skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> things would be blanketed and wrapped up just the right way, then tetris-ed onto the truck.

*tetris-ed and Sokoban-ed onto the truck

(Sorry, couldn't help myself)
Right, but it doesn't have to be powered by the same fuse, no?
We really need something with fangs that actually hurts companies. These “kid gloves” solutions in the USA do not incentivize good behavior.
Most people think of Oregon as the western third from the Cascades to the coast. The eastern two thirds is basin and range desert and equally beautiful in a different way.
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
Oh Nooooo! Bezos won't be able to make his yacht payments now!! Won't you think of the starving billionaires before making your kneejerk reactions. Nobody wants to be humiliated and drop out of the 3 commas club
Reading this got me cheering out loud for the plaintiff. I'm so glad to see someone taking these bastards to court.

I can relate in some small way to part of his ordeal - not with GM specifically, but I don't know how many times I've been stuck in a loop with companies who have no idea what happens to your data they hoover up and can't explain or answer even the most basic questions on that topic - and are confused as to why you are even asking.

I hope this gets its class action certification and jury trial, and I'm looking forward to kicking back with a bag of popcorn and watching the show. If he started a GoFundMe or something I'd be happy to make a substantial contribution to his legal fees.

It's long past the time bad actors like this who give you no real choice or control over the products you are buying start to be brought to justice.
> If my friend's partner was not the same sex as his, then he would be eligible to a spouse visa regardless of job status and could get permanent residence in as low as 3 years.

Bear in mind that the Japanese government's official rationale for allowing spouses to work freely is to allow foreigners in that position to support Japanese dependent family members. The fact that it applies to spouses of working adults without children is more of a legal accident than deliberate policy (the rules were set at a time when it was rare for women to have careers).
Probably because they assume those companies are doing the same thing?
this is a short term problem. Solar and batteries are continuing to get cheaper fast, and production is ramping up. Even natural gas will be a stranded asset in a decade
Someone needs to code all the modifications, can it be controlled by MIDI
Amish furniture is built extremely well. And the price is not cheap but not exhorbiant. And clearly American made :)
This can and does happen
The 20Mpbs is definitely very welcome and so far it’s pretty constant. I hope one day we will have symmetric connections everywhere.
The benefit is that each individual artist loses very little from their particular piece of art being licensed, but they can make money for that.

The AI art models are still going to be trained regardless. One artist opting out, individually doesn't stop any of that.
Agreed, and to add: it cost NuScale half a billion dollars to get their design approved, for which the application was 12,000 pages long in addition to ~2 million pages of supporting documents[0].

[0]https://archive.is/cmHXQ
Different hydra

https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra
> it might enable you to build a world leading ai company

Sure I had to ruin a few careers, but look at all the shareholder value I created.

There is a level of whitewashing, gaslighting or to put it very gently "less than truthful accounting" of what actual success takes in the whole "gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette" argument.

It's a choice, not a necessity and people need to stop acting like their hand was forced to make unnecessary or unpopular decisions. It's not illegal to be a shitty person, but you can't just Dj Khalid yourself out of backlash by proclaiming "that ain't me / no I didn't" and expecting the people around you to agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkmelexPYM
While it's true that assembler doesn't quite fit into the same class as compiled/interpreted languages, it would be disingenuous to say it's not a programming language. It's simply a very low-level, machine specific one.

It's even blurrier when you consider that most modern assembler dialects have plenty of high level functionality (structs, macros, labels, etc) that do not correlate to machine instructions.
Luckily, GINA makes it illegal to use 23andme data for health insurance.
I recently requested a quote while insurance shopping, and progressive seems to have already associated driving telematics history with one of my vehicles (a 2015 Chevy product).
Ugh I'm so sorry, you should definitely have been notified in advance about breaking changes, unless they were accidental bugs and regressions. That was something we took pretty seriously for the products I worked on.

I have definitely enjoyed using AWS support. But I've also encountered some broken/janky functionality (eg using custom domain + api gateway + websockets + Lambda for the apparently niche-task of having a real website use the Lambda-websockets integration) on AWS that I don't think would have made it to production at Google. I also really dislike how they handle project-level logging compared to how it's done on GCP.

Ultimately I do think some GCP products like Bigquery, Cloud Run (I'm biased here), and Spanner as well as general DevEx/reliability factors are compelling enough for GCP to be worth serious consideration, even if AWS offers better support.
Well, something like FCRA at least.
The technology to do asymmetric upload/download exists and many fiber-based companies offer it at the same rate as older infrastructure. It is not more expensive to offer symmetric service, but it may require infrastructure being brought more modern.

For example, in the same region of Massachusetts (around Worcester) I previously paid $40/mo for 300/300 Mbps to Verizon FIOS but now after moving I pay $40/mo to Spectrum for 500/15 Mbps.
> They’re so behind in AI…

Just as they were in laptops, MP3 players, smartphones, and wearables. That Apple is "behind" means nothing in terms of future success.

