skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a language model, this seems consistent with studies in applied linguistics when tourists go overseas and repeat a question the listener doesn't understand several times over. Perhaps try USING ALL CAPS too to simulate talking in a loud voice, O R E V E N S P A C I N G F O R S P E A K I N G S L O W L Y.
Thank you! :) I'd gone through every menu and right-clicked everywhere except the scroll-bar.

For anyone else that ends up here, I also had to click the radio button for "Map mode" too.
So does Walmart+ (the membership program which also gives a better deal for home delivery). I am curious whether this is going to stay or not, now that in some Walmarts the self-checkouts (where you're still obliged to stop and scan a code to complete checkout) aren't open normally.
There is a difference. In a typical grocery store, people only have to tally what you bought only once at the end during checkout. Where as in this "walk out" system someone has to follow you around "virtually" and keep track of everything you do in the store.
LoRa Unicast and Broadcast Combination to Boost Firmware Update Speed
I think this is pretty straight forward. Don't accept PRs for code that cannot be reasoned about easily.
This is kind of what I was thinking about. Or even something less sophisticated; I vaguely remember a story about some plants that were cross-bred or spliced onto tobacco, because the resulting nicotine in the leaves kept plant-eating insects away (and I believe there was some biological reason the nicotine couldn't cross into the edible parts, but it's been forever so I don't really remember).

Frankly, I don't even know that "vaccine" is a useful categorization for this. Vaccines, as a category, are defined by their outcome and intent, not their constituent parts or methodology. A properly refrigerated mRNA injection for COVID is a vaccine. If you heat that same vial up to 100C, it's not a vaccine anymore, it's just some junk in a vial. At the same time, a properly-refrigerated mRNA shot and a deactivated virus shot are both vaccines, even though their method of action and production share little in common.
Why does Qt need a commercial license? I thought it is available under LGPL?
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Some of the questionable "grocery store tech" that I have seen Amazon push out:

- "just walk out" - what a joke. just another way to capture more data points on your "shopping habits" and build more meaningful profiles against you. Oh John picked up the "Radical Juice X", let's start pushing out the "GOP" package of ads when John searches on Amazon for products. Prefer products with "red" color.

- "pay with your palm" [at Whole Foods] -- yea, right. I am going to give out my handprint to amazon. piss off
Expensify's "smart" scanning technology used humans on Mechanical Turk (2017)
Google Restricting Hiring to Specific Counties
Much like the title explains, I am in the final steps of getting hired at Google for a 100% remote role but just yesterday the recruiter suddenly asked for my zip code.

They explained to me today that a new internal compliance requirement restricts which counties Google employees can work from and that where I live, Dallas Texas (specifically Dallas County), is not allowed.

What is peculiar is that Stephens County, with a population of 9000, IS an allowed county.

Has anyone heard of this or know why? The recruiter didn't even know and mentioned they submit a ticket internally get learn more. It's very unfortunate because it's looking like I'd have to uproot and move to Austin to take the job.

The cynic in me thinks this is a way to force "remote" employees to be near offices and so they "approve" remote counties no one wants to live in but block populous urban counties.
You'll spend 50-100% more than comp on an employee in any year.
Oof, sounds ominous. I have not heard of them, so it's hard for me to know where they stumbled or draw comparisons to what we've made.

To their point though, I largely agree with this, "The only thing I’ve found to be effective at dealing with competitors in early stage companies is to ignore them."

Did you ever get a chance to use their product?

This is something that really motivates me about offline first/OSS stuff though. It will be inconvenient for those who adopt if we have to shutdown but it's still possible to use floro without needing our servers. You will end up having to host your own though.
> If so, do you have a backend for the dialplan?

not wanting to take away from the ops work, but on FreeSwitch you could do the SIP side of this with the default config and a free or cheap sip provider. As default it'll provide voicemail services to offline phones, so if you add your sip provider and direct all incoming calls to (eg) extension 1000 but never connect a sip handset to that extension, everyone gets sent to voicemail and you end up with a folder of wav files. What you then do with the front end is beyond me, though at home I just have apache serving an index of that directory.

If the SIP side of it is the mystery and you're interested in it, I'd really recommend installing Asterisk or FreeSwitch and having a play. You'll be stuck writing weird INI files or XML for config and there's a lot of new terminology, but it can be cheap and fun to play with. And a terminally deep rabbit hole if you actually want to fall down it.

Personally, the only reason I still run my pbx (aside from something to faff with, and a platform for testing silliness) is the fact I can easily record phone calls. Most of the time it's only because I have a bad memory and take useless notes, but there doesn't seem to be a single modern mobile phone on market that allows me to record both sides of the audio when making a voice call.
Oregon governor signs nation's first right-to-repair bill
Yes, that is how businesses work.

