skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really hit . or / and then backspace then paste when you want to paste a file path and enjoy it? That's at least 2 extra keystrokes. Even worse when you have to use the mouse to dismiss the pop-down closest file name list that prevents pasting.
The hopeless romantic in me is hoping the real reason Automattic acquired them was actually to get some useful developer documentation written for the Beepy.
I like having apps I can check with different frequencies. What I don't like is when I have two apps that I have to check regularly. Thankfully, almost everyone I talk to regularly uses Signal, but there's those few stragglers who stubbornly cling to SMS.
Lazy way to cause SHA-256 collisions for lazy evaluators
The US had a massive, federally subsidized passenger rail industry since the 19th century. The first transcontinental railroad was one of the defining achievements of the country. The reason Americans abandoned passenger rail for airlines and cars wasn’t because of lack of support for railroads, it’s because airlines and cars rendered passenger rail obsolete. Freight rail still makes sense though, and the US uses more freight rail than any other country.
Just tried Apple.com in chrome on macOS. Only nag I see is… for chrome, because it’s not my default browser but Google wants it to be.

I’m not logged into iCloud on there, but the site itself and the login form neither complain about my not visiting it in Safari.
Weird. So even if these things are well intentioned, seems like they don't have any teeth.

Are there any out there that have licenses which are (dare I say) simpler, like the GPL?
So, San Francisco to Sacramento does not have a railway line already built (at least, not one with passenger service in use.) San Jose to Sacramento does, and there are some stations with other transit connections to SF, notably Richmond, but Richmond (like Oakland, or any of the other East Bay stops) is a different place than San Francisco.

It is not so much generically “very intermittent” as optimized for Sacramento to East Bay commuting, with reduced traffic on the extended connection to San Jose, and in the counter-commute direction and off-commute times.
Ideally, we would be able to tease out the effect of abortion, lead-paint, AND the interaction (lead-paint x abortion). If an interaction model better explains the data, then we should be open to not rejecting it.
And before Chrome we (in streaming industry) had to negotiate and wait for the mercy of every single OS, set-top-box and mobile vendor specially and then cross negotiate with every single content provider (since they had to approve that DRM implementation for the platform is good enough for them).

It's indescribeable how better the current situation is for the state of the web and users themselves. There's a reason even Mozilla uses Widevine.
>That’s quite a long list of competitive advantages!

Calling this list a list of "competitive advantages" seems about as accurate as calling them "dark patterns".

The only competitive advantages I see in your list is the fact that they get to use both advertisement data and search data, so they can better manipulate you into buying things.

The rest is either stuff that is on every browser, isn't an advantage, or isn't specific to Chrome.
> But if the plastic is put in a local landfill (my local waste is) then is there any non-negligible harm?

Wasteful consumption of oil for a single use. And your local landfill isn't set in stone, a natural disaster or neglect can release the trash in it in nature.

> (As an aside: I find it odd you seem to have plastic reduction as a similar priority to oil use reduction given the effects of climate change seem far more severe than even third world plastic disposal)

But we don't really know what the impact of all the plastic everywhere is, like we didn't (widely) know what the impact of lots of carbon emissions is. And when we started realising it, it was still drastically underestimate (see: every month is breaking temperature records at an unexpected pace). Reducing oil consumption by reducing plastic consumption, and also reducing the amount of plastic in nature, are both important. Both will prevent potential ecosystem collapses.
The problem arise when your friends can text you on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, Bsky, Mastodon, Skype, Slack, Email.

It's not that you don't receive messages but that you need to keep installed 14 different applications on your phone or get used to 14 different UIs to do the same thing.

The major problem is the WhatsApp vs Telegram split for me, if all my friends were on Telegram I wouldn't really need it.

Self hosted Matrix sounds like a good solution and I'm happy with managing my own server - but the UI quality (Elements) is just not on par with Telegram, so I'm still there.

I agree with you, it's nice to relegate spam to Linkedin / Email, but that can be achieved with marking contacts as friends vs random people and having a unified messaging platform.
Amsterdam public transport drops Musk's X over constant hateful messages
I don’t remember exactly how much it was the first time, but I used to sell WordPress themes (design and coding with full reselling rights) on SitePoint.

I even found the page listing one of the themes I sold with Wayback Machine - "Winning bid: $125". Some people were buying these themes, change the "Theme by" link in the footer and give them away for free. Probably for SEO reasons.
Tanzu OSS Health Assessment Tool
In Japan, it's often significantly cheaper to fly than take a train. You can fly from Tokyo to Osaka one-way on budget airlines for <$50 but a one-way train on cheapest shinkansen is about 30% more (even more for a reserved seat)
Check out the all-new Tanzu OSS Health Assessment tool!
You can instantly get a comprehensive view of your OSS dependencies, potential risks from misconfigurations and vulnerabilities using our tool.
For Gaudi2, it looks like 21/24 ports are internal to the server. I highly doubt those have actual individual cables. Most likely they're just carried on PCBs like any other signal.