> …and they refuse to make key acquisitions.

In fact, Apple bought 30+ AI startups last year, more than any other tech giant. This HN post is about yet another AI aquisition.
> It's unlikely that they would want to out themselves

He would not need to out himself.

A simple "Satoshi Nakamoto is not Craig Wright", signed with the private key of the coinbase of block zero or one would be plenty of evidence against Wright without ever revealing who produced the message.

But then, why would Satoshi, assuming he's still alive, ever lower himself to even get involved in this particular quagmire?
You’re partly right. MoCo only cares about money. MoFo though is/was Mitchell’s political slush fund. TBD how things will shake out once there is a permanent CEO but Mitchell is remaining chair of the foundation. She’s also got really deep ties to how MoCo is funded (google) so it’s likely the new CEO will be her puppet.
Read the article please. The organization behind this is DarkSky International.
the vote results is 133:1.
How long until a US equivalent of the GDPR ?
That's what they aspire to. The only way to get there is if they are able to achieve reuse into the dozens of times and there's no guarantee they will be able to do that. I hope they are able to but there's still a lot of work to get there.
Sure thing bud
> middle-class

That's your explanation.

The modern professional "middle class" was once called the petit bougeuosie and characterizes itself by trying to replicate aristocratic aesthetics and lifestyles with earned wages, which is mostly a lost cause and just creates a endless treadmill of labor and consumption.

Good on you for being so thoroughly free of the compulsion that they're an alien bafflement to you!
I was super excited to take a robotics class in college. I'd fallen in love with programming and was excited to take all that magic into the real world.

We all had to buy roombas to program. The final exam was getting it to traverse a maze. It seemed so simple! They even gave us the exact dimensions and layout ahead of time. Just hard-code the path, right? Spin the wheels so many rotations, turn 90 degrees, spin some more.

Except the real world is messy, and tiny errors add up quickly. One of the wheels hits a bump, or slips a little on the tile, and suddenly you're way off course. Without some kind of feedback loop to self-correct, everything falls apart.

My excitement for robotics died quickly. I much prefer the perfectly constrained environment of a CPU.
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science (Meteo 300)
But has it been passed by the State congress as a law/regulation? Curious to learn more. The article does not tell more than this snippet

> The designation was given by DarkSky International, an organization dedicated to protecting the nighttime environment and preserving dark skies through environmentally responsible outdoor lighting. The project is the work of the Oregon Dark Sky Network, an ad-hoc group of state, local and federal officials, private individuals, business owners and tourism agencies.

If only a nonprofit is claiming it, unless they purchased the land, this isn't legally enforceable without a heavy-handed backing of state government. Such protections have to get cemented by some legislation as the next step.
Let’s think outside the box a little. What we need is a general process whereby the public gets to decide if a business should exist. Too often companies just form, abuse us, and there is no way to stop them. What if, once a year, companies had to justify their existence in front of a citizen panel or a jury of random people or something? They’d need to demonstrate what good the public receives from their existence, or their assets get sold and the company dissolved. Why do we believe that companies simply have a natural right to exist as long as they can survive? Where did this come from? Companies should answer to the public!
Leonard French has almost obsessively covered this dude at length

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdgWccrJAy6scjRxG7bf...

56 videos, heh. :p
That's sounds pretty terrible...

In my Eastern European country the SLA from the (state owned) power company is no more than 6 hours of down time per event, after which they need to pay compensation. Within highly populated areas it's shorter.

Admitidely the most remote place is less than 1.5 hours from the nearest reasonable sized town, so we aren't as remote as some parts of the US. The purpose of this was to force them to make their network more reliable by upgrading old equipment, burying overhead lines (lots of trees used to fall on lines during winter) and ensuring redundancy.
Remind me what the bounty is for an iPhone jailbreak right now, would you please?
Insomnia, fatigue, appetite loss, anxiety, irritability, paranoia. Side-effects for amphetamines being stronger than for methylphenidate.
Well sure, but in many cases, you can go to a "proper" furniture store, buy a piece that is a couple of times more expensive than the one from ikea, and get the same particle board and same shitty connections... especially with stuff where the wood is hidden (eg. sofas).