If paying the workers enough for them to live makes the product too expensive for the prices to be competitive on the market, the business is unsustainable and shouldn't continue to operate.
That’s undoubtedly some redundancy in the underlying data, not in the encoding itself.
Really sad - he was often the sensible voice in the UK media (e.g. BBC articles) when it came to security issues.
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I had to dig it up out of my order history for you. Here is the HOS book. I've included a preview link that shows the Table of Contents.

System Design from Provably Correct Constructs: The Beginnings of True Software Engineering by James Martin
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013881483X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart/page/n3/m...

Now, if you want a practical method, the best were Design by Contract, Cleanroom Software Engineering, and Praxis' Correct by Construction. Cleanroom and CbyC hit very, low, defect rates. DbyC was highly pragmatic in balancing developer productivity, ease of adoption, and correctness. I think they'd all be even better combined with functional programming, static, test generators, etc. that we now have. In any case, here's links to descriptions of and books on some of those methods.

Design by Contract article
https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/design-b...

Overview of Cleanroom Method
https://ifs.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Books/SE9/Web/Cleanroom...

Book teaching Cleanroom
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201385953/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Overview of Praxis Correct by Construction
https://elsmar.com/pdf_files/A%20Manifesto%20for%20High-Inte...

Book teaching SPARK Ada with some CbyC
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107656842/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Abstract, State Machines and the B Method had many successful, industrial uses. There's many papers on them.
Could be really bloated assets. Or really bloated tracking sdks. I see this a lot with spammy iOS apps, size is either a handful of megabytes or hundreds.
Stores in earlier times in Norway³ were geared towards convenience¹
for the shopper.

You went in, went up to the counter, told the clerk what you wanted,
a series of clarifications, advice and suggestions, then clerk² would
fetch your goods, wrap it up all nice for you, handle payment and hand
you the goods.

All you did was request what you needed, got advice, paid for it
and off you go⁴

Then came the supermarkets.

Suddenly every customer was a mouse running in a maze trying to find
the cheese, milk, washing powder and whatever else.
Endlessly walking up and down every isle desperately seeking what
they needed.
Then the customer had to accumulate all the products into bags or carts,
Push or carry it all to the cash register.
Where one person (per register) would sit on their ass, add it all up,
you paid, you bagged, and you were on your way.

A lot of customers did not like that at all.
It wasn't rational.
In the old system the clerk at a store knew where everything was.
It was not necessary for ever customer to memorize and learn every
store they went to in order to go shopping.
It was a massive inconvenience for everyone, except for the person
at the register who was sitting comfortably.

These days, not only must you hunt in the maze,
push it to the counter, now you must also do the
checking out yourself.

Finally, the companies have outsourced all the labor to
the customers themselves and they are happy about it.

There are of course still stores that operate the old way.
but they are in the minority in most places.

When I read about it the first time it felt so backwards.
It more convenient to be able to grab what you need and
be on your way.
Then as I was running up and down isles trying to find what I
need i started noticing and thinking about it.

I dont really think it is rational that everyone has to do all that
walking and hunting.

Perhaps with robots we can be back to the old ways.

But really the old system is back in places where you
order things online and go pick it up, all picked
by clerks, all you need to do is pay and be on your way.
and I love it.

When it comes to groceries and many other products
they will even deliver it to your house.
Its how I get most of my groceries as well as other stuff.

Now I can sit on my ass, and I have outsourced all of that
back to the store.

The old becomes new sometimes.
In fact often.

I would be interested in a study that calculated what amount
of our lives on average spent walking around in stores trying
desperately to find what you need.

¹ It may not match what we think of as convenience today.
² The clerk may work on his own, or there might be more than one,
there might be people working in the back fetching things from storage.
But your point of contact would be the clerk.
Of course often the owner in smaller stores.
³ Probably in most other places as well.
⁴
Articles that discuss concussions in sports while completely ignoring the dangers of sub-concussive impacts have become so rampant that I've come to suspect an active effort is underway to perpetuate the myth that concussions cause CTE.

When there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake and when major sports can do things to control concussions, but not sub-concussive impacts, there certainly is the appearance of some controlling the narrative taking place.

From a counter point of view, if you search "connection between CTE and sub-concussive impacts", you will find article after article emphasizing that CTE in sports is caused by sub-concussive impacts and is unrelated to concussions.