100GBe is only supported on twinax anyway, so Cat8 is irrelevant here. The other 3 ports are probably QSFP or something.
Thanks! It doesn't seem like they address the specific policy I referenced. Hopefully, they if add it soon.
Pidgin

Reminds me of why I used https://pidgin.im 20-years ago.

It was an aggregator chat app.
Isn't some of this also network effects though? Having a Swiss train system has a lot more value because it connects to the German and French and Austrian train systems. You build a train line from LA to SF and it serves those cities, but if you want to go to Phoenix or Monterrey Mexico, you're in for a bad time.
The XFCE Terminal uses VTE. This makes no sense.
I know our DC does load test on the batteries and generators. There are also 5 generators on site. I get all the emails about these tests since they are marked low risk.

Fun story, small IT company had a natural gas generator installed at the new office they built out. Power went out for the first time, lights go out, generator kicks on, lights turn on, lights turn off. Long story short the electrician didn't have the right breaker size in the truck and used a small one. Building was empty when it was tested which is why bigger DCs have a load generator to test at load.
While I do agree this may apply somewhat to the original topic, your dig at suburbanites seems like a mischaracterization. I would expect most other folks are primarily worried about being murdered during the event.

With the murder rate in America near historic lows, I think the person you're replying to is spot-on. It's a lot of hysteria fueled by social media, foreign actors, and the fact that security paranoia is a very lucrative business for a lot of companies.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...

Yes, there has been a recent uptick, but it's still 30% below what it was 30 years ago. Heck, it's almost 20% lower than it was 100 years ago.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088644/homicide-suicide...

To find a U.S. murder rate lower than 2014, you have to go back to 1906.

But security companies, alarm companies, conservative politicians and their media partners, police unions, and others with a financial interest foam at the mouth to make it seem like things have never been worse.
Yeah what does that bit about "image outputs" mean I wonder?
> Or, are we simply re-inventing the wheel each time, where the set of features over the last few decades really haven't change that much or cycles through featureset phases.

The problem space is much larger now than it used to be. 20 years ago, you didn't care about things like responsive design, accessibility, fractional scaling, even internationalization was basic/non-existent. There's a long tail of features (often extremely complex, like accessibility) which are not immediately obvious for an english speaker with normal vision staring at a standard sized display.
The native support for logging in to Google services is unique to Chrome. This should either be expanded to support other identity providers, or (preferably) removed entirely from the browser.
DEBUG < HELLO.TXT

If I knew that when I was young .. it would had me saved hours. I allways started DEBUG and entered the (few) assembler code direct.

I had just QBasic and later I played a bit with DEBUG. That was before we had internet and every kind of compiler for free :-)
> China has the same vast distances across low density areas as the USA does so you can't blame it on Europe and Japan being higher density

They also have much easier procurement. It's easy to build a railway line in China when local municipalities can rezone entire swathes of farm and urban land with minimal legal recourse.
These look great, hope ANC performance competitive. Lack voice pass through though.

Should have fairphone branded on the the case insetad of fairbud.
Absolutely! Let's not dilute the meaning of "dark patterns".
Mainstream corporate media is at least an order of magnitude more toxic than anything on the internet.
>If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app – one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks.

I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks.

What are people using that for?

Marketing / customer service type chat stuff across networks?
(a) The link here is broken - it has a trailing "p";

(b) The correct link has already been submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981034

(c) The main discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981034
Repairability is good and will reduce waste, but I am not sure this is going to actually attract customers unless they’re already fans of Fairphone for other reasons (like ethics or sustainability or privacy or independence from big companies or whatever). To attract new customers, they need something else to stand out from a very crowded space, where there are many good choices as far as sound quality, mic quality, noise cancellation, etc. I am skeptical that these will be any better than the competition on those facets. And keep in mind, 150 Euros means it is competing with everything from budget sub-50 products on Amazon to AirPods.
Is it a DS V1 or V2? What is the build date of the firmware?
I’m most curious about if the connection issues have been resolved for non-AirPod earbuds, I have AirPod pros that I’m looking to replace, but last time I looked at all the alternatives it was really annoying to switch between devices.
The video talks about how meditation helps in addition to limiting distractions and encouraging flow.
A Reader's Guide to Microdosing
Again, not going to address all this nonsense, but as someone who’s lived here all my life, do you really think I don’t know what marginal rate of tax I pay? Conventional income tax is 40% marginal rate. USC, which is also an income tax, is 8% (depending on how cynical you want to be, you could say that it was separated out either for more progressive banding, or for the financial-crisis-era government to be able to vaguely pretend it was not massively increasing income tax). PRSI, which is a social insurance tax but which behaves almost exactly like an income tax until you are over 65, is 4%. For a total of 52%, or 48% + 4% social insurance tax for real pedants.
You just described every highway or interstate near a town in Georgia.
My dad was a machinist when he was younger. My siblings and I grew up with a well-equipped home shop, including a table saw, a drill press, a milling machine, and my dad's pride and joy: a two ton metal lathe. He drilled into us the importance of safety for all the tools, but the most vivid lesson was the story about the drill press: When he began his apprenticeship, he noticed a large photo on the wall of the shop of a long pale stringy thing. He asked what it was. It was a tendon which had been yanked out of the arm of someone whose hand got caught in a drill press. I still think about that whenever I use a drill press.
You can get very cheap tesla P40s with 24gb of ram. They are much much slower than the newer cards but offer decent value for running a local chatbot.