Also the assembly for ikea stuff is usually perfect.. everything aligns to the last millimeter... which again, I can't say for much more expensive furniture pieces.
Company chose profit. Bold.
There’s also the self discharge aspect of things: cells lose energy even if you draw no current at all. This is dependent on many things including chemistry, quality, buildup, temperature and whatnot. I am not including lithium batteries (not bare cells) which need to have some kind of protection circuitry that also draws a bit of power.
The understanding (or level of giving a crap) the average social media user has of copyright is pathetic. How often do you see "DM for credit" or "no copyright intended"?
It's good to read this thread and know that finally people are realizing the full extent of the surveillance. I have dealt with a Govt agency targeting me for several years and having technical knowledge, I've noticed all of this invasion of privacy and control used against me, lots of it wouldn't even be possible without technology or the internet. But it's so much more than if you gave up your phone... It's a literal surveillance state and even if you go to the suburbs away from the concrete prisons our cities have been turned into, you still have front door cameras everywhere, accessible by law enforcement.

In fact, to abuse all of this stuff and weaponize it against someone, you do not need to have a court order or a warrant. As long as you find the right people, have the right narrative, companies will do all kinds of stuff to you, even if you are a customer.

And my original reply before going off on a tangent was that even if you remove your sim card, even if you somehow disable emergency services, your phone is still pinging and leaking all these signals that are picked up by all kinds of scanners.

Very few people even accept this is happening at scale, let alone are able to reason about the implications of it all.

The public needs a better job of being informed about the consequences of all of it.
Coding Quest
An Advent of Code-type challenge aimed at secondary school students.

Opens with an accumulation problem, a hexadecimal conversion problem, and an application of run length encoding. Very accessible topics to a beginning programmer.
Why would anyone invest in this 500M USD raise instead of actually buying BTC directly ?

Especially now that ETFs give access to Bitcoin to institutions that traditionally could not touch it.

Makes no sense to me.
> Betavolt's battery sandwiches the radioactive nickel between two ultrathin plates of diamond,

What is the boundary for something to be called a plate of diamond vs a plate of carbon?
how long do you set your hot dog done timer for? do you cook it until plump? usually my dogs split, probably with too high temperature?
Home prices in Canada and US have been climbing at insane rates pretty much everywhere, including rural areas. People in cities tend to ignore market force because they’re only focused on their city.
I feel like the cheapest thing in a certain price category in IKEA is "doesn't survive two moves" stuff, but everything above it is ... basically fine. Like it's a table, there's only so many ways to put 4 metal bars and a piece of wood on top. It'll be fine.
The brands you are thinking of also likely have telematics with similar vague language about data collection. I've seen it in Nissans, Hondas, and Toyotas, personally.
Or, alternatively, less people/demand.
With Solar and Wind both below $50 a MWH they are the cheapest option for adding capacity at the moment. One of the more wild things about the green power transition is that individuals have been buying their own installations and drastically undercutting the price they pay for power from the grid. In what other industry is your personal DIY solution drastically cheaper than the industrial mass scale of big business.

The entire power industry seems to have an aversion to deploying the cheapest options for expansion and more power and new custom. They get the best returns for the cheapest options that also happen to be the greenest and yet they keep building ever more CO2 emitting sources and keeping prices high. Its clearly a manipulated market.
Why? How did they shard?
How does the data leave the device? I tried to route traffic from the infotainment system into a WiFi network I was wiresharking, and I saw a lot of GM traffic but I couldn’t install a cert to MitM because I couldn’t figure out how to access the Android settings for the dash OS.

Is the traffic through there or is it totally within the CANBUS and never hits the WiFi outbound? In that case do you need to hijack the 4G?
Figma, worth $10billion, was migrating what seems like their core production data. They probably didn't want to bet the company on a comparatively small software vendor like Yugabyte.

Most likely the engineering cost was much much higher than your quotes, but still insignificant compared to the potential risks. And migrating from RDS to not-RDS could easily not have been cheap in engineering time either, depending on how much software they've built around it.
We had an ikea klippan for around 10 years, and had to give it up when moving.

During these 10 years I haven't sat on any sofa, be in office lobbies, hotels, showrooms, friends' home that made me feel like it could be a significant upgrade upon my 400 USD sofa.

Sure that might not be usual, and I actually wouldn't recommend any other Ikea sofa in general (many were crappy when we were choosing ours). But price and marketting ("made in XXXX") is still only one factor in the wether the product will be any good.
"Lots of Little Databases" reminded me of https://www.actordb.com/ which does lots of server-side sqlite instances, but the project now looks defunct.
> I have a hunch that in the long term, artists will embrace these tools in the same way that's been done with Photoshop and every other digital tool.

I think artists will too, but so will everyone else - including many who wouldn't have the skills to create the art they want without AI and who would have had to hire an artist. Photoshop did this is a small extent, but it is possible that AI will meet most people's needs in most situations. As someone with little ability to draw or paint I'm excited for that future personally, but I can't blame professional artists for being nervous. That their own artwork is being used to train their replacement is just rubbing salt into their wounds.

