other civilizations are just seeing dinosaurs roaming the earth the moment we visit them.
I enjoyed it also. Memorable and unique.
As they should - the rules are nonsense. From the article:

A US law required the FCC to issue rules "preventing digital discrimination of access based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin," and gave the FCC some leeway in how to implement them. The resulting FCC rules let consumers file complaints about alleged discrimination and define the elements the FCC would examine when investigating whether an Internet service provider should be punished for discrimination.

The FCC defined digital discrimination of access as "policies or practices, not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility, that differentially impact consumers' access to broadband Internet access service based on their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin or are intended to have such differential impact."

I very much doubt ISPs are in the habit to turn down expansion in any area (and therefore more money/maintain their regional monopoly) because of the race of people living there. It seems like a way to force them to build out in non-white neighborhoods over other places even if it doesn’t make economic sense.

For one, that’s racism against white people by another name. We see that a lot now but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight it.

For two, it’s just an incredible waste of resources at the FCC. There are better ways to guarantee good internet for everyone instead.
It works quite well and you can get very minimal docker images using nix with very few tricks compared to this.

…with that, building those nix images on Mac is still a bit rough—there’s some official docs and work on getting a builder VM set-up, but it’s still a bit rough around the edges.
I totally agree! In a way, this is my point. For the most part, people are rationally choosing to pay less money for lower-quality, shorter-lived appliances. Because they don't need them to last a long time. There are basically two markets for these things: commercial and consumer. Similar with printers as well, or even power tools. The cheaply made junk that most people (rationally!) buy, and the expensive, well made stuff that only those who care and can afford buy.
Right. Working in Hollywood is gig work. Some years you get lucky, other years you don't. Pay reflects that.
I mean it sounds like you don’t live in a town? I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect service providers to string an extra mile of cable just for one customer.

There’s always going to be trade offs in living location.
Isn’t that type of noise pollution illegal? Here they would pop over with a db meter and if you indeed cannot normally talk, then it would not be allowed between 10 pm and 8 am at least without heavy fines. That would cut in their bottom line a lot that downtime, so they would need to figure out how to do it differently. I guess there are no such laws in those places?
I don’t understand what’s wrong with Hz. Bq is almost viciously misguided.
Responding to myself: I see that someone else here in this thread commented on Nix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241768
I think he's saying that we're losing knowledge of fundamentals which is true. It's because corporations are commoditizing and devaluing applicants with university educations to save a buck. The university educations are where people gain knowledge of the deeper fundamentals of Computer Science.
This is what always stops me at quora’s door.