I can't speak to the ease of configuration but know that some people have used these successfully.
NASA/JPL Classroom Activities
Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions
Private companies' adoption of affirmative actions is not enforced by law in most countries, I would say. In the U.S., only government contractors have this obligation---since 1965 by the way, so it is not a new thing.

So, companies may opt for it but, as other management decisions, owners are free to do with their company as they like. Of course they will might face backlash from the general public, but this should not be an issue.

So, with all due respect, what the heck are you talking about?
Exactly! And it's almost impossible to cross coordinate between BART, Caltrain, Capitol Corridor, VTA, ACE, and other myriad of public transit systems in NorCal.

I've literally had to wait for Capitol Corridor trains for an hour because my Bart ride was delayed.

This is why money is better spent integrating the systems at the subregional level instead.
I fail to see what is won by not providing clear, simple, standardised installation instructions in a README.

I make a habit of providing these for myself and they are great, both when I enter a new domain and need to remind myself of best practice, and when I return to a domain after a long time.

The lack of such instructions is a strong indicator to me that a project hasn’t reached maturity.
We have railways across and through the alps. Look up the Brenner Base Tunnel or Gotthard Base Tunnel.

Somehow Europe builds those things even across national borders. To be fair, there's not really an alternative if one wants to connect southern and northern Europe.
We're still quite some way from practical homomorphic encryption [0]
which would allow devolved trust to untrustworthy actors (like
hardware owners at remote cloud sites). But don't hold your breath.
Everything else along the way is a whack-a-mole because it depends on
TPM/HSM enclaves. There are many reasons not to trust these now,
including buffer overflows and compromised elliptic curve cryptography.

Far better to design hybrid cloud and on-prem that keeps sensitive
data where it belongs... on your own computer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Definitely, I had up and down arrows in mind. Do you think another combination would be more appropriate?
Code uses much more punctuation than prose.
> If some kind of data shouldn't go out, do not put it out, in the first place.

This is a really important message. Confidential Computing is still in development in the realm of our new-age technologies, but the 'secrecy' of the physical world is a proven primitive we can trust today.
So now hardware companies stopped reporting FLOP/s number and reports in arbitrary unit of parallel operation/s.
> You might see a cartel form instead of a competative market place, which is a setup where the higher margin is protected.

Wouldn't it more likely be that players just carve out niches for themselves in the high-end space where they DON'T compete?

If you're Intel - it seems like a fools errand to spend $50B to maybe take some of TSMC's customers.

You'd probably rather spend $10B to create a new market - which although smaller - you can dominate, and might become a lot larger if you execute well.
Is bakfiets an international word or are you Dutch, but if so aren't most Dutch roads/routes pretty safe for (electric) (bak)fietsen?
I don't think this tech is targeting TS/SCI data.

> If the data should never go out, the network should be physically separated and isolated at physical level, from everything.

Every company has that kind of data, though, and cybersecurity maximalism is how cybersecurity people get disinvited from architecture discussions. We can't tell users to not turn their computers on, since that invites breaches, and we can't tell IT to airgap the networks because that slows business to a crawl (and pisses of users, etc.)

Cybersecurity is always about risk management. The risk of doing basically anything has to be balanced against the risk of not doing it at all. Often the cost of not doing it is too high, so the job is to use something like confidential computing (if it makes sense) and then try to mitigate attackers trying to get at it.
In the womb, a brother's hormones can shape a sister's future
Spotify to hike UK subscription prices in May
Incremental Computation on Streams and Its Applications to Databases [pdf]
I think the real market failure is that you can't not do what Chrome does. Having Chromium doesn't mean much if when you diverge from Chrome sites will break. Having a standard rings hollow when a standard generally means having two browsers implement a feature and Firefox gets their money from Google. And to developers a standard means "works on Chrome $current - 1."