Right now, AI is putting out a lot of substandard work, and artists may find themselves employed just to fix the quirks of AI output, but I doubt they'll find that fulfilling. Eventually AI art may become so homogenized, derivative, and censored that it won't satisfy clients and their customers and if that happens demand for real artists will improve, but I think things could get really difficult for many professional artists in the meantime and I don't think many will be willing to offer up their art for AI the same way most people wouldn't offer to weave rope or sharpen axes for their executioner.
https://archive.is/DOfaY
I mean, we can, as long as repairing is part of it, and rethrifting is too.

The US largest generation is approaching life expectancy and we are below replacement numbers.
The problem I have is that the quality of dictation seems to drop precipitously when using something other than the microphone built into an iPhone. In my car, Siri and dictation feel like a bad tech demo; as soon as I disable Bluetooth, accuracy shoots back up again. (And I know for a fact that the hands-free in my car makes super clear phone calls.)
Yeah the cheap stuff is on par with up to 10x cheaper stuff on Amazon (you just have to deal with drop shipped branding and dodgy/no instructions), the more expensive stuff has better quality competitors IMO.

Such as Dwell.co.uk, coincidentally, completely unrelated afaict to OP. They make veneer-grade non-flat-pack furniture (and upholstered stuff) at a mid-high Ikea price. Made similar I think, or any number (including local showrooms) of suppliers of either drop shipped or wholesale manufactured oak+paint-grade, it seems quite common/popular. I have a couple of items from cotswoldco.com for example that have absolutely matching (but differently named) pieces available from an unrelated local independent shop, that I might otherwise assume had a small manufacturing operation too.
Basically, privacy will become a luxury that only the rich can afford.
Is it possible to wrap “cellular connection” module in copper mesh to cut it off from sending data?
what does "pretty much demand" mean? You mean literally no human is capable of completing the event because they will drop to the ground of exhaustion? Of course not, you'll leave a vague comment that leaves you wiggle room instead of taking a precise position on the matter.
Having been to the boundary waters a few times - I can saw the sky is absolutely amazing at night.

I wouldn’t give up artificial light for a second, but everyone should experience the night sky as our ancestors saw it
Even if the artwork is in the public domain, the photo of the artwork that someone takes still has a copyright and you need permission to use it.
What does the Sanctuary part mean? Are there increased light restrictions, or is it mostly a "put a name on what's already happening"-type thing?
IANAL, but "would it be legal for me to delete..." is the completely wrong approach here. Instead...

- You were an hourly warehouse flunky, not any sort of professional programmer. While doing your warehouse job, you cobbled together a mish-mash of software stuff, on company computers, to try to make your job easier. With you there to fiddle and debug and update as needed, that worked pretty darn well.

- Now, you are leaving. Your layman's understanding is that the company legally owns all the software you made...as is. There ain't no "You Programming, Inc." in this situation, for your old employer to have any documentation, nor warranty, nor support contract from.

- Your suggestion is that the company delete the software, and revert to the previous procedures - which worked perfectly well. If it seemed worthwhile, a professional programming company - which could offer documentation, warranties, support, etc. - could probably duplicate the features of your stuff pretty quickly.

The goal being to convince the management of Warehouse, Inc. to order the deletion of your software from the company's computers.
I am eyeing up Hyundai Ioniq 5/6. Any comments. Irony is keeping the dumb old Toyota is cheaper even with the crazy tax breaks in Australia! I could hand over $10k to carbon offset company instead and still be ahead with the ol banger. And have the convenience of what they call service stations :-)
Never thought I'd see innovation in the ransomware industry, but I suppose it's also a vertical that evolves.
Corporate Voyeurism
Why spend your time coding when you could be fiddling with configuration files all day? I love re-learning how to make package.json, tsconfig, esbuild, eslint, prettier, mocha and webpack play nice every time I start a new project.
I’m 46 and been working professionally since the late 90s. There was never a time in the history of the web when storing user passwords in plaintext was OK. Encrypted passwords were already well established in UNIX.. although I remember using systems without shadow passwords or salt.
China Became the Leader on Renewable Energy
TDS is real.
You'll get your proteins without even trying, as long as you're eating a somewhat normal diet. Look at the table in your own link titled "Combining incomplete proteins". Just don't eat only the one thing all the time and you'll be fine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/world/canada/canada-recor...
As it turns out, a lot of HN is a lot more for government regulating business when it affects them personally.

Have you ever seen an HN thread with so much pro-regulation sentiment?
And when your mechanic diagnoses a brake problem on an empty road behind their shop, and it raises your rates, how will you feel?
Persistent Data Identification: The Decentralised Future – RDA
I've been involved in the Go community for almost 10 years, and I've never once heard anybody say "worse is better". Comparing Go's tooling to Typescript feels like a farce, especially since you've neglected to mention the horror that is npm.
Reminds me of a widely circulated bit a couple years ago about this legendary climber, some doctors put him in an MRI and came to the conclusion that he basically doesn’t experience fear (mutation?). https://nautil.us/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-s...