skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla's position on the Web Serial API and their reason not to implement this in Firefox:

"Devices that offer serial interfaces often expose powerful, low-level functions over the interface with little or no authentication. Exposing that sort of capability to the web without adequate safeguards presents a significant threat to those devices. A user deliberately installing a site-specific add-on may be adequate, given sufficiently understandable consent copy."

(https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial)
Urgh. Indeed they use spyware - the kind that takes screenshots and record URLs: https://hubstaff.com/guiding-principles

Of course they care about privacy and therefore screenshots and URL recording can be enabled or disabled. Just not by the employee.
This is another version of "use public transport instead of throwing billions on futile self driving cars" -- it's the correct, rational thing to do, but it's not the American way!
Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator (1987) [video]
Klog: A plain-text file format and a command line tool for time tracking
I don't understand why Google adheres to this law. They are blocked in China anyways, no?
> For any employee, it's s short stint to list on a resume that will make them less attractive to recruiters for the rest of their careers.

If you can't make the story about working on Navel's messaging app a win for your career then your resume is probably going to have other problems.
Nice site. I think this will come in handy. Here's some notes.

- title length limit seems too short
- 5 tags seems too limiting--when looking for a specific combination of tags better to list everything
- clicking on a tag takes you directly to the link unexpectedly (even if it's the only one)
- being able to search for multiple (AND) tags is the killer feature
One satellite wouldn't "ruin LEO for everybody" and even if enough were shot down to cause a problem it would be a short-lived problem because most of the debris would decay within a few years. Furthermore, "ruin" is relative, "Kessler syndrome" doesn't mean instant satellite death, it results in an increased attrition rate which can be addressed by simply launching more of the highest value satellites and leaving the others on the ground until the situation clears up in a few years. SpaceX is in a good position to do this since they can replace satellites in LEO very cheaply.

Also, the countries most likely to do something this stupid are the ones the US government is giving him permission to defy, particularly Iran or Russia. If something happens, it will be more on the US government than SpaceX.
Ask HN: Why does Bitwarden not comment their code?
I was looking through the Bitwarden server repository (https://github.com/bitwarden/server ) and was surprised to see that no comments (xml or otherwise) were availible.

Is this normal in an entreprise setting? I thought it was standard to comment every public member (Visual Studio warnings).
There seems to be a lot of discussion about stock buybacks vs. dividends. Note that Apple also announced an increase of their dividend from $0.24/share to $0.25/share[0], so they are both repurchasing stock and paying out more in dividends.

Also, the Inflation Reduction Act introduced a 1% tax on stock buybacks starting in 2023[1], so there is still in some sense a tax impact on the remaining shareholders.

[0]https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-...

[1]https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-and-irs-announce-new-r...
Meshes in Blender have finite resolution, SDFs do not. They can scale to an extent that simply isn't possible with meshes.
It’s nice that USSR dedicated more money to this than UK government did
As the post explains, the Reliable and Safe bit are really handled by the car, not the charger. This is a neat project, but it is also another example of an Arduino being a bit overkill for what is going on here.
WRT arrows, I remember reading some analyses of medieval battlefield records a long time ago, and I've heard it said many times by historians, but I can't point you to a definitive source.

WRT muskets, they are slow to load and fire, inaccurate, low-range, the bullets move slow enough that you can see and dodge them - good for massed warfare during the transition from cold weapons to hot, but not at all for the modern battlefield. IIRC it was in battles during the US Civil War that rifles which were accurate over long distances and allowed a small number of soldiers to defend a position came to the forefront.

Deadliness also doesn't seem to be the selection criteria for modern weaponry. If it were, militaries would all be using chemical weapons, firebombing, nuclear bombs, hollow-tips, poisoning water supplies, etc., but they aren't. Killing soldiers can be a part of strategy, but from what I see usually more of the strategy is about controlling key locations and resources, and winning through logistics and politics, while destruction is largely strategic or symbolic.
Reading and doing minor edits is much less of a cognitive load than writing.

The article does not suggest that doctors should blindly trust the SOAP note created by the tool in question.
The solution to the shortage of doctors is to stop letting doctors decide the supply of doctors.

Its a special interest problem. Doctors organize, bribe/lobby politicians, limit licenses, make extra money/get more power, repeat.

The excuse 'there isnt enough surgeries', is a chicken and egg problem. More doctors lower the cost, making surgery more reasonable and not necessarily a last ditch option. Not to mention, we don't stop the number of civil engineers that graduate because 'there arent enough bridges'. You just have more people observing around the table.
Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust
What would you rather - it took 8 days and you said it would take 1-8 days, or it took 8 days and you said it would take exactly 4 days?