For example, I just did that above search on Google and its top result says the following:

"Many people are surprised to hear that there have been cases of CTE discovered in athletes who have never been diagnosed with a concussion. This revelation has spurred some scientists to look at other types of brain trauma as a possible cause of CTE. Currently, the best available evidence suggests that subconcussive impacts, not concussions, are the driving force behind CTE."

https://concussionfoundation.org/cte-resources/subconcussive...
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We can look at a ChatGPT exchange screenshot, then try to reproduce it.. then discuss what we see. It's OK if we don't agree on the results.

My "feeling" is that everyone gets their feelings hurt, myself included, when a GPT doesn't give answers aligned with their personal biases... then we call the GPT "biased." That's how I felt about it, when I first experienced it.

But if you don't share the evidence, there can be no discussion.
Have you read this article by the lead developer of Flutter, Ian Hickson [0]? It describes using WASM just as you describe to have a fully cross platform UI framework, which is a concept that Flutter uses.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...
Yes, I did read what you wrote, and you wrote is as a rebuttal or a debunking of my factual statement.

> If you say "well I didn't mean AC" then cool, but I had no possible way of knowing what you mean, or what your cut off point is, "anymore" is not a very definitive point in time.

So because I not specifically mention any title, you just make it about yourself and what you are to have worked on ... that is an incredible cheap and dishonest excuse. "Oh you not specific X enough so I just assume you mean Y." Silly.

> You can of course choose to not believe me, it's the internet after all.

See, and STILL you assume or are so desperate that I suddenly choose not to believe you after I told you never I was obviously talking about old versions that were proven to have an FPS impact. Childish.

If I wanted to argue against that I would mock you for working with en engineer from Denuvo on it, hardly and bias there ;)

End if the day face is Denovo still sucks ass, even if you can not measure any FPS loss anymore, dev remove it after cracks/leaks or even just time passed for a reason that is not just money, its insane bloated shitty VM layer that slows down the games' startup, bloats the games executables up to insane sizes. Legit consumers hate it and want it gone.

And I am aware that certain idiots on Reddit and YouTube post fake videos of more up-to-date titles claiming huge FPS loses, and they continue to claim even recent versions of Denovo eats FPS because they just want it to be true so bad, or they actually compare different versions for games where It's not about the removed D but about the updated game. I never made any indication that I am like that, in fact I made it very clear that I am not. If you actually read what I wrote, it makes your answer even worse. You are just desperate. Go on Reddit r/crackwatch or something like that you will find plenty of people you can fight with, they won't take you working with an Denuvo dev on figuring out supposed facts serious either ;)
I couldn’t find about/terms/privacy policy - who made it? Where is it hosted?
Can it be to enlarge/or obfuscate parts of the compressed test file? Perhaps without the repetitions the compressed file has some strange binary triggering some security or antivirus software?
Thinking about it a little more, I suppose for something like the flying toasters, the toasters were probably like 50x50 px sprites. 8 bit color per pixel. Maybe 10 frames of animation. So 25 kB, and add 5 kB for the toast sprites. And then 2 kB for the code, gives 32 kB for just the flying toasters. So ~40 different screen savers could fit on a floppy.
Today no one knows what Jia Tan looks like. That means Jia Tan come back as Gary Smith and work on the next exploit. If we knew what he looked like, we could have at least prevented him from coming back.
The limits on what audio plugins can do is not a function of the drawing toolkit, but the fact that they do not own the event loop if the GUI is run in-process with the host. And as long as they do, they will never own the evelop loop. In addition (and mostly related to this) the top level window they appear in is owned by the host, which also inherently limits the plugin's role in window management.

If you want more, use the capability built into LV2, AU and VST3 for out-of-process GUIs for a plugin (LV2 has had this for more than a decade). CLAP has, I think, abandoned plans to support this based on lack of uptake elsewhere.

I'd hardly call JUCE "pretty old", but then I'm a lot older than JUCE. And it's likely only crufty if you're more used to other styles of GUI toolkits; in terms of the "regular" desktop GUI toolkits, it's really bad at all.
That's not the article title ("Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing"), and not true as editorialized.

Most discussion:[0] (36 points, 6 days ago, 13 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39845837
“Straight up lie”?

You have absolutely no grounds to make that claim.

So, I hope you get paid to come here to HN and post stuff like that - because if you’re not, it doesn’t really reflect well on you…

The burden of proof is on you: where’s the public denial by Apple?