It's hard to say that any of this can be pinned on Google like they're somehow to blame but at the same time we've nonetheless found ourselves in a market where users and developers have very little choice and this currently benefits Google quite a bit.

Good engineering discipline I think would ask major browsers to break themselves purposefully by randomly disabling any features that are browser specific or outside of some "core" standard saying you must only use these opportunistically but that's not a law you can write.
Can you provide a source for this claim? It seems likely to be extremely one sided…
I think it's fair to say the 'discovery' that this boson exists came with the LHC experiments. But Higgs did discover in 1964 that the Higgs boson could explain why particles have mass. His paper couldn't say "this is definitely the way the universe is", but rather "if the universe plays by the rules we think it does, this is a relatively simple way to explain this thing we see".

And in my mind, both of those achievements are awesome.
> They have a graphic on their homepage that certainly implies you can use it as a replacement for iMessage on iOS.

You can. You run a "router" on your Mac, which allows iMessage interop without the protocol hacking that doomed Beeper.
Just based on the RAM alone, let's just say if you can't just buy a Vision Pro without a second thought about the price tag, don't get your hopes up.
> Building infrastructure like this just isnt in the cards at this stage

What infrastructure? This new service would run on existing rails and terminate at existing stations. The only thing new would be the trains themselves. (The proposed later addition of a drive-on/drive-off car carrier service would involve some additional infrastructure.)
You are correct. I was adding what I considered extra privacy-relevant information in response to GPs statement about WordPress sharing data with other companies, but the fact that I'd not heard of Beeper before unintentionally influenced my word choice.
I just hope they don't kill Beepberry/beepy
No worries at all, and thanks for the app, i like it quite a bit.

I wouldnt recommend adding that redirect explicitly, and instead just make all invalid url paths redirect to the home page. Mostly because I am certain that the issue with the link for me is happening due to the HN reader app I am using and how it renders URLs (which is how they are clickable for me in the first place).
yes and sales and regular users too

linkedin, fb, ig, slacks, google stuff and so on - it adds up quickly
Did I guarantee continuity? ;)
Octopus cannibalism among fears for pioneer cephalopod farm
Arrogant and factually incorrect, a dangerous combination.

But apparently you also didn't get the question - hardware would stay slow, but software would continue evolving, the question is how, given the hardware constraints. It would definitely not be "exactly the same, except 8.64years later".
USB-C is a plus. No wireless charging is a bummer.

Something built to last for ten years would be intriguing. I'm still using my Samsung Galaxy Buds+ from 2020 as my daily driver. I prefer the capsule case to the box design of later models, and all of the internals are still "good enough" that I haven't really felt the need to upgrade. Even the lack of ANC hasn't been a dealbreaker--the passive noise cancellation just from having a solid seal around the ear has been enough to happily use on a plane.
The true cost of Japan's bullet train: costs and environmental degradation
Will be crazy if it works
Remakes and Remasters of Old DOS Games
Not a user but I imagine it's like the blackberry model where texts, messenger, whatsapp, and whatever else all go to the same inbox rather than having to check 40 different apps. I really wish that idea would come back.
> Who benefits from this?

Advertisers because customers are more likely to buy things.

Customers because they see things that are more relevant..

---

In my experience, what people don't like is ads. Full stop.

They think they don't like personalized ads, but what they actually don't like is ads.
Some context from The War Zone:

The tank has a mine plow, which could have been why it was picked for this modification, as de-mining operations activity slows down the vehicle, which also leads the way for other armor. This would make it the top target for enemy drones.

https://www.twz.com/land/bizarre-turtle-tank-appears-in-ukra...
the ability generate training sets against historical inferences to back-test new features

another one is the focus on pushing as much compute to the write-side as possible (within Chronon) - specially joins and aggregations.

OLAP databases and even graph databases don't scale well to high read traffic. Even when they do, the latencies are very high.
Some places I worked, yes, others no, depends on the organization.

Some places have purchasing/procurement departments.

In my experience even if you have a purchasing/procurement department they generally do very little in terms of negotiating IT deals, they are just gate keepers because someone decided they should oversee all purchasing. They really only negotiate on products needed to make the product your company makes or resells.

Edit: I think I miss interpreted your question. I personally don’t take “contracts”. I’m just full-time at a company, I negotiated my salary myself when I was hired.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaudy
I was thinking about this after seeing the announcement.

It's fine for open integrations like Matrix/IRC but all other are with proprietary services provided by for-profit companies.. that usually doesn't go well in the long run (e.g. Twitter clients).

It seems to be a really high risk investment. I wonder how they plan to pull this off if/when they start to grow and attract more attention.