In any case, there should be absolutely no problem explaining why it took 8 days if it really did.
I am running Windows 11 Arm in MacOS Parallels as it's the only option (Microsoft Pulled the 10 Arm Builds).

I decided to not even let this Windows 11 VM connect to the internet (But has access to my MacOS partition to for file access).

It's a shame because windows got so many things right but it's starting to taste bad. We used to write software to have windows control some pretty cool stuff like automation, security and POS but there's no longer a "Pro" version without the dumpster truck.
Is there a thread there, or just that one tweet?
I would certainly hate to work at Tesla with Elon Musk at the helm. With the anti-WFH policy and now this, it sounds stressful. I'm glad I retired last year from the tech sector! (For more reasons that one...)
It would be supremely excellent if these companies embraced the Hedera Hashgraph as a truly sustainable, net-zero (or net-negative) approach to their carbon capture tokenization efforts:

https://hedera.com/learning/sustainability
This isn't a new phenomenon. In the mid 2000s I was working in a computer repair shop and similarly most of our fixes were just windows reinstalls with some light backup. Why? Because that fixed basically every software problem and was mostly unattended work so it didn't cost a lot.

Ultimately the customer wants the cheapest and fastest solution. They don't care that it was their limewire viruses or bonzai buddy IE extensions or whatever that slowed it down.

Here's the big kicker imo: If we were charging $100 for a reinstall/backup, and we could sell them a faster computer for $400, then there is very little wiggle room for real repair to happen. Parts + labor could easily exceed the cost of a new budget machine. If there isn't a RMA (free part replacement) involved, the repair probably wasn't worth it.

It's just the economics of computer repair, imo.
Try just doing that yourself with random pictures of you doing things in your house. See if GPT can generate a coherent note suitable for the EMR.
That's a joke answer, as you meant it to be trivially true for any curve family, but there is an important sense in which it is not true - Hobby splines are not closed under subdivision. So if you put an additional point down that lies exactly on the spline, then you won't in fact minimize the supremal difference (I assume you mean Hausdorff or Fréchet distance) to the original Hobby spline.
Apple and EVGA maybe?
That is the thing. Not using the smartphone has a point when it propose better ergonomic. Having to carry and get another device out of your pocket is not better ergonomic.

It would make sense not being just a smartphone app if the device was wearable or could be used hand free, it is not.
> I found the MBA.

Nope, thats a false positive.

Also cutting the quote there heavily twists the meaning: I'm not saying those scientists were replaceable as persons, just that their effect on all of humanities scientific progress was.

Many persons have a strong notion that we owe certain discoveries to a specific person, but this does not even hold up to cursory examination in my view (those discoveries would have been made in short order by someone else).

I'm very curious though if you have counterexamples, or think the premise is otherwise flawed.
I agree that there are some inconsistencies in the naming of functions and parameters like destructive/non-destructive variants and predicates among other things. Also strange names like car and cdr (which on the other hand allow for cadr et al.). However, even though they can be confusing, I wouldn’t put the equality functions in the same bag.
I don't know about the guy in that specific incident, but in my case he was apparently healthy with no health complications, having had regular checkups on top of the mandatory ones (to be able to frequent a gym). This is the scary part for me.
> The article does not suggest that doctors should blindly trust the SOAP note created by the tool in question.

But that's what will inevitably happen at some point, when they get to the point of only rarely making big dangerous mistakes.
But then people whine when Chromium unilaterally adds stuff. Can't win, huh
Wouldn't it be cool if, to announce their new AI features/services, Apple remade this old "Knowledge Navigator" moonshot piece from 1987 (Sculley-era Apple!)
From my experience about jogging (=regular running for your health, without a specific sport goal):

- get good shoes! this is probably the only piece of equipment you need (with a wind/rain jacket). Go to a shop when you can get advice. For me, flat soles is the way to go but I know there is debate on that question. Change them after 1000km at max (I've seen 500 km recommendation)

- follow the advice above zone 2 / zone 5 training. If unsure, slow down !

- avoid pain as much as possible otherwise your body will associate pain and run and you end up giving up (maybe not today, not tomorrow but one day for sure)

- buy a jumping rope and practice (you'll be amazed on the resulting spring effect while running)

- prefer solo session (group sessions are good if you want to talk but the most important thing is to run at your very own pace). you are better with some music or interesting podcasts

- vary the routes as much as possible. Even if you have only one route, start it from time to time on the other direction. There is no better training than on a route you don't know. Always running the same route is part of the reason you may quit.

- start your chronometer at the beginning of the session and try to forget it.

- find a friend and do some bike and run session from time to time (one run, one on the bike for like 20 minutes and then you change). It allows you to make longer run and recover while on the bike.