However, I did find this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewar...
are larger image/video models unable to catch things like Christmas branding?
Show HN: Better iMessage Descriptions Prototype
I find it to be useful. Would you feel any different if they read the article, thought about it, typed up a summary, edited it a few times, and posted it instead?
> Today it feels that customer experience has been replaced by cost cutting

This seems to be true of all businesses, and I really hate it. Flying sucks, trying to reach a human for any reason sucks, lines are huge everywhere. Life just seems a lot more stressful purely to put a few extra bucks in shareholders' pockets.
Enriching public data with LLMs to solve pains of homeownership
Presumably because they don't actually want to license their project under the GPL.
Are you as upset that young men are "wasting their lives grinding at meaningless soul crushing fake corporate jobs instead of raising families"?
Indeed, the point is that bitcoin's supposed purpose has pivoted from being an actually useful means of exchange to a 'store of value' akin to gold. Which doesn't really work as neatly as the original idea (which hasn't worked, not helped by bitcoin effectively ossifying into a version which technologically can't achieve the original vision).
I’ve never been nor seen anyone in the US get inspected at a self checkout. Not once.
The buffered read didn’t do that, it used the default buffered reader implementation. IIRC that implementation currently defaults to 8kb buffer windows which is a little too small to be efficient enough for high throughput, but substantially more performant than making a syscall per byte, and without spending too much memory.
If you haven’t used it recently, you really need to update your view.
Adding a svelte three-body animation by rich harris https://svelte-cubed.vercel.app/examples/trisolaris
Fair enough, but that doesn't change the question significantly - what countries require licensing on DECT bands?
> At a high level, the DBSC API lets a server start a new session with a specific browser on a device. When the browser starts a new session, it creates a new public/private key pair locally on the device, and uses the operating system to safely store the private key in a way that makes it hard to export. Chrome will use facilities such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) for key protection, which are becoming more commonplace and are required for Windows 11, and we are looking at supporting software-isolated solutions as well.

Seems like a cat-and-mouse game never ends, and now they want to include hardware mingling with cookies - go adtech, go!

If your user env is compromised its too late; just a matter of time before that vector gets exploited.

I dont want the same convince as other people choose to have; just force log me off of sites after a time limit, stop tracking me and give me my internet without javascript back (imagine going back to 2000 and suggesting to stop using Flash, lol)
The 'little basin' is apt because the quality/usefulness of equipment is a huge part of why it always sucks. I used a scan/pay/go system in what seemed to be a trial rollout at a major supermarket. They used your choice of a handheld scanner that lagged tremendously compared to a real scanner gun, or a smartphone app (which of course is laggy AND clunky, since you have to keep unlocking your phone and tapping some button, and waiting for it to register)... I pretty much hated it. I only used it while COVID was a big deal. They ended up pulling it and not rolling it out.
Without trust issues there would be no machine errors in my experience. Anytime there's an issue it's because I'm scanning too fast for the machine and it can't figure out how the weights work. Or I selected the wrong type of garlic and only the associate is allowed to remove items (why would you not let me remove items I personally added??).
This is so sad news. I just finished his book about the dependable systems in security engineering.
This is going to lock down the web considerably. A lot of tools like those that download videos rely on being able to export your browser cookies and use them to establish a session in your cli tool.
Qt is a good choice.

I would also consider SDL or Raylib if you don't mind having to code your own UI.
It is not that difficult in practice, most music software have their own custom built UI and that gives them a lot more personality than generic stuff, IMO.
I don't see how a design decision made by the maintainers of this project, which is documented as version changes are made - and completely transparent given the nature of the project (open-source), constitutes a high priority support request from a software engineer external to the project? Sure, it's a pain for adopters who were dependent on the feature, but you can't criticise design decisions made by someone who offers your software for free. You can, however, fork it and take your own path with the software.

Are you saying because a new version breaks the current build of a downstream proprietary application, that should constitute a high priority support request from the maintainers of the project?

That doesn't compute with me. If they were paying for forwards-compatibility and had that expectation in a contract, sure. But they should be able to make changes they see fit without having to make trade-offs to ensure future compatibility with an Enterprise organisation's product.

At that point they're basically making design decisions to suit the Enterprise, at which case - you're not just free resources for software engineering for the organisation, you're actively pushing your project to be vendor-compatible. I could see this reasoning if your project is largely funded by them (Chromium), but in this case, they're not.
I totally agree. My solution to this was limiting my AI use to (a) whatever didn't impair creativity and (b) just in general to keep the brain sharp. If using AI regularly, one could just manually solve a percentage of the problems.
What jurisdiction does the fbi have in Sweden?
The bottomline is to ask: After a year, do these workers have more disposable income, or does - for example - local housing cost raise and eat up the higher wages?

What if that was the point of this study - be a submarine for increasing the minimum wage? If has been said that Silicon Valley is a conduit to move VC money to landowners, and here is just more of it.