/!\ Just an opinion here, I'm not a specialist, just a +/- 20y regular runner
What is the different thing they are trying, which isn't already there since years, through Smartphones, Smartwatches, Amazon Echos and the wide integration of Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa on the multiple devices and services they offer?
Maybe it's because I'm from a country that is full of 2FA scams exactly like this (particularly for WhatsApp), so I could immediately tell it was a scam, but I didn't find this convincing at all. If the person actively reached out to you on your phone number, it doesn't make sense that they would require you to further authenticate yourself
It’s funny because a big draw of React is the sizable user base and library count, but that ends up being a double edged sword when using LLMs for codegen.
> you're technically not supposed to use instrument navigation until your certified to do so

You can use them all you like. You just can't fly in conditions where you have to use them.
I haven't hit that stage yet.

I mean, yes - work isn't fun. But I have coding side projects I work on, and it is fun for me, still!
For what it’s worth Kagi gets what you wanted (I think) in the first four results for your first search.
How much of it was ideological and how much of it was just that Gosplan didn't want computers taking their power, and so Gosplan cut funding to computer development?
I suspect Jobs would have been all over AI years ago, while Cook has allowed the grass to grow under Apple's feet.

The car was always a bad idea, and - ironically - always needed strong AI anyway.

Phones are basically pocket internet terminals. The metaphor is about to change to pocket personal assistants. There's going to be an awkward period of chaos where the leading edge tech isn't quite good enough to live up to the expectations, but everyone is going to need and want a strong presence anyway.

We're about to go from a bicycle for the mind to a sports car for the mind. And unlike a bicycle, the sports car is going to have strong ideas of its own about where it wants to go.
Because people like me pay for his service, and if his service stops working we'll stop paying for it.
I'm not sure. It's not that I feel a huge discomfort or that anything hurts. It's just kind of pointless I think. I love martial arts and parkour, though. Maybe because the exercise is not the thing itself, but a byproduct of the activity?
The Playdate at least has games and apps, even if they are all vaguely reminiscent of simple flash games (just due to the limited capabilities).

The R1, like any "AI hardware" that has no local AI, is just a bad smartphone doing a subset of things you can do with your phone.
I like their solution, that should be implemented. The best strategy is still to hang up and call the phone number on the bank's website yourself.
People here seem to be confusing the functions the charger handles vs. the functions the BMS in the car handles.

This is no less safe than any other DIY installed EV charger.
A smart electrical switch is going to destroy my home? Guess I've been living on borrowed time with my smart outlets.
Programing is fun but it lacks a tangible component, I started my studies as a CS major but after a spending an entire spring break writing and debugging(and basically only those things...eating and sleeping happened if I remembered to) were the second year project. I realized that I would end up working the same way, so I found a major that I can't take with me and isn't just contained in my head.
When the choice is a civilized prison or a jungle, the prison isn't so bad.

How many children were murdered (by guns or drugs) in school in Singapore last year?
Why is it important that a website should have access to my serial ports?
Network reconstruction via the minimum description length principle
Maybe? I guess the difference is that with a capability object model (or similar arrangement) the _only_ way the application has to interact with the outside world is via those objects/handles it's been granted. There's no risk of escape because they only have access to the handles the process has been provided.

It's almost the opposite of a permission model in some ways, permission models restrict access to a global array of functionality where capability models allow access only to what's been provided.
It's a Canadian-developed tool used by Canadian doctors. It's popular on the internet to offer up overly-generalized platitudes like yours but do us a favor and at least read the article first.
You don’t “have to”, you “choose to”. There are plenty of paths out there. Slaves or serfs actually didn’t have a choice.
Go mTLS, go hardcore.
Flock Safety Records Millions of U.S. License Plates per Month
A tale of making a company-wide psqlrc to use with pgbouncer. (2021)
What about level 3 and fast charging?
Trees are great for carbon capture.
USA's local history is genocide and slavery.
They will self-certify themself and the problem disappear.
Unpopular take but here I go (bye bye karma): Code sharing between applications, beyond what is basic, common and stable enough that it could live in the kernel, is not a good idea in the long run. It served a purpose back when memory was scarce and libraries (and their versions) few.

Containerization for all it's isolation magic has primarily been successful as a way to package "more or less the entire OS dependency" because sharing code is hard. How many containers ship with only one single binary (the active data set) ? None, code sharing is the primary problem that containers solve.

Static linking solves it better. RiscOS approach actually solves it better, too.
Would you prefer to be hired as a team? Or individual?
Please share pros and cons u see. Thks!
i'm curious whether that article was inspired by the recent SQLite article about bytecode vs ASTs (<https://sqlite.org/whybytecode.html>).
> You never get handed a task which is "write as much of a prototype of a system which would do this, so we can estimate how much more work we think is involved".

The non engineer types won't hand you that, but I've had some success with proposing that when there's a lot of uncertainty.
> Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies, for prestige and safety, and ended up unfulfilled in their jobs.

Depends on the industry. I've been doing iOS for over a decade. You're right in that there are different dynamics with enterprise that can wear you down. I find that to be less so the case with jobs in the retail sector. Things are always fluid and changing there.

Still, this is a very subjective statement. As someone in my middle ages, I've come to appreciate and understand how views change over time. The 20-something me would have jumped over to new jobs every 2-3 years. The 40 something me recognizes value in work/life balance, stability, and a more defined and often opportunistic growth path in larger companies. And it's at this stage that while I may not fully comprehend the occasional stubbornness of 60-something devs, I can at least approach their way of thinking as not wrong. When you have a spouse, family, and mortgage to support, the potential upsides of a smaller, more nimble company just don't overcome the peace of mind of being in the corporate world.
As a New Zealander that travels a bit, even with modern technology I can say that it's bloody hard to get to and from NZ (read: it's close to nothing).

Incredibly impressive that people were able to find NZ on boats. I can hardly navigate a few streets without GPS.
Until he decides he wants to offer the service above-board to residents of those countries and their regulators decide that, because he's been shirking their laws for years, they won't allow him to import/sell his devices legally.
Ah. Now I remember why I stopped playing. Valve funneled everyone away into their own servers and our private server died. After that the play experience, as you say, slowly turned into a horrorshow. Forgot about that bit. Oof.
Many Americans prefer a non junkie style of life.
I worked in the robotics lab at my university for a few months. That was a really nice way of making software more tangible. Seeing things move through physical space made it more real.
> There are alternatives that share Whisper internal states with an LLM to improve ASR, as well as approaches that sample N-best hypotheses from Whisper and fine-tune an LLM to distill the hypotheses into a single output. Haven't looked too much into these yet given how expensive each component is to run independently.

Any recommended ones you've looked at?
Neither of those statements has ever been real law. A general warrant allows searching unspecified persons or places. It’s not remotely similar to finding things you didn’t expect at a place you otherwise had a proper warrant for.

And the fifth amendment has nothing to do with personal belongings. It means you can’t be forced to testify against yourself.
Yep. That’s what we do. You hit the nail right on the head.

I saunter down to my local US senators house and bribe him, every month or so. Then our group created a fund where we bribe the president of the United States. We organized with all the other groups in the area and bribed the pope. Next we are going to find you in your house and bribe you.
Liability for the company selling the AI, I'd presume.
I believe the visual noise can be reduced a bit. Here are a few personal ideas;

- Replace the loud icons with just an UP/DOWN arrow for voting.

- Pill Labels/Tags can have a subdued contrast — “24 minutes ago”, “GitHub”, etc. They can be just hyperlinks.

- Instead bring out the contrast in the taglines. I want to read that along with the title.

- The logos of various technology might be enough without their titles, such as “Python”, “NextJs”.

- Please make me scroll the page and not a frame inside a page.
I believe I will be a good fit for the Data Scientist role but I am not sure what you mean by pinging ines@. Where should I do that?

In any case ines@ if you are reading this please can you tell me the next steps?
Building gdocweb with Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x and Beyond
That's a live notebook! If you click on the cells, you can see the code that was used to create it, like a Jupyter notebook.
Sure, but that's their problem. If you choose to fill your life with an activity you know you won't enjoy then, well, that's your choice.
The situation in BC just recently changed for family doctors:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-doctor-su...

"Provincial health officials announced the changes during a Monday news event, saying physicians will be able to stop participating in the current fee-for-service system in early 2023."

"The provincial government says a full-time family doctor will be paid about $385,000 a year, up from the current $250,000, under the new three-year Physician Master Agreement reached with Doctors of B.C. last week."
> The question is what do you want to use it for?

Exactly, people replied as if those apps and use cases are actually used today.

So it's just nostalgia right?
Customer service for software should be high skilled and paid correspondingly. They should be able to take a customers project and reproduce the issue and likely answer the issue without involving software dev. I worked under a place that operated like this and thought that the issues we did see were legitimate and it fostered a desire to help the customer rather than resent them. Customer service was not easy there.
Indeed, the ACLU agrees. Not sure how parent got that bad info, but there’s a rather famous pamphlet called “Photographer’s Rights” meant to carry in your pocket or camera bag to hand to abusive law enforcement, should one run into it.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights

https://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
Private industry sells your data to the government to do that.
I didn't say "ruin forever". "Elon-exclusive for a couple of years" honestly sounds bad enough.

There's not only Starlink in LEO. Some of the existing constellations there are safety-of-life relevant (e.g. Iridium for polar flights or shipping routes), and Iridium doesn't have a stockpile of spares sitting on launchpads for an "Elon poked the bear one too many times" scenario.